skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you on Kindles; they're certainly worse than having books on the open web, even if it were to be paid content.

I also agree with you that page turning experience is _the_ native control of a book and that it adds to the saccadic perception of moving forward with time.

B.t.w, I made this demo for exactly the reasons you mentioned, and I'm an older developer too!:

https://bubblin.io/book/a-florida-sketch-book-by-bradford-to...

> Should we? I spend my life staring

We probably should reduce felling trees for content that's read just once and then it goes outdated. I know a lot pulp-cultivation ambassadors say that it is a renewable resource, but in practicality pulp farming is not entirely renewable.

Cultivation takes place where an old forest once stood and was razed to the ground; and that loss of natural habitat is incalculable in costs–and to what end? A lifeless object on our bookshelf (which too is another dead tree) to show off with more outdated technical content?
> My best friend is Venezuelan and I assure you there are real humans in the world who get real value from a stable digital form of currency that doesn't require a central bank account.

I have friends living in Venezuela, and one of them had to receive medical treatment that he could only afford thanks to a crypto transaction.

Yet, I assure you that crypto was completely irrelevant in that equation. Crypto's only role was ensuring a way for medical professionals in Venezuela to be paid through means other than domestic transactions and out of Venezuela regime's radar. This time around it was crypto, but it could as easily be a transfer to an offshore account. The end goal is the same.

And let's not fool ourselves into believing that people are in crypto to pay doctors.
> Almost all of my prod/dev bugs are due to prod-only optimizations and not because of different environments.

I’ve found this is because of the work to keep prod/dev consistent.

When I didn’t have automated builds the same in all environment there were lots of bugs with packages, paths, environment, etc.

Getting rid of all those just leaves the prod-only optimizations you now see.
What practical reasons would that be?

And just because someone is a combat vet doesn't mean they were even in a role that would kill someone. Calling people "professional murderers" is wildly insensitive and is not even factual (murder is a legal infraction, which would also be punished if one were in the military and was caught committing it).
The two questions aren’t very different.

Because crypto doesn’t derive value from any underlying assets, it’s not a traditional investment. It’s basically the essence of speculative trend-following distilled into tradeable tokens. The value only goes up so long as the hype continues to increase and the market can find more believers to buy the coins, pushing the price higher. If you think investing in such a scheme is profitable, you have to believe that more people will continue to believe in the scheme in the future to continue the price growth. The risk is that people stop believing in the scheme and start withdrawing their money to place in other assets (traditional investments or the new hot cryptocurrency), which depresses the price and simultaneously makes it less attractive to new investors.
Harvard-led physicists create 256-qubit programmable quantum simulator
For those interested in the question, it's worth looking at how zstd was made. I have to archive hundreds of TB of JSON about tweets, so I did a compressor bake-off last year. I was surprised at how much better zstd did. Turns out designing for the low-level details of modern processors can make a big difference: https://engineering.fb.com/2016/08/31/core-data/smaller-and-...
Template on the server?

If your lists are long enough, you probably want to split what you can actually display from the rest of the list, because even today updating the DOM with thousands of nodes is expensive. And doing seems to be easier and less chatty to do on the front-end I think.
It’s not that simple. As the article mentions, if weather continues to warm and these events become more common, we could end up with seasonal die outs of intertidal species. It’s not immediately evident from that statement, but that would completely transform the biodiversity of the coastline.

Currently it’s one of vast abundance, but this transformation would very likely reduce that abundance and its diversity due to a foundation of the food chain disappearing regularly.

It’s nice to think something would just replace these species, but they’ve already reduced dramatically over the last 100 years and nothing has begun to shoehorn its way into the system.

It seems the worse this gets, the less overall abundance and diversity this coastline can support.
I use Windows as my prior OS for work, even though much of work ends up happening through a Linux command line (WSL/ssh)

For both work and casual use, there's a lot of small things that add up to it being very productive, and despite regularly giving the linux desktop a chance, I always gravitate back to Windows (and recently MacOS as well).

I feel like most of the QoL features I enjoy are mostly invisible so its hard to remember them unless I'm actually experimenting with the Linux desktop. Here's some that do come to mind though.

- Windows supports right-click and drag with context menus. For multi directory file manipulation, this shortcut is shockingly useful. While much file manipulation can be faster on the CLI, certain operations like this are incredibly efficient.

- Binary blobs are really convenient compared to package managers/source building for my daily driver stuff. I have decade old games that just work, and I've never had to deal with version incompatibilities for my tooling, unlike in my Linux environments.

- Common actions like sleep/wake just seem to work better.

- Microsoft Office is really nice.
Wow, zero protection against character transposition.

That’s like an intentional weakening of “secured-ness”.
This is a very important point about shifting the calculus of automating human labor when doing it incompletely. There are still big debates in the self driving car world between people who want to get to level 2-3 (partial/conditional automation) vs level 5 (full automation).

The earlier group often says since Edge cases that they can't automate now constitute only <5% of training scenarios they encounter, they've automated 95% of the job. But with what you're saying, we can't really expect the calculus to work that way.
You are correct, the original version was a little overhead 2D arcade game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7DQrOa70yk#t=2m38s

Other revisions of the game were point and click style, closer to a FPS
So I’m thinking the same. Soil + Terra preta(charcoal + food waste) is the best way. There needs to be some kind of inverse Bitcoin - something where we incentivize large number of people to claim areas of land and terra Preta it up. The reward is some kind of token that can be exchanged for value. We can maybe use satellite imagery to identify which land has been converted. Someone has to be forming a team on this for the prize.
A tragedy.

Xiaomi once conducted a poll on Twitter which OS users prefer - MIUI or Stock. 80 % or so voted for Stock Android hence Xiaomi deleted the poll.
> In what possible scenario would Greenland be invaded and not be protected by the US, Canada, and/or the UK.

If Russia put down a commercial landing and started drilling off Greenland, we’d throw around sanctions but I’d sure as hell want to see a military base before I’d advocate going to war with a superpower over fewer than 60,000 people. Especially if a decent fraction of the population could, reasonably, claim they were free riding on our blood and money.
> Around a decade ago, Linux on the desktop was adrift.

If you wanted to ship a commercial Linux desktop application today (ie something that can print, takes advantage of hardware video acceleration, handles multi-monitor / multi-dpi setups, can be remotely managed across a company, is distro agnostic, erc...) could you do it?

I'm specifically thinking of native applications and not Electron or Java.
Telegram is still the fastest,easiest to use,secure messaging platform today and its only getting better.
In 2020 California and several other states said that they would conduct independent safety reviews of the vaccines because they didn't trust the Trump administration. When state government officials make irresponsible statements like that it's not surprising that some people are hesitant.

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/10/27/western-states-join-califo...
I love the simplicity and clean UI. Don’t add too many features! This is the problem with a lot of todo list type apps.
I disagree. People who don't go to see the Salton Sea and its consequences are free to ignore it. But seeing it will put an likely-indelible memory in your head that will stick with you, and might give you some much-needed context about why people are fighting to do something about it.

The key of course, is to travel with respect. Bombay Beach is probably not a place for casual selfies and party times.

There is still beauty there, for people who can look past the unpleasant. A state visitor center with the whole wild history of the place. Beaches made out of pulverized tilapia bone and shell. Fields of obsidian. The zonked-out but earnest spirituality of Salvation Mountain. Date shakes from Westmorland. Endless sun.
You didn't mention this but playing games is also in the"good enough" zone now. Steams Proton is absolutely amazing and you can play almost any single player games with zero problems and most multiplayer games with no anti cheat!
Like the various health authorities in the US tested a representative sample for Covid RNA, antigens, and antibodies to determine unbiased population level data?

/me runs.
Or the one.
One aspect of Ecotopia that has alway stuck with me is their utopia was contingent on threats of violence. Let us live in peace, or we'll nuke you.

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

Much like all utopias: built on top of someone else's dystopia.
I went to a private school in SV for K-3 (1983-1986) that had Apple //e's (IIe's) with Oregon Trail and LOGO.

The popular (myth?) was that Apple donated computers to public schools and some private schools, likely to "get kids hooked young." It's plausible, but I don't know if it was true. The private school could've afforded to buy them outright.
If anything it’ll make hiring harder. We’ll all get accused of gatekeeping for requiring candidates to really understand their output, because they don’t need to know all that junk! Just use copilot and tweak it until it seems to work!

(this what hiring in ML is like)
Richard Dawkins of course!
My small upstate NY city has a mesh internet provider https://www.massivemesh.net/ but frankly its one of the worst in town. They don't even list bandwidth speeds on their packages because they are so poor. They might be a better option than DSL, but not cable-based internet. I have team members who live in buildings that contract with this mesh company and they are constantly dropping out of zoom calls for unstable connections. The poorest parts of the city are out of range for their mesh network, but luckily people in these areas can qualify for low-income internet pricing from the cable company.
The Telegram team's response to this isn't very encouraging: https://telegra.ph/LoU-ETH-4a-proof-07-16

They don't seem to go into technical details, relying on analogies like bags of sand - maybe this is comforting enough to the general public, but I'm skeptical.

I didn't read the technical details of the exploits though, so Telegram might be entirely in the right to be so dismissive.
You sound like a big city person (i used to be one - 5 years ago before moving here). I live in Truckee. town of 16,000 people.

> If the local residents are wealthy enough to live in the area, perhaps businesses have to bite the bullet, raise prices locally, and pay more for essential services like bartenders, wait staff, retail, etc

I love your definition of "essential services" are bartenders and wait staff. You sound like a real great person to be planning for critical events, such as wildfires which occur in our area.

Also "If the local residents are wealthy enough to live in the area" - lol, do you realize in our Town of 16,000 people, there are more than 50% of our houses that are NOT locals. On a busy weekend we expand to about 55,000 people. The problem is not the full time locals, but the temporary residents who exacerbate this problem. Their houses remain off the market for local residents to rent because they want to (rightfully so) njoy their second home for a few weeks a year - which precludes a long-term leaser. It doesn't matter how much wages rise, locally - there are CFO's of local businesses who have had to move because they cannot find housing.

Yes, we live in a national forest, so simply building more housing is slowed down by natural beauty and environmental assessments, and the usual NIMBYism too. But the town is quite aligned behind trying to solve this problem somehow.
It’s not “hot season”. It was a historically abnormal heat wave. I lived in Vancouver. You don’t normally see temperatures like that.

It doesn’t have to reproduce right away, that’s just unrealistic. But the larger amounts of free space will mean a land grab by the survivors. That’s how it works in nature.

If the climate changes and the water heats up then the ecosystem will be replaced by those animals that would survive in warmer water. That’s science.
Sure templates on the server are fine too I just mean that the comparison is more compelling when describing the things that prompt templates in the first place (whether on the server or frontend).
The difference is that the local ecosystem has evolved for forest fires; this is a massively destabilizing event where we can't predict what the "renewal" will look like and what species will go extinct in the meantime, or how polluted the water will end up being "normally" without the mussel population to keep things in check.

And I don't think the article is implying that the oceans will be barren forever, but that things are changing rapidly, unpredictably, and to an extreme degree that we have no precedent for.
Do you know Docker already? If not, that's a reason not to use it.

There are clear advantages in having a production system that's expressed in terms of a text file that you can read instead of a bunch of stuff that's accumulated over time which you forgot. Especially if you're a solo maintainer of a system, because you're not a full-time SRE, you're not going to invest into making the system clearly documented and you have lots of other demands on your time, and that will bite you one day (e.g., do you have a plan for how you're going to test an upgrade to a new version of your OS or a new release of a language?).

But there are plenty of ways to do that other than Docker. Principled usage of Ansible or even a hand-made shell script will work. If you're on a VM, you get 80% of the benefit of a container - you can spin up a new VM and try to provision onto it and switch over and see what happens. Or, as another commenter mentioned, if you hire a second engineer and need to get them set up on a test environment of their own, they can run the Ansible playbook or shell script on their VM.

If Docker is the tool you understand for how to get replicable environments where everything is documented, use it. If it's not, use something else. But you should pick some tool.
I sold my soul to the company store.

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

There was good reason to do away with such concepts.
Some of the businesses interview in this article claim they start their employees at $20/he but that's not enough to pay rent and too much to qualify for government assistance.
> sham job in the sense of "legit job offer you don't plan to keep for a while just to qualify"

Fair enough. I don’t know the text of the law.

Also, the entire county has a population just over 20,000; the city of Jackson, less than half that. This would cause problems for the employer who let it happen as well as the new resident.
> At the code level, that's parameters in a library function

Sure, so you keep adding more parameters to the library function and then pretty soon you can’t remember all the parameters so you have to look them up every time you want to invoke it from your code… which is exactly the perfect use case for AI like this to help you remember the correct parameters to call.
In the case where the US, Canada or UK are the invaders, regardless of how likely could that be.
That being said some things to consider to answer your question:
- complexity: not the easiest thing to learn
- work overhead: you'll need to set this up for the first time
- linux is best: I don't use much of docker outside of linux, it get's even more complicated on Mac and Windows
- deployment: learn how to deploy your images to prod, there are multiple ways and can be hard to decide what to use
I don't want to go further down a tangent here, but you also see how little Americans trust their government in the number of people reluctant to get vaccinated and the number of people who seriously believe the election was stolen. Both of those examples are mostly right leaning people. But this is also the same group that's most interested in gun rights. Is there similar distrust for the government on the left, if so how does it present? What irrational behaviours do democrats have because they distrust their government - or is distrust of the government mostly focused in the right of the political spectrum?
Thank you :) I'm going to keep it as simple as I can
> How much continuous listening in hours of time?

There’s no ‘right’ answer for that.

One branch of my inlaws talk to each other in continuous stream of consciousness literally all day long and they are perfectly happy. I’d want to jump off a bridge after a day or so of having to listen to that. But that’s on me…
I have worked 100% remote for 5 years now. 100% remote is quite different from partial remote. Even 1 day a week in the office means you have to live near the office. Even an hour away from SF is going to be very expensive. 100% remote means you could work for a company in SF and live in Idaho.
If the waters heat up are you saying that no creatures will ever survive? That’s anti-science.

There are creatures around the world that thrive in warmer waters. The space will be reclaimed by other creatures that can survive in that environment. To think otherwise goes against basic science.
It's something else to learn. Learning takes time and distracts you from building your product.

My backend is an Express app. Locally I just run with it Node. In production, I let Heroku run it. I also use AWS Lambda functions and Cloudflare Workers, neither of which use Docker.

I have no need to introduce Docker into my workflow.
Yeah this comes up a lot in /r/LeopardsAteMyFace on reddit. Example thread (about this happening in the Hamptons):

https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/o9mbz8/t...
This article does a great deal to point out the problem, but then just kicks the can down the road

Isn't this the problem with cynical criticism in general? It's an intellectual dead end, by definition.
Will Crypto Tokens Be a Currency or an Investment Tool?
And that's why countries have armies. Sovereignty is not a right that is granted by the UN Security council it's taken and held by military force.
Ask HN: Did anybody apply for UK Global Talent visa? How did it go?
Thinking of applying myself but the requirements seem intimidating
Its also called "ecological collapse" when a place has catastrophic dieoff. It can take decades to recover, even with species that can survive in the new conditions.

(Meanwhile poor humans are trying to grow crops and raise animals. We may get very hungry, for decades)
My first take is that a full time job is a secure gig for a person who has problems like you have and that you're trading a 9-6 schedule for working 24 hours a day.

If your condition flares up and you can't work what are your clients going to do?
Agreed, it should not be abused, but when it is inevitable it should be possible to move on and be some kind of stigma held over you.
Externalities.

One of the biggest profit centers esp for regulated monopolies (which have barriers to entry and often regulated profit) is to make someone else pay for your expenses and or cost cutting. Whether that's the world via pollution, or wildfires in CA or freezing to death in TX.

After years of neglect and profit taking PG&E if forced, will claim it needs government subsidies and rate increases to pay for infrastructure overhaul. Or it will go bankrupt. The "capitalists" will take their golden parasites (or stock dividends, using any loses from stock sales to offset tax liability but more likely their connections let them sell before crash) and move on to running the next company. Employees will suffer, retail investors might get screwed. Two other popular and profitable externalities.
The author doesn’t say a billion is 100 million. They say they’d like to be able to insert a billion, and say they’re able to insert 100 million. It’s not a contradiction.
Master’s Degrees Are the Second Biggest Scam in Higher Education
https://archive.is/1A25h
Yeah, we’re more likely to forget to take medication than to get addicted.
This and the recent Steam Deck news makes me think we might have a few million Linux gamers soon. That might even be enough to tempt software support from the traditional vendors like Adobe.
Why not?

I have a variety of pieces of commercial software on my debian workstation, including MS Teams. Most of them are snaps.

What is the specific problem you think might prevent that?
Offline games do not use or need "anti cheat".
No, that's logistics. Logistics is relatively easy to change.
Is it possible to switch the GPU while the host is running, that is without rebooting?
I kinda doubt that. You would need to update the components inside the docker container, right? If you simply activate the container after years of inactivity you will have a complete insecure setup, as there would be no security updates applied. That's not even acceptable for side projects.
Same here, on Android. But I mostly receive email and almost never send out emails on the phone; so I can see that others might need features that are totally irrelevant for me.
The CDC estimates that about 114M Americans have been infected but only a quarter of those were officially counted as cases.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
Yeah, the sun and Venus for example are overrun with life because there’s essentially no competition. That’s just science!
Really cool and I always love these types of apps. My personal favorite is TickTick right now. It is basically cross platform on all OS's, save for Linux (but you can use a browser extension too so it works). The downside it's account based so in order to sync you must have an account.

Also there are some cool features that are only accessible if you become a subscriber. On Android alone, the widgets they've made are spectacular. You can hit a checkbox and it disappears, color toward priority, and organize by date due. Mac has a similar popup as well which is very nice. Windows you need to open the app but it can also be in the overflow panel.

It is the best cross platform TODO software I've found.
NY Mesh now has an official contract with the city to wire up housing projects and low income housing, according to the article. This is not a hobbyist situation where all of the working class will learn how to be network engineers. I don’t think you understand what is going on.
What does the number even mean, is it a lot, what is the denominator? Doing a rough back of the envelope calculation, looking at tidal areas, barnacles and other creatures there go from one milliliter to one centimeter square, meaning that the dieoff represented 1000 square meters to 10 hectares, which in all honesty is probably not a lot