skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s no way there won’t be another site of the terminally online obsessively documenting the terminally online.

There is clearly massive demand for content about people like Chris Chan and Keffals, and these people have a way of constantly generating new controversy and attention (this obviously doesn’t justify harassment or IRL threats). If the drug war taught us anything it’s that demand can’t be squashed by playing wack-a-mole and then putting your fingers in your ears until it pops back up again next week.
Please stop accusing RMS of harassing anyone without providing first-hand source. That is just blatant defamation.

He never said "sex with kids is okay", the quote was taken out of context - he was talking about the absurdity that the definition of "rape" is dependent on geographical location.

If you wish to change anyone's minds, please take some time to find and discuss RMS's original texts. Otherwise, I'm dismissing you as just another yellow press defamator who is talking about things he's read on Twitter as if they were objectively true.
I don't like it. We just pretend it didn't happen? They did really bad shit, and we just help them hide it.

Even with that aside, this is a lot of data, which, as an example, can be used in research about psychology. I'm never a fan of throwing data away, it's not like we have too much of it.
>Google "bathtub hrt".

I found a blog post and several reddit posts talking about it, but I still have no idea what it is. Is it literally made in a bathtub?
Always read the small print on these cheap providers, check for outbound data limits or minimum retention times

Also rsync has a cheaper plan if you eg only need a borg remote. We use them and borgbase.
It's ignorant or dishonest on your part to equate the Internet Archive with "big tech."
I got all the information I need from the article in 60 seconds. The video is 12 minutes long.
> That is called a fork

No that's not what I mean.

I mean more like GNOME which once was a GNU project and then left GNU to continue on their own. There are more examples like that. They don't need new manpower or inertia. They just drop GNU if they feel it keeps them back (which a lot of projects recently think, apparently, after the whole RMS drama some time back)
“Fungible” capex? What does that mean?
Yes, some people gain weight easily, others don't while eating the same things. But for the vast majority of people, it's possible to find a calorie intake that will keep you healthy AND make you lose weight.
Can't wait for two binary system stars to be called BELCANTO and MEXICANO
Yes people have different bodies - some slimmer, some less so. No, that doesn't explain why people are suddenly morbidly obese.
I'm a manager. This is a low-energy take on management, focused on the part of the job I call "keeping the spice flowing": knocking out tickets, landing key results, and coordinating with other teams. For a manager, this is all low-impact work.

High impact management work isn't mentioned here. These are things like developing your people and networking. It's a lot of work to get somebody promoted, even if that person is a well-known high performer. Networking with other managers, product managers, finance, IT... building influence with other parts of the company, this pays huge dividends for your team.

High-impact managers focus their efforts around the people on their teams.
Note that your repo stays usable even while GitHub is down, and your team can sync their work afterwards. Or if you prefer, you can switch to a different remote without much trouble.

On a different note, I do host my own Git server, but between maintainance downtime, power outages and ISP issues, my availability isn't nearly as good as GitHub's.
>It's absolutely not

So why do we never find obese people among starving conditions (famines, concentrations camps, etc)
> Some people are more efficient, good for them, now they can eat less.

Let's not try to frame that is if it were a good thing. In parts of the world that are overflowing with so much delicious food, almost everyone would like to be able to eat more of it without getting fat. The inefficient people are the fortunate ones.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/ was awesome. Max Landis would literally pass on good spec scripts posted on the internet by randos to his hollywood agent back in the day, and regale the hordes with making of anecdotes from "American Werewolf in London" ;)
I use this occasionally on Mac, and it's pretty handy. Crashes/throws an error when closing though.
You are retransmitting an official position of a state with many marks of a fascist state started a war in Europe. Think about that.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-says-united-s...

PS: btw, given by what you are saying I assume you haven't seen russia's state tv channels last years which airing in a prime-time shows how they would like to strike EU countries with missiles...
In absolute terms yes, but DCA also gives you less risk (direct easy to understand ways - you still have some of your $ - and less easy to understand ways, such as market declines means you have a lower cost basis).

Risk-adjusted, I wonder what the performance is like?
This article loses me when it gets to the "calculating the diff" section.

>Autochrome and difftastic represent diffing as a shortest path problem on a directed acyclic graph. A vertex represents a pair of positions: the position in the left-hand side s-expression (before), and the position in the right-hand side s-expression (after).

>The goal is to find the shortest route from the start vertex (where both positions are before the first item in the programs) to the end vertex (where both positions are after the last item in the program).

I don't understand what this means at all? What is a "position" here? Position of what? If it's a graph, what do the edges represent? The diagrams afterwards aren't very helpful either, I can't make head nor tail of them. They talk about a "start" vertex and an "end" vertex, but before that it said that a vertex is a pair of start-end positions ... I'm totally lost.
> A windowless room with a community bathroom doesn't sound appealing, but at a certain price point it's better than nothing.

Last November, HN briefly discussed [1] Munger Hall at the University of California Santa Barbara, which will be just such a building. Housing 4,500 students, only 32 of 512 single rooms on each floor will have physical windows. The remaining 95% will have virtual windows that simulate sunlight.

The HN linked article [2] includes a floor plan and a rendering of an 8-room cluster with shared kitchen, dining room, and bathrooms. UC Santa Barbara has more information on the project [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29096773

[2] https://www.dezeen.com/2021/11/02/architect-resigns-grotesqu...

[3] https://sam.ucsb.edu/campus-planning-design/current-projects...
That's factually untrue. China and Japan alone match the USA, and when adjusting for percent of GDP the USA isn't even in the top five countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_research_...
go.mod is the lock file.
An “old” ThinkPad that I salvaged from a pile of computer trash a few years back is a Linux machine that just works. Mainstream or not, the latest Slackware has been running perfectly on it.

In contrast, a “late 2014” Mac Mini has not been a perfect MacOS machine, even, since an update; nor, I hear, would it be a good Linux or a BSD machine (need to jump through hoops to install).
I worked with people at the Internet Archive before. The data is never deleted. Blocking happens, but these folks take data preservation extremely seriously, and there's an exact 0% chance that the data is actually gone in any way.

Even spam stays in.
> The special master at times seemed in disbelief, as when he questioned the engineers over whether any documentation existed for a particular Facebook subsystem. “Someone must have a diagram that says this is where this data is stored,” he said, according to the transcript. Zarashaw responded: “We have a somewhat strange engineering culture compared to most where we don’t generate a lot of artifacts during the engineering process. Effectively the code is its own design document often.” He quickly added, “For what it’s worth, this is terrifying to me when I first joined as well.”

The cynic in me wants to say that not documenting certain decisions is a common method of hiding immoral decisions.
JetBrains, O’Reilly subscription
And those people want tear down the old house and build a bigger, fancier house where the smaller, less environmentally impactful houses stood.

In my old upper middle class neighborhood, our entire block of houses on our small cul-de-sac were all California ramblers. Small (under 3K sq ft), but on larger lots (some were 1/4 or 1/2 acre lots) near several natural ponds and wetland areas. Over the course of the last 15 years, out of the two dozen or so houses, only four or five are left as original. Thee rest were all bought, torn down and had huge, multi-million dollar houses which took up almost the entire lot built instead.

You're right, personal preference is a big one, and there are other obvious mechanisms at work here such as the city letting this happen because they benefit from the increased taxes they collect, but its not helping the environment at all.
>Yet Majzoub’s study on mice suggests that obesity may in fact be controlled by the unalterable way an individual’s body functions.

If that were the case obesity probably wouldnt vary so widely across decades and countries.
To answer most comments here, of course git is still decentralized, it’s just that almost no one use it like that. We chose the easier route, as usual. Just like most people don’t host their texts and photos on their own site.

I simply expected more from us nerds.
Why would one want to run a node (and paying for its electricity and physical costs) if they won't get any reward for it?

Honest question, not being facetious, I'd like to understand the use case.
And if you follow the citations the only sources you get are unverifiable tweets. Not a single report considered to check the original threads or do some research on whether the claims are true. Peak journalism all around.
This isn't my field but I'm assuming there are size/width constraints to the "carried on a truck" CNC machine. Of course it's possible but the width for a trailerable load is around 10' which may be quite limiting for residential structures. At that limit prefab units may seem more practical?
I find the CNC housing idea interesting but similar to EVs (in the past) it needs to catch on
Companies which deal with personal data do so in the context of regulatory frameworks (CCPA, GDPR etc) which define specifically what the definition is and what’s covered. They also have to record what they collect and process and for what purpose.

If you’re Facebook you have to know this in order to process that data. You can’t pretend not to understand the question.
Let me rephrase this pithy remark in econ terms: a company by definition builds value, hopefully a lot. You as the founder at some point has to extract the value one way or the other (immediately by exiting, over a longer period by divesting/retiring/passing it on) or lose it (shut it down or watch the company wither). There are no other exits. You cannot take the money with you. So the question to the OP is, how much value does she want to build, how quickly, and whether she wants to extract all of it and when?

If the answers are "a lot, quickly, yes, soon enough" a VC-backed model is probably the best answer. But you need to know the answers to the bootstrapped option as well.
These days if I get a thank-you note that looks handwritten I hold it up to the light and check for pen indentations.
I find that Instacart keeps a reasonable inventory of what's in stock at stores around me. It would be nice to have a one size fits all search app, like Amazon, where you could connect it you some local indexers, buy items, and they would show up at your door within a couple hours if the items are available locally. It would also be nice if there were open standards for running your own indexer, and for stores to run their own open inventory management nodes so you could even query the bakery down the street to see if they have your favorite cupcakes available for sale right now.

I guess I'm looking for a fully cohesive end to end logistics network using open standards and compensating local actors appropriately, rather than relying on the (quite convenient) logistics network that Amazon has set up.

Oh yeah, while I'm wishing for ponies, I also want something like Google Maps where I can type in "dinosaur shaped jello mold" and have it drop pins on every store in the area that has something like that, so I can drive straight there and pick it up. Maybe even include the aisle info etc. All the data seems to be out there, but no one has put it into one slick app.
I also wonder what risk-adjusted is for DCA. I figure DCA is also more attractive in volatile markets, but don't have anything to back this up.
Yet many humans still choose to be unkind, rude or obnoxious.

So I'll pick the kind ones, regardless.
Open-Source DIY Liquid Handling Robot
An incredibly cool DIY project that could be used as a teaching tool for students and trainees learning about lab automation. Posted at labautomation.io
SPOILER: Like you and others, I noticed that some objects were changing, very slowly. What I didn't realize, until the video pointed it out later on, is that nearly every object placed in the room was changed. The "before" and "after" pictures were shocking to me: They look like two different rooms. Evidently I cannot notice and keep track of more than a handful of things changing simultaneously in an image.
To be honest, helping doctors in Africa is one of the few things I'd gladly label as advancing humanity.
That depends on if they are handwritten, or some font that looks sort of like handwritten. At least until/unless AI can write thank yous that pass the Turing test. Right now the effort vs reward of a thank you is not worth it for most sales, and people can pick out computer generated thank yous.

Even then, Wal*Mart will never send you a thank you note - the cost of postage alone is too high. However car salesmen have long ago figured out it is worth writing a thank you - it only takes a few repeat customers to make the time and postage worth it.

That said, if you are a small business a handwritten thank you is good advice. Very few small business run a many customers with a low profit business model (only retail), and as such you are probably in one area where a handwritten thank you will help.
https://archive.ph/VFDDs
Still not buying a CCP spy machine.

Before you downvote me and shout "DAS RAYCIS", realize that many US-based companies with nontrivial security needs ban employees' Huawei devices from their networks. I work at a place that does this.
Isn't this obvious? Of course there is a genetic component to obesity. If my girlfriend ate the same as me, she would be obese. She's female and much smaller.

If I don't watch the salt knowing I have a genetic predisposition to high blood pressure, is that not my fault? It depends on your perspective. Ultimately I think we each have to play our hands the best we can. There's no point arguing with the hand you've been dealt.

It's certainly harder for people with the lower calorific requirement. Food often comes in "one size fits all" and that's more often than not a male-sized portion. Why are women forced to exercise restraint at restaurants when they are served too much food? But, oddly, when I have suggested different portion sizes people have baulked and said it would be sexist.

The big issue I rarely hear people talk about yet is addiction. Obesity is, in the majority of cases, food addiction. Does anyone think obese people want to be obese? They are all conscious of being uncomfortable, incapable and unattractive. But they can't stop eating. That's addiction. But we still allow fast food and junk food that specifically preys on this addiction. We accept their advertising everywhere. We accept their specifically engineered formulations of sugar, salt and fat designed to be as addictive as possible. If you want someone or something to blame, the food industry would be it.
I think that example is an error. What they possibly meant was you can perform the change by inserting “novel) (”, which may structurally translate to inserting “novel” in the bar list and then splitting that list.

Advanced diff tools usually allow configuring the colors, so that if the red/green is a problem, you can change it to red/blue or blue/yellow or whatever.
Weight loss IS calories in out and that includes ecercice..

What you are talking about is hunger management, which is different, but yes also important on long term than just counting
I remember a friend mentioning a client of his with a cnc mounted in a container to work on site (for building projects, similar if not wikihouse). Container could go anywhere the truck would.
Naturally. I see this increase in cost as a good simulation of what would happen if we had a heavy, global carbon tax.

To me it isn't nearly as bad as the dark scenarios some conjured.
it's my favorite REPL ever. super easy to use, full of features (like, always storing the last variable on a number with %), you can easily browse both documentation with ? (as in list?) or the source code (when available) with ?? (as in requests.get??).

the only thing i wanted was better integration with my editor of choice (nvim).
I’ve been watching crypto from the sideline for a few years. In the last six months I have realised what it actually is: a big Dutch tulip Ponzi scheme but unlike what we saw in the dot com boom with VCs inverting in speculative start ups because of FOMO. When interest rates go up further and people get incentivised to put their cash in the bank to earn some low risk, yet boring interest rates on term deposits, I hope we will see this giant Ponzi scheme come crashing down like there’s no tomorrow.
You still need to drive places, which is the least efficient method of mass transportation. An entire infrastructure needs to be built and maintained for cars, which is super wasteful and in almost every country is pushing everyone into debt that is just punted into the future.

Sure, convenient for individuals but absolutely not sustainable for society, nor the planet. Even with electric cars and green energy.

The insane cost of cars: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ztHZj6QNlkM

The hard truth is that if we don't want to abandon our comfortable modern lifestyles, 80-90% of us will have to live in dense cities and use mass transportation 95% of the time.
The responses here are critical —- some useful, some not so useful.

I’m happy to see this project and would like to see more like it, even if this is not quite ready for show time. The possibility of using advances in technology and open source methods to allow people to make more stuff for themselves and their communities in a way that is efficient and feasible is exciting to me.
The other way I think about Veblen goods is that when you're purchasing an e.g. Balenciaga shirt, you're paying for 2 things:

1. the shirt

2. you're giving money to Balenciaga to go out there and tell people how great owners of Balenciaga shirts are. You're paying them to do some marketing on your behalf, in a way.
Design, construction, and in vivo augmentation of a complex gut microbiome

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00990-4?_re...
I get "handwritten" letters asking to buy my house. I've looked at quite a few with a magnifying glass. All of them have been printed so far, except one was signed with a ballpoint pen! I was actually quite excited to find that someone had gone to the trouble of setting up a robosigner, but I didn't think anyone else would find it as exciting as me.
Thanks :)

I wasn't sure if there was a term of art that I was missing :)
>> (c) From any two existing languages a third can usually be created which (i) contains the facilities of both in an integrated form, and (it) requires a grammar and evaluation rules less complicated than the collective grammar and evaluation rules of both. <<

I wish this would happen for to for HTML, CSS, Javascript and SQL
It would be fantastic to have 1 language that is declarative and functional in nature that could elegantly define UI and Logic and Database interaction - with Tables as a native data structure.
Mold abatement & home restoration contractor here. OSB should not be considered code-compliant material, full-stop. Imagine your home has been constructed with slabs of sponge that have are purpose-engineered to provide optimal growing conditions for fungi when moisture is introduced. Now consider that over the lifetime of a structure some combination of exterior cladding failure, roof leaks, ground moisture issues, and plumbing fails are not only likely, but basically guaranteed.

My biggest concern with this system is given this system's "tightness" to water vapor (similar to SIPs), all of the same issues with mold and related air quality are inherited. If structures don't breathe they rot. i
This is obvious to me - we also used to blame conditions like psychosis and cancer on sin|heresey|laziness|impurity. I'm very certain we'll find something like BPA, environmental estrogen, or HFCS causes significant weight gain.

When I was in France I ate bread, cheese, pate, and meat like a pig and lost weight. I walked less than I do at home and drank more. You can't tell me there's nothing to that. I also don't believe it's simple carbs because China, Japan, and India's food cultures eat a ton of rice and obesity isn't nearly the same problem there.
For the love of all that is human and sacred, please no!
We order a lot of meals for delivery and one of the restaurants always includes a handwritten note thanking us and wishing us a nice meal. It's such a simple thing to do and really makes a nice touch, I'll have to admit.
Ten Questions About The-Hard Limits of Human Intelligence
Equipment and tools are productivity multipliers and good ones can be resold for same value - wear.

Think of it like dual monitors, do tech companies often balk at getting someone a second monitor or is it a no brainer?
That's just for mining, though. I can be part of the validation/consensus process for the BTC blockchain by running a node which you can run on anything with a 500gb hard drive. People use Pi's to do it. You need zero bitcoin to run a node. This is the difference.
What is this trying to solve?
Not NLP, or image classification.

It is significantly harder than Rosetta Zoo [0] or similar projects.

[0] https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ellenjj/rosetta-zoo/clas...
> What I don't understand is why this is done by private corporations instead of the government. Stalking is a crime, harassment is a crime, SWAT-ing is a crime.

Because law enforcement (at least in the US) is woefully bad at their jobs and don't care. I have first-hand experience with this when I had a close friend who was being harrassed by someone local (we knew who it was) and LEO refused to lift a finger. I've talked about it multiple times before on HN [0][1][2][3] but even with this guy graduating to physical actions (keying the friend's car, following/stalking them) the police did nothing.

So if our only options are "Have the police do nothing" or "Have a private corp decide to not do business with a company anymore" then I know which one I'm picking, which one will actually help reduce harm. Even if they spin up under a new name they will lose users along the way. Deplatforming works.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32521976

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31610876

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28130488

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18925283