skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always recommend courses on Udemy, Coursera, etc. Anywhere you have to pay for the knowledge. The money seems to be an important filter for quality. Not always, and there are certainly exceptions, but in my experience, it's highly predictive of useful knowledge.
Breakdown – how much do book authors earn compared to price on book cover
Dunning Krugger effect?
If you want to spend for energy production, fusion is, by far, a worse choice than most alternatives.

Spend on building out existing solar and wind. Spend on building out transmission lines. Spend on improved solar, e.g longer-lived perovskites. Spend on a wider variety of storage media. Spend on cheaper electric-driven ammonia synthesis.
Back in the bad old days, the counterculture was more identifiable because the mainstream was so much more narrow than today, choices were fewer and counterculture weirdos huddled together for warmth, you could find clusters of them.

Now society has so, so much more choice, it becomes boring to see the same old hundreds of choices, we’d rather have one mainstream and one underground.

Source: lived through the bad old days.
yeah sadly it seems to be a scam on the people who don't do the fully-loaded cost per mile of operating a modern sedan in city traffic, including the purchase cost of the car, repairs and maintenance, fuel, tires, subtracting the eventual small resale value of a 250,000+ mile "used up" ex-Uber car.
My coworker got yelled at by a taxi driver recently at DCA airport for this.
I spend 3 months in Australia and New Zealand. And travelled around a lot in other places too. My answer to your question would be learning about different countries, different cultures. Seeing that there are interesting and friendly people everywhere. I feel like it made me a lot more tolerant and open minded.

If life ever gets really though, I know I can always go to NZ. Sounds silly, but I _think_ this has made me more resilient, more able to put things into perspective.
I used to use them two years ago when they offered 200 snip for educational accounts. I then subscribed for personal plan for 5$ when I was writing my MS thesis. It was useful and make me write quicker ( Still needed manual edits for most of the time). I then cancel my subscription when they put a limit on personal paid plan. Then they raised the prices of the (now limited) plan two times in the last couple of months. They also moved the free plan to be more of a demo. starting this month this ia their plans

Free Subscriptions:
10 Snips / month
20 PDF pages / month

Educational Subscriptions:
20 Snips / month
50 PDF pages / month

Pro Subscription:
5,000 Snips
1,000 PDF pages per month
$7.99 / month and $69.99 / year

I hope to see more competition in this field.
Haven't tested it myself, but there's now a cli to decouple devcontainers from VSCode:

https://github.com/devcontainers/cli
Users do fuzzy searches across data all the time. They may remember approximately when they last saw a record but not its exact name, or their recollection may be close but imperfect.
>> Generally, you can start with the assumption that people working on dark matter hypotheses are not idiots.

Actually no I cant. When someone looks at galaxy rotation curves and is surprised they dont follow keplers laws, it activates the bozo bit in my mind.
Jet engine:

https://www.jumbostay.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/0000051...
This author wrings their hands a lot and says "gosh that engineering sounds hard" and then stops there. Look at the stated timelines of ongoing projects and watch the news. Armchair engineers ought not be confident.
The ability to import fuels, even if synthetically generated ones, for most of the year doesn't seem like much of a benefit.

Currently 14% of the Finnish electricity generation is done using fossil fuels + peat. That should go down as Olkiluoto 3 starts production. The infra you're assuming is not there. So your plan would in practice require building up not only massive amounts of solar power but also similarly massive amounts of new fuel-powered power plants that you'd run with foreign fuel for half the year. That is a really shit plan.

Look, it is obvious you're fanatical about solar power. And I'm sure it is a great fit for the areas where most of humans currently live. But it is an awful fit for a country at the Arctic circle. By making up these fairy tales about how it'd work, you just lose your credibility when talking about the areas of the world you actually know something about.
Yes this is just a list of things the author doesn’t write. Not untrue but does nothing for the title itself.
There's plenty of nice, refined systems, & high knowledge. Yes. 100%. This site is a decent example.

But online spaces have some kind of free-for-all area, & it's usually a shit show. I have a pretty good, sharp, caring, concerned set of friends on Facebook, it's actually pretty ok, but I definitely see plenty of others with just madcap bedlam in their feeds all the time. Most sites have comments, and even here where it's pretty good, I feel like 20% are actively misleading, are concealing & have a non-straightforward agenda they're pushing.

There's a duality right? Good and the bad? There's plenty of amazingness. But we allow & celebrate interaction, it's an interactive medium, and so much of the activity comes from a shouting class, from borderline lunatics, from warped concerns. I absolutely celebrate the good, I love Twitter dearly (though I've been away for a long time), but there's so little guiderails & helpers, it takes such a mature mindset to navigate & orient oneself amid the seas of so much teaming noise & din.

And we haven't really made gains in taming the wild. There's kind of still this dual, of high tower work, and the mass spaces. What younger me was expecting was that we'd refine & build better visibility, so we could be more enlightened & better understand what we ran across, collectively, wherever we went. There's been little progress in layering in context. The shouting has gone up.
The thing that actually puzzles me is that in the post-Kalanick era, Uber didn't more aggressively pivot to essentially being a taxi company where drivers supply their own vehicles. You've got a working app--how many people do you need to maintain/enhance it? Self-driving isn't happening in an economically interesting time horizon--certainly not reliable door-to-door in cities. So raise prices, cut costs, and have what's a fairly attractive taxi business for many places.

Of course, that may not have been what investors wanted to hear.
> The way I see it, the fallout from the removal (if there is to be any) was sealed at the moment it wasn't documented.

But the person who removes it have to deal with the aftermath. Midnight callout, fixing corrupted data, etc.
In some areas I care about like gaming, the counter culture is as good as it’s ever been. So many of my top ten games of all time have been indie titles from the last 5 years. Disco Elysium, Slay the Spire, Edith Finch, Outer Worlds, Inscryption, Vampire Survivor. Just an almost unprecedented level of innovation in gameplay and storytelling and that’s just scratching the surface of a few sub genres I personally enjoy
Yes. Statistical AI/ML can only go so far w/o reasoning. The purists believe that once statistical AI/ML is cracked, you'll be able to teach a machine to reason, like you do a child, but (a) we're no where even slightly close to that yet, and (b) even so, you may just end up with human-like reasoning (having been taught by humans). Although GOFAI has limits, and will need to be hybridized with NN-like AI in any real AGI, even actual GOF GOFAI is still widely used and much more efficient than human reasoning. All this said, although I love and can strongly recommend learning Lisp, don't confuse AI (even GOFAI) with Lisp. Although a lot of reasoning can be coded in Lisp, much of even GOFAI was not, and still is not. Many modern reasoners are written in Java and other languages. Learning GOFAI (or any AI) isn't learning to code, it's learning to think in a certain way about problems.
Per row read / write billing -> how do you estimate that?
Isn't that how a majority of inflated startups work? VC money moves the bus for a quite a long time and if profitability can't be figured out, it will come out in the form of layoffs and downturns.

Take Doordash for example, every delivery they do with is powered by VC money.
I can tell you couldn’t overcome “victim mentality” to achieve in spite of the blows that life dealt him: Teddy Munger. This one-size-fits-all prescription is nonsense.
Depends on the airport. Cab services in some cities are very poor.
A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you (2020)
Did your boss try to get you to read things on your own time? If the work requires reading something, it has to pay me to read it. If it's my own time, for my own benefit, reading for free, flat-out cannot read anything other than the Bible, which I haven't finished. And if your boss doesn't like it he can literally go to hell. Which is both more and less metaphorical than is widely believed.
> most people aren't watching the same thing

I wouldn't say that. YouTube is happy to pick semi-random popular videos from 14 years ago and generic crap and [re]viralize them by shoving them into everyone's recommended feeds, so much so that comments like "the algorithm has brought us together again, see you in 10 years" have become a meme.
Your free to your opinion, but I respectfully do not share your values & sense of collective ownership over remote, far off software I can't see, shape, control or rework.

The most notable feature of Neon, that makes it so exceptionally smart, is that it takes the humanity's existing first best choice default-go-to database, by a country mile, and layers in really smart decoupling of storage to help it scale. Reinventing things from scratch can be a win, but that this is already a well known quantity, much loved & cherished & used by all, hacked by all, grown by all is a planet-sized huge plus mark.

I think you vastly overrate the broad availability of alternatives to this, of potential starting places others might explore. Most of your list is dominated by proprietary whatever. Even skipping that, yes, there is a ton of novelty & promise, the potential for breakthroughs. But this is starting with the best, and pushing it into the cloud-layer, into the troposphere.
It's less a guideline for writing code than one I use when deciding where to spend my efforts with existing code. I've mostly worked in long-lived codebases of profitable software, so nearly everything is a strong candidate for refactoring off of "quality" alone.

When you find something real blood-curdling but the last commit in that file was three and a half years ago, you just close it and pretend you didn't see. Better to spend the effort somewhere it will definitely benefit someone soon, rather than maybe some day.
There was a previous Dune film, this is an unrelated retelling. Isn’t that the definition of a reboot?
What are the infrastructure costs? Roads are dirt. Internet is Starlink. Power is solar. Sewer is septic. Water is well. Garbage is a drive once a week.
If MGLRU is merged, 5.19 will be a landmark as probably one of the most improved kernels in history.
I think both. Comments are nice sometimes.
I've been happy with Orion. Mac only, but solid and improving: https://browser.kagi.com/
One of my favorite musicians is NateLikesToBattle, who makes English renditions of anime openings.

Hes got a ton of views, seems to be doing fine. A couple of video game scores too (River City Girls).

I dunno if he does any traditional records, but he is certainly not mainstream.

There are a ton of other YouTubers that come to mind (Wellerman / sea shanty memes for example) which became outrageously popular on YouTube, Tik Tok. How do we count these performances?

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Video wise, more and more kids are watching YouTube channels completely alien to me. I really can't keep up with them, but apparently they have millions of views.

Dude Perfect, SloMoGuys, some various science channels come up for me a lot. Are these counterculture?

I've also participated in some simpler foam-based HEMA combat. As others would call it: LARPing. Is this counterculture?

Cause if its considered counterculture and considered dead... I dunno, I see it all over the place.

The Age of Empires community rented out a castle and streamed their championship from it. https://youtu.be/2u3HupyXyKQ

That's not mainstream at all. I guess Red Bull sponsored it but otherwise it felt quite natural: the long running members of the community all meeting up and honestly interacting with each other.
Yes, things are mostly virtualized, but if what you say were true than then it would be impossible for a bank run to collapse a bank.

Money in your account a debt the bank owes you. It's not money you can spend until after you withdraw it and the bank has liquidity to honor the withdrawal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking
There's no guarantee it's a solvable problem. With the Manhattan Project we knew it was feasible and how to do it, all we needed was engineering.

With fusion we don't know how to do it. There are many, many ideas we could pursue, and they are being pursued, but we have no idea if any of them will actually work. It's quite possible none of them will, or that solving it might take enabling technology we haven't even thought of developing yet.

For context we have already spent several Manhattan Projects worth of fund on fusion research, in inflation adjusted terms.
Perhaps a stupid question. Why go to the trouble of bolting together four filters, instead of attaching the duct fan to a cylindrical HEPA filter? Then you just need two plates: one to adapt the duct inlet and one to seal the base of the filter.

I think, as with many DIY projects, one must look to the pot growing community. They solved the problem of "how do I not stink out my apartment" a long time ago - duct fans and HEPA/carbon filters are the mainstay of grow rooms.
There’s still safari!!
Yeah, I'm having a hard time telling if this guy has a point, or if he lives in a bubble that I feel like I also inhabit.

I hear a lot about comic book movies and those are getting extremely samey (or maybe they already were), but there are other things going on that I don't hear about.

Also, Shape of You is a super good song, so it's not SO awful that people love it year after year.
Nah the house has been entered without permission hard drives wiped, been shot at, few attempts on my life, threatened countless times, you obviously live in lala land! You dont run a country by being nice you know!
[meta: This should have (2021) in the title.]

If you don’t care about having the same font on all devices, what’s the point of this:

> font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, avenir next, avenir, segoe ui, helvetica neue, helvetica, Ubuntu, roboto, noto, arial, sans-serif;

versus that:

> font-family: sans-serif;

?
I disagree with much of the essay (eg: 'Telling jokes becomes a dangerous profession' strikes me as a complete non-sequitur) but I credit the author for asking a fascinating question.

I think the sense in which we live in a society lacking counter-culture is that counter-culture now is most of our culture.
What a failure of imagination.

Mainstream culture was always bland, safe, and predictible. We remember auteur cinema from the 1970s for example, because they stood the test of time - the great works of Coppola and Scorsese, but the top grossing films of the era were no better than the MCU of today. The same about TV. And music. Look at old Billboard charts, at old Grammy winners - none of them represent the "best" of any decade that we look back at with fondness.

Are Alternative weekly newspapers disappearing. Of course. But that's not because there is no outlet for those alternative voices anymore - they are just not being expressed in a dead tree-based medium anymore. They're on YouTube, on blogs, and yes, on Twitter. Do they have the same amount of reach as late night show clips? Of course not, but that was always the case with alternative culture - it was never as big as the mainstream.

The controversial (for this site) reality is that Alt-right and ALt-left are the counter cultures. Mainstream American media is extremely centrist and safe, and always has been. The US political system and judicial system are extremely conservative and take very little action except to repress civil rights. The "cancel culture" the right freaks out about IS a counterculture. A perhaps overly left-leaning, but a counterculture to the mainstream nonetheless.
Yeah, that was the irony. I read a paper about reading math carefully, I ignored the intent of the paper entirely and skipped straight to the example, I saw 1+2+3+4+5=3x5, and I told my buddy, "Look, it's the product of the final number and the one that is two before it! So for 435, it's 435 times 433! Isn't that cool?"
There exists a market equilibrium (2 million regular cars, 300k luxury cars, in the Toyota analogy). You're proposing to construct a regulatory scheme to reach a different equilibrium. Why? What's wrong with the market equilibrium?
These are very popular in Bulgaria, too!
ICF is even less practical than MCF, and MCF is not.

We will with certainty not get commercially competitive, or even usable, energy from fusion. Any money spent on that prospect is badly misdirected. Support fusion research to direct money to support plasma physicists, or to keep certain exotic-tech military contractors afloat, or to drive superconducting electromagnetics.
The markets have been in a 20%+ correction, so my number was higher before.
More optimistically, everything now is counterculture. There is no consensus reality. Sure there are still big corporations like Disney making the same old formulaic stuff (which btw lots of people genuinely love). But it's not weird anymore to not keep up with the mainstream. Everyone used to read one of the same one or two local newspapers. Now you can choose from millions of blogs, podcasts, etc. In the past you simply couldn't publish a book without going through an established company, indie or otherwise. Today you can self-publish, or even give your book away online for free.

These concepts are not zero sum. The world is not the same as 60 years ago but rearranged, it's an entirely new world full of different people and possibilities. But that fact doesn't make for a good viral blog post.
I think it was because it was widely advertised on Google.com, a luxury Firefox never had.
This seems a very short sighted attitude to me, like saying that there is no time for testing, there are too many bugs to fix.
Using a zig-a-zig-ah stick in combination with a raspberry pi 3/4 running zigbee2mqtt is surprisingly stable, compared to the slightly cheaper alternatives [0] and works quite okay in combination with home assistant.

But to be honest I'll be looking into getting a Home Assistant Yellow as well as this seems to be easier.

[0]: https://electrolama.com/projects/zig-a-zig-ah/
It's still multiple requests on a streaming API if you're asking the client to notify you when it's ready for the next page. Most DB engines use TCP connection affinity to identify which cursor is in play, but the client still needs to send a packet asking for the next page. Both client and server need to keep the TCP connection open, which is state for both parties.

I see you mentioned gRPC streams in a sibling comment, which are a great alternative to REST-based pagination, but they are highly stateful! Streams are built into the protocol, so a generic gRPC client will handle most of the state juggling that would have been your responsibility with a REST client.
If you think it's not for HN, flag it, if you think it needs moderator intervention email the mods cause @dang doesn't do anything.
The legacy of Ancient Greece is relevant, not the nation that happens to live there today.

Greece is bankrupt. It made this cute announcement because it costs the country nothing, and should anything go wrong, it would be rescued by the EU.
> There are stars and brown dwarfs which are composed almost entirely of hydrogen-1, with almost no deuterium or heavier elements. We have seen pairs of these stars in orbits being held together by proton-proton gravitational attraction.

It is worth rereading this comment. Start with a cloud of ordinary hydrogen–1 with no neutrons at all. It can still collapse under gravity to form stars. All of the hydrogen atoms are attracted to all the other hydrogen atoms, even though they none of them have neutrons. In the early stages of the universe, all stars would have been of this type. These stars were the forges that created most of the neutrons that exist today. If protons did not attract each other gravitationally then this would never have happened.

It would be an interesting DIY project to liquify some hydrogen and measure its properties. There would, however, be considerable difficulty in replicating the original experiment directly using liquid hydrogen, because it has to be kept quite cold in order to stay a liquid. It also has the disadvantage of being quite a bit less dense than lead or iron, so your instruments would need to be correspondingly more precise. You might have better luck by measuring the deflection due to gravity of a beam of protons coming out of a particle accelerator. Be sure you make some video recordings of your experiments.
Those are pretty basic algorithmic questions, even if somebody's never heard of a linked list or a palindrome, anyone with even a minimal understanding of algorithms should be able to describe in pseudo code how to solve them.

They're not guaranteeing that an applicant is necessarily right for the job, but they do separate the chaff from the wheat proverbially speaking.
Have you gone to any major, "serious" performance where something felt like an artistic mistake?

I'm not referring to mistakes of kitschiness, or excess, or technical incorrectness. If you're in any place where folks are exploring expression (or even technicality), then they will inevitably do something that may seem weird.

In those places where culture and expression have peaked and got nowhere to go, where the gestalt has distinctly chosen predictability over possibility, things may feel out of place simply because they're e.g. displays of skill for the sake of displays of skill. Or even more tritely, production for production's sake.

This may sound alternately cliché or obvious-after-the-fact, but when there is no counterculture, nothing will be weird, at all. And that is because nothing is being dared or played with.
There’s more to (counter) culture than entertainment, but you wouldn’t know it from this article. Even just looking at entertainment, why would you look at the multiplexes or top music charts to find diversity?
i can't stand Ubuntu's default rounded web font

browser vendors should just include Inter and make it the default web font
I think there’s a large moralistic component to it. There are people who see remote work as a moral failing, and if you don’t work in person then there’s something wrong with you.
> Traditional taxi companies, as shitty as their service might be some places, are risking of being driven out of business.

This is not the downside you think it is. So help me if I could snap my fingers and make this happen I just might do it.
Mathpix is a great product that perfectly fills its niche and I’m very happy it exists.

I wish some open source alternative existed. Even much less accurate would be quite useful. I know latexify but it does only single symbols.

Maybe it will be implemented as an extra language in tesseract someday.
Oh that’s just for the docs and demo site, no need for bootstrap or font-awesome at all. You can use whatever you want.
They’re both adaptations of the same source work. Not really a reboot unless one tried to significantly reinterpret the other.
Reminds me of "Bobos in Paradise" by David Brooks (2000).

Brooks is now "just another uncool Boomer" but he made this same observation over 20 years ago.