skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you want to be a better writer, or do you want to make your writing more interesting? Because these are actually orthogonal things.

A _good_ writer never uses flowery or verbose prose and avoids passive voice. To paraphrase whoever it was, "perfection is achieved not where there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Write profusely, edit mercilessly. If you're new to writing, it won't be unusual to entirely re-write a piece two or three times before it doesn't suck. It _does_ get easier but it takes a lot of work and patience to get there.

I'll assume from your last sentence that you want to make your writing more interesting. To me, a piece of writing is interesting if it doesn't take itself too seriously and sprinkles in a few jokes and jabs here and there. When I'm writing something for a general audience online, I imagine I'm writing it for a friend and wish to reward the reader for their attention with some light humor, if I'm able to find the torch.

Some writers are literally terrified of using first-person singular pronouns for some reason. It's always, "we did this thing," or "our favorite movie is X," or "you can thank us by blah blah blah." Even YouTubers do this when it's patently f'n obvious there's only person behind the camera and it drives me goddamn insane. Don't do this, is probably what I'm trying to say. The editorial "we" is to be reserved for when you _actually_ represent more than one person, like a group research project, or a whole magazine.

Is there a particular style you want to emulate? If so, read everything you can in that style. I greatly enjoy the writing of Sir Terry Pratchett and will consider my life a resounding success if I ever manage to be 1/10th as clever as him. I also recommend Dave Barry and literally everything written by James Mickens. If you find an author you like, don't just read them, actually analyze their writing. Study what makes it "work" for you.
>Definitely some of the most beautiful (I blame New Zealand) movies ever made.

I had a job that sent me to New Zealand for what turned out to be a pretty amazing time. I almost didn't come back because I liked it so much. I had no idea where all I'd be visiting on the trip, but part of the assignment took me to a lot of the locations used to in the film. One place had one of the chairs they used to help sell the forced perspective of having a normal size human look small and was a photo-op. The trip took me into the woods, up to the top of mountains walking on a glacier where the water hadn't been liquid for tens of thousands of years (or some such). Haven't lucked into a job assignment like that ever since.
This is indeed the most interesting part.

>The security of a country should not be pursued at the expense of others. The security of a region should not be achieved by strengthening or expanding military blocs.

The most clear interpretation of this section is a condemnation of NATO expansion into Ukraine. NATO is the "military bloc" described here.

A military bloc is a military alliance of states. Russia invading Ukraine isn't a "strengthening or expansion" of the Russian military bloc.

NATO alliance Ukraine clearly advances the security of the EU and Ukraine itself.
They are taller and heavier. I don't know about the studies or numbers, but just imagine that you are walking, biking, or driving a small car, and you are hit by a small car vs. a truck or SUV. The location and force of impact is very different in all those cases.
Wrong - a plant diet without supplementation is effectively a health crisis.

It’s no luxury. We did not evolve our brains based on a “luxury”. Cooked meat is a necessity. You are worse for not having it in every and any case, and a plant based diet without supplementation is equivalent to running at a lower efficiency.
Usually the defender is expected to have advantage but somehow Soviet Union ended up with higher casualties than losing side.
I'd honestly point folks towards Helix[0] these days if they don't already have something keeping them on neovim/vim.

There's very little in the ways of needing to configure Helix; it has built-in most functionality that you'd find with batteries-included vim "distributions" and it works out of the box with the installed LSP servers on your system.

[0]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix
Government funded trips to Mars and Europa.

Space based gravitational wave sensor.

Fusion (this one has actually had fairly good progress lately).
Site archyde.com seems to be some kind of weird splog. Is there a better source? What exactly is the new discovery, just that the innermost part of the core has a slightly different composition than the surrounding part?
> If you really value your privacy, don't use the internet or any types of computers, including phones, and never go outside.

Or, perhaps, take a bit of a more nuanced view of things. Perfect privacy, exactly like perfect security, is and always has been an unattainable ideal. But less than perfection is still very useful.

Locking your front door won't stop someone with a battering ram, but you might want to do it anyway.
I don't have a study, but an anecdote: for the last 18 months or so, I've worked 32 hours a week. Originally, I thought I would work 4x8, but as time went on, I really enjoy working 5 or 6 or 7 hours a day, depending on my desire and the work needing to be done.

It's really nice to be able to not set an alarm and just wake up and work whenever you're ready or be able to take an afternoon off and take the kids to the park if you feel like it.
Could this be meant as "risk of death at certain age"?
This is really cool!

I'm a few books into the Aubry/Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brien (highly recommended! The movie Master & Commander is based on them).

This should help to get a better feel for the ships and the battles!
They also thought they could take Ukraine in about the time it took Hitler to blitz into Poland.
> a car is fundamentally an expensive luxury item

Says you.
The article wasn't about adding ASCII art, only about allowing the default panic handler to print the output correctly when the application uses raw mode in the terminal. It is a good introduction to what registering a panic handler looks like, no more than that. If you want colored backtraces, you can look at https://crates.io/crates/color-backtrace, https://crates.io/crates/better-panic or https://crates.io/crates/color-eyre, which leverage the same machinery shown in the article.
It's worse than gaslighting, it's giving Russia the same immunity in criminality that the US enjoys.
German Studentenverbindungen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Student_Corps), the crazier kind, some of them schlagend (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_fencing).
Use neovim or astrovim or spacevim
These are setup perfectly and come with just the right batteries installed
Yes, I like to say that I was extremely productive while working at home. I actually completed a large home renovation project by working on it full time while also tending to my regular work as needed - meaning I answered IMs as they came up and attended scheduled calls and did little else. There were other issues with that job though. I'm actually not a fan of work from home as it feels incredibly stifling to be essentially homebound for the majority of the day; something I would not have thought myself saying a few years ago.
In Schmidt’s first tv interview on Bitcoin he also said concern over unchecked criminality was overblown.

He suggested that criminals make enough opsec mistakes that would be recorded that the government need not be worried.
Ha, good one! [1]

But presumably they aren't really at risk of being exposed by these guys. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People
I suppose it's difficult to tell what OS one is on, when most people just use a full screen browser window anyways.
Sweet! I finished the Hornblower series late last year and couldn't find anything like this. Can't wait to try it!
AFAIK is not fully compatible with Vim keystrokes
Have you been to Western Europe lately? Their infrastructure, culture, activities, education, and social values dominate the USA in every way. We have bigger cars, more money, and more guns than them though.
The 5"1/4 floppy disk next to the Commodore 1541 disk drive with "Bruce Lee" manually written on it just cracks me up. I've spent countless hours on that game on the C64 :)
Former NATO Commanders Say US ‘Must Do Everything We Can’ for Ukrainian Victory
For the World Bank, Public Health Should Be the Priority
It's very difficult to do this without introducing ThoughtCrime. The set of things that you could potentially have thought about doing is infinite. There's almost inevitably something in hindsight that you could have done to get the results that the prosecutor/plaintiff desired. The problem is that ordinary people without the benefit of hindsight fail to notice these options all the time, for all sorts of mundane reasons. If you criminalize negligence you're going to sweep an awful lot of innocent people up in your dragnet.

Strategic stupidity is indistinguishable, from the outside, from actual stupidity. I'd bet the latter is significantly more common. Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
The combination of open records and open meetings laws in many state governments largely do hold state and local officials to rules like this.
The U-shaped distribution of outcomes has been discussed for many, many years, and I've never seen it mentioned without the caveat that most doctors and scientists suspect that it's a misleading statistic attributable to serious illnesses that cause weight loss. This definitely isn't the first study to support that interpretation, either.

In other words, the longstanding conventional wisdom (at least as presented in the media) is exactly what this study set out to vindicate, not the opposite, like the press release claims.

It's possible that this study is a significant step up in quality from existing ones, and it's possible that their method of considering past BMI is new and interesting, but the framing of it as the first to challenge conventional wisdom is pure marketing hype.
If you want to do better than "copy paper" you could run heavier stock paper through a color laser printer.

In my poor, college days, I would have entertained chopping a manila folder to Letter size and running it through the straight-feeder of a Color Laser-jet.
It has a name because it's a specific size and shape of plastic funnel, for which specific paper filters are made. It's also usually not plastic?
Getting more than what you've asked for: The Next Stage of Prompt Engineering
Corresponding Github repository: https://github.com/greshake/lm-safety
Most likely. Although the exact origins of this tradition are unclear, there's evidence that this practice reaches as far back as the 18th century.
Software like this is why I agreed to a rent of $X prior while applying for a lease, and after income verification was returned a rent of $X+30% on the final lease agreement, with an excuse that "it took us several business days to process and rents are recalculated daily based on current market conditions." Which, I knew, intuitively was utter bullshit and they just wanted to fuck me over some more than they already were because they found out I made decent money as a tech worker. Of course, I'm in a bad rental market, and this place was a better option than others, so we sucked it up and took it, and that's why I'm paying nearly $4k/mo in rent when it should be around $3k/mo in the current market (and since prices have fallen, probably closer to $2500/mo).

It's super-scummy behavior and if it weren't "washed" through this software, would be blatantly illegal. Why do we allow these "loopholes" where a company exists to essentially help other companies directly break the law in spirit, but barely not in letter?
if you search nybits.com (i think the last nyc apartment aggregator that sorts by date), you can see a daily flood of realpage-adminstered buildings shifting their units' prices up or down a few dollars every day

I don't think they do this on purpose; when I called one of the buildings I was interested in, their leasing agent was surprised I could even see the 'real price'...
In this article, I interpret "pretty" to mean "readable". There is a sample of the alternative in the post. Raw mode requires an explicit carriage return to accompany each line feed if you want the CR behavior, so if the default panic handler prints its normal string, each line is horizontally indented to the end of the previous line.

There is no ASCII art.
The cost of city congestion: 2022 Mobility data of world’s most-congested areas
Going back to my original comment: if I release a giant binary blob (say, a Windows image) and an open source runtime to run it (say, VirtualBox), does that mean I can say Windows is open source? I don't think so, and to me it seems that this situation is a perfect parallel.

This is FSF's freedom 1: "The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this."

By that definition I don't think you can say this model is open source then.

You could say the inference code is open source, and that's technically true (and the only thing the repo claims TBH), but calling this open source AI model is misleading.

Open source inference code is outright uninteresting. It's a few hundred lines of glue code to run a giant binary blob which does the heavy lifting, i.e. the actual computing, i.e. the actual software, i.e. the software whose source we're actually interested in.

EDIT: Actually I just noticed they didn't even open source checkpoints+tokenizer.
The WHO absolutely bungled the last pandemic. And now it has increased authority [1]. It's mostly a function of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation now, sadly.

[1]:https://chrissmith.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?Docume...
I've recently read that only about 30% identify as Russians.
> you'd be hard-pressed to argue it should an expensive luxury.

I'm not arguing that at all. I'm just pointing out that _tests_ can have unintended or intended outcomes. Testing and retesting doesn't seem like a viable scalable solution.
> I think the next logical step is to build our own "Phoenix" on top of axum (or hyper)

That would be awesome even without any live view like functionality
Claims that GPT produces "better search" are groundless until GPT demonstrably produces "better search" and the resulting product has been observed for unintended consequences. Gonna be a wait.
Same! Please share GP
No appeasement has been the reason for fighting wars since WW2. This shows a misunderstanding of the wars. In Vietnam, it was called the domino theory, except Vietnam was a war of independence. The war on terror - invade Iraq so the terrorist don't come here. The Russians are not going to invade NATO countries.
Very cool idea. Can't wait to try.
The fact that the current regulatory regime hasn't forced the use of an octane booster that is acutely toxic is more of a case of a broken clock being right twice a day than it being good policy. I would even argue that in this case, the broken clock isn't even "right". As the OP points out, use of ethanol has negative consequences as well, and the fact that its use is mandated basically gets rid of any incentive to come up with a better octane booster.
What's the infamous label thing? Are you talking about IMAP or Gmail's broken implementation?

I was under the impression the first public IMAP spec had support for "flags"... did it need later fixing?
On Mac I need to install iTerm2 to have a reasonable terminal environment but with that:

- I need to use a workaround to avoid the title bar flashing without reason

- The window sometimes just disappears and Mac window management isn't sophisticated enough for me to rescue it.

More and more doesn't 'just work'.
Bret Victor would be proud and/or amazed.
> On MacOS, if I want to completely terminate a program, I have to right click on its icon in the dock and then select quit.

⌘-q terminates a program, ⌘-w closes a tab/window

> On Fedora (and every combination of distribution and desktop env I've tried), clicking the close icon actually terminates the program (imagine that), and no more processes are running unless there's still another window running the same program. It seems like GNU/Linux follows the Principle of Least Astonishment while Apple does not.

This is just a different design choice. It has been this way for a long time on mac. Just because you aren't used to it, doesn't mean it is necessarily wrong.
I read HOD a couple times, which is related to European subjugation of Africa

Nowhere in it do I find any sort criticism of the harms that were done. He describes the awful conditions in the Congo, but does not necessarily oppose them

The language he uses to describe the Africans is hostile at best. A poignant example is the part about the "insolent black head" peaking through the doorway while Kurtz lay dying

Not saying that Penguin should've removed his name because that's a different argument, but I have no idea how/where you're getting anticolonialism out of Conrad and I'd genuinely like to know

Edit: what did I get out of HOD? The death of God. Kurtz goes out to a corner of the Earth that was yet to be corrupted by capitalism. Marlow goes on a journey with no message in particular, he's a witness to the historical event
I've had tremendous success ending them for me. My main number is with a VOIP provider and I set up the IVR to say "Please dial 1 to continue the call" and wait for it. No spam calls have gotten through since then.
I use a Macbook at work and a Chromebook at home, and always prefer the Chromebook (which has Linux support)!

(I used to use a PC, but after Windows XP, that fell to the bottom of the list.)
The Fediverse Is Already Dead
E = mc^2. The bigger the vehicle the more mass the more force and time needed to come to a safe stop. More force on impact to the driver and pedestrians.
This looks awesome. Will definitely try it out.

Also, does anyone remember Empire Total War from back around 2011? One of my favorite games of all time despite its millions of issues. This brought back some fond memories of high school, getting back from class and running back home to battle some 18th century French warships…
lol atmospheric conditions, the bane of a barista's life
It wasn't a "temporary downturn". If you look at the graph of casualties in Donbas before 2022, the first 2 years of fighting in 2014-2015 see the vast majority of casualties, and then it goes down sharply from there.

By 2021, this much lower rate was a well-established status quo, and this was reflected even in official government briefings from separatist republics and Russia itself. For example, DNR published (https://regnum.ru/news/polit/3467017.html) its own stats claiming a grand total of 70 military casualties and 7 civilians for the entirety of 2021 - a proportion, by the way, that tells you volumes about where that fire was aimed.
I don't like the stock aeropress recipe. I too found it wasn't very consistent and sometimes gave wildly different results. I've found James Hoffman's aeropress technique to be fantastic though and much more repeatable--give it a shot: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j6VlT_jUVPc

The big difference with James' technique is that it spends more time immersion brewing, almost like a french press, vs the stock technique that's really rushing you to extract and then percolate with the push. I find the longer immersion brew is a lot more forgiving and repeatable as a technique.
For me, cassette mix-tape label inserts.
I wouldn't say any of them have really held up.

The control system for Fallout 1 is atrocious. There some crazy press right mouse once, then choose context action. Two's isn't much better.

XCom has the same flaw as all of Julian Gollop's games, everything's too RNG based. He recently brought out an XCom successor which was poorly received because it was basically the same as the original XCom's.

They were great games, I just couldn't play them today. Literally, I bought Fallout 1+2 a few years ago and it was so frustrating I stopped. If you want a trip down memory lane, play Wasteland 2 instead, still old skool feeling, but with modern quality of life.
This is really confusing the messenger with the message. The problem is not limited to psychology, it's that psychology historically and currently is where meta-science usually happens (modern meta-analysis has its roots in educational and clinical psychology):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
https://www.nature.com/articles/533452a
Not stupid at all, it sounds wacky. It goes hand in hand with my four day work week really requiring Friday work. At this place, it was frowned upon and straight up said during a company all hands meeting or two that taking time off was heavily discouraged at a time when the company needed as much productivity as possible.

We offered unlimited PTO, which I've found to just be a way to sound really great but in reality they can block PTO if it's over a given amount and look down on you for taking that PTO. It's never an explicit "you will not get a promotion", but you'll get less opportunities, potential for promotion, and such as you're not seen as a "team player" like they bring up during the all hands. It's a crappy thing.

Should I have just taken my time off anyway? Maybe. Working somewhere where you have an actual set amount of PTO has never brought that negative stigma with it. I'm not surprised if this isn't common for unlimited PTO companies, but I've read that the reason companies offer it is because employees take less time off on average.
What does that mean? Is the US a military state?
I was working there when this happened, and I definitely remember thinking, "Well, no point in writing a detailed email full of information that will be useful in the future, because in 30 days it'll be gone anyway."

Even more frustrating was finding myself in a situation where I remembered an old email that would be enormously helpful, either because of the information in it, or because I could reuse the bulk of something I had invested a lot of effort into writing, and knowing that this work was gone forever.
There’s also the issue of how/what exactly you’re measuring. There are two different scales that result in European readings being several points higher (eg US 93 is ~ Euro 98)
And footwear company...
> That takes a while, but improved outcomes make it worth it.

meanwhile the integrity of the supply chain continues to be compromised

> Your cynicism isn't warranted

it is: the python packaging situation is worse today than it was when I started writing Python in 2005

the legions of meetings, grandiose titles, conferences and mountains of unreadable proposals have produced tooling that is objectively worse than what Maven offered close to two decades ago
It's not free but the US is spending way more in healthcare without getting anything in return.

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/154e8143-en/index.html?i...
WVU physicists give the first law of thermodynamics a makeover
I've just sampled some mirror sites.

- https://mozilla-firefox.fileplanet.com/ - Indeed it downloads a download manager.

- https://download.cnet.com/Mozilla-Firefox/3000-2356_4-102085... - Downloads an installer. It's for an older version but shouldn't have the unique ID, and it should be able to update itself but I haven't tested.

- https://techviral.net/firefox-offline-installer/ - Also the installer, and for the latest version.

That's 2 out of 3 without an unique ID.

You have also conveniently glossed over the package manager angle, which I suspect is a pretty large slice of their user base.