skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.

After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.

Buddhism (as I imperfectly understand it) is not about getting rid of materialistic attachments. It’s realizing materialistic attachments are the source of suffering.

The world remains. What you do within it is up to you.
There was a large, federally subsidized post-war investment in infrastructure across the country. A lot of that infrastructure is more expensive to maintain than the local tax base can fully afford. Federal help is not forthcoming. Hence…
I think in large part it’s due to how economically divided American society is in terms of where people live. Places like New York have excellent water - the wealthy and poor live side by side. But a huge part of this country live in suburbs and rural areas that are strongly divided on economic lines, any thus those with means are not exposed to and do not care about the quality of infrastructure in poorer areas.
When I deploy my individual sites I always allocate a day to mess with AWS settings, which I can handle, but the real problem is when things need to be changed I dread trying to remember how do to everything.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32795779

Local governments are given more freedom than in many other countries. Most areas of the US are just fine; I have never lived somewhere with dangerous water.
I've spent a lot of time helping companies launch ML-driven products. I have a pretty in-depth guide on ML products and warnings signs here: https://phaseai.com/resources/how-to-build-ml-products

In short: avoid any company where the AI is "magic"... i.e., the founders/CTO/technical team talk about how they'll "figure it out" later, or how it's just matter of some "R&D" time... This happens SO MUCH.

Also make sure the company actually has heavy duty AI talent. It blows my mind how often AI companies launch without any AI talent... Then they spend years searching for talent to solve what turns out to be an intractable problem.

At the very least, you should be able to sit down with someone technical who can walk you through the business problem, then show you how the business problem can be solved with data/AI/ML/etc. and tell you what steps need to be taken to make this all work.
Faithfully… https://www.npr.org/2013/01/18/169739324/obamas-first-oath-o...
> Hardware tokens without the ability to disable SMS / email is quite useless.

I agree. On a desktop it's possible to bypass the hardware token and use the SMS which cannot be disabled AFAIU.

> And I cannot do yubikey on the iPhone. it MUST be sms / call.

Huh, did not know that. Not even the nfc version works?
In case it helps anyone who finds their way back here — I tried ngrok and telebit and both couldn't pass the smoke test.

I opened up a port on my router so things could go directly and sure enough everything went through.

Not sure what those tools are doing to muck things up along the way but heads up!
This ambiguity around what a book is seems like an artificial one. Go to a bookstore or view the catalog in Apple Books. Those are books, even the $0.99 micro stories one might find on, e.g., Kindle. Anything else might be a book, but probably not in a way that is useful or constructive to analyze in the context of sales.
I mean the DOS would be that your youtube-dl invocation hangs, and then you kill it.
This reminds of the Jordan Peterson thing where when he's asked "Do you believe in God" he replies with "Depends on what you mean by believe and God".
Tokyo is a mille-feuille city
Compared to European cities, Tokyo spreads as much vertically as horizontally. Walking in the city does not feel like a flat experience.
There does appear to be a limit to carbon content in soil, though. It isn’t an endless sink.

Some interesting research which I can’t find great sources for indicates that microbial content of the soil can increase the carbon capacity, but I’d need to see better sources to verify that. An example of research around that would be BEAM/Johnson-Su bio reactors and the compost they use to improve agricultural yield. Part of their work indicates that the more they feed the soil with microbe and fungus-rich compost, the better the carbon-retention becomes. There are others like it, but there’s not a large enough body to work to show how well this scales and how well it works across different media.

If I had another life to live I think I’d love to do this kind of research.
C++ gives you an enormous amount of rope to hang yourself with, but it’s also an highly expressive language.
Do you know about the backtracking algorithm? All constraint solvers use that algorithm (or an optimized variant of it) to find satisfying variable assignments. So if you don't know backtracking you should first learn about it to solve N-queens problems and Sudoku puzzles.
As does "Capability does not equal intent."
> the esteem of people you don't admire doesn't matter.

Why should the esteem of people you do admire matter? I’m genuinely curious why you added that qualification.
You're going to need a dog named Toto.

. . . if I only had a brain . . .
Ask HN: Where to find an enterprise sales playbook?
I am looking for the sales playbook for companies like dropbox, stripe or any other top YC B2B company. Don't want to reinvent the wheel...
I maintain a large garden and bury probably tons of organic matter underneath and in the beds. It is a pittance of carbon capture and no solution. Here is a fun video about carbon capture. https://youtu.be/MSZgoFyuHC8
Joining communities and virtual meet-ups is helpful. I really like this one: https://microsaashq.com - it's community plus newsletter for solo-founders/bootstrappers.
Maybe this isn't true anymore, but for a while they would hit different APIs. yt-dlp was using the Android YouTube API because it had no throttling.
Another aspect is sprawl really that leads to the issues other mentioned. Since the US has loads of sprawl it's just to expensive to maintain all of the suburbs, in fact it's really only because of federal funding that a lot of sprawl isn't insolvent yet because spreading out utilities and roads over wide areas with such a low tax base is a fundamentally unsustainable venture. Eventually, you'll find pockets that just don't have the money and see issues like Flint and now Jackson.
What I still don't get is: Wouldn't it be worth it for the EU to fix the silly GDPR cookie requirements?

They burden sites & users with billions of extra meaningless interactions every month for no net gain in privacy – and possibly a net loss, by training users to habitually dismiss such popups without thought.
The cuevas existed before crypto though, so all that's changed is some backend implementation details of how they operate, rather than anything else. Users put their trust in cuevas to handle their money as much as regular people in other countries put their trust in their local bank.

The lack of uptake in crypto by regular people in Argentina underlies how much the decentralized promised cryptocurrency future simply isn't that interesting (for whatever reason) by regular people, even in a country where you'd expect people to be aware of the issues of fiat currency. The underlying fact seems to be that cuevas have managed to put enough trust in Binance to use it as their centralized platform, and that the underlying technology is so esoteric that "17-year old with a smartphone and the binance app" is all the implementation detail that's necessary for them. Smart contracts (to them) are just some esoteric money trinket, like folding animals out of dollar bills.
I've recently gotten a lot of attention for my Midjourney stuff, and I did cause it to be, and I do own the copyright, but I don't claim it as "my art." I think we know that's disingenuous because we didn't create the specific composition.

It's like if I asked one of my assistants to paint something based on a paragraph I wrote, is that MY art? Not at all.
I don't really understand this concept. I had my cofounder quote Alan Watts to me with that same thing. An illusion implies that someone is being fooled. Who is that someone, if there is no self?

Are we supposed to believe that there is no separation between us and a bunch of rocks nearby?

Personally, it seems to me that our concepts of morality and existence are just a bunch of wordplay, and the reason some question sounds "mystical" is because we omit a clause. For example, rather than saying "A should B" you should say "If A wants C to happen, then A should B". And that can be much more easily defined. Otherwise, "objective morality" makes as much sense as "objective sense of humor". Can a joke be "objectively funny" if almost no one laughs at it?
They have a billion dollar endowment. They'll be fine.
Pictures of the octopus settlements: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbnJ2aJXYAomCWP?format=jpg&name=...
This doesn’t necessarily ignore or exclude utilizing the ocean, though. We should be aiming to do both.

The ocean is harder to control - at least with inland controlled experiments we can get a sense of what’s possible and how it can scale. With the ocean it seems our goal would be to simply let it do what it does best, and stop getting in its way. They seem like different endeavours.
trust mathematicians to investigate the planarity of their graphs: https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/extrema.php
What does "$@@" do? I have used just "$@" for what the script at the end is trying to accomplish, is there some edge case where that fails?
It's always been a curiosity for me. We trace our lineage back to a time before "mathematics" was differentiated from physics, chemistry, etc (inasmuch that my eldest ancestors were natural scientists who needed math to get the job done). Computer Science itself was begat from the loins of Mathematics. Yet we have our genealogy site, which caters to the purest among us, though we're all mudbloods.
Great Movie. Nice to see us British from the anti-colonial standpoint, we always get cast as the nice guys but we have a shit ton of historical baggage, I think we deserve the odd movie payback to even things out.
One thing to remember is that Wikipedia prefers free photographs. Non-free photographs can be used but the preference is towards free ones.

The availability of free photographs varies a lot. Often the best source for politicians is when they meet the US President, since photos by the White House photographer (and other federal employees) are public Domain (simplification).

eg the Photograph on King Charles' Wikipedia page is a White House photo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_III#/media/File:Charle...

Apart from the US Government it is often hard to get "free" photographs from earlier than 2000. Cameras were less common and those that took photographs were/are not uploading them to the Internet under a free license (and they won't age into Public Domain for many years).
Here at Spur, we're speculating Mike used residential proxies :)
The back button problem is fixable. Discourse (which you’ll see on discuss.python.org and users.rust-lang.org) uses the history API to keep track of your location. You can create a URL that points at any individual post, and the page will appear “pre-scrolled” to it, so you can not only use the back button to return to your location in the infinite scroll, you can even bookmark your location in the infinite scroll.

The scroll bar and find function can be mitigated, but not as elegantly.

The real problem is that, when you load a page in the middle, it’s easy to scroll down, but scrolling UP is glitchy. That one can’t be fixed. https://meta.discourse.org/t/scroll-jank-when-scrolling-up/1...
I'd say Fabrice Bellard is more a "mythical mainstay". It's hard to go a week without someone posting about him and his projects if you keep an eye out for it. Right now 3 of the stories on the front page (including this one) have mentions of him which is definitely more than average but even when this dips down you'll still see the constant trickle.

A large part of it is obviously that his projects really are good and plentiful but I think another sizeable part is due to something the article points out: he doesn't do any self promotion. He doesn't write blogposts, he doesn't do interviews, he doesn't have any hot takes on Twitter, he doesn't comment on HN... he just writes great code. It's both admirable/enviable as well as a bit more mysterious or "out of reach" than a lot of the other "legendary programmers" e.g. Justine who write equally amazing things but are a bit more tangible here. Not that one way is right or wrong it just helps his name get pretty consistently randomly brought up by HNers.
Actually, why should anything matter? Why do people have kids, if in a few generations no one's going to remember anything among millions of humans? Population growth can actually make human life on the planet unsustainable, as garbage builds up and resources dwindle. Coming from an atheist point of view, let's say, what's the point of humans having a replacement rate when a smaller population can be a lot richer and better off?

Why build anything when in 20 years computers will do it better? All that software you wrote, why even do it? All those stories and art can now be remixed. The hive mind will have the answer to every question better than the people who bicker about stuff they don't even know about. Who cares about their opinion? In a couple decades, who needs them to even work? To tell jokes? To have sex? Do we need to pay the next generation all a UBI to make sure they get their needs met?

We may as well build a virtual reality for ourselves to experience whatever we want since it all doesn't really matter, right?
> The launch was originally planned to be in 2020 but only rudimentary experimental code has been released until the project was abandoned in January 2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diem_(digital_currency)
I think it's ironic that language which is used as the primary form of communication for one's whole life still requires training in University.

Perhaps there truly is no such thing as proper English.
Well, if we're going by the metric of what will be remembered for the longest time, then the most important things are to bring people together [1]; find true love [2]; and make sure you don't sell shoddy, low-grade copper. [3]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narmer_Palette

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_2461

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir
It's a term that means approximately "obsessively-masturbating neckbeard". The tweet is derisively saying that pcwalton's focus on safety is equivalent to masturbation.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Coomer

Whether one agrees with Zig's approach or not, it'd be pretty reasonable to say "Zig doesn't focus on this sort of thing". However, I'd go so far as to say that any language community that has a prominent person slinging aggressive insults like this is one to avoid.
> Docker/containers used to not be hardened enough. Are they now?

I don’t think they ever will be. At least once a year there is a kernel bug where root in a non-root container/namespace can be elevated to root on the host
The regular YouTube link started working, go figure. Thanks anyway
Thanks. In general I like your idea but this community is rubbing me the wrong way.

I personally don't want to be sold courses or books, and don't like the "passive income" or "we'll give you 800 ideas" pitch a lot of these groups have.

Maybe I'm being too picky...
No, if you look at bitcoin bear markets of 2014-2015, 2017-2019, interest rates were rising, gold was down as well.
> to feel confident that we know much about 'intelligence' at all

We both know smart people among our acquaintances. We can tell just by talking with them.

Everything else about humans follows a bell curve, why should intelligence be any different?
The main addendum is that fgrep without a file list is -F, and egrep is -E.
How do you use an app without a data connection?

A physical SIM requires no data connection to use.

You can collect it from a vending machine, put it in your device and it works immediately.

Carriers often don't let people outside of the country sign up for service - even prepaid.

Perhaps in the long run we'll see consumer-friendly options, but so far, carriers all over the world have shown how anti-consumer eSIM can be. They have many new found opportunities to restrict competition, consumer choice, and make additional profit from unfair charges.
I guess it's kind of clear from their websites whether they're actually building models vs using something off the shelf. OpenAI and Deepmind both regularly publish papers and technical blog posts. If you don't see that on the company's website that's one indication.

I'd just check: are they publishing technical stuff you barely understand? Green flag. Is the general idea exciting? Another green flag.

It's a faulty heuristic because more than a few good ones will fall through the cracks but oh well
The cookie warnings feels a lot like the Prop 65 warning of the internet
Paper Notes: Midas: Systematic Linux Kernel TOCTTOU Protection
Painted art erased bad teeth, smallpox scars. Photography gave birth to rigid head-clamped postures, fixed toothless non-smiles (no hiding those stained teeth so keep your mouth shut) and showed us the frailties of Age.

For many people a photo was a post-death momento mori. Better to have all your kids in the picture, including the one which just died.

Fox Talbot and D.O. Hill captured some intimate moments on Calotype. Well... psuedo intimate. it was still a long sitting but boozy pals playing cards in Edinburgh. One of D.O.Hill's shots of the charlotte Square streetscape has a ghostly man holding a coach and horses. There long enough to register, but not long enough for the whole exposure.
Unless you were a baron or a lord, I doubt many British people got any benefit. Britain and most of its old colonies are pretty multi-cultural now (more so than any other countries colonies) I think that and standard english are probably the only real benefits we can see today.
I had an almost identical idea to this website a while ago but never acted on it, props to the dev.

Here is how you win the IPv4 games, in order of most to least effective:

1) Have a large online following that is willing to visit your claim link or a page where you can embed an iframe / img / etc that points to your claim link.

2) Pay to use someone else's (consensual) botnet by paying a residential proxy service, this is the approach I just used and it cost me a few dollars for access to a massive amount of distributed IPv4 space.

3) Abuse cloud / serverless offerings as far as they will go, unlikely to win more than a few blocks this way.

4) Own IPv4 space.

Other less ethical approaches: possibly exploit the system by sending a XFF header the developer forgot to block (probably just checking socket address so unlikely to work here), spin up a Vultr VPS in the same DC and probe for a way to connect with a local address, hijack BGP space, run your own botnet, I'm reminded of an old exploit in WordPress XMLRPC...

From what I can see the current rankings are just me and mike fighting for the same proxy space (the vote goes to the most recent visit per IP), and everyone else falls into buckets 3 & 4.
Garmin devices have supported downloading satellite ephemeris data from the Internet for several product generations. This greatly accelerates getting a GPS fix. Some models will also get an approximate location via Bluetooth from a paired cell phone.

Long fix times are still an issue today with cameras that lack connectivity.
"You either believe they saw it, or you believe they are liars"

That was pretty clearly the false argument, and has no place in a rational discussion.
They impose no burden if you make everything opt in at the point it's required rather than on first page load. Every cookie notice is there by choice because the site operator doesn't care about smooth UX.
Ive watched a few YT videos where Musk does a walkabout of spacex facilities. He seems to have an impressive knowledge of the engineering detail at so many levels. Given welding must be critical for strength and weight I'd be surprised if he didn't have reasonable knowledge from a technical point of view.

I think the channel was 'Everyday Astronaut'.

I'm not an expert so perhaps it's a case of I'm easily impressed.
This. ^

It's available only on postpaid/contract (abonament) services.
Scala Isn't Fun Anymore
The guys so serious, maybe he should do a dance in the middle of his movies, might improve them.
Companies are hacking their way around the chip shortage
Pushing Back on the Expanding Universe Theory
After seeing more results and news coming from the JWST, it felt like time to pull the trigger on this article. I probably should've dug into Professor Sean Carol's list of evidence for the prevailing interpretation of redshift coming from distant objects. I may be eating crow for this neglect. Wouldn't be the first time.
> I genuinely don’t understand how a law as simple as “can’t talk to kids about sex until third grade” has a bonafide conspiracy theory attached to it here. Is your worry that lots of gay teachers are talking about their home lives with very young children and now this law makes that, in your view, potentially out of bounds?

The passage I quoted isn’t about sex. It is about “sexual orientation or gender identity”. A person revealing the gender of their partner is discussing their sexual orientation and not sex.

It is completely natural for people to mention their home life in passing at work. Forbidding that is weird and inhumane. This law will also unfairly target gay people in a way that it won’t impact straight people because a woman mentioning her husband is viewed as normal but a women mentioning her wife is somehow an obscene form of indoctrination to some people.
In the same boat, I left 2 months ago to bootstrap my own startup. I'd recommend getting a shared co-working space. It'll give you home/work separation and you'll get to meet others who are in a similar situation and you can bounce ideas off or just socialize. Of course, keeping up with friends, ex-coworkers and getting lunch/coffee every once in a while is nice too. Good luck!
No, we are not living in a simulation.

And what I am saying is that the simulation hypothesis is a logical conclusion given our abstract way of representing numbers and infinity.

Basic things like real numbers are also an abstract model.
> So take plot of land zoned for a office anywhere in Pals Alto and compare it to a plot for offices, in St. Louis. The values are going to be immeasurably different, because there are economic opportunities in Palo Alto that simple don't exist in St. Louis, and being physically present in Palo Alto affords connections and value

The conceptual problem here is that the value of being present in Palo Alto isn't part of the value of the land. It's a development on the land. There's a fashion for Georgism going around right now, but people absolutely refuse to acknowledge this point.

> And there's not enough land to go around, so prices increase until the poorest have been kicked out and are set at the price of that least wealthy wealthy person. In St. Louis, the same number of wealthy people wouldn't have that impact becuase there's enough land to go around to them and more.

And here we see an example of that mistake being made. There's no shortage of land in San Francisco. There's a shortage of floor space. We could easily have ten times the floor space on the same amount of land.

In the absence of development, the land under San Francisco would have inherent value as a port.

By contrast, the land under Los Angeles would have no inherent value of any kind.

Guess which city operates a major port?
Except I feel Bellard should be as famous an John Carmack in the Anglosphere, or whatever you want to call it, and I'm not sure he is probably because he values privacy and quiet work time