skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think so. There is of course a childlike magic in looking at the clouds and dreaming of the people who live there. But the feeling of fantasy a child gets when looking at clouds does only partly stem from not knowing what they consist of.

I have many topics that still fascinate me as much as they did when I was a kid – to be honest, maybe even more than back then, because now I know how ridiculously complex they are and what ultra-specific conditions needed to be there for this to emerge. Knowing more doesn't make things less miraculous, but more so.

And despite knowing a lot about fluid dynamics and clouds I can still just stare at a beautiful cloud in awe and wonder how it would be to live up there in the naive, romantic sense. I know a lot about acoustics and what makes my instrument work, but in the end I can still just sit there and play it. If anything that knowledge allows me to connect more intimately with the world around me

Losing your childlike side is something that happens to many people, because they are afraid of how it is being perceived from the outside – and then they internalize this so much that they don't even allow themselves awe and wonder even inside the privacy of their own heads.

Maybe this is coupled with the Dunning-Kruger effect? So if someone is in the valley of people who don't know a lot, but think they know everything, the wonder of the world around them might indeed be lost for them.
I'm having a hard time believing this to be true... All the writing I do is in cursive, it's so much faster and neater than non-cursive. I don't have to worry about the spacing between the letters when writing cursive and writing common words isn't really a muscle memory of writing each letter but of the entire word.

I'll have to ask a relative who's a teacher in the elementary school if this is also true here in Slovenia.

Somehow this makes me really worry... Will the children in the future not even write using a pen and paper but just using a keyboard and a touch screen?
Learning cursive isn’t learning to write. As a kid I spent copious amounts of time learning to fit the sweep of my cursive to a rigid meter, and form them just so… it was closer to learning to draw than to write (which I could already do)
> I store both passwords and 2FA in an automated software.

This effectively reduces the 2nd factor to the first, and indeed produces the diminishing return. It's sufficient to hack one system using one method and you compromise both defenses.

The point behind 2nd factor is to provide a second, *independent* layer of protection that would need to be compromised using an entirely different attack.

In the case of the FIDO2 dongles including the Yubikeys the secret isn't even stored on your system, but on the device itself that doesn't even disclose it to your connected system.
It’s like self-help: in principle it’s supposed to help people and in practice if it does, that’s great. But in practice, the content is inevitably over-stuffed with padding, which sorts of contradicts the very principle of getting stuff done and not wasting time.

The productivity genre also never seems to provide empirical data to back up their recommendations. Like it would be great if these gurus actually conducted experiments into the best notes-taking systems. Evaluate them against each other with real results.

Oh, you say that every person’s best system is going to be different? Then maybe an innovation in this genre should be helping readers figure out which system should be best for the self, rather trying to prescribe one-size fits all systems and merchandising it with bullet journals and paid tools and the like.
I think controllable currency is strongly in the interests of both corporate and government bodies for all these reasons. There's no counteracting force here representing the interest of the citizens and users. This is why it's inevitable.
> I barely even write anything vs type these days.

Me as well, to the point that when I do write, it's a lot slower and less legible than it used to be. Most of that muscle memory has left in the last 30 years since I've been heavily using keyboards and writing less and less each year.
AIUI, that's an unfair conclusion. I'm happy to be corrected, of course.

tl;dr: unfair outcomes are more caused by local implementations than by the legal structure.

IMO the unfairness in the American legal system comes from the expense of civil litigation, and a criminal justice system with no upper bound on how long defendants can be remanded. Those are not inherent in the English legal system. It is extremely rare for criminal defendants to be locked up for weeks before trial in England. Even Benjamin Mendy has been released to house arrest; he was denied bail but had to be released after a year.

In England, there's the legal concept of "odious contract" which makes some provisions unenforceable. IDK if it would apply in this scenario but it seems at least work a punt. Precedent could work for our against; it's not a given that precedent would favour the big corp.

The defining characteristic of English and American law is that it's adversarial; two parties debate before a supposedly-impartial judge, who then rules based on the evidence provided by the litigating parties.

The primary alternative system, used in many European countries, is the inquisitorial system. A judge directs questioning to establish the facts as they see fit.

It seems to me that, if you want to favour vested interests, you'd implement an inquisitorial system.

I don't know what you'd call the alternatives to common-law, but I don't see why there's a benefit to vested interests from it. It grants the judiciary some room for interpretation of laws made by lawmakers - whom I'll warrant were landed gentry more often than not, in Western history.

Historically, English law did allow serfs to challenge their landlords in court. I'm pretty sure there are cases of landlords being found guilty of dereliction of noblesse oblige. I mainly know what I remember from /r/AskHistorians though so please feel free to correct me.

Serfdom was abolished in England in about the 13th century, which is also when the Magna Carta became law. I suspect that English peasants had much greater legal protections and recourses than in most other European countries in the late mediaeval period.
In my view fine motor control is actually very important, as it seems to have a big effect on neuroplasticity and the prevention of Parkinson's.

I also want my kids to learn how to appreciate things that have no tangible purpose other than be beautiful.

I think it's a shame though that you were forced to use cursive when you hated it. Although where I grew up writing cursive used to be the norm. But it's not anymore apparently, as my son is learning non-cursive first.
reading the post is essential. here is the bit adressing this:

> that may be due to previous hoarding in China coupled with economic slowdown and/or disruptions in their metals markets
I gave it to a friend of mine, who also found it profound, and now they have given it to someone else. I probably will buy another copy.
I feel like I've seen this in a Professor Layton game before. Just not laid out like this of course
It was specifically the civil engineer that screwed up, and the errors involved trigonometry and integrals.
I suppose that's true. But at least most people took their headphones off when they weren't at home, which somewhat limited their exposure time. Today, when I'm outdoors, it seems like a large fraction of people are wearing earbuds. For instance when I'm riding on the bike path, I have to be alert to the fact that nearly everybody out there who's walking or jogging won't hear my signal from behind as I pass them, because they're all wearing earbuds.
"I am your king!"

"Well I didn't vote for you!"
Required by POSIX, and it does exactly what it's supposed to do: Changes directory in the process (not the parent shell). This isn't completely useless -- you get an exit status and potentially error messages out.

(And yes, I'm the cperciva in that version tag.)
The counteracting force is Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, Zcash, Tornado Cash, etc. Wake up.
I've been using whatboard.app to manage my tasks. I pin ongoing tasks, unpin to-do's, archive things I may have to tackle or recall later.
> When someone reads a Facebook post, does anyone think that Facebook is the speaker? That legal fiction is attractive for various reasons, but I don’t think it’s such a slam dunk. I think there is a fair argument that Facebook is a pipe for someone else’s speech.

I do, in a sense. By the nature of its design, Facebook has a feed of virtually every opinion in the world and can show any of them to any user. Facebook could express any opinion it wants by choosing what content gets shown.

As a sort of analogy, let's say I want to say "I like dogs." If I read from a random character generator until it says "I like dogs" and then I send that to the internet, have I published it or am I merely a pipe for the random number generator?

Technically the random character generator "created" the content, but it would be a totally different work without my involvement.

It's not really relevant, though, because Section 230 applies regardless of whether FB is a publisher or not.
Hn: Open source devs, monetize your work while keeping it open and free!

OP: does that

Hn: no not like that
The kind of pen I'm referring to is a pen with a nib that is a flat blade of metal, cut across, making a straight edge, then slit to make an ink channel. If you drag it horizontally, e.g. left-to-right, it makes a very fine line; if you drag it vertically, it makes a line as broad as the width of the nib. Sometimes they are cut on a slant; sometimes you hold them on a slant. So take "horizontal" and "vertical" with a bushel of salt.

Basically, these things are metal replicas of quill pens, which are made as flat blades cut across to make an edge and then slit.

That wide-stroke/thin-stroke business isn't anything to do with italicness, as far as I know; nor is the business of everyone leaning to the right. It's about serifs, and related orthographic flourishes, isn't it? [Edit: the kind of script I mean is angular, straight lines, with vertical strokes meeting diagonal strokes; rather gothic.] Well, those flourishes are facilitated by that kind of nib. Whether that's italic or not, I don't know; but the pen-and-nib sets used to be sold as "Italic pen with set of nibs", or something like that.
I'd call it an ad, not clickbait. An ad with some useful content, but still.

Edit: I think the modern term is content native advertising, although I'm perfectly happy to keep using the word infomercial.
> Why are there so many cash buyers

Simple, investors discovered that purchasing homes in a market limiting new construction, they can change what ever rent they want. That provides a larger return than what the markets provide.

The only way out of this is if an entity owns say over 5 homes for rental income, property taxes should be increased on these homes to say 100% of value per year. It doubles with each 10 homes owned.
Luckily we live in "law is law" land and not "contract is law" land, and the law does take kindly to concepts like hotswapping concepts in a predatory manor.
glibc's impl is a "raw futex-based" one as well. I'm no great fan of glibc as an organization or body of code, but the comparative benefits of Rust here are not well explained.
Right, sure, that’s all true. Now consider that many people can’t read the document.

I guess your analogy still checks out. Neither Old nor New Testament are written in English. And thus English-speakers rely on translations.
I learned cursive, but rarely have cause to write more than a sentence or two with pen or pencil anymore. Anything long form is digital, such as a word doc. Even paper itself is used sparingly.
Mechadon(https://battlebots.fandom.com/wiki/Mechadon) is probably the best you're going to get. The problem with legs is that they're relatively slow, complicated, and difficult to protect when compared to wheels.

You may also find Snake interesting(https://battlebots.fandom.com/wiki/Snake).
I've been working in the async space for a few years now and it may just be survivor bias, but while I think there are definitely some issues, I'm still largely happy with it. It's still evolving after all. If they can get the cancellation issues sorted and async in traits that would be a good place.

What were your issues with the C FFI? That usually gets praise from people.
In a word, righteousness. The human mind grew up in a world of divided bands and fighting. Us vs Them is a very comfortable paradigm. So now we have people fighting about Woke-ism or Gamer's Gate. People get bitterly angry about this because their personal morality is challenged; shame is a knife to cut the sinner. We feel a shared sense of righteousness with our own band - how dare they oppress minorities / how dare they challenge the way I was raised / how dare they take away my rights and personal choice / how dare they behave so recklessly.

Maybe you're angry about one of those things right now. Anger is an emotion that tells you to change something. If you can't change the thing you get angry about, then you get angry at that feeling of not being able to fix things; you get angry at people that get in the way. You get angry at people on 'the other side'. Then they respond by defending themselves and saying things that make you more angry. Once the fighting starts, you have the original problem and the original feelings about the problem, and you also have anger about the fighting, which quickly becomes bitter.

I don't know how or if humanity will stop this at scale. A path forward would be choosing not to use shame and righteousness, but that is a deeply alien feeling. Of course you want racists/wokists to feel bad; they are doing harm and they want you to feel bad! It would be unrighteous to not attack them!

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I do not believe wokism is a problem in the way that racism is a problem. I believe that many people experience historic structural inequality. I believe that some people want their own race to prosper ahead of other races. I believe that people try to advance their own personal interests without regard to the power structures they participate in. I don't believe that shaming non-minorities really helps fix this.
Maybe. But some are homeowners who sold a property and use the proceeds to pay for another one, in which case there's not much change in net demand. This surely beats their taking out a low interest loan to speculate on an investment property.
Time zones are a thing. Unless all your customers will be in the same city you can always be in someone else’s “business hours”.

Comment below about taking a half day is good too. If you aren’t willing to use some PTO on this… how committed are you?
Are you upset by the profit margin, or something else?
GTAV had an interesting story. At least as far as video games are concerned.
Then, we have had decades to observe whether this approach (that I assume to be familiar to at least many in his field by now) actually made sociologists more productive (at whatever it is that sociologists do), or not.
Elementary school: You need to learn cursive, every paper in college will need to be in cursive with good handwriting!

Middle school: Hey computers are cool let's learn how to use them

High school: Assignments should all be typed and printed at home before class.

College Freshman: Times New Roman. 12pt. Double Spaced. Any papers not following these rules will be marked as 0. Printing costs 25c/page in the library.

College Senior: Times New Roman. 12pt. Double Spaced. Microsoft word file format. All papers must be submitted to the online portal and plagiarism checker by 11:59pm on the due date.
evidently 1/3 still can, so don't be too overconfident.
It sounds silly for deep theoricians and a somewhat politically active organization like GNU to have wanted to go all the way to an OS, the kind of software where you really need to throw all the beauty out of the window and solve dumb users tangible problems, like how to read a bluray from an obscure proprietary drive or how to run a game with a monopolistic corporation's binary drivers.

GNU can never succeed at it because it can never compromise and maybe that's fine. It's a shame that it s considered a failure when they accomplished so much in the OS scaffolding part.
Here's the problem: homo sapiens didn't evolve during a period when both poles were ice-free.
> Converting between binary and base 10

Just because something is relevant to the HN readership doesn't mean that it is to everyone.
I kind of get that. And if a change in GNU glibc caused a bug in GNU wget, I would hope that wget would release a fix relatively quickly, but I wouldn't necessarily have any special expectations just because glibc and wget are both part of GNU.

But I wish that the projects in the GNU toolchain would at the very least collaborate. The combination of glibc + gcc + autotools + m4 makes such a core part of any GNU system that you'd hope that GNU cares to keep them mutually compatible. So when they release an update to glibc which breaks m4 which makes it impossible to compile the current version of the GNU toolchain using the current version of the GNU toolchain, that's extremely disappointing.
Salary in India is a wide spectrum. At the top end of the talent pool, it is indeed reaching West European levels. I know because I managed a team that was in Spain and India.

However now I run my second startup (bootstrapped) where I hire, train and generate value from candidates who are at the other end of the spectrum with monthly salaries much lower than what is quoted in the article.

It is a very wide spectrum for tech salaries here in India.
But they are also available in print? And it's 1 to 1 so even a 3rd grader could figure it out in a jiffy if that ever became necessary. I'm more worried about the shifting definition of words and historical context needing to be tied in.
> the fundamental rules of cinema - speak clearly and face the camera

You're literally describing the fundamental rules of cinema... in the 1940's. Back in the studio system, that was exactly with they did, so clearly they even used a fake "transatlantic accent" with heightened enunciation to do it.

And these rules (minus the accent) are still followed to a large degree in middlebrow TV fare like what you watch on ABC or the CW Network. It's also more present in comedies.

But if you're watching a prestige drama on HBO or Netflix? If you're watching The Wire or Succession? If a drug dealer or cop suddenly starts speaking clearly and facing the camera, all believability is instantly shattered.

Your rules for "bad acting" are outdated by about seven decades. In fact, "method acting" in the 1950's was precisely a reaction to the stilted "speak clearly and face the camera" acting of the 1940's. By your standard, Marlon Brando would be a bad actor, since "speak clearly and face the camera" is the polar opposite of what he did.
DHS to Spend Almost $700k Investigating ‘Radicalization in Gaming’
IMO, private dinners. For similar reasons I stopped attending conferences and shows because there was no-longer anything of interest that could be discussed there. That and a general decline in SnR. Once upon a time I would even speak at such events, at the invite of analyst firms. No longer. But more often than not I’ll take up an invite to a private dinner if there are interesting participants.
This was an entertaining read, until it struck so many cords on immigrant life and kind of became surreally relatable.

On the publications, I recently re-subscribed to WSJ after a long time (grad school was the last time I read it regularly). Don’t know if it’s the awful app hiding good content, but I can’t seem to find anything even remotely worth keeping the subscription at full price next year…
What’s Dangerous Is America’s Lack of Crime Data
"by guaranteeing that resulting archive is accurate and exact mirror of original filesystem."

^^^ that is true enough

"reduces cognitive load"

^^^ that I have doubts about. I expect this would be highly variable between people, which leads to my question about the trade-off.

For those who are newcomers (say ten years or fewer) to the *nix world, it may well be an improvement. For those who have been using the standard-ish tools for 30+ years, learning yet-another-new-utility has a very high cost.

That dilemma would be irrelevant if the person taking backups is the same person doing the restoration (as will often be the case). My concern is along the lines of "what if this becomes a de facto standard?"
to loose all the comments? :D that would make it even harder to read
> when's the last time if ever someone asked to see the signature on your card

Recently. One grocery store in Germany usually does that. It may be in part that signing receipts is not common there (vs. entering a PIN) and they're confused by my American debit card.

I'm not sure my scribble on the receipt closely matches the one on my card, but I've never had them object.
A larger arena, possibly outside in a field or rocky-ish desert area with 5v5 battles would be a lot more interesting. The large team sizes would spice up the plain old spinner vs flipper dynamic. The cameras filming it could just be drones following the battle from above.
Fortran 2018 already has modern features. What modern feature are you specifically talking about that Fortran lacks? There is more to arrive in Fortran by 2023 and 2027.
What bothers me is that the OCaml code looks so harmless:

static void st_masterlock_acquire(st_masterlock * m)
{
pthread_mutex_lock(&m->lock);
while (m->busy) {
m->waiters ++;
custom_condvar_wait(&m->is_free, &m->lock);
m->waiters --;
}
m->busy = 1;
pthread_mutex_unlock(&m->lock);
}

How is this bug not more common with such a simple invocation?
Notebook no more: tech setup for a photo reportage in Kosovo
> The US foundational documents (Declaration, Constitution) are written in cursive/script. Public education certainly has something to do with creating citizens capable of participating in US democracy and reading these docs is one significant part of that

I’ve read most of the constitution on each 4th of July for a decade now. I’ve never read the cursive version.

You don’t need to learn to read cursive in order to learn the history, importance, or context of our founding documents. I promise that the script is NOT the most important thing about those documents, and someone who was unable to read cursive is still fully able to participate fully in our democracy.
How can a productivity system reduce the starting effort of any task to zero? There’s such a thing as activation energy.

Sure, you can try breaking a task down to its smallest component, but not all problems can chunk like that. And even the smallest component will take non-zero work.

I would be curious to learn about a system that could actually accomplish that.
For anyone else wondering about the name: it's actually "MiSTer", from "MiST on Terasic [FPGA board]", with "MiST" being a previous "aMIga/ST" FPGA reimplementation effort.
This is fair. I do use the same system for family and personal stuff. Separate inbox and separate Apple Reminders list.
Not sure what I am missing. But all the possible moves lead to dead states.

That being said, not sure what the transition labels mean. "Somebody at bone", "Somebody at carrot" or "nobody at bone" means nothing to me. I suspect there's another game that I don't know about that would provide the context.
Yeah, maybe. Even so, the dangers go beyond the lipid profile, specifically, take care of your nuts. The HPTA is a delicate system, and ostarine is pretty much the only SARM that doesn't cause suppression of natural testosterone production. Everything else, including ligandrol, will suppress your natural hormone production. (although it's possible YK11 is also non-suppressive, we need more clinical research or broscience anecdotes to be sure about this).