skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can buy ground beef in bulk for much less than $7/lb and freeze it. You can buy blocks of cheese and refrigerate them. You can refrigerate/freeze buns bought in bulk. You can buy several tomatoes at a time and use them for other purposes before they go bad (salads, salas, pizzas, etc.) Same goes for lettuce and pretty much any other ingredient except defrosted sashimi grade fish or live lobsters.
For me, it's simply the grouping of tabs. I use both, but if I ever want to keep my tabs organised (which is often) I cannot use Firefox.
prototypes benchmark I recall
1. I think consistency is really the key when it come to writing. You’d be surprised how much you can write in 15 minutes per day if you do it every day. The difficult part is doing that 15 minutes, every day, for months.

2. I recommend looking into the work routines of famous writers. There is a good book on the topic called Daily Rituals. Two that I recall were Hemingway, who wrote immediately when he woke up at 5:00, and Kafka, who managed to write after working his mundane office job all day.

3. In terms of learning, I really recommend looking to a SRS program like Anki, combined with list-formatted data on the topic you want to learn about. For example, if you want to learn about the American Revolution, get a PDF of an encyclopedia on the topic, then add one new encyclopedia entry per day. I do this for a variety of topics and find it much more efficient than reading long books. Using a SRS program also is the best way to make your learning time efficient.
Woodpeckers are super cool but whow can they be a menace.

There was one that would come knock my neighbors metal chimney years ago right at the crack of dawn. Poor guy could not sleep in. And the woodpecker kept coming back and doing it, presumably just to make a loud racket because there were no bugs obviously.

Another guy I know who was quite wealthy had a carved wooden lintel made for the top of his door. It was made in Mexico and quite intricate (and expensive). He proudly showed it to me over the door. A week later woodpeckers had ruined it.

They are still cool birds though.
How to Answer Tough Questions [video]
Stalin took leadership of the country in 1924 and lost it when he died much much later.

By the time of elections of 1933, Russia was full totalitarian and that is what communist party wanted for Germany.
I currently have two online service subscriptions: Posteo (e-mail) for €1.20/month, and a VPS for €5/month.
Mad Max

A Boy And His Dog

Death Race 2000

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"the idea of killing their wrong thinking neighbors in order to live in Republican Town" is not even close to the same thing as "if elected leaders will not protect America, the people must do it themselves, even if it requires violent actions."
You’re incorrect You haven’t looked closely enough. Many of the tech companies do require signing documents like this. And they’re enforceable in some states & not others.
Hundred Rabbits Artist Collective – Keynote LP2022
First, congratulations, this seems really cool. :)

My question is, how are you going to deal with spam and, y'know, bad stuff? Related to that, how do you contact users without an email address? (I know it's possible, like you could send a custom banner, I'm curious about how you do it.)
Sure, there's certainly interest in doing this. See this post for more details: https://misha.brukman.net/blog/2022/04/writing-math-with-hug... (I'm not the author of this post)

Client-side rendering works well enough for me, and has been for years (as a visitor). I don't see a benefit to integrate a custom Hugo patch to get server-side rendering for my simple personal blog.
U.S. needs $3B more to remove Huawei, ZTE from networks, regulator says
Is it that slow? I've recently switched to it and it doesn't feel slower, though I am indeed very impressed by it.
There is literally 0 functional difference. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are government sponsored entities. They buy conforming mortgages from banks, package them up into a mortgage-backed securities, and then sell them on the open market. The Fed buys these. So your claim that the Fed doesn’t buy mortgages because “ackshually Fannie Mae buys the mortgage” doesn’t hold much water. And in fact, the only real reason Fannie Mae can guarantee mortgages is because ultimately the Fed can step in to buy any distressed assets.
The blog author wasn't recommending a new name. He was merely complaining about the name without any data whatsoever to back up his claim.

Mere destructive criticism is cheap and easy, and isn't worth posting here IMO. Creativity and success, OTOH, are frequently difficult and worthy of praise and sharing.
most services like this one let you use your own custom domain -- i'm working on something similar just now. there's a privacy tradeoff there, but you won't be blocked by websites.
Is it unusual that I have zero subscriptions to anything?
Indeed, be careful NYC.

It’s a place full of amazingly creative people but let the rents climb and you’ll end up like London.
It sticks out like a sore thumb and is completely unnecessary for this typeface.
Didn't he short out the battery when snipping both wires at the same time?

Neat idea though, will see if i can find any.
Or entirely correlated like ice cream sales and drowning.
This is a cool idea (I love seeing clever uses of SSH, and this is definitely one of them), but I wonder who the intended audience is: it’s not complete novices or the non-technical, and it’s presumably not people like me (who already use an SSG + rsync over SSH to accomplish the same thing on their own).
We live in an anti-intellectual society. I doubt geniuses will ever be given the proper resources they deserve to make powerful contributions in this world. Seems like beautiful people are the only real priority in this world. People will bend over backwards to just give you things if you are attractive, especially if you are female as well
I think I get bediger bit. RoboCop has a blend of cybernetics and crude metal. Tron was too nerdy. EfNY had actual punks but not solid enough on the cyber/robotics. BladeRunner was a bit too spiritual maybe.
You are 100% wrong.

Yes, you can submit for permission, and you have to. Because those clauses are in there. And if you think you will survive a legal battle with a FAANG that is your employer... well good luck to you.
I understand. Not knocking you for it. Just letting you know there's 3 or 4 of us out there ;)
I've watched the BrickExperiments YouTube channel, but I always assumed that the channel was drivel, and that much like social media of today, the details of the build would be omitted, and lost forever- but this changes the game for me.

A 10 part post is beyond what I'd consider most 'good' creators to put together. The author is obviously technical, and is wise to the nature of the videos. I'm impressed.
Lawmakers push FTC to clean up the VPN industry
The right click mouse gestures of Opera were great for quickly navigating back/forward and creating new tabs.
So would we say that the state in Robocop is too weak to meet the totalitarian requirement for fascism?
My subscriptions amount to b2 for backup (<1$ a month), a Linode for projects/experiments from time to time (5$/month). Everything else I'd rather pay a flat fee to own it or find a free alternative.

The author's list is ridiculous.
I read it just now and I think Asimov is being far too hard on Orwell in that review.

> The great Orwellian contribution to future technology is that the television set is two-way, and that the people who are forced to hear and see the television screen can themselves be heard and seen at all times and are under constant supervision even while sleeping or in the bathroom. Hence, the meaning of the phrase 'Big Brother is watching you'. This is an extraordinarily inefficient system of keeping everyone under control. To have a person being watched at all times means that some other person must be doing the watching at all times (at least in the Orwellian society) and must be doing so very narrowly, for there is a great development of the art of interpreting gesture and facial expression.

> One person cannot watch more than one person in full concentration, and can only do so for a comparatively short time before attention begins to wander. I should guess, in short, that there may have to be five watchers for every person watched.

Except as I sit here and write this now with tape over my webcam "television set is two-way" hardly seems like an idea worthy of derision.

Nor does the idea of government mass surveillance seem laughably impractical.

Of course, we have computers now that make this type of mass surveillance possible, Isacc couldn't conceive of the advances in computer and ML that have unlocked these terrifying government capacities.

In this way it was Asimov not Orwell lacking imagination.

And he takes George to task for not mentioning computers:

> Orwell was unable to conceive of computers or robots, or he would have placed everyone under non-human surveillance. Our own computers to some
extent do this in the IRS, in credit files, and so on, but that does not take us towards 1984, except in fevered imaginations. Computers and tyranny
do not necessarily go hand in hand. Tyrannies have worked very well without computers (consider the Nazis) and the most computerised nations in today's
world are also the least tyrannical.

Oh the irony.

As for the rest of the review he dresses down Orwell for not envisioning the rise of new drugs (vices) or the liberated role of women in society.

These are only flaws if you assume Orwell's goal was to accurately predict the future.

Personally I don't.

I wouldn't criticize Animal Farm for not having the most accurate of farm equipment in its depiction and I don't read 1984, especially now, to get a sense of what the world will actually be like in 1984.

It's a silly and unfair framing of the objective.

I read both Animal Farm and 1984 as allegorical retellings of historical events which separated from the specific details of those events allow us to see general patterns and apply them to our own societies.

Animal Farm isn't less of a book because Stalin was not literally a pig and 1984 is not less of a book because gin wasn't the primary vice of the youth in the literal year 1984.

To dismiss the book for saying so is to miss the point completely.
wasm supports i64 https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/syntax/types.html
Have to agree - very distracting. After a while I kinda lost track of what the article was saying and just started "spotting" the ligatures.
A cheap way I’ve been keeping subscriptions from getting away from me is to log each one in a spreadsheet with name, type (monthly, annual), amount, and renewal date.

Using this, I can find things to cancel when I want to sign up for something new. It also helps point out opportunities for annualizing monthly subscriptions I want to keep for additional savings.
2. So it's one of those platforms that let participants compete for a tiny prize pool? Why do people voluntarily do this, the pay is almost always shit even if you win. And if you don't you just wasted a lot of time and money (since you worked while you could have gotten a paid gig instead).
Look, I don't approve Trump, but comparing Hitler to him might be a disrespect to victims of Hitler. From my perspective, it's lessening what Hitler has done.
yeah this is correct - govt basically outsourced security / military to OCP.
I would say that it is the other way around.

Firefox provides essential functionalities that are altogether missing in Chrome:-

1. dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled - Enable copy paste

2. dom.event.contextmenu.enabled - Always enable context menu (right-click)

3. First party isolation.
Oh there were a few, govt was a sellout output for OCP military production.
I've been using Firefox for around a decade, maybe? I've always liked it, but recently I switched to Vivaldi and I'm impressed by the amount of useful features it has.

My first browser was Opera and I'm a huge fan, so to see that the CTO of Opera has decided to basically recreate Opera is very alluring.
Its a new thing not trying to supplant anything else.
There's a profile switcher extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc...
Not my analysis but the amazing thing about that movie is Verhoeven was willing to make a BAD movie, with BAD acting, to make his point. He knew people might not get it and pan his movie and he did it anyway.

more than just displaying a fascist culture in the movie, this was a piece of art that a fascist culture would make. The acting is horrible, the casting of soap actors made sure of this, the glamorization of violence ignoring the horrible costs etc. It’s an incredible film. And courageous by Verhoeven.

I actually think that “meteor” that blew up Buenos Aires was a false flag, I didn’t see any bug meteor launching facilities, or even how they could target and launch something like that.
You seem strangely empathetic. Perhaps you have made calls to these hotlines or wrestled with complex emotions as well.
Basically, and also hands are tied as to what taxes can be levied locally.
> 45 minutes later, I’m tired

I think you're tired to start with, just go to sleep. I realized this with myself and others. Some kind of marketing that "unwind and relax" means you have to watch some TV when sleep will actually bring you more enjoyment.

You can always trade those 45 minutes when you wake up for a movie if you actually want to watch one - and you'll enjoy it more.
The hottest temperature by a couple of degrees. That’s a ridiculously large jump.
> and renewal date.

Might just do that. The auto-renews always slip past somehow...
This kind of solution is absolutely what's required. Two addendums:

First, make the deposit a function of battery size not item size or cost (small battery $5 deposit, medium battery $10, large $50). This way the environmental cost of a specific battery is linked to the consumer's cost in a way that it isn't really now when the variation in battery cost is swallowed up in the cost of the item itself.

Second, peg this deposit to inflation. 20 years ago the 5c deposit on a beer can meant a lot more than it does today. I'm old enough to remember my fairly well off grandparents saving up their cans and returning them. Today, nobody I know bothers.
I'm a big fan of privacy.com: they provide me with a spend-limited debit card number that varies by vendor. I use them especially for newspaper subscriptions that make it difficult to cancel and have balloon renewal payments.
Well it's a trade-off. Let's hypothetically say you have an important message that could save the world or something, but scream as loud as you can, you can't make everyone hear about it. You realize the only way to reach people is to do compromise with your principles, like publishing it on a major website that doesn't align with your values; which is the lesser evil, not spreading your message, or spreading it using those corrupt channels?

I don't think there's an easy answer to this. It's easy to focus too much on not doing evil that you miss the opportunity cost of doing good.
Chrome got fat

Vivaldi works quite well as a thinner Chrome alternative IMO.
I don't think programming education is broken. I disagree on the ideas of the apprenticeship mode. Programming should be taught as a combination of theoretical computer science, mathematics, and applied applications, which is already is in many places. I think that someone should learn from theory and from the ground up. Learning just web development or whatever, is the wrong approach. Specialization can then happen more easily after there is a solid foundation.
> where people complained Firefox screwed up by escalating

I believe that was a single person.
What's the difference between this, and something like freelancer.com?
How does the SSH UI work? I thought that was pretty neat and a good way to give off a hacker vibe right off the bat.
Chrome has support for casting to Chromecasts. While not enough reason to daily drive Chrome, it does come in handy for the random video player that doesn't natively support it.
Actually I have studied very carefully the various recommendations for the daily protein intake and also most of the proteins that I eat daily come from vegetables, so I know what I am talking about.

I cook and eat chickpeas from time to time, but less frequently than lentils or peas, which have a higher protein content than chickpeas, so I am aware of their properties.

While you are right that 200 g of chickpeas would provide 40 g of proteins and this is not a quantity of chickpeas too large for being eaten during a day, that is only at most a half of the recommended protein intake for a 75 kg human.

While the energy requirements for doing some hard physical work are more similar between different people, the basal energy consumption rates when doing sedentary work in front of a computer, only interspersed with short exercises or walks, vary much more from human to human.

Eating 2 kg of potatoes in a single day, i.e. 2000 calories, would be enough for a large gain of weight per day in my case. I eat around 1600-1700 calories for a stable weight around 76 kg (before starting to count calories, during many years I had a stable weight of over 110 kg).

Moreover, counting all the 40 g of proteins from 2 kg potatoes as part of the necessary protein intake is incorrect.

There exists indeed a minimum protein intake, which is required to ensure a sufficient nitrogen intake, in the form of the amino- group, which can be transferred from amino-acids that are in excess to those that are deficient, to balance their proportions.

However, the real required protein intake is frequently much larger than that needed to provide enough nitrogen. The required protein intake must be high enough so that the required intakes are satisfied for all of the essential amino-acids.

So the recommended protein intake, which varies between studies, depending on methodology, from 0.8 to 1.2 g of protein per kilogram of body weight, is valid only for proteins from animal sources.

The proteins from vegetables like potatoes or chickpeas, have an unbalanced amino-acid profile, so they must provide a higher protein quantity to also contain enough of their more scarce amino-acids.

I am too lazy to make the computation now, but it is likely that a 75 kg human would have to eat no less than 5 kg of potatoes per day, i.e. more than 4000 calories, to get enough proteins, with enough of each amino-acid. Unless doing a lot of hard work, that would be impossible.

About seitan, even if wheat has a high-protein content in comparison with most other cereals, where I live the price of wheat flour divided by its protein content is only 3 times less than the price of chicken breast divided by its protein content.

However, proteins from wheat have only half of the lysine needed by humans, so you need a double quantity of wheat proteins. So correcting for the lysine content makes chicken breast only 1.5 times more expensive than wheat flour.

If you add the value of the time lost with making seitan from wheat flour, it is hard to compete in price with chicken breast.
this is great, but I smirked at this line

>Tyrannies have worked very well without
computers (consider the Nazis) and the most computerised nations in today's
world are also the least tyrannical.

Which is very not true as punch cards (hollerith machines) were very important to the Nazis, and the second part is in the eye of the beholder, perhaps no relationship actually exists there.
Yeah I have two subscriptions: Netflix, and YouTube Premium. I have purchased a handful of other apps on my phone but all were one-time payments.
Very good movies all of them. Prophetic.
I log all my subscriptions and other periodic income/expenses and keep track of my daily net income... when you look at the impact a subscription makes per day it makes you very wary of them.
I wonder if just a nasal oxygen feed would be helpful?
I'd liken it to the Linus quote regarding data-structures https://lwn.net/Articles/193244/

And in what world is a GC safer and more correct? And no, please don't argue that it is faster in any meaningful way.

> So in like 90+% of cases, a GC is a huge boost to productivity, and this is proved by their extensive usage in the industry.

It is not a boost in productivity. And the reason for why it has extensive use in the industry is because the sad state of programming languages have been that languages with GC are safe and high-level whereas languages without a GC are old and unsafe. That really has nothing to do with the GC though. Which is why I say that the GC has been the biggest mistake in software engineering.

Rust and Swift are beginning to change that in a very small way.
Not only defaults. Most of the developers are also over leveraged and so in cases like Evergrande even without defaulting on the part of the borrower, the units may never be finished.
Watched it for the first time a few weeks ago and found it fascinating. Just like his later film Starship Troopers, I love how Robocop works on two levels, and I'm amazed how many people don't (immediately) understand the underlying satire.
BCL is great, it's just lived out by its longevity.

But the point is that this large scale application offered the space for exploring the space of configuration as code, infra as code, and many relevant technical problem space for designing and deploying configuration.
I am finding that prices at restaurants are increasing while quality has been decreasing. It really puts me off from going out to eat. A lot of places I frequent have really dipped in quality. It’s a combination of lower quality ingredients and staff no longer giving a shit (i don’t blame them) + turnover of experienced staff.
The address bar searches open tabs by default.
Amazon's contract says something similar. A court case might be difficult to win if your project is very close to your work projects, but other than that, a company generally has to prove that you used company resources in some way for your project in order to claim ownership.
Zero-trust networking -- with or without a VPN -- requires that every internal service be properly configured. If a sensitive service escapes the lab and becomes accessible without bring properly set up, then at least having it behind a VPN gives you a little air cover. If there's no VPN whatsoever, then this service can potentially be accessed by the public.

IOW, "when zero trust networking is fully implemented" is a precondition that isn't always realistically achievable, especially in large distributed organizations where you don't always have complete control over what your colleagues build and deploy.
Can you tell me more about your struggles to get anything done because your mind was or is preoccupied with getting laid all the time? It does not match my experience at all, so I'm trying to understand it.
I even see Grammarly as being in an odd category since it's also presumably something they use on a computer and not just an app.

I'd split it up as Content, Services, and Applications. Something like Apple News, The New York Times, or MLB you're buying access via an app to content you could potentially get/consume via non-app means, though likely still paid. Services like a Grammerly or a VPN are an ongoing cost for usage. Applications like a Bear or Carrot Weather are purely optional. You could use Notes and Apple Weather if you wanted, but you're paying an extra X per month to fund the development and upkeep of a tool you find use out of.

The split I think helps you identify what you may want to stop paying for because each of those are slightly different calculations. You could maybe replace Netflix with a local library card, or just buying theater tickets and DVDs. You could go back to using Notes or some other app instead of using Bear. There's no real alternative to paying for a VPN, so that becomes harder to decide you no longer need once you've decided you need it.