skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To name a few:

* A script that emails me every day a list of new articles published by a selection of academic journals. Using an RSS reader for this turned out to be too messy.

* A script that generates Spotify playlists based on my liked songs, optionally according to some criteria. The playlists can be sorted according to specific song features (higher to lower energy, for example).

* A zettelkasten engine, including search, rendering, and backup of entries.

* A system to generate and upload backups of my photos from my cameras’ SD cards.
Here's a counterexample of Sturgeon's law:

I mean otherwise, sure, illegal drugs are 90% crap, but wouldn't it be stupid to not accept nickle bags if people wanted to use them for trade?

I also have an NFT I'm willing to sell you, I just need 1000ETH. Yes the NFT market is shitty, but 1000ETH is a pittance if you believe in Stugeon's law.
Yeah, $employer is currently trying to force that on everyone. I have so much stuff on my desk that I'm currently exempt from that nonsense. It's a great way to waste everyone's time, because apparently everyone's time is a lot cheaper than a bit of extra office space.
When we moved into our new place, we put our fence in a few feet from the actual back of our house, and planted a strip of native, pollinator-friendly plants in a little micromeadow.

Cannot recommend it enough.
I still use this today.
I frame it as “the perception of fairness in the relationship”.
And if you ever get bored of your overpaid crypto job, just pretend to get hacked and walk away with the company's cold wallet.
Wouldn’t that make it mostly interesting history with a little bit of an ad?
I made a headless sqlite dbms (not nearly as feature rich as the real thing) for my own embedded development. It can show the values of any table, view specific cells, update cells with a text editor interface, beautifies json, and takes in SQL queries as well.

Got some bugs with formatting complex lines of text, but it works well enough for me. I plan on porting to Rust one of these days.

https://github.com/mathaou/termdbms
Yes, but I prefer hl-line-mode in emacs or some other ‘moving ruler’. The pdf reader Sioyek has one and it works really well. I sometimes have trouble skipping lines when I look for the next one, so a visual guide helps.
"Broken" is a stretch. It gives the only result that could be reasonably expected by anyone making that query in good faith. If you're genuinely expecting a result like "never," then I wonder, would you also expect a result of "never" for the query "When did Neal Armstrong set foot on the Moon?" (notice the misspelling of his name)
Understand and improve your return-on-time-invested
You're out of line. Think more carefully before referring to others as "sick".

You haven't the slightest notion of what I "think" or what I have or have not "forgotten" or what I think is or is not "ok". I'll thank you to cease pretending otherwise.

You clearly and obviously have an axe to grind, you have no objectivity whatsoever, and the stuff you're trying to inject into this thread simply has no place here. None at all.
> I agree that journalists have little excuse.

Except wanting anyone, ever to talk to them again about something controversial.
I think Dalio is choosing to focus on what the individual can do to navigate change one cannot control, which is a lot easier for individuals to do compared to what systemic change could be done to make changes for the better, which often requires massive resources, coordination and political capital not available to the average person. That sort of stuff is outside of the scope of what the book is about it seems.
Link to paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04618-z
One of the first things you'll learn when studying experimental physics is how to come up with all kinds of alternative mechanisms that might explain the result you've observed in your experiment, and then think of ways to test that the results weren't actually caused by those unwanted mechanisms. Most Nobel-prize winning physics experiments were carefully designed to compensate for any relevant secondary effects, and I would even go as far as saying that this is often the largest challenge when doing high-precision experiments.

So the first question I'd ask myself when thinking about cosmic-ray induced errors is how I would ensure that the bit flips are not caused by e.g. problems on the hard drives or the NAND array (which are probably much more likely to occur than cosmic ray events, at least on the surface of the earth).
Cool product, it's something I'd personally be interested in if free or one-off license, but as someone who just dabbles now and then (but including sometimes for business stuff) it's nowhere near worth the monthly cost for me. $50 one-off would frankly be possibly more than the value I'd get, but I'd definitely buy it in the hope it would be useful. (Appreciate, I'm not everybody and just because that's where I fit it doesn't mean your pricing needs to be aimed at me.)
Two questions:

1) Why SK spending less on defense is a good thing for US?

2) Now that Russia is under even more sanctions, why not share some rocket tech with Kim and accelerate their program?
Although it's interesting to note that two presumably human commenters in this thread got that wrong. Maybe the Google results are more human than we would have guessed.
He's lobbying to outlaw grocery stores?
you should be able set the default search engine...
I created a "darkmode" pdf reader. It helps a ton with my eyes. Reading long papers on white background is something I don't like so I changed it.

I created it for me but it is somewhat popular on github with hundreds of stars already.

https://github.com/librepgp/NightPDF
"quoates", "than", "reliefs"... Re-reading my message. My spelling foo is truly terrible.
Do devs/tech pm understand our website?
She’s at the center of the lab leak controversy. Now she’s telling her story
That's why I have a powered mike with a physical switch.

The web cam has a hinged lense cover.

The background picture is of the office, taken from the exact POV of the web cam, when it was clean. That way it is not necessary to straighten out the office before video conferencing.

It also causes the weird behavior of looking like I am "beaming in" to the office from my orbiting starship :-)
Or maybe it's just a glitch in the simulation of myself that has long since replaced me.
thanks for the comment!

i'm first-time author and the book really is a collection of blog posts, so maybe i should publish it as such and also offer a PDF copy

right now i don't know whether what i'm writing is even worth calling a book
That is correct, I think the RPG design was to improve the efficiency of the RTG.
Yeah but the (insert suffering in group) had it tougher than (out group). We can always compare and find someone or something that has it worse. What’s the point in bringing it up, that we can’t feel sorry for someone who has suffered because someone else has perhaps suffered more in our estimation?

No one has nor should have a monopoly on sympathy.
Due dates are a reflection of reality onto the world of software engineering.

"We need a demoable product by <Convention>." is not "lazy".
> But when youre in a bad situation and the other person isn't giving you a good reason to leave sometimes you have to get creative.

Why is it necessary for the other person to give you a "good" reason to leave? Why not just be honest and say "this is not for me, I'm leaving"?
most of what I use is only for me. it's a hobby to tinker. it's mostly workflow tweaks or modules for i3/sway, security relevant things based on netfilter / ebpf ... what all these things have in common is satisfy my curiosity and learn about something new on the way, other times they start out as a tinkering in a new language are a total abomination begging me to be rewritten ...
Interesting. I remember reading this piece years ago about dirty dishes and divorce as well.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/she-divorced-me-i-left-dishes...

Same concept more or less. Not saying the Atlantic lifted this, just funny to see “doing the dishes” at the core of another marriage discussion.
Auto-folders are explicitly banned by basically all online poker sites.

They are practically cheating. Of course if it folds certain hands a 100% of the time, then it’s just horrible for you, because no hand is a fold 100% of the time.

Even 72o is playable from the big blind if you’re the one closing the action and the price is right.

You should probably consider an autohotkeys script, or a mouse with macro buttons.
Doesn't even work on firefox nightly :(
thanks for the clarification. your papers also seem interesting, will check those out.

the goal is to reliably characterize certain viral proteins as ID or ordered. would you happen to have any advice on this?
> Headlamp is like having a second manager on the team.

I'm not sure I would use that endorsement...
Right. Feels similar in a way to an ongoing conflict elsewhere... There is what happens now, and what happens over the next decade because people have lost fundamental trust in you.
It is literally called the "Shot on iPhone Macro Challenge".
Strong disagree. Sanctions prevent economic development and change. Constant application of pressure and tensions ensure that the risk is higher than it otherwise would be.

Risk will always be highest if one country insist on destroying the government of another.
And the greater the degree of overlap the weaker the implicit argument.

If it's a uniform distribution of discrete features then each feature is equally "important" and worth equal resources and dev time. If 81/100 companies use the exact same 5% of features and the remaining 19 cover the remaining 95%, then all else equal you can probably drop 95% of your features and still do well.
> The team is continuing the restoration process for the ~400 impacted customers. We have restored functionality for 45% of impacted users.

If this is truthful it implies implies more than 400 impacted customers.
I'd be curious to see the first script, if it's shareable?
"permanently delete" does not mean the same thing as "immediately delete". deleting from the live database is the first step of a permanent deletion, as long as the data exists somewhere the deletion process is still in-progress.

there's a whole lot of people in here who are way too quick to assume that just because one part of a permanent deletion process was inadvertently triggered and then caught while they still had backups, their whole permanent deletion process is a lie.
Firepower by Paul Lochart. Published late last year. It only covers Europe (and the US) between 1300 and 1950. So it does not covers all the times and places, but it’s a great read.
If only the USA was the center of the world then yeah we could blame a U.S. administration from the 90’s, but this homogenization effect can be seen globally.

I do agree with the rest of what you say - inter connectivity seems to have suppressed the local and the hyper local. The internet promised endless possibilities of niches, but the corporations who seized that opportunity have managed to do something strange to them…
I have created a personal finance tool that Works-For-Me and requires no sharing of login credentials with third parties.

Something that scrapes financial transactions from bank and credit-card accounts in a fully automated way where possible, and semi-automated way where necessary, dumps those transactions into a database, automatically categorizes them, and creates dashboards for commonly used views and analyses.

I've blogged a bit about it here: https://sagar.se/blog/where-is-the-money/
An additional thing for success: Single people; as a married person with young children, I could never use it to its fullest.
I've been liberally trading cryptocurrencies for the past several years and ended up with a bit of tax nightmare, with thousands of trades across many exchanges. I found my self with little choice but to write my own capital gains calculator. At the time I needed it, I couldn't find a suitable open source solution, and I have privacy concerns about paid services. It's no longer just for "personal use", as I've recently published it on GH https://github.com/dleber/capitalg
I write scrapers galore. Who needs APIs?
If I can guess, I'm guessing you're operating backwards. You like crypto, you want it to "win", (you've probably put money in it, and who puts money on things they're not convinced in?), so when you see article and people against crypto, you see them as having hidden motives and are just spreading propaganda.

Meanwhile whether you're conscious of it or not, here you are, having put your money on crypto, trying to preach to people that "It's the future!". Why? Of course you're cheerleading it, because you want your investments to go up. And they way that can happen is when more people are converted and buy it. Maybe there are layers of justifications between "My motivation is A, therefore B", but I think at the end of it, that's it.

> It would be interesting to know why the status quo financial system is held in such a high regard? Especially in light of the continual debasement of the dollar since it was decoupled from gold.

And here I think you've drunk the Kool-Aid. Where did you learn that this is bad? Probably from pro-crypto websites. Do you think they have a neutral view of it, or do you think they'd be selling you a version of why the past was bad, and a version of the way things should be, where the makers of these sites (people who are invested in crypto and want to profit) do profit? I'd wager what they're trying to peddle is bullshit, but I'm not an expert in this area. Yeah, the current financial system is also a bit of of a Ponzi scheme of "Trust me I'm good for it, you'll get your money in the future", but I don't think crypto will prevent that.

> I for one, take this perceived negative bias as a confirmation that Bitcoin is a genuine threat to the existing financial system. When Bill Gates (and other powerful people) bad mouth Bitcoin I smell a rat.

And when Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey tout crypto I smell bullshit. Perhaps you treat these two as sincere heroes wanting the best for mankind, that'd be the same way I see Bill Gates, he probably offered his opinion to the best of his knowledge.

> Does anyone else think this way? Am I just a dumb ass? :)

Well... it seems very easy to lead people astray, in a con, the mark does a lot of his fooling himself.
The question is whether any of those other sites could maintain quality while also being Google, that is, while being target #1 for every SEO bad actor, spammer, and anti-trust regulator on the planet.

The people at W3schools are a combination of all of the above: filthy SEO spammers who would readily make an antitrust stink if Google started just ripping off their content, but who in all likelihood don't care if Neeva does that, if they've ever even heard of Neeva.
Absolutely agree with your caveats! I forgot to mention the “perception of fairness” that is another useful component to a long term balance. And - communication, communication, communication. Unfortunately the latter is often suppressed by the everyday pressures until it’s too late.
I rechecked using the UK site at godaddy -- godaddy.com/en-gb

and couldn't reproduce it. The steps were:

1. pick a novel domain
2. register and account with name and throwaway email
3. click checkout
4. empty the cart
5. enter a new novel domain name but don't Enter or Search
6. wait two days -- observe no email
7. click search
8. wait two days -- observe no email.

So I conclude they don't do the keystroke logging any more, or at least not on the UK site.
It's 400 clients, not all their user base. They can handle the lost income from a small slice of their customers for one month.

And if they can't sustain that, then it's even more imperative that those customers migrate away.
The crew dies on the rails!?
thanks for the tip! i'd consider that
The insulation I sort of understand. It's how they temporarily breach the insulation to let out the photons to strike the TPV that I don't understand. With normal heat->electricity conversion, you transfer heat to a turbine via a fluid (i.e. water) that is allowed to contact the exterior of a heated vessel, but in this case you need to somehow open a slot to let the photons radiate out.
They are more like blockades, they just use diplomacy and legal systems instead of parking ships with big guns outside the harbor.

And I suppose the difference between a siege and a blockade is pretty much whether or not you fire those big guns into the city.
> I could envision a WM that allows you to group windows together into tabs

There's one on Windows, that has the tabs feature: https://losttech.software/stack.html

Disclaimer: I made it.
We switched from JIRA to Shortcut https://shortcut.com/ (formerly Clubhouse), and I'd highly recommend them. It's much better than JIRA ever was, both from a UX perspective and an implementation/performance perspective.
Hi, this is Mike from Atlassian Engineering. Strongly agree with this. I'd say that if you can afford it, don't do the hard deletes on a schedule though. You never know when there's a system out there referring to soft deleted data that fails once the data is hard deleted. Hard deletes should feel frightening because they are frightening.
thanks for the explanation. to clarify, if the goal is to reliably assess certain viral proteins as ID or ordered, are experimental methods the only methods for achieving this?
incorrect, they modified the license so it can be used for commercial use - https://github.com/deepmind/alphafold/commit/8173117130e6df8...
Their core customers are unfortunately just as dysfunctional and slow-learning. Think Boeing, etc. Witness:

https://jobs.boeing.com/job/annapolis-junction/jira-administ...
> the US refused ultimatums to stay out of Ukraine

Which is just a pretense. On different days, the "special military operation" has been to avoid NATO bordering Russia (which it already does in the Baltic), "remove Nazis", "fix Lenin's mistake of separating Ukraine from Russia", "free Donbass and Luhansk" and probably others that I forgot.

And anyway, US didn't do anything (this time). Ukraine has a right to join NATO if they want, without asking uncle Vladimir beforehand.
There's a big difference between changing who you are and how you behave.

If a person considers being asked to put a dish in the dishwasher as an assault on their identity, they're certainly entitled to feel that way but they're probably also not well suited to marriage or any similar relationship.
Distros losing support for hardware makes me sad.
I'm always excited at the prospect of building new or better tools that help me learn the way I want to learn. It's the best low-stakes way for me to learn - especially if I'm not being challenge by work or am just curious about how a programming language works or other set of tools.

My latest is a language learning application to help practice reading comprehension and vocabulary development. [1]

[1] https://github.com/theiceshelf/trunk
So many, I've lost count. Many are private or work-related, but these are the public ones:

https://github.com/bigH/git-fuzzy

https://github.com/bigH/auto-sized-fzf

https://github.com/bigH/interactively

https://github.com/bigH/dotfiles/tree/master/bin

https://github.com/bigH/dotfiles/blob/master/aliases/git.sh

https://github.com/bigH/dotfiles/blob/master/aliases/kubectl...

https://github.com/bigH/dotfiles/blob/master/functions/fzf.s...

https://github.com/bigH/dotfiles/blob/master/functions/core....

So much shell scripting and use of `fzf`. I make things I enjoy and will be happy using and since I spend a lot of time in the terminal, it makes sense to make things like this for me.
I've always been in awe of the navigational capabilities of the Polynesians. Sailing 2500 miles from the Marquesas to Hawaii, someone must have scouted it out and told everyone how to get there.
I don't think there is any pressure on that front. They are supposedly profitable now (though i'm guessing this is partially accounting tricks) but there just isn't a need to be profitable. Search and Youtube print money to fund their R&D ($31B last year alone). The goal is AGI or close to it.

https://venturebeat.com/2021/10/10/ai-lab-deepmind-becomes-p...
If you spread the energy out it will spread in a shape with area proportionate to the square of the distance.

You can focus more of that power into a particular area, but the fundamentals here are not particularly negotiable.
> A always cleaning up after B.

(Married 20 years) there definitely needs to be awareness that A might just prioritize something before B gets to it. It's not that B would never do it or doesn't care. Everything is priorities. (I'm talking within the same day or two, not leaving for weeks on end of course.)
Yeah that was one of the gotchas in the story at https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/attack-of-the-cosmic-ray... -- MAYBE it was a bit flip due to a cosmic ray, or MAYBE it was a bit flip due to another layer of the system that makes RAM chips store and retrieve data.

I like the idea of a physicist who thinks about this and says - "well, why should we shrug and say 'maybe it was a cosmic ray?' Surely we can test this! Let's put the computer in a lead-lined enclosure and benchmark the memory failure rate and see if it changes", or whatever.

That's a great extension of the classic computer-hacker view that "of course we can understand why this bug happened, we don't have to shrug and say it segfaults until we restart sometimes, we can just dig some more." How far can you go?
"A good analogy to me would be someone who keeps coming into the ER with bullets in their body every couple of months (maybe in a conflict zone like Ukraine), but where the case is construed in terms of the pain the bullet causes, rather than the fact there are bullets in their body and the person is in a situation where they keep getting shot at."

Interesting analogy, but if my body was ever riddled with bullets and I was taken to the ER, I'd definitely want the doctors to treat the damage the bullets made, remove them from my body, and relieve the pain.

If the ER ignored the bullets in me and assured me they'd instead be sending a police car to the neighborhood in which I was shot then I'd yell, "no! please treat me first!"

There's a lot to be said for symptom relief. Of course, the underlying causes should also be addressed, and there is evidence that psychedelics allow therapists to do just that. In particular, MDMA appears to allow patients to face and deal with their trauma without the pain and aversion that trying to face their trauma ordinarily causes. It also allows many to forgive themselves or their family, to experience love for the first time, and resolve family issues. This is treating the cause, not just the pain.

Of course, traumatising external circumstances must also be changed, when possible. I believe psychedelics can help here too, by making people aware of them (psychedelics often have the effect of opening people's eyes to just how screwed up our society is) and by making people more empathetic and connected to others and to nature.

They will not magically solve all our problems, but they can play an important role in helping us to solve those problems ourselves -- if they are used constructively and in the right context.
What is best of n sampling? I didn’t follow. Is that like, which of these n images is best, and then turning that into a measure?
Kids are not eating well because NK leadership spends all the country’s money on themselves and the military in order for them to stay in power.

If your neighbour beats his children and constantly threatens to shoot your house up, you are not morally obligated to spend money at their restaurant.