skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the dissonance comes from the fact that a job is much more than the core activity.

When we speak of pottery as a hobby, we think of handling clay, sitting in front of a pottery wheel, choosing a fitting glaze, then admiring our finished work. The focus is on exploring and enjoying the process. You have complete control over the process and you can do as much or as little as you like because there is no delivery pressure. Sounds fun!

But a pottery business is a different beast. Now, the act of making the pottery is a much smaller part of the overall workload. You have to deal with marketing, sales, payments, inventory, and communications. Your pottery time is no longer about exploring, but about replenishing inventory or handling custom orders in time to avoid bad reviews. You can't just make a piece and be done with it, you have to carefully pack it, handling shipping, drop it off, and hope that nothing goes wrong. If it does go wrong, you now have to deal with the fallout and handle angry customers. Most customers are fine, but it only takes 1 irrationally outraged customer to ruin your day.

Hobbies, by definition, can't be a job. You can try to make a job or business that includes your hobby, but it's a superset of the hobby with numerous other activities that you may or may not enjoy.

I do actually know a lot of people who enjoy running businesses. You might say that businesses are their hobby and delivering results to customers is their passion. Not surprisingly, they're doing quite well in both business and the mental health department. Lucky.
This always comes off as buck-shifting to me. Newsom is the governor of the 5th largest economy in the world, I'm sure there are many unconventional mechanisms available to him to get action on these things.
I have mixed feelings about it all. I respected my friends growing up who couldn't play video games at will as I did, yet I also felt they were missing out. I know many adults who don't game, and often if they aren't out with friends they get bored really quickly. Since it is hard to get out with friends regularly as an adult (esp. as a working parent), it feels like many of them are just bored all the time. I wonder if they had more familiarity with the wide variety of games, they'd have found some that suit their tastes and competence and have something stimulating to do beyond doom scrolling social media. It is quite possible to game, read, have friends, and maintain a great balance between those activities and other forms of life. It is easy to displace those with social media and vice versa. All in all, I'll probably teach my kids to game even if they don't express a natural interest in it, because I ultimately believe it is a better hobby for most people than the lower hanging fruit like social media.
There was namecoin. The problem with anyone registering anything for free is that people will immediately hoard every usable name and try to resell them on for a profit. With domain name fees, you can only hoard the ones you reasonably believe will be in high demand and sell for a profit.

With how many TLDs there are now, it's easy to find an unused domain name especially if you use your countries local tld.
can't imagine investing in California. Has to all come crashing down at some point. It's only going to get worse
The government is not dicating parents/kids.

The government IS dictating game developers not to provide service to children who want to play outside of the said periods.

What you said is impossible to enforce.
The Secret NFT
This can be demonstrated easily to someone who doesn't believe they are doing it. Just ask them to ride their motorcycle with only the right hand on the throttle and their left hand off the bar.
Get him action on what exactly?
After Katrina plenty of carpet baggers came on down and got fleur de lis tattoos and joined the open mardi gras krewes and ran out the residents with extraordinary home prices that cost less than a parking spot in NYC and "theme park" / museum city regulations and stronger code enforcement. In certain ways it's much nicer, but the ambiance closer to a hollow shell now.

I think that Katrina helped get some people out of the city who would have never had the opportunity to leave and that's really the best result.

So in some ways it was a net win other than the massive suffering, but the city is still nearly as corrupt and dysfunctional. It's trying to maintain the illusion of what it used to be and freeze that in amber.

Posting from new Orleans on a portable generator and fibre internet.

Please send fuel. It's been a long day. :)
Interesting times when a forest can be 'closed'.
I was wondering if someone would mention Chandler and indeed - two mentions. Interesting chapter (blind-alley?) of history, with a lesson in there somewhere.
There is stronger evidence that paper is nonsense than there is that it's a valid piece of academia. As per painted_frog's superb sleuthing, even the electron microscope image in there was just a rotated and cropped image from another electron microscope website in 1999. Here's the source image here:

https://web.archive.org/web/19991103120709/http://www.engr.s...

Notice the artifacts of the rotation in the plagiarized copy.

https://twitter.com/retired__frog/status/1157762921293914113

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As Gutmann himself points out in an appended epilogue after OHDD was published, there are major problems with OHDD, one being that bc the authors don’t know the difference between Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM), they confuse the two

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Note the copy/paste (no citation) from A Practical Guide to Scanning Probe Microscopy (1993). Given the authors’ unfamiliarity with these tools and methods, it doesn’t lend huge credibility to the paper’s conclusions that there is no documentation of the experiment itself.

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Indeed, the paper falsely claims a MFM-captured image as deriving from this project. In fact it’s a crop of an image originating from Veeco Instruments Inc, in an MFM image gallery on its site since 1999 at latest. The accompanying citation is an unrelated paper about MFM.

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The concluding section makes the unsupported (false) claim that this study demonstrates that a single-pass overwrite renders data irretrievable even with the use of MFM “or other known methods”. The study didn’t purport to test any other methods, only MFM.

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No corroborating artifact from the study was ever made available; there is only the critically flawed paper. Questions about method (ex. locating disk sectors) received dubious or dismissive answers.
It's very much a personal thing. As time goes by, we discover composers and pieces we want to return to over and over. At that point, you'll probably prefer some performances of particular pieces (conductor, orchestra, soloists, tempos, tame or wild-eyed) better than others. For example, some conductors will rush through something (to get it over with?) while others will work hard to make you feel every phrase, hear each instrumental solo.

This all takes time ... and will probably change over time for you. Try to make mental (or paper) notes when you really like a performance. Some conductors are really good in certain periods, but are flat in others.

In the past few years, I most enjoyed Christian Thielemann's conducting of the Beethoven symphonies. Pretty hard to go wrong with the Vienna Philharmonic ... before Brahms, that is. OTOH, Karajan ruins everything. ;->
Wow, I resonate with you.

For me, I have always chased success. For me, success was choosing the next endeavor with a well defined goal, doing the work to achieve said goal and finally getting recognition for it from peers and managers.

This caused me to be razor focused and always choose the most productive tool in my skillset to get things "done".

Which means that devs who focus on nitpicks annoy me. Managers that pay attention to fads and bullshit metrics annoy me.

I have a very strong moral and ethical compass. Sticking to my compass gives me energy. I feel proud of my work, my creation and take pleasure in seeing people use it.

But I won't try a new fad just for resume padding
I'd argue, they are also improving your mental health and making your decisions better, therefore helping you climb that ladder quicker.
Much of the land in California, and throughout the west actually, is owned and managed by the federal government. State government doesn't have jurisdiction, they don't have funding, etc, to do much about that. The BLM isn't just an acronym used for Black Lives Matters (as wall as national forest land and national park land).
I see so many fellow digital artists (webcomic creators especially, minority ones doubly so) fall into this trap especially with patreon and who visibly resent the pressure but find it very hard to get out of the monetization loop.

I wrote a little more about my experiences here, if anyone's interested from a creative side: "Carceral Content Creation" https://walonvaus.dreamwidth.org/128334.html
(also valuable context: I used to create a published webcomic but left that world for reasons that become obvious in the blog post.)
AI: Communicating with Codex in a Formal Language
> they can always lend their own account to their kids, which would disable the mechanism

Current technology means statements like this are not necessarily true (these are all referring to the same story, Chinese language link last):

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/08/tencent_facial_recogn...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/08/business/video-game-facia...

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Cr17TKWQ3XcuNzDw085OLw

> the new feature sees the company check accounts registered in adults’ names if
> they are playing games between 10:00PM and 8:00AM. The company will then run a
> facial recognition test and, if it identifies someone who is not the account
> holder, they’ll be booted offline. “Anyone who refuses or fails face
> verification will be treated as a minor,” according to a machine translation of
> Tencent’s QQ post.
Was planning to hike the JMT starting tomorrow from cottonwood meadow and ending on the 22nd. Permits canceled at 6pm tonight.

Anyone got recommendations for a last minute 20 day off grid vacation? Have car, supplies, ready to go.
That's the attitude that a lot of people have, which makes me wonder what other professions they have no personal experience with, yet are able to deduce the precise level of work being done by other people with a mere glance!
National Forests are federal land owned and managed by the federal government. Why would you think the governor of any state would seize those forests? Even if California decided to force those forests to be open...they're being closed because of the extreme fire danger in many parks. Why in the world would the state want to open them up?

Fires don't care about property lines. A fire that starts in a National Forest will happily burn through an adjacent state forest or community.
Not on Firefox though for some reason. Is there some special API only Chrome implements?
Agreed. Though, I think that in most contexts the compiler would probably be able to disambiguate which version is intended from type resolution. So maybe it would be better to be able to optionally specify whether we want the sync or async version, possibly overloading our usual polymorphic syntax, e.g.

do_something().await; // Its clear that we're using the async version
do_something::<sync>(); // I really want the sync version, even in async contexts
Depends on the person. I learned quite a few good habits from video games, particularly how to become more focused, driven, and patient. After getting fairly serious with a competitive game in my mid thirties, I found it translated rather unexpectedly to other pursuits. I am unsure if I would have found these parts of myself otherwise; I certainly hadn't before, and I had no shortage of variety in my hobbies or rigor in my career(s) prior.
Drive east. I think a lot of Colorado is public? You’ve got the time!
Agree. I have never seen a “targeted” ad that actually hit bullseye. Showing me random ads would probably be more efficient (hitting 0.1% of the time instead of 0% of the time).
By asking "is there anyone you trust to be the arbiter of truth", 'free speech' is being invoked in the spirit of "I benefit from being able to hear awful/wrong/contrarian opinions, because sometimes they'll contain valuable truths I otherwise wouldn't be able to hear".

I think 'free speech' as "government can't suppress people" and "people get to say what they want, including saying that others are wrong" doesn't quite capture the fallibility.
Are paper shopping bags cheaper for grocery stores or are they being forced by the government?
Colorado trail? It would be quite the drive. Also probably a bit long for 20 days.
The US National Forrest and Calfire have been on the losing side of this fire so far. All the technology that produces memes that spread across the globe in seconds and launches and lands orbital rockets flawlessly cannot stop this fire. This has been a dry summer which can be attributed to global warming.

I for one am not a defeatist that will let global warming beat me. We need to think of solutions to fires like this. 1. We need to apply Phos-Chek from ground based units. 2. Building codes need to be updated to only allow fire resistant structures in wildfire prone areas. 3. Inhabited locations in fire prone areas need need active fire suppression infrastructure around them (agricultural level irrigation at the ready). 4. Forest management around inhabited areas need to reduce forest fire fuel.
Just to play devil's advocate here--if domains were cheaper to own, there would be more namesquatters
Also there is quite enough room in life for both.
Go north. Montana, Idaho, etc. Wind River range is absolutely breathtaking.

Just be grizzly aware.
People will actually effectively say j't'aime when speaking fast. But yes, the written form is always je t'aime.
I’m sure the market will create endurance drives for those with the need.
>> The first part of the article about describing sphere rotations with a direction and magnitude has some overlap with quaternion rotations

Some? Scale the direction vector (x,y,z) to have magnitude = sin(theta) and then set w = cos theta, where theta is half the desired rotation angle. Then (w,x,y,z) is the quaternion that represents the rotation. It was hard for me to read without that relationship constantly popping into my head.
Forrests are currently closed through September 17, 2021 at 11:59 p.m.
This might not be what you are looking for (and, indeed, it doesn't quite answer your question), but it has had a meaningful impact on my quality of life

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/how-to-listen-to-and...

It can be had for cheap via audible.
"The difference between underengineering and overengineering is that underengineering can be fixed."
"are often or solely pro cadre or their personal interests."

Come on. That's just false. You can't operate a country successfully at China's size by making law just to benefit the cadre / personal interests.

Don't get started by advocating that benefiting the people is just a way to benefit to cadre. It's infalsifiable and just pointless.
To bolster your point, the movie “You’ve Got Mail” released in December 1998.
It should be noted that this is for online gaming only, but that kind of gaming is extremely popular in China. My wife (who isn't affected by this) has this one Chinese online game that she plays for hours every weekend.
Why did American ships go to Africa in the first place? There were plenty of other undeveloped countries, including Mexico.
Newsom had opportunities to get PG&E to bury power lines before they burned down half the state.
Benchmarking the Beast
And how exactly is that specific context relevant to the rest of my point? Is this site saturated by people with null artistic appreciation outside an obsession with highly specific criticisms of very particular things?
>I was put in a similar situation at one time: I was read-into a top secret program

No you weren't.
I still love programming, and engineering and tinkering in general.

It does not mean I always love what I do for money. Not all programming is the same, like, well, not all music is the same. The particular kind you exercise very much matters.

So I do tiny side projects I enjoy, stuff like home automation, tiny utilities to simplify chores, web pages, tiny games. It's still enjoyable.

If I did not have to work for money, I won't quit programming.

On the other hand, balancing the likeability of a job (which formally is in your "also a hobby" field) and the money it brings is a delicate act. Usually they are inversely related: the high compensation, well, compensates for the tiring job. But, unless you live alone and have no other aspirations, you got to bring home more, to keep the family up.

Going to the extreme end of high pay and low satisfaction brings in burnout and depression, ultimately limiting the length and utility of such stints. Going to the extreme end of satisfaction despite low / no pay may leave you broke.
Colorado trail or segments of the Continental Divide trail.
I'm trying to avoid reencoding multiple times, and saving WAV to disk puts serious pressure on storage constraints
Whatever works for you!
Do you really think this is being deliberated upon? It's pretty clearly sitting on a shelf somewhere because nobody is pushing to get it through.
shame i hadn't found this before, and sad they sold out to Apple. I do not believe it will be as good an experience, Apple is too commercial for that.
And his alternatives would've jumped on such a civics work project in time?
HN has often had a decent contingent of first-generation Chinese immigrants / present Chinese citizens that are happy to defend policies that really don’t make sense in a framework defined with Western values.

I’m not surprised. Sad? A bit. It normalizes authoritarianism. But what are you going to do? I want to live in a globalized society and internet, and China is a huge portion of that, despite their best efforts to insulate their citizens from the world.
gandi.net seems to charge $364/year for any .is domain. Namecheap charges around the same price as isnic.

Any reason why I shouldn't register the domain on isnic directly? Are there benefits to registering the domain via namecheap (or other registrar), apart from getting access to their support?
"then you've got a REST API to play with"

Where? A REST API offered up by what?
> global warming

Calling it that can be a trap. Stick to climate change.
> millions of dollars worth of product, 24 hours a day

> Often times the 'new' version is $100,000 US

Is the price really the issue here? It almost sounds like the company could afford it if it wanted to.
So you can hack on emacs.
TTS: Deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech, battle-tested in production
The obvious answer is because it's cool.

Seriously though, tinkering with Common Lisp did prepare me a bit for my first Rails job since Ruby is, as I describe it, like "Perl and Smalltalk had a baby with Lisp sitting in the closet dressed like Superman, watching". Pragmatically, you might not need to touch Lisp, but going through it may show you some common pitfalls that occur in other languages and makes you wish there were Lispy features outside of it.
Because all of those checks and balances have been working so WELL of late.
Sandi Metz has a quote that was something like this "We don't tell me developers about avoiding duplication because it's so important, but because it's the only thing they understand".

Duplication is much better than the wrong abstraction
Can you get to the Northshore? I'm hearing they have gas up there. Parts of Slidell are already getting power back and you might even be able to score a bag of ice.

Posting from SE Pennsylvania because I got run out of New Orleans by the unaffordable carpet bagger home prices.
The Americans trained the enemy to respond in a certain way, and NZ took advantage of the enemy's predictable response.
Hey can I get some clarification? Are you saying the liberty of people with COVID who ignore precautions are the victims to worry about here? I could’ve sworn it was illegal to pass on viruses if you knew you were infected, but that was gays and not true patriots, so I’m sure the rules are different now
Big discussion a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28276993
Four musicians is three too many for the Art of Fugue. Just listen to Hewitt or Koroliov or any other solo keyboard.
I can't be the only one! What websites do you use to find good domains?

I use the following:

- Dotomator - nothing like it, https://www.dotomator.com/

- Namechk - social media check, https://namechk.com/
You had me until the last part about the grizzlies.
Highline trail in the Uintas is nice
Apple spends boatloads and boatloads of more money than Tesla can economically afford on research, development, and buyouts; I guess. Why isn't Apple announcing 0.00001 percent the magical things Elon Musk is?
Completely agree. It is actually very hard to collapse a modern Western society. It is too large, too complex, and have millions of people working to stabilise/fix problems.
I never understand how people can play those pixel games. Don’t they hurt your eyes? And also what’s the point to create games with such poor graphic qualities? Is this kind of unique culture or something?
Remind – a sophisticated calendar and alarm program
No, we need to stick with global warming. Overwhelmingly the direction is warming.
"(who isn't affected by this)"

LMAO. Even if you didn't mention it. Likely no one would think you married an underaged girl.
I'm going to guess that there are folks at Apple who genuinely believe that they are providing a service with these notifications.
PCT in Washington State?
Late reply but hopefully you'll see this.

No, not in any normal sense. Plastics are extremely stable. Unless you're grinding your retainer down to <5microns, your retainer isn't a source of microplastics.

The pieces we're talking about either need to start small or need to be exposed to some sort of wear system - sun light, waves grinding plastic bottles together that can break down the polymer chain (actually rather hard to do).

The sunlight one[0] acts on timescales of years/decades, which is a problem for ocean and dumps because all those plastic bottles, we're starting to pay the price environmentally.

But personally, no your retainer is not a source you should be concerned with.

[0] https://www.materialstoday.com/polymers-soft-materials/news/...
Would fire retardant applied as required from static base units help in any way? Imagine a chain of them launching or exploding to release product as required. Then re-stocked after the event.
I use Nextcloud for calendar and have Davx5 installed. I've found it lacking in one way that's critical for me, though.

On the web site if I set an email reminder for an event, it works.

On my Android, if I set an email reminder for an event, it pretends to work, but then sets only an Android notification. No idea why, but there's no way for me to actually set an email reminder from Android.

I much prefer email reminders - I get so many notifications on Android that my brain just ignores them - email is something I actively work on and I can't dismiss it as easily. Because of this, I still have to enter all events using the web site, sadly.

Incidentally, setting the Nextcloud site to send email reminders was a ridiculous pain. I somewhat agree with the author - I still haven't found a self hosted calendar solution that works and syncs properly with Android.
You can totally do this at least since Windows 8.1. The main hurdles are the boot menu settings (if you're unfamiliar with that) than any hardware related stuff.
HN is getting more political. Just something I’ve noticed.
Not saying it’s a bad thing, but a reflection of political tribalism.