skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first half of the article resonates with me. I didn't use to have hobbies and I used to feel like a machine just going to work, coming back, sleep, rinse and repeat. I love programming but after writing nth CRUD app in flavor of the month framework / technology, it just isn't that fulfilling anymore. I picked up couple of hobbies - teaching Sanskrit and playing guitar and my life has improved drastically. I no longer derive meaning only from work. Both hobbies are just hobbies and I do it for fun only with no intention of monetizing them. In fact, I couldn't monetize them even if I wanted to. Sanskrit is too esoteric to have any commercial value of any kind. And I truly suck at guitar. Nobody's ever gonna pay me to play guitar. But whatever I can play, gives me pleasure, so I do it. My dad asks me why I waste so much time in useless hobbies when I could be investing that time working towards next promotion and pay raise. I reply to him, they are not useless if they make me happy and content.
As long as the government isn't involved, sweeping statements about "free speech" are seldom appropriate. These reddit blackouts are free speech working as intended. Look at it this way: before the Internet, if a major newspaper published blatant falsehoods and didn't retract them, people would complain, staff might quit, and the newspaper's reputation would suffer. Nobody's rights are being threatened. Reddit is free to publish dangerous lies and its users are free to protest the spread of those lies.
> If Napster wasn’t peer-to-peer but it did let you type the name of a song and then listen to it, it would have been just as popular.

This is a very effective statement. Today p2p for music is certainly alive but has greatly been surpassed by services like YouTube and Spotify (and Rdio, sadly dead before it’s time). One is ad supported, the others paid. But they all just let the user search and listen.

Popcorn Time has done this for movies and tv. It’s purely p2p. Disliked by content owners, but they’ve largely failed to provide the same kind of universal search and watch functionality that the app provides. Hulu, Netflix, Apple+, Disney+, insert other streaming services. They all basically fail at usable search and recommendation usability and have limited overall content.
Civil engineers with stupid titles put in positions at companies that think a rather lot of themselves.
Few people have the luxury of doing what they love.

I used to love programming. But now, I love germinating interesting seeds more. Getting my hands into the soil. Recently I bought some potting soil from a store and put my hand it it -- wow! It was so soft and pure and beautiful.

But I can't do that for a living, maybe not now, maybe when I retire from coding and saved up enough money to live the rest of my life.
I feel the same way, except I have poor ethics. I suspect that you must have had a supportive, life affirming upbringing, while I had the shit beaten out of me all the time by my peers.
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If the surface escort (whether a fancy warship, or a modest Harbor Patrol boat) was running a cheap commercial sonar set in active mode, and the sub's orders were "stay right under your escort, so long as its course seems reasonable" - with details of 'reasonable' spelled out in written orders - would that be easy to execute without incident?
They are very old and have accrued quite a bit of legacy

By release 2.0 of any project, some amount of "legacy" will have been achieved. "Quite a bit of legacy" can be seen as an indicator of platform success. Is the legacy acting as an impediment to future growth or feature development? Is the legacy due to supporting a user base that is neglected by other "modern" projects? The amount of users that get disenfranchised by someones idea of new and modern can be disheartening.

There are libraries for languages like PHP, Java and C but these implementations are typically unmaintained and because of the nature of these languages they are not very suitable for the modern cross-platform world.

This is a most surprising quote. I am not a PHP expert, but C and Java are quite excellent for use in multi-platform projects. WASM makes C even more relevant for browser hosted code. The author later states that he has implemented a prototype in JavaFX. So much for legacy platforms.

There is a lack of libraries implementing these protocols, ... but these implementations are typically unmaintained

And now we can begin to understand why. I do not want to make value judgements on the motivation of people desiring to start new projects. It can be fun and liberating. Having the ability to persist and endure while bringing a library or application from prototype, to alpha, beta, 1.0 and beyond is a rare and hard earned skill. And yet, this is exactly the type of skill needed to tackle a problem in the calendar, task and note space.
We always had at least one spades tournament on the mess decks for any underway more than 2 weeks.
One of my favorites of all time
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It's worth noting that even quite famous photographers from before the digital era would spend a LOT of time doing post-processing in the darkroom.

I'm thinking specifically of Ansel Adams, who famously said “You don't take a photograph, you make it.”

Of course darkroom tools had to be supplemented with special techniques and filters applied at the time of exposure. Digital photography is orders of magnitude easier.
A few years ago I was chatting with a guy who was the CEO of an accounting company. He said that personal finance “experts” usually had more financial problems than the average joe. Because they made lots of mistakes falsely believing they knew what they were doing.
> commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America

Well I disagree. "Commonly known as" doesn't mean logically correct. For that matter ticks and pill bugs are commonly known as insects but they aren't.

> Logical brevity is all that's about.

US (2 syllables) is shorter than America (4 syllables)

> No other nation on the planet has "America" in its name

Well South Africa might have Africa in its name but it isn't known as "Africa". Being the largest country by size doesn't mean anything either, as Saudi Arabia has "Arabia" in its name but isn't known as "Arabia". "Arabia" also includes Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain.

> The people of the US are very commonly known as Americans

I would argue that Canadians and Mexicans and Peruvians are also Americans, just like Egyptians and Nigerians and Ethiopians are all Africans.

> not USians or United Statesians.

Funny you say because in Spanish it is completely valid to say exactly that.

https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-internacional-58389811

"El ejército estadounidense ..."

"Los últimos vuelos estadounidenses ..."

https://www.wfla.com/tampa-hoy/mundo/algunos-estadounidenses...

"Algunos estadounidenses ..."
Insurers don't care because risk is proportionate to cost. Hence actuaries.
https://archive.is/c4DpJ
I think he's pointing out in this specific case, a democratic process of elected representatives is not better than that of appointed officials since it's still a group of people making decision for another totally unrelated group of people, teenagers, who didn't get to vote for those making the decisions/votes.
I mean, I'm not trying to insinuate that every Chinese always agrees with the government, that's just silly.

Even in the US, a good chunk of the population always disagrees with whatever is the political topic du jour...

All I'm saying is that a bunch stuff happening in China does have a sizable amount of public approval, even if news articles make it sound like no one could possibly want it.
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I mean a perfect example. A subreddit devoted to taking stuff people said out of context so you can "dunk" on them for being dumb. I'm all for their right to exist but it brings value to no one
Biden manages national forests, Newsom had no say.
Employees may be there for the check only in either case.

The top brass, though, have distinctly different incentives, and this influences how they motivate line workers, and how they structure the service.

BTW large incumbent corporations suffer often from the same disease, because, like with the government, their clients have no effective choice anyway, no need to woo them.

With teachers it's a bit special: just making the conscious effort to become a teacher is a rather strong filter. Similar with librarians, for instance. This is not the same for most governmental clerical services.
As a self taught person who likes to dive deep, I’m starting to realize why I fall behind some dude that watched some YouTube videos, did leetcode and got a job somewhere.

I follow a tutorial and if I’m not understanding how the guy got to knowing that the property we should use in that scenario was X, I think I’m not understanding anything and that I won’t be able to build anything, so
I halt trying to figure out, but I’m so inexperienced that I can’t understand the docs anyway.

What I should be doing is putting that code in my notes and moving on having faith in that code.

I was thinking of opening an Ask HN about “how much of your code do you actually fully understand vs how much is just copied from somewhere “
The hardware failing doesn't take away their legal right to operate the software, does it? (Maybe the contract says "for the life of this dongle?")
Guess I'll add my 2 cents. AOL died to me when I could chat with friends on ICQ and I had free Internet from NetZero, free e-mail from Juno.

When everything could be "free" by having ads - why pay for AOL? I do remember too, I got free DSL service AND a free DSL modem via an ad service.

It's kinda why good journalism is dying, too. Every time a paywall article is posted here people are up in arms or post a free version. Then, we have articles from zdnet which is clickbait, people are up in arms.
When should automation of cross-browser testing be done?
You've demonstrated that only the rich can compete; not really refuting the point, is it? But limiting our attention to strictly pro-level play is a bit silly, as it ignores the overwhelming majority of players. When I was in high school, two of my friends had a lot more money than the rest of us. We'd get a few boosters of a new expansion, they'd get a case. Consequently, their decks were nigh unbeatable.
One issue in SF is that the proportion of parents sending kids to public schools as a proportion of voters in these elections is very low. So you can run on a platform completely unrelated to education, win, and use it as a stepping stone to further office.
Yeah, no. Key fobs are great. I wish I had them. My moms car unlocks the door if the key is in my pocket. Immensely useful while carrying bags and a decade old feature.

Door keys suck. Ignition keys suck more. The worst is the middle years of both immobilizers and physical keys.

Source: I can use 4 different keys to open 1 car right now. In fact, I only realized this after I locked my keys in the car and tried a few spares at the shop. A little jiggle and they all work
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Huh—my first domain name shows it was registered in 2002, and I was sure NetSol was the only option at the time, as in, not that I looked and didn't find others, but I looked and the answer was a definitive "NetSol is the only one". IIRC I paid around $70. My recollection was that all the new, cheap registers didn't come about until later rule changes, maybe a couple years later, not all the way back in '98. I'm also pretty sure I remember reading about the change on Slashdot, and I don't think I was reading it yet before 2000.

[EDIT] I must have paid for two years (maybe first time registrations had to be two years, at the time?) at a $34.99/yr rate, to get that $70 figure I had in my head, in 2002.
And they just evacuated the entire town of South Lake Tahoe. I hope the town survives.

https://www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/more-evacuation-order...

https://www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/lake-tahoe-residents-...

https://www.sfgate.com/california-wildfires/article/Caldor-F...
>in the cultural decline as the US quite obviously is.

[citation needed]
Between this trick and generous use of forward declarations, I was able to remove almost all "headers included from headers" from a past project of mine, speeding up compilation by probably 3X (never measured it but it was observably faster). Maybe today's compilers optimize all these includes away and it doesn't make a difference anymore but it used to.

These are the kinds of refactorings you often need to justify with hours of arguments and approvals and religious fights and code reviews at work, but can do in an afternoon in a private project just because it makes the code nicer.
> Some people think this particular bubble will end with the dollar crashing instead of the market.

That's exactly what's on my mind, you have any links to share?
Official PDF: https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd949147....
I just tested it on my bike on my way home and we are both definitely right :) There's no countersteer when you lean with no hands on the handlebars.
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Shorter focal lengths have other purposes in street photography, where composing shots in crowded areas can be difficult or impossible with longer lenses like 85mm.

In terms of which focal lengths produce perspectives that make the most sense to our eyes, people usually point towards 35-50mm lenses. Supposedly the formula is something like "focal length = diagonal measurement of the format".
Hmm, some low effort comments here.

Here's a different perspective (fully admitting that I only read the headline, it seems to be paywalled): I think the causality is reversed here. Low interest rates are a mere symptom of the lower natural rate of interest (r*). The Fed can do all it wants to the short term interest rates, but the long term rates are ultimately set by the market. 30y treasuries are being traded today for 1.9%. Even if you believe that the Fed is manipulating things in the short end, there's nothing it can do in the long end (well, technically it can carry out QE and buy 30ys and suppress yields, but the WAM of the SOMA[0] has been falling since the COVID crisis, so I don't think that's what's happening here).

Okay, so why is the r* low? I personally ascribe it to demographic shifts (older population -> more savings -> savings glut -> capital is cheap -> rates low). Atif Mian and Amir Sufi presented some work at Jackson Hole this weekend that claims that it's all about inequality, not demographics. I'm not entirely convinced just reading the headline result, but it's plausible, and Atif and Amir are serious researchers, so I would give them a non-zero weight in forming your world view.

EDIT:
[0] WAM = weighted average maturity
SOMA = Fed's System Open Market Account

Basically a shorthanded way of saying that the average maturity of the Fed's holdings are not constant, but rather shortening, indicating that the Fed is not purchasing new 30y paper (at least, not at the same clip) and simply letting the existing debt roll off the books.
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I'm not feeling badgered. :)

Since I first made Artemis, the option to open-source has been available, and I had several reasons not to do so. First, I've always been a very lone-wolf coder, and I find it hard to collaborate on big projects with anyone. Either they don't move fast enough for me, or I lose interest entirely. It's a real personal failing.

Second, my code is embarrassing. I've come a long way since I started Artemis 11 years ago. But I now treat my own Artemis 2 code like a toxic waste dump; I don't wanna go back there. So the idea of exposing anyone else to my codebase isn't exciting.

Third, I've actually made very good money from Artemis. I don't make much now, but at the height of Artemis's popularity in 2013, I made over 100k that year. I did it by asking for the sale, DRM-free, money-back-guarantee, and ensuring people that the project was still alive. Donations are great, but there's nothing wrong with asking for an honest sale.
Literally every major bank follows this model and has done for at least a decade

There is nothing off the shelf with the level of sophistication you see in those systems.
Explain how those clash for domains
The regulated game are mostly online game.
It's like social media, sometimes kids have to play it to be in part of the community. Individual parents can't change this.
Holy crap, I was on the old gamasutra site just a couple of days ago.

R.I.P. to lovably weird and slightly dirty names for things. FactoryGirl, domainatrix, now gamasutra. Makes me so sad that we can't do quirky shit any more
I'll always remember driving my dads car home from the airport (he was staying on vacation longer) and cranking it and cranking it until I remembered the little fuel pump security switch under the front seat... Ah that civic was truly a POS.
I was at Microsoft China from 2007 to 2016 in Zhongguancun, so I probably had similar experiences to you (we had lots of interns as well from local and nation-wide universities).

Politics eventually comes into play, but it was more likely we would talk about the Great Firewall, or some kid getting arrested by the party police during a rave, things like that. Politics came into play when there was some heated event, like the South China Sea dispute, that someone (usually more nationalistic) was really passionate about in the moment.
That's exactly what Facebook wants. Becoming your OS.
They weren't kidnapped. 90% were purchased from black Africans in Africa and then brought here. The slave trade had been going on internally in Africa and into the middle east for centuries before the Europeans wanted cheap labor after finding the Americas. African nations profited immensely from the slave trade. The colonization of Africa did not occur until after the new world mostly abolished slavery.

This does not change the hand dealt to the people bought and brought to the New World however.
Substack is a content trickle squeeze, writers elevating SS network effects plan to get paid by them one day but they won't outlast the minority rule. The claims of not being a substack shill did not convince me to undo my:

cmd.exe (admin)
notepad.exe "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts"
0.0.0.0 substack.com
ipconfig /flushdns

I also found it funny how this post about censorship is the only one not available in my Feedburner RSS feed [1] of Zerohedge. I will need to find another source.

[1] https://feeds.feedburner.com/zerohedge/feed
Well. I don't think you need research to know that gaming consumes time, and for those addicted a lot of them. Cigarettes and alcohol on the other hand, is not about the time you put in doing it, it's about the time afterwards. So there is a subtle difference.
You are right. In mathematics, the traditional notation {x} represents the fractional part of x.

Regarding the two-variable function mod(x,b).
Typically this is written as x (mod b) in maths, and as x%b in computing.

It is generally well known that for positive integers x and b, the output of this function is the remainder when x is divided by b.

However, what is less well-known is that if b=1, then the convention is that:

x (mod 1) = x%1 = fractional part of x.

For example, Python, Excel both implement this special convention.
I think Captain Sonar (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/171131/captain-sonar) is a great example. I haven't seen an online version of this, which is disappointing - it's hard to get 8 people who are willing to play it in one place very often. It's PvP, so a bit different from the typical bridge simulator, but it has the feature of everyone playing different mini games, but the mini games have to sync regularly, and everyone needs to be fairly aware of the overview as well.

I haven't seen any other game that is this stressful/hectic, to the point that we typically take breaks between rounds because many people find their heart rates/stress levels become uncomfortable while playing.
If Tahoe falls, it's going to get gentrified in one fell swoop.

The locals who live there won't be able to afford to rebuild OR the fire insurance.

Only people who can afford to build / buy will be overcompensated assholes. It'll turn into Carmel in the sierras.
Premature optimisation is a real pain when it comes to software design and architecture. However, abstraction is a powerful and necessary tool that can make our life a lot easier by avoid repetition (DRY - don't repeat yourself).

A good architect worth their salt will be able to find the right balance. To distill and simplify a problem down to the absolute minimum where it cannot and should not be abstracted anymore before it lose or miss its core objectives and reason to exist.
Yours isn't really the problem a massive core system is for. I truly don't know what is, but they are out there.
Already exists in rural America. At least you also have the option of Arby's or Casey's, with a side of Dollar General. If you're lucky you might get a Subway.
lol, you're welcome on the api spy! Always cool when someone remembers that :).
Isn't UNIX a clear example of people not engaging in architecture "astronaut" behavior? It was designed to be as simple as possible - in stark contrast to Multics.
People blame government officials for things they have little if any control over.
I mean, I guess you missed the point of my original comment. I juxtaposed Taliban fighters in an impoverished and apparently hopeless place with wealthy and prosperous western civilization and how the man sitting in his home with creature comforts but yet feeling without purpose actually has it right in front of him if only he’s willing to work at it for decades and dedicate himself to something meaningful. That it must fill them with envy that these fighters managed to find a way to make their life meaningful within the context of their situation but yet the man who is in a far more prosperous and peaceful place somehow can’t and spends his days in a fantasy about the collapse of civilization much like the situation in Afghanistan actually has been for 40 years.
I think this works in a context where you have "counter bad information with good information".

I think the structure of these social media lends it to a place where it's unhealthy. I believe on reddit, any comments which go against the reddit's groupthink get downvoted heavily. - You don't end up with one "living with coronavirus" subreddit where some people don't like vaccines and some people want everyone to get vaccinated; you end up with subreddits where people point out extreme examples.
I had to Google it: PDX is the airport code for Portland International Airport. I too thought of Playdate executable when I read it.
What is impossible for reasons related to space and time and light is going faster than light in the typical ways. It does not mean going faster than light is universally impossible, just those ways.
VeriSign’s obvious greed aside, I actually wish .com domain registration cost more. For a party that has a genuine interest in operating a .com website, something like $30/year is usually a drop in the bucket. Tripling the cost of buying a domain will be most damaging to those who snap them up just so they can turn around and sell them.

Or maybe we could treat domains similarly to how many US states treat houses, giving people a break on their first domain, and ramping up the taxes as they purchase more?
Gut instinct (intuitive thinkers) could see you fall for Covid misinformation