skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, let's all stay home all the time and hoard money. Experiencing life isn't worth it and the only thing that matters is dying at age 97 with an extra $3 million in our bank accounts.
Overconfident Midwesterners have to learn the hard way about hills and Cascade concrete.
I didn't say every bus.

I didn't mention trams.

I wasn't making a general case that's applicable to every city.

I was talking about specifically about SF, which has relatively uncongested roads, bus lanes that are mostly empty, and where the busiest bus stops receive buses no more than ~10 times per hour.
Conspiracy theorists will have a field day with this one.
Pretty easily? Just have a secret/private court.
No, boredom should very much NOT be avoided, it is essential, even for grown ups.

Constant stimulation is a net negative.
Because thats the standard that should apply to bitcoin and crypto

But instead no proportions are mentioned in a crypto fraud, just large dollar values paraded as if its unique

It is intended to distort perception and its silly
HoMM3 was soo interesting to me when I first saw it, I thought it was like chess (dumbed down) and a boardgame. The mythology was also like a reference to me. I played it for so many hours when I was a teenager.
I played HoMM4 and HoMM5 also. HoMM4 felt like an incomplete game but very nice to play.
HoMM4 has an amazing soundtrack, I occasionally still play it while working.

I think recently there was an imitation of the game on mobile, and we all know how bad that would probably be given the horrible game mechanics of mobile gaming (ads, play to win, waiting to build)
The farmers can use pretty much as much as they want from the aquifers and they pay that $70 for 325 thousand gallons of water.
That's how individual water conservation pales in comparison to a farmer paying for $20 more in water. Or a new chip fab plant that uses millions of gallons of water per day.
That would be specifically a SoCal (southern California) linguistic register. Many Californians would simply refer to I-5 (U.S. Interstate Highway 5)
Does GM fix Corvettes that have had LS swaps? Does Ford fix Mustangs with third-party crate engines?

This was a privately-imported US-spec Tesla with a non-OEM battery, being driven in a country in which almost all vehicles have special cold-weather packages. That is especially important on lithium batteries.
Wikipedia is a Brave Verified Publisher, can receive donations as BAT (2019)
It's for a specific kind of worker -- the neoliberal individual, the "entrepreneur of the self" who cultivates their personal value like a capital investment because they are human capital. "Building diverse personal experiences" is a nice euphemism for this. Although you are not doing what others want you to do, it's a freedom conditioned by the market. Being anti-memetic is already priced in.

Not all of the tips, like "be nice" and "forgive people" accord to this logic, but as a general through-line: Burgis is relentlessly focused on "the way great companies are built" (#23), worships the great innovators Henry Ford and Steve Jobs (#18), demands that everything has a purpose (#17, #13), in service of what he deems most important, "the calling" or personal vocation (#1).

We might read this through the lens of 20th century German sociologist Max Weber, who traces the spirit of capitalism to the Protestant ethic [1]. As a very short summary, it's an ethic defined by the very same vocational calling [Beruf], where labor acquires a religious significance and produces values that then become secularized. From my copy of his book:

> One of the constitutive components of the modern capitalist spirit, and, moreover, generally of modern civilization, was the rational organization of life on the basis of the idea of the calling. It was born out of the spirit of Christian asceticism [...] The Puritan wanted to be a person with a vocational calling; we must be.

Whether or not you believe the historiography, the function of the vocational calling is to produce a subject who works and disciplines themself automatically.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber#The_Protestant_Ethic...
I thought the whole idea of a parent was that you publicly describe your invention, and in return you get an exclusive right to manufacture it. If you don't want to publish, just keep the info as a trade secret. How does a secret patent work? A person wouldn't be able to tell if they're infringing on such a patent.
Talk about nostalgia is seductively dangerous mate. Bit like those Perma pods on the Inception movie. May end up stuck there for ever (not a bad proposition at times though)!!
I worked to blow up a toilet for Dave Barry’s edification[0] a little while ago[1]. While it was fun, we were picking up porcelain for years after. Do not recommend.

0: https://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/2008/04/we-have-ne...

1: https://youtu.be/yMQO8SuWDzk
I'm sorry but this looks like an ad-hoc black or white thinking.
Language design is made of tradeoffs e.g between features and complexity.
However contrary to popular opinion, I'd say that Kotlin actually has almost all Scala features and notably has important features that Scala does not (such as coroutines, reified generics, compile time safe tail recursive, etc)

The most unique Scala feature seems to be implicits. While I'm not convinced by their usefulness, the feature will be available in Kotlin in a few months:
https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/issues/259
I'd even argue it is more useful in Kotlin since the language is state of the art regarding it's ability toward making DSLs.

The major features that Scala 3 has that Kotlin does not that I can identify are:
1) Pattern matching ->
Kotlin is almost there, it has destructuring, a when control structure, and can express ADTs via sealed classes/interfaces.
The limitations are: name based destructuring is not implemented.
No destructuring in when blocks.
However since java will be getting extensive pattern matching support in jdk 19/20
I expect Kotlin to catch up there and I recognize pattern matching can be a very useful feature.

2) union types and intersection types.
While those are useful in a structurally typed language such as typescript, I don't see much usefulness for them in Kotlin. You can express union types via sealed classes somehow. The compiler plugin arrow meta brings union type support but I haven't tested it yet. As for intersection types it is on the roadmap.
The main usefulness of union types I can see are the union of exceptions in catch blocks, that BTW Java supports, surprisingly.

3) higher kinded types
I don't see much usefulness in higher kinder types
What else could their use be beyond abstracting over collections? Every Kotlin collection implement the interface Collection<T> which enable this use case.
Again, higher kinded types are supported by the arrow-meta compiler plugin.

To me the very few pain points of Kotlin have nothing to do with functional features but are:
1)
Inability to deflare a function parameter as mutable.
Inability to declare for loop element as mutable.
Which in fact are because of IMHO religious functional toxic beliefs about immutability everywhere.
2) no package private modifier (although java 9 modules are supported and they are working on the issue)
For docker and mail, also check out "mailcow dockerized". Lovely stack of software, been using it for 5 years with no problems.
Waking up Sam Harris audio book
> if I had any private data hosted by the author, I would be worried now.

Merry Christmas to you as well.

Such negativity for just showing something I knocked up in half an hour. - something that I thought might be helpful, with experiences on how to make it more Gmail like.

Attacking the writing is fine, but insinuating my custody of private data is at question is pretty shitty
My fav ship to play is the Mantis ship that has a quad teleporter built in. It's stupid good.

Teleportation is OP because when you kill everything on the ship, the scrap recovered is significantly higher than if you blew it up. Allows you to progress much faster.

Another undervalued tech is hacking. With the right timing it's the best upgrade in the game.

FTL is crazy hard, bit there are some general strategies that you can play to regularly beat the game. I'm not saying you'll win more than you lose, but it's totally doable to unlock all ships and all modes.
My point is that I’m primed to believe FUD due to past behavior.
> You can be flipping through 10+ servers each with 10k+ users in it, hopping back and forth between real time voice chat, video chat/streaming, and chat with huge images/gifs in it.

It will do it even without lots of users or voice or video.

And you're not really going to have more than five images on screen at once.

> they will store the full uncompressed version of that resource and display it in the chat

So don't do that.
i don't want to pry, but if you don't mind, what kind of negative consequences are you experiencing?

i too experience negative consequences, but these are owed to finding it difficult to make friends. however, i do not believe that this difficulty comes from doing what is suggested in the article but rather the reverse, the difficulty to make friends is something i grew up with, any behavioral quirks developed later as a consequence of not having friends.

so in other words, the negative things you experience maybe don't come from being yourself but because you may be missing something else, something that may have had a hand in shaping who you are now.
Thanks, that's something I never heard about.
FYI, there are already microphones with PCM, I2S, or even complete SoundWire protocol support.
Being given advice that you don't want to hear doesn't mean that the doctors own you.
Another one is here: https://blog.cr.yp.to/20201206-msword.html
Perhaps it's just my imagination then (or I noticed it once and now the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is causing me to see it everywhere).
They were probably going by the Repology stats, which use a cross-distro notion of 'projects' rather than individual packages, which is why their figure was given as excluding subports

https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/nonunique
I think the problem is not so much that they won't fix it, which is reasonable, but that they don't give you any alternatives.
This is something that really grinds my gears with the movie "Baby Driver".

Edgar Wright went to incredible trouble to set the film in Atlanta. It features Atlanta landmarks, culture, food, and dialect. It feels quintessentially Atlantan.

Despite that effort, they're constantly referring to highways and interstates with the definite article. "The 75", "the 85", "The Buford Highway". We don't do that here, and it sounds a bit like nails on a chalkboard.

It's hard to fault the film for this trivial issue, but it is amusing.
I second this.

Gmail spam filtering is top notch. I just stopped to care to obfuscate or hide my email adress (which I use since the beta invitation program of gmail) and I can count the spam I actually read in a year with one hand.
Sure, but that's a thought-terminating argument.
We lived in NW1, W1H and SW1 for fifteen years and it was totally doable with two earners even starting on a perm salary of 35K, and as the income increased we stayed, but within three years of kids arriving, it was clear that we needed to make a choice. Stay with a two-bedroom in Zone 1 - and pollution etc - or jet to Zone 4 and triple our space.

Five years later I think it's more feasible to stay in Zone 1 or 2 with kids as the air becomes cleaner and you should have saved up enough to find a bigger place. A friend travels from Zone 1 to 4 every on the train for the school run, so it's perfectly doable given flexible working.
>You could make more as a developer; you could make more as a lawyer, but you're a develawyer (or a lawyeroper) and a non-linearity should apply.

Haha, thanks.

I'll keep those Avodocs and Rebase in mind to apply to.

Are you suggesting I apply to consultancies in general that build sophisticated/specialized software for companies they can't build in-house properly if they tried, and work in whatever capacity, and build some tech to solve some problems re: the legal aspects of the work?
Many pro-green or geeks love Tesla yet don't realize it is overpriced and has huge delayed negative externalities like worn batteries and non-repairable. We already have better alternatives than Tesla for decades...called "Toyota". Cheaper to buy and maintain. Quality is superb. If I want to test drive Tesla, now we know where to rent it.
As other HN-ers have mentioned this is a really good article over all, just wanted to add something extra related to this part:

> Not all who wander are lost. And sometimes, I like to drive with absolutely no destination at all.

more exactly a link to la Dérive [1]:

> The dérive is a revolutionary strategy originally put forward in the "Theory of the Dérive" (1956) by Guy Debord, (...) It is an unplanned journey through a landscape, usually urban, in which participants drop their everyday relations and "let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9rive
> Inflation punishes good behavior of people who save money and create cushions for the pissible bad days

If everyone did that, then there wouldn't be enough currency in circulation to actually do work. This is known as the paradox of thrift. There is a nice version of it with baby sitting coupons:

http://www.pkarchive.org/theory/baby.html

TL;DR people can panic buy money the same way they can panic buy toilet paper, except money is absolutely essential for commercial employment and thereby cripples the economy through a depression.

>It robs people of their savings.

Well, you cannot save in money as money has no inherent value. The best you can do is let people promise value in the future which is exactly how our money system works. Think about it this way, you have money, the other person has 40 hours of free time this week. You save your money and the week is over, the other person was unemployed and couldn't do anything since you didn't spend your money. Ultimately that debt shouldn't exist and therefore the savings shouldn't exist either. The problem is that humans age but money does not. Thus, money allows you to isolate yourself from the "storage costs" of e.g. human labor and in a general sense it allows you to isolate yourself from losses in the economy.

Isn't that strange? Insisting that those losses should never reach you is quite selfish and would give you a lot of power over those who don't own money. I hope you see where this is going. People save, not because it is virtuous or good behavior, it's simply profitable to not be the one in debt and therefore being able to shove the problem onto someone else. E.g. see Germany shifting debt to Greece and pretending to be the good guy.

Now, imagine if we solved the inflation problem. 0% inflation every single year. The storage costs problem wouldn't be gone. The system would have to actively pass on storage costs and losses in the real economy to those holding money e.g. through negative interest rates. When people actively realize that their short term deposits are not profitable, they will either work less as they already have enough and let someone else work, or they save their money as long term deposits which have higher yields or finally they directly invest their money.

All three options are better than pretending that there is something where there is nothing.

The problem with deflation is that holding onto money becomes more profitable, which actively sabotages the medium of exchange function of money and directly competes with commercial employment. People can't trade and actually working by e.g. building cars doesn't bring in as much money. One could argue that deflation is the epitome of an anti work culture.
Compare this to Honda. I bring my car to the dealership for a repair and they see non-OEM parts on there. Surprise! They still repair it! It's amazing!
While I agree with what you say, the reason I find the current situation completely wrong is that I remember it used to be very different. I remember the times when people were fixing their own cars. Granted, certain aspects became complex and should probably be fixed by authorized service for the sake of safety of passengers, but you have to admit things went way too far.
Is there a path to disprove the potential for interference here? This seems like an nearly impossible “prove a negative” task that likely becomes so common people ignore it as noise which seems counterproductive.

Side note: NOTAM is a notice to pilots [1] the article doesn’t expand on.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOTAM
I had a recent side project, a pdf generator of sorts that I made to solve my own problem.

I decided to try selling it, even though I was 100% confident that no one would buy it. During the first couple of days I’d also overpriced it, because I didn’t want anyone to buy it before I’d had the chance to fix a couple of bugs.

To my surprise (and frankly, shock) people were buying it. I was sure that requests for refunds would start rolling in immediately due to the aforementioned bugs, but they didn’t. I eventually lowered the price and even made it free, because the money was immaterial to me and I’d already learned my lesson from this project. (I also felt guilty for not setting up the infrastructure to ship updated versions to buyers, so I took solace in the fact they could get them for free on their own.)

I might go back to it, but the product is seasonal and doesn’t create recurring revenue so I’ll more likely be focusing on other things.

I’ve never had a project that hasn’t generated at least some excitement in the relevant community, so I might just have a knack for these things. Too bad I only just realized I could’ve been making some money from it!
You can easily search around that the Gmail limit for personal users is 50MiB, recently enlarged from 25 MiB. As the other poster says, even between Gmail accounts I still have trouble sending files larger than 30MiB.
Ask HN: Is the proliferation of Linux distros harming the Linux ecosystem?
I've used Windows, macOS, and GNU-Linux. Now I use Windows on desktop, but I have this temptation to try Linux again, mainly out of curiosity. But there are tens if not hundreds of Linux "flavors", and a lot of them have so much in common (e.g., Ubuntu is based on Debian), and yet, there are major differences among them, such as how they provide updates (e.g., rolling release) or the hardware that they target.

In a sense, one can't call all of them _one_ OS, whereas you would call all versions of Windows basically one OS that has been consistently updated throughout the years.

I wonder if so many Linux distros is actually Linux's Achilles' heel. IMO, it'd be better if these sparse efforts would get focused on _one_ solid, no-frets, no-hassle, Linux OS that ordinary people could trust to be stable and reliable for years to come.
Part of working smart rather than working hard is seeing the salary signals the market is sending and responding to them strategically. This is worth more than mastering a skill that is saturated with competition relative to demand.

It took me a long time to accept this as I was wedded to the idea that hard work and skill alone should be well compensated. But that hard work and skill needs to be pointed in a good direction in the first place.
What is the cost of a new model 3 battery then?

I'm finding that it's still upwards of $10,000.
Have you thought about learning some low code tools that could get you into a position of deploying a web app quicker, albeit placing some limitations on what you can achieve? The limitations you encounter may be acceptable to you considering your goals and this way you’ll have something to show for your effort in much less time.
Sonic the Hedgehog: Commodore C64 vs. Sega Master System
no weight to paper specified. onion & poster board aren't cutting edge material.

Certainly 3d printed thimbles/finger protectors not needed for aforementionied paper materials. 3d printed ceramic ginsu knife(s) bit more on page with a chance of getting a DMCA notice though.

diy eink doesn't quite allow the pen to roll. No need for Xerox contracts, but the internet connectivity might cost just as much. Although, something like https://newatlas.com/wearables/team-hart-vibrating-sleeve-la... means able to get a better feel for the meeting conversation in addition to things being immediately presentable whe make it back to desk.

Social norms not withstanding, eyeclass displays means being able to processing things on the way back to the desk.

Desk time now "free time. Although if carrying a the new desktop, aka electronic phone, guess that would be more appropriately taged as free time while the desk is charging.
> Speak the truth in accord with your conscience no matter what the cost.

My conscience keeps saying that vaccines are a depopulation scheme. Now what?

I say, don't be just another member of a set of people who follow bullshit articles on how to be anti-mimetic.
Well maybe don't take legal advice from a graffiti artist? shrug
There should be a similar isitraininginla.com

From the sounds of it Portland is to snow as L.A. is to rain. Any sign of the slightest of moisture in the air and Angelenos lose their shit and drive like dummies.
I think you're both right.

Theres ways to experience life that doesn't mean consumerism hell hole that doesn't actually satisfy anything.

It could mean saving up for things to do DIY with, it could mean taking classes, it could mean starting your book collection, or just it could mean meaningful conversations with people.

The idea of you have to spend copious amounts of cash to enjoy life is one rooted in capitalism and consumerism, and generally leads to depression and lack of any substantive impact on one's life.

For me I saved up for 3D printers, read over 100 books, made new virtual friends and had deep conversations with them, and explored my sexuality safely with others. Most of which didn't really cost me a ton of money.
JCPCB is not a PCB shop. They get the order, and then run to an actual PCB shop of their choosing.
> If I only use analogies I can essentially never accomplish the latter.

I disagree. You can easily liken CRISPR to a new innovative tool, like an auto service pit. That innovation lets you make changes and fixes to your car much more easily and more quickly than you could with the tools that came before it, but it obviously won't let you turn your Ford Pinto into an F1 racer, or get your Tesla to fly.

Of course, I agree all analogies have their limits, but I think you can almost always come up with an analogy that stays within the limits you're trying to describe so people don't get too fanciful an idea.