skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if this is related, but I used to ruminate a lot when I was younger.

It seems obvious that the mind loves an neat conclusion to events, like a story with a satisfying ending, as opposed to an ambiguous one that leaves you pondering for a while. Or the part of a song that keeps looping (ear worm) until you play it out in full, or get distracted by something else.

As I've got older though, perhaps due to experience (a larger data set) or understanding (passive introspection), I've become able to tolerate ambiguity a lot more, seeing the world as a vast shade of grey rather than black and white.

Or perhaps my brain is simply malfunctioning(?). Replacing 'hard' boundaries with 'soft' ones, so that my life is no longer a series of striking events but rather a pastiche of recurring themes.

This doesn't seem to be a normal progression in any case. I see plenty of people older and more experienced than me blindly stuck in negative thought patterns, or trying to fit their experiences into boxes labelled black or white.

Ulimately, I believe there is some underlying (physical/chemical) cause for our differences, and the results of this study might be part of the puzzle. But just as whole genome sequencing hasn't led us to a full understanding of the human body (yet), I wonder just how far we've got to go before we have a universal understanding of our mental processes.
Well if we're right about the free and open society being better, they won't vote that way.

Of course it can and has happened. You have to ask yourself whether those societies were actually free and open, which I know sounds like a cop-out.
See also "break a leg".
YouTube was going to have this with YT Heroes[0] but now it's YT contributors[1], and likely has fewer moderation tools.

0: https://youtu.be/ZOw_wIog4lU

1: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7124236?hl=en
US should take lessons from Cuba in this area. With much less resources they managed to create a health care system that is not a total wreck, and actually good. It's a solvable problem.
I'm very religious and conservative in some ways and I think I also qualify as compassionate. I give about 5% per year to my church and probably another 0.5% to other charities (mostly local food banks). I'm probably exactly the kind of person this book (which I haven't read) attempts to praise.

I'd guess that about 1/10th of the church donation ends up being spent on what most people would call charity and the other 9/10ths gets spent on ministry.

So I'm therefore giving about 1% of my income to "charity" but probably getting credit for 5.5% because Brooks (and others) lump that ministry giving into the figure.

Obviously I believe that that ministry giving is super important because I'm very religious, but I think that using ministry giving to claim that religious people are more compassionate is silly.

Christianity isn't a contest about who's nicer, and as a Christian I do not want to be compared to some "other" who isn't as "compassionate" according to Brooks or anybody.

This book is very likely just conservative propaganda that drives motivated reasoning.
The ruble interest rate was increased to 20%. You can make any currency go higher with a sufficiently high interest rate, but that interest hike has a huge impact on the economy.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/28/russia-central-bank-hikes-in...
Cynically speaking, what you describe is more or less "take any file, prepend four magic bytes". The "index into global decoder table" is exactly what magic bytes are for in the first place. In other words, you're basically describing the thinnest possible container format.

Whether you provide the file format encoding/decoding as wasm or C reference implementation is not going to matter much in practice outside the web sphere, imo. You may argue that having a standard of wasm implementations is innovative, but if you're inside something browser-like, that's more or less the same as "just pull in something.js to decode this".

I don't think "download a new decoder from the internet occasionally" is as small of a problem as you make it out to be - in this case, an application could just as easily pull an update of itself to support a new file format directly. And you still get the essentially the same inertia as now for adoption of new formats because someone somewhere might not be able to update decoders.

Then there's also the issue of "how many copies of all those wasm blobs are you gonna have around on your system if every application uses this format". Which means you're now re-inventing system libraries in js/wasm. Talk about javascript eating the world...

But, optimistically speaking, your proposal could make speed of iteration in image file formats faster by streamlining adoption of new formats. Which could be a good thing.
Usually the monarchy/dictatorship was overthrown to be replaced by a somewhat more democratic government (both peacefully or violently). Autocrats rarely were willing to give up any of their power voluntarily and paradoxically in the rare cases where they did it only hastened their downfall

e.g. I’m pretty sure Loui didn’t expect in his worst nightmares that his head will be chopped of a couple of years later).

The only successful exceptions I can think are is Spain after Franco died, Taiwan and South Korea but these are all rather modern.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/38521576

Probably not exactly what you’re looking for, but it tackles the somewhat bumpy transition from industrialization to democracy (or rather why it didn’t exactly work out that way)
This is better advice than it probably sounds like right now too.

When my sister died, my doctor wanted to put me on an antidepressant immediately. I told her I wasn't depressed. I was having an appropriate grief response to the sudden loss of my sister.

But a year later, when I still couldn't bring myself to care about anything, including whether my life continued or stopped, I decided it was time for a small boost. Raise the baseline again. Don't try to push the grief out, but maybe get me just high enough that I want to get out of bed, that I want to go outside, that I want anything again.

A year after I started taking meds, things were still hard, and I still missed my sister profoundly, but my future wasn't blank anymore. I could start to imagine forms happiness might take. And I tapered back off the medication.

It's not the right answer for everyone, all the time, but it might be the right answer for you, now or soon, for awhile.
It’s been mentioned earlier in this thread, but base16 is basically that. I use it, and it’s ok! After setting up a program to support base16, you can just type

> base16-manager set nord

to use the nord theme on all programs.

http://chriskempson.com/projects/base16/
Full text of HB 1557 a.k.a. the “don't say gay” bill
Maybe, dunno. I am a passionate Linux desktop user. I have the SwayWM configs to prove it. However, unless Apple and Microsoft really did decide to do that, I don’t see a huge likelihood that someone is gonna swoop in and start putting serious resources into fixing stuff. Stuff like Cairo being virtually unmaintained or Qt… well, being Qt and having about 5000 bugs. (Don’t kill me, I like Qt too, but it’s damn buggy.)

The point was that the year of the Linux desktop never comes, and it probably never will. If it’s good enough to act as a counterbalance against dystopian outcomes, then fine. I don’t really see it, because I suspect most people don’t really have that much of a choice, for practical reasons, about the computing environments they’re beholden to.
No shit. The whole thing is basically about improving the security of the current totalitarian nightmare (i.e. economic system based on a central currency model). Real change will require a rethink of our assumptions. This is something I spend every waking moment on and I am getting close to being able to explain how we get out of this mess but give me time.
You mean Euromaidan[1] in 2014? In which Russian puppet Yanukovych used riot police to fire live ammo on protesters, after publicly and "bizarrely" backing out of EU negotiations in favor of Russia, who afterwards was just so happened to find sanctuary in Russia and has been repeatedly named as the favored replacement for democratically-elected Zelensky, who Russia has repeatedly tried to assassinate in the past month?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromaidan
Then trying to get the terminal colour scheme to work with the vim one. Another level of annoyances.
And transaction fees are huge
If you like that, wait until you realize that when they pray for you, they share their prayer intentions at the church groups — often the first step in organizing some collective action.
Do note, want to
I stand by the statement though. This plays into GitHub’s gamification on stars and I don’t think it’s healthy to uphold that nor pretend other platforms, open platforms exist.
Paying higher taxes to support social programmes is putting your money into things.
Every state I have lived in requires you to register the vehicle in that state:

NC: Within 60 days of establishing a permanent residence in North Carolina, new residents who plan to operate a motor vehicle must get a North Carolina driver license and title and register their vehicles with the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles.

https://www.ncdot.gov/dmv/help/moving/Pages/new-residents.as...

GA: If you own or lease a vehicle in Georgia, you must register it with the state. [...] New residents should register their vehicle no more than 30 days from the date they move to Georgia.

https://georgia.gov/register-vehicle

FL: When you move to Florida and become a resident you have 10 days to register your out of state vehicle.

https://www.dmvflorida.org/vehicles/out-of-state-car-registr...

CA: Once you officially establish residency in California, you will have 20 days to register your vehicle with the DMV to avoid late fees.

https://frontdoor.ucdavis.edu/relocation/car
I also struggle to find just the right light theme. I really enjoy the subtle colors in yours. Often I find accents and somtiemes primary color choices to be too intense against a sepia background.
Even rarer are those who do both.
Probably related somehow:

> Kazakhstan will not help Russia to evade Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, a top Kazakh official has said.

> Kazakhstan is not part of this conflict. Yes, we are part of the Eurasian Economic Union but we are an independent state with our own system, and we will abide by the restrictions imposed on Russia and Belarus. We don't want and will not risk being placed in the same basket.

> Kazakhstan respects the territorial integrity of Ukraine, did not recognize and will not recognize the Crimean annexation, nor the independence of the two separatist-controlled territories in eastern Ukraine.
That sounds like you should return that rented device, since you can't install your preferred software on it.
What sanction has affected the use of cryptocurrency in Russia? I could not find this answer in the text.
Bingo. Look at the history of the concept of the "deserving poor". It's still very much alive and kicking, to the detriment of our societies.
Why doesn't the Metaverse look as disruptive as it should?
I don't know where you live but 3 million refugees are pretty hard to ignore if you're in Europe. I was in Warsaw least week, there is 300,000 refugees in a city of 1.5M, many people are housing refugees in their spare rooms, hard to ignore that even without watching one bit of news.

If you're living in the US, maybe it's a good thing you guys hear what goes on around the world. I think foreign news taking up so little time in the US was always fascinating to me and really contributes to many of the wrong prejudices that are held about the rest of the world IMO (although news about war is probably not the best at reducing those) .
> Been Easter

Presumably you meant Ben Eater and your device mangled it with autocorrect.
No longer a last resort: Pulling CO2 from the air
eInk doesn't have Hz at all that's the whole point. Some of the newer screens have faster refresh modes but these come with a huge tradeoff in display quality. I wouldn't describe it as replicating 30Hz either. More like 12 or 15. A YouTube video is watchable on my Boox Note Air in X-mode but it's a noisy image and I don't think I'm seeing every frame.
I was raised to believe that there very much is something wrong with accepting charity.

That it should only be a last resort, held for the most desperate times, and if you were in those terrible straights, your life focus should be to get out of it as quickly as possible, and to pay back everything you received and more.
Say you know grief, then. That's actually true. You know how YOU experienced grief.

What you do not know and cannot possibly know is how another person is feeling, how they're experiencing their own grief.

I post this for all the well-meaning people who are out there insulting and hurting people they love because they don't actually know any better.

Stop saying you know how they feel. It's one of the most hurtful things you can say, and it's outright false.
I still dream about getting one of those - do you use it at 2x scaling? And how do you drive that thing?
A video of myself and my kids singing a >100 year old shanty was flagged on YouTube for DMCA.

A modern folk art drawing I made of a squid was blocked on Instagram for a content violation. I joked that the AI must be afraid of tentacles. The only explanation that made sense was that it looked vaguely phallic in the way that any of nature's "bulbed cylinders" do, but even that seemed like a stretch -- I should think they would have flagged an earlier painting of mushrooms.

The lesson is to make everything look like a butt in a thong. None of the content moderation anywhere seems to have a problem with butts in thongs. Bulbed cylinders: bad. Smooshed jiggle orbs: good. Just no nipples.
Although some wars are entirely created by external powers I find it a bit disingenuous to imply that the people at war don’t have grievances or don’t have free will to fight against their oppressors.

It reads as the author is more preoccupied in broadcasting his grief towards the “great evil powers” than the actual suffering caused by war.
Ah, that is unclear. Looks like you have only 7 days to decide to pay.
Long exposure times, untreated progressive dental issues, dowdy clothes, dowdy hair, etc.
260 years jail time is practically the death penalty
Carus. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/carus#Adjective

Dear. Beloved. Costly. Expensive. Valued.
I'm recording videos [0] for my "Vim Reference Guide" [1]. I've recorded a few videos before, but this is the first time I've committed myself for an entire book. I'm far from being comfortable, but it has been a good learning experience so far. And this will help for the next version of the guide (correcting typos, adding better explanations, examples, etc).

I'm also planning to start working on a "Linux CLI Guide for beginners" next week.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTv2U3HnAL4NN2tK-59Zi...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30684232
Helix Text Editor [video]
In this video, I show a demo of Helix, a terminal-based text editor similar to Neovim and Kakoune.
Yeah with Android messages it pulled up the text convo "follow up?"

I have to nest the images and put them so they don't show in the folder preview.

It is interesting the fallout when you suddenly disappear. All your accounts/things you used to manage.
People generally don't like imperialist apologia. You can certainly criticise NATO, but if you're using criticism of NATO to imply that they're the bad actors in the invasion of Ukraine, you're going to get called out on it.
One reason for the seeming obscurity is that science now calls this megalithic masonry.

But fascinating nonetheless.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=mega...
Merriam-Webster chose "they" as its 2019 Word of the Year based on the number of dictionary lookups, and the singular "they" was added to its online dictionary in September.

In other words, the dictionary added it 3 years ago due to political pressure. It's never been correct English, and it still isn't.
I don't see the relevance. Military intervention in Libya was not motivated because the Libyans decided to align with Russia or China or another anti-Western power?

I'm not claiming the West became pacifist after Vietnam, as such a claim would be clearly nonsense. My claim is that the west no longer sees a country's political difference as a justification for military intervention - unlike Russia. Nearly all wars involving western powers since then have either been to intervene in an existing civil war (often misguided) or in response to military aggression.

In the Libyan, case it was the former - a civil war.
After playing around with color schemes for over a decade and never really being satisfied, I made my own palette that is pretty close to the ANSI color scheme, just with more attractive shades that I copied from things like subway systems and public safety stuff (fire trucks and school busses) since so much research goes into colors being clear and unmistakable in varying conditions of weather or cleanliness. Highlight colors are incremental shades of grey. This has worked remarkably well with 99.9% of default app color schemes. Haven't touched my colors in years now.

Edit:

screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/ZPWjSKk, since terminal.sexy URL sharing wasn't working so well for me. I'd post a desktop screenshot, but I'm on the road and my laptop's WiFi just stopped working, lol.

Some background: cyan is now safety orange. This is because cyan hurts my eyes on a light background and it can be tricky to distinguish from blue, while orange is pretty easy to distinguish from red. IIRC I picked out the shades of blue and magenta myself because most color design documents I could dig up had blue and purple usage paired with a specific background color (usually white) which didn't carry over very well to a dark background. I find these shades to be distinguishable and flexible enough for just about any background color.

The greyscale highlights are generally for tmux and nvim status line background colors, which I use to distinguish cells instead of seperator glyphs.

[colors]

foreground = #383838
foreground_bold = #383838
cursor = #383837
background = #aaaaaa

#black (is black)
color0 = #000000

#red (fire engine red)
color1 = #ce2029

#green (London underground green)
color2 = #007d32

#yellow (school bus yellow)
color3 = #ffd800

#blue (Persian blue)
color4 = #1c39bb

#magenta (Rebecca purple)
color5 = #663399

#cyan (actually "ANSI Z535 safety orange", for my eyes)
color6 = #ff7900

#white (from the color white)
color7 = #ffffff

###Highlights###
# Evenly-spaced increments of the greyscale
# Makes for good tmux/nvim statuslines
color8 = #1b1b1b
color9 = #383838
color10 = #545454
color11 = #717171
color12 = #8d8d8d
color13 = #aaaaaa
color14 = #c6c6c6
color15 = #e3e3e3
Pretty sure it wouldn't require coordination. Something like 1/3 of the planet is their active monthly userbase for just YouTube.
> Nevermind the transaction fees that make this untenable anyway. ... Of course, L2 networks, problem solved.

We've already agreed on our dominant L1s.

What happens when we've agreed on our dominant L2(s)?

Say, with the UX help of a large corporate entity with financial interest in actually helping their consumer remain financially secure?
>Of course this could be a Hacker News Dropbox comment moment.

It's not. Cryptocurrency has been around for over a decade at this point, suffice to say that it doesn't work. And why should it? The stated purpose of it is to be another form of unregulated private money, which we already knew was a bad idea hundreds of years ago. Wrapping it up in layers and layers of confusing (and pointless) technology doesn't make it any less of a bad idea.
I think you're missing the critical step of "widespread rule of law". It leads to both democracy (because once people have rights, they exercise those rights to organize and demand more) and industrialization (because people will only build factories if they have confidence that their investments won't be stolen).

England had a head start thanks to the Magna Carta (which established the Parliament) and the Civil War (which gave it teeth); by the time the steam engine was invented, the rule of law was well established and industrialists didn't need to worry about having their work confiscated.
This is such a cool feature, mine is updated by a Pi, pulls sensor data from a couple of projects (solar cell/anemometer) and updates it everyday.

It's funny I have a database with about 9.5 million rows so far of milliwatt power generated recordings from the anemometer (it records every second).
I believe that would open a non-draft PR (which for me gets announced on Slack which I don’t want) unless you enter flags which I don’t want for daily commands, opens it against the wrong (master) branch in my case, and takes me to the wrong page (convo/main) whereas I want to see files. It’s not a bad alternative.
> Cynically speaking, what you describe is more or less "take any file, prepend four magic bytes".

I was wondering if someone would notice that ;) What it amounts to is basically a package manager for image formats.

But it's the idea that matters here, not the implementation. If we want our data to be readable in 100 years from now, we better base it on some highly standard common format. That format could be WebAssembly.
IME people like it when they can submit something and move on with their life. I think a small data explorer for web can go a long way and a simple web portal that allows submission of zipped files. That might cover the first 90%, then you can deal with the last 10% that need additional help.

For your second question about data ingest, unless you're enforcing standards on receiving data (for example, check it as people try to submit and fire back if it's not right) I don't see a way to index except by set schema. Elasticsearch would allow you to index on dynamic fields, from there you could merge data.
I'm a left leaning centrist, and subject to the highest tax brackets. I could, I guess, vote for a party who would give me tax cuts. Then I'd have more money.

But I believe that healthcare that is accessible, that support for people struggling with poverty, and decent education, is best provided coherently, at scale, by an organisation that works at a societal scale, like, say, a government.

When I was young, my society, funded by people paying taxes, gave me access to a decent education (although I squandered that), access to healthcare, and kept me from starving or becoming homeless when I was poor.

So I am very happy to pay higher taxes, as it funds effective solutions. Am I less compassionate because I don't give money to a church, or coach a sports team?

This publication feels like an opportunity for people who routinely tithe then vote against helping out others in their society to pat themselves on their back in complete denial of how poorly the USA does when it comes to supporting (or perhaps I should say, choosing to support) the people on the lower rungs of the American Dream.

Could government be more effective? Yes. Definitely. Is it more effective than a hodge podge of random charities? Yes, and obviously so.
This doesn't match my experience, because the nurses who've measured me specified it to the half inch, and they did it consistently.
> There are no nazis or fascists in Ukraine apart from those who just invaded the country and now bringing woe to the land we have deep historical and cultural bonds, families, friends, memories.

I mean, this is proved to be completely false.

This article is really emotional and that's fine with me, but I would not pretend I can critically analyze and understand the situation when I'm in such a mental state.
It's the cost of enforcement, both politically and financially, that decides this, not much else.