skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use the default Samsung Music app. It integrates nicely with Edge Panels on Samsung phones.
If I could only remember them all!

If you ask me at different times I'll give different answers, but some are just on top:

War of the Worlds, Lord of the Rings, The Mote in God's Eye, Replay, Earth Abides, 20000 Leagues Under The Sea, 2001, Nothing Like It In The World, Reach For The Sky, Winnie The Pooh, The Last of the Mohicans, The Hunt for Red October, With the Old Breed, Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman, Moby Dick, Shogun, Romeo and Juliet

I envy anyone reading these for the first time!
I grew up in Stockholm and it too sadly is very, very car centric compared to Tokyo. Amsterdam, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Paris and others are much better... I wish all cities everywhere was more like them! (and Tokyo)
It has extensibility by having `'{' blargh '}'` be "don't parse the content between the braces". That isn't meaningfully different from just using strings/CDATA in json/xml.

The `blargh` between braces also can't contain closing braces - so they're not even fully generic.

Also, personal pet peeve - it should have a way to specify floating point values in binary, as there are many floating point values with textual representations that are massive and/or don't have numeric representation (nan, infinity, signaling variants)
> Core gameplay: is being hurt by players only chasing it in hoping to make money

That's just your opinion, man. I've heard from more Diablo players than just you that they dearly miss it. But I guess if all the value of your game is extracted to the team running the servers and zero of it to players is what you find compelling, feel free to fritter away on centralized grinding for truly and practically worthless pixels.

Clearly those items weren't meaningless outside Diablo when they sold for real money. How thick can you be? You think its that impossible to decentralize a market? You think it hasn't already been done?
It's a racial epithet used mostly in Australia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog
Looks very close to JavaScript.

I think JavaScript literal object notation might be a great choice
for representing data. Then those who program in JS would have everything needed already?
Pay isn't that bad provided your expectations are reasonable. For reference I'm making more here than I could expect to make in NZ/AU/UK but nothing close to what's on offer in SV.
And then some jerk comes along and writes ꙮ one time, in one document, in the whole of human history, just for the lulz, and the next thing you know we're saying hello to a new log4j.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiocular_O
If you need memorizable IPs, pick something like "2001:db8:2d4f:1::2", which isn't that much longer than the v4 equivalent of "203.0.113.45"+"192.168.1.2". In fact, it's five characters shorter.

Increasing the address space by a factor of 2^96 while still reasonably allowing addresses shorter than the v4 equivalent seems like a pretty good balance to strike, especially when the vast majority of users use DNS or other automatic discovery and thus won't ever interact with them anyway.
It is really sad though that at a college party, i.e. a party of people pursuing higher education, it's hard to find people interested in discussing intellectual matters. Probably unimaginable 100 years ago (although I wasn't there and can't say for sure.
The travel is standby for flight attendants, so they don't go if flight is full. Though sometimes they take a folding seat.

A few years ago it was $10,000 a year to get added as pilot's family member for that travel perk. I don't know how that may have changed over the past couple years.

I did not understand why the carriers allowed that.
Why wouldn’t the regulations apply to crypto?
Is integration with some Google Services App required or do those models also run on de-googled Android distributions?
A lot of the foreigners living in Tokyo misinterpret tiny bits of nothing as hostility and racism

I'm a big guy, sometimes people make space for me on the train or whatever. It isn't racism. I'm a scary and weird looking guy too by local standards, it isn't racism when people gawk a little sometimes. People talk to me like a kid after I completely botch some basic phrase

The only racist thing that ever happened to me in years living there was this: I went to a bar with my white friend, and they said "No American" and made an x sign at us. I asked in Japanese "sorry, what was that you said?" and suddenly they welcomed us in.. I guess they just didn't want rowdy dudes who can't speak the language. Definitely not acceptable behavior from them, but not too bad IMO. I get way worse treatment in the USA for being Hispanic than I ever do for being a foreigner in Japan

The expat community in Tokyo is kinda obnoxious. There are a lot of lazy, burned out guys who complain about everything
Well it wasn’t dr house doing it, it was one of his patients. Some super smart guy just constantly drunk all of the time to handle living with his normal wife.
This is complete non-sequitur to what I've said.

ADHD is an awful mental illness that attaching this warped definition to helps absolutely no one with. And I say that as someone who struggled for years to understand what my diagnosis actually meant because of this kind of vapid bullshit I seen pedaled on social media.

It's not just about misdiagnosing themselves, it's about people who have ADHD ending up with deep seated fundamental misunderstandings of their disorder is due to the constant bombardment of misinformation.

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Also a pill mill has nothing to do with capitalism. If you're going to use words learn what they mean first.

The idea of a pill mill is physicians will jump to giving you the pills with minimal establishment of history.

It's trying to undermine the controls around the medication in such a way that it practically becomes a (pay-us-to-access-it) candy jar

You're using a service that is literally selling itself as a way to get pills for a specific disorder with the absolute least amount of friction, that's barely a step removed from pill mill.

They're even putting mini-quizes up for people to know if there's a good chance they'll get their diagnosis. Since you don't see a psychiatrist before "passing", you're literally being implicitly "coached" on how to get diagnosed.

Most (good) psychiatrists will take multiple visits with someone who has never been diagnosed before diagnosing let alone giving you pills for it, meanwhile these people are advertising how in 20 minutes you can be getting access to pills...

There's even stories of them turning away people who might have more issues than just ADHD, that's how laser focused their "treatment" is. If you were being given the same level of psychiatric treatment as a normal psychiatrist it'd be absurd to be told "I won't treat you because you have depression", for example.
That is indeed a killer feature.

One file that displays universally on all browsers or image-viewers while still also being the file that you can easily edit. I've also noticed it doesn't make the file that much bigger. (1-10KiB with some of my larger drawings)
> Most backwards classes never had the wealth to sit on a plane, let alone study in the US.

For others here, backward classes here is apparently a term for demographic groups that are given discriminatory preferences in Indian law, for example reserved quotas at universities or minimum promotion quotas for different groups. But I also read in articles that came up, that the majority of Brahmins live in poverty, and that various forms of reservation (discriminatory preferences) can actually set aside a super majority of seats in various institutions for other groups. That sounds like an incredibly biased system and anti-meritocratic. It also doesn’t sound to me like forward classes have wealth to ‘sit on a plane’ either.
Yeah I heard of this, I think I'd be ok with it as this kind of thing would likely happen in China or other asian countries as well. Thanks for the tips.

I think this is largely the case for asian countries where the people are more homogeneous. You get much less of this in countries or cities that are much more ethnically and culturally diverse.
Years ago I discovered a workflow, that worked out pretty good so far:

1.) Store your whole existing MP3s to another place (external HDD) and put it AWAY (remove it from your harddrive)

2.) Get familiar with beets[1] and its configuration

3.) Think of 1 to 10 "albums" you like to listen to at the moment

4.) Copy these from your external HDD or if you down't own it get the CD and rip it with EAC[5], then import them into the fresh beets library

5.) Everytime you want to hear a track or a song, that does not exist in your beets library, repeat step 4 (this might sound like much work and pain, but it will pay off later, trust me)

6.) If you would like to have self hosted "cloud access" to you music, use navidrome [2] or alternatives supporting subsonic protocols together with according apps (I use substreamer[3])

7.) If you would like to go offline, get an iPod classic 160GB with an iflash quad[4] or a good old iPod Nano 7th Gen (if you need bluetooth)

Notes:

- IMPORTANT: Do not import music, you do not want to listen to, this keeps the library small

- Import full albums, not single tracks - much better support for metadata, most albums are found on musicbrainz.org

- If you have an album, that is not on musicbrainz.org, create an account and add it there instead of tagging it manually (the community rulez!)

- Try to find "Best Of" albums of your favorite bands to prevent importing to many albums for 1 single track

- Use beets[1] to convert your audio files into 192kbps mp3s for compatibility reasons, but keep the original CDs or use FLAC to store them to your external drive - you might as well use a "better" codec that is supported by all your devices

Result: A small (but everytime growing), well organized, self syncing, non restricted music library that can be listened to mobile, but also supporting Podcasts and audio books... Fits well in my pocket ;)

[1] https://beets.io/

[2] https://www.navidrome.org/

[3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ghenry22.s... (android),

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/substreamer/id1012991665 (ios)

[4] https://www.iflash.xyz/store/iflash-quad/

[5] https://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
To me it revolves around the introvert vs extrovert stuff. With myself as the model, it's not that I don't enjoy speaking to people, it's that I don't enjoy small talk. Give me a heady subject that is interesting and I will jump in with both feet. Rehashing the weather drains me.
It seems like just yesterday he became President of China but it's been almost 9 years!
Aren't popups not supposed to be blocked if it's in direct response to a use action, ie clicking a button? Or has that changed? I feel like Firefox has blocked popups I expected to work.
> Not to be depressing, but you could speak fluent Japanese and you will always be "my foreign friend" or "our foreign coworker" or "the white guy with really good Japanese" to, by and large, even your closest friends.

I know what you mean, but I wanted to say that this is true essentially in all parts of the world, with the notable exception of some parts of North America.

I think you refer to the subtle changes of behavior that come with the "you're our foreign coworker" that are specific to a lot of Asian cultures and are highly unpleasant, sometimes even racist.

That, however, is also present in China, Thailand, South Korea, Vietnam, etc.

Interestingly, in my limited experience, the Philippines is an amazingly open and hearty country without this "insider vs outsider" mentality.
> Physical health and brain health and mental health are deeply interconnected.

The Romans used to say: "Mens sana in corpore sano" (healthy mind in a healthy body).

I believe it to be true too.
It also means "cannot; must not; not allowed "
Yeah, I'm in SV. Not FAANG but still.
> APIs are the easy part of graphics programming. Now perhaps I say that out of bias, as I focus on shaders and artist work pipelines. The author focuses on APIs and thus reached for a simpler API as a teaching on ramp, while I would new learners run the other way and learn the basics of blender.

Is there some sort of taxonomy of graphics programming that lays out these different areas of work? Are they recognized or common specializations or is each practitioner’s situation unique and circumstantial?
> it's impossible for whatsapp to leak your actual messages because they're on device encrypted

Have you seen the source code to claim there are no backdoors? Wait, you haven't because it's a proprietary piece of crap produced by the worst corp in existence - Facebook aka Meta. The same entity that's shamelessly involved into Putin's Russia level political censorship and yet we are to trust it according to the parent comment. Right...
I want to upvote this just to keep it out of gray (since I do think it adds to the conversation), but this being grayed out is just hilarious on a meta level.
I’ve really been enjoying this series and others from the same author. Most blogs I subscribe to are tech related and this is one of few that are not. I’ve been on a bit of a war movie/doco binge lately and these articles have slotted in nicely.

Are there any other blogs similar to this one in content that people are enjoying?
See In Re: Clearview AI, Inc., Consumer Privacy Litigation (1:21-cv-00135)
That’s going to take a while to process for me. Have tried to be an active user since 2014 and whenever I have something of value, it’s already been expressed better by someone else.
On top of that, it’s very easy to get stuck in expat community. It’s damn comfy. And it takes a lot of effort to break through.

I spent 6 months in Japan a while ago. Working with other gaijins, hanging out with gaijins… My best contact with locals were at gaijin bars. They could speak some English, I could talk to locals.

Was it bad? Definitely no. Could I make extra effort to talk to locals more? Yes. But since my goal in life isn’t to cosplay a Japanese…
> but the dislike of parties.

Parties are also a little over-hyped, even a social construct, I would say (writing it down it actually sounds tautological).

On my country's local sub-reddit someone was asking people older than him how did they spend New Year's Eve parties in the past, which reminded me of the New Year's Days I used to spend with my grandparents in the countryside, in a village close to the Carpathians. There were no New Year's Eve parties in that village, or in the villages surrounding it, for that matter, young, unmarried, people would usually congregate on Saturday's evenings for a "village party" so that the boys would find girls to marry and that was pretty much it, once you were married and especially once you had kids of course that parties were not a thing anymore for you (why would have gone there? you were already married).

A little on the conspiracy-oriented side I would say that modern parties have been presented to us as the way we now know them ("you have to be there! you have to be seen as a likeable person! you have to talk and make conversation! you have to small almost at all times!") out of consumerist reasons, I would even that most of this whole "modern socialising thing" is backed-up by consumerist reasons.
Zig's New Relationship with LLVM (2020)
This is a relevant subject for the next likely big wars - Ukraine vs Russia and Taiwan vs China.
Living in Tokyo is amazing, but working for a Japanese company as a dev is probably not a great career move if you're relatively young. Software Engineering in Japan is many years behind the rest of the world, the pay is relatively low, and it isn't considered as desirable of a career as it is in other countries. It would be much better if you could find an international or remote company that allows you to live in Japan. Then you can get the best of both worlds. If you don't speak Japanese you probably wouldn't be able to get a job at a Japanese company anyway.

> However certain things like culture the language, and making new friends has held me back

I think it's really hard to generalize because it's different from person to person. However, I think it's a very different experience if you speak Japanese. Roughly 95%+ (if not more) of the population in Tokyo does not speak English more than a few words. You can certainly get everything done in English, make contracts, find housing, find friends, there is a big enough community, but your social life will be extremely limited if you don't speak Japanese.
Note that Amsterdam made a conscious flip on this, as did other Dutch cities. Take your 4 lane street, turn one lane in a tram lane, one lane into grass + trees, reduce the width on the other two lanes and add a bike lane with a heightened divider. Bam you've got a street for a more livable city center.
I feel like this is a chicken and egg problem.

In many western cities - and I won't name names - the downtown area is not pleasant due to anti-social behaviour. So even when they do make it walkable, I don't want to walk there, I'd rather drive to a suburban mall and reduce my chances of an altercation.

Until that's fixed it's a non-starter.
They'll fraudulently open accounts for you too, so it all balances out.
The Dunning Kruger effect study found that there is a strong correlation between confidence and skill, it just isn't perfect and it is much more wrong for low skill than high skill.
"I distinguish four types. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers.

Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties.

Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions.

One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage."

- Kurt Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord
> nobody ever uses any of that stuff they got quizzed on

I’ve seen many threads on HN debating this, and I wonder if this actually matters. Isn’t the point of a good interview process to separate good candidates from bad with a few false positives and false negatives as possible? My understanding is that the “basics” are an effective filter for people who can build fundamental levels of understanding and therefore adapt to different challenges easily.
Well that's just not true at all
Type Checking a Ruby Gem with Sorbet
Lived in Paris for years but wanted to go to my native Normandy 90 minutes away by car often, with friends (so train is uneconomical, and whatever): I love car free cities just as much as I love cars, but I feel they always miss the massive parking space at the periphery. Those have to be free one day, and truly understood and desired, so we can sort of mix the intra city metro/bike, the intra regional car, and maybe the rest by train (but again, train multiply cost for a group when car divides it so hard to choose).

Now I live in Hong Kong, bought a 1998 Porsche 911 that guzzled gas and spat good smoke, that cost me so much in eco tax and gas tax (the same thing, really) for so little use I gave up and am car-free now :D

Cant wait for massive electric cars adoption where the discussion will move away from how we murder the world for fleeting amusement, and back to transport convenience and pleasure to drive. But Im sure we ll find problems with Lithium mining or whatever.
> compounding interest

You are lucky if you can take advantage of compounding interest. A dollar you spend on food in your 20s is just as valuable as a dollar you spend on food in your 60s.

Also, interest rates are lower than inflation in many cases.

I have a good job and a bit of money invested (about a new cars worth maybe) but there is no chance that I can become "wealthy" or retire early just by saving.
The ability to speak to anyone doesn’t necessarily mean that you never feel lonely at parties. Good conversation is a two way street after all, and if you can’t find someone to challenge or interest you, then you can talk to people all night and not really get anything out of it. I think we all know that feeling, even those who aren’t as “gifted” socially as others.

I don’t think the solution is what the author does though. I mean, If you really can’t find someone interesting to engage with at any party or social event… I mean it’s a cliche to say this, but maybe it’s you?
I almost didn't reply to this to say, "This is the same for me as well," because, well, it's the same! Someone already expressed, in better phrasing, what I would otherwise say.

But given the subject matter, I feel a reply is in order.
That's a dangerous habit to get into. Everything you type in the address bar is sent to Google (or your default search engine). If you "edit" to replace placeholders with credentials, you've just sent those credentials to Google.

This happens live, character-for-character, you don't need to press enter.
"American incompetence" can be pursued via court of law, so that puts a certain floor to how bad things can get...

Source: me, a US brand owner who has worry about product liability...
I think New York is fine.
> The biggest issues are crowding and racism

That's surprising to hear. I have lived in Tokyo a fair amount of time (5+ years) and only experienced true racism, e.g. being not being allowed in a place for being non-Japanese, a handful of times, and those were mostly for what would be considered nighttime establishment that are a bit shady. Not doubting your experience, just putting this here as another data point.

Most of the times being treated differently was just other people being scared of talking English and avoiding me, but that usually fixed itself when they realize I speak Japanese.

Unrelated, but I think a lot of the foreigners in Tokyo are oversensitive to racism because they have never experienced looking different in their own country - that leads itself to interpreting all kinds of tiny acts as racist when something doesn't go the way they want. But in reality many of the acts have a different cause behind them, like the insecurity of the other person.

EDIT: Clarification
I was there when Hertz became memefied. Memefication always starts with atleast some good research.

There was three schools of thoughts with the Hertz saga-

1. Bankrupt companies are required to buyback their shares from the market. If they force the share price to go up the company is required to buyback the stock from the market regardless of the price.

2. People expected that Hertz would get a lifeline from a hedge fund.

3. Hertz car inventory still had value. If you look at used car prices you can see this sentiment was true. They thought Hertz had plenty of good assets that was just affected by the pandemic but after the pandemic prices would go up.

So essentially, it was backed by some logic but when it comes to finance logic validity of that is subjective.
Bats don't need mosquitoes, either.

https://www.gardenmyths.com/myth-bats-eat-mosquitoes/
Yeah, I'm actually ok with this if this is what ends up happening. I'd prefer mingling with the locals, but I get that it may be hard.
People don't have to care about IQ tests to know that they got a good score on one and therefore consider themselves smart. You can see them in almost every thread about IQ tests "I got IQ score 1X0 and I think that IQ is stupid and doesn't matter!".

Anyway, being smart without an education is pretty worthless as you say, but there is a lot of such people out there. Being uneducated doesn't mean they aren't intelligent, it just means that they didn't utilize their intelligence in life. I'm not sure why you would try to say that they aren't intelligent just because they lack education. If a study found that intelligent people face more boredom or whatever, then it is almost surely that the study was a correlation between IQ and some questionnaire result, so whatever score someone got on an IQ test is very relevant for the topic.