skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this seems like it could be a good product for combating writer's block. I don't know if OP tried that angle, but from the tiny amounts of writing I've done, often I could get unblocked if I could only get a couple more sentences written - usually at a transitional point in the story.
> It takes roughly the same time to reach Spain from London and southwest Germany, though

My point was not that we should judge connectivity by distance to Alicante. My point was that, being an island, the routes from the UK to arbitrary cities in Europe are particularly long, especially if you are judging them as if they were a typical European country. If you prefer, swap out Alicante for Prague or Rome, or swap out Germany for France or Italy. The UK is isolated by the sea, so it should come as no great surprise that ground travel loses out to air travel.

> from London

You’re missing out part of the journey. I see multiple people getting tricked by the name of the airport in this thread. “London Luton Airport” is in Luton, not London. The start of the trip is not London, and you’ll need to make your way to and through London by train to compare fairly to London Luton Airport. Same goes for most of the other “London” airports.
Let’s Bring Back ‘Prison Warehousing’
On one hand, prices change. Services change. When a sandwich shop stops carrying your favourite pickles... such is life.

OTOH... I do feel this is problematic. Wordpress.com isn't FB/Twitter, but it is a meaningfully big part of social media... and therefore all media. A lot gets lost when the inevitable content loss happens.

There are moral responsibilities and societal needs here that companies aren't going to assume. We should be accumulating an accessible and useful content commons. That's not compatible with commercial content hosting individual bloggers/users. I now think that the rights and wrongs of free speech in our era is much more complicated than I had previously thought. But whatever free speech ought to be, it cannot be both free and under the control of a few companies... even those at wordpress.com's scale.

Can we really not just have a freedom (as in both freedom & $0) in the blogging space? Can't hosting be solved with an open protocol, or something like a wikipedia fondation?

What we have now for social media really sucks. It sucks in terms of freedom. It sucks in terms of moderation. It sucks in terms of fake news, propaganda & such. It sucks in terms of power dynamics. The software/UI itself often sucks. Transparency sucks. Fairness sucks. It's not nice that content creators have to suck up to algorithm gods. The adware/spyware sucks.

The fact that 2007's bogging golden age optimism resolves to this is terrible. Can it really be that the worldwideweb is possible, but blogging is only as resilient as your deal with a hosting company?
This is a chance for you to meet the folks on your city council. Most will believe that supporting affordable housing is correct, but many are worried about the “public perception” of voting for low-income housing.

Not where we live. Perception is they are voting for mostly high end, luxury housing at the behest of the developer who of course is trying to maximize profit.
it’s not men and women issue

the issue is social media addiction which encourages the said behaviors

“influencers” make a living advertising fast fashion brands
design-ed. I doubt they design anything in the age of digital.
Introduction to Identity – Part 1: Admin-time
Demystifying the magic of Zero Trust with my daughter and open source
If you compare children of divorce with children who have a parent die the children of divorce look worse on basically every measure, sure. That doesn’t mean divorce is worse for children than the death of a parent. Divorce is a choice. The king of person who gets divorced is different from the kind who doesn’t. By way of example Asian-Americanc college graduates who get married in their 30s have a divorce rate around ~2%. Most people who get divorced remarry. The kind of person who marries a divorcee is not the same king of person as those who don’t.

Correlation isn’t causation.
He was not a KGB "operative" or intelligence agent, no matter what some WP list says.

Bezmenov was forced to act as an informer. He worked for Ria Novosti and then as a Soviet press-officer.
Not that i disagree with your argument, but given the very competitive nature of corporate culture and the high rate of burnout, most people may feel better working for lower pay for less-sociopathic organizations (say, local non-profits or public IT services).

Also, i find it interesting to note how tech salaries have climbed in the past two decades, precisely as IT was more and more employed as a means of ruining peoples' lives (micro-management based on metrics, surveillance industry, IoT and other scams, centralized monopolies like Amazon, etc).

The price of keeping IT people complicit/quiet in the scheme has risen, but we as a privileged class of IT people should understand that we're precisely being paid for silence about the atrocities we help build. We are collaborators to an oppressive system, and if that's something that bothers you maybe you should consider alternatives.
I think consumerist isn't limited to fashion.
Joseph Biden, seven years old in April 1950, appears here:

https://1950census.archives.gov/search/?county=Scranton%2C%2...

Kurt Gödel’s age seems to be off by ten years:

https://1950census.archives.gov/search/?name=Godel&page=1&st...

Albert Einstein’s age is correct:

https://1950census.archives.gov/search/?county=Mercer&ed=11-...
Didn't work for China though. Even though everybody seemed to hope it would.
So a teacher’s union pushed to protect teachers during a pandemic. Shocking, especially after ~1000 teachers died from COVID-19.
it's true that in second life most people spend on clothing
One way to age gracefully is by learning new things.

Getting a PhD at 60 might not help society as getting it at 30, but it certainly will keep your mind flexible at old age.
A lot of people. Google docs has save millions of essays from being permanently lost because one forgot to save.
CD-ROM != CD-R/RW
I have a couple of blogs for social/community purposes on wordpress.com. They’re not really high traffic (hopefully not as much as 10,000 visits a month) and posts are probably less than a handful each month. There’s no way I’m paying the pricing indicated in this blog post. It is ridiculous for personal sites in India, and if wordpress.com forces existing blogs to move to a paid plan with severe restrictions, it will only lose more mindshare and market share in an environment where a lot of content is already being published in other walled gardens where the publishers don’t have to pay directly. I believe this pricing move by wordpress.com is not well thought out.

If it comes to it, I’ll have to look for alternatives that are better and provide a GUI based editor. Subscription by email is something that visitors to the blogs seem to use. Transitioning that may be painful or impossible, but these aren’t sites that have a personal connection with the subscribers. A post about the move should suffice for those who are really interested in getting notified (as opposed to the majority who follow a blog in the hopes of their blog being followed in return).
Information Wants to Be Free
Thanks for sharing this, I haven't really heard anything negative about Sceptre, but that is mostly due to relative obscurity.
N is sizeof(float), which is conveniently the same as sizeof(int).

> And besides that, the distance between x and successor(x) is

That is approximately balanced by using random() int / MAXINT
In the UK I still think Marks and Spencer (M&S) offer quality clothing at reasonable prices. They don't compete fully with 'fast fashion' prices but they have been affected by competition from other fast fashion retailers by offering their own 'value' lines.

If you avoid the cheapest clothing lines at M&S, their mid-priced clothing is generally of longer-lasting and better quality.

For example, you can buy organic cotton chinos and jeans in the price range £25-35 (approximately $35-45/€30-40). These are reasonable prices given the premium typically charged for organic clothing.
That's brilliant but I have a question: why are you doing your homework in ed?
I agree, but that means we shouldn’t call it market-rate housing.
What I find interesting is the sweating over the details in a recording studio, and then people go to see the band lives and you lose a large chunk of what they've been haggling over due to irreproducibility.
People still actually believed the cliches. A few boomers had not fully sold out yet, and there was a renaissance of actual punk-rock as reaction to the glossy yuppie '80s pop sound.
I've noticed this as a serious problem for our new hires as well.

The unpleasant truth is that mentoring someone is something that works far better in person, where they can learn from you both directly, through explicit tutoring, and indirectly, through experiencing the kind of person you are and how you navigate your environment.

I feel like this is one good reason why a hybrid working approach might end up being the sweet spot between all remote and all in person. A few days a week, a few days a month, or a few weeks a year in the office together to facilitate these kind of activities.
>I imagine you're well aware of all the harm they've been causing to society.

Not everyone shares your viewpoint and values. If you think everyone thinks Google and Meta, or even the idea of personalization as being harmful to society, you have found yourself in a bubble.
> † can either just sort wherever Unicode puts it, or if the album has a known pronunciation like 'star' above, have a sorting key too.

Sure, but it doesn't happen automatically, so it's not "just do [..]". You need to think about some of these edge cases.

I wrote a simple music library/player a bunch of years ago and ran in to some of these issues. I never did figure out how to deal with the band named "" in a sane way.
Don't tell me what to boycott unless it's the worst. Tell me what's good.
The german evening news are available as free live stream via their android TV app, and outside of that, we just don't watch live TV.

But if I needed live TV I'd just connect a satellite receiver box to our AV receiver as second input, just like we've connected our Switch, Wii, N64 and the emulator RPi.
I would guess that truck is a much larger outlay than a laptop?

And is your dad a Truck person? He may have enjoyed the research process (heck, I enjoy researching tech purchases).
Reminds me of Robert Axelrod's computer tournament, won by Anatol Rapoport's Tit for Tat. See https://lps.library.cmu.edu/NCMR/article/351/galley/355/view...
I'd add 'collective overreaction', at least from a fear perspective. I know plenty of adults that lost their rational minds during the pandemic: believing all the media-driven fear porn that never once honestly explained the true risk to the < 70 year-old crowd. Older children/teens watched those same news programs and also picked up on their parents' fear, and they had even less wisdom and ability to think clearly than the parents.
Interesting. I did a similar analysis when I wrote Battleship in assembler for a 32K card computer in 1972. Input was through the maintenance panel toggle switches.
I run it when it's full. I am single and have a dishwasher that is big enough for a family of four (came with the apartment I'm renting).

So I run it once every 3–4 days on the quick program when it is full. Some dishes will then have sat in it for up to four days ofc.
Ask HN: Improving my productivity – how to monitor my usage of apps and browser
I'd like to find out where and how I spent time precisely, is there some software that would monitor myself precisely? How much time in which window and tab and VSCode etc. is spent? I'm on Ubuntu, I'd be willing to pay for it.
Whoa, I was with that until the huge hit of bigotry at the end. Being queer or polysex is not at all a mental illness.
Given that EAS has an incredibly specific tone (that is illegal to broadcast) it shouldn't be hard for Vizio to just detect the EAS tone. I don't get why everyone is pretending like Vizio can't account for a very simple and common edge case in broadcasting.
Oh well

I must say this is a bit of an extreme/maximalist position to take - I agree being local only by default, or having the option to choose during setup would be better, but the option is there.
i have this sort of hole-filling shopping too, yet the items i desire were expensive and made to last a lifetime
The comic. It was something to convey technical aspects of Chrome, now it is defiled by someones personal rants put into mouths of engineers who created it. I find it disgusting actually.
Calling this "the Maya method" seems like a bit of a stretch.
I think the point is that there is no method. Maya culture _is_ the method.

The article does miss out on something important. Do Maya boys and the girls do the same "chores"? Are they equally as amenable to doing the "household-type" things?
“I can not understate the number of times I've met a young woman who has made being mentally ill, and polysexual, and queer, and autistic, et cetera, their identity.”

One of these is not like the others.
This situation if the result of the destruction of the social network of relations due to the modern lifestyle. To have meaningful social relations with our peers is extremely important for humans and even more so for teenagers I guess.

First the modern lifestyle mostly destroyed the small communities where people know each other and spend a lot of time together. People began to stay in their house all the time with no contacts with a community.

At this first stage, as the local community was eliminated, the remaining pillars of social relations were school, for young people, and work for adults. I some case adults were able to maintain some degree of additional social life by having some friends and inviting them regularly to create the opportunity to meet.

Later it come all the smartphones, tablets, computers, social networks that captivated all the attention, especially of young people so even more so people were pushed to stay more at home and meet less people further increasing the social isolation.

The final blow came from the COVID-19 confinement were people were forced to stay at home reducing social contacts only to the close family members. This situation created an unsustainable isolation raising serious mental health problem especially for teenagers but also for adult people.

Modern society got it all wrong. We think having more goods and entertainment to consume make us happier but this is not how it works. Not if the social life and the social network around us is poor or non-existent.

Scientific thought that they know all and can say people what to do and they give us instruction just to avoid that people dies. The problem is that people doesn't just need to stay physically alive, we need to be also happy and fulfilled by our life.

We need to radically change modern lifestyle and stop with all the bullshit coming from politicians.
After setup go to user admin, add a new administrator account, and then disable remote access and remove the cloud account.

https://community.ui.com/questions/CloudKey-Gen2-or-setup-wi...
Not sure this is a perfect solution but in our house we let the kids pick one or two items that are “always yours”, everything else is considered communal and must be shared. It’s a framework to build on as they get older - some things are shared (toys) somethings are not (underwear, water bottles, Mom’s laptop).

For what it’s worth we still have daily “not sharing” arguments…
> Speaking of dead fields... I know many postdocs who come from physics into ML because many areas of theoretical physics just don't seem to be going anywhere anymore. Not a good sign!

I do not necessarily agree with the notion that many fields are dead --- they could just be "resting" until some paradigm-shifting idea comes along, at which point they may spring back to life --- but I do agree with your observation that many people with PhDs have to move out of science or research. There simply are too few jobs available in research, so many people with PhDs eventually transition to non-scientific or non-research roles as their opportunities to continue doing research diminish. It's just economics. I do have to agree that it is frustrating how slow progress can be while conducting research, but I think people leave science more often due to the lack of job opportunities than the lack of progress in their research.
There is a "virtual console" i.e just the virtual machine :) And yes, it's sold for a small sum.
This system completely failed to work for me. Mostly because the consequences were too far removed from the actions.

(ADHD throws a wrench into a lot of things.)
The sad reality is that much of what is "lost" wasn't worth keeping. There's a world of difference between being a curator and a hoarder.

You don't remember everything that happens to you. You remember things that are noteworthy for some reason. There is a natural process for the brain to preserve certain memories. The Internet is really no different. Things get preserved largely because they're worth preserving. Things that aren't... don't.

As for forums, IMHO they've largely disappeared because they're a terrible format for maintaining information. I mean how many times have you done a search for "how do you do X?" and the first search result is a forum title asking exactly that... with no replies (side note: why doesn't Google downrank these scenarios?).

Or someone asks a question and there are a bunch of irrelevant responses (eg "first!"), outdated information, sidetracks, personal attacks over some long-forgotten beef, etc. A chronological thread is almost never useful for finding information. Pinned comments are just bandaids. Stackoverflow's ranked answer system is better but still has issues with stale information. It also relies on moderation.

As for Facebook, IMHO this whole hiding information in a walled garden I tend to find completely overblown for much the same reasons why forums are mostly useless.

The trend I absolutely hate however is using Discord as the primary repository for, say, an open source project. This is something that is meant to be available yet the discoverability is absolutely horrendous. Even if you're on the right Discord, the search is woefully abysmal.
Ask HN: How can I start thinking optimistically?
I am..

- 36yo

- most probably not depressed

- live in a 1st world country

- privileged to have a job that pays well

- expecting my first child after years of trying

..and deeply believe the future will be truly bleak. Even if we somehow manage to not find ourselves in a nuclear holocaust, there is no escape from climate change.

I really want to be optimistic, both for me and the people around me, but it's hard to see how or why I could start being an optimist.

Reading the stoics didn't have a significant effect; it felt more like a coping mechanism than a way forward. Moving to an industry that tries to build a future - not a better future, just a future - is quite challenging without a meaningful background in hard sciences. "Think globally, act locally" is a dogma I've been following since forever but it feels insufficient when it comes to some of the great challenges we are going to face soon.

Help me and others like me see the world with different eyes.
Is the comic lying? I don't think so.

So, it might be tasteless, but agitation is a valid style to push ideas across for some people.

Did you look to the comic? Seems yes. Did you read it? Seems yes. So it pushed its ideas across. So, it was successful in a sense.
> Everything seems to be on the brink of collapse all the time, housing prices are absolutely bonkers in most cities and wages are, in the best scenario imaginable, same they were 20 years ago for your average professional who lives paycheck to paycheck.

Personal income per Capita went from ~$30k to ~$63k in the last 20 years [1]. REAL weekly earnings are at an all time high [2].

Debt service reached an all-time low during the pandemic [3]. Even for new buyers with house prices at their peak, with interest rates where they WERE, mortgage payments were historically quite low.

Now that interest rates have gone up, payments are ~20% higher. But unsurprisingly, the insatiable demand has also dried up.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A792RC0A052NBEA

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TDSP

I honestly feel sorry for all the people like you who can't see how manipulated prices are and realize that it's a good deal. The market shouldn't be this manipulated (by our government) and confusing. It's screwing over so many people who think common sense still applies.
I’d say software should handle this issue - you type in Greek and it should match all possible transliterations.
> Is using SQLite from multiple processes safe?

Yes [0].

> The Python bindings weren't safe for concurrent access, is this still the case?

I think they're safe now [1]. The error message when using the connection from multiple threads is "outdated" [2].

[0]: https://www.sqlite.org/threadsafe.html
[1]: https://bugs.python.org/issue45613
[2]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html#sqlite3.threa...
Feels like the right time to repost this aperiodic reminder: https://coloss.us.to/chrome_truth.png
* I make https://mataroa.blog/ It’s a simple blogging engine with an import functionality. One idea would be to just import everything there (assuming they are just text files). Eventually automate this process to keep everything up-to-date.

* Similar problem statement by Stavros in this website: https://notes.stavros.io/ He’s using Joplin [1] to write and then exports everything in an mdbook [2].

[1]: https://joplinapp.org/

[2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook
Yes, it just hit me as to why you misunderstood me.

I think because WordPress.org is heading into a direction of being a website builder itself, it will naturally hurt developers/businesses who make their living off of it.

Yeah, cool and exciting designs might still have a market, but for blogs, magazine sites, portfolios - that ~$50 for a premium theme might be better spent elsewhere.

I don't know if you're familiar with Webflow[0], but it started out as yet another website builder. And, in recent years they have added so many features and layout templates that I once got confused seeing the "Made with Webflow" badge on a landing page. It had all modern features like smooth page transitions, svg animations, cool gallery effects, etc,. You know, the things people pay that $50 for.

If this happens, or rather when it happens, maybe Automattic will have to think hard about what it wants the future to look like.

[0]: https://webflow.com/
The discussion upstream is about building new non-affordable housing, which will automatically increase the supply of used housing, some of which is affordable. So in a way yes :)
Can we stop pretending like being fashionably ill is a new problem plaguing our youth? This is a phenomenon that has happened before in history - Tuberculosis was seen as crazy fashionable during the romantic period, and could be part of the reason that things like pale skin, thin bodies, and fragility are STILL seen as fashionable to this day[1]. Maybe we're seeing something similar happen here?

[1] https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/tuberculosis-a-fashionable...
If this resonates with you, check out Montessori. I think learning (or, rather, retaining) appreciation for "work" is an important part of why Montessori is so successful.