skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great example of how people in tech often get wrapped up in theory and just don’t junderstand how things work in practical reality. Yes, DRM sucks in theory, but in reality this is all rarely a problem.

I got the original kindle a little over 15 years ago, and I can still open the books I bought back then on my new Kindle and read them just fine. And in another 15 years, I will probably still be able to read those books just fine on whatever Kindle I have at that point.

Yes, I am aware that that may not be true, and I may have to re-purchase these books again at some point, though it seems unlikely. But in the meantime I get the benefit of buying them for cheaper, not having to devote a bunch of real estate to hundreds of books, and being able to text search since most of the books I want to open again after a long period of time or some sort of reference book.

Yes, these likely won’t outlive me. But if you’ve ever known anyone who died that had a lot of books it’s usually not a treasure trove but rather a bunch of crap that has to be shuffled off to good will.

I’m perfectly happy with this trade off. And that’s not even counting the environmental impact.
You don't have the right attitude. You have to have the mindset that even nuclear war is preferable to rolling over for Russia time and time again. Ironically, this is the attitude that best helps PREVENT nuclear war.
I don't think it works that way. I'm not an Android or iPhone developer but I'm pretty sure the OS does not give the app access to the actual biometric data. Apple made a big deal about fingerprints and facial data being in their secure enclave I think.
I get why you think that would be vastly more useful it actually is.

Suppose you did the million monkey with typewriter thing and asked not for Shakespeare but any good book. The overwhelming majority of it would be trash but chances are you’re going to find many good books before the exact works of Shakespeare in the order they where written.

Basically the more specific stuff you want the less likely you are to get it. So those million monkeys would type out a decent haiku relatively quickly, any you would get someone’s correctly done tax return more quickly than your tax return.

A math paper that actually solve some problem are much closer to your specific tax return than just anything. Unlike art what’s valid is very constrained so tossing out essentially random stuff and seeing what sticks just isn’t that helpful.

These language models would at least be using random mathematical or scientific ideas so it’s better than the monkey’s but just not by enough to be useful.

(Sorry for rambling but about to go to sleep.)
The way Mercurial is structured is, to me, intuitive, easy, and powerful. I'm still using it for all of my local projects; luckily hg-git lets you pull in dependencies from github, which would otherwise require me to switch to git.

I wish it had won the DVCS wars.
Professor Steve Keen explains why austerity economics is naive
And can't forget his best one: the Long Boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zPehVx_J0M
Yeah, IMO "left" and "right" are just two different flavors of neo-liberalism factioned off like sports teams; and the mentality and self-awareness of those who back either one tend to be similar in nature to the point of being indistinguishable.

If someone is pro-war (to any degree), anti-worker/union or pro-capitalism I have a hard time taking them serious as a leftist; that's more of a liberal bag.
Comparing "The application of capital to the spread of useful knowledge" to 99% of modern day advertising with a straight face makes me wonder if some people ever use the Web.
"Too much protection" doesn't match "whatever they do" to me.

On your larger point, looking at countries with pretty strong worker protection, companies still have a flurry of tools to punish or get rid of workers that are way below their expected performance or crossing lines. "We can't fire people" is basically a myth, or what people really mean is "We can't willy nilly fire people like they're cattle".

I've seen people fired on the spot after heated discussion with the direction or people let go following a month or two of HR monitoring. The company only needs to do its homework and properly document offenses, follow the processes, or pay the full price if it really wants to get rid of someone with no objective reason.
You have to do something to the existing power plants, before you build out enough solar, wind, batteries, and nuclear. It capture is cheaper then rebuilding the plant, it may make sense to run it until the end of its planned service life.

Certain things produce CO₂ as a part of non-power-generating chemical processes, like steelmaking, or producing cement for concrete. If the CO₂ can be captured economically, it would be a great win; there are few known remotely viable alternatives.
that method is particularly painful now that we're in the era of the booting-TV.
> Food companies use hydrogen gas to turn unsaturated oils and fats into saturated ones, which give us margarine and butter.

Hydrogen is not used in the production of butter

> Long-touted as a sustainable fuel, hydrogen fuel produces no emissions as it burns upon reacting with oxygen—no ignition is needed, making it a cleaner and greener fuel source. It is also easier to store, making it more reliable than solar-powered batteries.

no ignition is needed? Easier to store?
I find it interesting that Idiocracy was released the same year. Two very different films, but I think two of the most prophetic of their time, and I enjoyed them both a lot, but I always say that "Children of Men" is the best movie that I'll never watch again.
The Mute button on the remote is surprisingly useful for this (but not if they overlay the regular programming, obviously). The sound is a big part of why we hate the ads.

You'd be amazed how un-annoying it is to watch commercials with the sound off. Sometimes you watch and wonder what it's actually an ad FOR.
We (steamship.com) use Swift on the server to power our Heroku-style AI apps platform.

It’s been mostly great. Only downside is the server-side swift community is smaller than others, so you don’t get the deep software library selection something like Python would have.
The really nasty side of advertising is the collateral damage of mental health issues, eg death by the torture of annorexia is just one. I find it's usually pretty easy to get some kind of agreement on that even if we agree we are not suceptible at the moment and how making the audience of the ads feel inadequate (so we spend money on something to feel better) is the point. Perfume advertised by perfet movie stars and models who are better and happier than you. It doesn't have to be a conspiracy, as a society we've thrown every ad strategy against the wall and selected for the ones that work and this one works so we use it, don't know or care it harms a vulnerable 12 year old. Ad exec doing lines off the boardroom table may not even be smart enough to abuse your children deliberately but _can_ copy this other thing that worked. "No fat women in coke ads." Needn't be a malicious agency or "obesity vendor" policy for it to actually be put into effect and be happening. (It could be policy too, who would trust them not to be vile?)

So that's the obvious end and you can see pretty easily how it exists all the way up the spectrum from the extremely serious effects through to the utterly "well thats 30 seconds I'm never getting back" level of trivial.

The advertising industry has no regard for you or your family's or your community's mental health. None. This is clear to me and you can form your own view. Given I believe that, we have to run defence. And you do, I do, everyone does. "Kids, that is fake, that isn't real." If you never had a discussion like that with younger humans, be they your kids, extended family, friends or randoms then, I kind of wonder why not? How much defence should we be playing against it all? As much as we can is my answer. It's wrong not to make some kind of effort.

Where are you drawing the line for the health and welfare of your family?
You forgot to add that Elon then implemented the fired employees suggestions
"Piecemeal exposition of things of which I have lately become convinced"
Bringing back some good ole memories. Thanks.
I was purely responding to the notion that "cyberattack" as a term implies something exclusively non-physical, since it has been used many, many times to refer to techniques that require physical access to the system that is being attacked.
> Does InReach require a monthly cost?

You buy the hardware, pay a $30 activation fee, and a then pay monthly for the service.

There are several service plans ranging from $15 a month to $65 a month. The cheap plan comes with 10 texts a month and the $65 a month plan has unlimited texting.

If you pay an additional $35 annual fee, you can suspend the plan during months you would not use it.

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/837461/pn/010-06000-SU
I felt this exact thing at my last job! I thought I finally had everything I wanted but turns out I was unchallenged and unsatisfied. A couple things that helped me were picking up other challenging hobbies or books that helped me feel stimulated but ultimately I ended up with a new job.

Turns out the perfect workday is not 2 hours of boring work but 5-7 hours of focused, interesting work.
They actually tell you to mail it by UPS only. I mailed it by USPS first and they lost it en route. I wrote my congressman and practically begged him to help. He contacted the postmaster general's office who told him that it was essentially lost for good even though the USPS was "searching for it" and that there was a 0.01% chance I'd ever see it again. My rep then contacted the state department who printed me a new passport in 48 hours, which is basically unheard of. Mailed it again by UPS and got it back just in time to leave for the UK. God what a nightmare, I am lucky to have had a great representative at that time. He really went to bat for me.

My other passport is still lost, lord knows where.
Perhaps unfair, but I tried "prove that all prime numbers are composite" https://galactica.org/?prompt=prove+that+all+prime+numbers+a... and got

"The theorem in number theory that states that all prime numbers are composite is an easy consequence of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic..."
Gotta be one of the most anti-war war scenes ever filmed. Just terror and meaningless death.
Ok so what the fuck is the deal with Solana anyway
Well, it never left the atmosphere.
Well, this is quite a set of Russian dolls:

1) SLIP (Symmetric List Processor) is a collection of subroutines designed by Joseph Weizenbaum to be embedded in a higher order language

2) ELIZA is a program, also written by Joseph Weizenbaum, and a SLIP application, which reads in a set of rules, called an ELIZA-script (the best known of these scripts is the doctor/therapist script commonly associated with ELIZA), and matches any console input against these rules in order to produce a transformation as an answer. The general idea is to give the appearance of a natural language conversation program that may be operated from a terminal.

3) In order to do so, ELIZA (the program) exposes some SLIP functions to these rule sets (expressed in an ELIZA-script). Mind that these functions are quite powerful and general in nature.

4) Generally speaking, ELIZA (the program) matches words in the input stream against a list of keywords, which are associated with rules for matching certain text patterns and rearranging them into an output stream. (In other words, for the most part a usual ELIZA-script, like the doctor script, merely reflects the input in a transposed form. There are is no "understanding" involved.)

5) One of these rules in ELIZA's grammar is the "PRE" rule, which reorders and/or substitutes certain expressions in the input stream in order to feed the recomposed output into another rule.

6) By this, we can use ELIZA (the program) to decompose and recompose and reinterpret a given stream using a special set of rules, expressed in an ELIZA-script, until a terminal state is reached. (Which is the case, when the input stream has been transposed reiteratively to a terminal symbol recognized by a rule in our script.)

7) This is both surprising and not surprising at all. SLIP was written to provide general building blocks for a higher order language and ELIZA (the program) is such a language. ELIZA (especially its doctor script) was highly influential for mimicking quite successfully a natural language conversation in the mid 1960s. To do so, it directly exposed SLIP functionality to its scripts (rule sets). While not advertised by any means, it is not of great wonder that some of the generality of SLIP may be exposed by ELIZA's grammar. Notably, the "PRE" grammar was – according to Weizenbaum – introduced for economical reasons, not for extra logical functionality. However, there is more to it, as it "leaks" generality, by not only allowing us to recompose an input, but also allowing us to feed this output into another, specified rule, where it will be interpreted anew. This can be used to encode state and to repetitively interpret a stream with respect to this state until a terminal state (as the answer to a problem) is eventually reached.

(There are, however, some technical limitations to the generality of ELIZA: e.g., keywords, which mark and group any rules, are hashed to 7-bit integers and there may be just 128 keywords and 512 rules in total.)
Like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGDgnp7-uck

("Is that a PS Vita" in the middle of a dramatic, slow-paced show)
I have found that just by failing to clear my mind before exercise I can end up mentally crunching some problem (if the parts are sufficiently well specified that I can imagine them), which negates a lot of the mental benefit of exercise.
I'm not sure Electron proper is a viable path for mobile development.

Offline-capable web apps are, or course, a viable alternative, as long as you can afford ignoring iOS.
A market size of $1 billion is not necessary if your seed round valuation is reasonable, e.g. $5 million. This allows early investors to see a possible 10x at less than $10 million ARR which is less than 1% of a $1 billion market. Later stages might be more of an issue…
Having done so, it completely changes the dynamic.

Especially when you know the criminal code, and can ask questions such as ‘officer, I’m pretty sure they are currently committing felony <blah blah> against me. I don’t want them to go to jail, but I do want them to stop committing felonies against me.’

All the sudden, it goes from ‘nothing we can do’ to action.
> However, you aren't showing that companies are discriminating to cause that difference

Correct, I'm also making no claims that they are. The discrimination, if there is any, appears to come from socio-cultural causes.

> What you are missing is that if women just don't want to become programmers the drive to not discriminate means companies will be overpaying for female programmers

I'm not following that, can you explain? I'd assume they offer similar pay to man and woman, as far as I know, there's no evidence they're paying woman more, in fact, seems to be the opposite.

> And we have seen that policies aimed at reducing discrimination had a big effect in the civil rights era but then accomplish virtually nothing since

Ya, I'm not sure that you can solve the problem at that level either.

In practice, I think women hiring pushes like this has actually caused some men to be even more hostile to women workers, and that's actually having the opposite effect, work environments are even less welcoming to women, and their credibility is being questioned even more, as people claim they were hired to meet quotas, etc.

It's hard to change socio-cultural attitudes. And it only takes a few derogatory men to make the field toxic to women.

The issue is, what else can you do?
I don't think it's true that's what travel was like for most humans in most of human history. For most people at most places at most times, they could simply travel wherever they chose, and it was fine. Traditions of hospitality to traveling strangers are very common.
Only if that person who bought at $69,044.77 was a fool to sell.
“I’m not sure I want to deal with the can of worms it will open, so I’ll tell you privately,” he wrote back.

... and what was told privately is now public...

Can somebody that journalisms tell me what just happened?
Since the sapling client is a fork from Mercurial does that mean it can also be used with Mercurial repositories in addition to Git repositories or is that not supported?

In order to work with Git repositories is this essentially the Mercurial client using hg-git on a converted repo under the hood?
Yep. JRR Tolkien's mentor and prof, the great Joseph Wright, started working in the Yorkshire mines as a child, learned to read at 15, and managed to save enough (by teaching other factory workers for read for tuppence a week) that he saved up passage for a ferry to the continent. He then walked to Heidelberg University, enrolled, and ultimately became an academic.

Good luck just wandering into other countries in order to sign up as a student today.
The main reasons for those are better negotiated pay, and because on youtube that's the only way an uploader can attach specific ads to a video.
Because you don't seem to share their values and have a problem with the way they choose to collaborate with others.
So the guy tells Elon he should have asked about the slow performance privately after he himself made sure to answer Elons first tweet publicly.
Now I don't know about you but if my boss makes a mistake in public, I think id give the common courtesy of letting him know that in private first. Or am I crazy and it's completely normal to have arguments in public when you know everyone is watching?
Yes, agree totally because thats me and a few other core people. As a very much self starter it can be hard to build systems that are enough support but not too much for those who aren't as comfortable or 'entitled' as you put it.

We absolutely run into this issue of new people floating ideas and the old hats going 'for the 100th time that will not work because x y z' and the new person going 'jesus, ok then'. Theres a lot of history and learnings thats hard to solidify and pass on and get people into the same book, not even the same page. I still haven't cracked this nut, it feels like i should write a bunch of documentation but i suspect it will not be read.

I've been the polite but chronic reminder/nagger. It does work but its extremely wearing on all participants. I've found the best way to do it is to pair or more people up, in a physical location at the same time to do things. Body doubling is like crack to my audhd brain but it works great for most people as well. Bonus points if you feed them. However, thats a high level of organisation and it can be really tricky to pull it off with the regularity and scale the organisation might require.

I've said in other comments i'd do unseemly things for a volunteer coordinator, but i'd make the devil blush if i could pin down a project manager. Most people just need structure, thats just the long and short of it I've found. You've gotta provide it some way or another, and doing it effectively is a full role and I have enough hats as it is.

How do you combat the old knowledge vs new (naive?) ideas issue? Do you try to reevaluate that 'old knowledge'? Just let the new idea down gently and explain the history? Talk about what you havent tried that might be relevant?
I wish I had HN gold to award this comment
Wish I'd had this a year and a half ago when I was trying to explain to my insurance company and the local police supervisor that just because they don't know how to calculate a maximum speed from the speed at impact, the maximum distance of travel, and the ABS deceleration rate for a specific vehicle, it doesn't mean nobody can!
I don’t think think it’s ever been that great of an idea to publicly criticize the CEO of your company.
I've got a half hour floor and bill in half hour segments.

But if it's project management I watch quantity of increments and add accordingly.

But bottom line is nothing takes less than a half hour per day per project
Making Sense of Moral Change
I guess you didn't start from cvs or svn, because the experience moving to git was otherworldly. If git was your first versioning system than you had to learn some concepts first, which you already internalized when you switched to Mercurial.
One more cool feature I just remembered - it can intermittently send your location to a website (optionally password protected) so someone can track your progress. If you fall and get knocked out you won't be able to send an SOS - but your location (and the last time you moved) will be known by loved ones.
Cheap, unimaginative, repetitive trite media of short content. More pathetic than the low quality general guilty pleasure one would generally think of. So if that’s your thing, then that’s your thing.
I was falsely accused of some serious crimes and abuse.

It turns out, having security camera footage of the entire period of time showing that not only did you do nothing of the sort, but fundamentally could not have done anything of the sort, and was actually just playing with your kids the entire time, and the accuser had to have known so, changes the dynamic of such a case quite quickly.

Unfortunately, no one seems to take Perjury seriously in California, at least when the accuser is a woman. Despite it being a felony with penalties of 2,3, or 4 years in prison, and airtight evidence of multiple repeated occurrences.
> HTML, XML, and ZIP files aren't going anywhere

I wouldn’t be surprised if some of those go out of use in a few hundred years, if not much earlier. There will probably be major conversion efforts going on at some point. The alternative, the above formats being maintained for eternity, would be somehow depressing.
> Surprising that the article doesn't mention that

To paraphrase someone more famous, "an American is never a foreigner, he belongs everywhere that he goes."
I use Panorama Tab Groups to group tabs by project. When I click on a tab group the browser window only shows the tabs in that group. Selecting a different tab group swaps in the other set of tabs. It lets me have understandable groups of 10-20 tabs per project/subject.
While this might seem shocking to a Frenchman, many Americans (including me) just don't eat much bread.
The Extraordinary Redundancy of Spinning UFO Drones
I'm starting to feel there is little daylight between Colonel Kurtz and SBF.
akolbe's posts are almost universally about Wikimedia Foundation's fundraising. The research is poorly sourced, mostly inaccurate, and has a strong bias against using funding for anything other than paying for hosting costs (which to akolbe, shouldn't include paying the staff). akolbe's strongest stance is against using money for "social causes", even though not much of the funding is used for that.

Overall, akolbe is using multiple platforms to troll this particular issue. It used to be limited to wikimedia-l and to the community pump, but times change.
They probably would have mocked you and said that you are using a "video game" to illustrate the accident.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221115182258/https://www.econo...
The UK is in the Atlantic ocean not in the Pacific.
But just as an experiment.
Fun article/writing style, but IMO not very accurate. No company is perfect, but most are not genuinely fucked up, just a little dysfunctional here and there.
>I also feel like Kindle is setting up a situation where my kids won't have the joy of discovering a book, or author, serendipitously. When the books are just sitting there on a shelf (they were in my bedroom as a kid, basically just as overflow because we had too many in the house), it's easy to get bored and pick up a book.

All the ebooks in the library (actually, all of the several library systems I have access to) are just sitting there in libby, searchable and filterable by multiple criteria.