skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure avoiding sub vocalisation is an advantage unless your only priority is speed. If you’re reading poetry or rhetorical writing, i.e. a speech, and if you’re neither sub vocalizing nor reading aloud, then you’re missing most of what’s on offer: the careful arrangement of rhythm and sound to create literary effect.
I don't like this advice. For one because I would have missed out on some incredible books. (the first one that comes to mind for me is Roberto Bolaño's 2666, I struggled with the first part, the rest blew me away).

But more importantly to me this seems like a mindset that centers around quick gratification. Perseverance is a useful skill. Thinking the author needs to get you in the first 50 pages is somewhat entitled attitude. The restaurant metaphor seems apt because it seems like taking the "the customer is king" attitude to reading. There's humility involved in reading that requires to give an author time.
I work in sakuragicho, quite busy there and I haven't seen this either.
Don't be a sleep martyr. Some people get the idea in their head that they'll stay up because the short sleep won't be worth the trouble, and I think a part of that is motivated by "I haven't slept in X hours/days" or "only X hours in Y days." Don't do that.

Communicate with your wife, don't waste time, and tag her out when feasible, or else this generates resentment.
You know native speakers that don’t go shopping?
As a counterpoint, I see it so frequently you could conceivably describe it as being “everywhere” but it’s mostly within corporations, so you wouldn’t exactly be seeing it on the streets of Shibuya (although you do in fact see it there sometimes too)

Now that you’re aware of it, keep your eyes open and you’ll see it pop up in various spots
Look up Earthships and info about how much water you need. My recollection is you can supply a household's water needs for as little as 10 inches of rain per year and most parts of California get at least that much. San Diego gets that much and Fresno gets about 11. Only some parts of the High Desert get less, as little as 6 inches.

But info on Earthships (or perhaps Earth Ships) should be a good place to start educating yourself.

Grey water systems are generally part of the set up for such.
> VS only running on Windows

What do you mean, there has always been Visual Studio for Mac since the arrival of .Net Core.
Every year around this time we seem to get somebody posting Chestnut tree articles that imply that it's impossible to grow an American chestnut tree or that somehow American chestnuts are rare. My Dunstan Chestnut tree is doing tremendously well after 5 years, and it has a circumference of more than a foot. They even sell them in Walmart now. What am I missing?
Here is the link if you need one:https://chestnuthilloutdoors.com/learning-center/dunstan-che... They are very easy to grow.
I think the usual retort is that at any moment and for any inexplicable reason your entire infrastructure can be deleted for some reason you barely know let alone comprehend. This seems to be the case for apps at least.

I neither support nor deny this belief but it's an increasingly common impression.
Out of curiosity, why are you leaving leaving HN and social media? Are you not going to have any internet? Or is this a goal you have? (ie are you going without, or choosing to leave behind)
There are a lot of people who cant taste the difference between Pepsi and Coca Cola.

Which is the reason why they dont understand the minor differences in Keyboard, Trackpad, Speakers, Chassis finishing, durability, Power Supply, Display, etc.

So yes, Macbook is totally ahead of everything else in the industry. And that is coming from someone who supported Apple for 20+ years but currently intensely dislike Tim Cook's Apple.
After 20 years of trapping them in debt...
I would think going off grid might be a first step. Be your own
customer! You would either need to train as an electrician yourself or hire one. Then get solar, batteries, backup generator and so on. Might mean a move to the suburbs or rural so you completely own the land.
These are often called "upper structure triads." Great way to think of harmony.
Interesting. You mention your family and yourself. Does that include children? Are they ready for this change?
> the 20-pound heart seems to be in good shape for its age. Still, there’s something about it—its pale color and gigantic proportions—that make it seem unreal. According to Da Silva, this dilation was probably caused by tuberculosis, which can cause the swelling of some organs.

Apparently a normal human heart weights 10 ounces[0]. That means Dom Pedro's heart is 32x the weight of a normal heart! Can all that extra weight truly be caused by tuberculosis alone?

[0]: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/21704-heart#:~:te....
The relevant journal article is pretty long - great choice by Quanta to cover this article.

Here's a link to the pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.09445
Even then there was never any guarantee that shutting everything down would make an impact greater than the costs. The idea that all these lockdowns did anything meaningful at all is still an open question. The fact it is an open question means 1) it never should have been done and 2) its costs have to completely outweigh any benefit.

For the lockdowns and all the other nonsense you should see at least an order of magnitude difference between places that instituted them and those that didn’t. It shouldn’t require fancy statistics or expensive studies to confirm. It should be complete obvious to any reasonable person there was a very large difference.
Keep an eye on the overhead with MAUI. I've heard app size is a problem with iOS and startup time with Android. What kind of client profile, if any, would you say opts for ASP.Net instead of PHP/Laravel or Rails?
At some point it might be worth looking into Affinity Photo, it's a $55 (one-time, with free updates) cross-platform photo manipulation program with surprising feature parity with Photoshop.
All this was completely obvious to anybody paying even a little bit of attention. Sadly their voices got shut out of the conversation; their proponents yelled at, called horrible names, etc.

What society did over the last two and a half years is shameful. Society encouraged and cheered on what is basically mental illness.
The problem is that this way of thinking concludes with “everyone is evil in the long run”.
Moved to Tokyo from the US in 2020. I first heard of the SDGs in language school.

They're also heavily promoted in my work's orientation and training material, but the hq's over in Europe.

I've seen it in the wild maybe two times at most. Once in Ikebukuro as part of some volunteer clean up thing and another on some building somewhere.

So to me, it's not completely unheard of, but "suddenly everywhere" is still definitely a huge stretch.
Please, no. There's a reason bash, Perl, Python and Ruby were invented.
Sorry, I don't know. (although the name NPR does provide a very strong suggestion about that, I guess)
I need to find the reference, but an European Union antitrust study indicated that price competition usually disappears around when the number of real competitors drops below 4. Below 4, you tend get implicit collusion, where nobody wants to cut prices much to gain market share.
Good examples. OBS is definitely superior. As much as I would like open source creative software, I recommend the closed source Affinity Photo and Designer as Adobe alternatives. Very inexpensive and extremely simple to use.
It's impossible for me to be unbiased because I learned to type on a Selectric, (and I now own two of them) but my personal belief is that typing was perfected with the Selectric, and a Model F or M keyboard with buckling springs is the closest you can get to that perfection on the PC side of things.
Most things are storing more than just container images in OCI registries. This stores images plus metadata like kubernetes manifests, configuration, etc. all in the registry (I assume, I only skimmed the docs). People do this because the registry is the source of truth for what their production can talk to, for example if they use a managed registry or deploy their own like Harbor it simplifies access control and locking down your service.
Depending on the situation, helping someone get back to a known trail via phone or text is absolutely a thing that is done. More often than not though, there are confounding factors like fatigue, dehydration, weather, extremely difficult terrain, etc. and it's safer to just come get them rather than risk them getting into deeper trouble.
Thanks for sharing, are you viewfinderjs from this thread?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30433104#30436865

Super curious how you got that many stars on your repository, that's impressive!
GCP tends to be designed for customers that are staffed with mostly Google engineers.
Like who? Most of the oligarchs aren’t so much risk takers as they were friends with the right people at the right time and so got to buy state industry for pennies on the dollar
The word "AMD" is in this Intel press release once near the end, lol.
That and Sheep Look Up were my genesis. Kinda opposite to the Atlas Shrugged and Heinlein stuff that seemed to captivate most of my peers.
> For those unfamiliar with the brand, Stanley makes what is often colloquially referred to as “box cutters”.

Yep... box cutter blade. Lost in translation somewhere across the Atlantic :)

> Also, I’m curious. When you say hobby-style do you mean an x-acto knife or more like your standard folding pocket knife?

I mean a knife like the one shown in the article: a retractile blade, whose leading blunt end can be broken-off incrementally in order to maintain a consistent sharp edge.

The break is designed to follow a pre-scored edge. A nice idea in theory, but the blades frequently break in a direction oblique to that pre-scoring. This gives the visual impression that the sharp edge is facing one direction, when in fact it is facing the other. Ouch.
> COO Jessica Heinzelman says she hopes people will take #ThroneSelfies for Instagram.

I sincerely hope not.
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Why not just make a startup for that money. You can train a GPT-3 clone for that money. You can hire a few ML grad students to make some dangerous AI the big companies think is unethical.

Or you can do a deep tech startup like mini Varda. $1MM can get you far enough that you attract VC money and that’s all you need.
His career as a lobbyist for the Koch brothers requires him to never learn too much (“it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it”).
http://archive.today/2022.08.27-121450/https://asia.nikkei.c...
Sorry to hear it, man. :( I hope you get better.
> User IDs are part of Throne’s accountability system: After you use a restroom, you’re asked to rate its cleanliness. Meanwhile, each user gets a “Throne score,” similar to Uber, and repeat offenders who abuse the restroom will be blocked. Weight sensors also track if someone’s been in the bathroom too long. “Very few people create issues in [public] bathrooms, don’t respect that amenity, and then ruin it for the majority. Most people really want and value that clean experience and will leave the bathroom as good as they find it,” Heinzelman says, adding that user IDs are a way to “create the accountability that is currently missing in the shared bathroom space.”

Personally, I consider bathroom facilities which track you personally, and can block you for any reason, not to actually be “public” bathrooms. They’re essentially proposing to put a large number of very tiny private clubs all over a city. I would argue that this is not actually solving the public bathroom problem.
From listening to a podcast or two, my impression is that the Public Bathroom Problem is an economic one. There were many paid public bathrooms in the past in the US, but they were deemed sexist and banned. Then cities didn't want to foot the bill, so they closed many of them.

What's this startups' business model?
They look expensive, and magical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjckF0-VeGI
I kinda tire of this sort of comment. I lived/worked through the EEE phase of MS back in the 90's, for good or for bad, but ultimately every large scale vendor wants to own the current "hot" space with their vendor specific tooling. No corporation is your friend.
Couldn't you run it in a VM?
This is England. The sun don’t shine.
I'm still clinging onto an original MX revolution mouse (so far as soldering in replacement microswitches).

The scroll wheel that automatically changes from indexed to free spinning sounds wanky, but going back to a normal mouse is painful once you are used to it.
Every six months, some startup guy invents public transit, or some other amenity that has existed for over a 100 years.
Seriously though, accountability is the missing thing. If getting banned for consistently making a mess is what it takes to get public bathrooms back, then so be it. There's no excuse for the shit I've seen. I'm tired of being denied amenities because of other peoples' degenerate behaviour.
This is wonderful, and I wish you all the happiness in the world.
100%. That the author think it's "backwards" that they can't run a sustainable business by copying what's already been made but need to put in some actual work (and that building profitable software inherently must involves AI/ML experts and cloud specialist) speaks more about OPs bias than about actual requirements. Not meaning to point fingers at them specifically too much; they're most likely in a bubble where these views are implicitly assumed.

As for the specific example of Photoshop, well, yeah.. Adobe has put in at least that much work and resources behind it, so what do you expect is required to get a fair fight? Photoshop was an incredibly complex and refined piece of software with immense work behind it before they moved to the cloud. 99% you wouldn't pull that off in 2008 either. That GIMP is still mostly unheard of outside of enthusiast circles and never posed any threat to Adobe shows that it takes way more than a handful of skilled devs.

> Copies of grep

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep started in 2016 and went stable in 2019. It's not being sold as a SaaS subscription because why would it?

I often hear complaints about entitled users but I get some "entitled tech founder" vibes here, as if not being able to sustain on rent-seeking behavior is a defect.
Thank you. Great info. I’ve a feeling not worrying about the electricity side of things and figuring out how to really make use of grey water will be the solution we arrive at but we’ll see.
That seems like all it is, though? I have moved some stuff off of Heroku to Fly, and the new features/capabilities you get are pretty cool. It's hard to be excited about moving anything to Render, which is just the same thing as Heroku.
So that in the event of a clog, sewage will not be able to back up into the food. It'll spill out onto the floor instead, which is bad, but not as bad as contaminating the food directly.
I'm excitedly awaiting the open source alternative to Oodle!
Right. I have Visual Studio installed. I don't need a container to build the application, I only need it for deployment.
Yes, it sounds like their very business model is banned in large parts of the country.

Perhaps they'll do some 'regulatory arbitrage' like Uber? Ie just operate in what's at best a legal grey area, and then use lobbying and lawyers to legitimise your business model?
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Paid public toilets are banned in large parts of the US.
Some people think that a dictatorship is OK as long as the trains all run on time.

The right way to solve the problem is not to harden the gatekeeping, but to improve society so that gatekeeping becomes unnecessary. But that’s hard, and has no obvious point where someone can extract money.
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Not that hard if you have good memory. Mine works my association. I can forgot all about a book, but as soon as I saw the cover I can give you the rough plot. If I saw the table of content, I can give you a summary of each chapter. I don’t hope between books as I don’t force myself to finish what I don’t like. But I can only reread books after a good deal of time (3 years mostly). Earlier than that, I just find myself skipping ahead as I remember stuff before I read them.
I'd say you can get the mechanics taken care of for the low four-digit figures. Publicity and marketing? The sky is the limit if you don't already have a following. I get a ton of requests for podcasts and interviews related to books. Which I 95% ignore. You probably want to do marketing yourself which is a major undertaking and probably won't work.
JFC can I not take a shit without someone tracking me?

Hey American cities! Charge $1 to use a toilet like they do in Europe.
> Particles are a particular and specific concept in Japanese language, and do not exist in many other languages, in particular Western languages

English's particles are few.
Source? This comment seems absurd, at best. I am no 'google engineer' (is that supposed to be a bad thing?) and I've been using and loving GCP for well over a decade. Built several extremely successful businesses on it.
Wow!! I've only been waiting for this for 15 years!
Took me a while to find how they make money, but I ended up finding this[1] on the most godawful of websites (seriously, either use an adblocker or fucking avoid it entirely, good god)...

>Currently, businesses and other public entities can rent a Throne on a monthly basis, which includes cleaning and servicing. But Heinzelman said the company is also exploring an option to purchase a Throne or to rent a larger volume at once. So far, the startup has raised seed funding primarily from angel investors and will be looking to raise a Series A in mid-2023.

Thanks to that Series-A comment, my pessimistic take is that these will be "public" and "free" for now, and eventually we'll see them implementing monthly fees/subscriptions and/or microtransactions or whathaveyou.

Edit: Seems I'm ignorant in this area and that paid public toilets are against the law in many areas. Still can't help but be pessimistic, though.

[1]https://agadir-group.com/dc-startup-throne-is-bringing-tech-...
I’m an old engineer, but here is my perspective:

Marketing is the money you spend to acquire potential customers. Potential is the key word. How is this done? Think of the word “attraction.”

Sales is the money you spend to close a sale. How is this done? Think “persuasion.” Sales is about doing whatever is necessary to make a transaction happen.

Examples:

Sign on building: marketing

Brochures: marketing

Advertisements: marketing

—————-

Pitch or proposal: sales

Working with a customer: sales

Site Visit: sales

I usually account for marketing expenses as “operations or overhead costs” and sales as “COGS or direct cost.” It just makes more sense to me that way, and it ties the sales cost to gross margin so it is very “visible.”
I question the utility of most features Adobe adds to PS these days; but in any case, the problem is easily solved by building a robust plugin system and distributing the work.
> Which is the reason why they dont understand the minor differences in Keyboard, Trackpad, Speakers, Chassis finishing, durability, Power Supply, Display, etc.

Or they just have different preferences.

I have a macpro and a lenovo X1 carbon, and I prefer the X1 for most things.

The X1 keyboard wins hands down.

The mac looks nicer with the aluminium finish and doesn't get fingerprints all over it, but its sharp edged and not a nice felling surface like the X1 rubbery coating.

The X1 trackpad is smaller but tracks just as well as the mac touchpad and I prefer the physical buttons.

Mac has way better sound, but its also much bigger.

The X1 weighs significantly less but feels like its made out of stone with its carbon and magnesium chassis.

The biggest benefit of Apple is they don't make low end trash laptops - so if you are starting a corporate job the Apple laptop is a safer pick vs the Windows laptop lottery where you might get some janky low end Dell.
> QR code

Um, solve the public restrooms problem for whom? Granted I’ve been living far from DC for 20 years, but I spent a large chunk of this summer there. Access to public restrooms was the same as it is here in Seattle: only a problem if you’re a street critter. People who can scan QR codes already have plenty of access to restrooms, they just need to at least suggest they’ll buy something. Homeless people and people barely making ends meet need to be able to use a restroom, and they shouldn’t need a smartphone to do that.
Personally I'm real suspicious from the time I was on a project using AppEngine, we got sandwiched between Google deciding "1 year" was an appropriate time to declare AppEngine v1 deprecated, but AppEngine v2 was still in "beta" and was removing a bunch of APIs we depended on, while basically saying "oh yeah, setup something completely different if you want something like this" (appengine datastore or whatever vs. "it's gone, um, redis maybe?")

So we were stuck with a product which we were writing against something that the official word was would no longer be supported by the time we launched, while being told to develop against the platform which is "beta" and they don't want to commit to supporting the feature set of - and which plain couldn't be used yet at the time they told us this.

This is just a ridiculous way to run a commercial platform offering (aka: why I always tell people to use boring VMs for as long as possible).
If you had three years of paid vacation where you had to use the language exclusively for everything, your skills would probably improve to toddler-level or beyond. Though admittedly you already know many things that they have to learn at the same time.

Having to communicate with your family (and probably close friends/significant other/etc.) exclusively in the language probably makes a big difference as well.
What I'm I missing? I keep on reading about how bitcoin is going to ruin El Salvador. The country has bought a number of bitcoins and bitcoin has plummeted in value but the loss is small relative to the country's balance sheet. I also get that they should have invested the money on a safer investment. It's a a legal currency but it's one of 2. People are free to use the dollar. But even if it goes to zero the country will be fine.

The chaotic budget management by the government is way more likely to bankrupt the country.
Matias makes them with ALPS switches. You can also get other keyboards like buckling springs, etc. with Apple keys, but I prefer ALPS.

I'm actually typing this on an old M0116 right now, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_(Standard)_Key...

It's so much nicer having the control key where caps lock is normally found. This is the traditional location for it.
Sleeves and cuffs don’t qualify as “tailoring”.
Never seen it before. So much for reliable NYT reporting. Pure trash disguised as news. Yet "japan is all in" they say.
Its seems in general anything Creative, FOSS struggles at.
I knew one person who was buried with a keyboard. So, you COULD take it with you..
Usually people who say america is falling behind are talking about the average american, not the top of the top.
It doesn't even have to be that.
Nextcloud is fully libre, yet its a company with income and profit.
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A lot of amenities "worked" before because of aggressive social norm enforcement.

For example, people experiencing persistent mental health issues would literally be locked up "for the common good".

I think what we are seeing is people trying to use technology to replace earlier (primarily social) technologies of control like shaming, religious instruction, tighter communities, aggressive policing etc.

It's not the amenities themselves being reinvented, it's new techniques of social control to uphold good behaviour and care for shared resources.