skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's kinda hard to tell exactly what the /s applies to, but...

The weird rural inferiority complex presented as the pretense that outsiders are looking down the country folks seems a lot more common than any actual down-looking. It's almost tempting to think that the source is actually a hierarchical worldview more commonly embedded in the minds of rural-dwellers.

Personally I'd guess that lifespan and/or various quality of life measures don't correlate neatly along any urban-rural divide, so if I wanted to disabuse someone of the notion that they did, I'd go looking for statistics to that effect. If they show life expectancy for rural communities is the same or higher, then the question is answered. If they show life expectancy is lower, surely solving that problem would be more important than rural pride... unless of course that hierarchical worldview speculation is correct.
It would take an update for openai to enable that feature in a few months.
That's interesting. Prior to July I did get replies, but they never fixed anything. "Thanks we'll pass this on to the dev team" but then nothing. I think that's normal but not great.

Since July I've sent emails about 3 issues and the only response I got was the one I mentioned above.

I'm a writer with a few paid subscribers.
This is the correct first step.
Well, it's only in the context of the radical casualization of menswear since the mid-60s that jeans and a t-shirt can be seen as stylish. When men first started wearing this outfit, it was considered rebellious in part because it was so obviously inappropriate to wear in public. The t-shirt originated as a military undergarment and jeans as mining equipment.
But no one questions why we are working with decades long development timelines. Even Apollo was conceived in 1960 and landed in 1969, under one decade let alone multiple decades. SpaceX went from 0 launches to orbit in a decade, then from 0 reusable to world first in a decade and now looks like they are gunning for Mars within a decade.

I agree with the other poster that the only thing that will light a fire under the US' butt is having a peer country clown them in a space milestone. I don't like the CCP and I abhor their practices but I do root for their space program since seeing that bright red commie flag on the moon is the only egg big enough to cover all the faces necessary in the usgov in order to actually get something done.

I also really hope that India gets in the game in a serious way so we can have even more competition, an India-China space race would be fun to watch and would have the US scrambling to catch up.
> Whether in Freudian or Jungian perspective, Seligman saw that the colonial subjects’ dreams pointed in the direction of one unexpected conclusion. As he put it in 1932 : ‘The savage mind and the mind of Western civilised man are essentially alike.’

That this was a novel conclusion shocks me, less than a century later!

Linebarger makes similar points to what the British discovered here in his Psychological Warfare book I've cited in another thread; reading between the lines he makes a strong, if implicit case, for desegregating the US Army in the 1940s edition (something they would eventually do ~Korea — but still in advance of much of civilian society) and for taking decolonisation seriously in a later, domino-theory-era, edition.
All Software Is Shit
i've updated, very clear, all data is yours and we don't share it.
just didnt update the template, thanks for the feedback.
Why is the pdf hosted in Dropbox instead of your own server?
On the surface that’s a better deal than many publishing houses give actual book authors - some major percentage of books never “pay back” the advance and it rarely gets to be heavily author-favoring.
From pure weather point of view I would assume Australia would be better off.

But population density in Sweden is 24p/km^2 while Australia has 3.3people/km^2.

Scandinavian countries are at least known to follow rules quite well as the trust for the gov is high.

They do had social distancing rules for example. Closed some school levels and forbid mass events.

Sweden also had one of the highest death rates at the beginning of COVID.

I haven't followed Australia to more detail though.

Edit: Scandinavian countries are also known for their really good internet (remote work)
Which lets you write gems like:

if otherwise then not
In Larry's Kingdom, Part II
> not everything is a public-facing website

exactly. single-node availability is often "good enough." when using sqlite for a simple service, I've cranked things out from first-line-of-code to production in 30 minutes. When the app only gets a hit every minute or so and only from internal traffic, no need for the overhead of a highly available service.
That example is not how C++ is used. It would not pass code review.
Based on my experience working for many startups, I would say talent is not plateauing, but the capital is being managed and deployed by shockingly incompetent people. Far less competent than the people who end up working for them.
For a while, the Library of Congress was archiving all of Twitter. They stopped a while back because the volume was so high and the value was so low.
I have one on my keychain I can use in a pinch to move files somewhere. It's come in handy a few times, but generally I prefer sending a link or such.

But elsewhere in the world thumb drives are a very big deal. Like down in Mexico most car stereos will play MP3s directly off a thumb drive. So I learned you give the guy that runs the local internet cafe a few bucks, tell them what kind of music you like, and they fill it up with whatever. Likewise you can get loaded up with tv shows, movies, etc. This is a big deal for people in the very poor countryside.

That was just my experience in Mexico a decade ago, I imagine it's similar a lot of other places in the world.
Besides CTRL+SHIFT+C/CTRL+SHIFT+V to copy/paste in terminals, there are some other alternative mappings for common functions that I like to use sometimes and which work pretty widely:

- copy: Ctrl+Insert
- paste: Shift+Insert
- next tab: Ctrl+PgDn
- previous tab: Ctrl+PgUp
That and per HN guidelines I don’t think you will get a reasonable response/discussion on any other medium which, imho, makes it a valuable discussion here.
This is my journey on how I could reduce the amount of invocations just by changing the way I think about the problem, I hope you like it and like it.
Vue.js is just not as good as React
Comparing Vue to React, the # of downloads React has is almost off the charts. Hard to justify using Vue in 2022, almost 2023. Very few use cases Vue is better at than React.
I was surprised the diagrammed sentence had a three-way split at the top, instead of noun phrase and predicate phrase (which would have been subdivided into the verb and the preposition phrase). We never diagrammed sentences when I grew up — I only ever did it in linguistics classes in college. Is it normal to have three-way splits in sentence diagramming?
Yeah, except this was published in December 2021. A NIH study from October 2022 with actual control and experimental groups shows no reduced risk of Alzheimer's among sildenafil takers: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-dream-stud...
pg posted this article to twitter and it gets no engagement here...
Yeah. I'm not a particularly heavy user of paper but I sometimes print something out to refer to it on a call, print out a recipe, print out a map, etc. Paper is just easier sometimes and I couldn't imagine taking the 30 minutes it would take me to go to the nearest Staples to get something printed out. And laser printers don't dry out like inkjets.
> this is vastly superior, for my rural community

For 4WD vehicle owners in your rural community who don't need an ambulance, I guess?

I mean, it's sorta reasonable to argue that this is OK for you personally (until your next hip fracture or stroke, anyway), but... you can't run a "community" well this way. What happens to elderly residents? I'm guessing they live in the wilds until they're too old and then move to a facility in the exurbs? Likewise anyone who needs regular health care access for chronic conditions isn't a fit.

Bluntly: you're still being subsidized. Even if you don't take cash from the government for your infrastructure[1], you're still riding on the ability of the rest of society to take on the people who you can't support.

[1] And I don't buy for a moment that you don't get any infrastructure funding. Your power lines and phones are regulated and required to be provisioned at a loss, if nothing else. Mobile and internet access is subject to similar laws in many states.
Revealing invisible motion in industrial videos
Another post about this was flagged. But it's serious: when leaders in tech act like assholes, and the public turns on them it's bad for business.
There's globalization-the-way-things-are-made-now, and there's globalization-the-neoliberal-trade-policy-that's-dominated-US-politics-since-the-80s.

The former's a fact, the latter's... less so, and has been pretty unpopular among voters on both "sides of the aisle" more often than not for the entire time it's been the driving force behind US trade policy (the donor and think-tank sets love it, though, is why it's persisted regardless).

Trump's the only big-two-party Presidential candidate I can recall in that whole time span who ran on strongly anti-neoliberalism (so, anti-globalization, in the pop-culture, colloquial sense of globalization) messaging, which worked pretty well for him since most R voters (and a good chunk of true-swing, and actually a lot on the left though they mostly wouldn't have voted for him for other reasons) more-or-less hate neoliberalism—regardless of the movement's merits, it's unpopular.
This assumes an informed electorate that has real choices. It is most certainly not, with corruption and a totally dysfunctional profit-driven media ecosystem virtually guaranteeing it remains that way.
This is 100% true. If my guts are feeling weird and preventing me from sleeping / focusing, THC is an almost instant cure.
Possibly medieval. It might be from 1850.
> If everything in your life costs 50% more, then your effective income has fallen by a third. Are people actually going to be ok with that? We'll see.

This already happens with the non-outsourceable stuff that's more expensive (housing, medical, education, etc). So who TF cares if flat panel TVs or Phones cost more? Not me TBH.
Not sure if it's related or just Apple's data-greed and malice, but on a previous iPhone, iMessage and FaceTime would turn on by itself every time the phone was restarted, again 24 hrs later, and one final time 48 hrs after that.
I don't, and that's not what I said. My point was that Apple doesn't have to think about testing vendor-specific bloatware every release across a wide range of very different devices.
There’s also people in the right who say good. These people seem to be focused on geopolitical stability ie defense.
I think one of the points that Substack reverse engineered how search works. They use this package https://github.com/TryGhost/sodo-search which does not have any docs.
What do you think of this idea? - As mentioned in the post, if I give them equity but have a one year cliff and if they don't bring any clients then fire them before one year?
Almost certainly yes.

Consider pumped thermal energy storage. Use a thermal cycle to generate hot and cold (say, by compressing a gas, probably argon, extracting the heat, then reexpanding, and then storing the resulting "cold"), then reversing that cycle to generate power.

This scales embarrassingly well. It can be made entirely from cheap materials available in essentially infinite supply. No component operates at a temperature above the creep limit of ordinary steel. Round trip efficiency could reasonably be 75%. This requires no technological breakthroughs -- it's 19th century technology.
Possibly medieval. As the first sentence says, it might be from 1850.
The post I was replying to was saying "Keeping your funds on an exchange (or in a bank) means they are, quite literally, not your funds.". I was pointing out that it's absurd to compare unregulated crypto exchanges to proper banks (in a working state - I am sure banks in failed states can well be just as bad).
Any chance you can switch the hash table to use probing rather than chaining? Probing is way better for locality because on collisions you will just look at the next element in ram.
Or to the reduced incentives available to most of the population. The very rich are accumulating more and even the upper middle class are struggling, and it might take decades of work to build up enough capital to start a small business, while someone with the right connections and half the talent is handed money for little effort.
“The concept of telecommuting was proposed in the early 1970s by Jack Nilles, a former NASA engineer. He offered it as an alternative to resource-draining transportation amid the oil crisis of that era.”

And then we went back to draining resources just so we can provide emotional support for those without a personal life or to cover gaps in other’s communication skills.
Fair enough be can focus attention. Cant fix that edit unfortunately.
> The 14nm technology is at least three generations behind the latest advances available on the market but it is already the second-best technology that China’s chipmaking champion Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. owns.

Out of curiosity, what is the west gaining by restricting more advanced chips? China can build computers, smartphones, and weapons with the older generation of chips.

Is it to make their chip industry uncompetitive so we don’t become dependent on them?
IME that's only true if your services don't handle state, or if you have a very advanced system for rollbacks.
Are you sure? Farmers have started to figure out things they can do about chicken/pig smell. Most just live with it, but when forced it turns out there is a lot you can do.
In case anyone else is having trouble keeping up, this is referencing the Mudge report.
Thanks for the heads up. From the outside looking in, my perception of the difficulty of learning C++ is knowing what is idiomatic or not, with the understanding that that differs depending on who you work for and with.
New AWS services from re:Invent in ~30-word synopses
If you are like me and had never heard of Ghost before today, here's a link to their Github repo:

https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost
Sometimes. I recall early thumb drives didn't come in the small blister packs you see by cash registers today. If they didn't come with a CD (or miniCD) you had to go the the manufacturer's site and download the drivers.
I wanted to like Vue because it has abstractions for many situations that turn up in web apps but I like the rendering model of React better because I can get it to draw anything, (e.g. 3js)
When Japanese enthusiasts scoured American thrift stores for the last remaining stock of vintage American denim, it supposedly constituted the largest ever transfer of clothing from the USA to Japan, exceeding even the postwar used clothing charity drives.
Your replies are increasingly baffling to me.

I don't think you understand what I am saying at all, nor do you seem to understand the meanings of the phrases you are throwing about.

> Making a transparent distributed OS [...] was total over-engineering

That is not what "over-engineering" means.

> over-complexity

It is LESS COMPLEX. This is not a tricky or difficult concept.

> Therefore it is a great example, you just refuse to acknowledge that.

It's not a good example because you don't understand the term you are trying to use.

> First you try to justify the distributed capabilities of Plan 9 by saying it's now used in kubernetes 30 years on,

No, I did not say that, or mean that, or imply that.

You seem to be having real problems with comprehension here.

> when I point out that's not transparent at the OS layer

You did nt point that out or even attempt to, but you did not understand what I wrote, so :shrug:.

> Plan 9 was a commercial failure

Agreed.

> and brought little new to systems design.

Totally disagree.

> It was a warmed over Unix with over-engineered distributed systems concepts that had been built up since the 50s and 60s and weren't new.

Now I think you don't understand Plan 9 either.

I would love to see some citations of the "existing distributed systems concepts" you claim.

Agreed re OS/400, though.
Happy to answer questions you might have for a hardcore stoner.

No, hardcore stoners don’t smoke the equivalent of 40-60 one gram joints by themselves in a day. A súper “hardcore” stoner ala Snoop or Willy might combust up to half that amount in a day personally.

Most “hardcore stoners” - read: medicinal users - that need that level of phytocannabinoid input move onto dabbing or tinctures.
We just need to create a cheetah racing league. Problem solved.
The problem with SQL is that this behaviour is inconsistent when it comes to NULL values.

Consider a column with values (10, 20, NULL, 30).

In SQL the AVG() function would return 20, i.e. ignoring the NULL value entirely. COUNT(*) on a table, however, would happily include NULL values, whereas COUNT(col_name) wouldn't. The behaviour is all over the place, especially when different dialects and settings are considered.
So, they created what they think is a better lie detector. Even if they claim otherwise, it will get used for this purpose. And it will get used against people as much as possible.

The temptation is just too high. We're see this happen with polygraph tests. To the point where it was being used in job interviews.

The only hope I see here is US courts treating it as a polygraph device and effectively banning it from common use.
Yeah I don't think there's anything wrong with this kind of arrangement, writers getting paid is good. I do think it's possible that Substack is spending more than a sustainable amount on acquiring big name writers because they want to show results and growth to their investors.
Maybe an html <meta> redirect tag that bounces through a tertiary domain before redirecting to your real one? If they noticed you were doing it they could mitigate it, but they might deem it too much effort and just go away.

You might also start with the hypothesis that they're using regex for JS removal and try various script injection tricks...
Neil Young took all his music off Spotify because he was mad about Joe Rogan. I wouldn't be surprised if services started pulling Kanye's stuff in light of his new bit.

I just don't want my music library to be beholden to musicians or labels or tech companies trying to disassociate with the bad guy of the month. Obviously it's not a perfectly independent solution to upload to Apple's servers, but the system is working as it is.
Each phone takes time to be detected, identified, and tampered with. So it may make sense to activate a new burner phone, talk about something sensitive, and destroy it right afterwards, before the law enforcement understands what phone was that.
Author is pissed he can't turn off Podcast recommendations.

I'm the same. I came for music, and I'm sick of Spotify trying to shove their stupid content in my face.

I find Spotify's recommendations pretty poor. Maybe it doesn't work for my taste.

Anyway, I still have Spotify because my kids like it. If it was just for me, I would have ditched it long ago.
The New Chatbots Could Change the World. Can You Trust Them?
What specific statements were incorrect in the Evergrande prospectus?
they may be grumpy, but, in fairness, they have a point

maybe that's why they are grumpy
The local (EU) law about emergency broadcast is clear in that it applies to both residents and visitors, and alerts are to be delivered without the need for “opt-in”. In other words, if you’re in range of local services, you must receive the alerts (which, you know, is handy in case of an actual emergency).
Brother probably has a similarly priced option with similar reliability (I've got an HL-2270dw that was apparently released in 2012). I likely had the same Samsung you're referring to for years and years... ultimately the rollers wore out and, well, trying to replace the rollers on a $100 printer seemed like a wasted effort.
Where? Quite a few towns and smaller cities don't have any LGBTQ+ friendly places to meet, some are even actively hostile.
> On a per-deal basis, we could never really do better than break-even. A Substack advance was effectively an interest-free loan that would never be paid back if a publication failed.

They made a ton of money on Matt Yglesias's advance. His advance was ~$250k, and he brought in two or three times that in revenue (the terms of his deal were: he gets 250k upfront, they get his first year's revenue). I'm not aware of any other writers who've published their numbers, but Greenwald, Sullivan and Taibbi all have a TON of subscribers.
Spotify allows you to block artists very easily.

https://imgur.com/wSOD8m4
The combination of Nginx and Gunicorn provides several benefits for sysadmins running Python web apps. Nginx acts as a protective barrier and can enable SSL/TLS encryption, while Gunicorn allows for the separation of the web app and web server processes. This combination can improve the security and reliability of the web application.
Not just the non-native speakers, but also multiple strands of native speakers (and big regional differences even within native-speaking country, and significant grammar and word choice variation as well as pronunciation differences), no official "correct" version and a certain amount of cultural resentment even within Britain to RP which was intended to be an official version.

And of course English is a very irregular language, with stuff like articles being irrelevant to the vast majority of sentences, and some of the complexities like conjugations conveying very little meaning (as you say, verbs often don't change during tenses; think there are more irregularities with common words than actual shades of meaning conveyed by conjugating them), and many of the common "corrections" like objections to split infinitives actually being based on misconceptions

Actually, I think the prevalence of ESL speakers will eventually result in "standard" English variants on native-speaking TV losing quirks like nonstandard pluralisation and even articles, and it'll be much the better for it.
ADL contradicts years of own reporting, defends neo-Nazi Azov Battalion
>Try using something that benign to clean something where you smoked tobacco in. It isn't going to work.

Terrible reasoning. You can not judge the health effects of a substance by how easy their residue is to clean up, that is just stupid.

You actually have to look at real health outcomes and compare those.

Typical stoner logic :^)
That’s not obviously clear - after all MIT software can be used to produce output that doesn’t need to include a “made by X” - and arguably that’s what ghost provides.

And they didn’t even copy the JavaScript to their own CDN …
New Cohere Multilingual Embedding Model
This is reddit's version of what is happening. And certainly would be pretty insane if true. But I will withhold judgement till the evidence is in.

The only thing I saw was a reddit thread linking to a no longer existing account.
Less is interactive, and does no such thing.

I mean, I get it. This will be nigh impossible to codify, such that there will be reasons things can and cannot work in certain situations. This line of attack here, though, is feeling overly forced and would actually sway me to never use such licensed stuff. And I'm pretty heavy on the open source support.