skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using a simple Google Sheet to track my personal inventory for a while now, and have basically all of my rarely-used possessions indexed. The biggest benefit is that I need to put way less effort into having a "sensible" organization scheme, since I can just throw something into "Tub D" and not worry about being able to find it later.

The one key tip I'd recommend is setting up your system to resolve nested containers. For example, Tub D itself might be in your coat closet. It doesn't look like this system is really set up for that, although my use case is also quite different than what it's targeting with insurance.
Ask HN: Book recommendations for grammar as it relates to computing?
Though any book on compilers or computation will make some reference to grammar (defining terms such as regular vs. non-regular), it is often in passing. I'm interested in a deeper dive. I believe a lot of the terminology we use comes from Chomsky, but his own books seem to be focused on humans and language learning. I'd like a wide survey of the field, but as it relates to making computers do things or encoding information. Oh, and while I'm being wishful, one written in layman's terms.

Is there a "Grammar as it Relates to Computing for Dummies"?
About 300 thousand Russians fled the country recently. There are almost no Russian tourists anywhere at the moment.
Yeah getting a dog is a great thing but it's also a living creature that can live for 15 years. People just don't think that far ahead.

I am forever grateful to my dog though. She saved my life after a loved one passed away. Thanks to that dog I meet more people, I have no trouble walking 10k steps a day, I get sunshine, fresh air.

I'm only 5 years in but so far I love it and I have no problem exercising it.

But it has also opened my eyes to how many dog owners there are out there, and how many of them are negligent.
I don't think I've ever seen that specific post, but I've read Kevin Mitchell discuss the topic often (check his blog out: [1]) - maybe it could be him?

I could also imagine Daniel Dennett (philosopher of biology) or Christof Koch (neuroscientist) speaking about this. Regardless, they also have interesting takes on the problem.

[1] Wiringthebrain.com
Congrats, it looks amazing!

Does it support formulas?
> I have some experience with schools. The school is not intentionally installing spyware.

Our highschool had a bunch of laptops. They were the firstish gen of mac laptops with built-in webcams. This was all very new.

These laptops would take a picture of the user at every login and then once an hour or so after that. I guess the principal wanted to know who was using each machine in case anything unclothe was done with the laptop. The pics were stored on an FTP server (not FTPS. Not SFTP. FTP.). The FTP account had RWX on the directory where all login pictures were stored, and the FTP server was exposed to the internet. A simple MiTM on any network where this laptop connected would give the attacker full read access to these login pictures.

The problem: these laptops could be "checked out" for an evening or weekend. So they got around. Hotels, restaurants, libraries, coffee shops, etc. But also student's bedrooms. This was in the days when most public wifi was just a commodity linksys router behind the register and you could more-or-less safely assume you were being MiTM'd when connecting to a public wifi network.

So, long story short, a principal with bad judgement and an IT admin with just enough googling skills were uploading pics of students in their bedrooms to an FTP server that was almost certainly hacked into by dozens of different people. Without consent or knowledge of the students or parents.

When I raised this issue, the principal suspended me. Getting the suspension reversed required going to central office, who were totally unaware of what was going on and were, obviously, appalled at the picture taking script.

School IT staff are often knowledgeable enough to be dangerous, and individual school administrators often demonstrate remarkably horrible judgement. I understand the "be kind" sentiment, but there really is a lot of inexcusable incompetence and poor judgement in K12. We should hold those systems to a much higher standard than we do.
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Just mountain biking, the downhill flavor has a lot of room for progression and skill building. Being outdoors at the same time, it's really hard not to love it.
Somewhat nit-picky, but I would push back against the simplicity of a few things you described. Overweight/obesity is influenced by numerous factors - exercise being one of them. In general, exercise has been shown to be a far less effective factor in controlling weight when compared to diet, but that's not to say exercise isn't important to your weight/health, because it is VERY important. I would say most of the world isn't obese because their food environment combined with biological/psychological/social factors is different than that of the US, which seems to be conducive to the development of obesity.

I agree that habit forming is very difficult - and specifically that, given somebody doing no activity, starting them with walking/aerobics vs a relatively specific/strenuous exercise like pullups is a good idea.

I think obesity is influenced by urban planning - in the context that obesity is influenced by many environmental factors. Like the US's obsession with car-sprawl at the expense of integrating activities like walking/cycling into one's daily life.

You should read about some of Herman Pontzer's research:
https://dupri.duke.edu/news-events/news/herman-pontzer-expla...
Specifically, that doing more physical activity doesn't mean you "burn more calories".
You may also find his research on metabolism interesting:
https://today.duke.edu/2021/08/metabolism-changes-age-just-n...
(Age 20-60, it doesn't change much at all)
I’m constantly amazed at how Metaverse aficionados quote Snow Crash and and other 1990s works as cornerstones of cyberspace, when Gibson invented the term and Neuromancer was written in 1984. Gibson is the original. The passage where Case connects to the matrix (also a Gibson term) again for the first time once his nervous system is repaired is heartbreakingly beautiful. I relate to it as a young phone phreak growing up in South Africa in the 80s and 90s when I would bluebox the home country direct phone trunks to connect to BBSs in the USA. When I could not get through, usually because they were filtering my seize tones, I felt the same deprivation. And when I finally connected I felt the same elation Case feels in this scene…

“Please, he prayed, now—

A gray disk, the color of Chiba sky.

Now—

Disk beginning to rotate, faster, becoming a sphere of paler gray. Expanding—

And flowed, flowered for him, fluid neon origami trick, the unfolding of his distanceless home, his country, transparent 3D chessboard extending to infinity. Inner eye opening to the stepped scarlet pyramid of the Eastern Seaboard Fission Authority burning beyond the green cubes of Mitsubishi Bank of America, and high and very far away he saw the spiral arms of military systems, forever beyond his reach.

And somewhere he was laughing, in a white-painted loft, distant fingers caressing the deck, tears of release streaking his face.”
This looks interesting. I have a question to those who use it.

I work from home and I have a good bit of stuff from my work (RFID readers, LIDAR, computers, web relays, etc) that I want to catalogue in case something happens to me and my SO needs to differentiate between what is ours and what is works. Would this be a good piece of software to do that?
I never saw an SGI in "personal computer" mode until the sun was setting - they were always being banged on by departments, or rendering 24-7. I'm jealous of anyone who had one to themselves when they were still a power.

The Amigas were something else, though, but every time I ran into one it was getting its lunch eaten by the nearby Mac. Only for a year or two, in TV production environments, did I see an advantage with Amiga.

Now, with both among my collection, the SGI is the one I turn on most frequently (when the power grid can handle it).
> "the majority of derivatives of the cyberpunk genre I've seen have all usually been cheap cash grabs with less than any real messaging behind it"

Agreed, and it's important to note that the message "evil corporations are greedy and use tech in soulless and alienating ways" used to be a radical message but it's not anymore. Now it's just a trope. So I disagree with what some are saying that cyberpunk is currently used to convey a message; it's not, in general. It's used to convey a trope that's lost most of its barb.

All in my opinion, of course. And Gibson's.
This caught my eye. We are in the market for a high-quality gridview component that would allow for in-line edits. We also looked at CSV in/out, but having something integrated could be better. The UX would have to be on-par with excel and this seems close.

My biggest question right now: What does integration of Datagridxl2 look like when operating with a Blazor Server app? Should I just expect some basic JS interop when building a wrapper for the component?
That explains why they allowed new accounts to participate. There were probably hundreds of thousands of new bot accounts created over the weekend.
> My left wrist has been a little 'off' for a few weeks

The other side of this is that doctors in america lean heavy towards interventionism. If you go see a doctor, they will do something. Useful or not.

An american doctor will never, for example, say “Hey maybe your chair is too low compared to your desk and you’re putting too much pressure on your wrist” or suggest a series of stretching exercises to do 3x/day for a few weeks until the discomfort goes away. The best you can expect from a doctor is “eh it’s not bad enough for surgery yet, come back in a few years. Take advil or something idk”

I remember going in for a persistent cough. After 5 minutes the doctor decided “this is post nasal drip” (my nose drains into my throat instead of making me sniffly) and prescribed some medicine to take. And I’m like … yo this problem isn’t bad enough to need fixing, I just wanted to know what’s up. Too much intervention can easily make things worse.

When you have an acute problem that’s when american healthcare shines. Chronic and minor stuff, not so much.
I think the difference of Toronto (versus much the rest of Canada) is not about helping dig/push cars slid down into the rhubarb, or high-centered on a snowbank - most all of Canadians likely would.

But in Calgary, Manitoba, Waterloo... I've done and seen people at this while also having a nice conversation.
The only feature fight I want to see from phone makers and networks anymore is latency.

Voice latency is a big part of why people type on a telephone, instead of talking on it. We're entering a second generation of people who have no idea what it was like talking on an analog POTS network. They'll even argue with you, claiming their VOIP connection across the ocean has the same quality and latency as someone talking on a hard line to a neighbor down the road. Ummm... no. Not even close. Sadly, the older generations didn't realize how good they had it.

Remember when phone companies used to compete on quality? AT&T's "You get what you pay for" campaign. Sprint's "So clear you can hear a pin drop" campaign. MCI's "Static-free coast-to-coast."

Today, it's "We'll bundle six other services you don't want with your phone service and charge you a $1,200 for a new phone. Aren't we great!"
Life is short. Find things you enjoy doing. People you enjoy spending time with. Do those things. Spend time with those people.

There very may well be some greater meaning of life but I know this one makes me happy and that is all one can really ask for in life.
Because of the Protestant foundations of our country.
No they shouldn't sell ads, imo.

Instead they should open their platform to third party content, give those publishers a share of subscription revenues, and allow capitalism to work its magic.
Yup, and I can swap between them by plugging my laptop in to the USB-C while it's turned in, input autodetection handles the rest.
Anecdotally a friend had a computer store that sold Amiga's and had his entire inventory bought out by the CIA of whom never paid him so they must have been powerful for something. This was in the late 90's. No idea what they were using them for. I used one to help a friend run a BBS. I could play games with incredible graphics whilst the BBS was running in the background.
"Ironically, reading Neuromancer in my older age, the main observation I have is how optimistic it is. The seas aren't rising and the climate seems to be doing just fine."

Gibson has gone on record multiple times in saying that he doesn't write about the future nor does he try to predict the future, but sees himself as always writing about the present.
Insightful observation. Also depressing. Probably why Gibson dislikes this trend.
Shadowbanning is very real on many platforms. It is a method designed to ban a user without pushback from the user and minimize the ability of them to work around the ban. Explicitly lying to users like this, even the bad ones, should be something that is banned the by government. If you paid money for a service and they tricked you into not receiving the service without telling you this wouldn’t be allowed, but for some reason it’s okay to trample on the expectations of users when giving out free service.
Just wanted to say the Prehistory section brought up a lot of nostalgia for me. Those early Ruby projects and articles that Ezra wrote led me to working at his company Engine Yard back in the beginning of 2008. Lots of memories of late nights trying to fix GitHub's deployment (GFS2 nightmares) as they were growing in the community. I remember when Resque came out and we started using it for so many of our customers. Tons of really smart hackers hanging out at the office/apartment on South Park.

Definitely wouldn't have my career without all those early Ruby hackers working together in community. Makes me wonder where in the OSS world that community is thriving just like back then.
Fair. But they're laggy on everything.
I can't believe how bad Samsung has become.

You pay them extra to avoid "Chinese brands" and you get ads everywhere, bloated devices with very bad performance.

I'm still using a Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition and even if it's slow, it still works pretty well. It has some stuff in it that I can't get rid off but overall is a great tablet. I've used countless Samsung devices ever since and I only see the quality going down.
Same question for the CEO ratios. Are board of directors discriminating against women or is it that men are more likely to make the sacrifices to become a CEO?
Imagine believing there is freedom of speech in liberal democracies in 2022...
The cube/square law also applies in the opposite direction, this is why it takes longer for lakes to freeze and why the Great Lakes never do.

I believe at least one university on the Great Lakes does heating and cooling with pipes deep under the lake.
darktable does.

https://darktable.gitlab.io/doc/en/color_management.html
A New Breed of Drug Dealer Has Turned Buying Drugs into a Treasure Hunt (2020)
So if you become content with your money and then find you have medical or retirement bills that your contentment failed to plan for, what happens next? Do you choose to be happy about foreclosure? Money is the thing that frees up your time and mental bandwidth for what matters.
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>smaller accounts (<250k followers)

I'd not consider someone with 200k followers small.

Maybe you meant 2500 followers?
A different example of designing/supporting something that doesn't make money but has multicapital benefits - games on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28978086
Looks interesting...
1) Verification email went to spam on google
2) Values are in USD - what about the rest of the world?
3) Will need an export to csv rather than just pdf

Thanks!
You are grossly oversimplifying the technical and governance effort required to do something like this.
Very good and succinct explanation, and I agree.

I wasn't trying to justify the decision. I was just trying to add context. The poster kept using the word "reason". I.e., it isn't a rational choice to be late. I agree with that.

All I was trying to do is add nuance that reason is a higher-order faculty of the mind. Many of these decisions take root at lower levels, where rationality isn't present. Because your body and subconscious struggle to differentiate between the two, it may take a lot introspection and training to arrive at the right conclusion. None of that is in disagreement with the comment I was replying to, it just adds context as to why it's easier said than done and how it may take some specific skills to implement.
I don’t know where you are in “the West” but here (Western Europe), selling a company is often subject to some kind of oversight, particularly something as critical as energy or with large companies. And artificial bankruptcies to evade contracts are actually fraud.

Not making any point about your example, which was indeed despicable behaviour.
In the future, your boss will be uploaded and you will be running with menial tasks coming from there.

People who think that uploading is "afterlife" or retirement are badly mistaken. Pre-uploading is "prelife".
> you would convert all the turbine generator outputs just to DC.

You could. But you probably still need a DC/DC conversion step or boosting in order to let the power flow from each of the turbines fairly. (The synchronous conversion to DC from AC provides opportunity to slightly change the voltages you get out, but not terrifically so).
Geothermal energy is risky AF though. Even with shallow drilling depths, you risk hitting anhydrite and, in combination with water, massive damage like in Staufen [1].

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebungsrisse_in_Staufen_im_Bre...
Thank you for your interest! Happy to address your questions:

1. HomeSheet is currently free so I can gauge user interest and receive user feedback (Like yours, which I appreciate so much). After the early access period, I'm considering an annual subscription, and likely a free tier. This all depends on the infrastructure costs, etc moving forward.

2. I'm committed to a PDF export option to generate visual reports of your items. This isn't quite ready yet but it's in the works! Currently, I am able to provide a sqlite export of your data and a zip of your assets via a support request at this time, but I would like this export option directly in the app so it is available to you 24/7.

Encryption is an interesting use case I haven't considered yet. I'd be happy to explore what this would look like. My first thought would be to allow for client side encryption of any documents attached to your items, so things like vehicle registrations, bill of sales, etc. would all be encrypted client side. This is something I'll have to explore more, and likely would be added at a later date. I'm definitely interested though!
Agree. We have filtering on our kid's Chromebook, but only when they login as user to their school account. They have their separate account which gives them their own space.

Certainly you WANT the school district to do some filtering for the school accounts, right? I mean, I think ours locks it down so tight that students can't get outside emails until they are whitelisted somehow...
Who owns the media and big tech now??? It's not poor people!

At least Elon Musk is a very rich person who believes in free speech. Which is good for us poors. Twitter and the national discourse will be objectively better for working class voices as a result. Less so for the gatekeepers and media elite commentariat.
China has being pushing Russian narratives on the war internally in state media.
So I think you might be disproving the "is not a tool for China" part.
Is there any gotcha if I switch from npm to pnpm?

And can I use pnpm when working in a team where other devs use npm?
True for all gambling IMO. I went to Vegas once for a business conference, first time there. I got some quarters, put them all in a slot machine, and was bored out of my mind. I would much rather have just handed someone the cash and left.
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Idk why but stuff like this completely turns me off when it comes to working for them.

Recently I was talking with a FB recruiter and the amount of kool-aid that came out of his mouth made me feel uneasy. Stuff like we will get you to use whatsApp it's amazing you will never use anything else again. Then, the metaverse pitch of how FB/Meta is changing the world. Then just defending meta for no reason saying some people say negative things about meta but its a really great company that has done a lot of AMAZING things. His enthusiasm was so toxic I would not want to spend 5 minutes with this individual. Is everyone like this at FAANG?

Maybe I'm just too old for this shit. I get my work done and don't drink the corporate kool-aid.
A great deal of the processor on phones and for people to upgrade aren’t necessarily the processor speed but a better ISP and also an accelerator to process pictures faster. The secondary reasons to buy a phone is getting a better camera and battery life / battery is nearing end of life.

Then again I upgrade phones if they come out in green also. My last upgrade was for a 120hz screen refresh rate.
a bit more color: it's not that Google "wouldn't" necessarily squat (I don't know), it's just that they reserve "aggressive monetization practices" like this for 100x larger businesses, like search and commerce ads, maps, gsuite, GCP, etc.
Currently Russia doesn't have a singe reliable news source. We all have seen the pro-Russian narrative - there's no war, we're not murdering the civilians, all Ukrainians are nazis developing bioweapons targeting "slav DNA" and to be delivered across the border by birds, etc. Those are not news.
Needless to say that this propaganda also targets people in other countries with large ethnical Russian population, specifically the Baltic states and incites those people to riot and hate the land they live on creating a bridgehead for possible Russian invasion.
How will we grapple with the fact that our community created web and mobile technology with the goal of providing more transparent, more available factual information but instead we watch it get co-opted as the world's most-powerful propaganda machine?
Exynos has had at least one implementation which was significantly better than the contemporary Qualcomm SoC. (The Galaxy S6’s 7420).
It's also not as much the hardware, but the software running on the chip. Any programmer can make a fast chip feel slow if they're not careful. Especially year after year as changes stack up. Apple tends to not abandon old hardware as readily as their competitors do. They actively work to ensure software updates do not cause performance regressions in older models. People in our industry have a tendency to abandon 'released to production technology' so quickly it really hurts the end user. I think Tesla is another example of a company that doesn't abandon their software after it leaves the door like most other car companies.
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pnpm is awesome except when it does not work - which happens very rarely but it is a nightmare to debug. For all the other times, it is way faster and lightweight than npm.
Guix is much more usable.
One of the more compelling framings for democratic socialism to me, is the idea of taking profits from companies and using it to radically raise wages of people with "undesirable" jobs: janitors, garbage-men, warehouse workers. There's no market pressure to do so (not without unions!) but can be regulated.
I tried reading it, and couldn't get in to it. It tried to be funny but wasn't (to my taste), and just seemed very childish. I liked Neuromancer and Count Zero much more.