skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can find quite a few pieces from that era gently poking fun at home PCs and the available software and utility. This is a really funny one from the New Yorker: https://howtosavetheworld.ca/2005/04/29/man-bytes-dog-by-jam...

There's a book which I could probably find if I were at home that had a piece going into the limitations of spreadsheets, accounting software, etc. that was also hilarious.
It’s only controversial if you know it’s the top 3rd of a centerfold photo. It would just be slightly creepy otherwise.

To be fair, there are better test images to use and it’s never really been appropriate to use a playboy centerfold image, however cropped it may be, for these purposes. There’s no technical reason this image is better than other test images.

Ignoring any modern 4th wave feminist argument, it was already crass, rude, and unprofessional.
And it wasn't.
Global AIV with Zoonotic Potential situation update
So, I do enjoy microdosing - it can be anything, even caffeine but it seems to help alot.

I also do immersion, where I'm currently at, it supports both languages with people to chat with that helps especially. If I didn't have this, it would be much harder.

It does get mixed mash, and it is mental exhaustion but that's why I find it works.

Much like the gym, when you workout to failure, it helps build faster.

The microdosing helps tons, my focus is unbroken, I don't use cell phones besides changing the default language, which is fantastic.
Learning how to blacksmith. Found a nice 200# anvil at an auction, built a forge and ribbon burner for it, and am about to fire it up tomorrow.
America Has Lost the Plot on COVID
In a lot of counties, the building codes mandate a certain amount of carpet coverage in units that have downstairs neighbors. Where I live upstairs units frequently can only have hard flooring in the bathroom, entryway and kitchen.

And its amazing what an annual steam clean can do for keeping the carpet maintained.
The traffic thing is night and day different from india. Go look up youtube videos of crazy india car traffic. It seems like nobody follows any rules of traffic there - if there's room to fit their car they just go.

The rudest american driver is friendly and accommodating by comparison.
Some of us aren't as enthusiastic about the idea of giving these amoral companies access to our children, regardless of how polished the product is or how many times I reread the article. I hope I am qualified to dislike this service.
More generically - https://www.google.com/search?q=asdf+site%3Awww.nbcnews.com

Pick your favourite news site

https://www.foxnews.com/story/a-decade-of-oscar-winners

Or Etaoin shrdlu

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/category/newspapers?keyword=...

Or Lipsum

https://www.google.com/search?q=Lorem++site%3Awww.independen...

The power of search. Information has always been there and for free. Search is what has changed things.
u-root – many Linux tools in a single Golang binary, initramfs, and bootloader
It depends on the Nordic language you choose, but here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm5ZRcHmexo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_under_Qing_rule

"Taiwan under Qing rule refers to the rule of the Qing dynasty over Formosa (coastal areas of modern-day Taiwan[1]) from 1683 to 1895."
This is not correct, it shouldn't be "sel" but "sil".
4 types of milk sounds quaint considering the number of nut milks available. There's got to be at least 15 types of milk now at my discount grocery.

Besides the aforementioned cow milk products, we have soy milk, almond milk, oat milk, coconut milk, all variously flavored and of different fat levels.

Kind of absurd in alot of ways.
I'm on vacation from my dayjob this week, so I have a lot of time to catch up on side interests for the next couple of days.

Right now I'm mostly still just deep-diving into various bits of "stuff" related to AI. I just finished reading a The SOAR Cognitive Architecture by John Laird, and Engineering General Intelligence Part 2 by Ben Goertzel, as well as Words and Rules by Stephen Pinker. Also spent some time building and installing all of OpenCog, and installing SOAR. The goal is to start messing around with both, and start actually implementing some simple agents.

I'm also now reading Foundations of Computational Linguistics: Human-Computer Communication in Natural Language by Roland Hausser, and have a book on Cognitive Modeling queued up.

And I need to find some time to get back to working with Apache River (the OSS version of what Sun used to call JINI).

If I'm feeling inspired one day soon, I might finally finish wrapping up the software for my "convection oven to reflow oven" conversion project. The hardware parts have all been done for months, and even most of the code is written, but I sort of mentally stalled out on that and just haven't bothered to push everything across the finish line. Really need to wrap that all up.
> There’s no kiraana stores (i.e. small local stores) that >>sell grains and rice and vegetables here, it seems. (Or >>small stationery shops, or shops of any kind.) Almost all >>shopping has to be done at a big chain retail store like >>Lidl or Megamart or Target or any of the other big-names.

>>There are, just not in big coastal cities.

As another commenter mentioned here, these types of store are actually very common in NYC.
Very interesting read, and it's refreshing to read some contrary opinions on the topic.
Valgrind works OK on macOS, right?
Open source is always looking for more people to work on it.
I'm designing a full back and shoulders tattoo for myself. About one/tenth of it is completed on my back so-far. Leafing through art history texts, old-maps, and going through museums in my free time.

I'm also getting very conformable on my motorcycle in the twisties; I'd like to try a track-day soon.

I'm still trying to find friends post-pandemic (moved to the bay area during the pandemic).

Besides that, I'm taking a break from tech besides my day job for a bit.
Happy birthday! Man am I jealous, I think I’ll have to grind away all my best years at faang or worse.

I also love Russian lit, so so checkout Oblomov and Tolstoy shorter novels like the Death of Ivan Ilyich. I think you’d really like the japanese book Musashi as well (or the incredible Vagabond manga adapted after it)
I did !
Plus, a lot of these ideas about some opinion "causing harm" or "silence is violence" and all of that are imported from the US. Even though it's not enacted in US law, the ideological roots are firmly there.

Politics is the US' worst export product, whether it's the unhinged right and their nonsense or the unhinged left and their nonsense. I wish fewer people would pay attention to it.
I'm starting a tech meetup in my small town. I moved from a city last year and with remote work I really miss sitting with other devs and chatting about tech, asking questions, and offering advice.

I'd like to encourage participation beyond just powerpoint talks so I'm looking at the Lean Coffee framework, where folks write down topics and we go through them as a group one by one. Anyone else have suggestions for a meetup format less formal than PowerPoint talks but more structured than just a social chat?
Have lived in Argentina for a few years now and I am still not used to having dinner so late, it's dinner at 6 pm or nothing for me.
I used this pattern more often than not before typescript but now it is harder to argue that point in typescript, although I do prefer it still. Swift is readable in that it has named parameters that can be in any order similar to a javascript object but even more compact.
You're used to getting up and knowing there is still poop there. When you wash with water, it cleans it all off far better than smearing it around with paper. Use your hand and some soap if it makes you feel better. I assume you do that in the shower anyway, otherwise, ewww...

The towel is cleaner than your skid-marked underwear, toss it into the laundry if you think it is still dirty. Heck use old underwear as rags...

I hope you wash your hands before you leave the bathroom. Double ewwww...

There is even a whole wikipedia about the topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_hygiene
Japanese company releases hoverbike
When the drive doesn’t show up in the bios.
It was not bought by Google. It was developed by a Google employee while at Google as part of the 20% time on a side project.
The car tells you "please keep your hands on the wheel". It then proceeds to nag you if you don't put enough torque on the wheel, and then brings the car to a halt in the middle of the road.

Please don't propagate myths about "Tesla doesn't make it clear that you have to be in control of the vehicle."

My AP has many times disengaged because despite paying attention to the driving I wasn't putting enough torque on the wheel to convince AP that actually had my hands on the wheel.
>I’ve been shorting a few bitcoin-related public companies on the theory that in a run on Tether they will have to liquidate large bitcoin holdings

I doubt a run on tether would even cause a 50% drop in BTC price. Hope your account doesn't blow up when Bitcoin inevitably reaches 1 million per coin ;)
What were the events leading up to getting such a big equity pay out?

What # employee were you?

Was it options/RSUs?

What % of the company do you have?

How long did you work there?

I ask because I am at a series B, and I'm very optimistic for our future. But I am only employee #100 or so and don't see a big payout for me barring a multi billion dollar exit (a little too far fetched). I'm just curious how it all goes down for those lucky employees.
Venice Italy had an even more visionary way of dealing with urban flooding. The more you think about it, the more brilliant the concept was. The basis of a global brand that has not just survived but strengthened over the centuries. But who would sign off on such an idea today?
I've been working on a HTTP based pub sub service that's free and open source for funsies. It's written in Go. [0] you can use it like this:

$ curl -d "Backup failed" ntfy.sh/mytopic

I also made an Android app for it which let's you receive messages on subscribed topics as notifications. It was a ton of fun building. I can't believe how much I liked learning Kotlin. The app is also open source and is pending review in the Play Store. If anyone would like to be a tester shoot me a message [1]

[0] https://ntfy.sh and https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy

[1] https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy-android
If your interest in moving to your parent's home country is not brand new and therefore it's more than something you're just beginning to consider, jump on a plane "tomorrow" and start reading Russian lit and spending hours on Reddit there. This assumes you haven't spent a ton of time there in the past because if you haven't then you will find immediate meaning living there. And if you decide to do one of those other things, or you just feel like it wasn't the right move, you can immediately fly back! No risk. Don't wait. Please. Just book a ticket now.
Alright, things that are not work:

- I finally decided to buy a VR headset (Valve Index), and have been absolutely thrilled with it. I am very into Beatsaber currently, and I was also very happy to find out that this all works on linux pretty well, so I don't even need a Windows desktop (in fact, all four VR games I have tried so far worked out of the box with Steam proton, thanks Valve!). It's also helping a lot with exercise habits, and I'm burning an average of ~450 calories a day from it currently and have nothing but good things to say about it (mods and custom songs also work on Linux too!).

- I've been spending more time casually working on improving my diet and researching longevity drugs and other supplements. The best summary of some of the (mostly boring, but a few exciting) things that I take I wrote up on https://nearcyan.com/supplements. Having quantified metrics for my own health really increases my motivation to improve things, and there's nothing better you can enjoy than improving your own health.

- I've also been into cooking a bit more (seems like there's a bit of a theme to these points hmm). It was interesting when I realized that not only could I learn to (often trivially!) replicate any of my favorite dishes from almost any restaurant, but I could also easily improve them with respect to my own tastes, and sometimes my own health (for example, replacing sugar with allulose, which is wonderful if you haven't heard of it - tastes very similar, almost zero calories, and doesn't increase (or even decreases!) blood sugar.

This thread feels pretty laid back, I enjoy reading what people here choose to do with their own leisure time, especially when their motive isn't profit (which although is nice, it's almost too common of a theme on HN sometimes).
Just doing paternity leave before I quit to new job. Reading some system design, but is hard to find time. Just waiting for stocks to vest before I switch to the new job, so no real coding I have done in the past 3 weeks
I personally like to find parallels between trades and crafts to help connect my thoughts and experiences to the more abstract world of software. I started my life in carpentry and joinery so it seems to be where my mind finds it’s foundations when thinking in systems and patterns.
Super frustrated by the state of videos for kids on youtube, especially in the arts and crafts department, i decided to launch a channel and start creating my own content. Basically, all videos start half decent but for some reason end in a big noisy mess, weird sounds, spoiling food, questionable product placements, zero creativity and always incentivize more watching and trapping viewers in the infinite ‘next video’ loop.

Instead, one of the goals for my videos will be to take a step back and inspire to create, zero commercial interest, not too much distractions and something parents can trust.

Still in the process of figuring out all the parameters, camera, editing, setup etc but its a lot of fun learning new skills. I have a million ideas for the content already so enough work to be done. If there is little to no ‘success’ in terms of viewers, i really don’t care since i enjoy all aspects of it and im building a nice catalog of creative videos to watch with my kid later. I have no public videos yet (coming very soon) but here are two samples of what to expect:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_3e0tawk45E

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mBZStuxOUlc
This is like arguing that the Beanie Baby market will never die. It's precisely the belief that the bubble will be eternal that helps inflate the bubble.

For those unfamiliar, Beanie Babies were a collectible toy that had a multi-year fad in the 1990s, with 5-dollar toys trading for thousands: https://www.ft.com/content/1563d643-332f-3887-8c6e-caf7435f3...

It's true that the Beanie Baby market never totally went away. And I'm sure that some die-hards will keep Bitcoin going for decades after it ceases to be practically relevant. But however much the bubble incentives keep major players aligned during the bubble, that doesn't mean the prices will stay up forever.
Not just not insured - presumably that rate is compensating you for actual credit risk.
The issue is not getting rid of public universities.

The issue is huge partisanship which has distorted academia from their mission.
Supersonic was killed by the dual shock of the oil crisis and the regulations banning sonic booms from overland flights. Which, to be fair, were pretty terrible, or at least were horribly managed from a PR point of view. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tests

Concorde was really in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with not enough of a big market. It didn't fly far enough for it to make a big enough dent in travel times, and it turns out passengers don't mind six vs three hours on a transatlantic hop if they get to spend it sleeping in a redeye in a cushy lie flat seat. If it had been capable of making the transpacific hop, I suspect it would have had a successor even with the sonic boom problem.
Fun article, but one thing to note is that taking a single sample at a grad school in Washington, D.C. won't give you a reliable model about the entire country. I don't think that's true anywhere in the world, especially not in a big, diverse country like the U.S.
You could consider angel investing too.

Edit: and travel the world. Maybe travel the world and angel invest ... startups outside the US would appreciate it!
Easy: bypassing financial censorship. Hint: try buying a 4chan pass without cryptocurrency.
Oh man, you can replace "India" with "Greece" here and I wouldn't bat an eye. I was surprised at how all these differences are the same for us as well.
Within the realm of possibility that the TSMC facility in Phoenix is just a late empire blunder.
COVID is a great example of how humanity adapts to danger. You lived through a global lockdown and the invention of an entirely new vaccination technology over the course of 8 months. Now you still feel the need to cling to the notion that we need to worry about a possible 1 degree change in climate 100 years from now? Let me guess, you probably watched 7 American cities burn to the ground and still believe Americans have no need for guns. Some people simply can not integrate new information.
> rich enough to never work again

Congrats... but be careful. Some young people underestimate the amount of money needed to "never work again". If you're not working then you don't have group health insurance. You're in the individual market, which often has crappy insurance providers. If you have a serious health issue, and get into a dispute with the insurance provider, your illness can cost millions. If you have > $10 mils you're probably safe though, assuming you invest wisely.
It might be rare in English but it is very common in other languages.
But many coins seem to move in concert (just based on casual observation). Additionally diversifying in traditional equities has the benefit of being exposed to multiple industries - lets say farms and chip manufacturers - that don't depend on the same commodities as inputs and don't sell products into the same markets. Crypto doesn't have this property - besides requiring an input of energy, they're not involved in any kind of production at all. So what does diversifying even mean for that kind of asset? In a recession, why would there be any reason to think that ETH would behave differently than BTC?
Also what % do you have out of interest? I'm outside the US so I feel my % is less than you'd get at US startups that generally compensate better. Obviously % isn't everything but it's a metric to track.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28792735
Random observation: in the “Sidebar Text Layout” section, the author points out the form field is slightly higher but what’s more noticeable to me is the spacing around the inbox icon compared to the desktop icon.
I agree 100%. But we don't really care about security and reliability. The political system is both corrupt and poorly incentivized. It doesn't reward robustness, but saving money on paper while really, truly, funneling money to cronies[1].

[1] Corruption doesn't look like mobster movies. It's mostly backyard barbecues, buddies helping their buddies' business grow by throwing them a bone. At so many different scales.
Happy B-Day!

Looking for external sources of happiness is likely a losing battle. Keep your eyes open and you will likely see somewhere to be useful/maybe even create something that both helps others and makes something for yourself to get to the yachts stage. In the mean time, try working on relationships around you and maybe volunteer/give back with something more valuable than money - yours skills and experience. Good luck!!!
the crappy manager posting blamed everything on the leaving employee calling him not thoughtful, unimportant and uncommited and attributed the lack of exit interview to the coroprate super power of remote sensing. Laser vision so sharp there is no need to ask anything.

These are all great indicators that one should leave asap. The value you produce doesnt rub off on your value as an employee.
"It would be absurd to let a foreign power control critical telecom infrastructure"

Have you thought through the consequences of what you are advocating? If EU starts removing US equipment, or Brazil or India?

US is not seen as a 'trusted ally' outside of English-speaking nations, certainly India, etc.
TMK, (fineable) jaywalking generally isn't a thing in Europe, only in USA (due to car manufacturing industry's meddling and lobbying, of course, making the cars first class citizens). One EU country's example: it's perfectly legal to cross any street/road if there is no marked pedestrian crossing within circa 50 meters, with usual common sense requirement of demonstrating one's intention of doing so to the oncoming traffic. Drivers are obligated by law to stop/slow down, and let them pass.
Nobody in the US that is under the age of about 40-45 has personal experience of a time when the US was not "Number One". Consequently they think the US being "Number One" is a forever thing. It isn't a forever thing. Some of us who are old enough can remember the shock to the Nation's psyche when the Soviets launched the first satellite, and then again when the Soviets launched the first man in orbit.

The cycle has turned. The US is not all-powerful any more, and the sooner the leaders of the country acknowledge that, the less likely it is that the US will be sent down in flames.

But, being so self-deluded, the US will take on an adversary that has not only 4 times the number of military-age men but also has a far greater manufacturing capacity.

The outcome will mirror what happened when the all-conquering Wehrmacht took on a Soviet Union that was twice its size in population and had far greater manufacturing capacity.
> USD has been the default option for the world, and enforced through violence when people attempt to create their own networks of trade.

Hah! Of course, who can forget how US paratroopers abruptly ended the attempted creation of the Euro shortly before its intended launch in 1999. Or the way the US Seventh Fleet blockaded China's commercial ports starting in 2002, preventing their rise as a commercial power. We can only wonder what a world with multilateral economic power might look like.
Do you perchance like to teach? Maybe lectures like traditional classes, but there's a huge need for mentors to young folks with interest in technical fields, particularly in underdeveloped countries (in many such cases merely talking to them in English is already a lot of help!)

I know I'd like to do that, but I've always liked teaching so maybe it's not fitting to everyone.

E.g. I volunteer at a local (Brazilian) nonprofit org as part of my employers' give-back programs and I love it. I try to get (underpriviledged) kids interested in computer science concepts by discussing how they are applied in games. It is all remote (which adds a level of challenge)

I'd believe many such orgs exist. In fact, writing this it occurs to me that putting together a curated list could be a worthwhile effort.
Outside of the day job, trying to scrape together some projects that scratch whatever itch I have at the moment.

I'm trying to learn kanji and it was a fun exercise to learn how to render svg in unity so I made a free iOS and Android app:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kanji-book/id1532844605

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bmalicoat....

More recently during the pandemic, I wanted a simple way to stay connected to friends and family so I made an async multiplayer word game, Downwordly. I was super psyched when Apple made it game of the day a few months back! Still have to learn how to market it in non-scummy ways :)

https://www.downwordly.com/

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/downwordly/id1544633266#?platf...

Coming to Android very soon!
Building a VR-based 3D modeling software - https://me.cmdr2.org/freebird3d

Having fun delving into 3D algorithms that I've always wanted to learn, but felt too intimidated by all these years (still do).