skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those tiny hotel soaps are just the peak of the iceberg.

My SO used to work seasonally in a hostel in Venice. People leave a lot of half-used shower gel bottles, soaps, makeup products etc.

It got to a point where the staff just put all the products which were safe to use(laundry detergent, shower gels, spray deodorant, shaving foam) in an unoccupied room referred to as "the Rossmann" (popular drugstore chain in some European countries) from which everyone in the know was at liberty to take as much as they wished.

A fraction of the goods were originally found unopened.
Provides an interesting insight into a show’s viewership and who’s winning the auction ad budgets.

This is even more fun if you can’t understand anything.
This is very, very impressive.

But I am almost existentially disappointed by the opening sentence - ‘For reasons I won’t get into’…

It’s like - why?

The reasons we drive ourselves to do these frankly insane hacking experiments are almost always as interesting as the process itself for me.

The reason for that is - in this case - there are literally thousands of sampler synths with frankly a shitton more features than even what OP has implemented - why use this particular one?

The turntablist community - for instance - vastly prefers a frankly ancient and specific model of turntable (Technical SL-1200 or equivalent) - therefore the community to mod and update this decades-old hardware is dedicated and does similarly amazing things.

The SL-1200 is preferred for its build quality, it’s amazing motor, it’s weight; and it’s reliability.

It however lacks some frankly essential features from newer turntables - reverse, ultrapitch, pitch lock, USB support - but it’s still the most highly sought after and standard unit for the craft.

What makes this particular synthesizer the same - so valuable, so irreplaceable to OP’s craft - that drove them to such an insane level of deconstructing and reflashing the software? I, like - must know…XD

I mean - cool flex - but why?
This is false. Not that it matters to the wider argument but UK has plenty of power projection capabilities to mount an offensive in Morocco.

Morocco is even within reasonable distance for the UK to run sorties from UK air bases, let alone including aircraft carriers, cruise missile attacks from submarines, etc.
> Cookies are just completely broken

In what way?

> The EU should never have got involved in the way that it did

Maybe, can you explain where it failed.

> the web is a worse experience as a result

That's debatable

> with marginal privacy gains

can you quantify that?

Myself, I turn off all JS and nix all cookies (with about the only temporary exceptions being for posting on HN). WFM.
Most if not all email providers do that when they get phishing or spam alert (every user can send those) to check out if that message is actually a threat. Maybe the best option for you is to setup your own email server which is fairly simple this days.
> > the United States ranks second on the list of OECD countries, behind only Mexico, for most expensive internet prices

Looking at absolute cost is not a good metric. You have to factor the cost vs the median purchasing power otherwise the comparison is meaningless.
France won’t let solar from Spain into their grid as it undermines their nuclear financing. So from Morocco is off the table. A Spain UK connection was planned and seems sensible.
Great stats, and great username. Hope you're near to the great telescope. Spent some joyous school trips there as a child.
Law professor explains how blockchains and NFTs don’t protect virtual property
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I find all the best content through Paul Graham’s Twitter. I end up missing a lot of it in the feed, so I started collecting and reading it all at the end of the week. Since I’m going through and collecting it anyways, I thought this could be helpful to others, so I decided to send it out in a newsletter each week.

You can check it out here! Hope it’s helpful.
Ironic that you talk about binary thinking then proceed to think of Privacy only in the binary of having it from government or not.

Aside from you being factually wrong on your take (you have massively over stated the competency of government and big finance, their data is more wrong than it is correct)

That however is not the only, and in many cases not even the most important, realm for which one may want to protect their privacy

At this point I am not sure what is more ignorant, your thoughts on addiction or your thoughts on privacy... it is a pretty close race
> I, as my others, tried to explain that this is not small labor.

The phrase "small labor" has a legal meaning. This is not a colloquial attempt to describe the workload as small.

However, also, as an author of unity iOS software who's gone through this, I do think the amount of labor being described here is pretty over the top.

Even in an extreme case I would only expect dep upgrades to take a couple days.

I've read the many comments, thanks. It's just that I don't really agree with them.

As both a developer who's been through this, and as a user, like many other people in this comment thread, I agree with this policy. I believe that abandonware doesn't really belong in store. It makes it much harder for me to use my phone, that every time I want to do task X, I can't find an app for ten minutes because I'm digging through all the shovelware.

I also don't see any moral imperative to keep games available, frankly. To me it seems like insisting that every board game ever printed should still be on sale somewhere.

I think that if people feel the need to compare this to murder and political oppression, they're kind of ceding that if they describe it correctly, nobody's going to be angry.

In general, I treat invalid comparisons to war crimes as a warning sign, internally.

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> If majority of games won't be around in 10-20 years, then it's a pretty good analogy of the parent post.

This has always been the case with computer games.

Try to dig up some 2600 or Colecovision games. I'll wait.
Yep, but it's never not been like that. Go back and read what the Victorian aristocracy and bourgeoisie had to say about the English working classes. In general blaming their poverty on their moral failings, and going on about prostitution and sexual behaviours, etc.
As notacoward observes… literally 'men'? To my ear, 'people' would've worked too.

I feel it's always worth asking whether there are unstated axioms here being snuck into the discourse. Especially in a big conversation about how 'everything is being ruined because people won't stick to the old good ways'.

Though it may be an uncomfortable question to some, to what extent does this rest upon female humans serving as livestock and spawning/rearing children, being relatively disposable themselves?

If you REALLY want to maximize 'men attaining dignity and social respect', to what extent does this rest upon the existence of a subhuman underclass which doesn't count as 'men' and can be enslaved for their labor? Dignity and social respect are RELATIVE. The easiest way to make them seem enhanced for some is to strip 'em from others. People vary far too much to make 'free market' human interaction easy and seamless, and every time we run up against a conflict our dignity and social respect takes a hit.

How badly do you want your dignity? And how much is your end goal just you and not anybody else? (this would be an abstract 'you', not intending it as an argument that the original commenter is this 'you')
all 3.
Yea, I have zero interest in Charm Cloud and their web site is eye-poison, but Go > Python so next time I need some CLI stuff, I'll be researching Charm (This is intended to be useful feedback for the Textualize people, I'm long over Python).
Why are skyscrapers so short?
I find liquefied Hydrogen to make more sense. In case of conflict (like now), undersea cables can be sabotaged with plausible deniability. The Royal Navy can protect a tanker en route from Morocco to UK, or a convoy of such tankers, there were two times in the not so distant history when it had to do just that. But how do you protect a continuous line of a few thousand km?

Separately, if at some random point in the future the relations between the UK and Morocco go south, it’s much easier to change suppliers if you use tankers. The EU is investing massively in Hydrogen, so the Worldwide Hydrogen market will be quite mature in 10 to 20 years.

Even from Morocco’s point of view, the same calculus applies. If the UK sanctions Morocco, and refuses to take delivery of electricity, how do you find an alternate buyer if the transmission line is in place? With Hydrogen tankers, you simply start selling to China or someone else, or you put the Hydrogen in some medium-long term storage. This gives you more leeway to negotiate whatever diplomatic situation you found yourself in.
One thing that really stuck out to me was the implicit assumption that "stable home environment" requires or is equal to "married couple of biological parents living together until child becomes adult".

Especially the quote where an agreement that stability is important was interpreted as agreement that marriage is important.
I moved to Hong Kong, which has its own issues. Out of love for a human being, for sure, but let s say I didnt convince that sweet other to move to France hehe. She would have if I asked, but as an unemployed english speaking Pakhistani in France, she would have had more trouble than me in a fully employed society like HK.

It's disfunctional if you live in it and pay taxes. For me we waste our taxes if we cant make a balanced budget, it s not even a crazy philosophy: we live beyond our means and borrow from others to calm down the electorate, we re cheating. In Hong Kong my taxes go to a surplus, you wont hear me criticise the gov much, because at least they got their basics right. I pay my 12k USD yearly with a proud smile that I contribute to building something that s coherent if not perfectly democratic. While I paid my 2k euros in France grumbling it s all going to waste anyway. You can also guess the salary increase you have working in a place where unemployment is a meaningless concept, because no welfare.

I dislike the US as much as the next guy and do not see it as a proper model. Let s not even talk of tax surplus there. Germany sounds like they try to do politics the right way but it s not like I know it all that much beyond their results.
https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...

> noting that nearly 30% of fathers surveyed did not want physical custody

> The outcome matched the re-quest for maternal custody in nearly 90% of such cases. See id. In contrast, paternal physical custody was awarded in only 75%

> in a 1992 study of 1,124 divorced families, 67.6% of children lived with their mothers; 15% lived with both parents on a joint custody basis; and only 9.5% lived with their fathers
Gas fired not coal. Its faster to spin up.
Exactly! I have used beeminder and stickk. But there were a few things that bugged me about them.

1) Theres no option to have a referee that isn't friends or family

2) Its automated, and no human actually checks up to see if you are staying on track.

3) You can't really set huge stakes
unreal is not "open source". "open source" has a specific meaning and Unreal doesn't fit. Some people call unreal "source available"

https://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+definition
I'm enjoying this article, but this conclusion to the first section seems like a non sequitur to me:

> Those who sit at or near the apex of the social ladder (who decide what behaviors are prestigious) have decided that family stability is unimportant.

Up to this point, the problem statement has all been about choices made by those lacking wealth, but now we seem to have suddenly veered into that being the fault of those "at or near the apex of the social ladder" and in a way I can't relate to. On the contrary, hard work and "hustle" seems more high status than ever!

Maybe this is a minor point, but I have been finding this two-step of 1. Identify a problem among the low status / poor / blue collar, 2. Blame it on the elite, disorienting. I first came across it in JD Vance's book where I thought he did a really good job of identifying problems with the culture he was raised in but then ended the book with (in my view) misplaced blame and no real ideas for how to fix any of the problems. And it just seems like I've seen people (JD Vance quintessentially) doubling and tripling down on that pattern ever since.

Edit to add (now that I've finished reading the article): I think there is an entire premise here that I really don't buy, that this culture is driven by the affluent and "middle class meaning college degree holders". In my experience this isn't right at all; nobody in the working class cares in the slightest what academics at Harvard or wherever think about family formation and stability. They aren't aware of what academics think, and wouldn't care what they think if they were to become aware of it. It is very roundabout to identify a cultural problem and then blame that problem on the milieu within a different culture that does not exhibit the same problem...
It’s like Jared Diamond stuff. Primarily it’s hypothesis generation. You’re not supposed to accept it as true. You’re supposed to consider it and consequences so you can consider “If this is true, what else would one conclude? Do those conclusions affect something I care about meaningfully? If so, how can I establish the truth?”

They’re risky though because you have to actively discard the priors you temporarily held afterwards or you’ll go around thinking that “I read an article that said”.
Is VW an exception? Ford Pinto fuel tanks, GM ignition switches, Toyota accelerator pedal assemblies, and I’ve made at least three trips (might have been four) to dealers for Takata airbag problems.
mwahahahahahah

Yes, now if Android had a button for shutting off telemetry, that’d be even better.
The linked source: https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/new-cooki...

It is "funny" reading that, the amount of energy they spend to be illegal but only just so that they can squeeze as much dark patterns on their users before they get a fine. Rinse and repeat.

For normal companies / webmasters it is quite simple though. You don't have anything to gain from extorting your users. So please respect your users instead.

Don't use shady practices that require you to bring up a cookie-banner in the first place. Just don't.
An average of about 3.8 is not hard to achieve. Much harder is to reduce the number of failures, (i.e., requiring more than 6 guesses). At least in hard mode, that's true. I'm experimenting with easy mode now.
I'd like to chime in on one very narrow issue that's a personal axe.

I'd appreciate your consideration.

Due to some widely shared youtube videos and other new and zeitgeisty trends, empathy has been put on a pedestal and sympathy and been thoroughly denigrated.

The problem is that people are not that capable of real empathy in complex or strongly divergent experiences, this modern "synthetic empathy" generated in peoples imaginations is actively harmful, is not empathy, and is worse than sympathy (which was always a serviceable emotion and the most accurate framing for many circumstances.)

As someone born with a heart defect that almost killed them and forced me into formative and constant meditation on death starting at 4 years old, and then had my parents die young and my family financially ruined by medical bills so I had to quit highschool and start working fulltime I have personally observed that empathy as a mental model has a strong failure mode.

I doubt at 15 you could have had empathy for me, (unless you shared a similar experience) I doubt older wiser you could still empathize with 15 year old me in any meaningful way, certainly no peer I ever met at the time could (agqin, unless they had dealt with the same.)

I think peoples ability to empathize has been far oversold, so while you can understand and empathize with "silly things", outside of that I'd settle for some good old fashioned (and real) sympathy.

Sympathy has a certain acknowledgment of lack of understanding and thus intellectual and emotional humility, and I think humility is what is missing in this modern synthetic empathy.

Experiences in general and certainly extremely divergent ones do not have the same qualia and empathy is a false siren.

People don't understand as much as they think, they should show sympathy to those whose experiences are far outside their own and help them tangibly when possible.
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> Creating a culture where men can attain dignity and social respect by providing for their family and staying with the mother of their kids matters. And creating a culture where men are told it’s okay not to do those things creates harm

Teaching people how to pull together and get through tough times as a family together is a great thing to promote, but re-stigmatizing divorce to the extent it once was is not a way to achieve that.
> It took much longer—years—for her to be able to move, walk, and finally even ski again.

I’ll take cold and dead over this, thanks. I’ve got a chronic illness and have a good sense of my limits for what’s bearable.
>> Is the message they're hearing one of hope or despair?

Despair. The average age at most churches now seems to be 80+, and those who are younger are there to support their older relatives. There is no chatting or mingling. Once the service is over it is time to begin the process of loading grandma back into the car. What I see of single people at church is the exhaustion common to all caregivers.
Try "I don't care about cookies" add-on, personally I haven't used it yet so I don't know how good it is.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...
This is a poor use of resources. Sending anything but money to places in need is just wasteful. This soap effort is not efficient. The expense of collecting the soap, refining it in a garage (including cost of the equipment), and delivering it to the recipients is almost certainly vastly more than if they'd just sent cash and bought brand new soap local to the recipients. And that's not even factoring in the labor of the people doing it. This is another feel-good measure that is economically stupid, and whose primary purpose is to make the volunteers feel good about themselves. That's fine, if that's what they want to do with their time and money. But no one should help them by donating. It's far better to donate your cash to people that make efficient use of it.
Here's Big

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/11/29/nyregion/00ny-oys...
"She's ice cold when I touch her skin, and she looks absolutely dead," Gilbert later told CNN. "On the electrocardiogram… there is a completely flat line," Gilbert remembered. "Like you could have drawn it with a ruler. No signs of life whatsoever."

It sounds like they were measuring the wrong thing.
Unit testing Cloudflare Workers (2019)
You can. So long as the impurity is scoped to be local within a package. And the system itself only reads the output of your language to configure something. Example:

def packageInstaller(pkgs: Pkg) -> Derivation:
x = {
req: [pkgs.a, pkgs.b]
build:
...
}

x[req].append(pkgs.c)
return buildDerivation(x)

packageInstaller outputs a single package description, but you can also create something similar that easily outputs an entire configuration for the OS. You just need to keep mutation scoped within the language. The configuration that is outputted is immutable and whatever thing that's processing that configuration is not within user control.

Keep in mind that mutability and immutability share a certain isomorphism. Within the nix expression language you often do something similar to mutation just as any other functional language. For example:

listVersion3 = listVersion1 ++ AdditionalStuff

It's just that in functional languages you're forced to keep versions of each mutation.
Roate

Pulis

Chynd

This does more than half of the alphabet for the most frequently used letters.

https://slc.is/posts/bestwordlestrategy.html
These companies hire psychologists in droves to make their products more addictive. There are certainly ways to combat their manipulation techniques, but let's not pretend this is some neutral product and try to pin the blame on the users. Cigarette companies used the same tactic and it hasn't gotten any less repellant.
>You’d get the half-shame branding of “metrosexual” for dressing better than average

"Better than average" is highly subjective. There have always been expectations in every society about how you're supposed to dress and comport yourself in public. The styles and forms these expectations take are largely arbitrary and in constant flux, but the uniformity they provide is anything but. The reason why that kind of uniformity is naturally desirable is because being the odd one out is more often dangerous than it is advantageous. The world is an incredibly dangerous place, so if you exhibit aberrant and/or disruptive behaviors from the majority population, their default response is going to be to shame you, or shut you up, or make you go away. It doesn't matter what the behavior is, only that it deviates from the norm.

There have always been hippies, flamboyant gays, and other eccentric types who have found themselves the odd one out (hello there). But I would argue that their status in society is really determined by the relationships they have with others. If you build up a decent rapport with someone, they'll usually tolerate more of your aberrant behaviors, and might not mind them at all since said behaviors are coming from you specifically.

To tie this back into some of the previous posts, being gay is a quality but it's not a redeeming one, and it doesn't make up for a person's negative traits. There seems to be this expectation from very sheltered people that being the odd one out should afford them certain privileges, often related to some kind of victim status. In reality, people will just see you as weak and bully you for those perceived weaknesses.

Just my two cents as someone who eschews the LGBTBLAHBLAH+++ label for myself, since I don't want to be associated with a cult of corporate and pseudo-academic pandering that deprives me of my agency makes certain assumptions about my morals and politics.
For the variants I've programmed, I've enforced that they start with a random word guessed (same random word for everyone though.)

Wordle is good as it is but personally I think most of the variants would be better off adopting this feature.

That said I saw someone speedrunning 10x Xordle games and for speedrunning they just ignore the starting word and make the same 4 guesses every time: CARVE SHIFT GODLY WHUMP
This. In a developing country, zero internet/mobile to email/mobile SMS has a huge economic impact for farmers who want to check prices in local market. Scale up to 1Mbit via 3/4G, the economic impact is equally enormous for a variety of reasons.
What does the USA have to do with anything? My bargain bin LTE modules from China work fine on both Tmo and Att.

Ofono is a zombie that only recently saw life breathed back into it. By and large it doesn't work for modern phone purposes beyond data and simple SMS.

MMS and VoLTE are both extraordinarily painful with ofono.
> The whole idea of the EU is that all nations in it are subservient to the commission

It really really isn't though
This was published well over 20 years ago. Do you have anything more reflective of modern days? Taking it at face value, assuming nothing has changed (a big assumption) it’s still the case that the vast majority of men who ask for custody are awarded custody.
I've done this for Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. It's really effective.
Is it really that hard to deal with memory ownership? What’s situations are you in that it’s so stressful?