skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with some of the ideas in this piece.

> And yet I don’t use them. Why? Building them was fun, sure, but there must be utility to a personal database.

There is utility in doing things that are fun. Even if that fun thing does not increase your productivity. There are deeper issues if enjoying how you spend your time is a problem.

> Pointlessness of Organization: my Calibre and Zotero libraries are a mess. But is that bad? Is there any point to organizing them? I can always find what I need, either by searching or browsing

If you know where to look and how to find your stuff, you're sufficiently organized.

> migrating everything from my filesystem, from Calibre, from Zotero, from my browser bookmarks, etc. is a huge process

This is a common claim, but the truth is that there's no need to move, say, files into a new system. The simplest thing to do is keep a note listing where you can find stuff outside the new system. Been doing that for years, and it's never failed.

Finally, I don't like the conflation of tools for thought with spending large amounts of time on useless things. People use cars to get away after robbing banks. The question is whether the problem is car ownership or how criminals use their time.
It was a feature for years and years. I'm fairly certain I used "print to pdf" fairly often on my very first android phone way back in (2008?)
Thanks for asking me to clarify. I mean it in the literal sense: they want a world without trans people. I'm not interested really in getting into my subjective views on the harm I believe that leads to, but Ill answer and say no, I don't believe very many people want direct violence against trans people.

I don't know if you can group trans people into a political category where you can say they all don't want conservatives to exist??? I literally know trans conservatives who voted for trump (you'd not be able to tell they are trans).
If anything that's what makes them more dangerous. I tried Copilot for a month and ended my subscription. It will write a SQL query with all the expected keywords in there: a WHERE for a filter, an ORDER BY for a sort, but the way it combines these things, especially recursive queries, is almost always wrong except the most trivial queries which I would have written by hand in no time anyway.
That's even worse, then.
It’s a reservation and they’re the natives there. And the average is quite young, so I think everyone who can escape does (which can harm the remainder in other ways).
We all have opinions, but seems that it is in the best interests of the US to support Ukraine.
I use k8s in Docker desktop, so I tried using ksync, but it’s just broken. Lots of reports of it not working. I’m gonna play with a rolling my own syncing solution, either host -> vm or the other way around.
I don't disagree with your logic but your conclusion that one term is better than the other. The globe is warming, and individual climates are changing as a result. One is not a better term then the other, people are just using the wrong terms to suit their agendas.
For the same reason they cannot stockpile.

Moving is very expensive. Then how can they afford rent in a more expensive area? How will they find jobs?
I have mixed feelings: on one side I think that going electric is an evolutionary need at scale, we can't munge more from classic ICEs so it's time to build something better on one side, on the other we have many infra to distribute electricity, water, oil, gas, data, ... IF we can cut some of them, like we have done with the convergence to IP means a bigger step toward simplification and money saving. On the other side, also as an EV owner, I think we are not there. We just start to being able to produce usable EV for a sufficiently board set of possible use case.

Let's observe the society at a whole:

- we do need roads, or something equivalent because while we can fly also over land we can't easily fly anything, a cheap drone can fly a mail over a short distance, but fly some industrial machines, component needed to build a home etc are too large too heavy to be moved by air at acceptable costs or even at all in some cases;

- we do need water, at home/factory so we need pipes;

- we need data networks;

- we need electricity networks etc.

Can we erase oil pipelines? Gas pipelines? Their pumping station, the extractions fields, transport and processing stuff etc? Well not completely so far, for instance we need oil for plastic witch include electrical insulation materials, lubricants, joints, absorbing materials for pads/tampons, shoes, tissues, .... but we can drop MANY of them at the price of a bigger electricity network. This means far less stuff to build and maintain. Positive. Electricity is hard but we need it anyway and we can produce it at a significant scale from various sources. Electric motors are effective, well-known, powerful and have many margin of improvement.

That means a good advance.

BUT if we can't spread them on scale, produce enough batteries, energy, recycle enough raw materials than it's a disastrous move. It's something should be started BY THE PUBLIC with attentive and calm peace, instead of trying offloading costs on the people for private profits. And that's my concern.
I grew up in North Dakota, and the place in this news story is in South Dakota. I knew plenty of folks in rural areas with enough resources for weeks, not days. Running water might be the exception, but many farmers I know had well water.
Oh wow, people are becoming self aware enough to think outside the present. Maybe there is still hope for society.
What speech do they want to compel?
Like most agencies the FCC's emphasis is "Federal." I used to have a ton of respect and even admiration for the FCC when I was first getting an amateur radio license, but ever since the net neutrality fiasco and Ajit Pai's complete and total lack of any sense of structure or objective during his tenure for the organization aside from cronyism and smug apathy, its just another appendage to me.

Things like phone spam should have been curtailed 35 years ago, and spam texts are still a huge problem nobody seems to be able to fix either. Prison phone call companies will likely see a few token wrist-slaps and a moderate reform effort die on the vine as evidence the system "works" but ive no faith, none at all, that a system to which private capital and bureaucrats alike reap so much profit from is going to see a big change.
Our power grids have to do load shedding in both the summer and the winter. It’s fair to say that we’re well past the past that generation/consumption line.
Strange that that era tech gurus dies with pancreatic cancer which is a really rare Cancer
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Check out rumination-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, ideally with guidance and support from a therapist.

I used to hear "just let it go" and think I was being asked to do something impossible! Using a third arm is a great way of putting it.

Turns out the self-regulation needed to "move on" is just a developmental skill. Like any skill, it can be practiced and improved over time. Hope you find this encouraging!
>>leading automotive companies, businesses, governments, and investors agreed

Yes, they are all rent seeking trying to get tax payers to pay for the capital outlays for the transition.

>New Polling Shows U.S. Voters Support

There are a few issues with their poll[1] and their sampling, by looking at their responses it appears they surveyed primary car drivers not SUV or Trucks, while SUV's and Trucks are the top selling class of vehicles this leads me to believe they have problems with their sampling and have a bias towards people that would naturally be more prone to accept BEV replacement

I also take issue with the phrasing of their questions around the public policy being proposed for 2030.

[1]https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5888d6bad2b857a30238e...
I sync KeyPassXC with Google drive across all my devices no problem.
Hah, didn't realize I'd snuck that in there.
> Some people have been completely isolated in their homes for 8 days. I'd say most people, even in rural areas, don't have a supply that'll last longer than that, except for some hardcore preppers.

I wouldn't say that, I try and always have 3 months supply of food on hand in case something happens, even just a temporary job loss, in fact the idea of having less than a full months supply of food on hand seems terrifying to me, as evidenced all you need is one bad winter storm and your looking at starvation.

In fact the church I belong to encourages members to have 1-6 months supply of food on hand in case of emergencies and it would be something I'd recommend everyone do. It gives you substantial peace of mind.
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If someone doesn’t have the money to stock pile some food and fuel do you think they can afford to move?
Really? Are fast charger use an exception? If so, why people make a big deal of Tesla's charging network?

What about people who don't live in detached private houses? Are they exception too?
The expansion boards mentioned (Microsoft Mach, Orchid Turbo) are members of a product category I've ever only seen in ads, never in real life. Probably because they only made sense, pricing-wise, for actual-IBM PCs, not for the clones that pretty much everyone was running (often at a much higher clock speeds than the 'real' PC/XT or even PC/AT, which in my neck of the woods was never that popular: the 386SX was the first must-have upgrade due to its insanely higher speed).

That OS/2 for such cards never sold well is not much of a surprise: OS/2 1.x was pretty much pointless anyway, and even the comparably-more-useful Windows 2.x releases were not exactly bestsellers.

I did some OS/2 1.x development on a PS/2 Model 80, a full-height tower that was as expensive as it was heavy. It had a real 80386, VGA, 2MB RAM, plus a whopping 120MB of disk space. The new proprietary MCA bus wouldn't fit any existing expansion cards, and a lot of existing (DOS/Windows) software wasn't available in the new-fangled 3.5" floppy format either.

Switching the thing on was the best part of the experience: the heavy-duty power switch made a very satisfying 'clunk' sound. The duration of the BIOS memory test and the OS/2 boot process were less fun, and software development was downright horrible: despite the US$ 5000 price tag, the OS/2 SDK was extremely limited and slow, and only used the 386 as a slightly faster 286 (whereas DOS-based tooling at the time would let you do some pretty interesting things already).
I don't see a path to global decarbonization that doesn't include major reductions in fossil fuel production, and I don't see a path to major reductions in fossil fuel production that doesn't produce major price variability in (fossil) fertilizer production inputs. It's good that we aim to reduce our datacenter energy usage, but that may not prevent the avoidable starvation of millions of people.
Isn't Arise setting itself up for some enterprising lawyers to contact all employees on Facebook and start mass arbitration? They are forced on their side to respond to each and every arbitration and they are pretty sure to lose any time the 6 factors check is used to determine if the "contractor" is an employee or not.

So, unless I misunderstand something, that's a big existential threat for Arise.
Sorry, I'm not reading all of that. I stopped at the second paragraph.

The answer to the question doesn't actually matter, not to you, and not to me. It's a ploy to try and confound the conversation. If you and the other poster really feel it needs to be defined, then define cancelled as "the thing that happened to Dorian Abbot". boom, you're done. It now has a definition, tautological, but valid nonetheless.

The thing that should be getting discussed is whether or not what happened to him should have happened to him. And the answer is no, it shouldn't happen to anyone.

And now I'm going to leave you with an observation by Richard Feynman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFIYKmos3-s
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Easy to search for "anti-trans laws US" and do your research here.

Newsflash, trans people have always been a thing. Since like, recorded history. Some people in the US just decided to start caring about this now.
> So it collects intelligence?

Collects and shares intelligence, intelligence assessments, and recommendations on mitigating threats indicated by that intelligence with other domestic and friendly government and private sector entities, yes.

That's all very much part of the FBI’s overt, primary, national security role.

Is there potential for confusion that needs careful clarity, especially when communicating with legally unsophisticated parties, when government agency has both advisory/supportive roles and enforcement roles, to avoid confusion about which role it is acting in? Sure.

Is Twitter the kind of unsophisticated entity where this concern is strongest? No. Is there any evidence that the FBI communication blurred the context of communication with Twitter such that there is nevertheless a legitimate concern that they were, explicitly or even implicitly, coercive despite Twitter not being unsophisticated? Not that I’ve seen. Is there, coercion aside, evidence that the FBI was intentionally decieiving Twitter with reports, so as to lead Twitter into actions it would not take but for a misleading perception deliberately created by the FBI? Not, again, that I have seen.
Serious question, why aren't the firewood stockpiles in very close proximity to the houses themselves? That's what we do in these parts of the world where I live (Eastern Europe), where even the apartment blocks that still rely on firewood store it very close to the buildings themselves, in walking distance (as can be seen via this GStreetView link [1])

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@46.5413445,22.4545999,3a,49y,10...
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I don't know where this romanticizing of car free cities & no cars comes from, but it has gotten a hold in the eco / environmentalist camp and is being spread like shit on a farm.

It's false advertising. Copenhagen for instance has a very nice climate and is a compact and flat city which lends itself nicely to bicycle transport, not all cities are equal by a long shot.
> The more conventional name for what you are calling "nameable" is "computable":

GP appears to be talking about definable reals, not computable. For example [any particular] Chaitin's constant is definable but not computable.
Interesting how SimCity relied on use-after-free working and that was the issue.

Obviously the correct solution was to rewrite SimCity for Windows 3.x in Rust, thus avoiding this very common bug. /s
For stocks, I strongly recommend reading The Intelligent Investor (Ben Graham). It is very readable and gives a excellent summary of value investing principles, which is on of the safer stock strategies and generally provides decent returns. Reading the Berkshire Hathaway annual reports is also useful in how Buffett things about valuations.
It looks like the Wind River reservation is quite some distance from the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest, I don't think ignorance of the permits is their problem.
I'll share my own story of the Windows 3.1 -> 95 migration and MS Tech support. At the time, I was using my grandfather's old PC that had originally been a 486sx 33mhz processor with 4mb of RAM and a 200mb HDD. We upgraded the machine using an Intel "Overdrive" processor to a 486dx/2 66mhz processor with 8mb of RAM and added a Soundblaster 16 sound card and triple-speed CD ROM drive. I received a copy of Windows 95 for Christmas 1995 and proceeded to install it on the system. It worked pretty well and, a few months later, I decided I wanted to add the "MS Plus!" pack.

I was 14 years old and knew very little about PCs at the time; though, I was learning. What I definitely didn't know at the time was that the HDD in the machine that I was told was nearly 500MB was actually a 200mb drive that had been compressed with an older version of DriveSpace. The addition of Plus! upgraded the compression to DriveSpace 3 which corrupted something on the drive that caused the system to hardlock as soon as the Windows 95 UI appeared no matter what I did.

After spending 4-5 hours on the phone with a very patient tech support specialist at MS, he eventually concluded that I would need to format the drive as nothing we did in those hours worked at all. Definitely a major learning experience for me doing my first full system format and OS reinstall.

By the end of 1996, I'd be doing my first Linux installation on a slightly newer PC that I saved money from a summer job to buy. If it hadn't been for DriveSpace 3 and an MS tech support specialist who educated the hell out of me for a few hours, who knows when (or even if) I would have gone down the rabbit hole that led to my career.
At last, a story of something Microsoft did in the 1990s that we can all support!

(I mean, unless you prize productivity.... goddamn did SimCity eat whole DAYS for me back then.)
I disagree with the evaluation made on the response for a risotto recipe by ChatGPT. While I agree that a lot modern recipe sites are ad filled garbage, I believe there is value in getting a quick glance on who the recipe writer is.

Where culture do they come from? What experience do they have? These insights can help me understand how to adjust the recipe ingredients to my tastes. Versus a generic recipe from ChatGPT that doesn’t provide any context.

Plus if I find a recipe I really like then I can save that website and dig into other recipes from that person because now I know I am more likely to trust their tastes.
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Thank you for this! Exactly what I needed
I suspect that most HN commentators do NOT know exactly how close to starvation and freezing and death they are (you can sit down and calculate it based on which assumptions could fail) but in the places where it gets cold you may be days or less if power fails. If your furnace can’t run without electricity how long does your house stay habitable? What backup heat do you have? If the gas lines are flowing you might be able to use a stove for awhile, or the water heater (both are often firable without electricity) - but how long will your food and water last?
>>The caveat is that many criminals in those countries don’t have the capacity for violence that American criminals have.

I literally mentioned Breivik in my example though? He is probably the worst of the worst and the system knows how to deal with him in a way that makes sense, without having to create special arrangements or exceptions for him. Can you name any American criminal for whom this kind of setup wouldn't be sufficient for?
Seems like people on this site are obsessed with the term "whataboutism" (a rhetorical device used to win arguments which is not being employed here).
The entire purpose of OPs thing is to give you a semblance of workable reflection so you can actually operate on said type. It requires byzantine hacks to read debug info and doesn't work on macOS.

I don't think you understand how people in dynamic languages use any types at all.
Apple uses OSM in some countries (mainly “global south” like Africa).

OSM maps are superior to the new maps in some places like Australia, although maybe in irrelevant ways - there’s not really value in having every single building drawn on the map.
Usually ratting out fellow inmates gets you bonus points for "good behavior", meaning better chances of getting out on parole or a reduced sentence. Basically, you're being an arse for your own gain - which is the reason why cooperating with the wardens usually makes you the lowest of the lowest on the rungs, even below pedophiles and child/wife beaters.
I can vouch for this approach. I lived in the territory of a couple of ravens (close relatives of crows; just as smart and twice as large) and it took me maybe 18 months to build a close relationship.

I started out just talking to them and throwing whole peanuts (roasted, unsalted) on the ground while I was doing it. They looked at me warily and did not come close. Later on, the peanuts would disappear, but I was never sure why. This period lasted months.

Eventually they would come down when I threw a peanut and approach it warily. If it was closer than 15 or 20 feet to me, I'd have to back away to give them enough room. Then I could throw another peanut near (but not at!) them and they'd walk over to get it.

After many more months of this (six, I'd guess) they were somewhat less wary of me and would hang out on our back fence sometimes. So we worked out a ritual. I would place a piece of food on the fence rail and back away; they'd hop over and get it. As he suggested, I would talk with them as I did it. I'm sure the words didn't matter, but I suspect the tone did, and it helped me focus on being soothing with voice, body language, and behavior.

Toward the end of my time there we got so that one of them would take high-value food, like a chicken bone with bits of meat left on it, straight out of my hand. That one, who we called George, would happily sit pretty close to me after eating. Out of arm's reach, of course; they were still a bit wary. But it would settle down and chill out. Truly a magical experience to just hang out with a big, smart bird like that. You looking at one another, both trying to figure out exactly what the other's deal is. And me, at least, knowing, that I'd never fully know.
Good on him. This is the grown up equivalent of a race car bed.
There wasn't, sorry - it's a weird habit I have when arguing online.
You should start a show. "Survival with Marie Antoinette" is a good title.
>We spread manure from farm animals over produce fields

You do not want to stop this. Topsoil is a damn complicated thing, and bacteria and other decomposers are critical to freeing up and breaking down organic material to keep the nutrient cycle going. Try growing a plant in a sterile soil, and you end up having to maintain it on artificial fertilizers instead of being able to let microbiota do their thing.

I've got a hunch part of our degradation in crop nutrition and loss of topsoil quality is probably stemming from overuse of chemical fertilizer, as well as fundamental microbiome depletion from overuse of antibiotics in industrial farming processes. The unfortunate part being there may not be much to be done about it if there is a desire to maintain our current population carry capacity, because replenishing of it would require reversion to less short-term efficient agriculture, but more long term sustainable methods.
Or having the experience to not want to deal with that OS
Ask HN: DHL contacted me on WhatsApp and wants me to send them money
Sorry for the clickbaity title, I'm in a rural area and don't receive post, I recently got a package sent to me internationally via DHL (you can imagine the occasion). There are customs duties to pay, but DHL's payment page is broken, confirmed by a friend spending 1 hour on the phone with them. Then a couple of days later I get a WhatsApp message (we don't have mobile service here, but we do have internet) saying I should transfer the import tax payment to an account and they sent me a photograph of the account on a piece of paper. Questions: is this normal, should I pay, and how can this the level of security that DHL, probably the biggest postal company in the world, employs?
> If you know the function to jump to at compile time and not wait to runtime to decide where to jump

Well, I don’t know about more dynamic languages, but single dispatch can be very well optimized away, Java for example can determine how many possible implementation of a given method is loaded, and simply JIT compile or even inline the function if there is only a single implementation. Later, it can deoptimize that call, e.g. when a new class is loaded at runtime that also implements that method. This is one area where JIT is definitely in a better position than AOT compilers.