skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They shut down the Physical Science Library and the Engineering Library around the time I left CUL and put many of the science books (Q’s) in the math library and put many of the engineering books in Uris library which is split alphabetically by LC call numbers with Olin, the rest of the books went to the library Annex. A tunnel from Olin goes to the Kroc library which specializes in Asia and rare manuscripts.

There is a very good service to request books out of the annex and deliver them to a service point but people are more inclined to order books from AMZN rather than pull books from the annex or use a an express service like Borrow Direct that lets Cornellians get books from other Ivys in a few days.

There is still the fine arts library, the music library, the Africana library, Mann library at the ag school, the industrial labor relations library and the vet library. Those last three are in the state schools so any New Yorker can get a free library card for them. They closed down the Nestle library at the hotel school and consolidated that with the library at the b-school when they merged management and hotel.

There are still plenty of books, but people come to use the computers and there is intense demand for study and breakout space on central campus which competes with everything else.

If you have a Cornell netid you can access electronic resources from anywhere but not if you are a general public member. Back when I was involved in digital library stuff I worked on numerous projects that were free to access and my colleagues worked on even more such as the global performing arts database, images of the fantastic and the Ruleaux collection of gear contraptions that is on display at the engineering school but has interactive models of everything. They still do the arXiv preprint server but the funding climate got hostile circa 2005 when the library was in general contraction.
Absorb is amazing! Even if you don't take up Sapling, there's a 'git absorb' plugin which I have found absolutely invaluable: https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb
True, but life eats life: the universe is a fucked up place in general. We can iterate and strive for the ideal/perfect, but I think we gotta be pragmatic with the short time we get to experience it. And "perfect" might mostly be in the eye of the beholder like beauty -- impossible to get everyone to agree.
The libraries are getting rid of books. Especially bound journals. My alma mater has a fabulous reading room, and just enough shelving still in the building to partition the study cubbies. It's more about aesthetic than knowledge.
Looks impressive, but how does this compare to BeamNG?

https://www.beamng.com/
There is princess Mononoke under a tree.
For me it's the best $15/mo I spend. As someone who is regularly alone in the backcountry far from cell service, it's massively nice to know that I can communicate something wrong or if simply running late. And my wife also has to worry far less knowing that I can let her know if something goes wrong. She also has the ability to request my location without me doing anything in the event I were unconscious or something.
Given that it's a two-way service, and Globalstar satellites use the 2480-2500 MHz range for downlink transmissions, it must be using 2.4 GHz, yes.

But my point is that this probably has very little to do with Globalstar's terrestrial band 53 efforts, other than possibly sharing some HF hardware in the new iPhones given that they support both that terrestrial LTE/5G band and satellite messaging.
carlycue, are you an Apple employee or something? 74.3% of your comments include the word "Apple" and 73.6% of your submissions include the word "Apple".

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:carlycue+Apple&type=com...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:carlycue+Apple&type=sto...

The first few comments you posted on HN include statements like "Apple is the biggest brand in the world" and "Apple is the most prestigious company to work for on planet earth".

WTF.
The best way I've seen it described is that OW1 monetization was better (more generous), but more predatory (because RNG).
It's the same show no matter matter how many times the watchman watches it, so one.
Woah! This really is cool!
I have run across many books where the binding has disintegrated and the paper has degraded, but never to the point where a book could not be read. Assuming the book was handled with care (so that the unbound pages are not lost), every book could be read in its entirety.

I'm not saying that your scenario can't happen. I am saying that I would be surprised if all but the most carefully maintained digital library would outlive the cheapest of print books. Keep in mind that, at a bare minimum, a digital library must be backed up and transferred to new media every few years. You may get away with storing digital for a decade untended, but two decades is a bit of a stretch. Also keep in mind that even the slightest amount of bit rot can make an entire book unreadable. While this isn't really true of books stored as plain text, most modern formats seem to used some sort of compressed container (e.g. ePubs are compressed).
Agreed, they are ridiculous measures, but I'd say this is exactly what "globalization" has intended from the beginning. Internationalism was different; where Globalists seeks to tear down walls by building gates, Internationalists seek to overcome borders by building bridges.
That's definitely not a thing.
Ha! I'm planning to collect the GPGP and turn it into a large artificial floating structure. Floating in the air. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Nine_(sphere)

(It's mostly a stunt to show humanity that we can do great things.)
Live Updates: NASA Counts Down to Artemis Moon Rocket Launch
NASA TV link in post.

Currently on hold due to leaks, yet again.
Could call it the Elysium
The circles remind me of an enso https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ens%C5%8D
Some of them are good but some of them split at the back with the slightest bit of handling. Self-published trade paperbacks are particularly bad.

As a category I don’t like them though I have plenty of them. My favorite kind of sci-fi book to collect these days are small hardcovers but for nonfiction I take what I can get.
The USPS is considered secure. It's even legal to send classified secret documents by mail as long as certain procedures are followed. Many other countries also require you to mail in your passport to get a visa.

If you need to travel during that period you can obtain a second passport book from the State Department. It is a bit of extra hassle and expense.
Teslas recalled in Australia over steering fault after fatal crash in China
Devs Are Excited by ActivityPub, Open Protocol for Mastodon
Yeah this is the argument I usually hear for why things are this way.

You have to keep the guy in the factory slaving away making widgets so he can afford the Mercedes that the ad promised would make him happier so that the girl in the lab will slave away on the cure for cancer to pay for the widgets the guy in the factory made that the ad told her would make her happier.

The above sure sounds sad to me, and I can imagine another system might be better for many people in many ways, but I think it's at least an argument worth acknowledging that there is still meaningful progress to be made, and economic growth might contribute to it.
Live coverage: NASA counting down to 1:04am ET launch of Artemis 1 moon rocket
I'm from NZ and had to pay $21 for an ESTA just to transit in LA on the way to UK.
Taking time to consider things is good; but that doesn't mean you're better off with slow tools.

If developing has some loop like "consider -> implement -> evaluate", then the quicker you can implement it, the more budget you have for considering the problem.
Saudi Arabia is working on that super-expensive and fancy "The Line" city project.
Choonsik's Diary
> if someone had the material means to go somewhere, nobody would keep them out, there were no documents, fingerprints, or fees

Well of course. It was touch and feel. Safe passage was negotiated piecemeal. That’s why we created standardise documents, so one village chieftain on your 900-Village journey couldn’t veto your transit.
> does any terminal provide a way to display Chinese and Japanese text simultaneously, using the appropriate versions of the glyphs

Does any terminal provide a way to display (say) two consecutive lines in different fonts?

Because according to Unicode (and for once I don't particularly disagree), Chinese versus Japanese ideographs are the same characters, drawn in two different fonts.
Agree "Advisory Opinions" was mislabeled. That's annoying.

My point about "Typographic Journal" is that their usage is quite different - they are using it as a synonym for low quality, not the kind of fill-in-the-blanks usage we see now.

In 1851 "De Bows Review"[1] talks about how it is a felony to use unstamped boiler-plate, conceal the plate on the boiler-plate or counterfeit the stamp. To me that goes to filling-in of boilerplate with details (using the stamp) which seems a more likely origin than the "lower quality" usage used by "Typographic Journal".

[1] https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/De_Bow_s_Review/y5wR... (and see page vii which shows this was published in 1851)
R2U: R Packages (Cran) as Ubuntu Binaries
The Gray Lady Winked exposes a different side of the NYT
I recently had a new person, strong neurodivergent who struggled greatly with the fact we were/are an organisation with many flaws we are working on. They came to me after their first week with a 9 point plan to fix volunteering. Point 1: Get a volunteer coordinator. I felt like hank scorpio palm to forehead, a volunteer coordinator, why didn't I think of that? We were of course super aware of it, nearly impossible role to fill. I'd give a limb for one almost.

Burnout is _the_ monster that I'm trying to fight, more people, smaller workloads. Predicated on getting more people however.

Setting tasks is... well you learn that you have to train people how to do it. And how SMART Goals are one thing, and actionable tasks are another (subset thing). If you write the task as a Goal, when it comes time to assess if its done, you play the interpretation game and it gets a bit rough.

I think skill building is a big factor that, while we talk about it, we should highlight it more front and center.

Recognition is definitely powerful, as I said in another comment, the issue I've found with it is that if you miss just one person, they tend to feel much worse than if you thank no-one. Hard to catch everyone in that net.

We have been talking about gamification ideas lately, letting volunteers get some form of karma point for doing certain tasks, letting volunteers 'fist bump' each other to tip karma as thanks for a job. Then its a self reporting issue and harder to be left out. Still chewing the idea over, feels like capitalism with extra steps.

Volunteers are definitely hard. If i ever get a coordinator i may nail them to the floorboards.

How did you organise your charity? heirarchical, groups by area or topic? how did they work together?

Do you have any tips on how to get people to do the boring jobs. "Please update the asset register for your area with the msds for anything you keep in stock" 2 hour job. Like pulling teeth, but i need it for compliance.
Sounds easy and we’ve got it all worked out at scale. Problem solved then?
I'm a social scientist/legal scholar, so this might not be the domain that it's trained for (not sure where the dataset comes from). But its results on a topic that I'm extremely expert in are... deeply unimpressive.[1] I'd describe that as an about 30% correct high-school level description.

[1] https://galactica.org/?prompt=lecture+notes+on+the+rule+of+l...
Interesting idea, honestly. Although I’m put off by the fact that you’ve reposted this multiple times, I respect the hustle.

Actual thoughts:

1) Who is this for? The unemployed (having been one) would be too broke/cheap to pay for a tool like this. Employed engineers already have recruiters knocking down their doors.

2) Why would I use this? This helps with company discovery, but it doesn’t actually give my application an edge. If I’m having a hard time finding a job, it’s unlikely that it’s because I haven’t found the perfect company to apply to; it’s more likely that I can’t land the interview or pass the interview.

3) Why would I pay for this? As someone who’s bounced around a lot, there are a lot of tools and resources to help me with the job search and I don’t have to pay or do additional work. Such as:

A) third-party recruiters: they’ll find companies with my exact specifications + get my resume in front of the hiring manager without me lifting a finger.

B) Hired.com: I can create a profile there listing my skills and experience and companies apply to interview me instead of the other way around. I get to pick and choose where I interview, again, without any effort on my part.

When I think about the value proposition here vs ~$15/month for a Leetcode subscription that improves my chances at landing a job anywhere I apply, it’s very hard to justify the cost.

Honestly, I would “launch” (is it not already live?) this without a paywall and gauge user behavior. If they aren’t using it for free, they definitely won’t pay for it. If they are using it, then think about implementing a paywall or premium features or some other means of monetization.
I’m kinda ok with this. Books I suspect I’ll only read once I’m ok to buy digitally. Books that I think my kids might read, that I might read again, I buy as paper
The theoretical minimum for the housing market is 80% off peak, because the median down payment is 20%. Where I live houses are already down over 20% and variable rate mortgage triggers are just starting to fire. I could see us approaching more like 40-50% off peak if the FED/BOC/BOE continue to hike.
Sending in the red team to go hit it with a wrench and see if it gets better.

Rocket science.
Holy hell, did they manually recreate meson? a 1700 line setup.py ... https://github.com/facebook/sapling/blob/main/eden/scm/setup...

It's a pet peeve of mine folks that use python subprocess as a replacement for bash because it takes special discipline to not eat stdout and stderr, or to correctly try:finally: to show the Proc details before the raise eats the variable
"Launch team is going to send two technicians … to torque packing nuts to resolve the intermittent leak."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnyBJJI2eqs
I can't even watch it anymore, it's too scary real.

The "gimmick" is that nobody can have children anymore, but that's not really what it's about at all.
No it isn’t: I’ve found books missing half the pages in a thrift store.
Huh, I had not considered that failing their own expectations of what they can volunteer might be a factor in leaving. I'm going to have to think on that for a bit.

We definitely caution against taking on too much at first, or we give them clear deescalation paths should they struggle.

Hey, hey don't call me out like that. I'm the problem, its me. I absolutely have a tendency to do most of the work but want to run/control things tightly. Always pushing back on myself to try and chill out.

What do you think the main reasons volunteers quit are?
(this is not my project)

Case study: https://www.awwwards.com/choonsiks-diary.html
https://galactica.org/?prompt=High+Impedance

"High Impedance is the debut album by Canadian musician Colin James, released in 1988."

Not...exactly...what I was expecting.
What is the relationship between DuckDB, DuckDB Labs, DuckDB Foundation, and Motherduck?
Sorry for asking, but I'm really confused looking at all the websites.
https://floor796.com/#t2l2,435,477
>what should we call it?

My personal suggestion would be to go back to what it was called when I was a kid; "knee-jerk". "knee jerk" doesn't have a specific axis connotation (unlike "woke" which refers explicitly to progressive issues). It was primarily aimed at (knee jerk) liberals but could easily be aimed at reactionaries without any change of meaning.
"Alameda had taken out loans and used the money to make venture capital investments." - translation: We took all the money and gambled it all away. Again.
> When used with our Sapling-compatible server and virtual file system (we hope to open-source these in the future)

Sorry, I just can't take an "open-source" project seriously that uses "we hope to open-source these in the future" in its pitch.
Merging Image Search and Reverse Image Search works surprisingly well.

One can use an image and modify color, style, or content
University libraries have notoriously poor childrens sections.
YoLink's system is not expensive but has helped greatly. A temp sensor on top of the stove ensures I don't forget to turn the over or burner off.

A door sensor on the fridge has caught me a few times when a bottle falls and makes it not shut right.

(Note: I really don't like that they're a closed platform that depends on the cloud, and I very much hope Matter/CHIP gives us a similarly cheap and reliable alternative. I also did have one incident where a missed trigger sent me home by Uber thinking I had left the front door open).

Tile trackers are even cheaper and have been a massive improvement to my life.

Until it mysteriously disappeared, a Rite in the Rain pressurized pen was pretty awesome for $12. Most pens dry up if only used once in a few months and then you have to sift through 5 dead ones every time you need one, which is often in a hurry.

3D printers can be had for less than $100 used.

Bluetooth headphones are definitely amazing, I'd never want to go back to wired.

Logitech Bluetooth mice with 24 month battery life are amazing.

A Kindle or Kobo reader is definitely worth it. DRM is problematic but many books don't use it, and the convenience factor is a big deal.

The LARQ water bottle is about that price and always stays fresh with UV light.

The Ultramasx true HEPA mask is impressive. I went 2 years riding busses in the peak of the pandemic without getting sick.

For any item you take places, the proper protective case is probably worth having. I usually buy thr case at the same time as I buy anything new.

More often though, extra objects seem to be less than helpful. I don't do kitchen gadgets, I don't do DIY tech infrastructure at home, I generally don't use simple functional items if a phone can replace it, I don't use corded tools, I don't do wired if I can do wireless.

I've gotten as much milage from eliminating simple functional items and replacing them with an app as I have from buying them.
Between that analogy and the toxic quote at the end... I have no idea what he's talking about either.

I have an actual anxiety disorder. I'm also pretty successful. Acute anxiety is debilitating -- it isn't something to be 'harnessed' for 'productivity'.
For those who don't know what Urbit is, here is marketing-less explanation:

"Urbit: The good, the bad, and the insane (wejn.org)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27268462
I use Panorama Tab Groups. It lets me group tabs into domains like each project or specific research topics. When I select a tab group the only tabs showing in the window are those in that group. If I select a different tab group it switches to display those. Tabs are kept in memory and not reloaded when switching. I don’t know if I would try to manage 1000 tabs in any system, but it does bring some clarity to my tabs.

You might want to look into a plugin that will snapshot you tabs to a bookmark folder or html list so you can save the list and then close a lot of them.
Maybe. Just maybe there's a middle ground between something being unfathomably difficult and impossible because big number bad, and being trivial?

There are lots of potential avenues for stuffing the genie back in the bottle with a small fraction of the energy we got out of releasing it. All that's lacking is the political will to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable, stop them doing more damage, and confiscate the proceeds of their crimes to start undoing the damage.

This last part isn't helped by reactionaries constantly screaming 'big number mean impossible' and 'der entropy'. Almost as if the goal of such discourse is to prevent solutions.
As the FTX holders of bitcoin-equivalent is finding out, bitcoin-equivalent doesn't mean shit.
> As a regular code reviewer, I’ve grown to dislike extension methods quite a bit as it violates the principle of least surprise.

I disagree. The common use case for extension methods in ASP.Net Core apps is to extend the builder to apply configurations like all other projects. This pattern is so pervasive that the surprising outcome would be if a member function was not an extension method.
You clearly know very little about this. Why are you making statements as if you knew a lot? The Starlink satellites supporting this service will indeed have large phased arrays. Not as large as BlueWalker-3, because BlueWalker-3 is targeting general data service while Starlink is targeting a limited, text-message only service with much less bandwidth (though still a lot more than this Apple thing).
It's easy to still be a fan, but hate what they are changing.
I bill by the half hour and typically allow that to be consumed in maybe 10 minute increments depending on whether the task is technical and focused or project management.

But rule one is it's always half an hour for any project.
"Majority" here is unsubstantiated. That's not some fact you can sling around.
It is extremely entertaining. The content and algorithm to get you content is better than anything i've ever seen.

Definitely a threat though to US and west etc.
> "Like anything else, you're going to have your people that don't like it, that think it is difficult to watch. But over time, like everything else, people will get used to it, and we're not concerned at all whatsoever," Keith Wachtel, the NHL's chief business officer and executive vice president of global partnerships, told ESPN ahead of the season.

Wow. That statement is dripping with contempt for their viewers. It sucks that these huge sports leagues have little in the way of competition.
- Dropbox - all important docs and media (yup, I know it’s not encrypted — I have two encrypted disk images on Dropbox so I keep important docs there)

- Borgbase via Vorta (a borg client) - all of it

- Tarsnap - some very important ones only because it’s much costlier

- Monthly or so copy/sync them to my external hard disk - encrypted.

- And to a pen drive as well - encrypted.

I keep pruning/cleaning my data, so they’ve not ballooned out of hand yet. Touchwood!

(I also used restic but since it never had a GUI I gave up. I am partial to simple GUI tools compared to cli for intimate purposes like backup)

What I don’t do:

- Only my personal data is “my data”. Music, films, books etc which can be bought, borrowed, “procured” again are not the things I rack my brain for.

- I use none of the Apple ecosystem services - I just use their devices - Apple is the worst of walled gardens out there.

- I don’t use any services by companies that combine a lot of services/interface in one account and one of those might be enough to block your account at some point.
I’m helping to raise my grandson, who will turn three next month. I read only digital books myself, but neither my daughter nor I have any intention of exposing him to digital books any time soon. He loves having stories read to him from physical picture books, and he spends a lot of time flipping through his favorite books on his own. My daughter also takes him to the library and explores books together with him there.

On the other hand, he and I listen to recorded music together a lot. I don’t have music on physical media any more, so he is coming to associate recorded music with album cover images and song names on playlists on my iPhone. For some reason that doesn’t bother me so much.
I don't care for social engagement much, it's just more entertaining than anything else. The content and algorithm are outstanding.
Why is this downvoted? It’s inherently a political issue and the history here is relevant.