skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like your vision. Definitely sounds easier to use than what we have here amd now.
Even in Web3, the Rule Is “Convenience Uber Alles”
Can you explain a little bit more?

What odds?

What part of that successful people do?

What do you mean by loser?
Have you directly compared one and the same movie on Netflix and another medium (DVD/Blu-Ray/another streaming service)? Maybe your problem isn't with Netflix.

Movies generally tend to have a high dynamic range. That's how they play in the cinema where action scenes are supposed to stand out from the dialogue and that's how many people want them in their home theatres as well.

I personally did not notice anything special with the audio on Netflix.
AtlasObscura is a great resource to take family or friends to unique places.
One of the remarkable places we’ve found was Landschaftspark in Duisburg, Germany. It’s a disused industrial site that allows visitors to go high up the tall structures and ovens for a great overview of the area. Visit it when the sun sets and the structures are lit with different colored lights.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/landschaftspark-duisburg...
Here, I think "open" means "being worked on in some app", rather than "has an active file handle".
SG-1 for me is like a great slice of pizza. Not fine dining, but a comfort food that hits the spot in a way that makes me come back more frequently.
Divisive identity politics could well be one symptom of the breakdown of the USA, but I doubt that it's the reason.

It pretty clear that in the last forty years, politics has primarily focused on the needs of the wealthy[0], to the detriment of the needs of the general populous. This has led to a massive discontentment in the populace that - in my opinion - was the driving factor in the election of Donald Trump. (The Democrats were able to bring their populist wing under control, otherwise it could well have been Bernie.)

So, all in all I think it is the misguided attempts by the elites to somehow divert the plebes from the realization that they have been screwed over that's breaking the USA. On the right this is done using white-grievance politics and xenophobic propaganda, on the left using identity politics.

What they use in the end doesn't matter, as long as they manage to divide the plebs.

Unfortunately, the spiral of escalating language has now reached a point where the 'other' side is so railed up that legitimate elections are being questioned. I hope the elites are smart enough to turn it around before they totally wreck the country.

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
It's exactly this, i've been thinking about this a lot lately.

I mean who is 'anybody' anyway. People talk about legacy, but I think it's just ego. They don't want to accept they will be one day gone and nobody cares, so they want to build something they think will extend there life beyond that.

But does it really matter anyway? Even the most successful of the successful, does it really matter? What about the person with the statue in the city centre? Does anyone really care? It might be a good looking statue but people generally don't care about that person, they didn't know them etc and this is all that they have become. That person is long gone and knows nothing of there 'legacy'

In the scale of the universe, you and Steve Jobs are of no real difference.

It reminds me of the starfish story, there was a young boy on the beach throwing washed up starfish back into the water, an older man approaches the boy and says 'look at all the starfish on the beach, you won't be able to make any difference, what is the point?' the young boy looks back at the man, throws the next one back and says 'Made all the difference to that one?'

In the scale of the whole universe who cares about you? In the scale of the earth who cares about you? In the scale of your country who cares about you? In the scale of your city who cares about you? In your street, who cares about you? But to the people you directly know and interact with? Who cares about the universe.

Your world is your own. Being 'average' is not really average. You can count and matter extremely by being 'average' to the people around you, rather than trying to be successful and effect things further outside of that, indeed really the only people you will truly matter to are those people, everyone else would just get an illusion of you anyway.

Despite all the messed up things about the world, perhaps of greatest comfort is the things that can make us truly happy are open to most, it's just the things that we think will that have lower availability.
I use appblock and when I want to take a step back from using my phone too much block everything except for Google Maps, WhatsApp, messaging and the actual phone. It has a strict mode that will prevent you from turning it off, uninstalling it or changing your settings that you can put on a timer. I find a couple of weeks resets the brain so even afterwards I don't use it as much for a few months, although it creeps back.
> OSM contains errors and I don't know how to fix them.

The easy part of the answer to this is: go to openstreetmap.org, sign up for an account, login (top right) and then press the "Edit" button (top left). There is a lot of info[0] on their wiki on how to get started.

There is also information on how to map power lines[1] - I am guessing applying it to your specific example is what might be a bit harder, but it's probably doable.

The overpass-api tool is useful for finding objects, for example the power lines in the area that you mentioned: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1f6N

It's sometimes a bit fiddly, but when I very occasionally (like once a year) find something to correct, I can get it done.

Happy mapping.

[0] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guide
[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Power_lines
Episode 100 was phenomenal too (Wormhole X-Treme)
Having recently switched to Fedora KDE, I agree. It is an excellent desktop experience and I think it's a great first stop for anyone interested in switching to Linux.

I had a good experience with Mint Cinnamon too, but the system seems overall better-integrated in Fedora KDE.
I love the title photo. It really resonates with me. As for the topic of the article, what encorages me personally are two ideas. First, I believe that "me" is not actually something permanent. It cannot be used as a reference. It loses and acquires traits all the time. "Me" from a ten years ago is a different person. Second, we are what we do. So the moment I start doing or pursue something worthwhile, I already enjoy the different "me" and the sense of accomplishment. This immediate positive feedback boosts my self-motivation.
Being that tokens are the leaves of the AST, there are a lot of them and they can take a lot of space. To save memory it is a good idea to store only a file location instead of a full token. Whenever token information is needed, just lex again to get the full token, starting at the file location. This works only for languages with a context-free lexical syntax, of course (and not entirely sure "context-free" is the right term here but you get what I mean).

Storing row/column in file location data is wasteful - just a file offset should be enough. Whenever the row/column coordinates are needed (normally only in user messages) they can be quickly recomputed.

In effect, parsed tokens can be stored as just an offset - a 4 or 8 byte integer.
… until the HN hug of death
"The result of any sufficiently complex process is indistinguishable from randomness."
- A. Kolmogorov [1]

[1] Unpublished email
This is definitely a thing. Nowadays, the only thing I care about when considering to join a startup is "Does this founder have a rich daddy?"
People have been predicting the demise of Microsoft for going on twenty years now. Gets old frankly.

They are incredibly diversified. If anything, they themselves no longer see Windows as the crown jewel, which would explain more than a few HN gripes
Small suggestion: instead of hardcoding the .se domain, you might want to send a request to Wikidata to get the currently ised domains. That's how similar sci-hub tools do it to stay up-to-date.
So your reasoning does not deal with anything we're discussing, rather you go on describing people as cryptobros, define their characteristics and then make a conclusion, based on what you think. So you didn't bring anything to the conversation other than your wrongly held opinions. I could go on my own exploration and conclude that you, speaking in such a way, don't know what you are talking about.
How tumblr became popular for being obsolete
I did it for a while - because I don't like using a phone for browsing or app-based stuff vs. in browser on my computer, don't like notifications telling me what to do, etc.

After a while I got a 'dumb' phone in case of emergencies.

Navigation is harder, but actually it's nice to navigate London with your head up, remembering things, and realising how two familiar areas you know distinctly are connected, etc. Not to say I never looked up a route before leaving home.

Ultimately it was WhatsApp for family that got me to buy a phone again.
Don't start with all these productivity systems...

I tried them all.

Keeping a second brain for me was just waste of time and being busy with writing stuff down. A quick google search was most often faster.

Journaling after a full journal did not give me anything in return. Just a journal full of crap.

Planing my whole week in a calendar when to do what... Good luck with a child doing that. Specially if you don't have the money for a nanny of sorts. A 5 months old baby gives a shit about your plans.

The only thing that really helped for me when I wanted to write a blog post every week was to do with a friend together and beetling money on who loses will pay a good meal.
where is the panic though? this is just an op-ed. there's not even any strong language in it. the panic you are seeing is a projection, because you are the one who is panicking.
> many Japanese people celebrate Christmas Eve by eating KFC

And in Sweden there is a tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas day afternoon. I found this quite bemusing when I spent a Christmas in the country once.

[0] https://www.thelocal.se/20181222/swedishchristmas-the-tradit...
It is the way you put it which is troublesome. The key is that a single grand narrative never work as there are many beings, institutions, dynamics and unknowns in play. At any one time you may see a pattern. But that is superficial. Many in many with unknown is always in play. Single out any one aspect would lead to totalitarian even if you are libertarian.

Start with many and end with many. Not one. Not even you You will die one day and hence it is not just you or your belief.

Open your mind. And walks on.
In reference to your comment that got downvotey'd, I don't think it provided much value to anyone ("we scrapped a small ocaml project because the ocaml guy left", is very... well, expected)

And multiple people provided detailed rebuke as well against the implication that it was ocaml's fault.

I'd say your comment came off as snide more than smug

Regardless, in that case it seemed to work perfectly, you felt bad for posting snide remarks, and will less likely post such things in the future
Wow! Look at the scammers in the replies. That’s intense!
It often happens with HN that I don't find particularly notable that some writings exist... of course there is somebody who would write pieces glorifying drinking alone, and I'm sure there are people who would truly believe in it. It's the fact that it's on HN and has 230+ upvotes that somehow makes this notable.

As I've said, it isn't surprising that it finds its audience, but this gets me thinking: if there was a similar poetic piece talking about "the Zen of taking heroin alone", would people be more inclined to see it as a satire or would they be more inclined to find some deep wisdom in it precisely because it's a bit more unusual and less romanticized than alcohol? Would it gather more upvotes?

And, well, I won't be seriously discussing the topic (it seems a bit silly to me), but since I've made the comparison: yes, I do totally think these are more or less equivalent things.
Don't people think it's just crazy having to pay the overlords a wealth tax? One thing is to pay for capital gains or new income, but you already paid taxes when you bought the house/property.
> That one employee he noticed seemed to have concluded his comment with a rather sarcastic thanks directed toward someone who might be one of the responsible?

Presumably, that's "Thanks, <my username>@" as a signature, since the name matches.
The SG:U story you mean? FYI there is a comic that continues right where the show left of: Stargate Universe: Back to Destiny.
> cooperation from the adjacent governments

This is fairly impossible with two nations currently in a border dispute. Antarctica is a better place for that because there are no nations at war, no bandits, no geostationary satellites. It's quite a bit like Mars only with more water and an atmosphere.
perhaps! I'm not an expert on this topic, just pointing out that the article everyone is freaking out about is pretty mild and seems to me firmly within the boundaries of acceptable speech
Maybe a dumb question but what Intel would a drone be able to collect compared to a satellite in such a scenario?
And in KDE when you use the bug report tools, someone actually technical ends up reading and acting upon those reports. ;)
That is a very thought-provoking case, but the article does say "the Mignonette was registered in Britain for jurisdiction under s.267 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854" (and presumably that jurisdiction extended to the lifeboat too).

My assumption is that even if the victim and defendants weren't British citizens (or subjects) the case would still have fallen under British jurisdiction, whereas if the same incident had occurred on a boat registered to a different nation, Britain would have to rely on the courts of that country to interpret their own laws on the matter.

I suppose it's possible that another country could have in its laws a defence of necessity that was applicable to that precise situation, and I don't know how double-jeopardy rules and extradition treaties interact with the nationality or passive personality principles of personal jurisdiction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_jurisdiction#Internat...
> For example two of my banks now make it impossible to use their online banking unless you have their 2FA apps and I can't log in to my employer's systems without a 2FA app (and you can only get those on the Apple App Store for iOS or Google Play for Android).

That should be illegal... The employer at least I suppose you can already request a work phone if they require it. At least I'm pretty sure that's the case here.

Actually, are you sure the banks require their apps though, even if they say they do? Google also says you need its Authenticator for example, but you don't, you can use Authy.
Out of all joke domains I've seen, this one is probably the laziest.

They got a standard city template, changed the title... and that's it. They didn't even replace the lorem ipsum.

1/5 stars, would not recommend.
The fact that the text is 'Hello there'.

I wonder if a MSFT employee was typing a response to you, but accidentally clicked edit on your comment and it overwrote your content before they realised what they have done, then panicked and just hit submit.
We are so lucky that capitalism causes no distruction.

The idea that constant growth is possible is also not insane at all ;)
I cancelled my cell phone contract right at the end of 2013. I haven't paid for a phone service or carried a phone since.
I don't see a single flagged comment, what are you on about?

What do you want to tell us about communism which we haven't yet heard?
Even the simple act of trying will improve your odds of success. Some basic strategies:

1. stay in school

2. don't do drugs

3. don't do crimes

If you want to be a pro basketball player, your odds will improve if you practice playing basketball. Want to be a guitar god? Get a guitar and start practicing. Every guitar god I've heard of have one thing in common - they played a lot, for many many years, before breaking through.

Doing nothing pretty much guarantees you won't get what you want.

This isn't rocket science.

> What do you mean by loser?

Doesn't matter what my personal definition is. I bet you have your own personal definition of a loser. You'll increase your odds of becoming one by doing what they do.
Okay, that makes sense. Hopefully we have whistleblower protections and reward for individuals too, like a bug bounty program for the economy :)
Care to make an accurate, precise critique? Because that's the kind that makes science tick, and the type that scientists take seriously.
Surely you're aware of Jonestown, which was a much larger such event?
6 minutes solution here : https://replit.com/@vcch/VitalOrangeDatalogs
I'd say they're getting closer to becoming science, but aren't there yet.

BTW I wonder what they're going to do about the possibility of plowing into a small rock fragment at several times the speed of light?

If they can't solve this problem traveling at these velocities would essentially mean playing Russian Roulette with the probability of the crew dying at any moment.
Totally agreed. Just hope the peer 2 peer survived for the time to come. Internet promised of decentralization is not realized. But still we can dream. As long as we can, peer2peer will come.
>What part of that successful people do?

1. they are rarely stupid

2. they often sleep a lot less

3. they more often than not are hyperthymiacs (related to #2).

4. they produce unlimited amounts of self-generated morale (related to #3).

5. they are stress tolerant (related to #4)

6. they are healthier in general (related to all of the above)

I don't know very many successful people with numerous chronic health conditions that impair their cognition to the point of debility, who are asleep 16 hours a day, constantly depressed and demotivated and break down at the first sight of adversity.

Do you?
> It's not like they had an OS product.

Gates had a plan to get one, though.

> networking

Want to improve your odds? Go to tech conferences. I met and talked with Gates at one in the 80s. Nothing came of it, but I didn't really try to engage him. I spent a half hour talking to Allen, too. He offered me a job. I turned it down.

My mom didn't open these doors. I did.
It smells like the developer is in charge of the component and he didn’t want the report posted there publicly.
The UI changes are very disruptive to other people. As an example, think all the people who for decades placed the taskbar on the side.

Also, the bullshit minimum requirements are obviously about pushing DRM.
Aren’t all those examples “day X profitable” startups? As in startups that had a profitable business model from day 1 and it only took them some share of the market to become profitable after an initial loss (usually operational). GitHub was making money in their very first year.

Many startups these days follow the “never profitable” business model in the hopes of being bailed out by angel investors or IPO.

I’d say it’s definitely possible to bootstrap when your profit grows along with your business. Not possible when you burn money every single day forever.
Interesting. Presumably that would have been a good source of genetic mutations for early life?
I was actually talking about former - stop outsourcing 'reading and writing' to dev shops.

Rules and policies are quite intricately thought through and they get refined as and when 'bugs' or 'holes' are detected (to the detriment of work culture - yet another condition for buying paperclips).

It is often software implementation which does not take care of all ifs and buts, as nobody has patience to write a detailed specs. Most often software tools addresses only frequent cases; when it comes to outliers and exceptions one defaults to 'manual methods' (emails, meetings, face to face talks, etc).

Software implementations can be way behind when trying to keep pace with system intricacies that human minds can conjure up.
People have been predicting "The Year of the Linux Desktop" forever now, too. Truth is, for some that'll never happen, and for others (like me) it happened many years ago.
As a solo operation you can start a small contracting firm specifically aimed at the needs of the 3 letter groups. Build connections, and slowly increase your rate. If you are very very good.

There are online examples of people also doing this for terrible countries and using their skills for gray areas. Those can pay equally well if you don't have any ethics :).

Of course much easier if you build a small team with a unique skill set and then bill an insane amount. The "DC marketplace" is it's own beast.
I don’t agree DS9 did that (aside from the aforementioned episode). DS9 was the darkest and most heavily story arc dependent entry of all the 90s (and earlier) Star Trek series. Though Enterprise and onwards do take Star Trek in another direction (as you said too). I think DS9 would be Star Treks best example of a story arc emphasis and gritty character development (Sisko is very much an anti-hero at times. In fact every leading character has a spot light shined on their flaws. And as for the villains; they’re fleshed out and really disturbing at times (like the episode where Gul Dukat and Sisko are stranded on a planet and Dukat tries to convince Sisko that he’s actions during the occupation were justified - that has some really chilling moments). SG1, on the overhand, kept the “evilness” of the bad guys on a much lighter scale.

The Orville is a stronger example of a Star Trek-style show that balances all the same elements as SG1. The The Orville is written more as an out and out comedy, perhaps even a parody, with some drama elements rather than a drama with some comedy elements (like SG1 was).

I’d mentioned elsewhere about the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) hitting the same comedic tones too.
No questions (yet) but I found this a really good post. I'm a Rust newbie and I've coincidentally just started working through 'Crafting Interpreters' using Rust as my implementation language. Some of your code has helped clarify things in my mind.

My actual long-term goal is to build a VM in Rust and then use this to re-do the Make A Lisp project [0]. I completed this a couple of years ago using C# but felt vaguely uneasy that I was using C# to do the heavy lifting associated with garbage collection, etc.

[0] https://github.com/kanaka/mal