skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear" is a surprisingly sympathetic recounting of the great New Hampshire takeover of a small town by libertarians from around the country. The best of intentions, passion and idealism - and yet "mistakes were made." The book is well researched and well written, funny yet also poignant.

Published in 2020, someone gave it to me for a Christmas present. I'm surprised how quickly I turned the pages....
A former client of mine built a wonderful mobile app that actually calculates your bra size: https://www.wacoal-america.com/find-your-fit
I don't think it's surprising that an all out ban is not in place.

The absurd part to me is know strong the industry is STILL. I think CVS is the only pharmacy that does not sell cigarettes, out of principle. Every other incentive tells merchants to sell cigarettes.

I kinda feel the same way about gambling. But I can do that with a poker game in my house. Tobacco needs an entire supply chain for someone to smoke. The fast that infrastructure is still profitable is kinda wild.
Is it? I upgraded to a Watch 8 recently and it seems to be off by default (it could be that I opted out a million years ago on my old watch and it carried over).

Though I distinctly remember being asked about it when setting up my mom’s watch a few years ago so maybe it’s based on age?
“That’s a certainty” - based on what evidence?

Most indicators show that we have reached (or will reach within a year or two) peak global fossil fuel consumption. Even the EIA (who have been notoriously conservative in recognizing the transformative effects of renewables in energy markets) are conceding as much.

https://www.iea.org/news/the-world-s-coal-consumption-is-set...
They're standard for beginning of line, end of line, cut line when using bash/zsh; that's already most of the way there.

I use vim day to day but I do miss pico's ctrl-k/ctrl-u behavior for doing quick block cut/paste.
It is kind of interesting, it looks like the Weyland timeline is kind of a mess. They apparently ignored the Alien vs Predator backstory when writing Prometheus.

https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/index.php?topic=45645.0

So Prometheus has Weyland Corp from 2012. AvP has Weyland Industries, which the folks on that forum think is supposed to be founded in the 80’s. So hypothetically there could be an AvP/Stranger Things crossover.

But I think a more likely explanation is that a character in the Stranger Things universe is a fan of the Aliens series, since the first two movies came out in ‘79 and ‘84. Hopefully the world will be sufficiently diverged from the real life timeline by the upside-down, and they will be spared the horrors of Alien 3.
> I would consider the Nintendo Switch about the maximum size for something to comfortably travel with

I don't understand why. The SD fits in every bag I take with me. Unless all you travel with is a purse? Then I guess sure, it's too big. But the SD being 250g heavier and it being larger than the Switch are all positives for me. It has such a solid feel and the sides are more ergonomic in a way that makes it more comfortable to use than my Switch ever was.
New homes should be built to better insulation standards. You have to solve so much and use so much energy to solve for a drafty house or lack of insulation on the outside walls. Newer homes are factoring in the R-value of 2x6s and finding ways to insulate those now.

In this scenario, high efficiency heat pump with a backup gas fireplace. Those typically don't require any electricity to run as they can ignite off AA battery or a push button. My PC battery backups barely last 30 minutes on a wifi router because of conversion loss. Furnace fans also account for up to 1/3 of energy usage of a unit. Cogneration would add $5-10k to a home build versus a 50 gallon propane tank with a single emergency gas fireplace unit.
Whether stated plainly or satirically, the point should honestly be obvious.
I think it’s the opex of 2 grid connections that messes with the numbers.

Depends on how your utility charges, but I feel like many/most sell you the gas roughly “at cost” and then some fixed monthly delivery/connection charge that covers their regulated rate of return on their network equity.

Oil or propane supplemental heat might be cheaper than Natgas supplemental heat. My money is on wood pellet stoves for supp heat for those that don’t require full automation. Or maybe even dirty coal…
Is the pool of open positions shrinking or growing? That might give a better idea of the rate that companies are able to hire now, compared to before
I've help maintain a few nearby and we rotate out books to keep them both fresh and relevant
I've heard of nicotine as nootropic and I've been meaning to get the gum. Also, I believe it's about the only thing in cigarettes that is not carcinogenic.
> but that doesn't feel particularly necessary to me

I mean, then the SD isn't for you, no? Just get a Vita or one of the modern indie pocket gaming handhelds.
And on the flip side, many climate-change proponents seem to be on a crusade to show how dumb skeptics are.
If someone asked you what drill they should buy having never used a drill before, not knowing what theyre going to use it for, but probably 'hanging pictures and stuff'. Would you suggest a top of the line SDS Max drill, or would you suggest some bog standard inexpensive drill that does the basics?

less powerful doesn't mean worse if you aren't using the features. It just makes it harder to use.
It has surprised me that the majority of pottery shards I find in the New Mexico desert are painted. The unpainted ones are the exceptions. So these must not have been special ceremonial pots, but for every day use. The fact that the pueblo people put such a high value on decoration for everyday objects is fascinating. I think of aboriginals as utilitarians struggling to survive. But if you're taking the time to decorate normal pots, survival must be relatively assured.

I'd like to exchange lives with someone who made those pots for a for a few weeks, and compare notes. I wonder if I have more or less free time than they do.
Again, you can rest assured that nobody's asking me my opinion on whether other people's lives should be ended, and I'm not looking to end mine, either.

And fortunately, given how these processes are set up, nobody will ask you, either. You win some, you lose some.
Last year was a terrible year for me for reading. I think I only completed one book, and that's Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.

The book is full of describing some different fictional city (or is it? one passage suggests maybe that's not the case), often with a different theme or flavor of strangeness that might be a metaphor for something in our lives. Every so often it changes it up by having Marco Polo (who is telling the stories of these cities) have a conversation with Kublai Khan.

I don't know if I enjoyed it as much as everyone else did (going off the almost universal glowing critic and reader reviews). Part of that might have been because I kept assuming the story was leading to some big reveal or something bigger than the structure of '4 chapters each describing a fantastical city followed by 1 chapter of conversation between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan'. I wanted something that tied it all together and made me go 'Aha! That's clever!'.

I never got that. If it was just billed as like a bunch of short vignettes about fantastical cities and that's it (no conversations), I might have just enjoyed picking it up, flipping to a random city, reading it, and enjoying it that way. The conversations periodically kept misleading me into thinking it was more than that, and I ended up getting impatient with the city chapters, wanting to get to the conversations where I was hoping a little more of the real story got revealed.

I'm still somewhat hopeful there really is more to it and I just missed it, although reading some reader reviews didn't seem to suggest otherwise.

That being said, maybe check it out, and if you go into it without the expectation that there's a grand overarching story to it you might enjoy it more. And some of the city vignettes were quite interesting. Although there were more misses than hits for me amongst them.
When i was hired at my last job i made a phone call to a higher up that ended with "yeah we'd love to have you, consider yourself hired. We just need to work through the process". Even then, it was 30 days until an offer letter and start date was in my inbox. If you're starting from scratch then 2-3 months sounds about right to me.
Gosh what a nuanced take that is.

I enjoy reading the news and then discussing it with friends that are also news readers. That's the hobby aspect for me (and aforementioned friends). Together we try to predict what will happen in the world (wars, inflation, energy transition, stock market, ...) and quite often at least one of us is completely right or spectacularly wrong, which makes it fun for us.

I know it's not very useful but I enjoy it and it doesn't make me depressed or angry. Just let me have my fun.
I have this data handy, too. Wikipedia[1] lists only 3 of 19 coal fired power plants below 500 MW, so that’s not representative. My point was that these entities blow out the same amount of CO2 as millions of cars.

Residential electricity use in Australia is below 1/3[2].

I’m not sure if residents and their cars are the first to blame.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coal-fired_power_stati...
[2]https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Electricity-consumption-...
I wrote a similar wrapper around Rage+Yubikeys called pass [1], even before I knew passage existed.
The fzf integration in your page is beautiful, I'll implement it in pass next.

[1] https://github.com/mihaigalos/pass
This topic probably directly concerns more HN users than many other front page topics.
> work similarly and take similar times

Except that I tested them and they didn't. I hadn't "lost locally cached metadata". And it didn't just scan all the source files again, it re-transferred them over the network. All 4TB of it! That's why it took so long. (At that time the sever was still local, because I wanted to make the initial run not over the Internet. So there wasn't even added latency.)

I'm sure it was a bug, maybe even in combination with OpenBSD, which moste likely is fixed now. As I said it was years ago. I compared and was more happy with borg. Which stood the test of time and saved my ass multiple times.
Want to talk about it?
> Please read the posting guidelines

Yes my friend, you should do this once more. And than reconsider most carefully what you've actually written before.

> Non-open platform is non-open, but despite being less non-open than most other non-open platforms out there, it's somehow still worse, […]

Yes. :-)

Do you even realize how weird this statement is? A "non-open" platform (is this Apple's marketing speech for closed platform?) is in fact "non-open", even if it claims to be "less non-open" [sic] than something else. Very very true.

At least we're now on the same page regarding the fact that Apple's platform isn't open in any way. It's a closed ecosystem, hostile to anything that could threaten its gatekeeper (and in some parts monopoly) position around Apple's broader offerings.

Of course this makes it easy to run any OS you like on Apple hardware, right? ;-)
Back Then. When was that? At University (1978) we used Pascal as the first language to learn (if you exclude CDC Cyber 6600 assembly). Yes we did the Discrete math problems common in CS (https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Floyd-WarshallAlgorithm.html). We did other things as well. The professors were a mix of hippies, math geeks, and the Doctors from Doctor Who. Most knew both the academic and fun side of programming.

I guess it depends on the school and people there to create a fun but educational culture.
On the other hand smoking in the US has declined significantly in the last couple decades. I would hazard both regulation and more public awareness of the negative effects played a big part. We are still in the midst of the smoking moment for social media and excessive smart phone usage, the ill effects are still not widely known, studied or even agreed upon let alone regulated. Once they are we will see a drop but it will never truly go away. IMO there is an advantage here over smoking for regulators, targeted advertising provides the incentive structure that leads to most of this addiction and that can be regulated.
Yes. This is the way. Once you use stores you realize how complicated state management was made.

Redux in particular was so dogmatic about it. So much boilerplate. State is ephemeral. There’s no reason to need one global store.
No, that's not my point. Some people in that early sect didn't care about the Jesus preached by Paul. Even the new testament tells about people who were preaching the gospel of Apollo, some baptized in the name of John Baptist alone (Acts 19:3), and as in 1st Cor 1: "What I mean is that each of you says, “I belong to Paul,” or “I belong to Apollos,” or “I belong to Cephas,” or “I belong to Christ.”" In 2nd Cor 11 Paul confirms that other people were preaching another savior, completely different from his own. These people were all competing for the same ideas and followers (mostly descendants or sympathizers of Jews in Asia Minor).

It was the success of Paul's version of Christianity that made everyone follow his "revealed Jesus" point of view, which later was embellished in the "gospel of Mark" as a person living in Israel, and reedited several times by different anonymous writers.
Living in the semi-arid American Southwest (about 15" of rain a year), the occasional brief-but-heavy rainfalls during late summer can give an overwhelming scent of petrichor. If walking or hiking outside, it's inescapable, since it literally comes from every patch of ground; and while pleasant enough in small doses, it can get strong enough that it feels hard to breathe, like walking through a desperate Macy's.
The absence of this, at least in the US, is that there's essentially no country side properly understood. A bucolic permeable area that a city person can integrate in their daily life.

The only way to enjoy the outdoors in America is as an activity. Drive there, park there. Do your thing. Come back. There's no osmosis or liminal space between urban and wilderness. It's either mechanized space for cars, or fenced off space for outdoor activity on the other (and even that you'll often end up sharing with off-road motorsports enthusiasts).

It shocked me for example, living in western europe, how easy it was to leave a bustling city center and enjoy rural serenity, and integrate this day2day. A bicycle commute through farmfields; a longer weekend hiking trip between cities; a trainride to a neighboring town; ... Whereas, I live in a state now that's by all measures a lot more rustic, access to the outdoors is completely packaged. It feels as if it is a product (even though access could be free).

I try to explain this difference here, and it is as if people genuinely cannot comprehend. There's this veil, a mist between us, I cannot articulate this difference. When my compatriots drive on the highways, they see mountains and vistas, and to them, that alone, is the experience (and definition) of rural life. But then, that nature is not integrated at all in daily experience. only as part of a movie playing through a windshield. I guess I need a better way of explaining this integration of town and rural life, I haven't found a way to characterize it. Muir for example was very much of the escape-to-wilderness variety. I guess I'm talking more about Jane Eyre walking country paths to deliver a letter in town. If anyone has good literature on the topic that gets at this difference, how it is possible that a much denser populated area in western-europe end up feeling more serene and bucolic than sparsely populated woodlands in the US, would love to hear it.
A big criticism that I have heard from "defund the police" folks is that a lot of police departments across the country have more money than sense and accountability. If you are inclined to believe this statement, it is inevitable that they are, in best case, swindled by hucksters selling snake oil, and in worst case, are dabbling in corruption to enrich themselves. Stories like these only add more evidence to that claim.
Graeber, as well as being a horrible human being wasn’t much cop as a scholar. Bullshit jobs was tested empirically and it’s bullshit[1]. If you’re going to read Debt at least do yourself a favour and read some negative reviews first so you can see where he tries to put one over on you. See critical reception on Wikipedia[2] or the seminar on Crooked Timber where the discussants do back flips trying to be kind but can’t bring themselves not to challenge it[3]. His last book “The Dawn of Everything” is similarly careful, with experts realising that where they know what ours taking about it’s horseshit but giving the benefit of the doubt elsewhere[4].

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09500170211015067

Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years

[3] https://crookedtimber.org/category/david-graeber-debt-semina...

[4] https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-flawed-history-of-human...
I think the term "right" is misleading — all rights are granted by governments, none are natural things which would exist without governments (no matter how much my inner anarchist wishes otherwise), government can create the right for others to enter as easily as the right to vote or the right to a fair trial, and that means American and European national governments can if they wished create a right for Indians in general to do just that.

They haven't, but they could.
The thing with heat pumps is that they can be as much as 300% efficient (effectively) or more. This is because they can get "free" heat from the environment.

So even if per unit of energy gas is way cheaper, heat pumps can still come out ahead.
Southwest now flies into O'Hare, but the majority of their flights go to Midway.
It was an opt in thing on my watch as well. But it looks like it is on by default on the new iphone 14. Personally I think it should be opt-in during setup.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/manage-crash-detectio...
Part of the Big Tobacco settlement with the gov't was to do those kinds of "negative" campaigns. Social Media hasn't had a DoJ suit against them like Big Tobacco did. So there's a big disconnect on these campaigns as punishment vs 3rd party documentaries and crazy tinfoil hat wearing techno nerds (aka HN readers).
Interesting discussion of rendering from one of related projects at https://rxi.github.io/cached_software_rendering.html
Ban advertising.
And that lip service explains much of the state we are now in. "Think for yourself" is all well and good when the only place to find information is a library of carefully-curated books. Those kids are now "thinking for themselves" on the internet, doing their own "research" and falling down rabbit holes that end at anti-vac and flat earth groups. Perhaps we should have better taught kids to have some respect for the pursuit of knowledge. I have a grown man, a product of 70s and 80s public schools, who thinks taking horse dewormer is a better idea than getting a flu vaccine. And I cannot call him out as an idiot because this is a "political issue". THAT is what schools in the 70s and 80s did to people.
I’ll check this one out, thanks. You might enjoy “From Eternity To Here” by Sean Carroll, which is a pretty deep exploration of similar topics.
I happen to have valves that would allow me to drain almost all of my house to prevent freezing, but that's not universally the case (and even in my case, I couldn't drain the hot water tank fully without power without letting it just flood the basement).

Freezing pipes is one concern, though having heat for the humans is another pretty desirable thing, so if I could spend effort on something that would result in drained pipes and no heat or on something that would result in enough heat in the house to make that unnecessary, I'm going for option #2 every time.
If you are on linux, you can do it with 8gb I hear. I have the 3060 8gb and had issues on win10, so I can train on google colab using the TheLastBen fast-dreambooth for free.
It would be interesting to try this classical mince pie with real meat! I wonder if it’s commercially produced today.
Unfortunately, one instrument computer is running DOS and I've never found a way to get USB working. I do have one of the adapters and it works seamlessly for newer implementations. If it works for DOS, it is beyond my skill level. By the way, this instrument is still world class in terms of accuracy and precision. To replace it would be 6 figures, not to mention having to deal with modern software, which is so much worse.

I did think I could potentially use the USB to GPIB and interact directly over serial. There's one paper from the early 90s that describes the existence of a programming manual for the instrument, and gives a couple BASIC examples for how to do a certain type of analysis. But the actual programming manual itself seems lost to time. So for now, we are just limping along from vintage PC to vintage PC. We finally got one that uses ATX power supplies, so it should be easier to maintain.
Out of interest, where are you commenting on?

I agree it's true there's always a risk of these "tragedy of the commons" style issues with bad individuals, but this kind of access is a fairly long established tradition in Scotland and it seems to work reasonably well (although other commenters have mentioned a few exceptions where by-laws were put in place for trouble spots, but thankfully those are targeted in location and time of year)
We will be playing global nuclear war in this scenario. What happens when a countries rainfall is deemed not enough so they start seeding rainclouds and stealing the rainwater from neighboring countries that needed them for agriculture.
What a person needs to know to function ethically and practically in contemporary society is only increasing. I'd love to hear how the majority of children can be expected to be taught what's needed outside of a public school system. Set aside the suboptimal pedagogy of the current system; I grant it. But getting rid of it is basically giving up. The only real path forward is improvement of education -- the staff, the lesson plans, methods, hiring, funding, etc etc.
It's not the warmest year of your life, it's the coldest year of the rest of your life.
I meant that individuals won't change their lifes for climate change.

Change is happening at the infrastructure level, which is the right thing to target.

But demanding individual actions when they aren't the biggest emitters is just stupid and no body is changing their lifes for this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34126507
Here's the MacOS list I know as of now: (none support fine tuning)

Use CoreML:
Mochi Diffusion - https://github.com/godly-devotion/mochi-diffusion
Amazing AI (closed source) - https://sindresorhus.com/amazing-ai
Gauss - https://github.com/justjake/Gauss

Use CoreML but via Swift (not as optimized?)
Draw Things (full featured, closed source)- https://draw.nnc.ai/
AI Photo (closed source) - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/ai-photo/id6444911377?mt=12

Use vanilla GPU:
Diffusion Bee (not updated for a month)
https://github.com/divamgupta/diffusionbee-stable-diffusion-...
In my current role, which I've been in for quite some time at a tech company but not a developer, it was similar. Called someone (very) higher up I knew and, as far as I know, the whole process went smoothly but it still took a couple months with travel schedules etc.
"rather than structures"
Doesn't it get balanced by the occasional „Why do I have to show you how to do your job“? ;)