skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The courts forced him to make good on his ironclad offer to buy. He forced his lawyers to craft the most absurdly ironclad offer you could imagine. No lawyer would have ever written such an offer without being explicitly told.

He forced himself.
> (I'm guessing the author means VS Code, not MS Word here?)

The author might mean MS Word. I definitely had this thought about a lot of software of all kinds, not just editors/IDEs. The two the author highlighted - view-lossage and describe-key, are to answer the questions "what sequence of keys/operations I've just performed?", and "what does this key/key sequence do, here, in this context?".

The former is useful if you e.g. mistype or type at a wrong moment, invoking some random actions in the program, and now you're wondering what exactly did you do. Also, since it's Emacs, there's actually a quick way to turn lossage into a keyboard macro and clean it up - so if you figured you want to repeat some sequence of operations after you've already done it once, you don't have to record it from scratch.

describe-key approximation exists in some software, typically via the "keyboard binding" preferences dialog containing a textbox for looking up commands by assigned keyboard shortcut. Alas, besides being a worse UX, this will only show you global assignments (or, sometimes, divided by categories). describe-key excels by showing you context-aware help, i.e. it literally tells you what command will be invoked if you press a given key sequence exactly where you are right now.
First of all don't suspend your background processes with sudo, that is only going to prevent the money from coming in everyday... then you've got Google maps you can type in social worker near me or psychiatrist near me or behavioral health near me and it will point you in the right direction.....
Making use of OpenAi's api.
Could save you a lot of time in writing boilerplate anything.
Emacs 29 contains so many things OOB that it has completely eliminated the use of 70-80% of the packages I use in my day-to-day job:

- use-package built in

- csharp-mode (now built in)

- typescript-mode (now built in)

- same with json-mode too.

- project.el instead of projectile

- eglot (now built in) over lsp-mode

As far as Emacs releases goes this one has more functionality packed than I can remember in any previous release ever.
I heard Cobol is coming back.
You don’t even need to consider context, you need to use the right acronym to start. The current acronym isn’t even ICE - it’s RICE.
Everyone is talking about ChatGPT, AI online products, images generated by AI, etc… As I explained in this article, one of the ways for a solopreneur to succeed is to develop a product in a trending industry.

I really believe the next big ideas for 2023 will be based on AI. We finished 2022 getting really surprising AI progress through the conversational capabilities of ChatGPT and the realistic draws of Lensa app. But I think that it’s just the beginning, for 2023 we will see how AI will really solve problems in the routines of humans but mostly, how AI will be applied to small and large businesses in their daily routines.

So, it’s a great opportunity for a solopreneur to develop some easy but useful products using AI. Here is my list of the 3 tools I will develop for 2023 using AI:
I'd be satisfied if my bank's web developers learned about the Content-Disposition header and set the filename reasonably. Nothing quite like downloading dozens of statements for various accounts at the end of the year and then having to rename dozens of files named "download.php (1-30).pdf" in your downloads folder. With a single line of code, each of those could be "institution-acct-year-month-day.pdf" instead. It would significantly reduce the toil that punishes diligent customers.
It's definitely much more than 5% of new ICE cars.
(Disclosure: been to Oz three times & I love it)

I hate to get all ad hominem here, but the fact that it comes from an Australian journal is just a tad bit self-interested. It reminds me of the Chinese scientists who keep insisting that humans evolved in China, not Africa:

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/evolution/chinese...
Some of this is damning in a fairly sickening way.

The starting point seems understandable:

> In November 2015, a landlord in the Whitestone neighborhood of Queens filed an eviction suit in housing court accusing Mr. Santos of owing $2,250 in unpaid rent.

> In May 2017, ... Mr. Santos’s landlord accused him of owing more than $10,000 in rent ... and said ... one of his tenant’s checks had bounced.

Okay. Poverty can catch folks out. I can imagine how he got into that situation. But then this:

> early 2021, ... Mr. Santos said on Twitter that he was a landlord affected by the freeze. "Will we landlords ever be able to take back possession of our property?"

> Mr. Santos said that he and his family had not been paid rent on their 13 properties in nearly a year, adding that he had offered rental assistance to some tenants, but found that some were "flat out taking advantage of the situation."

> But Mr. Santos has not listed properties in New York on required financial disclosure forms ... Property records databases ... did not show any documents or deeds associated with him.

I can at least understand heartlessness from ignorance but this. He practically narrates his own story but then reboots it so that he's the victimized landlord (over seemingly fictitious tenants).

I couldn't generate enough contempt to properly cover the sheer volume of his disingenuousness.
Pre market isn't a reliable indicator of what will happen when the markets open.
I think that's the issue though right? If we accept that it won't necessarily make sense or follow any logical consistent rules because its subjective, then how exactly can we expect other to take it seriously? I'm not trying to be dismissive either, but my mind works logically. If I'm told "we're just making it up as we go and it's different for everyone" then you can't expect me to believe I need to actually take it seriously.

It really does sound like people are just taking the concept of personality and tryin to overlay it on something where it doesn't fit, only leading to increased confusion. Ultimately, what is the point? What is the goal?
No lawyer would have ever written such a contract without explicit instructions.

It will show up in contract law books under what not to ever let your client do.
Another vote for CBT. CBT has made a big difference for me, helping me to find my way out of some very negative patterns of thinking, and allowing me to feel real joy, despite a number of ongoing difficult circumstances in my life. I'd recommend it to just about anyone, at any age.

I didn't go through CBT with a therapist. I just read the first few chapters of The Feeling Good Handbook, then tried to establish a habit of confronting my negative feelings, and the thoughts that were feeding them by identifying the distortions in those thoughts.

YMMV, but it may be worth a try.
A good therapist (but maybe not a good match for you) will also recommend others they know that they believe are a better fit.
I don't see how one could read socialist literature and not come to that conclusion. Read Kropotkin, Marx, Mao, Engels, Proudhon, and you can not come away thinking that both major US parties are to the right. I think one would be hard pressed reading just economics and coming away with that conclusions. They are pro-capital, pro-imperial, pro-free trade parties. That sure sounds like a right-wing party.
If my maths is correct, in the limit, after renewing half each day, the whole is on average a day old.
It's driven by public investment as opposed to private investment for one thing.

But if you did accept their argument you might wonder if you should degrade the quality of life in some neighborhoods to drive out people with money and make the neighborhoods affordable. Though of course they tried that in some places, it was called "white flight" and the same people who oppose gentrification would oppose that.

It seems a lot of people across the political spectrum would like, more than anything else, for everything to stay the same.
I take payment in Bitcoin
Of course, and they are. They are even more limited in quantity, geologically.
If it is not a file on your file system in an OS you control, it all boils down to somebody else caring enough about you and your files.

And boy, do they hate you owning files.
I used to enjoy how many AM stations you could get at night.

Perhaps this should be "why AM stations have to increase power during the daytime." ;-)
> an example of a type of question that it will be inherently unable to solve for you that people will still need to do.

Something like "tell me about your day so far" or "describe some important experiences in your life." Obviously, you can use ChatGPT to answer those questions, but they won't be true answers, since ChatGPT doesn't know you.

Of course, there is the issue of verifying those answers — probably the teacher won't be calling the student's parents to make sure it's accurate (:

As objective knowledge gets increasingly captured by external systems (search, maps, image generators, etc), subjective knowledge and personal experience remain out of its reach. I wonder if this could push us in a direction of valuing our personal life experiences more highly, as the other stuff becomes increasingly commoditized?
Dang, this seems like it might actually resolve some of my HDMI issues for my gaming computer display output.

I tend to play games with my projector on mirroring computer output (for things like watching people play VR games socially), and I use a "cheaper" HDMI switcher for the projector to achieve this (it's one of the better ones you can buy in Amazon)—but this breaks the 4K60 HDR output for some games if I'm mirroring displays.

This might switcher might be fully featured enough that my computer won't balk at it.
I'm not saying it directly applies here, but it's a caveat worth mentioning.

Consider giving a fair coin to 5 random people and asking them to toss it 10 times. The probability that one of them will get 10 heads is 1 - (1 - (1/2^10)) ^ 5, which is less than 0.5%.

However, if you manage to get 10^2 people to toss the coin, the probability of someone getting 10 heads is about 0.10. This number goes to ~1 with about 10000 coin tossers.

Let's say you manage to get 10k people to somehow toss the coin, and one person, say Mr. A gets 10 heads in a row (as mentioned, the probability of this happening is close to 1).

With enough people tossing coins, you are bound to get a Mr. A. Should Mr. A be hailed as having special skills?

No, not really. Mr. A was just lucky. He was in the right place at the right time. The probability of him getting 10 heads in a row is still only 1/2^10. It just so happened that he was the person who got 10 heads out of the 10k people tossing coins.

Bottom line: With large enough sample sizes, even extremely unlikely events are bound to happen.

Let me clarify again: I'm not saying that Messi is Mr. A!
A lot of good advice here (therapy, etc.) but one thing you might consider is just getting part-time job such as a cashier, barista, whatever. Something where you have somewhere to go and can put your mind to a task for a while but the job doesn't follow you home after so you can pursue other things more relevant to the work you eventually want to get. I think you'd be surprised how just having something to do can make you feel. It helps as well to have a daily routine that you execute ( and having a job can help with this) without much thought but without fail to keep some momentum up instead of just sitting around with your thoughts day in and day out.
People say the same about Bialetti-style "moka pot" coffee makers. The reality is that any "varnish" is just old rancid coffee oil.
The Guardian's coverage:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/15/tiktok-se...
Can they please turn it off by default for everyone?

I shouldn’t have to go to the settings for every single game to find out if some random fucker is going to hear me crunching on chips.
That's a feature, not a bug.

Each server in the fediverse should stay relatively small.

Consider running your own for your friends.
Musk Says No One Wants Top Twitter Job but Some Raise Hands
Do you think Republicans will pick up more seats in congress in 2026 and 2028 if Biden is elected in 2024 or Trump is?

IMO, Biden v Trump 2024 is a poison pill for the whichever party wins the presidency. Political power is about more than who’s sitting in the white house.
That is exactly how bureaucracies fail, by being unable to handle the exceptional states.

80% of the effort should be spent on how to handle the thing the automatic system didn’t.
AOT is coming in 29.1.
I think that Spring is still widely used.What I see picking up pace lately is Jakarta,getting unfrozen from the Java EE disonaur era.
Humans are really exceptional in their ability to survive in a large range of environments. If you do some reading about just how fragile many if not most animals are in regards to their environment you will surprised that they exist at all.
Ask HN: Best Way to Learn Chinese?
I have a good reason for asking this here.

I'm not really interested in the quick wins way of learning offered by Duolingo, but also don't really want to go through a traditional course.

I want to go deep, learn about the cultural contexts, the nuances, and so on.

I know there is no preset for doing this, but if anyone knows of a good collection of resources which I can follow until I know enough where to look next - I'd really appreciate it.

I speak three languages (HU, RO, EN) fluently, another (DE) at a "can conduct business" level, and another two (FR, RU) at the basic conversational level. I also read the Cyrillic alphabet without issues, although I know the shift to Chinese characters is bigger.

Thanks for any guidance!
There seemed to be a fair amount of surprise at how well Republicans did in NY this year. I'd certainly believe that the Democratic establishment was overconfident and didn't think they needed to dig too hard on people in one of their stronghold areas...
As Mister_X mentioned, in the US, start with the National Speleological Society at https://caves.org/ There is also a sub-reddit at reddit.com/r/caving/ Definitely find a local group - if there are caves in your area, there are probably also cavers who explore them.

Basic safety rules include: cave with groups of 3 to 6 people, some of whom have experience, bring 3 independent sources of light, use helmets and headlamps, avoid hand-held lights (a strong sign of inexperience or incompetence), leave word of your plans - where you are going, expected return time, who to call for help - with a trustworthy friend. Some basic knowledge of geology is useful, as is comfort with physical contortion, sturdy clothing, and an ability to orient and visualize in 3-dimensions in environments that are far from rectilinear.

Respect the culture of secrecy about cave locations, which helps protect them from damage. Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints.
Have a look at popcount[0]. It's even a single instruction on many platforms [1].

[0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/popcount

[1] https://vaibhavsagar.com/blog/2019/09/08/popcount/
IANAL. However, my answer to that question would be “it’s a good idea.”

COPPA specifically calls out collecting device identifiers and cookies as personal information. Here’s the money line:

“It shall be unlawful for any operator of a Web site or online service directed to children, or any operator that has actual knowledge that it is collecting or maintaining personal information from a child, to collect personal information from a child in a manner that violates the regulations prescribed under this part.”

Note “directed to children.” If your game isn’t directed to children, you’re fine, but that’s a terribly fuzzy definition. In practice I would recommend taking the safe road and age gating for games. Again, I am not a lawyer.

Edit: I read the complaint and Epic was explicitly marketing to ages 10+, so this wasn’t at all fuzzy for them.
This story still makes the rounds, and the result is still the same. The family chose to live in unincorporated land. They turned down fire protection when the county offered it to them. They turned down fire protection when their insurer offered it to them. The fire department did what was required to save lives. Insurance can take care of the rest...oh, that's right.
In a practical sense, is it not a similar case in US? The moment you are flagged in a hospital system as a suicide risk it follows you.
Just an anecdote from Second Life, there's one person that keeps coming around despite being permanently banned and more or less not liked by most folks in one hub. He's made it his mission to dox one person who didn't actually do anything to them other than not hang with them in games like Red Dead Redemption and the like after they had one bad night. And he doesn't just do it this person but to several and all of them women. I think shadowbanning wouldn't work here but I wonder if it would mitigate the spread of such doxing if it were tried.
The total energy consumed isn't what these places are optimizing for. LLNL/NIF "invented" a lot of this research so their facility is the most energetic but also ~the least efficient, while being the most important in the world. When they constructed their laser facility in 1996, NIF used the surest-bet laser system acknowledging that hypothetical competing systems could be better suited (solid state lasers were just coming into play at the time due to semiconductor manufacturing). They've done a massive amount of work ramp up the power and get their <0.5% system to ~0.7% efficient (power from the wall:power hitting the target). The NIF facility uses "indirect drive" where the energy from the lasers are first converted to xrays, and then the fuel is energized with the xrays. Not coincidentally, that's the exact mechanism that modern nuclear warheads use to drive their fusion stage -- so NIF's selection here makes even more sense given their DOD funding and 'stockpile stewardship' mission statement.

Since a lot of modern laser research now overlaps with advanced semiconductor manufacturing, the competing systems are now much more mature. Here's a good rundown, but experts think that it's plausible to use even up to 20% efficient systems. Rather than using the laser to first generate xrays - these "direct drive" systems deposit the energy from the lasers directly on the pellets.

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/pt.6.2.2021102...
Citation needed. Psychoanalysis is widely practiced and it’s efficacy has been repeatedly scientifically demonstrated.
Now that's even worse than forcing Bono on you.

Alway keep a back up.
> I got my Master's in the US in the late 2000s and was gainfully employed there for a few years...
>
> Ideally, I would prefer to go back to the US...because I actually was happy there.

There's a lot of really helpful replies here that I can't add to but this stood out to me. I think maybe you should focus on what you can do in Germany or remaining closer by in Europe. Life was easier in the late 2000s in the US than today, and you may be looking back with some rose tinted glasses thinking if you can just go back to that place in the past when you were happier things will resolve themselves. But it may not work out that way, and it may add a lot of extra complication and work to try to make it happen (especially during this economic downturn), that will take time away from you doing other things, only to potentially end up quite disappointed.
My take is that it's another tool such as a search engine. Usually we have things such as citations pointing to where data came from as data sourcing is part of the activities included in homework.

Additionally, we often test "offline" with constraints such as no calculator, open book, or closed book with notes, etc. So more regular knowledge checks seem to be a must if we're looking to verify foundational understandings.
TikTok can comply by not having CCP leadership in the executive management. See the conflict?
I have a mild case of depression and I live by this, it has helped me tremendously. At the beginning it will be very hard to push yourself to start something new but after a couple of achievements you kind of get to anticipate the rewarding feeling at the end and it gets easier.
Going by the documentation it does it by... drumroll... converting to LaTeX!

(edit: generating PDFs that is)
My priorities in your case would be:
1) Find a job/career
2) Relocate to a place you want to be

The relationship/lifestyle goals are secondary to those (maybe ultimately more important, but would require and be consequences of improvement of those two).

If your current skills aren't where they'd need to be to get hired, a quick 1-3 month deep dive into some niche tech which you could plausibly link to education to past experience would make sense. Then presumably remote work combined with trying to get visa sponsorship. Maybe broaden from US to US/CA/AU/etc.

Maybe a therapist, but no personal experience with that. Objectively there are good reasons to be unsatisfied with where you are in life, but I'd personally rather just fix those reasons rather than discuss with someone why they are that way, etc.
Does anybody know how this works? As somebody with a serious interest in signal processing, machine learning, and audio, I'm genuinely interested. Have Adobe published anything about the technology behind this?
As an emacs user who has never paid much attention to the development pace, is it just that people talk more about Emacs or is there actually more momentum around it these days because it feels that way. Which is kind of amazing for a piece of software that old.
Tuttle, played by De Niro.
Or pay a hosting company to run one for you. At least you get to control your own community and moderation.

Even if you are still subject to the whims of your hosting company, you still retain a fair amount of autonomy unless you are running a community like Kiwifarms (in which case I find it hard to be sympathetic anyway), or your hosting company happens to be located in a jurisdiction with enforced censorship laws.
This has been advisable service design since many years before "microservices" were popular..
Yup. It’s both true that the age gate is easy to defeat and that it helps in practice.
Or sometimes they don't submit on your behalf, so you have to do the paperwork to submit to your insurance for whatever amount your insurance reimburses, depending on your plan.
> and non-Americans would say there is no left in America acedemically

“left” isn’t a thing academically because there isn’t some line that actually captures the wide variety of political positions.

This meme of “there is no left in America” is just a childish way of saying, “I don’t like the current majority opinion of the Democratic Party”.
> Things that seem to be clear at this point:
> - Musk has at least some level of interest in solving the fundamental problem of how to build and manage a public square, even if the purchase of twitter itself was initially presented as a joke

It’s interesting how different people can see the same thing and reach opposite conclusions. It’s crystal clear to me that Musk has no interest in solving these problems.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w29356
Is 2023 where crypto will go to die?
Just my $0.02 (I'm a few years older): It's always earlier than you think. Don't let your perception of where you wanted to be at a certain age dictate what you can or can't do.
German Army's Sudden Mass Breakdown of Their Most Modern APCs
So, I kind of thought that, initially, but he seems to have managed to piss off quite a lot of people who were singing his praises a month ago. I assume there's always be _some_ people who think he's a magical genius, but that belief does seem to have been maybe more mutable than I'd have expected.
lol or just torrent the entire discography.