skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, I remeber the "ricers" trends for cars and then for PCs, and then for gentoo. Good times.

And then you got this that is the cost of a used car per meter. I hope no one falls for it.
"Only 1 left. Grab it before it's gone"
> The thing that kills python for me is that I can’t be 100% sure if what version may exist on a system;

pip handles that automatically - you set which version numbers of Python you can handle in your project specification.

> and worse: if I actually use any modules then I have to somehow get them on the system.

pip handles that too!

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I'm not quite sure what the problems are, but between virtualenv/venv, pip, and modern package managers like poetry, this is really a solved problem - something you spend an hour setting up when you start a project and just never think of again.

I do this so much I have a shell function, `nenv`, which creates a new virtualenv with a specific Python and then loads its dependencies into the virtualenv.

It gives me tremendous freedom. For example, I can heavily instrument other modules' Python code inside the virtualenv (to find their bugs, e.g.) and then throw it all away and recreate it fresh in a few keystrokes.

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There are OK, well-known solutions to most of the common packaging and distribution problems with Python programs you might have. If you go back to it, you should spend a bit of time with this, it isn't that bad.

(Poetry seems really cool - when I start something new it'll be with that.)
Since then there was an accident involving an even lower body temperature: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/04/doctors-toddle...

> Two-year-old Adas was found by police unconscious near a creek in the village of Raclawice, just north of Krakow, late on Sunday in weather of -7C.

> His core body temperature had plummeted to just 12.7C (54F), and doctors kept him in an artificial coma until Wednesday, fearing brain damage.

> But after being awakened, the boy on Thursday was speaking, playing and eating normally in hospital. Medical staff believe he might have come through his ordeal almost unscathed, probably with pneumonia but with no sign of frostbite.
https://jacquesmattheij.com/the-unofficial-hn-faq/#deleteacc...

You can't.
Why is it bad? that is my point. Guix has several design features that improve over Nix, but a much smaller user base.
European Digital Identity
Can’t endorse this approach enough. I blocked/unfriended about 15-20 people on Facebook and it got exponentially more pleasant. What’s more, I barely use it now because as it turned out…I was mostly using Facebook to have political arguments and I had no idea. I just thought I needed it to keep up with folks.

Frankly, it’s shocking how much mental energy some random dude you met once 8 years ago can occupy if you let him on your feed. We choose to not remove them due to some vague fear of “the social media bubble” as if we don’t filter out people and organizations we don’t like all the time with or without it.
That's fine, but the above commenter's question was related to the definition of an "active user", and Snapchat provides an answer to that question, even if it uses weasel words.
Related

How long since Google said a Google Drive Linux client is coming? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24183399 - Aug 2020 (109 comments)

How long since Google said a Google Drive Linux client is coming? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9434643 - April 2015 (59 comments)
This is important, thanks. I "understood" (mis) the post thinking that somehow, Fedora would now only use Digital Rights Managed displays (with a hack to make all non-DRM displays into one)...

:~/
I'd like to point out that signal for Android can now transfer conversation history between devices.
> People think that if a young guy comes from a disorderly or deprived environment, he should be held to low standards. This is misguided. He should be held to high standards. Otherwise, he will sink to the level of his environment.

In my city, the local government stopped arrests for crimes like theft, property damage, and open drug use. For crimes involving assault, they would maybe do an arrest, keep the person locked up overnight, and then let them go.

The local politicians argued this was right and moral, because these people only commit crime because they come from poverty or generally don’t have “privilege”.

Well… it’s no longer a desirable place to live. The streets are littered with trash, there’s a problem of used drug syringes in public parks and other public spaces, and there are homicides just about every day in the news, or stories of some homeless person assaulting some pedestrian. Just the other week, some old Asian woman got sucker punched. I think a few weeks before that, some drug addict beat a woman with a bat at a public transit stop.

I’m a fairly progressive person, overall. But I look around, and I’m not sure what country I’m in at times.

And I’m writing this on HN because I think the tech industry is part of the problem. When I was at Amazon, we had essentially stopped hiring any demographic in engineering roles except for Indian nationals. We’d bring them in at slightly below market pay (still respectable salaries), but these folks often had 30 days to leave the country if they quit Amazon’s grueling corporate environment. Meanwhile, we didn’t give them the right to vote, effectively shutting down out from the political process. And, for the most part, these folks were willing to work with a toxic work culture, since the alternative meant having to uproot their families and leave the country, perhaps hoping for permanent residency in Canada.

In retrospect, we decided to not hire people born in this country. But we also didn’t want to give the full rights to the people we brought in to substitute them. We knew full and well that if it becomes easy for them to switch jobs, we wont be able to extract the same work hours from them.

Meanwhile, America’s poor are completely forgotten and lost.
One of the things I have learned about business is that if you have customers willing to pay very high prices you should offer something with those prices.
As a tentatively more minimalistic explanation, the musical ear perceives specific geometric relationships between frequencies as strong stimuli, and a major chord consists of simultaneously striking frequencies x, x times the cube root of 2, and x times 3/2.
> And then I got obsessed with finding out ways to avoid fingerprinting (it's nearly impossible).

At that point it's worth considering heading to a university library and reading the periodicals and books that are housed there.

Obsession = 3+ hours a day attempting to defeat tracking in a category of software designed to track you.

I live about 40 minutes away from a decent university library.

In your first six days of failing to avoid fingerprinting, I would have gotten nine hours of private, uninterrupted reading time.

Even better-- if I chose to read a newspaper in the library, I wouldn't be distracted by a cheapo "companion scroll" taped to the bottom by Silicon Valley types so their underlings can paste "Gellman-Amnesia effect ftw" during breaks in some desperate attempt to misdirect the angst that must come from polishing someone else's ad tech for a living.
I don’t get the thinking behind these sorts of products. What’s on the other side of the wall is usually made of shit and string. It’s like only cooking the last inch of a sausage.

I know I’m approaching it rationally. Perhaps I shouldn’t.
> Islam never said that.

I agree, I never claimed Islam said that. I claim you said that, which misrepresents Islam!

> CRT is a fringe offshoot that swings the pendulum so far out, it goes back to being racist, ironically enough.

What about CRT does this? The core idea of CRT (as you use it) is, I think the recognition that inequality exists, that some people mistreat others and that we should recognize that when it happens. What about that is racist?
A chord-maker JS kata:

https://github.com/ericfortis/chord-maker
Maybe they could ship a linux app instead of deprecating and replacing the mac app next time :)
That's why it's a good rule of thumb to just stick with POSIX as defined by the POSIX standard [0]

0: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...
The best thing about the fall of Rome is how you can read literally anything into it

too many soldiers
too many men, not enough solders
too many immigrants
not enough immigrants
immigrants didn't integrate
immigrants integrated too much
not enough defense spending
recession from too much defense spending
lack of scientific knowledge
proto-technocracy instead of realpolitik

i.e. take your pick of

too much like today
not enough like today

as well as

the worst thing to happen to civilization
not actually that bad
I think that circular "computer" appears explicitly (as a photo) in the post. Thanks for the info!
I am seeing a difference on a new phone. But when I turned it on my old phone everything felt the same.
From a purely practical perspective, if you're trying to convey an idea the onus is kinda on you to communicate it clearly. If the literal meaning of what you're saying ('defund the police') is not actually what you're trying to convey, it seems unproductive to accuse people of acting in 'bad faith' when they understandably misunderstand. It's like designing something badly and then blaming your users for 'not using it right'.
I used it when I used Safari, and honestly thought it was great. Problem is I had a problem enabling both ad blocking and Private Relay at the same time, and I eventually opted to used AdGuard DNS instead of Private Relay.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10906232

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/
I largely agree with the thrust of your argument, but you need to ease off the throttle a bit man.
I just reported every post FB recommend to me (not from someone I’m following) as spam and blocked the user. Over time it stopped showing crap to me (at least it seems so..).
20 users from the same IP - should they count as one user or 20?
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I find it easier not to tune either high to low nor low to high, but use lots of cross-string intervals and a variety of chords. Since my tuning fork is a standard A, I start on the A string, and use that to tune both E strings and the D, then B relative to high E and D relative to A. It’s good to tune G using both octaves from the low E and A string. This way you never tune a string more than 2 steps away from the reference, as opposed to tuning E,A,D,G, which gives you a G string 3 steps away from the reference.

But recently I discovered the most helpful trick, use a fifth from G down to the A string, and also use a fifth from the D to the low E string. Those last two intervals can be the most surprisingly out of tune intervals when using either ear tuning or an electronic tuner.
I live in Narvik, and I can't understand why they name the place of the accident Kjolen. What I can gather from archived news articles she was skiing in a very well known place called Mørkhola, or "the backside".

I have not heard of any Kjolen Mountains, and as part of a local SAR team, I think I should've known about it if it existed.
That has not stopped it. I get SMS spam from different phone numbers (even for the same campaigns) constantly. It's really frustrating.
Please stop trying to GUI-ify my terminal. I don't want all those questionable design decisions from browsers making their way into the terminal.
The $600 also includes the entire Creative Cloud suite.
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35904387 ipv6 support in GCP is similar, it's at 9 years now.
Unsure how this is so upvoted... It pretty much goes against anything evangelized in Deep Work or Atomic Habits - must reads promoted by most on HN. Y'all need to revisit those books I think ;)
California has CCPA which seems to be going in a similar direction for easy optout.

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/ccpa-regulations-update-an....
I think in lesbian relationships it is higher than in heterosexual relationships. Don't have any good links off the top of my head. But here is a BBC article which claims it is higher in same sex relationships: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29994648

Male violence is quite high stakes so I could see if you have two people who carry out lower stakes violence then you could end up with higher rates of violence.
I wonder what it is about music that makes people accept these simplifications. I imagine an alternate universe where an article on the optics of color is posted. Someone mentions that all light are frequencies, the color red is such-and-such frequency, blue is whatever Hz, etc. We observe that a color wheel creates some theory of adjacency, compliments of color etc. And some artists use this in their work to enhance the effect. Would an article like that warrant a comment section filled with a bunch of people acting like that gave them sufficient tools to understand the works of Da Vinci, Van Gogh, Picasso?

Pitch, melody and harmony are integral aspects to music but they are by no means sufficient to provide an understanding of music. Just as a purely mathematical description of the optics of color is not sufficient to understand painting. I would argue that the overwhelming majority of music you have enjoyed in your life was written with literally zero regard to these details. In my own opinion, music programs that raise these mathematical details above all others lead to the dullest and least inspired music.
This is pure status symbol.

It accomplishes its goal whether or not it performs any better than a cheap product.

Entrepreneurs can get rich making such products targeted at such consumers. See: the iPhone "I Am Rich" app.

Everybody wins.
The market size is not big enough to justify the internal costs of building and maintaining it.

For dev environments, you can workaround it using Windows + Drive filestream + WSL. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/2999#issuecomment-91...
> My advice for any engineer wanting to get into music is, get an instrument and learn to play it.

The most useful music theory I've ever learned was the stuff that I needed to play jazz guitar: to improvise solos and comp chords. That course of study has continued to pay dividends many years later.

The second most useful was an esoteric but extremely approachable exercise called "arch mapping", where you draw arches on graph paper to represent the form of a piece of music in terms of its subdivisions. For music with a steady tempo and constant time signature, basically anybody can try it: https://williamwieland.midcoip.net/theory/form/archmaps.htm

I also like arch mapping because it explodes the possibilities of what "music theory" is. It can be applied to literally any genre. You don't need to read music. You don't need to know western harmonic theory. You don't even need to know what a major chord is!
I want to see more things like this emerge too.

I think one of the bigger barriers is that terminals don't really have a component reuse boundary.

What I mean by that is: in the browser, you can always put more HTML inside a div tag, and generally speaking, it's gonna stay within the boundaries of that div tag, and things will compose and it won't be a fuss. In the terminal: what's the equivalent of that?

It's possible, and yet not actually remotely pleasant, to make a new PTY/TTY for each component (or each small application that you want to embed within another), and then grab the state of that PTY and replicate it into a rectangular region in another PTY that's bigger. There's so, so, SO much friction in this, though. It also only solves the view bounding: it doesn't solve, for example, the ability to have a copy/paste operation that works on the interior content in a standard way (instead each terminal application solves that itself, usually with some unique bespoke shortcut sequence, because you need _application logic_ to find text ranges since what's rendered to a terminal vs what the logical text state is are usually different).

I think if someone created some very basic component-oriented UI system to solve the composition problem -- then kept most of the components as roughly PTY/TTY and TUI concepts! -- it could lead to interesting places that PTY stuff will have difficulty getting to alone.
I think that's the case for for lower-end restaurants, but for high-end restaurants, they are going to be tweaking things as they go. Ingredients are never perfectly interchangeable because they have to be grown or raised in real-world conditions that vary from one farm to the next or one season to the next.
Don't delete the accounts, delete the data in the accounts. That way you can keep your usernames and logins for various services.

In 2016 I deleted all the tweets I had made over the previous 9 years, and soon after I backed up then cleaned out my FB profile and unfollowed all my contacts. There was a lot of manual labor involved in this because I had auto imported a bunch of stuff early in FBs life, and it was all sort of stuck in there. FBs crappy API and barely functioning admin UI made it slow going, but it was worth it.

As soon as Instagram shows any sign of its popularity waning with my contacts, I'll be deleting all the pics there as well.
I would expect pure copper bus bars at this price.
Times have changed in many more ways than one.

These days I greatly prefer to own my data more directly, which I accomplish using a NAS. I don’t use Dropbox OR Google Drive, I use Syncthing, which can do stuff that neither of those could ever dream of in terms of syncing between machines.

Not only do I not want Google Drive, I don’t even want anything like it.

That said, I totally get why it’s still important. I do use Google Drive at work and for that type of use case I would not argue in favor of self-hosting. Syncthing is great for a single person or even a fairly large group of people, but not for a big organization. Not to mention you probably use Google Docs or Office 365 anyways, both of which are integrated with their respective company’s storage offerings. Syncthing won’t give you directory sync, docs integration, or granular ACLs.

But that’s actually perfectly fine, because I don’t need any of those things. Hell, I flat out don’t really want them. You could probably get something similar with ownCloud which I did try running, and I’m not even particularly enticed. I’m sure Synology has a full suite as well, but it’s not what I want out of my NAS. Part of being happier with my technology was just as much realizing what I didn’t want as it was realizing what I wanted.
I think the article significantly overplays the extent to which that doesn't happen. I don't actually think there is any shortage of affluent / professional class / cosmopolitan people who are outspokenly proud of their stable families. But I don't think they have any influence whatsoever over the working class culture exhibiting the problems highlighted. They're two different cultures without much overlap or influence over one another.
DRM has been used by Direct Rendering Manager for 15 years or so, so it's itself a commonly used acronym.
I don’t think average users even use the Google Drive desktop client.
I don’t read much. I bought an e-reader in 2014 and it has sat in a bin basically the whole time. But recently I discovered library genesis, which is full of pirated books in the vein of sci-hub. I dug up the old e-reader and I’m starting to read again. It’s amazing being able to just download and read a high quality epub of whatever book I have wanted to read. A lot of the books I actually own physical copies because I bought them thinking I would read them, and then never got around to them and I now have many boxes of books in the garage. Normal libraries aren’t quite right for me because I don’t read promptly and feel bad holding something I am not reading when others might want to check it out. But finally with library genesis I can download whatever and it doesn’t cost me money or take up any space. It works really well for me. And at night, after work, I’m making a little time for reading again.

Of course, in our current society we can’t offer this to everyone or artists would starve. But I think the solution is not to stop offering giant free libraries to everyone. I actually think the solution is to build a society where food and shelter and clothing and internet are free. So the daily costs of life go away. And artists can create their art and offer it for free to everyone. And every person on earth can grow up with access to a library of every book ever digitized.

EDIT: I should add, that if we did not patent and copyright everything, then costs would go down because generics would rule the market. This would also allow MUCH FASTER growth in poorer nations, since they would not have to import expensive goods from wealthy nations but could make their own clones. Google the TRIPS agreement for more. But if we also make society free to live (which is now cheaper without patents and copyright keeping prices high), then creators and engineers do not have to fear for their livelihood. So it is a self reinforcing change to society, and one where I believe the rate of innovation would be much higher. For every business person who only innovates because of the monopoly profits our current society offers, there are 100 engineers and business owners who just want to offer the next greatest thing, and who see the potential profit in being first to market. The hardcore libertarians who give talks at the Mises Institute know that intellectual property is a state enforced distortion of the free market, and all the communists and anarchists know that if you can offer knowledge to help others, you should not lock it down. One of the rare places both these groups agree!
Reminiscent of the Diamond series of HDMI cables on Amazon that sold for thousands of dollars. The Amazon reviews on these products are hilarious:

https://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Digital-Audio-Ethernet-Connec...

Edit: also, if you want more, see the Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable:

https://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/dp/B...
>But it really does sound like you're going to need to roll your own service based on your major complaints.

Ideally that'd be more the norm, but unfortunately it's significantly more hassle than would be ideal. Uptime is an issue, though most senders should retry through brief outages. Management/security updates of course aren't negligible, though in principle fairly manageable. Probably the big issue is deliverability to the big players like Gmail. They're as bad at support and opaque there as everywhere else, if you don't know someone and/or aren't big enough regardless of what boxes you check you can have email just vanish into the ether which is generally unacceptable.

One solution might be to use a decent commercial SMTP relay service to proxy that part (ie., Amazon SES/Mailgun/Postmark/SendGrid etc). Those tend to be aimed at commercial operations doing high volume but can start low enough to be worth considering. But all in all it's hard to do well despite email being so old and undemanding anything made in decades can run it fine. The foundations just aren't there to cheaply autoscale around abuse. Like, ideally we'd have secure DNS to depend on, that in turn would allow standards for just having a CA root cert for a domain put right into the domain's DNS records, in turn allowing distributed signing/encryption and making spoofing of email addresses non-trivial. No sending of any kind allowed without having it signed by something in the domain CA's trust chain. Remaining abuse after that could managed far more easily, reliably, and perhaps most important deterministically.

No such luck though! Leaving us stuck paying ludicrous amounts and dealing with a lot of crap for a service that an RPi is already has orders of magnitude more power than it should need for :(.
Well ok, maybe "forced" was the wrong word choice, but I would still say Unity was a more in-your-face change than Snaps are, since the vast majority of software on Ubuntu is still distribute via proper .deb packages