skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My thoughts exactly. While this is more human readable on the wire, a message broker delivering the feed would provide many different other features that might be useful, such as transactions, load-balancing, guaranteed delivery and per-endpoint state to simplify the individual application instances.

For those not aware of what message brokers are, there are many to choose from such as: Mosquito, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Solace... If delivery over HTTP is a requirement, many of these brokers support delivery over websockets or (in the case of Solace) also support long polling.
It definite is for me, I think what's helped is forcing myself to read the article before I go the comments. At least some learning is happening.
How do you join in? Is there a way to see if "your area" isn't well covered?
fuck, man I gave up on trying to develop focus. There are all sorts of methods that never worked for me.

Here is what I do.

option 1) take on two tasks at a time and convince yourself you would rather be doing X instead of Y. That way in your brain you are "getting away with it"

option 2) dont fight it. When you get the flow, isolate and GSD. When you arent feeling it, do what you need to do.

Option 2 isnt always an available depending on your circumstances but it is my favorite becvause I am actually way more productive this way.
> the most successful experiment in human human history to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty

Sorry bub, that's China.

> (American success) via market capitalism

Via Europeans enslaving everyone else on earth then nearly destroying themselves in WWII

> great pains your forebears went to to make sure you weren't a slave peasant

If you mean lobbing off Old Louis and Marie's fat gourds then yeah, you're right

Anyone born between 1940-70 was born on third base and thought they hit a triple.
Could not agree more. What conspiracies theories have taught us, and yes, I realize this is still an unpopular opinion, is that free speech is overrated.

Free speech, like everything else, needs regulations to work. This is hard, and maybe impossible to do well, but the alternative (no regulations) leads to chaos. Not just chaos of discussion: chaos of society.
But any Turing-complete operation can be mapped mechanistically into a branchless ISA, can’t it? One of those “one-instruction” ISAs, for example, where every instruction is also a jump. Vector processors would compute on those just fine, just like they compute matrix-multiplication problem isomorphisms just fine.

Or, for a more obvious/less arcane restatement: can't the shader cores just be given a shader that's an interpreter, and a texture that's a spritesheet of bytecode programs?
the better the camera of my phone the less I use it. there are so many good photos of everything, it's just, what's the point ?
You should make that clear with an edit/update in the parent. Sarcasm doesn't work well in writing, people tend to take it at face value.
Publishing distasteful things or things we don't agree with is free speech.

If saying anything wasn't a problem we wouldn't even think of the concept of free speech.

Twitter is not free speech platform and that is okay.
Yeah, I would expect a smug, persnickety dismissal from HN folks. But it's largely GOOD advice and we need more of this kind of thing going around.

When trying to find advice for personal cyber security by googling around, you get a wild range of material ranging from simplistic listicles, to paranoiac rantings, to BS marketing slick from entities trying to sell stuff. It's hard to find solid advice with actual reasoning behind it.

Would a normal person (who is not a target for nation-state actors) be in very good shape, cyber-security-wise, if they followed the "recommended" advice in that checklist? I say yes-- even if they put their 2FA backup codes in their password manager!
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8, you mean. 16 bit allows a big pallete, near true color, but bad gradients.
What happens when babies are left to cry it out?
You gain a cheaper car.

Even if features have zero marginal cost, they are important for market segmentation, which is important for reducing the cost for most people by allowing less price-discriminating purchasers to pay more.

Imagine instead this was a button that was labeled, "I'm rich" and pressing it echoed back "Yes you are".

That could be similarly paywalled and used for market segmentation.

Instead, they choose to paywall a feature that has minor benefit like "climate sync" (I'm not sure I even understand what that means, I live in temperate climate).
Author skipped a bit, didn't indicate which part of the lsusb output made it obvious it's USB 2.0.

My knowledge is limited, I think it might be the 480M indicating the speed.

For USB 3.0 you'd see a higher number... 5000? I'm glancing at this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_3.0
I used to like the android app Slidebox that walked you through your gallery and swipe left or right to keep photos. Unfortunately it seems like abandonware since 2016 and doesn't support SD storage.
using 3rd party applications to customize windows is the beauty of windows.

i run it on a ryzen5 and surface pro 8 and it’s been great
Why would you merge code that wasn’t ready to go live?
The truth is Russia is bombarding from afar. Whenever their conscripts faced skilled and battle hardened vets they fled/folded/died. The magnitude of Russia's forces tell me they will, in time have a chance to stomp Ukraine - as long as they have any feet left!!
Do you know Russia maintains an army cohort called sort of Battle Police to keep conscripts from desertion? The USA/UK have no such force or need. Russian conscripts know they are like dirt to the elites and only battle police make them advance - lesser of two evils is the conscript's choice.
This is something I have anecdotally heard from many people, regardless of their age or experience with tech. I myself set up a widget for my parents (in their 60s) to surface photos and memories on their iPhones, and they derive more daily delight from that single feature than from any other technology.
My suspicion is that when you reply, you're marking your account as vulnerable, and they're keeping their older more trustworthy accounts around to sample with
From my understanding the approach to microservices was more or less a day 1 thing due to some of the early engineering hires being very experienced with them; so the number of them was comparatively high pretty early on.
Because that's how they decided to sell it. Why should you pay for a book, music, a movie, software? They're not selling these things out of the goodness of their heart, it's to make money.
Self control, this is really what you are saying. (I agree) And I would add, you just have to start somewhere, it doesn't matter what or how you do it.

You just need to start, and get yourself to do something different to really see a difference with yourself. (seems redundant, but your actions have a direct relationship to your life experience)
I want to check it out, but their site does not work well on mobile. The flower image makes the text "squish" over to half the screen.

Normally I wouldn't care but seems more pertinent in this case ...
In your pricing list do you mean "TBA" instead of "TBC"? Or maybe it's just my english, then ignore me :)
Getting Things Done and Deep Work will give you some ideas, resources.
Wow, talk about a single point of failure when an issue in the systems of one station can stop all but one train line. Interestingly, it seems to be a station where tracks from six directions meet so a backup mode of trains simply passing through might be impossible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_Chamart%C3%ADn_railway_...
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The necroplutarchy demands its due.
Well on the "far beyond free speech advocates", the position that the SEC can't prevent market manipulation due to the first amendment is a position that basically no one sensible takes. Or that he's happy using "Free Speech" to slander people.

On the subject of Twitter being a public square, I think that's a pretty absurd assertion, it's one of a plethora of social media sites - Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Whatsapp, Reddit, Tiktok, Telegram, Snapchat. And it's not even particularly large compared to that competition. It's not even like Twitter has grown to become some behemoth, it's share price is about flat over the last decade. This isn't some behemoth that needs regulating.
What's the worst edge case you're aware of that you're not handling?
I almost bought a USB hub recently on Amazon that had blue ports but was actually USB-2. Thankfully I took the time to read the negative reviews first, followed by the fine print of the actual product description.
Sounds like you're agreeing with me in disagreeing tones
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Do you have full time employment? I think you have to be aware of how limited our time is. If you have a full time job, there is very little time outside of that to do anything. The trouble is that a job also drains a lot of your energy, so working on anything on the side after work is going to put you at the edge of overdoing it. It's really hard to focus on this state as it is.

Personally, I can get 4 good hours out of a day and then anything after that is gravy. Sometimes I struggle to do 4, sometimes I can go longer. But 4 is about what I can count on.

Given that time block, I then just have to project manage. Lay out a road map and start making estimates of effort required. Map that against the time you have in a given day to work on it. You then have to make the choice of what projects move based on your available resources and which get pushed off into a "someday maybe" folder.
>The point is: I bought the hw, the OEM must not have any form of control on it

What does "control" mean in this context? Obviously there's nothing preventing you from modifying/manipulating the car by whatever means you see fit. The software that's included with the car is simply refusing to operate the AC. I don't see how that's any different than buying a piece of software that refuses to do a given functionality, even though all the requisite hardware (ie. a CPU) is present.
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Maybe they shouldn't be heating them at all! We don't owe it to old leaky castles to make it economically viable to heat them. Cheap gas is an ecological nightmare. That doesn't mean that other methods are not also ecological nightmares. How do you even know that the electricity they're burning to mine bitcoin didn't also come from Russian gas? There's no economic principle that says it can't. All Bitcoin does is make it profitable to waste energy - that doesn't mean wasting energy is good! How can paying people to use up electricity possibly be a net win?
> It looks like you've single-handedly dismissed all the pixel art created today by saying that.

Hm. I feel one has to read my comment very carelessly or interpret lot of words very unfavourably to arrive at that conclusion.
since you asked, my solution

1) VAT to replace income tax for bottom 50% or so

2) simplified income tax only for high earners (for normies consumption is an excellent proxy for income)

3) don't privilege capital income with low rates and infinite deferral

4) no corporate income tax which is a poor substitute for 3), and anyway corporate income is mostly accounting fiction
His two main companies have apparently taken risks that established companies in those areas were not willing to do.

Could Boeing built a self-landing reusable rocket? Almost certainly. Would they have been willing to, considering it almost certainly involves failing in explosive ways multiple times? That may be a risk they aren't willing to take.
Probably works at Monzo
A couple things:

A) People have vastly different (even abusive) forms of communications. What works for one group does not work for another. "Sensitivity training" does not account for this, in fact it causes issues.

B) EQ and CQ are made up terms, but more importantly they aren't realistic. IQ, also is somewhat made up, its used as a sort of "general intelligence" marker and it is that in the context of broad studies, not so much on the individual level. IQ has been long used to browbeat certain ethnic groups, these new "made up" terms are similar, in that people are using them to browbeat various groups, in attempt to put themselves on a higher "moral ground". Its disgusting, and insensitive nonsense. They don't exist, and we don't have the bandwidth to all just "conform". And no, thanks I don't take kindly to being brainwashed.
VMS empire?
I think Jordan Peterson said it that in order to have attention (to me this translates to focus) is to choose your sacrifices.

Your plate is limited, even your brain can deal with just a few things at a time (4 i think from most researches).

I guess you have to mindfully and aggressively say no to certain things or ideas, but that is never easy.
Seriously?

That sort of defeats the entire point of the 5th amendment. At best, it should perhaps signal an investigation may be called for, but I'd argue that civil asset forfeiture is misqualified as a civil case if that is the case, as the admission of adverse inference against a plaintiff in a civil case would further tilt the scales of justice in favor of the government, which if we're really being honest here, does not need the help.
What is with this compulsion some people have to categorize people based on their political leanings?

God forbid you ever utter something someone with a bunch of followers will interpret as wrongthink.
I believe OP is referring to Musk re-opening production against Alameda County's standing work-stop rules at the time.

This isn't necessarily the same as forcing people to work, but I have no idea if Tesla employees willing to return vs. those deciding to follow county rules saw any advantages or disadvantages at work as a result. Certainly forcing people to defy government rules to keep their jobs would be highly problematic to me as well, for example.
(I help work on the Android client)

The OSS build of the Android app doesn't depend on Google Play Services, and is currently available from the github release page: https://github.com/owntracks/android/releases (and has been since v2.4.0 released last year).

> Whats the point of half measures like this

Personally, I don't care about Google knowing my location. I care about having my location data on a system I control so I can do useful things with it.
Internet communities are battling over pixels
Population is continuing to grow, but that's because of demographic momentum as population age structure relaxes toward equilibrium (with fewer young people and more older people, particularly older people past their reproductive years.)

The long term problem will be population decline as the total fertility rate drops well below replacement.

Energy use is going up, because lesser developed countries are heading toward first world rates of energy use. But that plateaus or even starts to decline (due to efficiency) also.
If he didn't want to be tracked, he would hire a different jet each time he wanted to fly.

That way nobody would know he was aboard.
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-- Wake up early and try to accomplish something significant before 8am

I always hate this piece of advice, if i wake up early, even if I am able to struggle through getting 'something significant done' before 8am i'm going to feel terrible for the rest of the day since i got up early, it's not worth it at all. This advice is nonsense and not universal, yet the same nonsense is constantly repeated. I understand it can work for some, but that is because you are following your own rhythms and really that is what you should be doing and that should be the advice

or maybe taking your own advice more generally "Crave out a block of time for yourself dedicated to doing something significant, finding the time that works best for you in your schedule'
Accountability. Get at least one other person invested in your project somehow and set yourself up where you have to provide some kind of progress report or show progress to another.
I recommend transcendental meditation. It’s very basic. Pick any nonsensical phrase. I chose “oohm chah kahh.” You close your eyes for twenty mins and repeat that phase in your head. You can repeat parts of it and change up the rhythm by elongating the vowels or whatever. Focus on the phrase as much as you can. Your mind will wander but always come back to it. You do that once or twice a day.

There is a bit of controversy of the science and spiritual side but I find that the way to improve focus is to limit stimuli and practice focusing.

Outside of that, sleep is probably more critical.
Are you sure about that? I'm pretty sure IBAN is universal (or almost so) for all EU bank accounts at this point. Thus consumer debit cards have in IBAN associated with them.

Now, it may not be the fully formatted ISO IBAN number, but some shorter variant you need to prefix with e.g. the country's IBAN prefix. E.g. in The Netherlands all Debit cards have the full number, but Iceland uses a suffixed system, those are just two systems I'm personally familiar with.

I quickly searched for what Italy's largest bank is, and found pictures of their debit cards, which seem to have 4x4 numeric digit on the front. This page then seems to explain how to convert it to IBAN: https://help.finecobank.com/it/il-conto-fineco/conto-corrent...

In any case, I was just using IBAN as a shorthand for "a unique account number suitable for a direct debit contract".

If Italy really uses proprietary bank account numbering system it's probably still true that people there can pay e.g. their electricity via direct debit, which will eventually lead back to a contract where they said such-and-such can withdraw money from such-and-such account.

The store would then print out that contract template to have on hand.

Except that they wouldn't, because you're not going to train your point-of-sale people for the 10 minutes per year the phone system is fully down, or have accounting deal with the mountain of resulting paperwork and manual one-off payment processing.

But that doesn't mean that offline payments are literally impossible if you have neither card nor credit card, it's just become so exceptional that people have forgotten how, even to the point of claiming it can't be done :)
Man but the bad 10% is so rough. The Thai diver situation wasn't some off the cuff rant, that was someone wealthy and influential in concerted effort to utterly destroy someone who had done some good in the world. Intellectual genius but moral void can still apparently be admirable?
It's shocking how many otherwise smart people are naïve about this. Even those who have been around the Internet long enough to know full well what happens with any text box (or worse, image upload) offered.
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I know nothing about J and JSoftware, but this reads like an Aprils fools joke. Is it?

> In a naive system the application has to read every single byte of data from the disk. ... To answer this simple question all the data had to be read from disk. This is a performance disaster and that is where decades of adding bandages and kludges started. .... Think about the earlier query for license and color. Jd gets the license numbers from disk (a tiny fraction of the database)

Ofcourse that data has to be read from disk. Well, for simple or aggregate queries he may gain performance. Moreover, as other commenter has commented, you can organize data in columns in MSSQL too for aggregations: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/in...

> columns used in queries are likely already in memory and the query runs at ram speed, not the sad and slow disk speed. ... Jd performance is affected primarily by ram. Lots of ram allows lots of rows

Any other RDBMS can have sensible indexes that satisfy your queries. And, surprise, your data also lives in RAM once you read it.

> You can backup a database or a table with standard host shell scripts, file copy commands, and tools such as tar/gzip/zip.... If you understand backing up file folders, then you pretty much understand backing up Jd databases.

And... throw data consistency out of the window?

I'm reading and I'm "not getting" the selling point - why is this better?

Okay, I read that things are files. SQLite is also a file if physical format is a concern.
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