skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't had mine that long, so I can't speak to the long-term issues already reported in replies to your comment.

But overall, it seems worth it so far. My partner and I put off buying an automatic box for years because of sticker shock, and I'm glad we finally got one.
From the article:

Jaded nonmathematicians told us it’s just a coincidence, so what is there to explain?

The actual reason they get into is interesting and much deeper and orthogonal to the information content of the representation
> I'd extend a bit more sympathy to farmers.

Yes, but I'd temper my sympathy with the knowledge that small farmers have mostly been pushed out by extremely large corporations. I have considerably less sympathy for them.
People tend to confuse cognitive dissonance with damage.

If you speak of speech consisting of only personal attacks rather than a heated debate, you are right. But I think this discussion is not about simple slanging matches.
Like the author I'm certainly glad I don't have to churn my own butter, but this attitude could easily be taken too far. A recent study "found a significant association between unprocessed or minimally processed foods and lower risks of all reported diseases."

https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/new-evidence-links-ultr...
using an electric trimmer on the shortest setting will avoid itching and general skin irritation
In the end matrix has the issue that federation seems less widely used than it maybe should be. It was a concern I had when looking at it, and when I spoke to the author of conduit (rust matrix server) i made the point that easy deployment should be a primary goal. The existing python server seems non trivial to deploy.

I think that’s still true, I’d you want a distributed setup like that it has to be as close to trivial to setup as possible. Email has shown that complex setups cause centralized solutions.
This won't be relevant for most readers, but my answer would have to be the $20 Gentle Leader for my dog. She is an incurable leash-puller, to the extent that the nerves in her face were damaged and her jaw was completely paralyzed for 6 weeks. Needless to say, our twice-daily walks were very stressful for me for over a year. After acclimating her to the Gentle Leader, the problem is entirely solved. The only downside is that passersby often mistake it for a muzzle and assume she's dangerous.
Why going back up in retirement?
This is insanely bad advice, IMO.

Anger is very hard to control, can easily backfire into self-loathing and cause you to strain existing relationships, which can also further fuel internal anger at oneself. If you get mad about what happened to you and start lashing out at others, you risk isolating yourself and deepening your depression.
https://archive.ph/X7yLA
I don't understand this thesis. In terms of visible homelessness a huge percentage are untreated mentally ill and/or drug addicted to such an extent that they won't be able to afford housing at any price level.

The article offers no data to support the claim, just some anecdotal observations.
https://bower.sh -- personal blog and landing page for links
Well, they certainly didn't need distributed version control, but I'm sure there was some sort of version control used, even if it was daily backups, or just copies upon copies of files.
I have https://krehwell.com/ for my personal blog.

and https://forum.krehwell.com/ for hackernews clone of mine.

aint much, but honest work :')
https://people.apache.org/~jim/NewArchitect/webrevu/index.ht...

Wow, these site is quite a fun trip back in time! So much good reading here.

I love this one "How librarians are shaping the web."

https://people.apache.org/~jim/NewArchitect/webrevu/1997/07_...
24GB and 48GB DIMMs are useful, and that's what this is about-- allowing non-power-of-2 sizes (in this case, 3x a power-of-2 is now allowed).

This has the potential to noticeably reduce costs in many cases.
I got my first set of noise-cancelling headphones in June 2022.

I work from home in a small open-floorplan house and being able to mask the sounds of everything else going on has been a welcome change :)
The Gentle Leader is great. Growing up my family used it for Basset Hounds, which are both stubborn and full of torque.
Yep. "Avoiding the market’s downs may mean missing out on the ups as well. 78% of the stock market’s best days occur during a bear market or during the first two months of a bull market. If you missed the market’s 10 best days over the past 30 years, your returns would have been cut in half. And missing the best 30 days would have reduced your returns by an astonishing 83%."

https://www.hartfordfunds.com/practice-management/client-con....
It's the exact opposite. The "air fryer" marketing lets companies present it as a healthy alternative to deep frying, and people eat that up (heh). If they sold it as what it really was – a toaster oven – there would be a lot less enthusiasm and demand, and people would definitely not spend multiple hundred dollars on one.
Transient homeless (those who have fallen upon hard times, and may still have a job, but no longer have a place for their family to live) make up around 80% of the homeless population.

Solving that would be a huge win for society.
Same. I want to put them on all of mine. Having a warmed seat is so nice in the winter!
http://t3x.org

LISP, compilers, array programming, science fiction models, statistics, meditation, programming languages, etc...
Almost, but the distribution has slightly fat tails.
For a fun time, try wearing the airpods underneath ear defenders. I swear I can hear my brain.
Erm. I can't agree. How is this different from be the first person that invent something, or be the first person that organize people around some new idea, or first person to create company?
> almonds and pistachios, highly profitable crops that require ridiculous amounts of water

I thought that was a bit overblown, that there are several common crops worse than almonds? Such as alfalfa, if I'm remembering correctly.
How can you be comfortable if you don’t even have health insurance. Seems like an oxymoron to me.
Well, he can now take a $3000 capital loss deduction for the next 1223 years.
I would definitely recommend the new M1 (and maybe soon the M2) Pro/Max MBPs. Thanks to work, I've gotten to experience first hand basically each generation of MBP, and 2016-2019 are hot garbage, IMO. I opted for an M1 Max and managed to snag it through Microcenter for $800 off MSRP, and it is everything my 2015 was and more, and smaller more manageable form factor (went from the 15" 2015 MBP to a 14" M1 MBP, which is effectively the size of the 13" from 2015).

If you haven't had a chance yet, try to get your hands on one just to try it out. You'll immediately see what I mean. It has both an SD card slot and an HDMI port built-in, which I think were two things that were inexcusable to remove from a "Pro" device in the 2016-2019 generations, and yet it doesn't feel clunky or bulky.

It's a truly great machine.
Coincidences are everywhere in math and physics, but our monkey brains just can't accept that they are meaningless.
I don't feel a ton of emotions about phrases like, "personal failing" one way or the other, so it doesn't really make that much difference to me and I'd just say that obviously the illness was a factor. That's what we're talking about here: whether to describe obvious factors as such. It would be equally silly to claim that the illness in that case was not relevant.
"Seed oils and sweeteners" are two radically different things. Do you think there's some common underlying mechanism, or that both just happen to be bad in completely unrelated ways which somehow both have the same result of encouraging weight gain?
This is an interview with Tarn Adams about the DF codebase: https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/31/700000-lines-of-code-2...
Carta announces layoffs, fires CTO
> He definitely didn't come out of covid looking fully dispassionate.

No one did.

That said, despite the serious amount of professional scrutiny and and public harassment he was subject to, I think he made valuable contributions to the conversation around COVID-19 public policy.
I wanted an air fryer, so I got the same one my friend has last year, one made by PowerXL. Mine produced this horrific chemical smell that filled up the whole house and soaked into the food. Reddit told me that it just needed to be variously washed or run a few times and it would go away, but it never did. I had to return it.

I suspect the plastics used were changed, or some preconditioning process was skipped to get more units out for a Black Friday sale or something. I haven't revisited the product category since.
The filling in 1900 was due to a manmade accident, which I think could rightly be considered an environmental catastrophe. A poorly designed canal inlet catastrophically failed, diverting the entirety of the Colorado river to the dry lake for two years. It was so much water that it is still drying out.

The catastrophe was the filling, not the drying.
> Public schooling is quite literally one of the only reasons I care about science and take an analytical approach to most everything the way that I do.

You assume. If there was no public school, there would be some other thing that fills this void. In fact, even with public school, there are a variety of alternatives.
for those who want to explore this more, here's a very short PDF by Lakoff describing Simple Framing[1], and the longer version [2]

[1] http://www.clarityphase.com/Framing/Simple%20Framing%20Georg...

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34459.Metaphors_We_Live_...
Just because some public school graduates go on to become dishonest politicians, does not mean that the school itself isn't there to educate and select honest administrators of the state/etc.
Hello? This is year 2023, not 1542. Communication happens at the speed of light and the only bottleneck is the human processing said communication. Obsessively devolving power to nesting lower levels of decision making bodies is just about the worst thing to do when technology has increasingly enabled organizations that are slim at the top to effectively manage complex systems at scale instead.
(1+9^-4(6*7))^3^2^85 is an expression that uses all digits 1-9 once and approximates e to 10^25 digits.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1945026/an-amazing-...
I write about Ruby and Rails on my personal site: https://www.akshaykhot.com/
Today.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/non-fungible-token-nft-...
Yeah, as lazide said, this is different. All the water for Salt Lake City, Ogden, Provo, and suburbs (plus agriculture in Salt Lake, Utah, Davis, Weber, and Summit counties) would flow into the Great Salt Lake. It's all the same watershed.

Next question: Does anyone have statistics on how much of the precipitation in that watershed is due to the "lake effect"? (For those not in the know: When storms cross the Great Salt Lake, they pick up evaporation, which increases the precipitation of the storms when they get to the Wasatch Mountains. That precipitation then flows - or would flow, if not diverted - back into the lake.)

If the lake dries up, so does the lake effect. That could reduce the amount of precipitation that we get. If it's a major effect, it could be big trouble for the environment and the economy.
Try “Rucking”.

Get a backpack, put some weight in it (start with 15-20 lbs), and go for a walk. That’s it. I lost 9 lbs in just a couple weeks Rucking about 2 miles 2-3 times per week.

In an additional to high calorie burn and low impact cardio, it strengthens your back and leg muscles considerably.

I absolutely love it and it’s so simple.
Very impressive.

I think it could be solved better browsers history. One idea - star pages - not adding to favorites, just marking them so that you could browse history of those separately. It could also show list of the latest stars in the new tab window for example.

Currently bookmarks, in firefox at least, as far as I can tell, cannot be even browsed by date.
One thing is I find that it's really water pressure dependent. At least with the class of no-frills, not-expensive toilet attachment ones I buy.

I moved recently and at the new house water pressure overall is noticably lower and it's far more difficult and slightly frustrating. If I hadn't learned/trained/experinced on higher water pressure I probably would agree with your assessment.
Interestingly, the same companies who made the paid service by analyzing all of that open-source code would never, ever consider open-sourcing the code for that service.

> if you don't want people to learn off your code

"Learn" is a strange verb to use here. No one at Microsoft or OpenAI was scraping all of GitHub so that they could learn. They took people's licensed works, fed it into a very sophisticated copy-paste machine, and started making money off of it.

> just don't share it!

It's almost like licenses and copyright exist to protect the rights of their holders or something.

The entire point of licenses is to be able to share your work in a way that respects your wishes. "Just don't share it" is completely non-productive.
Another unexpected interaction (I hesitate to call it a bug) that I very much enjoyed was The Possessed Adventurer.

You see, in Adventure Mode (akin to a traditional Roguelike in your created DF world, rather than the Colony Sim that is Fortress mode) you can create a character out of whole cloth that gets plopped into the world, or take over an extant character created through world generation. Either way, both characters are fully initialized within the systems of the game, having their own personalities, likes, dislikes, quirks, moral codes, emotional trauma thresholds, etc.

Well, one player noticed over a few runs that their character's eyes were coated with tears. Odd, they thought, so they posted on the Bay12 forums about it. After some investigation, Toady confirmed that the full personality system was still running in the background, and the character was effectively possessed by an out-of-context demon, the player. The character's consciousness was stuck watching utterly helpless as their body did all manner of unspeakable acts (assuming the player was acting as a typical murder-hobo) that conflicted with their innate personalities, were horrified at what they saw, and could do nothing but cry about it.

It's absolutely insane, equal parts disturbing and chilling and, as far as I am aware, an outcome totally unique to Dwarf Fortress created by the ridiculous depth and detail of the interwoven systems.
Lawsuit against CTO (from https://www.law.com/radar/card/eshares-inc-v-talton-iii-4732...):

eShares Inc. d/b/a Carta Inc. filed a breach-of-contract and trade secrets lawsuit against former CTO Jerry O. Talton III on Friday in New York Southern District Court. The suit, brought by Dechert, accuses the defendant of leaking private, privileged and confidential info to outside parties in order to induce and assist legal claims against the company. Counsel have not yet appeared for the defendant. The case is 1:22-cv-10987, eShares Inc. v. Talton.
Here's me: https://transistor-man.com

I've been using it as a mixed place for documenting engineering projects and hosting piles of images from various reverse engineering efforts & excursions throughout the states.

I've been slowly working on it becoming more mobile friendly. As a static site its incredibly time consuming to cleanup, but also fun. It's like restoring up rusty cookware, similar functionality but way prettier after a lot of scrubbing.
I write about coffee, web projects, and the IndieWeb at https://jamesg.blog.

I post bookmarks at https://jamesg.coffee.
I'm proud of a lot of things about my site, but maybe the domain most of all: https://xavd.id

It's written with Gatsby and hosted on Netlify (which handles the build step without configuration). I picked Gatsby because I wanted to use react/preprocessors, but also wanted to be able to "just write" (and MDX lets me do both of those). It also has a vibrant plugin ecosystem and is JS based (vs Ruby, which my previous site used; I don't write Ruby any longer).

I blog a few times a year, a mix of technical topics and media reviews. The blog is meant to be mostly text, but it being in React means I can drop in rich things, like support for hide-able spoilers and nice code blocks. I've optimized the layout for reading text (good font size, max-width, line-height), so hopefully it works!

Some favorite posts are:

- Python Dataclasses from Scratch: https://xavd.id/blog/post/python-dataclasses-from-scratch/

- My yearly media review. Here's 2021; 2022 should be up in the next few days: https://xavd.id/blog/post/favorite-media-2021/

Thanks for looking!
But my question is - if you can't pay rent in LA, what draws you to set up camp in skid row? Why add that burden of living there on top of everything else you're dealing with?
This is a common pattern with all organizations, but especially charities, non-profits, or volunteer roles. At first, the work is done by those who love that cause, and commonly some combination of

- the cause becomes prominent enough that there is influence or prestige associated with the role now, that it attracts power-seeking personalities

- the original founders are too burnt out to care, or clueless/trusting such that they get outmaneuvered by savvier entrants

Personally, I see it as the entropic drift of an organization away from an original cause or mission (order) towards a vehicle for the pure exercise power (chaos).
By inferring process I do not mean guessing what exactly was the person thinking while making that piece of art, but inferring what concepts and feelings they are trying to transmit with it; good art and good stories are good precisely when their creator is good at communicating feelings and concepts.

For example, looking at some drawn art, I can pinpoint exactly what emotions the artist was trying to transmit, not necessarily by the expression of the characters but even just by how the piece itself is drawn: that's the whole point of human artistic intent.

Another reason why human intent is important for me, from my comments below: when I read an amazing story like the Iron Widow, I feel respect towards the skills of the author, excitement for her future plans for the sequel; I follow the author on twitter and maybe interact a bit, because I appreciate what that human made me feel.

This is all part of the experience for me: I can't do the same for a GPT story, because even if it was generated from multiple human stories, there is no actual human intent behind it; no one to thank, and no one to blame in case of messups: it feels like an empty shell.

It's this true emptiness that quickly made me stop playing around with GPT when I first discovered it: anything made with it feels like an empty shell to me.

Regarding legislation, I see I have struck some chords here ;).
Nothing personal, but I really think the people supporting AI models are really naive in thinking any democratic government will be willing to let entire creative industries suffocate (not to mention the potential for degradation of society as a whole) just because AI models are very cool technology and human creativity is supposedly irrelevant: just look at anti-delocalization trends in politics and legislation anywhere in the world, and draw some conclusions by yourself.

Not all people are blinded by the awesomeness of a new technology, and even those who created it will realize that they too will be eventually replaced by it.
Difficult to tell without having the naked housing parts, or ideally the drawings. 10 hours is more in aerospace territory so, if it really is that, something seems a bit of. But you never know, some designers come up with the strangest ideas.
i hadn't actually; which posts do you recommend
https://tomverbeure.github.io/

All very nerdy electronics stuff: connecting GDB over JTAG, logic design, playing with FPGAs, repair of old test equipment, LED projects
North Korea can steal crypto directly and doesn't need help from Estonians.

Though Lazarus doesn't seem to have been indicted for anything yet.
My blog portfolio is [redacted].

It used to be a Jekyll site but after just getting frustrated with markdown and Jekyll I moved to Ghost. Ideally, I'd like to delete all social media and just have a newsletter via it.
Apart from the surface impression of disorganization, this shows Musk has no "bench depth." He has chased away, or is ignoring his minders who would otherwise point out the next rake handle to hit him in the face.

Who in their right mind would take over as Twitter CEO until the mess is cleaned up, or without a $tens of millions severance package with a bond guaranteeing it.
Most AI models are not even known about, accessible outside the system they are part of, let alone targeted for audits at all.

Unless you got enough volume of volunteer users to try and make some correlations, but then, those can still be argued not to be causation.
140 year old victorian home. I managed to run a new 12 gauge circuit to my second floor bathroom myself to get an outlet in the right place. Took me a few hours to puzzle through how to get the line up there without breaking open a wall, but I managed it in the end.

Its going to be a _little_ tricky to get lines to the other bathrooms, but I'll figure it out when the time comes.
Small blog I started because I was forgetting details about projects I made in the past.

Was featured many times on HN and it seems the community really liked some of my posts

https://blog.haschek.at/
I know folks who worked for at least 8 different Microsoft acquisition other than Github and Linkedin. All of them were squeezed into the 'Microsoft Way' within 3 years, with varying levels of success.
I fail to see how "real" version control would significantly alter this project. He's a solo developer, so the history is likely going to be a linear series of commits.
That's not to say that there are not quality of life gains to be made, but dated backups of the repository would be fine.
A new Kindle. I had an old model without screen light and really love the new one I bought. I love reading in my bed with the lights off.
ONO Roller

An elegant little fidget/stress tool that is silent so perfect for use during meetings.

https://onoroller.com/
I think many heavy TTS users (including myself) slowly train to use higher speeds after which point nothing sounds particularly natural. What I want is trained speech models that remain coherent at high speeds (over 3x). Even better if there's bi/multi lingual models that can seemelessly switch between languages.
“Hollywood, after all, was just a dusty desert town that became the hub of the movie business because it was easier to move there and start a new one than dealing with Edison's lawyers back East…”

Yes, but also no. Keep in mind the popularity of Westerns in the 1930’s-1950’s and the ease with which you can get to desert/mountain/beach/city/forest/etc settings within a relatively short drive from L.A.

That said, I generally agree with your point.
Another point to ponder:

Whether you fill hard drives or book shelves, your collection will perish with you unless you transfer it to someone younger _and teach them to value it_ before you pass.

Several of my aging friends have thousands of books they've read and shelved up. In a few years their children will think nothing of depositing them all in the landfill because the books lack both market value and sentimental value. The books simply aren't worth the hassle of sorting through. Old hard drives filled with niche data won't fare any better.

Unless the ongoing existence of your collection benefits you or a protege directly, you yourself are already effectively disposing of it.