skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope we get some updates in Adobe the address the issue of data merging and downsizing text based on user input to fit a field box. It is incredible that simple things like that are not easy to do natively in the app.
The Steve Jobs quote likely originated here:

> People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

It feels like the author extended this specifically to “the other good ideas” which is always true because it includes both good and bad ideas.

Yes fills time. No makes time.

https://jondouglas.dev/saying-no-will-make-time/
It is really funny to hear these types of statements when if you could go back and look at what fans were saying about the Peter Jackson movies, they are largely the same. People complaining about deviations from the source material.

The benefit the movies had was just that they were executed very well. As you mention, so much of Rings of Power is just bad execution (or really odd pacing/writing choices).
I'm curious how StarLink is handling the mod and certification aspects of this.

It's not quite as easy as just slamming an antenna on the roof of an airplane.
From the second age of the internet -- when livejournal was still a thing -- we have this: The Silmarillion in 1000 words. It is one of the jewels of the time, and thankfully was not buried in the sea when livejournal went under.

https://www.thetolkienforum.com/threads/the-silmarillion-in-...

Want Shiny.
Worse, they are extrapolations from oft-threadbare notes which explicitly need to avoid overlapping with other stories and notes they're intended to overlap with! What a horrible basis for any story, let alone something trying to take an epic tone.
Like a friend of mine once said approximately: Having a family or a wife is not the only goal in life one can have.

Some people are made for different purposes than the biological default activity. People can live great lives and never be in an (exclusive) relationship with any partner. People can do great work and advance humanity a little bit. They can be experts in their area of expertise and that can be already more valuable to society than another child.

Of course there are many sources of pressure or stereotypes all around us, suggesting to us, that a family is the ultimate thing to achieve and that we will all be perfectly happy if only we start a family.

A good friend of mine started a family and his stress levels are through the roof. Barely has time in his day to take care of anything else than children and work. So basically work^2.

Many people will also tout, that making a family was the best thing they ever did. However, studies show, that people are not necessarily happier after having kids and one explanation for this is, that it is not socially accceptable usually, to say things like: "Ah getting children was a mistake, I wish I had not done that.". People will paint you as asocial or worse, if you say those things. Also people need to justify their own past decisions to themselves and might really believe, that it was the best decision they made.

Aside from all that, adoption is still an option one can try. There are so many children in this world, who would benefit from being adopted, possibly becoming bright members of society. If you think you can love children, even if they are not of your own seed, then do consider adoption. I have a hunch, that it is not the making of a child, but its upbringing and the work invested in that, that makes parents love their children. It might also skip some of the most stressful times children go through. Of course adoption is not a thing done in a day. There are requirements.
Million dollar question - at which point it gets easier to learn how to host things on your own vs keeping up with this cloud mumbo-jumbo bull type of knowledge?
Reddit: I prefix my searches with Reddit whenever I want to read community discussion about something (e.g “Reddit best waffle iron”)

Edit: it’s over there on the right. I just missed it initially. Swank!
Why would you use autocorrect on a keyboard?
I've seen this argument used against ANY change/addition to Tolkien's story, which is just completely unreasonable.

So the question is, when are we talking about giving Orcs Uzis, and when is it a reasonable change/addition? I don't feel like this article addresses the question.

He mentions the Uzi rule in relation to "Galadriel was not a warrior in Tolkien’s stories. "But later he writes "So the Amazon show’s portrayal of Galadriel is not inconsistent with some of his thoughts."

So is it unreasonable or not? Can we not talk about significant changes/additions to characters or plot points that might have been consistent with Tolkiens thoughts, without immediately jumping to the idea that it's the same as adding Uzis or fighter jets to the story?

The "Uzi Rule" seems almost completely useless in this discussion. The use of "Uzi Rule" itself seems like a logical fallacy to me. It's a bit of a false dilemma and a slippery slope fallacy. A change is either OK because it's small enough, or it's just like adding Uzis, and if you made a change as big as X you might as well have added Uzis or fighter jets.
> there's no volume control

Took me a minute to find it, but it's there.

On the set screen, there's a levels icon at the bottom that lets you control channel volume.
This headline is contradicted by their data. 42% were told to “reduce” spending. No one reported being told to “halt” cloud spending.
> It was an absolute pain to purchase and it seems that a large portion of their margins are dedicated to piracy control

I know what you mean. I tried to purchase it and got this email:

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for your order. Please could you send a copy of your passport and fill out the attached form? Our compliance policy now requires this.
Many thanks
Hex-Rays SA

I used a cracked copy after that.
They advertised the clear number of zero when it comes to transmission rate between vaccinated people. Turned out, it was all lies
Yup. Heuristics over algorithms is The Correct Answer™ (for UX).

I once wrote a bespoke query parser for an in-house full text search app. Spent most of my time doing fit and finish for the domain specific stuff. Looked at logs of actual user searches, before and after. Even did usability testing. (Who does that any more?)

End result was "invisible", because it just worked. Totally unattainable if I'd relied solely on stock tool stack.
Yep, this is an extended survey of interrelated concepts organized according to increasing complexity.

Similar to textbooks in the organizational principle, but differentiated in substance in that it assumes familiarity with the underlying topics and focuses on the relationships between the concepts rather than the concepts themselves. Good for practitioners I think.
I don't think it'll work the other way around, much like the GarageBand for iOS to Logic Pro X conversion is only one way. It'd really only work in cases where you're only working with audio and not software instruments.
This was one of the issues that brought my last relationship to an end (being 39y now).

I used to downplay it and together with my partner tried to find a way.

Anyway, this sounds like a relationship issue. If your partner does not want kids it's possible that some kind of decision is needed (that's what our couples therapist said which turned out to be real good advice in my case).

If she can't have kids - there are other ways like adoption,...

If this is impacting you as much as it sounds - find a way to get yourself a child!
Seems like a power user tool worth paying for. I’m delighted to pay for Kagi.
China doesn't want alliances, it wants 'tribute', indebted countries, and vassal states. Russia is fooling itself if it thinks it has a strategic alliance with China. I would not be surprised if the Russian parts of Manchuria are taken back by China within the next 30-50 years.
This is not accurate. I don't know of a single installation within a fuselage, because the composite has enough metal in or around it to cause interference.

The fuel concern is a significant one, as well as performance. Enough fuel or performance impacts and you can restrict the airports flown with these antennas. It's not as big a problem on widebodies, but it's the reason you haven't seen WiFi on small regional or the smallest narrow bodies until recently.
Why not just use a 100Mbs (4G) unlimited mobile service?
> is that there's no way to "split" a variable

Right click -> “Split Out As New Variable”, but it seems like this doesn't work for stack reuse yet (just registers, or more generally, simple varnodes).

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/2573
> The debate here seems to be whether RoP is faithful to Tolkien's vision, not Jackson's vision.

No. RoP isn't faithful to either visions, as Jackson's vision wasn't exceptionally far from Tolkein's vision. The differences come from the reality of the medium.
I did not see coming how I could offend someone this hard with that sentence. I hope it was clear that I was not speaking from my personal opinion but from the perspective (tech-) companies inevitably take.

But then again, what do you think the consensus among developers in high-wage countries is? Do you think most people gladly see their salary drop by double percentage points because "someone else is just as good who gets paid that amount"? If you extrapolate from your thinking, what do you think would happen eventually?
> ...the general "feel" of the show is vastly different from Tolkien's writing.

Isn't that exactly what is getting Tolkien devotees twisted in knots?

I can empathize both with people who want to see something new in a Middle-earth setting and those who don't want to see anything incongruous. It depends on how happy you are with the original. For example, traditional Westerns bore me to tears, and I only really like Westerns that make a drastic break with tradition, like Cowboys & Aliens (2011).
Be a Star or a Janitor (2021)
>> To raise kids (in a responsible good manner), you need a long-lasting stable relationship with parents that are trustworthy and on the same wavelength.

Well it would be ideal but lots of kids have separated parents.

What is important is not that the parents are together, but that everyone is safe, the kids are loved, the parents are respectful towards one another. The greater the kindness and cooperation between separated parents, the better it is for kids.

Critically important is that the kids are not exposed to conflict between parents.

If you can get all that right then even kids with separated parents can be pretty happy I think.
the unfortunate thing about this is you lose the three suggested words at the top of the keyboard if you want to get rid of the rewrite feature.

the suggested words are sometimes not correct, but jesus ducking christ just let me opt in if it’s useful in the moment!
If all China manufactures are like you described, nobody would do business in China again. I'm sure there are plenty of honest Chinese suppliers.
What a cringe thing to work on with your life.
> I still spend a lot of time with friends and can do most of my personal hobbies/activities on weekends. My wife and I are good at sharing the load. You don't need 2 parents watching kids 100% of the time.

I'm not sure there's actually anything to discuss here, but you present anecdata and I'm happy it works out for you. I guess you've talked to several people who just seem to have a completely different experience. I'd say 3-4 out of 5 couples will typically wall off completely once they have kids and you can go from seeing them every week to... maybe 2-3 times a year. Mind you, I am not complaining - I am merely trying to observe and document. If you don't need both parents watching the kid(s)? Cool. Most couples I know won't split up for the evening so one of them can go out regularly to meet friends, they will both stay at home. This sometimes gets better when the kids are old enough so they can bring them, but I've seen that take 6-8 years.

> Don't let the idea of the first few months/years define your entire decision for how you want to structure your family for the rest of your life

Coming back t your point one - 10 years can be a long time, especially if it's about losing contact to friends. When they're gone your life may have actually changed, because now you need new friends, if you value that part.

Again, please don't take this as any kind of blame - but it's not really hard to convey, and I've certainly simplified a lot of thing. You don't just stop talking to your friends because you now have kids, there are other reason - but my experience (and probably that of the people you want to convey things to) is that if your friends get kids, there's a good chance you'll lose access to them, and ultimately, lose them as friends - unless you live close and get kids at the same time.
yep, there's a great book "Poorly made in china" ( https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/5116296 ) that explains how the do it...

It's basically making a deal, and them replacing the components until you notice, then making you pay more for more expensive components, even though the more expensive ones were in the original deal. Sometimes also replacing key components, because someone from the factory tought that they were 'better' (=cheaper for the company)
Not my experience at all. Maybe the tooling notionally exists, but it's certainly not in use.
In Vim you can already push marked text through any shell command, including python scripts that read from stdin. You could probably make this work with a few lines and a keybinding.

I rarely need more than the builtin macro system though, as macros can basically do anything including regex-based search it can do any formatting or change as long as the steps stay the same each iteration.
I find it hard to imagine people being more corrupt than corporations the vast majority of the time. Especially pilots vs corporations. The insane power imbalance and the capitalist society we live in makes it highly unlikely individual middle class people are close to as corrupt as corps.

Also, the companies should get some sort of insurance. Not screw over individual powerless people.
>Lowering costs and increasing margins is the game of the business everywhere

Sure, but there is no free lunch. You're getting cheaper stuff but for that you're sacrificing your local industry and the environment by offshoring the environmental damage to places with less environmental protection laws. There is no free lunch. The right way to lower cost is by pursuing automation, not by offshoring the environmental damage and using sweatshop workers in areas with human rights violations.
Virtual Desktops are not a substitute to multiple monitors. With multiple monitors you can have several full screen windows open at the same time. Like coding in your main screen and seeing documentation/web browser in the other.
> The end result seems like it will be no different than Mastodon and email protocol, where a few central players own the majority of the namespace and network effects prevent most users from having full custody & portability of their accounts.

You are correct about Email, but Mastodon ? Instance diversity is alive and well.

People don't choose Mastodon servers by the number of users that are already on it, but by what domain name they would like to have in their identity name.
People join the community they identify with ignoring "network effects".
I think that Rings of Power bangs up against this timeline compression a lot. It feels weird to us that no one is concerned about Sauron - he was just there! But in the canon timeline there were long stretches of time where nothing very interesting happened.

That being said, I would gladly watch a TV series about day-to-day shire life in the third age.
Adjusting economic models? We’re significantly below replacement level. That means population collapse and, eventually, actual extinction. We’re not headed toward a future where we just stop growing. We’re headed for a future where populations shrink by more than 50%. It takes decades to create this problem, and even more decades to fix it.

People aren’t paying attention because from a raw numbers perspective our population is growing. But it’s also aging, and eventually people will die and we won’t have created enough kids to reverse the shrinking.

I’m not even getting into the economic catastrophe of a shrinking population caring for an aging society. The US may be alright due to immigration but you can’t say the same of Korea, Japan, Italy, or most of Europe.

This is a crisis and we need to be taking action right now. By the time the populations start shrinking it will be too late. We can eventually reverse the trend but it will take an entire century, or more. We’re quite literally running out of time to avoid disaster.
Inpainting entire paragraphs also will remove the heuristic of “too stupid to merit a reply” from their disorganized sentences.
Why Linux Troubleshooting Advice Sucks
In my opinion plenty of people just use kids as a scapegoat for meaning of life.

My question would be why you value your kids time more than bouldern?

Because you made them? Because they consume so much time with them?

Or because you are just better in being a parent and biological getting satisfaction out of it?

Unfortunately for me I'm not sure if I would end like you or the other poster who regrets it sometimes.

Also I'm not sure if I want to force another/new human through my experiences like going to school etc.

In dune the king new/realized that he can't do what is necessary but has to prepare his son to do so.

I have the opposite though: perhaps I need to not to have kids to stop the cycle of creating meaning through procreation.

Yes I overthink stuff and one way or the other I still think becoming a parent would be a life changing experience but besides all of the normal thoughts climate change comes on top of it.
It would make little sense when there are plenty of bare-metal providers who are happy to provide this as a service at a reasonable price.
Ah yes, the good ole' "look at me working 3 hours a week afforded by selling advice on how to work 3 hours a week".

Or the "self made" success story who got just a "minor" cash injection of $500k from their parents' slush fund and then could afford to not generate any income for 5 years.

Unfortunately the stats on all these (and on this site in particular) are going to be extremely skewed. I'd hazard a guess that just the viewership of HN already heavily skews the sample towards a very privileged %ile of the total population.
I've ordered considerable amounts of stuff rom AliExpress and while it's true that you need to exercise some caution I wouldn't call issues substantial.

Also this isn't really about dumping e-waste on foreigners, China's business culture, in particular informal markets always play fast and loose, including domestically. Gotta have a little bit of an instinct who you can buy from.
Could anyone expand on why it makes sense for Netflix to use AWS so extensively?
That's the problem. Western companies are putting their logo on these cheap products. We are the problem, not China.

On Amazon you can find the same exact same USB hub, for anything between 20 and 80 dollar. Exact same electronics.
it's actually quite amusing how many parents say it gets better when the children leave the nest. then why have children!?
> What I've seen happen is other parents socialize with other parents with kids of a similar age. Two moms who both have babies visit each other and hang out, etc.

That does not make isolation choice. That makes some people finding friends despite suddenly seriously limited pool of options. You are starting from zero, not knowing anyone and loosing both actual existing friends and actual related hobbies. The only thing you have in common with most of those people is the similar age kid.

You need to be seriously extroverted to be able to create friendship out of nothing after you have seen each other twice on playground while also supervising the toddler. People here complain about loneliness while having incredibly easy situation compared to that, seriously.
Families making $200K+ do 400 points higher than families making $40K or $20K or less. I forget the exact figure. This study is widely available. 400 point difference is so massive it shows it’s not largely an intelligence test nor is it resistant to prep.
Well, given that the tv show has already ended finishing ASOIF books must feel like a chore, while for example writing "Dunk and Egg" stories is fun for him. Also, he tried to be too clever and had written himself into a corner at the end of "The Dance with Dragons", that's why "Winds of Winter" take so much time to finish.
The people mad at this show are the same people who memorized Silmarillion knowledge. That memorization act for many decades was street cred in the fandom. Now the fandom has opened its borders and rapidly taken in new members who don't share the same value system as the long-time fans, and the old fans are experiencing a devaluation of their dedication and a rejection of their culture. They very predictably try and gatekeep the material.

It's not unlike what happened when Disney bought Star Wars and struck down the entire Extended Universe. I suspect when Disney gets around to retelling some of the SWEU's more famous works, that their creative liberties will be similarly challenged.
Re-reading the books right now and I totally understand most of the changes. It’s not an art house film, they need broad appeal.
It might have been implied. A sandwich or whatever.
Not as bad and Jackson included genuflections towards the fans and the source material in the extended editions. And, on the whole, the characterization was correct and the timing was believable. Some wtf’s but probably the best we’ll get. Hobbit sucked though. Cash grab.
Very interesting post! I think there will be a movement away from the cloud in the coming time. People will realize that the cloud comes with it's problems when regulations come down, governments require companies to spy on them etc.

The only way of being really sure of what is going on is to own it yourself. Unfortunately that has become more and more important.
This is a ~15-30% increase. Truly wild. Meanwhile I can’t remember the last time one of the new features made my life easier.
Tesla is already half solving this problem indirectly through their batter research, buuut the biggest issue with electric aircraft is the energy density of batteries isn't, and isn't projected, to get anywhere near what it needs to be to handle long range flying.

Many industry experts believe we're going to see an electrification but in tiers. Pure electric in the regional space, with more regional options than now on smaller planes, followed by hydrogen or alternative fuels powering the mid-range. Long range may go to hydrogen or alternatives, but the density is still such that jet fuel will rein on the longest flights for the next 10-15 years minimum.