skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish my parents had established a backup job for me. I didn’t end up needing one but I certainly could have.

It’s practically free to get your kid a CNA or CDL license, in both money and time, but it’s valuable peace of mind that you’ll have knowing your kid always has a backup job to quickly grab if necessary.
> Heck you could ask the same for any HN user as well

I remember reading some article about the sunset of social media and TikTok and Facebook and stuff.
I was hoping you wouldn’t throw in a passive aggressive sleight and cite some evidence if you’re saying in factually incorrect.
Humans eat it too, and it's my favorite gram!
When Quest 2 came out in September 2020, 64GB was $299 and 256GB was $399.

A year ago the Quest 2 was recalled for a minor issue with the foam inserts. Oculus used the temporary discontinuation to replace the 64GB with a 128GB model for the same $299 price when sales began again in August.
Still no word on "from the lab to the market"..
There isn't. Many companies e.g. Path, Google have tried and failed to build a social network that focused on more personal relationships.

They simply don't offer enough value over say a WhatApp group.
You... don't?

The problem you are describing seems more like intrusive thoughts.

Some ideas come and go - it's up to you to decide to think about them, a bit like eavesdropping if you are walking in the street and hear a keyword from some other people's conversation.

The fact some of these ideas are about work is irrelevant. If you were having similar thoughts about, say whatever you're cooking today, but while on the company clock, it'd be a similar problem.
The main reason the price of DRAM is not plunging is because DRAM faces stark physics problems. I don’t think it’s market failure.
I've done the big red X and felt the pain of breaking the chain as well. Instead of that, I've started just listing the number of days of my latest chain on a whiteboard, and if I hit 30 days then I reset it to 0.

This helps me not feel bad when I miss a day, but still gives me the feeling of don't break the chain. I've been doing it for about 3 months and I'll see if it continues to works out :)
Tons still use Marketplace, Groups, etc. Especially in non-Western countries as well as older (40+) people.
But when professional musicians pretend to play for money...
I mean the gap between understanding how to use different models effectively and developing new ones is massive. One is like sophomore year undergrad engineering, the other is like masters/PHD.

And "understanding how to use the models effectively" is being generous for what gets a lot of these people in the door.
I’ve personally found multiple 0days in Chrome, and I doubt anyone (including myself) would consider it an insecure browser.
I, and all the other readers here, know you're intentionally misconstruing the idea. You're not clever, you're just empty-headed.
I would think that it also brings the advantage of having tried the actual product in their own ecosystem, Google have a good overall insight into it in case they want to buy it - not sure if this is actually the case though.
Man, I love rivnuts. These are great for bolting sheet metal onto a car in places it wasn't originally intended to go. I generally use them when building splitters, covers to flat bottom a car, or rear diffusers in addition to rods running into the frame. They're also great for simple repairs or for making alternate mounting locations.

One of my favorite tools is my rivnut gun.
They did this only for very short time period only.
I think they wanted hockey-stick growth and prospects of a big payout, while the sustainable model may be a lifestyle business that barely pays for itself.
Stay safe. The wife and I were just in St. Lou a few weeks back — passing through on a road trip. The arch is amazing — bigger than I remembered it.
Smartphone attention is not zero sum. Average daily usage could increase with some novel super-addictive app or platform. Smartphone usage probably went up during the pandemic.
> The dominant player in social media is transforming itself into a kind of digital mass media, in which the reactions of hordes of anonymous users, processed by machine learning, drive the selection of your content.

It's becoming more and more evident that this whole thing is one giant intelligence bootstrapping simulation.
If your car never leaves your driveway, or the reach of your home wifi, sure! That's not the case for most people though.

Also, you can't do that if people don't cooperate, while it may be in your interest (ex: to track customers across the city)

As for the weather station, it involves you having a home internet - many people just have cellphones. A device that would ask for wifi passwords etc or require bluetooth pairing or worse would be complicated. Something that works worldwide with no setup would be a hit!

It's very easy to not perceive an opportunity which doesn't apply to you - in this case if you have say LTE in your car + on every device + at home.
I think it does though, ages are right skewed. The median is likely under 29 in this example
Am I the only one who runs tor node on an android OS? Looks like everyone is Linux or BSD
Is the man with the cart going on a road, or cross-country? Do we count the caloric cost of building/maintaining the road in this equation? Is it a dirt road, a paved road, cobblestones..?
The idea in the article is a pretty well-worn one, which does work: make a visual record of your training or other beneficial activities, so you enjoy having a streak and don't want to break it. X's on a calendar.

The article itself though... It's a dubious link to Jerry Seinfeld at best, and the rest of it is pretty superficial. If you're not familiar with habits and streaks as a motivational tool, give it a read. Otherwise there's nothing novel or deep here. I'm being cruel now but it reads like the author wrote it because they wanted to keep a writing streak going.
I’ll happily let them spend the billions in R&D to develop the hardware, sdks, and advertising to the mainstream though. Hopefully they do all the hard work so when a decent company comes in, there’s a lot less to do for a much more developed ecosystem.
Translating a Visual Lego Manual to a Machine-Executable Plan
If the horse is spherical, I'm sure he's got plenty more fat reserves than that!
Expeditions can set up supply depots along the route, to be used for the final push, so it's not quite a fair comparison.

If you can carry enough food for X days, you could travel out X/4 days, leave a cache with enough supplies for X/2 days, then travel back with the last X/4 days of supplies. During the actual push, take X/4 from the cache on your way out, and X/4 from the cache on your way back. By using the cache, your range has increased from 0.5X to 0.75X. (This is a simplified example that assumes only a single cache of supplies is being used, and that the same size party is used for both trips.)

More extreme resource planning can also be used for expeditions, though can raise questions of ethics. The first successful expedition to the South Pole [0] set off with 52 sled-dogs, 45 of which survived the first month of the expedition. At that point, the supplies were light enough that they only required 18 dogs for the final push. The remainder were killed and butchered, both to reduce the number of mouths to feed and to provide food for the humans and remaining dogs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amundsen%27s_South_Pole_expedi...
You can play any PCVR games on Quest by either using a cable or through airlink connecting to your PC. Both are native features. I've played through Half-Life: Alyx this way with zero issues whatsoever.
Somerton Man identified as Melbourne electrical engineer, researcher says
is there some background as to why it's written with epsilons, etc?
Are libraries profitable? I wish these could exist and didn’t need to turn a profit.

These seems like spaces with significant public benefit, and I’d love to see public funding for these kinds of spaces (maybe even folding into the mission of public libraries)?
Is it the same with artist studios? I have no idea.

Reading a book about the art-music explosion from Athens, Georgia a few decades ago — someone in the book suggested that art needs cheap rent. A sleepy college town in the dirty south was just the ticket.

Maybe maker spaces need to find their home in the low-rent areas.
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Using Cachegrind to get hardware independent performance numbers (https://pythonspeed.com/articles/consistent-benchmarking-in-...)

Also used by SQLite in their performance measurement workflow(https://sqlite.org/cpu.html#performance_measurement)
How are the Boomers going to adapt to this? Where are they going to get their Brandon and Stop the Steal memes now?
It's very difficult to get much engagement on Facebook anymore without boosting your post artificially by paying. I remember being able to just post some random article or status to my timeline and friends would chime in and give their opinions or share jokes...can't really do that anymore, at least not consistently. Now I mostly just use Facebook for chat and news. Tiktok is fun, but I don't understand why it needs to be replicated. There is plenty of room for multiple avenues on how to engage with people, or your friends, etc.

It's not just Facebook either, Twitter is also becoming harder and harder to get good engagment on unless you're already a big account. It wasn't always like that.
I'm just disappointed that Facebook doesn't accept bounty where they'll kick your parents off the platform for life for $1k per parent.
I guess clicks are the primary metric Google has to evaluate the quality of the ad; if the ad is rarely clicked they can assume it's not relevant to the keyword.

The other thing is that impressions have a non-zero (albeit generally low) value for the advertiser, but Google doesn't charge for them. So they have an incentive to disable ads with that profile.
Haha, true! Tbh tho I usually only click on a few of the posts on here, the one's that interest me. The signal to noise ratio just seems awful on tiktok, marginally better on reddit and HN. There you can scan the page and see what interests you. On these new "endless scroll" types you have to at least invest a few seconds time into each video. Say you skip ~10 videos, that's ~10 seconds to just find a 10 second video you wish to watch.

At the very least I think we have to admit a 15 min session on HN will be more productive, memorable and engaging than 15 minutes on tiktok. Again, if your goal is mindless scroll, I get it, I do it too... but still, lol

Not to get all high and mighty but I dunno, I guess I see it like alcohol. A little is fine but I can't imagine a barrage of second-sized content being optimized to perfection (to keep you scrolling) is a "good" thing for any long period of time.
I'd like to side with the article, but it posts no screenshots whatsoever to support its point. I can google it, but come on, at least try.
Horses can pull significantly more than 2,000lbs on good roads, though it’s dependent on how steep the hills are. Horse pulls use sleds rather than carts and break 5,000 lb per horse.

Pulling a cart on level ground should allow for almost arbitrary weigh as shown by people pulling trains with their teeth etc. The most extreme version of this historically is horses pulling boats through canals, which could hit 50+ tons of cargo per horse across very long distances.
Well not quite. Shutting it down takes effort. First you have to let it sit and rot away until it becomes a meme. Then you can squeeze another round of promotions out of the deprecation work.
One of the features of Facebook was the people who were on Facebook.
I am not against swipe up/down UI, but I really hate vertical vids. And sadly they won today.
Im confused. You are saying his rent is $1 and hes still not profitable?
NAND wear is a function of write cycles, which itself is a function of both how much data you write and how much the controller's wear-levelling and garbage collection amplifies those writes.

If your benchmark is "lasting as long as well-cooled electronics" then flash already beats hard drives; since hard drives have bearings that will lose lubrication and fail until you open the drive up in a clean room and replace them.
Unfortunately, the supply and demand curves do not cross. I wonder how much of the operational cost is insurance.
What does the research show as to why people won't pay a subscription or entertain another type of monetization model?
Most any article on Picasso and the women in his life term them as "muses". I think that ties them in to his art pretty closely.

I agree that a "bad person" can get positive things done. This is pretty much exactly what I am saying.

But I am also saying to separate the action from the person when it comes to admiration or disavowal. In the context of multiple actions of varying perceived moral quality then understandably this will lead to mixed feelings. But still hold a person responsible for their actions, especially when it comes to judging to how to interact with them in future.

IE you CAN hate fossil fuels and enjoy plane trips. But the hate should reduce the enjoyment. If you claim to hate burning fossil fuels with every fibre of your being AND claim enjoyment from a long plane trip then one claim or the other is not a true statement.

I don't care much for art. So to me, Picasso's wrongs weigh much more than his societal contribution. He is a despicable person of history. But I can understand that others may not see him as a despicable person of history if they really think his art was a cosmically great contribution - maybe they seem him as a terribly flawed genius. But if they deny his wrongdoings altogether, we're in for an argument of facts.
I think it's really difficult to tell if they are dying or not. I don't think MAU or DAU gives the full picture as it doesn't tell us what people are using it for, what sort of new accounts are coming online (are they real people, bots, businesses or what?), and how active people actually are. Are people logging in for easy auth or are they spending more or less time actively browsing the site.

You're right that HN is not the right place to judge this. I will say, as someone who works with high school kids, almost none of them have seemed to use it over the last 4-5 years.
Somewhat unrelated, but the other day I was trying to see which of my friends still live in the city I used to live in, as I was about to visit.

I could not find a way to filter friends by current city. Seems like such an obvious feature meant for a side supposedly about connecting you with friends. Guess it wouldn’t move the right KPIs.
The //e "Enhanced" model (which I had) had the mini assembler built-in. [1] The monitor even had a shortcut to start it -- "!".

(Had to Google to remember this bit of trivia again -- funnily enough turned up this [2] HN comment I replied to 9 years ago with nearly the exact same comment I made above.)

[1] https://support.apple.com/kb/TA39083?locale=en_US&viewlocale...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6200660
In other words, Dan Luu has the wrong experience to teach us anything about tech hiring in general.
> However, perhaps surprisingly, xxd is part of Vim (but not Neovim?), which is a rather heavyweight (and odd) dependency to require just to include a binary blob
Yup, they are a car-hacker's best friend, and once you've got the gadget you'll be surprised how often the solution to a random problem around the house turns out to be more rivnuts :)
I added a late response to the last thread on this issue that outlined a detailed process to recovery. No one is going to throw money at a ship that's actively sinking. They need to have a plan that communicates how they will turn the ship around before any angel donors will step up. I hope they are working on this behind the scenes.
I still use the Lua script, why not?

Granted I can replace it with xxd and two lines of awk, but that would have taken longer, and what's done's done, it's not a task with shifting requirements.
I agree with most of your point but why be dismissive of the very evident reality of how corroded democracy has become in the Western world in large part because of how Facebook-poisoned certain demographics and their elected representives have become?

https://twitter.com/USA_Polling/status/1552006668514369536

Two-thirds of respondents (67.2%, 95% CI 66.1%, 68.4%) perceived “a serious threat to our democracy,” but more than 40% agreed that “having a strong leader for America is more important than having a democracy” and that “in America, native-born white people are being replaced by immigrants.” Half (50.1%) agreed that “in the next few years, there will be civil war in the United States.”
Can you imagine a service whereby the government provides table saw for use by the general public? I just do not think the government is equipped to manage this kind of risk.
I've found that the more I spend time on writing, the ideas that are being written about change in a way that generally coalesces into something better defined and of higher quality than just quickly writing down the initial form of the idea.

Forcing one's self to write, forces more in-depth thinking about the topic, which can lead to surprising and unexpected revelations (which I would refer to as quality writing).

One doesn't need to keep the journey, just publish the destination. The reader doesn't need the journey the writer took, but the writer sure does.
Anecdotally I quit Facebook in 2016 but of my friends and family that still use it, I would say most simply use it for marketplace. They may still view the updates that people still post to see what's going on but it doesn't seem to be near as about keeping in touch (I'm in the US).
Looked around and seems pretty widespread. Links below to many issues, and some now fixed partially. Yeah, let's hope the open sourcing of those drivers make for a brighter future, but still I will do my damned best to never buy an nvidia product again.

https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/161
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/2166
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/vgqyv2/wayland_nvidia_...
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1891
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/external-monitor-doesn...
I did programming since 12 (since 5 if you include copying from text books). I wish I actually did more of it and released more stuff. A lot of the people I hung around with during that era have released best selling indie games by now.
Also the oldie-but-goodie, NASA Fastener Design Manual [1]. Rivnuts are on page 32, but not a lot of space is spent on them - they aren't strong enough for your rockets and satellites, although the military is willing to consider other types of blind rivets (page 94). Rivnuts look great to me, though!

[1] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19900009424/downloads/19...
I stopped using this years ago, except I still have an account and minorly check once a week or month depending on my mood. I'll give the same refrain I expect from most: how do I keep up with goings-on of long-lost friends, family members with whom I don't want to directly interact but want to know what they're "up to" and to know about major life events? Maybe the answer is that I should delete facebook and go back to beforetimes when the world was smaller and I only interacted with people in my immediate geographic area except at decennial family reunions.
Sorry for the late response. United States, somewhere near the east coast to be more exact.
alot of 404 links
Cloudflare working on open sourcing Workers
I used to think about work all the times when I started freelancing. I had no boundaries and routinely worked until 1 or 2 am. When I started contracting with bigger companies, I just set up office hours, powering on the laptop when I start and powering it off when the day ends. I don't have the office accounts (slack & email) on my phone, but they know my phone number so they can call me or message me if something urgent pops up (very unlikely as I'm not a senior). I found that as soon as I close the laptop, everything fades away as I'm not tempted in any form to interact with it. I could, but with nothing in front of me, it's just a single thought. I also have other stuff to do like reading, learning foreign languages, watching Twitch or YouTube, or just planning the next day (personal part, not the work part)
Lol sounds like we are similar people. I also enjoyed reading your massive profile.

BTW w.r.t. the OODA-loop I suppose you've made the connection with the chinese five element system? This is a general theory of digestion fwict, for example yoga has five stages of breathing, impro (by keith johnstone) has five stages of overcoming shame (unlocking creativity) etc.

There is also the overcoming cycle though, it's not just the generating relations!
I don't strictly disagree with that, but I do think a significant amount of science (not all) should be led by rich people. Rich people aren't random, there is a natural selection in whom becomes rich. Imperfect as that selection process is, I think it is at least better than the alternatives of popular vote or bureaucrat decision. I say this not being rich myself.

I also believe a significant amount of science should be democratically driven.
I have a different stance, I go frugal and away from tech. Because at some point I become confused by the quantities involved and the lack of joy.
> There’s really no viable platform anymore where you can just go passively keep up with what friends and acquaintances are doing.

The Facebook general experience is to slowly (or immediately) dislike your family. Instagram's general experience is to like posts from strangers and occasionally your friends. Tiktok's experience is to really disconnect from your social circle and get sucked into shockingly personalized content from strangers.

Facebook's feed is a dying product, Instagram is barely keeping its head above water, and Tiktok is growing so fast the government is worried that it's a national security threat.
Something this has in common with similar efforts: the web page is treated as a document - here it's a set of documents, i.e. "boards" - and not an application. As a result, commerce is excluded. That's fine if it's what you want, but I think it limits the scale and appeal to nostalgia. I deprecate lots of things about the modern web, but I like being able to buy things and perform transactions online.
The point of the strategy is that "bad" writing is better than the alternative of no writing at all. That's why the linked article specifically says that Seinfeld said nothing about the goal, only consistency.
This is an excellent comment / example but just to clearify, the quote here isn't from the original post text. I definitely believe there's a theoretical financial model somewhere out there that could make makerspaces sustainable. Sounds like this is one of them.

Seriously thanks for sharing this, would love to know the name of the chain. Ohio seems like it's got a lot of excellent stuff going on.
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i got my start programming supercollider. that interest led to my current career, glad it was around back then
Vincent Bernat has one of my favorite blogs about networking.

https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog#tag-linux
But that’s just to generate the C file, right? You still need to compile that C file, which is the biggest bottleneck.
I've been working on an app https://aurdia.com/creators/ to create an ecosystem of communities that provides multiple ways outside of advertisements for the community admins to get paid from the support of their members. I think there needs to be a movement away from people's data being sold as the product from these services to really improve the quality of what we experience on the web.