skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clicked the "X". Article looked a lot like the homepage.

I'm not sure I can recall an EULA on an analysis article.

View Source bypasses the EULA directly.
Reading this sort of stuff will just make you bitter and resentful. It’s a step away from using a slur to describe journalists they don’t like.
"Nihilism" and "reality disconnect" is just a phase in one's progress through insight meditation; it's not the end goal. Meditation does not teach "avoidance" or even "escape" from suffering; on the contrary, it does teach deep engagement and insight. What looks from some perspectives like an 'escape' from suffering or even from life itself is more properly thought of as a reframing of one's perceptions, that gradually becomes better aligned with their proper nature and therefore less prone to fruitless attachment and craving.

Daniel M. Ingram is especially clear on these issues BTW, and his writings in general are a good introduction to insight meditation as it's actually practiced by those who seek some form of stream entry.
Woking ourselves to societal disillusionment and eventual collapse. Saying this as a colored person who never saw myself “colored”. Did I face indirect racism ? Yes a hell lot more than I can count. But I ignore / stay away from people who don’t like me. That’s where it ends. I don’t want to be judged by the color of my skin but by the content of my character to borrow the phrase from a famous activist everyone knows.
I don’t like where the society is headed canceling ourselves back into the history and then into the future until there is nothing left.
I'm a lawyer. Very different, I know!

I love IT and programming, but I knew if I made a life long career of it, I'd grow to hate it.

I really like doing IT related things in my own way. I'd always want to do things to best practices and not just get the job done as I was told.
I was indeed referring to the RBS article, which as you mention was bunk. I read it in passing several months ago. And it was $175 million they estimated, I must've crossed wires with the recent $1B shareholder suit.

Thank you for making me do a little leg work. Perhaps I should have done that in the first place.
- Git

Single handedly let me both reap the benefits of SVN but opened up shared code, and a greatly simplified setup and management.

- Linux (Linux Mint - Ubuntu)

After years of crashing Windows and Mac's, finally getting on Linux was a dream. App installs, native tools (git), server and database support being top-notch, etc... (ie, my desktop environment was the same as my server!)

- VScode

After years of struggling through various editors, I found one that focused heavily on webdev, integrated with Git by default, and was super fast and open source.

- OpenSSH Server (not sure this is the right name)

Having private key shares between computers made accessing remote resources so effortless.

- Ansible

My latest find. This has probably done more than 10x the value invested in learning and setting it up. Managing multiple servers, computers, setting up new environments, migrating between computers, has become FUN because of Ansible. Setting up a fantastic ansible playbook is like a game or satisfying puzzle.

- Macromedia Fireworks

Combined vector and bitmap graphics, had symbols (like shared library resources), non-destructive effects, live editable vector masks, native file format was web accessible PNG. Wiped Photoshop's fanny for doing web and interface design.
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yeah, don't really want to get into it. But the videos where real. The haggling for the price of fetus parts was real. Planned Parenthood defence rest on the claim that they where not making a profit. Which would be akin to your dentist charging you $500 to take out your daughter's tooth, causing her extra pain during extraction to make sure the tooth came out whole, then secretly selling her tooth for tens of thousands with out her knowledge. Then after the dentist gets caught in an undercover video haggling over the price to a potential buyer. The courts decide that that he made no money because after he pays himself a million dollar salary, his business is basically brake even. In a final bit of dystopian irony they charge and jail the guy that made the undercover video.
> Everyone who claims all meditation is great and nothing bad can happen is ignorant.

Or lying. I doubt the meditation center in the article updated the claims on their site after these events.
Key points:

* Uses new solid state microwave generator that is more efficient than magnetron used in microwave ovens

* Claimed 84% efficient, with 12% waste heat recycling = total efficiency of 96%

* Drop-in replacement for gas boiler, possibly only some electrical work needed

* Still requires tank as it does not do instant boiling

* UK is phasing out gas powered water heaters in new homes by 2025

* Electrical heaters currently cost more to operate than gas

* Product is currently being prototyped with trials in EOY 2022 and launch 2024

Company website is here: https://www.heatwayv.com
I heard that as of last week Samsung's texas facilities are still not back up - when they lost power they also basically lost containment of their materials (most of which are ultra-pure and require special handling) and pressure for the cleanroom itself (so they have to clean and re-sanitize the whole thing).

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/320511-samsungs-austin...

Turns out maybe that setting up your factory in a libertarian tax haven that went out of its way to prevent grid interconnects that would have allowed power delivery to continue, in order to forego enforcement of federal regulations that would have prevented these outages in the first place, might not have been such a great idea.

But muh Texas, "did you know we have the right to secede!?" So cool! /s
See also “git prune” to remove references to branches and objects no longer on the remote server. Check the docs though I think in some cases I might delete local branches or objects so make a backup first.
I did the same. You have to accept it instead of clicking "X" to see the article.
Is it possible that this effect is due to a lot of "low-hanging fruit" articles being essentially complete? Back in '07 there were a lot more empty pages to fill on topics of broad interest.
>One might group together the common interests of an organization as a whole for the sake of simplifying discussion, but

the same applies to you. You're a system of competing interests which we call "themacguffinman" solely for the purpose of simplification. You're nothing but an organisation of cells, systems and drives and the interaction of a lot of parts that we slap a label on for practical purposes. When we say something like "Britain likes X" we actually should take it literally, because Britain is a very real thing. Just like your body sends immune cells to kill themselves to fend off a disease, Britain sends her soldiers to die for a quasi empty rock off the coast of Argentina. Britain has territory, but none of her citizens have one. Britain has interests that are older and different than the interests of any of her people.

The world actually makes a lot more sense when you let go of the very atavistic idea that humans have any sort of special ontological status or have some level of realness that other entities don't have, it's just systems all the way up and down.

People actually intuitively understand this when they discuss the so called 'AI alignment problem'. They just don't understand that all the AIs are already around and we're solving alignment problems with entities with non-human desires and interests all day already.
This is a fascinating and out of the regular narrative of communism (at least to me). Thanks.
That was the case many years ago (extremely customized perforce server), but after that there was a full rewrite as a distributed system built on Bigtable etc. - https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor... is an overview. It wasn't a ship-of-Theseus type situation where they incrementally replaced components.
I have an 0.1x example, every os is using a file explorer instead of orthodox file manager like "total commander"
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I truly wish you could get to live in your utopia and reap the benefits or consequences whichever way it may fall.

Would you actually sign on the dotted line?
This may be a case of an external account in practice. There are many banks running the retail and business accounts under a similar corp name, but in practice they're separate entities which don't share infrastructure or processes.

(I'd love to know the reason, I'm sure someone here knows the details)
I noticed this before but didn't really give it much thought like "worst comes to worst they delete all my repos, so what?" but I realize now that someone could literally rewrite the commit history and inject a virus into a popular repo without anyone noticing. This is terrifying and definitely needs to be addressed.
They use that Plaid thing to try to instant link and Plaid asks for your credentials! But fortunately Plaid crashes, throws errors all over the JS console and ultimately fails, leaving you with threes day verify vis ACH. Many Plaid failed because i blocked the trackers, which is another thing ...Plaid asks for U/P on page that's loading trackers - leaking my credentials maybe?

When I see Plaid on something, I'm Noping out of there
Why should ebay prevent scalping? That's the entire reason their site exists, to see who is willing to pay the most for scarce goods.

Ebay is not going to go away just because it hurts gamers' fee-fees. Nor should it. And I say this as someone who is generally opposed to mining and generally upset with 30-series availability. Demanding that ebay shut down is both a ludicrous over-reaction and will not solve anything anyway.

You're literally blaming the market for providing a clearing-price. If you want to reduce demand for gaming cards, forcing miners into their own product segment is the most plausible way to do that, then the clearing-price falls.
> I don't see how I'm blowing that out of proportion?

Above, you gave (to me at least) the impression that you were referring to all of Librem’s revenue. Not just the revenue which is filtered through the App Store, every penny they earn.

I don’t care for a lot of the way the App Store works, including the point you make here. But your original post was not very clear if this is what you meant to say.

There should be room in the App Stores for businesses which sell services where the App is only part of the offering.
I tried Stoicism earnestly for some time, reading Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus. What I found was actually a "nonchalance" enveloping me, where I lost any willpower or determination or urgency to do anything. It sure felt good. But activities and deadlines were slipping. I had to literally talk myself back into caring. I wonder if anyone else had similar experiences. Whenever I raise this point, some one says I did not really get it. Perhaps. But I did try it as per my understanding. It increased equanimity, but decreased my motivation and drive.

(As an aside, "sloth", which is one of the seven deadly sins, was originally "acedia", is a feeling of a lack of concern. [1])

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acedia
Stepping back a bit, if you're CPU bound in a single thread decompressing data off an SSD, does copying the compressed data into memory first actually buy you anything?

If you truly need the dataset fully loaded into memory for performance reasons, then it's presumably because of the need to do lots of random accesses, where the read latency would otherwise harm you. The tricky bit is the fact that it's generally hard to randomly access compressed streams of data. You need to compress the data in a way that makes random access possible, likely to the detriment of compression ratio. Unless you also use the same compression format to store the data on disk, then you're back to having to decompress (and recompress) the whole file sequentially anyway in order to build the data structure in RAM.

I've seen purpose-made compressed log formats that support efficient seeking. I've never seen them loaded into RAM in their raw compressed form, though. Generally they do have a corresponding library to make accessing the log data easy.
I'll give a shoutout to the Microsoft Foundation Classes and Visual C++. That, along with the documentation was a VASTLY better way to write Windows apps than the previous C code and WM message loops.
ACH fraud is not that simple to detect or revert. How soon would you know if $500 exited your checking account? If it's a small-business account, with most banks, you have 24 hours to report each debit that you want reversed. If it's a personal account, you may have up to a month. But the same merchant account can debit your account again, even while you are reversing their previous debits. You can't block them with a personal or basic small-business account, you have to upgrade to an account that you always keep $100K in.

The banks' suggestion? Close the account, open a new one, and never give anyone the account and routing numbers. Never write a check from that account. Use the bank's web site to initiate bill payments – they'll get checks from the bank's account.
Ethereum vs Bitcoin
https://medium.com/syncedreview/data-annotation-the-billion-...
FDIC insurance maxes out at $250,000, so it won't cover you if you're super rich or a foreign government. In that case bonds still make sense. US bonds are currently more stable and have better interest rates than any other bonds from developed countries, so people will continue buying them for the time being.
Maybe I should listen instead of problem solving, but....

Maybe they could alternate their fundraising banners with "contribute to an article" campaigns?
>Everything we are doing is focused on making the buyer/seller interaction easier and more efficient. It seems the TRU Score is a concern evident in many of the comments. Yet, how is this different [or worse] than star ratings on Yelp, Amazon or any other rating service. Other than the initial calculations that comprise the score, all changes in the scores are based on the community of members.

And what's happening with Yelp and Amazon star ratings? There's abusive corruption within the community in these systems with the score-holders and/or score-takers gaming the system. Requests for 5 stars on packaging involving coupons that are practically bribery, enough corruption on Yelp to precipitate an entire South Park episode about it and many investigations, to the point people don't trust it anymore and comments on here talk about mentally adjusting google scores to equivalents that roughly fit to pre-corruption yelp scores. Government leaders of China and especially the citizens who report on each other or cooperate together in a high-visibility manner to gain status in the system are community members.

It's worse because it will affect the livelihoods of private citizens who cannot rebrand or close their store/seller account and start again somewhere else because web trackers will remember who they are by their face, ip, etc, and a history that starts mid-career might look too funny if this catches on. Please be part of the solution and take us a step away from an omni-corporate panopticon rather than closer. If a system like this is necessary for you to compete with linkedin because your potential corporate clients are requesting or suggesting it (because it adds value to them, extracted from workers who now have a direct, public, "employability credit score" to maintain), I urge you to reconsider if the field you're in is even truly ethical enough to be worth doing or if you have a personal, ethical imperative to get out, while you still can. God willing, you can remove the feature and create a decent platform that succeeds on merits without playing a handin further debasing the value of human labour in favour of our corporate masters (who already have so very much), for a new generation.
> The new API is an opt-in product, meaning that everyone (including those companies) can continue to use the current publicly-available tools at no cost and no restriction. The ability to freely access the knowledge across all Wikimedia projects remains unaffected–it is core to our mission.

Not sure what you have to worry about.
>I'm not sure I can recall an EULA on an analysis article.

Seems to be common on websites for asset management companies. If you go to vanguard or blackrock's site you get one too.
I remember when I switched to Linux around 2004. Compared to Windows XP, setting up anything became minutes instead of days. Because everything was just so much simpler to automatr and so much faster in general.
Who forbids it?
Anything that can be a job. Whatever people are willing to pay others to do, limited only by imagination.

And just from the definition of money, it's unlikely to find a scenario where people can't pay other people to do arbitrary labor. There will always be people that have a majority of wealth, however that's denoted

It's not possible for civilization as a whole to run out of jobs or money. both are human social concepts and can be re-imagined at any time
Thanks for being open-minded!
That will lead to many unexpected, possibly perverse, incentives.
So having a timer of say 10-15 minutes and meditating would be preferred over apps like Headspace, Calm, etc even though they have guided meditation? Isn't that risky? I don't have any medical conditions but reading this article has made me somewhat wary.
I could afford to donate a $100k sports car to be launched into space if I really wanted to. Lots of people here could. How many billions of dollars short of being able to set off a chain of events that actually make that happen do you think I am?
Right, and that is why I kinda prefer the American system.... it is very easy to use and set up direct deposit and direct payments, and most of the time nothing bad happens. The few times something bad happens, it is fixed.

I'd rather take the occasional having to wait a few days to sort out a fraud charge than have to be inconvenienced every time I want to send or receive money.
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Actually, it was.
Any company would have to comply with the data that they held, perhaps, which is precisely why this comes up when suggesting that perhaps they should have a little less data in the first place.
I'm also talking about liability only insurance – from some other comments, it seems to vary a lot depending on exactly you're located. I did find much cheaper insurance when I was living in Maryland.
I think I’ve seen ones that blast UV into hospital rooms. That’s about the only thing I could think of as being useful without also damaging everything. Using sprayed chemicals and what not is unlikely to go over well since monitors, sensitive desk items, and what not are a thing. But UV (as long as it’s a reasonable amount) probably isn’t a big issue.
The experience for me has been just like most others. Take weight lifting for example, you don't go into the gym and try dead lift 200 kilograms with poor technique or your liable to get hurt.

What a wise lifter might do is work their way up to the point they're ready and might enjoy lifting 200kgs and then attempt it.

Like most things, start small and work your way up. I'd imagine the same should apply to meditation.
Interesting. I will check this out when I have a chance. I struggled mightily between something like Nietzsche-and-Buddhism as a kid in my 20s. Had to simply put it down one day, but it’s always been on the back burner.

“Mastering the core teachings of Buddha” may be next on my audible... we shall see
Looks awesome! Do you have the benchmark on how the profiler would affect the app in term of CPU/Mem usage?
I don't see the distinction. Aren't workers also tools used to produce things? What's special about workers that makes them irreplaceable?

> Also, the fact that you can't find a human example to make this argument

What would you count as a single human example of human workers becoming obsolete? This has happened many times. About 96% of people used to work in agriculture. Today it's about 4%. Machines and technology have replaced the rest of the labor needed to grow our food.
This just in: those prone to lose touch with reality ended up losing touch with reality after engaging in practices that help you lose touch with reality.
I've been looking for the answer to this question for a while w/r/t large datasets with thousands or millions of files. I'm not concerned as much with programmatic usability as saving my FS from being overwhelmed both from indexing and allocating so many distinct entities. Doing any bookkeeping on a directory of a million files - even hierarchically organized - tends to be very taxing, versus storing the same amount of data in a single binary format is usually simple to manage.

I'm surprised that ZIP wasn't (isn't?) a contender. Tooling exists everywhere, it lets you mix and match data types, and it seems to hit nearly every point in their comparison. The only point I'm not sure about is "Incremental reads/writes", as it keeps a central directory structure at the end of the file. Incremental reads would need to seek first then could read randomly, and writes are slightly more complicated having to rewrite the entire directory structure to append.
I wonder if Rust can do that, by using data lifetimes incompatible between actors, thus protecting them from being passed around beside sending.

I also don't see why a namespace, like that of a function, won't be enough isolation from peeking between actors.

Somehow Scala got Akka, the actor framework, without having to tailor the language for that.
Different strokes for different folks but what on earth do you people do on 1000 or even 100 tabs? I have a handful of sites I regularly go to and maybe 50 that I visit more than occasionally. They’re all bookmarked. When I’m done browsing I close the window. What state are you preserving keeping everything open in a tab?
1. what.cd

2. auto-update feature on Google Chrome

3. Uber/Lyft

4. ZFS

5. Cheap VMs (R.I.P. Slicehost; DigitalOcean, Hetzner, etc.)

6. Ruby on Rails

7. Postgres

8. Spotify

9. 1Password

10. Arq backup

11. Dropbox

12. Wireguard
Plan Together:
https://plantogether.city/

An online map-based platform which allows citizens to collaboratively discuss and plan the future of their communities.

Storystreamer
https://storystreamer.live/

Snapchat Story UI Aggregator.
Distributed version control was such a huge win that I really couldn't imagine not using it now. I think this is a fairly common sentiment.
It may make the lives of distro developers harder, but doesn't it make the lives of sysadmins (of which are probably 100,000x more than distro developers) easier?

And we always wax poetic about how doing things in a declarative way ultimately leads to a better experience. So I am always perplexed when people give systemd a hard time when that's exactly what systemd has done, it's established a standard and consistent way to declare services.

Speaking of other things that seem to not want to change, why in 2021, a decade after PowerShell, do we still pipe unstructured text between processes and perform gymnastics with sed/awk/print, does that not just feel extremely janky to people? I'm not remotely a fan of Windows servers, but PowerShell got this right from day one since it started from scratch with the idea of piping objects back and forth. Can we not as a community at least have standardized flags to output the various standard commands as maybe JSON? and take inputs as JSON as well? maybe this has already been tried but I don't see it.
The wealthy generally keep a very small fraction of their holdings in cash, also you can have accounts with multiple banks.