skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm kinda climbing out of one as well. One thing sounds strangely esoteric, but I've found it very useful for my creativity to just take breaks from the constant input barrage the internet can offer. It feels like those beat down the much more silent voices of motivation and creativity for me.

I've found the most creativity just hanging out in a hammock on my balcony looking at the sky for an hour. Maybe softly listening to some music I like. Or just sitting near one of the rivers, or in a park for an hour watching some squirrels or a bunch of bumblebees. Just don't do anything and be with nature. This does get somewhat boring for a minute and there's some craving for consuming for more stuff on the internet, but shortly afterwards, my brain starts to think creatively about stuff.

The last time, it led to some realizations about better and stronger character building in my novels, and created a number of really good characters and how to continue there. Or an idea of what I could build in Cities Skylines, or Minecraft, and suddenly there is some motivation to play these games, instead of just mindless bumbling through them. And sure, maybe I've been thinking about one character now for a week, and that feels slow, but it's good progress.

And on the other part, I'm looking to change the understanding of my anxiety as a superpower in preparation and contingency, and started to throw myself into a bunch of activities that have nothing to do with work. First a metal festival, a concert 1-2 weeks ago. It's quite incredible how just these two things have lifted by baseline mood, which makes it a lot easier to do other things good for me instead of moping them away.
Or just mine the zinc elsewhere?!
The colours are arbitrary anyways. Thanks to redshift, they represent distance in time and space away.
So then what are the options for a German who can't use CC0 now? Other distros are sure to follow suit and CC0 was the go to license for mostly everyone outside the US.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted unless it doesn't fit what some posters want to hear. People don't like sharing walls, they don't like sharing sewer systems, they don't like having to negotiate paint colors and maintenance of common areas. The people who own condos, IME, are using it as a stopgap - often families waiting for a point where a SAH spouse gets a job or a parent finishes post-grad schooling. All of them see owning a detached house as their end-goal.
Paths Not Taken
People who can't accomplish something with an API because things are kept private won't be users.
I was imagining an illustration-free version of Dr. Seuss.
>> More right-wing personalities than I can even remember have been banned from various media, not least being a sitting President of the United States. The same platforms also have policies against certain "disinformation" that target anyone discussing some issues or events like the Hunter Biden laptop which were later determined not to be disinformation at all. As for it being Democratic policy, there was (briefly) a White House office under a Democratic president to coordinate these policies.

> Meanwhile, right-wing people aren't being deplatformed because they are right-wing. It's because of other things they say and do.

I'm no fan of that right-wing nonsense (e.g. Hunter Biden, etc.), but your apologia isn't really compelling. The impermissible "other things they say and do" can be defined in slanted ways to deliver an ideological result that can be described in faux "neutral" terms. To flip things around, for instance, how would you feel if (hypothetically) some social media company de-platformed pro-choice advocates under a rule that bans advocacy of violence (because they're interpreted as advocating violence against "the unborn")? You probably wouldn't be satisfied with a "nothing to see here, they're just enforcing their policies against advocating violence."
Dialectics teaches about unity of opposites so I don't see how it fits here.
Past related threads, minus the ones complaining about too many Zettelkästen:

Denote – Simple Emacs Zettelkasten (by Prot) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32066513 - July 2022 (16 comments)

Zettelkasten, linking your thinking, and Nick Milo's search for ground - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31507132 - May 2022 (31 comments)

Show HN: Flomo – a minimal note-taking tool based on zettelkasten method - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30373393 - Feb 2022 (21 comments)

Zettelkasten – Luhmann Style - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30003241 - Jan 2022 (8 comments)

A tour to my Zettelkasten note clusters - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29996037 - Jan 2022 (89 comments)

Antinets (a.k.a. analog Zettelkästen) and the power of tree structures - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28639147 - Sept 2021 (17 comments)

The Zettelkasten Method (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28218288 - Aug 2021 (90 comments)

Org-roam-UI – graphical front end for exploring your org-roam Zettelkasten - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28025491 - Aug 2021 (44 comments)

My Second Brain – Zettelkasten - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25802277 - Jan 2021 (103 comments)

Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24916536 - Oct 2020 (73 comments)

Luhmann's Original Zettelkasten Digitalized - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24794569 - Oct 2020 (6 comments)

Remembering what you Read: Zettelkasten vs. P.A.R.A - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24251068 - Aug 2020 (62 comments)

Zettelkasten note-taking in 10 minutes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23445742 - June 2020 (124 comments)

Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23386630 - June 2020 (300 comments)

Ask HN: Thinking of using Zettelkasten , recommend software/platform - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22979257 - April 2020 (5 comments)

Luhmann's Zettelkasten - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22085837 - Jan 2020 (83 comments)

Zettelkästen? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21208196 - Oct 2019 (90 comments)
The guns are really easily tackled though. Instead of restricting guns (and parts thereof), just restrict ammunition.

I know some people can create ammo but they need the casings which could also be restricted. And really, whoever wants to can create a weapon from a few pipes and other easily fabricated parts. Shinzo Abe's murderer did just that.

3D printers are not gamechangers here. They just make things a little easier.
In the real world you can't (and shouldn't) always say no to evolving and added functionality, nor can you always make unanticipated changes in the cleanest way given project deadlines.

The real solution is to recognize when new features are slower and messier to implement than they should be (because the evolving requirements have outgrown your original design), and periodically take the time to refactor to clean things up.
While I agree that my job is broadly to bring order to the disordered, I would prefer if the disordered accepted that my proposed way of doing things will eventually achieve order without doubting me every morning, as it is after all my job to find the optimal algorithm to order things since I have myself optimized myself to find just that.

I don't want to fight, I'm simply unable to process your disorder in real-time.
Clinical depression has a defined definition and symptoms exhibited need to be present for 2+ weeks at a time.

As someone that has been medicated for depression in the past I can tell you that having suicidal thoughts for weeks on end is not normal. The thing that honesty saved me was therapy.

I say all this because I think you’re potentially doing a great harm in downplaying depression. If someone reading this does feel persistently bad for an extended amount of time seeking therapy is a good idea.
Congress Might Pass ADPPA, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act
If utc is causing problems with your calculations due to leap seconds than you should be using Unix time to do the calculations and then translating that to a human readable format.

Imo society needs three distinct time counting systems.

1. Linux time. Essentially a universal addressing system for the measure of time in a agreed upon reference point (Earth’s surface). This should be the standard for science/computation, with the need for language to describe time dilation when comparing two reference points. Unix time doesn’t have leap seconds, or the concept of days.

2. UTC aka civil time. Things such as the orbit of the sun and the rotation of the earth aren’t in constant speed and don’t divide evenly with each other. UTC deals with short term variability with leap days and leap seconds. This is so every January 6th the earth is roughly in the same spot relative to the sun, and every 5pm the earth is in roughly the same part of its rotation. This is important because these things drift on human scale timelines. This calendar should be used for daily life, business, etc.

3. A purely astronomic calendar. A calendar that defines time by astronomic events. For example, defining a day as one rotation of Earth and not as a number of times an atom vibrates. This should be used so we can discuss astronomical events such as “A Martian year” or a “Saturn Day” and provide some meaning. This is the basics that should be taught to elementary school children to establish the cultural meaning of a day or a year and to provide some basic learnings of nature.
Why should they have to be explicitly built and zoned for renting? Why shouldn't they be used by tourists? Just make it easy to build more so that there is enough for everyone.
Is “median average” a term you’ve heard commonly? I’ve only heard “average” referring to mean, never median.
To put it differently, we feel rather than think.
Wow, for me this is great. Admittedly I only have one for all the car parks around where I live, but apart from slight extra cost the experience has been great.
Thank you. This guy is so transparent. You'd think self-made billionaires like him would have more shame. But they're happier to put their hand out than the vast majority of poor people.
I started with 'tropes' but then thought people might try to language-lawyer this (what kind of trope? not all tropes are negative! this isn't a trope! etc) so I scoured scripture for a representative variant and that sounded about right.
This requires working markets.

The problem is that the value of products and services is distorted and the highest margins that can buy the most marketing are not the products that offer the most value. What good is all the value if the knowledge about it is hidden by more powerful marketing.

It would be a game changer if Carmack could convince Facebook/Meta to create an advertising market that would allow people to become aware of that amazing value. Meta has the power to structure their prices in a way that advertising is actually helpful.

I am reminded of the OpenXanadu submission [1], where every referenced text receives a micropayment. Could value transactions become so frictionless that we change the way we interact?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32215551
Now I wonder if our simulation is written in Rust or a GC-ed language because It doesn't segfault.
It's possible to buy used cars. Used cars don't drop huge amounts when you buy them, because they've already started to depreciate. Losing that "single owner" badge on a website or carfax might be worth $200, if that.

If you've purchased used cars and put anything more than a pittance, you've likely never been underwater on the loan. In 2019 I purchased a 2016 car for $25k with 10% down. I've made minimum payments on a 5 year loan and it's never been under water. While by their definition I think it qualifies as "very good," the "good" KBB trade-in value is currently $23k (honestly higher than I thought).
Maybe he meant carnivore. U start only with meat, then add stuff back in slowly.
Great article and very informative..!!
Don't you have the start of something similar with DARPA?

Maybe that would be expanded and given a civilian role?
You can simply run your own DoH endpoint, or use the endpoint of someone you trust.
Very specific, but: Mountain Bike 12x drivetrains.

They are extremely finnicky, delicate and built with very small tolerances for something that gets rattled around for kilometers of trail in dust, mud or water.

I never, ever had one or seen one that hasn't been very very capricious with cable tension or dropout straightness or cassette tightening or barrel adjustment. And usually they drop out of shape regularly after being maintained and re-set.

I get that the industry had to sell something new at some point, but give me any "old" 10x or reliable 11x drivetrain any day. Hell, I'd pay cash for a 9x with only the largest cogs of a modern 12x.
Isn't this like corrosion engineers validating their own industry? I mean it's a fair talking point but also like asking VCs how good their returns are?
This only works for rear wheel drive. The author is terribly confused. To achieve these turns, the torque is applied on the outer rear wheel by braking the inside rear wheel.
The MIT license plainly says I am allowed to use the software without restriction. The portion of the license that grants permission is:

> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software

It doesn't say anything about copyright or patents. It merely provides a list of things that I am allowed to do. To decide that they haven't granted all rights required to use the software would seem to contradict what was written in the license.
I would struggle to define sub 5% profit margin retailers and wholesalers as overfed.
Marking it private doesn't allow any subclasses to change the value directly and must use the get/set methods provided where you can enforce standards or format accordingly.
So you mean that the mine should be allowed to pollute so long as the pollution is offset elsewhere?
You are being irrational and ideological. It is unreasonable to hold academics accountable for policy decisions. We should instead demand that our elected leaders not set policy based on generally low-quality academic fields such as economics, at least not until research results have been independently replicated multiple times.
Eventually we'll run out of elsewhere.

Like pushing our pollution into the developing world is both immoral and harmful to our economy.
From what I can see, the standard new vehicle for the American Man is a lifted 4-door pick up truck, and these can achieve maybe 17-18MPG on a good highway day. But a green light means go and many of these men push the throttle to the floor to see how many people they can wake up with their exhaust.

I'm half joking here, but having a massive lifted vehicle has become a part of masculine identity in the country at a really bad time, and these people could size down just a little to even a Jeep and do better on fuel bills. I'm not even suggesting to ditch the truck! Just save it for the weekends and the mudding trips.
ZIP is the closest to an "industry standard" portable filesystem. It's directly comparable to Quake's PK3 format because that's all that PK3 was, a ZIP with a custom file extension.

It's also what "powers" a wide range of portable filesystem in a single file tools such as DOCX and ODT and quite a few other modern Office and Office-adjacent file formats.
I’d like to underline Step 2.

My experience w/ Step 2 was playing kubb, barefoot, in my backyard for large chunks of the afternoon. Most of that time was spent telling myself, “work can wait, this is what I’m doing right now.”
Declarative ML: High Performance, Low Code
Both of these would be groundbreaking, but they're still very much at the "Maybe..." stage.

https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-might-put-a-huge-telescope-...
Python would like a word...
Google Trends for 'recession' 2004-2022
This is a good one.

Same with daycares. It used to be that the teachers would tell us if we needed to actually do something or bring something in.

Now, our kids miss out on school events because they are buried in single lines in one of the 4+ e-mails a day from them. And the response is always "didn't you see the e-mail?"
Video creator here. Response on this forum has been so productive and interesting, thanks for all the replies and the great discussion, will be doing a follow up video addressing many things that have been discussed here.

Any ideas where else I could promote this video? This site was suggested to me by a friend and it was perfect. Thank you again.
I couldn’t find any contact info for you, but if you’d like to do a paid write up on GNS for nslookup.io, please contact me :)
No, you’re absolutely right. Amherst exists for a completely different utility than any public university. It’s ironic how much of the “academic freedom” discussion on campus, much like the “mental health” discussion we’ve seen in the past 5 years, has led to so many of these sorts of haughty backgrounds now making their mental illness their identity or making their purported “freedom” yet another reason to love the Amherst brand.
Unix time does have leap seconds. From Wikipedia:

It is the number of seconds that have elapsed since the Unix epoch, excluding leap seconds.

Yes, it means the Unix timestamp jumps around, either skipping or repeating a second, when there's a leap second. Yes, it is as stupid as it sounds.
Sounds ugly, on a tesla it's the left thumb wheel on steering wheel. So not only do you not have to take your eyes off the road, you don't have to take your hands off the wheel.
Imagine spending 2.5k on a laptop with no numpad
"Please accept this giant wooden horse! We don't preclude the possibility that it's sincere gift given in good faith!".
Starlink is currently expected to get $900M of RDOF funds. I'm curious about how FCC is going to enforce performance. Starlink's bid promised 20Mbps upload speeds but the reality for users is less than 10. Download speeds aren't reliably at the 100Mbps the RDOF bid specifies, either. https://starlinktrack.com/speedtests/region/us
Projects moving forward towards obscurity and uselessness? What's going on with the website for freenode?

Regarding lies, your story seems highly unlikely, and the communities have already made a decision. Sleep well knowing that having access to boundless finances does not make one a useful and well regarded person.
Why two weeks? Who decides that's the cutoff?

I think two weeks is a pretty minor "funk"
To hide implementation details from class users. You ideally only want to have a documented interface and all implementation details should be opaque to class users. This can be quite tricky and usually classes will export some state, typically done through getters and setters.

Then one day you decide you want to aggressively refactor that class. Now you can because the interface can stay the same even though you could completely re-do the guts. Better still: all your tests will still work, as will your class documentation.
Putting aside the absurd attack labeling my argument as pro-car (don't own one by the way), I'll I'm saying is that public transport ain't cheap nor free, and has a cost. You can cover your eyes, be against x or y, but that won't stop things from being different.
Anecdotally, I was in college for 95-99, and I think we are in a much better place, free-speech-wise, than back then. I think perhaps a LOT of people underestimate the extent to which a lot of the biases that e.g. people of color discuss today were so pervasive that one could not even bring them up without reprisal back then.

And by reprisal I mean the following: if I were to merely discuss --as in, not advocate for, but merely discuss as a concept -- reparations, I'd immediately be dismissed and generally forever known as the angry black guy.

Of course, not to purely blame white people I suppose, that was just the "way things were." In retrospect, the line someone like me had to walk was far narrower back then.

We do have problems today, but I do not see a huge gap between those then and now.
>> Many people talk about how much better they feel after a 30 min run

You don't even need to run. Starting your day with a 15min walk has huge benefits. Maybe someday most people can actually enjoy their physical activities but start by forcing yourself to do something, similar to flossing your teeth, will form the habit and give you a taste of the positive benefits.
Url changed from https://lwn.net/Articles/902410/, which points to this.
A large part of the problem is that in software there is a traditional conflation of (a) time marks to measure elapsed time and (b) events where we want to know what their wall-clock date/time is. Those should in principle be kept separate. One can use a monotonic elapsed-time clock for the former and a calendar/wall-clock based clock for the latter. Conversion between the two shouldn’t be done gratuitously, and have to be done with the awareness that the mapping to future wall-clock dates (and sometimes also to past ones) is subject to change. APIs and data types reifying that distinction would be helpful.
This is useful when class A is from system or 3rd party library header so you can't just change it (unless you want to maintain the patch).
Firefox is porting or replacing entire libraries.

(The idea with Carbon is you could replace specific C++ classes or headers.)
> garages with seagull cars parked.

I assume these are not cars driven by seagulls, but I'm not sure what else that phrase could mean.
If smearing were adopted as standard, the "seconds," "minutes," and "hours" appearing in timestamps would no longer correspond to literal seconds minutes, and hours of duration, even in principle. That seems very misleading and bad.
Soft buttons and software-mediated knobs replacing real buttons and real knobs that actually do things.

Best microwave I've ever used was made in, I think, the late 70s. Didn't even have a turntable, and worked just fine without it, somehow. No clock at all. The "UI" was two heavy-feeling knobs, one for power and one for time. Turn the time knob, and it starts cooking at your selected power until the time runs down, with the knob itself tick-tocking down to zero and setting off a physical(!) buzzer. Want to add more time? Turn the knob while it's still running, no problem. Realize you added too much time? Ditto, but in reverse. Exactly as you'd expect. Simply pull the door open, no button for that, even.

Intuitive, simple, felt great to use, and did 100% of what I want out of a microwave.

Basically anything that used to have real buttons and knobs that have been replaced by shitty-feeling rubber-covered buttons and knobs that merely communicate suggestions, hooked up to an embedded computer, has a worse UI than what it replaced. And don't get me started on touch-sensitive buttons. At least touch screens have some excuse, some purpose. Dedicated touch-sensitive buttons are like some kind of practical joke, and have been central to several of my worst experiences with products.
There is no way to meaningfully separate latent demand from induced demand. It's a distinction without a difference. Many customers don't even know what they want until marketing shows them what's available.
I don’t want them to show up in auto complete and accidentally use them because its not my business, I should not use things that I shouldnt.
- Social media

- Ad-trackers

- App stores/subscriptions

- Cookie banners

- Stupid "AI"

- Ridiculous customer service chatbots/IVR call-trees

- Cryptocurrency scams
Exactly my thoughts as well— why did they bid in the first place?
Yeah the goal is to enjoy life and being healthy makes that possible for longer. I try to eat healthy but no one is keeping me away from my occasional cheesy pasta or burger. No one.