skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TLDR; steam engine moved load that could have been trivially moved by good old-fashioned labor.

TLDR; printing press copied book that could have been trivially transcribed by hand.

TLDR; farm produced food that could have been trivially foraged.
There is nobody responsibly for hiring of new people into any of the bannable groups, or firing from them. There is management at Infosys that is 100% responsible for the apathetic, rot that engulfs it.
Maybe most of your users use Chrome because they don’t have a choice, i.e. the website is broken in other browsers.

Every time they bump into something they dislike about Chrome, they’ll remember who is forcing them to use it. When an alternative comes along and works in their browser of choice, they’ll switch and advocate for it.
"just" install vertical pairs of rails along both side of the canals. top rails goes south. bottom rails goes north. Pulling engine attached to the rail. Have a rule that the bottom rail tethered ship disconnects before crossing incoming vessels. The crew then reconnects to the trucks after passing. Make sure the cable are high enough that other ship can pass under. Or both ships disconnect. Or top rails ship has an arm that lift the slacked cables during the crossing, and the bottom rail ship has an arm that dunks the other cable bellow the incoming ship during the passing.

Rail or battery rail powered rail cars (basically an engine and a hooking system) on the rails pull the ship, positioned on the canal.

The rail trucks can have big V shape receivers for the crew to throw the tether ends to reconnect without having to stop and come ashore.

Of courses you then have to look at the cost and general burden of installing all this infrastructure, maintaining it, ensuring the safety of having the trucks not crushing anything, making sure the boat arms can ensure trouble free crossing.

But yay, you save a lot of fuel and it might be more efficient than the boats propelling themselves.
Backend dev is such a mess. Should I use Rails? Or Django? Or Lavarel? Or MS Dotnet? Or Node? There’s no common approach suggested.
Could you be more specific what you find difficult? That will help others provide you with guidance.
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I wonder why asynchronous video communication is not used in professional settings. I am convinced many long emails and probably some Zoom meetings should be replaced with a recorded video or screencast. Videos can be paused or watched at 2x the speed, they keep most of the non verbal cues. Compared to Zoom meetings or lectures, when one person does most of the talk, a recorded video can be more polished and have better sound quality, that would prevent Zoom fatigue.
Plus it's very easy to have a transcript for searchability.
Having tried it a few times, you can get pretty high snorting methylphenidate.

You don't even need that much - a 10mg pill crushed and snorted (it will make a few lines) will fuck your shit up.

Its not a particularly fun high though, it comes with compulsive redosing, discomfort (skin crawling), and basically feels like the latter half of a cocaine bender - after the fun has ended but you are now just fiending.

Other fun ways to abuse methylphenidate at low doses include exploiting its synergy with alcohol and prozac to get, again, a rather cocaine like high, but much more enjoyable than just railing lines of the stuff, and lasts a few hours.

As for treatment of ADHD symptoms, personally I found dexamphetamine worked a lot better than methylphenidate for me, but its much harder to get prescribed.
I always though that spaceports needed enormous area of ocean/desert or other inhabitat land to the immediate east to have potential crashes not endanger anyone. (east is due to the rotation direction of our planet)
There are already websites that intentionally hide everything until JS loads even though all the content is still in the HTML. Not to mention sites where the HTML is just a stub to load JS.
English Adages, Idiom & Phrases app is an offline idiom dictionary to make your English sound more authentic and will help you to memorize the most challenging adages, idioms and phrases in the simplest way possible.
Migrating 1 terabyte of files from OneDrive to Nextcloud
I'm objectively responding to an anonymous comment in an internet forum, with no knowledge whatsoever about your background, sex, gender, race, age, location, or anything about your mental condition. It would be impossible for me to diagnose you or to question such a diagnosis.

> comments such as this can be incredibly harmful

For anyone reading this exchange, ignoring, or going against, the opinion of 30+ mental health professionals can also potentially be harmful.
Ah I presumed from your example that conditionals were external to the doABC() logic since they were subsequently passed in as params?

To be honest, I find it hard to discuss readibility without a real-world example. The algebraic placeholders feel too terse.
I'd rather replace 10,000 AAA batteries than a single battery that's as big as 10,000 AAA batteries.
You’ll get no complaints about the stack from me, but I do have to push back against your approach to version control a little bit. Even if you’re the sole dev, having easy access to change history, checking out specific versions, or even branching and merging your experimental changes, are all a godsend. And a git repo is much easier to manage than having to contend with all your “query-fix-final(1).zip”s.
The free tier was something like 5 books per day and was throttled by ip.
How many books do you usually read per day that this argument holds any kind of meaning?

They throttled it, sure … but that wasn’t really a rate in which you’d run into unless you’re just downloading everything. Which you still could just by cycling your ip.

You also didn’t need an account unless you wanted to send the book directly to your Kindle. You’re all around just misinformed on the topic
The original 420 joke was about Tesla: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1026872652290379776. It got him into trouble with the SEC.

He did set the share price for his Twitter offer to 54.20 as a reference to that, but it wasn't the cause for his offer for the company. I think quite a lot of people are conflating the two events.
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This is overly optimistic. Even just for videos you are going to have to accept either additional quality loss or size bloat when converting older obscure codecs to something your average modern device can play.
I think you skipped over “to me” before your quoted text. This tells me they might have some personal reason for their aversion besides aversion itself that makes total sense. Maybe they are a diabetic, cancer survivor, organ donor recipient, or have some other immune-related condition. I’m not a particularly social person and I know plenty of friends I haven’t been able to see without extra precautions because of this. Collectively the number of folks who are vulnerable to Covid from a pre-existing condition is a fairly significant size of the population. Maybe consider this?
Yeah, that's usually something else. You don't go from taking a therapeutic dose of Ritalin to railing lines of it. The effect profile is different.

Having done exactly that (crushed and snorted Ritalin) in the past. I can't recommend it - its not a very good high.
Questions to Ask Your Future Software Employer
Asking questions at the end of the interview is how you know if they are a good fit for you.

Are you interviewing for the job of your dreams or nightmares? Here are a few questions to find out.
> Z-Library is a popular (and illegal) library. They have taken the Library Genesis collection and made it easily searchable. On top of that, they have become very effective at soliciting new book contributions, by incentivizing contributing users with various perks. They currently do not contribute these new books back to Library Genesis. And unlike Library Genesis, they do not make their collection easily mirrorable, which prevents wide preservation. This is important to their business model, since they charge money for accessing their collection in bulk (more than 10 books per day).

(http://annas-blog.org/blog-3x-new-books.html)
> which can easily be removed by widely-accessible tools

Even if that were true today, it's a cat-and-mouse game and it may not always be true.

I don't know if FairPlay DRM that Apple uses or Adobe's DRM has been thoroughly cracked, but last time I checked, Amazon's KFX hasn't truly been cracked yet. The best I've seen are workarounds to get Amazon to deliver the book in an older format that has been cracked, but then you lose the typography improvements that are tied to the new format.
iberian is indo-european, basque not

I understand that there is not enough extant Iberian[1] for it to be classified. Did you mean Celtiberian[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_language
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtiberian_language
The error in this argument is assuming that the price of a good must equal its marginal cost. Software, for example, also has a marginal cost of zero -- it can be reproduced with the same technology as electronic text, and yet developing software is expensive, so the price of each copy is set above the marginal cost so that the developer gets paid. By denying the developer the right to set a price for their work, you are in effect forcing them to work for someone else for free. It does not matter what the marginal cost is.

Now there's a lot of open source software, and a lot of open access publications and free books out there, as well as systems in place -- we call them "libraries" -- by which taxpayers purchase works on behalf of the public and make them available in limited quantities for no charge. And here I need to reiterate the bane of badly construed interventions is trying to control prices rather than adjusting incomes. Stop messing with prices. The way we help the poor is with income support, not by creating a parallel price system for the poor.
Unless you're desperate, you want to hire someone who has capability in reserve, not someone who can only just get the job done with major help.
It's very much possible, the range of skills needed to deploy actual ML-driven applications ranges from web developers, data engineers, ML engineers, Ops guys to data scientists, so pick what you like.

Then again: Speaking from experience, most uses cases for ML are not fancy, world-saving new approaches like the one in the video but revolve around quite mundane applications and tasks like "how to make users click on this add", "how much will we sell next month", "can we automate the creation of thix Excel-file" etc., so pick your company carefully
Yes, but then users have to remember in their bookmarks or something and when opening a browser without WiFi working, it often gives you a miserable message. We did testing ourselves and we had very bad experiences with the app actually still being there on the phone after switching off WiFi.
How would the authors pay rent?
I'm not sure if i have ADHD, I seem to come up pretty high for Symptons, but I don't want to play doctor on the internet, i'm also in the UK and as an adult I understand it's very difficult to get a diagnosis.

I'm also not sure if it's caused by something else. I just really struggle to function and it's a killer. I have lots of projects and life improvement things I want to do, but I wake up and i'm like ughh, I can't concentrate, my brain is very foggy, I have a lack of energy, it's a nightmare and i'm no longer sure what to do about it.

I think my issues might be more related to brain fog, which does come and go, but there isn't a clear trigger and even when it 'goes' i'm never clear at all, it's just a little easier to function, I get a lot of small dull headaches, I struggle to think or concentrate, i'm confused often, my energy struggles, I feel blah about most things and just urgghh...

Lots of empathy for people going through this, as i'm sure others just think you are useless or dumb, when I know i'm trying really hard to be the opposite because those things really matter to me.
Just as an FYI: I recently started working on my CPTSD by reading stuff by Pete Walker and watching interviews with Gabor Mate. My symptoms have been significantly mitigated. My overall mental health has improved massively, too.

Full disclosure: I've been taking Escitalopram and Wellbutrin for a few years now. I've been working on my CPTSD for a few weeks.

EDIT: Of course I don't just consume the material. I actively engage with my suppressed emotions to heal.
> Gramatically speaking, none of these are plural.

But even you used a plural, by saying "books" in #1, demonstrating that even when coming up with this example, you did not "resolve" anything just because "everybody" is a singular pronoun. You used "they" not referring to the word, but to what the word logically implied, and thus this "they" is also plural.

I simply don't see this natural progression that you claim. I see distinct usages of "they" for two different types of indefiniteness: one of number, and one of sex. #1-#3 show the first type. It's old and uncontroversial. (You seem to place #3 differently, but as written, the speaker cannot know whether the owner of the book and the owner of the desk are identical, or two persons.)

But #4-#6 don't exhibit any numerical indefiniteness. Here the "they" is clearly singular. It's my understanding that this usage is novel and did not arise naturally, but is the result of a political campaign, starting about 1960. That's why I asked for older historical examples, which could disprove this theory.
it seems like their collection began as a libgen mirror, but expanded far beyond it (and was definitely heavily monetized)

the move might've had something to do with mobilization in russia, though I'm just guessing
This is really cool. You've got me thinking about adopting something similar.
Actual link: https://mind-vis.github.io/
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I would start with ASP.NET Razor Pages to render HTML from the server and use a simple already done CSS framework like bootstrap or milligram.

Then focus on learning the backend as you are going to need that anyway.

Learn basic HTTP concepts if you don’t already know.

Then add JS sprinkles as needed to improve the app.

Google the things you need as you go.

Do a JS course or book if required. Then MDN and the ES spec are good references.

To make the page refreshes seem like dynamic AJAX updates you can cheat and use HTMX which is a JS library but pretty simple and you might feel at home there coming from WPF.
Completely disagree. Having communication in plain text for all to see has been a massive boost for my career. I don't have a problem taking on all the cognitive load of detangling and unfucking people's dumb ideas.

Before work from home, I was absolutely salivating for opportunities like this and now I get to execute. Text is far less ambiguous than speech when done right in my opinion, and for those who are poor writers, tough shit. Things are far more transparent now and incompetence might as well have neon flashing signs on it. I love it.

Disorganized writing is a sign of a disorganized mind. No regrets and see ya later!

Absolutely glorious to no longer get cut off by incompetent middle management... oh ho ho no buddy even the execs will get to hear me out. They've been just as eager to hear from the lower ranks as I've been eager to write it!
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Nice. I used All Signal Processing to get an intuitive feel through visualization.

There's a website, but the videos are more easily accessible through YouTube. Still worth checking out for the table of contents and quizzes.

https://youtube.com/user/allsignalprocessing
Lie detectors are mainly a US superstition, I think. Wikipedia has a long list of jurisdictions which correctly identified them as junk science.

Every country has something. In Germany we have homeopathy, which at least can't be used to pervert justice.
I think this is a nice sentiment, but how did you get there? Truly, I'm desperate for the answer.

Problem is, even if you're perfectly comfortable with your own limitations, and being transparent about them, graduating up through the ranks as a software dev IC or w/e means meeting or managing the expectations that higher ups unempathetically and unilaterally apply. You have to get pretty (extremely) lucky with having a space to advance in the ways that you can. The reality is that you do need to be sufficiently successful to get by, and that bar is getting higher as everything increases in cost. If the smallest piece of real estate in my city for example demands the salary of a senior faang dev to pay for, the pressure is hard to avoid.
Philosophy of mind is stuck asking the same "but why" questions since the 70s. DL may show people how/why a connectionist brain comes up with these questions in the first place.
It’s a shame you can’t press charges on or sue that person for attempted child abduction. Sure, they took the child to your front door, but you didn’t give them permission to do that. They are not the guardian and they had to trespass to do so.
The ASX is already centralised.
Pomodachi: pomodoro + tomodachi(friend)
> China, Cuba, and Russia would be the ideal choices if you're on the run from US authorities.

(this is specific to Z-library)

Russia is out. Some books on the platform directly contradicts government ideals, and it seems that the operators aren't willing to filter it out.

China might be a safe case, but recently they have cared for IP (at least for literary things, industrial processes are another matter) because they have multiple industries that China saw as beneficial (both audiovisual and literacy, including comics) so they could evade US authorities but might get sentenced by Chinese authorities anyway.

I don't know enough about Cuba to comment.
How much prison time they face? I'm not sad about them. They did it for the money, not because they believed knowledge should be free. They basically stole other people work and put their paywall to access stolen books. Total opposite of Libgen or Sci-Hub.
> No: not if you avoid memory-unsafe functions

heres a shotgun with a hair trigger, now you be careful! shoots face off
Didn't work very well for Epic (v Apple). While the law might force their hand, it may just end up in a lose-lose situation (the most likely outcome).
Much of the time knowing the human has to take over isn't one of the more difficult problems: the AI can't map the user input to a possible continuation with any high probability, or the AI interprets the user input as an expression of frustration or an assertion it's wrong.

The challenge is when AI has to interpret questions about stuff which can be expressed in syntactically similar ways with very different or precisely opposite meanings so it's very confidently (and plausibly) wrong about stuff like price changes and tax, event timings, refunds etc.
Then there are various typographical and layout features – at a very minimum cursive, bold and possibly underlines should be not that uncommon. Quite a few books use footnotes, which are a bit of a paint to represent in a plain text format that's lacking the ability to explicitly link footnote symbols with their corresponding texts. (So you either need to introduce hard pagination, or convert them to endnotes, neither of which is really satisfactory.)

Sometimes the pagination is explicitly played with, so even if your digital book doesn't use hard pagination, it'd still be useful to at least being able to force a new screen page.

Font sizes occasionally get used for creative effects or to otherwise convey meaning, and the same goes for font selection itself. Sometimes even colour is used.

And some books get quite creative in with playing with layout and typography effects. The Raw Shark Texts had some ASCII-art style pages, but utilising a proportional font (!) [1], and House of Leaves went totally bonkers in its use of creative typography (https://www.google.com/search?q=House+of+Leaves+typography&t...).

[1] Even if those were based on a fixed-width font, you still need a way of indicating to the e-book reader software "Hey, here's some ASCII art, please don't reflow the text here and don't put a page break in the middle of the art, either". With a proportional font you either need to make sure the exact same font you used for layouting also gets used for display, or just give up and include that text as an image (and an appropriate alt-text, especially if the text for the ASCII-art isn't just random gibberish, but actually meaningful text, too).
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This article by Julia Evans shows how to "build web apps like in 2005" but use libraries from NPM, use ES6 imports and stuff.

https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/11/15/esbuild-vue/
Name idea: "La Tomatina", after the festival in Spain with tomato fights.
I think it's reels as "Youtube Reels" as in short (15-60 second) videos.
Add to that list Europe, Middle-East, Japan and South-East Asia.

Interestingly, yesterday I was watching[0] an Indian journalist analyse the Lancet report related to effects of population growth on various countries. He was analysing it from India's perspective. None the less it is very interesting analysis and provides some answers to your question.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5ariMoaxCk
> Imagine a world where books are free for everybody

I imagine it will go the same way of the other internet content that is free: adds, spam, clickbait, low quality, etc.
Seems like self driving cars have the same problem, all the rare edge cases that it is almost impossible to collect training data for. Maybe for cars this is a place where a voice interface would be useful. Instead of having the "driver" of the car be ready to take the wheel, have the system respond to voice commands in order to aid decisions. "Go left", "stop", "take the middle fork" "be careful here" could give the AI more data with which to make the correct decision and handle unusual cases. Maybe enough so to make self driving practical. A simple Green/Yellow/Red dashboard indicator showing an estimate of confidence could tell the driver when a voice command would be helpful. Instrumenting roads with sensors and navigation guidance would also help a lot. Self driving does NOT have to be totally autonomous, you can "cheat". A similar voice UI might have some use in large language models used in practical applications. Essentially a hybrid system, AI plus voice UI plus a few well thought out heuristics.
I don't know, talking about blockchain became such an extreme topic that one can't just talk about it, even if it's a note that "We had a chat with Eth Foundation" and people are coming with foaming mouth. The article does not mention that they are thinking about _crypto_ but _blockchain_, which, seems like not a lot of people know about, does not 100% means "im going to release a shitcoin, haha, rugpull".

It's insane.
The American Empire strikes again.

You'd think they would have seen this coming though.

I think a long-term solution is a universal revenue-sharing programme - so like some portion of taxes is allocated to a universal repository, and then paid out to creators according to usage. No middle-men and no distribution issues, etc.
It's even crazier talking to the people involved.

The project got the underlying Blockchain tech from VMware... AND had a requirement for a backup "traditional" RDBMS system.

So, complete feature duplication of the core, mission critical application.

Scope creep was crazy. Someone who doesn't understand the technology went "blockchain yeah sure mate let's go."

Good project managers are so important.
The K character is completely invisible on my machine even