skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep losing my files with cloud-first systems. I had a trove of notes in Evernote and I don't even remember which email I used to open it, nor if they are there anymore. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't lose local-first markdown files, as I could do the same thing I do with code: keep them in git, and then have a cloud backup for good measure.
Death is worse, we do know that - outside of religious afterlifes, having continued brain patterns is preferable to non-existence.

It's incredibly more likely that continued existence will be no worse than the world today, which is quite nice. Even if it becomes torturous existence beats non-existence.
> You can not summary ban every employee of a large company that's doing something you don't like.

Which laws forbid this?
The policy is bad because it results in unfair outcomes.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Meanwhile in China: "How do we copy this nuclear fusion and improve on it? We should build a quantum computer for this."
It actually could be kind of interesting to have AI fill in the missing segments. I believe there are only 2 remaining, and we roughly know what is supposed to be there, but not able to restore it because of how few original copies remain. So you should be able to do a supervised learning to interpolate the remaining scenes and be fairly confident that it matches the version that was premiered in 1927.
Example: Building product onboarding that helps users learn by doing
I assure you that MySQL-the-company was absolutely filled with very smart and very hardworking people.
Yep I was getting $57/h in the spring of 2001, then the party stopped.
Someone in my family, who is now in a memory care facility, has dementia.
We tried to avoid it as long as possible, but when we got a call from the police saying that she was found wandering around barefoot in the snow next to a busy road in the middle of the night while hallucinating about “people coming to get her”, it felt like it was time to reconsider.
She’s on meds that control the hallucinations now, but it would still be unsafe for her to leave unsupervised, no matter how much our culture changes. How do you help a stranger who doesn’t know where or who they are, and can’t hear too well to start with? She sure does still remember me and can dance to the Beatles, but I would not be comfortable trusting her welfare to a group of even the most compassionate strangers.
They have certainly been sued many times, but I could only find two suits related to not hiring men. The older one resulted in a large settlement and an agreement to hire regardless of sex for non-waitress positions (including bartender and host/hostess). The latter was against a single franchise and had non-disclosed settlement terms (I'm not sure how a class-action suit can have a confidential settlement; wouldn't all members of the class be notified?).
They have said they wont because people notice and care now.

Thats an interest way of interacting in society. I want that power.
Who went to jail for these crimes? People lost their houses and their transportation to work.

I am all for a corporate death penalty.
Honestly I think the biggest free speech issue is their grounds for excluding her. And perhaps a violation of the 4th amendment too. Not because of cataloging her face but by abusing their authority to retaliate against people for exercising due process. What if law firms struggle to hire for fear of being blacklisted for indirectly participating in lawsuits? It will make it that much harder to seek redress in courts.
Really interesting discussion! Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
The major claim is that Twitter, upon request, exempted certain accounts from their normal anti-astroturf checks.

I don't know if that claim be true or not, but the ultimate efficacy of the astroturfing has little to do with what is being asserted.

> On the same day that CENTCOM sent its request, members of Twitter’s site integrity team went into an internal company system used for managing the reach of various users and applied a special exemption tag to the accounts, internal logs show.
As long as the image data is coming from the cartridge and the instructions are obviously moving data that originated from the cart to video RAM or registers (I don’t know anything about the game boy). M with something like the GB camera, latency is less of a concern though, so the cartridge could probably interrupt the camera periodically to read video memory.
Read books on schizophrenia by Dr Xavier Amador for an interesting perspective on gaining compliance without necessarily agreeing on what the problem is. Excellent videos on YouTube also.
Kids don't care about Mickey they care about Rocket Raccoon.
A streaming service could hire musicians to do a new score for public domain silent movies, they would then have the exclusive right to distribute the combined work.
Please note that this list is for the U.S.A.. If you live in another part of the world, these books might still be copyrighted. For example, in the Netherlands (like most of the EU), it is +70 years, meaning we still have to wait 5 more years.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_in_public_domain
I don't know. NoSQL is still going strong and kinda makes sense for unstructured data. I attended a tutorial earlier this year and the DB they wanted to put in was Mongo rather than SQLite say, even though they were storing structured data in it -- which I didn't understand.

Also the problem with microservices in my mind is the tooling. Right now microservices are deployed with k8s in docker containers which is still heavyweight for what they're supposed to be. It could be that a language (maybe go) introduces features to allow for tooling to make easier refactoring.
It's like Maslow's hierarchy of needs...if you're wealthy enough, you can afford to distinguish between the two parties; if you're not, the two parties are the exact same.
Just a bit of friendly feedback. On my Android phone, the game didn't work in Firefox or Firefox Focus for me (the browsers I use normally). Music sounded good and initial screen looked good, but touching the screen had no effect. On Samsung Internet it worked fine. If MelonJS is handling the mouse/touch events, maybe all games are affected.
Dear Obsidian team.

Thank you from my heart. As a designer, I have visual thinking, which requires clear representation of relationships between information objects.

No more fiddling with mind-map apps which cannot offer this level of integration with my vault.

Now I finally have focused workflow.

Thank you again.
> Destruction of jobs and services != justice.

But it does send a message to the broader industry. Sometimes a few rouge cancer cells can kill the entire host. And this is the second time around for them.
It's incredible the amount of damage they've done in the meantime. If only they can rollback the changes they, and their lackeys, pushed through.
The bully always accuses the the victim of what they themselves are guilty of.

This chatter about VESA mount arms and if you buy them or not is irrelevant. The price of the monitor stand as stated by Apple what is being discussed.
> There is no such thing as a "probability" of any of those terms...

> That said, there probably are intelligent civilizations somewhere in the universe

...pick one :-)
OpenAI is being incorporated with GRC (generate-react-cli), a tool for generating React components, and will allow for the intelligent generation of components by describing them using the --describe flag.

The integration will start simple but there are plans for future improvements to enhance the developer experience.
All of these programs are so interesting they will cost you 200 more hours than you saved.

Call it carvkings law.
I mean who is hanging protestors in public squares after declaring the person guilty of "waging war against god"? Who is supplying Russia with Kamikaze drones to destroy civilian infrastructure in Ukraine? Iran. Who is committing textbook definition levels of genocide in Ukraine and mass executions, along with destroying civilian infrastructure. Russia. Who is launching simulated blockade and bombing runs on Taiwan because the House Speaker dared visit. China. Given the events of the last year, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt on this.
I agree their charter should effectively be revoked at this point. A de novo bank (i.e. being granted a new charter) is a near impossibility in the US. Something this difficult to obtain should be just as easy to lose.

Unfortunately, the FDIC can't just waltz in and shut down the whole damn bank without causing a nation-wide panic attack. Similar to failed banks, something like this would need to be dealt with using a special procedure to prevent bank runs.

I think the best course of action would be to vacate the Wells Fargo board (and all officers), replacing them with members sourced from other US financial institutions.
That does sound pretty draconian to me, you haven't adressed my point.
You sound extremely brave. Thank you for sharing your story, and merry Christmas in advance
If you're living in a tech hub and really want to own a home in the short term, get a remote job and move somewhere cheaper. It sucks, but these places aren't going to get cheaper anytime soon. Meanwhile there's plenty of property in the rest of the country that's more affordable. When the market recovers, you might be able to sell your home for a profit and move back.
Tech salaries are keeping up with inflation in my area. Employers expectations are proportional though.
I know a lot of spiritual traditions, especially in the east, talk about loss of self identity as progress. So hard as it was (and it sounds hard!), I hope you are able to have deeper understanding that you might not have had exposure to otherwise.
I've just added Sorbet and Tapioca to a Rails project and I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it works very well now!

As I add type annotations to my methods, VS Code and Sorbet are giving me similar feedback to what I get from Typescript projects.
"I gave in to linguistic totalitarianism. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. I have won the victory over myself. I love Big Brother."
Lots of support for vi editing. Things like bash (set -o vi) and other CLI/TUI have bindings. Check out the browser plugin vimmium too.
A good alternative is to use a similar SBC with eMMC module support, such as one of the ODROIDs
By the time they would've decided to do this, the Amiga chipset was looking pretty dated. 386's with SuperVGA and SoundBlaster cards were becoming common place in the early 90's. Once the 486 came out (1989), the price of 386 hardware dropped fast. Commodore seemed more interested in going the other direction: putting an x86 (BridgeBoard) into an Amiga.

I was an Amiga fan from roughly 1988 through 1994, started with an A500, expanded it, then moved on to an A3000. The platform was incredible. I learned a ton from it and taught myself C on that system. But by 1994, I wanted a Linux system, so a 486 it was...
Out of interest how do you run most of Observable locally?
Because I am working on some new products and finally without a NDA (since a decade), I can make some noise about myself again, so I am polishing my LinkedIn, Twitter, Mastodon and website; I am getting rather a lot of recruiter noise even some direct companies. I am skilled but not looking. It seems a way better market than when I switched off my LinkedIn. But that can hardly be…
Doctors don't support involuntary treatment because it's not effective.

Effectively it trains people to distrust the health system, and to not seek medical care because they'll be locked up and bad things will happen to them. This leads to worsening health outcomes.

We just passed through years of pandemic where everyone was eager to listen to the experts in the medical profession and that saved countless lives. It's sad and disturbing that when it comes to other health care issues, the politicians are now tuning out the same experts because they don't like what they're hearing.
Society won't break down. Societies of the high longevity future are almost certain to look back at the current age and balk in confusion at the number of people afraid of living longer the same way we balk at things like human sacrifice.
The "why do you care" argument kind of falls on deaf ears when we all give our consent to discuss the contents of the article, and continue to give our consent as we actually reply to comments.

If bill gates in the past was "ruthless" and Microsoft was born from that, then it's logically inconsistent to say "bill gates is a good person because of his altruism despite his ruthlessness in the past" since his current altruism does nothing to address that past ruthlessness.
Branching factor of two means around 30 hops to visit every star.
> How is that not an obvious protected class?

Basically because it wasn't on the radar of American legislators when they wrote up the lists of protected classes.
A bit lost. In what way did I shit on it? And why do I need an app to understand how much reading 20 min a day is? I'm simply suggesting larger, richer books are often best absorbed when you have more time to enjoy them and get involved in the plot which often takes longer to unfold. I could be wrong it just struck me as a bad fit for a 20 min/day. exercise. I could be wrong.
Happy to answer but I don't understand the question!
The Berne Convention (an international agreement) requires at least 50 years of protection, and the US signed it. But 50 is a lot less than 95.
This. By the time this happens, almost every job will be gone.

The only ones left will be physical work, and this will also go really fast since we already have the tools to create robots with the newly found intelligence. Everyone will be out of a job. This will be an interesting future, to say the least.
I'm afraid you have it exactly backwards. The problem isn't that it doesn't work -- the problem is that it does work. And to the extent that it isn't perfect, well, it's still improving all the time. You cited a 3-year-old article reporting on data from up to eleven(!) years ago -- an eternity in this field. Not even worth reading at this point.

The racial bias issue is still important for now, but it's fast becoming irrelevant. We should be asking ourselves where our priorities lie even if bias weren't a concern.
Brexit costs UK government £40B a year in lost tax revenue
In the US, we get to deduct mortgage interest from our income when paying income tax. Do you get to do that in the UK? If not, then things weigh even more heavily toward paying it off, because to break even, you'd have to earn enough on your investment to pay the income tax on the income, and then to pay the mortgage interest. You're not going to get that with any safe investment.
Many inaccuracies in this article. The Well Tempered Keyboard was certainly a deliberate realization of a particular concept, which makes use of several already-written preludes. Also, egregiously:

>a system of tuning that’s become standard (“well-tempered”). Nothing in his description hints at what these short pieces really are – deep investigations into the character of each key

This system of tuning is obscure, and seldom-used (only occasionally by historical enthusiasts). Possibly confused with equal temperament here. Much less ability for the keys to have different "characters" with equal temperament as well!

>providing for his huge family – 20 children from two marriages

20 births total, yes, but never 20 children alive at the same time, unfortunately.

>Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s music can be dazzling, elegant and highly innovative, but we are unlikely to mark the 300th anniversary of even his best piece.

Hopefully, "we" will be more enlightened than that in the coming few decades.
You could do that with old IBMs. Does that mean if I have one laptop where I can provision multiple VMs, I’m doing “cloud computing” from my house?
> seriously - why is biorhythm pseudoscience #2

It's an interactive tutorial on using the `Date` and `OptionParser` classes and printing stuff to stdout.

> and how is displaying a calendar on the CLI going to help me

It's an interactive tutorial on using the `Date` and `GetoptLong` classes and printing stuff to stdout :)
Mania is a hell of a drug. I've done so many amazing things because of it. Life feels dull and slow without it. At the same time, the cost was high.

I chose to live without mania. I want to slow down and work on things I want to do, not be driven to do things, no matter how amazing they turned out.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221219173909/https://tafc.spac...
Will the relevant YouTube videos that are "blocked in my country on copyright grounds" get unblocked on that day?

Anyone from YouTube know if this is the case?
In most situations, that is when it’s time to look for a new job if you value your mental health. Nobody needs to work for a bully PM.
Ah yeah, that's a good point.

Honestly, I'm just very happy GitHub is doing this, because we've all made these mistakes. And it's so easy for then to hide in git revision history. Only the be found when someone scans for the secrets.
> Literally I cannot pay rent next month and have no one willing to take me in.

Well in most cities in the United States, there are numerous open spots in rent assistance or shelter programs. For example, in my city of Portland, there is a lot of money spent tackling this problem. In fact, each night, the city has empty rooms available for anyone, but they go unused. Unfortunately, part of the problem is the narrative pushed by the media that America has no social welfare. We have quite a lot. Unfortunately, the narrative we don't prevents people from seeking it out.

This is similar to how narratives about COVID swamping hospitals led to so many people not seeking medical intervention that they died or let a preventable illness go untreated. And it's what caused so many hospital closures.

Moreover, if you cannot pay the rent next month, you can contact your local st vincent de paul, and they will often cover it for you: https://www.svdphouston.org/

Below you said you are simply going to be late, and able to resume making payments in January. If that is the case, there are numerous programs available that will help you to make your rent so you don't take the credit hit. Again, if you lived in my city of Portland, I know several charities that will simply pay your rent no questions asked, not even expecting the money back. Please contact your local social services agency or one of these charities. Many have funds that go unused each month.
There isn't one. RedwoodJS or Blitz come closest, IMO.
I've always wanted a debug cartridge with modern design and features ... I imagined something very much like this but with additional serial and video outputs:

- video passthrough (like this one, obviously)

- serial console debug output (framerate ? CPU ? sprite count ?)

- secondary video output of sprites - perhaps with a palette of all sprites and an array of sprites actually on-screen ?

- tertiary video output ???

I make no claim that any of the above would actually be useful.

I'm thinking about this as a development tool from an alternative timeline that never existed here ... and specifically, a standalone development tool that doesn't require a PC tied to it with a SCSI cable like the SN Systems and (other carts) did.
> And god save us if this AI thing will actually take off. It's dumb but it's progressing.

I don't see how it does anything but progress. I obviously have no idea how long it will take before it can replace a software engineer but after playing around with ChatGPT and seeing the code it can create, it's definitely progressing faster than I thought it would.
If you click on the picture it says it's the Kola nuclear power plant, which is a VVER-440 reactor. Searching for other VVER pictures, e.g.[1], confirms that they match.

[1] http://www.nucleartourist.com/areas/vver440a.htm
A dating app with your own dating coach
Bloom is a dating app that features your own dating coach, who will perfect your profile, find you the most compatible matches, and guide you through the dating process from the initial messaging exchange to your first in-person meetup.

We built Bloom because we wanted to help people like ourselves succeed at finding serious long term relationships. We did some research to understand what led online dating success. We looked at hundreds of profiles on CMB, Hinge and Bumble and managed dating app accounts for our friends. Here's what we found
- People really want to connect with profiles that tell a story about who they are. Good stories include information about where you're from, your family, what you do for work/school, what are your passions/interests. We found talking to our friends that we were 10x more efficient when we wrote their profile. Its hard to write your own story!
- People would go on dates more if they could trust that the people they match with are vetted.

We built Bloom with these two core insights built into the dating experience. When you join Bloom, you have your own personal dating coach that will perfect your profile and find you compatible matches. Let us do the work to help you succeed when dating online!
Whoever designed this site spent a great deal of effort to make it behave like this.

Adding my opinion, also let the text use the page width. Limiting it to 120 characters or whatever is fine, but what this site does is really not.
I'm guessing they stopped only because the SEC made some rule changes that made SPACs less lucrative.

https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2022/03/sec-pr...
Ugh. You should never call something "RetryableException".

1. You are in no position to decide for your customer whether exception is "Retryable".

2. For cases where you are in that position, you should just retry automatically.

3. RetryableException tells absolutely nothing about what happened. It's no better than raising MondayException for exceptions that happen on Monday.
"You have zero privacy anyway, get over it.” — Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun, Jan 1999
>How would we know they are there?

How about pointing an optical telescope at them to take a look?

Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08421
How does the Penguin translation stack up? It's the only one I can easily find.
Netflix will be next on Microsoft’s shopping list
This one? https://www.atomic-energy.ru/news/2012/05/21/33562

That's Кольская АЭС, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Nuclear_Power_Plant

This is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VVER
Counterpoint to that: I've been shopping with my girlfriend for a new scooter for her over the past few days. We went to the Yamaha dealer which has limited space for parking in front so all the staff bikes are mixed up with the show bikes (it's Vietnam so 10 staff = 10 staff bikes).

We got to see the Honda equivalent parked right next to the Yamaha we were considering (Honda Scoopy vs Yamaha Mio Classico) and decided it looked nicer. Didn't decide yet but she'll probably get the Honda.

So if people are going to the building to be impressed by your bikes, yeah I can see that it's reasonable to avoid having them parked right next to your competitors bikes where the customers will walk past them. That counts x1000 for the head office where the customer might be shopping for an entire dealership instead of just one bike.

This doesn't mean it's ok to say what bikes your staff can drive or what beer they can drink, of course. But branding at your own company premises is something that you can and probably should control.
After working with mimic panels for years on steam plants, I got exposed to an older, pre-mimic-panel design.

I appreciated the mimic panel's beauty for the first time on that day.