skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The clause about letting the user write their own firmware is a huge issue for 99% of products.

Use some vendor blob -> problem. Have some NDA for registers used in some hardware -> problem. Hardware does not have user firmware flashing -> problem. Legal compliance requirements for hardware bearing your name -> problem.
If the problem was ending the lockdowns, why don’t we just live in a permanent state of lockdown? With mandatory vaccines? Seems like that would work
> they should be able to obtain some sort of "reverse mortgage" that pays the taxes in exchange for partial ownership of the home

Homes aren't just another asset and financial vehicle. They are, well, homes. Your link to the local community. Where your family has lived possibly for generations. Treat them like a disposable commodity, and you get present-day USA - a country of atomized individuals, without communities, that are a basic human need.
Though in this case, it's the WSJ op-ed section, world-famous climate change deniers, on the attack, so presumably they'd love it if that was true.
I grew up in a pretty rural area surrounded by fields. I had a skylight for many years as well. Looking up at the stars on a night with no moon is so special. I feel grateful I had that experience on a regular basis for so many years.
Remembers me about Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL):

> Epidemiologic studies indicate that infections in early childhood may protect against pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)... our results support Greaves’ hypothesis that delayed exposure to infections in early childhood increases risk of ALL. [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4100471/
If they owned their homes that’s because they cashed out. If not then sorry, a chance of displacement is a part of renting, so you gotta live with it.

Also: Build more housing - zoning delenda est.
What every developer should know about GitHub CODEOWNERS
Oh sure, all the time. But that's always a bit wild-west, since I'm more or less doing it for fun, then my approach is always "Well what do I want to do, emotionally" so it's hard to advise on fun projects. It'd be like "What's fun for you to do?"

I guess if I had any kind of advice for that kind of thing it might be this: I've realised that even in my fun projects, there's a 10% crappy annoying tedious thing that -very- frequently stops me from finishing the fun projects.

A potentially bit good of advice would be to do that thing first, use all the "new fresh code base" enthusiasm to BURN through the code you're gonna hate so that it's just fun from then on.
but you need a star to explode in order to "spew them into the cosmos".
I’ve had a few bosses give the speech about no heroes.

If I’ve given a speech, well there are several but the one relevant here is instead of trying to build the perfect product, building the best product we can build.

If you don’t follow that constraint you end up in Kernighan’s Law territory, and the wheels eventually come off.

Know your strengths. Build up or compliment your weaknesses, stop trying to Fake It Til You Make It when you’ve made it most of the way to where you’re going to get.
> Less garbage parked on all our streets when not being used

You mean like e-scooters?
One thing that I think isn't treated seriously enough is the sheer amount of violence in mexico. The article downplays it; says it's only an issue with those involved in the drug trade, or in certain neighborhoods.

Go watch 'cartel land'. Mexico is basically a failed narco-state in many provinces. You'll forgive me if I'd rather not live there. Hell, I have concerns that prevented me from traveling there for the 2024 eclipse because the region in question is under the control of the Sinaloa cartel.
These "don'ts" appear universally. I thought I was alone in hating the "our web interface is better" message. I pay my Citi Bank credit card via 800 number because their web pages are so bad. I really don't need to hear that Citi's garbage webpages are convenient.

One missing "don't" - don't sound like Rachel from Cardholder Services, the notorious recorded message that scammers use. Bank of America used to sound like Rachel. I'm 52% certain that I've hung up on legitimate BoA calls because they sound so similar to scammers.
You can never live a full life like this. Without a residency permit you won't open a bank account, won't buy any property, won't by a car for example, renting outside Airbnb is difficult, won't be using any governmental services.
There are some but research into viral origins or other competing ideas seem to be marginalized and underfunded, I don‘t have first hand insights into it but read about it here https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarte... and elsewhere.
It's still a difference of 38.5 nano seconds. You have a budget 16,000,000 nanoseconds per frame. It's like Jeff Bezos writing about how to save money at Walmart; just pick the readable and stupid approach and move on. Game loops are made fast or slow by the efficiency of their tight loops: the render loop, physics update loop, UI loop, etc. Something that happens once per frame is barely ever worth considering.
[I think] I love you [I think]
That will become apparent as soon as the city is stuck holding a property it can't sell back to the open market and the appraiser will quickly find himself audited.
Why don't they just offer rent-a-BMW instead of making you buy the "entire" car upfront, and THEN charging you for individual features in that car?
>I know people enjoy it, but it's not for me.

Well, there's your answer! Some people love gardening. I find it dull, hot, just generally uncomfortable work. It's a chore - no, it's a job to me if I'm being honest.

So I just let others enjoy it and I take in the visuals when their work is complete.
The most common dream in every country
But I was told homeowners love seeing their "assets" (American for "home") appreciate in value, and that this was the cause of NIMBY-ism?
People want to point the finger at structural problems with academia to explain why this wasn't caught earlier. But what about industry? Didn't they have a huge incentive to catch this sort of thing before they spend boatloads of money on clinical trials, and didn't they have some level of immunity to concerns about tenure committees and journal editors? If this was so easy to catch if it weren't for the troubling incentives of academia, why did drug companies still spend billions on it?
A friend of mine had a deck that could record 4 tracks on a standard cassette instead of using them as two sides. That's getting pretty niche though.
Worth rereading; "Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?" from no less a source than the British Medical Journal [0]. Another example; 5-HTTPLPR studies [1] in psychiatric research (over 450, "proving" the effects of the gene on basically every psychological malady) stretching all the way back to 1996.

[0]: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-hea...

[1]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/05/07/5-httlpr-a-pointed-rev...
Not sure I know enough to have an opinion about that; what I've been commenting about is the "nudge is dead" attitude that I don't think is warranted.
Say you have a room completely insulated except for 1 sqm. Will the entire moisture condensate on 1sqm? That could represent 1cm of water on the wall, that's physically impossible. There's a maximum amount of moisture that can condensate per unit of surface, it cannot be infinite. Where does the water go after condensating? Even if you consider it drips down and stays on the floor, the amount of water on the wall at any given time still has a maximum.

That's the bit I am missing here, it just does not add up, condensation is not something that simply keeps accumulating water on a wall if it's cold enough, there's a saturation at some point. The question is, how fast is this saturation reached? If it's fast, then isolating one out of 3 walls may not create additional moisture on the non-insulated wall.

Sorry, I hope I don't come over as being stubborn, I'm genuinely interested in insulating (I have to do it at some point), I just like to understand things and so far I do not understand why isolating 3 walls out of 4 would generate additional moisture on the remaining wall.
> meaningless to get into the details

The problem is that your stances on these impact recommendations. Are you taxed too high and think the social safety net costs too much?

Or do you need the social safety net and are complaining about rich people not paying?
That's SUPER interesting. We should form like Voltron. But also I wonder if that's a meaningful 'heuristic' to use both in analysing ones own performance but also in coaching others.
Unfortunately this isn't quite accurate, cryptocurrency support is baked in:

> Payments Built In

> As your app grows beyond the hobby phase, Holepunch lets you evolve into a business without compromises.

> With Bitcoin Lightning and USDt micropayments built-in, it's easy to implement and use powerful paid features in apps.

When asked about this, the founder seems supportive of cryptocurrency: https://twitter.com/ttiurani/status/1551524775402635265

Supporting Bitcoin in any way is a sign that they are incapable of detecting scams that will destroy life on earth, which is a bad sign for them dealing with other scams or ethical dilemmas.
Capitalism is private property. Capitalism means owning land, physical property, factories, companies, the means of production. If you don't own these things, it means you are alienated from capitalist society. It is irrational for any citizen of a capitalist society to accept such a state of affairs.
@vasco Any tips/resources you would like to share on how to get better at googling?
> I am just saying there is a lot of propaganda to get people to do stuff that is in the bankers’ and corporations interest

I agree. And nothing fits this description more than "Banks and Corporations should own literally everything and everyone else should only ever rent what they need"

If you can't see how "rent everything" plays exactly into the hands of banks and corporations, I don't know what to tell you.

> People are starting to wake up to the idea that renting money from banks also locks you into slavery for decades, and prefer to be free.

No, see. Slaves owned nothing and had to rely on their masters to provide for them. Slaves were never free, not after decades of work, not ever. Also slaves couldn't decide to terminate their mortgage early, sell their house and relocate.

I don't know how you got these backwards ideas about the implications of renting versus ownership, but you really should give some really careful consideration to what you're giving up and what you're gaining if you choose not to own anything. Trust me, you aren't gaining freedom.
I haven't yet cleaned up the slipbox code enough to publish it, but I do have my site generation code public: https://explog.in/config.html -- which does something similar but doesn't generate the cross links.

The slipbox code is just a bunch of python to pre-process the org files and "fix" links, which then passes them on to emacs subprocesses to generate html.
Joel Spolsky on price segmentation, back in 2004:

> And God help you if an A-list blogger finds out that your premium printer is identical to the cheap printer, with the speed inhibitor turned off.

As it turns out, you don't need divine help if every manufacturer has the consumer already conditioned to accept abuse in the form of EULAs, subscriptions, and microtransactions from all directions...

[1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...
I have a whole shelf of Texas based sci-fi / apocolypta. My favorite is the slightly non-sensical Texas-Israeli War of 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Texas-Israeli_War:_1999

EDIT: This is what I get for commenting before reading the article. Of course, they call out the above book. Of course...
> Having to report every day during the daily stand up felt like micromanagement to me.

Agreed, and some teams go even further than that. I have to update statuses multiple times a day. If I don't, I get nagged about the status of this or that (as though I can do more than one thing at a time). I wish I could just say "I am doing A because I am waiting on B just like I was yesterday" and have it stick.
Best thing I ever did for health was a 30 day elimination diet.
I felt much better, and could easily tell which foods bothered me when I reintroduced them.

I would eat a roll and 20 minutes later I was feeling hot and flushed and irritated. Just like I had been for years. A slice of pizza is basically a day of feeling horrible.
Having moved from germany to canada (Vancouver BC) in 2017, I can tell you that "quality of life" is highly subjective, and a lot of things in germany work far better than it seems - but you will only notice it if you have anything to compare against.

E.g. [online] shopping and stock availability is so much better in germany, and you only notice what a privilege it is to get everything you need in 1 day once it's taken away from you. Groceries are super cheap in germany compared to canada. Cellphone and ISP service and pricing is often looked down upon in germany, but still also better than lots of other places. [Free] eduction is also good.

Housing in Berlin in 200k should be as comfortable as in Vancouver on 400k and new building construction quality is good. But sure - there will be tons of other places on this planet where housing is cheaper.

Then there's considerations about healthcare (where germany is probably neither at the top end nor the bottom end of the spectrum).

And of course also about long term job perspectives. While you might be able to find a remote job now, it could be much harder to maintain it or look for future opportunities in some locations than in others. Being in a country with a big tech industry or at least in the same timezone will help retaining opportunities.
> * In I am Cuba (1964)

That is the funeral scene with that long shot in a single take where the camera "floats" up, and that back in 1964. Impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjuLkJ4m-mc

Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28953167
Chipotle giving away cryptocurrency in “Buy the Dip” Avocado Day game
Yeah, hosting malware is NSA's job.
then someone has to mine two blocks?

How are they linked together. E.g. I haven't much luck to mine a bitcoin block and will others put data inside the bitcoin blockchain for me? If it is the other way around there should be some kind of auth?
reshaping is beat-agnostic clickbait for "doing some interesting stuff". plug "reshaping" into a google news search
Yup. Content was typically owned in physical form as a DVD or CD (maybe mp3?) and wasn’t subject to disappearing because a company went bankrupt or merely changed license agreements (stuff that happens now even for “bought” items).

We’ve also abstracted away everything from files, for long enough that the idea of not streaming something but playing it locally is becoming more and more niche. Same for applications, which have gone more and more to web based subscription models.

Default is closed, now.
I'll agree that there's quite a bit of junk punctuation in the extracted sentences (and sentence fragments), quite often from short footnotes in the Wiki articles. Getting "good" PDFs with open usage rights was a bit tricky, especially in a super simple PDF format. I ended up PDF-printing from Chrome.

Needless to say, working with PDFs makes me want to pull my hair out.

I also ended up writing the SpacySentencizer Executor instead of using a "vanilla" sentencizer. That led to consistent sentence splitting (so "J.R.R. Tolkien turned to pg. 3" would be one sentence, not 5)

For testing, Jina allows you to swap out encoders with just a couple of lines of code, so trying different methods out should work just fine.
Not practical, unfortunately.
Plus, in typical conditions, neither of the viruses is highly problematic. Only when you get both at the same time you're more likely to suffer, and when unvaccinated to either.

Kind of the same problem with COVID, it can also contribute to a terrible secondary infection. In this case, quite some time after even recuperating from it.
I remove them unless they explain some of the trickiest part.
The repository's description also changes for no apparent reason ("Photo management solution" vs "A web picture gallery").
Because building houses is illegal. Whenever any politician says they want to build more affordable housing, what they mean is that the government is currently working hard to ensure new housing doesn’t get built, but maybe we should work less hard at that.
Where is the "trust science" crowd when stuff like this goes down. It's strangely quiet in here. Shouldn't they be here telling us how this is a mistake because the editorial and peer review process prevents this? Something about how science brought us all of technology? Oh, that was actually capitalism? Oh great science, where great minds get paid by industry to submit their doctored conclusions to a journal, attached with a small bribe.
Nice hit piece by the wsj here.
15 years ago the default was to consume content from TVs, which at the time typically had minimal computing power, although many people used them along with locked-down devices such as TiVo. I don't have any idea what kind of poll you could build to answer this question, but my bet would be that people spend about as much time on a general-purpose computer as they did in 2007, and the increase in phone and tablet usage reflects a computerization of previously free time.
You really don't need cryptographic hashes for this, as they pose more demands than you actually need at the expense of speed. Something like CityHash or Murmur3 will be more than sufficient.
> But you know who I never ever see there anymore? The people that were living there before google came!

Who exactly is working in said restaurants?

Also, what do you think low income people do once they get a higher income? Could they move out somewhere for a better life for themselves?

If you are unhappy about not being able to see poor people but the poor people are happy about exiting their previous way of life, that's not an economic problem. It's just a you problem.
Yes, Europe, especially Spain or Portugal are on our list. France not so much, since it suffers from very similar issues than Germany. Regarding the equatorial zone: Agree - especially considering, that we have roughly 30 to 35 years more to live, it would have to be a spot that "still exists". We're aware of that, also of the fact, that one can not escape one's own problems by escaping a certain place. But since our son is just 6 month old, we have at least close to 6 years time, where we can go, wherever we want, before we have to send him to a school. Thanks for your suggestion!
"There is no such thing as society. There are the plutocrats, and a large human economic sacrifice zone for the plutocrats to exploit."

It's a grim, reductionist view of society as a construct for wealth, and general happiness only if the latter does not impede the acculumation of the former.
That the cycle of science works slowly. Slower than to be applicable in your lifespan.
How would you evaluate this in a fair, consistent way?
yeah kindof but it would be interesting to see it at the comment/hyperlink level. Might be a terrible UX choice, but interesting to think about nontheless.
Maybe the thing to solve this will be individual electric motors that are mounted to subframe as to not add unsprung mass but articulate with the wheel somehow. Or more realistically instead of huge angle on undriven wheels, a bit of an angle on all wheels. It’s been done for a while, in the 90s on Japanese sports cars and now German luxo barges.
When the dependency is deprecated, I have to stop what I'm doing and replace the dependency. If the dependency has a show-stopper bug, I either have to wait, vendor the dependency, or rewrite. That's what the original article advocates for: be careful what you import. leftpad, probably write it yourself. React, OK to use, but maybe vendor.
I'll add this: If you have to deal with state (e.g.: say you write something akin to `git checkout` that should rearrange the file system): Combine this strategy with the question of "can I roll this step back?".

I.e. for a checkout:

- Make a temporary folder on the target disk (rollback: delete it)

- Create new files for those you have to change (rollback: delete them)

- Fill these files with their target content

- Move old files away into the temp folder

- Move new files into place

- If everything worked, delete the leftovers (the only thing that can't be rolled back)

Your disk fills up during checkout? Roll back!

You're on Windows and some file is blocked by another process? Roll back!

…etc. :)
EA is latest rebranding of progressive NGO complex, news at 11.
Ok, this got an actual spit-take from me

Brilliant
Being self-satisfied when telling others to leave you alone (get bent, get out, piss off, etc.) is quintessentially American. Texas is to America as America is to the world. It is a difference of magnitude, not direction, and Texas has this particular topic to conveniently funnel all that extra "screw you" energy into.
The problem with "new nodes vs. old nodes" for the chip manufacturers is that any semiconductor plant has quite large fixed costs.

When the production is very high, the fixed costs are divided over a very large number of chips and the cost per chip is negligible.

When the production diminishes for an old node because some obsolete devices are no longer used in new designs, there is a threshold where the fixed costs per chip become so large that the chips cannot be sold at a profit.

So even if the semiconductor plant would still have orders for millions of chips per month and they could be easily made, the production would not be profitable, because the profitability threshold might be e.g. at ten million chips per month.

Because of that, as soon as they see that the old plants are run much below their maximum capacity, the foundries would prefer very much the customers to move their orders to a newer node, to be able to close completely the old plant instead of running it at a very low profit or even at a loss, when they have to satisfy some old contracts, made when the plant was still profitable.
This is a horribly misguided take. According to the latest S/O Developer Survey [1], Swift is used by 4.91% of respondents, while Objective-C is only used by 2.39%. Additionally, Swift is loved, and wanted by 62.88% and 4.3% of respondents, respectively. Objective-C is no where close by comparison...

[1] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#technology-most-popula...
Unfortunately, this has become a rational precaution. Capitalism has thoroughly undermined humanity’s greatest tool.
Or a hub drive electric.
The WSJ opinion section is really poor in contrast to their regular news coverage.
US Cyber Command spots another 20 malware strains targeting Ukraine
Yea, I was going to delete it.

Just got annoyed you tried to weasel out of picking a date and tried to pretend you had won the argument.
It also has a disadvantage in that it's extremely porous and allows water to seep through it, which expands and contracts with temperature changes and causes the limestone to crack. There's areas around town where roads have been cut through hills, and if you drive through these after a big rainfall you can literally see water pouring out the side of the rock face. Chunks of limestone breaking off and falling onto the side of the road is a pretty regular occurrence.

There's other issues, too, such as the lake that runs through the middle of the city, the underground rivers and cave networks in the area, and the unstable clay on the East side of town that expands and contracts with rain, causing all sorts of problems.