skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People might scoff at the petty vandalism, but how many of you over the age of 35 had a scrupulously clean adolescence?

For the under-30 crowd, everything in their post-puberty lives has been carefully recorded in a semi-public ledger, and they know it.

We should expect people to declare their independence as they enter young adulthood, and it's hard to do that without any space to safely screw up. The Facebook generation was aggressively conditioned to conform with their peers through an industrialized record-share-shame pipeline, so it's good to see gen Z pushing in the opposite direction.
As someone who is neither a fan or hater, this was almost incomprehensible.

So you think someone's politics are boring? Why? Nothing I read told me. Is there a problem with someone else's politics being boring to you? Why would anyone be interested? This apparently wasn't written with persuasion as a goal. So then, why is it?

One thing that stood out was a long, novel definition of conservatism described as succinct, which I'd disagree with. There are more succinct definitions available in any dictionary and they all mean generally the same thing.
I was being playful, calm yourself.
I've tried some other brands of boots, the quality is hit or miss but I've yet to find a brand that had a durability:price ratio better than Doc Martens. I'm sure such a brand exists, but I'd hate to find out how many pairs of boots I go through until I find that brand by trial and error.

I've sworn off sneakers entirely though. Unless you're buying sneakers for a specific athletic purpose, I think sneakers as a default footware is something of a scam. They're all built to fall apart after months, maybe a year or two max. They're usually made with fabric instead of leather, with thin and soft rubber soles. Even the ones made with leather still have thin soles that wear out fast. I've never had nor heard of a pair of sneakers that didn't disintegrate before two years of daily use.

As for the broke, drunk and drugs lifestyle, I think dependable boots are a great choice. Even if nothing else in your life is stable, at least you can rely on your boots.
Yep, my 10-year old uses a 17-year old nano for music. I've stockpiled a few 30-pin cables. With a USB A-toC adaptor it works fine on M1 MBP and is fully supported! It blew my mind that just a year or two ago I plugged it in and it got a firmware update.

The only worry I have is whether I'll be able to replace the battery when it finally needs it.
> profits generated from a countries citizens are taxed by that country

What about people who migrate somewhere else? What about dual+ citizenships? It makes little sense for me to pay taxes in a country I haven't lived in for 20 years.
The new Dune is better, but it still fails to capture all the intrigue, conspiracy, and politics that would be better captured by a TV series.
An Uncontroversial Guide to Being Controversial
Pretty much all of Dickens and Zola.
There's a bunch on Netflix right now that I haven't mustered up the interest to watch. "Love, Death & Robots" got a second season, and they also host two different sci-fi horror anthologies for short films from Neill Blomkamp and Guillermo del Toro!
Anyone out there that speaks Arabic, can you let us know if the Arabic Gospel clip contains words? To a speaker do the sounds even sound Arabic?
I thought C11 had threads and atomic and concurrency primitives?
Yes, I started in OCaml but switched to F# for the last 3 years and will likely move back to OCaml when effects are mature (when lwt and async are snuffed out).

Being able to use C# libs is very nice but also it sucks that I don't have true null safety.

Who knows, maybe F# is always more performant than OCaml and it doesn't make sense to switch back.
> a lot of people don't really know what being pretentious or a hipster actually means

https://catandgirl.com/riddle-me-this/
I agree.

It surely is not the books and one character is just annoying but the books are not good TV show material and they did a truly wonderful thing with it. I actually enjoyed what they did with the world. The show is full of stunning moments and there are fantastic characters in it.

I was more happy with what they did to it than what Villeneuve did with Dune and their characters for example.

The Lost argument though...
What is the most fun and best source to learn OCaml for a programmer?

I know this one [0] so far. Also the famous Coursera PL course covers ML.

[0]: https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html
Waste is stored on site until it’s quite a bit less radioactive, this can and has been done for decades. The fear of shipping this cooled down waste and burying it in a mountain is entirely unfounded and the only reason it hasn’t happened is people spreading unnecessary fear.
It is being discussed because a billionaire using their wealth to buy up a medium and then stomping all over it while trying to present themselves as a hero is something that bothers a lot of people, especially if those people spent a decade+ curating and posting on said platform. If it does not bother you then simply ignore the links and don't add to them.

This whole saga lays bare one of the big issues with big centralized tech that probably very few people saw coming prior to this acquisition, it is the largest such disaster since the collapse of Digg and MySpace, it is happening at breakneck speed and has the potential to do serious real world harm.

For a tech story on HN it is as relevant as can be.
People should wear a mask if they’d like, yes. But ultimately social distancing and getting vaccinated is the best strategy.
The M1 lacks the T-series coprocessor altogether and all its functions are inside the main SoC. Whether that means that bridgeOS still runs on non-architectural cores inside the SoC, or its responsibilities have been rolled into macOS, I have no idea. I do know that only my T2-having MacBook suffers from these panics.
Renewable energies are much more diverse than just solar and wind. There is also waterpower and biomass which makes a considerable part of renewable energy in many countries.[1] Niche sources like geothermal and tidal power might become more important in the future. There are other types of energy storage available and in research than batteries.

Then there is the path to improve energy efficience in industry and private consumption, which both have a lot of potential, and to replace fossil energy sources outside of electricity production with renewables, such as heat-pumps for buildings.

[1] E.g. for Germany, biomass is almost as important as solar for electrical energy. Source: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Branchen-Unternehmen/Energ...
Dune was enjoyable and all but HE SKIPPED THE DINNER SCENE arguably one of the most important bits!
To clarify: so much of the show's runtime feels like filler. Every episode has 1-2 scenes of characters arguing which are completely inconsequential to the plot. Every once in a while a character will suggest an interesting idea for how the time travel technology could be used in a novel way. But every time characters have a conversation with any depth, the show runners feel the need to cut away to an inconsequential fight scene so a hypothetical viewer won't be bored.
Rejection of the mainstream / establishment properties is the pretense.

It isn't that you like something, it's that you don't want to be associated to some other things. And you don't want to be associated to those other things because of some pretense about what associating to those things means.
And since the obvious consequence of posting a site's stylesheet is to tweak further, I present Dred's HN CSS Mods:

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I think everyone's just getting sick of rich kids
There's plenty of wind across the world in winter.
I totally agree, and hopefully it'll inspire the creation of Dune miniseries and shows, since there's ample precedence there.
Reading his book, based on the blog I guess, it shares the same name, I learned how serious Microsoft are about backwards compatibility -- or at least was.

A program not following the rules, but somehow worked in Windows 3.x but not in Windows 95? Make Windows 95 identify it and recreate the bug that made it work in the first place.
The book goes on and on about all these kinds of hacks and tricks to make various program and drivers work, despite said program/driver was crap to begin with.
> And I don't know about you, but I'm immensely enjoying WeWork's fall. It never made any sense, and since the wheels came off before the IPO, it's not retail investors who are taking the loss here.

I agree with everything else, but I'm not a fan of this modern era of schadenfreude that seems to be ever present on tech sites. Theranos and WeWork were certainly fraudulent enough to laugh at, but it's created this effect of fraud-voyeurism that feels more tabloid than news; more celebrity gossip than business news. It also encourages shallow misunderstandings. Real estate can be a profitable business, and certainly many developers turn a profit by reasonably financing and pricing their offerings. But a lot of people are opining about WeWork being unprofitable. Unprofitability is not the same as an exaggerated market cap.

Still, I hope Theranos and WeWork are good, cautionary tales of the downsides of easy money.
"Snow Crash" first, please.
I think it's male name -> female name -> flower named after that -> song named after that. I honestly doubt that that's the first thing that comes to mind and thus would besmirch the good name of, erm, git. ;)

(Not that I'm suggesting actually naming something after a boomer-level German in-joke in the first place.)
I'm not a troll. And I don't think most people, including the majority of strident believers in social justice, would consider the 20th century Soviet Bloc to be a paradise.
I thought Star Wars took many elements from Foundation
If you're a Google employee, there's a few different paths to 'legally' open sourcing stuff without violating your employment contract. The simplest and fastest one is just to assign copyright to Google, use an approved license (basically anything non-copyleft) and stick it under the google/ github org. It being there doesn't mean Google sponsored or authored it, just that a Googler worked/works on it. And the "not official Google product" text is mandatory in the README.

There are other processes that allow you to retain copyright for yourself, but they require approval process.

(I used to work at Google, and have followed this process before.)
This level of optimization away from other humans in my experience tends to come from specific forms of introverted high intelligence (interaction with others is a net loss) but also specialization functionally/professionally away from interaction with humans (typically toward machines, or at least into more constrained work environments).
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I once read something and I don't remember if it was from a good source. It said that one of the ways they can identify bones from the last 100 year is that older bones have something like 400x less lead traces in them. Basically everyone alive has a degree of lead poisoning thanks to leaded gasoline.
What is the most fun and best source to learn OCaml for a programmer?

I know this one [0] so far. Also the famous Coursera PL course [1] covers ML.

[0]: https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html

[1]: https://coursera.org/learn/programming-languages
Shame to see it happen, but an understandable decision - it's been a few years since I was writing native iOS code and AppCode really felt like a power-user tool in ways that Xcode couldn't.

AppCode team, you did such a great job IMO
Is there a super-basic starter kit for a CRUD app with user logins to deploy on supabase?
And you think the safety record of those ships was the same as today?
Invasion,
Amazing Stories
> Dune was said to be unfilmable for years until Villeneuve went and did

I always assumed this argument goes for the whole of the original Dune universe.

The first book is pretty straight forward and easy to understand. The further on you go with them, the more problematic it becomes as it is mainly dialogue and not much is really happening.

Neuromancer is far more challenging than the first books of Dune and I doubt from what Villeneuve did to the first book that he'd be capable of going even half way without gutting it of all the really interesting parts. This one felt pretty shallow already.

The effects were fine though.
I don't disagree. As I mention in my earlier comment, the point is that what was once considered unfilmable has now actually gotten adaptations, even if the adaptations might not be good.

And what might be attempted once might receive adaptations again, until someone gets it right.
I wonder if the street will find a use for that.
I was enjoying the show a lot, and liked to watch it all the way to the end, but for the second half I felt like I was just watching a series of scenes that I liked, not a coherent story. I couldn't make heads or tails of why what was happening, was indeed happening. I chalked it up to being tired at night, and made a note to rewatch sometime soon, but now I have doubts...
Fairly generic fluff piece, but it’s fairly disingenuous to claim that armv1-v7 vs armv8 represents ISA fragmentation. More legitimate (and fairly self inflicted) is the intel and the semi-random deployment of avx, etc.
"no one"

https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1603557011114889216
If you haven't yet, check out Severance. Really incredible I suppose near-future sci fi? Started a bit slow for me but eventually became one of the best shows I've seen in years.
Yeah the concept and most of the visuals were great. The writing, acting, and storytelling in most areas was really poor. The genetic dynasty storyline was the most interesting part (and apparently not from the book at all).
My dirty little secret: with the exception of the Three Body Problem I have a terrible habit of waiting for the threat of Hollywood adaptations before picking up modern SF classics. Neuromancer is unfortunately in that category.
Oooh boy, big boots to fill. Related/aside: I've had this silly whimsical idea for a couple years of a Broadway adaptation of Neuromancer starring (and with music written by) Logic.
There's a sad irony to the world's largest company producing a sci-fi dystopian drama. It's the same feeling I get watching Rings of Power, where the CGI is nice and some of the costumes are cool, but the sterile writing and direction completely undermines it. Money can buy you a lot of nice things, but good television needs to be inspired. Apple has the largest savior complex out of everyone in FAANG, and I'm not sure if that's the healthiest way to approach this book. Maybe it'll turn out great though, which might even be more ironic.
Despite the idiotic downvotes you are absolutely right.
Is 1000 people expelling one breath, the same as one person expelling 1000 breaths?

It has to do with ventilation too. Taller ceilings probably help. Lower humidity.

Choir is probably a great example of something where closeness isnt the only factor.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...
> People choosing the local schools, for example, should have streets on which they can can feel confident walking or cycling, and not need their own vehicles just because you're using one.

I entirely agree, but we all have to live with the world that we're currently in. It can take years or decades to re-envision a car-dependent area into something more car independent. For example, painting a white line over a highway's current gutter is not pedestrian/bike/transit infrastructure. It's dangerous for everyone. Yet, that's the type of "bike-friendly infrastructure" we get, and when drivers complain, it's viewed as drivers being anti-transit or anti-bicycle. No, it's just dangerous. The bike route shouldn't be inches from a high speed motorway.

> I would ask you to, in your words, "suck it up" with respect to some inconvenience in your car trip for that goal...adding a bike lane might remove some car throughput, but would also remove some cars.

No, it does not. Maybe in your area, it would, but here, it does not, because it's simply too far and unsafe to bicycle on the highway. It's dangerous and bad engineering. It's 5 miles (or 27 minutes according to Google) on major highways to the local elementary school. No one should ever be on a bicycle on these highways, regardless the fact that a small part of that distance might have a painted white lane denoting a bike lane full of road debris.

Instead, there should be a bicycle/pedestrian path that goes a more direct route - the distance is only 2 miles straight (or ~10 minutes), without crossing any major highways or difficult terrain. The school is also only 1.5 miles from a very nice park, but the highway would cross the path, so that conflict would need to be figured out.

Sorry if this comes of as combative, but what I'm pointing out that "painting a lane" simply does not work in the US, but that's all that is suggested and done. Streets and Roads need to be separate, and bikes should remain on streets or non-Road routes, and high speed vehicle travel should remain on roads. Not Just Bikes says this in his channel "Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous", but does so more to clarify/elevate the "Street". However, the discussion tends to miss that the "Road" is still important and needs to be respected. Putting a bike lane on a "Road" is another form of creating a "stroad".
It was ok in the first half, but as the season wore on they started to rely on the magic chosen one troupe instead of something closer to hard science like the Expanse. This is yet another show where the plot suffers from the metaphor and symbolism being inserted
The biggest obstacle stopping Neuromancer from being a viable TV show, IMO, is the lack of cohesion between chapters - readers are frequently dumped into the middle of entirely different circumstances than the previous chapter, just as they were maybe getting a grip on what was going on. And honestly, it kind of works! The pacing would be far too slow if characters stopped every five minutes to explain what was going on for the audience's sake. Hypothetically this could work in an episodic format, but will it be signed off on by conservative showrunners/execs? I'd guess no, but will remain cautiously optimistic.
It's kind on interesting that the word "reactionary" is also really disliked in Poland too (alongside with the likes of "comrade"). Both of those (plus "social justice") have been used to silence and oppress there. It's really disheartening to see that kind of vocabulary coming back to fashion in English.
The closest thing I know to an actual source for this is the StackOverflow developer survey.

2022 edition says 74% of respondents use VSCode regularly, 23% use Vim regularly, and 4% use Emacs regularly.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-popular-t...
Waste isn't a problem, or at least not a problem that can't be solved with a bit of effort. Let's stop repeating the scary propaganda line that there's mountains of highly radioactive waste pouring out of nuclear power plants that is just waiting to irradiate our neighborhoods because we don't have anywhere to put it.

> If all the electricity use of the USA was distributed evenly among its population, and all of it came from nuclear power, then the amount of nuclear waste each person would generate per year would be 39.5 grams. That’s the weight of seven U. S. quarters of waste, per year!

And that's not even assuming that the "waste" was recycled into usable fuel again creating a mostly closed loop fuel cycle:

> Nuclear waste generally is over 90% uranium. Thus, the spent fuel (waste) still contains 90% usable fuel! It can be chemically processed and placed in other reactors to close the fuel cycle. A closed fuel cycle means much less nuclear waste and much more energy extracted from the raw ore. Additionally, this process allows you to convert your waste into chemical forms that are totally immobilized.

Source: https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html
> a rise in a managerial caste

That's the problem right there.

Pro-nuclear people like to scream about the hippies putting up too many barriers to nuclear plants.

Really it is just all the same middle-managers and dynamics at the jobs that they work at everyday.

Everyone is willing to spend another few million dollars and a few weeks of delay, which only increases the fiefdom they control, to mitigate some risk and diffuse any possible blame to the rest of the committee.

But that also means that we're not going to ever build like China unless our management culture fundamentally changes.
The Empire plotline is magnificent. The traditional Foundation plotline (which was severely changed, for the worse imo) is a huge weak link.

I re-read the books before the release and was severely underwhelmed.
All I do is put the phone on vibrate and put it in my pocket. Other than taking out the phone to capture a photo, I never really feel the urge to pull it out and waste time on it unless I am actively waiting and there is nothing else to do. I like to be 100% engaged in what I am doing whether that's socializing with friends, enjoying a hobby or walking somewhere. Maybe that's my secret? The desire to feel fully engaged and present?

All that being said, I work on a computer all day long. I am in front of the computer all day and do a fair bit of "time wasting" there.
I mean, sure? I'll take your word for it, I'm not in the United States so this is of no relevance to me.
First of all, during the Franco government the internet was an academic curiosity and nobody carried smartphones. That has all changed, and the tools the government has to monitor people are way beefier than they were back then. Facial recognition cameras, for example.

What prevents a dictator from issuing mandatory IDs? The resistance of the people. Yes, the government has police, and an army, and fighter jets, etc. But in the past few decades we have seen that insurgencies and popular resistance can succeed anyway -- the US got kicked out of Afghanistan and had a lot of trouble in Iraq, Ukraine is outfighting Russia despite massive disadvantages numerically and technologically, and even in China the government softened the zero-Covid program after mass protests. The people have more power than we think and can resist such things, if they want to.
And the response is:

_This aircraft (xxx) is not available for public tracking per request from the owner/operator._

Which proves my point.

A motivated stalker will dig in and research but that’s inevitable, but the other 99.999% losers will self-limit to whatever is available for the minimum effort.

This translates to harmless yelling at clouds, unless some cheeky troll does the homework for them.