skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I realized around 35-36 (only a few years ago) that the doors are actually closing, especially on physical activity related goals and travel... both as far as health/potential is concerned, and as far as time is concerned. I feel like I wasted quite a bit of time in my late 20ies-30ies. Even when doing something (e.g. outdoor stuff) I wish I was more focused on training, or traveling to exciting places, etc., and spent less time just dicking around with the hobby and doing whatever. Same applies to other pursuits like personal projects, although to a lesser extent because brain don't degrade as far as muscles. And probably work, although it's too early to tell.

I wish I realized it earlier :)
It's not Lisp-as-in-Common-Lisp. It's closer to Scheme than to CL.

But it's "a Lisp" in the colloquial sense that it uses s-expression syntax and has macros.
> I thought this thread was about utility bills

It was, which is why your comment starting with "As a business" was so bizarrely off-topic.

> Is this a weird american thing? At least here in the UK mortgage interest deductions are only applicable to businesses.

Yes. American homeowners can under most circumstances treat their mortage interest payments as tax deductable.
Shadow was pioneer, and yet the media kept ignoring them, what's up with that?

It's not a big american one, that's why?

https://shadow.tech/
In a many cases, attempting to spread your problem across as many threads/cores/computers as you can will cause more harm than good.

Sometimes we do things on only one thread because its faster than doing it on all the threads.
Most recipes have some slack in them. If you're dialing in a single shot of espresso, you want to make sure you have an exact weight for inputs and outputs. If you're baking a cake, 7 grams difference in how much flour you use doesn't matter.

Notably, for a lot of ingredients, recipes don't even try. "4 eggs" is always approximate since eggs aren't the same size. Recipes with peppers always mention you need to play around and use judgement because both size and capsaicin amounts vary quite a bit from batch to batch.
They can (and likely will) produce a layer of bureaucracy that could keep out any non-EU player if they wish, stuff like having to register with them with EU-based company information before they give you an API key (this is just an example).
Twitch desperately needs competition. There are seemingly endless examples of completely opaque indefinite bans that can ruin peoples' income. Of course most people won't have sympathy for people who make money playing video games, but at the same time, Twitch's wildly inconsistent policy enforcement wouldn't fly in almost any other situation.
I have visited this city. These photos and this story do not do it justice. There are multiple beautiful parks in every sector, a massive jogging park, a man made lake, for example.
I have evidence on the main point of the argument which wasn't what I thought you were asking for. It sounded like you were asking about a specific niche use of vouchers for disabled students. There can be merits to a specific voucher program for disabled students. That doesn't make voucher programs that take money from disabled students for non-disabled students any less of a scam. It's a completely separate point that is orthogonal to the main one.
The Shorts are all crappy rips of TikTok videos anyway. Who would waste their time watching it?
In sympathy to Popper's descriptions, putting intellectuals in power (via Plato) is how you get tyranies in the first place, as that's what the 20th century was about. These weren't kings with divinely ordained rights, they were ideologues and demogogues who wrote and used books and manifestos as vehicles for populist movements (ironically, anti-intellectual ones), and then established tyranny that iterated the logic of their ideas. It's not restricted to secular intellectualism either, as theocracies are also run by religious intellectuals instead of secular ones.

There are likely equivalently devastating criticisms of Popper, Marx, and others that are as strong as his of Plato as well, but I think their entire goal was to create an intellectual solvent to dissolve the bonds of reason, thinking, and belief, and not to produce positive models using ideals and principle (like, say, Aristotle). (Article states Popper's intent was to unmoor society from it's great man thinkers) It's just a system for producing neutralizing criticisms, which are sufficient for his purposes, so criticisms of those ideas are why they are met with personal and political attacks today, because the theories aren't designed to withstand anything, but only to dissolve others.

The basic error is that all criticisms based on materialism and power are necessarily predicated on an axiom that the good in the world is both finite and zero-sum. Personally, I reject most marxist and progressive critiques and their descendents because of this basic fallacy. Whereas the only zero-sum thing is stuff you have that they're trying to talk and bully you out of instead of discovering or making their own. The redemption they offer in return is subjugation. It's not a philosophy, it's a fancy bandits hustle.

As I remember just from the few readings I did, Plato's ideas were about the city state, which means their scale is limited and you can leave to find or found another one, and not governing the layered federations of city/state/nations we typically advocate democratic rule for. Scaling a republic out of the city state model may have been a uniquely American innovation, aided by adapting the division of powers I think from the federated model of the Iroqois and other native nations. I'd wonder if Popper had used Plato's city state model as more a straw man and a vehicle for these more generally destabilizing criticisms than as a basis for positive alternative.
Yeah, that doesn't sound healthy. They are cheery when angry? Sounds psychopathic.
I think the typical argument goes something along the lines of, "it uses []{} and doesn't make cons the default data structure, abandoning some simplicity-of-language."
> Are conservatives not by definition trying to conserve the status quo?

IIRC, in the American context there are very, very few conservatives like that. Everyone has some revolutionary project they're working towards, they're just very different and incompatible.
YouTube red doesn't have Sponsorblock, pure black dark theme, turn off cast buttons among other layout options. There's probably other stuff but these are some stuff I would love in addition to YTRed.
On the other hand, I am pretty sure Destin researches the hell out of every single detail before he goes in.

There's a lot in the background before you see the actual video. Destin is one of those people who would prepare a ton before going in to shoot so that he doesn't waste time (both his and the people he's interviewing). It's how he is able to get access, for example, to the nuclear sub series.

You can tell by the prepared equations, etc that he has all ready. He won't know the information that the interviewees will tell him (since it's a learning journey) - but you better believe he does his homework before he goes.

For example, in the Coast Guard zig zag search pattern video, you can tell that he was doing his research in between visits to different coast guard stations. at the beginning he was like "what is search pattern" and by the end of the video, he was feeding the coast guard questions, etc - and that's all in 1 video, shot over a long length of time - it's not like he just goes in without learning more about the things that he's going to ask his interviewees. It's more like a knowledge search pattern, and with each interview he learns more. And that's all stitched together in 1 short 30 min video, when in reality that all took place over several months or even a whole year, etc.

Destin does his research and calculations. He just doesn't show it on the video itself.

Also in some videos you can see him trying to test his own knowledge in order to have the interviewee tell him that his understanding is wrong. You can only do that if you know the field/subject already (and you're anticipating what the correct answer is).

Kinda like an instructor in a unix class feeding a question to the class - well, why don't we just sudo everything? - and having the students reject you by saying what you really wanted to say, that using sudo is a security risk. Makes for better instructional video.
Thanks so much for your work on Postico. I use it every day and recommend it highly. It’s fast, stable, and a Mac app through and through (increasingly a rarity).
not sure MS will be too concerned about Google losing ad revenue
Maybe orthodontist?

They are the people that make braces, invisalign, etc.
Wow .. poolsuite site made smile. Opening it on my 4K monitor reminds me of when I first used Solaris on a Sun Microsystems Workstation. The monitors felt super high res (compared with normal PCs at that time).
I mean, that's on content creators doing live reads, and YT has nothing to do with it.
Quite the opposite. I enjoy much greater liberty to design a performant app when I am doing it independently and I already know the space from experience. Sometimes I get to work like that professionally.
AFAIK it is common to repost a story here if there has been enough time since the last post since there can be new voices, opinions, etc since the last time it was posted. Dang sometimes posts a comment with links to previous discussions too.

Perhaps the author is confusing the norms with Reddit where in many subreddits reposts are often frowned upon.
Although warehouses don't have to be located as close to consumers as say, a Costco or amazon fulfillment center, they have to be built. And for the past at least decade long term warehousing wasn't a major business model, better to sell it at a consistent pace. So there wasn't an investment in warehouse space. However between supply chain uncertainty and inflation, the relative cost of warehousing vs discount selling and reordering is lower now than it was before.
I am the author of the document. KyuWeb is intended to be incredibly simple.
best part of vanced was the ability to background youtube so you can listen to music with the screen being locked
AppsFlyer cut their 150B event data pipeline costs by 85%
I know for a fact that this behavior isn't monitored or prohibited at Galaxy Digital. They bragged about it when I had an interview for an analyst position.
And in addition to that, it's not just using a computer but also being able to navigate a poorly designed UI.
Wow this is very cool and comes with a perfect timing for me since I am starting a new project. Thanks a bunch!
Yes, that's kind of what I meant by sneaking in through the backdoor. An article supposedly about Java development focuses on all the non-JVM dependencies. You don't need to build things in this way. Is this how everyone works these days? It surprised me that nobody else was commenting on this (edit: the comment from pjmlp is basically saying what I was thinking)
Is there an alternative to FORMAT?
It may be ludicrous but at least it's tolerant.

Many Americans would use standard _given the opportunity_. Nothing here was ever converted, or has the same availability in metric so things continue on as they always have. Very few defend them as better, especially distance measurements.

Claiming there is a "better" system for dates is just preference. Why does it make sense to list the year first, it only changes once every 365 days?
This is something that annoys me. I’m most comfortable identifying as a sysadmin for a few reasons. I spend a lot of my time on problems that don’t make sense to automate. I spend my time at the code level building automation tooling instead of creating or debugging application code. Historically I have often spent my time with developers guiding them on how what they’re doing fits into a broader ecosystem, teaching them something both critical and esoteric about the application so that they can do their job better, and often guiding them on specs.

It’s not everyone’s experience, but my experience has been that a lot of developers who don’t have a sysadmin background aren’t as skilled at those things. The business analysis, cost control, or the application meets infrastructure parts. Case in point, one of my best friends and frequent professional collaborators is a pure-programming guy who works in AWS. He knows everything there is to know about provisioning the most common AWS resources via CloudFormation and Terraform, but I have never seen him demonstrate a realistic understanding of costs or _why_ certain resources are used in lieu of others, or a strong aptitude in optimizing for specific workloads and business cases. If he hits on an area that is “traditionally” sysadmin work, it’s deer in the headlights.
In Java I'd say that it is often easy and fun to use multithreading. Many tasks are "embarrassingly parallel", for instance raytracing. It is easy to split up this kind of job into smaller tasks and feed them into a ThreadPoolExecutor.

(Most people who try this, however, make it "not fun" and "not easy" by ignoring one essential fact which is that if you really want to get a speed-up you need to break the tasks into something that takes more time than it takes to switch a task! In the case of raytracing for instance, it probably takes more time to trace a single ray than it takes to switch tasks. If you bundled anywhere between 100 to 10,000 rays into a single task you'd probably get a good speedup. Often people have a fetish for some particular way to execute tasks in parallel and think that certain details of their approach are essential whereas the batching is essential to getting a speed-up if not to getting a correct answer.)

I work in Python a lot too, usually in Windows, and I am not in such a hurry to parallelize because the thread support in the language isn't natively strong (the GIL) and the more popular and mature multiprocessing libraries are frequently Unix only or only supported on Unix.
Postico is a great piece of software and I highly recommend it for people that want an easy to use GUI for PostgreSQL.
I agree this is a case for why what you call flat rate vouchers don't make sense. But what you call flat rate vouchers is also the predominant program of vouchers being advocated for in most policy. When the mainstream discussion moves on to better programs of vouchers I'm happy to discuss the separate merits of those programs. As long as people are advocating for stealing money from vulnerable groups I think that is the most important issue with these programs that needs to be highlighted.
LOADLIN could load linux from DOS. And being a .EXE it relied on DOS to bootstrap.

So yes, if you didn't use the DOS code (I mean… you overwrote it), then DOS is not there. And if DOS is not the OS, that just leaves your code to be the OS. :-)
This is a godsend for Android TVs: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext
You Try Constricting Your Prey and Breathing at the Same Time
Yes, because the Hausmannian places are too expensive, due to their global popularity :)
Some nature noises like rain.
https://water-atmosphere.ambient-mixer.com/calming-ocean-rai...

On the other hand this album from the concept is interesting: https://eluvium.bandcamp.com/album/shuffle-drones

"Shuffle Drones is a new Eluvium album that is anywhere between 13 minutes and 13,000 hours long, depending on
how (and how long) you choose to play it. Consisting of 23 vignettes of orchestral ambience, it is designed to be played on shuffle. There is no end, and no beginning. Each song flows seamlessly into the next, regardless of the order in which they are played."
Just don't visit websites you don't trust. There is nothing wrong with exposing useful functionality.
It/its users have become focused on a live feed pattern. Posts might become popular for a day or so, but after that nobody pays any attention to them. Search sucks, and categorizing posts with flair seems pretty futile. The way voting is tied to post/comment visibility means that most subreddits, if not all once sufficiently large, devolve into corrupt ideological cliques, and anyone outside of them will essentially be invisible. Some subreddits are exceptions, but I think those may just be the ones that are so small they're essentially ghost towns.
As he mentions at the 4nd of his blog, Qt/KDE is his only option if he actually wants decent software specially one where he wants to be heard.
That was an interview question at one of my first jobs, had to take few minutes to figure out.
But email evolved. You can now use a 8bit encoding, use formating with html content. Is encrypted with TLS. Send calendar events.
PGP did take of for people who care. You can even revoke emails.
The problem is that multithreading is only rarely the best programming model. There's usually a different model that's easier to reason about which makes the behaviour you want easier to achieve. The implementation of that model might use threading under the hood, but abstracting that away is often the best thing to do.

It sounds like you've got a specific example in mind, though.
If I ever decide against Markdown, some sort of strictly-defined subset of HTML would probably be my second choice. As someone who's been building web sites since 1996, though, I find HTML unpleasant to use for writing prose, and less readable when unrendered than Markdown.
Curious - how do you compare/compete with Bitnami (https://bitnami.com)?
If your problem is small enough fore one thread it's not interesting here
With TVs it is especially important to look at the _software_ it comes with. If it is some locked-down piece which requires the blessing of the manufacturer to install anything on it, then I would stay away from such TVs.

It seems to me that Android TVs offer at least some degree of customization because it is possible to install apps there. But the value you get from them depends on whether you can get the root access and on other restrictions the manufacturer has imposed on it. So, in general it is not an ideal usage model.

In my opinion, a pure Linux TVs would be much better. For instance, running Kodi as a frontend with TVHeadend or minisatip as a backend. They would of course have plenty of possibilities to play other media and would be fully customizable, giving the customer a _choice_ to consider and utilize that capability. In my opinion, there is a reasonably sized market for such TVs.
Probably depends on the language being used. Rust, Golang and Elixir make threads simple and easy to use so they're used all the time.
I wouldn't think so, given that operations requires a 24 hour team. That means you have to pay at least 4 people to cover a 168 hour week. If you can replace them with one FTE, even at twice the price, you're saving money.

There are surely cheaper ways of sharing those operators with other companies than AWS. My (limited) AWS experience is that it's aimed at providing extremely large-scale service and becomes a price and cognitive burden for startups. They can get away with less service for a lower price.
That's what virtual credit cards are for.
I stream Nectarine Demoscene Radio, either through a browser or Alexa. "Alexa, play Nectarine Demoscene Radio" is in fact the only command I've ever given Alexa, other than "Alexa, off.".
That is a very long and detailed paper, so apologies if I missed it, but I don't see any evidence of a "large population" of folks that clear the infection quickly enough to avoid triggering an antibody response. All I see from that paper, is that such people exist.
Alan Kay‘s answer to this question:

“Another interesting answer assumed that “the test of time” is somehow a cosmic optimization. But as every biologist knows, Darwinian processes “find fits” to an environment, and if the environment is lacking, then the fits will be lacking. Similarly, if most computer people lack understanding and knowledge, then what they will select will also be lacking. There is abundant evidence today that this is just what has happened.”
Depends which language I'm using. This is probably due to my own failings rather than any failing of the language, but I've ran into race conditions with Python that didn't happen with C# when doing very similar tasks.
I use ublock origin + sponsorblock + ddg privacy extension, and haven't had ads on YouTube in years

Also you can just use invidious on mobile (and presumably on your TV) for the same experience (minus the sponsor / merch flogging skips which are fantasic)
Antarctic Ice Shelf, Almost as Big as Los Angeles, Completely Collapses
On the frontend. In a number of years. It's in its infancy. Instead of hacking a webpage to behave like software it actually will be software. So I'm pretty excited about the idea.
Russian spies tried to hack into a Kansas nuclear power plant
The NASA podcast "Houston We Have a Podcast" did an episode in 2020 about the Apollo lunar samples:

https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/HWHAP/the-untouched-apollo-samp...
This whole ricotta in lasagna thing is so strange… why on earth would you do that?
It's a subpar service not worth the price they're charging. Sure there are no ads, but they still track the hell out of you. I might as well use this free improvement of YouTube's app.
> But the right has always been working to address prejudiced attitudes

Do you really think this is how anyone on the left views the situation?! Folks on the left watch all the right-wing efforts to block LGBT rights, oppose Black Lives Matter, ban a religious minority from entering the country and conclude, "yep I disagree with those guys on issues, but it is true they're the ones working to fight prejudiced attitudes"?
There is a difference there in that the sponsorship money all goes to the content creator, rather than to YT who may or may not (at their whim) share a small portion with whoever posted the video (which is far from always the content creator).

They also aren't stalking you around everything you do on the Internet in the name of targetting.
Jetbrains Gateway doesn't work on M1. Unless you modify it heavily and you control it from the command line.
Le Corbusier's legacy and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Twitch has had a few alternatives pop up from time to time (most famous would be Microsoft's Mixer) only for the site to be laughed at by Twitch's users and not given a chance. After a while the new site shuts down because it hasn't picked up momentum.

The problem is the viewers not giving the new sites a chance.... only for then complain about twitch having the streaming monopoly.
Instead of trying to explain it myself, I give you a hint where to start reading. In German there is the idea of "wehrhafte Demokratie" which translates to "defensive democracy". The Wikipedia article on that topic might give you some idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_democracy

I think the problem in the US is that none of the actors that could implement any needed systemic change has the incentives to do so...
You're in luck! https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/10/twitc...
Yes, Corbusier's vision of cities was tied to speed, and by consequence, to cars.

But Chandigarh today has fantastic segregated bike infrastructure! No other Indian city comes close. The city itself is pan-flat and relatively small (shaped as a rectangle where the longer side is 10 kilometers).

Cycle the routes and you see the vast array of tradesman, workers, maids, and vegetable vendors travel by cycle. Big apartment complexes will have bike stands full of pink bicycles that the maids would use.

Granted the city has far too many cars, but the article doesn't adequately reflect the town and all its people.
Have you tried Vert.x for async in Java? It's quickly achieved can't-go-back status with me in the past year or so.