skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a huge Earthsea fan and I enjoyed HP too - I just think they're different styles of books, in particular HP has a lot of comedy, and it's more directly aimed at children than Earthsea is. Similarly, 'The Worst Witch' is great for slightly younger children.

To be honest, you could knock off the first volume of HP in a day or so, so the easiest thing is just to try it.
Maybe because his wealth is measured by the stock he owns and the price would drop should he decide to dump it.
Imagine if the tobacco industry convinced the world to call cigarettes "Cancer Reducers", even though they're literally the exact opposite. Now imagine the tobacco industry also bought every single newspaper, tv network, book publisher and media publisher in the world.

That's exactly what has happened with the Copyright/Patent industry. They convinced the world that these should be called "Intellectual Property", even though they are the opposite of property rights.

It's rotten to the very core (like slavery, there is no reasonable term limit—the whole idea should be abolished). About 1% of the population understands the truth (like SciHubs), but the rest go along with what they are told. Understandable, the brainwashing begins young and is pervasive (all Disney children's movies, for example, start with an FBI Warning threatening jail time if you go against the system).
They should be able to do whatever they want in their store. What they shouldn't be able to do is prohibit competing stores.

"If you don't want the AT&T handset just build your own phone network" obviously isn't a reasonable alternative.
Good question, I just did a little digging to see if I could find out. It sounds like old Arabic did indeed use little endian in writing and speaking, but modern Arabic does not. However, place values weren’t invented in Arabic, Wikipedia says that occurred in Mesopotamia, which spoke primarily Sumerian and was written in Cuneiform - where the direction was left to right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number#First_use_of_numbers

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform
Well, my experience in Germany is different than yours in London apparently.
Earthsea is written for adults too, Harry Potter is written for children. Most of the significant differences stem from that.
Is your argument that if there's a problem, the government must not have tried to prevent it? We still have cancer; does the NIH exist? We still have crime, food poisoning, car accidents ...
> They do it not for humanity but to earn more money. Its always money, power, and fame at the end.

I think that depends on how you see the world. I believe there’re people who aren’t driven only by desire to have more money.
I recently discovered her translation of the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu. It’s become one of my favorite books to open and read a random page from and meditate on. In it I think she also really shows the roots of her philosophy that she expressed throughout all of her writing. The original writing is ofcourse Lao Tzu but the voice in the translation is very much Ursula’s. I’d highly recommend it for fans of any of her writing, regardless of genre.
I see, thanks for the detailed reply. Yeah it's sad that companies have no incentive nowadays to support open protocols (besides the ones that already exist). I wonder if regulation could solve this problem or at least encourage healthy competition into the marketplace.
If you had taken the time to listen to the video, you would have heard that the 'w' in 'northward' was indeed omitted in the pronunciation as well as in the spelling.
That’s the headline feature
Itanium can be configured to run in either endianness (it's "bi-endian"). Windows on Itanium always ran in little-endian mode and did not support big-endian mode. The same was true of PowerPC. Windows never ran in big-endian mode on any architecture.
A Dutch City Gets a €600k Fine for WiFi Tracking
That still sounds like it's a Rust library you get to use on Windows, not a library of Windows functions to use from Rust.
Well my most recent experience is trying to call the local number for the electric company office in my town which went to someone asking what state I live in.
>Although the couple have worked hard to get here, and they make good money — their starting salaries were about $90,000 each — they feel that a future in Silicon Valley eludes them. Their apartment, for example, costs almost $3,000 a month. They could move somewhere less expensive, but, with the traffic, they’d spend hours each day commuting. They would like to stay, but they don’t feel confident that they can save, invest, start a family. They’re not sure what to do next.

Let's see..3x12=36,000

2x90,000 (probably a lot more given it is a starting salary) =$180,000

even after accounting for taxes and other expenses, that is still a lot left over.

Stopped reading after that. They literally just refuted their own thesis.
Print a gold bar shaped wood with imprints 9999, is worth more than gold now.
Last Saturday I decided to fix the leaky kitchen faucet installed in the 80's. YouTube had me replacing cartridges @ $22 for pair. They had a former plumber working who down sold me the real fix, a pair of rubber seals w/springs $3.25 This guy told me the cartridges rarely are the problem . . he was right! he also instructed me on how to make the repair.
Haha no, that's par for the course. Each one of these people will always make some remark like this. "You leave no impact on the Earth. 40 yrs in your apartment and then burnt in a crematorium. Who knows you existed? Villageboi leaves legacy. Cityboi never existed. No trace."

"Yeah, but villageboi is a lobotomized mole. I am sophisticate. You have no frontal lobe"

The peak of discourse. Hahaha. And then depending on which lifestyle you have chosen, people will pick some arbitrary thing to argue about.

"You said villageboi. Actually, I am village girl. And it's not village. It's farm"

"You said lobotomy. Actually, it's a corpus callosotomy"

That's what makes it so entertaining. The idea that people think they're being all this sharp when really they're just offended that their preferences were made fun of.

But you're clearly an Emacs user. See you on your way back from the RSI doctor, nerd!
Yeah, like that horrible capitalist company that funded the research lab which invented the transistor, Unix and C. We'd be so much better off without it out its 'capitalist, profit-driven creations'. (AT&T, Bell labs)

/s
New articles are on pause currently
I found Atuan a bit dull at 20 (years old), but really moving at 40.
> And their linking isn't the best for society as a whole.

See, how can you judge whether it’s going to end up bad if we’re in the middle of it?
I'm not sure what you mean by "the wealthy care very much." But perhaps it has something to do with the definition of "wealthy." I would say that anybody who owns a house free-and-clear in California, or another high-cost location such as Beijing of Vancouver, as "wealthy."

But I also separate out this sort of wealth from, say, stocks or highly liquid wealth in a bank account. Land, and even structures themselves in a supply constrained location, act as a far more insidious form of capital than dollars or stocks. They are used to extract rents from people, just as monopolies are used to extract wealth, or capitalists with a monopsony on labor can extract the excess value of labor, far more than capital interest would normally demand.

There's a solution to this, capture the excess value that real estate commands and redistribute it, either through taxation, or modified forms of limited ownership. This has two effects, the primary one being that it eliminates the motive to use housing as an appreciating asset. People can still use their homes as a store of value, meaning that they can put work into their homes to improve them to their liking, and not have it all taken away. But they do not take the value that comes merely from excluding people from access to the area, the increase in land values. (Though in places where there is not change in land use allowed, the homes themselves start to behave as land does, commanding excess rents merely due to the inability to let more people have access to an area.) The secondary effect is that these socially created land rents get distributed to all of society, who generate the value, rather than the person who is speculating.

There are two end games to the bubble in land prices that we are currently seeing. A slow deflation, or a sudden pop. However, since so much of our wealth is predicated on housing values, and since so many of our banks are dependent on high valuations, there will always be a strong enough political coalition in the US to stop a pop. We need to build a coalition that prevents the growth of the bubble, committing it to steady deflation.
That entirely depends on the store.

HomeDepot or Lowes? Often times if you are even aware the topic exists you’ll be a step ahead of 75-80% of the staff.

If you go to a proper plumbing or electrical supply place, they can often point out that the video you’re watching isn’t doing work compliant to the local electrical code and you need to do extra step Y or you’ll fail inspection, or that the whole operation is not going to work because the length of your run is too long for the size of pipe/gauge of wire you’re using (which the video never even talks about), and you need to upsize or use a different technique.

Local shops without expertise are definitely not going to do well. Someone with experience and expertise who sells what you need and actually has it in stock? Super Super valuable.
Technology can solve many of the inconveniences free banking had. I don’t care what the currency a product is priced in if I’m paying via an app.
Ask HN: Alternative to Speedify? How does it work?
The Warmth of the Saffron Sun
Nature heals, new life only just begun
I saw a lot of USSR as well. We lived in a 200 sqft apartment with no plumbing.
I’ve been building sites for 20 years, I’ve recently picked up react and seeing the code, it’s a great example of react so thanks for this! Second, kudos for recreating macos! The design is really where macOS shines along with the subtle animations and you nailed it. I grew up on System8/9 and miss that aesthetic but still cool none the less. Now, support dark mode ;)
That pull request needs tests.
> and that same group also focused on the enterprise & driving adoptability.

well, sort of. there were a couple of half-assed pushes with things like linux for data centers, but mostly it was a data center filled with hardware that got very little use other than one asterisk system sitting in a corner, a stack of machines/disk that could be "checked out", but mostly got used for automated testing, and an NEC numa itanium machine that barely worked. add to that, projects that intel no longer wanted to support being shoved off, and you have a pretty good view of day to day life at the OSDL.

source: worked there, doing day to day life at the OSDL.
> I know that this kind of data in corporations is guarded good enough so leaks are unlikely.

With due respect, and you are completely entitled to your preferences, leaks are very common and a big problem, often reported on HN.
Instead of thinking of Linux for non-technical users, I think you can actually segment non-technical users into people who use a computer and people who use a browser. People who just use a browser for virtually everything (i.e. people who can use a Chromebook and think that it's basically the same as a normal laptop) are actually very common and can use Linux just fine. I had a friend who needed a home computer but was desperately poor. I gave them a machine I picked up at a garage sale with Ubuntu on it. They've been using it for years and have never looked back. After they had been using it for a while I mentioned something to them about their computer having an unusual operating system, and they really didn't have a clue what I was talking about. Because they had never paid attention to the operating system beyond the clicking the browser icon.

Now yeah that's not true for people who will want to plug in different printers all the time, and install Microsoft Office specifically, etc. Surprisingly I think it's actually the people with a medium amount of technical knowledge that have the most trouble adapting to Linux.

But even as someone who virtually never uses anything but Linux, I don't really get the constant drive to have this "year of the Linux desktop". It works fine for me and I love it. I make my smug comment when Windows and OS X users have problems but I'm not in a rush to help them with their problems or give them new ones. If you're bothered enough by the mainstream options to switch, you can learn a few new things. If not, I don't see the problem.

Edit: and I think Linus focuses too much on Debian here. Even in 2014, Ubuntu was already a very easy to use and out-of-the-box distro. Even Fedora was pretty good. My distribution doesn't package Zoom, but if I go to their website and click install I get the right binary and the experience is comparably easy to Microsoft Windows installers. If you're on a fringe distro, you almost certainly love the power that comes with (and requires) building everything from source regularly. So again, I don't see the problem. If you want to be included in Debian, using Debian's shared libraries doesn't seem like an unreasonable policy. It's quite easy to ship an application that is easy to install and upgrade independently. Google Chrome is another app that does it super well. More people would do it if there was demand, but there isn't, and I don't think that's just an app packaging problem at all.
> Or use the word “trigger” to mean mere annoyance

To be clear, the people that took away meaning from this word were the people that added "trigger warnings" to the most trivial of things. "trigger warning: meat eating." "trigger warning: bad words."

> It is tragic that people with a hatred of people living with conditions like PTSD and epilepsy have turned that word into a joke

That's really not what's happening.
> their sustaining success absolutely must be

Isnt that just survivorship bias?
Hey FBI, I've emailed her my support. And I'm a U.S. Citizen. I have great respect for the FBI and law enforcement in general, but on this particular issue you can go fuck yourselves.

Going after a woman fighting to ensure all people, rich and poor, have access to the world's scientific information. That is a slap in the face to the American ideals of liberty and the sacrifices that tens of millions of freedom fighting Americans have made for centuries. Open your eyes.
"the c/c++ language" exists insofar as you can import this c code into your c++, and this is something that c++ programmers need to know how to do, so they'd better learn enough of the differences between c and c++ or they'll be stumped when they crack open somebody else's old code.
The Ishi story is fascinating, and I second your recommendation, and also want to mention the famous documentary: Ishi, the last Yahi[1]

It amazed me when I found out that Ursula Le Guin was the Krober's daughter.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyXxHI3Hi90
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27086403. Most of them.
This isn't an English creative writing class hangout space. It's a space dedicated to intellectual curiosity.

Quite ironic you hoisted yourself on a high horse to write that comment.
It's difficult to answer as the Harry Potter books' complexity deepen during the series, as the characters (and the child reading the books?) grow. The first one is definitely a children book. The last ones less so (and can be quite dark).
Url changed from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-08/u-s-s-big..., which points to this.
Alexandra Elbakyan is a perfect example of someone who deserves a presidential pardon.
Dyson spheres would not qualify as dark matter, as they would be made of Baryonic matter.
The notable white people are the Kargish bad guys.
Agree. Have to figure out the monetisation part on the way.
I have been doing mentorship etc on a personal circle for a long time now. Thought about ways in which I can do it on scale and this is a first version of that thinking.

This is just my personal knowledge. What if for example, Ycombinator curates a path to learn how to build a startup, or Airbnb curates a path on how to build two sided marketplaces.

That's how I'm thinking about it now.
Thank you very much for your comment.

Nowadays, privacy is a pretty convoluted word. I like to consider it from the point of view of the most impacted actor, the end-user. And from his perspective, you remain a third party as long as his data is concerned. The sole fact that the tool is self-hosted cannot be a guarantee of privacy. Though, it's more likely to achieve stronger privacy if the number of third parties is small.

Therefore, with your tool:

- Either you have an identity (i.e., hash(x,y,z)) that is persisted over time (notwithstanding its accuracy).

- Or you have an identity that is forgotten after a certain period of time (e.g., 24h).

In the first case, it cannot be considered a privacy-focused tool, and in the second case, it has the same shortcomings I've described in the original question.

---

It is crucial to note that the question is about the quality of users' metrics in privacy-focused tools.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. End-user's privacy comes at the expense of actionable metrics. Furthermore, at best, people using these tools are not aware of the shortcomings and the risk of misleading numbers. At worse, these very concerns are kept away in the marketing speeches of these tools to minimize their real impact.

Above is an opinion, and I would like to debate about it. About my possible misunderstanding of these tools. About possible solutions.
I _am_ italian, and yes, I also have oddly preferences for which format goes with what recipe.

But I would likely consider this self curling pasta as a "wrong format" by default for everything. But it could actually turn out awesome! I'm not so conservative as to not give it a try (also there are self-curling vegetables, "puntarelle", which are awesome).
it'd be interesting to try to make a hybrid static/dynamic library program. assume you can find the libraries you want on the system, but have a fallback where you go download some Debian packages & install them into your XDG_CACHE_DIR & load libraries from there, when the system (whatever os it is) didn't have it.

part of the trick would be making this code significantly smaller than doing a static build.
Half the habitable land is farm land and farm land is ecologically dead (with pesticide use having damaging effects on the surroundings) and not available for carbon sequestration for instance.

Also "livestock accounts for 77% of global farming land. While livestock takes up most of the world’s agricultural land it only produces 18% of the world’s calories and 37% of total protein"

And the trend is growth..

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use
As a poor person who emigrated from USSR, this is borderline offensive.
Haggling is tiring and mostly useless considering the time and energy expended. There's a reason most shopping has gone towards standardized list prices without negotiation, and this happened way before Amazon existed. Even the large purchases like cars and real estate are trending towards upfront pricing now.

Now recommendations by a store expert are a different thing, but local businesses are again limited by recommending only what they have in stock, not what's actually best for you. I've rarely found anyone who would actually tell me to go somewhere else to get what I need.
Leon and Noel: Two strangers whose epic bicycle trips intersected in Kazakhstan
> I do enough tweaking and tinkering in my own code that sometimes I just want tools that immediately work

Interestingly, that's exactly the reason I continue to use Linux. Depends on what you're doing, but for the boring work I do, I never have to tinker. Install and use. Once in a while do a boring update.
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> Reddit has some explicit content

Understatement of the millenium there.
Not PP, but I can guess at a few, at least:

- It easier to see the 'essence' of an equation/problem when all irrelevant detail is omitted.

- Many concepts are so general that you'd need a small essay to have a 'descriptive' name, rather than just, say, x.

- Algebraic manipulation often leads to non-intuitive concepts in intermediate calculations, e.g. meter-dollars. It's handy to be able to just call such a thing 'a' (or whatever) if it helps make calculations easier.
Even adjusting for living expenses, SV engineers have more disposable income than almost everyone else. $200-300k is a lot of money. I have run the numbers and there is almost no way you can not have anything left over unless you have a lot of dependents or are very reckless with money.
Yeah that's a big part of her thing right. She was raised by anthropologists I think? It's very present in a lot of her books and Always Coming Home is like 1/3 straight fictional ethnography.
What’s the context here? Why is this on HN?
People downvoted me but this was kind of my point. USB drives do usually work, but I still have experiences however rare, that a particular server and USB combination is not working so when there are situations that I have to travel somewhere and be 100% certain that an OS install is going to be possible I still feel the need to have an optical drive.
The best book ever! I don't know how many times I read it.
My other favourite is The Left Hand of Darkness.
The existence of cognitive biases may help in some instances, and may harm in others. But they are not a substitute for data and proper experimentation or mechanism of actions.
I don't enable it because of the social engineering attacks against mobile carriers, tricking them to hand out SIM cards to crooks.
I got a 64gb and server with 2*2tb NVM in 10 minutes.

Bought it 2 weeks ago for 60/month.

Or are you referencing something like CPU shortage at that model?
Or just use the functions in <arpa/inet.h> to convert from host to network byteorder?
> Its not anti-tech or anti-corpprate, its anti-monopoly

Sorry for being unclear, I was referring to the current mood in Congress. Epic has tailwinds in there being a desire to reign in Big Tech. It has headwinds in being, itself, a tech company. That balance is, on the net, favourable to Epic. But marginally favourable isn’t a great position to be in when it comes to policy in a crowded legislative session.
Demo: Philips N2401 and N6711 (1970) [video]
This has improved a lot. Hardware support has caught up. I'm using a 1 year old laptop with hard to support hybrid graphics (AMD integrated, NVIDIA dedicated). In Fedora, it all worked out of the box. And you get an extra 50% battery life over Windows. In 2010, when I last ran a laptop with hybrid graphics, setting up Bumblebee was a disaster.

The only line I had to type into a terminal in Fedora 34 to make it a GUI-usable system was adding the default flathub repo. That fixes the package manager issue. Most people have so much bandwidth and storage coming with their devices, shared libraries make less and less sense anyway.