skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are correct, but I’m not sure if it’s a real “want” or a mere modality that is an expression of foolish contemporary social values combined with marketing combined with the notion that this is really living the good life.
I cannot tell you how strongly convinced I am of how tastes are manufactured by prevailing attitudes and the need for approval and a limited selection on the table.

How many little boys in my neighborhood swear they want to grow up to be a pro football player, but this is the main activity they see gaining adult approval in the cafe. I wanted to be either an orchestra conductor or a luthier based upon two experiential impressions that aesthetically influenced me.
Other countries have tried (and are still trying) that with little success and a lot of collateral damage.
They should really limit the test to the most common 10,000 words or something.

I tried in good faith to not select obscure words (knowing from previous experience how the exercise works), but then I ended up typing in autoclave anyway, starting to wonder if it was too obscure or not. In hindsight, it was. It would have been nice to get that feedback before I submitted.
Augury – Using Data Memory-Dependent Prefetchers to Leak Data at Rest
The offer to buy at 50,000, I meant.

Maybe it is a translation issue, here (Italy) it is the buyer that makes an offer and the seller that sets a price or accepts an offer (or proposes a counter-offer).
Could you elaborate more on what makes it simpler to use?

As an end user and for writing build stuff it both seems to be more complicated than its competitors.
> Here's my pitch for an improved definition of art: The conscious use of the imagination in the production or recognition of patterns intended to be contemplated or appreciated as beautiful or thought-provoking such as in the arrangement of forms, sounds, or words."

Two of my external senses (taste, smell) are protesting for being discriminated against. :-)

Or phrased a bit more seriously: Can’t some instances of meal creation and/or some forms of fragrance creation be art forms?
Looks quite cool application, thanks for sharing and good luck with it.
I work at an art school and deal with art more or less for the past two decades. My mother is a painter.

I don't think you are wrong. Yet in practise there are many, many people who confuse good crafts with good art. Painting photorealistically for example is certainly a skill that needs some time to be mastered. But it doesn't mean that what the painter did resulted necessarily in art.

And if you closely this sort of coincided with the rise of photography. Before photography a realistic painting was the only way to create a picture that could actuallt show onlookers a slice of a different time or place. This was one of the values of painting. Just think about how much people like to share images nowadays. But to do it back in the day, you needed a painter, a decent chunk of money and time.

When photography started to gain traction this changed. Suddenly painting was robbed of one of its former functions. Depicting places and people was something photography could do better, faster and cheaper.

This means painting had to move into the other direction of depicting things that photography could not and it did.

But as it is today if you compared the opinions of a random sample of the population to those who deal with art a lot, you'd find that the general population will often confuse crafts with arts. You can impress many people more with a photorealistic painting of a totally uninteresting subject, than you could impress with an interesting abstract painting. In the art world that would be flipped. There crafts would be seen as something that one can learn and aquire, but the crux lies in how you apply it and what you do with it.

It is good that anybody can claim something to be art. But the claim alone is worthless — they have to believe you it is. Art is something that has a social dimension, the discussion about it is part of the thing. And just like with music it is totally acceptable that you dislike parts of it. Not everybody has to like japanese harsh noise, or even count it as music for example.
This was my experience as well. I became very interested in F# and Clojure about 6-8 years ago because they were seemingly better languages that attracted better users.

I was wanting to work with people who cared more about the work they were doing than those I had been working with. I thought functional programming was a way to so this. I thought that by learning these languages that I would find the programming promised land of good tools and good users.

I never found anything like that though. I couldn't find many jobs using these languages and the few I did seemingly were too difficult to be hired in. And I was never successful in evangelizing them in the roles I was already in.

The F# landscape seems to be worse than it was a few years ago. And I am fairly certain it will never change for the better. I think being .net hinders it in a way that the JVM doesn't hinder clojure. C# is a pretty good language and platform and the community is fairly aligned with the Microsoft's direction and influence on the ecosystem.
But that, I would say, is a display of creativity. Instead of using mental associations between concepts to generate words, you deconstructed them into symbols and found associations through symbols that have little to no connection to the underlying word.
i've had to use 56k in the last ten years for a primary connection. I used pfsense to cache and compress as much as possible, but more interestingly to me, i use 3K with PACTOR radio modems way more often. A "you have no new mail" handshake and chatter takes minutes[1].

This all ignores that spoken word over a mediocre connection (anything except actual copper landlines, in my - get off my lawn - opinion) is way lower bandwidth than even early modems in the 300-2400 baud range. Realistically, my favorite method of communication is to actually have a spoken word conversation with people, in person. This is untenable for my friends that have moved away from me, and me from other friends. That in mind, the matrix people have worked on and have published extensions to the matrix ecosystem that allow sub-kilobyte messages to pass on the network, fully encrypted and fully fledged messages. They are targeting sub 4000 baud connections (in general, i think their actual goal is much slower transmission than that).

I don't have the time or inclination to try and run a matrix "node" on ham bands, but i do know it is technically possible. And that's almost good enough for me.

For your edification though, the last time i used only a 56k connection was back in the very late 90s, and i spent a lot of time on IRC rather than "the world wide web"

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA6JRB560eM A youtube video shot handheld of a radio and a modem checking email wireless-like. The modem, i've heard, is around $800. I got it for free to participate in emergency communications and teach other people how to use it.
The App Store Improvements process makes no sense
Crystal is one of the languages that I have been learning. I like it because it has a Ruby-like syntax and it is statically typed.

It has a Ruby-like syntax but performance is better than Ruby. The creators of this language say that in many cases the speed will be close to C++. Also, programmers who know Ruby will not have much problem using Crystal.

The language is still in development but I think that it has a future. Another important thing is that the community around this language is growing very fast and there are many jobs for developers who know this language.

I think that Crystal could be another option for languages such as Java and C# because it has similar features like static typing, compiles to native code, etc.
The tooling is a little bit rough around the edges, but I think that's to be expected for a language that's only been around for three years. The community seems really active and helpful, though, and I have no doubt that these tools will improve over time as the language develops.

I recommend Crystal to anyone who's had trouble with Ruby's speed or who wants more type information available. Definitely check it out!
Almost all Dutch companies will honor such a request. Of course, it comes with a 20% salary decrease if you simply go from 5 to 4 days of 8 hours.
This seems oddly ignorant of the effect ADD/ADHD has on a person's ability to function in modern life at a similar level to other people. It's not something you can introspect away. If I'm not on ritalin, I can introspect all I want, nothing useful is getting done.
I got 83, but I notice that some of my words were not included in the summary on the result page, including 'fright' and 'stupor'.
I would say if you only want to learn the language the official docs are great.

If you want to learn programming with Racket as the language How to Design Programs is great: https://htdp.org/

Or if you want an online course How to Code 1 & 2 are exceptional: https://learning.edx.org/course/course-v1:UBCx+HtC1x+2T2017/...
Same here. Everybody from university does their own thing now. Unfortunate, new people I meet are often the ones who grew up in this town and still have their high school friends. They have no desire to meet new people. It’s hard to make new friends, if everybody has their old friends plus way more busy lives than when they were students.
I love utilities that quietly work, and just accept whatever workflow I throw at them.

OwnTracks is an app that logs your position and sends it somewhere else. It has been running on my phone for like 2 years without issues, and talks to a server I wrote myself.

FolderSync syncs folders on my phone to remote storage. It's super flexible and generally just works. The conditions for syncing are highly configurable. I lament the lack of a similar utility on Mac - basically an rsync+cron UI.
DAGitty – drawing and analyzing causal diagrams (DAGs)
> Lenovo is famous for their TrackPoint (that little red thing on the keyboard), but I am not sure if I’ll take the time to learn using it.

Who's still using this? I removed the red rubber because it was leaving residue on my screen.
Wow, unbelievable timing. Was just looking for such spec language. Looking at related ones like libucl, dhall, metadesk, edn, toml. This and KDL as pointed out by @quag seem to fit my needs much better. Thank you both!
Sounds like it to me. That's called "twice exceptional"… but I don't know if knowing that helps anything.

If they don't dismiss you the diagnosis process usually involves things like asking your parents about your childhood and things outside classwork.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game)
>There is pretty much no advantage in going from autotools to cmake.

- faster builds

- progress indicator
There are roleplaying systems that do embrace the complexity (and well beyond CPRG).

Here's an "attack table" for one specific weapon in Rolemaster: you roll a 1-100, add and subtract a whole lot of offensive and defensive bonuses and end up with a result like "15DK" -- 15 hit points of damage and a severity D critical hit on the K (Crushing) table. The broadsword can give both Crushing and Slashing criticals. That again has 20 random outcomes such as "Strike lower level; tear tendons. Foe is at -25%. +3 hits. Foe is stunned and unable to parry next round"

https://i.stack.imgur.com/SPCmu.png
Hi Varenc, I'm the founder of YourDigitalRights.org and I'd love to hear your specific feedback either here or via email (address is on the website). That would be greatly appreciated.
Same here, minus the marriage and son. It's sobering to realize how much failure and self-loathing could have been avoided if it had been diagnosed earlier.
Kinda the same here. I usually have one (not very strong) cup in the morning, and sometimes one in the afternoon. If I take a break I don't notice anything. I've not tried not having coffee for a week in a while, but I've been on this low amount for a few years.
Integer vs. Linear Programming in Python
Depends on the domain, https://juliacomputing.com/case-studies/
> Then it would be better to ditch them completely and position the keyboard nearer to the user.

I'll need to carry a palm rest as well then.
To me as a Dutch person, that's not disingenious at all, that is exactly what you want.

You go from a 5 day workweek to 4 days, and take a 20% paycut. Sometimes it's possible to work 4 days of 9 hours, but it always comes with a paycut.
Even if your job requires you to sit at a desk, it can be hard to stay focused. However, it's possible to do so with a little discipline and patience.

When you have a million different distractions around you all day, staying focused at work can be difficult, even for the most dedicated employees. Although it may seem impossible, it's actually quite easy to stay focused if you just put your mind to it. It's all about developing good habits and sticking to them.

First and foremost, set boundaries with your coworkers around when they should disturb you and when they should leave you alone. If you're having trouble focusing on an important project during the day, try getting up and working on it somewhere else—even if that means going home and working in the quiet of your own living room. It might also help to turn off any outside distractions, like social media or streaming services, while you're trying to focus.

Be sure not to overload yourself with work by taking on too many projects at once or by trying to juggle multiple tasks within one day! You'll just end up feeling overwhelmed instead of productive.

Remember: Staying focused takes effort but it's worth every minute when you see how much more efficient your time becomes!
There are thousands upon thousands of fonts that are also “hard to read”. It’s not because they are poorly executed. They’re just not all meant to be used as body text for a book. The function is clearly display text (ie one-off headlines, big type for designs like you might see in a magazine) and this one works in that role perfectly. Almost any amount of “hard to read” is tolerable when there’s only one or two lines of text set in it and it also happens to look beautiful.
In Sweden we have

- 25 days off every year for every one (5 days minimum can carry over). Most tech companies have 30 days off.

- No extra days for COVID

- Unlimited sick days

- 240 days of parental leave (so per parent. Increase if you have more than one child (twins, triplets). Plus 10 days for the non-birthing parent to be together the first weeks. 96 days per parent can be saved beyond the 4th year.

- 17 holidays but they are sometimes on weekends and thus give no extra days. The only day that gives you a spare day if it happens on a weekend is our "independance" day.
This is the same discussion as about lacking nurses or whatever "essential workers" which we don't want to pay yet miss them so dearly. And the solution is right there in front of our noses...
This plays a big part in the unhealthfulness of modern diets IMO, the reduction in magnesium content especially. Magnesium is extremely important and involved in so many enzymatic reactions, and so easily leeched out by high-sugar diets (and other stressors), that replenishing it (via supplementation) makes it look like a panacea.
The principle of having disposable characters is something I like about the new Alien RPG. It definitely helps that the adventures / campaigns are well-written.
It's crazy that such a high quality forum is largely so because of a single, very dedicated user.
To my sensibilities, the kind of thing described in the OP might be more craft than art.
Yes, they should have safe spaces to smoke. Not necessarily a place to buy it or a legalised framework to advertise them.
You can't boot it if you restored the BIOS wrong - it's usually on a writable NVRAM. The M1's initial bootloader is on immutable storage.
IIRC, two American Senators shared photos from their zoom call with Zelensky on Twitter. Cruz being one of them.
Open source alternative to FlatFile for .CSV imports
This is INCREDIBLE. Very nice UI, and uses ChakraUI so it's themable. What a godsend!
I have, yes. It was a pretty scary experience, to be honest. It doesn't anticipate other drivers' actions, it just reacts - so it was always getting into dangerous situations like having to swerve out of the way of people merging into lanes. It worked okay in the dark, but not dark and rain, and not really in the rain particularly, which makes it not very useful on the West Coast of Scotland. It only works on motorways and dual carriageways, which, again, make it not very useful.

It doesn't work on single-lane roads so I wasn't able to find out if it can see deer, sheep, cows, or other animals. It probably can.

It's like being driven by a drunk teenager, because it doesn't anticipate, reacts late, and cannot cope with developing situations.

I don't really see the point in them. Why would you want a self-driving car anyway?
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I don't believe in making mistakes.

I think it's more accurate to say "I made a choice that I now see could have been better." Because, you know, most of the time, when we're faced with a decision, it feels like the best one we can make with the information available to us at the time.

The important thing is to keep that attitude in mind—to accept that there's no way to know what would have happened if you'd chosen differently, and that your choice was valid at the time. This will ensure you stay focused on the present and future decisions you need to make, so you can keep moving forward.
I imagine you're referring to the importance of good solar conditions for the production of electricity and I agree that's vital. However these articles give false hope by matching peak solar production to the lowest possible consumption period which is always on the weekends with 70 degree weather. You have close to zero commercial machinery, zero need for climate control, zero lighting (people are either outside or use natural light).
The Game cannot be won, it can only be lost

When one thinks about The Game, one loses.

When one loses, they must declare they have lost.

"I lost The Game"
less implementation and extensibility complexity whilst aiming to provide complex and fast conversions that cannot fail for an image type suitable for image processing needs.
Housing is an expensive, but not the only in the game: let's talk about pensions?

Not only: what do you think States are for? They, formally, represent the interests of a cohort of people, in Democracies they formally represent the people at a whole. In a global work market how they can represent rights of their Citizens? Declaring war against some corporate-state? Witch law apply to a cross-border income? Which taxes?

It's clear to anyone that the actual model of megacorps, private equity, zaibatsu, chaebol etc is to became Sovereign corporatocratic states that profit from a grey area between them and real States, but it's equally clear that have NOTHING to do with fairness or jobs. It's just a modern version of classic Indian's companies from UK, a group of criminals, drug smugglers, oppressors evolved to became banks (that's the REAL history of HSBC, for instance) profiting of some lie and peoples life.

Location independent wages inside a country means help leveling the wages in the country, under a common law, fiscal system and not-that-different costs because yes houses have different prices, but connected enough for WFH ones do have not that much differences in developed countries. That means helping a transition from a urban-centric model to a distributed Riviera model. It's positive for employers and employees. Going beyond border is positive ONLY for biggest companies with their global footprint, big of IT thanks to their knowledge thanks to their mass surveillance capitalism AGAINST all others actors.

If you are really convinced please try to prove the contrary. Try to see how a SBE can benefit from such market vs from the same inside country borders. For instance.
>Love the blatant exploitation of visa-"enslaved" labor.

Have American citizens ever tried to "check their privileges" and imagine how a life of a "visa-slave" changes after crossing the American border? I can give you some hints into my "living experience" of such a crossing.

Yesterday: an American lawyer sent some docs supporting my H1B visa over our Academy institution fax machine. The fax machine ran out of paper. The management asked me to pay for the paper, or buy them some. I couldn't afford the paper, so I borrowed $700, paid for the fax supplies and for a ticket to the US.

Today: I've got $5000 moving bonus, got $30k salary contract and got the first task, like:
- We've sold something to Swedes today, you have 2 weeks to develop it. What do you need?
- A Sun workstation, and an X.25 link to Sweden.
- Done. And give your passport to Olga - you are going to Stockholm when done.

In 2 weeks our part was done, but Swedes were not able to finish their part and asked for 2 more weeks...

I was an employee #27, after that task and some other completed projects my salary was increased, then doubled, then again increased, then again doubled... our company went to #1 in its market, then IPOed, and 4 years after, still on the "slave" H1B visa I've found $1M on my bank account (unfortunately, it was an investment bank, lol, but that's another story).

So, my step through the US border on the H1B visa was not a step into slavery. It was liberation.
I’m sorry, I thought Nim didn’t have a GC. Now that I’m doing a bit of research, I’m wondering what ever gave me that thought.
The US used to have an international pandemic monitoring and response team.

They helped China stop SARS 1, then Trump fired them all, and then SARS 2 (Covid) happened.

The team should be rebuilt. They helped stop other, non-coronavirus pandemics too.
Can't seem to find SMS pricing for that service.
My favorite "metaverse" is Second Life.

Second Life is such a special place because it's like the world's largest, free-est art studio—where instead of paintings, you create whole interactive worlds. I've been there since I was 13, and it's been the space where I've learned everything from programming to animation to creative writing to design.

I still keep a little home on an island in Second Life today, and I go back every few months to catch up with friends and see what new buildings people have created.
Thank you so much for this! I was considering of getting ipad just to read PDFs. I jailbroke my kindle last night. Now I am enjoying this awesome reader!!!
There is a really great book for everyone who seriously wants to learn autotools: Autotools: a practitioner's guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool / by John Calcote (2nd edition from 2020)

This is not specific to Autotools, but I like learning from well-structured books written by experts in its fields. The book provides a good path on how to handle this rather complex collection of tools without searching and jumping from one obscure internet resource to the other. And after a few hours of reading and experimentation, Autotools are not so unapproachable any more as the common preconception suggests. I agree with others that, once understood and the entry barrier removed, Autotools can be used quite pragmatically and are probably not harder to grasp as competitors in the field.
You could do something like kaggle does, where you have some test data but the final score is determined by a more complete test data that you don't have access to.