skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I agree with most of the answers here, I'm gonna go against the grain a little bit and recommend a book. Not a programming book. But one that is written with the explicit intent to give an "Understanding of the Digital World. it explains how computer hardware, software, and networks work. Topics include how computers are built and how they compute; what programming is; how the Internet and web operate; and how all of these affect security, privacy, property, and other important social, political, and economic issues."

I'd suggest the second edition that was published in 2021 as it apparently adds a few sections about more recent "buzzwords/booming-industries".

Disclaimer: I have not read it my self, but I have heard that it is well written and the author Brian Kernighan is a small-celebrity in our world. I have watched a few youtube explained by him on technical topics which was very good.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32889467-understanding-t...

https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Digital-World-Computers...

Edit: heh wow actually after reading the table of content, I think I actually convinced myself to buy it for a close relative myself.
Jperm is generally pretty good but didn't explain all the algorithms, when I learned a 4x4x4 a couple months ago I used that plus this http://www.rubiksplace.com/cubes/4x4/
PocketBook Dissassembly and Root (2017)
I would have thought that “looking random” would have been calculated by just checking if there is a bias in people’s answers. If someone chooses something that has never been seen before vs something that has been picked a hundred times, then it might be “more random” as the bias clearly comes from humans
I'm surprised to hear that "the entropy of the system was always 0 bits."

Let's say that the urn contains a ball that changes its color from black to white and viceversa every thousand years (relative to January 1, 1970 midnight UTC).

Given that "macrostate" there are two possible and equally probable "microstates". The entropy is positive. If I look into the urn and find that the ball is white was the entropy of the system always zero? Or is it always positive in this example?
The email is saying, rather clumsily, that the excess $25 of the second purchase will be refunded, and this interpretation is confirmed by fact that the third payment was also deemed to exceed the limit, which it would not have done if the second amount was being rejected in its entirety.
Yes, but is the government, not the company, whom must provide this protection. And after police and prosecutor enters in the scene. Not after somebody, lets say, badmouths his boss in twitter. With the limited data that we have, nothing seems to apply here.

He seems to be knocking at all the wrong doors, and he should know better, as it seems that is the second company that let him go by the same behavior.
>I think IRC's lack of features is actually an advantage and not a disadvantage.

It's an advantage in the sense that if you want those features, you get to implement them yourself in a very complex series of IRC bots and server plugins.
>So, do you also refuse to eat shrimp, crab, or lobster?

I know many people who see these as insects. These are not insects, not quite the same equivalency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_insect

To answer your question, maybe a few times a year? Very rare.

>I've tried mealworms before, and they're not bad at all. Insects seem to have potential for capturing agricultural waste streams that are otherwise un- or under-exploited as well.

Dont take me as opposing insects, let them produce insects. My words are about my personal response.
I used to be 6'1" but have reached the age where you shrink. I am now also a tad over 6' and always answer the height question as 6'. My experience is similar to yours. Some women insist I must be 6'2". A couple of times I have just said that maybe I'm closer to 6'1" because it was close to becoming a full blown argument. Needless to say there were not 2nd dates with those women.

Being at the age where you shrink is also the age where many of the women you meet were formerly married. It is amazing how many of them have said that their former spouses were shorter to just taller than them and it bothered them the entire marriage. They say they will never make that compromise again.
Thanks! Yup it’s all made with React and Sass.

Didn’t use anything for designing it. Just mainly eyeballing
This looks very neat, thanks for the link.

Seems more targeted towards small businesses/freelancers... wonder if that would make it less ideal for use in a personal finance context.

FWIW I'm happily using a service called 22seven[1] that is backed by a big bank in my country (South Africa). It is super convenient and links to a bunch of different services so you can pull in all your investments etc. to track all at once (of course this means they track you too, but they were doing that before anyhow)... I just don't know for how many years it will stay updated, free, and available for use to people who bank at other banks (such as myself), so I'd like to at least plan for moving to a more open alternative when the time comes.

[1] https://www.22seven.com/
If the goal is to prevent automation, they failed because it can be done with JavaScript.
Speech and privacy are rights, driving automobiles is a privilege.
Why the US doesn't really do a thing:

> There was disagreement among labor unions at this time about when a holiday celebrating workers should be, with some advocating for continued emphasis of the September march-and-picnic date while others sought the designation of the more politically charged date of May 1. Conservative Democratic President Grover Cleveland was one of those concerned that a labor holiday on May 1 would tend to become a commemoration of the Haymarket affair and would strengthen socialist and anarchist movements that backed the May 1 commemoration around the globe.[19] In 1887, he publicly supported the September Labor Day holiday as a less inflammatory alternative,[20] formally adopting the date as a United States federal holiday through a law that he signed in 1894.[9]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day#Labor_Day_versus_May...

(Labour Day in Canada has different reasons.)
I played this game after hearing so much about it and… it is quite boring to be honest. It is an experience for sure but I’m the kind of gamer who gets _extremely_ bored if there is no interesting gameplay. Another example is undertale which is critically acclaimed but is just unplayable for me.
FTEQW: Quake I/II/III multipurpose engine
Classic slippery slope fallacy. Censorship is necessary to limit harm to the vulnerable in society. Or are you on favour of allowing rape videos, kiddie porn, ..., of allowing ‘Troll factories’ to spread Russian pro-war lies online?
Whilst you can enjoy most of Monty Python without a high-brow education, as you'd somewhat expect from a troupe made out of graduates of the two top universities in Britain, there are several sketches that are only funny if you have read Proust (summarize Proust competition) know some Latin (romanes eunt domus), or know the most famous English poems (ant poetry reading) etc.
maybe we should also mention the downsides?
I'm using a pretty underpowered PC 1000 series graphics card. It chugs. Building for the Quest 2 using UE5, Blender, and a few plugins and templates from the unreal ecosystem.

I also have a huion drawing tablet but I think you could go quite far in blender with just a mouse.
I don't think AI is alive.

On the other hand I'd be happy calling, laws, customs, organizations, religious beliefs, and various other things and conclusions drawn from statistics 'racist' without them being living, thinking beings.
I only clicked on the article because the title said "all my money". I thought there was some glitch where the entire bank account got emptied. But it's just the author putting in the numbers that got withdrawn, and the author having 20K as all his money(if true, not confirmed in the article) is a coincidence. Clickbait title for sure if nothing else.
Why should we be fair to Amazon? I consistently read on this site about how bad they are as an employer, company, and a web store.
In some aspects it does, for example a lot of Gnome apps have very minimal designs. That's ok for individual apps. The problem is, you can't really apply that to a chat tool that needs to be used by everyone in a large community. The problem space itself requires you to deal with a lot of complex and competing interests and make difficult compromises, so you can't always please the minimalists trying to run IRC bots off a ESP32.
Even if I try to understand Disney's argument in the most favorable light possible, I cannot follow it. Thinking through different situations, I can't come up with any that make sense to me.

* If I consider "We acquire assets not liabilities" in a bankruptcy court, that could make sense to me, because that is the context in which assets are pooled together to cover the highest priority liabilities while voiding all other liabilities. This clearly isn't the case because the Star Wars assets were not acquired through a bankruptcy court.

* If I consider it as a purchase of assets from another company, then the liabilities stay with the original company. This clearly isn't the case because Lucasfilm no longer exists as an independent company.

* If I consider it as a purchase of assets, followed by the original company declaring bankruptcy, that could result in assets being purchased with liabilities no longer existing. This clearly isn't the case, because Lucasfilm was acquired and merged with Disney, and never itself declared bankruptcy.

I can't come up with any explanation in which Disney's defense makes any bit of sense whatsoever.
Who’s they? I’m under the impression we’re discussing what I said, and I said

> without the involvement of a “super-mod” or anyone affiliated with YC.
I think cubing definitely has potential to become mainstream like chess has. Maybe I should try reaching out to chess streamers to share my app with their audience.
I'm 6'1" but I can kind of get this, however it's just one factor out of many that are like this and are made worse by the whole toxic online dating scene in general. I'm 44 and have been married for 12 years so this is beyond me but my 20s were really rough.

Men are just as bad but certainly my early 20s were dominated by getting rejected for having a nerdy job (SWE) or not being muscular enough/looking by a football player, whatever. When you're in your 20s and trying to date everyone is just superficial as anything. The fitness stuff was always funny cause I was more fit than 90% of people out on the dating market just I was an endurance type not a bodybuilder/muscle head/football player type which is obviously what is/was desirable for a lot of women. That gets even weirder as you get older as it's much easier as an endurance type to stay fit & healthy as you age.

Things have changed and maybe it's not as biased against tech jobs these days. However in the early 2000s it was literally my experience women would instantly say "I'm out" if they heard I had a tech job, except for the odd case where they were clearly gold diggers and had already figured out this field was lucrative.

In the end you just have to get through it.. by the time you start approaching 30 and everyone starts to grow up a lot of this stuff goes away. If you let stuff bother you there will always be something about yourself you can fixate on.

It does sound like the last 10 years of online dating only got worse though, and amplified everything superficial.
Ask HN: If I Write Novel While Working at Google Does Google Own My Manuscript?
There's always alpha in anything that provides enough signal to flip the bozo bit to off.
Confirmation Bias Reduces Business Profits
No. I (UK) can access the website through my 5G broadband. I think they prohibited RT's TV station from being broadcast in the UK, but I can't check that because I don't own a TV. RT's live-stream is still accessible.
I feel so uneasy driving on smart motorways. The amount of times I’ve seen morons continue to drive in closed lanes, I have absolutely no faith that if I broke down or burst a tyre that I wouldn’t end up with someone smashing into me at 70mph.
Yes, this is a case where the slippery slope is real. Another example is that Paul Graham and Marc Andressen are on hate speech watchlists run by ex-Twitter employees and funded by the German government. “Hate speech”, “public order”, and “disinformation” are all just very vague banners under which varying groups can implement their preferred censorship.

https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1516860142737780736
Mini camera is the same as the “regular” 6 inch iPhone, it’s only worse than the “Pro” iPhones.
Multi-device with history is not built-in to the spec which makes it a non-starter for big rollout. IRC has had many years to adapt but it didn't so here we are.
It can be used for any cube or event. The WCA ones are built-in but you can even add custom event types if you want.
> Karimi found a Meta staff member and, shouting over the crowd, tried to explain to him how all independent voices on Afghanistan are being affected by Facebook’s poorly thought-out policy that seems to indiscriminately label all mentions of the Taliban as hate speech and then summarily remove them

If SV has demonstrated one thing, they are not competent to police speech.
In college my process was take written notes in class, then studying consisted of transferring those notes to my computer by typing them in/expanding where needed. Never looked at them after that.
Kubernetes Edge Interface:Deploy to Edge locations like a single K8s cluster
One only needs to peer into the sausage factory that is the Bureau of Labor Statistics[1] to see that a measure of inflation is a form of opinion whose credibility is entirely wrapped up with that of the speaker.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/additional-resources/historical-chan...
The way I read "so that another human could not tell" it was not random is that the question is truly asking about luck and probability. I have studied gambling enough to know that runs are the norm and wins are not evenly distributed across the space, I.e the gambler's fallacy of thinking one is 'owed' a certain outcome after it doesn't occur for some time period.

I understand that randomness is not uniform distribution and feel like people who are in similar situations are always going to skew results in some way.
Okay, I see what you mean.

TBH,

1. for blogging, the proof is the PretzekBox blog itself - I write all my posts in Gmail and email it in.

2. for email, the photo you see on the main landing page is of my PretzelBox for one of my domains

3. I have about 40 files in my File Store from where I share links with people who need documents for me. E.g., here's an image of me writing this message @ https://pretzelbox.cc/cdn/lkmn7s5/Screenshot%202022-05-01%20...

I know I am just some guy on the internet and you don't have to believe me but PretzelBox is very much a real product.
I've used DeleteMe:https://joindeleteme.com/ and OneRep:https://onerep.com/. Both have worked effectively - neither were extortion schemes
Came here for positive stories. :)
Every time I tried turning things I like into a job turned them into things I hate. ( As soon as the "must" factor is introduced, "fun" evaporates.
That's how I stopped being a paid programmer.

PS: related HN article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31107128
"A refund of the excess purchase" seems like it might be the whole amount of the purchase assuming the "purchase" refers to the entire purchase transaction. The wording could have been clearer though and hopefully it's just the $25 from the second purchase that's returned.
It may not have been the case even five years ago and you definitely won't make the same six figures, but that simple threshold is probably in reach in any mid-size american city for a software dev more than a year or two into their career.
This'll be a good story to tell at the bar once all the money comes back. I'm still baffled by how someone thought "let's see what happens if I send $20k here when the system says it shouldn't be possible".

Strip a few zeroes from there and I guess it's worth the funny anecdote, but these are serious amounts of money that the author just sent into the black hole of bureaucracy for shits and giggles.
Perhaps using a Garmin GPS watch as a collar will give you what you want?
> being extremely hesitant about Matrix and Discord

Matrix is an open source protocol run by a community interest company, Discord is proprietary software which needs to be monetised. There's a big difference between the two.

I agree Id be happy with IRC and dont care much for extra features. But I think the Freenode "hostile takeover" of 2021 dealt a heavy blow to the IRC community. At the same time Matrix has seen a lot of growth including Firefox who had a rigorous and public selection process.
I got 14 residents of Los Altos Hills to join me to ask for changes to local zoning law. The council completely ignored us.

You have to be on the council, along with a like-minded majority. It'll be a full time job for all of you.
Speedsolving Rubik's Cube: 8355 Method
I've been using Banktivity for years, but the recent change to a quasi-subscription model leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I understand why they're moving this way, but I'd much rather have $x for the software (with upgrade pricing for major versions) and $y/mo for the features that require their backend to work.
'Cannot make further subscription while one is pending, try again later' then.

But I don't see why you can't just record '25' even if it won't settle for days/weeks, and not allow >$9975 in the meantime. (If the $25 doesn't go through then fine, you just end up with $25 capacity still.)

I bet it allows you to make a single >$10k payment only to reject it (on an 8-10week time frame) if it behaves like this.
If you bought in April, you locked in the April rate for 6 months, and then the May rate for 6 more. Both values were known last month, which is why it's ~8.5%.

If you buy in May, you lock in the May rate for 6 months and then an unknown rate after that.
You had me until you described paxos and raft as untested.
This is my second option after Tomoe and it’s actually quite affordable.
> By whom?

By people who speak the English language.

The reason why people are calling makeshift hospitals "concentration camps" is precisely because they want their listeners/readers to think about Nazi concentration camps, and to recoil in horror. If you look at the specific blog we're talking about, they use terms like "deportation," which are likewise meant to make people think of the Holocaust.

This is a common rhetorical tactic, and it's not limited to the term "concentration camps." During the pandemic, opponents of vaccine passes and testing requirements have frequently compared these measures to measures taken by the Nazis.

As for your talk of "clans" and such, I'm a bit puzzled as to what you're talking about. Language is a means of communication, and it's clear that this blog is trying to communicate the message that sending people who test positive to makeshift hospitals in like the Nazis deporting millions of people to concentration camps.
I didn't include this in my original reply but today is May 1st.

Since GnuCash involves manually entering in transactions it's easy to think that'll take a ton of time.

I just timed myself and it took 5 minutes to input everything for April 2022 into GnuCash. This includes all income and expenses (personal and business). I'm not even using GnuCash's automated feature for recurring payments too, so that 5 minutes includes manually inputting various subscription costs (I don't have a lot). This also includes a bunch of business related things (estimated tax information, a few income streams in their own "GnuCash Accounts" and a few expense streams in their own "GnuCash Accounts"). I do this by opening GnuCash and my bank's dashboard side by side and then running through last month's entries.

Most banks support exporting CSVs and I'm 100% certain I could write a Python script to parse this and auto-import things into GnuCash but since the bank item descriptions for the same transactions change over time I don't want to risk it. The 1 hour per year of manually entering numbers (I copy paste the dollar amounts to reduce human error btw) gives me more confidence than writing that script. I also know to make that script robust enough to consider using it for real in a way that wouldn't require manually checking it would be quite involved. As soon as the script's results require manually checking it for accuracy then you might as well have input things manually without the script.
The cool traces caught my eye as well. It’s funny how they have a distinctly 70’s look (appropriate to the age of the calculator).
They only ever use these things as set dressing from what I've seen - you could substitute Proust for any overly high-minded literature, the centurion is just being pedantic about the graffiti and so on.
What other options are there to fight enemy propaganda?
Unrelated, this will be my last comment on this topic: let me observe how absurd the original claim “you are not allowed to criticise Fig here” is, when most of the top level comments in the original discussion were negative, without getting moderated. Does moderation occasionally misfire? Sure. (No comment on whether I think it misfired that time.) Are over-emotional users harmful to the quality of discussions? Yes.
I used to create custom notebooks with paper in my preferred tone and weight that I cut down to size for drawing. I bound them together with a plastic comb binding machine and used left over cardboard from Amazon packages as covers.

Now I just make them for note taking and writing. They are by no means as nice as moleskins and co, but I enjoy
Making them.
> […] the calculator uses Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) to input calculations, simplifying the hardware design but making it more difficult to use.

I would argue against this statement which I’ve seen many times. RPN is not more difficult to use, it is simply different from what people have been using for the last few decades. Not being used to an human-machine interface and having to learn it should not be confused with difficulty of use.

Someone used to vi/vim has all the ease in the world to use it, but it might take a newcomer more time to adapt.

RPN has a very natural data waterfall flow, especially when stacks can grow to multiple levels. Of course you don’t have a direct view of it, but it becomes second nature. You simply know what that the higher value in the stack is your previous result.
I am in fact in favor of “troll factories” being allowed to spread “pro war propaganda” online, because I do not think we should have the norm in place that videos can simply be declared propaganda and censored because they might cause someone to disagree with the foreign policy goals of whatever government they live under.

For example, if that was permissible and expected, then I would fully expect a hypothetical video of $ALLY/SELF committing war crimes to be censored as $ENEMY propaganda. Just as the Russians do. If you entrust the “experts” with the ability to tell you what is true, you will not be living in a democratic society.
Early electronics were designed to be repaired, or many.

My father wouldn't buy anything he didn't think could be reasonably repaired. Hell--it was a selling point most people took for granted.

From tv sets to most calculators, and even early computers, most had schematics available from the company, and the boards were laid out with repair in mind.

My old HP 454a Oscilloscope was designed to be repaired.

I look at these old circuits and they are art.

I once heard an old Electrician say, "The art of our trade died when we stopped sweating wires."