skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wireless ANC earbuds. (Airpods pro or similar)

Having high quality silence and/or music available in my pocket at all times was definitely more of a game changer than I expected.

Using a 8K 55" tv as a monitor.

I usually run it scaled, so I have basically the pixel area of a 4k screen but with retina resolution. Everything is crisp and large enough that even content placed in the corners is easy to read.
Truly a game changer for work, so much so that I am puzzled why there are basically no 8k proper monitors available at sensible prices. This TV was manufactured and shipped halfway across the world where I bought it brand new for less than 1000 usd. And its a TV, with a TV OS, remote control, TV tuners and whatnot - HDR even. A normal monitor without all the TV stuff and sensible inputs (I have to use HDMI 2.1) should be even cheaper.
I was trying desperately to remember where I had seen this aesthetic before and you nailed it.
Apparently, eggs stored in the fridge are more likely to break yolk when cracked. Chuck your egg tray in the bin.
Maybe they meant valuation is what the board say it is
Cue the female robot voice, "You now have 100 days to reach minimum safe distance"
Why? Just because it isn't a .io site with a bunch of whitespace and social media icons? Because it's written in text that's a different color than optimal for selling $products? There's nothing in the actual content of the post for you to dispute so you attack it's appearance?

timecube was fun and the guy was obviously crazy. Trying to associate valid complaints about long standing mozilla behavior with crazy is acting in bad faith.

Ever since Mozilla removed the ability for users to edit or add their own extensions without Mozilla approval it's been a bad browser.
Whenever I worked with lat/lon pairs in the past I stumbled over those issues at some point. That's why at my last startup we used Geohashes everywhere. It's one string and so much more convenient to handle. There are libraries to convert from Geohashes to lat/lon pairs for every platform for those times you need them. You can even shorten them when accuracy isn't needed or you'd like to group similar locations.
I used the barbed wire fence of the horse-ranch I was on, out in the bush, as an antenna for a broken TV I'd found ditched on the side of the road a few days prior .. I got through the static and tuned into RAGE, Cabaret Voltaire Sensoria, and was baptised in electrons for life ..
Right on, I couldn’t agree more. We are living during a period of exponential progress. I like AlphaCode’s approach of using language models with search. In the last year I have experimented with mixing language models for NLP with semantic web/linked data tasks, so much simpler than what AlphaCode does, but I have been having fun. I have added examples for this in new additions to two of my books, but if you want a 90 second play-time, here is a simple colab notebook https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1FX-0eizj2vayXsqfSB2...

We live in exciting times. Given exponential rates of progress, I can’t really even imagine what breakthroughs we will see in the next year, let alone the next five years.

EDIT: I forgot to mention: having GitHub/OpenAI tools like CoPilot always running in the background in PyCharm and VSCode has in a few short months changed my workflow, for the better.
My biggest takeaway from this article is that Paris Hilton is apparently big into NFTs. Paris Hilton may be warm, charming and kind hearted in person for all I know (or the very opposite), but when a nearly forgotten 00's proto-influencer like her is hawking something, it makes me almost sure it's a scam. And I already was pretty skeptical of NFTs.
I found this a helpful way to ground the concept. Excited to share this one with my kids.

I appreciated the discussion by the experts at the end, but would actually have loved if they dove deeper into how they explain the concept.

It helped me appreciate that perhaps the question needs to mutate in order to deliver more interesting insights. The expert at the end asking the question of “why zero-knowledge instead of zero-information?” added to my appreciation of how special ZKP are as a concept.
> False, the warrant asked for data for all devices in a geographic location, they were then trying to use that data to find to individuals.

Page 17: Page 17: "(a) [...] Google will not, in this step, provide the Google account identifiers (e.g. example@gmail.com) associated with the devices"
"(b) [..] The government may, at its discretion, identify a subset of the devices"
"(c) [..] Google will then disclose to the government the Google account identifier associated with the devices
identified by government"

The warrant specifically addresses Google.

> The courts rarely reject any warrant requests, this should give everyone pause for concern

This could also mean law enforcement generally only issues warrants when there is probable cause and legal basis to do so; such as in this case. This warrant being unsealed and public also means the public can review it.

I am absolutely concerned about the encroachment of civil liberties, constitutional rights, and privacy. This specific example is not a battle I would disagree on, or fight.
What scares me about these scenarios is how it fabricates durable probable cause on the basis of being in the vicinity of the wrong place at the wrong time. Imagine becoming a felon because the police searched your phone and found a discussion between you and your friend about buying LSD, and discovering that the legal basis for that search was that your phone was in the vicinity of a crime scene a couple of years ago. This is bad news.
I agree with your point that all languages have their quirks. This is a very poor example however. If it automatically converted to float what would you do if you wanted integer division? I think automatic casting tends to get messy/be pretty evil in general but of course there are exceptions.
Are you sure that you are thinking? Can you choose your loss function?
A self-emptying Roomba. It's unreal how much time this has saved our family. Well worth the money, and it's been going strong for years now.
This feels a little too conspiracy theory to me:

> “Okay, it's time for the final conclusion. Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and Mozilla are all different heads of the same hydra, looking to control the Internet and the world. And Mozilla's job in all of this is to be a bridge between the rebels - those people who at least consider not using Google and co - and the controllers, to keep them in the web of slavery.”
35? Old?

I'm 59. I guess that makes me a fossil (geekasaur?).

I really didn't start feeling my technical oats, until I hit 45, or so. I've been an above-average geek, since I was about 21, but I lacked the experience, and the basic habits, that have made me into a much better developer. I started a system (backend tech), at 47, that has become the de facto world standard for a particular demographic, and is now being supported and extended by a highly-skilled and energetic team of younger developers. They probably could not have done the work to get the platform in place, but they have taken my work, and are running with it. They are taking it places that I couldn't go, on my own.

I worked on that system for a decade. Most of that time, it was in production, and I was applying course corrections to it, documenting it, evangelizing it, training people, and being abused.

sniff ... They grow up so fast ...

These days, I'm writing Apple apps (mostly iOS), and loving it. I really enjoy all the learning I'm doing, and finding out that I don't know squat.

I don't bother trying to surf the Jargon Wave. There's some cool stuff, coming out, but I've learned (the hard way) to give it a couple of years (at least) to shake off the fleas. It's very difficult to ship stuff, at the Quality level I prefer, using brand-new tools.

What really gets me excited, is shipping software. That's giving it a pat on the butt, and pushing it out into the world.

That involves a lot of "boring" work. On the project that I'm currently shepherding, We're in the final stages. The release is probably still a couple of months away (at least), but we can see the exit sign, from here. It's been a couple of years.

The work, from here on out, is pretty bland. Lots of work, setting up glossaries, production servers, localizations, accessibility tests, color themes, brand consistency, etc.

And, of course, lots of testing; with the very real possibility of having to put the car up on blocks, and break out the monkey wrench.

It's been my experience that my younger self was less-than-enthused by this part of the project, but I was fortunate to have older peers and bosses, that forced me to walk through this stuff.

It feels great to ship. As I've gotten older, I've come to enjoy this, a lot more.

I wish you luck. I know that one thing that helped me, was to find nonprofits and volunteer Service orgs, and lend my skills to them.
Sad to say, it's still a somewhat uphill battle to get diagnosed with something, if you've been able to graduate, can hold a job, and have an otherwise "normal" life.

The first time I went to a psychologist, they couldn't rule out things like ADD/ADHD, but simply ended the examination (after 3 interviews), and concluded with "could be due to traumatic childhood" - which I did not have. In the journal, they noted that I had graduated from University, had a steady white-collar job, no crime record, in a relationship, and other things which ADHD patients would apparently struggle with.

Went for a second opinion, and got diagnosed with non-hyperactive ADHD (previously called ADD).
- Philosophy of Software Design (great short read packed with insight)

- Mythical Man-Month (the classic, a little outdated but the principles still ring very true)

- Software Engineering at Google (thoughts from a company that has spent a lot of time thinking about this at scale)
Maybe you should start working to live instead of living to work. Start a family or reconnect with your existing family.
Ask HN: Is there a word that means “connected or aligned with nature”?
In English or in any other language, is there a word that describes this feeling of a connection with nature? Not "nature-loving" per sé, more the feeling of a perceptual awareness of our surroundings, nature, the environment.
Do you? A 'free market' where governments can and do supply unlimited amounts interest-free money to a hand full of investors and big companies is not a free market at all. Not to mentioned big business in our 'free market' is constantly lobbying for all kinds of government control and protectionism and vice versa.

In this system anything can be bought by those who control the money supply by inflating all assets, meaning you can't really own any property. So what we have is neither a free market nor capitalism.
I worked in logistics and I can tell you that the vast majority of truckers are vaccinated. I don't think they will throw in the towel. I don't see what happened to the UK happen in Canada.
Aren't there tablets made of two layers, one which dissolves during prewash, and the other mostly during wash? I mean the two-colored ones.
You can't have a caloric deficit as a long-term lifestyle choice: eventually you would waste away. But perhaps it's good advice anyway because most people could benefit from it in the short term.
> When you make online transactions sitting in a cafe you feel safe in sending websites your credit card. This admittedly requires _some_ optimism but it would be surprising if someone in that cafe could break TLS.

The worry wouldn't be about someone breaking TLS, but someone MitM your connection with your card processor in a way you don't notice. One is much more likely than the other.
oh you are spot on with your feelings. And you can do nothing about it. You will figure out however something that will work for you and move on with life. I could've told this and that. But I just want to be honest.
Demand is much greater than supply? I’m pretty surprised to hear this actually. Would you be willing to educate me a little bit about this? My understanding is that there are countless children in foster homes waiting to be adopted.
Totally seconded.

I feel that from the biological point of view, the brain evolved to serve the body (mostly for locomotion) and it's level of function is tightly related to fitness in general
No, just no!

Because the whole thing is, a dog’s abstract mental capabilities are far below a human — thus why it would be ASTOUNDING that a dog could master even a primitive form of speaking English.

On the other hand, here we are brute forcing a solution from analyzing millions of man-years of published English speech, by using a huge array of computing power to precompute various answers and sift them.

It is a bit like “solving checkers” and then claiming “wow, a dog could have done this”. It is like making a cheat sheet for a test by analyzing all answers ever given, and then summarizing them in a vector of 102827 dimensions, and claiming that it is the same as coming up with clever and relevant one liners on the spot using the brain of a dog.

NO. It’s not nearly as astounding or impressive.
> We could even end up living in a world where a kind of “e-passport”, crypto-signed government ID is attached to your every internet connection, and tracked everywhere online. […] The rise of bots could render many online communities simply uninhabitable.

> We are moving towards a model where the internet is dominated by a few centralized content providers and their walled gardens, and generated content may unfortunately make it even harder for grassroots online communities to survive and grow.

The author makes a good and fair analysis of the situation, yet I don't see how advocating for e-IDs is going to make the Internet a better place. This is a very ‘platform-focused’ critique that assume that the Internet tends toward more centralisation, where communities are packed together in massive platforms that regulate who communicates to whom and how.

Where do we see a need to regulate ‘fake news’ and artificially generated content? Facebook Pages? Twitter? Youtube? These are all hyper-global platforms focused on content monetization. On the other hand, local Facebook groups and the feed of your friends, Github repositories, Mastodon… may not face the same future. Maybe there's a lesson to learn here?
This was before they utterly broke addons for Android.

It's my understanding there were good technical reasons for some of the decisions adversely affecting addons, especially moving away from XUL. I'm puzzled by their current walled-garden approach to Android addons though; that's a policy decision I'd expect from Apple, not an open-source project.
+1 on health, but especially fitness. There is no health without it. In last few years it was all too easy to stop doing sports, but there should be less excuse now. If you are afraid of getting infected, go outdoor!
It looks like you can make the difference since you prefer a glass French press. There is no "superior" brewing process, and if you like the French press, use the French press. Arguably, the pourover method is strictly better than drip coffee, in term of quality, but it is more involved, and you need to know what you are doing. With drip coffee, you just have to press a button, you can even run the machine on a timer and have coffee ready when you wake up, which is not a negligible advantage.

Personally, I have an espresso machine, which is by far the way I prefer coffee, but the machine (+ grinder) is expensive and it gives you a new hobby.

Really, it is all up to you, there is no bad answer. The French press is a perfectly good brewing method, so is drip, and many others: moka pot, Aeropress, etc...
Twitter got a ‘downvote’ button. Here’s what happens if you click it
Bear in mind there's still a bike shortage right now. Something that fits your body and is comfortable is the most important thing. I'm 58 and an avid cyclist, but realized that my body just doesn't like road style bikes, so I actually dismantled my fancy Trek road bike and built something that was more comfortable to ride.

For me, making it easy to "just get out and ride" is the key thing. Even if it means less exciting rides. I don't have to get into special clothing or put my bike in a car and take it somewhere.

I also enjoy the outdoors in general. I treat it as a way to get away from technology for a while, so I'm into simple things like hiking, walking, cross country skiing, etc.
I wonder if they mean “a devil” or “the devil”, for the number of devils defined thusly is legion.
Ethernet cabling in the house, esp to desk and TV. Nice to avoid all wifi problems .
Then I suspect we are in violent agreement only working on processes at different timescales in our day-to-day!
There are several comments below that suggest not using tidyverse because "base R" is the foundation for everything.

I think it is important to use tidyverse because of the many quirks, surprises, and inconsistencies in base R. It would be helpful if others share their reasoning, or at least point to their favorite blog explanation, so that beginners can understand the problems they will face.

Unfortunately 5 minutes of Googleing failed a to produce a reference for me --- the start of some advanced R book that begins by asking "do you need to read this?" and showing examples whose results are predicted incorrectly by most people. Perhaps another user can provide the info.

* Reference to good HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20362626

* Particularly pointed notes on base R problems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20363806
> You need to find a partner in life. You need to get married.

No you don't. This is not a prerequisite for happiness or meaning. It's a narrow view on life to believe that the only way to achieve fulfilment is through marriage. Especially not even considering all the pitfalls involved, and all the risks of it making your life much worse.

Maybe it'll work for OP, maybe it won't. It's way too big of a blanket statement to just say "marriage will fix your problems".
Only tangentially related: It is super delighting how quickly the M1 laptops wake up. I’d gotten so used to several seconds of waiting for my previous MacBooks to be usable again after opening the lid, but it’s always immediate on the M1.

Related to the article: I had no idea the machine booted when the lid opened.
This is as good a place as any to mention that Koestler's long-lost original German manuscript titled "Sonnenfinsternis" was discovered in 2015 by a doctoral student digging through the archives of Zurich library. "Darkness at Noon" as known until then was a hastily completed translation into the English by Koestler's lover Daphne Hardy, available German versions being, in turn, back-translations from the English.

Both the German original and a new English translation have since been published.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18188912 (HN 2018)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness_at_Noon
Are you against warrants? Raging on each small point is the way to become a boy who cried wolf.
please provide more details on your location so your claims can be verified
Historically, the horrors of WWII were not meaningfully different, except perhaps in their sheer scale, from the horrors of WWI. It goes without saying that the destruction associated with war is not exactly conducive to development of agreed-upon "truth", shared "value" or highly refined culture. But even WWII was roughly 80 years ago! If you still see the world as "crazy", this probably says more about you and your contingent opinions than about what the world is really like. For one thing, in the modern globalized world, "Western culture" is not what it used to be: so much of it is now effectively coming from outside the West proper. Even a term like 'late stage capitalism' really fails to capture this development.
Windows 11’s preview builds are getting more experimental in 2022
As of right now, dividend-paying mortgage REITs pay around 9-10%. The US government will never let its housing market fail, and low interest rates let these trusts borrow inexpensively.
Sorry, I said 2016, but I meant 2019. I was (in my head to be fair) comparing an 8 core Mac Pro 2019 to a 8 core 2019 MacBook. I did later upgrade to 16 cores though
Warrants on everyone in a particular geographical region purely by virtue of them being in that geographical region? Yeah I'm against that
I mean, Zoom can change your background of video in real time, and people all over the world do so every day. This was an unimaginable breakthrough 10 years ago.
Best book is task description how to add small feature to your project. If it’s still clear and easy, then you don’t need to read any books about software complexity management ).
> I say you should be legally culpable for any failure to deliver.

So you think an MSP's advertised policy should be "We guarantee that anything sent to you will be delivered, including spam"? That no MSP should provide spam-filtering, at risk of legal culpability?

If that's not what you mean, then presumably you are requiring all MSPs to block only spam, and to deliver all legitimate email. But that is impossible, because nobody has figured out a way of reliably distinguishing spam from ham.

If I received such a letter from your legal department, I would laugh, and reply: "I am awaiting your writ." If I got the note from a recipient or their postmaster, I'd be much more inclined to try to help, but I never try to negotiate with lawyers brandishing threats.
I feel like you have to design your lifestyle with a Roomba in mind. For example, we have a hard floors in a single story flat. Perfect for a Roomba. But we also have a few area rugs with tassels on the ends. It would get snagged on the tassels so I would have to run around and collect the rugs before running the Roomba. Now I don't even bother; it just sits there charging because I can't trust it to run unsupervised.
Yes but getting married is not a goal in itself. It’s necessary but not sufficient.
You can do HIIT: 10s warmup and 4 sets of: 30 second high intensity work followed by 30 seconds break. That's 4m10s in total.

It's been clinically proven to help with vascular health (HDL cholesterol level goes up) and increase insulin receptiveness.
On the contrary, I find Finnegan's Wake easier because it's more "fun". It's filled with silly word-play and funny sounds, and I don't feel compelled to try to make any particular meaning out of it or find a coherent story inside it, though if I do find one it's a nice surprise.

Reading Ulysses, on the other hand, I know there is a story there, so when I lose the thread I get a bit frustrated. It's an absolutely gorgeous experience, of course, but one riddled with such frustration. I'm not sure if maybe reading an outline of the story first would help, so that I have the general idea in my head before going into it?
Music (or bandcamp) discovery based on local music libraries
Perhaps although not strictly English the word Zen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen
I would be careful with that line of thinking. We often envy illusion. We don't truly know that 'those people' are living nearly as wonderful a life as we're inclined to think they are. Further, in my experience, the "perfect life" is always one moment away from "disaster" - be it a health complication, sudden loss, or any of the myriad of ways things go awry. Pain and suffering is not something any of us seems likely to avoid in this life, and inflicting misery upon ourselves due to comparison with what is likely projected fantasy is just one of its many shades.
Are you listening to yourself?!

It’s only a little Molotov cocktail, no big deal, hope nobody dies in the ensuing fire that will by the way cause huge property damage.