skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess you could also answer that with: because tastes are different. I actually prefer the feel of Lenovo's plastic to metal. I don't remember ever trying to balance a laptop, so not sure what uneven weight distribution would even mean. My x230 does creak a little when I press some point I am never touching while actually using it, only while holding it. On the other hand most keyboards on most laptops don't withstand the pressure I am using when typing.

Apparently I also hold my laptops differently because with the older MBPs the edge at the front hurt my wrist more than working on any other laptop ever had.
"Isley" wow. Is this a sign of the quality of the research, or is that some rarely used spelling?
Note: this is from 2011 and should be added to the title
What do they use instead of saying "zero trust"?
You generally don’t actually have to pay your mortgage - you just lose the house if you don’t (well, and take a hit to your credit score).

People can and do walk away from a place when they’re underwater.
Is 30 minutes a day enough exercise to stay fit and healthy?
I think I should start massively lying in my resume.
> degraded the impression of having a scary military in the process

you dont think what happened to mariupol is scary? also i dont think that this war shows how weak russian army is (this was known before the war), but i think it shows how good ukranians can fight. personally i don't think american troops would fare much better in ukraine

on the other hand what this war might show to europeans is that blindly following america comes at a pretty high cost
Well done :)

It looks great!!!

Would be great to have an "official" case looking like this XP
It's easy if you make it up.

It's also easy to find "presence of anything" in some members of any large group, including satanism, doesn't mean it defines the group or is a big element of it.
I’ve never seen people dilute 25%, that’s extreme even for cask strength.
Interesting Bezos doesn’t want Musk controlling Twitter
Big distinction from Oggify, as Spotiflyer downloads from Deezer/YouTube, so some songs may not be available
Okay i explain the joke to you: First and foremost note how the comments upthread used the term "the american dream". Second note that "the american dream" is a media trope, a literary device and story we tell people to inspire them to follow certain ethics.

The traditional american dream is about social upwards mobility from rags to riches, about a promise that all that is needed to become wealthy is hard work, determination, a bit of ingenuity and puritan virtues. In its classic version it often features an immigrant family who comes to america with nothing but worn out clothes, works hard jobs and long hours to create a livelihood, overcomes hardships and struggles so their kids can get an education and better jobs. It often also calls out oppression, poverty and war in the old world as reasons for migration and to further highlight the ideals of liberal society in america.

The modern version ignored the generational aspect and instead focused on individuals becoming millionaires. Entertainment loves extremes, the lower the start and higher the end, the better. The quicker the journey, the better. And this became accelerated to the absurd. Be poor, wash dishes, millionaire. Since this is so very unlikely, and real people who fit it, like Rockefeller, became so unpresentable, media turned more and more towards fictitious comedies. Yet this version is still very dominant in culture, because it calls out a truth: when asked what the american dream is, many will say it is about becoming very rich. That is, what the modern american dreams of.

Now in contemporary media we see a return to the original idea, but with twist lampshading its problems. Migration is no longer a central topic, america no longer the beacon of hope for the tired, poor, huddled masses. Instead we see a focus on the disenfranchised and marginalized within american society. The post-modern MTV generations version of the american dream is B-Rabbit living in a trailer park with his alcoholic mom, making it as a rapper despite his peers attacking him for having the wrong skin color. It plays the core straight about making it with hard work and being virtuous, but it doesn't only look at materialism and individualism, as it also expects society to hold its promise of being liberal. The postmodern loves to play with dualities and reversing structures.

Lastly the post-modern satire version instead picks up the part that got dropped, the dream of becoming very rich. It teasers a protagonist from an african minority and reveals a wealthy and well educated white man from south africa. It shows upwards social movement from upper class to ultra rich, subverting the idealistic to instead highlight the reality that those who start well have more opportunities to venture and do even better. It holds up "being born rich" like Diogenes holds a plucked chicken, and calls out "behold: the american dream"
To ask the question is to fundamentally misunderstand the context. Please do check out the link. It's not a matter of wanting "the whole spectrum" of double equals (and then justifying that). You need to justify the requirements you're imposing. The article I linked gives an excellent example of why unnecessary requirements should be avoided.

Aside from that, overuse of triple equals is almost always a code smell that indicates the contributor is coming from a place of following cargo cult advice instead of solid understanding. (And in the case of the cargo cult advice about triple equals, it's not even very logical advice. I.e. it's not just the people following the advice who aren't thinking it through—the people dispensing it tend to be engaged in shallow thinking, too.) For example, anyone who asks you in a code review to replace `typeof(x) == y` with 'typeof(x) === y` has no solid reason whatsoever for that change (and will never have any; there is no argument that will hold up under scrutiny).
The fundamental driver of growth in modern economies is linear, not exponential
> Being a paid service means Kagi's incentives are different. Instead of selling your data or profiting from feeding into ad-tech food chain, we are interested in selling you a subscription.

Until your growth slows down and you realize you can get away with doing both.

There are so multiple industries (TVs, Games, Streaming) where paid users are still being monetized to the maximum extend possible by showing them ads, selling their data, etc. that this argument is just dishonest now.
There is a prevalent pressure to say that "all humans are the same", and this article begins to dig at the roots of that pressure. The evolutionary history of Homo Sapiens is far more complex than: once there was ape, then there was man. But we don't want to recognize this complexity today because of the political heritage of the 20th century.
That's the thing, you could just game the system to your advantage and gain power. We know that in a controlled environment like academia and science, this produces inferior results overall. Mixed form Nash equilibria work on a relative level of progress, but it seems transactions of sacrifices produces greater absolute gains - to specialise in one direction to take great action in, and be supportive of others' specialisations.
I use Simplenote as well. I find it to be a simple, no-nonsense product with everything I need.

The editor understands Markdown, and you can make a note into a webpage with a single click, for free. Notion, Obsidian charge money for this.

I use Simplenote when I attend talks to take notes. Or make small listicles.

Their support is fantastic, too. Despite it being a free product, support responded to me every time I reached out to them (thrice in last 4/5 years), and promptly solved my problem.
Smathers, Pepper, and Quasi Malediction in American Political Folklore (2009)
Update to my other reply:

> This list is good: https://danromero.org/crypto-reading/

This is not a good list.

Half of those are basically marketing links, including the ridiculous things like "NFTs make the internet ownable".

The other half is literally "why the hell anyone would want this?" like "Ethereum is a dark forest".

None of them address any of the issues in the crypto space. Literally none of them connect the dots between "it's a dark forest, and it will get worse" and the puppy-eyed "omg this is so good for creators and consumers".

But sure. This is what passes for "good discourse" in crypto circles.
We propose to your attention a cartoon about the AN225 aircraft [video]
I would use this, but I dislike the UI very much.
> Especially as the atmospheric CO2 concentration increases the economic viability of reducing it back into hydrocarbons increases

Even if the concentration were to hit 5,000ppm - not only beyond dangerous climate levels but directly dangerous to human breathing - that's still only 0.5%, which makes very little difference to the feasibility of extracting it from the air. There is also no natural market for doing so. It'll pretty much have to be mandated and subsidized if that's ever to happen outside of pilot plants and the US navy.

Oil drilling cannot be carbon neutral, you're inherently bringing carbon up into the atmosphere. Oil drilling plus CCS? Maaaybe.

I think it needs some external political shock like the invasion of Ukraine to trigger a big push against energy imports and towards local energy production.
I line-up with Debian's principled stand against non-free blobs.

Having said that, my reason for preferring firmware freedom mainly isn't principle; it's that non-free firmware potentially deprives me of control of my own equipment. By turning it's nose up at non-free firmware, Debian increases incentives for people to buy equipment that depends less on these blobs. That in turn incentivises manufacturers to offer equipment that doesn't depend on blobbiness.

I realise that these incentives are strictly at the margin; but Debian is the only leading distro that takes a hard line on these matters. If Debian were to retire from the battlefield, nobody would be left standing except the closed-firmware hardware makers. That would make me sad.
I think the noise can be easily distinguished from real data.

Just remove EXACT 0.000000, 0.000000 pairs and allow anything else and it'll be fine.
Meritocracy is also characterised by an enormous range of strategies to achieve dominance. There isn't one characteristic to optimise on, it is a very complex game of figuring out what the world needs and becoming it.

The difference is a meritocracy tries not to optimise on looks, heritage and such instead shifting the focus to results. But competition to achieve those results is still fierce.
Time's ready for a phone firewall!
There was a widespread story about it summarised here. Apparently the lawsuit was settled.

https://www.cracked.com/article_31344_the-maddening-story-of...

(Edited for premature send)
Universal's Audible Watermark (2012)
> Currently, getting a latest Ryzen 5000 APU laptop can very easily last you 10 years or more

You never know. I have an AMD TR 1900X CPU (launched in August 2017) in a box, since Windows 11 doesn't run on it.
My company has had good luck with SoftServe. I like all their developers that I’ve worked with. We’ve been using them for over two years.

https://www.softserveinc.com/en-us
Why not just use a different, superior podcast client?
Obsidian has a super reliable app for Linux, as well.

And you can use Mega (also has native app for Linux) for free sync.
What do you expect? A streaming service that gives you an "Export/Save as..." feature?
> Why do I want a pile of .ogg (or .mp3) files?

Because all listeners are not the same. I for one, have two high quality listening systems (one is in the form of high end sound card, and other in the form as a proper Hi-Fi system), and am a former symphony orchestra player.

I personally appreciate the added resolution of lossless files and love to listen my favorite albums in lossless formats. When one gives the time and ear deserved by an album, the perception is very different, and the added resolution on the highs add a lot of immersion to the album in question.

I have a spotify membership, and it's convenient, yes. But it's not same as "listening to music" for me. Not close.

Also, opening your Spotify playlist and seeing some of your favorite songs missing due to license expiration is not nice. Been there, seen that.

Same for movies, but I'm not that of a movie nerd.
Netflix doesn't supply Linux with 1080p streams, for exactly this reason. Any platform that doesn't encrypt the video path so screen recording isn't possible is limited to 720p.
Because of the very common issue with network card firmware (wired&wireless) I have taken to always providing initial network access during install through me hooking up my phone via USB-tethering. No Firmware needed.

Then select "expert mode", enable "non-free" repo, maybe "backports", go through base install only, reboot, re-enable USB-tethering a last time on the phone, install needed network card firmware, reboot, disconnect phone, run "tasksel", select whatever you want to install to finish install.

Having done this "detour" for many years now, it's "automatic" for me, and takes barely 3 minutes longer than the "normal" install from the IsoWithNonFree.
I usually want "backports" enabled, so going into "expert mode" is required anyway.
This reminds me of the current state of fusion power generation, self driving, and AGI,.. currently we see a constant flood of hype articles claiming they are nearly here, as well as cautionary articles suggesting we are decades away.
Oh, get off your high horse.

I played a lot of cheap tapes back in the day. That's far worse quality than any MP3, especially if you're young and buy cheap, normal C120 tapes, and play them on a cheap device over and over.

When MP3 players were a new thing, I had one with all of 64MB flash on which I played 64 kbps music with dirt cheap earbuds. That wasn't perfect, but I still found it useful.

Today Spotify offers 320kbps, which is far superior to a lot of stuff I listened to, and my hearing certainly didn't get any better over the decades. I don't think I notice much difference above 128 kbps these days anyway.

Yeah, certainly I'll go for quality if I can have it, but less than perfect is better than nothing and I'm very far from being a crazy audiophile. Modern tech is far beyond the point where I stop caring about further improvements.
You can have oral histories.

They don't tend to last very long without varying dramatically from the original version.
> microcontroller (so that the sound is better

How do you do it and figure out what frequencies need correction (and by how much)?
I was using SteamGifts [0], but there are more. It's not an official Valve platform. The giveaways mostly come from regular people, usually offering leftover keys from game bundles. Some game developers also drop hundreds of keys in a single giveaway - those are listed at the top and provide some visibility/marketing for them. From a user perspective, you are automatically given some "entry points" every time a new giveaway is created (to a max. cap) and you are free to spend them however you want (higher game value = more entry points required). There never was a way to get more "entry points" by paying money. People creating giveaways can set a minimum "user level" to enter the giveaway. You can only get higher levels by creating a giveaway yourself. So the more you contribute, the better games and the less entries you can expect.

In summary, it is just a matter of the number of your giveaway entries to win something. So I've written a bot to enter giveaways automatically, preferring ones with the least entries to get a higher chance of winning. For reference, "I" have entered 289k giveaways and won ~1070 games since 2013 (with a fully automatic bot since ~2016).

[0] https://www.steamgifts.com/
The problem with Israel being "a Jewish state" is that requires the suppression and occasionally ethnic cleansing of its non-Jewish residents in order to prevent them from ever achieving enough numbers or power to make it not Jewish.

It's a fundamental contradiction embedded from the Israeli declaration of independence (which commits to racial and religious equality) onwards: what does it mean for a state, rather than individuals, to be Jewish?

The underlying argument is that it's necessary for the continued survival and security of Jewish people that there be a Jewish state, and unfortunately the continuous attacks on Israel suggest they might be right.
Greenwich (London) would be a more likely populated place to have had the origin point.
Poll: How do you prefer to find your Linux distro's installer?
Do a web search for "install $distro", click the first link, figure it out from there.
Visit the $distro website, click the download link, write to USB/DVD, reboot, install.
Visit the $distro website, click the install section, click on the desired download, write to USB/DVD, reboot, install.
Visit the app store for your current OS, install the app that installs $distro, reboot, install.
I'm not a big believer of thought complex thought patterns that fail to manifest in any meaningful way. If they are as sentient, they should have to make a difference.
Dogs needed a mutation for that, cats for example did not have that and are all roughly the same size.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00209-0
I run a small agency (<10 devs) in +1 timezone and have pretty extensive network. Hit me up (email in my profile) and I can possibly help you.
Ah. I definitely mean on Linux.
Not OP, but the evangelism about "never having build problems anymore" does perplex me a bit. In the languages I have been programming in (Haskell, Ruby, some Python and elm and JS and Rust), I can't recall having any significant build problems in the last ~8 years or so anyway. What does everyone do that their build keeps breaking?
I use YNAB4 through wine and wrote a little CLI utility to ingest CSV statements and format them to what YNAB expects (with currency conversion at the transactions rate for that day). It works well and is all local.
I think in pure compsci theory you might be right, but in practice (industrial SW production), we usually limit ourselves to algorithmic solutions that do not involve halting problem, so estimation is possible. For example, an upper limit for a rewrite of a system is how long it took to create the original system (provided you understand the tradeoffs and issues of the original architecture).
Somewhat related, is there a way to export all playlists from Spotify?
This may be the appropriate place to gratefully mention Polarhome (http://www.polarhome.com/), that for many years managed a "dinosaur zoo" of ageing Unix systems, on which one could buy a login for a nominal fee. Very convenient for me as developer of a portable Unix utility (rlwrap) - it allowed me to spot many portability problems (often real bugs that manifested themselves only on certain systems).

Sadly, Polarhome has thrown in the towel. Does anyone know of something comparable, i.e. not only a public access Unix system, but one that offers a range of Unices?
It’s even weirder when it’s shared. Also in the military, we stopped for an MRE break and my buddy’s MRE flew out of his ruck, held by some glowing creature and flew off into the woods. We both looked at each other and said, “did you see that?” His MRE was gone, we couldn’t explain it without seeming crazy and never spoke of it again.
> So it takes the same space, without being equally useful?

Can you elaborate "equally useful"? The only problem I could see is that you can't play them anywhere but in the app. So what? If you were to copy them around (and most likely share with other people for free) you are violating their ToS (and other legal aspects) anyway.

> No way I'm ever giving up my local lossless audio collection.

Good news: You don't have to. Streaming services are called "streaming" services for a reason. You are apparently not the target audience and that's completely fine.
I think you can point out that any state founded on ethno or religious grounds is a bad idea. Although in this case given when it was formed and why that clearly adds a lot of context.

You can certainly state that the right of self-determination doesn't trump the rights of others. So a Jewish state somewhere is a right, but not if there are already people living in that particular somewhere who object.

You can also state that predominantly European migration to a part of the world where there are other people living has been somewhere between a mistake and a disaster and a tragedy, be that America, Australia or Israel.

I think the last part is the issue that causes much of the problems. Many people in Labour party wanted to protect the right of those directly affected by the migration to call it out in their terms.
We wouldn't deny native americans or aborigines using terms like 'racist' to describe what has happened to them. Yet the misuse of the IHRA examples (turning examples into a legal definition) did exactly that. And many people in Labour objected.

I can understand the continuing need for there to always be a place of safety for Jews. Although it's tragic that this is the case, but understandable, not least given the holocaust still being within living memory.
The current direction of Israel can't be it though, there has to be some other way.
No, the UK. But completing the square only takes a minute.
to play devil's advocate, what happens when your lossless audio files (which take up a fair amount of space) no longer all fit on your mobile device? Do you have software to rotate them out? What about when you want to listen to a song that isn't local anymore? Sounds like you need to invent streaming with caching
I don't think Debian needs "converts". This isn't a religious revival movement. There are many Debian derivatives that aren't as arsey as Debian about non-free blobs; if that's what people want, then they should "convert" to one of those derivatives, rather than raw Debian.
NYT search has 29 results for "aeroplane" between Jan 1, 1890 and Jan 1, 1903.

> TO FLY FROM PIKE'S PEAK.; W.F. Felts Tries His New Aeroplane at Different Altitudes. [Aug. 4, 1897] (followed soon by SNOWSTORM ON PIKE'S PEAK.; W. B. Felts Did Not Attempt His Aeroplane Flight Yesterday.)

> Flying Motor Cars [Sept. 22 1901]

Some of these are clearly from Great Britain. (The latter is a reprint from The Spectator, at http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/31st-august-1901/9/fl... ). Some of these seem to refer to airships -- I don't have an NYT account to read them.

If I redo the search with "airplane" then none of the 10 hits seem relevant. They deal with horse racing. (?!)

Google n-grams, with the American English corpus, shows "airplane" didn't become popular until about 1913, overtaking "aeroplane" within about 5 years.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=airplane%2Caer...
Well yeah, we tend to get lumped into a single group because many of us being privileged apparently means that none of us are discriminated against.
> long with Webb's three other instruments, MIRI initially cooled off in the shade of Webb's tennis-court-size sunshield, dropping to about 90 kelvin (minus 298 F, or minus 183 C). But dropping to less than 7 kelvin required an electrically powered cryocooler.

This seems hard to believe - I get that you have a bunch of radiation flying around (including IR from the sunshield itself) that prevents passively cooling off to 0K (or the CBR's 3K) - but 90K? Is the space itself around L2 really effectively that "hot"?

Or is it that passive cooling would just get intolerably slow and you might just as well deploy the tech you need to go from whatever the equilibrium is to below 7K earier?