skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I keep notes on org files in local disk and access them through Emacs. I have no need for SaaS to take notes. There's probably nothing an alternative could offer to pull me away from Emacs, even to a different desktop app.

But the topic of discussion here is whether people are getting tired of subscriptions, and why that is. I don't like subscriptions, so that's the perspective I'm contributing to it. You can't limit the discussion to only people who want to use online services and then say you're having an honest discussion about subscriptions.
Everything by Qntm that I've read has been great. Incredibly imaginative. I recommend Ra and Fine Structure in addition to the Antimemetics stuff.
I agree with this commenter and disagree with those calling it 'pearl-clutching.' If I have learned one thing in my life with regard to user interaction, it is to expect people to make mistakes and to do counter to what you would expect. This is especially important when life is on the line.
Give it a whirl! I was only recommending against aluminum because I use a steel spatula to scrape the bottom of the pan after cooking, and I would worry that the steel would scratch up the softer aluminum. But you could use a sturdy plastic spatula instead, should work fine.
Finding the equivalent of a face-to-face conversation is, in my opinion, one of the main communication problems (for the record, I don't think putting on a VR headset is the solution).

Working from home and working in an office have very different environments. So finding a solution that feels like the technology doesn't feel like it's present would go a long way to creating an improvement in remote work.

Another key issue, is being able to completely disconnect so that - by design - you can be separated from the constant barrage of communication without feeling worried about FOMO.
I noticed this just recently — DuckDuckGo failed me and then I fell back to google eventually and noticed that the footer showed the village we live in (tiny) which really shocked me/creeped me out. We're not even on a static IP anymore but a dynamic IP...
Noteworthy is that Android by default has an option to 'enhance location accuracy' and it says it sends data back to Google. I consider myself fairly savvy about taming an Android phone but unfortunately this is not one I was aware of. I disabled that on my partner's phone, which is where I suspect the leak came from (they also use Google Maps occasionally; I suspected that probably feeds the information in as well).

Since avoiding using these things, IP location seems to be inaccurate as it should be again.
Which means we need it that much more.
Yes, by 5.4 million metric tons:

> For 2021 specifically, plug-in vehicles saved about 690 million gallons of gasoline—about two days of consumption—and reduced CO2 emissions by 5.4 million metric tons, consuming 6.1 TWh in the process.

It really doesn't matter if the total CO2 decreases, just that it trends downward. If no downward trend started to trend downward, we wouldn't have any downward trends, would we?
Hell with Roomba. Vacuuming floors is nothing. I want a robot that cleans and sanitizes toilets and bathrooms, another that does dishes and the kitchen sink, and one for the car.
I'm not sure that's entirely true. They need to know the derivative of sine exists, and how to find it/when to use it, but I'm not sure that knowing that it's cosine is actually useful.
Reasonable to whom? I used to be a small car enthusiast and scoffed at these large SUV people.

Now I have two kids and a large (but not largest) SUV. You get one cuz you need one.
I think things have changed a bit since you were a physics student. Conferences hand out latex templates and expect you to use them (wish they would also hand out an overleaf template. If any conference organizers are reading this...). Universities also do this with their undergrad/masters/thesis templates. Arxiv expects you to upload tex source code (it'll reject a PDF if you wrote that PDF with latex. It also is terrible at error messaging which is a huge pain since submission timing is for some stupid reason important). I'm sure latex is also easier than back then, but there's a lot of momentum in the latex direction that I think would be really difficult to undo. Even paper acceptance is highly influenced by formatting and figure design. I think it is just a different world as we have a lot more researchers now than even 30 years ago.
Being used for financial services isn't controversial, many onlookers and disillusioned crypto proponents seem to think trade and speculation doesn't count as utility. Something that more so reflects complete segregation of how our society works and the largest sector in said society.

Non-permissioned financial services is valuable, it represents pent up interest that has been muted for decades, while we pretended that only ivy league quants who also had lots capital could do anything with financial services. it was never true, just the capital barrier was high and the industry was protectionist

Even if you just look at whatever actions that the gatekept financial services are ostensibly trying to prevent, that undeniably has a value, and now that the gates are down many people transfer value this way because its fun and lucrative and quick. It serves everyone that shows up.

And most importantly: it doesn't have to be the best technological solution. nobody using it cares that a managed database could run the whole platform, people care that a managed database is permissioned and under many arbitrary whims of advertisers, shareholders, executives, and governments. Mitigating that undermines the performance. Not that controversial.
Some possibilities: maybe the European cultures (the white of which you say) have had a break-up of large family structures over the course of the last century, leading to therapy in the first place. That would fit in with some of my other comments in this thread around loneliness and a sick society. And following this it might be that some other cultures with large nuclear families have a sanity check within them where there are people to confide in and give guidance. That's what a therapist does in the end: empathize and give guidance.

Another possibility is there are cultural norms: psychotherapy originates in Europe / Central Europe where it had a blossoming in the late 19th century and spread, and became quite fashionable in among the educated classes (up to and especially in the 1960's, for example).
This seems reasonable.

The only reasons the buttons were removed was because of paranoia over COVID spread through surfaces. This was done hastily so they made the simplest change possible, adding the walk to every cycle.

Now they've had time to program it properly they can let trucks and heavy vehicles through more efficiently at 10pm-6am. How many pedestrians are around at these times?
Pretty much binge listened to these this year:

- Startups for the Rest of Us (https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/): Great podcast for any aspiring entrepreneur and bootstrapper.

- The Knowledge Project (https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/): Great interview podcast around a variety of topics

- The REWORK podcast (https://37signals.com/podcast/): Probably don't need lots of introduction here. Read the books in the past, but its great to actually hear Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson to actually talk about those things.
I see. I don't live in big enough place, perhaps. I just fire it off and don't think.
Most of those date from the last 50,000 years, at the very latest.
Great !

I will have to have a play with this.

After losing a laptop I've been wanting setting to manage env vars for local dev projects that keeps on them encrypted at rest.
They do, but that's kind of my point. Libraries full of articles have been written about the negative aspects of these services. Many perfectly accurate, no disagreement here.

But think about it. We have networks in which we can connect to any other connected human being. Post near-unlimited amounts of content which is reliably preserved. We have well functioning-apps and reliable services, and relatively clean content. For the price of: 0$, and ads.

What I'm getting at is that all this stuff that we take for granted, isn't a given or free when you scale Mastodon. It costs real money to run instances which hampers growth and sustainability. There's a steep human costs to moderation.
Sean Carroll’s Mindscape.
IIRC CS6 was the last non-subscription version. It's installer is 32bit but MacOS no longer runs 32bit executables. Maybe people find workarounds.

This kind of thing is especially true in iOS where every OS release kills off a bunch of software using deprecated and then deleted APIs.

It's likely in 2-3 years MacOS will pull out Intel support (like they pulled out PowerPC support after so many years when they switched to Intel)
this will never happen in the USA. they will strike if you try to make them soak up those costs; telling the average american literally everything is on hold because big rigs are all protesting and the voters will come looking for you at your home (if you're a politician). Any such measure is only doable in a country like China where the government has absolute power and even there when pushed too far regular people will starting burning shit to the ground.
There needs to be a time-dependent set of trust anchors, such as the European Trusted Lists standard. It’s not completely trivial, but the general architecture exists.
What sort of developer? If you're not being hired on specific technical merits (and even then) having good soft skills will go a long way.

Also, have you developed a healthy hatred for computers but still love to work with them?
Most participants of Black Tuesday experienced red color, but in both cases black refers to something more abstract: darkness, death.
Thanks for taking it for the team. It sounds interesting but I'm skeptical if alternative grains will beat popcorn.
If the two rival businesses are trading real world things, they each need a database and the actual situation of the trading has to be established by real-world paper trails or whatever.

So basically, the only use-case of the blockchain is "virtual currency" like bitcoin and we've seen that these "virtual currencies" doesn't actually operate as a practical currencies but rather a speculative investments and means of laundering money/control-of-sources (if you have free electricity, you can turn it into cash at a cost to the planet etc).
qux is now forced to be static. Consumers should be able to choose whatever they want. I don't know what end users want to do.
Government doesn't always work as well as it should, but you have the power to change that. You can vote for changes and hold your elected officials accountable. That's the strength of government solutions. You and those around you come together to vote on what needs to be done, how it should be done, and who is responsible for overseeing that.

I also have family who worked in social services and they always wished they could do more to help people, but too many of the people around them were preventing that. Too many people voted against plans to increase funding and refused to hold officials responsible perhaps because of the letter next to that official's name, or because they didn't want to help "the wrong kinds of people" at all, or because they thought as you do that charity is enough to fix everything. If charities were the answer they'd have already stepped in to fill all the gaps left over after the government has done what it can, but of course they haven't.

This is the main weakness of government programs. They depend on people working together and holding their elected officials accountable. People vote against government programs, and refuse to hold anyone accountable, and then complain when the programs don't solve their problems and use that as evidence that the whole system can't work, but it's still clearly the most efficient way to solve many problems, and often the only way some people are currently getting any help at all. Improving it just requires us to put in the effort.
> It would be a very sad day in history indeed if the West ended up being dependent on a bunch of authoritarians and misogynists to keep Twitter up and running.

... as opposed to the authoritarians and misogynists already running everything else?

Twitter's just a microblogging platform. Now that Orangemanbad is gone we can stop pretending it matters. Who cares if the Saudis run Twitter? What's the actual threat, there? Trolls? Anti-semitism? Homophobia? Rampant misinformation? State sponsored surveillance? That's already just another Tuesday.
One upshot of compressing outside s3 is that you save on data transfer. In theory I suppose the compressed data could be sent over to the client and decompressed but then it’s basically the same thing.
Got some z-index and UX issues on that home page.

The cookie banner appears in front of some text but behind images and some other text.

The drag handle is missing in the whitespace between lines of text (the huge space under "API DEVELOPMENT" for example). It's a large enough space that I should be able to drag the background around, same as outside the text block, and same as the space below "BE THE BRAIN".

The super flashy "for FREE" button also appears half off the side of the viewport in my browser. If it's important, it should be kept on-screen.

Foreground elements should have a blur or fade effect behind them - it's way too easy to drag the background around and make the text completely illegible.

Actually, it's probably better to keep the interactive portion in it's own block and avoid all of those issues completely. Having it as part of the main design is an unnecessary and annoying flex.
I use uptime robot connected to a serverless function, with the great property it can notify me of outages on top of being a scheduled http call. I think the first 50 are free!

https://uptimerobot.com/

GitHub actions are another option
I used something different. Basic details for your entertainment/edification/comedy source material follow mostly so you can shortcut a comparison if you're building something at your place.

1) Pi-zero running shairport-sync (couldn't get them, got orange-pi zero 2 which works great) https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync. I have a few of these.

2) Class D amp, Aiyima, Fosi, Loxjie etc Aliexpress is one place to get these. I've used and like Aiyima A03 and their ali store delivers fast.

3) Some nice, high-quality, 2nd hand speakers you like. Wharfedale, JBL, B&W, Acoustic Research, Yamaha. (Or get some active speakers you like and skip #2, eg B&O beolab 6000)

4) owntone (formerly known as forked-daapd) https://owntone.github.io/owntone-server/

5) configure owntone with your spotify premium, takes less than a minute. (And with your music that you own - takes longer because you take more care).

You now have a multiroom setup with fantastic sound that you can control with http://owntone.local:3689/ including with your phone. And/or you can use the "Retune" app on droid and apple's "itunes remote" app on ios. Better sound than most alternatives for less dollars.

All integrates well with Homeasistant because of course it does.

I really like how mine turned out. Having half a dozen sets of speakers all playing the same music in perfect sync as you move from one room to another while doing chores on the weekend fills me with more joy that I would have guessed. YMMV.
Not that I'd recommend it, but if you symlink your system library into the bazel build area, as long as your sandboxing setup don't hose you (or you just turn it off), bazel will track system tools/library in the same way as everything else.

Bazel's rules_cc even has a system_library.bzl you can import a `system_library` from that automates this for you. https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_cc/blob/main/cc/system_l...

I'd still recommend building everything from scratch (and understanding the relationships and graph of your dependencies), but if your build isn't that complicated and you want to role the dice on UB, this isn't that hard.

As an aside, the most galling part of bazel's cache key calculations has to be that it's up to the individual rules to implement this how they see fit. The rules native to bazel written in java vary wildly compared to starlark-written rules. On thing you (or someone in your org) end up becoming pretty comfortable with while using bazel in anger is RTFC.
Streets where cars are going under 25 mph, absolutely! It's a huge win in urban areas where speed limits are set appropriately and drivers are respectful of those limits. But much faster than that, EVs are as loud as ICE cars (as they come from the factory). At that point, all you really hear is rolling resistance and drag.
Apart from the most recent top of the line models, lidar sensors are mounted at the top of the device and cannot detect short items (slippers, cables). They are not much more capable with obsticalr avoidance than the front bumper system on roombas.

The few robot vacuums that have only a front lidar sensors perform poorly compared to the camera only or lidar augmented camera in the latest Roomba and Roborocks.
Well, quite obviously I meant emergency care, since I'm comparing it to a burning building.
The sooner we can crack down on motorbike noise the better the world will be for people sanity. In the meantime, noise canceling headphones like airpods do wonders for making the streets quiet.
Mergent.io has this feature. Don't know if it's the cheapest.
I can say that's been my experience as well. Friendships become a burden to people, they don't want to have to 'give' too much. At the same time it requires a closer tie to even go down that route.

And then also there are just less and less friends. In any friend circle there are some people that are just better to lean on. As you get older these people move away, get married, etc.
I tried listening to it with my AirPods on. The enhanced audio sounds much more natural this way, as if I’m in the room with you.
Most folks here are focusing on the scheduling part, but change detection means you need some way to persist state (or have a long running process that keeps state in memory).

While you could do FaaS (e.g. AWS Lambda) + another service for state (e.g. S3/RDS/EFS), that seems like overkill.

Even today I would still do it the old way: store state in a filesystem (maybe SQLite if you have more complex needs), and configure a plain old cronjob on any of the servers you have access to.

Maybe put it in docker/dockerhub to make it easier to run.

Surprisingly it is an interesting question. You have a very simple task, but ideally you want the solution to include: running environment (let's say a container), scheduler, persistent state, monitoring (you want to know when it is down). Not to mention deployment.

There are solutions for each of those, but given the simplicity it would be nice to have a lightweight solution that includes all of that with minimal configuration. I doubt it exists.

I.e. you can do all of that on AWS, but I can't help but wonder if the infrastructure setup is going to be more complicated than your actual scraper.

Edit: a good way to think about it is: imagine that a person just learned how to scrape websites, they wrote a script that works locally. How much do they need to learn to move it to the cloud?

If your answer is: ok, so you just need to create an AWS account, dockerize your script, put it in a Lambda, create RDS instance, trigger your Lambda through EventBridge and setup CloudWatch... then there's something wrong with you. There must be a better way to reliably run a fucking 10 line script in the cloud.

There's been many times over the years when I wanted to write a simple scraper that does exactly what author describes and what stopped me is the amount of infrastructure bullshit I would have to deal with.
Technically separate? Definitely. But you can't separate exchanges from crypto now. It's how pretty much all mainstream marketing happens for crypto at this point. These kinds of shenanigans have been happening often enough that it's also now part of the culture.

The culture is a real problem for crypto.
> Silicon Valley startup culture

The answer might lay in that, I guess. Mastodon isn't much of a venture capital opportunity. No startup in the space is likely to return billions.
IP laws are messed up, but I just don’t see any reasonable argument for abolishing copyright altogether.

Is your theory that the great artists will still produce even if they make no money and people can redistribute their work for free at will?
I've got a setup where I play photo slideshows on my TV, and also want to play Spotify through my TV/speakers. I've resorted to just spinning up a Spotify webview when the RPI boots XFCE, and it works pretty reliably so far.
Definitely not a way to sell 14 Apes for 1mil without spooking the market
Yep and with the CDK it's not only easy to spin up, it's super easy to connect services to it.

I wrote a notifier for when a local business has open appointments. A quick fetch every day and connected it to SNS seamlessly. Now I can easily add family members if they want the notifications and they can easily unsubscribe right from the email. All within the free tier.
There must be some disconnect here. What mistake do you think road crossers are going to make because of this change?
It could be a valuable confidence booster to be able to talk to someone who projects confidence that they know how to help you, even if their advice boils down to little more than pep talks and encouragement to take some common-sense steps.
Further, for reduced gravity, in space or Moon or Mars, constant or supplemented, surfing research a year or so ago suggested, we basically have no clue.

For instance, it's oft repeated that artificial gravity requires large radii to avoid distress. And yet, centrifuges can be as small as 2 m, as currently on ISS. And people are diverse in their tolerances. And details of motion restriction matter. It's not a small design space. But how does tolerance vary? How to select or train for it? We don't know.

Health side, is the Moon sufficient gravity to blunt various micro-gravity effects? Is Mars? Is some pattern of various levels of gravity exposure? While sleeping, exercising, working? We've no clue.

> I hope more funding goes into microgravity effect

My main takeaway was, once Starship can provide lower-cost long-term vibration-tolerant physically-larger orbital housing for more people ... there's a large space medicine research agenda that's been backlogged for years on lack of plausible cost opportunities.
> James Baussmann, iRobot’s spokesperson, said in an email the company had “taken every precaution to ensure that personal data is processed securely and in accordance with applicable law,” and that the images shared with MIT Technology Review were “shared in violation of a written non-disclosure agreement between iRobot and an image annotation service provider.” In an emailed statement a few weeks after we shared the images with the company, iRobot CEO Colin Angle said that “iRobot is terminating its relationship with the service provider who leaked the images, is actively investigating the matter, and [is] taking measures to help prevent a similar leak by any service provider in the future.”
The Rivian R1S is an SUV. The Rivian R1T is a pickup truck. They have two different consumer models now.
A great alternative to latex is doconce. It can output html, latex and various other formats.

http://hplgit.github.io/doconce/doc/web/index.html