skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This just reminded me to uninstall Sublime Text 3 (paid license). I haven't used it in a very long time. Happy paying JetBrains annually for their tools.

Not doing this out of spite for the ST4 licensing nag --even though I didn't like it. By doing this they made me think whether or not I needed their product enough to pay for it again. The decision was clearly "no".

I'm posting this just as a note/through that might be useful to other software providers. Sometimes you force customers to re-evaluate if continuing to pay for your tools is worth their money.

I had a similar experience with Altium Designer this year. They sent me repeated emails as the $2000 annual maintenance fee due date approached. With this they forced me to take another look at KiCAD --something I had been looking at-- and realized it easily covers 95% or more of the designs we are doing. Paying for multiple AD licenses, in this context, makes no sense. We still get to use the last 2021 version and get to switch to KiCAD this year. And, yes, we will be donating to the KiCAD project on an annual basis. I believe in paying for good software when you want quality and continuing development (JetBrains being another example of this).

Now I am on the hunt for a good alternative for flow/thermal simulation for Solidworks. Anyone have any suggestions? It doesn't have to be free, just not the cost of a small car and lock you into ridiculous annual maintenance fees. We have FloWorks, which dates back a few years, and works fine. If we can upgrade to a better tool for a reasonable per-seat license I'd go for it.
George Carlin on Birth Control Pills (1972) [video]
I've noticed a healthy amount of websites with pretty granular RSS, for example the auto parts outlet rockauto.com has RSS feed for every make, model, and production year that they service.

I'd wager this saves them some unpaid overtime. It seems that a service which provides correct, useful RSS nearly obviates the entire hassle of dealing with bot scrapers and the resource drain and health insurance premiums that come along. You can easily serve any volume of RSS with cloudflare or nginx.

It is quite true that mobile clients scraping a url is inefficient vs pub/sub. Maybe you could just uses mqtt to trigger a GET or something.

I spent about five minutes considering what a world with facebook, instagram, ebay, amazon RSS feeds might look like. The experience felt like goat staring.
We do but tests still take a really long time to run. Sometimes changes are so local, and running compiling and running few hundred tests to check that a 50 line patch works is debilitating.
These are Android-type reasons for switching away. Again Apple offers an option that just sucks less.
napi-rs is AMAZING. It makes writing native Node JS libraries trivially easy. Great job!
"Email verification."

Tech companies prey on people's sense of good faith.
Expect Yann LeCun to appear at any minute to say he is practically a saint for working at Facebook that he is doing it for the betterment of humanity and not for money since he could "earn much more at many other companies"
If we actually had a proper international response, this would be far less of an issue.

Imagine if we made kurzgesagt quality videos for essentially every subject, at an international scale, translated into hundreds of languages.

We'd create a huge trove of knowledge, have a good set of lecture material to use with children and even college students.

At that point we could have teachers be for guidance, chatting with, and a holding hand for children who need more help to get through the work load.

This would require a federal or international level of cooperation and communication, but the end results would be absolutely wonderful.
They provide 3D asset downloads, most folks will only be downloading an asset a single time. Therefore, browser side caching doesn't really help, they need to cache the files on a CDN.
On a national level, the Democrats need a return to normality by late summer at worst. The midterms are going to be brutal no matter what, and if everything is still disrupted the incumbents will be punished. Doesn't matter if it's fair, it's what will happen.
* Alcohol enters the chatroom.
My goto is still the Rotring 600.
You're quite correct, I hadn't thought of the fact that the transform and the return type were distinct. My mistake.
I have been poor enough to need to borrow money for food. I have been well off enough to have many years salary in the bank. Happiness is almost 100% independent of money.

It's an almost Buddhist concept, but you cannot be happy comparing yourself to others. You must find what makes you happy and then not worry about the rest.

How cool it is that you can chill at some friends pool (for free!). Pools are expensive - Live cheap instead!

> I'm at the bottom with nothing:

Anything worth having, like "good people, great friends", is ... FREE! And you seem to have it. So that is definitely not "Nothing".

> Rich people aren’t aware that their tales of success make people like me feel bad.

Annoyed at bragging maybe, but bad? No. That's your fault. How does someone else's success (or riches) make your plight worse? It doesn't. And being rich doesn't make their life better either. If you say "now that sounds like bragging", you can embarrass them. Is that what you want? But you probably don't.

Tales are tales. Tell a tale of being cheap and poor. It'll be as fun as rich and daring. Telling either or both tales is just idle entertainment, neither are that serious.
Imagine China going internet-nuclear and releasing the browsing history of most Americans for the last N years as a giant torrent or searchable webpage, tied to names, accounts, spouses and addresses.
haha you can also call it the 80-20 rule too be fancy
I was thinking about this when the lava firehose was going in Hawaii. I imagined a big metal shell that you could rotate under it to make a bunch of giant house sized domes really fast.
Anything over 100ms [1] is perceived as not-instant by a user. If you wait 2RTTs with 50ms per round trip, then you've already exceeded this threshold.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/536300/what-is-the-short...
To make those bullet points work, put blank lines between them to make paragraphs.
Serious question: Where do you get that rhetoric from? There has been next to zero actual restrictions forced by the federal on lower levels of government. Most of the restrictions are decided at the city and county level and plenty don’t have any restrictions at all. And conform or die? Who is messaging that death is the penalty for not following the nonexistent restrictions?
What "last few bits"? Essentially no country is on track for the Paris targets with their emission reduction plans, and the actual implementations lag behind even further:

https://climateactiontracker.org
It is going to increase the cost for USA as most of these pollution is for goods imported by US

>> China has some of the dirtiest air in the world, but a large share of the country's pollutants are generated during the manufacture of goods destined for countries like the United States, according to a new study.

>> about a fifth to a third of China's air pollutants—which include sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and carbon monoxide—were associated with the production of goods for export, and that about a fifth of those amounts were linked to the production of goods for the United States.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/140122-ma...

https://www.pnas.org/content/111/5/1736
> What do you attribute that to? Is it software updates that slow it down or some kind of pile up of junk that somehow slows it down like Windows 95 used to get?

I'll add that in addition to software, Android hardware typically experience more NAND degradation, which can slow the phone down. A possible explanation being that iPhones use NVMe storage vs the cheaper eMMC/UFS type found on Android.
> Try out your notation, which I will agree can be unambiguous in a technical sense, but will quickly become unreadable for actual human beings, on a few modest examples.

It's perfectly legible to me and I use it daily in my (mathematical) work.

Again all you're saying is that you're not used to it and it must be a bad notation. Just like how people who were shown Arabic numerals defended Roman numerals.

I'd do you one better and point out that the example should be = 1 λ x square sin x square cos x since having unbound variables is poor form after someone invented lambda calculus.

And yes, you need a symbol for negation which is a step up since a-b is also ambiguous in the same sense.

For the second one you easily see why words are superior to symbols when you stop trying to use hieroglyphs and start using letters instead: div add neg b sqrt sub pow b 2 sub times 4 times a c times 2 a. I can define new functions with well known meaning without having to copy special characters or invent type setting systems.
You can get refurbed old iPhones that work relatively well (definitely better than Moto Gs) for a similar price.
The original founders are still there, and presumably could speak their displeasure. They were running things at the parent company until 2019, too.

It doesn't seem like Google has changed since then.
1b 1b apt next to the san jose light rail which is extremely irritating

-jarvis sit stand desk which is great

-dell 4k monitor which is great

-airpods max which are heavy but block out the light rail

-webcam is a cheap mirrorless panasonic which works way better than any other webcam I've had

-apple magic keyboard and mouse

-working on changing apartments but it seems like everything in the south bay is next to a highway, a train, an airport, or multiple
We are now nearly in the situation where most people have had it and the virus shows no signs of abating. This is not a bleak outlook simply a realistic one. You've either had it or are going to get it. The bleak outlook is the one that says you should cower alone and apart from friends and family until you do get it. Go get vaccinated and live as before.

Again, you aren't sacrificing the teacher's well being. The teacher is, anyway, most likely going to get covid. If a teacher doesn't like being exposed to children they should resign or be fired. Schools are not for the benefit of teachers but for the benefit of children.

Once vaccinated you are unlikely to require hospitalization. Actually, you're unlikely to require hospitalization regardless of vaccination but especially unlikely once vaccinated. Maybe it's sensible for people to make some minor changes to "flatten the curve" but going to remote school is no minor change and it is far worse than the negligible benefits.

While it's true you can catch the disease multiple times subsequent infections are less likely and less severe.
Superkuh's point is that depending on any single service to protect/host/route your content is setting up oneself up to be Parler'd or 8chan'd. It doesn't matter how good the technology. If you don't any have any control over it, you're one copyright strike or bad mood from a CEO away from being deplatformed.

There's.no need to grind an axe to observe how past actions have set the course for the future, perhaps for the worse.
No, MSFT (and others) failed at mobile because there is no amount of money you can invest to break into that industry anymore, due to all the moat the duopoly has built up. It's literally impossible. Google started early and got on the last train with Android. Windows phone started when iOS App Store already had ~300K apps, and Play store had ~100K apps. That was a couple years too late. The duopoly was always an order of magnitude ahead of MSFT, and in this kind of market that's what matters.
As I pointed out to another commenter, this is NOT about wealthy people worrying about how to best utilize their cash. These people are probably the 50% who are not on the verge of financial collapse.

The concern I am bringing up is the people who have NO cash. Marginal credit. Have to figure out how to pay for food and medical care every week and are stressed out. The system is not working for about half of Americans
My understanding was this happened during contract renewal for Apple's access to Google Maps and YouTube. This was back when Apple wrote the apps and had them preinstalled.

For Maps specifically, Google wanted Apple to

- push users to log into their Google account

- sharing location data upstream to Google

Supposedly, Google had withheld new feature access from Apple until they got location data reported upstream - turn by turn and vector tiles in particular hurt, as their absence made maps have a limited feature set and use significantly more bandwidth.

The buzz at the time made it sound like Google was still in negotiations when Apple announced at WWDC that they would be using their own maps. They were pretty much blindsided - one of the reasons it took a while before a Google Maps app actually launched for iOS.

Apple likely just decided to launch the product early. The quality of that early launch and how it was handled publicly (along with other internal disputes) is supposedly why Forstall was shown the door.
They are my go to store for physicals books.TB is where my book wishlist is and they notify if book is not in stock and comes back to stock.

The best part is, I have received 3-4 books signed by authors… they were the gift copies to someone but knowing that the specific physical book was signed by author makes it more special
A. It’s not just an endemic sniffle even for vaccinated people. I lost my sense of smell and got it back way after my quarantine ended, like months after. Plus there’s a mental fog that lifted a long time later. I got Covid after my first shot but before my second.

B. In general, being vaxxed keeps you from getting badly sick but you just can’t say.

E.g., say you’re in a group of a hundred people with a thousand guns trained at your group. Just one gun out of the thousand has a live round while ten others have blank which don’t kill but can injure. Would you be willing to face those odds? Would you be willing to ask others to face the same odds?

These are roughly the odds what you are asking teachers to take on.
Good network connectivity makes a huge difference.

Back in the day when Joyent ran their public cloud you could beat Cloudflares free plan from Joyents Japan datacenter by a tiny amount in most cases.

Anyway, those days are gone and Cloudflare provides great value and probably the best quality network available. So if you have the problem they solve then you would be a fool to not put some serious thought into considering them.
I don't know jack about teaching kids, but I do know a lot about teaching adults.

The crying shame I see in this whole endeavor is the emphasis on re-creating the classroom online. Half of what you teach (really in any topic) is foundational knowledge -- terms, models, history, important people and events. This is better taught offline at the learner's pace. Give then ways to monitor their understanding -- ungraded exercises, graded quizzes, papers, etc.

The best use of synchronous time to cover the higher level skills involving the application of that knowledge. This means interacting with the students in ways that give them the ability show they understand what you are teaching, letting them screw up, and gently guiding them back on the right path. This is also the hardest but most rewarding part of teaching.

Every parent talk to (I don't have kids) complains about the same thing and the source seems to be the fact this was all jammed online in a short amount of time, without teachers being able to divide their materials into these two parts. This leads to teachers just doing what they did in the classroom but in front of Zoom.

I think online learning is great, but this has led to a lot of people forming poor opinions of it, and I feel like that is a real shame. Schools should have been heading in this direction for years. The technology is there. It seems that entrenched forces have kept it from happening.
> the Amazon Leadership Principles.

Such bullshit.

> Strive to be Earth's Best Employer

> Leaders work every day to create a safer, more productive, higher performing, more diverse, and more just work environment. They lead with empathy, have fun at work, and make it easy for others to have fun. Leaders ask themselves: Are my fellow employees growing? Are they empowered? Are they ready for what's next? Leaders have a vision for and commitment to their employees' personal success, whether that be at Amazon or elsewhere.

"Lead with empathy", by creating conditions in which workers feel they have to urinate in bottles [1].

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7amyn/amazon-denies-workers...
If pants had been invented in 2018 in order to cure horniness, I'd treat them with the same gravitas that I give to graham crackers. One person's "set in one's ways" is another person's "doesn't change with the wind".
My thought is why don't the authors use github pages to host their static site with their links to a dedicated server with an unmetered link since their whole project is CC0. Downloading assets doesn't need to be low latency, thus I don't think the caching spatially near the user is important. Having a user login for patreon is something that would be missing and require some more thought I admit.

I think quite a lot of other people have mentioned in the thread that they are getting a lot of other "benefits" from using multiple services, but I don't see how these help solve the problem of data delivery besides taking advantage of the Cloudflare + Backblaze alliance which is $31 if their main website is a static one.
I agree with you. Julia has gotten better but it’s still way slower than Python or R. And the workflow of running tests just make it painful. I think I’m familiar enough with Julia and I can write code and it’ll likely just work, but I’m not a 100% confident. With rust (and Python or Typescript with type hinting), I’m much MUCH more confident.
TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci#cite_ref-Pol...
For those who consider buying a fountainpen and need advice I recommend r/fountainpens on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fountainpens/

Not only is the subreddit very helpful, the hive mind also has a vast knowledge of fountainpens, nibs, inks, papers, …
I'm not here to debate DNS.

I only explain that DNS delegation is structured with a central `.` zone.

The central node is all-powerful. It can remove any name by removing the top level delegation for that name.
Does anyone have a list like this but for pencils?
He's appealing. News sources in Australia state that his exemption is based on prior infection status but he was unable to show it was within 6months and this specific exemption is documented as required to be a recent one.

Two independent, blinded medical review panels for the tennis organisers had accepted his claim. So, this also has a dimension of the Australian Government over-ruling a body, with delegated authority. I don't like this: It's happened before, when the border forces have declared children to be adults, and locked them up. Courtroom appeal revised their ages back down again. The Border forces have truly awesome powers to revoke a visa. It does have to respect due process in appeal but thats a rich-mans game. Most people have limited ability to deal with this.

I don't like Djokovic's anti-vax stance, I am an Australian Citizen and I don't want him to be a high-profile Exempt person. But, how this is being done is not good, and makes me very uncomfortable. The current government looks to be reacting to popular mood, and behaving like a reactive populist party, not a government with a plan. We're 6 months out from an election, and I think this process is pretty bad.

Djokovic is being held in a confinement facility which also has Refugees with (in some cases) over 9 years of arbitrary detention and denial of regugee status. I hate that even more. If this decision has the effect of making some tennis fans wake up to how absolutely awful the current governments treatment of refugees is, I would be tactically happy, but its modified happiness: this is a bad situation for everyone, Djokovic included.
I'm not sure I understand your point. Is there something wrong with the phrasing? How would you phrase it?
Trying to weaponize laughter is the most comically toxic thing I've ever heard of. If you did it I'd say good on you for showing your true colors and saving them the hassle of finding out later.
They're also cumbersome.
> There is no "It's your community's choice," it's "Conform or die".

Unless one lives in a walled community and there is no movement in or out of that wall, what happens in one community affects everyone.
> a temporary closure to “flatten the curve”. I had flashbacks to 2020.

Realistically, covid is here for the forseeable future.

It's a fast-mutating pathogen (which I understand is typical of respiratory infections) and since about half of humans worldwide are vaccinated and half aren't, in a perfect environment to evolve resistance to vaccines (and the immune systems defences generally).

If covid were a worse infection, this would be really serious. But it isn't. It rarely kills people without pre-existing conditions (the biggest of which is old age). It's also getting less virulent: e.g. in the UK omicron has led to a big increase in infections, but not in deaths[1].

Scott Alexander calculated that it takes 52 person-months of lockdown to save one person-month of life[2]. This suggests to me that if lockdowns reduce quality of life by at least 2%, they are QALY-negative.

My conclusion from all this is that I don't think lockdowns should be compulsory. If people think the threat to themselves or family members is severe, by all means they can lockdown; but expecting everyone else to is wrong as lockdowns reduce overall utility.

Regarding schools, in this as in a lot of things vouchers would be a good system, then people who don't like how their state schools are run can walk away and take their kid's education money with them.

1: see https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/

2: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/lockdown-effectiveness...
Has anyone ever read a book?
The words "ruse" and "improper" are both used often enough that I wonder how many "proper" ruses the SPD has perpetrated. And what makes them proper.
I learnt the hard way that you can architect Julia apps the wrong way. I think my biggest frustration is how easy it is to make mistakes that cause type unstable code.
There isn't one single approach that works for all kids.

My son is very fond of remote learning and would like to return to that. He could finish everything in an hour or so in the morning and then go off to do other interesting things. Having him sit through real-time classroom discussions online was counterproductive. He begged us to let him stay in online school forever.

My daughter is the opposite. She struggled mightily last year when it was all remote. She needs the structure to maintain focus, she needs to interact with her peers and with the teacher. Even if it is over Zoom, that is far better than nothing. She was begging to go back to in-person learning this year.
Hot Chocolate: open-source GraphQL C# Server
100% agree. No idea what the why was.
If public schools want to prepare children for their life ahead, they should be doing space repetition tasks and teach them how to sort objects as quickly as possible. Add in some life skills into there, and they will be well prepared to work in the future's Amazon fulfillment centers.
I looked into this... I saw some folks claiming it's flooded with Amway and other MLM pushers. Have you experienced this?