skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks great! One thing which would be useful would be an approver role or step for document creation and updating. In a lot of orgs it's necessary to have someone sign off on changes to sop's
To be honest brave.search does a better job in my opinion. Just wondering how they do that as a newcomer.
There doesn't have to be a URL.
Why does my mom need an ad blocker? (And btw there are ad blocker plugins for mobile Safari now). For someone who is not tech savvy, it might break her favorite sites in ways that she can’t fix herself.

I could also put a pi-hole on her network rather than a browser plug-in.
Yes, the laws that the French government has been passing dont target any particular community. They make sure every community has the freedom to express themselves at any beach/pool, as long as they are wearing a bikini. Everyone is allowed to wear a religious symbol as long as it is smaller than a particular size.
Apple can also make it absolute hell to use any of their products. I wouldn't pick a fight with a 3 trillion dollar corporation.
The SEO spam has gotten much worse on DDG the past year or so, they pop on Google every now and then as well. Google on the other hand has a page of ads before the real results. My experience is that if DDG can't find what I'm looking for, then neither can Google, it's just that I'm still much quicker to second guess the results on DDG, compared to Google.

It's a little weird, you'd think that it would be easy to spot the sites that just copy text from Stack Overflow or the Python documentation and drop them from the index entirely, but apparently not.
Yeah well, you can just look at who certain groups of people choose to run their countries. Pretty good proxy for vox pop.
Matter was a major star at CES 2022, but can it maintain its shine?
> (...) but it was basically to use this instead

Base32 is a representation format which provides a textual representation of numbers, not a storage format.

I mean, anyone is free to dump Base32, or even base 2, into a string and just run with that, but that would be highly inefficient.
not possible -- the "complete coverage" companies have to deal with clouds and other atmospheric elements. Good math helps a lot with creating landuse coverages, but you can never increase the detail as you are asking
Let me take a try why you feel that way. (I might be wrong).

Stoicism is very easily repurposed, because it is divorced from a religious praxis, and therefore easily assimilated. It is pithy and vague enough too, its maxims can fit on a bumper sticker. "Life is short!", honk if you agree.

The appeal for stoicism today is because it is aspirational; we no longer recognize the stoic hero in ourselves and our neighbors. Yet, we would wish we could marshal the inner strength we imagine the stoics of the past possessed.

When people broadcast stoic wisdom over twitter, or memes, or ted-talks, or through any other channels that exemplify the trite and vain nature of contemporary consumer media, it seems to scream despair, rather than confidence. A toddler trying to convince themselves they are not scared in the basement, if only they say it a loud enough.

Mu hunch is that is why you find a website like this annoying. Packaged for the internet, bland, vague, fast food for the brain.

I would agree. Up to a point.

Life is short indeed, gam gam has it on a plaque above her fireplace, she bought it in a trinket shop in Gatlinburg.

What is equally important, but unsaid, is what comes after. Both the stoic and hedonist will accept the premise, but will activate it very differently. Will you dedicate yourself to the future, or will you dedicate the present to yourself. I don't think that website makes any recommendation on the matter.
The time has come to get on with our lives
I apologize but may I know what you mean by "saas pass"?
A few things I can think of:

- Suspension rebuild. The car will function with old suspension but the ride quality will be poor.

- Servicing of engine internals. A car would be down on power significantly after 10 years of wear and can be restored by adjust valve clearances, replacing seals and piston rings, cleaning parts, etc.

- Replacement of hybrid/EV battery. This is already something owners of old Priuses do to restore their cars' range.

- Repair of damaged interiors, especially seat bolstering. Also deep cleaning and ozone treatment.

- Repainting, especially if the car was stored outdoors where UV light wore the paint

- Hardware and software
updates for the infotainment system
Ya! That would be pretty sweet as well, I figure someone has an app like this for the apple watch maybe?

I'd love one that is e-ink or something super low energy if it is just doing a countdown to death. I love watches that don't tell time.
This topic has been raised more than once at my work and it scared a lot of people.
It's important to understand your use case before you embrace any other solution.

This will affect you only when you are frequently creating and storing new IDs, which leads to reshaping btrees.

If you have IDs and its number is under control and doesn't change a lot you're just fine.
Yeah they breathe in O2 and breathe out CO2, just like you and me.
"I didn't have time to write a short text so I wrote a long one instead", or something like that
Don't agree with this at all. In fact, this seems like a very American point of view. There's plenty of poor countries where people are allowed to fail. It doesn't correlate to upwards mobility.

Some of the richest people - Gates, Bezos, Buffett - were able to become that way because they had a safety net provided by their parents. They were able to take risks knowing they wouldn't become destitute if it didn't work out.
Anyone else surprised they don't change their name to Duck.com? (which they own and just use as a forwarder.)
Oh, sure, but just because it's on your balance sheet doesn't mean it's a "store of value". Quite often it may be speculative. Bitcoin is much better at being speculative than storing value, after all.
Something that is extremely anecdotal experience for me, especially given I have never owned a car, is that things like "check your oil" are weirdly a feature mainly of american media. To the extent that its sort of led me to believe its something that isn't really necessary, like taking vitamins when your doctor hasn't told you you have a deficiency. I'm only really realising this assumption of mine now, so is this even remotely true?

I don't think ive ever heard about people talking about changing their oil here in europe in actual day-to-day life, but I have heard much more about antifreeze or windscreen wiper fluid or even water/coolant.
Here's the help page: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sp...

On Firefox on desktop I see the "feedback" menu in the lower right corner.
> Apple 3.0 wants recurring services revenue like a crackhead wants crack

While this is true (to my increasing chagrin), having an Apple ID in and of itself doesn't cost you anything. It does create an account that you can then tie charges to.

I don't, however, recall this quite rising to the level of what I'd call a "dark pattern"; IIRC when I set up my M1 MacBook Air not that long ago, the "Enter your Apple ID" had a "Skip this step" link that was pretty easy to find.
Unless that is a work number that's a big mistake, don't ever expose your personal text messages and phone calls to your employer - its a huge legal problem.
It's not really a case of typos or the odd error, more like a disinterest in the truth and a preference to just write a narrative and sprinkling fake citations to make it look scientific.

Just the first person to really review it, found 15 major errors and inaccuracies in the first chapter, and gave up due to the time it would take to review the rest of the book.

On top of that, the author doubles down when called out, and doesn't want to discuss any of the actual details or admit any errors or misrepresentations, like cutting data out of a graph when it would give readers a different conclusion than the text.

Some of the errors are positively dangerous, like claiming that the recommended number of hours of sleep is 8, instead of the true figure of 7-9.

"I spent more than 130 hours over the last 2 months researching and writing this essay (~5 hours to write the outline; ~60 hours to get to the first draft; ~65 hours to edit and fact-check), which constituted essentially all of my surplus free time over this time period. Continuing at the same pace, it would take me more than 3,000 hours to check the entire book. 3,000 hours is the equivalent of 75 weeks or 1.4 years of full-time work."
This article shows there are positive and negative consequences to remote learning. It would be a mistake to see only the negative consequences, and then to insist that we return to the old way of doing things, which also had negative aspects. We have to admit that everything is different now regarding education. The future won't look like May 2020, but it also won't look like 2019 and prior either.

Forcing the issue on teachers is proving to be very bad for morale. Already, they were overworked and underpaid, but now they are being called lazy, their profession is being reduced to "babysitting", they are being demonized as anti-American and traitors, they are being harassed by parents who claim they are teaching their children socialist propaganda and pushing liberal agendas, school boards meetings have broken out into fisticuffs... it's getting to be too much.

You can see evidence of this on the /r/teachers forum, which as of late has been a sea of negative posts in what used to be a pretty positive place. This has gotten enough attention that it was covered recently in the media [0].

Forbes notes that 48% of teachers are thinking of quitting during a time when there's already a teacher shortage [1]. I would not be surprised to see a mass exodus of teachers if things get worse. My school district was closed last week because there weren't enough substitute teachers to handle all of the students. For some districts, even a single teacher quitting would mean an entire school would have to close.

The way forward is not backward. We need a new model that embraces positive aspects of remote and in person. We have to redefine what school is and is not. School cannot be a place where parents send their kids so that they are free to work. That can't be what it is for.

I really liked an idea I saw which is probably impractical, but interesting nonetheless. The idea was to cut the work week to 4 days and turn substitute teaching into something like jury duty; once a month, you've got to go into school and teach or assist a teacher. I like this idea because it brings more community involvement into schools, which I think is missing now in our society.

[0] https://news.yahoo.com/inside-rteachers-the-reddit-forum-whe...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/markcperna/2022/01/04/why-educa...
I'm not suggesting kicking them out, I'm suggesting that they pay property taxes at market rates, minus the property taxes of a 1 bedroom condo, which would be society's freebie to them. They could live in a small place and not pay property taxes, regardless of what happens with the market, or they can continue paying property taxes on a huge house, if they can afford to do so. That's more generous a deal than they'd get anywhere else in the US.
If you can afford a house you can afford it. You said "they don't fit into that neighborhood", you can't deny a sale at an advertised asking price for "not fitting into the neighborhood", that triggers discrimination laws.

In a negotiated setting where you can hide that motivation, everything is open, but we as a society have settled on price discrimination being okay (see, first class tickets), this simply evens the playing field so the rich can't hide their wealth. Also, if it really pains you, as a wealthy person you can easily get the poor person treatment by giving away your wealth, so I find these "both types of discrimination" rhetoris inconsistent anyway.
Actually, that's no longer true for me, now that I think about it.

All of my code is now written as a literate program. I never write naked code anymore.

Thus my "lisp" files are actually latex and read:

\documentclass{book}

\begin{document}

words.....

\begin{chunk}{somelabel}

( thing thing ... thing )

\end{chunk}

\end{document}

------------------------------------------------------

To quote Knuth: (http://www.literateprogramming.com/)

I believe that the time is ripe for significantly better documentation of programs, and that we can best achieve this by considering programs to be works of literature. Hence, my title: "Literate Programming."

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

The practitioner of literate programming can be regarded as an essayist, whose main concern is with exposition and excellence of style. Such an author, with thesaurus in hand, chooses the names of variables carefully and explains what each variable means. He or she strives for a program that is comprehensible because its concepts have been introduced in an order that is best for human understanding, using a mixture of formal and informal methods that reinforce each other.
https://bountifulenergy.blogspot.com/2016/06/eroei-is-unimpo...

> For example, suppose we had single 1KW solar panel, and the panel had a very low ERoEI of 4 (which is certainly an underestimate [1]). Even if you increased the ERoEI from the very low value of 4, all the way up to to infinity, so that no energy was required to replace that solar panel, it would make little difference--it would increase the amount of NET energy obtained by only 25%. On the other hand, if you could build 3 such solar panels, instead of 1, then you would triple the net energy obtained. In this case, building two more solar panels had 12x greater effect than increasing the ERoEI to infinity.
A shame there’s no affordance to indicate that this is available.
> basically unusable in languages other than English.

It works about as good for (simple) French as for English in my experience, but is absolute garbage for Russian—because, I suspect, of all the noun morphology. But, to be fair, the moment Google started becoming comparable to Yandex for Russian was the moment it started to randomly substituting terms in my English searches, like switching “Fréchet space” for “Banach space” in complex queries (they are both things in functional analysis, good job Google, but they are not the same). So looks like it’s either the heavy-handed clustering we hate about the current Google, or difficult linguistic work and tuning for every language in the world.

(Is there a way to stop DDG from ignoring the quotes in my searches? At this point I sometimes get better results from Gigablast than from Google or DDG when searching for a quote.)
Does it support any kind of debugging?
>The detailed description of the invention is presented largely in terms of procedures, steps, logic blocks, processing, and other symbolic representations that directly or indirectly resemble the operations of data processing devices coupled to networks. These process descriptions and representations are typically used by those skilled in the art to most effectively convey the substance of their work to others skilled in the art. Numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. However, it will become obvious to those skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well known methods, procedures, components, and circuitry have not been described in detail to avoid unnecessarily obscuring aspects of the present invention.

This is why so many of us oppose software patents.

I agree with you, and balanced sound systems are all over the place. Seems like they added network and called it "UNIQUE"

Yeah, I wrote the initial comment in haste, actually thinking there was some meaningful patent in play. Having read that one?

Yeah, fuck 'em.
> But that's always true, and the most valuable cases are those that work when most people don't expect them to. http://paulgraham.com/swan.html

If they are looking for swans that work when people don't expect them to, they should probably be looking for those swans somewhere else*, not the top 3% of an incubator that probably graduates proportionately more successful startups than any university.

The issue that everyone is calling out here is that they name themselves "Rebel" when they're doing exactly the same thing that every other VC firm is, but (apparently) not even as well -- at least they should say "Founder Friendly", etc.

* Generally startups that might become unexpected swans will be found outside of startup hubs like silicon valley.
> but the first setup doesn't allow you to skip. or didn't make it obvious how to do so. (dark pattern?)

It does allow you to skip, and it is obvious.

There’s a screen asking you to log in to your Apple ID. There’s a button that says “Set up later”. When you click it, it asks you if you are sure. You confirm. That’s all.

Here are the screenshots:

https://i.imgur.com/2s3sA2L.png

https://i.imgur.com/wU0GU5l.png
Personally I managed to run Outline using a standard OIDC software like Keycloak. While more troublesome it should work just fine without external tools
> unbiased Salary data, making union negotiations and expectations of new grads grounded in reality, unlike the reporting bias of levels, Glassdoor etc. This is why management hates people sharing salary info - making it easier for new founders to budget their talent costs

You can have some stats or non-PI info published on this. Or force companies to publish how much they are paying to existing employees with same title, like they starting to do in several US states. No need for nosy neighbor or potential romantic interest to have access to my income.

> Making it easier to push back against recruiters (market average is this, I'm at least average, fuck you pay me)

Or you might be below average like significant amount of people who I have interviewed and who can't reverse a string? Anyway, everyone can't get "at least average" salary, that is not how average works (note for pedants: unless everyone earns exactly the same, of course).

> easier time spotting tax evasion

What does it have to do with tax evasion? IRS already has this data. If you are worried about politicians and government employees and want visibility into their earnings (which is reasonable), you can make only their data public, which is already implemented as a law in my country. Again, no need for a random Tinder date to have this data.

> exposing inequality in society in undeniable fashion, giving teeth to any arguements about them

I won't argue with your leftist agenda, but again, you can just publish stats (e.g. senior software engineer average in location X is Y) without letting my extended family know how much I make.

> The bandits/corruption thing I can't argue with, but that's a deeper and different problem than public taxes in Norway or Germany. Same for gold diggers and money bags

Well, maybe let's not enable these people then? Especially since there are multiple other options that I presented previously.
Nice work! Great collection, enhanced by the knowledge of owning every model in the collection. I also love the included "analog" calculators, slide rule and abacus. I look forward to further additions to the collection. Do you accept donations?

I am saddened by the absence of anything HP, but I can see there is no need to duplicate the Museum of HP Calculators, so it would be nice to add that one to the Other Calculator Sites page.

https://www.hpmuseum.org/
Not a word about the security implications?

The easiest reply would be "They are called books", or whatever container and format for information - and already there issues and risks are more than just possible, mitigated by filters one is trained to develop. The more acquisition of information takes the aspect of an "injection", a whole world of issues open.

From "I read War and Peace in one hour: it was about Russia", to all kind of mental poison (from "bad" notions to concretions of intellectual inadequacies): information has to be digested - processed and integrated.

--

So, on the point of view of feasibility: if knowledge implies diffused transformations (as opposed e.g. to installing an independent informatic file, non-integrated with its peers), that idea of injecting knowledge is absurd - it does not work that way. When you come to know that Paris is in that location, in that position on the map, you modify a number of notions: some directly related to Paris, others of all related entities - of the idea of France and its layout, of Montparnasse, of the Second World War, of the treaties there signed etc. Information needs to be digested to be productive.
Rights apply to everyone, or no one
It’s a valid point and yet given it’s pge we’d have to mention they blew up people in San Bruno due to their shoddy natural gas pipeline so we might need examples from outside pge to check that it’s not just an awful safety culture and poor maintenance makes anything unsafe.

But yes in principe lines can start fires or electrocute people, squirrels, and Mylar balloons
This reinforces the original point, which was that Dropbox's constraints (only syncing one folder) are limiting to some while decreasing the probability of others getting themselves into problematic states.
At some point do we stop calling the people who fix our cars “mechanics” and start calling them “electrics”?
> I believe strongly that other people shouldn't try to stick their hand in my pocket and dictate what I do with my money.

Are you against all taxes then?

> Moreover I find it distasteful to rob a corpse and steal from their children.

Corpses can't own property, and nor can they vote (or protest), so they are the ideal "people" to tax.
That seems like a strange analogy, since as far as I know HIPAA is designed to prevent sharing private data with outsiders and should not prevent you from accessing your own data.

I've heard plenty about how HIPAA gets in the way of legitimate sharing with outsiders (e.g. making a common format for medical profile transfer impractical), but I don't recall having heard about it preventing the principal individual from getting answers from their own provider.
Finding non-shitty friends in <location/time> is an important skill.
Those things you have described are still exclusive in that the owner _could_ prevent public access if they chose to.
> centralization is a feature, not a bug

This is not what the original article says. Here's the first conclusion:

> We should accept the premise that people will not run their own servers by designing systems that can distribute trust without having to distribute infrastructure.

In other words, centralized trust is a bug, but that's a different thing than centralized servers.

The problem with existing NFTs is that they not only don't have decentralized servers, they also don't have decentralized trust. They're just not what they claim to be at all.

I would also point out that "centralized" isn't a binary thing. Having literally everyone run their servers is not really what anybody wants, but neither is having one company run a single server for everyone in the world, which isn't really what happens. Even with a "centralized service" like Facebook, they have multiple servers distributed all over the world.

And if the servers didn't have to be trusted, they also wouldn't all have to be run by a single company. Having a billion servers for a billion users is not what anybody wants, but we already have a thousand servers for a billion users. And if the servers are not to be trusted anyway, why do we need them all to be run by the same entity?

Full atomization rarely works. Federation works.