skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would say that the wide borders/bezels are needed for handheld devices larger than your hand.

That's the neat part about the physical shape of Kindle Oasis, the bezels aren't needed. It is assymetrical and is meant for holding in one hand. One side has a large bezel with buttons and a bump on the back for a good grip, and the opposite side (as well as the top and the bottom) have that aforementioned 2cm bezel.

With that design, you can totally get rid of all those 2cm bezels with zero ergonomics loss.
flags of convenience routinely leave crew to fester offshore, and consider their welfare at best an inconvienience, not an obligation. They've left crew for years, not figuratively: literally years, on station, on minimal pay.

https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/crews-are-abandoned-on-...

This is one reason maritime unions are so militant: they have to be, because the respect for rule of law is historically so scant in the shipping business.

"coffin ships" were a thing long before B. Traven wrote about it in 1926. The plimsoll line was invented because of the problems of lading and safety in the mid 19th century

When a ship exists for its insurance payout, then it's truly become data.
and if make is too much for you, if you just need to run some tasks and have no need for managing artifacts, there is always bash function

https://github.com/adriancooney/Taskfile
Having the drive to tinker can have an advantage.
And treating it as just a means to an end is not problem at all, one can become a Product Manager or anything other than a programmer in the tech industry and that's usually a better occupation than being a monkey for big Corps.
Monkey in big Corp here.
What about Sassy Justice?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassy_Justice
Something I really like about Scheme is how mutators are generally suffixed with an exclamation point and predicates with a question mark. For example:

(null? spotted-ufos)
(vector-set! drakes 0 maui-mallard)

Having a simple and clear convention like that is something I consider good design.
Maybe you don't want to live where FAANG have offices? Or can you get $300k/year WFH FAANG job out of high school now?
> Make is pre-installed everywhere

No, its not, and Just supports Windows, where that is particularly true.
This feels like it'd be an awesome spy thing back in the Cold War days.
Eh.

Not everyone has personally-inspiring projects/problems in the back of their head.

Is it that beneficial to screw around with not-very-useful toy project where - because you aren't invested - you aren't going to be doing the hard work of figuring out if you're doing it the best way anyway?
TBH he'll be much more objectively successful in career/life if he puts lots of time into socializing -- Actually "doing hard programming work" lets you be a programmer, but "networking" lets you be a programmer's boss or executive. The party animals seem to bifurcate into like 80% incredibly successful people and 20% burnouts ten years later, even the ones that were total basket cases at the time

And even with "passion projects", self-promotion is most of the "objective success" if that's what one cares about

Some of my biggest regrets are being heads down in the lab for most of undergrad, being heads down in hackathons programming instead of walking around bullshitting with the other attendees etc. - Really just mechanisms to avoid the "hard work" of socializing as an introvert while feeling superior about it
> I’ve never heard New Yorkers call New York the greatest city on earth in earnest.

My Uber driver said that to me within the first ride of my landing, and I heard it again and again, from millenials, Gen X, Boomers, basically every type of person I met and from every walk of life, during the many years I lived there.

You guys play this game where you don't say what you mean, and you don't mean what you say, in any context where it's marginally convenient/inconvenient to do so. It's eat or be eaten in NYC. I would hope longtime residents like yourself are just BS'ing the HN community, and not actually delusional about the waters you swim in.
You'd be surprised how many students turn in Wikipedia-articles run through software that replaces words with (often wrong) synonyms. I've tutored students who paid such find-and-replace services.
Zero effort for the majority of students that cheat, very easy to detect, rarely punished (a zero on an essay here or there, no expulsion - students are customers after all).

There will be paid ChatGPT services for cheating students, the ideal solution would be to rethink and rehaul how student performance is evaluated, but universities will instead pay something like Turnitin because throwing money at a problem is always easier than thinking.
I don't see any problems; my only suggestion is first see how he feels about it as an actual field to work in (software engineering, etc.) and if it's something he'd enjoy doing as a _career_, even if only for the money. If so, I definitely recommend getting some internships (a decade ago when I was a CS major, I had good friends like this but they never put effort into getting internships, so it made the transition from school to career a lot more difficult).
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I learnt that when I bought an air monitor (airthings) and see VOC+CO2 spike after cooking. It's way worse when using the oven.
Single-use plastic cutlery and plates to be banned in England
Knots to Narnia – Bill Thurston (1992) [video]
1. Guaranteed windfall profit now is better than speculative profit later; a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

2. Russia has long planned on a 'pivot to Asia' in the event Europe does ween itself off of natural gas. Not that that has panned out very well so far; the Power of Siberia pipeline has reportedly been quite unprofitable, allegedly because of the nepotism on the project regarding the contractors. Which brings me on to the next point...

3. It is a mistake to assume that leaders of countries are competent or their interests are inherently linked to 'national interests' or 'geopolitical strategy' (principal-agent problem).

3a. Even if Russia is out of money in 50 or 100 years because of some green energy revolution, nobody running the show today will be alive enough to care about it.

3b. Natural resources are easier and more profitable to exploit than human resources. If you want to build a technology-intensive industry, you need to keep the talent happy (or otherwise prevent them from leaving as the Soviets did) and keep up on innovation against competitors. E.g., Roscosmos has been coasting for decades off of the reliability of Soyuz, but have they designed anything good lately? SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and several other startups present a real risk to their business.

If you have something in the ground you can dig up, you don't have to keep anybody happy, you might have competition, but changes in the market won't come as any surprise. You don't even have to have local expertise in resource extraction - just hire Exxon to do it for you, like they did in Sakhalin. Whereas if you want to extract money from people, you're going to have to tax them, and if you do that too much, they'll get upset or leave.

If you're running a country and want to personally enrich yourself, the best way to do so is to prioritise resource extraction and exploitation.
I want my software to obey me, not someone else. If the software is discovering resources on its own, then obeying robots.txt is fair. But if the software is polling a resource I explicitly told it to, I would not expect it to make additional requests to fetch unrelated files such as a robots.txt
Some of the products didn’t pan out, sure. But what about all the products that did? Having deep and complex capital markets opens up a lot of possibilities in terms of building huge systems.
He's fine. I didn't code in my spare time until well after finishing my CS degree.

Coding is a truly painful experience at the beginning. It will exhaust every ounce of your passion. Give it time but also let him do whatever he wants?
That’s far more expensive than upgrading your stove to induction.
Blanking the screen? The only use I can imagine is as a boss key [0]. A dedicated device stuck in the side of the laptop or keyboard is conspicuous and therefore antithetical to the goal.

Might AutoHotKey be a universally superior solution?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key
https://github.com/casey/just#recipe-parameters

Accepting arguments alone seems to be a pretty big value add.
Never really found over/underpopulation fears compelling. Seems like a self correcting system for the most part. Only really a problem if people want to have kids, but can't due to money/pollution. That should be addressed.

Was in Japan recently and there were noticeably more immigrants compared to 10 years earlier. Mostly in convenience stores. Still probably not at the level that """experts""" advise, of course. Assuming the country doesn't open the floodgates, I'm bullish on it becoming (even more of) a nice, affordable place to live in the coming decades, after a brief crunch period. Much more pleasant than the likes of Canada or Australia, who are exploiting foreigners to prop up their sham economies.

> slower population growth should translate into a slower pace of innovation

An interesting point, but not one that can be effectively addressed by the current neoliberal model of importing a permanent underclass.

> maintaining the social protections provided by contemporary welfare states will be an increasingly tall order. As the old-age dependency ratio ratchets ever upwards, the tax burden imposed on the shrinking working-age population will eventually grow unbearable.

Your brain on Capitalist Realism. Assumes that a market-driven, tax-funded welfare state is the final stage of civilization, worth preserving into the 21st century. Does not consider the massive monetary and manpower savings that might be arise out of a fundamental decommodification of property, energy, and health concerns: all things that old people in particular struggle with.
No. If he's doing fine in his classes then that's good enough. You don't need to be a techy nerd full time in your life to succeed. And there are plenty of jobs where you can use your tech eduction or skills without being a coder. PM, sales technical roles. Eventually manager. He will be more successful if he's interested in it, but there are lots of adjacent jobs to actual coding.
Hopefully not as fast as teslas proceed into stationary objects
Interesting, thanks for the link. I wonder what the advantage of the Ode will be after that, for as almost double the price. I don't have an interest in getting into espresso, but I wonder
Canada buys 88 F-35 fighter jets for $14.2B
What are examples of these types of tail risk funds?
Right, if we all became homeless and stopped looking for work, the unemployment rate would be 0%.
I reverse-engineered the first Pi camera and you can make it record at all sorts of combinations of frame rate and resolution if you bypass the libraries provided.

The limiting factor is how long it takes to shift a row of pixels out of the CCD and into the ADC - wide-but-short videos can be recorded at 200+ fps pretty easily.
How does the builder know where I am going to put my one or multiple TVs? Or if I even have a TV - plenty of people went mobile-only for video. Old coax cable came out in the middle of the wall in the room I decided to use for home office, what was I going to do with it there? Finally I just cut it out and drilled a whole through a floor in another room to run Sonic fiber cable and connect a modem and WiFi router inside a cabinet shelf. If I was renting, I would rather just have good WiFi signal int the apartment like I do at work or in the hotel and organize my limited space for my convenience rather than based on where cables run.
I think the parent is using the terms here in a very loose way and it's not trying to refer to the quantum zeno effect but rather the emergence of the classical world.
Didn’t realize this, thanks!

But I also like the IRS limits. It limits how much my family/in laws think I might be able to give them in a year :)
I think the main difference is that this doesn’t purport to be a drop in replacement. also, they seem to be doing some multithreading.
This had to be a windows app in a package. The problem with xterm is that you likely need cygwin/x or xming, and that's too much baggage.

We bought Reflections decades ago, and had hundreds of licenses, but it was telnet clear text.

On my recommendation, we pushed stunnel to all our clients, and made redundant stunnel server gateways on Linux.

Then a new boss said we needed to be on supported software, so we ended up on Bluezone Rocket. It was not Reflections, but it was not cheap.

Our VAX is already on an emulator, and I only learned that MAME would do a vt240 after googling for a free OS2200 terminal emulator (MAME uts20, not yet working).

We do have many museum pieces in my place of work. Have you ever tried to change directories in VMS? It's a long-winded ordeal.
I had undiagnosed bipolar in college. I love coding, but people like you were always there to discourage me because I didn't have coder parents or whatever. Really messed with my confidence. Food for thought.
And yet somehow SF manages to spend $1.1B on homelessness: https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-spending-11-billion-...

Many wallets are being filled here, and there is no oversight on where the money is going and if it's working.
I vouched. This is a very valid concern, that was even recently mentioned in a paper from the Fed.

Large crypto "banks", with large holdings in fiat banks, can cause huge outflows from those banks, upsetting their reserves balance. Essentially a crypto bank run can cause a fiat bank run. This couldn't be more true when you see examples like where FTX bought a small community bank.

People pretending crypto only effects those in the crypto space are burying their heads in the sand. Crypto is here to stay in some form or fashion.
My favorite trick is simple.

I don't "fully" automate. I partially automate, then build my workflows from these composite parts. Composition.

For a start, I file all my bash scripts/notes/snippets in Vimwiki. Zettelkasten is truly brilliant.

Then... I write almost everything I do INTO Vimwiki (git is for programs, Vimwiki is for snipppets. Vimwiki is managed with Chezmoi). Hence, whenever I need to do... anything... I can build that workflow out of past snippets from the Vimwiki filing system.

Over time, my workplace and home workflows are automated. You know it's automated once you find a "set" composition, you use for 2 weeks straight without variation.

I only bundle "set" workflows, which haven't changed, into discrete scripts.
The token processors seem interesting, and a great C/JS like syntax with a solid looking Python-like standard library.

Would be nice to have some simpler docs though, is there a REPL?

I can't figure out how to build the sources from the download page, and I don't see any packages in distrorepos yet.

EDIT: Nevermind, pointing `fixbuild` to a directory and script file works:
`./fixbuild -src dir -m main`
A long time ago someone who did home inspections taught me that if you need to check if something can electrocute you to always use the back of your hand. If it is live, your arm will move away. To this day I always test with the back of my hand before changing a bulb.
I think you might be looking for a founder wonder child and your kid might be fine just working to live. If his life is well rounded while maintaining academic success I think you should feel relieved. He’ll probably have a career, maybe in a “safe” or corporate environment, and have terrific amount of freedom to balance his less lucrative interests to find pleasure, and pursue meaningful connections with friends and romantic partners. Sounds like you have a smart kid going to college to find a job
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Multiple Dispatch (2019)
Time for me to deprecate the m1-obs-installer, FINALLY!

Great job on the release, folks.
I’m not going to pretend Bitcoin is the bane of human existence, I have a hunch that a majority of the people cheering Bitcoin’s (alleged) rise either is a fraudster or a grifter.
Aren't XBoxes basically PCs these days?
As he states near end of video, nothing else right now beats streaming for convenience.
I’d prefer a system where my monthly subscription gets divided up only between artists I listen to, but it seems in reality that hasn’t happened as a lot of the revenu goes to big record labels to persuade them to keep the big artists on spotify (and not even necessarily to those big artists!)
Yep, $1 Million+ homes in the largest job markets in the U.S. are hard to beat!
EE doesn't work at my house and they don't care. Vodafone and O2 are better in my area, but I'm lucky if I get HSPA around my tube station.

Really looking forward to getting mobile data on the tube.
if he’s doing well, don’t go behind his back and ask people if his behaviour is “correct”. what a weird thing to do as a parent. forcing him to code, or asking him why he doesn’t, will only damage your relationship.

as others have said, nobody expects accountants to do maths in their free time, or biologists do dissect things, or teachers to teach, etc.

and as a personal anecdote: i’m not great at maths, not the smartest at coding, never coded much for personal fun. i did a little bit of coding, and mostly played with OSes, linux, stuff like that. and i worked in several countries around the world, and now am a staff engr at a FAANG, so … it doesn’t matter.
the raspberry pi foundation wants to recoup the cost and profit from the time and money spent to develop the raspberry pi camera software stack

this benefits the user by nature of the stack existing.

on the other hand now that an ecosystem has sprung up around this it's arguable that the DRM scheme is only needed to bootstrap the community
Good idea, would have preferred SMR for power though.

Anyways, Atmospheric Processors like in Aliens? F..K YEAH!
If I were a bank, I'd stay far away from any non-bitcoin cryptos that I'm not an issuer of. Why would I want to own a coin that someone else is able to freely devalue, in addition to conventional currencies?

On the other hand, if I were a bank, bitcoin presents a compelling argument. The supply is finite.

Disclaimer: I don't own any crypto or bitcoin.
I don't like that they've merged "credit card debt" and "credit card balances". They bury the part about delinquencies, which is the part that matters.
Life isn't just about the easiest path or money. Some people see value in working hard for things and might view the medical field as a way to bring something positive to the world as opposed to figuring out how to serve ads to people.
Well in all fairness, GURPS games and OSR games are just very different games. Sure they're roughly "RPGs" where people roleplay as characters in a world with stats for structure, but their attitudes toward actions and conflict resolution are completely different which lends them to completely different gameplay and audiences.

It's like saying Monopoly and Agricola are both board games. They are but they're also very different.
Less about storage, and more a convenient coincidence that transferring gas via underground pipeline is substantially safer than above-ground pipeline, and thus gas companies pay the extra to bury the lines. Electric can be run underground, but the danger of above-ground lines isn't nearly as high as gas would be so electric companies (at least in this area) run overhead lines which are vulnerable to storm damage.
That's a lie that people tell themselves.

It is fairly safe at most public beaches if:
* you follow the posted signs for rules (e.g. where it's safe to dive, staying in marked areas), flags for current conditions
* pay attention to weather conditions
* know (roughly) when and how much of a change the tide will bring

Unfortunately, a significant number of people don't follow the rules, or underestimate the risk.

There is a reason many public beaches located within an urban center have lifeguards and patrols.
Both Indian and Chinese kids continue to excel in every industry, despite heavy involvement from parents. (and happy)

OTOH, I've seen many White students raised by liberal parents with too much student debt (and depressed).

So, unless there is data to prove that "letting 18 years old to make their own life changing decisions" on their own, we need to stop this overly progressive method.
They also prohibit you helping, discussing, or testifying against twitter, but twitter gets to require you to testify for them. Such free speech absolutism, much wow.
Yeah but couldn't you just... run a biodiesel generator to recharge your batteries?
Ha. I remember using the word well-nigh correctly in a sentence in the fourth grade. It was literally a vocabulary word that we were taught. It was marked wrong. I must have mentioned it to my mom, as she asked the teacher about it at a parent teacher conference. I'm still annoyed they marked it wrong after they taught it to me..
Lol a compelling argument for what? Like as an investment?
ZZ gang
> Starting from the current state, you could make ChatGPT much better programmer simply via brute-force approach

In fact probably you can use a compiler and a human supplied test suit to generate training data for the network. Let it do the looping with the compiler where its output is fed into the compiler and if any error happens you feed the compiler output to the network. Then if it manages to write something which compiles you run the test and feed back any errors it got into the network.

If it ever manages to find a solution you add it to the dataset used to train the next version.
That there is no delayed choice or quantum eraser. The naming of the experiment is based on waveform collapse interpretations.
Delivery details: https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canada-ends-years-long-searc...

Maybe Top Gun Maverick marketing played a role :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDQow_MfE0s&ab_channel=CityN...

Cold weather: https://www.defensenews.com/air/2019/06/12/the-f-35-has-to-k...
The US does not have a good education system and you're projecting US system to the norm.

I'm European, know our school systems in various countries and it has no resemblance to the ideas you have about education and we don't really have such gatekeeping at college at all.

Third, about trades, I've never lived in SF, but I lived in italy/poland/switzerland and even 6 months at OSU in columbus and I've seen that all the time: skilled tradesmen in all these places make MUCH more than average graduate. There's no comparison. I'm 100% sure the average decent carpenter or electrician makes more than a stem graduate in Italy or Switzerland.
Or it's just an environmental disaster and the biggest vehicle for fraud in the last 10 years.
Humidifier
Because task runners come from the lineage of build systems, I (previously) would have thought that smart management of dependencies was a critical feature, especially skipping outputs whose inputs haven't changed, so that tasks can be run efficiently. Make and rake both do this.

But I guess, enough of the time, what people want is just a nice tidy way of organising tasks to run. Not drastically different to a set of shell scripts, but organised differently, with a few extra features and less boilerplate per task.
This looks incredibly useful. Random question since I couldn't find it in the README – can i define a recipe (or recipe list) in a common location in my home folder and then use them from anywhere? While having a per project config is the intended use case, I'd also like a bunch of global ones.
I always just count the seconds. When I was a kid in NZ we had a great public service campaign by an Australian racing legend, who told us "Arnly a fewel braiks the tew second rewel"
God, this is good advice. Living this hell at the moment. Just a complete "throw every feature at the wall" environment where nothing is documented and it's an infinitely expanding Kessler Syndrome-like failure of "automation".