skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Public libraries seem heavily romanticized. They aren't the places they once were. The big one in my local city is in an unsavory part of town, with homeless and drug addicts all over, creepy dudes looking at porn inside, with the lovely stench of body odor everywhere. Even the entrance is unnerving, with zombies sleeping on the steps. I wouldn't feel safe letting a child hang out there alone. Which is a major shame, because I spent many hours in libraries as a kid. This isn't hyperbole, just read through some recent google reviews of public libraries. These days, I'd rather browse the ebook catalog online and drive to a nice park or green space to read. I'm sure financial interests are somewhat to blame for the decline of the public library, but the other reasons seem more pressing atm.
We created an autonomous system of entities running on meat CPUs with a singular non human aligned goal of profit maximization at all costs and the system has exceeded the capability of human governance which is stalled at a country / block level.

It by now controls almost every single human’s everyday schedule - the entire race has been put in service of it and it extracts all resources and externalizes all the costs and by now benefits a tiny fraction of the planet primarily - but even that fraction appears to be powerless to stop it (Lol Big tech billionaires tearingly having to take responsibility and make hard cuts at times of record profits. It’s the system, even the majority Shareholder Zuck cannot escape it. )

Despite clear evidence that its continued trajectory amounts to suicide for the human race, we appear unable to stop it.

And we have illusions about aligned AI. Lol.
I’m older and long married. I married at about your age, by which time I had many, many sexual relationships/interactions.

Of course I miss being in my 20s and 30s and the women I spent time with naked. Sometimes that nostalgia is very strong, believe me.

But I also remember that none of those experiences were fulfilling. It blows my mind to recall periods of my life when I had numerous numbers I could dial that would land me in bed - but at the time I was nonplussed and unsatisfied by it all.

By the time I was 38 I was looking for a partner, and when I met my wife all of my dating criteria went out the window. The whole game had changed.

I have thoughts on whether monogamistic fundamentalism is good for marriage, but that’s a whole other discussion. In a society where you have to choose between promiscuity and commitment, the latter holds much more promise even though there are no guarantees.
Arcologies, O'Neill Cylinders, Dyson Spheres, spatial colonization outpacing population growth.
> As of now, I don't offer sync functionality

Then why does your top-level comment say "Your notes sync effortlessly"?
epub is an open format and there are many open source epub reader.

Nov.el in emacs or aldiko in android for instance.

The idea of getting an epub from the library and reading it within emacs sounds quite nice BTW :)

I think their definition of popular could differ from yours and be something like "more than 50 people use it" rather than "more than 50,000 people use it".
The BBC used to insist on very high standards of English. This is no longer the case as this is now seen as being 'elitist'.
My first job after university on the early 90s was working on an optimiser for through-hole p&p machines. It was an interesting problem. We took a gerber file and a BOM and generated (hopefully) optimal instructions for the machine.

To minimise assembly time you need to keep the placement heads moving along the shortest paths in three dimensions. But you don't want them to collide with each other (I recall the machines I was concerned with had 2 (or maybe 4?) heads) or with components already placed. You also don't want a feeder to swap cartridges unnecessarily. Balancing all those concerns was very tricky.

On the occasions that I went to the assembly plant, watching the placement heads moving always reminder me of the knife-trick scene in Aliens.
Libraries are a valuable resource to the homeless and those who have nowhere else to go. If such people are respectful and treat the library as a library, then nobody will begrudge them an hour's nap or their refuge from midday heat while they read books or use a computer. Homeless people can even sign up for library cards and use them, almost as if they were real patrons.

Of course it becomes known that a library doesn't mind the patronage of the homeless and disenfranchised, then people begin to abuse the hospitality. People try to shower and shave and brush their teeth in the restrooms. People drag in half a shopping cart's worth of bags and personal belongings, and camp out with a pillow and blanket. People deface or steal books, DVDs, and other materials. People have mental health crises in front of the other staff and patrons. Of course these disruptions are not the sole purview of the homeless.

But they cause security to be tightened, and big signs that prohibit lots of stuff are posted, and the collection dwindles to whatever nobody wanted to steal. Man, I've really felt the pinch there. COVID-19 did libraries a favor in this regard, because they had a plausible excuse to flush anyone and everyone out of the building and off the premises, and do a great reset of the whole situation.
Please read the article again :)

The attack vector was normal apps purchased by the hackers were modified to download and install malicious apps. This should have been caught by Play Protect on the device, but failed due to the bug
That includes polygamy of course, right? I mean, if all people involved are competent, consenting adults, why wouldn't that be a civil right? Do you agree? Or is that one of those "Let me in, then close the door" type of issues?
That’s called a tipping point. I think it’s now been broken through. The hardest part of all this is not nearly enough is being done to stop atmospheric greenhouse gases growth. If you looks at growth rates in CH4 and CO2. It’s pretty steady since recording began. It isn’t until it flat lines and we get back to 350 ppm CO2 that we can even begin to get back to the habitable planet we are suited for.
This is so web 1.0. Love it.
IIRC the blue whale is larger than all possible (reasonable) land animals, so the only possible competition would be another ocean animal of some sort.
idk if he's been to a library recently, but they're already shit. They've become homeless shelters
> Which doesn't stay particularly well exacty because of the thing on which we both agree.

No idea what this means.

> But both parting ways, and being alone is well-known to incur costs

Alright I'm gonna stop you right here. It should be very clear that I meant you are free to divorce your partner and not end up financially ruined or socially stigmatised or outcast like you would in the past. The implication that divorce just means sadness and loneliness forever is really blinkered.

> high divorce rate is nothing to care about (societally)

You've used an interesting adjective here. How are you deciding that the current amount is "high"? How much is "normal" and how have you reached that conclusion? And what's the plan to reduce it to the normal amount once you figure out these numbers - stopping no-fault divorces so guys like Steven Crowder (who seems pretty pissed about the idea that his wife was allowed to leave him) can continue to abuse their spouses?
(TT=TikTok)
Usually spectrum has great articles, but I feel like this one is kind of a non-article. It just reiterates some basic news that they've already covered in separate, longer pieces.

Slow news day at IEEE ha ha.
The cost of the machines will drop considerably so it definitely will have an effect. That $250 is still a lot of money for many people and if not covered by insurance and in the developing part of the world it is utterly unaffordable.
https://www.embeddedts.com/blog/netbsd-toaster-powered-by-th...
Not true at all you have apply for asn, you have pay for registration and ips seperately. Which needs to be renewed every year. Also you cant sell to anyone you want. You can transfer ownership but it goes through arin.

Also few legal documents needed to register.

https://www.arin.net/resources/fees/fee_schedule/#registrati...
I used to think this was quite important and I still like the idea of interlinking notes, particularly for when I am using my phone.

But it is ultimately just more gardening.

I tried all sorts of systems like that and they all disappointed. What really matters is absolutely instantaneous search.

Edit to add: Apple Notes has finally added note-to-note linking, but at the moment I don't have all my Apple devices sufficiently up to date so I haven't tried it.

Notes also has tagging support which is another one of those things I was sure I'd use a lot more than I actually do.
Everyone is different. What works for one person, doesn't work for another.

Even for "normies" this is true. We all forget this. Medicine is often an art as much as a science.

As far as my ability to work to music... It beats office noise, and I have always had tinnitus, so... total silence is actually bad for me. Background noise saves me.
Thanks for your feedback. I get your frustration and I'm sorry this project doesn't fit your requirements. Just a couple of minutes ago another user on Reddit asked me about mobile support and as of now it is still an idea. However, as I am a beginner developer, I trust the community to help me build the mobile client.
It is honestly hard to take anyone seriously who unironically uses that term.
My preferred pronouns are he/his (listed in profile). Thanks.
I have one and can confirm that once you have this style of toast it’s hard to go back.

Fluffy and moist interior with a perfectly crisp and browned exterior. It’s quite magical, and hard to understand until you experience it.
Science shows that the brain and the rest of the nervous system stops at death. How that relates to the notion of consciousness is still pretty much unknown, and many neuroscientists will tell you that. We haven't yet found an organ or process in the brain responsible for the conscious mind that we can say stops at death.

Our level of understanding of neuroscience basically stops at understanding what regions and receptors in the brain are tickled by what sensations, and we still have very few actual ideas as to things like how your brain computes 2 + 2, let alone how your brain computes things like right and wrong.
We need medication without tyranny and acceptance, not yet another calendar app.
Rent seeking by itself no longer seems to be enough to garner any sort of regulatory action in the US.

Which is not especially new - rent seeking in general is explicitly not illegal. But historically, it was viewed as a general negative for society, and something to be addressed through policy.

Now it seems to be "business as usual" in the race to accumulate as much wealth as possible, consequences to society at large be damned.
Congrats on the launch.

Curious, why not contribute to Citus? Why create a fork and have duplicated effort?
Many view privatization as an inherent good.
If Eich was legally trying to change legal terms using legal means, then what is the problem?
I think the question is why does it take longer to paint it than it took to build it?
It's not manipulation. The economic system is as simple as the game of life when it comes to the coarse understanding of why it has screwed us:

* Prisoner's dilemma: New inventions give people a differential advantage over others, so everyone has to use them
* We think new inventions give us an advantage because of our maladaptive instinct to gain knowledge and avoid death

Hence, we have one mechanism (the prisoner's dilemma) operating on our instinct to gain wealth and power and that drives us via capitalism towards the brink of death.

What we need to do is have a society-wide mentality that endless growth is bad and that our throwaway society is bad but with the momentum humanity has today, we are screwed. Of course, we'll be okay (I'm talking about people over 30), but our children will be extremely miserable. That is the karma that has accumulated every time you buy something in single-use plastic, every time you use Google and support their tech monolith, every time you drive your car, and every time you live in extreme luxury with modern technology.

We cannot avoid this karma now from all this destruction we have done.
They almost surely work together with Django standard views and templates. A Django view prepares the data for the template that renders the HTML page. Then some of that HTML talks with the Unicorn views declared in the attributes of its tags.
Is the future of (most) software to run as a web app?
With OS Sonoma, Apple will finally allow users to save website and Progressive Web Apps from Safari, and have them accessible form the browser. Although it's nothing new (and possible to do with other browsers), the fact that Apple is not fighting against them a strong signal imo. As a fairly new FE dev, I wonder whether we're going towards a direction where native apps will become less common, in favor of PWAs or similars.
Or, to ask it differently: what are the advantages of developing native apps nowadays? Sure performance is a big argument atm, but will we get to a point where the difference is negligible? If so, what then?
It's really bizarre. From my perspective, comments on HN are usually at least slightly better reasoned than other social sites. But this thread is absolutely crawling with comments flat out denying the science
> Nothing like a library could be built today. The country has become so corrupt and the only solutions that anyone seems to believe could ever work are free market services that commoditize every part of life.

People do vote for levies to pay for libraries, and libraries are still built. The places with the best libraries willingly pay a lot for them.
A lot of commenters here are from the West, and the atmosphere between the PRC and the West (particularly the US) at the moment is quite a bit more acrimonious and competitive than it has been historically. It makes sense that people would leap first to essentially "They aren't as smart as us"/"They're less honest than us"/"They're less trustworthy than us" etc. The simplest and most likely correct explanation is that the PRC has a lot more STEM students in absolute terms and even proportionately, more and very well funded labs with very ambitious leadership and "national spirit"/"something to prove" style thinking, and that particularly in chemistry/materials science the PRC is dominant, with a huge proportion of all the highest quality chemistry focused universities, academies etc.
It wasn't open while it was being built, but it is open while being painted.

And I dare say they could paint it much much faster if they really needed to, but it would involve very large crew for a short period of time.

Better for everyone involved if the work is basically steady - then you can hire one group or company for a three year stint, instead of hiring 5-10x for 6 months.
Generally, if you find a simplification that makes the problem trivial you’re interpreting it wrong and should reconsider.
BBC Science coverage has been getting worse for about 30 years and is now little more than either tech advertisement (yay! gadgets!)or pulp science / clickbait.
Why I failed to launch on Appsumo
They are the fastest way to dig tunnels, their only limitation is that they can't do narrow radii.
Or Elon will put up a ginormous film screen and we'll sunshade the Earth?
They also appear to be stripping the old paint during this re-painting process.
Death isn't the only aspect to the FDA's consideration. Safety along with efficacy are key.

You don't want to give a patient, dying or otherwise, a drug which is going to cause harm. Remember, doctors provide comfort care at planned end of life which includes morphine pumps, etc. Even during the process of death, we want our loved ones to feel comfortable and safe.

Death isn't a single event. It is a process that takes days. Can you imagine giving your family member an untested medication only for them to die in complete agony?
Sounds like the backend is GPT 4?
This is why the world is ending...because there are people like you who know they'll be relatively fine and thus don't care.
I don't understand why she would be like this. Why would anyone hold back the production process for a material that could change humanity forever?
A typical HVDC line is a work of art, I wouldn't compare it with a chunk of aluminum or steel wire.
> This book is a rewritten version of a rewrite of Allen Carr’s EasyWay to Quit Smoking for pornography, it’s free and open source and licensed under CC-BY-SA.
As a Firefox appreciator,
it's just not something I ever really wanted to use and it got a pretty prominent place in the UI when it came out. Has similar vibes to when windows added the weather forecast to the awesome bar.

Imo the people making a big deal out of it are using it to justify why they're OK sticking with chrome (best case), or have a partisan political reason to hate Mozilla because of their ESG / DEI positions (ughhhhhh)
Replicating the physical interfaces does a lot for the quality of the emulation experience. Take, for instance, the C64 maxi: it’s physically a C64 (dimensions closer to a VIC-20, but that’s negligible) and, while the emulation is good, it feels much closer to using a cycle-accurate C64 over a PS/2 keyboard.

I don’t think the potential market for Amiga and ST keyboards for use with MiSTer justifies the investment, but I’d LOVE to see LK-411, Atari ST, Amiga, Sun, Symbolics, and other pre-PC-101 layouts as reasonably priced USB keyboards.
Unless you cite a study, this is just male fear psychology. You can absolutely find love no matter how many partners you’ve had so long as you both agree on what your relationship is and monogamy and things like that. Your fear is that if she’s had more partners than you then she’ll just leave you or is “unpairable” is sex shaming. The reasons you failed to state are non-tangible male-ego think.
Yeah, that’s not how education works, Elf…
Yes, as more and more people place themselves in a position to collect rent, they make a million excuses as to why they rent they collect is okay.
I get spam in WhatsApp and Telegram sometimes. Easy to block and report though.

I think the inscrutable European languages helps to protect us from scammers.
This seems concerning: "The Service should not be used to store sensitive information such as bank account numbers, credit card information, or passwords."

Why would a notes app dictate what content can be stored in it?

From: https://simplenote.com/terms/
85-Byte Snake Game
It's clearly marked on the graph.

There is good data going back to 1880 on ocean tempreture that shows a consistent climbing trend.
I know, right? It could mean anything, like — just as a random, top-of-mind scenario — being in a coma through the ages of 18 to 39.
Only because they have a return address. The idea that reading a book for free in one context is "legal" and reading the same book for free in another context is "illegal" is simply legal fiction invented by congress to prop up an industry. It's not a law of nature and it's not even logically consistent.

You are free to ignore bad laws. Read books for free. It's fine. It's what libraries are for, and it's what the internet is for.

The idea of "copies" is irrelevant. If 100 people in parallel all have a file of book on their tablet simultaneously and read it for free or 100 people all serially check out the same single physical instance from a lending library and read it for free the effect (and amount paid to the copyright holder) are precisely the same.
My feeling is that it’s more reverse engineering than this, which aims to be an exact replica of the original.
Building Habits Is Like Trench-Warfare
Re "batteries included" -- Often when you know what you want to accomplish, then 80% of the time there's an obvious straightforward way to get it done in the framework. The thing that gives me some anxiety about Django (and any other opinionated framework, I suppose), is that the other 20% of the time you're not sure whether there's an esoteric but idiomatic way to do it, or you really need to implement something custom yourself.
It may be rude (or not?), but it captures the problems quite well, so...
I fully agree with this. I don't love their skyrocketing food prices, but I'll still choose to go there for any movie I care about. I know for certain people there won't be disruptive.
My youngest would be all over that. I'm already concerned about the windows the way things are right now.
Soviet Union and later Russia had entirely families of electric mainline freight locomotive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VL85

If the line is electrified then freight travelling on it will be travelling on electric trains.
I ran across meer.org yesterday. It seems timely. I wonder how realistic the project is?

[0] https://www.meer.org/
Congrats on the launch.

How is it different from -

https://chatbase.co/

https://sitegpt.ai/
This is my take as well. "...audio, connectivity, and 'some of the hardware features, including battery life.'" So similar complaints to early smartphones. That sounds like a great outcome to me.
A single Spanish speaking mother with kids and a broken arm is unlikely to be successful in sueing the companies and they know it.
stop being excited you sound stupid!!! hacker news obsession with doomerism is so boring
shit boomers are the ones who forget to turn off the ringer or pull the karen-esqe "oh im at a theater, ok thats fine" short convos.
I can't speak for Tolino, but in the case of Onyx, updates include new kernels, Android revs, and base applications (both Onyx's and a few Android standards: simple voice recorder, simple music player, simple clock, simple gallary, etc.
Your right - I said average but didn't go into specifics and so my message was unclear. But it's helpful to have a source to discuss, isn't it?
But on the flip side, I went just last week, with my whole family, and we picked out two large shopping bags of books.

Libraries are amazing places for children, and their parents.

As an aside, I have to also give kudos to my local school district, which has some kind of arrangement with the public library system to give library cards to all elementary students. This not only gives them lending privileges, but also the ability to take advantage of all of the other library system's partnerships and discounts.

Libraries are still great, but it probably depends a lot on where you live, and what you expect from one.
It's always worth entering a market if you have an edge or idea that nobody else has, and you think the market would utilize it. That's sort of the point of startups :)

Disclaimer: I actually worked for (and helped found) a company that used AI tools as a complimentary piece of the language learning process. The company closed doors early last year. Happy to discuss further if you'd like - our approach was quite radical in nature but the progress our students made was incredible.