skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol. Read my first line.

I'm a software engineer posting on Hacker news. I know how to learn a skill.

This is something else, that you can have, if you read lots of books and learn more languages.

Becoming smart is, in part, about being exposed to lots of others thoughts, and lots of facts, and discussing those things and thinking through them yourself.
I personally know two people who were invited to that conference as speakers, but decided against it.
I suspect your point and my point did not intersect. He's advocating for high throughput ingestion of books, exiting the process as early as possible. My point is that you should select a small number of books that are fundamental or iconic to humanity (or at least the civilisation or country you're part of) and read those very well, rather than the latest New York Times best seller.

From the article: "the important thing is to be ruthless with the books that are not good". Well, the criteria for what's good is quite fuzzy, so I can only suspect the author is implying "not good" means "I don't like it". Sticking to your comfort zone has pros and cons.

> Knowledge

The genre I had in mind was fiction. In the case of knowledge in scientific fields, this is generally distilled in academia and scientific papers. With books not being peer-reviewed, you'd often need to follow up their claims with actual verification work. The author of the article doesn't strike me as a person that would go to such lengths. Anyway, that's just me.
I like to keep important domains paid up many years in advance. Some TLDs don't allow this. I wonder if .link is one of those.
Corporations secure their standing through regulation. It prohibits upstarts from competing because of artificial overhead that only the largest and most well-connected (to government insiders) can handle.

It's practically dragging the ladder up behind them.
Photoshop is garbage with a randomized interface that is also trying to sell you things. People think it's intuitive because it's the industry standard and stockholm syndrome. GIMP is bad (but improving) on print color, and on non-destructive filters and layers.

The hyperbolic invective hurled at GIMP by Photoshop users is astounding. I often spend all day in Photoshop and Illustrator doing preprint and it makes me want to burn Adobe to the ground every day. I would gladly never look at PS again if GIMP got color right.
I don't think it contradicts because you're upgrading from one standard to another.

You are not selecting to have two standards in a new house. Or if you are building two new houses, you're not building one with Soviet standard and the other house with EU standard.

Your case is more like EU upgrading from Mini-USB to USB-C as the standard plug for mobile phones.
Ubuntu is heavily used by AWS customers, Canonical sells support contracts for Ubuntu.
This is a super cool idea but I wish this project becomes popular so that there emerges a consistent style that does not look 'broken'.
I bought a 512 GB SanDisk SD card in Shenzhen several years ago that was similarly fake. I think what happened here is they just incorporated these off-the-shelf fake SD cards into their product, rather than hacking the firmware of the SD cards themselves.
I built an app to model this out. It forecasts your future down to the millisecond. It's super simple right now, but has a "time machine" function to see where you'll be in 5 / 10 / 30 years -- and whole life. i.e. You might spend 20,000 hours in the bathroom and 10,000 hours writing novels.

What's valuable to me and the people who have used it is to compare how much time you'll spend on type 1 hedonistic fun vs. type 2 accretive fun.

Free / easy. https://app.sundialcalendar.com/
I don't subscribe to this scientism perspective on epistemology when it comes to an individual forming views about the world based on their own experiences. Individual heterogeneity and the level of detail you're able to observe in your own N=1 anecdote can mean that the richness of that dataset is actually superior to an N=1000 dataset in many cases. I am a data scientist and often learn more about a phenomenon by exhaustively digging into a single example than trying to find broad trends in the larger dataset. Basically - avoid methodological purism when it comes to studying phenomena.
PS: I see a few members wanted to confirm this. There was no need, really.
one part was (and is) to port all the existing plugins.
Perhaps it’s nostalgic, but I preferred the a la cart model in the 90’s when there was a pipeline of new, well made films, and you knew what had just come out and what was coming. Netflix is filled with 80 percent junk, and I spend more time trying to find something I want to watch then I do watching something.
Giving a totally new dimension to "bus factor".

No organization should tie their infrastructure maintenance to individuals, but processes are really hard to consolidate and automate and knowledge is not easily shared either.

Curious as to how other people approach reducing their bus factor.
Twitter is such a cacophony, like trying to have a conversation in the middle of a rock concert. I get better quality information and news from Hacker News.
His heart seems in the right place, probably just been consuming too much of the wrong type of news leaving him with some very odd starting points.

Key errors:

* thinking ERoEI is a thing that matters (sub-error, thinking fossil fuels do better on this score if it did matter) https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/examining-the-l...

* following on from the above, expecting energy prices to rise long term as a result of this

* a weird assumption that mining requires fossil fuels (which if true, would make the above thing worse, if it was true, which it isn't) https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/metals-and-mining/our-in...

* thinking no-one else has thought of this and the whole net-zero thing is just some EU beaurocrats half-baked idea.

His ideas for entirely replacing capitalism with something based on resource scarcity are interesting though.
I get "Incompatible device" error on Huawei P30 Pro, a very good smartphone.
The word sounds exactly how it is written when you say it in French tho, not our fault you adopted the word and say it differently ;)
Perhaps they care cause early stage startups are hard and it can feel like a Sisyphean task, so encouragement / interest from outside parties helps drive their motivation.
and might be able to get the boards cheaper, if they are old stock left over and easy to hack. then why not
Could this be used to have multiple writes? where every write have their own sqlite3 and read is a combination of all the files
newegg is extremely shady. back when GPUs were still hard to find they were bundling them with defective gigabyte power supplies (as revealed by gamer's nexus), reselling returned defective items and blaming the customer (as revealed by gamer's nexus, etc.

I wouldn't give them my money, personally. Their willingness to sell garbage to customers and blame the customers is not the mark of a good business.
This is inevitable for any entity providing blockchain services, especially if they are US based, they will be forced to comply with the government's draconian sanctions. Users who want to circumvent US sanctions will be forced to run their own local blockchain node.
“Scrum (and Agile as a whole) promised to liberate the developers”

No it didn’t. It was a process formalized by people who needed extra structure. It gave the priesthood the ability to run in place a little faster, accomplishing no more work than before. I anxiously await the next Silver Bullet.

For now, let’s get back to Maker’s Time:

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
The scientific method lacks two features that distinguish religions from other human activities:

1. A doctrine whose source is authority (usually but not always a deity) rather than observation and

2. Rituals based on that doctrine

One might argue that the actual human practice of science sometimes involves the acceptance of authoritative doctrine (e.g. peer-reviewed papers) and associated rituals (e.g. conferences), but that is not quite true because the rituals are not based on the doctrine. Scientific conferences are not held because there is a peer-reviewed paper that says that they should be, they are held because empirically they help to advance the scientific process (or at least did in the past). Religious rituals exist entirely because of authoritative doctrine. There is no reason for (say) communion or baptism other than what is written in the Bible or proclaimed by the church.

> science similarly includes a lot of areas where our predictions are not "extraordinarily accurate"

Sure. Science isn't perfect. The view it provides us into the future isn't flawless, it's just vastly better than anything else humans have ever tried.
Sure, I imagine it's not dissimilar to how we sing as choristers.
But I've played on keyboards tuned to exact just temperament in a particular key and it starts to sound very weird very quickly the moment you veer off the reference key signature.
Ah, shucks. Let's not argue. You're both right. Can we embrace great points on both sides without strong diageement?
Gimp 2.99.12 AppImage?
Just released : https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/08/27/gimp-2-99-12-released/

Anybody knows where to find an AppImage for this ?
selling items not as described
I second this. It's really stunning what you can learn by logging an hour or two a day. I really like to add Anki to my daily practice routine. I take advantage of screenshotting and jot my notes in Anki in a questions/answer format instead of in a notebook. It's great for learning the core concepts or vocabulary of a new skill.
If you triple majored in 3 technical subjects, I submit that your aim was not what I am talking about.

I am talking about how you fit in learning the real knowledge of our collective culture over a lifetime, no matter what else you do.
Thankfully, not querying random blockchains is not what makes a modern browser.

Actually, I'd love for cryptobros to try to make a browsers on their own, just for the lulz. I'm guessing it fails at about... eh maybe they'll make a CSS parser before there's a rug pull on BrowserCoin
Really the idea of publish or perish needs to be deemphasized. Someone in the Chinese government got the idea that publishing scientific papers is paramount, so Chinese scientists pump out papers, many having little or no use. I fear western researchers are in the same boat: Publish. Doesn't matter how good it is, how useful it is, just publish.

If there is a heuristic it's quantity. If a laboratory, person, or country is producing an inordinate amount of papers then perhaps it's a good idea to sample and test some of those.
Why a Google Pixelbook with Tensor chip makes sense
Walmart does indeed sell a lot of dollar store quality items like you’re describing. But for most items they have a higher quality (not high quality- just higher) sitting right next to the cheapest one on the shelf.

The kitchen equipment aisle is what comes to mind here - you can buy the cheap spoon for $.99 or you can buy the better one that doesn’t have the issues you describe for a few dollars more. Which one you buy is up to you.

We just bought a midrange quality ice cream scoop from Target locally, the thought process being that Target usually has higher quality items. Then later that same day we went to Walmart for some low quality disposable items and saw that exact ice cream scoop for a dollar less than Target. Oops.
I think a key thing is that a marketplace should be held liable if the actual seller cannot be held to account. They shouldn't be able to use "just a marketplace" as a shield to avoid liability when they're the only ones in a position to have vetted the real seller.

This is how it works with credit card companies where I live. The credit card company is jointly liable with the supplier. It works fine and the consumer is protected. "Marketplaces" are still in the relative wild west when it comes to liability here.
Rarely do you see an announcement that’s so transparently for the stock investors, but means nothing for consumers reading it. Sure people might drop a tier to spend less money, but they’re not excited about watching ads
I don't think I'd worry about the risk of them leaving (unless you have some highly lucrative IP, and as a fintech you probably don't). The thing with sharing potential deals is mostly just they will usually fall through / not happen, so do you want them to ride the ups and downs with you? I'd probably share while keeping their expectations realistic, cause otherwise it can feel like working in a vacuum.
Maybe this is built on an existing, legitimate product that require both slots to be populated to work?
Too many agents (i.e. humans, bots) are trying to load NSFW gifs and even if you want to prevent them from doing so, the shortcuts are on their side to revisit past links. Good luck with content moderation. Even if you implemented a way to vote bad actors out (e.g. you can kick players from game lobbies that don't follow the rules via having a server-wide vote), I believe it would be out-botted.
I wish there was some kind of builtin tool in mainstream operating system to validate the real capacity of an external storage.

Right now I use h2testw on all storage I purchase, but you kinda need to know this is a thing.
> I want to be able to win arguments.

You just need to master rhetoric. No need to be a master of a specific subject to be able to twist arguments in your favor.
Every time I hear someone bring up the “book smart” versus “street smart” false dichotomy it often comes off as someone trying to justify their own inadequacies.

I am not calling out the previous reply.
I recently realized how much I genuinely enjoy cable tv. I get turn my brain off and watch whatever is available. It’s great.
But seeing web 3 flop like a fish out of the water is hilarious too, so there's arguments on both sides.
Good advice, and it can be quoted from dozens of places throughout history. A few...

Confucius: "Wherever you go, go with all your heart"

Sinatra: "If you're going to do it, it's no good unless you do it all the way"

Snowboarder: "Go Big."
Not sure I understood your question fully, but if there are multiple versions, then read will be over multiple files but writes go to a single active version.
Do you want to become an expert in very many different things? Just becoming an expert in one field can take a good fraction of your lifetime, so you may want to consider that.

A useful mental model is to already see what you are good at, and draw (mentally) curves of your competence (I wrote about it in https://newsletter.smarter.blog/p/curves-of-competence). And then use it to figure out where to amplify.

Also note that becoming an expert is a lot of hard work.
How the game design legend behind ‘King’s Quest’ was lured out of retirement
How do One-Time passwords work?
Emerging Trends in Global Freshwater Availability (2018)
Germans are looking to firewood for energy as natural gas prices soar
> doubt even if such monster can be done in a snap and work flawlessly that we can even harvest enough power at ground level.

While it would take a while to build a global power grid, we have the capacity to produce approximately ten thousand times our current global power usage from ground-level PV.
My approach is not taking a phone when possible. No PIN because I am bad at remembering PINs and no encryption because there is nothing on it except of my nude photos.
Should we avoid even reading this code if there is no license? Its currently proprietary code?
I read various interpretations of the AGPL and some people think it’s not the case.

MongoDB used to be AGPL and I believe most people didn’t interpret the license as everything calling the database must be AGPL, and then everything calling the thing calling the database too, that recursively until the entire world must be licensed under AGPL.
I'd rather buy crap from a namebrand that has an address I can send a complaint to, than some anonymous dropshipper that's just going to fold and reopen within a week.
Unsurprising that Molly does not understand how DNS (or ENS) works, and that eth.link is just a pointer. Admitting ignorance for the lulz is not the Web3 diss they think it is.
Event Driven Architecture – 5 Pitfalls to Avoid
Regardless, bless that man.
This is really cool. It sounds weird for about the first 45-90 seconds but then my mind adjusts and it sounds really pleasant. Would make a good context/theme for a video game soundtrack.
Amazon is on a gradual decline and what is shocking is that people dont see it.

I stopped using amazon around 2 years ago. If i want to buy "Chinesium" i use aliexpress and save a lot of middlemen in return for a long shipping time.

I've been burned by fake products a few times and learned my lesson long ago. Sure, amazon does make it easy to return them, but going to a real store avoids it all-together.

If you shop around for prices, it is rare that amazon's prices are even competitive vs an actual physical store these days.

this makes little sense, the store has employees and high rents, what are amazon's reasons?
Share it all. Complete transparency. Show them the cash flow.

At your small size you will benefit from the additional trust and alignment this will bring. You may find yourself delighted in finding that many of your team can see and solve problems that you may have missed.

You can be super secretive to combat the BigCo mentality like Apple when you have the first class problem of being a BigCo.
Interesting - I do still want to stick with off the shelf. I have a WASD V3 (so no QMK there afiact) but also a MacBookPro - for which I'd happilly buy an [off the shelf] external keyboard to get QMK/ZMK, or really - layers/combos/more-keys-as-macros/etc. Since I'm thinking external, that's why I was looking for off the shelf options where it does seem the firmware is all-powerful.
This is why I buy all my electronics from B&H, they have a more personal narrowly-scoped, and good reputation at stake.

So I trust them, atm.
The goals of CLOS were to support object-oriented programming, inspired by Smalltalk, which was the first reflective object system, and which has its own meta-objects and corresponding protocols. CLOS evolved out of earlier LISP object systems, LOOPS and Flavors, both of which predate Brian's thesis, and both of which have various kinds of meta-objects with protocols.

I don't know anything about how 3-Lisp might have influenced CLOS, but I'd like to hear more about that.
I think you can read the code. I knowingly made the repo public. You do not even have to login to github. I think it should be ok.
> $5 million in escrow

Nestle have no problem putting up $5M, but most good small companies just can't.

So the end effect is that you enable big monopolies.

You need to invent some kind of reputation system. Small towns (and communities) have this builtin as everybody knows almost everybody. Amazon is missing the ability to say "this is a new seller without solid reputation".

But I'm guessing this would be bad for short-term thinking, the wish for "the everything store".

You can't be quality store and "everything store". Everything is mostly junk (Sturgeon's law).
Yeah this is the biggest issue to me. Don't voluntarily give out news that might not come to fruition. Crushing high hopes is worse than not giving them in the first place.

If a particular employee seems keen to learn more, and you think they might benefit from knowing, you could privately let them know there are tentative things you're pursuing, and give an example or two, while being cautious with them and telling them it might fall through. But no need to announce things that haven't happened yet.
For a demo, you can search YouTube for “Jacob collier g half-sharp”
That makes sense! This isn't the set of tradeoffs that most appeals to me, but I can see your point that it's a different set of trade offs that may be good ones.
Chinese rivers typically have too large variation in water flow which makes the river poorly suited for year round usage for transportation as well as for water wheels. Chines water management has through history been all about protecting against floods and for irrigation.

Europe with more even waterflow has been much better suited for mills. You can see this in Europe itself. Italy never got as large number of mills as Britain as the rivers flowing into Northern Italy have too large variation in water flow. That is part of the reason Romans could never utilize waterwheels to a great extent.
Walmart recently started doing the whole "sold by x, fulfulled by Walmart" thing that amazon does. So they're taking inventory from random sellers and selling it just as Amazon does. Which is kind of annoying. I think Target still doesn't do this. Lately though I'm finding BestBuy to be a good option for when I am trying to avoid counterfeits or rinky dink random brands. They usually ship free too.
Ha, what a great story; thanks for sharing.

> On Tuesday, December 28 I heard from Microsoft. I was happy to hear that the payment did fix Passport, and of course they wanted to reimburse me, and thank me.

With companies so lawyer-ed up, I wonder if that would be the case today. I'd be very hesitant before hitting submit in that payment page.
> If something sounds too good to be true, then it isn't.

Is this an American version of the idiom? I've always heard it as "then it is", referring to the predicate... which I think sounds natural but now I'm wondering if that was just cultural.
Yep, I understood that. My point is cashing out 500 payments from single use wallets leads to 500x the transaction fees versus 1 main wallet, right. The customers would anyway pay the incoming fees, but outgoing gets expensive esp for smaller txes. Why is this optimal for a store?
What part of opening a spreadsheet made you jump into a terminal?
Your comment has me imagining a person who uses cut-throat razor as a butter knife.
What is going on? I remember seeing this several days ago, which the search feature confirms[1], but now, it appears again with the same story URL but is now only two hours old? With all comments forward-dated too?

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=continuous+blackjack
It is an absolutely horrible way to treat customers. Don't use their service.

I've had a subscription for a while and it has helped me read more books but this cancellation policy is absolutely bonkers. They really are actively trying to hurt and squeeze the customer more than any other service I've used. I downgraded my subscription (to stop receiving credits) but I'm still having trouble using the credits I did build up. As soon as I'm done I'll be cancelling forever.
What if Barnes and Noble agreed to carry it, but then refused to put it on the shelves, and left your book in the box in the back because they didn't like your political message, and wanted to deny you the ability to make money.

>Also, Facebook has deleted things that are overtly sexual for as long as I can remember. I find it odd that all of the people complaining about “censorship” never complain about that or think through the implications of what their framework would mean when applied to that.

That's just a cheap shot and a straw man, and I could say the same to you. You clearly haven't thought through the consequences of allowing the largest private communication network to block political communication of one side of an election. If it had been Facebook deciding to block anti-Trump stories you'd be crying twice is hard.

But ignoring the straw man, it is Facebook's prerogative to not have sexual content, or to say "no political content". And while they can, and did decide to block political content to benefit one side, it is valid to criticize that without suggesting that if they allow the NY Post article they also need to allow child port to be consistent.