skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually one thing I liked from this is the folder structure in his Cartesian app screenshots.

Personal → Autogeny (i’m imagining “talking points”, key recurring personal concepts), book of days (daily notes, journal). Documents and people, self explanatory. ”Thoughts” i’m unsure of but probably misc grab bag things that arent profound or important enough for autogeny.

“Trove” is a nice name for the random collection of interesting tidbits and stuff I also tend to collect in my vault
If a store notes that Customer#510 has stopped buying tampons and has started to buy baby clothes, and wishes to sell this information to an advertiser. Does Customer#510 have any expectation of control over this data? Who really owns the data?

You are not in control of what others know about your shopping history. Your shopping history _WILL_ change when life events start up, and that's enough for advertisers to target you with new ads.

I'm sure a private individual doesn't like "leaking" this kind of data to others. But even if you didn't have an account, Web Browsers have cookies, your computer and internet has IP addresses, your credit card numbers and bank accounts also track you. The store (Amazon) will know your change of behavior and use that to bombard you with baby clothes advertisements.
I just don't have the security expertise to make the judgement, and, let's face it, that's true of most of us. Which is of course why you're asking, but you're not guaranteed to get answers from people you know to be any more knowledgeable than you. Somewhere you have to rely on good old human trust.

Finding the info re where to place your trust is tricky. I happen to have been personally recommended 1Password by a genuine security expert who uses it for his family, and that's about the best I can do. I know Agilebits pays for regular 3rd party security audits / pen tests. I guess you could look further into those. I know they're financially sustainable so can afford the expertise they need (which is part of why I think subscription a good model for software like this - I want Agilebits to be on a long-term secure footing). As far as we know publicly, they also have an excellent security record (which LastPass didn't even before the recent breach).

[edit - there's more info here https://support.1password.com/security-assessments/]
What's forgotten is that people were forced to take it, continuously lied to, had lifehood destroyed and their options suppressed just to over time get to hear "oh, yeah, your were right but you're bad at assessing risk so no one should care".

And this is just a first of more bad reactions to vaccines that are happening, which should be added up. And then mortality comparison for kids will be much different.

All that was required to avoid this madness was being honest and make jabs voluntary.

People gauge the trust they should put in the medical government complex actually quite well.
Not doubting your story, but wanted to add that many European Jewish communities especially wound up with surnames that reference geography. That would have happened centuries before the US existed, representing migrations that happened in Europe.

Don't have a lot of details on this history (which i heard orally) but a Google search for "Jewish surnames geography" seems to back me up.
During the winter, and in storms like this, solar and wind is almost nil. Upstate NY gets very cold. And they are mandating people transition away from oil or gas into using heat pumps. Heat pumps are next to worthless in subzero weather. Oh, and they are also trying to phase out nuclear.
A lot of people are saying "read a lot" and "write a lot". These are necessary, but if you want to improve as much as possible you should be doing more than this. Imagine if you asked a musician how they learned their craft and they said all they did was listen to music and play? That they never took a lesson or course, and never read about music (just listened)?

If you want to improve as much as possible, you also need to study. This means reading good works on writing, getting in situations where you get advice and critiques, and analyzing writing (which is more than just reading).

I wound up in a job where I reviewed and edited other people's writing regularly and this was also immensely helpful. It made me really get analytical about what worked or didn't, and shone a light on some things that could be better in my own work - both from reading writing that was good and helping correct and provide feedback on writing that was bad.

OTOH I really like the Pinker "A Sense of Style", "Dreyer's English", "On Writing Well", "Steering the Craft", and "The Making of a Story". (There are lots of others I like too, but these are top of mind.)
That is my take as well. Everyone around me keeps at least 1 cord of wood [1] or more. It can get cold here and people are expected to be self sufficient. The less fortunate people instead of buying wood will get a permit from the state to chop wood from a specified area but then they have to haul/cut/dry/season the wood themselves usually borrowing a neighbors trailer. People here are friendly and share tools.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cord_(unit)
The Russians did explore Alaska and interact with natives, but all they did was set up some missionary and trade posts. China explored Africa and then became isolationist. Japan was always isolationist until forced to open up by the US.
Another way to look at it: burning coal produces natural resources, building powerplants from solar panels and wind turbines produces lots of non-recyclable plastic. Which one will pollute more once we generate energy from solar panels than coal plants? (serious question)
Why? I'm pretty clear here: I'm for responsible weed use, but I think legalizing weed will lead to massive irresponsible use
That's my experience as well. I've tried Tabnine and Copilot and they're both useful as fancy line autocompleters when you know what you want to type. However they're unreliable to write code directly from business logic. They'll usually write code that _seems_ to be doing the right thing but with very subtle bugs because they don't understand the intent of the function and just try to mimic what's already there.
I’m very sorry the movie made you that angry. I hope it’s one of those things you can see again in a few years and enjoy in a new light. I was like that with Steve Martin’s The Jerk: hated it, thought it was banal, came to appreciate it years later.

You may or may not be right about the ideas in Glass Onion being trivial, but how blind must the author of this clickbait review have been to not even notice that literally Yo-Yo Ma, literally playing himself, literally sets up the movie’s structure and explains why it plays out the way it does, in one of the first scenes? You can think that’s dumb, but you can’t ignore it when writing a critique!

This supposed revelation of “bad writing” is just clickbait from someone who didn’t understand the (yes, blatant! yes, arguably trivial!) structure the movie was exploring.
How do you compare Fall of Civilizations to Hardcore History?

Big fan of hardcore history (listened to all of the multi-part series several times), but never heard of Fall of Civilizations.
It seems well designed, as it's an optional dependency as of now.

> By default, YJIT does not get compiled and cargo/rustc is not required. If YJIT is built in dev mode, then cargo is used to fetch development dependencies, but when building in release, cargo is not required, only rustc. At the moment YJIT requires Rust 1.60.0 or newer.

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/5826
I found Glass Onion's writing far from “lazy”.

> Instead, he used the most basic and lazy trick in the book: withholding information for no good reason whatsoever … With Glass Onion, our main perspective character was performing. And we didn’t know because the movie refused to let us know.

No, the movie is playing with your expectations around genre-typical knowledge gaps.

In classical murder mysteries like the original Knives Out, our knowledge gap is loosely aligned with the protagonist: they arrive at the scene knowing roughly what we know (“there's been a murder”), they outpace us to see through the unreliable witnesses and extend their knowledge gap through brilliant detective work, until the denouement where they explain what was in plain sight all along.

In Glass Onion the knowledge gaps are numerous and they're sliced, layered and reordered:

- There's a large initial knowledge gap between us and Benoit. He is not just ahead of us: he has a 50% head start. This gap slams shut halfway through the movie by backfilling information on how Benoit really came to receive his invitation to the island.

— A new gap opens: the knowledge we now share with Benoit is not yet known to the guests on the island, and we get to enjoy this with him as a reward for the initial “deceit”. From this point we have caught up with the protagonist, at the small cost of our poor reviewer feeling cheated at having interpreted simple unreliable narration as the movie _refusing_ to present the facts to him in tired chronological order.

— Yet another gap opens because for the first time in the film — only halfway through our murder mystery! — we know who was murdered but we don't yet know who murdered them. This presents us with the classical murder mystery knowledge gap that the reviewer wanted to exist from the film's start.

— The writers pepper extra knowledge gaps that provide more unknowns, some of which are new (who “killed” Miles in his murder mystery game?) and others that exist to provide coherence with the original Knives Out. (Who invited Benoit? Is the murderer of all victims the same person?)

> This gets back to something Hitchock [sic] talked about regarding tension. If you watch a scene where two people talk at a restaurant for five minutes then a bomb goes off, it’s boring for 5 minutes and shocking for an instant. If you watch a scene where someone plants a bomb under a table, then two characters show up and talk for five minutes, you’re wondering the entire time if the bomb will go off. It makes the conversation much more dynamic.

Glass Onion achieves far more dynamism than this! The murder-mystery format itself provides the “bomb under the table”: we start from the first minute knowing that a murder will be committed. When halfway through that “bomb” has not gone off yet the dynamic tension is unbearable. It's released with the first bomb's detonation (someone is murdered), only to be replaced immediately by more fizzing fuses (we learn that another is dead, and that the murderer must know there's an imposter).
The world is not as simple as you want it to be.

It’s a negative feedback loop.

The current customer service is so bad that people who call get traumatized so next time they call they put up their defenses and sound more of an asshole than they typically are. The customer service reps then assume (as you have done) that people who call in are absolute assholes and therefore give less of a fuck when answering calls next time. The cycle repeats.
I wouldn’t recommend python or ruby if you’re trying to learn more about functional programming… you may as well stick with JS in that case (imo, at least). I’d choose a language that has at least had native immutability. Something like Elixir/Erlang, OCaml, Clojure, or F#.
I used similar setup ages ago with MS access and MySQL ODBC connector, we used it for license management in helpdesk, basically a way to easily create CRUD apps
Playing with and building note taking tools as a form or procrastination is a real issue.

I went from Emacs Org Mode to Workflowy to Roam and the thing I like best out of all of these is not necessarily zettelkasten personal wikis but just being able to make a simple list for today, or outline an article I'm writing.

For me these tools work best when you can use them much like a physical notepad. More structure can be extracted and organized but in a pinch they can be replaced with a todo.txt.
I didn't mean to say what you said was inaccurate. I clicked the link because I thought it was some KeepassXC option for cloud sync but it was just an FAQ saying you can save your vault file on various cloud platforms.

Just an additional since even KeepassXC didn't mention it.
I don’t stack plates at dinner parties, I clear each guests plate separately. In the kitchen I discretely clear the plate into the garbage then stack the plates in the sink, adding some water, then tending to the next course.
In November 2022, Marie-José Hoefmans & Onno Hansen-Staszyński & Bob Hageman wrote a paper called "Schluss"

Whoops, I just shared their personal data.
"You can only be fully in control when you are in full control of the originals of your data – and no copies are allowed to exist."

Privacy and other fundamental rights are sometimes at odds.
Privacy and realism are sometimes at odds.
For perspective:

> "After the larva stage, female mayflies usually live less than five minutes, while males can live a whopping two days. But they don't waste a single minute, spending that short period of time mating and reproducing"
Another alternative is for women to refuse to participate in such competitions en masse, or to threaten to. Basically taking strike action against unfair conditions.

It came close to this in a British cycling race back in March: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/mar/30/trans-cyclist-...

"The UCI's decision came amid a growing backlash from within the sport, with the Guardian understanding that a number of female riders were talking about boycotting the event in Derby because they felt that Bridges, who was on the Great Britain Academy programme as a male rider until being dropped in 2020, had an unfair advantage."
Plenty of BSOD calls for sure. Also some very memorable calls from a bunch of Linux guys who would think-up of a monster Windows machine loaded with all sorts of crazy hardware peripherals and call support to mess with us.
For me it’s better than search engine. If promted correctly it can summarise and synthetise hours of work.
Self-hosted bitwarden plus Tailscale is something I’ve been considering. To avoid exposing the server to the internet.
Latter statement you quoted accurately describes VC and start up world.

Big tech was even worse than this. Monopoly? That implies a vision and proper focus to achieve business goals.

My take is far less generous. This was one of the biggest grifts in recent times. the professional managerial class obsessed not with their products or services but instead on increasing headcount, building empires, and getting promotions. Office politics and political games played by people who produced little to no economic value.
You have the aggressive asserts in during development, you can make them nonfatal in release builds. Though many games actually leave them on, for example World of Warcraft still has them set to crash the game with a detailed error message. Tabula Rasa (the ill-fated MMO) handled many assertion failures in a nonfatal way with an in-game popup, and errors in WoW mods also don't crash the game.

Most of the games I work on have a mixed approach where if an error is recoverable I don't crash out, but if it's not then I fail-fast out with a detailed error popup. An example of a recoverable error would be a bug causing a player-activated ability to fail to activate, while fail-fast would be the right choice for something like an unexpected null in a data structure.
I am the original poster. As I said in my post, the fireplace is mainly decorative and we are NOT relying on it for heat. However it is our plan B/C if shit hits the fan, in which case huddling the family in front of the radiant fire is a much preferable alternative to dying of cold, efficiency aside.
>All you needed was to shovel like 20 meters of path and maybe a wheelbarrow.

According to the article some of the areas are getting 30 inches of snow and ice!

With drifts easily doubling that, I could see how 20 meters could quickly become near impossible to clear by hand, especially while it's still coming down.
It appears that you may have misunderstood the distinction between guidelines and their enforcement. While the guidelines themselves are public, the methods of enforcement are not made publicly available in order to prevent individuals from attempting to circumvent them.

> See that's another you problem you changed something and now your search results are distorted. Here are screenshots from 5 different VPN locations with different browsers and different user agents... https://imgur.com/a/P4zoAzf
Wait I just used this; didn't realize it was new.
I forget exactly how it worked, but you could just reboot into MS-DOS on your Windows 95 computer. Crucial for running games.
It's not really technical though is it?

It's the community around D, the micro design decisions. If everything online presupposes you're using garbage collection most of the time, if everything in the language also makes that supposition sure possible to still go against the grain but it does feel like you're going against the grain.

Feel and community support is as important as anything else in a language decision.
GPUs and games have a vested commercial interest in ensuring they work.

On the other hand, both the website and browser are mostly provided for free. Paid websites often do put the extra effort in to make it work everywhere, eg IE/Safari compat.
Very few? Maybe for single family homes, but electric heat is very common in apartments - Every apartment I've ever lived in had electric baseboard heaters.

Apparently it's #2 is the US with 37% of homes.

https://www.climatecentral.org/news/your-heating-fuel-depend...

Now that I live in a single family house I use oil to heat the house - but the boiler requires electricity.
Are you suggesting the inductive stove top because it’s more energy efficient?

Thank you for sharing all of these recommendations.
Seems like your problem is your kid being singleton with nobody to play with. I can't imagine spending every waking minute trying to entertrain my kid, which is one of the reasons I have two kids, so they have each other and can for sure play better together than with me an adult.

The problem with work and kids is I wanna rest after working and playing with kids ain't exactly resting, if I had option whether just not work and play with kids I would for sure like that. For me even paid vacation ain't option, if take vacation my income takes hit, so I am most of the time forced to work even during vacation. So yes, I would enjoy paid holidays with my kids without worrying about job waiting for me or losing money. If you have paid holidays/vacation, can enjoy time with your kid and you still prefer work over spending time with your kid I think maybe it would not be baid idea visiting psychologist.
Having "industry professionals" in this sort of study actually puts it in the top tier of studies. Most studies don't even have that, they're all undergrad based.

(Sometimes people express frustration that we don't pay much attention to "the science" in the programming field, and my response is generally to tell such people to take a closer look at the "science" they're trying to wave around. Studies based on "a class full of juniors in college" top out at zero value, and it's really easy for them to be negative as they can be actively wrong about how the topic under study affects professionals.)

In this case, though, I'd submit that one doesn't need to run some sort of enormous study to establish the point that these code assistants are not a magic gateway to quality code at any experience level. I've been banging this drum on HN just from an understanding of how the tech works. Confabulation engines can't help but confabulate. You can't trust them. This GPT stuff is perhaps a better view into human psychology than a useful tool; we've never built an AI that so strongly emits signals of confidence before. They're the best artificial confidence game players ever.
If the economics were rational, I’d agree with you.

Humans inability to effectively organize doesn’t matter to the bacteria. As a species, we have the ability to understand that what happens in impoverished areas impacts us all. The smart move would be to rethink healthcare, globally.

Otherwise, those bacteria, who can’t argue, will just relentlessly keep evolving.
A significant chunk of current inflation is flat-out corporate greed.

This can be seen from the fact that companies are posting record profits...while also saying "but we have to raise prices 20%, because of 7% inflation!"
"It's OK because it wasn't many people. Now, let me tell you about the one account that got suspended I'm mad about."

Come on.
I thought one of the most interesting parts of this article was the section discussing the tests used to determine if a person is considered an employee. Quoting from the story:

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To determine if a worker, no matter how labeled, is actually an independent contractor or an employee, courts have fashioned an “economic realities test.”

In Pendergraft’s case, the arbitrator, Deborah Hankinson, a former justice on the Supreme Court of Texas, weighed the test’s six factors, checking off those that suggested Pendergraft had been an Arise employee. Did Arise exercise significant control over Pendergraft? Check. “Arise closely monitored all aspects of her work,” Hankinson wrote. Were agents like Pendergraft vital to Arise’s business? Check. “Without CSPs, Arise would have no service to sell,” the arbitrator wrote. Was Pendergraft’s work the kind that required no specialized skill? Check. In the end, Hankinson checked five of the six factors — and the sixth, she determined, could go either way. “Ms. Pendergraft was an employee of Arise,” the arbitrator concluded.

In her ruling issued in February 2015, Hankinson found that Arise, as Pendergraft’s employer, had been required by federal law to pay her the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. The company also had to pay for her training time and equipment expenses.

Added up, that came to $5,841.82.

But that wasn’t all. Employers who violate the Fair Labor Standards Act face lower damages if they can show they had reason to believe they were in the right. An employer, for example, could present evidence that it had consulted labor law experts and followed their advice. Since Arise made no such showing, Hankinson doubled the damages, ordering Arise to pay Pendergraft $11,683.64.
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It's not scalable, but as an existence proof of what you're saying, my partner and I fulfill this role for each other - we each are tasked with remembering different facets of our lives (e.g. I know the plot and cast of every movie we've ever watched, she remembers to pay taxes :).

It seems pretty obvious we're heading for that utopia/dystopia where everyone is assigned a personal assistant loaded onto a pervasive mesh (your glasses, watch, phone, computer, desk, house). On the one hand it sounds great to have an AI assistant that knows what I know, a model of how I think, and the ability to fill in the gaps instantly. On the other, it's so ripe for abuse/deepening inequality, the idea almost qualifies as "don't create the torment nexus".
ublock origin and background video fix addons are great
I relate.

A good project is your best friend

Call it "escapism", except without the feeling of worthlessness that comes with drowning yourself in fiction.
>Dark City's aesthetic and story-telling style made it one of the most impactful movies I've ever seen. You are in the dark most of the movie, both in aesthetic of the film and metaphorically in the sense that you don't know what is going on, but discover it slowly, and along the way you are lead to reach premature conclusions that turn out later to be false.

I'll add that if you haven't seen Dark City and are going to watch it, you must seek out the director's cut. The theatrical cut basically ruins the plot up front assuming the audience won't get it and it changes the film dramatically.
Anyone looked at Tana? I'm really liking the concept they call super tags. Makes it easy to extract structure from what is just a giant document of nested lists.