skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Notion is missing the ability of its documents being embeddable outside of its app.
Alpine has been incredible for some of my more esoteric use cases.

On amd64 desktop/server I still default to Ubuntu. For Docker my image base is usually Alpine.

But what’s really amazing is that recently I’ve transferred more and more functionality to my Nvidia Jetson AGX.

While the CPU could certainly be newer the 32GB of shared memory, NVMe storage, and CUDA GPU support is just killer for my use cases.

Docker images and LXC containers for Home Assistant, my broadcastify scanner feed, my ADSB feed, my Plex server, my FreeSWITCH instance, and my various NLP/TTS/STT applications (with CUDA) make the Jetson AGX perfect for me.

Where Alpine comes into play is the amazing package selection for aarch64. My life would be much more difficult without Alpine on this hardware.

With the push towards aarch64 everywhere this will get easier over time but for now Alpine is saving me a lot of headaches!
That weird speed effect is because they kept the shutter open longer on each frame, so there's more motion blur.
Any idea if there is a similar source of sales figures for non-fiction/technical ? Is it as bleak or skewed as the fiction side ?
I know, but that’s not exactly the point I’m making.

The point is that most people, given leisure time, let themselves down. People waste their free time mostly unintentionally. The best of intentions gives way to base impulse and then we rationalize.

Shorter hours would not make you finally learn that instrument.
Group pleads guilty to running bulletproof hosting service for criminal gangs
Direct source: https://www.flurry.com/blog/ios-14-5-opt-in-rate-att-restric...
Splendid. Thanks a lot!
I find pair programming a useful tool. It's great as patterns and practices are getting stood up on a team, for ramping new members, disseminating knowledge or for wrestling through novel code. As the article gets it, at can also be very emotionally draining so team members don't reach for enough on their own. As a lead, I regularly encourage or instruct my team to pair. However I also wouldn't make it an "always on" policy. It IS exhausting, and it is inefficient in many cases.

We've also adopted a few alternative practices (especially frequent "mob coding" sessions where we work through problems as an entire team rather than just pairs) that people find less draining.
Researchers develop “molecular tweezers” to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Elections are markets. Markets of ideas.
It's all about the glass. There's an old saying with cameras and lenses: buy the glass, rent the camera. Cameras change quickly, but lenses remain for a lot longer. Lots of comments in this thread talking about how they prefer the older lenses. Each series of lenses have a "look" to them that people become attached. Modern lenses are approaching 0 distortion in color/sharpness/etc. For some users, that's what they want. For others, they prefer the softer looks. So find the lenses you like, buy them, and use them on what ever camera you can.
I think the 2.6 million books refers to 2.6 million different titles that were sold rather than the total number of book sales across all titles, which as you pointed out is significantly higher than 2.6 million.
Do you have any evidence to suspect such a thing will happen?

I think it is much more likely that the "ghost in the shell" kind of idea will be seen as much more antiquated, and that it will be widely accepted that the body, mind, and indeed wider world are not really separate.

Just because you read it in a science fiction book doesn't mean it reflects what will actually happen.

> once we manage the ability to uncouple our humanity from our meat prisons.

I wonder how history will view such statements once we realise that our humanity and our "meat prisons" are not two different things.
"No HDD on the market has ever been variable-speed."

I'm not sure that's true ...

I remember from one of the Sun Performance Tuning manuals there is a chapter on disk performance and there was a throwaway line about "non commodity disks". Specifically, that there were, in the past, disk drives with heads that moved independently.

I don't know much more about "non commodity disks" - I think they must have been prevalent in the 70s (?) - but variable speed doesn't sound much weirder than independent head movement ...
For me, technical stuff is much better in eBooks because of the search functionality.
Glass Bridge Design Flaw
And some TVs only offer low latency on certain inputs, so it pays to do some research.
> C is so huge

Are you sure you're not thinking about C++? C is a small language.
sometimes. shooting in RAW helps. shooting in JPEG limits your post abilities.
Its important to go in with an open mind and not resist it. If you go in grudgingly thinking its not going to work and you're going to try it only to prove yourself right, then it will of course never work. I'd also read up and see how people do it rather than just having two people sit at a computer but otherwise trying to code like you usually do, otherwise you're unlikely to see any benefits.
How many of these were politically oriented and had sales bolstered by political organizations to get them on a best seller's list?
So you keep tabs on your coworkers... you sound like a cool guy
I'm not convinced that there's been a dramatic drop in living standards in the US over the last several decades (or that, where there has been, it's not mainly a matter of individual choice).

Think about life in the USA 70 years ago:

Do we think that much fewer than 34% of 20-to-30-year-olds lived in multigenerational households? The average square-footage of new homes more than doubled between 1970 and 2015.

Certainly people spend far more on healthcare, education, and transportation now than then. But aren't those goods and services that were simply not available at all to a large fraction of the populace? 10% rather than 30% of people went to college. Most conditions for which people seek medical treatment now probably went untreated.

So many people in 1950 eked out their existences living in a multigenerational house with a single bathroom and no car. Never traveling out of state or experiencing middle-class city culture. Walking a mile to work or performing farm labor more than 8 hours a day. The world is very different today, but it's not at all clear to me that living a comparable lifestyle is not an option for most people today.
Wikipedia lists him as a Physicist though, so someone forgot to sneak in a few edits before publishing their article...

Anyway, the ultimate "engineering" Physics Nobel prize remains with Nils Gustaf Dalén, who got it for inventing an automatic valve. But probably really got it for being a good friend that had his face blown up in an accident shortly before the winner was to be announced.
Can we agree that being less biased is better than being more biased?
> Hey, fellow Dlanger!

Lol, he is a paid hype man for the Dlang community, and you should ask him about Symmetry Investments and if they are hiring.
This is intended for situations where you'd be rapelling down from a helicopter, so it's no different, in fact possibly safer. During these boarding events there will be a lot of other munitions pointed at the vessel in target.
>Simple. We start with the society we want. One that is not racist and not classist. In other words, your skin color and the income of your parents should not play an overwhelming role in your life outcomes.

How about your look, height, voice and so on?
And how do you know that this is not the default bet of their recommendation algorithms?
Contenders for the proof-of-stake blockchain other than ETH2.0
Teach Yourself Apache Kafka and Python with a Jupyter Notebook
I was in a similar state when I was about 33. Burnt myself out coding for startups and really got bored of programming. Found I was doing a whole lot of things I didn’t really enjoy and putting off dealing with some internal issues (for example, a childhood trauma from drowning and the fear of swimming that came from that).

Not that what works for me would work for you, but one day at about 33 I made a commitment to myself that I’d find a path through my body. Not sure why it was that, but it intuitively felt right. I had one ego melting psychedelic experience, started working with a swimming coach, dedicated myself to a yoga practice, got back to daily seated meditation, went to therapy, and journaled every day (did The Artist’s Way workbook to start that habit, which I have mixed feelings about but journaling is transformative).

It wasn’t all at once, it started gradually, but it started with a commitment that I’d find a way in through my body. Things aren’t all great all the time — sometimes I really dread getting to a yoga mat to practice, or wake up not wanting to sit for meditation. And I definitely have existential lows. I just am much better equipped to deal with things now.

Your physical practice might (likely) look totally different than mine, but I do think there is one that will bring joy and transformation for everyone. Maybe it’s martial arts, maybe it’s strength training, maybe it’s running, maybe it’s dancing, maybe it’s doing something like Wim Hof cold exposure training. Who knows, for me it was Yoga, but I’d really recommend everyone find that thing that gets them working through the layers of their body. Your 37 year old self will thank you.
California seized many thousands of bank "Safe Deposit" boxes as being "unattended" during a fiscal crisis a decade+ ago. It caused a lot of commotion in certain legal circles, but was not in the mainstream news much. (details on request)
Agree. I must confess that Stripe documentation is great. On the other side their examples on GitHub are a little bit confusing.
I absolutely inhaled the first two books by Rothfuss, couldn't put 'em down, this was last year. Then I read up on when the last book would come out, and saw it had been over 10 years between the 2nd book coming out and present day.

Then I started reading about Patrick Rothfuss. I don't think I'll ever read the 3rd book if he ever does actually write it. Yes write, all indications are he hasn't written a page. I have lost whatever respect I have had for the guy. If he has a legitimate reason as to why he has kept his "fans" waiting for over a decade, he should say it. This reasoning is bullshit. [1] I would 100% understand if he said something like "I'm under a lot of pressure and I have anxiety and writers block" or something to that effect. Nope, he just completely checked out.

Maybe I'll read the Wikipedia summary if it ever exists.

[1] https://winteriscoming.net/2020/12/04/patrick-rothfuss-expla...
I'm betting many are testers who have to test the software that does tracking. I cannot imagine the overlap between people savvy enough to do it and would want to being anywhere near 4% of total iPhone users. Testers also seems high but I could imagine companies have a large number of them for compatibility across versions etc.
Of course. Current organizational failings do cause fallout and long term damage to retention and motivation of key staff, along with reputational issues leading to difficulty getting new qualified staff.

Definitely not unsolvable - pointing out that if you want the USPS to be a happy, well run organization that can take on a massive expansion in scope, it would take awhile and have to fight against the current inertia. It isn’t a slam dunk right now.
They would have said that they returned to the Rule of St. Benedict in its full rigor, no?
That’s going to need a citation, because it’s not what a lot of researchers say.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16270270

[2] https://www.orcanation.org/2019/10/10/the-social-intelligenc...
If the fed's "A-team" is getting into these kinds of messes then what does that say for all the B-rate agencies (AFT, DEA, etc) that get all the people who couldn't get jobs at the flagship agencies?

Edit: Removed comment unnecessarily insulting to ugly strippers
There already seems to be some kind of quick release mechanism - they can attach the arm mounted components to the backpack pretty quickly - you can see it when the chap with the ladder lands at about 2 mins into the video.
I understand that codegen is not yet "mature"nevertheless it would be great to have some insight how code generation is intended to be done. It would really be cool if there was a "simple" code gen example using a nice templateing engine.

Any timeline for "basic" codegen availability? (C++, JS, go, rust, etc. Will it be weeks, months, years?

Also an example for serialization would be nice. How would one be defining a service that can be interacted with via multiple transports? (HTTP/MQTT/UDP in one description for example) My current guess would be that you have to establish traits specifying the details or is there some equivalent to a Franca IDL deployment description?
Hello Walter, sorry for the (mostly) off-topic question, but is there still hope for having a variant of the standard lib that can be used w/o the garbage collector?
Another helpful technique to good code reviews is to keep individual PRs small. Once a PR is over a few hundred lines, my eyes start to glaze over and by the end I'm just skimming.

I've had great success with breaking larger changes into smaller PRs that get code-review-merged into an integration branch. Then the integration branch gets merged to your main branch once everything's done and verified.
What GCam does is simple stacking to improve snr plus some clever alignment/de-ghosting to avoid motion artifacts. It mostly compensates for the sensor size, not the lens simplicity. They still have many artifacts which big lenses don't, even after software compensation calibrated to match the specific camera.
Realistic Lighting on Different Backgrounds
The second half of Count of Monte Cristo felt like some serious word count padding
Doesn’t Wiki Foundation income and expenses go up every year? There was the trending post earlier showing the numbers. I think expenses doubled in the last five years. So can Wiki Foundation likely can’t maintain an expense level of $120M unless they’ve stopped spending more this year.

Edit:
found the link. There’s discussions on HN, reddit, and other sites too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has...
I’d highly recommend this explanation: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XRr1kaXKBsU
Only 4.189%?! I find that amazing. I would have imagined a MUCH bigger number.
So, they have mastered jet arms, now they just need gun legs!
The pros are well aware of the gains made by phone cameras. Sensors and pixels aren't the primary factor for choosing say, a $10,000 camera, over an iPhone. Reliability, battery life, form factor, control ergonomics, lens compatibility, codecs, ease of integration with third-party equipment, standards compliance, and on it goes. I don't think the opinion is that an iPhone can't make a nice image, just that they are woefully insufficient for many needs for reasons other than the sensor and processing algorithms.
Climate change also pushed modern humans into existence.
Besides the shoddy number work, does this really tell us anything?

I mean, if everyone read "exactly what was needed" then that would significantly change the distribution since the current is based on "what marketers make me think I need."

Therefore, this article could be viewed as positive improvement of efficiency in the book buying market. Ie more people buying "the book they need" vs "want because of flashy marketing" based on increased access to search and reviews.
I prefer both for this reason. With physical it's easy for me to mark it up/add tab bookmarks for fast reference. If I buy a book I try to find it on libgen as well so I can carry it around / search digitally.
I think it's unlikely - the company/team behind this tech appear to quite serious, with multiple government contracts in the works, and a focus on safety. I'd be very surprised if they were buzzing commercial aircraft on the US west coast. unless of course they've exported a few suits for testing by some crazy US black Ops private contractors... but again I think it's unlikely.
Those categories feel a bit arbitrary and overlapping: The difference between 2 and 3 seems to be whether there is a shared "similar original trait"... So, wouldn't every process of convergent evolution, where a similar trait arises independently in different species -- after a while automatically and inevitably have become parallel evolution, because after some time the once-new trait has of course become a pre-existing one?

OK, OK, I'll go check on that debate... But given the quotes of the definitions you posted here, it sure seems pseudo-.
"we shouldn't dismiss" means we should try them and see if they work, not just automatically assume they work or automatically dismiss them as snake oil.
A Hacking Group Did Apple Repair Professionals an Accidental Favor
Younger millennial/Z-adjacent here. I don’t claim to speak for everyone younger than me, but I am continually impressed by the level of genre awareness today’s youngsters have.

Genres like synth/vapor wave are very conscious remixes of periods of time many of us were barely alive during, and their popularity comes in part, I think, from the tenuousness of their connection to the time period from which those genres draw their audiovisual cues. For me, at least, my earliest memories are a dream half-remembered, and music that draws from but does not emulate music from that time period can be a way for my imagination to fill in the blanks.
Yes, that is correct. 2.6 million different titles were sold (not total copies.)
So, if you care about logs, don't depend on journalctl... Well that's fine if you can ship logs off the box, and if the log shipping is working. But if you have to troubleshoot on the machine itself (hello, desktops?) then having tools that don't come with a lot of pain and big learning curve is critical to addressing the issue quickly. What's the point in even having these tools if we're not supposed to use them?

Normally, Unix-like tools are not as painful as journalctl. But Poettering's interfaces are a gauntlet of unusual concepts and hidden inter-relationships, with no common examples or intuitiveness. And things like dbus make it worse, now that there are many parts of a modern Linux system that have no console interface, because nobody's written one for the particular application you need to view or change the right dbus settings. And /sys/ is literally a wilderness of random undocumented settings that are often the only interface to critical system functions.

Linux distributions are now a tiresome no-mans-land of overcomplicated mysterious crap. I'm willing to bet the major Linux distributions will be abandoned over the next decade for simpler systems that are cloud-native, mobile-friendly, and have less Kafkaesque interfaces.
And since our gut flora influences our mind so much, and since our mind influences our body so much (see the physical effects of stress), we can't really consider what _happens_ to our body to be separate from our mind either. If our body and mind are intimately linked, so are our minds and the food we eat. Personally I think that the distinction between those things is just some conventional idea we have that enables our interaction with the world. Does nature itself imply an inherent separation and cutoff point between the body and mind, and thus the mind and the entire universe?
Some problems can be improved with a simple contact point

Absolutely. Most schools don't employ enough advisors to have sit-down appointments with every student every semester. However, I did see a school implement a policy where 1st semester students-- a higher risk population-- were required to have a sit down like that before they were allowed to register for the next semester. That single effort resulted in a 15% decrease in 1st-year dropouts.
It's also not clear if those numbers are just 'trade' books (i.e., books sold through regular bookstores), or includes academic titles, textbooks, reference books, etc. I mean, there's a lot of stuff published that has a fairly specialized or otherwise limited market. Probably the overwhelming majority of books fall into categories that are never going to sell 100K or more no matter what.
"The one where writing books is not really a good idea". Griffin cites 1000 true fans [0], where for $100k target income, you want 1K fans at $10 month. For me the consumer, that's $100/year per author, times I don't know how many subscriptions I'd budget. It's weird to think that the creative marketplace runs on patronage, but I suppose that's true going back at least to the Renaissance. She's opting to serialize her fiction on substack, toward the possibility of greater scale at lower unit cost.

[0] https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
Why not suing the bank? It always works, AI or no AI.
I dislike Facebook as much as any HN poster, but I can say that the Facebook Messenger for Kids app has been... surprisingly good.

Kids can't talk to anyone who you don't add as a friend, and your child's friends list is managed by you and new friends must be approved by the parents of both kids. You can see at any time who they have been talking to, you can see all the images that have been sent and received, and there's no advertising. It's basically a walled garden just for your kids group of friends who've been approved by parents and nothing more. Kids can't even start a group chat or video chat with friends who aren't all mutual friends, so there's no way for your child to talk to anyone who you haven't approved.

It has stuff that kids like, like little games and filters they can use to play with their friends, which is clearly just to increase engagement (and screen time), but it's actually not nearly as terrible as you'd expect from Facebook (yet).

Messenger for Kids has been a godsend during the quarantine due to the fact that the kids want to do video chat but all have different types of devices, and it's nice because it's locked down to only the people you approve.

Now, is Instagram for Kids a good idea? We shall see, my guess is "probably not" but at least Messenger for Kids isn't exactly the nightmare you'd think it is based on the name.
Well let's take a look at other media targeted towards younger children/tweens. How about Fortnite? They're training to children to be degenerate gamblers by tapping into base impulses of addiction. Any company that does this only does it for purposes of getting them hooked at a young age and hoping to turn them into future coffers. They're not doing it for altruistic reasons.

>It's fairly obvious that giving children a safe zone is still better than throwing them in the 18+ internet right?

Yes, but this shouldn't be done by a company that's only looking for profit. There's only so much that can be done legally to keep them away from these sorts of things and the rest of it HAS to be done by the parents. Children shouldn't have free reign of the internet and need guidance on what's appropriate and discussion on what they're seeing. I'm probably in the minority but I don't agree with just giving them smart phones/devices that just allow them to be connected to whatever they want 24/7 either.
I think that is more like saying the average height.

The ladder question (a common tool for measuring SWB) is this:

Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from zero at the bottom to 10 at the top.
The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you.
On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time? (ladder-present)

https://news.gallup.com/poll/122453/understanding-gallup-use...
On which step do you think you will stand about five years from now? (ladder-future)
Show HN: Animon – Simple JavaScript/CSS lib to animate elements on scroll
>red flags for all kinds of weirdness

You have no idea. I. Have. Seen. Things.
Are all those new houses occupied? Where are all the people coming from?