skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is intentionally goal-less: there is no end, no achievements, you just explore.

The total for exploration percent is the US highway mileage according to the Federal Highway Administration, many many miles.

That's a good idea to indicate drivers nearby, let's see what I can do. Thanks!

You should have new pics every few miles, like 3 or 5. Perhaps traffic is limited, experiencing HN effect at the moment. Try to reload the page.
> After all, what's your chance of succeeding?

I could make a twitter account if that would up my chances?
Because an extinction level gamma ray burst directed at Earth is an extremely unlikely event compared to many other possibilities, such as humanity trashing our own ecosystem, which is pretty close to a certainty at this point.

Also, outer space is really incredibly hostile to life. The likelihood of dying in space, on the Moon, on Mars, is vastly higher than the likelihood of the aforementioned GRB.

Let me put it this way: the Earth, in the aftermath of getting hit by the dinosaur-killing asteroid 66 million years ago, was still infinitely more habitable to life than Mars is today. The grass is not greener on the other side.

It would be so much easier to build underground or underwater shelters on Earth than it would be to build permanent shelters on other planets.
In the Feynman “what’s in a name” sense, I truly do not care what our titles are.
Consider that it's pretty common for websites to block entire countries by IP these days, yet people from these countries still have a need for that content.
So? The statement that cash is a lot harder to copy than information still stands.

High resolution color printers are orders of magnitude more difficult to access then similar tools for information.
This is incredible, thank you for sharing!
I love LogSeq and am deeply impressed by what they have achieved in very short time. The embedded PDF reader is quite good and the option to add comments directly as blocks is amazing. Making queries is still a bit hard for beginners and not as flexible as in e.g. TiddlyWiki (https://tiddlywiki.com/), but it is becoming increasingly powerful

There are, however, some annoyances left; for example, the support for ordinary checkboxes (not todo elements) is surprisingly limited for a software based on lists
Thank you! I'll shoot you an email and check out the blog (https://10millionsteps.com/mental-toughness looks quite interesting) as well as Steve and Brad, I've not heard of either of them before.
I think you could also replace the font with its inverse so that foreground and background are swapped. Disable blinking and you lose high intensity background but keep high intensity foreground (more useful).
co-author here, thanks a lot for your feedback! We will make sure to clarify on the apartment_id field in the next version. The apartment id is actually the unique id for an apartment in a single site (note: it happens an apartment spans multiple floors) - but it is not necessarily unique over the whole dataset.

We will also include a plan_id field that allows to identify which floors of a building are repeated (the apartment_ids differ already though).
FYI, the tabs are a plugin.
Indeed, the issue with Google Fonts (and Google Analytics) is how they track users. You need explicit consent for your visitors.

In reality, I'd suggest you avoid both services and go for simpler choices. E.g.: fontsource.org for fonts, and maybe something like plausible if you really need analytics.
I always thought a rules "learning" mode in the emulator would be useful. While the mode is switched on, the rules are set to allow read/write everywhere. Run your app and simulate a typical end user interaction. After you're done, the learning mode writes a set of the most restrictive rules possible based on the data read/writes from the simulated interaction.

I think this would make a good starting point for new apps.
There’s a lot of computation as well, for example NLP for keyword research, finding trends and drawing graphs in keyword monitoring, and do much more.
KataOS and Sparrow
I'm not sure the half sheltered from the direct burst would be considered lucky. There's a cool short story about the sun going nova, and one half of the planet is immediately destroyed. For me it always seemed like going quickly would be the better option..
Directus. Its really well built and polished. It supports postgres, mysql, etc.

If you're looking for something lighter, then use Pocketbase which uses SQLite.
Yes agreed, as someone who had basically no understanding of what docker does, this was very helpful (I'm pretty sure I saw it because docker used it as an introduction to itself on their site)
Or have the train get your delivery drones close enough to the last mile for the battery to last :^)
So, you think that the 99.99% of businesses around the world who are not in the cloud hyperscaler business should all build their systems as if they had the engineering resources of cloud hyperscalers? I've seen first-hand how enterprises with Web 2.0 envy made costly, multi-year mistakes in technology choices and architecture with that approach. Be inspired by the engineering prowess of FB, AWS, Netflix, etc., for sure, but don't make the mistake of taking the approach of a $470B (AWS) or $86B (FB) company directly when your company's situation is nothing like that. Stated another way, you can't coach exactly like Pep Guardiola if you don't have his resources and his players. Existing enterprises have a totally different starting point. Enterprises simply can't follow the hyperscaler hegemony for their digital transformation strategies and expect to win. Also, think about who is served by building inefficient, accidental distributed databases underneath your SaaS applications when that can be avoided by using a proven technology alternative already exists. It's the CSPs you're paying in the monthly cloud bill for every byte stored, every byte computed and every byte moved.
Teslas do not read speed limit signs or basically any signs other than stop signs, including not reading “Do Not Enter” street signs. It is using the wrong speed limit because their maps do not list the correct speed limit.
Doesn't matter, had sex.
The "practical reasons" are kind of dumb. At some point a medical professional is going to encounter obese patients, and the abject refusal to prepare for that possibility greatly hinders the practicality of the training.
Don't diminish it by choosing an innocuous characterization. You see the range of it as clearly as the rest of us.
Awesome I really like the aimless nature of it. I'll give it a shot and see if I gather pictures as I pass through other areas. Thanks again for building this. What's the best way for us to help or reward you? Do you have a github sponsor thing set up?

your site here remins me of this flash designer called cymru i think, who had a very similar layout with a little grey alien who'd morph into different poses when you interacted with the screen. https://the389.net/8/1/
I think in some manufacturing environments that ideal robotics would converge with traditional total automation and be virtually indistinguishable.

Either pretty much had to be paid in advance and then pay off later on if everything works out.

Looks like you're offering an alternative payment approach as a tangible benefit.

I'm leaning toward a robotic project where the automaton will do an invoiceable job, so it can get immediate credit for everything it does.

And be more standalone than average, even with a large non-intelligent component and very function-specific operation.
Check out the first part of a series I'm working on over on YouTube https://youtu.be/LvG4qOvowjk. My plan is to build a netcat clone in Rust and make videos explaining the interesting parts of the programming.

Feedback welcome and if you're intested in seeing the code it's all available on GitHub https://github.com/dionysus-oss/netrusting.
> is there a great injustice that needs each and every one of us to play the persuasion game?

How about yes? Some might say there are a few universal issues that qualify. Others might say that the issues aren't universal but there are so many that everyone should take up some set. Either way, they might agree that peer to peer persuasion is ultimately more effective than top-down edicts. They persuade to avert harm, just as you are attempting to do right here and now in a more meta kind of way, and there's nothing inherently wrong with that. Identifying methods of persuasion that are more effective and/or less harmful themselves is something worthy of our curiosity.
Frankly there isnt much engineering or science in today’s software. Much of it is bricklaying or assembly line work.
The review sounds like someone not interest in song, nor in Dylan, reviewing a book about songs written by Dylan.

They could always go read some Malcolm Gladwell shit or something.
Ok, but now I want the sick burn
It helps if you understand whether the person is defending their own values, or their group's values.

If you talk someone out of their group's values, you might destroy their entire life. Talking someone out of their religion is a "win" until they get shunned and lose everything they have. Are you still in the right then? What does the "objective truth" matter if you're just ruining peoples lives?

Change someone's mind on guns or abortion and you hurt them! It doesn't matter which side they start on or which side you convince them to. You're ripping and tearing at the very fabric of their social life.

Some people are unable to change their minds, but some people can't change their minds due to circumstance. It's really important to understand this before convincing anyone of anything.
as someone who crossed half of europe by bike and train myself, i would absolutely love that!

where can i check for updates?
> listening... will manipulate them...

I also read in the article that you should listen in a genuine way.
Would it be possible that this act could change your own mind? Would that fit your definition of being open-minded?
Minimum energy demand is usually 80% of peak energy demand. Furthermore, the peak energy demand happens in the evening when solar tapers off. The time of day when energy is most scare is exactly when solar stops producing. Wind may or may not produce at the right time, as wind speeds through the day vary depending on location.

There's no "pretending" about base load. The vast majority of electricity demand is base load, and the peaks beyond base load happen when solar stops working.
See also: https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2022/09/23/dead-end/

This sums it up my position regarding the bait-and-switch far more eloquently and thoroughly than I can explain off the cuff.
The Wonderfully Terrible World of C and C++ Text Encoding APIs (With Some Rust)
It mostly only solves problems on the consumer side. Only one of these downsides directly affects publishers.

* If you don't want JS, don't use it.

* If you don't want trackers or ads, don't put them in.

* This is the only publisher-touching downside, and LetsEncrypt is an effective mitigation.

* If you want to make a site Lynx-compatible, test it in Lynx.

* The downsides of this are too diffuse to immediately drive demand. Nobody is directly impacted by it.
it is impossible to do anything remotely similar to a SQL join. Therefore, developers must embrace the ethos of NoSQL by distributing relational data ahead of time.

Can someone help me translate this?

Are they saying that since there's no joins they store their aggregates denormalised upfront? Or what?
You're implying (or assuming) that users who use terminals don't care about visual perfection or design or something. I'm not sure what makes you think that way, I certainly answer "yes" to your question about whether bleeding would bother me. We care about visual warts just as much as in other environments :)
Highways have that many lanes only near large cities, where rail lines are also fairly parallel if you look at maps.
This is totally wrong. Public opinion is by far the biggest roadblock. Believing that only some evil rich people are in the way is a coping mechanism. Read David Shor or Matt Yglesias on this.
That's supposed to be the point. Gemini is the techie version of running off into the woods to join an anarcho-primitivist commune or an aescetic monastery.
It's a real shame Horizon uses GTK.
To be clear 23andMe does not do sequencing. They check for certain markers.

However full sequencing IS available and runs around $1000.

If I recall right the first human genome sequenced cost about $1 trillion. But we now have much better algorithms, mostly due to algorithms from works such as Knuth's AOCP.
I will check out quantified self, it sounds like a good lead. Totally agree that SWE work, especially at senior levels, is difficult to quantify, and setting clear, measurable goals is one thing I was hoping to talk to the community about. Thanks for the help!
Maybe not careless, but not a good convention. Incidentally, securedrop is set up only to communicate with specific journalistic organizations. I'd be very hesitant to send information to a journalistic org without an understanding of who's involved. In no way have the vast majority of journalistic orgs established the trust necessary to receive leaks:

https://securedrop.org/directory/
They mean the issue of abortion (whether pro or against). "Change the mind" they mean from its current position (whether pro- or anti- abortion).

Even if we assume that "it's a personal choice" is some kind of natural/god-given/obvious default (which historically it hasn't been), we'd still to work to change the minds of people who think otherwise...
Something is not right just because it has been happening for a long time.

> It's up to the user agent to decide whether or not to run the code.

Yes, it should be.
The problem is that things are constructed so that that solution doesn't work because most people don't know how to do it and if you do it a lot of things break.
That forces people to let others take control over their computers when they may not actually want to do that.
If I let you control my computer, that should be because I want to, not because I'm forced to in order to be able to do what I need to do.
Most servers do not run a web browser. #headduck
Good point, those may be a good starting place for me to look. Thank you!
What you're asking can't be done without tracking an individual in some way.

Imagine you have a physical store, and want to track which clients come back, what products they look at, and in which aisles they stop.

You could take their photo to recognise them when they come back, that's obviously not privacy-respecting at all.

What Google Analytics does is given them a badge with a unique id the first time they walk in, and expect that person to show that unique id on each subsequent visit. And also expect them to show that same badge on every other store (website) they visit. Even in places where they're registered (e.g.: GMail). It's inevitable that by tracking users like that you can eventually tie it to their real life identity, and also produce a really detailed record of all their activities.

This idea has become pretty common somehow: "I just want to see a single user's journey and don't care about who they are". But imagine how you'd do that on a physical store (including with clients that walk out and in again), and if there's ANY way that it wouldn't be super creepy to customers.
zoom into the map to see the vehicle move in 2d
>the future is having cars removed from cities entirely.

Sounds somewhat authoritarian to impose your idea of the 'future' to inconvenience a large number of people.
It’s not really the specific employees making that call. Being a “principle engineer” is the job title in the contract.
The mad men model I meant isn't just civility and manners. It is a veneer of manners and charm but pushing off responsibility and externalities onto others because you have prestige. There is plenty of abusive behavior, adultery, and lying to family by the Mad Men characters.
Even if you persuaded them into changing their mind on a topic intertwined with their identity or the group they are part of, can it not be that it is for the better and, ultimately for their own benifit?
> economic justice* has to come first

So shall we put the ongoing ecological and climate catastrophes on hold while we take 200 years to reach an egalitarian utopia? On the other hand, we're told that these catastrophes affect the poorest countries the most. From that point of view, environmentalism is "economic justice".

*Interesting term. Does that mean the economically better off have committed a crime, and must be punished?
Stars have some value in they at least let you see that (the potential for funny business aside) many people have looked at the repo and upvoted it for whatever reason. I'm sure there are buggy or otherwise sketchy repos with many stars, and various gems with few stars (I have some :p ), though overall it's a signal

Incidentally karma on HN is similar to the extent that it lets you how active a participant someone is, and that they're not a troll or throwaway. Again, it can certainly be gamed, and throwaway accounts often add valuable comments, but its still a signal
The mask hysteria was at least an opportunity to identify people who are so selfish that they had to make it all about themselves, which is what contrarianism is, pretending that you know better, unlike those sheeps doing what they are told.

I think masks can be made fashionable, they already are in many parts of Asia, but they also need to be comfortable and affordable.
Bisqwit made a great video on this (as usual): https://youtu.be/7nlNQcKsj74
No son of mine will join the local youth soccer team unless he gets a competitive salary and 401(k)!
Sometimes, this kind of children's books make me sad for not living in an English speaking country. The adults are fine - most adults can read English - but the children are missing out on many great books

Can we imagine a future where you can buy books as source files such as latex and then you can translate/edit it by yourself and order customized editions for private use?
Agreed that both psychological and physiological are important! I'm curious what experiments you did and what the results were, if you don't mind sharing? No worries if that's not possible, thanks!
Org-mode is to Markdown what JavaScript is to HTML
Exactly what I was thinking: I don't see the point of running a server on an old Android device. Just install Linux there, right? And typically there pmOS seems like a promising project!
A Professional Engineer (with a capital E) is all the things you said. An engineer (with a lowercase e) is not.
Makes a small change

> npm run test

38/48 tests passed, 10 failed.

Ah schmutz, looks like we made a mistake

> git revert
An underappreciated negative aspect of equality is total lack of enthusiasm and incentive.

As inequality is a guarantee - no two people are alike in any aspect and neither are their abilities as an employee - mandating (either by gun or union contract) lockstep equality in payments and job security, the highest performers are demoralized and put in the bare minimum or quit (if they can). The result is the ever-increasing shitty quality of the firm and its behavior. For modern examples see the NHS (bleeding doctors and nurses to the private sector) and American public schools in inner cities (highest global costs per student yet abysmal results).

There are valid criticisms about inequality but the pros far out way the cons.
Some people also want to go to places outside cities! ^_^
13 absolutely is middle school, and most 8th graders turn 14 during that school year. The point is that children have already exhibited the same disparity as we see in the tech industry by middle school. And I'm not really sure if they have a strong grasp on what the job really entails earlier than that. My niece wants to be an astronaut. She doesn't like math or science, but she wants to meet aliens and see their different styles of clothes and hobbies. If she were to change her stated interests in the future, I'm not sure if her underlying interests actually changed or if she just developed a better idea about what working in STEM really entails.

It's a loaded thing to say that girls "lose" interest in STEM, when it's unclear they even had that interest in the first place.
> Just on your last paragraph, I think it started that way. That Firebase would be the competent general problem solver that you might need to break out of. Firebase and App Engine have tended to weaken over time, so that you needed to move to GCP more often. Ideally Firebase would get more powerful, cover more cases, and have higher quota limits. Instead it feels like they are being degraded or abandoned rather than embraced.

I think I mentioned this on another thread, but the "weakening" you mention is "strengthening integrations with other parts of the platform." I think the general thought here is that an App Engine or a Firebase is a local maximum, and in exchange for trading off deeper integration, there is a platform wide global maximum that is achievable.

Pre-acquisition Heroku, GitHub, Firebase, etc. all were able to achieve local maxima, which led to acquisition, and subsequent attempts to globally optimize.

Dev tools is a brutal business: if you're lucky, 80% of your customers cost you money, 15% break even, and 5% are where 80-90% of your revenue comes from. A better DX typically only gets you more customers in the bottom 95% bracket, because it's easier to onboard people who can get from 0 to 1 than from 10 to 100 (or 100 to 1000). Deeper integrations into the features on the far side of the curve tend to get prioritized and look a lot like what folks here are discussing as negatives.

> I've never gotten the impression that at google DX was lionized. Examples of doing this well culturally are pre-Salesforce Heroku, Github, vscode, and Stripe.

It's not, for the reasons others have pointed out about people being smart enough to figure out the solution regardless of the DX, etc.
Climate systems are chaotic. They display sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Changing those conditions will have literally incalculable results.

I understand how people might be a bit shy to trust geo engineering since scientists will tell us we can’t precisely predict the results.

That being said, we’re currently conducting an uncontrolled climate experiment with the warming gasses we’re releasing. Reversing some of that is probably safe and sane.
Event sourcing doesn't necessitate introducing eventual consistency. Here are some patterns and techniques to help sort this out!
I don't use incognito for privacy. I use it to get around limits on articles on Medium, or be signed into two different accounts at once.
I remember pixel-accurate mouse cursors in Norton/Symantec products around mid-90s, but at that time they were using 4 characters in the 128-255 range to render the cursor - you could actually observe that by displaying a file with all 256 characters on the screen and then moving the mouse around.
Added SDF functionality as a test.

https://github.com/kaveh808/kons-9/discussions/137
It's not the important part of Emacs for everybody though.
I don't see anyone dismissing anything. I did see an explanation as to why things are the way they are.
Supernova Era by Liu Cixin is basically that IIRC.
Sure, but I don't think many people are really looking for debates. I think most people are more interested in getting something off their chest and indicating in-group status (we're social animals after all).
This is studied as global dimming. And the effects are bad. Global dimming is happening even now but contradicts the global warming narrative for some reason.

In reality, global dimming is worse than global warming. Much of the co2 is absorbed by the ocean planktons powered by sunlight. There are other ramifications too.