skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i think it's really funny how many of his examples of dead metaphors are still used

> Ring the changes on, take up the cudgels for, toe the line, ride roughshod over, stand shoulder to shoulder with, play into the hands of, no axe to grind, grist to the mill, fishing in troubled waters, on the order of the day, Achilles’ heel, swan song, hotbed.

the whole essay is hilariously savage. also this observation back in 1946:

> The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’.

and finally

> You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you – even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent – and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself.

reminds me of the capabilities of a certain chatbot as well.

i ultimately disagree because i'm too taken by descontructionists. orwell's assertion of finding pure, simple meaning in clear language, well i don't believe in that.

> When you think of a concrete object, you think wordlessly, and then, if you want to describe the thing you have been visualising, you probably hunt about till you find the exact words that seem to fit it.

[citation needed]
The TV industry seems to have no answer to TikTok
Ask HN: Share your personal site
A similar post was done a few months ago and it was pretty fun so why not do it again ? share you're personal sites below and let others critique you!

I'll start with mine https://www.yusuf.fyi/
I get it. I know a lot of people who cover their rent but losing their jobs would be an immediate severe issue. Housing insecurity is really scary.
Smaller companies do layoffs as well. They just aren't as highly publicized as those at tech giants. Severance packages are usually worse/nonexistent as well.

HFT companies also have much higher performance bars and rates of overwork/burnout. I'm willing to bet that people are leaving Jane Street, Citadel etc. (whether voluntarily or not) at much higher rates than large tech companies like Google.
pile of tickets is a very nice metaphor
I setup apache archiva [0] to cache maven binaries at work. It was okay.

[0] https://archiva.apache.org/
Why should water rights be indefinite? Seems like a bad deal for the state. Realistically they should be auctioned off each decade or come with heafty yearly liscensing fees based off demand & supply.
Let me guess, they were brigading the main Star Trek sub in some "anti-woke" crusade, right?
Lol, I never saw my father with a wrench in his hand, except maybe when he took of my training wheels.
Do you have a source on the $1mn+ figure? I would be curious to read more about this.
Sunken Greenhouse
Look into portainer
I could not agree more. I feel like there is constant push back against attempts at decreasing the total number of blocks.
Do you happen to know which MaxPrice number would make sense for simple SMS? Figuring it out a reasonable value to use from Twilio's pricing pages is proving quite tricky, because of the amount of dimensions to their pricing.
I've had to have this argument so many times when I was working as a desktop tech.
Ive been using synergy for years without much issues. Ever since they changed their pricing model I just never updated the version though.
Where is Google doing layoffs? The latest news I have is that people are very worried about layoffs, but so far they've only started putting people on rebranded PIPs.

The other FAANGs are definitely laying people off, though. I personally think the recession is a self-fulfilling prophecy, but regardless of my take on the fundamentals, it is certainly fulfilling itself and everyone in tech should be pretty worried right now. This is not the year when you're going to increase your salary by jumping to a cool startup as employee #3.
deciding what is and isn't "propaganda" feels like a much harder task than forcing companies to have your consent for how they use and who they share your data with...
How does that change the fact that biking is order of magnitude more dangerous compared to driving a car ?

It's like saying "cocaine isn't that bad, look at what heroin does to people".
FairTax (Americans for Fair Taxation)
it is obvious in hindsight, but I never put a thought on it before reading that sentence
Buzzwords, key phrases... I.E. 'hooks'.

Thoughts don't only compete along the vector of truthfulness, they also compete along the vector of stickiness.

I predict an acceleration in this tactic (and others) in most media going forward.
My ideal is that I use it as my "home base" and everything else is a "peripheral" that checks back in one way or another.

The big things are:

* Music Player Daemon - It has access to my whole music and podcast collection, whereas I only "check out" a subset of this onto my phone at any given time.

* Podcast downloader - I used to have this. I wrote it myself. I got tired of the problems that kept coming up so I turned it off. But, I got recommended a replacement. I'll try it out at some point.

* Gitolite - I highly recommend this one for anyone with this use case. It's a git repository host, for when you don't want all of your business on Github. You can create however many repositories, you give it however many ssh public keys, and you configure which has access to which. The main interface is a special admin repository where you add the pubkeys and configure the repos. For my "home base"/"peripheral" model this changed everything for me, especially since I use QubesOS on my laptop where I'm working in multiple VMs with different ssh keys.

I eventually want Sandstorm.io and OpenHab, but I'd probably want a separate machine since I think that stuff wouldn't be in the Debian/Ubuntu repos.
The focus is on the Urban water users because they are the ones that are facing the problem and need a solution. They can do that either by reducing water usage or procuring more water.
My partner is vegetarian and I’ve found that tofu and soy curls are near life changing good in the air fryer.

Cube the tofu, cook for 75% of the total time, pull out and dress in liquid seasoning, return for the last bit and the outside gets crisp while the inside remains juicy!
I don’t think we were much of a dominant superpower until after World War 2. Lots of Europe was decimated but our infrastructure wasn’t and we also won the Cold War . We had large factories created also.

If some other superpower does come around you could just try to find a foreign index fund and adjust your investments.
You are referring to the publication of "negative results", which are of course informative, although rarely published due to a bias shown by journal editors and scientists themselves towards "positive results", that is results supporting the hypothesis tested. Negative results are published, yes, but in the context of popular or highly contested hypotheses or models.
That's valuable research.

Some examples of papers that have zero value are papers testing hypotheses nobody is interested about, theoretical work that looks like more abstract art than science, p-hacking, work that starts with corrupted, unreliable, badly collected data, and so on. Work that has no value other than that provided to the authors by the fact that they have produced a piece of "scientific currency".

I must say that at least 1/3 of my conspicuous scientific output was of very limited value. Unfortunately, I cannot go back in time and spend my valuable time and energy on more valuable research.
The Assassin's Teapot
> When you use buzzwords the connotations already is set and taints everything you use around them

The technical term for this is "framing", fwiw.
I think they're talking about https://github.com/harelba/q, which is not very fast.
The “average” investor gets paid cash and not in stock.

The public tech company employee has less to invest because a large portion of their income is in stock.

The private tech company employee is screwed because statistically, they have equity that won’t amount to shit in a bull market let alone a bear market.
Aethersx2 Development Suspended
My understanding is that self-replication (whether singular as in the above article from ten years ago or multiple) in alife is a solved problem, but that it (being based in deterministic processes with pseudo-random seeding) does not lead to the continuation of the formation of diverse forms of life.

The unique piece here is I believe the increased access to indeterminate state or stochasticity. I can’t speak specifically to whether those patterns exist in the game of life.
Neither; it's just due to die size limits.
We had this issue at first also. The company told us to run it on the steam setting with a bit of water and some vinegar. Did that a couple times and hasn't made a smell since then.
FWIW: https://copyleft.org/guide/comprehensive-gpl-guidech8.html#x...

which was added when a bunch of GPLv2 contributors mused about revoking their contributions to Linux rather than comply with the project's new code of conduct: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/sep/26/GPLv2-irrevocabil...

> The contributor is, of course, free to make no future grants, but they can’t withdraw past grants. The Guide's new section also explains how promissory estoppel is an additional legal safeguard ensuring the withdrawal of permission will not disrupt the use of those who rely on the software.
Working on some of the groundwork of it now in https://github.com/Owez/yark/pull/57. Higher quality might be a bigger issue to tackle because of dependence on ffmpeg but it'll be done in v1.3, slated for release in about a months time.

I'm going to cap videos to 1080p by default and have a config setting to customize this.
The Sony SRS-12 (or SRS-13) very small bluetooth speaker; $35ish.

Judging by this speaker being sold out in many big box stores before Xmas it seems a lot of people has a use for this.

In my case I have a small computer (asus pn51) that runs my dumb TV. When everyone else is in bed but I still want to watch basketball I turn this speaker on and perch it easily on my shoulder. I can hear it just fine but it's inaudible from 3 or more feet away. Everyone is happy. Marital bliss for $35 is a good deal.
brain size correspond to muscle mass in mammals.
The current link points to the website of a radio station that only posted a brief summary of a much longer article from The Atlantic. Maybe the URL in this post should be changed to the original? https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/homeles...

edit: actually the original link already has a submission on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33961543
It was much better before they laid off the bulk of their stylists in 2020
Agriculture is only a renewable resource when it is done sustainably. What we do in large parts of the world is, essentially, strip-mining our topsoil (And, in the United States, aquifers) to grow food. We consume it faster than we can replenish it.

This works great for juicing the numbers in the short-term, but is going to be a bit of a pickle later on. Whale oil was also a renewable resource...
I just realized what a huge amount of stuff i bought in 2022 :-)

- G3 Ferrari pizza oven with this tutorial[1] for original neapolitan pizza

- INIU BI-B63 25000 mAh Powerbank with 65W to charge my notebook

- TS 100 / Pinecil [2] soldering iron with open firmware [3]

- Baseus quad port 100W USB-C power supply (CCGAN100US)

- $5 Sinilink USB switch with wifi and open firmware [4]

- GL.iNet GL-MT1300 (Beryl) Travel Router with OpenWRT firmware

- Bühnen HB250 hot glue gun

- 10m velcro cable tie

- VAFOTON magnetic usb-c cable (USB-C Magsafe with 100W PD)

- $100 WLToys 959-B 1/18 RC Car with 70km/h / 43mph (aliexress)

- ANBERNIC RG353M retro handheld console (aliexpress)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-jPoROGHGE

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eme_AUayLp8

[3]: https://github.com/Ralim/IronOS

[4]: https://templates.blakadder.com/sinilink_XY-WFUSB.html
Along with Lake Mead, the ogalla aquifer.. That whole area is turning from semi-arid to desert. Time to start moving people away. If I was in charge of those areas, I'd start by buying up and closing farms in order to perform a controlled shutdown of the agricultural sector in those states. The people would leave on their own without the industry there. Without agriculture, the water inputs and outputs would be balanced, at least for the present.

There really isn't a choice here between shutting down agriculture in the southwest vs not shutting it down. The only choice is between doing it in a planned, gradual way, or in an unplanned, chaotic way. Do you want this plane to crash, or do you want it to land?
I suspect the main blocker here is that it wouldn't know which "frame" to eval in. Since, from the debugger, you can eval in any frame on the stack?
I have no idea what incident you are talking about but, from the context, I have no doubt that it is something inconsequential that social media made a big deal about just to have some reason to be outraged at Ioannidis, with whom they were already outraged.
Go proposal: sum types based on general interfaces
Part of the issue is that there is "no cost" to changing something in the software stack, while there are very tangible costs and barrier to entry to modifying a physical structure. This tends towards a more conservative culture, where controls are placed on designs and changes. This culture also exists in safety-critical software, like that used in medical devices, aviation, and industrial automation.

Otherwise, robustness is relatively expensive because it requires the organization to value the long-term quality and function of the system, at the expense of short-term velocity and malleability. If you are competing with others who can hack together an MVP with 90% functionality overnight, then waiting for the engineered product may be problematic.
Boost -- it has a development process and has a proven track record. Those five focused libraries, times 30 other deps becomes 150 different developers to possibly vet. Anytime any of them can pass on the project to someone less scrupulous.
I've wondered about that, but it doesn't seem to add up. Maybe you can help me find the flaw in my reasoning (below):

There's (at minimum) Time being exchanged. If A gives B a massage, A and B are investing that Time in this transaction (also, A is investing a space, a massage table, electricity for the physical space, etc.). All of these things are finite, and devoted to this service. If the service were not provided, these finite resources would not need to be locked up / extracted / used.

To say that the providing of this service happened in a vacuum of "extracts zero finite resources" seems a bit disingenuous.
I like how self-checkouts or ordering kiosks are framed as automation, but are actually just making your customers do work your paid workers used to do. There's no automation involved, just a shift in who does the work.
What good is temporal logic? [pdf]
That would have been a better insight to share in a comment.
Objectively, the syntax for both are horrible (based on BASIC I believe, but still). Magic numbers, hex numbers, huge number of function parameters, obfuscated parameter/variable names, etc. It all leads to barely readable spaghetti code even in the most well-written UDF examples. And... good luck trying to get anything but the blessed-but-insufficient-for-serious-work IDE to work for you.

Help files are decent... but if you need help with a concept/idea/implementation - you are much better served to seek that help anywhere except from AutoIt or their forums. Which is sad.
BTW, I am looking for a statically linked rust compiler (the one written in rust ofc) toolchain for ELF64.

This is for bootstrap.
No. I probably should make an archive of these.
I don’t think the old system cared about either proficiency or proximity, it just picked whomever was available. Besides, there was no way for the player to "make all labora enabled by default" in the previous versions, or even "enable/disable one particular labor for all", because you could only toggle labors for a single dwarf at a time.
> Rust had a lot of effort pored (and still going) into the nostd variant to be used in bare metal applications like microcontrollers and kernels.

D has had "dcompute" since 2017, for native execution on GPUs and other accelerators. People have been writing D for microcontrollers since at least 2011, possibly earlier. D is fairly mature in the systems space.

> I’m skeptical D would take.

Maybe, maybe not. Some languages "click" better than others for individual programmers. It's good to have options.

> it’s the first and only non C language in kernel mainline

Do you foresee it being the only non-C language used in the kernel forever?
AFAIK 32 Gb dies would be too large to fit in the standard DDR5 package and thus they aren't made. Also presumably yield of 32 Gb dies would be lower than 24 Gb, although maybe not much due to sparing.
First, i dont consider Citadel, JS, etc "fintech" because they are not in the same line of work.

"
Fintech, a portmanteau of "financial technology", refers to firms using new technology to compete with traditional financial methods in the delivery of financial services.
"

This is NOT what people like CIT, JS, etc. do.

So maybe FinTech is being hit very hard, but from what i hear Cit, JS are doing just fine (no real layoffs).
The big question is: would they win? Nobody knows, because nothing about this has ever been tested in court as far as I know.
Is there enough matter for a serious political faction to subsist off of?

The total mass of the asteroid belt is calculated to be 3% that of the Moon [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_belt

We only use a small fraction of matter on the Earth, so maybe a good sized comet can host habitation. But the solid planets and moons are where humanity could thrive. The gas giants have too a gravity well, we'd need some seriously advanced propulsion to make it off, but there's 317x more matter on Jupiter than Earth.
That seems to be related to a running executable, and the process of restarting the application to get it back to a known good state.

In my experience from software that is still being developed or has patches over time I commonly see where the initial specification is good. The problem comes in when that specification gets extended piecemeal and you run into 'the straw that broke the camels back' or 'A + B' is ok, but 'A + B + C' has far more failure modes because you're massively increasing the amount of system usage and testing that's necessary to validate the product.

For example adding more metrics to a piece of software. I've commonly seen this done by extending an existing table already in the DB. The developer tests the different workflows they see and implement the correct indexes. Then a month later some other seemingly unrelated feature gets added and when it tries to pull in some of those metrics in a report (or chart or whatever) the system falls over because you're doing a full table scan for joined data that someone missed.
enerational wealth diffuses in 3 generations iirc
This absurd beyond belief. Knitting has precisely nothing to do with politics, so I struggle to imagine what "conservative knitting viewpoints" even are. Or liberal ones, for that matter. Cross-stitching is a tool of systemic racism? Purl stitching is inviting the illegals to tukk-urr-jurrbs?

To me phrases like "abstaining from politics is taking the side of the oppressor" are just so damn American. You guys, more than any other nationality I've met, tend to dive head first into whatever ideology or sect or even hobby you happen to get into. There are, of course, people who are "extra" in every viewpoint or occupation. But more so for Americans.
To some extent, nicespeak is the shibboleth of the middle class.

A few don't have to speak it, and many never learn. They usually stand out in professional settings
If they are sure, they are wrong. Spain and Sweden retire at the same age. Italy, Greece, Denmark and Norway as well. [1]

Yes, France retires at 62 but that'll change very soon...

Writing that the "north pays for the south" by looking at the GDP per capita instead of the GDP is... naive. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retirement_in_Europe
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Eu...
It's not just the mods, the users on Reddit are equally awful and contribute more to the echo chamber imo.

The UK politics subreddit used to be one of my favourite subreddits back in the early 2010s. Back then it was quite a small community and while we had differences of opinions I think it's fair to say we enjoyed each other's company. But around the time of the Brexit vote, then Trump shortly after that, the subreddit started getting flooded with reactionary, low-effort comments and anyone who tried to provide a nuanced opinion or alternative view point was typically downvoted and insulted.

I along with a few other long-time commenters were mostly in favour of Brexit at the time so we would constantly be downvoted and insulted whenever we wrote anything in favour of Brexit. And the worst was when a post made it to /r/all because then you'd an even larger flood of low-effort commenters just downvoting and insulting everyone with a different opinion.

And this wasn't even just minor insults, this was people telling me to kill myself and that I'm a horrible person literally everyday. I'm not sure how much this was a political subreddit thing vs Reddit generally, but it was honestly ridiculous the stuff people would say to me there.

Needless to say, I obviously left the community shortly after 2016, but I've seen similar things play across the site since. There seems to be no room for a difference of opinion there anymore. The mods if anything are just an amalgamation of the average Redditor.
Yes, tests in those comments are actually pulled out and run.
A message isn't zero finite resources. People think software is ephemeral. It's not. Software has a physical manifestation (should be obvious, it runs on hardware and uses energy).

By 2025 the internet alone will consume 20% of all energy.
I'm not making a personal judgement here. I myself have lived in multiple countries and am a visible ethnic minority in the country I live in now. But you hit it on the head:

> Both of us speak Swedish are fairly integrated into the culture.

Indeed, as they say, when in Rome, do as the Romans. There's a good bit of evidence to suggest that the integration of migrants vastly different culturally has been difficult at best. When you go from having negligible amounts of foreign-born people to having a quarter of the country be foreign-born within one person's lifetime, it's hard not to introduce social disturbance. And that's why I am calling it a social experiment: to what end?
What if some problems simply are complex? How do you reduce the number of blocks then?
https://taylor.town

Here are some essays I'm particularly fond of:

- https://taylor.town/synthetic-intelligence

- https://taylor.town/to-your-grave

- https://taylor.town/eschew-the-new

- https://taylor.town/pick-practical-principles

- https://taylor.town/10-minutes

- https://taylor.town/beware-the-grind
I agree that maybe they should be. The question is how you go from the current state of affairs to this new paradigm.

US law and rights prevents the government from simply coming in in taking property without compensation.

This is the same reason that the government can't simply seize land, housing, or bank accounts of law abiding citizens to address various problems like homelessness.
There is a limited amount of energy we can harness on this planet. Seems extremely difficult to believe it can continue to grow exponentially forever.
> Why should water rights be indefinite?

Same reason property rights are.