skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't exactly from the direction you may be looking for advice but I offer it in case it may be some help.

A few years ago I got myself into a into a life threatening situation, trapped in it. I was fighting for my life and I was losing. I became so tired that I had to take breaks, and I was able to reflect on my situation. At one point I felt I had no more energy left and accepted I was going to die. All concerns about my life dropped off me and all I could think about was how much I loved the people I know and how I wished them well after I was gone. It was a beautiful moment, maybe the most beautiful moment I've ever experienced. If I'd died at that moment I wouldn't have been unhappy at all.

I'm not special, I have no deep reserve of empathy that others lack, nor am I especially selfless. I've also heard of similar experiences from others who've faced a moment where they were sure death was there for them and they had the time to contemplate it and accept it. It only needs a brief moment.

Perhaps it's not like that for everyone, but those who leave us probably felt something similar because, as I say, I'm not special. They pass on feeling deep love for us, I know that now. I have a friend who passed away in the night from a heart attack, somewhat unexpectedly, and it still makes me want to cry when I think of him, years later now. But even though he probably didn't have the chance of that moment, that feeling was in him for those he loved. I would like to hug him and talk to him again, but if he were to come back, wouldn't he just tell me his hope that I'd been okay and living my life happily and well?

Of course he would.

All the best.
Can your connections find out if you unfollow them? This is the only thing preventing me from unfollowing.

I've muted a ton of people I don't know at all because their rabid self-promotion or clickbait would keep showing up in my feed. But it is usually the same list of friends liking or sharing that content.
(1) The Last Zeppelin Raid 1939
> If you have a 5% deposit saved and a high salary, you still can't afford a home because lots of people are in your position and have driven up house prices and rates and leverage available sucks.

I keep hearing this trope and reading about it. Not positive why it gets repeated. It doesn't take long to do a realtor.com or trulia search to find a shit-ton of affordable homes. It seems to me that, there's a certain class of people, many of which I gather hang out on HN, that don't have either a long enough lifetime behind them to possess an acute perspective or just outright completely have false expectations. My home value in the midwest hasn't risen in 15 years. My value actually decreased by 10K two years ago. Within 6 blocks of my house in SE WI, I can find about 80, 3bdr, single family houses for sale, many if not most under 120K. I'm looking at a 3bdr, 1bath now for 60K that I would love to fix up and turn into a rental. If you feel like 120-130K is not 'affordable' to someone with a 5% deposit saved and a "high salary", let me blow your mind. Nobody, and I mean, not a single person on my block makes more than 48K/year. Me and my wife bought our house for 124K, while making 28K/year jointly!
LOL. let the car drive itself, but give up music control? over my dead body!

it's funny to me because you'd expect music to be lower stakes and such, but it just highlights that actually driving a car is a much more well defined problem than picking the music i like
So much dislike for these!

I dug through Apple’s audio book section at some length and purchased Feynman’s overall survey of math, a sort of toss-off in the middle of his physics lecture series, and I love it. It’s just the most profoundly enthusiastic holistic summary of basic mathematics I can imagine packed into a one hour talk. I’m going to listen to it again today.

The pleasure of these lectures is getting to spend a little time in Feynman’s head, appreciating the world the way he does, unpacking it the way he does. I don’t think they deserve the side eye - they’re a really unique product of a very unique person, and a culturally valuable thing to have around.
It’s a set of beliefs about how you should view and act in the world, that’s good enough.
I spied similar patterns as a student and started collecting books I valued. As a consequence I have some not very valuable but rather rare items that I cherish and couldn’t read anywhere else, even digitally (at least at the time). One example, and probably highly controversial, is “The New Romans”—a collection of essays, poems, aphorisms, and other short writings by every major Canadian writer of the 50s-70s about America including bpNichol, Margaret Atwood, Farley Mowat, Michael Ondaatje, Irving Layton, Margaret Laurence, Dennis Lee (the list goes on and on) edited by Al Purdy (and personally signed by him and Bill Bissett each with a note to someone named Arlene. A monumental undertaking gathering from all of these writers for one edition at the height of their careers. You can still find copies, and affordable, but there was one printing in paperback in 1968 and never again. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23362827-the-new-romans *

I’ve invested a lot of money, and lugged them and some vinyl records back and forth across the country with me.

Still, I’m wary to pin that on libraries as a whole or as an entity as if the library itself was the problem. The problem is “move fast and break things” and digital maximalism (as the article itself ends up pointing to as a culprit). I’d point to the pressure to install “disruptive” management and those kinds of trend-chasing moves in organizational structure (it’s invaded publishing, too)

It’s funny, my day job is working with computers and I love programming and putting computers to good use, but the more I learn and the more I grow the more I prefer the physical world to our new digital one. (As I curse my phone for autocorrecting the wrong words, but still persist in typing this comment)

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* Bonus, here’s a favourite poem from the book by John Robert Columbo https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/oh-canada
Yes it can, but as you hint yourself:

1. How many aftermarket exhausts actually add meaningful performance

2. How many people actually need / notice / use whatever performance they gain

vs

3. How many people, consciously or not, admittedly or not, just get it for bling and sound

Very few people with aftermarket parts take their bike or car on the track or competition. Very few have training to take advantage of it.

(I don't speak from a theoretical high horse - I spent thousands of dollars myself to add power to my WRX, before I finally realized that 1. Stock car was already faster than myself, and started investing in lessons/training/practice runs, and 2. The hands-down best investment I made in my car was a $200 aftermarket (additional) multi-point seat harness, as it stabilized my body/arms and enabled a much much finer degree of control. If I were to modify a car today, I'd start with suspension/control, not engine/power. For bikes, even more so - every bike I ever owned, from 50 scooter to 400cc supermoto to 500cc adventure and 750cc touring, can do amazing things in hands of a professional rider and can do far far less in my own hands; modifying it for "performance", for 98% of riders, is pointless and we're only fooling ourselves )
I like that it is a standalone notepad.exe-like program that opens my notebook and just works. I usually use it more for looking at notebooks than writing them tho.
I work in the AR space and it is incredible how much Apple is preparing their entire platform for a massive push into AR. For years they have been laying a very robust groundwork with their APIs (ARKit, RealityKit, SceneKit), the inclusion of LIDAR on their iPhone 12 Pro / iPad Pro, and likely the entire iPhone 13 line. These are all things that are effectively gimmicky and seem like failures with little uptake, but all of it is just prepping for the inevitable headset in the very near future.

They are going to absolutely dominate the market so completely.
Using fake reviews to find dangerous extensions
You are a good human. Run a school or college fund in your fil's name to help kids in their education. There is no better satisfaction than contributing someone to stand up on their feet in memory of a loved one.
New York’s Hyphenated History
“Simpsons paradox is rare” might well be true, but is quite the stretch from what the author shows.

Self reported opinion data is a very specific dataset to begin with.
>promote worker mobility

I agree, the best ways to do that include providing universal healthcare and basic income to all citizens, which would separate "work" from "survival". That's the only way I see to create a truly fair marketplace for work.
That is becase feynman lectures, or any physics lecture, will not give you a solid math framework.
Today women have jobs so that they could pay for cleaning, doing laundry or for daycare for their children. Financially it cancels itself out, but women get just as little time with their own children as men.
Regular reminder that forbes.com is blogging platform open to anyone just like medium.com, blogger.com, etc. Articles posted there should not be given any default credibility boost.
Not to be nitpicking but in order to reap the full benefit you need an extra keyboard...at least that's what I derive from you pics?
Immediate skin-to-skin contact has reemerged based on data in the United States. Some hospitals made the switch years ago. Immediate skin-to-skin contact and the newborn, unless there is a medical reason to do otherwise, is never removed from the presence of the birth mother.

In some cases this requires re-tooling and renovating the birthing wing of hospitals as they were previously optimized for immediate incubation by default. It takes time and money.
Divuni – Daily Questions
The purpose of it is to create a community of people who are looking to better understand themselves.
At the moment there is a focus on Daily Questions, every day a new random question will be shown, members who create an account can answer these daily questions, write general posts, follow other members, comment, like, pin content to their profile, and more.

Its still new so there isn't much traffic and there are still quite a few projects in progress.

Feel free to also sign up, maybe there will be a question you would like to think of and answer, or maybe you will find an error that needs to be fixed!
Site's ad loading makes the article unreadable.
> That's what disruption is, isn't it?

Not really in the sense that Christiansen introduced the word to business.

The op was making an important point. Google makes a stab at something, often with a lot of publicity attached, then abandons it. (I mean this in a normative, not critical sense). Because Google is a high profile corporation and, until recently at least, was regarded as having technical superpowers, various other actors reacted to the announcement and the intermittent stream of updates.

That combination (Google’s often impuissance combined with a set of experienced rentiers well versed in lobbying) had a malign outcome that was the precise opposite of competition.

It’s a common trope that yiu can’t trust Google to deliver but this is a good example of a consequence most people don’t recognise.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24052393 re: Starboard:

> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres... : "Subresource Integrity (SRI) is a security feature that enables browsers to verify that resources they fetch (for example, from a CDN) are delivered without unexpected manipulation. It works by allowing you to provide a cryptographic hash that a fetched resource must match."

> There's a new Native Filesystem API: "The new Native File System API allows web apps to read or save changes directly to files and folders on the user's device." https://web.dev/native-file-system/

> We'll need a way to grant specific URLs specific, limited amounts of storage.

[...]

> https://github.com/deathbeds/jyve/issues/46 :

> Would [Micromamba] and conda-forge build a WASM architecture target?
Another saying goes like this:

If a person is not a liberal when he is twenty, he has no heart; if he is not a conservative when he is forty, he has no head.

https://freakonomics.com/2011/08/25/john-adams-said-it-first...
Also some people have custom made Vespas like I do and to get it approved by the EU as a vehicle I have to export it to Switzerland and then reimport it to my country, but keep on letting your imagination run wild
So who are the most capable competitors to Apple in wearables?

Among my friends and colleagues, those who don’t buy Apple Watch often buy Garmin watches instead. In the area of fitness tracking watches, Garmin seems to be serious competition. It’s missing the full app ecosystem of Apple Watch but I think you can send messages and email to some Garmin watches over 4G, for example.
The parent point assumed nothing of the kind. For the point of this analysis, it doesn't matter whether the non-breadwinner was busy homemaking, skydiving, or collecting stamps.

The point is that they didn't need to trade their labor for money, and now they do.
Thank you for pointing this out. Every single time I see a forbes.com page posted, I see other people in the HN comments who clearly do not recognize this.
Yeah, I should have said any accusations of bullying would be reviewed by mods.
It is in everyone's interest to prevent this, everywhere. However, the argument as it is being framed is that armed violence is an acceptable, proportionate response to slights from the private sector. There is no acceptable basis for this, which is why ridicule is deserved.
It would be better for both to enforce contract law all around. Don’t let either lie or steal and you’ll have a better outcome for all.
Oh, I definitely agree. I appreciate the perspective. The Feynman lectures are great at giving an intuition and perhaps a general framework for thought.

What they don’t give you are tools; like you say, you had to learn them in other places before really appreciating the lecture.

But those lectures do seem to leave many people with the feeling they also got the tools and not just the gist.

They are enjoyable. They are informative. But they are not at a textbook level, even though they leave the impression that they are.
In all seriousness, people actually look at the newsfeed or whatever they call it on LinkedIn? The only thing I do with LinkedIn is keep my profile up to date in case I'm changing jobs. I've never posted anything other than my profile and I get a steady stream of recruiter emails (that I ignore if I'm not looking for work).
Most days I can put it on the charger when I get in the shower, and put it back on when I grab my keys and wallet. It’s not like you have to charge it over night. Half hour will last you quite a while.
Correct. Gmail is an example for token-based access. And usually there’s not much to object to if such services are upfront about what they’re doing and why.

If they don’t state that explicitly in their terms of service it’s even more problematic.

From their landing page:

> Spark is fully GDPR compliant, and to make everything as safe as possible, we encrypt all your data and rely on the secure cloud infrastructure provided by Google Cloud.

Why would they even need a “cloud infrastructure” if they weren’t providing additional services?

This could lead to issues with an employer if you chose to use Spark and, without recognizing it, exported your company login information to a third party, probably even to a different legal jurisdiction.
Clojure had the same issue until someone made babashka through graalvm. It's now faster to boot than python..
Year ago, by the same reason, I started to work on project http://ontol.org/

Happy to see, that I am not alone
When you've figured out PIDs then its time to try a Linear Quadratic Regulator:

https://twitter.com/The___Missile/status/1378190268520927234
My opinion is that the target ads is just a cover, the real reason they want to track users is to give more data to their in-house AI system that learns what people do once they reach certain page. This knowledge (what people will do) is what is important to them, rather than simply showing certain ads. For example, if Google knows the profit potential of certain actions, they will raise the ad cost on that property by the true value, instead of relying on non-targeted auctions.
Ok now I'm kinda relieved that I still see reCAPTCHA so much... Locked down Firefox user here.
>After putting over 40k+ miles on various bikes, I never once wished there was a self balancing feature to make it stand up on its own. At a stop light; I put my foot down; at a really long stop light, I put the kickstand down.

As someone with 138cm height, All I ever wanted on a normal sized motor-bike is self-balancing.

So far my options to ride a normal size bike is to convert it to three-wheeler with after-market attachments(I'm not confident about the safety, Quality of such work), Going for a 3-wheel scooter like Peugeot Metropolis(Not really a bike).

Self-balancing bikes would make the dream come true for many like me.
American convenience store chain Sheetz will accept Bitcoin payments
Before retiring recently, I worked as a lead programmer at a minimum of 10 hr/day 5 days a week and occasionally Saturdays, and some months I worked 7 days a week since we always had deadlines and our execs changed stuff every single day. I finally had enough of this madness. No way you could do my job in 5 hrs/day.
Show HN: Linked, an open source daily journal app
Another problem is that many of the people arguing about this don't agree on what it means to "understand" or "explain" something.

Is it enough to get a majority of scientists, researchers, and/or philosophers to agree on something, or have it published in some prestigious journals for us to pat ourselves on the back and consider the subject "understood"?

I have no doubt that such agreement on this subject could be attained, as people are good at convincing themselves and each other of stuff, and it's not inconceivable that it'll happen again regarding consciousness at some point.

However, will that mean that we've really understood it, or merely convinced ourselves that we did?

The same goes for explanations. What counts as an adequate explanation? Are a certain number of successful predictions enough? Is an elegant equation that accounts for all of the data enough? Or do we require something more?

This is where the disagreements come in, as when it comes to experience equations, journal articles, and scientists patting each other on the back as having "understood" it doesn't seem to be enough for many participants in this controversy, and some argue it'll never be enough because there is something special about experience that transcends all that.

That's why articles that point to some new discovery about neuron function or results of experiments on the brain can be seen as laughable before even reading them. On this view no fruit of the scientific enterprise, or even philosophy, can touch what it's like to experience the world.
Ask HN: eBook Reader with good highlighting capabilities
Essentially, I would like to make highlights.

When I export it, I would like the notes to be hierarchical along with the chapter and section headers even if I have to highlighted them.

Does any ebook reader have this option?
Decriminalization is not the answer.

Legalization is the answer, it moves the money from the illegal market to the legal market. Instead of funding crime, and illegal activities, the money in the legal market creates jobs, money in the legal market is taxed, and tracked.
If aliens exist and have the ability to travel interstellar distances, why are they wasting their time on inane stunts like buzzing fighter pilots? Unless that means they're just as dumb as we are, which is an incredibly depressing insight.
New York also has a few abandoned stations, most often (as in a lot of these Parisian stations) because they were so close to other stations that there wasn't much point in operating both -- doubly so after platforms on the stations still in use were lengthened to accommodate longer trains. (There are also a bunch of former connections to elevated lines that no longer exist.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_closed_New_York_City_S...
Couldn't it be more useful to distill that repetitive content into a durable medium, instead of relying on the online equivalent of handing down an oral history of development practices?
Memory safety is a big thing right now, and that’s one of the big draws for rust. Not sure that’s a big selling point for this program in particular unless you’re just a fan of rust, but it’s why you’re seeing a lot of things point out their conversion to rust.
It happens all the time and takes that exact form every time. Pretty much every internet dispute involves the drama triangle[0]. This rule gets more and more true as more people are involved in the dispute. (The viewer is invited to fill the third role)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karpman_drama_triangle
US soldiers accidentally leak nuclear secrets via study apps – report
For those of you who don't know, like I just learned:

> Definition of impuissance: WEAKNESS, POWERLESSNESS

It seems to not be common as an English term. Hilariously, Google's little mini blurb pulls up erectile dysfunction when you look it up.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impuissance
Very sorry for your loss
The noise and the exhaust are the main reasons I don't like populated areas, so I am glad both will probably go away in my lifetime.
Through LinkedIn I’ve been recruited to three public companies and have done one successful IPO. I don’t read the articles or interact with anyone really. If you ignore the social drama which I don’t personally see a lot of, I think it’s a decent tool given the price.
I don’t ride, but I’ve often considered it as a hobby. Even still, I wish people who just really like noise would get themselves some headphones instead of disrupting everyone else, damaging their hearing, interrupting their (even indoor) conversations, waking sleeping children, etc. It’s incredibly selfish behavior and I can only imagine people who behave this way are compensating for something.

I almost buy the “loud pipes save lives” angle but if you need to deafen others to protect yourself maybe motorcycling just isn’t an institution worth keeping around. That said, I don’t think it needs to come to that.
> No, I meant that not only has absolute poverty declined, global (!) inequality has also declined.

Sure, that's true. The pedanticism was pointing out that your second sentence was a non-sequitur. Starving and smartphones are about poverty, not necessarily inequality.

> (American) wage stagnation is a myth mostly produced by being sloppy with inflation adjustment.

Obviously it's more nuanced and complicated than this, but even if I grant you that wage stagnation is a myth, what about the other (majority) parts of what I said and cited? Would you argue that economic inequality has decreased in US over the past few decades?
Once you’ve been the victim of the Kafkaesque process of being victimized by a computer error asserting your car didn’t pay a toll (“here is an image of your car including a different make/model and utterly dissimilar license plate number, PAY!”) you might understand the reluctance for more automation by California.
What to Expect from Debian/Bullseye
$5 is still about 30% cheaper than the UK.