skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This individualism logic is borderline propaganda. It is not a “personal lifestyle choice” to have children. Children are a biological necessity if we want to continue as a species. The fact that society doesn’t support healthy parenting is not an individual failure, but a failure of society. Similarly, it is not a “personal lifestyle choice” to live in economic insecurity due to layoffs. It’s the fault of corporate greed coming back to bite corporations and instead of the executives responsible paying for it, it’s the employees that had no decision making power. We are not individuals with some godly ability to warp reality to fit our health. We are all subject to a society that isn’t incentivized to prioritize the wholistic health of the people living in it.
There's also some work being done to retrofit hall effect sensors in older game consoles, like the GameCube [0], I'm definitely going to try it in one of my older controllers sooner or later, I'm tired of replacing pots. I just had to purchase replacements for an orange controller and a wavebird.

[0]: https://github.com/PhobGCC/PhobGCC-SW
This is great, nice work, bookmarked!
Sure but they are totally different algorithms doing different things.
Now it turns out that many people ravaged their health with these untested mRNA treatments.

You are spreading dangerous misinformation.

The vaccines resulted in around a doubling of myocarditis risk, which is still a ridiculously small number. Meanwhile, COVID-19 infection in an unvaccinated person resulted in a myocarditis rate SEVEN TIMES HIGHER than the vaccinated population.

I'm not supporting GP's assertion, but you're spreading FUD.
This is a fascinating thought experiment - how well do you think people would cope if their government just decided that half of everyone over 60 dying is an acceptable loss? What would the fallout from the collective trauma be? How disastrous would the impact on the sudden collapse of most pension funds as most of the capital is withdrawn be?

As someone who's interested in systems thinking and the impact of feedback loops in large scale systems, I can't even begin to fathom how badly society would be damaged if this had actually happened.
Just remember that if you have a little inconvenience from a redesign, that regular non-technical users have that inconvenience magnified a hundred times over.
In part people like Python because it allows you to be busy with boilerplate, the deficiencies of the language and packaging as well as bugs and unexpected tracebacks. It makes you feel productive.

This is the same angle that pg used in one of his essays: Back then people liked Java because the huge amount of boilerplate made them look productive. In Lisp you stare into the REPL and notice that you don't have any ideas about the actual problem you are trying to solve.

I would also prefer another language. A well written C++ library (the one in pytorch seems a bit rough and a second class citizen) would already be a step up.
When Apple (temporarily) got rid of a physical Esc key I (permanently) retrained myself to type ctrl-[ which is the same character (91 - 64 = 27).
I know when I dealt with AIX back in the 90s banking it was merely used as a gateway to the A/S400 systems. Nothing more.
Hi!

Even if I'm a little late to the end-of-year recap things, I decided to do a little recap of 2022 in AntennaPod.

You have to export your db from antennapod and input it into the website, but all data stays in the browser.

Feel free to look at the source code on GitHub and give feedback!
Also adding new stats is pretty easy, just follow what I've done on the existing stats.
> Regular computer users are fin and like these UI changes.

Why would you think so? It's not like any vendor goes and asks them about it, before making a UI overhaul.

In my experience - which I recognize is anecdotal - they absolutely hate those changes, even more than professional users, because it's even harder for them to find their bearing again. Non-tech-savvy people in particular don't have the experience and developed mental models to pin-point and describe the sources of their dissatisfaction, so they round it up into "tech sucks" or "my computer is slow, maybe it has viruses, I probably need a new one".
It's absurd to think that any rational person thinks that finding a suitable or terraforming a planet is a viable alternative to preserving the one we have. At the most living on Mars could be seen like a bomb-shelter for the privileged few, but even then not very soon so they'd also need life extension to make that work. At the same time, there's no reason not to continue to explore and expand. That's what tribes did when they discovered they weren't alone, and countries, and continents, etc.
I really like minimalist shoes after using them super consistently for about a year, definitely feel like my feet / shins are much stronger.

Advice for anyone looking to make the jump to minimalist shoes:

1. These are extremely rare, but if you are going with minimalist shoes make sure to avoid the ones with a narrow toe box(i.e what shoes normally have). Most minimalist ones also have a wide toe box, which allows your toes to spread out and actually do their job of stabilizing the foot.

2. From personal experience, first week your shins/ankles/feet will feel extremely sore just from usual walking. Soreness goes down over something like a month.

3. No opinion on heel striking in general, but I definitely do not recommend heel striking in minimalist shoes.

4. Running trail feels very different in minimalist shoes
Unfortunately function lost to form. All icons are grey now. The biggest problem I have with Windows is borderless windows, where if you have a white window over another white window, 1) there is no way to tell where it ends, 2) if you want to grab the edge to resize it your mouse must be precise to the exact pixel, which is even harder when you are dealing with citrix remote desktop.

But I guess the most important thing is that it doesn't offend its designer's taste. I will try to resize those damn things again and again.
AIX command line was so cryptic that everybody used SMIT to figure out the commands. You then copied/pasted from there. Linux never had such a tool.
Nuclear Fusion: Inside the breakthrough that could change our world – 60 Minutes
Previous discussion [1]

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34395111
I really wanted to change to Linux but a simple thing (what is mentioned in this article that it works flawlessly) of using my laptop on a second screen with the lid closed was not working automatically at all. Probably it is caused by the fact that I have a laptop with a discrete GPU. Tried different distros with KDE, but no luck. Btw, the same things was not working with other window managers either (tried Gnome(s) and xfce)

Shouldn't be this way, having switchable graphics is not exactly a new tech.

I give it a try next year.
That can't be avoided short of having a mail service with plentiful full aliases on a shared domain. They could just use the heuristic that unless you're at one of the well known email providers like Gmail, your domain name might be personal and therefore count as part of your global identity, without even considering what comes before the @.

So it doesn't really matter much whether I go with amazon@example.com, or john.random@example.com.

To deal with that for good you'd need a pretty large set of domain names to use for this purpose.
Nope. I've got everything I want. It's not a lot. I'm collecting a ton of money now that I don't know what to do with.

Promoting wants is the foundation of economics however.
>Let's choose just a little bit of form over function here

All I can think about is the Windows 10 Calculator. Prior to Windows 10, you could type Windows Key + R, Calc, and immediately type my equation. Amazing for when you're in the middle of a meeting and just need to calculate something right away.

But now it's a stupid app that takes a few seconds to load regardless of how fast your computer is. Needless bloat which seemed to have only only made things look pretty.
For python there is https://github.com/ezyang/expecttest which is modeled after the OCaml expect test library.
is connectdome still up and running or is it a dead project at this point?

might wanna try it and compare to this one
I used google's "+" addresses for a while, but it was obvious that this wouldn't last. Apple's disposable email addresses are a great tool to solve this once and for all.
> It's that some people will go to Mars and the rest of us can die out here.

If the alternative is that no-one goes to Mars and everybody dies, I'm OK with only some people going there.

There are a lot of possible catastrophes that can wipe us out from Earth, and not all of them are preventable or due to mankind.

Starting to move towards a direction were we at least have a temporary alternative, even if the alternative is much worse than Earth, and cannot sustain everyone, seems like a basic goal.

Having a plan B does not mean that plan A is not the preferred solution.
sure - however a non-self-sustaining colony on Mars might be the first hundred years, a self-sustaining colony may be the end goal but end goals may be long out.
The Lancet is the most ironic example you could've named, given the enormity of the error they made in February 2020 publishing the Daszak letter. This act was the single biggest instigator of the exact issue you're talking about: "Forcing everyone to accept the current viewpoint of most scientists, especially in a rapidly evolving field such as studies on a virus discovered less than 5 years ago".
Well, there is still similar chance of an asteroid hitting Mars instead of Earth so it's not like they are moving to a safe space leaving "the rest of us to die".

In fact if you are so worried about going the way of dinosaurs you must support establishment of a colony, because the industry developed for that will be the best way to change the path of an asteroid flying to earth.
This reads like goalpost moving. It started with asking why science wasn’t being explained, and then used a private company’s aggressive censorship policies as an example while ignoring the government’s official statements and published studies, which are the actual authorities in the matter.
"Where you live and work is completely up to you"

That's a patently false statement for a huge number of people now and the vast majority of people throughout history.

There's a kaleidoscope of possibility around people's behavior, station, and life between "Fully Self Actualizing Superman" and "Lazy schmuck who gets what they deserve."
> But many other actions, from curfews, to govt planning of the economy, a draft, collective bomb shelters in London, etc, clearly did help preserve life and Liberty in the long term.

A literal interpretation of this (comprehensive) text yields a rather bold claim.
It exists (film/TV, real estate, etc), but I doubt the person in this article would have paid for that when they could just scam a bookstore instead.
I especially love that piece of guidance because there isn't a good way of testing whether a pointer is invalid.

Imagine I'm a function and I've got a pointer to some object. I know the object is owned by something else. Let's say I want to be extra safe and check whether the pointer is valid before accessing it. How do I do this? I cannot dereference it. I can't compare it against something useful. I could have a custom allocator that tracks the status of all allocated and freed regions of memory, cast my pointer to a void pointer, and check with the allocator (I think this isn't UB). But now I've also got to make sure that freed regions of memory are never reused for any reason. Thanks Bjarne.
Call for new taxes on super-rich after 1% pocket two-thirds of all new wealth
It may not be a conscious choice but an unconscious belief about themselves, such as that they are not productive enough, or that their feelings are not valid.
HN has a good list...
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=music%20theory&sort=byPopulari...

But if you are looking to understand making music programmatically, understanding rhythm is pretty important and i have not found any good rhythm resources except for Godfried Toussaint's book, which I'm studying now. Groove Pizza is a good online tool to experiment with rhythms as described in that book.

Also... The Beatles couldn't read sheet music. Some of the best music in the world came from people who know nothing about music theory. You dont need to totally understand what you are doing to make something amazing and new. I encourage anyone to lay out their own path to find their music.
Not to mention it's basically giving those people an interest free loan funded by the rest of us.

Perhaps if a business lost sales to "girls buy[ing] stuff for the Friday night party" they might gain them from people like me who see the prices as higher than I'd want to pay in the first place.
It is terrifying. The permissionless mindset comes with enough creating regardless of quality. Most people who don’t think they can create are often the best creators.
Oh she is well aware of Cities: Skylines.
Google is too big, working on too many projects which are released too often for the tools and processes to keep pace. They additionally have high turnover.

Under these circumstances, using C++ over decades has the results that can be seen - they can’t produce secure software.

I don’t think that Google or any other company can create secure products. I was actually surprised how many Java bugs were present in the December list.

The market, the incentives are not set up for that. Sure, using safe languages would help in a narrow sense, why not give it a try, but this is turning into scapegoating and silver bullet activism. Once they get rid of the most C and C++ code I bet their products will still be insecure, because the culture, the processes, the market and the people won’t have changed.
Serverless Swift Lambda Performance
yes, it was shared yesterday on HN ;) also this is more low-leven than Robyn, so I think it could be used to build other frameworks like Robyn
> Using C++ for a greenfield project today should require some very good justification though.

Having to maintain legacy C++ applications is all the justification you need to have to understand that staring greenfield projects in C++ is quite frequently and by far the best option on the table

It makes absolutely no sense at all to multiply the tech stacks that a team needs to work on, let alone master, just because naive platitudes have been said about any novel tech stack. You do not make any application better or more secure if you get clueless developers onboarding onto new technologies and forcing them to maintain N+1 code bases and 2*n bindings.

This irrational dislike of C++ ignores the fact that adopting the latest C++ release and toggling static code analysis in your project, which nowadays comes for free, already gets any project way ahead of where naive retractors believe C++ is.
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What are equivalent of carbon credits in various countries and how much money goes to them?
Just by observing it, when the machine clock clicked to 14:20 (UK time) the second hand snapped to the vertical and the minute hand snapped to the 4 (the 20 minute mark).

Does that answer your question? I don't know what I can do that you couldn't do for yourself, so maybe I'm not understanding your question.
Kia Niro hybrid (2019)- i got it mainly because i wanted a hybrid and hatchback, and it was a little cheaper than other brands. My previous car was a ten year old Ford focus, so pretty much anything was going to be a step up in the tech department.

I've had it for almost a year and i like it a lot. I kept my last car for about ten years and i plan to do the same with this one. I'm not sure if I'll go with Kia again, considering how different things will be by the time I'm getting another car.

Anyway, i think the best thing is the hatchback design being so open and big for such a small car.
> Surely there is a difference between 'no longer producing new copies of books we've been printing and selling for decades' and 'retracting / censoring / canceling' the work to erase it from existence.

Yes there is. And if you read the articles I listed, the motives for the retractions were made quite clear by the respective parties. In both cases, the removal of the work had nothing to do with market saturation.

> Are they obligated to continuously produce new copies of each and every previously-sold work in perpetuity? Getting worked up and calling the former the latter seems like an overreaction to me.

I'm not arguing against an author's or publisher's rights to delist or even destroy a work. It's well within their rights their to do so any reason whatsoever. It doesn't take being worked up to make it clear that books are just as susceptible to creator/owner censorship as cartoons are or that authors can be fickle and hypocritical. What I take issue with is the philosophical reasoning behind the retraction.
Bad analogy. Whether I 'own' the company (equity/etc), if I'm a full time employee, the maintenance/debt needs of the company still affect me. They possibly affect me more than someone who merely has 'equity' in the company (people may own shares in multiple companies). A 10% drop in the company's revenue might mean I lose my job.

If the painters/electricians also lived in the house, and it was their only/primary shelter, the 'owner' isn't the only one 'best qualified' to make maintenance decisions.
It's a different experience, but not a superior method of data transfer.

It's like the difference between a kindle, a book, and your grandfather's copy of the same book. Three very different experiences, without fidelity being part of the question at all.
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Scam?
The earliest title with this format that I know of is "Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do" by James Thurber and EB White from 1929. But, that book was a parody so presumably copied the form of its title from contemporary books.
> they send someone to my door to pick up the return

Where is this? I have never seen this as an option.
When I was a poor student we would "hire" games consoles by buying them from Argos, returning them for a full refund within the 14 day(?) guarantee period, and then rinse and repeat. I seem to recall that the games themselves were not covered by the returns policy, so we ended up acquiring quite a collection of cartridges.

Not something I'm very proud of.
In a logical world it would mean that you see fewer ads. If your matches increase, your price per ad goes up so the service needs to show you fewer ads to hit their ad revenue target for you.

But if you think that will happen I have an East River transportation startup in New York that is seeking an angel investor.
The global perfume industry is about $50 billion. The porn industry is estimated to be between $6 and $15 billion. The NASA budget is $24 billion, so somewhere between porn and perfume.

Also much of billionaires' net worth is fictitious paper. You can see this in Musk "losing" $150 billion dollars. That never really existed in the first place. It was leveraged value of things like stocks, not liquid wealth. What actually happened was that Musk's paper net worth was corrected to something a little bit closer to reality (but probably still on the high side).

Actual wealth is physical: stuff, industrial capital, generation capacity, farm land, etc. If you magically redistributed paper wealth to everyone in the world you'd just get hyperinflation since there is not enough actual physical wealth to support all of humanity at anything like a "first world" standard. To get there requires probably another 50-100 years of continuous development, this time smarter using more sustainable practices since unsustainable fossil fuel based development can't get there.

We could get a settlement on the Moon by spending a little more on space than perfume. It's a rounding error compared to the global economy.

If you want to get mad about wasted wealth, get mad about global military budgets and war. That's just blowing shit up and we spend hundreds of times more on that than either space or sustainable development.
Ah, the Artemis Research/WebTV stories I could tell. spies.com lived at their office in Palo Alto for a while. A LOT of ex-Apple people involved.
Bowser, the General Magic rabbit lived out his life there. RIP Phil Goldman.
The parent comment is complaining about the difficulty raising children. If you have children without accounting for how that is going to change your life, I guess I don’t have much sympathy for you.

And layoffs are a reality of the economic cycle, not merely because some “greedy corporation” decided to fire ppl on a whim.

If there is less work than workers or business outlook changes, what would you do? Keep on employees to dig ditches and fill them in out of the goodness of your heart?
Say what you will about Looney Tunes, Elmer Fudd is a very progressive character. He is open not only to transgender but also transspecies love.
Thanks for your reply but the link is actually the link to a reply to that
question by Asahi developper marcan that says just that, and explains why.
Possibly. I know Scotland's traditional "bothy" construction style developed to need only one piece of structural lumber - the roof beam. The walls would be stone (available everywhere), and around the single beam on the roof was thatch or slate.

On the other hand, places like Estonia, Norway, and Romania have museums of traditional wooden construction including all-wood "stave churches". Europe was an extremely non-homogenous place until the late 20th century.

Boswell&Johnson found almost no trees in the 1700s: https://www.electricscotland.com/history/journey/jour3.htm
Cellebrite and MSAB software leaked and release
> Becoming and keeping being a licensed medical practitioner is artificially made extremely hard. It doesn't have to be.

This is the main problem in America, at least. Our government loves capitalists but hates people.
I'm an accountant. I really /really/ want to play an accounting game.

(I'm not an accountant, although I have partially trained as one)
I drive a 2002 truck for its utility and lack of tech. The "infotainment" systems are what keep me from wanting to trade it in, that and that many vehicles now phone home and I don't trust the auto companies with that data
Hindsight isn't a fair judge.

Can one person's mistake bring down the internet for a day? It sure can.

Can one person's mistake create a nuclear disaster, oil spill,war? Yup. And one person can also prevent those things except you rarely hear about averted disasters immediately.
If they have the correctly communicated instructions as you imply, then why weren't they followed? Is it not also possible they don't follow the red light if they think ATC instructed them to use that runway?
It seems like a surprising thing to steal. Don't shoplifters normally go for items which are easy to fence?
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Very easy to design a radio component into electronics, much harder to design it out.
Oh they understood it, alright. That was just them jockeying to see who was going to have to deal with it.
If you control your own email, you can set a character other than ‘+’. (For postfix and dovecot, look up `recipient_delimiter`.)
I think if Microsoft - and Apple, and an increasing number of software vendors - were being a bit more honest, they'd argue the computer isn't a toolshed in the first place. It's a theme park. You're supposed to "use it" to enjoy a controlled experience, and get monetized along the way.

You can see it in the language used in UI design these days. It's all about user experience and their journey. Not much about what they want to actually do with help from software.
> It would be more interesting to compare only the code of C++ and Rust written in the same timeframe. My expectation is that C++ wouldn't look as bad as stated in the article.

I agree. The article reads like it started with w conclusion and cherry-picked data to fit that.