skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m tired of people being denied basic and non-scarce resources because some people presuppose they’re yucky (even while making people yucky with those presuppositions). If we’re banning anyone from public services, I’d start with those who want to deny those services to people who most need them, in the way most likely to reinforce their biases by denying them access.
> de-facto market-leader, they are mostly infrastructure

Maybe its technical users? Even linux is used by IT pros rather than regular people. I think tech people just dont like paying for anything.
why you think this should be your god or gods?
I don't want to attack you， just I have my religion, too. so when every time, I found same argument, I just confused at how this can connect to some specific object.
Why. Bailing out on bad books seems like a better way to read.
UN Sustainable Development Goals
>I go through five or ten books a day.

This is a great example of self-help “optimized performance for super geniuses with enormous brains” drivel that I’ve talked about being a silly feature of the content on HN!

I would absolutely love to watch a live stream of this guy reading between two and ten books per day! (he immediately says the number is likely actually 2-3 depending on your definition of… reading?)
36,000km in three days: $8k car rental charge shocks Canadian woman
> Which is why you evaluate those claims and see what evidence they bring forth. We have a lot of proof and evidence in Islam. Some are listed on www.provingislam.com

Please bring a single proof of god here in your own words. I have already wasted one hour on that video which didn't lead anywhere.

> Correlation vs causation.

You might want to try apply that to your original claim that the western civilizations are declining because they are so secular.

> False dichotomy. No one is saying science isn't useful. As a matter of fact, many of today's foundational sciences and discoveries go back to the Islamic Golden Age. Great Muslim scholars like Al-Khararizmy (the word "algorithm" is a direct derivative of his name), Algebra (the science of Al-Jabr, an Arabic word), and many many more were because Islam pushed those people to seek knowledge and learn about the world around them. Many of those scholars saw studying and exploring the world around them as signs of God. This is something established in the Quran and Hadith.

Any many go back to christians, jews or even predate our mainstream religions. During many times throughout history not claiming to be part of a belief system would net you severe repercussions. Maybe Islam encouraged seeking knowledge. Pretty sure it also persecuted people who seeked knowledge that Islam didn't like.

> Maybe the colonizing West that engaged in dirty divide and conquer tactics has something to do with it?

Or maybe that happened already before all the western influence? I am also not claiming the west being good. I'm saying both sides are doing shit. I'm no fan of the wars that the US waged in Iraq, Afghanistan etc. That one side is doing something bad does not make the bad things that the other side is doing OK. The point is any fighting is bad.

> So tell me why are they wrong to say that rape is just a phenomenon or that incest is ok. On what basis, from a strictly atheistic materialistic world view are you going to make an opposite claim?

That's super trivial. I'd argue rape being just a phenomenon is wrong because accepting it as such has bad repercussions on our society. Rape leaves the victim traumatized and less productive in society. Society has to expend resources to help the victim. As for incest: anyone with a bit of knowledge how reproduction and genetics work can see that inbreeding increases the chance of genetic defects. The whole point why evolution came up with the concept of sexes is to mix genes from different pools to avoid this problem. Genetic defects again hurt a society.
I was detained for 20 minutes for cutting across what I perceived as some empty field, 300 meters down the street from my brother's house. Turns out it was private property, and we weren't in the UK. I presume some busibody at their window called the police. It's a pretty posh subdivision. The land is literally much more valuable than other people's, and I went and walked on it like a wild animal.

But that leaves the fact that white me had no reason to get my back up, because I knew the white cop wasn't being racist. So I handed him my ID and sat quietly on a privately owned rock until he was done with it.
> i read you as presenting something of a justice, or outcome-based argument. like, "we should direct resources to the previous generation because they got a raw deal in comparison to the earlier generation and (if things go well) the future generation."

Not really. I don't think we need a justification to help people who need help. I just think it's wrong and harmful to society for a bunch of people to be saddled with a lifetime of debt. (It's not great for the economy either.) If we care about this issue, then it would be weird to help one group of people but leave out another group of people who have the same problem, college affordability. You ask what's the justification for helping people who are already indebted, but I ask what's the justification for excluding them from help?

I don't think it's particularly useful to think in terms of "generations". In every age group there are people who are rich, people who are poor, and everything in between. The rich kids of every generation have no student loan debt.

> alright, we can do both. but where the money comes from matters

Yes. But this is not a matter of age, it's a matter of wealth. We have progressive taxation, so the people who benefit the most from our system pay the most taxes. Whether that's intra-generational or inter-generational is largely irrelevant. I'm fine with taxing university endowments.

I'm not ok with leaving anyone behind. I don't think we should write off any generation, allowing older people to suffer while only improving the lives of younger people, for the sake of so-called "progress". I'm not talking about "righting past wrongs", for the past can never truly be undone. I'm just talking about making everyone's lives better. After all, discriminating against older people is just discriminating against your future self. Someday you'll be the generation that many people want to write off and ignore.
This is very surprising to me. Can you tell more about your method and a couple of books you read like this and what you learnt from them.
The keyboard hobby has led me to realize a few major things-

1. The capslock key should not be where it is. In no sane layout should such an easy to reach key serve such a niche purpose.

2. The spacebar is a massive waste of space. I LOVE split space layouts (typing on a mercutio right now). Having all 3 "spaces" act as space on tap helps, and makes it easy to hold for modifiers.

3. Having the numpad/arrow keys right under my right hand (arrows on jkli, numpad basically on jkl = 456, functions in the same layout) is SO much faster than having to move your hand to get to those kinds of keys. The navigation keys being at my fingertips is ESPECIALLY useful as a coder where using things like home/end/pgup/pgdown can really help you move through your code faster.

I'm now at my end game (mercutio 40 on my "entertainment" machine, a crkbd at work (soon be be a cornish zen), and a discipline 60 for my gaming machine....seriously rougelikes are the only reason it's not all 40's), and it's been a hell of a path. I really hope the market expands a bit more because there's a lot of nice things when people start getting into the hobby, but it's a rough hobby to get into given how expensive it can get.
I love NixOS for this. It's a few lines of Nix config to set up samba sharing for a directory + a .local domain for discoverability.
It’s an entertaining way of writing, but please don’t do any of the port forwarding stuff mentioned towards the end. I can’t imagine any scenario where I’d want to have a Samba share exposed to the internet. If you need remote access to a local shared folder, use a VPN.

Now the same person should write a “wireguard on Linux — the easy way”. (Which would probably be — use tailscale)
I find the replies to this fascinating. I don’t know if nationalization would work with FB, but it is interesting what a taboo it appears to be to even bring it up.

Personally, I think 30 years ago the USPS should have made a nationalized email service at the very least.
An exodus?

An exodus of free tier users whom Slack doesn’t want anyways, or an exodus of paying customers?
In past, president Reagan complaint economist have conspiracy, why all of them give same advice.
I think this is exactly why people have a hard time with this advice. We're used to thinking we owe the author something because we've chosen to read their book. What this presupposes is that we owe them nothing, in fact it's up to them to justify spending our limited time and attention on their book, rather than in the million other options for books available to us.

You will occasionally miss out on a good one by following this advice, but in the end you'll read so many more good books, because you'll spend less time halfheartedly slogging through books you hate and dread.
I’d say Adrian’s Shadows of the Apt. They were the books that make me realize how good it feels when the world building is done well. I have a list of books I’m currently waiting for, but I remember the above fondly
I grew up on a farm near Media, Pennsylvania. We had quite a few American Chestnut trees. One of my first childhood memories is picking up the nuts off the grass. I doubt those trees are still there. I should go back sometime and see.
This is a very good post. I never before considered the issue of corrosion. To that point, does this also affect offshore wind power generation (turbines)? I guess the difference will be: the turbine is not underwater!
Generally fantastic, will second comments on web development being pain free.

Probably want to invest in Rider, I seldom here good things about VSCode and VS for Mac(it’s a unique program, not full visual studio like the name suggests).

Have had some hiccups:

For desktop development I have a little app to run a label printer, Avalonia itself ported over fairly seamlessly however I discovered printing (system.drawing in general) is windows only.

Not .Net specific but I’ve had problems with emulation.

MSSQL docker isn’t supported, you can use edge which has some limitations which may or may not be a problem (or not a problem till it is).

Azurite docker works but needs Rosetta.

CosmosDB emulator flat out doesn’t work.
https://render.com/render-vs-heroku-comparison

Private networking, service discovery, built in static sites with a CDN, persistent disks, HTTP/3, cron jobs, health checks and more -- hardly 'just same thing as Heroku'.
Also a clear lack of empathy. I mean, sure, the person did something wrong. But have they stopped being human? Where is the humanity in squeezing every penny out of someone already broken and poor ($250/day is more than what many Americans earn in a day). Then taking away 50% of any hope/real shot at living they have. This sounds like profiteering at their expense. (Edit: this is evil).

Jail time and a permanent record is more punishment than it sounds. It severely affects future employment, even things like renting an apartment or getting a car loan (the ubiquitous background checks are done to weed such people out).
Everyone here already knows that. I've got a list of about 800 things I'd love to see in various packages. Should I hire a team to work on them?
The Rental Housing Crisis Is a Supply Problem That Needs Supply Solutions
This seems exactly backward. Macro is the useful one based on data, micro is the hand-wavy made up stuff based on assumptions of human behavior.
They require different approaches.

The best way to herd cats is by a laser pointer: show a clear, shining goal, and you don't need to give more directions.

With sheep, you need to run circles around them and so drive their formidable grass-cutting capacity where you want it to be, slowly.
At $dayjob someone complained that all of the deployments I had done were inconsistent, and that I wasn’t using repeatable patterns.

I said: until you give me two consistent applications I can’t give you consistent patterns!

Literally everything is unique and special and has distinct requirements for each environment.

The orgs that can get the economies of scale are doing some combination of:

- developing everything in house for the same platform in the same langue with the same tooling.

- deploying thousands of apps, which means even rare configurations will have dozens of identical examples.

- never deploying weird proprietary apps with quirky licensing or crazy pricing models for non-production.

- don’t care about the cost of non-production and are happy to overpay for hardware to ensure consistency with production.

Even at large government departments none of the above is true.

This results in many unique deployments and no cost savings from templating or automation.
I can't speak to production deployment of long lived containers, but absolutely for short-lived CI worker nodes and the like? Being able to point your Jenkins or GitLab CI config at a microk8s (or whatever) installation is a huge step forward from configuring non isolated workers or dealing with docker in that role.
The test is required by the govt.
> Weight sensors also track if someone’s been in the bathroom too long.

As someone with IBS and a few other related things this sounds like it has the potential to be incredibly annoying and frustrating.
You wrote "disposal issues": As I understand, the current generation of windmill blades are not recycled. Rather, they are sent to landfill (at least in United States -- can someone please comment for other countries that they know about? UK?). Two things to consider: (1) Fiberglass mostly inert and safe to bury. Please correct me if wrong. (2) Can future designs be recycled? I assume yes.
If you live in Tokyo, there’s no way you haven’t seen it. You just haven’t noticed.
That's still completely arbitrary.

The number of Things What Move humans could pick out with their naked eyes has no impact on any kind of time measurement.
> It’s one of those cheap bottom of the barrel vendors which of course takes shortcuts to make the price so cheap.

NameCheap is only the cheapest for _one_ TLD in terms of renewal cost (https://tld-list.com/registrars). Love that site.
In San Francisco JCDeaux already does that. Those units are self-cleaning, handicapped-accessible, and cost about $300K each. They're complicated, with motors, sensors, and valves. All the hardware and controls are Telemechanique industrial grade. SF has a big problem with those. Vandalism, people shooting up inside, people dumping trash in them, etc. There's no problem providing public bathrooms for rich people. It's providing public bathrooms for homeless people that's a problem.

Wheelchair accessibility triples the size and price of the units. Here's what JCDEaux installs in countries that don't require it.[1]

San Francisco has an attended 24 hour portable restroom operation in poor parts of the city, called "Pit Stop". Total operating costs are around $30 per flush.[2]

The most workable low-end solution currently seems to be the Portland Loo.[3] "The sleek and modern kiosk discourages crime with graffiti-proof wall panels and open grating that allows you to see if and how many people are inside." It's not self-cleaning like the expensive JCDeaux units, but it can be hosed down or if necessary pressure-washed.

[1] https://www.jcdecaux.lt/en/news/modern-public-toilet-klaiped...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-public-pit-sto...

[3] https://portlandloo.com/
I recently spent some time on reviving an old (FLOSS, all server-side, the only UI being CLI and an HTTP API) nodejs 8 software built mostly according to what was considered best practice at the time. I can confidently say you're missing important nuance here.

A counter-argument to this could be "most people were doing it wrong at the time and those best-practices proved to be not very sustainable so your old software was probably garbage already" but at that point we're entering the realm of dismissing reality.
You have no right to possess drugs. They are illegal. If you are arrested, do you get your drugs back when you're bonded out or even if the DA drops the charges against you? If not, how is this actually any different?

Frankly, it sounds like you think this phenomenon is so unique that only a particular expert class is allowed to have opinions on it; and you're making wild guesses as to my experience in order to discount my opinion without actually putting forward the necessary arguments.
"Particle" and "copula" are two words that might as well be Japanese-learning-specific jargon, for how disproportionately common they appear in that context, and their meanings in that context subtly differs from their meanings in general linguistics.
> a completely free market

Is a 'completely free market' if not a spherical cow in a vacuum on a frictionless surface i.e. a purely theoretical concept that can never exist in real life?

Presumably a 'completely free market' allows cartells, bribes are not illegal, and there is no authority to throw me in jail if I lie about my product? So either it would collapse into a cesspool of fraud, or you have to introduce rules and then it's not free any more?
The book How to Read a Book (by Mortimer Adler) goes into some detail about the levels of reading (skimming, full reading, analytical, and syntopical) and attention that should be paid to books, and describes good technique for quickly skimming a book to determine what it says, how well it makes its point, and whether more careful reading is needed.
Breaking up any of the tech giants will require a new legal definition of monopoly.
This is why I’ll never use vscode.
This is a very common way to setup power lines in the US.

It is significantly cheaper than burying lines from an initial cost point of view, so as long as the cost of preventive maintenance is low enough, it is a viable option. Particularly if the cost to fix lines is also low.

As an added bonus, it then also becomes easier to hang other lines (telephone, cable, fiber) on the same poles. This more difficult to do with buried lines, even if the lines are in conduit.

I’d prefer my electrical lines to be buried too, but I at least understand why they aren’t.
Now the at you’ve read the article, you’ll surely see it.
He can do a livestream in which someone picks a book at random for him to read and then he is quizzed on the book.
I notice similar in Tokyo, Japan. There is so little rooftop solar installations, it is crazy. I assume it is a combination of economic and regulatory factors. At the very least, most of the outdoor train stations have very long platform coverings / roofs. These could certainly be covered with solar panels.
Individually, if I move to NYC from some other place, I didn't participate in the historical lawmaking. Yet, I am punished for it.

I despise any Government favors for "correcting the past". It puts people who have nothing to do with it, in a disadvantaged position.

Unfortunately, this is all too common in progressive cities and largely, the whole progressive agenda with rife with absurdities of this sorts. Collectivist sacrifice over individualism.

Unequal treatment of citizens is how you cause instability in the society.
It'd be interesting to follow up each of these entries with what actually superceded the original in terms of market share.

"Original"/OSS/Current:

Office/OpenOffice/Google Docs

WinZip/7-zip/Whatever archive utility is bundled with your OS

Windows Media Player/VLC/Online Streaming

Netscape/Firefox/Chrome

In all but a few of the other cases (e.g. OBS), the original hasn't lost an ounce of market share to the "alternative".

I guess what I'm saying is the data seems to show that the threat to paid software isn't OSS alternatives, it's commercial competition.
Not certain, but that Dunstan is likely a hybrid species of American with Chinese chestnut for blight resistance.

The genetically pure American Chestnut tree was nearly eliminated by this blight. So backcrossed hybrids and genetically modified varieties of the American Chestnut are exciting, because there's a hope they could return to their former glory in the ecosystem.

This particular tree is a large specimen of genetically pure American Chestnut, growing in the east coast region as well, so a great find for conservation.

In all, hybrids may be great for individuals, but this movement intends to be more selective for restoration purposes.
Someone won the $1.34B Mega Millions prize. But they haven't claimed it
While this is a great resource, I was wondering is there any programming language comparison repo where we can find strengths and weaknesses of each language.
You're right, that's absolutely valid.

And there surely are plenty of non-fiction books that could be summed up in a few pages.
It's not in print anymore. Your link is a used book.
How does the Labor Theory of Value account for the value of art?
Unattended, clean, public-accessible restrooms could very well be scarce resources.
I like the taste of spicy food. But 8 hours later my guts are in misery. Any fixes? I asked my stomach/bowel doctor and he said he had the same problem. Knew of no solution.
Yeah, I have actually read that book. But he doesn’t say you can learn a lot by reading like this. In fact he says that a book should be read twice, second time soon after finishing it the first time.
When every citizen in Russia was given shares of these properties most saw them as worthless and sold them. The ones who collected and gathered enough to take over control did. Not really gifts from the right people...
I would not call 9 years ago "recently" (March 2013 is when Adobe announced it would no longer sell boxed copies of the Creative Suite software).

Adobe obviously doesn't care. They treat their customers like crap and actively try to extract as much money out of them as possible. A few years ago (or less) they worded their description of their monthly subscription very carefully, so as to mislead people into thinking they could pay for a month or two when they needed it, and then cancel. The fact was that monthly only allowed you to pay each month, it was still an annual subscription which could not be cancelled without substantial early termination penalty (basically paying the whole remainder of the year if my memory serves me correctly). If they really cared about their customers, they would have made that very clear when you signed up for service. I helped a family member sign up, and there was no explanation, and no warning about cancellation.

I wasn't thrilled about the subscription model in the first place, but this family member needed access to the tool. After the way that went down, I have no intention of doing business with Adobe ever again. I know a lot of other people who feel the same way.

(edited to fix a typo)
It is everywhere, and you'll notice it now that you know about it. I never noticed until I learned about about sometime last year and then I saw it everywhere. It's on suit pins, trucks, businesses, etc.
GIMP is supposed to be a Photoshop alternative? But is missing so many features which don’t even seem that hard to code? I always thought it was supposed to be some weird middle ground between Paint and Photoshop.
Don't forget depreciating land..
Likely not, because the installation is linked to the Windows or macOS installation.

In the case of Windows, the machine can be eventually upgraded, one part at a time, into something more powerful.
I had found some good new features in Microsoft office 365, I guess the sapce between now and finishing still big.
Looks like I conflated two different perspectives above. Oh well. Take it for what it is.
https://www.science.org/content/article/blood-abnormalities-...