skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a friend's wife is a doctor and her "lights off, that's it" attitude has never sat well with me. I'm surprised to see it repeated so much in this section. for me, I cannot accept that these consciousnesses and shared reality are destroyed

I'm probably quoting someone somewhere sometime with "our bodies are vessels, driven by souls, enroute to infinity", but I think this is the closest approximation to what I mixedly believe about life and death

evidently we are unique in our animal kingdom for having this soul/consciousness, whether it be planted or evolved, created or random

I like to toy with the ideas among civilisations of the belief that their afterlife can be envisioned here on Earth, passing on to a pre-imagined place

I live in the hope that those I love are reunited in death, on some remote-but-familiar plane of existence. the problem with this is that memory must be preserved to some degree and transcribed, as it would be odd e.g. to reunite with my father in his infancy. but problems and their questions such as these rest more easily than the cliche answers to the broader "what happens when"

at first I was hesitant to quote Iron Maiden lyrics here but then remembered a discussion from the other week on rap music, and the beautiful refrain seems poignant, so here goes "I will hope, my soul will fly, So I will live forever. Heart will die, my soul will fly, And I will live forever."

I'd say I'm roughly half afraid, half curious about what will happen when I die, but will never be persuaded it is nothing, so long as I live..

ultimately hope, belief, and online pondering are of little value, just more locks on the door to the unknown
> So if that's the case, I think we should move beyond really even trying to think of this info as private or a marker of identity, and we need to move everyone to more secure forms of identity verification.

Even if this info wouldn't be good enough to sign for official stuff it's still private and unique enough to target you though.
I had a similar issue, and I found a solution : Rather than aiming to follow my plan, I aim to do a predetermined amount of tasks (25 in my cases), regardless of whether or not they are in my schedule. I use an app to keep track of the amount of tasks done, and it has been surprisingly effective!
May be you missing something, but miniflux can get full content automatically, you just need to set mark "fetch original content" [0] when creating or editing feed.

By the way, it allows you to set custom grabbing rules [1] for original content, very useful when website has ad blocks or useless elements in article body

[0] https://miniflux.app/docs/ui.html#edit-feed

[1] https://miniflux.app/docs/rules.html
Yeah, I've never met a person even casually informed about american politics who thought Obama deserved that, especially after his time in office (but why was it given in his first year?!). But this anti-Norway sentiment is confusing.
Select a file, not necessarily a photo, hit space and a Quicklook window displaying the contents should appear. When you change file (through clicking to another file or using the arrow keys), the quicklook should update to display that file.
This is nice but ... the real "fun" of animation is handling all the variations of how to mix the data. It's easy to take a full set a bone animation data and apply it to matrices. The challenge, not sure challenge is the right word, maybe "the work" is in the all the tools and systems for using it. You can't just interpolate between frames, you need to be able to interpolate between multiple animations. You need some animations to apply to only parts of the skeleton (like allowing the character to run and shoot) which means you're some what back to sparser data ... though there are still ways to make it arrays.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/AnimatingObjects/Skeleta...

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/AnimationSection.html

In other words, getting a single animation to play will take a day. Getting an entire animation system ready for use in a modern 3d game can possibly take much much longer (exporters, animation editors, timelines, skeleton editors, state machine editors, etc... etc...)
I've had panic attacks during loosely-structured periods in my life where sitting in the shower after waking up in the morning and having to decide what to do with that day was absolutely overwhelming. Sometimes when you have a lot going on and you're under a lot of stress there's a lot of pressure associated with deciding how best to allocate your time.

In contrast, I find a relative peace at 3am, since it's merely a continuation of what I had been doing earlier that day. I'm in a groove, and there's no major decisions to make regarding my resource allocation.

Waking up is absolutely one of my least favorite parts of the day. It comes with a tremendous burden, especially when living alone and not having a fixed schedule or a boss.
These particular words and more are still used in Polish - ksywa, frajer - not just in slang. However they drop out of use nowadays...
A Vec is a length, capacity, and pointer. I don't see how you could implement Rust's safety guarantees with runtime-sized arrays that don't know their capacity (for bounds-checks). I guess you could theoretically do without the length/capacity distinction, so you could eliminate one value (but not two) by having "plain" runtime arrays. Overall I just can't imagine there are very many cases where eliminating a single number's worth of memory usage for an entire collection is worth having separate concepts with separate implementations, syntaxes, etc, not to mention all the downsides of not having reallocations/usage-length managed for you.
Variables in Python are generally function-scoped instead of block-scoped, because the latter doesn’t work well with implicit variable declarations.

However, there are some special cases where variable scope is smaller than a whole function, e.g. within list comprehensions.
I think that’s a little too simplistic as the same is true in places with nationalized health services - orders of magnitude more money is spend on advanced age related health than others.

I think it is because it is just simply easier to see that the 80 year old ‘needs’ healthcare and resources more so than the 30 year old. As a society we just haven’t yet grasped the complexity and subtleties of preventative healthcare, especially mental health.
Try doing a transaction comparison between any payment service that offers foreign transactions , and compare it to cryptocurrency transactions and use it once to do a real trade/purchase , or try using smart contracts in crypto , for once in your projects.

You’ll know why it’s a great product/ service
Once it’s environmental viability has been figured
out .

Hating crypto , because news reporters only show you the scammers and the speculators , is blind hatred.

Crypto has/does much much more , than just act as a form of trading / speculation

Scammers often steal money in dollars too.
Speculators often trade currency pairs with dollar in them.

Are you still gonna say people who use the dollar for daily transactions don’t exist ?
That dollar is also a good idea only for scammers and speculators ?
I agree that perseverance is being ignored by the author. Not that he should keep throwing good money after bad, but keep costs low, keep talking to customers, don’t be afraid to throw things away, and you might be surprised where your product ends up.
Money-laundering rules make it illegal for banks not to know who the customer is.
Also various anti-bribery and sanctions rules.
Among Us in the 80s and 90s
I agree it is political intimidation. However, what comes around goes around.

I am not pro Vizier op Links, but I welcome the balance.
cheers mate, i've sent a submission there too.
Good point, your last sentence is what I've been wondering about for some time. From the past decades we have learned that there are clear economical and political disadvantages of having your currency as the world reserve currency - namely the Triffin Dilemma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma). I think China already knows this from observing the US and might actually be hesitant on making their Yuan as the world reserve currency. Alternatives like Bitcoin might sound cool at first but isn't really a good solution because of its mathematical destiny as a deflationary asset, and that it can't be modulated effectively throughout monetary policy - only math and speculationary greed governs it! In an ideal world a system like the Bancor (that Keynes originally proposed) would be established if all countries have understood this dilemma and tried to come up with a peaceful solution for world trade. But China seems more and more unlikely to abandon their imperialist ambitions especially after Xi Jinping's inauguration (which to be fair, they've learned from previous empires like the Europe and the US).

There is quite some possibility that the reserve status of the US dollar will continue to slowly deteriorate, but there wouldn't be an alternative - we would be trading with a mixture of yuans, euros, dollars without any global consensus, and things would surprisingly run as nothing has happened. But then there is also some possibility that there will be a full-out global war between the old and new empires, and at that point the question of world currency and world trade becomes politically redundant.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights – United Nations
No. Assignment leaking into enclosing scope is a bad idea.
I don't think my account was using HN primarily for "political/ideological/national battle", but this was indeed such a debate.

Still, can you help me finding out, where exactly I was destroying curious debate here?

Because in my opinion, I was trying in honesty to actually have a rational, curious debate about the implications of a trade embargo against china.
Without attacking persons, just by arguments supported by citations. Maybe a bit too snarky at times, but I don't see, how that would validate a ban, but it is your site and your decision.
Perhaps the biggest difference, to me, is that when you buy a CCG booster pack, you can resell the individual cards (the publisher cannot forbid or, realistically, attempt to prevent this).

When you buy a loot box, you get some bits set on your account with the loot-box-seller. You can only resell them if the publisher lets you, and only via publisher-approved methods.

The reason this is a meaningful point of difference is that you no longer have the "I want X, and the only way to get it is to keep buying loot-boxes and hope". If you want a specific M:TG card, someone is happy to sell it to you for the right price; you don't have to dig through booster packs.
Are you not afraid of coming across as a stalker ?
The game making it impossible to have a stable large city with low crime without dystopian modes of control absolutely communicates the ideology of the creators of the game, conscious or not.

It's really not a sleight of hand. The idea that it's natural for it being impossible to have a city with low crime and a high population without making everyone miserable is absolutely ideology, and it's just your own ideology that perceives this as somehow a neutral fact.

Its not progressive to say that without over-policing high crime is inevitable, or that industrialization means we have no choice but to be miserable either. Those are solidly reactionary beliefs.
Because 5 year olds can't afford school fees.
I think of it as needed for the species and not for the individual. My and your values currently living have been shaped by our parents and people who we have met. These people have been influenced by the fact that death is inevitable. Our human history has had the inevitability of death looming over it since we went from being non-life to life. I don't think we can judge this based on what I currently would want for myself.
My views are shaped around the fact that I can die. And if I woke up tomorrow knowing that I cannot die, I would still have those deeply ingrained values in me.

I'm more worried about the effect on the human species. How would my great great grandchildren act in the world knowing nothing of death or the fear of during from old age? I'm not so sure it's 100% a positive thing and it has the potential to be a very negative thing. Worse than what we have right now.

This is all very fascinating and it's really interesting to speculate though. There's probably just as many arguments in opposition as there are in support.
A tsunami like the one that hit Fukushima is one thing - it's caused by a fault being forced up or down, displacing water along a long and wide geographic area, resulting in a wave.

But a tsunami from a volcano like Krakatoa is an awesomely spectacular thing - the displacement is caused by a relatively small circular and energetic underwater explosion ejecting cubic miles of rock in a few seconds or minutes.
That seems extremely unlikely in practice.
It does depend on the game. A P2P game like Call of Duty will have problems when played simultaneously on more than one console because the external port can not be shared.

What happens though is that another external port gets forwarded to 3074 instead.

3074 -> 3074

3075 -> 3074

3076 -> 3074 etc.

Its likely uPnP does this automatically as even uPnP won't be able to map multiple devices to the same external port but it does make the process convenient.
Yeah I remember those CDs. Never had them, they were quite expensive in Europe IIRC.

Back in those days having 700MB of stuff was HUGE :P On packet radio it would take me all night to transfer a file of 1-2MB. In fact it was a lot quicker to grab my bicycle and take a floppy over to the friend I was downloading it from. Sneakernet was actually a thing :D

I'll have a look through these archives.
Especially when doing IT support, having docker on the machines is rather unlikely. This sounds like a good usecase for appimages.
Animated choropleth of vaccinations by US county
I have a feeling the write-up is fiction and should be read as a novel. Which is funny since:

"Soon I started getting feedback on forums along the lines of “The product looks interesting but I don’t really want to sign up for it without seeing the product first.” Again this was a free product at the time and all the user had to do was click the Google or Facebook OAuth button to log in, or enter their email but they refused to do so. They didn’t trust me."
Nix and Guix are both answers to that combined need.
Honestly I can’t understand this perspective, despite having come from a religious background and heard it many times.

When you turn your computer off the RAM is erased, the state is lost. Our brains are running on RAM.

Perhaps we have persistent, non-volatile storage too, but we have no way to access and continue running our conscious, outside of our brain.

There’s nothing to fear about that- it is the world we’ve always lived in, and the state after your brain stops processing is no different from the state of the universe before you were born.
unfortunately, IIUC, GA doesn't handle scaling. It's ironic the picture of a T-POSE in that article is a cartoon like character. Cartoon animation is full of "squash and stretch" which means lots of animation of scale.
The only thing we have in life is the present moment. So, the only thing we lose in death is the present moment.
Update: The original post is from January 2019.

Ashley Broadley's github page at https://github.com/ls12styler sadly doesn't contain a repo with his rust dev work to date (I will ask him as it has some really good stuff in the article.)

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Very nice. I'm doing similar at the moment. Maybe take a look at

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/mifrjj/what_extra_dev...

A list of useful cargo built in and third party sub commands.

As you note, common recommended app crates (source) should be gathered separately.

I have several other links and ideas eg supporting different targets such as x86_64-linux-unknown-musl but too long for this post!
While this could very well be valid in natural science fields, I’ve heard that in humanity fields as well as in something as controversial and largely unknown as neuroscience (different from traditional hard science fields such as maths and physics), the consensus gets overthrown so quickly/gets a makeover almost every decade, that old research might appear completely different from the newest consensus in the field. Of course you still have to draw a conclusion yourself in the end by synthesizing all available information, but I wouldn’t say that old information would necessarily be more trustworthy in this case. A lot of understanding in psychology/health from a few decades ago seem to be deemed nonsensical nowadays, and in many of the cases I agree with the newer conclusions.
This was great. I love how Carlos ends his experience with positive takeaways from using Linux.

I worked with someone who used Linux as their main OS. They _ALWAYS_ had issues with Zoom. Terrible audio over IP (phone was better), terrible video quality, video would timeout after a few seconds, A/V mis-sync, etc.

That would be a non-starter for me, given that I use Zoom frequently.

On the topic of email clients: I'm always wanting to use them, especially when I'm spending more time in the terminal, but its lack of integration with any calendars always stops me from getting serious with it. That and it having not-great support for Office 365.
Something of an informal reverse engineering of SimCity 3000 existed in sc3000.com's Knowledge Neighborhood. The original site is only partially available via the wayback machine now, though fortunately the articles have been preserved albeit in a slightly less convenient format here https://community.simtropolis.com/profile/157989-catty-cb/co...

The site contained a pretty amazingly comprehensive detailing of the game's mechanics and various algorithms scattered throughout the articles, to the point where it seemed to me like it'd be possible to implement a lot of the game's engine using it.

Some good examples of the more detailed articles:

The economy https://community.simtropolis.com/omnibus/other-games/the-ec...

Land value specifics https://community.simtropolis.com/omnibus/other-games/land-v...

Traffic and transportation specifics https://community.simtropolis.com/omnibus/other-games/traffi...

Zone development rules https://community.simtropolis.com/omnibus/other-games/zone-d...
Love tmux. It was a game changer for me when training deep learning models. I really think this (or equivalents) should be a must learn
> contrary, there’s strong evidence of no reduction in average sleeping time and perhaps even an increase in sleeping time over this approximate time period

Followed by a source snippet looking at not average sleep time but prevalence of very short and very long sleep durations - outliers. Ie doesn't necessarily, or even likely, have anything to say on the subject.

For such a meticulous takedown repeating exactly the kind of mistake you're criticizing seems really sloppy.
And the alarm bells over "harm" seem overkill and somewhat shrill.

That said, the book definitely has issues and it's good someone tries to point them out. I just feel this overshoots.
I wonder how big the influence of Yiddish has been on German itself. Given the closeness of Yiddish and German, it would be the words of Hebrew origin that would stand out.

Dutch has quite a number of Yiddish loan-words, many of them in (very) common use. Almost all of them have Hebrew roots (see https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiddisch#Jiddische_invloeden_i...)
Looks powerful, but really messy and full of corner cases and gotchas. I hope they rethink this before releasing it as definitive.
This is how a spammer is born. They think they have "good intentions" themselves, failing to realize they are just obsessed about getting rich/famous and no longer care about anything else, seeing spamming behaviour as acceptable if it gives them 2 new users for each forum that bans them.
An example of core language complexity: if asked, could you explain what all of these do?

https://twitter.com/raymondh/status/1280988785841278976
Which app? Definitely curious if it'll help with my own procrastination (and possibly undiagnosed depression).

The last time I made some headway on why I seem to endlessly procrastinate (said headway being enabled by, er, "self medication"), I came to the conclusion that it's because my brain sees a whole bunch of things to do, and instead of taking the rational approach of "well take things one at a time", it instead gets into a whirlwind of indecision, panics under the stress of all these things to do, and immediately starts reaching for an escape, thus compounding the problem. In the "self medicated" state my brain was more able to get into a groove of "okay, do $N more things" and actually make some headway, but only until the nausea caught up to me (at which point I had to force myself to call it a day).

My hope is that it's just a matter of tooling, and that a better toolset will help me get out of ruts without needing to rely on mind-altering substances.
Without a global agreement/government I dont see the issue of climate change getting solved anytime soon.
In many countries in Europe we are required to return plastic bottles to stores for recycling.

Meanwhile in China they ferry water in plastic bottles everyday to people because tap water there is undrinkable.
Why Do Errors Happen?
It must be the command-line calculator bc
I am sorry to hear that. Loosing a loved before a really old age is just too early.

Thanks for sharing!

And yes, dying in peace at home like that is the best way to go if you ask me.
I usually choose Tmux over GNU Screen because it seems more intuitive to use IMO, but I still choose Screen for some cases like connecting to serial consoles.
I think there are use cases that requires a specialized hardware. Such as the one you mentioned: outdoor, no power, multiple cams. And there are use cases that using a phone is more appropriate. Like when you have an unused phone lying around. Or when you are often on the go and want a security camera to carry with easily.
I run VSCode and Eclipse Theia in Docker containers and access them via browser. Depending on what I do I start either with a Java, Node, or Python container.
Yup, too embarrassed to admit it, but this... People love me when I'm in that state, which, I guess who I am when not going through (waves arms this), so I make sure to give it to them. I tested myself and besides some extremely light loss in agility and mental acuity (then again more social when tired) my work's the same... except for the flashes of insight, drive, energy and hmmm... Given the MASSIVE gains to productivity, wealth creation and global competitiveness any sane government should be investing incredible sums into mental health.
Honestly that somewhat reflects the real world, at least in America. It seems to me that most people believe that more roads equals more options and freedom of movement. However, this doesn't take into account the detrimental effects of increased smog, cities optimized for cars instead of pedestrians, and so on. The perceived benefits of more roads, in my opinion, seem to pale in comparison to the detrimental impacts that this would have on cities.

Sim City seems to capture this perfectly through the third-person view of a city. There's a difference between being happy and wanting changes that you believe will make you happy, and a computer simulation has captured this distinction by showing both a citizen's actual happiness separate from their desires.

Obviously this isn't an exact parallel to the real world as desires can have an impact on one's happiness as well. However, it asks the important question of whether or not we should be designing cities to match desires, or to match what city planners believe would make people the happiest.
> why is it bad to give people options that help meet whatever their needs are?

Because it perpetuates and worsens inequalities.

The rich are effectively paid to their value whereas as you admit the poor are paid to their needs.