skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Meetup.com - find local meetups that are doing things over the holidays. Try something new with others.

2. Go hang out at the touristy parts of your city. Dress up, treat yourself to a meal / drink / dessert in a cool place.

3. Make a list of chores - stuff that needs cleaning, fixing, and get them all done to start the new year fresh.

4. Someone mentioned going to music venues (clubs, raves etc..) - buy yourself a pair of musician's ear plugs to protect your hearing. You can thank me in a few years.

5. Go to the gym. Go to the driving range. Go to the archery range. Since you'll (hopefully) see improvements every time you visit, you'll enjoy going back :). They're also great inexpensive ways to blow off some steam.

6. Go to a wonderful coffee shop or an amazing old bar. Take a notebook. Find a spot with a great view, order a drink, and write - reflect on the past year, and maybe make some plans for the new one :).
The scattered anecdotes are scary: brain fog that's bad enough to prevent you from doing any mechanical or intellectual labour. The initial data was also scary, but I never saw anything with a particularly convincing survey size.
Depending on the game, you can expect to burn between 5 and 11 calories per minute using the on-headset tracking, at one point I was consistently burning 1k calories per day at a healthy weight. Both hands and your head are tracked, allowing games to detect leaning or squatting out the way of attacks, as well as physically moving around the play space. Many experiences involve swinging swords or fists, which is also cardio.

The common example is Thrill of the Fight; it's a (shadow)boxing simulator. Users have reported over 3k calories burned from this in a day[0][1]. It's intense exercise, and you quickly build a heavy sweat.

TL;DR: It's much more intense than I'd imagined. Imagine playing badminton, but in a smaller area.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ThrillOfTheFight/comments/rjrcze/hi...

[1] https://vrhealth.institute/portfolio/thrill-of-the-fight/
That's exactly what the Russian troll farms fomented. They were the ones who drove what the zeitgeist was.
The exact cause doesn't really matter in this context. The point is that more than that have died compared to a normal year.
A crucial point is to ensure that you give yourself
the ability to move from your cloud providers to on prem,
and / or to a different cloud.

A bad example:
If you are with provide X and they change pricing structure
and it impacts you 3 times the cost, you can move it without
too much hassle.

Once you embrace all the proprietary and fancy features that
your cloud provider has, then you are stuck and moving
will be a nightmare.

compute/s3 are easy to move.
k8s should be easy to move but I have not tried it myself.
Database hosting is easy to change as long as you are using an
independent product, not a custom database your cloud provider has.

It is much more difficult when you have
AWS/Azure pipelines, AWS/Azure Geo location/manipulation
AWS/Azure proprietary scaling etc etc

Terraform is supposed to help here but in my experience
with TF consultants it is not at all straightforward
not compatible with a lot of AWS/Azure offerings.

Then you are stuck and moving will be difficult and expensive.
Which of course is the business plan for the cloud providers.
openat2 now has RESOLVE_BENEATH to fix that.
English is a bit notorious for "allowing" a lot of creative play with words (like that old quote of "every word can be verbed").

Another thing that affects perceived formality is that "you" in English is both singular and plural and out-of-respect You.

If you've ever done any translation between English and a foreign language, you'd notice that the appetite for such gymnastics is much less. (I think that's part of why there are so many English loanwords in other languages too, but I have no data to back it up)
I had the same experience as you. Thought I was doing something wrong and went with an expensive coated pan. Still lost its nonstick after a year. Have since changed to uncoated pans from tramontina. It took some time understanding temperatures with the pans as sticking and burning both can be avoided, but are much more apparent with these. I actually asked a salesperson to upsell me their expensive coated pans and the amount of work they laid out was basically the same as my uncoated pans, except that mine will not stop working because some proprietary magic dust isn't working anymore
Wow. That looks really lovely!
Protobuf doesn’t have a date/date time/time type which means you get dates encoded as strings and all the fun that entails.

Not saying that either is better but just sometimes you actually do want more types instead of less.
I'm the founder of DNS.xyz, we're a fairly well-known identity platform built on web3. I've been working on IPFS apps since 2016, and talked about web3 at IPFS Camp and DWeb Camp.

It's pretty important to understand that the concept of web3 has been used by people who want to be in the cool trend of the day. As a result, it's definition has become really loose.

To me, and arguably to the people who have been working on web3 all these years, web3 is the application of decentralized technology to the web. It uses concepts such as federated platforms, blockchain, content addressing, to make the web less reliant on the major web players.

It's a mix of technologies, and an ideology that seeks to change the shape of the architecture of web apps.

In that sense, crypto is not part of web3. It is similar in terms of technology and ideals, but crypto isn't specifically a web technology.
I dug a hole in the ground to act as a makeshift cellar. About 1 meter cubed, dug it with a shovel, poured gravel as a floor with a French drain sunk in it, lined the walls with breezeblock, made a lid of plywood and foam insulation board. Erected a kind of tent on top to keep the rain out.

No issues so far, two years in. It’s not terribly cool in the hottest days of summer and does require a small heater if I want to keep it above freezing through winter, but in terms of being difficult or expensive to build, not at all.
Oh man, what happened to all your other posts? So much censorship on this site. I really didn't know it is that bad.
having your own control about maintenances is a big one.

the same with being able to give your customers flexibility in terms of when maintenance happens.
this is a big deal in b2b space, especially with long running client relationships because it gives customers some form of control they never are going to get back in the public cloud unless they are insanely large customers.
I can't use noise cancelling headphones, at least on-ear and over-ear. I've never liked earbuds/IEM, so I never test them.

However, active earmuffs are amazing. I had my favorite pair finally give out, they had FM radio and an aux jack, but we're not active. It was fun to run a chipper and listen to a podcast, for instance.

For things I want hearing protection I have 4 choices now. The industry standard earplugs, which are foam that you roll and insert - Howard Leight, passive cans style muffs - generic, generic aviator style muffs with active microphones, and a fancy pair of Howard Leight active muffs.

The active ones are amazing. I can't believe I waited so long.

I live someplace so quiet now that I have to run fans or I can't sleep. The silence feels like a huge weight. When there's a widespread power outage I barely get any sleep, for example. I don't know that I could ever live near a thoroughfare ever again, for any amount of money.
I roll my window up if I'm near motorcycles. There's been too many times when my ear got blasted all of a sudden.

Worse is booming bass. Not while driving, but at home from the neighbors. Hours on end... boom... boom...
I’m not sure whether the clatter of (ironed) hooves on cobblestone combined with the carriage wheels on stone plus the grind of the axles was so much quieter. It’s just that there are so many more sources of sound around us within our daily habitat that it is hard too escape it.

Even in our relatively quiet city life (no heavy industry) people already seem adapted that they have trouble sleeping in our country side where it is relatively dark and quiet.
I find it interesting that when discussing this nobody mentions immigration much or at all. The number of green cards awarded took a huge dip in 2020 [1]. As an immigrant myself, I heard a lot about USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) slowing down considerably.

Could the effects of the pandemic on immigration, on top of the slow down in legal immigration that happened during the previous administration [2], not be a significant part of this perceived shortage in labour supply?

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/03/22/key-facts-a...
[2]: https://www.cato.org/blog/president-trump-reduced-legal-immi...
Cogeneration is a thing in colder climates in Europe, but the other way around - most cities have district heating getting the heat from power plants, incinerators, etc.
Lots of people on the outside seem to only like self determination for a population when their decisions agree.
Not anymore. It was released publicly with v0.13 less than a week ago.

https://help.obsidian.md/Live+preview+update
Please update the post URL to the direct URL

https://unixsheikh.com/articles/so-called-modern-web-develop...
Instead of your [1] might I recommend https://stop.lying.cloud/ instead?
There are things society allows you to do in private, but not in public.
Huawei launches Aito crossover (EV)
I find it surprising that no one in the comments has mentioned that at least in the US, immigration, documented and undocumented is down. Especially documented. For all the negative comments from some circles about immigration, it doesn’t surprise me that it would contribute, at least in part, to a labor shortage.
tell me one thing that you did yesterday that does not fit into aforementioned goals.
I wanted to integrate your project in another open source project that I was contemplating of working on. However, the licensing bit made me think twice about that. While I could see that under the terms of GPL I could easily remove the code that checks for the license, and that the code was not hidden or obfuscated in any way, but at the same time it just felt against the spirit of the project to do so for anything other than purely personal use. Hence I am evaluating other projects for my use case.

I think this approach of dual licensing is well suited when the intent is to let people audit source code freely for evaluation or personal use purposes, but then pay up when they wish to use it in their public/commercial projects.
> Mind maps are a great visualization tool. Use them smartly

I’m curious about this, since my experience with mind maps is that they rapidly grow into giant overly-connected graphs that are very difficult to translate to the sort of linear structure a book or blog post needs. What is OP’s workflow for connecting the two?
The modding community also has xvasynth, which is an app you can download. It has some voices from popular games. If you don’t want Another Web Service (tm)
The tire sounds are way less at low speeds. Where the sound matters for safety is where people are and around corners and situational changes. These moments tend to be where speed is Low and varying. As well of the type of sound. If you hear a revving engine come towards your direction you pay it attention.

This is why it is useful for cars to make sounds. It also is the reason why that sound is so annoying. It is a constant trigger for our brains to react.
How can I learn to work with clients well?
I am currently job hunting to begin a second career as a software developer (I currently work in the care industry but studied computer science at university years ago and have coded on the side since). I am confident in my technical ability but not at all with my ability to deal directly with clients, and some of the jobs I am applying for involve this.

What resources are out there to improve my knowledge of working with clients well and effectively? Books, podcasts, videos, anything would be great!
I’m a moron.
A $2 circulation pump and an outdoor radiator...

It's good practice to snake a water pipe around every lithium cell anyway in big packs, because otherwise one bad cell can self-heat to the point of catching fire, even while other nearby cells are cold. The flowing water means the bad cell can't get to the point of fire.
Highly valuable tips & tricks, all of them encouraging, which is rare. Usually authors start with 'Don't write a book' or 'Think twice before start writing a book'.

I've also started writing a technical book and I find it challenging in the same pleasant way.

Writing is much much harder than programming because you can't test prose and you don't have a programming language. But the deliverables are the same: something which runs flawlessly on a processor.

Writing a book is much harder than writing articles because a book has to stay interesting for hours, while an article for just a couple of minutes.

Getting a writing mindset is far harder than getting a programming mindset: I can write code any day, any time but sometimes I can't write a paragraph a day.
>the same predatory tactics

>trend chase

>getting cash by any means necessary

>Market hard

I think you have a distorted view of the commercial software world. Of course you can find some bad apples but the majority just isn't like that.
Small nitpick. "Late" in this context refers to the fact that she died shortly after Richard sent the letter (definition 2a in [1]) as opposed to a wife he married "late" in his life.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/late
Yeah, I am extremely PCMR biased. I’m aware.

I do not mind focus on casual users, in fact I used to shove VR in any context I could. But the moment Facebook announced their current plan, I stopped advocating VR entirely.

I don’t suggest possible VR integrations anymore, I don’t go into VR development, I don’t bring up VR compatibility when speccing a PC, I don’t mention use cases in VR for every tangential technologies, I mostly behave as VR was a 3DTV.

Who’s still talking about Quest 2 anyway? Q1 sold like hotcakes in Japan, coincidentally where I am from, and Oculus/Facebook was proud of it that they said extra stocks are assigned for Japanese market when Q2 launched - I don’t see them. And that launch happened after the announcement to shut down Oculus accounts and services.

I think Q2 will and needs to be extinguished even if it will risk jeopardizing VR as a whole, and that will be possible by PCMRing, and I am sure that is what is happening.
Who doesn't know anyone who subsided off social benefits well before the pandemics?
Utterly flawed logic. Even the premise isn’t true. Pricing varies by country. It’s €14,95 in the euro zone (didn’t check it thoroughly), $14,95 in the USA (currently about €13,18).

Chances are the difference in news sources has to do with licensing deals. You’ll also see different music, books, etc, depending on country.
You now, I think it's broader than that. It's not western it's giant companies. Even.i' France there's a tiny feeling that as a nation we don't do much for our own. GAFAM organize a lot, China tech sector does the rest.

It seems that we're on a sociological plateau.
This is a really reassuring resource for those times when it feels like the walls are closing in.

I will say though after living in the middle of the desert for the better part of a decade the silence (more mental / social than literal) did start to make me crazy. Not like manic or anxious crazy but more out of sync with the world of the living and the bearing on time. It was tempting but luckily I needed to find more stable work.

Oddly now that I'm back in a dense urban area its quieter in a lot of ways too in terms of barking dogs and generally loud neighbors. Much denser but different etiquette maybe. Its an interesting phenomena that Ive observed pretty consistently.

That said the comments here seem to be more centered on wilderness silence not urban vs rural silence. But it got me thinking.
Ask HN: Recommendations for meditation course/exercise with proven benefits?
Are there folks here who take meditation seriously? Do you recommend any specific meditation course/exercise? Preferably something that has proven benefits?

There are many meditation courses available online but all of them make claims about their techniques, the efficacy of which we cannot verify independently from other sources. They could as well be placebo! I am looking for reliable courses/exercises that are proven to have positive benefits.

The positive benefits could be include any positive benefit (ranging from something like better clarity of thinking to something like better digestion). I am keeping the definition of "positive benefit" open to interpretation so that we can get a variety of responses under this thread.
Agreed. It depends what you’re optimising for: $ per kWp or sq M per kWp.

Most people off grid have plenty of space but care about efficiency in terms of cost.
It’s really fast - nice job! Can you elaborate on the ranking algorithm you are using? It seems that this will become more important as you index more pages.
pl. oculi?
Go generate if I'm understanding you correctly?
never thought about that, do the oil come out looking new?
Making an electric car with them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQa5gn-7D74

He also has setups with used laptop batteries.
I found something similar with Mark Zuckerberg's one as well (impressive apart from that) - https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:y47qqrr4kv7b07qncj5cyrdaxe...
I ran in the same issue. And I've created Coco - a Content-as-Code framework to split large graphs / mind maps into small, understandable chunks.

You can take a look at how Coco works here: http://metamn.io/react/on-design-systems-3/ (All figures except the first were made with Coco)
Yes! I feel this is the main point that is totally missed. The first time I read Tim Hartford years ago he was talking about this idea uncritically and I thought it was stupid then and I don't have much respect for him.

The thing we are trying to optimise is not length of que, but how long and how reliable it is to get served.

Under the old system you may have had to wait 10 minutes to get served BUT you knew before you started queuing it would be about 10 minutes (and thus could make an informed choice) and you can clearly see your progress in the queue and if you are patient you will be served.

Under the new system it now may take you 1 minute to get served or 1 hour. Or you will try multiple times and never get served. And you will have no indication before you start queing how successful you will be.

Any UX designer would easily tell you which of these systems is going to piss people off more.
I have always wanted to hear Ayn Rand call for workers to throw off the shackles of bourgeois capitalism. And now I can. Thank you, Internet!
You're can do trolley buses with batteries as well, which charge while passing through central parts of their lines with overhead power, and discharge during the rest of their journey.
And it is one of my most favorite.

Contrast with the horror stories which show up here every now and then about Google, how a random post on YouTube leads to being locked out of email and the cloud hosting used to power your side-gig (or full time gig).

Why should my on-line shopping account be linked to the work I do for client #1? Or client #2? or to (one of) my hobby and remote back-up solutions?

One account for each use-category. Clear and clean firewalls.
their "app store" is quite possibly the worst most frustrating experience I've ever had.

SOME apps you can buy as gifts, others you can't and there seems to be little rhyme or reason to it. the search engine is completely useless not showing anything anywhere near what you are looking for.
The interface requires a shit ton of scrolling before anything useful shows up on the screen... It made me want to send the two i bought for my kids back.
I get odd looks, but for large parts of the day at the office I wear 3M hearing protectors like this:

https://www.3m.co.uk/3M/en_GB/p/d/b00037383/

I just like _quiet_ and there are so many things around that make noise.
True, but they still don’t have as much influence on local government as much as more affluent residents. The prime example would be Palo Alto. It’s the NIMBY capital of the world. Even Stanford University has trouble with development on land that they own.
> or just write a hook in your text editor

Ah, the Dropbox comment springs to mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
I read this at least once a year https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ba...

And honourable mention for being so entertaining https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Stories/sr-71-blac...
People will die either way.
> I've never seen a better alternative for macOS

I'm quite enjoying Nix as a *nix + mac package manages. Plus using direnv really makes things a breeze. Although Nix has a __very__ steep learning curve... I still recommend it greatly!
One abiding memory I have is visiting a desert in the Middle East. Sitting on top of a hill, looking over the flat landscape, there was no evidence of human habitation as far as the eye could see. More remarkable was the complete silence…, no wind, no sound of birds… nothing at all. The overwhelming impression was that I was in the middle of a huge stage. Sublime.
>Supporting GPL software, on the other hand, can be very viable.

Yes but who here wants to work in support?
Indeed. So easy to forget that house holes have only been called “windows” since the term became popular in the 90s.
This is a nice resource.

I am building an off grid / backup solar install for a house in rural Romania. I want it to be off grid capable, but also be able to use the grid when available.

One thing I am curious about: do the all in one systems like Growatt or MPT also provide voltage stabilization? The grid here has really bad voltage stability.

Sometimes the voltage drops down to 180V (should be 220V in Europe). Some devices like LED lightbulbs and washing machines don't like this at all.

So if these devices provide voltage stabilization, that would be great. I would then buy one and a few batteries, and later add the PV panels. It is going to be about 12kW of roof integrated PV.
James Webb Space Telescope Launches on Journey to See the Dawn of Starlight
TeXmavs getting a lot of love recently. My favourite feature is the way you generate maths symbols. -> makes an arrow. Hit tab a few times to cycle through different arrow styles. So intuitive. I wish Lyx had this feature. But as a dedicated hater of TeX maybe I should give TM another try.
I live in Kenya, so yes. And my girlfriend was a coffee picker before she moved to the city
When I'm frustrated I'm not exactly clear in my writing.

You need to be able to do both options before having an opinion on which is appropriate in which case. I am suprised to have to state this. But in my experience people argue one option a lot without being to deliver the other.

People who know bare metal are rare these days from the total of available infrastructure engineers (call them sysadmins, devops, etc). I guess this justifies companies looking at cloud a little bit. But if you really search you can find engineers sub 100k per year being able to deliver 100k per month savings compared to AWS.

There are also engineers who stayed away from cloud and can't deliver that option. A lot more rare though. The same level of wrong if they argue against cloud from ignorance.

The right choice for serious infrastructures is always both these days. Have the bulk on premise for steady loads and 95% of features, expand to public clouds for dynamic scaling and features you don't want do do yourself, at least yet. This combination offers good costs, flexibility, covers possible future needs, etc
When media speaks about a good or bad 'economy' it means is capital being returned at near record rates, not can most people afford a subsistence existence without soul crushing levels of anxiety from fear of accidentally becoming destitute