skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure it's not too difficult to build if you don't need to scale it up to a similar number of users (especially bots). How would you test that it's actually capable of that? Even the article mentions they ran into unexpected issues despite all the load testing.
asdf is wonderful, been using it for 2 years and get everyone I see using one of those single-language tools to switch and they also love it.

if asdf could have a plugin that hooks into their shims to also handle direnv I would be in heaven

edit: just did a quick google search and it exists, i'm elated
WebCompat Tale: Touching Clickable Things (2021)
Chrome on a Chromebook
It's Elon Musk, he can't help but being a wrecking ball. We're talking about the 'pedo guy' guy, after all.

Twitter will get more attention for sure, but possibly not the kind of attention they want. But apparently there's no such thing as bad publicity.

I think of of the interesting things to watch for is if he starts pressuring for the guy who tracks the movements of his private jet to have his account terminated.
The private freedom of association is just as foundational to the US (and liberal society broadly) as the freedom to speak without government intervention.
> "Between 1997 and 2000, I continued burning tons of CDs."

> "Over time, disks became larger and larger. Prices also dropped. The limits and constraints I had before slowly vanished. I stored even more data."

> "And again, I collected the data. I kept the movies, the TV shows, the documentaries. Everything. It was tough for me to just "let go"."

How does one approach composting knowledge, things that no longer serve, or weren't theirs in the first place?

Saying this as someone who's in love with the latest 'second-brain' tools and such yet goes through some old bookmarks and find myself sitting if one really needs it. Similarly just went through digitizing a chunk family history and while there's some important bits, there was plenty to either let go of or not try to organize.

The author later in the article...

> "I feel like I've come to terms with the idea that it's time for me to let go of the past. I don't pressure myself, but I'm getting rid of more and more things. I do this slowly. Thoughtfully. Not so much because I fear losing something important, but rather because I have fond memories, and I realize that it takes me time to accept deleting some things, even if I know I'll never need those again. While discussing with my friend André he mentioned emotional attachment to things and gently letting go of those, as Marie Kondo recommends. I gave it some thought, and while it's true that I'm not attached to many actual things in my life, I'm actually attached to many digital ones."
Having to use Google or GitHub to log into Tailscale definitely gave me pause when I was signing up. I actually pumped the brakes for a few months when I first encountered that, but eventually relented and chose GitHub.

I don't particularly _want_ another login, but I also don't cherish the thought of losing access to Service A because of the actions of Service B.
Their "plugins", are using exactly the same build plugins pyenv, rbenv and nodeenv use to build the language runtimes. All asdf does is set the point things to the right directories using various tricks like symlinks and shims and whatnot. This is something easily accomplished by direnv.
Sure, until an American president decides to ban another country's account for disrespecting him, or use it for leverage in negotiations, or have the NSA bulk scan their citizens private messages for 'terrorist' communications, or have the algorithm bias other country's newsfeeds in favor of American propaganda.

Twitter is a global platform and much of the world wouldn't trust the US as far as they could throw an American nuke (not withstanding how much they would also trust their own government.) The only reason Twitter works as well as it does now is that its primary concern, as a company, is profit, and not the national interests of one specific country.
> When Gibson penned his opening line ‘the sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel’ he merged reality and the digital in a way that seems almost prophetic today

It feels like Gibson was riffing on the vibe created by John Foxx's "Metamatic" [1] in 1980 (never mind his "Ultravox!" [2] in the years before that). Maybe it was Foxx though that claimed he was channelling the mood of novels like Ballard's "Crash" [3] from 1973. Computerization, synthesized music, alienation were a part of the zeitgeist of the 70's, 80's.

[1] https://youtu.be/dgaLF2F5LWg

[2] https://youtu.be/3vy4eZ69Tj8?t=71

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(Ballard_novel)
His point is not that it’s a solid science, but rather that the hypothesis they are studying is actually true, which helps with not being hopelessly wrong.
I mentioned in my other comment that the direnv plugin aims to resolve this. Personally I didn't get it working but I haven't been determined enough. It has been working for others.
Yes, hard physical work was the main form of "exercise" for most people.
Just imagine your grandparents exercising. No, you just need them to get to walk. It’s absolutely detrimental to their health and living. No one needs exercise for living, everyone needs daily walks for living. It resets the brain, you see more than four walls, you feel the breeze, your joints work, your brain is refreshed. Not more than that is needed for life.
>> Walking to and from the platform of my nearest tube station is about 2.5k steps....

There are no side walks where I live. The roads have 55mph speed limits and are lined with drainage ditches even if I wanted to walk them. Working from home, I might get ~900 "organic" steps/day unless I go somewhere explicitly to walk (15+ minute drive each way). It's a structural issue more than personal choice
"The most perfect metaphor for the West's present switch-over from Japanmania to the Korean Wave." if this is a thing, it has been largely unnoticed. I think educated people think of SK as one of the few countries competing with US tech income (others being Australia, Japan, Singapore, and some (but very few) parts of England (London Finance), Germany (not sure on this one), and Switzerland (banking )). Other than that, Korea goes mostly unnoticed by the west.
Looking at Zig Programming Language
>Israel uses their military heavily, so I'm not sure it will provide a great example.

Take a look at their neighbors. When you're surrounded by people who are ideologically bent on your complete destruction, paranoia is no longer an irrational response.
A Pain In the Posterior?
I think he got addicted to speed so he wouldn’t have to dream about the internet as much
Or you worked until you were told you were done for the day, and no sooner.
Yes, but now you're not comparing maven vs. Bundler, you're comparing statically vs. dynamically typed languages. It's almost impossible to get the strong guarantees you get in a statically typed language in a dynamically typed one.

If that's the discussion you want to have, well, I personally also prefer statically typed languages, but that's beyond the point.

That said, I've had issues, e.g. on CI, that didn't manifest locally because of a mismatch in Java versions (something with JAXB, IIRC), and Java is maybe sometimes a bit too cavalier about the issue.
How would you invest effort without first signing up, and how would you sign up without learning of these login limitations?
For me, the limiting factor was the external monitor support. I couldn't go with just the Air because I have two external monitors. I don't yet have 3, so I settled for the M1 Pro.

No regrets so far. Just a great machine all around.
Misleading investors is one of Elon’s main jobs. And he’ll continue doing so, as we doesn’t face any consequences for it (expect for becoming ultra rich).
3D-printed heat exchanger 'more efficient' than conventional designs
So while this one-liner comment seems to be drawing ire, I do think it brings up a difficult point.

As more and more of our civic discourse moves online, there are no "public spaces" online where the rule of law and public interest comes first.

There is no town square, no soapbox in the park, no public access TV, or the ability for masses to organize and march or protest (or whatever the online equivalent is), with only the government's laws as written to contend with.

Everything (that has meaningful reach and impact) is private, and all these meeting and communication spaces have a company with shareholders and therefore goals and motivations that override public interest.

I certainly don't have the answer to this problem but this erosion is a problem that will need to be reckoned with at some point.
The sample size and details of the study are not reported and neither is the contrary question. This reads as disparaging to FOX or a CNN advertisement.
Housing is more expensive because more people want to live there then the supply provides for.

There's a simple solution. It's not sprawling suburbia, it's to build London at an appropriate density for a global city.

Westminster (with plenty of green space including Hyde and Regents Parks) has a population of 123 per hectare.

If London matched that throughout its area there would be room to double London's population with another 10 million people. If Inner London alone was increased to Manhattan density, that alone would house 5 million more people.

But then things like this happen

https://www.onlondon.co.uk/will-grant-shapps-get-away-with-b...
TL;DR in the end:

To mitigate the propagandistic impact of images provided by geointelligence companies, Parks said, news outlets should always identify the satellite that was used to capture an image and indicate the date that the image was captured, among other metadata. And if they’re looking to tell a story about a developing situation, they should also present “before and after” views, as well as other photos from the sky or the ground to provide a diversity of perspectives—as some outlets, but certainly not all, did with the images of destruction in Mariupol. Even with those measures in place, Parks said, news audiences may fail to notice how Maxar’s images of conflict can be used to support a state or corporate agenda. That risk doesn’t necessarily mean news outlets should stop using Maxar images, but it is a reason to present those images with ample context, so that viewers are more fully aware of what they are seeing—and what they might be missing. “They should be thought of as a starting point,” Parks said, “not as the end of the discussion.”

I would also include on piece of consideration. If we discuss a conflict. We should understand what information is available or should be available for the sides of conflict.

We should also understand the legality of the actions of both sides.

For example intruder in my house is already committing a crime and when it sees armed resistance, it does not give it legality to respond with armed assault.
For sure, speaking for the Navy (though I'm sure the same applies for the other services as well). Cryptologic/electronic/nuclear fields are all known to be cash cows after getting out. Granted, you need to score well on your ASVAB, especially for nuclear fields. But the ASVAB can be studied for and is probably the easiest of all the standardized tests someone that age may face in my experience.
> Greed is just the byproduct of uncapped capitalism

No its a byproduct of human beings.

> Disincentivise the pursuit of constant growth, and the world would be a lot less evil.

Or actually it would be much worse.
Thank you for your valuable insight, I will start with that and see if I can implement any of the other groupings with minimal damage.
Not his 1973 novel "The Shockwave Rider"?
I find that car-driven, suburban culture makes this difficult to achieve. I have lived in many different environments: cities, villages, suburbs, even farms. Only in the suburbs was walking actually disincentivized. A comfortable house with a big TV and urban sprawl that made it impossible to walk anywhere useful just leads to a lot of sitting either on the couch or in the car. The ability to walk places whether it be your job or the supermarket makes such a huge, huge difference for a person's health.
it's not really a ton of code to write (around 3400 lines) https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit-plugin-place-openso...

the harder part is scaling the number of requests and active websockets
Imagine studying and studying so you can get access to equipment that detects supernovas just to try and scam a lottery.

And then you end up caught since you're not the only one observing.
> Truth is that people largely place trust in institutions and people they are used to and identify with, often for irrational reasons. People are prone to FUD. Theyre lazy and passive.

I think to a degree, this is a misunderstanding. The Russian approach to disinformation in particular does not sell the message "trust us!" - at least, not in the West. Instead, they push the message "trust nobody!" In fact, RT's slogan is "question everything". While that sounds enlightened, in fact, total lack of trust makes you cognitively disabled. You can't believe anything or any expert. All too often, you then "do your own research" and, as a gullible amateur, are sucked into conspiracy theories.

The problem isn't the sheeple, it's the wake-up-sheeple people.
I opened an account with HSBC France from my HSBC branch in the UK before Brexit. HSBC France has now been sold to another company so I don't know how this will affect the working of the accounts in future.
Anime: Japanese animation has taken the West by storm
I can't agree with a heavy emphasis on text search and having a minimal or even no organizational structure, as several folks here have suggested. Text search and an organizational structure each have their own advantages and disadvantages, and they complement each other. This because extremely clear to me when I worked as a patent examiner. If an examiner did only text searches (or only patent classification searches, the equivalent of an organizational structure), their search would not be considered complete because it almost certainly would miss relevant documents.

In my own files I have an organizational structure. It's not perfect, but I usually can quickly find what I'm looking for with it by simply browsing. Finding what I'm looking for quickly is what matters. And I can find things that would be quite difficult to find with a text search, like documents that use inconsistent terminology. Yes, I have to put those files in an appropriate location, but that's not a lot of work in my experience when "onboarding" a file. Even when I add a bunch of symlinks to the file in other locations, it's still worthwhile in my experience.

Sometimes, however, I can't remember where something was filed, and I turn to text search (usually via grep or pdfgrep, though I'll be trying Recoll in the near future). In that case it's not uncommon at all to be unable to find what I'm looking for, even for my own notes where I'm trying to be more careful about using consistent terminology! I frequently don't remember the terminology I used, just like I might not remember where something was filed.

Text search is convenient as it often doesn't require any additional effort like organizing files does, but it has limitations that a good organizational structure would try to compensate for. However, text search should have additional effort to apply SEO techniques to help you find a file again. I will often add keywords to my own notes to help me later.

My organizational structure is not arbitrary, for instance, putting files into folders for each letter of the alphabet. Even if automated, that's fairly pointless because anyone can jump to a particular letter anyway. I organizing things based on actual scenarios.
> an Elon-run Twitter would be a lot more profitable.

I'm not so sure about that. He doesn't have a lot of experience with running ad sales. His big breaks have been PayPal (kind of), Tesla and SpaceX. None of which were social, none of which were "free".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Chrome
How can we criticise a platform that picks content for you? It's doing exactly what it's supposed to do, pick content for you. Also it's a Chinese app. Working as intended!

We did not need this war to make this obvious.
Commonly used tools like virtualenv allow you to do this, but it's not the default in the python ecosystem: `pip install foo` will install foo globally. In most other ecosystems the equivalent command (e.g. npm install foo) defaults to a local install with no effort on your part.
The main issue with docker is that you have to start from scratch with your environment. With Nix you can layer it over your existing Linux environment (or you can have it from-scratch by running `nix-shell --pure`).

There are advantages to the docker approach, and Nix can be painful to get going, but a significant portion of the community (including me) find the pain to be worth it.
<shrug> I had an SGI Indigo back in the mid-90s, and it functioned fine as a Unix workstation, as well as being very useful for the weather satellite imagery work I was doing. It ran circles around the Sun machines I had access to at the time.
Sounds like a New Yorker cartoon.
Configuration is a necessity for any tooling. Direnv is something you likely already use with dotenv anyway to configure your CI/CD pipelines. All you need to do is to drop in a few more extra environment variables into your git worktree.
> Some in this thread have asked how Germany could be so foolish to tie its economic destiny to such a problematic country as Russia.

The answer seems to be "one step at a time." And Germany is not unique.

Quite quick actually. The ex chancellor of germany [0] became Nord Streams' [1] Chairman of the Shareholders' Committee (since 2006)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schröder

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream

edit: correction and add link
100%

I’m curious whether it can be modified to find global maximum, but avoid McNamara fallacy

I guess the main issue will be the quality of input data
Thanks for the link, I remember hearing about Clarence Thomas' take on this subject but I never took the time to study it. My personal opinion (before reading the material above) is that the "core issue" stands on the S230 "loop-hole" (I don't want to use the term 'abuse' given the negative connotation ... so far it[S230] has been a net good since it made the internet grow so much since 2007, but things have started to change with the rise of monopolistic corporations) giving companies both privileges with less responsibility than should necessary. At least in principle a Bill of Rights should exist, especially considering that places like Twitter are considered fairly often under the law (think court cases) 'public spaces'. Therefore in my mind if the public street is a place where i can speak freely, so should one be able to on Twitter/any other such deemed public space.
This is basically how science works in practice too. If you want to publish a paper and make an impact, better make sure you publish in one of the important journals/conferences. And if you’re trying to figure out if a source is trustworthy, it probably make sense to see if it was published in a reputable journal.

Anyone can publish a paper nowadays, technology has made that very easy. But trust is still something that needs to be earned, and that takes time. It makes sense to have trustworthy institutions, I don’t think it’s something we can easily replace with technology.
They went from /r/Button to /r/Place -- it really felt like this was /r/Place sequel rather than another original experimental sub for reddit.

Wordle would have been perfect -- every reddit account getting the little green and black squares display.
Here’s a thread on it: https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1511323908129054725?s...
No kidding:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/12/17/sgi-workstation...

> The Octane line’s entry-level product, which comes with a 225-MHz R10000 MIPS processor, 128MB of memory, a 4GB hard drive, and a 20-inch monitor, will fall to $17,995 from $19,995.

Really makes the M1 Ultra look affordable.
Walking is very underrated. Most of the world is not overweight precisely because they have to walk place to place instead of being cooped up in their suburban home or skyscraper apartment where delivery just works better. Those 300-700 extra calories from daily walking activities and carrying things around add up very quickly. In terms of staying fit, walking is much more beneficial than push-ups or pull-ups. Not that you shouldn't do the latter, but many people have to make exercising a habit, and if our goal is weight loss they're more likely to do that with dedicated walking than with pull-ups or push-ups. It's just too hard to do consistently even with 100-push up programs.

Obesity is yet another problem either created by, or exacerbated by our absolutely abhorrent urban planning and architecture practices.
Yup, we actually need public twitters. Nothing fancy, no recommendations, not even sophisticated antispam, just simple follow list like rss with feedback. People can learn the self-curate
It's certainly true that the stock is currently way up on the news of his investment.

I personally would not invest in a company where I cannot trust claims being made by the board.
This is Germany doing something to not be seen doing anything. Doing something for lack of a plan is usually a mistake.

Everything of value of this subsidiary has (pipelines, stored gas, etc), is physically in Germany and already subject to German law. The stored gas wasn’t going anywhere without the German regulator’s permission and the regulator can always force Gazprom Germania to sell German stored gas to Germans.

Nor does seizing this magically solve the problem of lack of gas. The Germans either abide by Russian rules for gas, or pipelines coming in from Russia remain empty.

This was a boneheaded move. The Russians can now seize a comparable German asset in Russia
to recompense Gazprom; say a VW plant, a real asset that can continue to produce real things while the Germans are left with old laptops, empty pipes, a salt cavern and unheated offices in Berlin.
Oh, nice. Gonna give that a shot. Thanks!
There's a few large building air conditioning units that do exactly this. Ice Bear was one brand name I think.
The hardest part of this type of journey is realizing you don’t need money to be happy or feel contentment.

It may not make sense right now, but you may spend the next decade or so chasing money to get to a point of contentment only to realize that you’re chasing after money because you think it’s going to give you peace. The turn is when you figure out money doesn’t give you peace.

Contentment, happiness are choices. They aren’t milestones that can be achieved, or goals to be met. They are choices just like choosing what color shirt to wear in the morning.

Source: myself who has been terribly poor, and eventually wealthy. I’d rather have back the lost decades of career and status chasing than any of the money I gained.
More profitable, more open, and more fair to all voices. Twitter has become a liberal vacuum that, as a liberal, has gone way too far to the left in silencing voices. It's not a private company, it's a public company, and I hope Elon turns it around into a true, free speech town square, instead of just an echo chamber for blue checks.