skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm a Millenial(? 1996)

These lines are by nature fuzzy and a bit arbitrary, but yeah just barely:

> In order to keep the Millennial generation analytically meaningful, and to begin looking at what might be unique about the next cohort, Pew Research Center decided [in 2018] to use 1996 as the last birth year for Millennials for our future work. Anyone born between 1981 and 1996 ... is considered a Millennial

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/17/where-mille...
> Basically it comes down to choosing between buying a house and having a kid.

If you already had a kid but everything else in your life was the same, what would you do?
If he's playing the switch docked, the split controllers mean that the arms can be moved freely. Normal controllers don't allow that
> For most excavated squares, the newly exposed MB II surface from each day’s archeological excavation produced an obvious white salt crust overnight as humidity leached salt to the surface.

...

> we speculate that an impact into or an airburst above high-salinity surface sediments (26% of land in the southern Jordan Valley at > 1.3% salinity) and/or above the Dead Sea (with ~ 34 wt.% salt content) may have distributed hypersaline water across the lower Jordan Valley. If so, this influx of salt may have substantially increased the salinity of surface sediments within the city and in the surrounding fields. Any survivors of the blast would have been unable to grow crops and therefore likely to have been forced to abandon the area. After ~ 600 years, the high salt concentrations were sufficiently leached out of the salt-contaminated soil to allow the return of agriculture.
I've known adventures, seen places you people will never see, I've been Offworld and back… frontiers! I've stood on the back deck of a blinker bound for the Plutition Camps with sweat in my eyes watching stars fight on the shoulder of Orion... I’ve felt wind in my hair, riding test boats off the black galaxies and seen an attack fleet burn like a match and disappear. I've seen it, felt it..
Amazon does have the Kindle Oasis[1] which has physical buttons for page turning, and a design with a different take on how you hold it from a regular Kindle. It's the expensive model, though, so very much "vote with your wallet" in a different sense than you meant.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/All-new-Kindle-Oasis-now-with-adjusta...
I agree. Sounds like a terrible investment. For that price they could literally give over 2000 employees a million dollars or hire 5000 new employees in other remote locations.
Amazon has two services like that with different content; they used to have three!

For kids, there's Amazon Freetime Unlimited, which has a catalog of younger people stuff. This one needs a newer kindle --- if you've got a Kindle Keyboard or similar, no go.

For adults, there's the more expensive Kindle Unlimited? or Prime something which has more older people stuff, costs more, and may have the first book of a kids series, but not all of them.

The Kindle Owners' Lending Library is now gone. It was a lot smaller catalog.

A lot of libraries offer ebooks at no cost to patrons, so maybe check your local library to see if that's an option for you. It does come at a cost to the library (which is worthy of its own discussion, but probably not in this thread), so consider a donation if you can.
These companies just can't seem to grasp the idea that remote work is viable
Nuclear deterrence won't work if it's decided by committee.
> I don’t think we should prevent any country from doing so.

Even countries ruled by theocratic leaders who promote hate and obscurity ?
As far as I understand, they use a part as a frontend, not as a full engine for everything.
I agree that ARM isn't going anywhere, as long as it can be licensed for less than it takes to design a good-enough RISC-V core, it will get used (with opensource designs slowly lowering the latter on average).

It's really more the small vendor ISAs that I expect to become rarer with time, not the existing ISAs to go away.

Frankly, RISC-V feels perhaps a decade too late, but so does LLVM, and alternate history is such a rabbit hole so I won't go into it (but I suspect e.g. Apple would've had a less obvious choice for the M1, if RISC-V had been around for twice as long).

> But that also seems rather narrowly scoped to those who are willing to design & fab custom SoCs

I'm expecting most of the (larger) adopters are already periodically (re)designing and fabbing their own hybrid compute + specialized functionality - like the WD example you mention (Nvidia replacing its Falcon management cores being another).

I don't know for sure, but I also suspect some of them also want to avoid having Arm Ltd. (or potentially soon, Nvidia) in the loop, even if they could arrange to get their custom extensions in there.
The goal is to end humans.
You implemented an entirely novel system.

Somehow that’s lazy?

Weird priority maybe. Sounds like more effort was involved than just using functionality that’s there.
> I think this has been proven fairly well in a number of semi-arid areas such as parts of India.

I've recently seen a video on YouTube where they did this. They dug a "hole"/artificial lake with a capacity of over, I think, 140 million litres.

They used that to create "a wet spot" which slowly started to transform the surrounding landscape. Plants, trees, bushes obviously started from around that lake but moved farther and farther from it as the soil became better.

This does not solve any problems with salt water, but it could possibly a solution for areas where there's "only" very little water available.
Slack launches clips, video messages that help you avoid meetings
Conquest by whom?

Certainly not by USSR. By the time USSR took their territories back - are you still forgetting, that Poland had conquered their territories mere 20 years earlier? - Poland didn't exist anymore and the Polish government was in exile in Romania. There was nothing to conquest. USSR took back what was taken from them.

And let's not forget that Pilsudski government, while it lasted, was fascist, just like the Germans. They played a game and they lost. Unlike Austria and Czechoslovakia, which were also thrown over the board for the Germany, they were not innocent here and had their own imperial ambitions (did you forget that they took their part in partitioning of Czechoslovakia, just months earlier?)
A story about Logo:

Thirty years ago, driven by poverty and lack of opportunities, me and my family illegally crossed the border from Tijuana into San Diego. We had some friends in Pasadena who received us in a spare bedroom while we settled. Since I was eleven years old, I was enrolled in the sixth grade of the local elementary school.

The teacher (Ms Castro) was incredibly gracious with this tiny Mexican who didn't speak a word of english. I was only required to participate in math and art clases (Also, it seemed like Mexican fifth grade math was more advanced than California‘s so I looked like a genius ;)) and on some ESL courses the school offered while skipping classed that required English.

Anyway, there was this one computer in ms Castro‘s classroom. It was an Apple machine, but I could not tell you which one because this was the first computer I ever touched. So the teacher instructed some other hispanic kid to show me how to turn the computer on and "play" with this toy program called Logo so I have something to do while the others kids are in class. I spent hours and hours each day with this thing; fast forward a couple months and I was not only drawing but writing programs that produced musical animations to the astonishments of the entire class.

It was a great experience --pretty much the only positive experience we had while in the US--. Five months later we had to get back, and I wouldn't have access to a personal computer for another 9 years. I always wondered what would've happened if we stayed.

Anyway, Logo was my introduction to computing and helped my keep my sanity during my five months as an illegal immigrant.
i bought everything for this but got overwhelmed and haven’t tried to put it together. it’s all been sitting on my shelf for like a year. maybe one day! too many dang projects.
I believe so too. Love the definition here though!
Kindle also has great integration with Overdrive though. I use the Libby app on my phone to send library books to my Kindle. They get delivered directly from Amazon and it’s the same experience as if you had bought it.
Read the NYT article, it explains the whole thing
Makes sense, It is also easier to read and understand a book than it was for the author to write it.
You can also think you understand something while you read it and later realize that you misunderstood it.
They are already leasing it, so this is not really as interesting as it sounds. Big buildings are expensive.
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall: https://archive.is/4T3hv
If the guiding philosophy of “Thielists” is subversion/bomb throwing for its own sake, what exactly are they going to use to anchor their life?

Being permanently angry and having a chip on your shoulder feels like a pretty sad way to live.
To add, I used to keep my kindle not attached to an amazon account (so no email), but I plugged it into USB like a flash drive and synced books with Calibre.

Worked for me really well, it's great at bulk conversions. and I used to charge it on my desk anyways, so it wasn't much of a hassle to remember to sync.
It's like Tesco all over again [NSFW swearing] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfSi0D7KESk
Our foreign policy incentivizes gaining access to nuclear weapons and WMDs. It's one of the best ways to guarantee your continuing sovereignty. Nuclear countries are powerful enough that even the US is reticent to invade or destabilize them. Gaddafi gave up Libya's weapons programs and was dead within a decade. Iran gave up theirs, and the US reneged on the treaty almost immediately.
The article said he was killed "as he was driving his wife to their country home east of Tehran". So it's probable that the Israelis knew about his house in the country and found out when he'd be going, and picked out a spot on the route that would serve the purpose, maybe on a part of the road that very few people use.
Well the election results are in.

Liberals picked up 46.7% of the seats in parliament off 32.2% of the vote. Highly over represented.

Conservatives marginally won another election but won't form the government. They got 35% of the seats from 34% of the vote.

NDP got 7% of the seats off 17.7% of the vote. Highly under represented.

PPC got 0% of the seats off 6% of the vote. Highly under represented. Roughly a million Canadians are not represented in government.

Greens got 0.5% of the seats off 2.3% of the vote. Though their leader/campaign was poor.

There are some serious discrepancies in these numbers.
Can the ROM be read and flashed back on Casio watches?

I once bought a solar G-shock but the watch UI is horrible: it does not display the battery charge anywhere on the watch. Instead, it wants you to install a Casio app that connects to the watch via BT. However, even the app doesn't show the battery charge with more than a few scrambled pixels in a small icon. So, useless.

I still don't know how much battery I had left at the time: I eventually got a low battery warning during the winter with no good sunlight to charge it and so I forgot about the watch. You would think a solar watch would want to boast with a highly visible battery level indicator on the screen, and also because it would be a very useful thing.

If the ROMs are hackable I'd be interested in looking at the assembly if for nothing else but to fix that battery level indicator.
If you can't even choose the OS you want to work with, it can't be a good DX. Unless their choice is what you'd have chosen anyway.
Strong Assumptions include:

1. They think that in-person work still has value.

2. They want a physical presence in a world-class city.

3. They think the property will appreciate in value to sell later

4. They intend to rent it out and generate income that way.
I have recently discovered macros on google sheets. With an option of scheduling them in the cloud and simplicity of writing them, even with my limited coding skills , it allows me to put together pretty complex dashboards.
Mmm, believe the goal here is saving humanity.
The original quote it seems is: "Buy when there's blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own." :-)
MacOS/Chrome os, iCloud/Gmail, Google docs, zoom/whatever Hangouts is called today/discord, Google sheets.

It's not even that hard to avoid Microsoft.
There's a fundamental energy demand for removing salt from seawater and creating drinkable water that can't be avoided. Hence, desalination is fundamentally tied to the price of energy. These costs can easily bankrupt cities that try to rely on desalination to meet demand (for example, California droughts cause hydropower to go offline right when water demand is highest). Using fossil fuels to power desalination in the global warming era is also a really bad idea.

It might work in certain locales (lots of sunshine plus solar panels, perhaps), but the costs will always be high, and it's going to be very uneconomical for agricultural-scale needs.
I've been doing web dev for almost 10 years and I've been extremely impressed with Next recently; I think it's the most "practical" framework out there right now assuming you're not wanting to go 100% client-side or 100% static-rendered (you can do each of those on their own very easily without it). The way it lets you mix both, as well as server-rendered where needed, is a game-changer.

I'm more ambivalent on Apollo/GraphQL, but I know some people have been happy with the decision to use it
Well, that sure makes it work out to be one hell of a victim blame!
Respectfully, what is there not to understand? They’re expanding their footprint in NYC due to increased demand. I’ve heard here and there that headcount at Google NYC has always been tight, so this should alleviate some of that. Facebook and Amazon have also committed to massive leases in NYC within the past few years as well.

Besides that, these companies wield so much cash it seems like a safe bet to park a couple billion in. NYC real estate is arguably one of the safest bets in the modern era
The whole paper is definitely worth reading. The methods they've used to rule out everything else then a meteor blast. Or the microphotograph of bone with embedded molten glass
Came here to bring this up. I'm consistently seeing adults and many under driving age flying down bike paths at 20mph through congested pedestrian and bycicle areas.

My wife was almost hit by a cyclist that was thrown off course and had to perform an emergency stop because of two clueless fucks on hover boards.

I really have zero problem with ebikes making cycling and mobility possible for people but they are a flip of the wrist away from fucking up someone's life on an otherwise peaceful and very safe bike path.
Duverger's Law
The best lies contain some element of truth, for they need to be believable

Instagram...Today's tech industry & social media has exacerbated corporations' ability to brainwash the masses

We don't know if this is another marketing stunt/scam like recycling, sugar vs. fat, diamonds, bottled water, milk, etc.

Climate change might be true, but it is those who use it for personal gain that twist truths to their advantage. Think of Elon Musk, crypto, pro-choice... that use social media pervasively to shape the narrative.

Be very careful of these invisible forces that affect our behaviors unconsciously. Always search for truth, be a critical thinker.

1. https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...

2. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eIDBV4Mpek

4. https://trendguardian.medium.com/free-will-a-rich-fairy-tale...
To restate, I think your argument is that by making authn more complex, standards like WebAuthn will push towards "Identity as a Service" platforms like Firebase, Okta, etc, and that this concentrates power in the hands of those providers.

To an extent I think this is a fair argument, but it strikes me as somewhat of a Luddite one as well: yes, the better technology is also more complex, but most of the time users are simply more secure by developers choosing IaaS providers!

At the limit, you could argue against developer guidelines to use SSL or salted password storage, because those are "complex" and "encourage adoption of common providers." I don't think these security mechanisms are significant drivers of tech consolidation, and of all the things to complain about, the payoff for users--increased security--is hard to oppose!
> Suicide is never a rational response, and can't be taken into account on the spectrum of human needs, since it's an abnegation of all human need. It doesn't need to be considered within the spectrum of rational economic responses

I mean it totally can be:

1. Assume materialism/naturalism.

2. Experience pain or some other unpleasantness and dislike it.

3. Suicide solves the pain problem completely, and creates no further problems from the perspective of the person commuting suicide.
A quick summary/translation for those of us who don't speak ML.

We keep hearing about these giant models like GPT3 with 1.5 billion paramaters. Parameters are the things that change when we train a model, you can think about them as degrees of freedom.
If you have a lot of parameters, theory made us believe that the model would just "overfit" the training data, e.g. memorize it. That's bad, because when new data comes in in production we'd expect the model to not be able to "generalize" to it, e.g. make accurate predictions on data it hasn't seen before, because it's just memorized training data instead of uncovering the "guiding principles" of the data so to speak.

In practice, these huge models are, in laymans terms, fucking awesome and work really well e.g. they generalize and work in production. No one understands why.

This paper is a survey or overview of what "too many paramaters" are, and all the research into why these models work even though they shouldn't.
Of course that's not the goal in most cases (but it obviously is the case where warfare is involved - at least ending a subset of humanity).

But if you look at food/diet changes, lifestyle changes, warfare changes, energy source/consumption changes, and so on, you can see we are working toward the end of humanity. Hopefully it will take a very long time, but there will be a tipping point where it becomes _very_ unpleasant.

Let's extrapolate with some current technologies a bit. We have these pretty cool gunshot locator systems; we have AI or robotic attack systems; we have broader control systems which can disable power and water from target zones. Heck we can control and overload industrial systems, potentially causing mass casualties.

No one sets out to end humanity. Well, most people don't. But degree by degree (pun not initially intended) we get closer to self-induced extinction.
This made me happy. Iran is a theocratic dictatorship running a terror proxy war against its neighbors.
They will first do these investments and then insist on coming back. I see modern IBM unable to give up their cult culture.
With all these updates, I really hope Rakuten takes note and releases a true Paperwhite competitor this year. I'm leaning towards Kobo for the more open ecosystem, and the fact that you can sync books via Dropbox officially or via big standard Linux applications sideloaded onto the Kobo. However if Kobo even updates any of their readers this holiday season, I suspect they'd only update the Forma, which has a form factor more similar to the Kindle Oasis than the Paperwhite (and a price to match).
> If the selection was good I would be happy to pay monthly for what is effectively a library card

Libraries offer this service for free. Our local library has a huge and increasing number of ebooks available.
- Letting employees work from home: -$0 (savings on building ownership, HVAC, security, extra staffing, power, etc).

- Opening a NYC office: $2.1B + upkeep.

Even ignoring the environmental impacts directly and for commuting, at what point are we allowed to suggest that senior management at these large companies acts in an irrationally impulsive way? Why aren't the shareholders flagging this?

It feels like Google are spending $2.1B here for an ego trip to contrast Apple's open plan "Apple Park." Microsoft almost looks modest by comparison for their boring looking Seattle offices (land value not withstanding). But why any tech company is opening new offices now is mind-boggling.
Joining the union is voluntary. It's simply a way of coordinating action. And strikes are well within the legal rights of workers -- it's the way the system is designed to work, bit a fluke. This article just points out how a system like that may actually be effective.
Ask HN: Frameworks for thinking through your thoughts and feelings?
Every so often I get overwhelmed with thoughts and feelings, and I can't seem to be able mentally work through them.

I've tried journaling, but that always ends up with me free writing without getting much out of it.

Anybody have some good resources or frameworks for working through what I am feeling and try to come up with some actionable tasks I can take regarding them?
For me, killing Qasem Soleimani should have been taboo.
Not sure obscurity was the word you were looking for?
This thread makes me wonder how many knife-missiles the USA has in stock.

(I am using the opportunity to reference the fact that the USA indeed has a “knife missile” and it is similar in principle if not in capability to the knife missile if the “Culture” series by Ian M. Banks.)
The stated goal of Iran's government is to end a specific group of humans that identify themselves as Israelis by using nuclear or conventional weapons.
Motion One: The Web Animations API for Everyone
Joycons are the game controller equivalent of a split keyboard. If you're using a stock PS4 controller, your hands need to be close together, and your legs obviously can't be in the way.

For what it's worth, it's possible to use joycons with a PS4, if you have the appropriate adapters and chain them together just right.
They are probably measuring output and concluded that office workers are more productive.
Some people can't grasp the idea that remote-work isn't the answer for everyone in all positions.
Sadly, there’s no overdrive support on my country, so I never considered this usecase. But I’m happy that it works for you!
"...but the writing is on the wall: software is coming for hardware, and this trend will only accelerate."

I wonder if this is perhaps one of those cyclical things. Software comes for hardware. Then we all remember how much good hardware simplifies software and multiplies capability, so hardware becomes very important again, etc.
https://archive.is/4T3hv
Yikes. This is the strangest thing I've seen on HN in a long time. How can someone responsible for product at Github (!) think posting your private twitter account in a context like this is acceptable, and even more so when it's filled with this garbage.
That's the justification used for the thousands of drone strikes the US has performed in the last decade.

I suspect depending on where you live, your definition of "goal" will be different.
Shouldn't a government represent the people?
So, why things are ok if done by elected officials, but not by the people themselves?