skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know; sorry, I couldn't resist :D

In all seriousness though, there is a lot about textbook publishing that is inexplicably different from other non-fiction books. For instance:

- Why not use the conventional paperback size if the textbook is not reliant on large diagrams? Why do textbooks always have to be massive?

- Why are there so many 'infoboxes' and 'did you knows' and 'warnings' (a characteristic that textbooks share with do-it-yourself and self-help books)?

- Why do almost all textbooks start with lengthy 'How to Use This Book' chapters? If you're in a course, you should have already been told, and most of those seem pretty common-sense anyway.

My favourite business textbooks that mostly avoid these disadvantages (as I see them):

- Managing without Profit, Mike Hudson: an almost complete guide to the mechanics of non-profit organisations; perfect if you already have a good grasp of for-profit business fundamentals.

- A Manager's Guide to Self-Development, Mike Pedler, John Burgoyne and Tom Boydell: mostly tests in the same vein as Myers-Briggs, explaining various aspects of personality, behaviour and strategy.

- Interpersonal Skills at Work, Maureen Guirdham (not the John Hayes book of the same name!): very academic look at the social dynamics of workplaces, with proper citations to actual studies for further reading; very thought-provoking and genuinely useful if applied carefully.
All visits to Calendly.com are met with the following boilerplate message:

> We respect your personal privacy
>
> We and our third party partners use cookies and other tracking technologies to provide a proactive support experience, enhance site navigation, analyze site usage, and assist in our marketing efforts.
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> Learn more

And, "Learn more" is linked to https://calendly.com/privacy - so, yes, but it may be possible that by that point you're already being tracked.

I suppose it's an interesting question that needs a definitive answer: by clicking on a link to a website, are you thereby implicitly agreeing to the site's terms and conditions before you've had a chance to review them, at least until you've had the opportunity to review them and then decide to discontinue using that site or not?

Is a brick-and-mortar business obligated to present you with a copy of their business policies _before_ you enter their establishment? No. You are free to inquire before patronizing their business, and they are free to inform you of them after-the-fact. I would expect that a website should be treated similarly: by visiting the site, until you choose to discontinue using the site, you are agreeing to the site's terms and conditions, sight-unseen, whatever they may be.
the short answer is pretty much all tech we use was invented in the 1970's and is just being iterated on at this point. There really is not much new coming out and all the really cool stuff has turned out to be too difficult to be reliable or require too much power to ever get beyond toy status.
Download white noise generator app, press play.
Works fine in background and while locked on Android. Only works when the tab is visible on iOS.
I've played a lot of Spelunky. I mean, I have played A LOT of Spelunky. I consider Derek Yu to be a great designer.

I also think Spelunky classic was the best version of his series on account that the aesthetics and soundtrack were so banger.

That's why I wanted to preface everything before I made this statement. Spelunky 2 is one of the "worst" games I have ever played. I mean this in a very nice way. However, I consider it incredibly disrespectful to the players.

In order to see the "true" ending of the game you have to do an insane number of really esoteric tasks to get to what is called The Cosmic ocean. And, in this Cosmic ocean you then spend 99 levels working in what is arguably arbitrary hell to complete it so that you can finally "beat" game.

https://youtu.be/UbTW3F2F4PI

What I find so disrespectful about Spelunky 2 is that the experience is frustrating as hell. And, that's intentional. He has designed the game in order to elicit that response, but that doesn't mean that's necessarily a good thing

And in one of his axes he lists broad appeal, however there is no way any person in the general population can even remotely approach the skill level required in order to enjoy this aspect of the game. And, some people might say "get good", or "you need to learn to play the game", but I don't find that to be a sufficient explanation or sympathetic response to those who really do enjoy the game, but are locked out of really interesting parts of it based on tedium that requires incredibly long playthroughs that require incredibly difficult tasks to be achieved in order to see it.

And, I get it as a designer he made the choice that this is how the game should be played, but I cannot really ever get over how the game has changed between Spelunky classic versus Spelunky 1 versus Spelunky 2. And, how much he made a point to enforce that experience through design decisions.

I'd also like to touch on the fact that each following iteration changed from interesting to an art style that felt more like McDonald's art instead of sticking close and cute like the original Sprite art that was created.

I have put so many hours into Spelunky and it's crazy because I would expect to have nice things to say about a game that I spent so much time playing, but for me I really wouldn't suggest Spelunky to anyone because of the design decisions from Derek Yu. In fact, it's my top choice for games that get in the way of themself to the detriment of the player.

So I guess all of this rambling is to articulate that Derek Yu does know some things, and he has been successful, but I don't consider his opinions to be very valid regarding what makes a good game for the general audience.
Mastering Front End System Design Interviews: A Complete Guide
I think that most people who need ls's functionality (listing files in a directory) use a GUI application.
The Rimac Nevera Has Broken the Production EV Nurburgring Lap Record
Worth reading this Brother study on thermal paper degradation: https://www.anixter.com/content/dam/Suppliers/Brother/White%...

Worth looking at Figure 3 showing how different samples of thermal paper have vastly difference reactions to high temperatures.

Once had a set of Aliexpress plastic water carriers take 6 months to arrive to me during COVID and it when it arrived, it seemed like the plasticizers from the carriers (or the factory?) severely degraded the thermal shipping label.
> It's easier for me to believe in superpowers than to believe in people that have the psychological complexity of houseplants.

You must not get out much then?
Wake Up, Devs You've Been Logging All Wrong
IIRC, The excellent book Dreamt Land says 2/3 of California's precipitation falls in the northern 1/3 of the state. But it's the southern part with the ideal climate for agriculture. Hence the largest water movement system in history.
I don't think that's it. If this conversation was being had a decade ago, more people would be saying "download an MP3, keep it forever".

The younger generation grew up with Spotify having everything available for a subscription. We grew up with OG Napster, which really did have everything.
Free trash cans? Theft!
It's most common in the dual sport community. I ride dual sport rides here on the west coast that still provide roll charts as their primary routing.
One interesting thing I learned while in Las Vegas during a major rain storm, a lot of the buildings leak like a sieve. Word was that heavy rain happens so rarely that leaks are rare to present themselves and thus hard to discover and hard to troubleshoot.
That's usually what "probably more that..." means. The post I was responding to proposed one reason and I responded with the correct answer that it is probably more that reporting is quite a lot better now. If I was negating their answer I would have said "No, that is wrong, this is why...." Even in the last 40 years my answer is correct because people's exposure to this has increased leaps and bounds faster due to reporting than it has due to actual events happening. Hell, even in the 30 or so years I personally remember this is true. My local climate has barely changed while my exposure to news about climate disasters has exploded.
The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI
I painted the Mona Lisa with 73.2% accuracy!
https://vole.wtf/clone-a-lisa/
What skills have stayed the same over 20 years and provided the same standard of living over that entire period of time since we passed the industrial revolution?

Nurses, doctors, pilots, have all needed to become competent with computers. Financial people needed to learn Excel. Farming requires more mechanical and chemical skill.

That is not to mention entire categories of jobs that no longer exist (telephone operator, appliance repairperson, non-luxury travel agent, etc) or jobs that only came into existence in the past few years (social media director, devops engineer, prompt engineer).

You also never know when a new technology will come along that disrupts everything. Being a cabbie used to require an incredible level of study and diligence to understand the roads of your city. That understanding is now worthless, as we all have the equivalent in our pockets. Somebody writes the weekly jobless claims articles at news agencies. A human won't be doing that in 5 years, if they are already.

I am playing around with Midjourney and I can see a lot of lower level freelance work like logo design getting utterly annihilated by it. Spinning up basic web apps is pretty easy with ChatGPT, even if you don't know very much code either.

So there is no skill I would be comfortable relying on to earn a living for 20 years. You might work for a company that doesn't update as quickly and get away with it as a result, but that is luck of them not firing you.

The jobs that are the same as 20 years ago are the ones that do not require training or skill to do.
I think that, as a general principle, terms, conditions, privacy policies, and other contracts that part of something incidental to the primary purpose of a service, should be entirely void regardless of whether they are supposedly accepted.

Signing up for school or doing anything effectively required for school? Third-party terms should not be relevant.

Parking? If the parking lot itself has legal terms, okay (whether any such terms should be allowed is a different issue). But the app? No terms should be valid. If the app collects location data, it should be liable, full stop.

Eating at a restaurant? Toast’s terms should not matter.
We spent a lot of time finding historical data from across the world and building our family tree back a few hundred years. But records didn’t keep as well back then. Now everyone is posting everything everywhere all at once. Do you think there’s a greater chance someone 20 generations from now will be able to look at TikTok and Threads archives and understand and get to know their forebears from 1,000 years ago? I think there’s a good chance of that.
> Sometimes I wonder if Iraq’s instability was caused by the US’s migration to high tech military, which reduces the need to have 5x the numbers of soldiers on the ground as happened in Japan and Germany.

This is squarely the fault of Donald Rumsfeld, who was given plans pre-war by General Eric Shinseki and the rest of the Joint Chiefs that involved significantly more forces. Instead, Rumsfeld pitched a fit and made them redo the OPLAN so it fit his whole high-tech "revolution in military affairs" crap.
That doesn't relate to the post at all, which is about finding product market fit before investing in Google ads. Their marketing wasn't bad; it was futile due to a bad product. And calling it "LGBTQ bullshit" is telling on yourself.

But you already know that.
I don't know what this is even meant to be, it's just a page with text forever saying "Loading comments…" and the links in the footer just say "Soon" and go nowhere.
so niche it was bought out and shut down!
Facebook recently started to show me this nasal stent product
https://alaxousa.com/how-it-works/
Basically they sell expandable metal mesh tubes that are inserted though the nose and go down to throat when installed.
And they are rather expensive - $395 and according to FAQ last up to 18 months.

I’ll ask my ENT about these stents when I’ll visit them next time.
My take anything generated by AI is essentially a worthless good. Consider that the amount of energy, material resources, human labor it takes to produce are essentially zero. And the supply is unlimited.
I'm sure; there are still threads that come up from time to time in GNU circles about whether Mono is actually FOSS (TLDR: it is), in which those of a more paranoid personality allege an EEE attempt by Microsoft. If this were the case, Microsoft clearly did not succeed even without Java as a legitimate competitor! Interestingly, Mono has had most success from its use in the Unity game engine.
Sounds like what it was like to use an iPad to organize files, before the Files app in 2017(!)

On Android, I use a YT client app to download a 320kbps M4A of the white noise file, and then play it on anything I want...music app, podcast app, audiobook app...they all work, just like they would on a computer
Would it be possible to overlay this to Goggle Earth to get a live weather updated sphere shaped map for the globe?
One thing I’ve pondered occasionally is what we would notice that we hadn’t thought about if we warped back a few centuries. One that’s always stood out to me is the sheer number of birds. What exists today is a fraction of their population before industrialization. And one mockingbird or crow means you can have a bad time in your back yard now… imagine 20 of them.
A big one for me is exiting one city and entering another (i.e. moving) especially when the new city is in another state. I've switched cities 7 times in the last 9 years and 6 states.
I have to help my parents with something like this at least once a month. The last one was trying to find a traffic school for my dad to go to. There was no way he could ever figure it out, and even I had trouble with the horrible UI on the website. I decided a year ago not to move more than an hour away from them.
78% with just 4 color bars.

Super fun game.

Problem is, I got a 78% score with just 4 horizontal color bars.

https://ibb.co/Mpvt1c2

EDIT: why the downvotes?
In downtown Santa Cruz the only way you can pay is by the minute via ParkMobile I believe.

I always forget to stop the timer when I get back to the car and pay the Max so I hate it. YMMV

Maybe it’s me but I prefer the allotted time. I only regret that when paying at a meter at least if I have excess someone else can use it.
Sadly there are probably people living in storm drains or hiking in slot canyons etc who are going to be caught unaware and drown.
With the current significant amount of noise on the supply side, there's no alternative for them. Even the finest resumes can't replace the confidence you receive from an existing experience. This experience could come from collaborating with someone previously or observing a well-executed job done by them.
Have you applied at GoJo/Waystar Royco?

Resume reads like dialog between Tom Wambsgans and Lukas Mattson.
That sounds incredibly ugly and painful.
> I’d argue the US government/military involvement was crucial in both Japan and West Germany.

The Marshall Plan.

And people forget that it had quite a lot of opposition back at home in the US.
> To me, the common standard is what is really interesting.

It's exactly what I meant ;) Scheme is different things to different people, I've shared my PoV and (to me) it doesn't seem like it disagrees with yours.
> Upon your exit, your contributions, actions, decisions, opinions and presence most likely will have affected the trajectories of the people and the world around you, in obvious and less obvious ways.

Oh I wouldn't be too sure. The company that had acquired us some years earlier for millions of dollars then proceeded to can our entire division, sunset our product, and laid, more or less, everyone involved off. I cannot fathom what the point of the acquisition was: our wings were clipped before we even had a chance to fail; to date our acquisition is the largest unforced financial error I have seen made in my career, and it will be quite hard to top. We left no mark on the industry, the IP, if it still exists, will collect dust for all eternity. The company is no longer in the market, and I doubt ever will be again.

I was fond of the product, and while the tech had the inevitable layers of PM-driven tech debt layered upon it, it wasn't the worst? The only lesson I can learn there is that caring will bring nothing but disappointment, and that's continued to be driven in by subsequent employers. Today's corporate zeitgeist does not want nor produce, IMO, history-changing labor². (I think the ones listed are products of earlier zeitgeists that could produce such.) Employers do not value retention, so experience is not built within the company. The PMs driven desperate desire to push new features out and bugfix never do not make good products. The inability of today's "agile" to handle uncertainty¹ and dependencies means little to no planning is done (and bad tools like JIRA do not help here).

As for getting my name carved into the annals of history … screw that? Unless that's life's secret to joy and happiness (and I rather doubt it), I think the advice I was once given is sound here: walk around a graveyard and note what is written upon the stones: "loving mother" "caring father" — what you don't see is "excellent <occupation>".

I have a nephew, and I've probably left a larger mark on him and his life (I hope for the better) than anything I've done in my career, despite my career being longer than his life.

¹Yes, I've read the manifesto, yes, I feel the irony in this statement.

²To some extent, at least two companies in FAANG I know do things that do make for a good atmosphere … I partly think this is why they became part of "FAANG". I wish we could emulate some of their less boneheaded decisions (and ignore the boneheaded ones). Perhaps that would someday snowball into another letter in that acronym.
The proper way to deal with this is to lift the car using a crane and put it on a platform like this https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/seeligstadt-germany...
> The entire mindset of opening holes in the language specification to allow compilers to optimize without thinking hard is just wrong.

I would counter that 2's compliment overflow is a worse design in practice as easily 99% of the time overflow happening at all is a bug. Rust almost got this right by making overflow be a panic in debug builds, but then they took the worst option in making it defined 2's compliment in release builds

But also the mindset that everything must be extensively defined is just wrong. Nobody's standard library does this anyway, but also it's not feasible to do. You cannot define the exact outcome of data races, for example. UB is inevitable, it'll always exist in all languages. The debate is as such over where you put that line, not whether or not it exists at all
Parking in Seattle sucks. The last time I was there (10 years ago), I got a parking citation left on my windshield. It said I was in violation of the no parking hours, which I was not (proven with photograph). I had to go to some shady private business to contest it, but was eventually successful.
I wouldn't call it monopoly, because you are allowed to use it as a service, but I get your point. Yes, MongoDB doesn't have to pay itself a licensing fee since it's their own software while others should if they choose to make the software closed-source.

It's only problematic if you want no restrictions in monetizing someone else's work as a web service but want to restrict others from doing just that with your work and on top of that you are not willing to pay for exclusive privileges. I find this expectation unreasonable and unfair. A fair definition of open source should allow commensalistic relationships (in which users use the software but do not contribute back) but not parasitic relationships (when users exploit the software in a way that is detrimental to the project).
Speaking of negotiating, the book Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss who was an FBI hostage negotiator is an incredible book that showed me how compromising may not always be in one's best interest (because, given his experience, you can't compromise on only having X hostages be killed).
> So why fret about it?

Well, it's the only life I'll ever have. I'd to get the most out of it I can.
ComfyUI works pretty well on old computers using CPU. It takes over 30 seconds per sampling step on a 2015 MacBook Air (I7, 8GB RAM).
Yeah, so why did you put so many hours into it?

It's a roguelike with a high skill ceiling. You're not meant to win every run. Like most roguelikes.
I feel I'll outlive TikTok and Threads, and that paper in records offices will ultimately turn out to be the most durable of current record formats in 20 generations.

I have already outlived many of the websites where I posted information in my teens, and in recent days we've heard about even big sites like Twitter losing some historical data. Not to mention all the users of sites like Orkut, Google+, Friendfeed, Bebo, that one where you checked in your location that I can't even remember the name of...
Tip: Simon ate Jekyll
UCLA floor tiles decoded, pay homage to first internet message (2013)
They could, but they'd need to take CloudFlare to court or similar to force them to disclose that information. Or drop them as a customer.
Because (1) the layers build progressively more sophisticated upon more basic layers (2) there are 7....well 8, but it starts at layer 0.

I guess
There was even a time when people used to get around without driving, and so they didn't have to worry about finding a parking space.
> notorious for opening his damn door on final approach

Isn't that a good strategy for when someone thinks they'll be in a crash so it doesn't jam closed? Congrats on passing despite that!
Somebody already did this:

https://www.openculture.com/2020/03/every-melody-has-been-co...
No, but SensysGatso's office is full of his memorabilias and his race cars.
Nor do humans yet we create paths with repeated use.
Thats because Java IDE's are ridiculously powerful. When I work in vscode and Python, I am always like: This is so much easier when I am using Java and Intellij.

It is not mere IDE Dependency. It is IDE Supremacy. Java is the leader of the IDE master race - the other PL IDE's need to squint to see how far ahead Java IDE's are.
Wow. Do you enjoy the adventure, move for the job, or some other reason?
That is not how this will work.

The reason the parity ratio stays the same, is that all of the references to the data are by DVA (Data Virtual Address, effectively the LBA within the RAID-Z vdev).

So the data will occupy the same amount of space and parity as it did before.

All stripes in RAID-Z are dynamic, so if your stripe is 5 wide and your array is 6 wide, the 2nd stripe will start on the last disk and wrap around.

So if your 5x10 TB disks are 90% full, after the expansion they will contain the same 5.4 TB of data and 3.6 TB of parity, and the pool will now be 10 TB bigger.

New writes, will be 4+2 instead, but the old data won't change (they is how this feature is able to work without needing block-pointer rewrite).

See this presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF2KgQGmUic
At first I thought it was going to be about this, a very recently successful effort to clone the Apple Lisa: https://hackaday.io/project/192235-a-brand-new-apple-lisa