skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of people are willing to pay for a lot of things, as long as it's a low-friction affair. Which payments on the intertubez are not. As an example, I recently wanted to read a newspaper article that was paywalled; so I figured I'd just pay. I ended up noping out after being presented with a form that wanted so much PII that it basically reeked of identity theft. This was Belgium's largest news site. If they'd have just given me an option to pay a one time fee of €0.50, no questions asked, no fuss, no PII, then I would have paid it in a heartbeat.

Online payments suck and need to be addressed (way beyond what Stripe is doing). But many companies are basically gaming this broken system to force people into hard-to-cancel subscriptions, or are profiteering off of outrageous transaction fees (looking at you, PayPal).
If any company takes 90% for administration, it's a scam, no if's and's or but's. That's actually a net negative impact because it gives people pause when donating to charities.
Apple Becomes First Company to Hit $3T Market Value
Make a decision based on emotion and then retroactively use math to justify that decision.
The Wizard of Oz uses a mobile phone in Tik-tok of Oz. (No relation, as far as I know, to TikTok.)

https://measuredcircle.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/the-wizard-o...
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Well, aside from emulators, you could "install" them onto your own ROM chips for use in your own Amiga, if so inclined.
I love this. One of the biggest reasons people don't frequently commit their code is fear of "polluting" their feature branch. Automatically creating and pushing to backup branches is the best of both worlds.
Not for you and me but might save hours/days of work for someone (including me-a-few-years-ago) who is lazy/forgetful about their commits.
this is nice. I`m in need of a mac os 9 iso to play old games in my powermac g4
Agree that voting blocks with influence are a big part of it. I don't think it's rational self-interest, though.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29784347
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Compounding the problem, the 2000 word essay is sometimes really useful if it's describing a technique used in the recipe (cf Stella Parks' recipe for homemade bagels on Serious Eats: https://www.seriouseats.com/homemade-bagels-recipe). But somehow only spammy blogs with plagiarized recipes, AI-generated "essays," and affiliate links for every ingredient and tool used make it into the first page of results on Google (or DDG, for that matter).

At some point, Google must have moved away from using site-level reputation in search rankings, as I almost never see recipes from reputable sources like King Arthur Baking, Serious Eats, or Food52 in the first page of results.
Perhaps. But this means that when Covid deaths dropped to ~1,700/week nationally over the summer and 25-44 year olds still had ~800 excess deaths/week, almost half the people dying of Covid-19 in the US were young and nobody was talking about it. Seems unlikely.
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This is an interesting concept. I'd think it would need some kind of system tray icon to be aware if it stops running, otherwise, it might provide a false sense of security and you could lose work because you thought you were safe but Dura actually crashed three days ago. It also probably needs some sort of automatic syncing to a remote repo, so it isn't affected by spilling your coffee on your laptop.
put it into a file, compile it, load it, run it:

/tmp % more test.lisp

(print (list :eq-or-not (eq '(a b) '(a b))))

/tmp % sbcl
This is SBCL 2.1.9, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.

SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
BSD-style licenses. See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
distribution for more information.

* (load (compile-file "test.lisp"))
; compiling file "/private/tmp/test.lisp" (written 03 JAN 2022 07:58:54 PM):
; processing (PRINT (LIST :EQ-OR-NOT ...))

; wrote /private/tmp/test.fasl
; compilation finished in 0:00:00.003

(:EQ-OR-NOT T)
T
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Small farms use absurd amounts of labor, the cost of which in the developed countries would go far beyond "economically infeasible" to "actually impossible".

The modern world is not going to go back to subsistence farming, nor should it. Agriculture does need a revolution, but not in the direction that this article wants it.

As far as what direction to take Ag, my company is working on technology that reduces herbicide usage by 70+% in the largest sector: row crops, and it's going to hit the fields in a big way very soon. Leveraging the advances in robotics and AI to treat each plant individually and efficiently as possible will revolutionize Ag. Crop inputs can be reduced, new chemistries even organic ones may be unlocked for large scale use, the changes that will be wrought when this technology reaches maturity and large-scale market penetration will change Ag fundamentally, for the better.
I’ve had this idea for about 10 years - it really pays off to wait and eventually someone will build all my ideas :)

There are many things to build on top:
- Squash history so that it doesn’t grow indefinitely.
- Be somewhat language aware to provide better commit messages
- IDE integration
I think the point here is that Elena Ceausescu wasn't a world leader. Nobody is disputing Thatcher's importance.
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thats more or less what china does
Approve construction of market rate housing, presumably.
For better or worse, western governments are well past the size at which different parts find themselves in tension with other parts. Recognizing that helps understand why they act the way they do.

It is entirely possible for one part of a government to want to promote use of strong crypto, while another part has a mission that essentially requires them to do the opposite.

Welcome to modern statecraft in representative democracy.
Along similar lines, I've adopted a hyper-frequent commit pattern in git. I do a bunch of meaningless micro-commits as I'm making progress, and then rewrite them all into one or two meanginful commits once I've reached a working state of whatever I was trying to do.

I find it's helpful for not losing work / easily backing up if as I'm going along I realize I want to change approach.

(For the micro commit I have a git command "git cam" that just commits all changes with the message "nt". Then once I'm ready to do a "real commit", I have "git wip" which rolls back all the nt commits but leaves them in checkout; then I can make one or two "real" commits.)

I wonder if dura would be even better, or if the commit frequency would end up being too fine-grained and obscure?
This is wild because I just saw an article about xyz on techcrunch. I even checked Spamhaus and they have a lower score than .com in spam. Im weary of these outdated filters than block new gtlds because they're new and automatically considered bad.
I have a (maybe dumb) question about salary: wouldn't "officially" paying myself $54k / year result in my not being able to rent or buy real estate where there are income requirements?
I think that we have to ack the not so small role of ham radio operators. I was one as a kid, and that was all my Homer and my club buddies talked about. They took the impossible and made it happen much like the folks who population this ecosystem. That includes computers as well. I switched from a iambic paddle to send morse code to a ZX 81 kit that sent and received Morse ASCII etc, flawlessly and at higher speeds than I could send even with the paddle. In everyone of these technologies, you will see the hand of ham radio operators in the background, doing the experiments, making the rigs, etc.
If reviews are just a hobby and not a way to make money, eventually you will slow down or move on, opening a hole that gets filled up by spammers.

In my experience, the best reviewers are hobbyists. The thing is, it's not reviews that are their hobby. Rather, they review the products go along with their hobby.

So, for my hobbies (espresso and aquariums), there are tons of easily accessible reviews on all kinds of aquarium gear and coffee machines, grinders, etc. On the other hand, nobody does plumbing or HVAC as a hobby (that I know of) so it's very difficult to find high quality reviews of water softeners or furnaces. It takes a very special rare sort of person who would install these things just to review them. The closest thing I could find was this video [1] on a DIY water filtration system by an RV/off the grid type hobbyist (from what I can tell).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCC4TOYYGF8
I see no reason to use this if you commit often and know how to use reflog.
Any unstaged work is getting committed in the background, so if you lose unstaged work accidentally, it will be available on that dura branch.
If it lets you sleep better at night...
My objection is not to asking questions or wanting discussion. It's the implication that because people didn't respond to his specific set of questions (which weren't unique and were echoed/responded to many other places on the same page) means there weren't good answers and that his speculative position had merit.
What is also interesting is that in my workplace that already subscribes to microsoft and google business solutions, that the video technology of choice was this company no one heard of before that instantly became the market leader in this space. Talk about dropping the ball big time from FAANMG (or however many letters its up to now) who just let their cows be walked out of the pasture.
So what's the solution, tax people in Iowa to cover rents in Los Angeles?
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The root is Latin, duro, which means hard. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/duro#Latin
* Must have support for data engineering, ML Ops, UI/UX development, and sysadmin duties as necessary. You want me to spend my time on models.

I should put this on my resume.
As long as “hire experienced X engineers” is a non-negotiable requirement, you better choose a popular value of X.

In parts of the community we do not so much think of the tools as part of the identity of the engineers. We’re looking for general intelligence/capability and train specific technologies on the job.
You're making the only and right choice. If the shelter or anyone else guilts you about it, fuck them.
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Two privacy oriented search engines with results and features better than and surpassing Google (did I mention that they’re ad free?)
And the end game is that ads pay for it. Nuke ads or downrank them and the incentive goes away, making space for enthusiast non-profit-driven websites.
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Fossil has had this feature for a long time
People cope differently. I know i gravitate towards doing more things (and used to buy more things) and i felt like "doing" was better than "not doing" but both were unhealthy sides of the same coin.

I used to joke "man, if only there was a few months where i could sit at home and finish all the things i wanted to do" and 2 years into covid being at home i haven't done any of that shit i realized my extreme desire to stay busy and occupied was no different than my partners desire to not feel like do anything - i just "coped" differently.

Once we got over that, we could realize what each other were doing and not feel like it was poisoning the relationship. My wife now gives me space and I give her space but we meet in the middle a lot more and things have gotten better.

We practice the relaionship bits with intention now and that helps too.
For anyone who finds this interesting and would like to learn more, I recommend Children of the Night by Paul Kenyon. It's a comprehensive look at Romania's strange history of totalitarian governance. I am currently working my way through it and it's fascinating stuff.

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Most of us who read HN, even in low CoL areas, make good money. But 10 or so years from now, I don't think even the money we make will keep us from feeling the pinch of the next COVID. We'll be house poor and our other bills will have gone up so much faster than even switching jobs every 2.25 years will keep up with. We'll stop having kids because even we won't be able to afford the HC for them.
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I wasn’t saying it’s a slippery slope, i was saying (and it’s evidenced in any comment section this comes up in) that anything that lends credibility to the LLH is fuel for all those more extreme viewpoints.
If there was a machine-parseable `dura status` command, a Hammerspoon menu bar icon could poll that every N seconds and make a status icon!
No evidence has been found in bats, just speculation
Don't link to his site. He clearly does not want visitors from HN.
One of the better "hot takes" was saved till the end:

>A deploy freeze means that folks are not actively trying to make progress on a dev project that needs to be deployed. Deploy freezes need to equate to either time off, or time spent on things that do not need to be deployed when complete.

The author does a bad job explaining why. If you allow deployable work to progress without deployment during a holiday code freeze, you are just shifting, sometimes magnifying risk post-code freeze. All that undeployed work during the code freezer will increase the rate of change tremendously post-code-freeze.
I just added a couple to my top comment.
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Sourced from here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29780423
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I'll recommend the videos from the 1980s and this version of the text, which is set nicely and has working footnotes.

Videos: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

Text: https://github.com/sarabander/sicp (links to epub and html versions at the top of the README)
Ya, it all really comes down to the problem you’re solving and what makes sense for the task at hand. The point I was trying to get across in my other reply to you is that sometimes the thing that makes the most sense is an SPA (even if it’s less performant, or takes a little longer to build).
I thought it was called дура (stupid) because 'git' is slang for idiot.
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DBT is what saved my kids life too
"including me-a-few-years-ago". This also applies to me, sometimes you have to learn the hard way. I would say that in this scenario addressing the root cause is better than treating the symptoms.
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