skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suitcase, chest, drawers, yes - it's just the thinking and not having "possessions."

The bigger takeaway is learning what keeps you grounded or anchored. Nothing is wrong with that - can be family, can be cars, can be real estate/houses, can be business, etc.

The idea is you inventory your life and see what is the most minimal you need (haha, MVP basically.) and go from there.

You can do it for spending, you can do it for consumption via money, diet - eating/consumption/purchasing,etc.

It's fun, I enjoy keeping an inventory list, knowing what I have where and for larger valued items, e.g. $500+ I can put in last time usage so if I don't need it, I sell it - lower value items giveaway/free.

For me, I've live in the PNW too - and it's quite fun to just have a suitcase/duffel bag, and just camp out in my car or drive somewhere new and do that - or like I said above, hop on a flight and have everything I need for the duration of my stay.

I get it can sound boring or non-exciting to many people, but once you get into it - it really is fascinating. What things do you need for everyday life?

Up in the air had a great segment about it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsRP9EUrXjo I haven't read the book, but I should - I've been seeing it quite a bit.
I do not think functional programming is about mutable state at all.

It's about functions being first class values, nothing more.

Lisp and Scheme are examples of functional languages that do not restrict mutability.

The term for what you are talking about is pure functional programming!
A recent entry reads, "The author discusses their intentional approach to owning possessions". Here is a prompt that worked with this article, but I haven't tested in others. Davinci-003 temp=0

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[Insert article]

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A concise summary written in the third person:

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Tyler Durden's famous quote "The things you own end up owning you" has inspired Carl to be intentional about what he owns and why. He keeps a record of all his possessions in a visual catalogue spreadsheet and only owns 192 items. He believes that a good night's sleep and a comfortable pair of shoes are priceless, so he looks after and appreciates the things he owns in an attempt to make them last. When his old Fiorentini + Baker shoes became unusable, he reached out to James McKiven of Whitstable Craft Co. on Twitter, who was able to upcycle them into wallets. Carl is amazed by James' craft and kindness, and recommends Whitstable Craft Co. for anyone looking for a new wallet or gift. He also reflects on the importance of relationships over transactions, and the value of framing the problem you're solving. Finally, he invites anyone who needs to escape their home office to come and visit The Skiff in Brighton.
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Usenet had moderation schemes that weren't widely used, but that worked well in the groups that used them. I remember a system called STUMP though I don't remember what it stood for. Basically posts had to be approved by moderators using PGP signatures, and I think there might have been a CA-like scheme for moderators to delegate moderation authority. It seemed well designed and generalizeable, but it was near the tail end of Usenet's heyday, so it didn't catch on much.

Added: to expand, Usenet was and is mostly unmoderated. There were a few groups that wanted or needed moderation, and for those, workable methods came into existence.

Mostly, anonymity is good: https://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/shiichan
Seems too early to call this that.

What other breakthroughs have you seen? MRna vaccines is one.
Apple has a vision.

Meta has a vision

The are 8 billion people in the world.

If they're going toe to toe they're both fools.
Oleg Orlov faces jail time for criticising Putin's war
Meg White toured for 14 years and finally decided that it was too much for her and bowed out. Given all that time I don't think she needs more exposure therapy thrust on her against her will, she made a a decision and it should be respected.

The author doesn't seem respectful imo, the sarcastic "it's thrilling to say the least" in the first paragraph reads highly disrespectful to me, as well as persistently pushing for multiple years for an unwanted interview. The author was free to write a well researched piece about Meg's work and influence without getting her interview, but instead turned the core of the article around how she couldn't get what she wanted.
The Founders of the United States did not invent the rights you refer to. They had thousands of years of western history to cherry-pick ideas from.

The states in the north had slavery too, just not an economy heavily based on slavery. By the time of the American Revolution slavery was already on the way out in Europe, practiced in plantations in the New World but not at home. The ancient Athenians and Romans believed in inherent rights of life, liberty, happiness, freedom too, just not for everyone.
Amen. Not exactly a minimalist thing this, but more about sourcing quality to "buy once": Rotel multi channel sound system (amp and pre amp) from 1997 here, still going strong with one repair five-ten years in, along with Infinity Kappa speakers from the same time - their surrounds replaced once, a decade ago.

Amazing sound, I love how it feels.

Where it loses most is connectivity. Amps use DB25 cables both between each other and for input, so the audio cable I've got hooked up to the HTPC's Xonar Deluxe with RCAs out is a very special one indeed - I'm amazed I found it at all, all those years ago (DB25-RCA). All audio has to go through the HTPC, for that reason, so the Samsung 65" QLED from 6-7 years ago is just a dumb display (not a bad thing!).

For longevity I rarely if ever power the equipment down; it's gotten a bit finicky to start the preamp after a power outage, but for now it's still coming back.

I'll attempt to have it repaired prior to getting a replacement if it ever fails.

Oh and the Win10 HTPC is a decade old at the core too, but I've updated it with a modern case, cooling and storage - works fantastic with a wireless Logitech keyboard.

Speakerbits in Melbourne who did my surrounds (they had all disintegrated) has ceased to exist now, but they did a stellar job - guy said the speakers had appreciated since my purchase, as decent mid range speakers just didn't exist anymore, it was either low end (rubbish) or the extreme high end.
You never know, some people go to extremes. One fork, one toothbrush, one sleeping bag, one laptop, one credit card, done. Toothbrush doubles as a shower brush and credit card is used to scrape off water instead of a towel.
> There’s another important difference too. In an ordinary Notebook there’s a “temporal thread of evaluation” in which inputs and outputs appear in the sequence they’re generated in time

I've always found this kinda confusing, and the "evaluate everything above" approach used by the LLM cells much more intuitive, but having the two types of cells behave so differently brings it back to confusing and asking for trouble. Do you think it would make sense to have an option to force all cells to work that way?
Is the idea that you're renting apartments and counting the pots and pans, toilet brush etc as not being yours because you leave them with the house?

So my bath mat is "mine" because I own the house and had to buy it myself, but yours isn't because it's rented?

Because if we can cut that out then yeah, now I own far fewer things. It seems like a weird distinction to make.
I enjoyed this article about the minimalist man getting two minimally useful extra wallets.
Wow, this is amazing! I wouldn't survive even one week alone in the jungle. I hope they will recover soon.
I feel like 99% of these people, myself included, are more pursuing the FI than the RE. There are a multitude of reasons why I think pursuing FI is absolutely necessary - chief among them are insane asset price inflation, increasing job insecurity, and ageism.
However, not having to drive to Home Depot every single time you need a screwdriver does. As does having more than one bowl.
Apple’s Journal App and Day One’s Evolution
Probably because the regex replacement patterns lack terminating delimiters.
United putting 13-inch 4k displays on seatbacks
RMR makes it look so easy and accessible too...
No I much prefer email groups to online forums or Reddit. Easy to register, just send a subscribe message. Trolls can be ignored or banned by the list administrators.

I am subscribed to several specific interest email lists. The information I get there is typically much better than what I find online.
Says the person who can’t take two seconds to correct someone’s correct name and pronouns when pointed out.

Because it would “be confusing” or whatever bullshit you came up with.

It’s pretty clear who the bigot is here and it’s not the person who is advocating for treating someone respectfully regardless of their weight. Or making an effort to change the pronouns and names used when pointed out.

Your comments are visible to the world, you realize that right? Just because they’ve been (rightly) flagged to death doesn’t mean they’re invisible.

Grow up. You’re clearly not mature enough for this site. Or the internet in general.
They do say what you quote with those words, but I think their intention is just trying to clarify the difference between Jupyter classic and JupyterLab. The Sage notebook predates the Jupyter project by at least five years, but was visually and functionally very similar.
Lol.

Of course, the shower isn't yours so it doesn't count. Using this, we can get rid of the sleeping bag and just roll up the carpet in the rented flat and sleep in that.

What else can we cut?
The only thing I'm trying to imagine is how many times I'm going to have to recharge my bullshit detector. The whole thing reeks - still - of political theatre.

Yes, no one is above the law. If only the law were applied evenly all the time.

But here we go again, and WTP served less more than ever.
It can be - if you do a STR/Airbnb/Hotel, the pots and pans should come with the place and they're not yours. Many hotels do include the above, especially mid to higher end ones.

If you're renting on a standard long term lease - not short term rental, and it isn't furnished with them, yes they're yours because you bought them.

It's up to you what you want to "count", but toiletries are like petty cash. Pots/Pans can have realistic value, and the rabbit hole for them goes deep from cheap iron, stainless steel, ikea standard purchase, etc.

The idea is to take a break, catalog what you have and go from there. You can catalog 1000+ items and just get rid of ten but then you know "oh just ten items were fluff" vs not knowing or getting rid of 200.

The idea is the exercise.
There is circularity in that Proof-of-work was originally proposed as a solution to bulk email spam.

Didn't work as a solution for that either.
Looking forward to seeing more about the Beepberry. It's definitely something I had to resist the urge to buy, setup, and throw in a drawer. It appeals to the kind of tech user I'd like to be (Tinkery, detached, conscious) but not the one I think I am realistically (web zombie like so many others).
s/Jon/Jony/
wanting to be able to cook and serve a meal for 4 people because it's nice to eat with friends

Don’t be silly, having three friends is hardly minimalist. Have you ever considered how friends weigh you down? One is more than enough, and frankly even that might be too many.
> The problem with small communities is that you don't necessarily have enough competent and available people to run the system reliably. Or worse, the people in charge leave, sometimes taking the servers with them, and no one else knows how to maintain it.

Don’t get me wrong, I acknowledge these are problems. But I have so little faith in big platforms these days that I don’t really see an alternative.
Well, they're gonna make sure they nail Burke right to the wall for that! He's not gonna sleaze his way out of that one! Right to the wall!
Inmiced. Thanks!
Agreed, I had a lot of fun putting a toy one together, even if my compression format was worse in every way than a real format and my implementation quite inefficient
"Either you guys are all just-moved-out kids, single and living in a single room, or we're defining "thing" differently. Which is it?"

It's just a different lifestyle, there are obvious exceptions to it - but I was there once with a house and countless things - most of them I forgot I had and such.

The idea is to do inventory and then catalog and see what you need and don't need. But no, I can say with assurance my life right now is basically two suitcases, by choice - and airbnbs/hotels. 20 lb of clothes/about 80 pieces total.

Misc electronic stuff takes a ton of space, spare usb - chargers, usb cables, etc - having spares for spares.
And 10 inch displays in economy class.

Strongly suggests to me a popular use case for phones/tablets having video out. I'm not sure what the state of the world is for this at the moment. I've had Samsung devices for a while now & the Dex computer is pretty fine.

I understand that the Linux variant of Dex that Samsung had is no more, but there's constant rumors eventually Android will get some better containerization offerings.
I would love to be a minimalist. Unfortunately I have a wife who is the opposite of that and a woodworking hobby.
Are you a society? Or just people living within the same economic zone and with the same language?
She seems to have been utterly financially comfortable, living alone in an apartment. Was it the crop top tips?
I don't use Discord or Twitter which afaik are walled gardens run by single centralized hosts. What I'm saying about Discourse (it looks like it is based on Ember, which I had confused with Electron) is that it is just another web BBS as far as I can see. Lots of other ones are out there and Discourse doesn't offer obvious advantages over ones with less bloat, or for that matter, over NNTP.
It's best to think of journalists as predators.

Don't talk to journalists unless you have a prepared agenda.
Thank you for the links, I didn't know systemd went against the grain re: unix philosophy. Reading the links and some of the criticisms of systemd, it makes me wonder, why do so many distros default to systemd?
Waiting for my 2 to arrive!
Are the lives of pets degrading? I suspect that the epicurean theme park would come about less because of alignment with our desires and more because these hypothetical hyperintelligent AIs would find it amusing to watch us play in it.
http://web.archive.org/web/20230610023025/https://www.nytime...
Ask HN: Where are Reddit users migrating amidst the API fee controversy?
It seems like drama has struck the Reddit community once again, this time involving the introduction of API fees. With these changes causing quite a stir, I'm curious to know where most Reddit users are migrating. Are they flocking to alternative platforms within the Nostr network or exploring other options outside of it?
I don’t know that it’s targeted AT music professionals. But many music professionals I work with love it.

The TE gear isn’t some industry standard, but they definitely get a lot of love and use. I was in the studio recently of an A-tier film composer and he had a few of the TE wooden choir dolls on his desk.
I think the hypothetical you posit is wrong, as US doctrine places primacy on air power. In Iraq, I & II, air strikes at the outset destroyed much of the Iraqi armor and spurred a lot of desertion.

I’m not a military and/or Iraq war expert so I don’t want to argue definitively, but I don’t think you can say US losses would have been significantly higher had the Iraqi army had heavier weapons and fighting skills — they’d have needed effective air defense, too.

I think the Ru-UKR war shows the vulnerability of contemporary air forces to air defense, however, and that Western/NATO forces themselves lack cost-effective short-range and medium-range air defense systems. The US Air Force fields exquisite weapons (“platforms”) and these may prove useless in a conflict like Ru-UKR. Or, perhaps, they’re good enough to overcome the difficulties that the Sukhoi/MiG-based air forces of either side have encountered. Hard to know.

Range and mobility in artillery systems also seems like a weak point for the US military. The Excalibur precision shell is very expensive but likely cost effective—one shot, one kill. But the US M777 towed howitzer costs ~$3.7M (titanium) while the French Caesar costs $5-6M and can outrange the M777 in addition to driving away immediately after firing.
We trade with bees though

I agree with the author. Not everything is a zero sum game
You're thinking about in terms of reddit vs 3rd party apps.

Instead think of it as a labor movement where reddit are the owners and mods/posters are the laborers, and the 3rd party app creators are the union leaders.

This isn't about reddit trying to kill 3rd party apps. This is about the enshitification of one of the few "free speech" platforms left on the internet: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

It's actually pretty astounding that reddit has not brought the hammer down, but when that happens, that's when we'll know it's over and the investors have won the short game (maybe at the cost of everything).

Reddit used their power unilaterally and said "what are you gonna do about it?" I really can't remember the last time (with the exception of ukraine) where a powerful entity said "what are you gonna do about it" and then they "found out."
> If you were asked to implement this block on your network, how would you do it?

Depends. Do I want to do a good job, or do I want to comply?

If I just want to comply, I will ask them what to block, and block exactly that, and not care what makes it through. I'm in the network connection business, not the network blocking business, so not my problem if I did what you asked.

If I'm trying to block the service, then watch dns and other traffic on an otherwise clean phone, and block things that are obviously related. If the service still works, start blocking other stuff. Check with other services to make sure they still work. You'll need to test frequently in case they try to avoid blocks.

Sooner or later, you'll have to make hard decisions about collateral damage.
> The Founders of the United States did not invent the rights you refer to.

You're right, those rights are inalienable characteristics of humans. However, the US was the first to codify them into the founding document of a nation.

The states in the North had all ended slavery by 1804. Prosperity followed.
Sadly, my Diamond Sonicare toothbrush failed after just over 2 years. I spent several weeks back and forth with Philips. Initially they offered me 10% off buying a new one, which I was not happy with having spent so much on a top of the line model. I asked about the possibility of repair, they forwarded me the details of several local certified Philips repairers who, when I rang, all said they only really repair TVs or large consumer electronics devices and have no idea where to even start with repairing an electric toothbrush.

I contacted Philips again and explained that nobody is able to repair it, they again offered me 10% off a new one (which I'd have to buy through the official web store, which is already more expensive than a retail store) which I declined, they sent me details of a repair shop in a completely different state. I rang that repair shop and explained in detail the entire story, they were empathetic but also said they have no idea how they'd repair a toothbrush or even why Philips would suggest I send it there.

I'd say you got lucky with your Sonicare, and based on the runaround they gave me, poor customer service and poor serviceability, I would not recommend anyone buy an expensive Sonicare unless they're made of money and don't care about the possibility of having to replace it within a few years.
> Details are .. not retrievable from the dead

You inherited your dad's British humour :)
The ants go marching methodically
Probably because people who post online and try to profit from blogs and videos selling a lifestyle or dream skew younger and more tech-connected.

The possibility of retiring before 35 or 40 is obviously not available to those past that age. We boomers focus on financial independence and retiring before 60 or 70, and don't write monetized blogs or make videos about it. People who don't work in tech may not have enough excess income to save half of it, or they may have children or other obligations. And maybe not everyone who does have lots of excess income finds their career so draining that they dream of bailing out early.

For Americans at least -- I believe the epicenter and majority audience for FIRE material -- we're in a race against time to achieve financial security before aging drops us into the merciless health care system that will consume all excess income and savings. The FIRE demographic has the advantage of youth. As an aging boomer still in the software industry I can't criticize anyone who wants to get financially independent and out of the hamster wheel of tech, but I also see it as a fad and lifestyle for sale like so much of what gets promoted online.
Rats, pigeons, deer, etc are doing fine.

Human extinction would require a malevolent AI willing and capable of waging total war on a global scale. That sounds like sci-fi to me.
I also have envy for OP-1. I think it comes from yearning to be a different person or have different talents. I have similar feelings about buying a leica rangefinder camera, a mac pro, or a SwissMicros calculator. They just seem like such cool kit and I wish I was the type who needed them.

Then I come back to reality.
They had me with the title but the content reads like an elder-millennial whose conversational voice got inescapably stuck in memes and referral links.
Wrong Korea. :)
Name-calling, appeal to seniority, and nostalgic callbacks aren't deepening the conversation much; or likely to win anyone over.

FWIW I do appreciate hearing from another perspective. And didn't think this was a forum encouraging punk, cracks, quips, and raw thoughts. Perhaps the commenting guidelines have become to 'square' as the kids say.
Isn’t the hypothesis the point though? If you have existential evidence of a logical phenomenon occurring in a machine, then it’s worth directing your study to look for a similar (though not necessarily the exact) mechanism in organic matter, because logic is independent of the anatomy and physiology of the machine/organism performing it? Besides, the propagation of 1’s and 0’s in computers has a very strong parallel with, say, how the brain transmits action potential to skeletal muscle, for example.
Chunks of the moon are knocked off by meteorites from time to time and find their way to Earth. If they were super deadly for some reason we wouldn't be here today.
Monetaria Moneta
Meta Is No Longer a Laggard in AI
Yep, looks like it was accurate until the end of the 80s:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_Bolivia#Tin_produc...
How do we know they didn't bring anything back, for that matter? In the years since we've found all kinds of extremophiles and other exotic microscopic life on earth, there's stuff living here which can survive a vacuum.
I know this is naive, but I still reflexively expect content from publications with “science” in their name to be predominantly scientific for a few moments before I remember where I live.
Would be an interesting experiment.

My hypothesis is that an LLM would actually do a pretty good job at moderation, but only if the community didn't know it was an LLM doing the work.

Moderation is really just applied sentiment analysis, which is an area LLMs are quite strong in. However, as soon as the community learned it was an LLM doing the moderation, it would be torn to pieces by people abusing it.

On top of hallucinations, it's one of the major problems preventing many LLM usecases going into production; They are inherently vulnerable to hostile input.
I'm super glad I had kids.
blue steel is good for crepes