skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like yard work induces a similar amount of calmness in me. I love a good walk but I get the same feeling of centeredness and grounded mental state from mowing the lawn that I do from an equivalent length walk
"Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ('I'm just trying to have a debate'), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter. It may take the form of 'incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate' ... "
In concept Airbnb is fine. Renting out spare rooms, renting unused time on your holiday pad at Cape cod, all make complete sense. It's making more space available, at a cheaper rate, while maximizing utilisation, and return, on an existing asset.

Equally there's some place for buy-to-rent investing to exist. There is, and will always be, a segment of the population who cannot, or doesn't want to, buy and this segment rely on rental for housing. If there was no invest-to-rent then that segment would be homeless.

The problem happens when there's an imbalance. When there's too much Airbnb (like Barcelona), locals get squeezed out of their own city. Some supply is good, too much is bad.

The solution to this is regulation. By regulating supply (prioritize in-home, limited permits for others etc) one can balance the three markets such that ultimately everyone wins.
He might also just literally be insane.
Good thing that’s not what the paper said either then, huh
This is a great comment, however I just want to add some context. Brakes likely had nothing to do with this incident. The problem was a worn/damaged axle bearings.
Kahn Academy has a similar graph and plenty of gamified experiences, but its a non-profit. $50 a month is expensive.
I'm in the market for something like this but $49/mo is absurd, even though it's supposedly discounted from 79/99. Way too high
Check out Huygens Optics on YouTube. Lots of practical advise and tutorials.
I'm fairly sympathetic to both of you here. Even without the vast trove of bullshit that is the Internet, the published scientific literature is already far more than anyone could possibly hope to read with care. Using a credentialism filter is one possible step in the process of narrowing down the set of papers available to read to a subset small enough that you can read them all. It's a popular method that has been practiced in some form for as long as there have been organized intellectual pursuits. And while it's evidently good for maintaining some approximation of a local optimum, I suspect it's also why the adage that scientific progress comes one funeral at a time rings so true.

We should be clear though it's the narrowing process that has the value. Credentialism is just one possible means of narrowing that scores highly on ease of use, but perhaps not so highly for learning radically new things.
Honestly, most people shouldn't even much have to know what Wayland is, and the fact that we're even talking about it is a testament to how badly it was done.

It's the thing that makes graphics on the screen, i.e. why you're not looking at a terminal. For some reason, the decision was made to drastically revamp it in such a way that trying to switch caused a lot of problems. This is like a TEN YEAR OLD deal.
> but it is amazing to me how much black arts still exists for what has become a cornerstone of modern deployment.

What?! Unless you are using complicated networking, docker is simple. Dockerfiles are essentially just annoying-syntax shell scripts.

We have plenty of black arts in computing. Docker isn't one of them.
What exactly makes the average Electron program so goddamn awful? Does the Javascript language inherently result in a bloat runtime? Are the runtimes accidentally bloat? Is it all the browser stuff and not the JS runtime per se? Or maybe just bad programming on the dev side?
Thanks for the detailed answer and insight. It opened up an interest in more closely comparing the shots one gets from machines in the different categories, to see how apart they really are.
By now flash and Java applets are in this category too

Edit: never mind, these are dead now, but they definitely took off in their day.
I know what “Sealioning” is. I read the original web comic it came from. And this is entirely tangential to my request for explanations. Also, your comment now consists entirely of a quote, without any argument of your own.
Replica clothes pass Everest test (2006)
> It’s insane to me that people feel entitled to own a home in whatever part of whatever city they desire, for whatever price they’ve decided is reasonable.

The same logic applies to renting, though. Is it really entitlement to expect to be able to not have to spend 50% of your income on housing?

It’s definitely not a law of nature that housing has to be this expensive, it’s only a political failure that cities are becoming unlivable. You might call that entitlement but also keep in mind that those least able to pay rent are also least likely to be able to move once they’re priced out.
When the security updates stop, the phone should be wiped of personal data and isolated from both cellular and wireless networks. There should be no compromise on this, a phone has access to far too much personal information and local wifi networks to ever consider using it beyond is support lifetime. Additionally, we should all be more diligent ensuring our personal devices install security updates as soon as they are available especially before going to large events (conventions, sports games, F1, etc...) or areas which are high traffic (airports, etc..).
Commenting from CalyxOS, which usually receives Android security updates within a week of release
https://calyxos.org/docs/guide/device-support/
Take a closer look: Steve in 1984, spotting a new Macintosh in the wild
The question is how effective human teachers are relative to alternate technological methods, which I've already addressed:

But time and again the effectiveness of such methods falls far short of direct human instruction.

How human teachers perform relative to some abstract ideal isn't particularly interesting if that ideal isn't viably attainable. All pedagogical methods are relative.

Teaching efficacy does of course vary, though most studies show that other factors, including both environmental (e.g., student's home life, parents, neighbourhood, income/wealth) and institutional (school or district as a whole) matter far more than any individual teacher.

This is a key point in Cathy O'Neill's book Weapons of Math Destruction, mentioned in her Ted Talk here (at about 3 minutes): <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=_2u_eHHzRto>. Of NYC public school teachers tested, 665 had two scores, for which there was virtually no correlation.

Keep in mind that "institutional factors" frequently involves "eliminating educationally-disadvantaged students", by many methods. One such discussed in the past month at the New York Times, "How Educators Secretly Remove Students With Disabilities From School" (10 Feb 2023) <https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/us/students-disabilities-...>

There's a long history of ed-tech failures. You might find Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education by Justin Reich to be a useful introduction:

<https://cmsw.mit.edu/failure-to-disrupt-why-technology-alone...>
Fair enough I did make the same point elsewhere that this poll is worthless due to the effect described. It’s too politically loaded.

As to the “14 words” somehow I feel those are more loaded because it’s a pretty explicit historical reference to WWII German wartime expansionism which genuinely killed loads of people, which makes the word “secure” in the 14 words feel very uncomfortable. We know exactly what “secure” means and it caused much death.
Dog whistles are usually kind of baity, it's still a dog whistle, often used with the intent to anger a group of people.

If the phrase were changed to something else like "White people deserve equal rights" you'll likely see different results in the poll.
TIL Dilbert's creator streams on YouTube...

Considering his career is basically over either way, print is dead, maybe this is working as intended? That whole "no such thing as bad publicity" thing...

I sure as hell wouldn't have watched any of his drivel today if not for this controversy bringing it to my attention.
Oh, cmon now. The N900 was the sweetest piece of pocketech since the palm 3! That has to be worth something.

Man, if they put out a more modern piece of hardware that was designed on the same principle, I'd bye 5. (one backup and the others as gifts for skeptics.)

And I'd promise to say at least one sycophanticlly positive thing about Nokia for a year!

(sigh)

PS

I do realize that this in no way am actual response to the previous. I thought someone who might have an unbidden spasm of hope at the thought might have a better day if reminded of that one brief moment when an engineer's device made a brief appearance on the market's mass :)
its a massive embedded browser. imagine if every app you opened on your computer was a separate process running chrome? thats more or less literally what electron is.
Just because something's dead now doesn't mean that it never took off.
As someone who has repaired a few phones for friends and family, this looks to be more marketing spin than an actual new type of product.

That teardown is almost exactly identical to a Moto G30, and probably dozens of other budget smartphones with plastic cases and screws.

Parts availability was (and still is) great on the G30 too.
> complaints about “cancel culture” are essentially “grievance culture”.

Where does the “grievance” come into play? Opponents of cancel culture are just saying that people shouldn’t be fired for wrongthink.
Finding an overhead bin used to be a lot less cutthroat back when the first checked bag was free...
Pretty sure the Custom ROM crew will leap on this one, so flashing it with one of those seems like it will be an option.
I don't think it's a bad idea, but having looked into this sort of thing pretty deeply, I do think it's a "now you have two problems" idea when started by centering an ideal VM.

Foundational software is very slippery stuff - it's analogous to having a yeast culture. Before the software was there we had machine language and the specific hardware, but gradually we built a stack of compiler tech, common protocols, etc. And from there we went and started targeting the end of further abstracting it, making it perfectly portable and so forth, but that's like trying to engineer a perfect yeast: while some might get a better benchmark on some metric, the overall metric is a pass/fail: "Can I bake bread with this?"

Of course, a lot of people give up along the way and buy something off the shelf, because they want bread now. And that's fine - they're eating off it, and the world keeps turning.

But if you do try, you can "do more with less" by carefully limiting the kinds of computation and I/O you're doing and describing that as a protocol, then developing software around the protocol. At that point, the software's specification has an insulation barrier from its dependencies, and you don't necessarily care about the whole of the dependency because you've selected a subset whose specific features and codepaths can be vetted in more depth.

And the odd thing about this is that it's the kind of thing that, at its outset, doesn't lead towards complexity, because you intentionally started with a system that does less than its dependent parts: but once you have that, you can knock out and replace the dependencies to "do one thing well," ship of Theseus style. At that point it can become larger again, and evolve. And that's roughly how we ended up with the giant soup of stuff that is "Web tech". At every point along the way, it did bake bread. But when it was first specified, it hardly did anything at all: it bundled "download remote files, present files as documents".
> The people who criticize the phrase “it’s okay to be white” are actually racists and ad hominem doesn’t make them not racist.

That's only true if you're painfully context-blind, or if you live in a non-white-dominated society that's well known for centuries of discrimination towards whites (which you don't).

I am white and while the phrase taken at its face value is obviously true, I can't think of a context where I could use it without intentional racist subtexts - and that's without even considering the origin of the phrase.
If you have a G20, your phone is probably already as repairable as this Nokia. I've personally pulled apart a G30 and it was basically identical to the phone they showed in the article.
My fiancé is a big fan of holding out for the option to check a bag at the gate, provided that she's retrieving her luggage immediately after landing (e.g. no further layovers, which would exponentially increase the likelihood of it becoming lost).

I was skeptical at first, but it's been nice boarding last and not having to find a place for the bag. You do have to wait for the luggage return on the other side, though.
This comment gets at the heart of the issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34942502

The poll doesn’t prove anything, especially that black people as a race are a hate group. The idea an entire race should be considered a “hate group” is absurd on its face. So one should approach results indicating as such with a big question mark, because they are surprising. That the phrase in question is a white supremacist dog whistle fully explains the results actually.

But to take this poll credulously and throw your hands up in the air as Scott does says a lot. He doesn’t stop there though, he runs with it. With a full throat he declares an end to the idea of our integrated multicultural society. He implores white people to purposefully segregate and insulate themselves from black prior as an act of safety.

I think it’s been pointed out a couple times in this thread how polls can be deceptive. That Scott doesn’t even really grapple with this possibility and instead dives straight to “white flight” mode… well, for his sake I just hope he can get over this phase.
I know your point. It’s not subtle. It also discounts that he was a rising star in politics. It’s the same thing we saw with Ben Carson.

I think it’s a low blow to suggest that either were hired to virtue signal diversity.

I much prefer a later comment where you attempt to lay out a case why he was bad at his job for things he did or didn’t do. Well at least that’s what I think the sources you provided did.
Yeah £149.99 sounds like a budget phone. There are literally hundreds of Android devices that cost less
Storage is cheap. With ChatGPT being the preminent system, and with OpenAI recording all of its output, it should be possible to exclude modified answers from the training data.
Gerardo 1997.
I look forward to replacing my nighttime mindless fiction reading with even more mindless and endless AI generated fluff. Asking ChatGPT to write science fiction is almost like a “choose your own adventure” book at times. But it isn’t perfect and a tool designed specifically for novel writing would be better.
> If you let a company grow too large it's essentially impossible for the government to effectively regulate.

Tell that to China [1]. Not to get sidetracked, this isn't a statement about the merits of what China did here, just the fact that they could do it and did it.

You are alluding to corporate consolidationg being a problem, which it is, but that's only one facet. For example, the "money = speech" regime we've been in since Citizens United v. FEC is another big one. Another big one is Reagan era propaganda that many continue to treat as fact despite decades of evidence to the contrary (eg trickle down economics, deregulattion).

The solution for the rail freight industry in particular is to nationalize the whole thing, which of course will never happen.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56448688
They work excellent for what they are, and are a testament to the ingenuity of the android community, but as an end user product they're just not there yet. I would never flash a custom ROM for someone who isn't capable of flashing something else on it to fix a bug or restore back to factory.
Encouraging white flight isn't racist?
WAP (which I hasten to say meant something else in the 90s, probably to its detriment)
Yes, I know! I use that. And you can used your biometric on it to unlock it. It's very good. For me, that's more for private notes for myself. But if I want to send to someone else in an encrypted format, over multiple mediums: chat, email, etc--then NoteLock is the way to go. Just so simple.
I would bet on that.

https://twitter.com/waltisfrozen/status/1559938511234428929?...
repos sitting in my Bookmarks.

* https://github.com/docker/awesome-compose

* https://github.com/PostHog/posthog

* https://github.com/growthbook/growthbook

* https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet

Supposedly, One can search github using `language:typescript filename:docker-compose.yml stars:>1000` but it's not working for me somehow.
You're on daily dexamphetamine right? I don't really have any experience in taking that medicinally although I spent a decade or so where for good chunks of it I was taking speed every day to go to work, consistently enough to have some sense of what being on Adderall would be like. And I went through phases of manic production and other phases where I just did lots of stuff but wasn't productive. When it worked and made me productive it was when I had a concrete goal to work towards, and the other kicker about ADHD is that you have deficits that make future goal-directed behaviour really hard - in working memory, in the mind's eye and in the mind's theatre, meaning you can't just "imagine" what the end goal would look like and use that as a thing to work towards. ADHD makes us time blind and that robs us of motivation to do things.

But that aside the urgency and focus that dexamphetamine provide is tiring over long periods I think, which is why I've not sought it out as a medication option and settled on slow-release methylphenidate - I get a tiny dopamine kick in the morning after taking them, which is enough to wake my mind up from hibernation in time for the stand-up, and it's otherwise... just better than when I'm not on it? It's been almost 15 years now and it still helps, tolerance is when your brain adapts to the medication and that's actually what I want, right?

Not sure if any of that was helpful or not, but that's roughly how I see things.
In the UK these are called "storage heaters". The efficiency is still 1:1 but you can charge them from cheap electricity sources (originally overnight electricity) and have the heat released slowly over time. A unit the size of a typical wall mounted radiator (except thicker) can store over 10kWh of heat.

https://www.elnur.co.uk/product/ecombi-hhr-high-heat-retenti...

My parents use these as their main heat source, and once you figure out how they work, the work fine. If I was building new today I'd go with a heat pump, but they have no ducting or central heating, so retrofitting that would not be easy. These could still be useful as a supplementary heat source if you have solar, as they are much cheaper than batteries for storing energy.
>About 10:45 a.m., the Conrail hazardous materials risk manager; the CSXT hazardous materials manager; and the Gloucester County Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives team (CBRNE) lieutenant approached the wreckage by boat.38 Although none of these individuals wore respiratory protection, they closely inspected tank car valves and fittings. They acknowledged the accumulated frost on the tank cars and bridge equipment, thus confirming that the release of a compressed gas had occurred.

Do these people not even care about their own well-being? I was stuck in traffic downwind of a semi fire once and it was like breathing death, I've carried an emergency CBRN respirator under my seat ever since. These responders have CBRN in their job title!
Here is a popular blog that uses Discourse for comments: https://blog.codinghorror.com/welcome-to-the-internet-of-com...

HOWTO: https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-discourse-comments-on-ano...

Many years ago I tried using Facebook: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/comments/
Linux is a bit different because you are responsible for supporting yourself really.
10x Management
Reminder: it is extremely bad for your health and the health of those around you to burn wood and release woodsmoke, even up/out of a chimney.

https://www.samharris.org/blog/the-fireplace-delusion

It smells nice but it is damaging your heart and lungs and those of people within a quarter mile radius.
I'm not making any claims about the accuracy of the poll results because I have no idea how it was conducted, but the question "Do you agree or disagree with this statement: 'It’s OK to be white.'?" is certainly not meaningless even if it's loaded. There is a very unambiguously correct answer to that statement and if there is a population with a significant amount of people answering "no" that clearly demonstrates something problematic about current public attitudes and race relations.
Funny how we have a post here from some company selling these and it feels like the thought is "this is new".

In fact it's how people have heated for a very very long time. Lots of these in European houses from days past. And in fact I know a guy in Germany that heats his living room, dining room and kitchen with one that's built into the wall between these three rooms. Not as fancy as what you see there or on Wikipedia. Just tiled wall basically. Old house and instead of ripping it out when he bought it, he cleaned it up and uses it to heat.

A kachelofen uses a maze-like passage created out of firebrick to release gases and smoke from the wood fire slowly, allowing the firebrick to retain as much heat as possible from the gases and smoke. The ceramic tile surrounding the stove also acts as insulation to retain heat. Such stoves were carefully designed so that the minimum amount of heat would escape, only as much as needed to warm the flue to maintain a proper air draught. The firebrick used in the construction holds 80% more heat than ferrous metals such as cast iron, while its heat conductivity is 1/45 that of iron or steel: A kachelofen is efficient enough to warm a house for up to 6 to 12 hours after the fire has stopped burning

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonry_heater
Please can Electron die already? Almost every Electron program I use could be a PWA. Slack has no reason to need another browser engine running. You could make a point for native integration, but there is none. And all it does is display text (and images). What a world we live in. Worse is better, amirite?
I wasn't pointing at the severity of the reaction (eiter in the clip, or in this thread). The severity of the reaction is the second joke in that clip, but I was referring to the main joke: that the passengers reaction comes when the stewardess reveals there's no more coffee, not at all the abdolutely horrible things said before.

That part would be funny even if it was shown as regular outrage and some loud complaints.

Because, even though a "straw that broke the camel's back" response is by definition about having an outburst at a smaller slight as opposed to one of the biggers ones that preceded it, when the final slight is extremely out of proportion compared to the previous ones, having that be "the final straw" becomes farcical.

In other words, there's illogical and there's really really illogical - to the point of being comical.