skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was talking with my sister a couple of days ago, and we started talking about being alone.

She is an extrovert’s extrovert. When things were locked down for her, she got really, really depressed. At one point, she didn’t even care if she got COVID because she was slowly going insane not being around people everyday. Zoom, texting, etc. didn’t work for her. So for her, alone == loneliness.

I am on the total opposite end of that spectrum. I can go days without speaking to anyone. Usually Thursday afternoon till Tuesday morning when my first required meeting is. For me, alone == bliss. I LOVE the self checkout lanes at grocers. Don’t even have to feign small talk with the checker anymore.

Anyway, during the conversation she asked whether X was the last person I was in a relationship with back in 2017. And in thinking about it, other than some random dinners, I haven’t been in a relationship for 5 years. I hadn’t even realized it had been 5 years. My best friend at the time moved out of state in 2019, and I’ve not talked to them since. I do have one friend that still lives near me. We’ll text, but rarely see each other (they have an autoimmune disorder. So they’re very careful because of COVID). Other than saying “hi” to my neighbors when we happen to be checking the mail at the same time, I rarely see people outside of Zoom meetings. I started wondering if I should be lonely, and I’m really not. At this point, I’m afraid of what would happen if I really tried to cultivate a relationship (romantic or platonic) with someone. On the flip side, I’m wondering how much further I need to go to reach full hermit…

On the bright side, I got to play with Twilio. I figured with my lack of human interactions, I should probably have a “dead man’s switch” checking on me. So I’ve got an app that will text me every couple of days. If I don’t reply back within a certain time frame, it’ll call a couple of people and tell them they might want to have a wellness check done on me :)
The USDA designates germplasm repositories for every edible crop, where you should be able to get seeds or scion wood for free.
The thing I fear most is not loneliness but getting old and loosing senses (eye-sight, hearing, movement etc).

I can't imagine what I will do. Can't even read books or listen to music, enjoy occasional TV. Its a lose-lose situation.
I have a wife and 3 kids, but we always talk about, for retirement, making a pact with our friends and all retiring to the same place - be that a plot of land with a bunch of tiny houses, or a small no-name town where anyone could afford a house.
I think Göbekli Tepe[1] is the better known of these sites in Turkey. As this story mentions that was only discovered in 1994, and completely rewrote history.

I find these incredibly ancient and basically unknown civilisations fascinating. Recently there has been evidence of attempts of cultivation in 21,000 BCE[2] by hunter-gathers. Some of the first semi-permement dwellings were near this in Syria, and believed to be the start of a transition from hunter-gathering to agricultural populations.

By contrast, I think these sites in Turkey are still believed to be ceremonial in nature rather than places people lived.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe

[2] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Same here, the keyboard is the most important tool I'm using as a developer.

Prioritizing flatiness over the quality and comfort of it is a huge dealbreaker.
I'd gladly put more money for more power if I need, but having a decent keyboard is my main requirement.

Which is a shame because otherwise it seems quite good (except for the design which is yet another soulless copy of Apple).

I guess that I'll just stick to Thinkpads until this crazy trend dies.
They are busy people, have to set priorities ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
This is another thing Lincoln said: "One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves not distributed generally over the union but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen perpetuate and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. [...] Fondly do we hope ~ fervently do we pray ~ that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.'" (https://www.nps.gov/linc/learn/historyculture/lincoln-second...)

But hey, the Union wasn't the party who forced the conflict. Let's hear from Alexander Stephens, VP of the CSA, instead:

> Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.

(https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/cornersto...)
The amazing flavors you get from some varieties! No wonder people think they don't like vegetables...
The ones we have in Swedish stores are high quality, organic, but taste pretty terrible to be honest.
One thing about growing your own veggies is you realize how much work it takes to get a single tomato, carrot or potato.
UC Davis grad and still live in the area. I believe almost all strawberries grown commercial come from UC Davis. Was the whole big issue with this strawberry commission thing that a few professors ran and tired to take the IP when they left. Was interesting. I love being able to grow really delicious tomatoes with almost no effort. Always look forward to tomatoes season. I cure my own homemade bacon and make sourdough bread. Best BLT sandwich even use lettuce I grow sometimes. UC Davis has some great online resources for gardening. I have even thought about starting a beehive but I am not sure I want to go through the effort.
Edison didn't stop experimenting with the simple light bulb.

Adding a third connection through the glass to an electrode a distance away from the hot filament was found to conduct some current across that space and was dubbed the Edison effect.

Which is what vacuum tubes are largely based on.
Can you please stop doing this? I'm sure these comments are well intentioned, but the pattern has become repetitive (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) and anything this repetitive is bad for curiosity (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...).

HN threads are supposed to be conversations, and conversation involves people interacting with each other.
Having travelled Hamburg-Berlin for more than two years: A 130 km/h average is very optimistic on that route unless you travel in the middle of the night. Large distances are speed limited to less and large chunks are 2 lanes with lots of traffic. Not to speak of construction sites and traffic jams.

I usually took the train and would constantly beat my colleagues taking the car significantly (1-2 hours)
Not hard to imagine building an AI conversation agent to prey on the elderly by being a "friend" then mugging them for all they've got.

There are plenty of scams that take advantage of the elderly facilitated by real humans already. I shudder to think what that would look like at scale via AI.
You haven't had real strawberries until you've tried the diagonal ones!
So superelastic nitinol could be used to fashion a heat pump by placing a wire around a small pulley in the cold reservoir and a large pulley in the hot reservoir.

When the wire is strongly deformed, the phase transition causes it to absorb heat from its surroundings; as a result the area around the small pulley becomes colder.

When this strain is released, the phase transformation is reversed and it will release heat to its environment.

As a result, the cold reservoir gets colder and the hot reservoir gets hotter.

I still wonder why I've never seen even a demonstration prototype of this effect.
Reading these comments strongly reminds me of the early confusion and moral panic of about 1981-1982, when reports of something called GrID began. The conflation of infection vectors, susceptible populations, and behaviors helped cause years
of delay in public health response. Let’s not make exactly those same mistakes 40 years later.
In the excellent GOPL book [1], there's a part called "The Origins of Go" in the Preface that lists languages which had an influence on Go (there's an accompanying diagram). You can see this part of the book (including the aforementioned diagram) in the official sample at [2] (page xii).

The languages are: ALGOL 60, Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon, Object Oberon, Oberon-2, CSP, Squeak, Newsqueak, Alef, and C.

[1] The Go Programming Language, by Alan A. A. Donovan and Brian W. Kernighan
https://www.gopl.io/

[2] https://www.gopl.io/ch1.pdf
> Also, homebrew sucks and many googlers try to avoid it if possible

Google is more than welcome to come up with something better...
The en and maybe de Wikipedia articles and the diagrams (incl. subtext/descriptions) contained within
Competitive with intermittent sources backed by fossil fuels? No, but those emit carbon emissions. And we lack the ability to add significant amounts of energy storage, so wind and solar will never conceivably break free of it's dependence on fossil fuels during non- production.

It's the most competitive non-intermittent and geographically independent source of carbon-free energy. Because it's the only such source.
Considering they only talked about applications using low grade heat, I'd say it makes sense iff it's cheap enough, no matter how inefficient because that heat is normally wasted.
As I said, as an Austrian my experience with DB is limited. All I can say is that public transport here in Austria in my experience is more reliable than taking the car.

It feels like every direction I want to go with my car, there's always construction, with detours, closed exits, or just a section of highway with a 60km/h limit and traffic jams, because they are adding another lane, or building a new bridge, or resurfacing the road, or adding noise protection, or something.
Or use proxies. Cockatrice is a good client for MTG as well, it doesn't enforce the rules but provides everything you need to play online with friends.
The discrimination of one group of people does not lessen the need to be just with a different group, and it doesn't absolve Facebook.
I feel slightly bad for saying this but the Deciso OPNSense hardware is just so much more aesthetically appealing to me compared to Netgate. I want my rack to look as good as folks running Ubiquity gear :’)

NixOS is a hard requirement in my lab, so no plans to use OPNSense or any other BSD at this time. The Deciso hardware page says that “Linux” is supported so I might give it a try.
> In the video for the farm they explain that the aim is to produce extremely high end strawberries that taste much better but aren’t as tough and able to be transported.

Most things people claim can’t be transported can be transported just fine. Maybe not on a six week boat trip from Panama, but certainly on a refrigerated truck from an extra hour upstate.

When people say that something can’t be stored, they usually mean that it only keeps for a few weeks, rather than over a year like commercial apples.
Good luck with your strawberry tree
Physics and Economics. A dastardly duo of conspirators.
By "the ones" do you mean tomatoes in Swedish stores?
Also power on/off button is among other keyboard keys, on the left to delete.
You can argue that it is no different than spell check and grammar check. It takes your inaccurately written text and turns it into accurate text. It doesn’t generate anything from thin air, so no. It isn’t “algorithmic output” unless we want to consider other tools as “algorithmic output” as well.
Because this hiring process came _after_ they were already successful?
Give me a literal number. It's a Class B misdemeanor to sell, barter, or offer the fur of a domestic dog or cat. Does that happen regularly? Your conflating that it happened. A law was put in the books. And so it must happen every day? Or maybe it happens enough to make you ucomfortable? I agreed that it happened. I nnever said that its not possible it happened multiple times. Your implicitly suggesting that this was a regular and normal occurance. Show me litteral numbers
I enjoyed the story, though maybe it's just me, but I just don't understand the source of tension between the researchers and the author. I interpreted the story as: i) the author volunteers to join research project => ii) a professor on the project sends the project proposal => iii) the author reads the proposal, then asks another researcher on the project why there was verbal discussion on using virtual reality devices, when the written project proposal doesn't mention it => iv) ??? => v) the author loses the research position offer, and the VR club no longer has to be evicted from the room where the research project would take place.

I don't understand why the author's remark that the project proposal lacked a VR mention would have such large consequences. Would it have been against the rules to expand the project beyond what was proposed? Even if so, why did the VR club keep the space, when I expected them to still lose the space for the researchers to conduct the non-VR segments of the project? (Upon further thought, maybe the issue was more that they would lose the VR equipment, rather than the space.)

I also didn't understand the researchers' hostile behavior towards the author. If the professor forwarded the proposal so freely, wouldn't multiple people have noticed? Furthermore, the author just mentioned the omission in a verbal conversation as a point of curiosity, rather than accusing them of wrongdoing. I believe the story happened, but I just don't understand why the people acted the way they did.
They're doing bad things, so don't talk to them or try to engage at all! Yeah, that makes a whole lotta sense...

How many of these protesters actually even attempt to boycott Chinese-made products and companies profiting from forced labor? I'm guessing it's a fraction very close to zero. Yelling at diplomats for doing their jobs is probably cathartic, but it's counterproductive if it accomplishes anything at all.
The LuCi model is to generate the configs for a service from a separate config that the config generation system stores and the UI understands. Personally I think that is a terrible model, because if you want to set an option the config generation system doesn't set, there will be no documentation for that and you have to edit/trace the undocumented shell scripts that do the generation. A better model for this is Augeas (or Config::Model), which understand config files and offer a more sane API that allows you to modify them in-place.
The orthogonal's are also delicious....
Efficiency was what I was wondering. But maybe a few percent efficiency is about the best we can do with relatively small temperature differences? I think radio isotope thermal generators are usually only a few percent efficient.

It'd be interesting to try to propel a ship with the temperature differential between air and water.
"over the last few years I've become more bearish about web2. Looking at how bad Google search has gotten, how spammy reddit comments, youtube comments, and all social media are, how full of bots twitter is, etc. Many of these emergent behaviors are due to the advertising model that underlies the current web."

You're 100% right about this. This is one of these things that seems so obvious, but I hadn't considered until I read this. Infact I'd say there is a large portion of the popular (web2) internet which is junk.
Thanks! I've never knew there's good curated lists, this is super helpful
Most paper is recycled (over 2/3rd). So no, it's not antisocial.

Regardless, it's still a false equivalency to try and equate directly antisocial behavior like making loud noises that disrupt people's healthy sleep and the sustainability of producing paper, some of which is used for printing novels that people read in their homes.
This is the biggest thing to me. When I’m on a train, I can text, call, and even get some work done. When I’m driving, it’s actually quite dangerous to attempt those things; and not only for me, but the other people driving around me.
After spending 15-20 years in introversion mode, I felt back the chill side of being with others. But at times I sense the isolation bliss.. I'd feel slightly lighter and freer when in the toilet or biking/hiking. Odd. Part of it comes from a need for depth .. and being with people you wonder how they feel, if they're ok, why did they think or say this but you can't communicate (or extremely rarely) so it piles up as a frustrating void turning into stress.
This guy is the real role model of our field (computer science). Not a Steve Job, not an Elon Musk. Hao Jiang (Coolwulf) is who we should all aspirate to be.

Fsck money already, we have the power to save live beings.
What do you think is the reason for this? Is it maybe something along the line "If company X uses it, and they are big, this standard / technology will for sure stay here some time"?
I think I detect some humor here.
Unfortunately, hard numbers are impossible to quantify, although rough estimates can be made based on what records do exist, as well as memoirs, diaries, and other such sources. Much of the most compelling evidence comes from recollections offered after slavery, when the formerly enslaved were able to give some voice. In Mississippi, for example, former enslaved persons registering marriages with the Union authorities in 1864-65 provides information to the clergy about their previous marital status. Over 8,000 black persons registered marriages in the period, and 17.4 percent of them included that they had been married before, and had it broken up by sale. Specifically of those who had been previously married, 40.8 percent stated that force has been the reason for its end. Other similar records bear out similar numbers, reflecting roughly ⅓ of enslaved marriages ended forcibly by white owners breaking apart the couple.

But sure. Family stability. A virtue of slavery.
India’s fertility rate drops below 2.1
Brings back memories ! One of the first parser you would write in any computer science class !
Thank you for saying this. This attitude drives me insane
The strategy only gets deep towards the endgame - for the first 30 hours you can literally just keep pressing A at every single encounter and win majority of the time. There's zero reason to use any status effects against AI because it's so shallow and if you never switch Pokémon you will end up massively overleveled for everything the game throws at you before the elite four.

Yes I am aware that the latest games in the franchise attempt to address this somewhat - but pick any Pokémon game from the last 20 years and it will be true 99% of the time.
What CMSs did you find to be the most effective?

How did they compare with open-source ones (Drupal et al)?

Do you find serverless CMSs to be more useful than traditional ones or vice versa?
Most people in most countries have no surplus cash. The vast majority of the people world wide (doesn't matter how rich or poor the country is) live paycheck to paycheck.

Pricing isn't about surplus cash, its about value. And a product may have a different value depending on location.

If something costs 1 week of wages then it can have less value than something that costs a year's wages. Conversely if you're asking me for a month's wages for something, it must have a lot of value for me to prioritise that in my earnings.

That is what the original question is trying to ask - how to price according to local value versus pricing against global value.

A Netflix account costs about 5 cups of coffee in the US, but about x days of labour in some countries. So a decision that is trivial for some, and life-changing for others.
Python just gets out of your way like almost nothing else. I work in graph ML, and Python allows us to glue together runtimes and technologies with ease (eg PySpark).
Fair points.

I guess in this specific case at hand, companies can switch between bamboolib, mito, dtale and it is less likely that all of them will become unavailable at the same time. The switch is also not so hard because there are no underlying proprietary file formats involved (except for bamboolib plugins) because the generated code is pandas, plotly, etc.

Similarly as described below/above: counter-intuitively, the availability of open-source LibreCalc makes it easier and safer to adopt closed-source Excel.
Thankfully, so far, gamers have said a resounding "NO" to this sort of crap.
You would need a rock that is harder than the rock you carve into. Possibly a „Hand axe“ made from flint would suffice:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_axe
> 5. Wait at location because there was no better train (1:00)

Berlin-Hamburg has intercity trains approx every half hour, so on average this wait will be approx 15 minutes. Which could be filled with some useful activity, like some shopping… equivalent to going to the gas station for drivers.
Communism just make sure everyone is equally a serf, except the inner party.
??? Fission is incredible profitable. It's the only source of reliable electricity we have (with a negligible CO2 impact).

The only reason fission isn't more profitable is politics. Politics are making investment and research into fission needlessly costly.
If it was simple, people would be doing it left and right. More like 'they got me hooked on heroine'.
It is probably much much better for the wealthy and well insured, but on average not as good for all people. With that skew the high end is going to be better. That is my guess.
Huh, that v-pro argument makes sense. Enterprises gonna enterprise.
To be clear, I’m getting my stats from Reddit, who provides no information on those topics.
The tech involved in doing this is incredibly interesting and the sensitivity levels they're able to achieve are wild.

There are already existing products[1] in this space as well, an installation happened to pick up the 2021 Melbourne earthquake and they turned some graphs into a bit of a marketing exercise[2]

[1] https://fibersense.com/digitalseismic/
[2] https://twitter.com/bevanslattery/status/1440515913250340876
> Meaning, I take it, that the couldn't trust northern states to actually obey the Fugitive Slave Act?

You mean the one (either the 1793 or the 1850 one, though the latter was both worse in this regard and—ironically given the common argument that the Confederacy was motivated by “states rights”—also violated federalism by commandeering state officers for enforcement rather than relying federal resources to enforce federal law) that unconstitutionally presumptively denied habeas rights to anyone alleged by a private person to be an escaped slave?

> But the north was also wrong because it was undermining the very institution of law

No, that was also the South.
I've eaten their strawberries and they're pretty good! The berries are held in a plastic tray with the berries individually floating on plastic wrap so they don't get squished from their own weight.

While I don't think the berries are worth the price tag, I'd definitely be interested in trying some of the new products they mention in the article (tomatoes, melons).
Sounds good to me. An extra ten healthy years would be pretty great.
Lol, that’s just silly. I could probably run Linux desktop (sway) on a 1GB RAM machine.