skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am committed to give all that I can -- living frugally as much as reasonable until I die. I think we should be more worried about people that simply haven't come to understanding that we need to help the world, and that other lives matter as our own, than about people giving significant part of their incomes to charity. Of course, the idea is you don't have to do that -- if everyone gave 10%, the world would be much, much better![1].

Heck, sometimes (see the war in Russia), people are actively doing the opposite and trying to destroy civilization.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtWINl3C
Plug for SOMAFM https://somafm.com super old internet radio stations. Drone Zone is great for concentration.

I usually play some rain sounds from https://lifeat.io, Lily Pond is my favorite.

Play the rain noise and some music with no lyrics at a fairly low volume, and it really works well.
I'm seriously not trolling you, please take this as a question in good faith if you can... (I understand that any message prefaced as such is immediately suspect)

How much does it cost to host that website? It can't be much more than 10-15 usd/month, right? If so, is it really worth it to recover such relatively small amounts through serving ads?

Maybe I'm wildly off in my estimation; personally I see adding ads as a pretty heavy thing to do, so the monetary benefits would have to clearly outweigh that...
the answer is statism. to easy. next!
Why on earth is this website asking me who I voted for before letting me read an article?

Why does the headline make it sound like the FBI wants the documents sealed for 66 years rather than accurately conveying that they'll be release the documents at 500 pages per month, and that therefore it will mathematically take 66 years?

>If Mazzant upholds his order, the FBI wants a lengthy period of time to perform the work—66 years, or 500 pages a month.

Oh, it's the Epoch times... I guess that answers both questions
Sure. As I said, hypocrisy exists... by the bucketful. All I am saying is that things besides hypocrisy also exist and can play a role in the world.
I think I've only seen it on the ebay site - there its just a way of bypassing entering a password whey you're using your laptop/phone which do the fingerprint auth. Assume if you lose your arm you'd enter password with the other hand.
Have you thought about which of these is closer to the truth:

1. What you like in art/music happens to be weird, so by definition only liked by a small minority

2. What you like in art/music has to be weird because you want to feel like you're pushing the boundaries, which is a very "art-y" thing IMO
Taylor Swift.
Please don't lump this on the English, we don't care.

Per your own comment this is decided by PMs. Hardly any of them are english (Johnson was American, Cameron and Blair were both Scots, May was English and the others in the last 40 years lasted too little time to matter).

It's a common misconception that Westminster Politicians care about England but not (say) Scotland. They don't care about either.
What a fascinating undertaking. I wonder how it plays with the backwards compatibility of "newer" powermacs on macos 9
One reason is how much ever we try to disagree, the socio economic construct is still a zero sum game with an ever increasing pie. People who argue otherwise point to the size of the pie without practically ever stating what those in difficult positions can realistically do to get more of it.

Other reasons are that honestly there is not much "real work" to be done so we can argue that a very small % of existing population suffices for maintaining the system. The tiny elite (countries, billionares, intellectuals) essentially work towards maintaining their control over the system and resources.
Great read, but a basic search yields zero results:

https://searchcode.com/?q=kong.New+lang%3Ago

Same search on GitHub:

https://github.com/search?type=code&q=kong.New

Edit: there also doesn't seem to be any ranking at all, such as exact word matches being boosted
There's definitely libertarian communities. Although I'm sure they can become cultish, I imagine they are much less likely to become cultish than the state, since libertarian ideals would mean those communities produce more liberal ideas and thus less group think.

I wouldn't expect the Libertarian Party to become fascist but crazier things have happened.
Mathologer video going in depth on MagicTile
and Rubik's cube variants like Kleij Bottle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=DvZnh7-nslo
https://archive.ph/tdlt8
> Generally how suspicions you look is proportional to how much flack you receive.

Definitely come with a cleanly shaved face. People with long beard are hassled much more often at US borders/airports for some reason.

(observed even with my own experience from about 100 US visits)
I wish voice assistants like Siri could just do functions that are obvious, even if it requires learning commands. Actually especially for in-car voice assistants. I should be able to do any of the critical commands like turning on wipers, etc, via voice commands without looking at a screen or even feeling around for tactile controls with a free hand. If this was reliable and consistent, even if being reliable required learning a list of commands, that’d be a big help while driving.
The World’s Biggest Airports Confront a Tiny but Serious Safety Threat–Wasps
> Yet even though extreme poverty has fallen, in 2018 about 80% of the world population still had material living standards less than one-third of that in the United States.

That’s it right there. If wealth is relative then you can’t possibly create a system that will result in equality of outcome since we’re all born unique.
That's the thing. The article makes them implicitly sound like heroes - they sacrificed SO much for a dream, the dream of serving the customers. They're solar evangelists. The new generation of motivated do gooders. Wish everybody's child was like that!

But it's bs, I'm sorry. There's a reason nobody trusts door to door sales people. There's reason they target the elderly. There's a reason why they have a book-rack of sales techniques. There's a reason they're pushy and persistent and chameleons. And they get a significant paycheque for no actual service to the client.

I work from home with my father in law who's a curmudgeony grouch, yet once a week I have to leave a work call as I overhear them penetrating his defences. And then three weeks later there's an article in the local newspaper about X number of elderly scammed by door to door salespeople selling driveway repeir or duct cleaning or solar panels or roof replacement or whatever.

There is NO alignment of interest between you and the door to door salesperson. They have one goal and one goal only and that is making the sale. Nothing else is real, they're not your new buddy, and they will not be there for you after you sign.

(source - various ; I've been a home owner, have had family scammed, read a lot, and oh yeah, was a poor immigrant and went for several trainings to be door to door sales person and saw the insides of the machine)
I'm assuming any fruit or veg grown by humans are heavily tuned versions of some wild ancestor, and may seem to have little in common with it. How 'original' are the avocados we all know and love?
While I disagree that it is so clear cut--I think some queries do work a lot better on YouTube directly--is this even bad? Isn't the user better off using a general search engine--one that is capable of finding videos anywhere, even if they aren't on YouTube--than using one specifically designed to search within the walls of a single garden? Shouldn't we hope that YouTube takes this as a sign to simply remove their search feature entirely, rather than a sign to double-down on the "lost opportunity" of ensnaring users into full captivity?
I would be 100% ok with it. I have never put anything on a business laptop that would be embarrassing. My company might care, but why would I?
I like that game! It's way less relaxing for sure lol Have you considered showing the progress of others in real-time to add some spice, go more into details?

I really like what Chris has done with Liveblocks.io on his multiplayer Wordle: https://github.com/CTNicholas/wordle-wars
Much of the article focuses on institutions. So how would you characterize the institutions in poorer America as different? How, for example, does the historical dependency path manifest itself in the institutions of poor America?
> I personally consider my meeting notes as transient

Totally agree. Mine are really just memory joggers so that I can if necessary create a brief record-of-actions-and-decisions email immediately after the meeting. Once I've done that I almost never look at them again.

If someone whiteboards a diagram or similar, I photograph it if I can.
I had never heard it before, i've googled to see what it means -- but what I found didn't explain why it's called "pig butchering", can you?
Well, yes. Then again the committee took 10 years to standardize std::mutex, 14 years for std::shared_mutex. 17 for std::optional. We still don't have a good hash map.

We have to be realistic, the standard library will never be complete and you'll always have to get basic components from 3rd party or write them yourself.
and the usability/UX is horrible.
I want this t-shirt.
And by shades of shit we mean all of human thought, all publications, political projects, and basically everything else?

Sheesh... Smarty pants nihilism has devolved into a mishmash of clichés. No wonder if automates so well.
Another warning: IPFS is extremely resource intensive (from CPU to bandwidth) .

I’m pretty disappointed they didn’t mention this in the article. If this gets any traction it will eat as much CPU and bandwidth you give it.

Running with Docker and limiting CPU is necessary along with a bandwidth limiter/policer/shaper.

Having run IPFS for a long while it also ends up in strange states and stops responding to requests. I’ve taken to using a monitoring system to GET a known CID and restart the IPFS container if it fails.

My bandwidth and hardware have 100% uptime but IPFS needs restart at least a couple of times a day on average (looking at logs).

In short: this isn’t practical.
Slow is smooth and smooth is fast, as the old saying goes.
Center cube is not moved, but it is rotated. However, since it does not have any colored faces then it's rotations are meaningless.
You can do some of this with shortcuts, and then use Siri to trigger the shortcut. But that involves thinking; the magic of Jeeves is that he knows what you want even before you do.
Presumably, as salaries and cost need to go up due to inflation so would price, so I don't think this inflation explanation works?
+ Nature
Italian debt crisis? You mean that the EU will bail out German and British banks like with Greece?

Remember, the debtors aren't being bailed out, the creditors are. Otherwise creditors would import products from these countries and be made whole very easily if it was about bailing out the debtors.
SOMAFM is cool, currently vibing to the defcon radio channel on it.

https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/defcon
I did some barefoot running, when I lived on a dirt road. With having to avoid stepping on sharp rocks you figure these moves out quickly. You also figure out how to step lightly, and to keep your steps short, and to land on the ball of your foot rather than heel. It took a while to learn and get used to the different gait. Since then I've done some trail running and those same skills apply.
One thing I know for sure is that the leaks concerning the US were real. That's the reason why Assange has been so relentlessly pursued by the US. US authorities aren't doing this for fun or when someone posts fictitious information that would give them no legal grounds for prosecution.
Simple answer; people from rich countries will use flaws in the political structures of certain other countries to install corrupt politicians; these politicians are then going to work for the interests of their rich foreign patrons and against the interests of their own people (for kickbacks/self-enrichment). The corrupt politicians will do things like saddle their people with significant public debts (which will force the people to pay ongoing interest to rich countries; through tax and inflation). In the private sector, they will award big, generous contracts to foreign companies, suppress people's wages to allow foreign corporations to maximize their profits, allow child labor, sweat shops, etc...

That's why, as a regular citizen, it's vitally important to live in a country which has reliable, honest politicians. Otherwise you'll be paying for their corruption through taxes, inflation, wage suppression and loss of opportunities.

I can recommend David Graeber's book "Debt: The First 5000 Years"; it makes a strong case about the immorality of international debt.
I read a long way through this article before realising that it wasn't actually a parody of a lowtechmagazine.com story.
The main three things Assange/Wikileaks did that lost my assumption of good faith:

* Innuendo regarding Seth Rich (Assange clearly had no information on this subject and should have been honest about it);
* Falsely presenting a leaked cable about Robert Mueller bringing a sample of uranium to Russia as part of an investigation as related to the supposed Uranium One scandal;
* Privately corresponding with Donald Trump, Jr. to support the campaign and ask for favors.
I'd say anything non-vocal usually works really well for me. If there are vocals, it's acceptable if they are effectively used as an incoherent musical instrument.

Music that tries to sing me a complex English narrative is too distracting to work as background material. Rammstein is one example of a clever workaround, since I don't understand German.
Is the world ready for mass migration due to climate change?
> Apparently on newer chipsets, there is no such thing as "suspend to RAM" anymore.

Newer chipsets? Or AMD chipsets particularly?
Yeah I wanted something like a "voice notes" like I gave my kids credit scores to see who earns the most each weak, I want my smart speaker to have a simple voice activated k-v store ready, can increase or decrease, get and reset.
It's a huge leap to get past the first layer. Your curt rate of progress suggests that your strategy will not solve the cube in your lifetime.

And it's almost impossible to do it without taking notes on paper or computer. (If that were doable, their wouldn't be so many walkthroughs). Solving the cube is a hard applied group theory "homework" problem.

This video explains the principles of solving a Rubik's cube on your own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=-NL76uQOpI0
Is the use case of Meta’s quest hardware to enable AR/VR across any metaverse?
From their own to yubalabs otherside, decentraland etc? Like the iPhone does today with many networks and experiences? Dip out of one, and then into another? I don’t see any of the metaverses out there building their own hardware and even if they did it would likely be proprietary… Am I way off track here?
But if the pie increases, it's not really a zero sum game, is it?
That's actually a great idea! Will work on it in the next fews days. Also planning on putting a quick tutorial to explain the concept.
PS: Thanks for the link, looking at it right now.
Meta researchers create AI that masters Diplomacy [game], tricking human players
https://ubique.americangeo.org/map-of-the-week/map-of-the-we...

Military bases and alliances aren't a perfect proxy for political influence, but they're a pretty good one.
I think a bit of a tragedy about modern society is that social media outpaced our social development, and we've not adjusted to that yet.

Say you've just exited from a cinema, and vent to your friend/SO: "Sheesh, that SUCKED. I want my 2 hours of life back!". Overall, a perfectly common, normal sentiment. Not profound criticism, but it wasn't trying to be. And sometimes you'll have a friend in a group that'll rant about how much they hated this for a bit.

Now in modern times, you get a million do the same thing except on Twitter, or the subreddit for that particular work, and suddenly the creators get flooded with an absolute torrent of hate that can go on and on for days. And then when 1% decides to discuss their thoughts at length they can create discussions spanning months, videos, and conversations with people who actually participated in the work and have that last for years.

That can be awful for the people at the receiving end of it, when most of the people participating aren't really doing anything unusual. It's just incredibly magnified due to the new ability to have a million people spontaneously gather up and discuss how much X sucked.
Does it matter given that browsers can remember the username/password anyhow?

On the other hand it's probably more important for user experience to encourage secure (long) memorable passwords rather than the fashion of impossible-to-remember short random ones. i.e I understand that something like "Iamafunnysailorwithalittlereddog" is better than "4kbjk5rv!" simply because length makes any password much harder to crack than the variety of each character.
I'm using Axum now...its nice but still could use much more "batteries included"

For example, I would like something like Go's Context for passing temporary per-request data through middlewares...maybe this is possible with Axum but I'm not seeing a straightforward approach

Extensions also seem to be kinda magical and not straightforward

Immature ergonomics are still a hallmark of many Rust libs
My personal (purposely incomplete!) answer is because the whole world doesn't deserve to be rich.

Imagine this scenario to help understand why:

Let's say the top richest people gave away so much money that every person on earth was a millionare.

What would happen?

People wouldn't change their spending and other habits, in fact they would buy more useless stuff.

Prices would thus rise and rise until they matched the new million-fold buying power. (Think about this: Would you keep your pretzels at $0.50 if you knew everyone was a millionare? Ofc not.)

And then? Then we would be right back to where we started: Most people would be just as poor as before, and the rich would be just as rich as before.

To the downvoters: I'm genuinely interested in your serious rebuttals of my hypothesized scenario.
Oh boy. This is actually a good point.

I guess having the nondescript error message has always been "best practices" or maybe it has crossed the road and has become cargo cult now.
Two Steps From Hell https://youtu.be/9O4_awEHh1g and similar things
What are you talking about? Everyone is eating bigger pieces of pie these days. A lot of the things we take for granted weren’t even available to wealthy people one or two hundred years ago. Electricity, running water, sewage, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, effective surgery, motorized transport, sturdy housing. Not to mention the increasingly universal availability of education. Sure, some people still live in squalor, but it’s a rapidly shrinking percent of the world.
The formula is pretty simple. The US not only allowed South Korea to pursue export oriented industrialization, it actively encouraged it. It saw South Korea as a military bulwark against the Soviet Union.

Why can't every country follow in its footsteps? Well, some did and were encouraged for similar reasons. Taiwan, Japan, etc.

However, without preferential access to the markets of the world's richest nation(s), export oriented industrialization becomes very difficult if not impossible. You cant incrementally build up your car export industry if you can't sell your cars. This is, broadly speaking, why we have a Daewoo but no equivalent for, say, Ethiopia.

The US generally prefers not to encourage EOI. It usually prefers to stripmine poor 3rd world countries and sell luxuries to their elites instead.
I wonder how bad of a timeformat would be just a bitfield struct with all of the parts(year/month/day/hour/minute/second/usec) broken out to separate fields. It should fit quite well to 64bits, so you could pass it along as an opaque 64bit integer value.
Meta's page: https://ai.facebook.com/research/cicero/diplomacy/

Github: https://github.com/facebookresearch/diplomacy_cicero
The reality is that I'm a tab hoarder, I just forget to close them.

some of them I want to keep for "reasons" so every once in a while I do some cleaning.

Firefox has now that beautiful feature that originated in Chrome where each window has a drop down (To right, a rotated "greater than" - or "smaller than" - symbol pointing down) that lists all the tabs ina window, and I can close them from there.

So, cleaning time just got slimmed down greatly :)
This kind of thing made sense when IBM sold literal big metal on-prem hardware. It makes no sense in a virtualized cloud environment of cattle hosts. Who wants to deal with the overhead of managing licenses and not using the full yield capabilities of latest gen hardware.

The problem that Intel has is that when they fall behind in engineering and revenue from superior products, they turn to business hacks to make up for it. That used to work in the past when they dominated with less interchangeability, but today with AMD being strong and ARM growing, may only trade short term revenue for long term decline.
Harvard Sinclair Lab (pace of aging)
If I understand it correctly, this visualization does not take into account the constraints of some faces being physically tied to each other, by being on the same cube. So, while it can show the process of solving cube, it is not a replacement for the cube (i.e. you can't use it as a simulation to try to figure out new algorithms)
Ahh, got it. Double plus good.
Some albums of Electric Universe
The dutch auction doesn't solve the race aspect. There are plenty of situations where people can't buy tickets when they want - they're at work when the price is reached, driving, the webserver is at capacity, etc. Scalpers have the advantage in all these scenarios.

Secondly, people will pay more money once scarcity and FOMO kick in. I may want a ticket for $40 but scalpers knew X would happen somewhere around $50 so they bought all the tickets then. Am I not going to see the concert for $75 buying a scalper ticket? Not a straightforward decision to make! These are the sorts of inputs scalpers will consider when deciding X.
Awesome, didn't know this!
What's entertaining is that they were just too soon. Give it at the very most a couple more years and the state of the field will be very, very interesting.
> 1. The risk of future unsafety (a GC language will always safer than rust)

[citation needed]

> 2. Faster development that's easier to change on a dime.

Yes, development can be faster at the expense of safety, which is a trade-off that favors the use of other languages at early company stages. Agreed here.

> 3. No risk of memory leaks (which can happen in safe rust)

... at the expense of making collection non-deterministic and significantly more resource intensive. Not to mention that the non-determinism means you generally end up grafting your own resource management scheme on top. I've never seen a company that hasn't at some point had someone crying over GC tuning. Leaks are safe (which is why they're allowed in safe Rust) and generally speaking both a non-issue - and very easy to track down.

Rust has been my daily driver at home since like 2015, and I have to say, I've never once gone "man you know what this thing needs? Shenandoah." I write a bunch of Kotlin too, for what it's worth.

These trade-offs are well known and there are pros and cons to both.
But the error message can be true. If you mistype your username, you might have entered another, existing username. Just telling the user 'wrong password' will mean they are less likely to check that the username was correct.

The website doesn't always know which one you got wrong, and assuming one way or the other just makes things worse.
Meaningless? We learned that Hillary Clinton's team was responsible for promoting Donald Trump as the republican nominee. Their "pied piper" candidate.