skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have had decades of companies demanding, sneaking, and exfiltrating data from us regardless of our wishes. Companies that put a great deal of effort even into bypassing various methods users have made to put a stop to this.

Collection of any data about me, my machines, or my use of my machines without my informed consent is spying. How sensitive the data actually is is beside the point.

In any case, so much good will has been burned now that it's not unreasonable to be very sensitive about any data collection whatsoever. People being reluctant to share isn't a case of people being unreasonable, it's an understandable response to so many years of abuse and violation of trust.
I sat down and started tracking all of my time. Specifically anything productive in my day.

I set goals and went from depressed / burnt out barely breaking 14hrs a week to over 50 now.

Progress is slow, it feels like I'm behind my peers both in terms of skill and $$ but progress feels okay for now.

I'm nearing my 30s and it sucks but progress is all you can work towards - understanding what you really want is important.

I realized I wanted nothing to do with the "game" being played by my friends in New York so I left, got over it and I'm much happier now.
And the US is immune to such problems?

This, "but we'll do it better" argument seems to fall flat universally. Everybody thinks they can do it better, but nobody actually does...
You've linked to Zig vs. Rust, which really should be outperforming Rust. The grandparent was talking about how Nim seems to be doing terribly.
I used to strongly support making drugs legal. I thought: this is a free country, you should be able to do what you want.

But what I've seen in San Francisco has made me think differently. Most people who use drugs eventually end up not being able to live like normal adults. And no one willingly goes to get help or treatment.

The problem will stick around because politicians care more about how things look. They'll say the numbers are wrong, or focus on wedge issues like transgender, guns, but they're not going to do anything on hard issues like this one.

Does anyone have ideas on what we should do? Should we make drugs illegal again and force people into rehab? Should we require drug tests for homeless people to receive government help like SF CAAP payments?
I can tell you right now if any job required a drug test, I wouldn't work there.

I use cannabis sometimes but it's more the principal of it.

It's a privacy violation and positive results don't actually mean you're intoxicated on the job. What people do in their free time is nobodies business so long as it's not harming other people.
> you’re basically paying to gain an extra 3 months of life every year.

Huh? How so?
Also having an issue sending an email to that address.
I also lost contact with a Matrix user during the riot.im -> element.io switch, so I empathize. But I think the flexibility and interoperability of Matrix is worth the additional complexity. Allowing different clients can be a major boon to accessibility, as blind or sight impaired users can use their own specialized client. Not to mention adapting to device form factor. Traditional workstation, tablet, phone all have different needs.
Messaging apps: Messenger

Music & podcasts: Spotify

TODO lists & note-taking: Text files

Quick backend: Firebase
I really appreciate the final line in that post.
I didn't know this actually existed. I will have a little dig at it.
Emacs was not originally written in Lisp and is a great programmer's (and general) editor even if you never touch or think of Lisp. You can even write (and save and edit) keyboard macros knowing no programming at all.
Sway allows toggling floating and tiled as well.
I don't know that I'd call Miyazaki's movies "anime's best cooking scenes". There's an entire genre of manga/anime that's devoted to food that takes things way beyond any Miyazaki film. I like Yakitate!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakitate!!_Japan

There's also things like Food Wars which is entirely dedicated to cooking/eating.
Really?
Here’s an article from one of switzerland’s biggest newspapers:
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/ein-supraleiter-fuer-den-alltag...
Big church right in the middle of Paris. On prime, riverside real estate. That can't be cheap and last time I passed by it was missionaries and exchange students coming in and out.
The managers I've most worked with are mostly concerned with what will be built (and that is discussed with other managers as well as other stakeholders external to the team), and don't care that much about internal team dynamics. They trust the team to have enough professionalism between its members to do the work as needed, self-organise etc.
It has a sensor and only goes off for overheight vehicles. If you see it come up, you will hit the bridge if you continue straight, but it's worded too like a generic warning to all vehicles: which is the parse you have also apparently made.

Better wording would be "Overheight! Do not proceed under bridge!". If you have space: "you are overheight!" or "overheight vehicle detected!"

Add the number plate with an ANPR camera for bonus "this means you" (it also triggers a red light phase whenever it sees an over-height vehicle, so you will have time to read it). And yes, this is possible, I've seen supermarkets flash your number plate at you as you enter to warn you the parking times are being recorded.
US' advantage isn't only bureaucracy, it's also legal and last but not least access to capital and a giant market (US is much less dependent on export than EU).

It's a deadly combination for entrepreneurs UK can't offer.
I'm also someone who are driven and get excited about working on something fundamental. My recent endeavor is the result of years to figuring out what can be the fundamentals for the web -- Building Blocks for the Internet.

It would be helpful to understand why you feel like version control (git, not github), a programming language (javascript), a browser, a database are all fundamentals? They are not the first in their respective categories, just that they all became popular? I feel like your examples also lean heavily towards developer only tools?
Is your dad forbidden from recreating this technology with DuPont in control of those patents? There's probably a tonne of VC money out there for an environmentally friendly disruptor to teflon.
Interesting article.

I feel like there's some structure in most languages that you could leverage to get a mostly-modular lexer out of them, even if it's not literally "split by line".
We are in a thread of people sharing stories about being ripped off by Uber.

And yes it’s happened to me too it’s super common.
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I assume this means something to do with onboarding
Dacia Sandero indeed. Golf starts at around 30k.
Ah, thanks for catching that. On the website (https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/en/configurator.html) I read "up!" as "Golf" for some reason. Indeed the Golf is about the price you quoted.
Even with legal sales, there are still black markets for drugs, as is evident with marijuana: https://apnews.com/article/business-california-los-angeles-m...
> In academia, "AI" is usually reserved as a synonym of "AGI"

Now this is retconning. I did my uni course called AI almost twenty years ago. The same processes had been called that for a long time.
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Lots don’t even have a villain, really. They are really great for children, to help them see that not every story needs a villain to be compelling.

My daughter is 21 months old and has seemingly memorized Totoro—if she hears the soundtrack, she’ll start talking about what’s happening in that scene. If she hears the track where Mei grabs the soot sprite, she’ll yell out, “I caught one!”

Miyazaki movies are truly timeless. They’ll still be loved in the 2080s.
> I guess they don’t care, they have insurance but still.

Of course they care; even big companies have to fight with their insurance companies and often don't get fully compensated.

As a general statement, the overwhelming majority of renters pay their money and return the truck without any issue. The rare accident is costly, but it's paid for mostly through rental fees rather than insurance.

I was once offered a job and asked, "Can you drive a truck?" Sure, no problem. I show up for the _cross-country_ drive and it's a 28' box truck with a manual transmission. Thankfully, I had driven a manual car before and there was a primary (I was the 2nd) driver to help me through the particulars of the box truck.

Thousands of miles back and forth across the country over 3 months, never a driving incident.

> Whenever I see someone else diving one of these I give them a very wide berth and assume they have no idea what they are doing since they normally don’t.

I think you over-estimate the skill of the drivers of sedans and SUVs and everything else. Most drivers are pretty awful, even in cars they drive every day.
3 years ago i went to other side of the country to (as usual) hike high mountains there.. but this time on a road bike. 700km one way, 800km the other, avoiding big roads. crossed 3 mountains. 15 days (plus other 5 for the hike). Tent, sleeping bag, tools, cameras, all that jazz. Bike with all stuff on it was like 35kg. Extremely easy to fall down and nearly go wheels up :/

Some things materialized in my mind while doing this quite meditative (and sometimes dangerous) exercise..

- bees fly with same 15-20km/h as you and will escort you if going sameway

- road bike is silent. Quite a few bugs and one lizard went under the wheels

- i was invisible for most people. They do see me but cannot fathom how can i would be there (middle of nothing) on that bike, so.. don't really see me. or talk inadequately..

- i was out of reach of nearly any road-constraints. Signs, limits, fences, gates, whatever. don't this, do that.. just Shrug it. Not more than 40km/h uphill? Well i hardly do 6 so..

- farting while pedalling a bike, is difficult business

- the worse thing are the small halos of flies at face-height in afternoon sun in broadleaf forests, uphill. There's no escaping those - u need at least 10km/h but proper uphill is like 5-6 max. Maybe a motorised fan/blower? Thinking about it..

- there's lots more.. may write it one day

Since then i've been doing such (but smaller) trips each summer, like 500km/4 days. But it's not same, need to increase to at least 10 days. Btw, in 4 years, i raised the average speed from 15km/h to 16km/h - maybe because on shorter distances i take 10% less stuff... :/

have fun
Copper reserves are insufficient to manufacture even the first generation of EVs.[0] The decarbonized economy will require horses and bicycles (both net zero emissions).

The good news is that reducing solar intensity by 2% would compensate for a doubling in CO2 levels, however (see Manabe and Wetherald 1975).[1,2] I hope governments will not wait too long to act. If a solar shield is not implemented within the next 20 to 30 years, the opportunity to do so may close as a result of generalized collapse.

[0] https://press.spglobal.com/2022-07-14-Looming-Copper-Supply-...

[1] http://faculty.eas.ualberta.ca/jdwilson/EAS372_13/manabe75.p...

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Syukuro-Manabe-2/public...
Chinese Army's Weird Gyrocopter Needs to Chill Out [video]
Ceramic micro-fractures over time. So while it can stay pretty easy to clean, but the non-stick degrades drastically over time. Especially the ceramic on steel or copper - metals that want to expand under heat.

I have this enameled cast iron pot that I cook just about everything in - but it just destroys eggs.
"Private Stuff Stays Private
impel is unable to scan for private windows, excluded apps, and sensitive information by default. It also relies on low level APIs to never capture confidential information."

Who says what is/is not confidential information. Does your tool make that judgment or the user?
Stainless steel pan + butter + a stainless spatula + chainmail or steel wool. I cook can egg on stainless everyday and it's easy to clean.
Teflon pans are not inert. The fumes from a hot teflon pan can kill birds.

Don't call for the meme that saturated fats are bad. Butter is safer than unsaturated fats which change when heated.
Tesla, notably, has no dealers.

https://www.extremetech.com/cars/tesla-accused-of-secretly-c...
Yea I saw iPhone usage was mentioned in the docs and I have no idea how that’s done. I’ve only tried through my laptop with iMessage sync by issuing

$ sqlite3 ~/Library/Messages/chat.db

and then performing some sql commands
For the free versions, they are pretty similar, except ProtonMail supports PGP which works with people who don't use ProtonMail, whereas Tutanota uses its own encryption which only works with Tutanota users. Neither of them support third party clients (although ProtonMail has an IMAP bridge for desktop for their paid version), so I would say ProtonMail is better for that reason. Both of them are much better than Gmail though privacy-wise.

However, one thing to be careful of is that unlike Gmail, neither of them support email forwarding, which might become a problem if you want to switch email providers again. A workaround for that is to buy your own domain and use the paid version of whichever service you choose so you can change services without changing your email address. For that feature, Tutanota costs significantly less than ProtonMail does.

If you want an email provider that is more focused on features like Gmail but doesn't sell your data, you can also look at FastMail (Australia) or Mailbox.org (Germany). FastMail (what I use) has a better UI, but it is based in a country with anti-encryption laws. While ProtonMail/Tutanota are trying to be government proof by end-to-end encrypting your emails at the expense of features, FastMail/Mailbox.org are more focused on productivity without making money off of your data. To me, FastMail/Mailbox.org have good enough privacy since I use Signal for most personal communications I want private, but if a government is after you for some reason, ProtonMail/Tutanota would definitely be a better option.
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101 BASIC Computer Games (the original book, published by DEC) is literally how I learned to program back in the mid-70's, on a small PDP-11 sold as a kit by HeathKit that my dad built. (Paper tape! Woohoo!)
Podcasts apps on iOS: I prefer Castro over Overcast, Pocket Casts and Podcasts.app.

Castro’s concept of show → episode → inbox → queue is unbeatable for me because it’s uncomplicated but still powerful. Sideloading is solid. Audio enhancements are high quality.
> Democracies shouldn't have giant unaccountable spy orgs.

All governments on the planet have giant unaccountable spy orgs.

Why should a democracy forgo one of the most effective tools the world has ever seen? Accountability is a strange word to use with any government agency. Most government bodies are only accountable to themselves.
Not GP, but probably referring to door games similar to those found on BBSes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS_door#Door_games
I worked on a push-based streaming system which could arbitrarily distribute each operate to another compute node. Backpressure occurred naturally: if the thing you’re pushing into is busy (internal queue is full; TCP socket is busy) you wait. We had no explicit backpressure mechanism, and yet we had it in our system.
> I wouldn't mind transparent and honest telemetry in other tools like rustc or even vim

Me neither, as long as it is voluntary and requires an action on my part for it to happen.
I’ll take what you are saying at face value, but point out that academic career pipelines are slow- it’s often about 15 years to go from college freshman to starting out as a “young” PI in the USA. If what you are saying is true, it will still be another 5+ years before we start seeing top students that stayed in China publishing as PIs. Edit: Which lines up with what you said at the top of your post.
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“Unremarkable” then? Maybe “undistinguished?” Or “unexceptional?”
For crash reports the only elements included are coming from the compiler (the symbols of the stack trace do not leak user data), but the panic description can leak symbols from the user's code. For automated mechanisms you could make it so that nothing user generated is sent, but a lot of consideration is needed to not make a mistake.
Alas. I'm not allowed to donate blood.
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I forgot to cover this in our agreement.

The closest thing we had agreed on was I'd put in $20k to buy the existing app and to 'catch up' my investment to justify me owning 30% as a co-founder. Since he doesn't want me a co-founder anymore, it doesn't make much sense for me to spend $20k to own 30%.

Assuming there is no contract, is my understanding reasonable that he should unwind my contributions?
247 miles for the Bolt doesn't feel that shabby to me, you mentioned Camry so I guess you aren't into sub-compacts anyways? The Corolla (a sub-compact) has a range around 500 miles, so it is around .5.
> it definitely explains the drama surrounding this whole situation.

It was in a Twitter thread linked on an HN thread a couple days ago wherein someone had done some digging online into resumes, publication histories, etc and recapped a bunch of the apparent history of LK99 and the related scientists and institutions. Sorry, I didn't bookmark it. But it contained quite a bit more drama including possible team conflict over potential Nobel credit and a deathbed promise to the team's mentor, one of the initial LK99 discoverers.

No matter how this turns out, there's probably a helluva good book or movie in the backstory as it appears to be a team of unlikely underdogs stubbornly pursuing a long-shot while scraping together minimal funding over many years, being passed over for tenure, taking on unrelated side work and having their initial paper rejected by Nature, etc. It makes me extra hopeful that LK99 is at least an interesting novel material, even if not a superconductor.
This doesn't return all messages unfortunately, and the way the algorithm works, it will return a few results at a time, forcing you to re-pull for more results. I wanted all the messages I had received from my dad, and it was impossible to do this way.
Or a registration fee.
Are they unguarded right now? Your casually sarcastic "just a thought" makes it sound like everyone else is an idiot for not doing something obvious. Or are you suggesting building a magnificant wall?
Central America is their largest growing sector IIRC.
I just took a look at the source paper [0]

"""
Although the attainable magnetic flux density limits the energy per unit volume given by
Equation (1) ( B2 /2μ o), the real limit of the energy stored in a SMES is mechanical.
[...]
The relation defines the
minimum mass of the mechanical structure in pure tension to support the radial
electromagnetic forces. Force-balanced coils [5] minimize the working stress and thus the
mass of the structure.
"""

So it looks like they 1) don't look at cryo and 2) the limiting factor is the stress due to EM fields.

[0] https://snf.ieeecsc.org/sites/ieeecsc.org/files/CR5_Final3_0...
Then why are you subsidizing large ones through tax breaks?

Honestly, If anything I'd think small businesses would deserve more subsidization than large. Alas, one of these can afford full time lobbying staff, while the other cannot. Soooo... Yeah.
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I would drop it where an interlocutor is specifically referenced. So 'oh man' is ok. But c'mon man usually expresses disagreement with a specific person. So while I would certainly say c'mon man to a trans or cis masc (which, if I had any shadow of a doubt, I would determine by querying their pronouns, after sharing mine so as not to inadvertently put them on the spot), I would definitely not say it to a trans or cis fem, and also not to an enby.

Someone's life obviously takes priority over gender sensitivity :)

Again, I realize it's a bit of (cognitive) work, and takes some getting used to. But this is hacker news - a certain intellectual pedigree is assumed.
> I don't have anything against people who want those kinds of vehicles

Well you should! Makes life more fun :)

-Hugh Laurie (https://youtu.be/c-WO73Dh7rY?t=141 @2:21)
The database file is the same across both platforms, you just need to choose the right path: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter/blob/c73bc4d66...

You can get this file from an unencrypted iOS backup: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter/blob/c73bc4d66...
Reality Check: Falsehoods in US Perceptions of China