skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the flip side, I have most of the books I continue to use after graduate school, even though the material can be found online in most places.

Why?

1. Books are way more permanent than Kindle's terms of service, PDFs require fragile digital storage either locally or through a cloud service, etc.

2. I refer to things I read years or even a decade after reading them, and sometimes need a refresher

In addition to these, I have classics, scifi, novels I found interesting, and loads of pop-[field] introductory readings for my children to enjoy.

It is awesome to hear a six year old talk about what they read in "A Brief History of Time" and let their unbound curiosity and imagination try to expand their understanding of the universe.

My parents, somewhat hoarders at that stage of life, had years of Readers Digest and National Geographic when I was young. Having access to decades of print materials that most today would minimalistically confine to the rubbish bin set the direction of my life for exploration and discovery.
The UK trade figures are a disaster for Brexiteers – and for Britain
> If your company was structured as a co-op, yes. Of course you'd probably make them buy in at a certain level, or else their ownership would be lower than yours by enough that they wouldn't be able to vote you down (or at least not until their share vests several years down the line). But fundamentally you should have some skin in the game; they're putting their time and effort into the company too, you owe it to them not to fuck it up and they deserve to be able to replace you if you go off the rails.

Hang on, this sounds just like a C corp with shares that employees are required to buy. No?
There are actually dozens of chess variants out there. Yet, the classic version seems to remain the most popular.
I have a very similar alias that’s bound to ‘cl’
> unleaded gasoline needs something to raise its octane rating

Probably naive, what does this mean? There are unleaded gases for sale that are ethanol free at some gas stations (typically only the premium / highest octane) which are often preferred for small motors / high end engines. I don't think they mix in lead, is MTBE what is added instead in those cases? I haven't heard of MTBE before.

ETA: I've been able to find a number of sites for WI gas stations saying "we have ethanol free," but none of them mention what is added in its place (if anything).
Hopefully we'll get cross-platform (desktops, mobile, and web) GUI libraries that aren't using webtech on non-web platforms soon. Flutter is already viable, I believe. There are also some interesting movements in Rust-land: Lapce uses Druid to run on all desktop platforms. Sadly, neither Druid nor Iced support the mobile OSes yet. But eventually we might be able to forget about all these Electron and Electron-esque messes.
Adam Neumann is what happens when you put all your SPECIAL stats into charisma
>Unfortunately, some women find after their arrival that the men they encounter are not as perfect as the ones portrayed on their screens.

Oh dear oh dear, these women are clearly delusional if they think Korean men are the same as portrayed on TV soaps. Seriously, brain washed.

To these women I say, please leave, don't come back. Take these effeminate men learn what it is like to be a traditional Korean wife.
Good to get some official debate going on this.

Crash reports, error events, feature flags, installation telemetry, however convenient it is to have this information, none of it is essential.

The services that are often used to implement these things (sentry, segment, launchdarkly, etc. etc.) - and then in particular the APIs and the "all-batteries-included" SDKs they usually offer, make it very easy to collect a much wider array of data beyond these faux essentials at, essentially, the flick of a switch. And, besides, whose to say these services don't and/or won't abuse these capabilities?

I hope for this official debate to push back a bit against the normalization of this.
Some zsh functions I can't live without

mkcd() {
mkdir -p "$1" && cd "$1"
}

mkcdtmp() {
mkcd ~/tmp/$(date "+%y%m%d")
}
MS stopped releasing those figures. Their official reasoning was that it doesn't really matter since the money is in the software (true). The real reason IMO was because they were embarrassed.
Or maybe different people have different values.
Statement to Financial Stability Oversight Council: Regulating Digital Assets
I think Consumer Reports has an opinionated editorial voice. But I think that’s inevitable in that line of work.

SUVs evolved to address the risks pointed out by CR and other entities. They mostly have wider wheelbases and lower centers of gravity.
Fyi this site is horrific in darkmode on mobile

https://imgur.com/5RXFtrz
Mostly agree, but I find as time goes on there's an increasingly larger percentage of prospective books to read that I'm blase about, not unlike TV and film. I now abort after a few chapters if it does nothing for me. I've done this for authors I know and like. More likely for me to finish non-fiction over fiction. The only books I've wanted to read twice over so far are from Dostoevsky and Pynchon.
It could be nice to have import-maps composability. However, I don't think it is planned because browsers' import-maps are not composable. I dislike the deps.ts concept. It is one of the main reason I did not switch to Deno yet.
Those eight guys I knew who split the rickety house with the two ovens whose pilot lights kept going out had plenty of social belonging. There's a huge racket in convincing freshmen to spend money they don't have, in order to live someplace just as nice as their parents had after they spent 20 or more years improving it.

You're right about cooking, at least in my experience, but you have to take a first step sometime. I grew up in the 90s with two working parents who kept different hours, and didn't learn to cook until my late 20s. But I think people's priorities are shifting, especially now that wfh is more normal.
Not mind-blowing but I use it all the time to loop a task a certain number of times. I always forget the bash command for loops so I just wrote a simple command where I can run `loop 10 ./this-other thing and stuff` to loop ten times.

loop() {
NUM=$1
shift
for i in {1..$NUM}; do
"$@"
done
}
I would like to see import_maps managed with nix. Deno "lacking" a package manager seems like a great opportunity for content addressable web bundles.
Let me see if I got this right. Instead of a16z using its resources to actively push for YIMBY changes in society and politics that would actually have positive outcomes on the problems stated, it's investing in the next idea from the WeWork dream seller / scammer, and we don't even know what the venture is? Is this what the venture capital world has become in 2022?
I used to have a high opinion of venture capital, seeing them as tech visionaries and folks with access to deep pockets that fund the best technology that is truly changing the world. Maybe something has changed, but now all I see are just financial hustlers, working markets, trying to capture or corner spaces with "unicorns", looking for M&A activity that might have already been pre-negotiated looking for something to fill that spot, and weird market plays that never seemed to make sense financially (Web3? WeWork?). My perception now of VC is much like any other private equity play. They're in it for the financial hustle, and I don't feel that their "ideas" really hold much water. Why we look up to VCs as thought-leaders and visionaires when they are financial creatures beats me.

While the top VC players may have earned the respect by themselves being visionary entrepreneurs (once, decades ago in many cases), the rest of the VC market is filled with also-ran investors who have never been practicing entrepreneurs, following markets like lemmings and looking for a relatively quick buck while not even understanding the markets they invest in. When I hear someone is an investor, especially if they're not one of the handful few of well-known investors, I just think to myself "banker". I don't know if it's always been like this, but it certainly feels like it's gotten worse.
Killer apps for me: Games was HZD and Spiderman. Hardware was rechargeable controller, and the PS4 itself. All my friends' xboxs would get stuck updating and they would have to force restart several times. Nothing like that has happened to me on my PS4.
Okay I dislike the US copyright system immensely - virulent yearning for reasonable terms and ending sampling payments forever more…

But let’s get practical here for a minute - if an ape can’t own the copyright to a selfie, then nothing generated by a machine - no matter how sentient - will legally be protected.

Just keep that in mind, because the ML results will not abide by human creation protections.
Porsche signs 25-year solar energy deal
Does the probability of rolling snake eyes increase each time you roll something else?

You're describing the Gambler's Fallacy.
Don't tell that to the Germans. They would rather have rolling blackouts than go back to nuclear.
ICBM is a very common term. For example, the NY Times uses it in headlines. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/24/world/asia/north-korea-ba...
>he collision avoidance system couldn't determine if the vehicle was in-lane or not because of the very small overlap.

And this some small glitch? This should not be the first problem you would solve, detect big objects, then you move to the next problem detect the object speeds, then you move to determine the objects next position.

It seems they did not solved the first essential problem yet.

Teslas hit cement lane separators, hit firetrucks, would have hit a tram/train, hot those small metal poles, dis-engaged in many regular city conditions. This tech is far from ready this decade - what I think it needs is better sensors that can detect solid objects or maybe 100 times more GPU power and 1000 times more training data.

The numbers are not public because it will show that the AI is less safe then a human, if it were close then for sure Tesla PR could have spin it in a good light for them.
I also think that buying books somehow creates the feeling of being productive, "oh I have bought this book, I will learn so much and end up becoming a better person", while (when you don't end up reading the book), you just wasted your time and money. Much better to always only buy one book, absorb the knowledge/enjoy the story and only afterwards buy the next.
Some of them do use lead:

https://www.classicfuelsolutions.co.uk/products/classic-fuel...

That's a UK supplier but an answer on Quora suggests 'race' fuels are sold in the US with lead too. Not legal to use on the road though.

> Effective January 1, 1996, leaded gasoline was banned by the Clean Air Act for use in new vehicles other than aircraft, racing cars, farm equipment, and marine engines.
New evidence suggests giant asteroid impacts created Earth’s continents
Its quite annoying that you can't disable parts of guardduty you don't get much value from. I think the CloudTrail monitoring is quite useful and the VPC flowlog monitoring is basically useless (to me, I have other means of doing host and network based monitoring, I'm sure that there are a lot of people who get meaningful value out of it). I'd like to be able to turn off flowlog monitoring and just use guardduty for cloudtrail monitoring, but that isn't an option. So I can either overpay for a bunch of extra things I don't get any value from or not enable guardduty at all.
Very similar to the core concept of this book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
Ask HN: [London] Software Engineering for Social Good?
I am wondering how software engineers, like myself, can help utilize their skill set working for local or small businesses that otherwise wouldn't have their problems solved at all.
Any ideas of how to go about finding London specific businesses or charities or research institutes (or others) that might need software engineers, but can't afford them?
Software engineering in that context could be about helping them with their social presence (websites/apps), helping with their internal process (internal tools to help streamline their process), etc.
You are stepping back and looking how your decision consequences will impact the network of causes and consequences that exists on the real world.

Root cause analysis is a different thing.
Revery – Native, high-performance, cross-platform desktop apps built with Reason
Not sure why are getting dowvoted. Honestly every MS thread here on HN is a shit show. Maybe I live in a fairy land but I never ever had a problem. Cold boot Windows 10 + launching any game and I'm in the main menu in 50s (and I only have an i7-7700 + GTX 1070). Have a PS5 right next to me and I can't start games faster at all. The claims here in the comments are especially baffling when I assume HN is a very technically capable audience. Maybe I was wrong.
It's like Tim Ferris, filtered for the "intellectual" topics. Yawn
Maybe the solution to the housing crisis is to build more affordable housing and to eliminate the practice of using housing as an investment / safe place to park money. Also, outlaw or heavily regulate Airbnb.

I don't think another VC-funded app with cool branding is going to save us.
From turning on my PC to being able to play is 1) 2 minutes to get to a Windows login; 2) 1-3 minutes to get to a desktop; 3) 10-20 minutes whilst {Steam updates, GOG updates, Oculus starts, GeForce desktop deigns to launch, etc.} making everything else unresponsive; 4) 2-5 minutes for a game to start - assuming it does, I think I'm currently running 50-50 on Binding of Isaac launching correctly vs just hanging.

Minecraft is even worse - starting ManyMC is under a minute (good) but then launching (a medium-ly modded) Minecraft is sometimes 15 minutes of wait. In contrast, the same version with the same mods on my M1 Macbook Pro is under a minute (including starting the launcher.)
Also much easier to focus and absorb the knowledge
The article has a refers to a few sources towards the end including:

One such study found that children who grew up in homes with between 80 and 350 books showed improved literacy, numeracy, and information communication technology skills as adults.

I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss this as vanity or consumerism.
I have a different but related question. Let's say i use a dall-e like ai to generate character models for my next game. Are they copyrightable? What would stop someone to outright rip off the models from my game and use them in other works?
If it's within steam (IMHO the best option for a big-screen experience), it takes ~30 sec to start the launcher, connecting to the server, wait for it to update itself, logging the user in (sometimes needing the password) and then splashing an additional screen while the saves are synchronized after starting the game.

It's also only in a single place in the start menu. But the start menu isn't a great place for big-screen gaming. It doesn't have the sorting features, metadata (play time, friend are playing, screenshots, ..) and is not usable with a controller. It just isn't intended as a game library selector. If you want to integrate them into a single place with at least some of the features (like Steam) it's additional effort (in the worst case, per game).

Purchasing the game isn't always possible on GOG or Steam. EA didn't have all their games on Steam for a long time, Epic has their exclusives and probably some others I'm forgetting. You also always have to interact with stores from other companies, even if you buy within steam. I have 7 accounts only for PC gaming that I'd still need even if I didn't chase lower prices. That's one on consoles.

Windows also has popups on startup, trying to get you to do something and updates take much longer than on console (and can also delay startup after the last shutdown), sometimes driver issues. A couple of launchers start in the background, popping up because they want an update, some special one-time event and so on .

To get it all running while using a gamepad on a TV, without needing a wireless keyboard during a typical gaming session, is a lot of tinkering that many would like to avoid.

If I just want to play a game for 20-30 minutes, that's a lot of friction and annoyance.

Playing older games often requires a separate console (increasing cost) but generally works. On PC it's often pretty painful (controller config doesn't match up with DirectInput vs XInput, compatibility patches needed, other weird issues).
This is a great suggestion. I immediately checked archive.org and found a bonanza of Microwriter material. https://archive.org/search.php?query=microwriter&sin=
That sounds communist, not socialist, due to the housing and food rations, command structure, and depending on your enlistment agreement, inability to separate at will from the org.

Socialism: a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
I can turn off the devices remotely if something gets too hot (via WireGuard), but I’ve never done it for the temperature.
But in my house, like every house, there’s a fridge, a boiler, the A/Cs, burners with gas, etc… everything could get on fire.

I can also call my parents or neighbors to ask if they are seeing smoke out of my house =] that’s the most efficient alarm!
They already exist, but few want to use them. Qt is a thing and has been for a very long time. It really wouldn't take much effort to interface with it from JavaScript.
Well. While there's no official AWS Lambda runtime, you can always use a custom image to use deno as a lambda function.

Here is just one from the community
https://github.com/hayd/deno-lambda
> Excessive monitoring has negative psycho-social consequences including increased resistance, decreased job satisfaction, increased stress, decreased organisational commitment and increased turnover propensity.

I want to track companies that leverage or have leveraged such technologies. This is one of the most important topics for me as an employee. I want my employer to be goal oriented, otherwise I have to waste my time. But information here is scarce. You only see that there apparently are a lot of customers for these monitoring solutions. I want to know how the employers use them. This is most relevant to evaluate the trust the companies has in its employees and how toxic the work environment is.
I actually dislike the space-filling aspect, but greatly prefer a physical book. Any chance there's an alternative to a screen that delivers what you want, I say take it.
As others mentioned, yes! If you’re curious on how it works I write a sort of deep-dive on the git internals of how this works: https://nathancraddock.com/blog/2022/custom-git-commands/
Going to use this opportunity to spam ShellCheck, because it has historically saved me dozens of hours catching many silent Bash scripting errors and just making my scripts more robust/warning me of obscure edge cases:

https://www.shellcheck.net/
I have a pair of solidteknics - they're pricey as all get out, but they are very nice pans (wedding registry ftw).

The handle does get hot, but it takes a LONG time. I can easily cook a couple eggs, or make a few grilled cheese sandwiches without any problem.

Cooking a whole batch of pancakes is too long through - I need sleeve/glove after about 25 minutes. Even then, though - it's not "burn me" hot, it's just uncomfortable to hold for more than a few seconds.
0.07 KB/S???? Are you okay my dude?!
The campaign group Led By Donkeys (exactly what it means) has produced a video Brexit: an update

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUiJxH2pclM
I think it depends on what people find comfortable. Sitting on a sofa after a long day at work vs. sitting at a PC desk (with probably a decent chair but still not as comfy as a couch) and keeping the same posture that you had at work.

I still think that mouse and keyboard gives me better control on the game, and I don’t like the stuttering that happens when using a controller to look around in an RPG. Compare that to a 144Hz mouse and monitor.
I'd add how I load a terminal enviroment for different profiles.

In .zshrc I have the least possible things so it opens fast. But I include the commands that would extend (srcBlah) or help me tune how to extend (editBlah):

For my pet projects I'd use these two:

alias editSeb="code ~/.sebrc"
alias srcSeb="source ~/.sebrc"

As you can see, editSet opens VSCode and src is sourcing it in the current terminal.

.sebrc

# Download video from the given YouTube URL
function ytdl() {
youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 --prefer-ffmpeg $1
}

# Download audio from the given YouTube URL
function ytmp3() {
ytdl $1 | ffmpeg -i pipe:0 -b:a 320K -vn $2.mp3
}

# Shows total size of the given directory at $1
function dus() {
du -h -d 1 $1
}

# Used to opt-out of pre-commit autofixes
export NO_COMMIT_CHECKS=true

function cleanUSB() {
volumeName=$1
subdir=$2
if [[ "$volumeName" != "" ]] && [[ "$subdir" = "" ]]; then
rm -rfv /Volumes/$volumeName/.DS_Store
rm -rfv /Volumes/$volumeName/.Spotlight-V100
rm -rfv /Volumes/$volumeName/.fseventsd
rm -rfv /Volumes/$volumeName/.Trashes
rm -rfv /Volumes/$volumeName/._\*
echo "Volume $volumeName is clean"
elif [[ "$volumeName" != "" ]] && [[ "$subdir" != "" ]]; then
rm -rfv /Volumes/$volumeName/$subdir/.DS_Store
rm -rfv /Volumes/$volumeName/$subdir/.Spotlight-V100
rm -rfv /Volumes/$volumeName/$subdir/.fseventsd
rm -rfv /Volumes/$volumeName/$subdir/.Trashes
rm -rfv /Volumes/$volumeName/$subdir/._\*
echo "Volume $volumeName/$subdir is clean"
else
echo "No volume name given. Nothing to do."
fi
}

function blogBackup() {
rsync -avzh --progress -e ssh root@seb-nyc1-01:/root/blog/db /Users/seb/Documents/blog
}

alias showHiddenFiles='defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES; killall Finder /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app'
alias hideHiddenFiles='defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO; killall Finder /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app'

# Show ports currently listening
function openPorts() {
netstat -p tcp -van | grep '^Proto\|LISTEN'
}

# Create a RAM disk on macOS
function ramDisk() {
# https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/46348-how-to-create-and-use-a-ram-disk-with-your-mac-warnings-included/
# 2048 = 1MB
# 2097152 = 1G
quantityOfBlocks=2097152
diskutil erasevolume HFS+ "RAMDisk" `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://${quantityOfBlocks}`
}

# Tauri watcher for source file changes will not stop automatically.
function killRollup() {
ps aux | grep node | grep rollup | awk '{print $2;}' | xargs kill -9 $1
}

# X pet project required env var
export X_TOKEN=blahValue

function dockerCleanAll() {
docker stop $(docker ps -aq)
docker rm $(docker ps -aq)
docker rmi $(docker images -q) -f
}

function dockerCleanVolumes() {
docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -qf dangling=true)
}

alias ll='ls -lah'
alias gg='git status -s'

# Creates a timestamped backup of the current branch:
alias gbk='git checkout -b "backup-$(git symbolic-ref -q HEAD --short)-$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S)" && git checkout -'
That doesn't appear to be about difficulties buying land.
Next week on HN: Adam Neumann sells Flow trademark to Flow for 2 million.
Adam should write a book “how to fail upwards in silicon valley”

What is infuriating is that there is so much great work done by great people on building strong resilient and affordable towns which are a pleasure to live and work in, but the easy VC money flows to the wierdo charlatans instead.
Yeah. A lot of it is convention of course. But where I work, Google Chat for individuals and small groups has sort of developed in general into a higher priority interrupt than email. e.g. are you joining this scheduled call?

On the other hand, the group chat for a broader team I'm in is more likely to be used for idle non-work-related chit chat.

And phone calls basically aren't used at all outside of scheduled meetings.