skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solid advice. I've become a fairly prolific and (ultra-hyperly-local) famous gardener over the last ten years, and when people comment on the green thumb, or ask about secrets to success, I just tell them "I've killed a lot of plants."

What I love most about cultivating plants are the rewards gleaned from close and routine observation. I have some books, sure, and have even dabbled in tissue culture and micropropogation, but 99% of my success is just observe, adjust, observe, repeat...

Every day after waking up, I go around to where everything is growing, indoors and out, for "roll call." It's truly amazing to watch flowers and vegetables develop from tiny specks of seed. The number and magnitude of developments that can take place even over 24 hrs are surprising. After years of cultivating many of the same plants
from seed (most often in the author's recommended style of "toss and watch"!), I can readily identify the smallest seedlings by the unique shape of their initial leaves (cotyledons).

Vegetative propogation is also richly rewarding: many, if not most, plants can be multiplied using very rudimentary methods. Once you understand this, you'll look at prices for sanseveria and pothos in stores with incredulity.

I could go on, but I won't. Buy some seeds and throw them down; apply water. Observe. Enjoy.
True. But they still need to come out of their labs and talk to normal people by persuading them. Their scientific perch doesn't give them the right to be a dicatator. We are still free to reject their conclusions. That is our right.
>I don’t see how “most people don’t use crypto” is at all germane to the discussion.

Crypto's closest anologue is wire transfers... which you excluded with the reason of "most people don't use them".

>At the end of the day, what I care about is that I can safely make a transaction to get something I want in exchange for something that I have. The safety protections involve the ability to identify accounts with real people within the reach of the law, the ability to reverse transactions made fraudulently, etc. If I have US dollars and want something that isn’t US dollars, then I have a ton of safe options to do that (with different protection depending on what I choose). If I instead have some kind of crypto asset and want something that’s not a crypto asset, the fraud protection is much weaker.

Again, try applying any of this to wire transfers. Almost all of these concerns apply to both crypto and wire transfers.

>Yeah, crypto is kinda bare-metal. Isn’t that a major problem with it?

What's the issue with having access to a permisionless, bare-metal system?

>There are, however, conditions where wire transfers can be reversed. Banks are also somewhat proactive about protecting you from making wire transfers. It’s not a service that they offer lightly.

That is not reversing, that's simply preventing you from initiating the transfer.
Every time a hospital system pays off hackers (which happens all the time)... I assure you the ransom payment is also mostly coming out of your tax dollars.
i miss the days when optical drives were practical for backups
I’m wondering what will happen if the first UX is ordered by proximity with distance to it and also a way to open it on the map. I think it’s worth trying it. Is a common use case for my searching for gas stations on Google maps
If I were diktat Tim Apple could have "Apple's Computers" and trademark that, but the short form of "Apple" no, even if people used that name in speech.

Luckily I'm not.
Contextuality: a lesser-known but equally magical aspect of quantum mechanics
It must be tough to be one of those people and be working things that they know will hurt the company like the problematic needlessly complicated gull wing doors, or watch the Tesla reputation dragged through the gutter due to intentionally misleading marketing of advanced cruise control.
I could see adding support for exporting to csv. I’ll if there are any standards to follow.
I've tried many times to get my friends to sit through this "masterpiece" with me, only a select few have ever made it. It's great to put on in the background though, Tim Heidecker is really good at keeping the rest of his faux jury on their toes.
>> over time grug learn this hard debug, learn prefer write like so:...

I thought grug would say, "grug used to use debugger but now grug stare at code until grug understand code - debugger bad brain drug for grug".
PG&E should have paid the forests in bitcoin to not ignite.
Every NPM package, sorted alphabetically by name
> The author missed the point: it is a less straightforward UX if it doesn't meet the user's needs.

That was the entirety of the author’s point. That was what the whole article was about. That’s why they wrote it, so that you the reader would understand the very concept you believe they missed.
This.

My doctor put me on a "no milk products" diet years ago for a digestive ailment. I [too rigorously, perhaps] held to it for a year and a half. The diet solved my problems but at end left me lactose intolerant.

It didn't at first seem like much to live without milk products. But the ramifications of eating say, a banana pudding, which then turns one's intestines into a freestyle trumpet, cannot be ignored.
Do you own the teleport code or is it closed source?
I used to believe that the dysfunctional crime ridden mega corporation controlled future societies portrayed in SciFi was not going to happen. However I am starting to believe that it will happen in the US and not in Western Europe. The glorification of guns and violence, the stress and fear in everyday life, and the “f** everybody else as long as I get mine” attitude is a uniquely strong undercurrent in US culture. I have lived, worked, and paid taxes in the US, Europe, and Australia. So I have seen the differences in culture up close, giving me a perspective that most haven’t. I hope I am wrong. I fear I am not.
This is like if Code Monkey[1] wrote a whole manifesto.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wy7gRGgeA
Alien Isolation's team has been working on a sci-fi FPS for four years
100%... just switched to a company that uses Teams, hate it already.
> It provides those 4 billion people with access to the financial services that they would otherwise never get.

It demonstrably does not, and with its transaction rate limitations, it cannot.
Google resolves French copyright dispute over online content
In terms of the lines crossing, you’re right I have to work on the algo. It’s just not been something I prioritized because its not often a problem until you get into larger graphs.

I’d like to avoid manual layout because I haven’t found a way to support that without sacrificing speed. But I dont disagree it would be nice if theres a clever way to do it.
For gov jobs, the incompetents deserve to be ousted and replaced with new people who are only potentially incompetent.
Poker players play poker and expect to win over the long run. If they didn't expect to succeed at poker they wouldn't play. A good poker player would not consider losing a single hand or even tournament a failure. They would consider making a mistake a failure. Because they know if they do everything correctly they will win over the long run.

Really good players will even consider hands they win but made mistakes in failures.
I was considering trying to implement this in an imageboard engine project, with the idea being that instead of relying on IP addresses as a way to curb abuse without requiring users to make accounts, every user would instead cryptographically sign their posts and that would serve as a form of identity while still practically speaking being more anonymous than having to log IPs. But the reliance on Microsoft and Apple, and there being no documentation I could find about how this would work on Linux or a BSD, made it a no go for me.

I wish it were possible to authenticate to web services as easily as just sharing a GPG or SSH public key to a server and signing a challenge to prove your identity, but there would probably be security and usability concerns with doing something like that.
I tried to use a vape when I quit smoking, didn’t work well. Turns out cold Turkey is the way to go, it helps I don’t live in China anymore where it is so easy and accepted.

The dreams are the worst. I still have them occasionally, I still miss it and it’s been 5+ years now. I didn’t even smoke that long (basically 8 years when I was living in Beijing).
Read the article it’s right in there, I assure you. It was even quoted in the HN comments.
Very promising the start of the pam. Good news about the SSH client, I figured that was the case but wanted to ake sure. That would be a huge benefit for my developers who are all on Windows.

Thanks for the info about pricing, I set up the 1 user free account and started that to get some hands on experience, and I'll copy you on pricing if I can't get it figured out. Thanks!
Pretty sure Bayer is arguing a case before SCOTUS in this session trying to dodge product liability because Roundup causes non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Not sure why you think Altria, Bayer, Nestle, etc. would suddenly change their ways.
I don't know what "own it" means, but it's open source.
Why? The US has Intel and AMD, and increasingly TSMC employees. China can’t replace those fabs, they don’t have the knowledge. The US is already building new fabs.
I’m still playing around with allowing the keyboard shortcuts to take effect even when editing a node. At the moment they conflict, like the option- prefixed ones. But I agree it could be nice to find a fluid way of doing it because it means fewer keystrokes.
I'm afraid I don't have the exact numbers anymore, but I determined that the 2700W solar panel array installed on my Seattle house for about $14k in 2013 (including a new breaker panel) had paid for itself before the end of 2019. The system worked really well.

People often think that solar won't work well in Seattle because it's cloudy so often, but light still comes in through the overcast, and solar panels don't care which angle the photons hit them from. Meanwhile, lower ambient temperatures mean the panels work more efficiently.
For e-mail, I can't recommend migadu.com enough. Great plans, very reasonable prices. The interface is a little clunky but you get used to it.
Wait... is it then actually possible it's not the whole Earth, as suspected by Dzhanibekov at one point, but just the inner core that might flip axis due to having an intermediate axis of inertia if the metals/density are not evenly distributed?
Assuming you're not subsistence farming, this is great practice in remaining unattached to specific outcomes.
Regulatory Quality Is Declining
Apple Magic 1st Generation model A1843 black.

I've used IBM Model M's, Sun Type 3, Sun Type 5, DEC LK201, DEC LK401, the horrible HP 700-series stepped keycap things, NeXT non-ADB, many generations of Apple mechanicals, Honeywells, Cherrys, Das Keyboard, and a bunch of random $5 rubber dome rubbish.

I've come to like the minimal travel, soft but audible noise, and break in the resistance partway down the stroke.

And a Logitech MX Master 2S mouse.
Doesn’t Brave not give a unique user agent any more? There’s no way to know for sure
Hasn’t this been the case to some degree for decades? Maybe journalists at big national publications, and now those are what’s pretty much left
What are those some of the good Apache projects?

Practically never used anything but httpd (which I no longer use) and everything else looked like bloated software being Java taking huge resource and usually has a better competitor.

I occasionally see Kafka being used as parts of software stack but not sure if that is the best choice with huge resource use.
Maybe they expected more users were the type to live in warm places and travel to where the snow was rather than live in cold places where snow happens? That's all I can think of anyway. That'd probably make more sense for downhill skiers though...
Didn't Stanford have a Cogen facility there? I think they greenified the original GE plant. But does it not supply some needs or did they completely cut the cord?
Solar won’t work on new townhomes in Seattle with rooftop decks (since we don’t have to worry about snow so much?). There is simply no place to put them unless you give up your deck.
Just today I had to go through the work of auditing a GitHub app, for compliance reasons. Having the source available made that possible. Since your source isn't available, the barrier to entry would be a SOC2 report or you filling out a vendor survey.

Compliance is a PITA but it's a real thing for companies. How are you planning on clearing that hurdle? I wouldn't want to put you through the vendor survey gauntlet and SOC2 is a lot to ask of a solo dev but the aforementioned IT team could likely be persuaded if you did Type 1 at least.
For all of us shocked shocked about the county’s preparation and response, it’s worth noting that this is a county of population ~7000 and only about 5000 adults.

The number of people involved in government, and the resources available for professional support staff (and solution products) are probably modest to say the least.

A lot of you probably went to high schools that were bigger and more funded.
"Just stop putting it in your mouth" same argument.
Crypto Billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried Doles Out Credit Lines to Stem Contagion
Also, I really like being able to read a thread of comments on a specific tweet as part of a thread. You would need to skim all comments otherwise.
> People do not choose their weight the way they choose to smoke or not smoke.

Oh dear. The vast majority of them most certainly do. I’m stunned to read you think otherwise.
I could see something like this being a nightmare for non-native speakers. English is my second language, but I speak it fluently so this is somewhat coherent. However, if I encountered something like this in other languages I understand but not fluently (French, Arabic, Italian), I would be very confused and frustrated- especially if I attempted to transcribe it from audio to understand it better.
> No, you're using nonsense distinctions that come from the 'Austrian school',
Do you have an actual rebuttal to anything I've said or will you resort to emotional and ideological attachment to what others have decided for you?

>By the way I love the condescending addendum, sure, the only reason that anyone could possibly be negative about Bitcoin is that they haven't learned enough about it. LOL.

Another reason people might view Bitcoin negatively is because they let others think for them (reaching flawed, uneducated conclusions, passed down onto you).

Or conflict of interest. Financial privilege. Not biting the hand that feeds you. Fitting in with your peers who have the same herd mentality. Take your pick.
I would say that many of them like to make articles out of their comments... I usually skip to the third page of comments... sometimes I even start reading from the bottom.
Not arbitrary, but morality plays a role because the industry is afraid of public pressure and potential legislation. There's been significant lobbying from elected law enforcement and religious groups. For example:

* https://www.eff.org/ja/deeplinks/2015/12/sheriffs-threats-ag...

* https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52543508

Take the second campaign linked. It went beyond advocating for the current law to be enforced and also advocated for cutting off morally reprehensible content (such as content that fetishizes racial slurs) from the global financial system. I'm not saying that's wrong, I'm saying that it's a moral judgement.
Came here to say this. I really, really liked Posterous.
More like "walled garbage"
Yep exactly, maybe they just want to be provocative with their title so they framed it that way...
These literally just get better and better.

> big brain type system shaman often say type correctness main point type system, but grug note big brain type system shaman not often ship code. grug suppose code never shipped is correct, in some sense, but not really what grug mean when say correct!

grug need start shiney rock deposit ritual for grug similar program shaman so grug has more club. maybe some club have spike or some club have more big size. me no idea what grug need but me know grug need more.

me is mere artoo not big brain like grug but me has big sympathy for grug. like grug test shaman make artoo skeptical. like grug artoo wish spread word of grug. grug too is shaman. artoo most good disciple grug.
W, X, and Z: The Layers of a System
I blame their lack of upgrading the grid or even performing trivial routine maintenance.

Do you know that ~all of Palo Alto can be knocked offline by breaking one line? This line happens to be under the flight path at the airport in the baylands and it got hit by a plane before. Whole city, no power, whole day. In the intervening years was an auxiliary line into the city built? What do you suppose?
Bingo.

CA is where software goes to die.
Have you seen the GPT-3 programming demos? It is super futuristic. We programmers are still going to be needed, but what we do will evolve. Just look at how much Github Copilot gets right. It's still early days so there's still a lot it gets wrong, but there are a lot of improvements yet to be made.

Eg https://machinelearningtokyo.com/2020/07/26/10-cool-gpt-3-de...
“This appointment is open only to qualified individuals who self-identify as women1. We welcome and support applications from such candidates who also identify as members of other equity-deserving groups, i.e. Indigenous/Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, racialized/visible minorities, and members of 2SLGBTQ+ communities.”

Title is misleading. It’s not hiring women only. It’s hiring anyone who isn’t a straight white male.
> You are worried some tiny fraction of a percent is an issue?

YES.

Adding a whole new country to the map right now, when we don't have enough clean energy to go around, and we are killing our environment with emissions from energy generation, is a BAD idea.

Far from helping to increase demand for clean energy, as is the meme, cryptocurrency mining is incentivising the return of fossil fuel power plants to service (as has happened in the US and other places) and using vast amounts of coal power in places like Kazakhstan. It's the opposite of what we should be doing, which is reducing our power footprint until we have a handle on things.

> There will be 100x, 1000x more energy use in the future in the entire economy.

Maybe, but if that was using our current mix of tech, we'd cook ourselves in the process.
App looks great, congrats. I've logged years and years in FitNotes. Any way to import my data from FitNotes into Hevy? I would guess not, but figured I'd ask!
Alien Isolation was one of the greatest games I have ever played. A masterpiece, in my opinion. The funny thing is I HATE horror games, and even funnier is that I hadn't even seen any of the Alien movies at the time of playing. But the level of atmosphere, detail, and care they put into the game really blew me away. It was a game that I loved so much and yet found extremely stressful to play at the same time. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes sci-fi, Metroidvanias, or just great atmospheric exploration games like Subnautica or Outer Wilds. They achieved exactly what they set out to achieve with that game, no cut content, no bullshit, and you can really feel it in the end product.

So the point I'm trying to get at here is A. please make a sequel, and B. I'm certainly going to give this new sci-fi FPS a try.
> Does teams have bugs?

Yes.

I mean, everything has bugs, but it's significantly worse than slack. Here's a short list of my weekly irritations:

- shared images sometimes give you a placeholder empty box while loading.

- shared images sometimes never load from their shared placeholder boxes.

- when auto updates happen, they sometimes result in teams just being broken and has to be explicitly killed before it can restart

- the `code` format tags don't work in chats, only in 'teams' (maybe this is a feature, who knows?)

- sometimes the UI doesn't load and you just get a white empty page instead of a UI, despite being 'online' and receiving notifications.

Not everything, all the time, but consistently noticeably buggy.
What on earth are you talking about? The workers got promised they’d work on electric cars. And then they worked on electric cars.

Please identify the gaslighting and manipulation.
Won't take up land for parking on, won't burn gasoline getting to/from work, won't turn the break room fridge into a compost bin. Think of the ecological good!

/sarcasm
I’m adamant about not responding to just “hello”. So far it’s never been an issue — eventually they send the question.
It's about the value, not the cost. You can get VSCode for free, or JetBrains Professional IDEs for about $10/month (after 2nd year). People just don't agree that Copilot has value comparable to those yet.
This is not for the end user.

This is to mislead critics at this early stage.

Basically, in the End, this will work:

1. website X (email, dmv, etc) wants to log you in.

2. it accepts only apple, microsoft and google as brokers. with direct attestation! because otherwise there's no way to prevent spam. ha!

3. you are redirect to these sites, they will required a DRM plugin to run native code after your browser and check the crypto module in your device (whatever is proprietary for apple or google phones, or a TPM device on windows and if you are very very very lucky, linux)

4. now you are redirect back to site x.

How attestation prevent spam? by leaking your identity via side channels:

"""
Generally speaking, attestation keys have associated attestation certificates, and those certificates chain to a root certificate that the service trusts. This is how the service establishes its trust in the authenticator’s attestation key.
"""

https://fidoalliance.org/fido-technotes-the-truth-about-atte...

of course the spec sells you with misleading promises. About device ID "must be model, not serial number" etc... but none of that is part of the spec, and even if included in fido3, guess which parts apple and google will screw up or ignore?
Given how the Government is in denial that Covid is ongoing and is doing nothing about monkeypox, I despair.
This seems like a weird case though, because you don't need to look far at all to find "traditional" family structures in media, almost all depictions of stay at home moms is positive, with tons of media depicting stay at home mom as the "toughest job".

It seems possible that that condition is backlash against representation, and that people do get real feelings of struggle in response to their preferred lifestyle not being the only one depicted anymore. Feelings can be real and philosophically problematic, and even contrary to ones consciously held beliefs.
If you move away then it becomes difficult to justify the high pay.

If you move away and persist with the high pay and excessive resource acquisition, then congrats- you've just entered the category of being another needlessly greedy human, like Mollusk.
I think this book is ever so slightly overrated when it comes to actually implementing programming languages, but it contains such a nice introduction to parsing that I have for years been using it as my goto "You're not ready yet, read this" book when it comes go guiding people going down the dark unhappy path of working on language implementations.
Unless you're in a closed circle who all use similar version of LibreOffice, it's better to use Google's offering or just pay $10/mo for MS' Office and also get 1TB storage, which sounds like a steal and have a less headache with file compatibilities.
Alas, indeed. I'd have installed solar panels on the townhouse I bought in 2020 if there were anywhere to put them, but there would only be room for 800 watts, at most - not really worth it.
All the posts moan about poor results. But few say 'my query was this, and the ideal result would have been this URL: xxx'
I was genuinely terrified playing this game in a way no movie has ever made me feel. It is a 10/10.
Payment via an insurance policy is more typical in these cases.