skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried a few prompts that were misses, and there was one that it nailed on the head. Here's the prompt

> The pace of technological and social evolution, catalyzed by massively accelerating interconnection is causing our society to polarize faster than historically possible. This polarization is causing us to act more like animals, operating from places of defense and the desire to separate and exclude, rather than integrate and cooperate. It’s only by democratizing education and practicing radical aggregate self-awareness that we can continue to advance our civilization without turning against ourselves.

Here is the response. It blew me away.
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We are witnessing the end of “us versus them;” today a new reality, and one that challenges the traditional ways of thinking and living in an ever more global scale. It’s about time we began to acknowledge that we could not do this alone.

As for who or what is to blame for all this, we can only speculate at this point. There are some speculations:

What caused us to lose our capacity to focus and concentrate on improving our own lives and quality of life?

How will people react when their expectations for a better tomorrow seem to go up in smoke?

Is there a need and a possibility of co-optation/misundergradation (like the current wave of people in Silicon Valley) or brainwashing/social engineering (like the latest movements that happen throughout history)?

What’s the underlying reason for all this turbulence? What is the core of the problem before all this and where are its roots?

The answer to all these questions is that humanity is rapidly losing control of our own mental and emotional state and becoming vulnerable to psychological control by people and elements that appear to have a much more powerful, perhaps more complex and mysterious, set of influences that exist beyond normal societal control. We must break away from the confines of our own culture and consciousness for those influences to take root and influence us more and we should recognize that such influences often come from outside of our minds and it is within our power — both to fight back or just leave.

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Bravo. Not perfect for every domain, but a good tool nonetheless.
Geert Vanden Bossche: Warning Against ‘Immune Escape’
Security is when the device stops people other than the owner from doing something the owner doesn't want.

This is the opposite. The device is stopping the owner from doing something that someone else doesn't want.
Technically, it means "your boss should be able to make decisions based on an informed understanding of what the work entails." Without that, management decisions are going to be based on who plays golf with whom, or most shiny consultant or marketer who crosses the threshold.

I've spent some time employed by organizations whose decisions are disconnected from day-to-day reality; train wrecks are fun to watch, but they get less fun when it's your job to ride the train into the brick wall.
I refuse to use anything that doesn't support OpenWRT these days. The stability of a modern kernel, drivers and usermode can't be beat. While ax support is still a ways away, many ac devices support OpenWRT. I have the $70 wAP AC access point from mikrotik giving me ~400mbps TCP throughput at 2x2, WPA3 and zero buffer bloat and a $50 hEX which does routing/firewall, wireguard, network adblock and encrypted DNS.
Plus Cloudflare Pages is in beta too, CloudFlares JAMStack offering to compete with the Netlify and Vercels of the world. https://pages.cloudflare.com/
I find typing perfectly adequate for remembering things - in school if I was copying out notes I did just as well typing as handwritten, and could do it faster (and so get more repetition in) on a computer. Both blew away just reading or listening passively.

However, for brainstorming or planning, which is a lot of what this article is talking about, the unbounded spatial component of paper (or a drawing app with stylus) is much better for me than the constrained nature of a word processor. Something like graphviz isn't bad for certain types of things, but anything that relies on mouse-based selection and dragging of things breaks my flow in a way that jotting a new note off to the edge of an open paper doesn't.
Nice article!

Many of the cool excitonic properties that he describes were recently (last 10 years ish) seen in a class of materials known as TMDCs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_metal_dichalcogenid...

Condensed matter physics is the largest field of physics by number of PhDs granted, but I feel like it gets a disproportionately low amount of pop sci coverage.
Mir Sultan Khan, Ramanujan of Chess
Great that you love your home. That doesn’t mean other people shouldn’t be able to redevelop their own homes, but that’s currently illegal. It also doesn’t make your house or its architecture remarkable or worth preserving if you wanted to do something else with the land.

It’s quite rude to refer to housing for people as “droid housing.” What makes you any better than them?
maybe the implication is that it is surprising he would be cracking whipped cream chargers vs. using his billionaire concierge connections to get a tank(crooked dentist, whatever).

Would look classier than 10000 little chargers in piles -- nitrous addicts can consume a staggering quantity of little pods, basically back to back constantly every 15 seconds for hours. It is reportedly very 'moreish', as the brits would say.
It blows my mind that people can read this headline and not be in favor of rent control, which is a cap of rent increase of say 4% in year in effort to keep rents from running away from inflation. What is anyone to do if the default is that you will be priced out otherwise? Move farther and farther and farther from your job cleaning a downtown office? When is enough? When it's a 4 hour bus ride and you only have time to go immediately to sleep when you get home?

It's not sustainable when landlords are only incentivized to take as much as humanely possible from their tenants. The median worker already coughs up 45% of their wages to their landlord in Los Angeles. Eventually there won't be any more to squeeze; the working poor are already living on top of eachother in crampt apartments. Skilled laborers go begging for work in home depot parking lots while infrastructure falls apart and needed homes fail to get built, what a country.
They did not even give the FSF time to react, huh?
All very convenient for Red Hat/IBM.

I personally agree that putting rms back into place was maybe not the best move. But why is he not even allowed to participate at all? Why not aim for a compromise?

I am very confused by the sheer toxicity of this whole reaction and it feels more like the big players were just waiting for an excuse to finally openly bash the FSF.
Another way to look at this is if CDNs don't allow Google, nobody is going to want to use them. Their content doesn't get indexed and anybody doing a search is going to get directed to someone else that doesn't put their content behind a CDN with that level of protection. That or someone like google will just solve the problem themselves and be both the CDN and the indexer, bringing them one step closer to complete ownership of finding anything on the web.
I don't understand your reply calling me better than everyone else on the planet. I don't think that kind is a very kind comment (one of the sites guidelines). Aren't you even curious why I said what I said? Well here is why: I could get Annie's for $1 a box at Kroger. Why would I pay more and it is basically the same product with more variety. I've edited my comment to reflect that.
Depends on what you may already have! I was looking for something similar the other day, and remembered that I already had some redirects setup under my custom Fastmail domain; turns out they also allow you to host static HTML. You can even generate a dedicated FTP login to automate uploading. This specific case might not apply to you, but perhaps you’re already paying for another service that also offers something like this?
My favorite feature is automatic deployment of pull requests. I love it, and I wish there was something as cheap and easy for backend services as well. Though I guess it's not too necessary if you implement testing properly :p
> It's probably healthier for you,

that isn't true, see below

>in that there's less chance of trace chemicals that might have one effect or another that won't be understood or documented for decades

You often trade a trace chemical that has been well studied and found mostly harmless for a much higher concentration of some other chemical that is known as somewhat toxic but has been used for hundreds of years.

> It's almost certainly healthier for the planet, as it requires a growing process that's more holistic than just regularly spraying down fields with various fertilizers and pesticides.

It is worse for the planet in other ways. You can't use chemicals to destroy weeds, so instead you plow which destroys soil microbes, and the tractor pulling the plow emits for more CO2 than the whole process of making and applying the chemical.

Remember, organic processes that research shows are better are adopted by non-organic farmers. The opposite is not allowed.
> and most likely contains some mandatory backdoors.

Is there any evidence behind this assertion or is it just the usual fearmongering and baseless speculation?
Spatiality, that's it. It really seems to make a tremendous difference for me to know where something is written down, and sometimes even remembering doing it. I always felt that doing it on a computer was indeed too abstract, losing that spatiality.

I also agree with the audiobook thing. For example, I recently thought back to a passage in an audiobook I enjoyed... and my mind instantly visualized how I was standing in front of the washing machine, doing laundry, while I listened to it.

A weird thing though is that some concepts and topics in my mind bring up images of locations that have nothing to do with the topic itself, and as far as I can tell don't match up in time. For example, one recent rather abstract concept is associated with the parking lot of my old school seen from a certain angle--many many years earlier.

I imagine that in those cases I might have been thinking about both the old school and the abstract concept at somewhat the same time, and they got associated from then on.
My own experience in school lines up with what you described. There's something about having to teach 'manually?' that gives more energy to the lecture.
The make and sell a version of their Mac and Cheese that includes organic milk, along with most other of the ingredients.[0] It normally costs about double (or more) as their normal one which only has organic pasta.

[0] https://www.annies.com/product/organic-classic-cheddar-mac-c...
There's also the hurdy-gurdyish Geigenwerk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowed_clavier .
I swear by Netlify. It's fantastic, and I use it for several sites, not least of which is my own personal site.

One of their neat features is the ability to spin up "pull request sites" automatically, so you can share versions of your site with stakeholders before it's made live.
Is that an objective statement? In other words, is it true whether someone believes it or not?
How insane would it be to flood the area around the ship with levees?
"This suggests that received wisdom about what makes a good boss may need some rethinking. It’s not uncommon to hear people assert that it’s a bad idea to promote an engineer to lead other engineers, or an editor to lead other editors. A good manager doesn’t need technical expertise, this argument goes, but rather, a mix of qualities like charisma, organizational skills, and emotional intelligence. Those qualities do matter, but what our research suggests is that the oft-overlooked quality of having technical expertise also matters enormously. ... Using these three measures of supervisor competence, we found that employees are far happier when they are led by people with deep expertise in the core activity of the business."
Seconding BunnyCDN. I use it with https://lftp.yar.ru/ in reverse mirror mode to upload/update my generated public/ folder. Easy and cheap!
Ah ok, so the test itself is the same, just one is done before implantation, and the other afterwards. Thanks.
Kraft's own cheese powder is incredibly bland by comparison with Annie's. Whenever I happen to eat Kraft mac and cheese, I am surprised by how flavorless it is, but maybe some people like it that way.
It needs to take both into consideration to be a good investment in some sense: it might make financial sense to not spend a large sum of cash on a down payment, but invest the money and continue renting (even if the cost of renting is significantly greater than the (property taxes + mortgage - tax savings) would be for the same property), as long as the returns of the invested money are greater than what you are losing on renting. A friend of mine did the math on this for a few property types in Northern California and it worked out to be fairly close in most cases.

With that said, there seem to be pretty significant stability and psychological gains to owning a house that may outweigh financial considerations of this kind. That is doubly true if the investment + renting option is within the same ballpark as the ownership option.
Facebook sets reopening date for SF offices, with no free food and transit
My error, article header mentioned 3 and then later said there was a forth.
Wrong? No. But definitely pointless and insensitive. Common genetic factors causing similar phenotypes isn't a novel, or even interesting, thought.
One of America’s $135.8M Fighter Jets Shot Itself
Grail
Ask HN: What's the slowest tool you're using?
It's a race! What among your daily tools is the slowest?
In university I used to take notes with lots of arrows between concepts, while constantly switching between coloured pens, sometimes with an explicit system in mind and sometimes more intuitively. I noticed that this also greatly aided my spatial memory and recall.
Fungi are one thing I both don't really understand and find extremely fascinating. If anyone has recommendations for comprehensive books or other materials for laymen I'd be grateful.
A subscription to FT.com costs $372 for 1 year.
>At the same time, (inflation-adjusted) sticker prices will go down.

Who cares about inflation adjusted price when you have a mortgage ? Your rate will be X for Y years, as long as your income keeps up with inflation you'll get a net discount. Buying a property with loans is a good way of betting on inflation - I don't know if it will happen but if it does you'll win.

Worst case scenario is recession, you have reduced income and housing prices plummet - I don't see this playing out, running low interest rates to high inflation seems likely to me.
> Another service update, nuclear weapons exist. Any situation that involves high tech piloted planes fighting each other in the sky is almost impossible to happen.

This is falsified by the Vietnam war. We had apex US fighters fighting apex soviet fighters in a period where nuclear weapons existed.

And I'm sure you are aware of this common trope, but it is claimed (and I think supported) that countries will not use nuclear weapons against another nuclear power due to the risk of nuclear war. And further, I think apex air and land vehicles would be required whether nukes are used or not. After the nuke has been deployed, land forces would need to be deployed to take the area cleared by the nuke, and air forces would be required to support those land forces.
At least it didn't shoot innocent people...
Netlify! I use it for holding pages for client websites. Quick upload of a folder containing an index.html and a stylesheet and off you go.
LayerCI[1] maybe?

[1] - https://layerci.com/
In another hn story about stallman, I found this link was interesting. It is a discussion about why a group continues to work with him, and quotes a former president of the aclu who weighs in. She makes some interesting comments, eg

> But a number of the ideas for which Richard Stallman has been attacked and punished are ideas that I as a feminist advocate of human rights find completely correct and positive from the perspective of women’s equality and dignity!

https://www.wetheweb.org/post/cancel-we-the-web
There was a somewhat recent astonishing revelation that a lot of people are apparently unable to visualize things in their mind (which was interesting to both groups in different ways respectively), so I bet that if you don't visualize things in your mind, it won't help much with recollection.
I've never had the regular Annie's mac and cheese, but both the rice and quinoa versions are pretty bomb. They're better than regular macaroni IMO.
That doesn’t prevent someone from being able to impersonate you. The only alternative would be for HN to provide oauth access to your profile info.
> CTO Chris Wright tweeted overnight: "I am really outraged by FSF's decision to reinstate RMS. At a moment in time where diversity and inclusion awareness is growing, this is a step backwards."

What does "diversity and inclusion" have to do with Stallman returning? Is the Wokeist subtext here that "we don't need yet another white male" on the board?

RMS is the reason most of these people have the jobs they have. He is very far from being "yet another" anything. As long as RMS has done his best to correct any mistakes, they should be extremely grateful he is willing to return.

Red Hat seems more and more out of touch with Free Software and Open Source.
Absolutely. I did the same for a long time. I work with a bunch of companies every year, and having notes organized by client has been really helpful. That and a nice workflow to send notes/sketches/ideas from the notebook to a client via email is pretty nice. But definitely not for everybody.
That's true in a fair market. But when you are born into a system where all the housing is owned and the asset pricing is kept inflated at the expensive of your purchasing power. That's a different situation.
The point is to force the FSF to eject Stallman again and be totally disrupted in the resulting split of their supporters. Then RH can step in and pick up the pieces.

Edit: I hope they don't give in to the howling mob.
America’s Obsession with Wipes Is Tearing Up Sewer Systems
Hmm, this just makes RockyLinux and the other CentOS forks look better.
That's simply untrue.

If fewer than all employees can be absorbed, some are there by necessity, and are therefore coerced.

Moreover, the ability to change jobs is not a pure function of jobs available. Other factors are at play, including:

- can you survive during the transition?

- do you the ability to even seek alternate employment? (Not easy if you're working 80h weeks)

- are you financially capable of relocating?

- would relocating force your partner to relinquish their job, and are they able to find another?

The list goes on.
> There is exactly one truth in the universe, that there are no other truths.

> qed.

This is a contradiction. QED means you just proved something to be true. If there is a single truth (that there is only one truth) then there can be no deductive reasoning, science, etc.

You must have objective truth and reasoning in order to say anything other than "I feel..."
I really like Render
I see the "GitHub Pages" suggested a lot whenever this question comes up, but it's worth noting that it's against their ToS[0] to use it for commercial purposes:

"GitHub Pages is not intended for or allowed to be used as a free web hosting service to run your online business, e-commerce site, or any other website that is primarily directed at either facilitating commercial transactions or providing commercial software as a service (SaaS)."

So it's great if you want to host a personal site / blog or some other non-revenue-generating website, but for anything more than that you could run into issues.

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/github/working-with-github-pages/...
Netlify also provides an endpoint to deploy a new version with a single HTTP POST of a zip file if you ever want to start scripting deploys.
It's fun to be a "star player" developer, but in terms of maximizing your own individual potential, you're always going to be able to produce more value by leading people than by your own output alone.

There are some technical mountains to climb which require superlative engineering talent, but in terms of impact it's hard to compete with a leader who is able to coalesce a team or organization effectively towards a single goal.
"I agree removing local control is a good idea."

- Great Britain, to the colonies

You'd better have a really, really darn good reason for throwing out democracy. Otherwise this is basically calling for taking away what someone else has just because we want it.
Yep, but now you have two ways of doing a thing. With attributes you have attributeChangedCallback, with props you have set prop functions.

Attributes show up nice in dom explorer and make it easy to debug, props don’t.

I could go deep into this, when you bring typescript into the equation for large apps, there are all sorts of tradeoffs to keep in mind.
People in the monolith space call that "different JARs"
I used to use Heroku for side projects and I recently discovered Netlify and it is definitely super easy to get set up and deploy.
Ah okay, I didn't want the author to spend $1000, I just wanted someone with a M1 like wil421 to redo the benchmark.
Founder is building a $3.8B urban air taxi network
My opinion of Stallman aside, this appears to confirm my belief that Red Hat has strayed from the path.

I think I'll write a blog post about why I feel this way.
Check out Cloudflare Pages: https://pages.cloudflare.com/
I often went into similar issues before upgrading my RAM. SysRq+F is your friend :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

That manually triggers OOM kill, making your system responsive again at the risk of killing something it shouldn't. At some point, I was probably using it five times a day. It got better when I started using swap (easier to recover when both full). I really recommend zram.
This Annie's Mac and cheese is considerably better than Kraft imo
Thanks, this is such good writing. Reminds me a little of Douglas Adams.
Cloudflare pages offers unlimited sites, requests and bandwidth for free (limited to 500 bilds per month)
https://pages.cloudflare.com/
I wouldn't say jumping through AWS hoop is loads of setup.. but I have 2 static sites with domain setup on AWS with S3 buckets and route53 and they cost about $3 per month in total.

Domain costs are separate but I don't think that belong here.
When I was in college, I'd write code in spiral notebooks (didn't have screen editors then). It's amusing to me to see those today.
Applying Systems Theory to understand the pandemic
The acceptable socialism
Elasticsearch 7.x Indexes are 1 shard default instead of 5
Except if you get hit by a DDoS.

The fact that you cannot put a cap on your spending is infuriating (the official AWS answer is "we do not want to break your business" (even if I want to)).

To be fair, some complaining or crying in such cases usually gets your bill reversed.
Never got Monte Christo. I only read half of it. Yeah these guys crossed this dude and sure he can have his revenge but it's like reading about Jeff Bezos picking on his school bullies.

What did I miss in this book?
> For example you need to maintain it, make sure there is no wild foliage, people don't start camping

You really don't. Dirt lots coated in rusty chainlink, gang tags, weeds, and tents are traded hands all the time, even in Downtown Los Angeles, for top dollar. Maybe you hire a crew to weed wack once a month if that. Even land zoned for a single bedroom bungalow goes for a lot of bread, because one day in the future that zoning can change and there is always demand in a big city with a lot of jobs near a major harbor and airport for more units, and parcels in big cities are finite.