skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am. I have a friend who was an alcoholic (w/ anxiety to go with it) who got a stiff Rx for klonopin, he used to take them every day but he gradually reduced his dose and I think now he only takes them occasionally. He has been sober ever since.

My doc would say it is OK to substitute Valium for alcohol occasionally if you have social anxiety, I think a going to a party with a Valium enhances your fun much the way alcohol does. Used occasionally it is not any more dangerous than alcohol although it is potentially deadly to mix them with alcohol. Long-term they do inhibit learning and memory and also cause falls but so does alcohol and alcohol is bad for your liver, heart and other organs.
They didn't come out with a consumer grade headset for like $299. They failed to achieve their vision for mass manufacturing + a full blown entertainment studios. I haven't kept up but looks like they're going into enterprise space.

Speaking of enterprise VR, has anyone got experience with it? I always thought it was a big dog and pony show for next-gen innovation at some stupid bureacratic company like BMW or GE, something execs can make cool video about.
The fact that you know to say that is a good enough qualifier in my mind. Only people who know how to buy know what presales even is.
Well, they can come up with multiple reasons to seize money. I don't recommend PayPal to anyone tbh.
So you’re saying you want a… oracle? Perhaps a human one? For this decentralized peer to peer future of finance with no overlords? Come now. Surely you jest.
You get way more money from someone if you ask for a stream of payments instead of a capital sum, especially when the cost of money is zero as it was until recently. They want your money, they just want more of it, so this is what is forced on you.
Netflix on a plane? I have never seen that. Which onboard wifi allows that? Perhaps you are thinking of movies delivered via wifi, but the content is streamed from the plane itself.
explained here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_TlE_U_X3c
Passenger checked luggage isn't the same as cargo. Your first reference links to [0] for passenger guidance, which includes the following:

"If devices are carried in checked baggage:

• measures must be taken to protect the device from damage and to prevent unintentional activation;

• the device must be completely switched off (not in sleep or hibernation mode)"

Alternative reference (IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations (for passengers and crew)), effective Jan 2022 [1]:

"Lithium Batteries: Portable electronic devices (PED) containing lithium metal or lithium ion cells or batteries, including medical devices such as portable oxygen concentrators (POC) and consumer electronics such as cameras, mobile phones, laptops and tablets (see 2.3.5.8). For lithium metal batteries the lithium metal content must not exceed 2 g and for lithium ion batteries the Watt-hour rating must not exceed 100 Wh. Devices in checked baggage must be completely switched off and must be protected from damage. Each person is limited to a maximum of 15 PED."

[0]: https://www.iata.org/contentassets/6fea26dd84d24b26a7a1fd578...

[1]: https://www.iata.org/contentassets/6fea26dd84d24b26a7a1fd578...
Hi Julian,

I just had a play with Garnix - and have to say I am impressed. Nicely executed.

Nice to see nix and flakes hitting hackernews through projects/services like this.
Very strong feelings lol, coincidentally that's how many Westerners think of every country outside the USA and Europe.

Doesn't change the fact that Android has the largest market share worldwide in both hardware and software.

Expensive doesn't mean quality, and a lot of developers don't want to work with a company that makes billions on child labor and similar practices. Apple has plenty of useless apps, but like anything else, users filter the best apps. Besides, developers today often deploy identical apps on multiple platforms.

This pretentious attitude is very isolating, I am just glad that ad-blocking and privacy is an option I have as a user. Additionally, I don't have to shell out for huge margins on overpriced gadgets to feed a tech monopoly that violates basic human rights for profits.

That's the last comment I'll write, because there are already enough Android/iOS flame wars polluting the internet. You had your word, I had mine, that's as civil as I can be.
I think of the average substacker as a serious writer, often they have a background doing journalism. I think the average Medium writer doesn’t have much to say other than maybe ‘me too’.

There are quite a few right-wing sub stacks that I don’t agree with but they tend to be well written by people who treat it as a job. And that’s the thing, Medium is mostly a way to express or promote yourself, but some people really make a living writing a substack.
I'm a big fan of how simple, unobtrusive, and quick the pages on Substack are. Truly a breath of fresh air compared to so much of the web these days.
They aim at different markets. Substack is for writers that already have a following, it is more like a SaaS. Medium is for upstarts trying to gain a following through the platform, it is more like a social network.
Yes, I've tried the original demo they gave to investors and if I recall, it was like 20% window tint in cars. Pretty dark.
Really appreciate you taking the time to write this super thoughtful comment! There's definitely a lot of valuable feedback/advice for me to take away here.

Re: supporting new build systems. You're totally right that it's a lot of work, with tons of potential edge cases to cover. In my ideal world people would just use the dev workflow provided by Reflame out of the box, and not bother with Vite/CRA/anything else, and everything would be easy. But in the real world I do need to meet potential customers half way and make the product as easy and low risk as possible for them to adopt, and supporting existing local dev toolchains is a crucial part of that effort.

Luckily though, I think supporting just CRA and Vite-based React apps is enough for me to capture a good 50% of the kinds of apps I'm looking to target, and I don't have plans in the short term to add support for anything else without strong demand from customers.

Re: monetization, this is definitely still the big question mark hanging over my head and keeping me awake at night. Pretty much everybody I show Reflame to seem super excited about the idea of previewing and shipping instantly, but only a very tiny fraction of those people have actually ended up giving me their credit card.

I did end up getting quite a few more new users to talk to with this launch though, so I'm looking forward to chatting with them to figure out whether they are willing to pay for instant deployments, and if so, how much, and if not, what's missing.

It's going to take a while, but I'm personally convinced that engineers having to wait minutes to deploy is a valuable problem worth solving (companies are already spending tons of money, both on SaaS and entire teams of engineers just to _keep_ it in single/low-double digit minutes in the first place, after all), and can be turned into a great business. And even if I turn out to be wrong, at the end of the day, I've been building the deployment platform of my dreams that I always wanted to use, that I can continue to use to build new products going forward even if nobody else does. I don't think I'd ever regret a single moment spent doing that (in fact I've been deeply regretting not having started on it sooner).

Re: Bun. I'm a huge fan of Jarred and Bun too! Have been following his progress for quite a while, and it's been an amazing source of learning and inspiration, even though we're solving very orthogonal problems.

Re: same domain vs subdomain previews. Appreciate the feedback! I'm not dogmatic at all on _only_ having same-domain previews. But it was important for me to have it available as an option at the start, because I think it is valuable to have in many circumstances, even if not as a default. And I at least wanted to experiment with having it as a default, because at least in theory, more production parity should offer us more confidence, still TBD on how that works out in practice. Adding subdomain based previews will certainly be on the table if I get enough similar feedback. Should actually be a lot more straightforward to implement since I already have most of the pieces in place.
Most places Lufthansa flies are not within the FCC’s jurisdiction.
This is not a good idea. You have to expend a lot of energy to create the hydrogen. Then a lot more energy to compress, transport and re-compress at every stage of delivery. To then burn the hydrogen and get yet another terribly inefficient conversion... ugh.
My initial thoughts exactly. I have never heard of it before, and after scrolling down the page I still have no idea what it is.
That is a lua expression I believe (which only works in neovim, hence this plugin being neovim only), you can convert your vimrc to init.lua or make a lua block in your vimrc. The "lua<<EOF" method is common in vimrc xref https://github.com/nanotee/nvim-lua-guide#using-lua-from-vim...

Converting to init.lua is a somewhat fun exercise tho. Once you get a little lua in your config it expands and you get more familiar with it
This is a good write up on the difference between Substack and Medium. https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/the-future-of-...
Ohhh - sorry, it's only just occurred to me - you never umm when you're nervous, do you?

You see, a lot of humans do. In public speaking, in meetings, in the pub or meeting people unexpectedly on the street.

The brain hears a question and is on a go-slow, either too little coffee, too much coffee, too much stimulus or churning bigger questions, like why the hell did I wear this shirt and how am I gonna hide that massive grease stain and damn I wish I had a spare jumper in my "Oh, hi -- umm - uhyeah, no, it's umm... it's, well, it's umm going well thanks -- yes I am, thank you -- yeah, it's only been oh, umm, a month, umm... oh three months actually -- umm, yeah, she's umm, no I mean sure, she's not the, umm, I mean she's got, umm, a lovely"

(And then the car-crash of a conversation ends with them pointing to your starbucks cup and saying "Anyway, I gotta go - enjoy your coffee!" and you shout back "Yeah, you too" then realise they haven't got any kind of drink in their hands but at that point you really don't want to care, you just want to be walking. Away.)

Because in situations where the brain feels rushed, the brain tells itself "YOU NEED TO ANSWER NOW" and so, without any training otherwise, usually says umm or other filler rubbish in the (not-so-conscious) hopes that the other person won't realise that you're frantically scrabbling to find real content and coming up woefully short. And the real content that does come up, if it does come up, arrives in the most unhelpful way, and you end up saying horrible things and wish you'd just stuck with "umm".

Even in a presentation, where you've practised a million times and your cat is frankly bored of hearing about your financial projections for the 15th time in a row, but you get in that room and you see the slide and you realise it doesn't tell you as much as it told you when you wrote it, your mind fills with.... "ohhhh... I know this.... this was the one, about.... ohhhhhh....." and your mouth says "Right. Umm... so we, uhhh, on this one, ummm, so as you may be aware, well some of you.... ummm..."

Maybe some people's hesitations aren’t communication failures but successes. But some hesitations are not about truth. And often they compound themselves, making more little hesitation babies as you hate yourself a little more for the unintended hesitation that sounded meaningful that just passed out of you.

And maybe the answer is stupidly simple: Cut yourself some slack. Allow pauses. Learn to ride the awkward silence. Learn to laugh at yourself under pressure and practice witty things to say to replace the filler.

But that's not as easy as, well now you have the answer so what's the problem. That actually boils down to "retrain every neuron in the linguistic centres of your brain that have been growing since the age of 6"

That takes some practice, and as annoyed as your cat may be that it's having to listen to yet another presentation, it can't replace the pressure of real life. Hence, I guess, a tool that helps you measure your progress in real life.

Because sometimes "your goal" is just to get through one day without feeling like an absolute muppet.
Thanks, great information. (I'd heard the saying, but I see capitalized Sun so much to refer to the computers, that I guess I always read it that way, and forgot our star is also capitalized.)
Why is it that this study considers being focused on the present moment a form of temporal distortion?
ServeTheHome actually has a summary [0] - I used this to pick one from Amazon.

[0] - https://www.servethehome.com/sfp-to-10gbase-t-adapter-module...
No one is saying the Nazis thing is “a conspiracy theory.” They’re saying they don’t care. There are neo-nazi elements in every country’s military, especially in Europe. That doesn’t mean Nazis are okay, nor does it mean all of those countries which have those elements are illegitimate and no longer have a right to self-defense.

This point is never raised as an effort to get said Nazis out of combat/prevalence (in which case, sure, let’s do it). It’s just used to suggest we shouldn’t be supporting a democratic ally who got invaded by an autocratic warlord with imperial motives.

There was a great article a few years ago about the huge Neo-Nazi element in the German military. It’s a huge problem. It’s bad. Does this mean we need to allow Russia to roll tanks into Berlin and put up a wall again? That’s why you’re getting dismissed so readily that you think it’s because people believe it’s a “conspiracy theory.” It’s a completely meaningless point. It has no bearing on the situation whatsoever.
Do it anyways. Dave Mills and NTP deserves it.

Also: Olson timezone database and its various maintainers. Paul Eggert is the current maintainer, I think. Arthur David Olson could be interesting as well.
The thing I don’t like about EasyMotion like plug-ins is that they require you to react to information which only appears on screen after you start to jump. With Leap it looks like it amortizes the cost of reacting by giving you the information you need one keystroke before you need to use it. I’m still not a fan of having to react though.

My ideal motion plugin would be Cursorless[0], except using the keyboard instead of voice commands. With Cursorless the markers you need to jump to are always visible, so there’s no need to react. Instead of jumping to characters you jump to tokens, so we do not need makers over every character (just above each token).

[0] https://github.com/cursorless-dev/cursorless
I never got into Medium but I’m pretty optimistic about Substack, and have liked what I’ve seen so far
There's a scant few products that launched first on HB, but yes, it does seem like a hail Mary dumping ground for previously-failed products, and a cheap marketing platform to drive interest in existing IP.
Medium is the TedX talks of blogging.
Higher in Athens. After the Greek Golden Age Athens was never the capital of an empire again. No doubt there were times when surplus wages for craftsmen in Constantinople before the 1890s. But most of the history of agricultural societies is of population growing as fast or faster than productivity so most people lived on the verge of starvation. This only started to change permanently with modern economic growth kicking off ~1870. NW Europe was the first region of the world to end famine and the last one was in the 1840s. Most of the history of humanity is of poverty. Thankfully we now have the social technology, capitalism, to end that, even if it is unevenly distributed.
What psaux mentioned makes more sense. A node == one Cassandra agent instead of a server.

Past 100k servers you start needing really intense automation just to keep the fleet up with enough spares.

If you’ve got say 10k servers it’s much more manageable

The fun thing is Cassandra was born at FB but they don’t run any Cassandra clusters there anymore. You can use lots of cheap boxes but at some point the failure rate of using soo many boxes ends up killing the savings and the teams.
I noped out of the whole web development thing. I know its where the world moved to, but I always felt it was a technological wrong turn. Java applets were great, sure they had issues, but they were solvable. But the tech giants had to ruin it so now we have JS frameworks of the week built on top of a system never meant for rich clients.

I stuck with desktop thick clients for embedded devices and scientific computing. Mostly C++ / Qt or Java / Swing / JavaFx as a tech stack. Couldn't be happier, the tech stack isn't changing under my feat constantly and I can quickly bang out features.
Frequentism and bayesianism are more than separate collections of formulas, they're philosophical stances on interpreting theorems about statistics. That's where the separate language comes from. It might not be taught very often (because it's inconvenient and wordy), but it is actually possible to address anything in frequentist language, even cases where you're combining separate sources of differently-weighted evidence. The same goes for bayesian language.
I think the real question is why didn't Medium do what Substack does? Seems like the logical business move (although maybe it wasn't as obvious when Substack started)
I don’t understand how wi-fi keyboard could possibly be a good idea
For what it’s worth:

I needed graphics for my personal never to be published game project. I’m baaaaad at graphics. I was going to use Fiverr but really didn’t want to spend money on what might be a project I never return to. Years later Dalle2 came around and last week I spent an evening using up all my free credits and got all the art I needed.

I’m confident humans can do a better job. But for what I needed, getting about fifty images for about two hours of work was pretty amazing.
You are living in a fantasy world if you think this is limited to one language
I’ve been able to stream video on an Air Canada flight from Vancouver to London, afaik it’s the same GoGo satellite service that seemingly everyone else has.
Medium sucked - it’s the opposite of Substack.

Substack lets writers retain their own brand and their own access to their audience. They empower their writers with the platform.

Medium requires writers to give up that independence to support Medium’s (imo crappy) brand and ad driven model.
You also have to get back in at the right time. A lot of people called that the market would drop in March 2020. But how many realized that by August, long before vaccines were in sight, that the market wouldn't go below the pre-covid peak again? Somebody who sells in March and then buys in October loses a lot.
Because people choose to keep buying them. The seller doesn't decide how many times it gets purchased, the buyers do.
Umm batteries all have that problem
I call B.S. There is NO reason to believe this. Unrealistic confidence in the progress of battery technology is not new - it's been the state of things for well over a century now. (See Edison's Nickel-Iron battery, for one...)

Sometimes real breakthroughs are required in science, engineering, or both. In the case of really useful batteries, which we do NOT have today, it's definitely both.

These BREAKTHROUGHS (not incremental improvements!) are REQUIRED to do the things envisioned in the article. These breakthroughs may come tomorrow, OR we may be in the same situation with battery technology that we are with nuclear fusion: It's the energy of the future, and always will be - We've been "only 30 years away" from a fusion breakthrough and "power too cheap to meter" for at least 75 years now!
Heads: Minimal Linux that runs as coreboot payload to provide secure environment
I think this is a byproduct of being email first. PMs love to hate on email because they can’t add a bunch of noise, animations, videos. But so far as I’m concerned, that’s not a limitation, it’s a feature.
Oh wow. There’s a genius but unethical short-lived market idea. BRB.
OS X. It's a feature of the app; if you don't use it for 30 days on that computer, it requires a re-link.
I haven’t tried that before. Looks neat. Thanks for sharing.
That's fine, I don't even need a chat history. I just don't want to have to unlink, scan a QR code, and relink, every time my computer unlinks, which is nearly each time i use the app (since a given computer is usually over the 30 day mark).
Binance Blockchain Hit by $570M Hack, Exposing Crypto Vulnerabilities
Medium tried to cater to specific writers and promoting specific publications even before Substack was a thing, but like most of Medium's initiatives it died due to neglect.
I think of the t motion as "to", and the f motion as "frough" (rhymes with through: "delete frough the second t").
For me (Vim user for ~10 years, Kakoune user for ~3 years (iirc), and now Helix user for ~1yr), mouse just feels very natural to skimming. Scroll, scroll, jump, scroll, scroll, scroll, jump. etc

Something about jumping down pages via shortcuts just feels so clunky. I lose all visual sense of my position on the page.

I keep wanting an editor plugin to scroll the page down with a single keystroke. Ie give me the visual anchoring that a scroll wheel does, but with a single key press.

Either way generally i just tent to use my mouse when i'm lightly browsing. Skimming for some code, working through a thought, etc. Jumping down pages just snaps me outa my thought process a lot of the time, because i have no clue where i am, i gotta relearn my position; where my eyes are at. Likewise jumping half a page is a bit better, but still - that instant blink where the top half of the page is gone, the previous bottom is now the top, and the bottom is now entirely new.. it just feels too.. immediate.
New report paints gloomy picture of the world’s nuclear industry
Interesting, thanks for clarifying. Can't say I've seen it pop up before, and I don't see it now.
DC powered rackmount server cluster (2018)
My overly cynical interpretation: All signs point to 'eventually' don't they? Look at the history of everything, it's inevitable. Either you get big enough to become garbage, or you stay small and fade out.

The single exception to this is Bandcamp. <-- evidently I jinxed it. So maybe Bandcamp is not the exception.
You could get enough people to staff all enlisted roles just from the Philippines, no problem. It would be a terrible idea for the US’s long run political stability but most of the world is poor and the US is the richest country in the history of the world. That’s without even talking about how outside war time and even in wartime if it’s an insurgent operation the US military is not that dangerous for anyone who isn’t infantry. And you can get a pension after 20 years. Many first world citizens would take that deal, never mind the wretched of the Earth.
ProtonVPN IP Leakage on Linux and Workaround
Yeah, I think what it's trying to say is more like this: the blitter is what made it practical to move around enough image data with enough bit depth for the 4096 colors. For PCs without a blitter to get to comparable results took several more years of increases in CPU and memory speed.
I feel like every thread about hydrogen, batteries, fusion, carbon capture, etc. rehashes the exact same discussions. It's like Groundhog Day, but with quasi intellectuals.
Why would an AirTag in a checked bag be a security risk?
When you’re trying to assess imminent danger from an approaching tropical cyclone, days and hours count. A lot.
Just turn down the calls and ask them to use email instead. You’re the customer, you make the rules.