skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s interesting to me to see this comment, because “today” is very much the focus in recovery circles. If you’ve ever been to AA or any of the other 12-step programs you’ve probably heard someone say something akin to “one day at a time”. In general, though, it is important to note that part of what makes an addiction an addiction is the lack of willpower to overcome it. So if you tell an addict “it is a choice” they’ll ultimately agree with you, knowing that in the moment of their failure it very much did not feel like one.

For those of us who have had to make drastic life changes in order to make “making the wrong choice” difficult or impossible, there’s definitely an amount of life planning (and before that, honesty with self and others) that has to happen in order to balance the scale and turn those forks in the road into ones we can look at and say, “Today, I’ll make a good choice.” For some there are ways to reset and never look back, and I’ve seen it happen. One good choice can be the difference. For others, as you mention, there are daily choices, and it continues to take effort to make the right one every single time.
I liked the comparision to taking a jpeg of a jpeg.
Kids should learn that other people have dysfunctional lives early so that they grow up with the capability of empathy towards others. Too many people are in their own bubble about how the world works.

For this same reason I've always hated (since a kid) the way anti-drug education has been presented to children. It's not taken seriously and doesn't present the reality of how prevalent drug (even prescription) use is among adults in society. It doesn't treat prescription drug use, alcohol, nicotine or caffeine abuse with any weight whatsoever and doesn't prepare children for the reality of having to deal with people who are on drugs.
Has it raised any funds ?
And what's your work like ?
I’ve been using Microsoft OneNote. You don’t need an office subscription to use it, it syncs between all my devices and computers.
Technically this already exists. There's Amazon Subscribe & Save (and similar) for this reason, pretty much. It may not be a subscription like you are describing, but it accomplishes the goal: set it and forget it for consistent grocery (or other) purchases, and get a nice discount.

I wonder if a legit subscription service, for perhaps a select group of items that a user consistently purchases, would work. Could be complicated when things like eggs fluctuate so much in price.
There's a long list of construction startups who thought the industry was low-tech simply because everyone in it was dumb, and that they would be the smartest guys in the room who'd revolutionize everything. Those startups are pretty much all roadkill.

The construction industry's fundamental constraint is that it manufactures products that are too big to fit in highway lanes. That means they can't be shipped from a centrally-located factory to their final destinations. So they need to be built at the site, which means they need to be built with more labor-intensive methods (since it's too expensive to build a capital-intensive factory for just one unit of output).

Building components that are small enough to fit in highway lanes, on the other hand, are manufactured in centrally-located, capital-intensive factories and shipped to their final destinations, just like cars or electronics. Think: boilers, doors, windows, air handlers, etc.

And, like cars and electronics, these building component products are manufactured by a small number of big companies, rather than a large number of small companies. The equilibrium capital investment and company size is much different when the product is small enough to be manufactured in a central location and shipped.
I think it is obvious why it is funny that somebody proudly exclaims that he is donating to fraudulent "charities", who totally are going to stop climate change.

What do you think these "charities" are doing? Genuinely curious.
I'm not going to be able to convince you otherwise if this is a strongly held belief, but once a kid (or anyone) is in the criminal justice system they're pretty much doomed. I've seen this time and time again, it's all punishment and very little help. We literally enslave inmates in some states, they're picking cotton on former slave plantations. We need to get over this concept of punishment only.

> Discipline is not orthogonal to 'help'.

Yes, but discipline alone will never work. Never has.
Fully agree. Before mass social media really took off, I used a site called Friends Reunited. When I read what I had written there only a few years later, it was kind of embarrassing.

No problem I thought, I'll just delete my account. They did not have a delete account function. So I overwrite everything I had written, replacing it with random characters (would not allow me to just put nothing when there was something already there either).

Lesson learned!
This just seems like one layer added on top of using captchas or human assisted reinforced learning
Honestly those 3d printed houses scare me, it basically turns houses into non-repairable junk that will have to be torn down the first pipe that bursts. Normally framed houses out of metal or wood are king for reparability that can be repaired for over a hundred years if not more.

The biggest obstacle to building houses in my opinion are entirely legislative/political. Towns oppose density and cause suburban sprawl galore which drives up costs of everything.
Rich elites have also bought up land en-masse over the country so that even if you want to plop a house on a empty lot in a quaint town, they'll charge you half a million just to acquire the lot.
So many thoughts:

- knowing this about you ancestor is interesting but thinking they are the inspiration for the "for want of a nail" cautionary tale is what most people are expecting when they start looking into the past. The reality is most people's lives are pretty mundane and they personal connections are what make it interesting.

- notebook in the attic - there's a movement to digitize all the notebooks in attics we are losing over time. This is especially a thing in agriculture because of all the information about local weather, crop yields, etc. It would be great if there was some publicily funded service that you could send these to for free instead of throwing them out (possibly with drop off at public libraries that could either digitize them or send them in bulk). They could scan and return for a fee.
I shouldn't be posting links from my phone :-/

It's

https://www.marginalia.nu/log
If you mean in AL there was a lot wrong there including massive union busting efforts and a lack of worker education on what unions are, but people who want a union really should choose their union leadership carefully and be ready to replace them if they feel they aren't being represented.
Middle-Square Method
It's actually dropping year-on-year to the point where it is now 500 million or so.
What makes a private school more likely to expell children?

Uh, because more customers will leave if the private school is no better than a public school.
https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/7021273?hl=en
This all just points out how hard it is to preserve anything over a long period of time. We think of the things in our lives as being permanent because they mostly last for a good portion of our lifetime but once property or information changes hands all of the tacit knowledge about it is lost. The next generation doesn’t see that notebook as important so it is just as likely to end up in the trash as in a box in storage. Even if they do try to preserve it there are many ways it can be destroyed or degrade or simply be lost.

Even the seemingly simple thought experiment of “deliver a one sentence message to a person living at your current address 500 years from now” is nearly impossible using ordinary means available to an individual.
Oh we'll just double the uses and 4x the size of the cache" ... which wasn't being used and no-one had any clue?

The problems here go far, far deeper than "did we need the cache" or "was there enough memory after all". How much other code is there in that shop that isn't functional but no one knows about it?
As much as people want to ignore bezos and Amazon, they are far more evil thAn both fb and goog.

Amzn is literally bad for everything on the planet aside from commerce - they are the seed of the Ferenghi
There seems to be many valid blogs that got skipped due not having the `rel="alternate"` link in the HTML head (mine included). I just added it, as I'm sure others will, so it'd be a good idea to update the list regularly
I'm certainly not sticking around. I signed up, pulled over my follow list from IG, muted a bunch of brand accounts I didn't follow, realized the feed was 100% algorithmic, and haven't launched it again since.
well, no, it's 100% nefarious purpose, just sometimes used to find the holes instead of exploiting it.

It will absolutely be used more often to exploit than to secure
It’s a business where all the customers interact with one another. If it costs more in complaints, then you drop the bad apple.
No one is arguing that it's illegal, OP only said its 'spooky', therefore bad. Sometimes bad things are plainly allowed by federal law.
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The only ones I can think of that are any good that are not easily available on PC already are actually ports of older console games, e.g. Final Fantasy Tactics.

I keep looking up games and finding they have had PC ports. The only one I haven't found yet is the original Monument Valley. But it was rather short and easy, which was okay for a mobile game, maybe, but on PC it really wouldn't hold up. And I guess the sequel got a PC port anyway.
It would still have Musk.
The holding of the student loan case suggests those agencies have no authority to regulate crypto.
I do think Kids These Days (tm) are being done a disservice by how opaquely polished computing environments have become. It's hard to learn about what is going on when everything is abstracted away and the guardrails work so hard to keep you inside the walled garden.

It's gotten to the point where cloud services and search interfaces are being pushed so hard that the actual filesystem is a mystery to people at a high school/college level.
Because the paying customers will go elsewhere if they allow another paying customer to ruin it. They want 20 to stay even if they have to lose the 21st payer.
The problem to solve is GPU utilization rate. Training a “huge model” on n GPUs will have a cyclical pattern of idle GPUs and GPUs are expensive. This approach is likely scheduling GPU access across t training jobs to insure GPU is always in use. Maximizing GPU utility is a key requirement for training as a service.

The biggest issue is that the failure mode of this approach (one fault hoses the entire pipeline of T jobs) is exactly opposing the goals of its most likely users: Training SaaS providers.
Also happens with wikipedia. Later edits with web references are much more prone to citogenesis, while an early edit with a web reference is probably clear, even if the link is dead.

Even printed references can be based on wikipedia now
> One does not … “acquire STDs”

AIDS stands for “acquired immunodeficiency syndrome”.
€2,783 ($3,025) for this might seem like a lot, until you realize that the price of the 31.2" screen[1] alone is at least $1,200 + $200 shipping within the US. Wow.

[1]: https://buy-lcd.com/products/largest-312-inch-e-ink-big-scre...
I hope they rename everything to follow the same scheme just to dial up the confusion.

Office for Mac -> Mac for Office
Clubhouse dropped off because they lost their secret sauce (exclusivity) the moment they opened invites up to nearly everyone.

It's still alive. But it's specifically them scaling up that killed their relevance because it turned out social audio was even better as a place for bullies and extremists than it is as an exclusive popular person hangout.
Isn’t that unfair the others have solid jars while you have leaked jars ?
Russia hasn’t stopped maneuvering for a role in internet oversight
https://archive.li/geYu3
I wouldn't be willing to dump a significant chunk of my wealth into a structure built by a company who makes a point to ignore building codes and zoning laws.

Sounds like a disaster.
Wikipedia agrees there are spiking and non-spiking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_neuron_model

Not all the cells of the nervous system produce the type of spike that define the scope of the spiking neuron models. For example, cochlear hair cells, retinal receptor cells, and retinal bipolar cells do not spike.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-spiking_neuron
It doesn't seem to be available in my region yet.

The openness of PC means that a second app store can exist and be successful on the Windows platform. If Google pulls this off, we might see a credible, large store of casual games on Windows for the first time. Right now, mobile shines for casual games and sees the bulk of investment for casual games. It would be a great boon for many casual gamers to be able to switch devices and carry over their games to the PC to play it on a larger screen, possibly with a controller.
“AI” eating itself is the best outcome for everyone.

It’s a mass energy balance. The inputs equal the outputs; garbage in, garbage out.
That’s an okay attitude from an interpersonal standpoint, but horrible advice from a mental health perspective.
Tap water, like blood, is a flow not a stock
It's not that it was hot last week, but that we're trending more extreme weather every year.

> Climate takes decades (or even centuries) to change. A few hot days in a row doesn't change that.

The climate has measurably changed, and pretty much every corner of the world acknowledges that now. I'm not sure why you're pretending this article is the only evidence of it
> Farmers look famously young for their age

I come from a family of farmers. I would not agree with this statement.
> And that makes sense, because 0.5% of people/funding/etc being taken out of schools isn't a big deal... but 20% starts to make a big impact.

Public schools in NYC spend yearly twice per child what the cost is for the average private school in the city. ($38k vs $19k). And on the private school side of the equation that average is skewed upwards by a minority of very expensive ($60k/yr) schools.

If you're spending more money for worse results, we SHOULD divert funding to better-performing alternatives.
> Facebook and Google are still alive

Well, literally billions of people accept their privacy agreements and actively provide them with data from their phones by using their software. That's quite different from an unknown party telling other companies whether you're reliable without your knowledge based on data neither you nor your provider ever agreed to give them.
PlanGrid was a YC one that eventually got acquired by autodesk for $875m on $69m raised.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/20/autodesk-agrees-to-buy-pla...

First HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3659159
Another equally viable title, one which does not involve as much fear, would be: "Norways' gasoline use down 37% since 2013 as over 1/5th of cars now electric"

Their point of heavier trucks, trains, and planes not going electric yet is true, they're simply higher up the difficulty curve.

The electric trucks are starting to roll out, from the bottom of the range and working up.
This made my day :)
It is a highly profitable business..

I don't know anything about construction, but generally speaking founding a startup in a historically profitable industry means that there's a lot of room for competitors to counter if you try to disrupt the industry (eg they can afford to invest and improve, they're just not bothering because they don't need to), and it's hard to win on price because competitors aren't particularly cost conscious as they don't need to be.

If you want an easier time when you found a startup look for an industry with potential to grow. Then you can focus on growing the market rather than trying to compete for customers. Customer acquisition is far harder, and far more expensive, if you're trying to take market share from other businesses. The smart move is to go where no one has gone yet.
I feel like the Android (and iOS) gaming market is filled with the kind of game that give you early successes followed by soulcrushing wait times bypassed through paywalls that can soak up infinite amounts of cash and therefore I have not given any of it a fair shot. This is the actual reason I always thought a "gaming phone" with a price tag rivaling a decent computer was very silly. Is that just me? Is there anything original worth playing, maybe even games you just buy outright?
That doesn't work. You can't get hook ups to power, water, & sewer without the right permits. The police or sheriff absolutely will be dispatched to halt your construction if you try this.
Biggest cost drivers for construction are land prices, permits and taxes,
materials, and interests.

You cannot make permits, taxes, and land prices to go down.
Interest can be "tamed" if you build quick and sell quick.
And most material prices are driven by transport.

Before you jump into the sector remember a great technology for construction was drywall (Pladur, Knauf, etc): it lowered time (and costs) to build inner walls.

Anything electronic, like automated window blinds... etc is not interesting for the sector: prices are high, cost to deploy are also high. It won't get mass adoption unless customers want to pay 2x-10x more for a house.
This is true, but the only reason Uber could get to a large size was that local governments (mostly) ignored it for a while, often over the protests of taxi companies. With building, they are more likely to come down, hard, on the very first building that isn't up to code, if it's done by a newcomer (existing incumbents might get away with it longer).
All you’re teaching is that adults lack empathy towards them:

Adults are intentionally victimizing the majority of students to cater to their own shallow virtue signaling.
Any sooner and it would have been branded as anti-business.

Same reason that crypto has had a run of 14 years with almost no regulation.
Without the little speed strobe setup, it loses all the magic for me. There's something about that cool visual effect that add discoverability to the history of spinning music. I know i'm not the target audience but also, cool little features like that get other people excited about the tech.
Maybe to emphasize the point that it was acquired from mosquitos in the US.
Not necessarily, because you could also simulate the worm without neurons at all. It's the closeness of the simulation to the real thing that demands that it is done right and the question effectively is: is this simulation close enough that if such a detail would be wrong that it would fail?

One way to answer that would be to add and remove such mechanisms to see if it would lead to different behavior.
You can already do this on PC using the Windows Subsystem for Android. The major issue surrounding WSA was that it was too technical to setup for most PC users so we built an app for our non-technical users to solve this. Right now, Google building a standalone app for only Android games (people use Android apps fairly on par with games on PC) and then insisting on a slow rollout will most likely make the product go nowhere.

Calling this now. This is a likely candidate for the Google graveyard.
> IIRC Internet Explorer no longer ships with Windows by default and you have to use an IE compatibility mode of Edge to use sites that require it.

Most or all of IE is still there. All Microsoft has done, is made it so if you launch iexplore.exe without arguments, instead of starting, it pops up a screen telling you to use Edge instead, and offers to start Edge for you.

But, when you enable IE Mode in Edge, then Edge launches a subprocess for each IE Mode tab called "iexplore.exe". In fact, it is launching it with almost the same arguments that IE itself uses to launch a tab subprocess (SCODEF:, CREDAT:), just with an added "APPID:MSEdge" argument.

And the APIs to embed IE into third party apps (MSHTML, WebOC) also still work. It is like they've boarded up the front entrance to make you think the building is closed, but come in the side door you'll discover everything's still open.
Yeah agreed but the secret sauce can be operating at no margins for initial years since there are almost no startups in construction thus nobody else would be able to do the same thing and a bit of market can be captured.
what do you say ?
That is an argument for not tying everything you write to your name in public. It is not inherently an argument for not writing it, or for not publishing it (it might - exercising some editorial instinct about what you publish is good).

As I noted elsewhere, the argument in the article basically boils down to leaving a record, and specifically leaving a record for your descendants, and then argues that archive.org will be reliable enough to ensure those records survives. By arguing for leaving it for your descendants it does argue for there being some way for your descendants to identify your writings, but that does not require them to be publicly linked to your name.

You can do both. Most of my writing is easily linked to my name either directly from usernames or profile links, or because I've left enough bread crumbs in things I've posted (HN is the trifecta; it's in my profile, my username isn't unique but the link is easy to guess, and I've given plenty of breadcrumbs). I take care about this, and think about it, because as far as I know my name is globally unique, and so I don't even have any hope of disappearing among others with my name in search engines etc.

Some of it would be embarrassing if some people dug it up in the "wrong" contexts today, but I have a good idea about the "worst bits" and none of it are things I am not willing to stand behind today even if I've changed my mind about them or now think they were dumb.

But not all my writing is possible to link to me at all, at least as far as I know. And that is also a conscious choice for some of the kind of reasons you gave.

Some I may not care to tell anyone about at all. Some there are plenty of notes about in my papers and digital records so it'll be easy for my descendants to find if they care.