skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is interesting to note that two centuries ago it was France that were putting pressure on Russia (and all the Europeans countries) to not trade with the United Kingdom. The continental blockade that led to all the Napoleonic Wars.
The roles have now been reversed it seems today although I still have difficulty understanding the interest of the United States to take part so directly in this European "Grand Jeu" to which they must not understand much with their primary macartism perspective.
Using the new ChatGPT from OpenAI:

> Generate 10 typical Hacker News headlines.

1. "New open-source project revolutionizes web development"
2. "10 tips for optimizing your website's performance"
3. "The future of programming languages: what to expect"
4. "Big tech companies accused of stifling innovation"
5. "The rise of artificial intelligence in the workplace"
6. "Successful startups share their secrets to growth"
7. "Why it's time to switch to a privacy-focused browser"
8. "The top programming languages to learn in 2021"
9. "How to build a strong cybersecurity strategy for your business"
10. "The importance of ethics in the tech industry"

IMHO it's a bit too clichée (there are rather few "10 tips to..." or "top XXX in 2021" on HN), but other than that, quite accurate.

EDIT: It seems like ChatGPT agreees:

> Can you do the same but less clichée?

1. "The surprising benefits of using a text-based interface"
2. "Exploring the potential of blockchain technology beyond cryptocurrency"
3. "Why the gig economy may not be sustainable in the long run"
4. "The role of virtual reality in distance learning"
5. "The future of work: how technology is changing the job market"
6. "The ethics of using facial recognition technology"
7. "How to protect your online identity from cyber threats"
8. "The potential of quantum computing to solve complex problems"
9. "The impact of automation on the job market"
10. "The rise of low-code development platforms"

These seem like exactly what I'd expect from HN.
It's the article's entire point that top IC's make better managers, no?
Before spending money on a lawyer, check what happens in your state in breach of contract suits for the amount of money you expect to get sued for (or have to sue for) should the relationship fall apart. In some states (maybe most) suits that would arise from a contractor agreement will go to mediation/arbitration automatically. When that happens the mediator will likely pay more attention to the original intent and who did what, or didn't do what, rather than specific details of the contract.

Many, often most, terms of the kinds of boilerplate contracts you get in consulting/freelancing are covered by law anyway. As long as you have spelled out the expectations you can assume the fine print is just repeating what the law says already. And contracts cannot void or override state or federal law.

You need to clearly describe:

- What you promise to deliver, the more detailed and specific the better.

- How much and how often the customer will pay you.

- Start/end dates for the contract.

- Who owns the finished work product (generally defaults to the customer but best to spell that out).

If at all possible contract, charge, and get paid for specific deliverables as opposed to a fixed fee for a vague statement of work, or hourly for whatever the customer asks/expects you to do. It's much easier to enforce a contract that says "Set up staging and production instances for web server in AWS or GCP, with specs X, Y, and Z, by DATE" than one that says "Set up hosting environment." As the project proceeds you should agree on the deliverables with the customer, and how much those are worth, not the time you think it will take. You should avoid putting yourself in a position where the customer can owe you a lot of money, or you could get sued for a lot of money. Fixed-fee projects for thousands or tens of thousands of dollars with vague specs and requirements just lead to trouble, because you and the customer probably have very different expectations and interpretations.

No one knows how to write complete and unambiguous specs that everyone interprets the same way. No one knows how to estimate software development or plan for the unknown unknowns that inevitably arise. We can call it engineering but really it's a lot of guesswork, and your customer will proceed from a different set of assumptions than you have.

If you do get sued, or you have to sue, you will almost certainly spend more money on lawyers and lose money on non-billable time than you can hope to recover. Don't count on a contract to give you a slam dunk. Even if you "win" in mediation or court you just get a judgment, not a bag of cash, and collecting on a judgment turns into another problem to waste your time. The legal process moves slowly, costs a lot of money, imposes stress, and reduces your billable time. Mediators will probably not understand anything technical and they want to get the case over with, so they tend to split the difference, pocketing a fee and ordering payments to attorneys.
This joke while funny, was old in 1999 and is certainly ridiculous now in 2022.

I honestly can't think of there be any reason why one wouldn't run Linux on the desktop , it's perfectly fine, I'd say excellent for 98% of the tasks I do.

Video editors, designers and photographers probably struggle a bit but I'd say nearly all of those people use a Mac anyway. I have both myself. Linux and an iPad Pro.
Yes it's awesome. If you just shut the lid for a short time it's instant on if you open it again and if you keep it shut for longer it goes to hibernate. I think that is the perfect compromise. And with new SSDs restore form disk doesn't really take long.
Look how fast it loads! I love how this was written in vanilla HTML, JS, and JQuery, without any use of modern frameworks.

Does it work offline?
There's plenty of controversy and discussion on HN without politics... it's far from stale, even with clickbait transphobic articles appearing recently.
With all the "I'm not giving you my email" sentiment, author could do a quick thing.

Red button: Give me $5

Blue button: Give me your email.

Everyone's happy! Sharing the results would be an icing on the cake.
> If Hemingway said something similar

Sorry, I shouldn't have written similar. It's literally word for word equivalent.

Have you ever considered rewriting the complete works of Ernest Hemingway, but for different reasons?
‘Shadow Libraries’ Are Moving Their Pirated Books to the Dark Web
The "If Books Could Kill"[1] podcast had a pretty decent summary of his work recently.

[1]: https://pod.link/1651876897
Gustafson’s Law reminds me of Jevon’s Paradox: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

…namely, that every time we get more efficient at using energy, we increase the amount we produce of it. Instead of doing the same things with less energy, instead we are now able to do new things that were cost prohibitive previously.
>Which becomes the same thing in airplanes. Pilots don't really know how to fly without instruments anymore.

Well that's just a blatantly wrong generalisation you made there, curious as to where you got that from. Consider looking up how pilot training is done before making such assumptions. Even though modern airplanes make heavy use of technology, there are emergency scenarios where lots of instruments may not work, and pilots receive more than enough training to fly an airplane in that scenario just to give one example among tons of others.

edit: grammar
I had a similar issue with my MacBook and the fix was even sillier. I plug my MacBook into a USB-C monitor, which also supplies power. Upgrading the monitor firmware fixed my MacBook sleep issues.
I felt it is a fundamentally snobbish concept, as if a mall is less real than a park.

All human spaces are artificial, we build them for a reason!

Pretending that malls, offices, restaurants, airports, libraries and any other curated spaces are not absolutely real is self delusion. They are the building blocks of our reality, today.
I'm an experimental scientist. My take would be that truth is reachable, but the Truth with a capital T is a potentially meaningless throwback to a past age of certainty.

What I mean is that some theories have been corroborated to the point that they can be regarded as "truth" for all intents and purposes, and despite known limitations in some cases. Examples might include electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, gravitation, and biological evolution.

Regarding those theories, we can still say that we accept them on a tentative basis, but it would not be irrational to assign a vanishingly low likelihood that any of them will be radically overturned.
Obviously I agree. I suppose I got here because this industry often seems laser-focused on CTOs, 10x engineers, and individuals with a generally accepted as outstanding level of knowledge in some niche field or specialization. This guy has none of that, hence “mediocre” but I agree he’s anything but.
My comment is directed at our confusing historical norms. Personally I would be happy if all this nonsense would go away. Not quite sure what can be done about it though.

Seems like it would be good to have more nonprofit news organizations with credible dedication to integrity.
Imagine applying it to the tech job search: unique resumes and cover letters tailor made for each job application.
Nope!

For random cheap stuff (cables, etc.) under $25 or so, I’ve never had an issue with either picking the WireCutter’s top pick or Amazon’s Choice. I can’t imagine spending more time thinking about inconsequential purchases like this.
> How do you define empirical evidence? I’m seeing it as “information acquired by observation or experimentation”.

Consider the story of Gideon. He has a spiritual experience, where he's told to go do something very dangerous. So he prays, "I'm going to put this wool out overnight; if that was really you talking to me, make the wool wet and the ground dry." Next morning, the wool is wet and the ground is dry. So he prays, "I'm going to put this wool out; if that was really you talking to me, make the ground wet and the wool dry." Next morning, the ground is wet and the wool is dry. So, he goes ahead and does the dangerous thing.

Assuming for the sake of argument that Gideon's experience was as described, does that count as empirical evidence (from Gideon's perspective anyway)?

I mean yeah, it's not something you can replicate 100 times, and then someone else can independently replicate, for the same reason "Will my brother pass me the salt when I ask him" isn't something you can replicate 100 times: people can choose to behave differently, and typically do when you start to treat them like a law of nature rather than a person. (Which, as you say, excludes this potential reality from that kind of empirical verification.)
Eh, we completely receive them and as technology improves our makers will have increased options on which ones we receive, especially if we're wealthy.
To be fair, https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/ looks really tempting.
the fact you separate thieves and police as separate entities is funny. I tend to put them under the same bracket. only that thieves have a full time to steal, whereas for police thieving is an auxiliary activity
Project Semicolon
You're 30 years late as far as I'm concerned, SLS on tape followed by Slackware followed by RedHat followed by Debian in an unbroken line. OK, I was editor for a unix-related publication which gave me an extra incentive but on the desktop (and laptop, an anaemic Toshiba with a black and white sluggish LCD, 4 MB of RAM but quite a good keyboard, no mouse because that wasn't a thing yet) it did run ever since then.
2h30 by train is not a whole lot. All this does is ban people from taking a 4h long total flight (taking into account going to and from the airport, waiting, etc.) that basically brings you next door. Nobody gets connecting flights to other cities in France. If you're coming from a long haul, you either land in Orly/Roissy, Nice or Toulouse. From these places, you're either still far enough from your destination to take another flight, or you never had a connection to begin with.

EDIT:

Thankfully, Paris isn't the only city in France. Yes, the city that concentrates every infrastructure has infrastructure to go everywhere from it, fast.

Try to go from Nice to Lyon, Toulouse to Bordeaux (which is juuuuust on that 2h30 limit), Nantes to Brest, etc. All of these cities that are still major, but just connected through a TER will keep having access to these flights.

Truly, it's just Paris.
If there's any doubt about the authenticity of Futurism, you can click through and read the MSN "articles" for yourself. It's definitely real!

I do think there's some confusion here over exactly what's happening. MSN's AI isn't generating entire articles like GPT-3; it's just using AI to curate articles for republication from across the web, but accidentally (or perhaps intentionally, in a sort of wink-wink situation for clickbait traffic) selecting ones that are clearly fake news (including literal stuff about mermaids and bigfoot.)
US merchants have widely accepted magnetic stripe card payments for many decades more than the rest of the world. It's a pretty typical example of a first-mover disadvantage: More legacy systems to deal with.

That said, the switch to chip and contactless is happening pretty rapidly, in my experience, with an also entirely expected long tail of merchants that will probably hold on to their legacy POSes as long as technically possible.
>Can you honestly and truly say that if a laptop was abandoned at a repair shop with similarly explosive revelations about Donald Trump jr that this story would have been censored to the same degree on Twitter using the same policy excuse? I can’t.

No, because Donald Trump and his family's dealings are already well documented, and because he was the one who created the atmosphere of misinformation which led to the censorship to begin with, in order to undermine and subvert the peaceful transfer of power.

But if we're going to ignore context entirely for the sake of hypotheticals, who knows? Donald Trump censored environmental data from government websites and banned government employees from discussing climate change on social media, he declared the press enemies of the state and had reporters he disagreed with barred from the White House, and allegedly assaulted and arrested, he wanted TikTok banned because someone was mean to him, he wanted to send the military in against political protestors. He, like Musk, seems like a charlatan and authoritarian who only cares about what serves his own interests. I can certainly imagine a scenario in which Trump would want to silence a story, but he's so corrupt, and no one cares when a Republican does it, so he wouldn't bother.

Also, what "explosive revelations?" Like Trump's hotel businesses being used to launder money for the Russian mob and Iranian military? Ivanka being involved in policymaking despite having no qualifications? Tax fraud disguising gifts as "consultant fees" to avoid estate taxes? Accepting gifts from foreign governments in violation of the Emoluments Clause? Numerous sexual assault lawsuits? Jared Kushner selling visas to Chinese investors? Something like that? Anything that even rises to the level of "Just another Tuesday at Mar-A-Lago?"

I mean, if nothing else, even conceding there is a story here, it isn't the story people want it to be, and the sheer mass of hypocrisy behind the outrage is threatening to collapse into a singularity.
On this topic: I'm using Obsidian and sync my notes on my Linux machine, Windows work computer, and Android phone using Syncshare.

Two questions for experienced Obsidian users:

- what's the best way to backup the md files with the option of undoing changes? Some kind of Git based approach with automatic comitting and pushing?

- wm is there some kind of online only version of Obsidian (of similar) for self hosting? Reason is that I want to edit my notes when I'm away from my personal devices and cannot install any Software but have access to the internet and a browser.
It'll lead to perverse outcomes like people in one city in France flying to Germany or Spain, and then back to their destination in France, instead of flying directly.
OpenAI states that ChatGPT may contain misinformation or bias. If you're trying to publish factual material, it may not be a great source.
> It’s not just me hallucinating patterns where there are none.

I'm unconvinced..
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OpenStreetMap has aerial images in 5cm accuracy in Zürich, Switzerland
The delta-v is not needed to get a big enough impact. The delta-v is needed to be able to maneuver into an intercept orbit. In case you don't know, for rockets the fundamental limit of their fuel is expressed in delta-v.

Your kill vehicle doesn't need much delta-V if you can launch it close enough to an intercept course. But if all warheads are launched in very different directions, and all your kill vehicles need to start from a central starship point, they can't all be launched 'close enough' to an intercept course.
I think this is also related more with the un precedented proliferation of technology in our lives. With land based telephone we used to be pretty comfortable with remembering atleast a few contacts we frequently talked with.. with cellphones I dont think anyone bothers with that any longer. Same with anniversaries and reminders etc.. put it in an app and forget about it. The app will remind you when its time. Proliferation of these devices has led to another proliferation — ad based content and competition for attention. We are consuming just soooo much of content nowadays, the rate of data input has gone through the roof. And most of it is pure junk.. all the news, the tweets, the netflix/prime/Disney content etc that we consume— its probably overwhelming our brains. We are offloading all the important stuff to devices in return for trash that our minds find no value in. I feel this is making our memories more ephemeral and we are slowly moving from ours minds being long term stores of value to short term stores of junk. Its a behavior modification at scale that probably no one realizes is happening
On a certain level what you are taking about matters. But lots of times it doesn’t. When I’m in a pub talking to someone about their weather, or what they’re drinking, or a sports game, I don’t really care about the content of the conversation.

A lot of the time conversations are just there to have some company and socializing is for the sake of socializing.
This might solve a few of the edge cases, but making the sizes of everything depend on your screen is a dumb idea. If I move my browser from my small laptop screen to my big external display, I expect to see more content, not larger fonts. My displays are set to scaling factors that are comfortable for me with most things I work with (HN’s tiny fonts being a notable exception). Just set a reasonable size for things (a base font size of 1rem should be fine) and let me use my displays to the fullest.
TIL, thank you. A bit more about Toyota and silicon shortage: https://www.autoblog.com/2021/03/09/toyota-how-it-avoided-se...
unknowns at play here

This sounds like a fun thought exercise. No idea who we are protecting against but some factors might be:

- Moisture. The containers need to be completely sealed from moisture and have resistance to acid from the soil.

- Metal detector. Perhaps this could be mitigated using a skid-steer with an auger drill attachment? Some of the larger skid-steers can use an 80 inch bit. Excavators can use even larger bits and drill at angles to get under solid objects. Rock auger bits can get through some rocks. Layers of gravel might obscure detection from ground penetrating radar.

- Location should be obfuscated by trees to avoid satellite and aircraft imaging from Keyhole/Google/Others.

- Accessibility. If there is a few feed of rocks above the container and a rope passes through the rocks, then retrieval is less likely to damage the container and one would not need dig as deep for extraction.

- Drill numerous holes and find some other use for them whilst singing One of these things is not like the other
I really wanted to get into Rust programming, but was turned off by the toxicity of the community. Their smug attitude of superiority really turns people away. I've been programming in C and C++ for decades, and I'm not sure I've ever once run into a problem with undefined behavior.
There really is a fringe of people, some of them recently accepted in polite society, who attempted to normalize the term "MAP" (none of them publicly condoned pedophilia; their ostensible aim was to destigmatize non-offending people with minor attractions, which was why the term was invented --- to distinguish people who happened to feel disordered urges from people who actually preyed on children). "Prostasia" was (is?) one of the big names here.

But a fringe is all it was. If you go looking for mainstream uses of the term "MAP", you're unlikely to find many. If you go looking for a movement to rename the practice of pedophilia, I'm even more confident you'll come up empty.
"50.5% percent of patients who have been treated with these hormones reported suicidal ideation in the last 12 months"

Have you considered whether that's prior to treatment, or early on, when the treatment had only just begun? It's relevant to know that trans people often have depression and suicidality-related comorbidities, commonly caused by their inability to transition, or access treatments that will help them do so.

The study you linked also said, "those who received treatment with pubertal suppression, when compared with those who wanted pubertal suppression but did not receive it, had lower odds of lifetime suicidal ideation"

I'd say being less suicidal is a definition of happy, never mind the evidence of pretty much any trans person saying how literally life-changing access to HRT and affirming medical care has been for them.
It's not zooming (ctrl +), it's when you literally set the font size in the browser. This is typically done for people with vision issues, or assistive technology
Indeed. Its a language model, not a knowledge model. But.. I would assume our brains too use language models to provide immediate, lazy responses - and resort to higher level models only when needed :-)
Maybe it's sampling bias, then.

Intelligent people are more likely to realize they're depressed, go online, talk about depression, and meet other intelligent people who are also depressed?