skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And also whales. They eat them. And these goals say to eat more, to save the fish.

PS: I'm not even sure whales eat fish that much. Either plankton or squid.
opposite for me. replaced many thumbsticks on 360 controllers, have had better luck with XBone. but, i kinda suspect the same cheapo parts are used on both, so...
Incredible! Thanks for sharing this.
I'm hungry now.

I'm sure chestnuts can be good in lots of ways, but "nutty" isn't one of them.
> Whales, the argument goes, consume a ruinous quantity of fish, and controlling their population is critical for preserving the oceans’ diversity. An online video from an industry association recommends eating the mammals “to protect the balance of the marine ecosystem and contribute to marine S.D.G.s!”
> Languages with First-Class Functions include JavaScript, Hack

It says there are only 2 languages with first-class functions, not sure how much stock I would put into this data set.
Why is GCP bad?
They're also one of 3 nations still hunting whales. Iceland and Norway are the others.
Can't it be some kind of self-explaining recursive thing - Doesn't it have to be? I think this is what Christopher Langan is on about with his CTMU theory.
I really love when science goes so deep, it loops back around into philosophy. When I took intro philosophy in college, I really was pleased how deeply it is ingrained in everything else. There’s a reason people like Descartes are well known in both math and philosophy.
Relax for the same result (2015)
Maybe a cliche around here but the book that popped into my mind when reading your list is Godel, Escher, Bach. Maybe not part 4 but the first three.

This book has a very specific thesis but the way it’s introduced is artful and perhaps even literary. The revelations sort of sneak up on you, planted as seeds and tended quietly
Same, been running 4 rails apps on a $40 per month droplet.

Works really well for small projects. One of which has gained traction and I’m about to migrate off. Not that I have any issues that I need to migrate away for, but it seems sensible to have it on its own infra / isolated environment if we’re going to be working on it more seriously.
"When I notice that I’m all stressed out about something or driving myself to exhaustion, I remember that bike ride and try dialing back my effort by 50 percent. It’s been amazing how often everything gets done just as well and just as fast, with what feels like half the effort." -- Listen to Derek Sivers.
maybe not a particularly useful comment to many, but there's a recent Econtalk episode with Tyler Cowen on the topic of reading: https://www.econtalk.org/tyler-cowen-on-reading/ (transcript available on the site as well).

I enjoyed the episode a lot. Not sure if better than the podcast episode the submission story is based on, but I don't know the podcast in question and like Econtalk. And since the latter seems to get some love with the HN crowd regularly, thought I'd make some people aware.
SparkNotes can get you through enough of a book for a C in a small fraction of the time it would take to read the book. In fact, I got more out of SparkNotes’ vernacular-ified versions of Shakespeare than I did out of reading the actual Shakespeare.
USDA guidelines are heavily influenced by the food industry. 95% of advisors to the dietary guidelines had conflicts of interest with major food interests, and the food industry is a major lobbyist in Congress. This is not new-it’s been this way for a very long time.

https://www.verywellhealth.com/dietary-guidelines-committee-...
Same background here (50+ started programming when I was 11). However I don’t regret it at all. Some of my happiest memories of my childhood is overcoming really hard programming problems and suddenly deeply understanding something I had been trying to understand for days/weeks. With nobody to help me and no online access to any resources. Just a single book “Programming Machine Code on the ZX-Spectrum” as a guide. I still remember finally getting my first machine code program (hand translated from assembler) to work without the computer crashing. The sense of achievement blew my mind. And still does today with much harder problems.
XKPasswd is the best tool to generate a strong memorable password imo.

https://xkpasswd.net/s/
I guess five years ago you could still easily use a five year old pirated photoshop?
if you can herd a cat, you can herd a sheep
SoCal has noticeable swings in humidity during the year; if you live in range of the marine layer, also during the day.
Yeah just for the lawn/garden although it might be interesting to extend it to household and even drinking water if I find a good solution.

Fascinating, left field idea about generating money to pay for the water too.
You make a fine point... maybe their country did get reduced to a heap of corruption and banditry by a gang of terrorists--but at least the whites aren't in charge!
People still use programs like grafx2 and klystrack. They don't need big updates - they are what they are and do what they do nicely.
Was it really needed to have private jet for that? I feel it could have been shipped in an enveloppe.
Modern astroturf is surprisingly well done, if you don’t want to do a full desert-style landscaping.
Once, someone pointed out to me that we spend a large amount of time with our feet in shoes and our hands on a keyboard, but somehow a closet full of shoes is more readily accepted than even just a pair of keyboards to switch between. I felt good about buying a second keyboard after that
That's basically what I have done intuitively, maybe the pencils just suck because they tend to break immediately when I sharpen them with that much lead protruding.
No, it's just complete bullshit. Zero reasoning, just wild claims. Your argument with me started out not that bad and I tried to use sound logic to see who might be right. But as the argument went on you drifted more into babble, left the realm of logic and gave up addressing my arguments. Now we're in full tilt nonsense territory it seems.
Exactly this. I groan every time there’s a new yaml config format to learn, develop for and support. It feels like:

https://xkcd.com/927/
Some of your comments are described in the extended syntax specifications[0].

[0]: https://xit.jotaen.net/syntax-guide
Maybe someone with an agricultural background would have an easier time researching this, but:

"mostly" Monsanto? Or is that just an older, famous example? Lots of companies sell seeds in mass quantities -- are you saying none of them sell GMO seeds?
How'd you get your tree originally? Do you think it has some resistance? How large is it now?
> If anything I think we have moved backwards. We are no longer looking at making copies of grep and dd. If you want to make an actual alternative to Photoshop you'll need thousands of workers spread over a lot of skill sets. You need cloud technology specialists, AI/ML experts, R&D, design experts to do real studies and interviews with users, etc. [...]

I'd see that as making progress, not moving backwards!

It means open source has solved the 'easy' cases, and only the harder ones remain.

(It's a bit like after humans have visited the moon, complaining that going to Mars will require more effort; and saying that this means we have moved backwards.)
I fail to see how that would keep my knees or my garbage vertebra from not degenerating further.

Perhaps it's reasonable for people without any major debilitating physical defects or infirmities.

Last time I tried to not act my age I was zooming along on my Segway and it decided to drive faster than the inertia of my body and dumped me on my back (5 broken ribs) and shoulder (totally detached biceps tendon and major tear of my rotator cuff) which took surgery, 2 months of total inactivity and 6 months of grueling rehab to get back to good motion.
Edit feature has a timeout lock.
Most people appear to have a very one-dimensional view of the environment overall. If this is true, it means that even if most agree urban sprawl is bad people still struggle to agree on how to fix it. Have you ever read William Cronon’s The Trouble with Wilderness? It was published in ‘96. The core idea still doesn’t seem widely accepted or even acknowledged.

For a humorous anecdote to support this, I once matched with a girl on a dating app who did so only to lecture me about building cairns because I had a picture containing one (dodged that bullet). She had no idea I was within city limits and didn’t seem to care. I had violated the sanctity of nature because someone had told her that she should think so.
The main thing “free electricity” would let you do is install a large underground rainwater storage tank that you could pump from.

Be sure to anchor the tank even if buried so it doesn’t pop out of the ground when empty.
This isn’t entirely true. If you have WiFi calling enabled, you can also send SMS over WiFi if the carrier supports it. I use this extensively when traveling internationally.
Most top STEM departments are very immigrant-heavy (sometimes more than 50%). It can be both true that US universities have top departments, while Americans are disadvantaged at getting in (by having weaker foundations, particularly in math).

A STEM professor once told me he needed a Masters in math before they would let him in. They doubted an American with just an undergrad degree could handle the technical challenge. This was almost 2 decades ago, since then the gap may have widened a bit.
You have a better ear than you think! I tried it again (and actually tried all the notes this time...) and the F is definitely flat. It's particularly noticeable in the 5th octave (i.e. if you play C5 D5 E5 F5), but all the F's appear to have the issue. I verified (by ear) against Pianoteq set to equal temperament.

The other notes sound OK. The A and B might be a tiny bit flat too but my ear isn't good enough, and if they're flat they're nowhere near as far off as the F. OP, how are you specifying notes/pitches to the synthesizer?
I like to think of this as a paradigm shift from businesses focusing on vertical integration where the same entity develops and maintains client- and server-side software and infrastructure and acts as the sole service provider, to a separation of service providers and software maintainers. It's a natural consequence of specialization and commoditization. We're already seeing this in cloud computing and databases. Case in point from OP: Dokku/Heroku. There is no reason why Dokku should have been a threat to Heroku. Ideally open-source tooling should only serve to strengthen someone like Heroku (whether they would have continued as a PaaS or pivoted to selling their software or other services around it). For a more recent example, I think the window for introducing another Netlify under the same model on the same scale is closing.

This is not bad news for business per se, it just requires a different strategy. If your service is solid, you should just be grateful that someone else can provide client software accommodating for users needs you may be neglecting or lacking the resources to accommodate. If you're a software builder it's a win to have a flourishing ecosystem of service providers for users to choose from, increasing the usefulness of your software and widening your market through the efforts of others.

If you have a proprietary API (openly documented or not) time is ticking.

Rent-seekers will struggle as their capabilities to hold customers hostage weaken. Businesses focusing on providing customer value (actual experienced value) should do well as long as they match their niche with their strengths.

Look at Tailscale. I think they get this.
Same reason why banks keep loaning Trump companies when they default over and over again and why lawyers keep working for Trump when he refuses to pay them.

They think the cache of being associated with Trump will have some future benefit. They have been wrong for 40 years.
Choosing not to allow renewals would have been been acceptable but they straight cancelled those domains prematurely before the term of registration had ended. Basically pulling the rug out from underneath people without giving them adequate time to migrate. Allowing domains to be sniped by unscrupulous parties who put malware on them which hurt many thousands of people (mostly foreigners who had nothing to do with Russia). Totally irresponsible and criminally negligent behavior for any registrar. I hope they get sued for for breaking their own contracts and causing widespread destruction via malware.
Honestly, you're doing a good job proving my point.

In your first example, you're just offsetting some ostensibly bad macro with different macro. And I see no compelling reason to strongly favor theory 2 over theory 1, given the same problem that's endemic to pretty much all macro, you can't treat this like a "scientific experiment." Change the variables a bit and you could probably come up with a different outcome.

To be clear, I 100% stand on my astrology point -- but I also say that to punch up astrology a little bit. For both macroeconomics and astrology, neither has very good predictive power of the sort that you should rely on, but both have the potential to kind of jog our brains a little bit to open up paths to interesting ideas.

They're equal.
Also living in Japan and have never seen it.
It's a running joke in New York that if the NYT writes a piece on a particular trend or sub-culture it may as well be the subject's obituary.
Yup on safari mobile it is just a bunch of clicks.
I don't understand why everyone is using their own OCI compatible image formats for PaaS, it seems anti user, and likely decreases portability. Adding your own image format over complicates this when you can rely on docker images or nixpacks or whatever. Having 10 competing image formats is anything but useful.
X-100 (house)
Yes, it is stupid. Adding 4k to every prompt introduces bias. Yes. That doesn't mean learning the ins and outs of each phrases bias is a reasonable idea. It's also not guaranteed to be a constant effect. Its great that you can become more skilled at prompts, that doesn't make it a good interaction model. The interface is a tool and tools are important. That there are people who are great at typewriters doesn't mean they're all that reasonable in the age of computers and word processors.

> But you can go a lot further, for example by manually subtracting weights. Teasing MidJourney with this prompt was entertaining:

This is an example of an improvement from basic prompts. It's still far from a good model. "Guess and check" is basically the worst UX one can create for a design process.

One should be able to specify content separately from style, and layer in stylistic choices in a clear hierarchy. Text is a good model for specifying content. It's a pretty shitty way to specify style. Style is something we could likely convey visually and with pallet reference points.
Here's some background on the simple open source project used for data reporting on the SDGs co-developed by the US, UK, and some other countries - https://open-sdg.org/blog/2021-01-09-open-sdg-origins/
Yes and actually a little bit of the front yard (no idea why) has the artificial stuff and it looks much better than I imagined. I haven’t looked at costs but I expect it’d be expensive to replace everything. I should at least get a quote - thanks for the reminder.
> Debt usually has monthly or yearly payments

Sovereign debt, the kind that is typically compared to GDP only pays out interest periodically, not the principal.
What was unjust was the laws demonizing weed. They have absolutely ruined these peoples lives with these garbage convictions, since having a federal felony on your record automatically rules you out of numerous jobs. So it’s only natural to offer recourse for past garbage decisions.
We’re about a 15 minute walk from the ocean. Does the marine layer extend that far inland ?
I think something that went unsaid here is that readers have fundamentally different reasons to pick up a book. Someone like Tyler Cowen, or indeed many commenters here, are quite keen to absorb knowledge, and time may be limited.

I enjoy reading for learning, but I also enjoy reading to quiet my mind, to practice focus, and to bring myself joy from the beauty of a tapestry of words. I agree with you that some of these objectives can’t be accomplished by ruthlessly discarding a book that doesn’t immediately captivate.
You can install Firefox on ChromeOS. (At least I've done it on ChromeOS Flex.) However, just like Windows 98 used Internet Explorer for some of its internals (eg the 'live' Desktop), so does ChromeOS use Chrome for eg tweaking the settings.
Yes, could be. In that case "largely discussed in this thread" would have that meaning more than "discussed largely in this thread". To me those parse like "(largely discussed) (in this thread)" and "discussed (largely in this thread)".
It's JSON with some syntactical sugar. Is that really so bad?
I have always loved Naval Ravikant’s thoughts on reading (see https://youtube.com/watch?v=z6rklFf69z8), which align nicely with this article.
There was a highly recommended book where you followed along with cpu or architecture design and then bootstrapped a compiler. I can’t find it now. Does anyone know what I’m talking about?
Correct. We can't prove the existance and we can't disprove the existance. Either side would be wrong.

Religion claims there is a god.
Science says just we don't know.

It is pointless to be on the side of religion because as we agreed one cannot prove or disprove it and therefor it becomes indestinguishable from any other claim that can't be falsified. Christianity says there is a god. I say there's a funny pink machine spitting out universes. You can't prove me wrong so you can't say who is right.
Are cars good or bad? People love to go fast and cars are so convenient.

But then again, they pollute the planet and kill innocent animals—and sometimes people.

But wait, cars save lives, like when someone needs to get to the hospital quickly. Or, they provide a way to visit family or get to an important event. And thank goodness we don’t ride horses anymore-horses probably didn’t get a vote on that whole thing.

In summary, it is probably not possible to label anything as either just good or just bad. One could argue that everything, including technology, is really just a good-bad sandwich.

I believe that Eastern philosophy has nailed this concept.
That tutorial belongs in the Tech and Zero-DRM Publishing Halls of Fame for

- free to read digital content
- paid paper books
- paid video upsell
- multiple six figures of revenue
- frequent updates

Shockingly, few have tried to repeat this feat, despite Hartl providing a low-fee SaaS for this purpose.
Twilio Hackers Scarf 10K Okta Credentials in Sprawling Supply-Chain Attack
the PS Vita is an excellent console, especially give how old it is.

What's sad is that modding anything requires a level of technical knowledge and patience that most will not have. I fully agree with you though - i bought a used Vita and could not be happier with it as a handheld console.
I guess what I would say on this is: Consider your average Microeconomics 101 and Macroeconomics 101.

Micro will probably give the average person a few useful tools for business, because it's pretty easy to see where the model is just a model, but basic supply/demand stuff might come in handy.

Macro, on the other hand, will literally make you dumber.
I don't really see the big value proposition here.

Sure, deploying a single app config is much more awkward than it should be. (Build config: Helm, Jsonnet, Cue, kustomize,...? How to deploy: Gitops/CI, manually , Octopus, Tekton, Argo, ... ?)

But the real difficulty is in connecting different parts of your architecture.

The Getting Started example is extremely flawed: for local development you want a local Postgres and Redis, but in production those will either be provided by the environment (RDS etc) or self-managed,but as a separate deployment because the authorization/lifetime/scaling/upgrade requirements are very different.

Local, staging and production are so diverse that you will always need extensive customization. And there is no way around that, because the needs are fundamentally different.

There definitely is an opportunity to make this easier. It would have to either be done with tooling that has extensive integrations with cloud providers, or with a distinct end to end platform.

But I don't see how Acorn helps with that all.
Most app store revenue comes from games. Some games (such as some puzzle games) are easy to clone and replace, but many are not.

More energy seems to be put into emulation of proprietary games than creation of new open source games.
The "decline cookies" modal can't be closed. >:(
I remember from my (very!) brief stint in the games industry that there are certain specialists who make considerably more than that, such as game engine, cutting-edge rendering and 3d audio specialists. But, it sounds like it still pays to be the one selling shovels. The company I worked for paid mid 5 figures a month to Unity for one dedicated engineer to help us with our issues.
That's amazing the quality of photos that are available. How did they fake them so well? (eye roll). /s

Anyways the article links to a UK source for the book however it is available for preorder at Amazon for $55 delivering middle of October. I ordered it immediately. "Apollo Remastered: The Ultimate Photographic Record"
That's why I said probably. I just know Monsanto is famous for their "copyright" seeds that are genetically modified and you're not allowed to keep the next generation of seeds.
A real trend-setter writes about a subculture before it exists, and it springs into existence!
You're missing the point of Kubernetes. Kubernetes is so organizations can have a standard way to deploy infrastructure that makes talent and knowledge portable between organizations. Everyone building their infrastructure from a kluge of their own scripts is not the way forward for the industry imo.

You're fair to argue then we should have a less complicated tool that's being standardized on but Kubernetes is where the industry is congregating now and that less complicated tool, that satisfies the most use cases and a high level of standardization, has yet to emerge, there have been multiple that have tried but never gained traction or outright proved to actually be more complex to manage once you go beyond small businesses.

Personally as a maturing profession we should stop reinventing the wheel for much of our tooling, adopt common tooling across as much of the industry as we can and then draft and produce standards engineers can work by so we stop having so much slop across the industry.
Have you considered Visual Studio for Mac? That would be a more obvious choice than VS Code, surely?
The Burglaries Were Never the Story
Netflix Is Working on Gamertags
What would you suggest as an alternative? Legitimately curious what people think here.
For those unfamiliar with the brand, Stanley makes what is often colloquially referred to as “box cutters”. I may just be out of the loop but I had to Google the brand for it to click for me.

Also, I’m curious. When you say hobby-style do you mean an x-acto knife or more like your standard folding pocket knife?
The mother of all 'zero-days' – immortal flaws in semiconductor chips
What do you think is a suitable alternative to custom yaml formats?
Montenegro reports Russian cyberattack against govt
It almost never rains here sadly.
Kids are not some kind of start up scaling problem. Kids require a lot of resources and attention, no wonder parents opt for a smaller number which still is a challenge but a manageable one
We have a legit PS install on my wife’s machine and it’s preventing us from making a move to another computer for her. She’s a casual/non-professional user. She knows the app and how to use it. We aren’t interested in renting the app… basically we’re holding out on that machine, but sooner or later it’s going to become a security risk in our network.