skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That is why so many tools can proliferate in this space: they are not satisfying the desire to think, they are satisfying the desire to use (new) tools.

> Instead, they are people who explain how to use "tools for thought", introducing new taxonomical systems and technologies. To what end?

At a higher level, I see this as natural evolution feeding off all that "desire for new tools" to (in the longer term) create better design for our "Information machines".

It is like this is the Cambrian explosion for the "information level" of life (Whatever that is). I say "let it be".

But (to return to the personal level) We should indeed explicitly police the boundaries between the 2 activities: experimenting (or even playing) with new stuff on one hand, and producing/thinking on a stable healthy (but still evolving) system on the other.

It is confounding the two that is the real problem, not the "tools of thought" in themselves. I'm not saying it is easy either. (I'm guilty as charged)
It looks nice in code, but it's a hell to debug.
I don't get it, I think today space opera is probably the most vital it's ever been. You have everything from Wayfarers to Teixcalaanli to Machineries of Empire to Xuya to Three-Body Problem.

> I blend what Wikipedia calls Golden Age and New Wave together

Well, you do you, but nobody will understand what you mean and I don't think there's any thematic, aesthetic, literary, or social basis for this.
Precisely. Political causes and political / power influence are two different agendas. SBF, FTX, etc. was more of the latter.
> Only engineering matters. UX? Forget about it.

I am not sure where this one comes from; I have been driving a Tesla as my main car recently (which I say in a weird way as I don't own my own car) and, as someone who has driven a bazillion cars, the end-to-end UX of the Tesla is competent in a way I feel no other car manufacturer has ever even attempted. Hell: the maps app on the Tesla console is also the best maps app I have ever used, and I've spent the requisite 12-14 years or so (ever since this was a featured you could get on a mobile phone) heavily reliant on random apps from Google, Apple, and even the occasional third party... the Tesla one simply seems to have been built by someone who actually knows how to use a map, and so like, it doesn't randomly rotate or insist on zooming in constantly. The one UX complaint I have had with the Tesla involved the lack of a way to unlock other doors if I disable the automatic unlock of all doors (for safety), and they seriously fixed that a few days ago in a software update.
He didn’t. The speech is available on YouTube, his calls for peaceful and lawful demonstration are now back on Twitter. Don’t believe lies of the media, look at the original sources. Eye opening.
Not enough sophisticated adjactives. On HN everything is incredible, amazing, electrifying and goosebumps inducing. I would love to see a frequency analysis of such words on HN vs elsewhere.
My cousin had a friend next door and ran Ethernet out his basement window and over to the neighbours basement window. They shared a cable internet connection eventually and made their parents pretty happy about the savings $
Homebrew is almost entirely beholden to the behavior of an operating system (and entire hardware ecosystem) that we have no say over. It also was simply never meant to be a versioned package manager, because the majority of its users (developers) want rolling updates for their tooling.

You want different things than Homebrew was designed to do, which is perfectly fine. But we make those constraints abundantly clear in our documentation, and they produce a vastly better user experience for 99% of our users.
> it doesn't seem to be getting pursued aggressively by the US

I don't think you'd be able to tell yet, for a real investigation.

You've got to realize, the Taylor Swift stuff is "for the cameras". An investigation and prosecution around something as convoluted as the FTX collapse will take years of real work.

I also think there won't be a lot of heat around the FTX collapse because it was widely assumed to be a scam... a case of people playing with matches getting burned. (I think that's unfair in many, many cases, and uncompassionate, but nevertheless will affect the priority of prosecuting this.)
Well, to-do list +1.
Strangely the only book I’ve read from him is his memoir about running, which vastly differs from the rest of his works

Can anyone recommend a good book from him you enjoyed?
> It can be pursued by those he didn’t donate to just as well. E.g the republican controlled house

That's why the co-CEO donated millions to them.
How you treat your customers reflects company values, and company values reflect leadership's values.
Siri is the worst of them. Try Google's sometime, it's much much better.
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33581696
Not sure everyone here speaks UK form numbers. An I-what?
It's a US permanent residence form.
Media always exaggerates. UK will be fine even if it has lost its shine.
We are trying to make a collaboration with Keycloak Asap.
I dunno about that.

An alarm is something you set for a specific time of day, that you might want to go off every day (eg, to wake you up for work). It is important that it have options for snoozing for a relatively short period of time.

A timer is something you set for a specific amount of time, that you might want several of at once (eg, when you're cooking), and you might want to repeat the same duration a few times (eg, as a focus/pomodoro timer), but you're unlikely to want repeated daily. It's important that it be very clear that the timer went off, but you rarely want to snooze a timer.

They are very similar concepts, but they have fairly clear and distinct use cases, and it makes sense for the software to treat them as two different things.
Let me tell you one secret.

It's not about quantity, but the quality of work you do. Less with good quality is better than more but bad quality.

So yes, the dilemma is real ;) Whoever wants to do everything comes up with dirty works, which could be counted as nothing !
Presumably they're using U.S. census derived terms, so in the U.S. Indians are considered Asians.
Twitter bankruptcy imminent
Yes. I've also worked in a few union shops and experienced it myself. I'm a socialist through and through, but what is called a union in the US is not an organization of and for the workers, it is a co-opted parasitic extension of corporate and government policy. Workers can and should organize, but restricting ourselves to following the controlled opposition is stupid and self-defeating.
Why would you stick around to form a union when you could take 3 months of severance? What would you get out of a union hostile to leadership by staying at Twitter versus the 3 months pay and going somewhere else?
Do they typically do that? My understanding (and I am very much NAL) is that the standard practice is to only officially discuss ongoing investigations if they are ready to file charges which honestly seems like a good practice. And honestly I would be pretty surprised if there aren't any criminal charges coming out of this whole fiasco.
None of my ISPs ever had IPv6 support.
What makes you think this is a pump and dump scheme? Other than the word blockchain
In what way? They specifically avoided entering American jurisdiction by having a separate site ftx.us.
I just happened to listen to this Freakonomics podcast yesterday. The bits on The Politics Industrial Complex were helpful. It puts into words what my gut has been telling me.

Given your question, give it a listen, it's worth your time.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/im-your-biggest-fan/
Where’s the proof that this automatic system ever existed before? I could upload a picture of a horse and say that since my account wasn’t taken down the antihorse system is malfunctioning.
Behind the Iron Curtain, you had to bribe various government officials even if you were far from "the highest bidder".

Sometimes the bribes were as trivial as a packet of wurst.
> Driving is rather intuitive once you gain familiarity due to being able to feel the road and the movement of the car through your hands, feet, and seat

This is the key to the question. When I first got in a driver’s seat, I immediately focused on the feedback from the wheel, spatially judging where the car was, all the things happening around me, and the paint on the lanes. It made me continually make these jerky micro corrections to stay in the lane.

About a minute in, the instructor notices this and says, “You’re doing what everyone does. You’re thinking too much. Look at a point down the road to where you want to go and your hands will take you there.” He basically told me to selectively ignore a lot of information from the situation and follow my instincts. It worked immediately.

Building a simulator to provide all that information would be awfully expensive.
Back in the day we used Hamachi for this. Looks like it's been acquired by LogMeIn (bleh), but perhaps the same functionality is there.

https://www.vpn.net/

Good luck!
Blender users are still pretty active on the IRC if you want to chat with people real-time I believe.

And the BlenderArtists forum for ‘social media’ without being the product.

I can’t imagine if someone approached Ton with a proposal to host an official blender mastodon instance on foundation hardware he’d be opposed. The worst they can do is say no.
This is true, but how does it address my post? Maybe it will grow to dominate social media!! It sure looks like that’s where it’s headed, but if your going to make a prediction about failure you should take a stand instead of being noncommittal.
Agree that Intel naming schemes are very confusing and very few people understand them or care, even.

However, AMD isn't any better ... is it a Vermeer or is it a Cezanne, a Chagall or a Milan?
> Never gonna work. It was noted by Plato over 2000 years ago that in any system where the leaders can own property, they will use their political power for financial gain. And he has been proven right over and over again ever since. Plato even admits that his ideal system, where the leadership is not allowed to own property, is impossible.

Funny, we have entirely different interpretations of the significance of the Republic; if there was any book that substantiated the need to move away from the Nation State model it was that! Any Society which sought to kill it's professed 'Philosopher King' due to it's own hubris is unfit to structure what we call Civilization--more so when that individual claims to 'know nothing' but exposes the vapid nature of it's rulers and it's Legal system to be a murderous farce.

The fact that Humans have repeated this cycle since Ancient Greece is testament of not just our collective folly in the West to learn from our predecessors but also underscores just how long the scale of these cycles are rather than what you purport, I'm afraid.

The Republic was actually what made me look further into Anarchism after repeated readings since I was in my early teens, and its what I advocate for those who are interested on the topic should begin to see how far it goes back.

With that said, I'm well aware Plato advocated for a plutocracy/oligarchy, but one need only look to the Kyklos [0] or anacyclosis to know that one is just the precursor to the other and I think I side with Aristole's assessment (though not his conclusion) more anyhow. The fact that we haven't broken this perverse cycle is testament of Humanity's inherit flaw and begs a much bigger question about the many paving our own road towards extinction for the benefit of the few; because as we've seen with COVID and now Russia's cataclysmic invasion in Ukrainian and the CCP's saber rattling with Taiwan they all seem intent more than anything to bring about the collective demise of Human civilization via Nuclear War in the backdrop of the damage that climate change has wrought upon the World--much of which all Nation states has enabled.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyklos
The word NFT
People’s comments then were more genial, thought out, and verbose. I’ve noticed this before reading old posts on the internet. Language is changing. We are changing. Everything is as short and direct as possible. Unfortunately leaning towards blunt and hostile. Ennui from reading the internet too much? Maybe Twitter and texting? I don’t feel like this is a change for the better.
One brick at a time has been my philosophy for a while and it's worked well. Making a bucket list of life, then turning that into to do lists, then doing the things 1 by 1.

- Travel around the world solo for years

- Find a wife, get married & have kids

- Build my dream website (https://dustinbrett.com/)

- Get a job in Big Tech as a self taught developer

It's been 10 years since I started living this way and it's worked out so far. Before living this way I had no real plans, just hopes.
You omitted the obligatory dang banning someone that had a flagged comment and then 4 people asking what it said.
I’ve learned a lot over the years by reviewing old code. It might not be elegant but your methods might spark an idea for someone else.

Sometimes elegant well structured code that is 50 revisions deep doesn’t tell the story anymore
Since the standard is 65 for everyone else, I think politicians should abide by that too: if you're going to hit 65 during your term, you can't run. I'm not saying people aren't useful past 65. But 80 for political office - any political office - seems ridiculous.
Yeah coming from a culture where you were taught not to make eye contact and then going to a country where it’s rude to not look someone in the eye was very jarring.

I still have to basically look at someone’s temple to get by, even a decade later. The discomfort of making eye contact is just so ingrained now.
Ah, yeah you are right.
But expanding public transit is not something a private company can really do. If you can figure out a way to get governments to drastically expand public transit, that'd be great. Until then, it's nice seeing a company doing something that might help.
> Banning political campaigning by private entities

No one did that.

> And it's fundamentally unfair that I can't start a PAC and campaign my political goals, but the RNC and the DNC are given a free hand.

They aren't. Donations to them are limited, too. https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-di...
Maybe I’m a weirdo but I tend to look at peoples mouths more than their eyes. I’m not hard of hearing, but I feel like it helps me follow conversations better.
Not a UK form, US form.

USCIS I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status

https://www.uscis.gov/i-485
On the other hand, one off anecdotes does not a company standard make. You can find plentiful anecdotes on the starlink subreddit of people talking about how they got responses within only a couple hours of submitting a request as well.

Also it's possible this person didn't even buy the service, as they say they got it without a credit card, but the service requires you to use a credit card to buy it.

Edit: It may be the norm in Europe to pay by bank details but the Starlink site does not allow you to pay by bank details, unless you can show that you can somehow there with a screenshot.
> "Exempt" is company-speak to make you think your hours worked are not tied to compensation. Try tell a lawyer or structural engineer the same and they'd laugh at you.

Uh, no. “Exempt” is a legal definition created by a bunch of politicians to exempt people from the FSLA. Basically it means that certain roles can be tied to an expected outcome and not a specific hourly pay guideline. And specifically in the state of California, SWEs can be classified as exempt allowing their employer to require them to work whatever number of hours that are necessary to achieve an outcome.

Since California is also an “at will” state, the employee is free to leave the arrangement.
To be fair that's often missing on HN too.
Like... Gmail? Netflix? Chrome? Android? iOS? TVs? Radio? Newspapers? Just about every line of communication in your house is some big company or another.
Debt being an issue is mostly a self imposed limitation / political tactic.

Parties were saying exactly the same thing about debt in 2010 when debt / GDP ratio was lower in order to win an election and implement austerity.

Covid Debt in the UK was all QE anyway, so is effectively money we owe to ourselves.

I do agree that Truss could have done all the things she wanted to do if she had just been smarter about presentation.
the government have stated they don't recognise any of the discussions reported on

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/20/hardline-br...

wishful thinking by journalists...
Yeah I wonder how the anti-immigration-reason leave-voters feel about that.
The observation is true, but the shape of the curve is not, and thus the implications are vastly different.
There was a reddit experiment a few years back, SubredditSimulator, that was a scaled version of what you described. It was obviously more surreal and funny than accurate. There were users trained off of popular subreddits, and they just ran with threads and comments being created purely from the data.
I would not say imminent but it has increased considerably as Trump seemed to be one of the main bets of Musk to increase (double?) engagement.
Daytona USA prepared me for driving in traffic, in some ways.
This isn’t a surprise, part of the financing deal for truth was that Donnie would always post on truth first before any other social media.
In 2015 the "populist" opinion was that Tesla wouldn't beat Toyota/Ford/GM/VW at making Electric Vehicles. I'm not sure where you are getting the idea that it was popular to think Tesla was going to beat GM at making EVs in 2015.
The other way round..
Not sure what your quote is supposed to say. It doesn't mention anything about total net migration. This is from Steptember 2022 about immigration to the UK: https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06...

If you look at that report you will notice that the main change to net migration was Covid-19 and even with that, it's pretty steady but you can see that EU migration is down significantly but completely compensated by non EU immigrants (page 16).
>There should be a loud and clearly vocalized response

So you just care about the optics?
Pywright – Playwright API Server
While searching for a way to render JS websites - since my Scrapy Splash service did not work for some websites - I can not find anything I want to use. They are either too complicated or too expensive, sometime both!

Thus, I must create a solution for myself. It's simple, but it can do one job good enough for me: Render a JS website and return the HTML code.

You can deploy it with Docker, or deploy to Fly.io. More features are coming soon.
None of those websites are worth visiting. Guess you need more than 10KB to display any value.
I know the pain of having to store the payload multiple times when using system like ipfs and zeronet.

It maybe helpful to leave the files in the file system as is, and store the metadata in a sqlite database.

Then integrate it with a p2p network layer for crowd seeding and even content discovery.
My understanding was that the EU has many universities.
Attended a LAN party in Manassas, VA back in early 2000s. It was literally in a barn with 100+ people. No Internet as it was pretty rural. I don't think this would even be possible now with no LAN option in modern games.
Which is dead too.
TLDR; Life's changing. For the better?
In martial arts when I was younger, we spent at least a few sessions just staring at each other, to get comfortable / less awkward with looking at your opponent.

That, along with taking punches to the stomach (We weren't very strong yet, so no worries about us actually injuring each other), just to get "used to getting hit", among other things... these kinds of training helps remove the mental blocks when you actually start to spar.

I'd say that eye-contact is just one of those things you need to train for. I know I did, it helped me a lot inside of a sparring match to help me focus on the opponent rather than feeling awkward (they're looking at me kinda thing).

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If you haven't had martial arts practice, then you could just practice eye-contact with your friends instead.
Love to irreversibly lose control of my packages because of a phishing scam or a buggy smart contract!
I think that has always been part of the plan. The issue with EU was that the "immigrants" were acually citizens of the union which means the EU guaranteed them the same rights as british nationals.

There was also the issue that some EU countries(i.e Italy) were giving italian/EU citizenship to fresh immigrants from Africa so that they can travel to the UK.
For some reasons a big part of the UK didn't like that for obvious reasons.
If you've got an iPhone, kick it into airplane made and open up "notes" and tap the microphone to transcribe.

It even gets "one third plus one half is five sixths" transcribed as `1/3 + 1/2 is 5/6` and "four feet two inches" becomes `4'2"` without a network connection.

So I believe its doable... I also believe that Apple spent bit to make it that way. Note that the voice to text on the device cuts down on data use (I believe - I haven't sniffed the traffic to verify) and cloud side processing (its working on text rather than audio - its a few pennies less per request).

But beyond that... every home voice assistant that I've seen (other than Apple, Amazon, and Google) has worked on pre-programed phrases that need to be spoken rather than the more free form way people speak... and again, that's even without trying to translate that into other infrastructure beyond the device.

I'd honestly be happy/impressed to have a RPi based system that can handle taking "create a reminder for next Wednesday at 9:30 am to thaw the turkey" and have that feed into other useful systems.

I'd be very impressed if I could do a "create a reminder" (what is the reminder for) "go to parents" (when should I remind you) "Day after thanksgiving" (what time on Friday should I remind you) "half past one" (is that one thirty in the morning or in the afternoon) "afternoon" -- this works with Alexa. Note the recognition of holidays, the 'wizard' style entry and the alternate time format.
“I’m not done squeezing my own platform dry, yet.”
Homebrew distrbutes recipes and bottles for older versions of many packages: postgres and node come to mind. And it's easy to maintain your own recipe if you need a different one.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3987683/homebrew-install...
For me the crucial point is that those services are closed and proprietary and they do not make hardware, in other words, they are packaging capabilities that your machine(s) already have, they are not fundamentally adding anything to the system.

All those positive impacts you're making are orthogonal (in my POV) from the companies who are using them as a kind of camouflage or stalking horse for their parasitic and (ironically) anti-social behavior.
I think statistically you’re not in the minority.

The two most populated countries in the world for example don’t encourage eye contact, and when you account for the large number of countries in Asia that similarly don’t, the statistical norm is to avoid eye contact.
Switzerland is also land locked by the EU. Surely Switzerland needs trucks with food, fuel, construction, raw materials and other essential imports, coming in on a regular basis more than the EU needs Switzerland's universities. You can't eat money or live in a house built from research papers to survive.

I'm not saying EU would ever do something that radical, but my point is, the EU has far more screws to turn on Switzerland in case of a diplomatic conflict, than vice versa.

Which is why Switzerland tightened their banking secrecy regulations at the insistence of the EU despite Switzerland not being beholden to EU laws.