skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think decreasing costs of (often overseas) manufacturing, increased costs of always-domestic repair labor, (related to the first) increased costs of spare parts as a percentage of new price, and increased reliability of electronics.

I’m a hardcore DIYer and try to repair a lot of things. What I find interesting is how few people even consider repairing something (either DIY or using a shop) and even when I show them how easy/cheap some things are to DIY, they can’t be bothered next time.

Repair or wear parts that sell-through a lot are often still quite cheap/cheaper than decades ago. I seem to recall paying $40-60 in 90s money for a set of brake pads in the 90s. They’re often $25-50 in 2020s money now. Yesterday, I ordered 3 sets of pads (F/R for one car, F for the other) which will be delivered to my house for $74 total.
Multiple?
I think everyone on here appreciates obits for tech pioneers, particularly those that are less well known. Frankly there's not a lot of websites, if any, that publish obituaries for anyone other than people like Steve Jobs. It's educational and interesting to learn how some tech was due to someone we've pretty much never heard of.
We do it for the same reason nature does. Building new things is far easier than maintaining and modifying old things forever. It's a tremendous waste for old plants and animals and humans to die and throw away all their accumulated resources and experience, but nature tolerates it because maintaining and/or modifying bodies over time eventually just becomes too hard.

I can see some objections of the form "that's not why nature does it, it's because genes need to evolve". Well, nature could have had our own genes changing and evolving in our bodies over time, if that made sense. It doesn't. The root of the problem is it's too difficult to repair and modify old things. Much easier to throw away and replace.

The difference is that nature recycles everything. But that isn't always constant. There have definitely been times in evolutionary history when places have been full of natural waste of one type or another and it took a while for nature to figure out how to recycle it. One day maybe we can get there too.
Discussed 2 days ago:

Z Library domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33460970

(681 points, 506 comments)
Font nerdery is a bit like the old "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912", you can be angry about very minor details. Doesn't even stop at the font, as I'm sure there are people saying that only Stempel Helvetica is the true Helvetica etc. (Approaching a bunch of old-school typophiles and screaming "Garamond!" is a true Rex-Kramer-Danger-Seeker-esque act)

Having said that, there are plenty of sites that could do with a better font choice, and if you still want to leave most designers their creative freedom (i.e. don't turn off site fonts), this looks like a decent way to add that minor
And how many people are actually getting paid to do so and how many companies are selling software for them?
I am amazed at how many people do not recognise over-the-top sarcasm when it hits them in the face. No, he is not advocating for people to be shot, that’s ridiculous. It’s a figure of speech, that’s all.
Giving things away is a massive pain in the ass. Have you ever tried to sell things on Craigslist or Facebook? Or even give them away for free? You get all kinds of dolts with all kinds of problems and complicated ideas about when and where to meet, assuming they don't just completely flake. There's haggling and begging and bizarre, sometimes unsettling interactions. As a result, I tend to just trash things more often than not.

Buy my current neighborhood does a good job. People leave furniture and other items on the sidewalk regularly and other people take them (oftentimes seemingly instantly!). Half of my furniture is from the street, some of it very nice. And there are Facebook groups where people post stuff that's on the street, or things in their home they want to give away (though then you are back to making plans with weirdos).

The main group I use is Buy Nothing...
https://www.facebook.com/BuyNothingProject/

I find a lot of their policies/moderation to be excessive, but it works.
In this company's defense, there are many supplements and research chemicals that n=1 help but cannot go through FDA compliance because of financial reasons--No-one will redo the Russian study proving Piracetam as effective because it would then be a generic, however it is life-changing for many people with adhd.
Not really, I could fork bitcoin and mine bitcoins that no one wants. Which you might argue is unfairly representing your particular cryptocurrency but you'll have to admit that any better cryptocurrency at any point can reduce the value of bitcoin by 100%. Just because it has never happend doesn't mean it cant.

This differs significantly from real estate or gold, which is backed by a tangible representation. With a virtual currency, there is no floor to the amount of losses. Theres also no dependent economic activity to support it right now and any dependent economic activity could be replaced all the same.
I've seen libraries that add a size_t type as an alias to int on certain systems. Rust gets it right here.
I haven't seen such a problem with unwrap. Newer people use it but are quickly taught to use Err instead. The only times I use it is unreachable!()
Because there is no reason to do so? Providing e-mail address is service successfully provided by private sector, no need to use public money to destroy competition in private sector and centralise a service to one provider.

Most of EU engagement in digital services is to encourage market sector, not replace it with a public monopoly (see e.g. eIDAS).
Watch out for Post Partum Depression it is not fake it can very real
I concur with AndrewDucker below
YOU BOTH CREATED THIS NEW LIFE !
> The cost to our world from this behaviour is immense and it is quite frankly indefensible at this point.

This is just neurotic. On what margin is throwing away a microwave destroying the planet? It's not going into the ocean. We're not running out of steel. You have to prioritize things that matter here.

Recycling options for appliances are pretty poor everywhere you go. I live in a major city, and there's exactly 1 store for recycling electronics. It's 25-minute drive. I don't know why we don't have the infrastructure, but we don't, and that's what you'll have to solve.

Most 20-somethings these days would gladly recycle things if there was an easy way. Telling people to use their annoying/cheap/half-broken appliances forever for vague environmental guilt reasons is just not going to work, I'm sorry.
This is fantastic, thanks for sharing. Ben makes an argument that stock values are set by market activity (continuous buying and selling), rather than amount held. While the latter may be large for index funds (though apparently smaller than many believe), their activity represents something like 5% of total, so a minuscule amount overall. At the end of the day, stock prices are set by active investors, regardless of how much buying index funds do.
People love watching car crashes. The Truss car crash is over, we needed a new one to rubberneck at.

And it distracts from depressing news like inflation / Russia-Ukraine / Covid / Brexit / climate fail / strikes.
I'd chock it up under crass disregard for others safety. They drop boosters on their own people and don't care:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/china-keeps-dropping...

>China's defiance of this norm has resulted in some horrific scenes as its boosters have periodically crashed into villages.
He says a lot of things on the fly, most of which is a smokescreen. His legal actions, though, are quite clear: he wanted out of the deal.
Constructing Golay code using a dodecahedron
> Is having characters face the direction they're moving really that big of an ask?

DF has over ten intelligent species, countless animals and other creatures that include oddities like weresloths. Should all of those be drawn in different orientations? There is a lot of variety you could add graphically based on, say, a dwarves' current activity, mental state and so on but you have to draw the line somewhere if the game is supposed to actually release.
They did make some other improvements like a less cryptic graphical representation of terrain.

From what I've seen a lot of the development work for the Steam release was about reducing the technical debt that accumulated over the years and now just had to be paid in order to integrate new features and improvements.
Reminds me of the "game journalist vs. pigeon" video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vfIn9OqhZWo
It's common to find people on https://shutupwrite.com/ doing the same.
>just YASMS [Yet Another Social Media Site]

Twitter is ranked 4th by traffic worldwide (5th in U.S.), according to SimilarWeb:

https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/
I dont think Mastodon will gain mainstream adoption because of the naming, and they call messages "Toots". Normal people will baulk at the branding of it all.
don’t the incentives drive miners to cheaper sources of energy? how does that non linear variable factor into your zero sum argument?

re speculation— I don’t think you can remove it from the equation. Equities are highly speculative. The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. I can’t count the number of times positive earning reports are expressed in negative movements.
This is a quite entertaining YouTube channel dealing with that subject: https://youtube.com/c/ThePostApocalypticInventor
That sounds like something which could be solved by service of the type often built by those who frequent this site. Instead of tossing that piece of equipment with a small problem it could be either brought to or collected by one of those fixer-types (of whom I'm one) who can fix the object to give it a new life, either by handing it over to a thrift store or a local charity or by thrift-store-selling it themselves. Even that could be arranged through a service of the aforementioned type.

Such a service does not lend itself to "monetisation" so it probably takes a more ideologically driven type of developer than usually found in the startup scene. Still, some of those hang around here as well, me being one of them. To make it work there should be some clear guidelines as to what is considered to be worth repairing to avoid turning the service into an literal garbage dump. It would also be good to keep ideology as much out of the public-facing image as possible to avoid it being pigeonholed into the Gretasphere [1] and as such being shunned by many who would otherwise be interested.

[1] of the Thunberg type, not the children's book
"Smart" is a... Bad category. It's just a big breeding ground for reification.

We do have a term for animals that do manipulate the environment: ecosystem engineering. Which includes a variety of species, including trees. Which to that extent, it's our scale of engineering that pales in comparison.

I mean, cyanobacteria is implicated in an extinction event, and the initiation of the great oxygenation event, and the rise of complicated metabolic systems using oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor. Very cleverly (intelligently, smartly?) they evolved [by chance,] a metabolic niche that was totally vacant which coincidentally could also positively amplify for some extraordinarily long period.
The gun stockpile itself is a valuable resource and being armed is of little use defensively.
Not all metric spaces have midpoints (or unique midpoints) so it’s not true you can compute a midpoint any time you have a distance function (you are right you can define it but that’s kind of useless computationally since it doesn’t give you an algorithm).
Yes, I was perhaps too radical here. But the usefulness is akin to "syntactic sugar", and in some cases not realizing that they are fundamentally the same concept can be harmful in itself...
> work together will more likely do way better

Yup.

My then teenage son was obsessed with the zombie apocalypse and therefore prepping. I tried to convince him that being handy and not being an asshole were the two best survival skills he should focus on.

At least he's handy. Maybe that'll be enough.
My family made noticeably less than that, even considering inflation since then. In my home town the average family income is around half that in today’s dollars. I’m a high income SWE now. Growing up in a <$75k HH income family doesn’t imply grim prospects, that’s typical middle class. Everyone I grew up with would consider $75k high income bordering on rich.
It presumes that people need to be pessimistic in order to feel that prepping is worthwhile, for one.

Prepping isn’t just about surviving the collapse of civilization. It’s about being ready and helpful when a natural disaster hits and your entire neighborhood is without electricity for a week.

Basically, the mindset is more like “don’t put all your eggs in one basket”. Completely relying on a complex society and supply chain will leave you vulnerable.
Hey this is pretty cool. I noticed a lot of the results are HN posts and StackExchange. Is there a definitive list somewhere of the sources, and/or maybe a way to contribute to those?

Thanks for showing this to us, I like where your head's at!

Edit: found it, it was explained on the front page. https://search.feep.dev/about/datasources
I posted this elsewhere but worth mentioning again:

If you use Telegram, you can use the Zlib bot to search for and get books sent to you over Telegram:

https://t.me/firstlibrarybot

[Max size <50MB]

Also, the website is still available on Tor:

http://bookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqarulgczawnbmsb6s6q... (books)

http://articles24t2d47kb6rbabobokvrnymh2smkleosntcu6qxou6sxe... (articles)

I find browsing for what I want on the Tor site, then using the Telegram bot to download it works best, as the site is better for browsing, but download speeds via Tor are pretty slow. Telegram downloads seem as fast [if not faster] as they were on the old website
I finally joined yesterday to a niche (academic) community that is moving from Twitter. 18k migrants in the 30 hours since it opened up with virtually linear growth. I can search other similar niche communities and they are seeing similar growth.

It's not seeming like much of a desert, and is just starting to benefit from network effects as some of the more known members of the community announce their moves.
It took me about 45 minutes last night to install a pleroma server and get it set up. Also as 'just an experiment'. This was on a server that had nginx running on it but not much else.
At the point where you're writing `>>>` to, ironically, do proper arithmetic - you should probably write a correct version without a shift instead.
Was just thinking the other day how funny it is that people throw away old radios, but then buy white noise machines to gekommen their babies sleep. You can get plenty of noise from a radio, all the way from white to brown. And music, too.
> Adapting the protocol used in the 2020 paper, the team trained two crows to peck pairs of brackets in a center-embedded recursive sequence.

> Two of the three monkeys in the experiment generated recursive sequences more often than nonrecursive sequences ...

I'm no academic but aren't those extremely small sample sizes to make any reasonable deductions from? This looks to be even addressed in one of the papers cited...

> While a sample size of two is not enough to infer that any crow in the population may generate center-embedded recursive sequences, we present a "proof of existence" showing that this cognitive capacity is, in principle, within the reach of carrion crows.[0]

[0] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq3356
> There are still edge cases here - various posters here have mentioned them.

Are you sure? What's an example of an array.length that would trigger a remaining edge case here? (Keep in mind array.length is 32-bit in Java.)
It's different when old things require ongoing support.

Your old mixer will keep working without ongoing support, but software generally requires continued updates for security patches, bug fixes, OS updates, new HW, etc.

Thus, there's a cost _to the vendor/mfr_ for older software that doesn't exist for older appliances, tools, clothes, etc.
It isn't guaranteed at all that it'll be important in the future. Pogs are a scarce asset. Pontiac Azteks are a scarce asset.
Such perspective isn't really so surrealistic, when we think about the lengths some governments and institutions go to stop people from talking to each other. Some countries censor the outside internet wholesale. Military conscripts are often chosen from more remote, poorer locations where people are less internationally-minded. Dividing people into ideological bubbles also seems to be a measure to stop people from talking to each other, in spite of sharing the same language and internet.
Some ideas to explore here: improvement, marginal improvement, scarcity, marginal scarcity, externalities

We buy new shit because it's better than the old shit in some way.

If the thing we want to buy is scarce it will cost a lot. At some point, something in the thing may become scarce, but it is not now.

Externalities - the cost to put something in household garbage is mostly dependent on volume, not on the value of the item, or if it is recyclable or reusable.
I live in Seattle, having moved from California. The thing that helped me more than anything was playing soccer outdoors year round. Rain or snow. Several times a week. The exercise more than anything helped me get over the dark and the grey. The fact that it’s a team sport and 10+ other people are counting on me to show up helps keep me accountable.
Does distant/muffled coffee shop music fall under limited forms? I’m like you but I’ve found lately that this works for me. I’m beginning to suspect the fidelity of modern consumer speakers and headphones are just too good for focus because they seize my attention. It makes me wonder what would happen if I tried an EQ that cut bass/mids.

My problem is that “focus” music is often pretty repetitive. It can drive me nuts if I listen to it for 8 hours.
eBay is by far the best for buyers not messing sellers about.
Now imagine he goes visit Putin and manages to convince him not to send Snowden to the front...That would be news of the decade!...worthy of a tweet.
Well. Significantly more than that due to latency from switches etc and also because of the fact that there's so little land along the equator, meaning there's only one cable that travels roughly equatorially. It's from Fortaleza, Brazil to Kribi, Cameroon: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

If you set up a bunch of good first-surface mirrors, I'm pretty sure you could get to pretty much the speed of light. You'd have to put them pretty high up in the air to avoid hitting things (a problem for cables as well, obviously) but putting the beam 2km in the air would still only lengthen the path by 4pi km, or .03%.

I have always found it very neat that the propagation speed of a light wave in glass is roughly the same as electrical waves in a coaxial cable. Both are shockingly slow compared to air/vacuum, but for completely different reasons. In both cases the advantages in signal integrity are immense.
I read that too. Parent went off topic for 1 word. Your entire comment is off topic. Do you have any thoughts on mac os you would like to share since that is the topic of the post?
Watch Barkley. They can't rebrand it as ADHD is already linked to law like PL 1973 and the Americans with disabilities act, and to get there was hard enough. We need to make people think executive function disorder when they hear the acronym ADHD.
Is there an official party line that wfh is in every way for every person everywhere always better, and it’s best not to kick that hornet’s nest? Asking for a friend.
Is that the peers list? Other instance where at least one user follows one user from the given instance?
" Primates are a diverse order of mammals. They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians (monkeys, apes, and humans)."
I Could Live in Hope
Part 1 is here:

https://barim.us/post/2022-07-13-experimenter-nebula-mesh-pa...

Submitted 30 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33123953 (sadly, no discussion)

This is a nice write-up covering getting going with Nebula in real life!

There was a mega discussion of Slack's Nebula 3 years ago after it was initially open sourced:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21575614 (213 points, 66 comments)

WireGuard was discussed in the context of Nebula:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21577344

My takeaway then and now remains the same; I'm not clear on which circumstances Nebula would be preferable to WireGuard.

All the SSL certificate management with Nebula seems like a potential operational pain in the neck.
how do you figure it's of little use? big difference between breaking in to loot a house you know is unarmed, versus one known to be armed and possibly keeping watch
I already tried at least one mastodon server where the eu was present even if it shouldn't have been. It’s not their business to establish propaganda channels subsidised by tax payers. They should focus on solving democracy within its existing institutions first.
is this better than caching glyphs on textures?

As we need to recalculate the text each time?

also how to count odd/even using a single rendering pass? or we need to do a 2-pass rendering?
This is true. It's easier to migrate your data from a functional machine that you can still use as a reference.

Personally my Mac still serves as a remote desktop server for when I need to do Mac things, but it's really infrequent because there is no remote desktop solution that properly supports the Retina display.
Source for the latter statement?
> we've all universally agreed that Courier New is the best coding/console font

Wait, have we?
What’s the question you want the research to answer?

Because you don’t really need a study to figure out if it works for you. Just try it! Because I can literally feel my understimulation block fade when there’s another person around — it stokes a little guilt and anxiety to get you started and then they act like a pace runner providing some artificial forward momentum.

It’s not one of those things where you won’t be sure whether it’s working or not.
Russian news has been talking about nuking ‘the West’s decision-making centers’ for the last 2 months and publicizing different ‘attack plans’ to take over the Baltic states and move west.
While it’s likely just posturing, to say it’s western news making stuff up is just silly.
The behavior for inserting text varies by browser and/or OS, unfortunately. I made [sandbox] to test this. Click the button to set the selection to the first position inside the first <strong> tag in the contenteditable div.

[sandbox]: https://codesandbox.io/s/gracious-dew-rx3xhz?file=/index.htm...

On my Mac, Firefox 104.0.2 inserts new characters inside the <strong>, so they're bold.

In Chrome, the browser API allows positioning the selection there, but during the input event, the selection ends up normalized to just before the strong tag, so the characters aren't inserted into the <strong> tag.

In Safari, the browser API accepts the arguments to set the selection to the first position inside the strong tag, but normalizes during the API call, and the selection always ends up right before the strong tag.

The variance of contentEditable is a huge impediment to using the API raw. If you want reliable, relatively low-level control of rich text input on the web, use ProseMirror.

(I learned a lot about this stuff while working on Notion's rich-text editor, which is all custom.)