skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I keep thinking is that "making X primarily for others" is intended to mean "other people are the driving influence on what kind of X you produce", in a sense that you lose your individuality by creating only what other people want.

However, I often think it's intended to mean "producing X so that other people can consume X, regardless of what results."

And I have frequently heard that it means "producing X so that other people can critique your work and tell you how to improve."

These interpretations seem to be at odds. I've had instructors in creative bootcamps tell me that the difference between the strugglers and the greats was that the greats released their work to the public, got critique on what to improve, and integrated that advice into their next work. In their minds, remaining solitary means you won't get that critique and will always lag behind someone who communicates with others to find better ideas and improve on their own.

So it really isn't as cut-and-dry as "screaming into the void is better", in terms of how I personally frame the distinction.

At an overarching level, my primary wish in life is to leave something in the world that serves as an artifact of what kind of person I was. Maybe this wish is at fault and I ought to get a better wish instead, or I'll be destroying my drive for creation at every turn. But in the present, this is how I honestly feel.

Put another way, if I were to write a thousand pages worth of novels over the course of my life, never releasing any of it, and just before I was about to kick the bucket I were to pour a bucket of gasoline on the entire pile of paper and burn it to ashes, I would probably feel the worst I'd ever felt about myself up to that point. I would have destroyed a significant product of my existence, and in a sense, destroyed a part of myself.

So maybe this way of thinking is flawed, and this clearly indicates that I am overly attached to my work, and perhaps to the idea of social acceptance as well. But this is why I cannot force myself to create if I know nobody is ever going to share a space with my work. Why would I be doing this if I was only going to keep all of it to myself?

And this doesn't even have much to do with the solitude that creating something necessitates - I am capable of weathering the darkest, loneliest storms alone, but only if I believe that there is someone at the end of the tunnel who would be able to see what came out of it all. Otherwise, the entire effort is nothing but toil with no sense of reward.
The official sources tell a very different story: http://www.fruitnet.com/eurofruit/article/181149/labour-shor...
I looked at doing this in Ukraine. Here you can buy 650m2 block of land on the outskirts (20-30minutes drive) of a 2nd tier city for about $10,000.

However, I decided its better to just buy land in the USA instead for the following reasons:

1. Unless you can speak the language, or have a family connection to the workers, local tradespeople will overcharge you by 100%. If you don't speak the language, you'll need to hire a local project manager/translator anyway.

2. The selection of materials is very limited.

3. The pace of construction and design standards are stuck in the Soviet era.

4. There is nothing to do and no one who speaks English in these towns.

5. With the amount of time and money spent on building a nice house, paying a bit more for better land in a better area/country does not represent a large % increase in total costs.

6. Usually a lack of connectivity to one or more of electricity, gas, water, internet, sewer.

7. Due to the poor fertility rate of these countries, finding an eventual buyer for your house is going to be very difficult. Housing outside the cities of these countries is going to trend towards scrap value.

8. The higher latitude and lower average temperature mean either greater need for passivhaus-style design, or higher heating expenses. (Less of an issue in Italy). For example most of Ukraine is located at the same latitude as Northern Canada.

9. There's no mortgage system if you need to borrow money.

If you live in one of these areas, its little different to living in a small town in the USA in terms of total housing cost. If you're willing to build something, you can design and build a simple ICF house, with off-grid electricity, geothermal heating, well water and septic system, and Starlink internet.

Why go through all this trouble in Europe when you can still buy cheap, decent housing like this in the Midwest USA: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5017-Madison-St-Omaha-NE-...
European governments should combine this with a European contact law for remote workers, easing up specific country residency requirements and with that pension fund management and income tax ripartitions between countries.

Right now remoting between countries is a mess, because you need to adhere to the contract law of the country of residency, and while that's good because your taxes go toward the infrastructure you actually use, it's a major limiting factor in worker mobility as not many companies have legal and financial representatives in all the countries one is free to live and work with across Europe.
No, the US is not replacing nuclear with coal. It is shutting down nuclear that is aging out, but all energy growth in the past 20 years in the US has been renewables and gas. Mostly gas. The US is drowning in cheap natural gas from fracking and because of this switch away from coal it is one of the few major western nations to actually reduce its CO2 footprint over the past couple of decades.
>being in the top 50 percentile of your class

But will you do better long term than a passive index fund?
For art, probably neither actually. Those are both photo retouching/raster manipulation programs.

Something like Krita or Clip Studio Paint is more likely for drawing.
What are some things this can be used for? From a short skim this seems like a way to make sharable, tweakable effects and patches for any OS. Stuff that historically soundflower could be use for?
Good stuff, and thanks for your comment. This part clicks with me:

> When you've got a long practice of your instrument, the difficulty is to free yourself from the reassuring but useless knowledge and habits you have that bring you to play this scale or this phrase because it's "in your fingers". The best way to reach that point is to have hundreds of ready phrases in all tones "in your fingers", and then try to forget them and listen to the music. Hopefully, you'll feel what goes where, like an unrolling, animated puzzle, or a Tetris game.
Somebody mentioned a secret store issue that affected all of their services.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29044500
Here's the first patent I filed (and wrote(!)) which was in the UK. Can I search what the examiner did on this? https://patents.google.com/patent/WO1998024208A2

The latest one I coauthored is a US patent which might easier to research: https://uspto.report/patent/app/20210034401
IMHO the requirements for that to happen would be a major slowdown in the "GPU race" where consumers consider that they have "enough" power and features, companies are not able to convince them otherwise and get pushed to commoditize and standartize the products as every product "ticks all the checkboxes", and one of those checkboxes happens to be good standards support. Alternatively, extreme fragmentation might force that, it happened decades ago when there very many video card manufacturers, but it's impossible now given the huge barriers of entry for competitive GPUs.

But while companies are able to differentiate their products feature wise (or even if they can't, but strongly believe they can), the incentives are set against it, so it's not likely to happen, the GPU vendors will push for vendor-specific aspects.
You could measure days of hospitalization too, I would suggest both vaccine and Vitamin supplements if there are no side-effects.
I'm trying to assess your experience.

Can you please let me know:

How many kids do you have? Their ages? What activities they do? Your level of participation?
I have a strict policy of not running my own database at all. Does that fit within your policy, or does it violate your policy if my database-as-a-service vendor uses a container orchestration platform?
> microkernels aren't necessarily better than hybrid, they're slower, harder to debug and process management can be complicated

I was basically on board, but how are they harder to debug? I'd think being able to run components in userspace would make debugging way easier.
Ah, makes sense! Yeah, that's nice. You can do something similar with scripting languages by piping source code into the interpreter. Super useful back in the day for doing crap on machines in an LSF cluster when the NFS was down/slow.
> We looked at installing PV on a semi-remote home and it was not feasible. The roof was only large enough for a few panels and significant tree removal would've been necessary. The cost was prohibitive.

That particular home design-- its siting, dimensions, energy usage, etc-- were just not viable in a particular energy environment. That doesn't mean that grid detached PV isn't viable-- many parties use it today-- it means it wasn't viable for that design.

A mostly insulated home wouldn't be a viable design in the arctic but they're acceptable designs in places with mild climates.

As the energy landscape changes some designs and locations that were viable in the past won't be viable anymore. There is no natural law entitlement for a given set of choices to work out. :)
I'm getting pretty fed-up of finding this word in half the headlines I read.
I wonder how long it will take for someone to pull off what Chris Crawford been trying to do, that is find games own style of telling stories.

His own attempt was to make AI that writes the story as it interacts with the player, but lastest blog entries of his suggest he is unsure if that path that took him many years (he started the attempt in 1992 I think?) was the right one.
The Views That Made Me Persona Non Grata at MIT
People aren't stupid, when they see a huge discrepancy between monetary net worth and real, practical impact , they are gonna ask themselves some questions.

Bezos who is now public enemy #1 in here already had to endure his time on the grill.

Back in the 00s he had to face the music when his company was irrelevant but he was a billionaire (paper net worth, but still a billionaire). Facts proved him right, but he stood his ground in the face of a 96% drop in Amazon stock after the dot-com bust.

Musk has to face the music right now, and rightfully so...because up to now his path to riches was basically aggressively hyping his companies and selling overpriced equity to bigger fools.

More generally one has to be suspicious when there is a big time delay between financial riches for the owners and tangible, practical quality of life improvements for the populace at large which justify said enrichment.

Looking back at American corporate history the legit companies never had to face these problems.

Bill Gates became rich and then concurrently Microsoft became ubiquitous. Same goes for Standard Oil, Westinghouse, Ford, U.S. Steel etc.

Silicon Valley produces these huge delays, and Musk is the king of stretching the delays so much that he's pocketing money for stuff that Tesla would deliver in 2063
That's very impressive, it almost feels like a legit useful hack. Why was it not fixed in zsh? Did they decide it was working as intended?
I don't have any C# projects to decompile so let me ask you, do you typically use this with projects that have source available so you are essentially attaching a debugger to their source, or are you looking at a bunch of generically named, comment-stripped decompiled functions like I described above?
D3 might be a proxy for age, as I thought older folks were to take D and Calcium to reduce the chance of osteoporosis. It might also be a proxy for overall health, as those short of D3 are probably not eating "well-balanced diets, ..." that marketeers are fond of talking about. It's also possible that it has a direct effect on the result, which would (as mentioned already) make it an excellent complement of vaccination. One reduces the chance of the ultimate problem, one reduces the chance of duration/problems. And it's cheap.
Not sure how to read your comment but basically yes, we'll have to store the energy of course and we know how to do that in many ways.

Of course we need to build things, that goes without saying, but it's not "unknown imaginary things", we know how to store energy.
As a kid aged 9 this was what my teacher recommended me to do as well. (I suck at piano, but that was a pretty good teacher). This book is useful but it is way over the top in pretending to be unique or groundbreaking, it's more a case of the author being somewhat ignorant about what common practice is, something you can't really fault him for since he didn't actually play piano. What struck me as odd was that he believed that the teacher that his daughter had was somehow unique in her approach, whereas it all seemed pretty standard and 'common sense' to me.

The end result is a book that is useful, but that could do with some serious editing by an advanced pianist or at least someone more knowledgeable about various piano teaching practices.
the future of psychedelics looks pretty high
That's MRT - magnetic resonance imaging. CT scans - computed tomography - use x-rays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CT_scan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging

The applications for both are slightly different.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154877#possible_ri...

There is a nice course on edX (the content is free), "Introduction to Biomedical Imaging", which teaches the basics of the most common imaging technologies (also adds ultra-sounds and radiology-based scans):

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-biomedical-imagin...
Given the vaccine doesn't stop symptoms or catching it is there a point to what you're saying. Taking vitamin d probably reduces symptoms across the board reducing the need for additional palliative care
I have MF645C (combined laser printer and scanner) from Cannon and it works perfectly fine (over network) from my Fedora systems without the need to install any proprietary drivers & using the auto discovery system over network.

Other printers and scanners from Cannon might work good as well.
Yeah “fork is slow” is the sort of microbenchmark that is mostly irrelevant for shell scripts: every command you run in a script is basically a fork.
Look into NOPASSWD in the sudoers manpage. You can just put the code in a script then give %wheel (or whomever) NOPASSWD access to run it. This can also be thrown in sudoers.d for ease of copying and managing config across machines.
Vulkan is not vendor-dependent. It runs on AMD, NVIDIA, Intel, and Qualcomm chipsets. It runs on a huge number of operating systems.

(Vulkan performance on the Pi 4 just got a big performance boost, btw.)

It seems the only gotcha is that Apple is being difficult and not supporting Vulkan on MacOS, but MoltenVK is "within a handful of tests" of Vulkan 1.0 conformity.
Signs of the Times (1829) [pdf]
I'm not saying "let's ignore all problems and continue to party". Rather I'm saying "well funded people have a vested interest in solving this before it becomes critical. Our energy is better spent solving problems where that isn't the case"
No. The statement is making a statement on deaths. You are implying this.
The EU demands only one booster shot if you have been previously infected which seems sane. Viral loads vary heavily amongst infected people.

For some the virus apparently had little effects. As variants remain a potential threat then, asking for one shot to ensure some baseline immunity seems reasonable.
If you take the time and effort to understand how bash wants you to think, you can learn how to right elegant scripts that are as maintainable as anything else.
> Not if such implants become state-mandated

If the state is willing and able to abuse people, they already have plenty of tools available to do so.
It's not better. It's mostly Java-style OO masturbation that hides the fact that you're using global variables and singletons everywhere.

Also a way to pretend you're unit testing everything when your code is spaghetti and includes "write to the database" intertwined with business logic instead of as a separate, composable step in a pipeline.

The amount of braindead bullshit introduced by the use of DI frameworks so that people can write insanely shitty imperative code while under the illusion they're following "best practices" is ridiculous. Most of them time they're completely reinventing language features that are already there that are provably bad ideas.

Don't get me wrong, DI has its place, but for whatever reason it's like heroin to the kind of people that like to feel clever and fall in love with complexity for its own sake.

You know how Linus hates C++ not because of C++ but because of the kind of developer that loves C++? That.
The N-wheeled cars page has also been discussed on HN before: http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/nwheelcar/nwhee... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19786560
The United States is not replacing nuclear power with coal. Coal-derived electricity has declined dramatically in the past 15 years while nuclear power has declined slightly. See this chart of US electrical generation from 1950-2020:

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...

Fossil generation peaked in 2007, as did generation from coal.

Coal plus gas generation in 2007 was 2913 TWh, composed of 2016 TWh from coal, 897 TWh from gas. In 2020 gas generation was up to 1617 TWh and coal was down to 774 TWh for a total of 2391 TWh (-522 from 2007).

Between 2007 and 2020, renewables grew from 353 TWh to 792 TWh (+439 from 2007).
Show HN: a performant SCSS-like rule expander using fuzzy parsing
> even as wind and solar continue their exponentially decreasing LCOE cost curve.

What you think is an exponential curve is actually the left side of a sigmoid.
Hasn’t this been known for over a year and a half now? This isn’t the first study on Vitamin D. Some past discussions on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24912172

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23119949

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23023703

Another comorbidity is obesity, which can also cause Vitamin D deficiency.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26924786

An interesting implication of all this is that the authoritarian measures used to manage the pandemic are effectively a subsidy. Those who are young or healthy or have a nutritionally balanced diet are taking on pains (lockdowns, mandates) to create a lower risk situation for everyone else. Personally I feel it is better for governments to provide education and strong guidance, but to ultimately favor individual choice and stay away from top down measures. With COVID, those who are young have incredibly low IFR to begin with, and they could have gone about their lives and built up antibodies naturally, which would then make it safer for everyone else anyways.
Is there any risk of Bash ever going away? It seems like it's the de facto shell. I remember considering whether or not I should learn Perl at one point. It didn't even feel like a choice with Bash. Trendy shells seem like they have no choice but to support it too.

I feel like what usually makes me reach for something beyond Bash is really a matter of wanting or needing some dependency that wasn't written in it for whatever reason. Usually this happens right at the point where the script/utility starts to turn into a library/program, so it's trivial to just transpose the control flow into whatever language is required at that point and go from there. This of course raises the type of concern you mentioned about Ruby, but at that point it's hopefully worth the trouble to address.
I've codified this method (and a couple of others) in pianojacq.com, the 'slide/easy slide/normal and slide/perfect' methods are specifically meant to automate the process of breaking up a piece in overlapping segments. At the end of a run (the end of the piece) it extends the segment length by doubling it and then loops back to the beginning until you can play the piece. It really works and the speed with which you progress through a piece is a huge improvement compared to some other ways in which you could approach the problem, but it is not without downsides, it tends to demotivate people that 'just want to play', which is fine (there are options for those people as well). Practice is fundamentally different from performance, and it would be good for all aspiring pianists to have this tattooed onto their foreheads in mirror image so that you are reminded each morning.
As a reminder, you can use the D Minder Pro app to estimate your daily vitamin D intake from sun exposure. It was free during the first year of the pandemic, right now it costs $1.99.
It's not true anyway, because of FOSS. There are also services that exist to provide a social good without a profit motive; that's why nonprofit designations exist.

That phrase has always seemed like an overly cynical take that normalizes antisocial/exploitive behavior by setting an expectation that free services should exploit the user in the first place.
> The reason nuclear is unpopular is that it is expensive. It's more expensive than coal and gas typically.

It wouldn't be if coal and gas were forced to completely capture their carbon externalities-- (e.g. recapture and storage).

Since much of the energy we get from burning coal just comes from liberating the carbon from a nice stored form in the first place, I wouldn't even assume that in a no-carbon-externality-world if coal was even an energy source at all.
Nice work on Scheme for Max!

Much less impressive, but I spent a bit of time building a simple M4L device a while back using Typescript, and put some effort into figuring out how to make TS play nice(r) with the M4L API (the JS support in Max is pretty basic).

I never got around to splitting it out into its own reusable module but it might be of interest to anyone interested in playing with scripting Ableton from Max, but not interested in learning Max’s visual programming paradigm: https://github.com/tomduncalf/livefader

Would be interested to know how Ableton’s scriptability compares to some other DAWs… I know Tracktion and Bitwig have some degree of JS support, and Reaper has its own scripting language. Personally I’d love it Ableton made the Python API etc. a bit more official but I can of course understand why they don’t.
Ask HN: Which companies are forcing engineers back to the office?
I'm considering finding a new job with a relaxed attitude to hybrid/fully remote working (long term, not just Covid-related), and a focus on delivery rather than physical presence.

My employer (large US financial firm) has taken the view that everyone needs to be present in the office now (hotdesking too), despite record productivity with everyone remote over the last 18 months. Nearly all meetings are still via Zoom with people in other global offices.

Which companies are going to be like this long-term?
This style of music making reminds me of https://www.incredibox.com

I have no idea how they make so many loops that all sounds great together.
Since make does not sanitize input or handle error, I use it only for parallelism/dependency management and offload all build to shell scripts. I've found this to be way more maintainable.
health outcomes are relative, though.

office work will not cut your working life short with something fatal or totally unable to work.