skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was growing up, I was fortunate that we did have an Encyclopedia in the house. My grandfather was a regional sales manager for Fields Enterprises, and sold World Book Encyclopedias. So, we had a full set.

It had all sorts of wonderful things inside, and I remember countless times asking my parents questions after questions and they'd get exasperated with me and tell me to go look it up myself. Six hours later, I would have missed dinner and it would be way past my bed time -- and I would have no concept of how much time had passed.

By sixth grade, I was reading at the college level, and my school had no idea what to do with me.

By the time I got to college and had a job shelving books in the main library on campus, I found out about Encyclopedia Britannica, which was clearly at least twice as big as World Book, and I found out also much more authoritative.

I owe my entire career, and pretty much everything I am to the encyclopedias we had when I was a kid, and my grandfather who made sure we had a set.
That sounds quite sad.
Just like bragging about high-school. At 36.
Unless you repair it yourself. I’ve done things like replacing the bearings and a cracked spider arm in our clothes washer. Not only was it cheap to do so, I also learned a lot about how a washer is put together by dismantling one down almost all the way. Same with replacing the heating element in the dryer.
This makes the assumption that "The majority of ...". You have to separate high-volume and loud voices that get press time from what is really happening. These are sensational stories that make click-bait news headlines. However, the majority of people that I've known all my life have pride in the work they do and value an honest day's pay for an honest day's work. The competition for top jobs (e.g. FAANG) is fierce and there's a strong and growing start-up culture where there are plenty of people with hustle mentality. The US is a place of diverse people and ideologies and taking guesses about the average person will probably result in many examples that diverge from unsubstantiated assumptions.
You already mentioned JetBrains, but more specifically I happily pay for Resharper for C# and C++, it’s such a productivity boost if you’re using Visual Studio.
I use a broccoli rubber band as a minimalist iPhone 'case'. [1] It makes the back and bottom of the phone grippy, so it's easier to hold. It does slightly block the corners of the screen, but not much. It doesn't provide much protection in case of a drop, obviously. But the added grippiness makes drops much less likely!

I have occasionally bought broccoli that I didn't need just so I could get another rubber band, after my previous one broke. They typically last 2 months or so.

1: https://imgur.com/a/E2yO6XX
The interior of these rocks stay a comfortable temp for rock-boring microbes during the entire trip (including both impacts).
Off the top of my head I was thinking of lack of moderation, and spam problems.

There's also a lack of formatting, but perhaps you could just not show posts without a header containing "text/markdown", or similar, to work around that.

Binaries would be grossly inefficient too, if you resorted to multipart-posts with encoded bodies. Again that could probably be worked around - either use single-post parts only, or ignore them entirely as you preferred.
I'm a bit of a recovering minimalist, though it was never really a choice to become one.

I spent the better part of 15 years living out of a small backpack, travelling ~9 months a year then flying home to work short software contracts and save up for the next trip. As a consequence, I got used to not having very many things. One pair of pants, one pair of shorts, that sort of thing. I think my policy was something like "If I haven't used this thing in the last 3 days, I don't really need it along".

At one point, I revisited my storage locker, filled to the roof with everything I had owned in my 20s, and couldn't really find anything that I wanted to take out of it. "This isn't the shirt I wear", and "I already have enough socks" (meaning four socks: 2 on my feet and another pair for when I wash these.) I ended up just letting the storage company auction it all off.

It was really weird buying a house and starting to fill it with things. I bought a couch and a TV. I got my old guitar back from the friend I'd lent it to 20 years earlier, then eventually bought a second one and a bass to go with it. It's actually kinda nice to have a few possessions.

The attitude is still there though. At one point I had to buy five iPhones in a single day as test machines for a job, and it was all I could do to physically force myself to click the buy button. It was like fighting every natural impulse in my body to overcome my aversion to consumerism.

I guess it has left me in a healthy spot in regard to "stuff ownership."
Btw. I read somewhere "they" already have a lot of data.

> With easy and ready access to medical data we could be decades ahead

So make it ! On premises. Pay for helping in that. Do not pay for storage and cpu in clouds ! And don't be naive about what good and progress "they" can
bring to medicine. They will promise then stall as much as possible and you will be paying for not deleting your precious data. Or accessing your own data :> And watching like your data are published and sold on black markets...
I used to do this, but more recently have found that VS includes most of the same functionality and ReSharper and VS end up fighting with each other to do the same thing for you, which gets annoying.

Rider is great though!
The geopolitics are incredibly complicated

Not really - it's quite straightforward, actually

and there is a lot behind the scene the average person doesn't see.

Such as?
This is the way.

I love repairing stuffs and feel little bit nervous if using something that I know is not repairable or dont understand, how it works.

Of course quality over quantity is more sustainable. Corporations needs to understand this. Trying to be more green or diverse wont help with overproduction of cheap, non quality stuffs. If market offers new stuff cheaper that fixing existing one, something is realy wrong. And I guess we can feel it right now.
I don’t think any Soviet disaster is as much as we have paid and will pay for climate change. Hundreds of billions of dollars of damage a year & Trillions of dollars of future damage
Three months old software is new enough to be in Arch repository, so in this case it's not about Debian being old, it's about rust devs using bleeding edge features.

If you're contradicting a person's argument ("yeah, it was") at least provide some more explanation, otherwise your comment is rarely more than a "is too!".
I've had ants in the kitchen, tiny and not particularly noticeable. They'd keep the kitchen floor clean and I'd not kill them. I had always hoped that they would keep any other ants and termites out of the house. I do wish I could communicate and give them a 5 pound bag of sugar periodically to help entire other bugs and food debris stay out of the house.
From what I understand, there are quite a lot of cosmic rays coming to Earth at 10 TeV and even much higher, so the black hole thing never made any sense to me. Shouldn't cosmic rays have already created an earth-destroying blackhole, if such a thing were possible?

Apparently the whole controversy was started by the Scientific American magazine publishing the letters of some crank botanist. Pop science journalism is shameless.
realvnc so you can connect to a real computer
Yes. We need to look at how severe the negative outcome could be before we invest resources in prevention. A low probability catastrophy is still well worth an attempt to prevent.
He's saying that it happened for reasons completely unconnected with race.

Whether you believe his claims are correct or not, how do you manage to read them as racist?
This is brilliant! Some of these combinations are very creative. Try shark + cheese or shark + clown...
We trade with bees though.
As a kid, encyclopedias are great sources of broad information. You probably don't need to go any deeper than they do.

As an adult, encyclopedias are a great starting point, but cannot do anything more than scratch the surface of any subject they cover.

That's just the way it is, I think.

The key advantage that printed encyclopedias have over Wikipedia is that the experts writing the articles are chosen by editors and have to be able to demonstrate broad and authoritative knowledge of the subject, before they're allowed to put those words on paper. Not so with Wikipedia.
A collection of hashes for each specific binary that now needs to be maintained and updated any time one of them changes seems like it'd be more secure, but also a huge pain. I think if an attacker already has access to my system, can install their own binaries, and then run them by specifying paths at the command line, the security of my linux desktop is already a lost cause
Convex Optimization (2004) [pdf]
Maybe, but maybe we aren't worth it. They could easily use media, social media, advertising, bribes, etc to cause a societies opinion of what to do, that's maximally benefitical to them.

Additionally I don't see why AIs won't be competing with themselves for resources, and we'd be a minor footnote for their attention. Just imagine how much thought we gave to ants during WWII. I've seen a scfi cover the AIs go to war, and the humans end up farming in a pre-industrial society while the AIs fight underground or in space.
I don't think your caches would help very much if all media were sent uncompressed. Everything is already compressed, so you might not think about it much, but I'd say that it is at least as important as caching.
You have to pay of you use for work related stuff
SICP and at least 3 volumes of TAoCP - for myself.

Any beginner books on JS, Python, Lua etc - for neighbour kids.

The hardest math book which is still understandable - anti-age therapy for brain, works only if to keep solving the tasks from time to time.
Seneca was right on higher education
Kiwi grin? Beetle hearts? My goodness. This is pretty strange, and I kinda love it. What was it made for, I wonder?
I never seen PhD as a program that is attempting to teach people write. There is absolutely no reason to expect someone with PhD to write better then other people.
Fitness Dashboard with Google Fit in Google Sheets
The utility program might vary between platforms, but the algorithm is definitely ubiquitous.
The chances are quite literally not zero
I'm afraid I'm not the target audience, so I can't say anything about this piece.

But I've seen actual minimalists and they're nothing like an urbanite living in an all-white studio apartment.

They're tightly-knit circles of friends livig in small towns who go way back and therefore can trust each other with their property and, of course, save money in the process because none of them does it just for minimalism's sake.

Bottom line is if you want both minimalism and individualism, you're gonna spend a lot of money on services rendered by strangers.
Personal experience, I never login to my Windows devices, but Edge can still auto login my account from other Microsoft applications such as OneDrive, Office and even Microsoft Store, as I mentioned earlier, Edge will connect my account every time after update even if I disable sync.
Would be cool if you could get this as a plugin for signal/WhatsApp/etc
It seems to be a visualizer of Google Emoji Kitchen feature: https://emojipedia.org/emoji-kitchen/
Domain knowledge or a lack thereof (2013)
A person owns their contributions unless they release them.

The letter does state that its referring to API clients, while invidious works via scraping instead, to not need to deal with the API terms. This is considered different legally. Dunno how this'll play out though.
https://www.androidpolice.com/gboard-emoji-kitchen-how-to-ex...
America is the ~only country where you may truly be "local" in the eye of the locals.

In all other countries you'll always be a foreigner (your kids will be local though).
I do not consider this as a well-written story. But I had a very similar way in researching Stoicism so I vouched.
Because the world is cruel to the unprotected
See also: "Emoji Kitchen" (but different URL https://emoji.supply/kitchen/) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32232546 (850 points | 10 months ago | 190 comments)
my use case is like playing SIMS and write my own stories for the real-world celebrities I like
And meanwhile back in real world many intellectuals worked as waiters here and there to get extra money.
Open-source graphics library to create UIs for any microcontroller
Missing demography of the voter base and percent in overall demography, resulting in power + actual policy influence feasable in time period graphs..
there is a phase where human being are in control of ai before it becomes fully independent. That phase is critical.
Obsidian works well on all systems. It has folders, markdown notes, and cloud sync. Switched to it from Bear because of Linux and quite happy.
Price controls: Too early for a victory lap
Porkbun offering free .GAY domain
PlayHT (YC W23) Is Hiring a Senior ML Engineer (LLMs/Generative Models)
We managed to communicate with slaves tho, just fine.
Makes me think the strategy is "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish".
Don’t think it was unpopular. People have complained a lot, sure, but I had 3 people I let use mine and went it stopped working all of them said “damn okay” and subscribed themselves.
Do you have examples of other high ranking politicians openly admitting to sharing classified information? If so, they should go to jail.
Do you know who use to trade with ants? Lomechusa, aka ants' drugdealer. Feel free to research what happens with colony infected by this parasite.
Compression is so ubiquitous that people tend to forget it's there. I still encounter people wondering why zipping their movie files does not result in a smaller file size
What’s making you pay for the subscription version of ChatGPT, compared to the free one?
I used to use bear but it would constantly override options I’d set regarding things like smart quotes etc.

I use obsidian now, and I really like it.
Why Niche Content Sites Are Toast
TodePond: Crime
> There s a certain undertone in the article that men and women should be dressed for modesty reasons.

I read the article through and didn’t see that at all. Can you quote some of the parts that indicates that to you?
Of course. What can people do about it though? If you don't have enough leverage, you'll have to swallow it when a bunch of managers start shitting on you because you went to the bathroom.

That leverage can come from many sources. Maybe you have enough money that you don't actually need to be there. Maybe you're unionized and if they screw with you the union can screw them back. It doesn't matter what it is, you need some power to be able to get them to treat you with respect. Corporations are constantly trying to minimize our power, we should maximize it at all costs.

Amassing enough money to become financially independent is the only surefire way to obtain that power. Everything else depends on others. Unions are rife with politicking and corruption, for example. They can also be busted down or coopted.
Instead of requiring people to become smart power users and equipping them with the tools and training to solve their IT problems, we are dumbing down the tools to suit the lowest average brained human. This isn't taking us in a good direction.
It’s cold.
> Waitressing didn’t seem permanent. Nothing ever does.

As the adage goes, "life is what happens while you're busy making other plans".

If there's one thing this piece made me think of, is that you should either be happy doing what you're doing or be on the path to do that.

I have friends in their 40s who have worked in the service industry for decades while planning to do "something else later", and they're not the happiest of my acquaintances.
Wrote or thought of the concept are not the same.
Use RISC-V SBC as a video server for ESP32-cam-webserver
Interesting. What else can be used as video server?
If anything, a PhD program teaches you how to write faster while maintaining an acceptable quality: Journal papers, conference presentations, and funding agency reports are all long-form writing projects that come up quite frequently and distract from the research (the fun part). Most of the value from this writing comes from it being accepted; improving quality beyond this level has rapidly diminshing returns.
Thanks, these are cool! I also like shark + hotdog, and even more shark + bee.
China needs to increase nuclear arsenal from current 300 warheads to 1,500-3,000 in order to deter the US
I'm sure you can, but the OP addressed this:

> compared to other distros where discipline is required to maintain reproducibility

You can do these things yourself, but it won't be standard, and it will be prone to error, and it will likely be inferior in many ways to a solution that is maintained and improved by countless people.
~5%. Yet we perceive it as far more.
I tend to agree but where we diverge is in the thinking that these problems cannot be solved with technology, I believe the opposite.

The point of web3 is to abstract away things like sysadmin by commoditising consensus. Once a blockchain gains mass & momentum it opens up a whole new world of possibilities to hack/reinvent social media.

You could use multiple different types of social media and still maintain a single identity (auth). This means you could find friends and friendlies everywhere you go.

The key is the consensus layer and the ability to store & and read critical metadata. I'll give a personal example:

I've been helping a friend to create a combination of Netflix and DVDs. We package the movie licenses into NFTs (MovieKeys) so when the user signs in with their wallet they can stream all the movies in they own.

There are so many possibilities with this but lets focus on the social part. In theory, a social media service could scan their users wallet for MovieKeys and create a social graph based on that. Heck you could create entire forums just out of the people who owns a certain moviekey. I wont go further because we go a lot of things cooking atm.

The general point is, the technology and the UX to make these things possible is just an arms length away. The entire space got ravaged by scam artists instead of trying to build real magical experiences people actually want.
Is it? The article seemed to say that a big part of being nude was to foster homosexual relationships between adult men and young boys as a means of training those boys to take their rightful place as elite adult men who then in turn did the same thing to other young boys. That seems quite different than the “idealistic Judeo-Christian manhood concept”.
https://archive.ph/TmKMm
I have bought a number of pairs of pliers over the years. Some are quite serviceable but the worst were the adjustable multigrips (also sometimes called water pump pliers). They pinch as they slipped out of the grooves - just horrible. And then I was watching a youtuber describing 10 tools to throw out. One was cheap multigrips, but he showed a wonderful replacement - Knipex Cobras. I bought two of them in different sizes.They are just wonderfully engineered - German of course - they literally can't slip , properly adjustable to maintain parallel jaws, they even demonstrate you standing on the handles under load. I ended up buying their electrical pliers and side cutters as well. All heirloom quality.
Ludicrous. Your models of biology and the moon may predict that, but the chances of your models being significantly wrong are certainly much greater than zero.
Depends on what do you mean by the ‘left’ bolsheviks often viewed social-democratic and (to a lesser extent) liberal parties as their greatest threats. They were all appealing to the same demographics but were diametrically opposed on certain core points (democracy, free speech, political oppression etc.) making any real cooperation impossible.

The Weimar republic was a great example of that, the liberal/socialist government which was in power during it’s entire lifetime was so unstable and eventually collapsed because a significant proportion of the electorate continued voting for the bolsheviks. They wouldn’t even cooperate to prevent the far-right from coming to power (of course it’s not like they had a choice, moderate voters would have immediately shifted to the right if the socialists tried working with communists).

So it’s not that surprising. Stalin had no issue working with Hitler and supplying Germany with raw material which were necessary for their conquest of France (during the period western communist parties suddenly became rabidly pro-nazi..) until all of that blew up in his face…

Of course that was already quite different in the 60s and 70s after the Soviet were no longer as focused on ideological purity (and mass murder by extension).
This is very weird. .com.tr and and .org.tr registrations in Turkey are heavily bureaucratised with proofs of actual trademark ownership required and humans involved. So it is unlikely that these 4 letter domains could be automatically registered. The clouflare block is also odd. Could this be a DNS attack on Google on non existing domains?
I mean, sure it’s NSFW, but just take a look at that Weissman Score!!
Late 90’s, old tech or dotcom everyone had a daytrading platform up on their desktop. Never went to lunch, always watching that histogram.

Officemate then, like many of the 50-somethings now, got laid off a decade back and works tools desk at Home Depot.

Like Michael Lewis said. Every time he speaks at Universities they don’t ask sobering questions about the lessons of past. They ask what is the next big thing.
i was actually a bit skeptical of this before reading but it's a good overview. very cool to see representation for veterans as well
OTOH wasn't it inevitable -- that small devices of tomorrow will overtake the most powerful cutting-edge gadgets of the past in computing power, storage, performance.

Maybe in a decade small thumb-drives will have an M2 chip equivalent built into them. To encrypt/decrypt data on the fly with zero latency on multiple GB/s data. Or whatever other application can gobble up that much compute power.
How in earth did they manage to make so many combinations..?
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