skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be careful with this. I am an atheist, and by no means am I adamantly defending Hinduism. But the translated Hindu scriptures are mostly over a hundred years old. Most such translations carry heavy biases. Quite a lot of of the time, the translation says what the translator wants it to say.

If you have a personal affinity for some of the translators at sacred-texts.com, or if you want a historical perspective of translations, sacred-texts.com might serve you fine.

But if you want translations that try to transparently convey what the original scriptures say, you'll have to look long and hard (elsewhere) for academically vetted translations by people who have expertise in the language of the original text.

I don't blame sacred-texts.com for offering these old translations. Copyright and all. But I hope they have put the appropriate disclaimers about treating old translations as authoritative.

Speaking of vetted... could someone please direct me to a good, transparent translation of Bhagavad Gita? I don't mind the translator expounding on some authenticated background information. I don't want personal commentaries.
NASA Probe Becomes First Spacecraft to Enter Sun’s Atmosphere
I'm not old enough to read mainstream news during the 80s, but learnt that there was a period of anti-Japanese fear mongering due to Japan's rising economy. It caused riots, burning of japanese products, and street violence to people who looked like Japanese.

I'm not too worried about war between nuclear powers, but I do fear for Chinese and Chinese-looking people living in the west.
Wow, you have an interesting skillset to pull that off.

Would be a nice little business if you could publish a domain or subsite blacklist that I could subscribe to and somehow plug into my kids' and my browsers to add at least a little friction to their browsing. I'm of the same mind as you, I think, in that you shouldn't allow negativity and hate into your brain or else it will take over. You are taking it to another level by promoting human advancements and nobility.

The 90's internet was special, I agree.
Landing pages, surveys, waitlists don't work anymore. Coding is a necessary part of validation. Give them something to touch and play with and they'll give you more accurate feedback. Hackathon style coding is faster too. Make disposable prototypes.

The best successes I've worked with have been

1. A keto recipe app with hardcoded recipes made in two weeks. Users told me the way I displayed it was confusing and that it needed carb counts. I did the fixes and they started throwing money at me.

2. A social media app for complaints. Turns out people wanted social media for a small area, e.g. everyone in an apartment area. It ended up being a visitor management/appointment kind of app with social media features.
I mentioned Java didn't I? Even in the pre-NIO APIs:

If you try to write a string to a FileOutputStream the way that Rust code did this is what it looks like:

byte[] byteString = "Hello World".getBytes(StandardCharsets.US_ASCII);
myStream.write(byteString, 0, byteString.length);

But if you use a FileWriter, which has a built-in buffer and wraps the OutputStream:

myWriter.write("Hello World");

For me, if the Rust example had required a length and offset, I'd immediately assume it was unbuffered. I keep clarifying: I realize it's not a rule, but I guess that's just a pattern I've seen across a lot of languages. Maybe because it somewhat matches write(2)?
I was unfairly (and unprofessionally) pressured into using fb for a group project chat at uni this year. I tried to create an account about 5 times but was completely unable. Each time I logged in or created an account, I was shown to have ‘violated community standards’ and promptly kicked off. This was on brand-spanking-new accounts. I must have really pissed someone off at fb over the years.
For sure! When I learn a langauge, I find word frequency list "100 most common verbs", "100 most common nouns", etc. You really don't need more vocabulary than that. You can find a way to commumicate anything with a relatively small vocabulary. Once you have a base vocabulary, you can start practicing grammar and actual usage, and your vocabulary will naturally skyrocket without any additional vocabulary memorization.
The worse crisis Turkey has now, the better it is for its future. The policies of a charismatic autocrat must publicly and catastrophically fail, vaccinating the country against such types and returning the county on the secular track.

In democratic countries, people can rebuild from any crisis, so any dark period is temporary. In theological autocracies darkness has no end, and future gives no hope.
Here's a video of the pre-loaded light show on the Model X: https://youtu.be/Xg_0NRi-OxE
Some good suggestions in here. Even the suggestions specific to the author's personal habits are portable to other habits.

Worth noting that this is about more than just social media. It's about distractions in general and being specific about how you fill your time.

Ironically, some of the most distracted people I've ever worked with had proudly sworn off "social media" long ago. Yet they were constantly buried in discussion forums (LessWrong, HN, Reddit, IRC) that weren't traditional Facebook/Instagram style social media sites. Whatever distinction you use doesn't really matter.

More generally, it's important to be deliberate with the notifications you allow into your life and the activities you use to fill idle time. Both iOS and Android have facilities to limit notifications during certain periods. Use them liberally.

Many apps, including social apps, work just fine with notifications disabled. I might check Instagram once a day and I can respond to any messages at that time. I'm not missing anything by using a poll instead of a push method for checking these.
There are some people that are suspicious of polling averages and models have under-performed Trump vs. the official vote totals. They think it’s a form of “suppression polling” where the opponents supporters are demoralized by a conspiracy of weak polling numbers that suppress turnout.

I believe there are simpler and more convincing explanations for polling errors that seemed consistently biased against Trump, but some people are happy to jump to far fetched conspiracy theories.
I do like the idea of variable length 'true' days as a more exact measure of the world around us but the thought terrifies me as a programmer (or even someone who needs to get practical things done). It's so much easier to reason about time in standard units even if they're wrong. Now if we were to eliminate day light savings, that would be a greatly appreciated change.
Millions of people, including me, disagree. LaTeX has allowed me to write articles, books, and other documents for decades, and I have not to worry if it will be there in 10 years or more. It is the work of genius (Knuth), and continues to be widely used.
Also note for anyone on the fence about being 1-inch larger,

the 16 inch model is the same physical size as the 15-inch models and they removed a lot of bezel. the screen has the same camera/sensor notch as an iphone does, which allows them to extend the screen farther.

full screen videos are letterboxed 99% of the time so the notch blends into. I don't play full screen games so can't tell if thats an issue. and it is in the OS top bar the other rest of the time.
Is this legal? Seems a great way to distract other drivers.
Exactly. I highly doubt raw iron or other common metals will ever make sense to import from space, but there will almost definitely be a market for materials to be used in space or manufactured in microgravity that can't be done on Earth.
>Supported Vehicles

> Model S (2021+)

> Model X (2021+)

> Model 3

> Model Y

Someone didn't get the memo from Elon that proper Teslexicographical sorting is S, 3, X, Y.
I left a script running for a decade and built a giant database of niche music
> I really do not believe China is a threat to the world.

Tibetans, Uighars, HKers and citizens of almost all the countries that share a land or sea border with China will disagree with you.

And so will all the countries, such as Lithuania, and private companies who have been forced to toe CCP line.

I can keep going on…
Oh no, never link to tickets or docs that are not version controled in the same repo. Usually code tends to outlive the tools for organisation.
Go read the sources I point to.

In the case of Franchise a computer does an interview of one voter and then calculates who the president should be.

In real life, if 538 was perfect at simulating the election there would be no need to have the election.

The point of Insider Baseball is that ‘horse-race’ coverage and coverage that pretends to give you an insider view of the campaign as the candidates and their staff see it completely avoid any real discussion of who the voters are, what they really want, what really motivates them, what alternatives they really have, etc.

538 in perfect irony applies the techniques and terminology of sports betting to politics.
Yeah YouTube premium is where I put my money where my is. Always said I would prefer if I could pay for content outright rather than be advertised to. Well, this is it.
Rocket Lab Confirms Helicopter Capture Attempt for Next Recovery Mission
If you are not going to take the steps of ceasing to use some of these things...

one of the best things you can do is disable all forms of mobile app notification from twitter, facebook, instagram apps.

do not enable anything that brings itself to your attention and requires an action like swipe-down from android top menu, look at notification, possibly click on it.

only view the content of whatever is in the app when you specifically choose to open it.

I find these days that I get much more value out of a private signal chat group that has about 50 people in it, all of whom have notifications for the group turned off and leave messages/post things asynchronously (almost exactly as you might see people using IRC for in 1998), than the big company run social media. At any given time there might be 4-5 active people in it since everyone is busy with careers, real life, and are spread out across almost all of the world's timezones.
The issues affected only a fraction of customers. Long threads on HN speculating about the causes and armchair quarterbacking have little to do with customer confidence.

All of the big cloud providers have problems, so unless there's a service with similar offerings and reach with demonstrably better reliability customer confidence is not going to matter -- people will use the least bad of the available choices.

I have multiple customers hosting on AWS, and a couple on GCP, and one on Azure. Azure by far has the most problems in my limited experience. I have servers on AWS (US East Ohio and US West Oregon) with 600+ days of uptime. None of my customers except the one on Azure have ever contacted me about an outage, in two or three years. At the same time I can read long threads like this on HN full of doom and gloom and predictions about the decline of AWS. Which customers are we talking about? I know I'm not the customer for AWS -- I don't pay for hosting.

Having moved more than a dozen companies from self-hosting and co-located hosting to AWS (or GCP, Azure if that's what they want) I can say that they are 100% happier. Relatively infrequent outages that AWS has the resources and incentive to jump all over and fix are preferable to trying to get me or some other pissed off engineer to drive in and try to figure things out.

If quality, reliability, and frequent outages drove customers away then Tesla would have withered up years ago. There are more factors in play here than what a small number of committed tech geeks (like me) think about how AWS could be doing things better.
Love pi-hole! I’m running it on a tiny ROCK Pi S[1] next to my router and haven’t had any issues whatsoever.

Always amazed at the amount of requests blocked by just the default list included with pi-hole. Although I’m a bit concerned that more and more apps/devices will start using DNS over HTTPS to get around pi-hole like solutions…

[1] https://wiki.radxa.com/RockpiS/hardware/rockpiS
Healthcare system capacity is somewhat fungible. If we reduced heart disease then there would be more resources available to deal with other conditions such as COVID-19. The majority of heart disease cases could be prevented, or at least delayed, by making better lifestyle choices.
This is pretty funny though, if I've understood this correctly. People in the West always seem to think that a properly democratic government made by the chinese people (be it those in Taiwan or those in China) would be "peaceful", but to me if I look at a map and observe the lands Taiwan claims for herself, it seems quite a lot (if they do actually claim the rights to governing the China-China too, and not just Taiwan the Island)
I an very happy with Apple doing that, but also keeping my fingers crossed for Intel. This company slept for too long, but I still think it is critical to have. And with these butkicks I hope they are going to show what they have. Of course... it will take some time. But we need competition, tsmc shouldn't have it all
I always thought the original matrix was stupid. Human batteries? Why aren't we powering our cities using domesticated farm animals? Don't they realize most power comes from the sun? The matrix was not at all an intelligent movie yet people are still analyzing it to this day.

What was good about the matrix was the revelatory structure of the plot coupled with good pacing, unique Kung Fu action (for the time), and stylized cinematography. These are all superficial things and superficial qualities are the primary components of what makes a movie good. A movie that is too deep and too intelligent usually is just bad.

But why do people think the matrix intelligent? Is it intelligent? No far from it. It's one of the stupidest premises ever, but the superficial aspects of it at the time were mind blowing and served to make people think the movie was more intelligent than it was.

The watchowskis got lucky with the matrix. All their other movies lacked the good pacing and other superficial qualities of the matrix but maintained the same level of dumbness (see Jupiter ascending)
Judgment Day: Sweden Vindicated
sorry, being 'an expert' has no bearing on the veracity of your claims. and further, claiming the nominative of 'expert' tends to negatively correlate with veracity. at best, you're an expert at the thing you study deeply, not the whole field. you perhaps may be more knowledgeable about different aspects of a given field, but that doesn't give you extraordinary powers of insight or reasoning.

the exact opposite of your appeal is what teases out the known from the unknown, by triangulating from many arguments/opinions (the more, the better) whether they be 'expert' or not (the less correlated, the better).
I'm not sure that multiplying the complexity (do future humans have non-trivial quantities of stuff that needs producing closer to a particular asteroid than planets with the same minerals in much greater quantities? Why?) is much of a counter argument to the basic intuition that it's only economically viable to mine comparatively tiny quantities of commodities in massively dispersed locations far away from human production centres if it's for some reason difficult to get it closer to home.
> This isn't a simple border dispute between separate countries. It's a governance dispute between two competing claims to a single country.

Actually it's not even theoretically a single country. The "China" officially claimed officially by the ROC is quite different than the "China" officially claimed by the PRC. The difference between the claims it at least Mongolia.

But you are correct it's not a simple border dispute. It is a complicated border dispute that has gone on a couple generations now. But it's also complicated dispute between two separate countries. It is quite clearly you who are trying to muddy the waters here.
Testedrecruits.com - I built a recruiting software in-house that has helped me hire hundreds of people. I tried to turn it into a software as a service and never got anywhere and never got anywhere.

RomyLMS.com - same thing here, I built training software that I use to run University level courses for my employees. Employees. I converted it to software as a service, and no one used it.

My lesson from both is that if you are not going to be putting full-time marketing and sales effort into a software as a service, you'll have a very hard time beating established competitors.

I think that the software as a service area now has started to become saturated as people view it as easy money. I think the true easy money right now is actually in the construction trades and manufacturing. Building skills in each of those areas will reap long-term rewards for those who do so.
How can I get banned? This sounds great!
It had daily updates until 15th?
Please tell me your Dr Pepper consumption could not be measured "cans per hour".
it works everywhere you might want to watch youtube. xbox, phone, smart tv, computer, tablet, hell probably my old gameboy DS.

guess it depends on how much youtube you consume. personally it was a no brainer.. less than an hour's worth of work a month to pay for it? now i only see ads when i get signed out of youtube.
The block storage devices are HDD, not SSD. You have to pay extra for SSD storage.
Yes. I want to create a mail server that auto-rejects e-mail with externally hosted tracking pixels and returns a Mailer-Daemon error that tells the sender to re-send without malware.

Of course with Gmail I disable automatic image loading to avoid being tracked, but I want to take a more active stance against the practice.
My favorite of Silverberg's books. The writing style grows more distant and cold as the hero involuntarily withdraws from life. Much overlooked, IMO.
That is also my reading of it, I've always liked this quote by (I think) James Burnham, The one measure the good must take form the bad.
this seems like an RCE waiting to happen
The aptly named Matrix might end up being the perfect OSS Metaverse. It will require people to actually bother to build it though. Identity is going to be key and we should accept no substitute for the federated variety. So, matrix has that and the brand. And conveniently, Facebook has nothing else than a vague idea of what they think they might need to build, which is basically Whatsapp and Instagram but with AR goggles, in their narrow minded heads. Which, is they same as saying that they have no clue whatsoever. That's good news! Whatever, it's going to be, it's not going to be theirs to own in perpetuity.

Matrix is for now one of the few actually federated things (in addition to email) that still has a chance of not failing. As such it's a good basis for people to build a Metaverse on top of. Of course it is going to require people actually showing up and doing that. Email completely destroyed it's competitors by virtue of "you can email everyone instead of just the morons that bought the exact same shit that you bought". Thirty years on, nothing has changed. Whatever it's going to be, Zuck's ffing walled garden ain't it.

Neal Stephenson has been repeatedly answering the question what he thinks about the whole Meta thing as part of his recent book tour for Termination Shock. He'd be the person that coined the whole notion of the Metaverse in Snowcrash in the early 90's.

He does not seem very impressed with this effort by Facebook and nor did Facebook bother to even talk to him about their plans. I think that is probably a tactical mistake by Facebook and it kind of outlines how desperate they are.
Speaking as a Latin American, Russia is just another banana republic with 100 million people and nukes.

> simply another form of racism.

That's just plain stupid. I fear their authoritarian and murder leader, I don't fear their people.
Can you summarize that?
What kind of mail are you sending? Are you getting anything on your abuse@ address? Are you getting any feedback on JMRP [0]? If all else fails, the mailop mailing list [1] can get you closer to someone on one of these networks to help.

>There is also no way to get their attention for this issue, as they simply don't reply to complaints about that. How to solve issues like that?

At one point, after getting one-too-many rejections for a particular recipient, I started sending the postmaster of the recipient’s service an email every time I needed to contact the recipient. That resolved the issue pretty quickly. You can always try annoying the postmaster.

[0]: https://postmaster.live.com/snds/JMRP.aspx

[1]: https://www.mailop.org/
I’m not making a values argument either way. It just seems apparent that people are tired of restrictions, and those people seem more likely to vote. The result in Virginia was shocking and should have been a wake up call to Democrats.
I agree that ideally we should also provide an option to render into HTML/markdown. But for practical reasons it's necessary to have a digital artifact that matches the printed artifact in page and line numbering.

I disagree that "The main asset of Lamport's LaTeX is its high quality formatting for printed artifacts." The main asset for the scientific community is that it lets them (relatively) easily write research papers that are dense with figures and mathematics. (And these are typically viewed online, via arXiv.)
I’m pretty sure (but have no direct evidence at hand) that most wealth is either directly inherited, or indirectly inherited as a result of being born in a privileged setting.
Is the article sponsored by Google or Microsoft? We're not in 1995 still, and I would say that it has become practically more doable for each year, given the affordable (sometimes even free) and easy access to software, hardware, and internet connectivity required to put up an e-mail server.
I understand this is a reoccurring theme throughout history that lead to most of the endemic coronaviruses today. Omicron is truly fantastic; for example look at Ontario’s case count vs ICU count. Omicron has completely decoupled those graphs.
My 2015 Model S 70D is not supported :-(
Lol all the negative replies here really drives home the “hacker” spirit in “hacker news”
From the rumor mill, Apple is building a dedicated service just for classical music.
> This is pretty funny though, if I've understood this correctly. People in the West always seem to think that a properly democratic government made by the chinese people (be it those in Taiwan or those in China) would be "peaceful", but to me if I look at a map and observe the lands Taiwan claims for herself, it seems quite a lot (if they do actually claim the rights to governing the China-China too, and not just Taiwan the Island)

Are you making the claim that Taiwan's official historical claims somehow make the current country not peaceful? How exactly? Exactly what belligerent actions has Taiwan engaged in recently?
I'm not saying that -- I'm responding to:

>_countries_ (not even territories!) that have tried to 'stand up' to the USA, you only see a trail of immiseration and coup d'état.

I think the situation demonstrates that China needs Taiwan more than the US needs Cuba.
I don't understand how you don't count meetings and context switching as part of work hours. You're helping others, making decisions, etc. It's not that what's not coding is not work.
I dont really have much to say about your political rant other than to point out the irony of some reality denying ideologist misrepresenting what people think or say being a central theme in your argument.
"Because it it comes off that’s who you’re seeing next"
I think it’s worse at Amazon, but I don’t have any hard data to support that belief.
Reposted as requested from ages, and ages ago.