skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And? It's their website, they can criticise whoever they like on it.
Heh, I wrote pretty much exactly the same thing, should have read all the comments first.
Hey HN! This is an initiative that grew out of Hipcamp's first ever hackathon.

The idea is simple: show some of the beautiful photography that we have collected from our photographers and Hipcampers and inspire folks to get outside.

Right now beyond just being a beautiful background on your new tab page, there's a small blurb with realtime price and availability data for the campground where the photo was taken, just in case you want to go visit! ;)

Hope you like it and please share any interesting feature requests and other feedback!
I grew up in the USSR.

The government that replaced it, did so on the promise of democracy and liberalism. It took less than 10 years for that all to go down the drain.

And then we've all seen 9/11 and what happened in liberal democracies after that, when various far-reaching anti-terrorism legislation was rushed through, and then routinely used by law enforcement in completely unrelated matters.

This entire argument - that Western governments are somehow exempt from the curse of corrupting power, and therefore letting them centralize more and more is not a problem - has already been disproven experimentally.
It is called aphantasia and I have it too. I am totally unable to picture anything in my head despite trying for years.
This one is personal because it happened to me. Abusive tenant refusing to pay rent and stealing from me, in a house I myself was living in and renting as the sole lessee and subletting (which was allowed).

So, I was already broke from thousands in unpaid rent, then got notice that she was fighting the eviction and would be represented in court by a pro bono lawfirm. So I had to scrounge my last $ and remember not to fill up my gas tank all the way, to hire the town's cheapest attorney to go in and settle, letting her stay an extra month free of charge to agree to leave. Finally she illegally overstayed that and only left the day before the cops were to show up and forcibly remove her. This is all while she's living on gov't cheese and blowing her money on booze and festivals.

In all I was out many thousands of dollars I didn't have and basically couldn't sleep in my own rented room for over a month, and got fought in court by fancy lawyers paid with tax-deducted charity money. I spent a while seriously considering, and my only other option would have been, to end my own lease and leave and let my landlord deal with trying to remove her.

So no, I was actually at risk for becoming homeless due to this situation as the "landlord", and I get fairly angry when its described in this blithe way as if the person fighting the eviction is always the poor little guy and the "landlord" is always BlackRock having to eat a 0.001% hit to their profit margins.
I see a lot of assumptions about office worker productivity with zero real world evidence.

A lot of home office workers never learned to touch type. How the heck are they supposed to do office work if they can't see their fingers on the keyboard? Voice recognition is no solution, it still sucks for text entry and is completely useless for anything like slide presentations or spreadsheets.

There is legitimate potential for workers doing 3D stuff like CAD, architecture, and data visualization but that's a tiny niche of the workforce.
Maybe caring isn't the word, it's more laughing at it.
Could we get the title changed to "ct.css – Let’s take a look inside your <head>"? It looks like some got cut off.
How do we know we are all talking about the same thing? Sometimes my thoughts feel very ‘verbal’, lots of words, and other times I can think through complex things without any words entering my conscious mind at all. And there’s a full continuum between those extremes. Usually it’s somewhere in the middle, and it’s hard to say if I am thinking with an ‘inner voice’ or not. Do others really experience just one extreme or the other, all the time?
> And there are lots of reddit threads about Junior Ruby Developers unable to find a job. As nearly all jobs are looking for Senior Dev.

This is true for basically every tech stack though. The pandemic gave a lot of people a chance to change careers, so there's a lot of fresh blood looking for work right now across the board, and not enough space to hire and then mentor them.
There are some spatial intelligence tests that essentially require mentally rotating and flipping 3D objects in your mind's eye. That could maybe be one way. Can't speak to the quality of this test, but here's one that might apply: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/tests/iq/visual-spatial-i...
Sorry I wasn’t specific. Lets say the price of a laptop is constant from 1995 to 2021 then with inflation it becomes cheaper forward in time.

It also gains more features sometimes.
Zillow says it’s closing home-buying business and cutting 25% of workforce
> Mojang thus far hasn’t built microtransactions

He must have a different Minecraft. Minecraft on xbox has a shop for skins and plugins and all kind of stuff right on the very first menu you see. It even has some kind of daily deal. It has its own funny money currency system. (Google "minecoins")
Any chance to subscribe for their shares for an EU tax resident? List of EU based brokers accepting the subscriptions?
Also in case there's interest, a Firefox version has been submitted and should be available here soon (review pending):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hipcamp/
It wasn't that there was a crunch — that had always existed. There just wasn't all the tooling to implement anything like flex. At least this video was made after "buying Borg quota" was a normal thing. Before it, you had to "buy" regular machines and donate/assimilate them into Borg. Then after X days you'd receive your quota, minus a Borg "tax" of 10% to cover borglet and system daemons' overhead.
Circumstance is what you allow it to be. Short of being put in a Chinese concentration camp ala Uighurs, you generally have the last say in circumstance to experience anger.
Apart from the anti-trust angles as to why such a merger is bad, I am also concerned about the increasing political biases among employees in the publishing world. For example, employees at Penguin Random House protested the publishing of Jordan Peterson’s new book (https://reason.com/2020/11/25/jordan-peterson-12-rules-for-l...). Simon and Schuster employees protested the publishing of Mike Pence’s memoir (https://thehill.com/homenews/media/549311-simon-schuster-rej...). There are numerous other examples that can be found via search, and the spike in political protests at publishers coincides with the rise of protests and calls for deplatforming elsewhere.

Something similar has been happening with booksellers as well. Industry groups like the American Booksellers Association have been bowing down to progressive activists’ pressure (https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-entertainment-business-...). Leftist activists have pressured physical bookstores to remove books from their shelves (https://reason.com/2021/01/11/powells-books-antifa-andy-ngo-...). Even new online independent bookstore Bookshop.org has joined the culture wars, asking customers to donate to send copies of “The 1619 Project” to schools (https://bookshop.org/1619).

Books are a really fundamental tool in our society for the exchange of information and ideas. The introduction of political and ideological wars into the world of book publishing and sales is scary, and out of touch with classically liberal enlightenment values. However, seeing as how many institutions have been taken over or caved to such pressures, I feel like choice and competition are the one thing protecting free expression on this medium. As such, I would not like to see the type of consolidation these publishers are pushing for.
I'm very much like this. I can turn it off and on at will. Meditation is easy for me, I just "turn off" the voice and sit. I run long distances and will sometimes realise that an hour has gone by without any thoughts other than "breathe in, breathe out".

I'm focusing on it right now. It speaks in my head as I'm planning out the next sentence I'm going to type, but then once I'm typing it goes away until I need to stop and plan the next words. I also read very quickly, sometimes multiple lines at a time, reassembling the words in context.

The voice certainly doesn't follow me around chattering in my head the way some people's seems to.
That's basically what the do-nothing script is. The difference is that before you write any automation, you document all the steps in the script. Right there - when you've got it all written down, and no automation work has been done yet - that in itself is a very valuable piece of work. Now you can point anyone in the company to that script, and they can all accomplish the task without having to figure it out for themselves. You can now scale that process N times (N = the number of people in your company). Just writing down the steps has become a force-multiplier of repeatable work. Then as you begin automating each step, people automatically receive the benefit of that automation. Because the documented steps and the automation are in the exact same place, both will always be up-to-date.
I’m suggesting it because you said that personal beliefs should be kept personal. Similar to how if someone eating steak told me steak was unhealthy, I would advise them to stop eating steak. I read what you originally wrote, assumed it was true, and pointed out a logical inconsistency.
yep, came here to say similar
They approve coca cola and candy bars, will you eat and drink nothing but them since the food regulatory says they are safe?

Meat doesn't have carbs and has more digestable protein. I am not eating more expensive heavily processed fake meat with carbs and lower quality protein.
If I close my eyes, I can see nothing. If I keep my eyes open, I can sort of barely super-impose some ghostly relief of the thing I am supposedly imagining.

My wife can see like full Technicolor motion pictures in her mind with special effects and superstar cameos.

I am jealous.

My mind is seriously black when I close my eyes.

On the plus side for me, it is super easy for me to fall asleep whenever I want, because it's just black and blank and boring when I close my eyes at bed time. :)
I have been using edge since it's release and on day 1 it was so good with all the google tracking removed or disabled. But now if you see it's like microsoft holding your computer hostage to use edge.

Few months back with each windows update it would reset my browser to edge. It would reset my search engine preference. Force me to use MS account to sync. Show some false unread notification icon so that I open to see that they now have some XYZ feature.
Show HN: WaveTheVoice – Create NFT art waves from your voice
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- ‘which’, being too Debian-specific, will not return the filespec if its file permission is too restrictive.

- ‘command -v’, also will not display binary if its file permission is too restrictive.

- ‘whereis -b’ works just fine as long as /usr/sbin has world RX file mode or other lesser matching filemods.

Still stuck on ‘whereis’
I hate software that begs.
Chrome does the EXACT SAME THING, periodically, just like Edge, and no one gives Google any crap for it. no one gives Google any grief for the things they're doing. they're just as bad, if not worse, than MS was in the 1990s, when MS was at their absolute worst.

it's amazing how blind people are.
Utilitarian arguments are a bad base for a discussion that is primarily about ethics.
If you do not have any discursive thought, I am curious how meditation is for you. Must be incredibly simple and easy.
A few years ago, I was using Windows 10 and a huge ad banner for OneDrive appeared in the file explorer. That was the final straw for me, and it's the reason I finally switched over to Linux 100% full time
Depends on, how long ago those events happened and the amount of human activity in the area.
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Send any proposals to hi@cityapper.com. Thanks.
Show HN: Notion Search Assistant Extension – Access Notion Notes from Chrome
It's common in fintech for data/ML models to go through similar overview. If you happen to disenfranchise a set of people because your model said not to lend to them, you risk legal jeopardy.

To clarify, I think it's good that this is a practice.
I don't think I ever had a single machine where I stayed with the storage it came with.

As for memory, DRAM doesn't really have a particularly long lifetime (iirc design life is something like 75k hours), and that certainly shows in servers - memory modules start to fail a lot after the four year mark. And here I don't think I ever had a machine where I didn't upgrade memory at least once.
What Is Aphantasia?
Way back in high school, I took several different tests that would have questions that would show a drawing of a folded piece of paper with a hole in it that would then ask what the pattern of dots on the unfolded page would look like. The ASVAB was one of them IIRC. At the time, I was shocked at the number of people that could not visualize this. Going through life, I then met so many people that would say they could not picture what was being described to the point I thought I just sucked at descriptions. While there may be some truth to that, I learned that aphantasia existed and it wasn't that someone was just not trying very hard.
Facebook’s Novi hooks up in Guatemala with Paxos, not Diem
No, no proprietary code was used, the port was done from the Open source Java clone Jake2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake2

We ported it by using Google Web Toolkit Java->JS compiler, and replaced OpenGL with WebGL, and all of the other bits with Web APIs (websocket, pointer-events, fullscreen-api, filesystem api, etc)

The assets (proprietary artwork, levels, etc) were not hosted on AWS, it simply downloaded the EXE file from ID servers and extracted it in the browser.
Etherpad predates google wave by like a year. I’m sure there were others.
I have a monologue in the form of an argument between different perspectives. I can envision things, but not clearly, so unclear that at first I wasn't sure if I could or not.

I also feel like I have access to a very limited range of active memory, and when I store old information it can be very hard to find. Like a slow and fragmented HDD on a new-ish computer.
I just saw that it did and yelled out with glee. Now I just gotta tie this to google translate, some earbuds, a hand control for my pocket, and software glue and confuse the HECK out of my (native Chinese speaking) partner.
Thanks. I agree the onus shouldn't be on you to figure out how to do sophisticated things, and it should basically just work without breaking your system.

However! You shouldn't be using your system package manager to install Python dependencies! As you know, since you moved to pyenv. But I don't think it's fair to blame homebrew for getting you into trouble when doing that; one also wouldn't use apt to manage python packages.

In fact if you look at this thread, many supposed problems with homebrew seem to be in fact problems with python package management. It's the same with all languages isn't it -- ruby and rbenv and gem, node and nvm and npm, rust and cargo. As soon as you start actually installing 3rd-party dependencies, you're better off using something language-specific to install the interpreter / compiler / toolchain, better than using homebrew or apt etc.
The previous thread on this, from earlier today:

Zillow seeks to sell 7k homes for $2.8B after flipping halt - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29081118 - Nov 2021 (521 comments)

It seems the current article adds significant new information, so we won't treat it as a follow-up (or dupe).
“I tried installing webex and double clicked and i saw a glass of wine configuring my home directory instead”
That's interesting about sign language. I wonder if it helps with plasticity.
It would be fine if that information stayed with you.

The fact that it is pumped around from service to service is what causes the problems.
I think they are fusing, conservatives and racism have almost always been correlated, so there is a common ground.

Having that said, nazism and republican conservatism are surprisingly different, say, nazis are anti jews, conservatives are anti mexicans. Again, there is a common ground.
The hypothetical discussion about readability is pointless.

Let's make it specific. Read https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html for readability for a language, namely C++. All the things that can be automated, automatic tools have been written for. But, for example, you can't automate "Prefer to use a struct instead of a pair or a tuple whenever the elements can have meaningful names." Because what does it mean for a name to be meaningful?
A lot of monologue, though sometimes I find the abstract part has raced ahead and finished the thought before the words have time to be thought. If I stop those words because the thought is complete, it feels weird.

Sometimes just visuals, especially when I’m trying to understand geometric problems.
> I think the same story, but where at least some of the characters are truly immortal (reasonable for far future sci-fi), would be better.

The Empire changes/storyline in the show are potentially setting up Demerzel at least to overtly be in some interesting places across the timeline. [1] They've also taken a fun path to play Lee Pace across most of the Fall, though not directly as an immortal.

[1] Plus, lots of fun debate to be had over which Robot Demerzel "really is" and/or how much in communication Demerzel is in with any/all of the rest of Asimov's most famous Robots that we know survived to (and were observing) the Foundation era.
Scott Adams offered this as “Career Advice” (http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/care...) in July of 2007:

"But if you want something extraordinary, you have two paths:

1. Become the best at one specific thing.

2. Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things.

The first strategy is difficult to the point of near impossibility. Few people will ever play in the NBA or make a platinum album. I don’t recommend anyone even try.

The second strategy is fairly easy. Everyone has at least a few areas in which they could be in the top 25% with some effort."

See also https://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2010/04/18/jack-of-all-trades/ for an exploration of how deep knowledge of multiple domains enables opportunities for knowledge brokerage.
Whimsical Raises $30M
Buy high, sell low.

This is just about bad timing. If they launched this in 2010 everyone would be talking about the genius of their amazing algorithms, personnel, AI and management.

There will be a next generation of AI Buying companies that come onto market in the next upswing cycle of real estate and everyone will talk about how amazing their AI is etc....
An interesting aspect to the story is that it looks like China forced the Navy to disclose details the accident publicly accusing the US of a cover up.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/10/29/china-accusin...

I was worried it was a collision with a Chinese vessel. Communication was poorly handled by the Navy.
Vinyl doesn't merely have holdouts, but it's actually outselling CDs, now. (Granted, all physical media remains a tiny fraction of the recorded music market.)

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/14/vinyl-records-...

I figure this is mostly the trendy bandwagon at work, but from those I know who partake in such, having a highly visible piece of cover art is another motivating factor behind its resurgence.
Which in turn requires you to have a facebook account.
Nothing is all inclusive. Nothing.
I wonder how did this really happen?
I mean, mountains don't move, at least not the the timescale of a submarine's motion:
1. Don't submarine use some form of radars to figure what's around then and where are they headed?
2. Assuming there were radars, were there no alarms or were the alarms ignored?
I actually have Borgmon readability! Peer bonus pls.
I don't know, but it's hardly as interesting as whether someone can create a full cross-platform GUI using the ecosystem. Just a year ago the support for that was next-to-nonexistent.
That. is amazing!

I cannot see anything personally without a visual reference right before closing my eyes. I can begin to use words to reason my way around the block, but even then despite seeing them so often, I cannot picture them.
Everything in FB is centered around the use case of boosting their engagement. That's pretty much the only metric they steer by.
Sometimes when I'm lost in thought a sound, a voice or a piece of music that I heard recently is almost completely reproduced in my brain, like I'm actually hearing it again. It's a subconscious act, I don't think I've ever been able to will that sensation consciously, but once it happens I can sustain it for almost a minute or two (especially music).

I have a very "strong" internal monologue, talking to myself all day. I supposed there could be a connection.

Anybody else have similar experiences?
I would never want to use it, even on Windows. I just wonder why anyone would want to use anything from MS on Linux.

It just looks like good old „ Embrace, extend, and extinguish” at work here. How did it happen that from the total evil MS is now a viable alternative for Firefox on Linux?
> But a lot of things are cheaper too. Basically anything that doesn't require human labor to assemble. TVs. Computers. Tons of stuff.

this is bullshit, it's the "why don't they eat cake" argument. the world is not going backwards, of course TVs have gotten cheaper, for millenials and boomers alike.

I don't think there is any sense of evenness in the fact that 21% of the US population holds 51% of the wealth, and a younger 21%, which naturally works harder controls 5%. What matters is not being merely able to buy 1 TV, but who can buy most of the TVs. What you 're saying is "Yeah they should be fine with breadcrumbs", and that they should tolerate this inequality until death meets the boomers. That's basically generational serfdom