skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can cut out entire categories of food or drink though. People drink way more calories than they realize. Drink water instead of soda.

It's definitely hard but the "just say no" approach can work. I do recommend taking it one at a time though. Once you've cut out one thing successfully, add another.

I lost 90 lbs with this approach.
I'm pretty sure I was building workstations 10 years ago with 16gb of RAM, and I sure wasn't spending 16 grand on the modules - maybe 1/100 as much. As for amount, I don't think two doublings in 10 years is unreasonable.
Meanwhile I replaced PopOS on my ThinkPad a couple days ago, for some reason I had an increasing number of bugs and stability issues. I'm getting the impression polished/user-friendly distros just don't like me.
I don't get it either, I actually enjoy getting things done and being responsible (to the extent that is reasonable) as well. Doing nothing makes me feel like a piece of shit. Not because of some kind of societal conditioning about work being inherently virtuous, I think, but because it feels good to contribute to something larger than yourself, and I think we should endeavor to contribute to society proportionately to what we receive from it.

This phenomenon of bragging about laziness or how little you work smells similar to the "I barely got any sleep last night" of yore.

Considering how much we take from society (you can look at your pay as that, or the fact we reap the benefits of centuries of technological progress, or that we have extremely physically easy jobs compared to the majority of the world's population), I think we have a duty to contribute back. It's pretty disappointing to see people in the software industry advocate for laziness considering how plum our jobs are and how much potential we have to contribute to the world.
social pressure makes customers pay more money, same goes for prices that seem lower than they are (prices on menus); less taxes
Being resilient to unreliable connections in general is a feature that was important initially and has never stopped being relevant.

The purpose of ARPANET was to implement applications like telnet, ftp, and email, so people could benefit from remote access to computers. The first network link went up in 1969 and the basic applications were implemented by 1973.

It seems to me that people knew exactly what they wanted to do from the get-go, it was useful almost immediately, and even though we have exponentially more people, computers, and applications today, the internet itself hasn't fundamentally changed.

This is not a proof that cryptocurrency is a dead end, but I think it's as clear as it can be that it has not been developed and adopted like internetworking was.

One could argue that the internet was in fact not innovative, transformative or interesting, and identify that as where it is different from cryptocurrency. Isn't connecting existing networks to each other as obvious, mundane, and utilitarian as it gets?

There is a RAND paper from the 60s that suggests the development of the internet over the next 50 years was fairly obvious:

https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P3717.html

It talks about online shopping, videoconferencing, etc. There are bound to be anachronisms, but even so.
Previous discussion (5 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28123530
Could you clarify what you’re saying? Are you saying bootstrapping is better or vc funding is better?
Files being persistent on storage has nothing to do with communicating through shared memory. It isn't necessary and it doesn't interfere if it's there. It is completely orthogonal, I don't know why it would ever be a part of the conversation when talking about direct reading and writing to the same memory.
> Most of Amazon jungle was, essentially, a big orchard.

What is your understanding of the word "orchard"?

What is your understanding of the word "jungle"?

> You have a great deal to learn about the prehistory of South American civilization.

I am always interested to investigate and learn. Could you link to a source for the estimate of 100 million Amazonian jungle inhabitants?
Ask HN: What tech stacks are indie hackers using for their apps and why?(update)
Hi, I'm starting a new project as indie hacker and actually I'm migrating to reactjs->nextjs and django drf->nextjs, postgresql

2018:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17578226
Does anyone here enjoy coding after a few drinks? I don't do this often but on a Friday evening if I feel the fancy to work late and am working on a known problem space-- I pour myself a couple of shots on gin, mix with a bit of lemonade and code away.

I get a lot done in this state as I am purely churning out code rather than constantly second guessing myself, looking for a more optimal ways of doing it or refactoring the code I have written every few mins to improve class/package structure, variable names and so on. Obviously I would never merge to master after a session of intoxicated coding.

And this code looks better than you think on a Monday morning when sober.
But you didnt finish the joke:

Then one day a new prisoner arrives.

Later that day when everybody is at their cells some other guy yells: "194". And,as usual, all people laugh.

Another one says "315". Even more laughter. Another: "873", the place is a mad house.

Emboldened and wishing to fit in, the new guy yells: "242".

Total silence. Not even a little chuckle. Embarrassed the new guy turns toward his cellmate and asks him: "What did I do wrong?,Isnt 242 a good joke?". His cellmate says: " it is indeed a good joke, it is hilarious.But you see, son, a joke is not just the story, the most important part is the way you tell it"
That's why I don't like them having a 'done' column (or bucket, state, whatever) - they should be at most archived, if not just outright deleted, IMO. Just to-do, maybe optionally doing, and gone. Gone for whatever reason. And then you're never tempted to play the silly game of 'add task I already did so that I can tick it off'.
NOVA has been undergoing a similar decline.

The latest episode was about the nanoarchitecture of butterfly wings, which is a fascinating topic.

A researcher mimicked the nano structure onto a piece of metal, a disk the size of a nickel, which is so hydrophobic that two disks close to each other would float, as it had essentially a bubble trapped between them.

The subtext of the show was about "combating climate change". So the narrator ludicrously suggests that it could be used to create floating cities because global water levels are rising.
IMO there is also 'culture' to various programming languages in their styles, standard libraries and so on. I think Java as language is actually fine, it's all the crap that surrounds it that makes it more unproductive or not. I find my self even once I get past 2000 lines that using something like python is less productive than a statically typed language.
How about "ScienceWrite" or "Science Writer"?
Not OP. Of course the two systems interact and feed eachother. The parent said the same thing, adding that linking the two too much causes a feedback loop only because we let it. I.e. letting the "victim to the system" become part of the culture, ingraining it and adding even more effect of the system over individual action.

We are forever intertwined with our environment. The only way to untangle it is to pick one guiding principle. I choose personal responsibility as it's the only way to stop perpetuating victimhood and suffering across generations.
For years and years, I used to be very excited every time SA arrived in my mailbox. But over time, it dumbed itself down, with great consistency, to the point that it's unbearable. I stopped subscribing long ago.
Not an argument, just answering the question.

Also,

> If it was so difficult to demonstrate a correlation then so many studies wouldn't have been able to do just that.

employs a fallacy, assuming the conclusion aka begging the question. But that's ok, because I'm really not arguing any position.
You should not pay attention to such conspiracy theories.
If someone offered you a burger for $500 you probably would not buy it, even if it was very good. Even if they suddenly discounted it to $350. It's just too much money for a burger.

This thing makes like $500m of annual revenue, not profit, whatever path to profitability one can imagine, hard to see how it can be "worth" $32000m. It's like 5000 years of earnings are priced in along with the assumption competitors don't try too hard for the same time period.

Basically every reality-based investor has long left the room. It's a meme stock. It's Dogecoin for devops kids. Underlying biz does not matter for meme stocks, one must look at what the meme lovers do, what trend they follow, etc. At the moment they're being moody, that's why it's down for now along with similar memetech stocks.

As a bonus they provide the captchas for all the crypto sites. When that sugar daddy leaves the room, LOL.
It’s up to you to make the judgement call - it’s not that hard to predict what VCs would want your product to become if they get involved, and it’s up to you to decide if that’s the direction you want to take for your vision. If what you want to do is incongruous with what you think the typical investor would want you to do to get their ROI, then bootstrapping might be valuable. Or you know you could be more deliberate in your search for investors (just be sure they are not saying something today with other intentions for tomorrow).
If I'm trying to learn something new (like a trendy JS framework), I use that. Otherwise, I use simple things like Rails or Laravel (no JS framework).
> putting bills in a stack in sight

What is this, the '90s?
> The overhead (cognitive and in the implementation) of fexprs isn’t really worth the ability to do things like lazy evaluation and generators when there are already perfectly adequate mechanisms available

I would argue precisely the opposite. FEXPRs went away because they were too powerful. You don't need a macro system when you have FEXPRs as it doesn't buy you anything.

Compiling FEXPRs can be difficult, however. Compiling MACROs is easy because they are, by definition, bounded--they just go from source-to-source (more on this later).

And everybody in Lisp-land who weren't just computation theorists were obsessed with speed back then. So, FEXPRs had to go.

Tcl is very close to FEXPRs; Shutt's thesis shows it just didn't quite go far enough.

In addition, Steve Russell didn't add these to Lisp just because. Every piece of code was precious back in those days. If Steve Russell added it, he had a really good reason. I mean, he didn't even invent continuations until faced with mutual recursion.

"quote" is actually the interloper--not FEXPRs. Even Alan Kay saw this way back.

Quoting Alan Kay:

> The biggest hit for me while at SAIL in late '69 was to really understand LISP. Of course, every student knew about car, cdr, and cons, but Utah was impoverished in that no one there used LISP and hence, no one had penetrated the mysteries of eval and apply. I could hardly believe how beautiful and wonderful the idea of LISP was [McCarthy 1960]. I say it this way because LISP had not only been around enough to get some honest barnacles, but worse, there were deep flaws in its logical foundations. By this, I mean that the pure language was supposed to be based on functions, but its most important components—such as lambda expressions, quotes, and conds—were not functions at all, and instead were called special forms. Landin and others had been able to get quotes and conds in terms of lambda by tricks that were variously clever and useful, but the flaw remained in the jewel. In the practical language things were better. There were not just EXPRs (which evaluated their arguments), but FEXPRs (which did not). My next question was, why on earth call it a functional language? Why not just base everything on FEXPRs and force evaluation on the receiving side when needed? I could never get a good answer ...

So, even as far back as 1969, the fact that FEXPRs were "theoretically messy" was already causing them to be ignored. The "big thinkers" required source-to-source transformation or they couldn't publish papers--run-time interpretation need not apply.

Look at how long "mutation" remained a "problem" in the theoretical computation community while FORTRAN just simply trundled along and solved people's problems. Now, think about what those same theoreticians would think about FEXPRs that takes "mutation" and turns it up to 11.

The theoreticians simply banished FEXPRs rather than have to think about them.
Many window managers, especially tiling, use super key extensively for shortcuts. This feels more like an acquired taste/habit than anything. Making applination-level shortcuts follow Windows make more sense for onboarding. Many keyboards have dip switches to swap the keys if you really cared.
XSLT is close enough and is already a programming language, albeit declarative as opposed to imperative.

Fun demo though!
Or Google didn't remove it for a DMCA violation and the result is how effective spending a million on SEO for an infrequent term can be. This result seems possible with or without Google's help.
On another episode, "The Universe Revealed: Big Bang", the presenters said:

"Somewhere there was a first planet that formed in the entire universe. We'll never know about it. We'll never know when it formed or what its fate was. But it formed somewhere!"
Doesn’t Windows 11 require sign in to a Microsoft account as has been reported in some places?
San Francisco drivers to get text alert before being towed
Engineering explained has a good video on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2txPzRP5DM it also addresses some of the user experience in aspects in a quantitative way. The vehicle efficiency is a factor, since it mean needing less energy. But really Tesla is far and above the other companies with the user experience in regards to charging. You can just plunk in your destination in the onboard navigation and be reasonably sure that everything will go smooth. Tesla monitors their chargers, tries to steer you to where you will get service and the chargers will perform very well charging your vehicle. It's a good experience.

Mach-e using Electrify America is probably the next best. But has issues.

Porsche/VW don't really have a good experience, and the others are even worse.

Tesla figured out early on that they have to sell an entire system, not just a car. Depending on 3rd parties to make that happen is foolish when it affects the core viability of your product. As the legacy OEMs are finding out.
You don’t get to decide what others research. Science doesn’t work by saying others can’t look into subjects you think are stupid. You can insert all the dramatic accusations you want, it’s still anti science.
I would suggest to people that want to colonize mars that we try a self-sustaining colony at Bir Tawil first. Of course it would need a sufficient budget, in USD or EUR per year, and cooperation from the adjacent governments for over-land transport of supplies and construction materials.

Not for the purpose of trying to claim it as a sovereign state (silly idea), but as a proof of concept on the volume of material/logistics involved and to stress-test the technology for self sustaining colony infrastructure.

Note that I am not saying we shouldn't also attempt a mars colony, but rather that running a pilot project/proof of concept at Bir Tawil or some similarly harsh environment would be a minuscule cost compared to the actual thing, and may prove very instructive.

It has the advantage of:

standard earth atmospheric pressure and air you can breathe

can go outside without a spacesuit

magnetosphere for radiation protection

ability to extract some drinkable water from the air, even if very arid, if you have sufficient amounts of electricity

relatively easy to transport dozens of tons of cargo to, likely using something like military-type 6x6 5 ton trucks

access to earth based telecommunications systems (geostationary satellites, iridium, inmarsat, etc)

photovoltaic systems can be installed that don't need to be hardened for vacuum
I'm having a hard time understanding your comment. Are you saying high performers will feign uselessness to get out of undesirable work or commitments? Or that being useless is a psychological defense mechanism for corporate survival? Something else?
As far as the veracity of Medium articles go, this is from the Wikipedia page describing Medium:

The platform is an example of social journalism, having a hybrid collection of amateur and professional people and publications, or exclusive blogs or publishers on Medium,[3] and is regularly regarded as a blog host.

I tend to take things I read on that website with a grain of salt.
I would suggest passing on Neil deGrasse Tyson or at least taking a second look. His smugness alone is enough reason for me to not have anyone, especially kids, look up to him. Not to mention, he's often just flat out wrong. I personally cannot stand even seconds of hearing him speak, and I find him insufferable. It's his lack of humility that really gets to me.

The original Cosmos is still available, and it's quite good.

These videos may not be the best, but it shows a side of him that I find distasteful. He behaves the same way in every panel I’ve seen him in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwZXR2PlcEM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTItMy5EI2o
> By low light mode on phones I assume you mean image stacking. This requires a stationary subject.

Which is a misconception. The entire point of stacking in smartphones is to handle lots of movement in a robust way, and it's surprisingly good at that. You can actually perform similar stacking manually for a camera, the algorithms are well known and there are applications to do just that, for example [1]. There's less benefit on a normal-sized sensor since it can perform much better with a single shot as you pointed out, but there are still valid uses for it in certain scenes where even proper cameras struggle, see [2].

[1] https://github.com/martin-marek/hdr-plus-swift

[2] https://www.timothybrooks.com/tech/hdr-plus/
I largely agree with the writer’s skepticism, both of the coins and of the VCs, but shouldn’t it be straightforward if time-consuming to confirm insider selling? If these are public blockchains, one ought to be able to notice and correlate big outflows from addresses with large holdings, no?
Modern Time for tvOS
If memory serves, KFC is HUGE in Japan which I think amplifies the cultural relevance.
This is a pretty poor criticism of the normal distribution, for one it doesn't contain a single mention of variance or standard deviation which is as important as the mean. Modelling something with a normal distribution does not say that any member of the sample actually recorded the average value, it simply states that the values cluster around the mean. If the average American household has 2.5 children, it's fairly obvious that there is not a household in the country that has the mean value. I haven't bothered to look at the underlying distribution of children but the principle is the same.
Something like 15 years ago I was at a conference and happened to sit at lunch table with a top editor of Scientific American. (Maybe the top one at the time, I don't remember.) I had been an enthusiastic subscriber for many years and still subscribed at that point, although I was concerned that it seemed to be dumbing itself down.

I mentioned that to the editor. I forget the exact words I used, but they were an attempt to be diplomatic, and she replied with something to the effect that the magazine had to have an audience. That was not encouraging. It had had an audience for more than 100 years just as it was.

The dumbing down continued until I couldn't enjoy it at all anymore, and I finally cancelled my subscription. That was a sad day. Now get my science news from r/science.
My father subscribed, and I found in his papers many articles he'd clipped out and saved, usually from the 1960s.

He'd given up on SA by the 1980s, saying their quality had declined.
The UI looks like early Chrome.
There is no long term when it comes to compulsions
This device doesn't appear to contain a CO2 sensor.
What does Medium have to do with anything I wrote?
It or similar ideologies. For example religion played a similar role. Now that people are more secular, many have adopted social justice as a new kind of religion.
This just kicks the can down the road, as the label "hyperprogressive" then becomes the ad hominem. Once you characterize or label the opponent, whether in contempt, approval or apathy, you've employed ad hominem fallacy.

Ignore the arguer. Speak only to the argument.
I read the magazine through high school as part of UIL competition. I loved it and it continued to be great through the 90s. Its a shadow of its former self.
I remember seeing the cabinet as a teen for the first time at a convenience store and hearing that punch in the intro sequence. It was such a hard sounding punch sound. You knew this game was banging.
OK. You got me. Why is a creationist revisionist science article on radiocarbon dating on HN. What's the "gimme" here?
What’s the state of the art for file systems in the age of M2 drives that are bonkers fast? I dunno about everyone else, but knowing hierarchically where my disk space is going is a really common concern.
1psi is actually quite a lot.

Standard CPAP machines max out at just over 0.25psi, and even ventilators usually max out about 0.4-0.5psi.
> Files being persistent on storage has nothing to do with communicating through shared memory.

Files (whether persistent or not) have not really anything to do with communication through shared memory. In the implementation of an API like shm_open(), the VFS (virtual filesystem) is simply the address space and lookup mechanism that an operating system like Linux happens to use in order to find the memory that should be shared.

> It isn't necessary and it doesn't interfere if it's there.

Sure it does interfere. By backing memory needlessly with a persistent file, you're causing disk I/O from the loading and flushing (that can't really be controlled) and potentially bad performance.

Also, as explained, if you use a persistent file to track the synchronization state, the synchronization state won't be reset when the communicating processes die unexpectedly, and this might be problematic.
Sure, it's not a solution in and of itself. It's useful to destabilize you from well-rehearsed thought patterns, though - and if you manage to hit the Ballmer Peak of soggy introspection, maybe you can manage to make some progress.
Can you point me to the relevant episodes? I scrolled through and I'm not sure I'm going to find it with titles like "why i want to f Captain planet"
For those wanting to know, her surname is "Bacon".
Surely the oligarchs can see the writing on the wall for the fossil fuels industry? I know it will take longer than most imagine for us to migrate, but these are not unintelligent people, are they diversifying yet?
Reminds me of Genshi, which was really cool about.... 15 years ago. https://pythonhosted.org/Genshi/templates.html

The big difference between Genshi and Jinja (which ended up winning) is that Genshi templates are valid XHTML using the "py:" XML namespace for control flow, and Jinja templates use their own syntax (and therefore can template things other than XML).
I registered here while drinking alone, and now look what I’m stuck with