skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If spending time figuring out how to optimize money/time in more complicated ways could produce a more efficient path, wouldn’t such knowledge spread quickly and become common knowledge?

Willpower and a natural inclination are the key elements here. It's common knowledge that smoking is bad for you, but that doesn't mean that it will be the main force behind people's choices to smoke or not. This applies to almost every other aspect you could think of that requires some degree of effort or interest.

An example of a non-obvious life hack would be Anki. It works exactly as intended, meaning that it makes remembering things far easier than before. But the catch is that you have to do the cards everyday. Therefore only a minority will actually use it. There is no free lunch.

You can generally try to optimize your life, but this sort of Less Wrong style ideology inevitably butts up against some awkward truths about existence, mainly that it has a free-form and serendipitous side to it that can't be gamed so easily or by reason alone. You can't power your way to an interesting life just by the mechanical application of hacks as it requires some luck, some feeling for things, and some intuition. Even if you do manage to attain an artful way of living that exploits your personal circumstances really smoothly, you are not safe from a change in your mindset or any aspect of the house of cards that will suddenly make it all crash down.
> curl | jq | grep | less

OK I didn’t know about this. Does each one of the piped commands cause the creation of a new container? And why?
Show HN: UML Diagram for Python Design Pattern Examples
> That great except you haven't explained how TFL exists at all. Are all the lines privately owned and operated?

All national rail lines (including Overground and TfL Rail) are privately operated in general; they're only ever nationalised on a short term basis when something goes wrong with the privatised operations. London Underground falls under a different regulatory regime (as does Tyne & Wear Metro and, without checking, presumably the Glasgow Subway) and I believe they have a derogation to permit that.

> That's why we were so enthusiastic to get involved in Iraq 2.

I won't defend that war but I haven't seen any convincing argument that it was against English law. Royal prerogative is pretty broad, and Blair lying to parliament is not a crime as far as I know.

> The truth is, laws are just an excuse for governments about why they "can't" do things people want. Don't want to nationalise trains? Blame some obscure foreign law.

Even if that's the only effect of EU law, it's corrosive to democracy. Whether it's because of real EU laws or because they can lie about them and get away with it, EU membership has destroyed the accountability of British politicians. E.g. in the aftermath of the leave vote, there was a lot of reporting saying that the UK could have put restrictions on immigration from Romania and Bulgaria without leaving the EU. Which is true, but misses the fact that - despite it being what the majority of voters wanted - that was completely outside the Overton window of UK politics, because the UK political class wanted unrestricted immigration. So practically speaking, voting to leave the EU was actually the only way to achieve that.

> And that's without getting into why we never bother to try and enforce all these laws ourself? If DB are an illegal state company, why not say so in court? Instead we give them contracts, because we're a law abiding country that ignores laws when awarding contracts to foreign entities but not domestic ones which is illegal!?

The European Commission did pursue cases against Deutsche Bahn and others. Under the English law implementation of the same EU directive a structure like Deutsche Bahn's is illegal (because the Duck Test applies); the ECJ ruled it legal (while acknowledging that it was a loophole that was clearly against the intent of the law, and recommended that the next version of the directive should explicitly make it illegal, which was done). But in many ways all that is moot, because even where the ECJ ruled that there was illegal state aid to railway operators (e.g. Spain), there was no practical punishment.
I know that Wizz Air do something like that. You can pay some amount, and if the flight is delayed by more than 1 hour they will give you a voucher for the ticket price (I think just the base price) back.

The thing is when do you ever just spend €10 on a flight? Once you add in checked luggage, the priority carry on so you can take more than a packet of crisps onboard, assigned seats so you can sit next to whoever else you are flying with, and extra legroom so you don't end up with leg injuries, you are paying closer to €100. These companies are making serious bank.
3 years ago my marriage fell apart and few months after that my health fell. With a miracle I was given a second shot of life. What that meant however is that I lost a good part of my 30s. I sat there, 37, divorced and recovered from a major illness with nothing to show. My friends had kids etc and were getting in to the next chapter of life while I was left feeling what if I had done things differently, tried different things.

BUT its not productive to do so. Every one does it and its ok, but it should not be an obsession. I realized that everything doesnt go according to plan and I need to chart my path, not compare to others. Whats good for others, might not be yours. You have to decided what you want to do in the future.
As usual most HNers are missing the point.

Bitcoin has surpassed the market cap/value of Visa's $460 billion dollars; it's over $495 billion as I type this.
Are pro-BEV people actually missing this? At least for now, the goal is only to remove some of the more significant sources of pollution. Vehicles for personal transport are a reasonable place to start. Obsessing about perfection is only going to hold us back.
NAT was meant to work around IP exhaustion issues, not act as a security layer. By accident, it often happens to provide some additional security. By keep in mind those "internal" IP addresses may be routable in some cases, due to either accidental or deliberate mis-configuration.

IPv6, with end-to-end connectivity, is how the Internet is supposed to work. It's how it did work in the early 90's, even with IPv4.

If you want to secure your servers, use a firewall. Maybe it's a host-based firewall.
how?

there's additional operational cost in the form of energy used if you have far off resources being harvested. and the transport shuttle has to go get the goods, which increases cycle time a little. i have less than a dozen games in but i definitely didn't feel like I was managing the logistics; that moving stuff around was an issue or concern. there's a lot of different resources but they all roll up pretty automatically wherever they are without thinking about it. that was my (limited) experience.
Facebook is probably a bad acquisition channel for many SaaS businesses, especially after this week news on FB managers trashing their own ad targeting [1]. I do a little project where I analyze founder interviews, trying to discover which acquisition channels consistently work for founders [2] and around 90% of founders who mentioned FB as an acquisition channel working for them, also mentioned at least 2-3 more major channels (like AdWords, partnerships, SEO, etc.) [3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25529479

[2] https://www.firstpayingusers.com

[3] The only exception were e-commerce companies, they were much more likely to rely solely on FB vs. SaaS Companies
NYT's paywall requires JS. Reader mode (or disabling JS on the client), bypasses it. It does break some image loading, as well as their fancier article types.
> you must reinstall it once for each project

You can install it either in a venv outside of all projects or even "pip install --user black".

> updating python to a new (major) version breaks your formatter

Uninstalling the old version breaks the formatter. Installing a new one does not. Either way, with asdf, pyenv, and others you can keep all relevant version around.

> you cannot move the env around

Sure you can. Use "--relocatable"

I agree docker may be nicer if you're not working day to day in python... but in that case black is not a great example. You probably want to have a specific version bound to the project so everyone uses it (including the ci platform).
IME, for a plane load of people the gate agents are going to ask everyone to call the 800 number. Standing in line might get you the voucher for hotel/food if that’s what it’s going to be.
I don't think that's as shallow as you make it sound. I'd rather have respect for being a successful adult who exercises a skill to create value, for doing something difficult and being good at it, than for my taste in music or something.
From the Chinese poster, it says the price is 1XXX9 CNY (it's intentionally written this way to build up expectations), which ranges from $1530 to $3050.
I am just a year younger and also had an unfortunate family death at the end of 2016. I have a lot of the same feelings. My current resolve is to quit my job around the time the pandemic ends, and start taking more risks with how I choose to spend my life. I am lucky to have enough savings at this point to do so. Maybe I'll figure things out a bit better before I hit the big 30. I hope you can find a path that works for you too.
Having done spectrophotometry for water quality analysis 40+ years ago I was somewhat surprised it was being used but it has some advantages: it's mechanistic and easy, without risking the integrity of the sample, but as the story here shows it depends on certainty of the solvents and related conditions under test (we had to use specific optical refractive index glass measurement vials with their own cleansing routine and there was a rigmarole around calibration i still suspect was hugely subjective. I would hope by now the human eyeball is replaced by some digital light sensor, I think my subjective view skewed the sampling method)
Are you being deliberately obtuse? Money is fungible, money recovered from tax evaders rightly belongs in the general taxation pool, funding X with money recovered from tax evaders is no different from funding X with money from the general taxation pool (unless X somehow enables recovering more money from tax evaders that wouldn't otherwise happens).
The connection between half life and decay energy isn't so linear. Looking at a table of gamma ray energies [0] one can see that the lowest-energy distinct five have half lives in hours:

5994
104
6
2904
482117

with the highest-energy distinct five in hours:

12.8
15.0
3.48
1.9
6280920000 (717,000 years!)

However since the output power is the product of the activity and the decay energy it certainly follows a diminishing curve since fewer decays as time advances.

[0] https://application.wiley-vch.de/books/info/0-471-35633-6/to...
Well if they have a monopoly in certain areas/sectors and the only alternative to raising prices is bankruptcy... I’m pretty sure they can raise prices arbitrarily.

That actually raises an interesting question, how are monopoly licenses valued? If their value can be bumped up every year on the balance sheet...
Likewise, neither is smaller. Code golf is just for fun.
Four arrested for selling illegal Amazon Fire sticks
That's not the case with low cost airlines in Europe. Each leg of the journey is on a separate ticket.

This also means if you are flying there and back the same day, if there is a delay on the outbound flight and you miss the return flight it's considered a no show, so they don't need to compensate you.
If you think everyone at FAANG makes 500k at mid-senior SWE (i.e Associate) level, you're smoking something.
Interestingly enough, in Python, the minimal, official style guide of PEP 8 actively suggests using properties (the equivalent of the JS getter/setter syntax) for simple things: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#designing-for-inhe... (See the section that starts with "For simple public data attributes, it is best to expose just the attribute name, without complicated accessor/mutator methods.")

I think in practice this ends up being mostly a function of what's idiomatic in the ecosystem. The most common JS style guide recommends _against_ using getters and setters, so it would be surprising for something in JS to do so. The most common Python style guide recommends _for_ using properties, so the syntactical near-equivalent ends up being something "expected".
I know of a few cases where this has happened. In one case the parents were abusive, so this is on them. The other case was great parents and an immature youth. With time that youth will mature and come around when he recognizes the goodness in his parents. In the end, it’s success if you raise your kids with love.
Value of goods received, less blue shift damage...
Yep, until I'd done off-roading, I never understood why my uncle told me (when driving his vehicle, which had the ability to lock the diff) - "Never ever use this on pavement / normal driving". I obeyed him, but I always thought he was full of it, until I had the money & time & inclination to work on cars, and I learned what was really going on.

"Aaaahhhh... so that's why he told me that..." Thanks Uncle Bill!
At the mention of the word "nuclear", otherwise rational people turn into bumbling idiots.
Yeah, the pandemic is the only reason I'm still in my job currently. I had an option to go do a masters, but I was talking to a recruiter in that country and they mentioned how badly the market had dropped, so I decided to postpone it once again due to wanting stability in a pandemic. Hopefully it'll work out this next year.

And I hope you find that path too.
actual article: http://www.polksheriff.org/news-investigations/polk-county-n...
It is! And what the production designers put on screens is part of what communicates with the audience. Maybe the audience needs to get specific information from the UI in order to understand something in the story. Maybe the audience needs to understand that the talent is having a certain kind of interaction that gives them a particular kind of information, or allows them to control something. In all those cases, the UI is part of how the creative team tells the viewer what's going on in the world of the film!
I've never really understood what this means. Did people in their 20s have their life pretty well together in the past? or does it mean when you're in your 30s is the best time to start partying and throwing caution to the wind? Is your 30s when you first leave home and get a higher education? It's really a really confusing turn of phrase to me. I must be missing context
Docker is intimately tied to Linux. It it only "cross platform" in that it can use a VM (Mac, WSL2) or flaky compat layers (FreeBSD). If software embraces Docker, it effectively excludes other OSes, like Windows, BSDs, Haiku, Fuschia, etc.
> This is something to be fixed through regulations.

More regulations to force compliance with existing regulations currently being widely ignored? a few years from now you'll be saying more regulations are needed to make sure airlines comply with the regulations that were created to ensure compliance with the original regulations.
Interesting, I hadn't seen that reasoning before - that each vertical within the general-purpose RTS gameplay eventually split out into its own genre, if you will.

I suppose it makes sense, but makes me a bit sad as I feel reconciling the strategic value in one to complement another was the magic - resources, units, and towns only have value insofar as they enhance your strategic execution. I could never get into Civilization or Rollercoaster Tycoon where it felt (to me) like building just for the sake of building or following how someone else defines "good".
That's no more convincing than a missionary telling me that I'll go to hell if I don't repent. Simple solution: don't open the door for missionaries.
If one has access to the Pfizer vaccine why bother with AZ's vaccine?
I certainly hope so. But man, it's a sinking feeling when so many others seem to have it figured out at an even younger age. And knowing that the clock is ticking to actually go get those figs.
It's worth mentioning my pet project, Darch.

https://godarch.com/
Bingo. This was a LCC, so they don’t care about even the high-status passengers. I would have done what the author did too and just booked my own arrangements.

I also totally agree with your bucket of passengers.

I used to be in the first camp, naively assuming a gate agent could help me. That quickly changed after I flew more than a handful of times. Then for many years, I was in the third camp (where you are), and I had to resign myself to being one of the people that has to turn to Twitter to get anything done (I sort of hate myself for it but for non LCCs, it works) in a real crisis. For the last two years or so (pre-COVID), I was in the second camp, and it was a true revelation to see how the other side lives, so to speak.

The reality is that there are two very distinct classes of airline passengers (foregoing LCC's for a moment because with few exceptions, none of them give a rats ass about loyalty. They are a volume business). As an example, within a relatively short period of time, I went from an airline giving my seat away even though I made my connecting flight (and had contacted the airline from the plane to warn about my delayed connection/assure them I wasn’t going to no show and to only put me on a later flight as a backup), forcing me to wait an additional 5 hours in the airport for a new flight (and I stress here that I made my connection and was denied boarding) without so much as an apology or a voucher for free food to that exact same airline, when a similar tight connection actually DID cause me to miss my flight, met me at the gate, took me in a chauffeured car to another gate, had someone expedite the transfer of my luggage, got me on a different flight to another US city (meaning I had to take one more flight, but at least I got home), actually held that flight until I boarded, and kept my seat class intact (I was flying business). I didn’t even have to reach out the second time (which was good because that flight didn’t have internet access), it was just taken care of. A colleague who had the same itinerary as me, and was booked in the same seat class, had to fly back the next day. The difference? My colleague (and me in the first instance), was just a regular passenger (albeit someone with a $4000 round-trip ticket in this case — still didn’t matter). Whereas by that second flight, I was on track to fly 150,000 miles that calendar year and had already spent over $30,000 with that airline.

I'll be honest when I say that I’m not looking forward to being treated like a regular airline passenger once I’m allowed to travel again. My status's are all intact but I don’t envision many 150k mile years made up largely of international travel until at least 2022.

Side note, as someone who has always heard friends brag about how much better European consumer protection laws are, it’s both relieving and infuriating to see that the situation in the EU is basically identical to the situation non high-value US customers deal with with airlines.
M1's performance is great, but there isn't much evidence to attribute it to the memory subsystem. Also, people wanting to fit 32GB worth of apps into 16GB is just wishful thinking that isn't supported by evidence either.
I think the easiest way to do this is simply RDP. Have the emulator set up, open up RDP, and have them RDP into the machine. Then when you use the emulator map the player 1/ player 2 keys to whatever. It should work.
Is+the+Air+in+Your+Home+Dirty?
Yeah, I think $5K/mo with no mortgage is plenty in most parts of the US. In NJ with a big house, that can disappear into just property taxes...

Regarding fame, I think the words of the late 20th Century philosopher David Cassidy summed it up best

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cassidy

If you are desperate for fame and fortune, try just fortune and see how that works out for you.
Yes, this has happened many times with medical radioisotopes. People find them in a scrap yard, get amazed by the glowing blue powder, and leave a deadly trail of contamination until it's discovered what happened.
Apple Neural Engine Patent
Except it's only after escaping from the Misty Mountains that Gandalf can have any idea that Bilbo possesses such a ring, but I don't remember him modifying the plan in response to that knowledge. Meaning that if it was a suicide mission, it was set up that way all along, so rather than this being Gandalf the realpolitik puppetmaster it's Gandalf the Rollercoaster Tycoon player, erecting a lengthy and complex scheme just for the joy of watching the ensuing catastrophe.
I think you phrase this really nicely!
GeForce Now supports browsers now too. Including Safari on iOS.
Reminds me of the million dollar home page... it is still up:
http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
ESP32 Multitouch E-Ink Device
The Russians put multiple nuclear reactors in orbit and crashed one on Canada. Many of their nuclear cores are still in storage orbits. Look up RORSAT :)

Just saying the CIA wasn't the only one acting crazy. Of course this was all before Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. Nuclear tech was really viewed as less dangerous than it is now.
back in those days, we weren't using file formats that applied some sort of compression to them natively, so compression was effective. Now, most of our space is consummed by compressed media in Images/Audio/Video type files. Most of those files are in a compressed format "natively", so they see no benefit of applying another compression type.
The dude is really hard to understand. He says a lot of stuff that just seems like vague unactionable self-help advice.

So I err on the side of caution by assuming he isn't worth listening to. He also reeks of certainty, like I'm wrong just for asking what the fuck he's trying to tell me because it's so obvious... to him.
Its not just the CIA its almost everyone else at the time. I just finished Rise and Kill first, a book on Mossad's targeted killings ops. Its full of really silly and clumsy stuff. My favorite story from the book is that back in the 60's Mossad tried to do the Manchurian candidate routine with a PLO guy, they hired a hypnotist and gave it a few months. The PLO dude eventually got smart,
started playing along, acting as if he got hypnotized and they believed it and let him go with a gun. Once he crossed Israel, he handed his gun to his PLO folks and told them about it.
Intel agencies back in the day were more like startups.
AoE 2 DE is a lot of fun, but I do wish they'd allow for 16 players. Comp stomps with a group of friends are limited to 4-5 right now, but there's probably no intrinsic reason they couldn't be higher.
αἴκα.
AZ's vaccine is, I believe, easier to transport due to being storable at higher temperatures.
At the risk of sounding vulgar, moving your hips at a slightly different rhythm or conceiving half a second later or any number of completely minute changes to the timeline would also have resulted in a completely different child.

This reminds of the moment when Emil Cioran's mother mentioned how she should have aborted him outright. This led him to the insight that his life was largely an accident contingent on small factors, and that it therefore need not be taken so seriously.
It does not have the same strict criteria in terms of keeping it at a very cold temperature which makes it interesting for developing countries.
Hard not to jump to the conclusion that it was some Q-Anon inspired attack on "5G".
And if you've been trying to plant the same tree for 20 years, the second best time to treat your ADHD is now.
So, why haven't most of the other 150+ nations on Earth had the same success?
My favorite is getting GUID partition and FAT partitions wrong. I had partitioned a drive incorrectly on a specific Mac. That Mac had no issues using the drive. However, no other Mac could mount the drive. My second favorite is formatting a drive in Linux without defining a partition.