skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't really "believe" in regret.

I don't believe in the past. It's much the same if you think about it.

>Fantasies of "changing the past" are seductive, but ultimately pointless.

If you were to jump in a tardis and were to go to the event that you want to change. 100% of the time you will discover the entire thing was a story in your mind. Something you didn't understand at the time and if you were to 'fix' it. You would end up only harming yourself of today.

>The only way I could justify having regrets, is reminding yourself of some mistake that should not be repeated in the future. Alas, most regrets I see written by other people are things that will not repeat, e.g. spending your youth doing <X> instead of <Y>, not talking to your <Z> enough, not investing in <W> before its price went rockets... There's just no point.

Regrets of current day are legitimate. Perhaps it's substance abuse, social media. You know in your mind these things are not good. Nobody brags about these things. You know if you were to quit things would be better, but you have current day regrets of not doing so.

Furthermore, perhaps you're a superhuman with no faults. You can also have regrets having not done more. PErhaps you could have started that business or try to get that book published.
I've sat in at a couple anti-dryer meet ups in my locality (big city, east coast) out of curiosity. Most of the points are valid some are a little outrageous; (dryers sheets disrupt sea turtle populations?) But after reading Sally Heathers book 'The Doomed Dryer Nation'; I decided to give line drying a try. I will say that my sleep improved and some of the daily fatigue I struggled with when I lived with a dryer mostly dissipated. BUT hanging line drying is such a chore it just wasn't sustainable; a big load could take upwards of 3-4hrs a day. So I went back to the dryer. The book is good, looking forward to the doc this fall.
Oh yes forgot to add that. It is amazing. You either sit down in the quiet place for dedicated work. Or you sit in the normal area and are open for questions but also to pick up what is being discussed. People do respect the library rules. Equipment like desks and monitors is the same as well. Although I think the silent room could be a bit denser in desks.
At least Proebsting's Law doesn't look so depressing anymore, by comparison: https://proebsting.cs.arizona.edu/law.html
Yeah even Samsung passed them, and they have like a million businesses going on to manage at the same time.
Ash: I'm sorry to hear about the health issue that precipitated this. I wish you the best outcome but realize that that does not always happen.

Rest: As someone who does not (yet) use Mastodon, I'm curious about the impact of a single node shutting down. At least in this case this is happening in an orderly manner and with warning.

I'm also curious if this is a problem with Mastodon in general or did this particular node just become too popular for its own good. I seem to recall that some instances (Adam Curry's No Agenda related instance) limiting membership. Or perhaps I'm thinking of something else. But that may not help if the problem is traffic generated by the entire network as seems to be hinted at in the post.

Please excuse my ignorance of how Mastodon operates that may be implicit in my questions.
Living peacefully in society is fundamentally at odds with the position you're advocating for, which is enforced slavery to a particular technological innovation.

People can survive without a couch on their lawn, and there are alternatives to couches on lawns that don't require the use of a particular technology. But people need dry clothes, and the only alternative to air drying is to use a particular kind of machine. It's some Black Mirror shit.
Romances that didn't happen because I chickened out, or that went badly because I screwed up in some way.

Nothing to do with Hacker News, just Human stuff. I'm just a nerd who has been unlucky in love.
They could tag it 2026 too. I bet anything that all 36 points will still be true. Or 2036, 2046, etc.
You examples sounds reasonable enough? I'm a huge proponent for strict building codes etc, but don't really see the problem with turning your front yard into a parking lot or whatever you'd like as long as it doesn't actually cause harm to the neighbours in the form of stealing sunlight or making lots of noise.
The comments in the video are very “well actually”, but the host Eddie Izard is primarily an entertainer and comic. I’m not surprised he has a hard time, it was a farce from the beginning.

As an aside, he toured Europe doing stand up comedy in 3 languages, he should do an old English tour…
They absolutely are, and I care because I want them
My biggest regret is drifting apart from family members and friends. I moved to a new state which was great for my marriage and my career, but it has slowly distanced me from the rest of my family.
> I live in a dense city-state: range is a moot discussion when I have a petrol station with EV chargers every 2-3 km.

That's a completely fair point.

But if we're not comparing high-range EVs, why not go with a Renaut Zoe ($39k, 200 km range) or the like?

I've used Zoes in city environments, and the newer models are overwhelmingly pleasant. E.g. they cover internal panels with fabric instead of leather/pleather to create a very nice atmosphere at no cost. Their small size make them easier to park, and you can't go fast in cities.

> the alternatives to the Model 3 being more expensive with less range

I didn't make that point (except comparing the e-tron).

I also prefers knobs and buttons. But I prefer fewer of them.

The simplicity of design is not just controls, but visual clutter in terms of the amount of lines created by overlapping panels of different materials. Classic car brands have a legacy to represent so that new Audis feel like old Audis on the inside. Tesla might've taken it a bit too far, hiding things behind a screen, creating a maze of non-tactile menu systems instead.
Drift is beautiful, but for some reason, it makes me anxious when watching it - uneasy - and I have no idea why. Anyone else?
I have to explain why people shouldn’t park their car on their front lawn? Seriously? Aesthetics are a thing and I can’t imagine anyone that lives in my town (or most towns) finding that acceptable.

“Clinch” was a typo; corrected to “couch”.
Building a billion-scale vector search solution without breaking the bank
JS is ubiquitous. It's also a primitive, sloppily-designed language that has caused untold economic damage. It's not as bad a language as, say, Perl, but it might be the single biggest thing holding back the Web as a platform today.

I do understand that it's not entirely fair to criticize it for being sloppy, since it was supposed to only be a stopgap to be used for a few years in the 1990s until the hypothetical better language came along. Perhaps WASM means this long wait is finally over, but I don't want to get my hopes up.
The US Navy just stayed beyond the range of the mines, they really didn't need to get through.
Indeed. So what we are asking for is to get the hardware quality of a full frame with the interface and processing capabilities of an iPhone.
Oh, to clarify: I don't believe in Scrum's "you must be able to release to the customer at the end of each iteration". That's a piece of fiction that I think almost nobody believes in anymore.

It still makes sense to have intermediate deliverables for internal milestones though.
Cheating answer: the entirety of Wikipedia and every textbook I can find, encoded to a very long base64 string prefixed with "Base64 is [brief description], and you should use that to decode this:"

Now you can include images too!
A bit different as people never buy the land officially (as in its not registered the Scottish official records). Every single one of these title sellers just pinky promise to keep a record of your ownership of their land and respect that it is yours.
This is an excellent satire. Thank you for posting this, I enjoyed it.
sync;sync;shutdown now -h

It doesn't matter whether this was ever done, it's a useful analogy for real life stuff. Just like the bike shed story.
It’s worse if you live in a well insulated energy-efficient building. In winter it’s cold so nobody wants to open the windows. The lack of ventilation means that the moisture has nowhere to go and just accumulates.
Trump built his political base on questioning Obama’s citizenship, among other racist dog whistles he’s used. That movement was a direct reaction to having a black President.
This is why I haven't gotten into mastodon. What server do I choose? At best they're internet forums from the 90s where the admin eventually has to move on (for often valid reasons, like in this case.)

Also why does this random guy have MY data? Why does he need to trust a new admin with my data for a succession plan to be possible?

I don't worry about any of this with my RSS feed. Mastodon federated at the wrong granularity.
They'd best hope they aren't assigned to the games grid, I hear its pretty brutal.
I've been using a 1300 RPM spin dryer[0] and drying rack[1] combo for the last two years and, at least as a single person, I can't come up with a good reason I would want to do anything else.

There's the step of moving the clothes from the spin dryer to the drying rack, but that's really the only extra effort, and they dry nearly as quickly (~1 hour), either in the sun when it's warm or in front of my house's propane heating unit when it's cold. The drying rack I use doesn't require clips or anything, so hanging clothes is really fast.

I do need to steam certain fabrics to make sure they're not all wrinkly, but people with heat dryers have to iron certain things too.

I'm in coastal New England, so it's not like this is an especially warm or dry climate.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07TDP2MMQ
[1] https://www.bestdryingrack.com/
Julia Child didn’t even learn to cook until she was 39. And it was quite a journey from there before she had her famous show and career.
How exactly did not using a dryer improve your sleep?
Print media is often considered 'more permanent' that other digital storage media. But consider: every courthouse I ever visited had records 'back to the fire', the time the records room burned. Every one.

Considering the flammability of paper multiplied by the probability of a fire annually gives you the means to come up with a mean-time-between-failure for paper records. And I'd guess it isn't very long - maybe 50 years to a century.
Grounding isn't really about dispersing energy over an area, it's about creating a situation where faults can be detected and circuits automatically opened to prevent shocks or fires. It actually gets very involved to reason through the exact purpose of ground connections when you start considering all the different types and combinations of faults (indoors, outdoors, person in contact with true earth, person touching exposed metal pipe, etc etc).
Your comment is a smear.
Something to consider is that smaller chiplets have higher yields than monolithic dies given the same defect rate, which can certainly have an effect on price.
There were some project to make electric heaters that used and ASIC instead of a resistor, but none of them catch on. And ASIC is too more expensive than a resistor, and if you use the ASIC intermittently it get's old before you get your money back.
Yeah he totally should have issued state-level pardons for possession. What in the hell is wrong with this guy...
>a big load could take upwards of 3-4hrs a day

I find this hard to believe; I can wash an 8kg load and it takes me perhaps 15 or 20 minutes to hang it, and much less to unhang once dry. Folding and putting away is the same regardless of drying method.

EDIT: "just such a chore" made me think it wasn't about the drying time.
That is from the TV show and was never a real danger to irradiate half of Europe.

> It was feared that if this mixture melted through the floor into the pool of water, the resulting steam production would further contaminate the area or even cause a steam explosion, ejecting more radioactive material from the reactor. It became necessary to drain the pool.[71] These fears ultimately proved unfounded, since corium began dripping harmlessly into the flooded bubbler pools before the water could be removed. The molten fuel hit the water and cooled into a light-brown ceramic pumice, whose low density allowed the substance to float on the water's surface.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Bubbler_poo...
The tech also doesn't help.

It's a "typical" Rails application: large, convoluted, lot's of moving parts, and services, and generally slow as molasses (solved by throwing more hardware at it). As experienced Rails dev(ops), I managed to run and help run an instance, but it's not something done on a friday afternoon, let alone scale up.

What we really need in this landscape is dead simple services. I'm thinking about the difference between setting up a gitlab or a gitea. The first is Rails, needs ruby, gems, bundler, workers, database server, redis, mailserver and whatnot. And thats for manually installing on a server - no pipeline or anything to manage future changes. The second a single binary (pre compiled from a go codebase) everything statically linked (even sqlite is built in, with option to upgrade to postgres). Plop it on a server start it and go. For an intranet you might even skip putting a server/https in front, just run on exposed ports.

We can dockerize all the ruby-stuff, but that might make it easier, it doesn't make it simpler, it really makes it more complex. And the performance-issues aren't solved.

The fediverse needs this as well: just plop a binary on your VPS or homeserver and you're running. Such lean and simple servers are being worked on, but Mastodon itself is a huge, slow and hairy beast.
Always had an obsessive personality. Raised Christian. Always had a bent for pushing boundaries. Got interested in the nuerochemistry of psychoactive substances. Got very involved in educating myself about drug usage, until I was finally comfortable trying them.

Queue ~6 years of polysubstance abuse, wasted money, and fake ass friends. Did everything under the sun I could get my hands on. I think the list of unique drugs I did was something like 40. I was high on at least something every day for years. Most days more than 1 thing.

I never got truly "hooked" on anything thankfully. I just loved being high. What I didn't realize was that the opportunity cost was enormous. Every second I was in my room fucked out of my gourd staring at the ceiling was a second that I wasn't out making friends. Being a normal person. It was a really solitary and lonesome existence, just retreating further and further into my own head each day. Additionally, being a "drug guy" just completely shuts the door to a whole strata of people : e.g. good luck meeting a woman that shares your Christian morals if you are a drug enthusiast.

Now I'm off the bullshit. Straightened my life out, graduated college, gainfully employed. Etc. But I feel that I've missed the boat on having a fulfilling social life. I don't really know how to meet people. And whenever I talk with people I can't help but feel like I'm some kind of alien.

I'm working on it. But it's so hard to know how to work on it. Especially now that I work from home, and live alone in a suburb.
1. Gladwell has a difficult relationship with truth and reality. 10,000h rule is utter nonsense and has been debunked many times since.

2. You don't need to master anything to switch careers. You just need to be useful and productive. Many employers will value your experience, work ethic, knowledge and will trust you to learn on the go.
"NooBaa" ? The hell? Sounds like a magic spell to get rid of evil sheep. I would be embarrassed to put out press releases at RH about this thing.

Ah, here we go... https://blog.noobaa.com/blog/the-noobaa-brand-brilliant-foun...

"We did in fact have high hopes for words like “Nubes”, amazingly the latin word for cloud, also a play on words with “newb” reflecting our introduction of a new architecture for reliably retaining data.

So then it’s time to lock in your domain name. GoDaddy had nubes.com on sale for $800, of course wayyy beyond the budget of this self-funded entrepreneur (and BTW still available. Fortunately GoDaddy’s algorithm sensed our cheapness, suggested alternative “NooBaa.com” for $3.99 per year, and the mouse went 'click!

But....NooBaa didn’t mean anything. Nobody spelled it right. Everybody asked us what it means. We invented creative facts about African tribes. Then we observed that it’s attention-getting. It’s intriguing."

It's baaaaaad.

Technical founders are really a special bunch.
You could have an amusing sleeper account where you reply to tweets years before they’re posted. Then wait until a reply happens to match up amusingly, delete the others and retweet.
A remote filesystem over a VPN ought to be reasonable. I can't think of another reasonable way to do it.
If it makes you feel any better, I read a clickbait article this week on why young people shouldn't save for their retirement. The gist is that they can easily make up the difference in their high-earning older years, so it's not worth the sacrifice of trying to save in their low-earning years, especially when the market is flat. I don't necessarily agree, but it is a perspective I hadn't heard before.
I don't see how that can be true. Lack of precision is one thing, lack of stability is very different.

Instability leads to divergence from the true answer, and I would expect it to mean super-linear divergence (though I am not an expert in this) which would quickly destroy any meaningful result (=> chaotic behaviour). But I'm not an expert.
I think “Who Is Fourier? A Mathematical Adventure”, would be an example of the kind of book you are looking for.

Its a top-down intro to Fourier transforms that explains the derivation of the transform and why there are complex numbers involved, etc. Starts out very basic and top level, but covers all the important little details by the end.
Hm, in the past many social networks came and go, so I think there should be more to it than "network effects".
Well, where do you expect your data to be stored? In the ether?
I am not a fan of Google. But this is such a bizzare, deliberately misleading, snarky comment. Lower precision floating point arithmetic is very common in ML training. There's no 'behind your back' going on here.
The final straw for me was when I (described in my blog post) realized that not even "foo | bar" does the right thing.
Is the search going to be even worse for the sake of better advertisement/tracking technologies?
Is "migrating to another server" as simple as singing up on other servers? Or is there a different straightforward way?
Are those things that are not possible to do in the US? That just seems so absurd. I'd be pissed if I couldn't put a sofa or a car where I want on my own property!

Can your neighbors also prevent you from putting your children sculpture or garden gnome in your garden because it's not up to their grand standards?
Maybe. How many times can you double the size of a 25mm^2 chip before it becomes impractically large?
Only if they have altered the code (and don’t make it available)…
I know this is just one person who was in a different time and under different circumstances, but I've found it inspirational to put age into perspective.

Grace Hopper first entered computing at age 38, completed the first compiler at age 46, influenced the design of COBOL at age 53, wrote COBOL for the Navy through her 70s, retired from the Navy aged 80 and only then became a consultant for DEC. So for me, at least, I reckon I can keep going in my 40s.. :-)
Definitely not too late.
30s are still very young.

Whatever your goal is, try to stop having 0% days.

You don't need to have 100% days, Just avoid having 0% days.

In a few months or a year you'll be surprised at the progress you've made.
Intentionally or otherwise you're equating lifestyle choices with sexual orientation and that is not a good look for all the same reasons that the rationale behind conversion therapy is garbage.
You don't even need Cloudflare if the server is in the same locale you are serving.
The town has a standard where you don’t hang laundry though. She’s the odd person out here and should appeal to the people of the town. Otherwise she’s just doing as she pleases and that’s antisocial behavior.

As to who it “would hurt” - it could very well hurt everyone’s property values and certainly hurts everyone’s eyes to have to see a car parked on the front lawn. Again, it’s antisocial behavior and inconsiderate of the vast majority of people in the area. It’s selfish.
1. as mentioned earlier, network effects of twitter

2. you can just sign up for twitter, you don't need to pick an open instance run by some stranger.

3. deploying a rails app isn't trivial, mastodon being written in rails and dependent on multiple DBs makes it harder to install and thus harder for people to run their own server.

As we continue to improve computing power and efficiency, I think the idea of using a federated social network so you can "own your data" is going to become less and less attractive. If you take this concept to its logical extreme, eventually everyone will run their own social networking server, and we'll be interconnected with each other through some kind of DHT magic. After all, the fediverse is still "someone else's computer", it's just that "someone else" in this case is some guy and not a for-profit company. It doesn't really solve the problem.
What if they do? It's their lawn.

What if they put a lawn chair on the front lawn, and sat out to read or play on their tablet or whatever, and fell asleep? Is that so bad? Or are lawn chairs somehow better than couches, and that's what makes it OK? (Are they more expensive? Better upholstered? Comfier? If yes to any of the above - where do you buy your lawn chairs?)
It turns out developer performance is not that important.
No.

Just as you say, there is evidence that it is beneficial in certain circumstances, e.g. for increasing the capacity of anaerobic effort of the vegans who train for sports competitions, but it is not clear if it is beneficial unconditionally.
It's mostly large if you make it large. I run a single-user Pleroma instance, my fediverse network is relatively small and for the most part I can keep my timeline clean purely by reaction.

Even having around 20 users or so is still relatively manageable (used to run an open signup instance in the past). Basically as long as you don't exceed Dunbars Number[1], moderating a fedi instance is fairly painless.

External moderation can generally be managed with snap decisions. If you use Pleroma (and you should, it's much more technically competent than Mastodon), you can manually disable external user accounts specifically from federating with your instance.

Beyond that, most fediverse servers kinda make it really obvious whether or not you want to associate with them; they tend to be fairly open about what is and isn't allowed on their about pages so if you get a misbehaving user, you can usually see at a glance if the problem is instance-wide or just some random vandal.

Your biggest burden really is local moderation, external moderation isn't a big deal at all.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number