skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also I had a feeling their main argument is that they’re getting overwhelmed by the list itself. I guess it can be a problem, but the solution is to learn to let your list go sometimes.

Yeah, near the end:

> Here's my challenge. If you can't wake up every day and, using your 100% original equipment God-given organic brain, come up with the three most important things you need to do that day – then you should seriously work on fixing that. I don't mean install another app, or read more productivity blogs and books. You have to figure out what's important to you and what motivates you; ask yourself why that stuff isn't gnawing at you enough to make you get it done. Fix that.

He's kinda indirectly saying you should have a daily to-do list, started anew instead of ever-growing, just avoiding using the term "to-do list".

Amusing little aside, I use "to-do list" instead of "todo list" because I can't help read it as the Spanish "todo", which would translate to "everything list". That would be too overwhelming a list.
Sure, and diabetes around 0.05%, and then the assortment of cognitive, respiratory, and cardiac symptoms that are less life threatening but more common. AAP has a reasonable overview:

https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19...

There's a fair amount of uncertainty but stack it up the likely negative outcomes and I wouldn't let my unvaccinated kid catch COVID if I had a reasonable way to achieve that.
> Perhaps you have the mistaken belief that the money you pay in taxes is still your money.

More precisely, I'd say that the government's right to take our resources by force and redistribute them is constitutionally subject and subordinate to their obligation to represent our will as voters. Maybe that makes me a radical?

I also wonder why, per your analogy, you think student debtors have some kind of employer-employee relationship with the state?
Wrong question, why it's not apples iphone, they sold it to you. And as a user you might be interested in a browser from a company interested in you using the web and not being stuck with apps that only work inside the walled garden
Games have conserved (or re-invented, not sure) the older notions of AI, where even algorithms like A* were discovered by and considered part of the AI "movement".
Get yourself a terminal that supports smart copy. It's a thing.

Tilix, kitty, Windows Terminal and others support using ctrl-c for both copy-to-clipboard and SIGINT.

To me it's a game changer and judging from the sibling comments, pretty much no one knows this is a feature that exists. Ctrl-Shift-C/V is barbaric and I have opened issues and merge requests to implement it in other popular terminal emulators.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

The Essence operating system at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29386605 - Nov 2021 (39 comments)

Essence – An Operating System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28123530 - Aug 2021 (42 comments)
99% of crypto enthusiasts are in the game because they think it's a get rich quick scheme. It's only natural that a significant subset of them would be attracted to such scams.
> Amateur Scientist 3.0 CD-ROM, including columns from 1928 to 2001

I know a lot of DataHoarders, who would love to get a hand on this ;-)
Left Alive And Unchanged: The Heaven’s Gate Website
I also thought masks was about exhalation, but the general public seems to have misunderstood this from the onset. Politicians probably helped that along, since it's easier to promote selfish mask-wearing than altruism.

However, I didn't see that in HN discussions. Now it seems goal posts have shifted, and HNers also expect inhalation protection. I'm assuming N95 masks have proven effective, so the bar was suddenly raised. Or something to that effect.
It’s been two and half decades since 39 devotees of the UFO cult Heaven’s Gate died by a mass suicide in a mansion outside San Diego and someone still keeps their website preserved as it looked in 97. This article examines who’s keeping it alive and dives into the role the internet played in the history of the cult.
Another great game with a lot of this is The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Its chemistry engine which allows "elements" (heat, wind, electricity, magnetism,...) and material properties (combustible, magnetic, metallic,...) to react without any specific scripts per item.

This leads to cases such as when I chopped down an apple tree with an enchanted fire sword. The sword made the tall grass catch fire. This created an updraft. Wood from the tree caught fire and turned into a fireplace (with a prompt to sit and wait by the fire). The apples turned into baked apples from the heat.
I think it would be more accurate to say "having your sovereignty recognised by other countries automatically makes you a country", but obviously there are bootstrapping problems with that definition.
I use AutoHotKey in Wine, and that works for me.
The same way that counting Android phones as desktop does?
Of course it is about costs, which was driven by the fact that the technology for on sensor phase detect autofocus got good enough that the separate phase detect array was no longer required to achieve high performance cameras (the DSLRs days were numbered when the Sony A6000 was released), and probably today would result in worse performance.
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For whatever reason, people in this site seem to be cloistered in places that have mask mandates, when in most states this is a moot point because most states don’t have mask mandates. And at some point people will start leaving places with these mandates for places without them, because for some reason no one wants to admit that wearing a mask is really annoying.
I have never heard anyone particularly praise Skyrim's story, and rarely even the lore.

What I think people usually like about it is the mix - magical world, graphics, decently weighty combat, big monsters, people to talk to or murder or steal from etc. It doesn't excel at any one of these, but there is also nothing else outside the series offering the same combination. Perhaps RDR2 does improve on every aspect, but the massive difference in setting will still mean that both have a place - especially for this type of exploration game.
The most powerful ideas in live
- Time Billionaire

- Darkest Hour Friends

- Engineered Serendipity

- Create Leverage

- Free Time as Call Option

- Decentralized Friend Groups

- Work Like a Lion

- Q1 Relationships (Healthy & Enjoyable)

- The Persuasion Paradox

- Inversion (Think forward and backward)

- Green Lines vs Black Lines

- Ben Franklin's "Junto"

- Build vs. Sell

- The Feynman Technique

- The Weekend Test

- The Eisenhower Decision Matrix

- The Regret Minimization Framework

- Play to Learn

- Positive Sum Magnetism

- The Wisdom Paradox

- The Power of No

- The Zone of Genious
Like many security exploits have proven, being FOSS matters very little when there aren't resources to keep it going.

Derrick, Anne and Louisa won't switch if it doesn't support their shinny new laptop.

By the way, I do use Linux since Slackware 2.0, winning Windows desktop market share was the original goal of The Year of Linux Desktop.

Now one can to turn it around to make it mean a slightly different goal, so that after 30 years it can finally tick the box.

Ironically the Year of Linux Desktop has been achieved indeed.

Derrick, Anne and Louisa don't need to switch, because it already runs on a VM installed via Windows Store.
It doesn't signify much as you say, but there is a minor industry of farming reddit karma and then selling those accounts for use by people who want to astroturf.
Can Windows/Linux not rename a file while it’s open, show a folder’s size, or rename a document from within its app window?
Show HN: GoDBLedger-Web – GUI Interface for Open Source Accounting System
take your pick:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computin...
Check out https://nypost.com/ - shifts and redraws constantly, freezes completely needing page killed on a regular basis, consumes high while completely idle, makes iPhone hot if left open on NYPost page (swear their ad network must be mining crypto or something), routine usage crashes iOS browsers. No additional css needed!
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Guesswork?

Atmospheric carbon levels are irrelevant to this. C14 date calibration is about the *ratio* of C14 to C12 and C13, not the absolute quantity. Biological processes to not meaningfully select between the isotopes of carbon, anything that grows while exposed to the atmosphere will contain carbon in the same ratio as the atmosphere--but over time the C14 decays, the ratio shifts. That tells you how long since it grew.

(Note the "exposed to the atmosphere" provision--one of the arguments the creationists love is to cite some examples of living organisms that date old. They didn't run the test for giggles, but rather to examine the environment in which the organism was found. Pull something out of a deep cave, date it and you now know how fast the air is exchanged between that location and surface atmosphere. This is because virtually all C14 is created by high energy particles hitting the upper atmosphere.)
I absolutely love that they retrieved it from the river.
Better version for Fleetwood Mac fans

https://youtu.be/FgyPp0f5fAc
I'm a bit disappointed that this wasn't about Auguste Rodin's sculpture, The Gates of Hell:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gates_of_Hell

There's a copy outside the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, no admission charge.
How ironic.

When I was canceling my paypal account a few years ago, paypal prompted me: It's free to have a paypal account, so if you don't want to use it, just leave it.

It's hard for me to imagine when someone opens his old PayPal account and finds out that he was charged 10 €. (not even in US dollars)
While that's true and an interesting tidbit, for the purpose of this conversation I think you can charitably take parent's meaning to be "the majority believes untrue things all the time, that's not a good basis for deciding what is true and what isn't".
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Almost all of those violations are violations of marketing practices. Not that Pfizer is a panacea of Good or anything but the list of violations generally have nothing to do with the science of their products or science in general.

And of course, 75 situations over 20 years is meaningless. One situation was a $7,500 workplace safety issue. These aren’t “Pfizer killed people with their products!” violations. Should someone go to jail? Seems odd to throw that out without talking about what the violations were.
Does it run Skyrim?
If you form a new country that country isn't a part of existing treaties.
Yes, and several others since.
Of course it isn't, I could as well just have mentioned TP 3.0 and leave it there.

However I bothered to try to find out something to show to others.

TP 3.0 was my first Turbo Pascal, I had floppy with it alongside MS-DOS 3.3, to carry around into highschool computer lab.
Dramatically reduced power usage in Firefox 70 (2019)
Apple has shared out photos of me without my permission. There was little to no urgency or care when I reported it. This is not a surprise, nor the least of their issues.
Which other programming language implementations have provided scheduling independent from the host OS?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_threads
Hello Hackernews!

I've been building an open source Accounting System and have finally the web interface to a point were I can do a Demo vid!

GoDBLedger is meant to be an accounting system for programmers who want to write scripts for their financial transactions, and then give you access to the database so you can analyse the transactions using whatever analytics software you are comfortable with.

Check it out on github:

https://godbledger.com/
https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger

I also did some cool things with Metabase in an older video, we built a financial dashboard which showed your income month by month live and updated whenever GoDBLedger received a manual journal. That demo video can be found here:

https://youtu.be/PeQR7GseFQI

Happy to discuss any an all things about accounting, and would love any feedback that Hackernews has for this project!

Cheers
Sean
> Training on all the jQuery code won’t yet give you an AI that can write React.

If AI genuinely took over coding then languages would become obsolete. The most basic turing complete language, probably some sort of RISC assembly, would be all that would ever be needed.

But when will we get there? A decade ago it seemed like fully autonomous self driving vehicles were just around the corner. Now? Well that corner seems a lot further away than it did then, simply because the problems getting from 99% to 100% are proving quite resilient. Sigmoid curves look exponential on the way up...
It is if you plug a monitor and peripherals. Runs a full KDE Plasma desktop.
Quebec. Power is much, much cheaper there.
No Signs yet of a Tech Texodus
Develop? Manufacture? They'd just buy them.

The cost is trivial.
North Pole solar eclipse excited auroras on the other side of the world
Might just be because I grew up with the SNES version, but I found I prefer most of the tracks from it to their original Arcade counterparts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cegjc9BIlnU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFbn4nuTMj8

The arcade version clearly has more layers to it which make it more interesting, but the instruments just sound too MIDI to me. I kinda wish there had been some version with all of the arcade's layers but the SNES chip's soundfonts.
All of that is just conjecture until Apple actually allows different browser engines.
Spoiler / tl;dw: the cats were dying of alcohol poisoning. This was a bit surprising, since cats do not drink alcohol. What was happening instead was that they were getting covered in alcohol by walking through puddles, and then consumed the alcohol while licking themselves clean.

The bug that was eventually fixed was that a cat that walked through a spilled mug and cleaned itself shouldn't have been considered to have drunk a whole mug.
Goodness, indeed. But, in the context of memes, this means ideas no longer have to be beneficial to their human hosts in order to proliferate. It used to be that you’d have to be at least moderately well-to-do (thus, capable financially and biologically) for extended periods of time in order for your ideas to appear in print and be spread. That is no longer the case: an idea might be deadly or ruinous within hours and still have enough time to go viral.
Quantum Physics and Free Will: Part One [pdf]
So what is a "type", according to this formalism?

Isn't it a function from any value you can create in a programming language to Boolean result which tells if that value is a member of that type?
I wouldn't be surprised if we dont see a flock of people leaving Quebec now that they are adding a taxation.

The courts even prevent you from seeing your own children:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-judge-suspend...

I'm far from an antivax supporter but reckless obedience to the degrading of liberty would have me looking elsewhere quick
A similar thing happened to me at work, where we use O365 for mail (not my choice). One day lots of people starting getting mail that was sent about a year previously and not received until then (not resends as in your case). As an aside, O365 is easily the worst mail system I've ever personally used, by far, in about 25 years of email.
We've been using this in production for about six months, with various reactions from users. The results are mixed -- some really like it but others have sent us terrifying emails and we've lost two support staff in the great resignation over it. Your mileage may vary.
In practice the true effect of mirrorless cameras and their new lens mounts are in how they affect the optical formulas that manufacturers are choosing. No longer does an optical designer have to make the same compromises when they can assume that distortion, vignetting, etc. can all be corrected in camera and in software. The shorter flange distance gives more options for optical designs that may allow for smaller or more efficient designs.

The other interesting development has been with the use of linear motors for moving lens elements which is allowing for significantly improved autofocus speeds on lenses that would traditionally have been expected to focus slowly.
Doesn't do this for me, but then all the ad blocking stuff I have installed probably helps.
Which countries?

Canada: Yes

Australia: Yes

UK: looks like cant lie about evidence?
but alcohol is so pedestrian. and socially acceptable. this is somehow even more pathetic than being a weed guy.

style would require an edgier, more risque substance, and a narrative. but you'll never see it. i think even tweakers know better than to spend energy justifying choices to strangers
Linus tried to make the point that on windows you don't have to pay close attention when doing something minor like installing Steam. Because why should something like that ever even have the potential to remove your desktop environment? (*On a system meant for the common consumer that is not an expert in the domain*)

Yes he didn't pay attention to the warning, but in fairness Linux gives a lot of warnings. Sudo gives a warning when you first use it, and that's clearly used all the time. To you and I who know what "gnome-de" is (or whatever the package name is) the warning is clear. But to someone new to the space, DE is not a commonly used acronym.
M1 Mac Atrocious External Display Text Blurriness
I'm suffering from a really bad problem where the text on my M1Pro Mac is blurry when connected to any external display.24" 1080p monitors look blurry, and 1440 27" monitors also look blurry.

This is particularly obvious when comparing the text quality of Windows to Mac side by side. For reference I've attached an image taken on a 1440p 27" screen running Windows inside a VM. The text quality of Windows is vastly clearer. [1]

In VSCode it is absolutely atrocious despite looking great on Windows on the same display. [2]

I'm at my wits end and have tried everything from running dummy displays with BetterDummy to messing around with DisplayLink adaptors to try and figure out what's wrong.

Does anyone else have this issue or a solution? Is a new monitor the only solution? If so which monitors don't produce this blurriness?

[1] https://i.imgur.com/cxQDMGT.png
[2] https://i.imgur.com/xvryQUp.png
Again, why would the6 care? They were barely literate before the revolution, more literate after but probably still not very interested in old texts from the imperial and republic eras. So they were probably just being dumb if that was their intention. Heck, today most Chinese at the university level learn to read archaic imperial era texts in the original form (making traditional characters look downright modern), they seem to have gone in the opposite direction.

It’s not like traditional Chinese evolved from the Chinese writing before that. Many characters in traditional Chinese are simplified compared to the same characters in say Japanese (consider telephone in Japanese vs Chinese).
Because it very likely won't happen to them — or so they think
Reminds me of

> The Valentine’s Day Text Message Mystery

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21486124

> Text messages being resent from February, in November

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21474961
The obsolescence of programmers has been five years out for how many decades now? Remember when COBOL was going to make it so easy for business analyst and management to work with programs directly? (No, seriously; the fact that it reads almost like English is not an accident.) And sometimes we do make meaningful progress and perhaps AI will be the magical thing that changes everything, but you will forgive me not holding my breath.
You're comparing 2 games which were a generation of console apart and a lot of things happen between those 7-8 years.

> People will say, ah yes but the story, the lore! But if I wanted that I'd read a book.

That story and lore in the video game are exactly the reason I play video games i.e. video game can easily transport you into a world which you can see/hear/play-in instead of only imagining it in your mind. Books can never come anywhere close to that because of obvious restrictions of the medium and that was the reason, many (including me) were instantly captivated by the world of Skyrim. They successfully created a world full of atmosphere and lore along with the freedom of exploration and managed to do it excellently even compared to most of the games released now (and the thing is I also played Skyrim late in 2019, yet it is probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite game of all time).

It's unfortunate that you didn't like it, so have fun with RDR2 (which is an excellent game with arguably the best storyline and characters in any video game till date).
In the old times all sms were transport of the tcap layer in ss7 stack. Tcap was reliable non flow controlled protocol with no way to handle the extra traffic(carriers just used 64kb trunk line) by all the new kids sending sms. Then somebody in the vendor community had the idea let’s drop sms if the trunk are too busy.
The problem the protocol had no way to notify the sender of the drop message. You can imagine the path of the following hacks to solve that new problem
Not often that HN links to an article using the term “squid aerodynamics”
I assume safari is the only effected browser but the site itself gates on a user agent check, because of course it does.
It'd be near impossible to become obese (or remain obese) if you just cut out sugar and processed foods. Nobody ends up in an electric scooter by pigging out on vegetables and chicken breasts. If you want to get shredded you'll have to do much more, of course, but if you just want to look and feel like a normal weight human, it really doesn't have to be any more complex.

Just as many alcoholics can't handle a glass of wine with dinner or a beer with a friend on a Friday night, many food addicts just can't handle sugar or fast food at all, and would be better off cutting these things out of their lives entirely. It's a more hardcore lifestyle change, but it can also be a psychologically simpler ruleset to follow.
Wait, what misconception? That crypto is good for black market transactions? You assert that it isn't?
https://twitter.com/JoelBurgess/status/1428008041887281157
That's an interesting plot device/weapon for a sci fi story..!
Your conclusion is spot on.

The untyped lambda calculus is inconsistent.

If the guarantee you want from your system is consistency then you don’t want the untyped lambda calculus.

As software engineers who inherently understand system fragility as being an undesirable property we actually prefer para-consistent systems because they don’t “explode” under contradictions.

If the principle of explosion entails fragility; paraconsiatency entails anti-fragility.
> I imagine he would've had the same reaction if he bought a Lamborghini and you asked him if it carried the same amount of groceries as a Rav4 or something.

In that case most people would say yes or no. There would be no reason to get angry unless they were insecure about their purchase.
> Before old-world explorers showed up, the Amazon population was on the order of 100 million.

I have not seen any estimate this high even for the total population of the Americas at this time.
I'm glad I found this thread!
Those suicides happened about the time Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV Show came out.

I was in LA at the time. Buffy billboards everywhere. And then bam - mass suicide.

Ever since I’ve always connnected the two.
If anyone else was curious and wanted to extract the samples to a usable format you can extract the contents with the repo linked in the article, convert with the other tool linked and finally convert from PCM to WAV with ffmpeg:

node bin/extract-samples.js sf2ua

for f in *.vox; do echo "Processing $f file.."; ./adpcm/adpcm od "$f" "$f.pcm"; ffmpeg -f s16le -ar 8000 -ac 1 -i "$f.pcm" -ar 44100 -ac 2 "$f.wav"; done