skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. However, I would sincerely love to be wrong about this, and would sincerely love to hear counterexamples from folks who work on large engineering teams that have somehow not devolved into lots of non-productive stuff.

The engineer side of my brain says that yes, of course it's possible. You could run a very tight engineering ship with just the right level of autonomy between a number of exactly-right-sized teams. You would employ some percentage of your engineers to ensure that the other engineers were maximally productive. Etc. This stuff is all extremely possible in a vacuum.

The pragmatic side of my brain says that, while technically possible, any organization that has grown to include a medium-to-large engineering team has almost surely done so in ways that preclude the sort of "ideal" engineering environment mentioned above.

The typical failure mode here is, of course, a company that manages to defy the odds and experiences success, but takes on a large amount of technical debt during their early days of manic growth and then spends the next N years dealing with it.
You can keep your razor blades sharper by pushing them the other direction on some bald skin. Also, rinse after use and keep clean. I used to get like 30-40 shaves out of a head.
I'm worried that we're going to split into a two-tiered system where people with money can go to clinics for recreational or therapeutic treatments, and people who don't want to spend that money can go to jail.

That's already the situation for ketamine clinics.
Singapore's GovTech does amazing work.
I just use cheap LIDL cartridges for far too long
Does anyone else think it's crazy that in order to participate in modern life you have to have an account with one of two massive American companies - Google or Apple.
Everything looks okay except for the section regarding other “friendly” shells: that’s really the part where we as an industry don’t need more fragmentation.
If you're using carbon steel (not stainless), they will turn back into dirt within a couple years/decades of weathering (aka turning into a heap of rust).

If feasible, re-smelting them would be superior, as it'd skip the ore-to-iron high temperature chemistry process.
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Try reading the about page without chuckling: https://www.kut.org/about
> very little visual difference

Depends on your beard. I have coarse black hair that grows fast. People with fine blonde hair can get away with a trim. For me, it has to be a choice between a beard and a wet-shave.
The ten second thing just means it will be disabling itself a lot. Unless it's just giving you false alarms constantly and then doing a little "my bad, nevermind" beep that tells you it has cancelled the heads up saying you have to take over 10 seconds from now. Which sounds not so great.

Ten seconds is an eternity, so if it sees the tiniest possibility ahead that things will get complicated, it will have to be conservative and give the ten second warning. And when it does get into heavy traffic, it will be disabled.

Because it will be disabling itself a lot (or super annoying if it's giving false alarms) it will either be not in use except on very sparse roadways, or it won't even matter because it will be completely turned off by the driver.

Bottom line, it's a marketing gimmick.

The alternative is a system that goes into the thick of traffic, still active, still helping, still adding an additional level of safety over and above what the driver maintains, but since the system is going into the thick of traffic in an enabled state, actively engaged, and things are dicey, the human still needs to be involved as an active participant in oversight. Ready to take over at a moment's notice. Not ten seconds from now. In this approach, the safety benefits are real, not just marketing. But the human needs to step up and stay responsible and own the shit that happens.
If anyone is interested in getting started with DE shaving, there is a really good wiki on /r/wicked_edge with a beginners kit guide https://www.reddit.com/r/wicked_edge/wiki/de_kit
This is nothing more than a "Rules for thee and not for me" attitude towards the poor. Homeless and doing drugs? OK, you are an addict, you have to get help, you have to get cleaned up, you're ruining your life, etc. Nothing more than a parasite on society.

Wealthy and able to have a "doctor" prescribe you drugs? OK it's fine. You aren't one of those dirty "addicts" because a guy with two letters in front of his name says it OK.
I was hoping for an article with best practices for readers of rss feeds. Every attempt to use rss in my past has resulted in a useless feed of way too many unread, stale items.

The goal of rss is for me that everything I am interested in should come to me. This breaks down the moment a high frequency feed (such as news) is in the mix, which is why I don't use it (outside podcasts).
I’ve found the easiest way to push back is to explain the very real risk of getting blacklisted. In the US, the law is basically inconsequential because there’s no private right of action (an individual can’t sue you for spamming them).
I use a safety razor, too. I shave really infrequently, as I’m now bearded, but I do use it regularly to keep the edges trim. I think I’m still on my original pack of razor blades which I bought for a few bucks 5 years ago. Really old bar soap, too. It’s inexpensive, simple, and not really any less convenient than the expensive new razors.
Just playing devil's advocate for a little:

- The pandemic was initially propagated by consumers of the global air travel industry, and likely would have been a localized epidemic otherwise.

- The police largely exist to protect the assets of the wealthy and preserve the societal structure that enables them to make and store wealth.

I don't necessarily agree with much of what this article is saying, but it's good to stretch the mind and read a variety of viewpoints. (otherwise you're only reading things that agree with your biases, which, of course, has issues)
I know a lot more people whose lives have been deeply enriched by acid, than those who've ended up on the ends of those proverbial meat hooks.

That being said, casualties are real and can happen, it's great work that Psymposia is doing shining a light on the uncomfortable dark corners of psychedelic enthusiasm. Especially when it comes to corporate interests and influence in the space.

I hope that this time around, we can keep psychedelics in their right place as valuable tools for humanity. Not elevated to culty worship, nor demonized.

And that they stay at least a little bit wild.
I knew a guy who fell in with some folks selling drugs & self-improvement scams back in the 90's in the Bay Area.

You get some charismatic drug dealers, throw in whatever pseudo-profound quasi-religious beliefs are popular at the moment, and include a few techniques that have some kind of effect (like hyperventilation) and presto! You can charge people $$$ for your "classes" and then sell them MDMA at your house party later on.

My friend spun out of control, started abusing nitrous oxide, lost his job, his girlfriend (who was in the same group of druggies), and his mind. He wound up wandering the streets of Berkeley wrapped in a blanket for a few years. His "spiritual" druggie friends abandoned him.

So one the one hand, it is good that we are not criminalizing drugs themselves, but on the other, it really is a big challenge to integrate these powerful chemicals into our lives, our communities, and our ways of healing each other.
> The answer is rice, versus potatoes/wheat. […] And rice doesn't grow in Europe, it doesn't have the climate.

Perhaps the answer then is "climate" and not any particular foodstuff.
Portable wind turbine about the size of a water bottle
This was an interesting read. I have to admit it mostly washed over me like a rainstorm given my lack of background on the subject.

That being said I think I understood enough to like to see more analysis of how the companies that depend on data extraction (Google,Facebook) themselves depend on actually productive companies. They are obligate parasites.

Google (for example) collects user data so it can sell targeted ads to companies that want to sell products to the users whose data was collected by Google. In the absence of these productive companies Google’s data is worthless. And similarly Google’s profit is directly tied to those upstream companies exploitation of their labor.

It seems like most analyses stop at the step where Google is making money from data and don’t really get into how that data is only valuable in the context of consumer goods, which are often produced by classically extractive or exploitative companies. The article’s “userism“ can’t exist in a vacuum.

That is also separate from companies that produce digital products for consumption and then profit off the “rent” of the intellectual property rights to those products.
I'm also shaving with a safety razor for 6+ years straight. The only problem is that you can't take the blades to the plane (when you're not checking the baggage in), so I have to use my old, unused cartridges on short trips, and use them until they dull when I return. This is good for using the old stock, too!

I've invested to a couple of stainless steel safety razors. An Edwin Jagger 3one6, and a Mühle R94. They're easy to maintain, have infinite life, and shave much better than top of the line cartridge razors from any manufacturer.

I also use a good but not expensive boar brush and shaving soap.

As a result, I either buy a new stick of shaving soap every six months, or a can of foam every year (for emergency morning shaves), and buying 100 blades every 2 years or so, for a much cleaner, comfortable and enjoyable shave for negligible money. Both razors have paid themselves as savings too.

Just want to warn that both razors are in the "efficient" category, which means they need some experience to use without any nicks, but they're not as wild as the open-combed, aggressive razors. If you want a milder, but equally long-living razor, go Mühle R89, Edwin Jagger EJ89, Merkur 34HD or Timor Gentle Butterfly.
that business language though
I find it really confusing when `+x` is used to mean the opposite of `-x`. Usually, the `-x` option means "enable something", which is fine when you think of the "-" as a dash, but introducing `+x` encourages you to think of them as minus and plus; suddenly, in your command's language, "minus x" means "enable x" and "plus x" means "disable x", which makes very little sense.

The set command is a great example, "minus e" means "enable error checking" and "plus e" means "disable error checking". That doesn't make sense, that's not what minus and plus means.
Does someone's opinion on recycling differing from yours truly qualify them as a "creepy dude"?
This is nice. I didn't try but to get a pseudo-random variation of the book height, will it be possible to do a pre-defined Cicada Principle[1] method, say, pick 20-30 heights and keep picking them up.

There seem to be quite a lot of people who have their own book collection. I'm still looking for something simple that can spit out a HTML front; and yet to find something I like.

On another note, recently I was looking for a Library Management System for a small community, with a current book collection of over 25,000. I looked a bunch of Open Source Solutions (most are too complex). I also do not want to do build anything from scratch.

I settled on Libib[2] and the subscription is economical enough for what we are looking for.

1. https://lea.verou.me/2020/07/the-cicada-principle-revisited-...

2. https://www.libib.com
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I've got an Edin Jagger model as well, used for many years now. Double-edged safety razor. I also use it to shave my head. Knifes I can generally use a couple of weeks before replacing and it's cheap to buy a box of like 100 knifes. That will probably last me multiple decades.
Depends of the place I guess. In some places bus drivers will absolutely never help you with anything but will mostly be useful for the company to make sure the fare is paid. You can even have foreigner driving buses that don't even speak the local language in some places. In yet other places drivers are explicitly not responsible for anything but driving to ensure their own safety, and are sometimes even physically separated from the public.

Helping customers can also be made through intercoms at stations (some cities already have that).

Also note that you have fully autonomous metro without any driver in many cities and a metro contains much more people that can have the problems you mention, so I don't see why it would be impossible to have a bus in the same way.
There’s absolutely no way you’ll have worse performance with this vs React. The app is modifying the target elements directly, not recreating the whole page with innerHTML. React will do the same amount of work at a minimum, and that’s after rebuilding the whole tree and diffing it.

The main bottleneck here are the synchronous localStorage calls happening in the render path, they could be moved to a separate timer.
I've used one exclusively for about five years now, there really doesn't need to be 'a huge ritual' - I just use a bar of soap, rub it into my hands but then on my face instead of rinsing off.

The one I like is sold as for shaving, but it needn't be, and isn't any more expensive than the same brand's handsoaps.

I found it quite anti-climactic when I started, though I was very cautious at first. I think maybe trying to follow videos is just an unhelpful distraction - focus on how it feels instead, touch the top (not blade) to your cheek and angle down until it just starts to engage and stroke; just adjust that angle according to how it feels, not what someone tells you in a video.
Humans can also make themselves sick on both carnivore and plant based diets. We are still just beginning to understand the complexity of how diet relates to health.
I don’t disagree with your point, but I think it doesn’t take the following in to account: Wealth is not a fixed sum. The global GDP increases over time, which I interpret has new wealth being created. If Elon hadn’t created his businesses, his wealth wouldn’t be in the hands of other people, it just wouldn’t exist.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-gdp-over-the-last-t...

I also assume that over 1 or 2 generations that his wealth will mostly circulate around.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on this.
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>I wouldn't try frying eggs in a cast iron, for instance (technically you can, but it requires an absurd amount of oil).

That's because many cast iron pans you can get these days have unpolished bottoms unlike antique ones. If you get a polished one (or polish it yourself - there's plenty of youtube videos on that) it'll be incredible non-stick. You can also just get a carbon steel pan which doesn't need polishing.
I do find it plausible that there are fewer things being posted in RSS-able blogs than 10 years ago, but if so, you wouldn't be able to tell that way. Especially if what you're following is a lot of individual blogs, it's pretty normal that at least some people get tired of blogging for any number of reasons over the course of a decade and stop or slow down. If you want to keep the same amount of total content, you have to constantly look for new blogs to follow.
Ask HN: Specific examples of projects you work full-time for?
I see quite a lot of complaints that there is not much interesting jobs left for programmers these days except starting your own thing.

Just boring plumbing of big and often over engineered boring products or learning yet another complicated framework just to raise some profits to another 2%

If you’re really excited about your full time job as a software engineer — please share as much details as you can (name, industry, url, target audience, what’s in it that excites you).
To be fair, the serifed "I" is included as an alternate[0], along with a stylistic set for other disambiguations[1] including 0/O. This requires OpenType support and some user intervention, but if you're typesetting something it's not impossible.

[0] https://github.com/rsms/inter/issues/89

[1] https://github.com/rsms/inter/issues/1
You might like a carbon-steel pan/skillet/wok.

They're light weight, inexpensive, very easy to maintain, and last forever. You do have to dry them before putting them away.
Indeed. Special K is a great breakfast. Kelloggs never locked anyone up :-)
Terrible article gasping at straws
I use this on KDE, on FreeBSD.

I don't have very high requirements for PDF viewers. It does the job just fine anyway :)
I have not explored the English Wikipedia math proofs, but the ones on the French Wikipedia are absolutely outstanding.
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In the business world, the term "innovation" has become a catchphrase; calling a company "innovative" is the way to go if you want to praise them. After all, many people mistakenly believe that innovation is simply a fancy new word for invention and that the two are effectively interchangeable. This is incorrect!
>And my time I suppose maintaining the razor which isn’t much at all.

Definitely not the case for me. As someone whose been recently exploring properly sharpening some high quality kitchen knives at home, there's a cost in time for sure to do things correclty both learning and executing. Once you learn, it's not too bad but there's a learning curve and time factor that's difficult to ignore. I need to set aside a good hour or 1.5 hours on a given weekend to sharpen my knives (find and soak my soap stone, gather my knives, get back my angles and motions down pat).

I'm still a novice for sure and an expert may be able to sharpen quickly but that's a big difference from just grabbing a new disposable product ready to use. With a straight razor a certain amount of care also needs to be taken when shaving to reduce cuts -- safety razors aren't a bad invention overall. I suspect if you do a lot of regular shaving (e.g. body hair that's not just your face), it might become time consuming.

I'm not saying reuse and repair are bad investments, I'm a huge fan of these ideals, but the time involved can't be entirely ignored for some consumer products. In many (perhaps most) cases, I agree with the thesis of the article that modern business practices are becoming increasingly misaligned from consumers and societies interests and becoming nothing but wealth extraction optimization factories in various forms. But, I think not all products are so clear cut and some legitimate progresses are not reasonable tradeoffs for everyone, like a safety razor (maybe not cartridge based but similar to the one described in this article). Now a safety razor for a cartridge is a pretty close set of advantages/disadvantages with clear cost savings.
Ethanol is hygroscopic.
Meuh. I have a light-coloured beard and modest growth. Daily shaves are more than adequate - due to the light colour, a spot missed one or two days is practically invisible. Hell, you can hardly see the beard until 10 or so days of non-shaving. You can feel it though.

Anyway, I use similar razors such as his and tossed them when I realised they were too dull. A 10 pack could last me a year, but only if I pay attention. Otherwise, it's bound to be closer to 2 years. Note that I don't deliberately do this for costs reasons - I just prefer not to thrash something that is still decently usable.

Obviously, your mileage may vary. Nevertheless, for at least some people, shaving costs about one 10-pack per year.
Harry's is dirt cheap compared to Mach III and the like. I'm saving money by using Harry's now.
It's just going to be Second Life with a ton of corporate chat bots. Nobody is going to be interested in their shit.
I've done eggs frequently in cast iron and in non stick and I think they turn out a bit better to my tastes in cast iron, but are slightly easier and quicker in nonstick.
I use an Oster as well. You can sharpen the blades with a sharpening stone (definitely recommend doing so once a year - especially if you keep forgetting to oil them like I do), in which case the blades will outlast you.
For coffee: French press + grinder is straightforward and has little maintenance. Machines have to be descaled.
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Not only is it possible with a reasonable amount of oil in any cast iron pan, but with a very thin cast iron pan one can do it without oil even. Eggs start sticking with high heat and the thinner the metal the lower the heat needed to cook.
The missing important details: for reasons I do not completely understand, FIDO uses very non-obvious definitions of the words password and PIN. To them a password is a text string provided to an online service for authentication purposes and a PIN is a text string provided to a physically near hardware device to authenticate to that hardware device, after which that hardware device can sign challenges that can be used to authenticate to an online service. When they talk about passwordless they are not precluding the use of a PIN. The PIN gets you your second factor without being stored on a bunch of different services, and with hardware assisted protection from exfiltration and brute force cracking.

Relying parties (aka online services using FIDO protocols) have a lot of freedom to define exactly how restrictive they want to be by making choices about which devices they accept. Through choosing which devices they accept they can choose to require any combination of token, PIN, biometric, and password.
That must be it. Thank you for finding the link. Shame that the author couldn't be bothered to leave one…
> if so that's silly, as it is literally 2x the work to type.

True on a US keyboard, not true on many others.

I still find this kind of preprocessor abuse horrific; I’m just responding to your specific statement.
> A major use case lauded by supporters is the amount of money that would stay in the hands of El Salvadorans rather than money gram companies. Remittances account for 20% of El Salvador’s GDP.

What exactly is a remittance? Does it mean money that is sent, but not for a purchase? How are international remittances (in both directions) counted here?
The company is called Fusion Processing. Is this some sort of tribute to the seventies film The Big Bus?

https://youtu.be/Y1SJthmEiWk

How will Dee Dee get to Yoker now?

https://youtu.be/0YfRbNipdOg
It is amusing that Eve Online is often derided as being a "spreadsheet game" which is removed from immersive play. There are lots of columns of numbers, but no real way to interact directly with ships as pilots. Still interesting, but this seems to embrace calculation dominated simulation interaction.
Yes... but that's the exact argument I'm making here. Unless you want to go through that pain, you need a framework.

Whether that's Svelte without a VDOM or React with a VDOM. The entire point of these frameworks is that you can write complex UI in a declarative way. They both exist because writing it declaratively in pure JS leads to performance issues. But there's nothing stopping the browser implementing something that does this optimisation for you.
i think the real digital advantage is mid-ride fine tuning. nothing like hearing a chain rub, setting the Di2 to adjust mode, and moving it till it doesn’t make noise. it’s amazing because the effect of your power in the stroke on the chain alignment is vital, and always missed when tuning a derailleur in a stand
> 280-or-so days a year

So working some week-ends and no vacations at all?

There are about 260 week days in a year. Add bank holidays and vacations and you should ve closer to 230 working days in a year.
For me it was pack of sleep. Sleep debt accumulates just like financial debt.

Slept like crazy for 2-3 months. 12-14hrs daily. Much better now.