skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ziguana makes sense but man i can't help but think it's a missed opportunity for ziggurat
They don’t resubmit your data, but they’ll stop actively removing it from websites where it gets published.
Based on the rationale given I think the author could have used GNU m4. While I'm definitely not fond of the syntax, it can get the job done. I don't think many (if any) projects use it (excluding autoconf).

Here's the manual on one page https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.html

An m4 example, similar with the snippet within the README

define(`foo', `$1' `$2')
foo(hello, world)
define(`bar', hello)
foo(`bar', world)
esyscmd(`./executable-path')
esyscmd(`cat /tmp/file')
That feature was introduced in 2015 and they removed it already. https://security.googleblog.com/2023/03/thank-you-and-goodby...
Trust seems cheap when individuals often just close shop and move on.
>> Which is a core tenant of meditation (service to others)

> It always seemed the opposite to me. One meditates for ones self.

And in the process, like in Kant's practical reason, we recognize not only our selves, but see other selves like us in the world. There's no contradiction
It’s just part of the “coder” subculture these days. To quote @SwiftOnSecurity:

“I said that all furries are programmers.
I have been contacted and am issuing a correction.
There are three furries who are not programmers.”

https://x.com/swiftonsecurity/status/511043756788043776?s=46
It's against the site guidelines to post in the flamewar style, and especially to cross into personal attack. Please don't do those things here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
This will be true whether it uses the cloud or not. Excel worksheets can already have external links (both on the Web and to other files). If those web resources or other files aren't available, you're out of luck! And the older ones may only open on software that no longer runs on modern machines.

This is why it's important to restore your backups once in a while, or in this case, validate your critical files.
What are you talking about? Experimental physics started before Newton, that guy called Galileo Galilei.
The text import wizard does work. The problem with it is that everyone has to use it and if anyone doesn’t then your data is silently mangled.

In the past I have added an apostrophe to the front of any integer that should be displayed as a string. Excel will not display that leading single apostrophe. It of course taints that data forever but I consider “Exported to Excel” a terminal state anyway.
For me, it was about confronting deliberate self deception. In my mind I always told myself that "I dont have time to exercise", when the truth was, I was too lazy to exercise.

While I was meditating, this profound clarity came to me, it wasn't a case of a tyranny-like self-harming disclipinary action about my deliberate self deception, it was more like a great washing of positive emotion that framed exercise as "this is healthy for you, and it's only a few minutes a day and you can totally do it"

The textual description I gave does disservice to the actual feeling because my vocabulary is too poor to express it - but this wash-over of carity and positive emotion shifted my perspective and turned my relationship with exercise from this adversarial enemy to something more like our need for air or food - it's a healthy part of being an organic lifeform, and just like (good) food, it is pleasurable act of regeneration.

I think part of what holds people back is that meditation is like any other skill and practice is required, in this dopamine-hacked instant gratification society if there isn't instant results or even quick results people give up (I certainly did) -- I didn't start seeing the benefits of meditation until well after a month of practicing an hour every day, and up until then, it felt like a waste of time, which caused me to abort a few times before I forced the self discipline to stick with it.
There's the Roland GO:KEYS with regular-sized keys, or the much smaller Yamaha reface CP with mini keys. Both have on-board speakers and can be battery-powered. The reface would be the perfect size to play in an airplane seat, for example.

I use the Yamaha reface YC as I'm into organs, and I really like it.
tl;dr: the idea is to have the US Library of Congress to buy the internet archive.
100% this. my current activity is spread over half a dozen machines, and i create a new one for every dev project. i want to minimize the amount of setup i have to do to get things working. this is also the reason why i learned VI. because at the time emacs was not available on all the unix systems i was working on, and it wasn't easy to install.

if a tool is very good and it's available as a linux distribution package then i'll use it because i can rely on it being easy to install. but if that's not the case, more often than not it's not worth the effort.
Could you not achieve the same by shipping the required tools with Excel and running them inside a Windows Sandbox?
Isolation isn't as good, but it probably protects users against the threats you/they care about?
I read that as "I don't know what a skill ceiling is".
Rupert Murdoch Destroyed the News
Credit bureaus should be illegal. You can’t opt out of them and they take no responsibility in protecting you. How is it that every tech company has to abide by all kinds of rules re: PII, but they get to do whatever they like?
Use to be 100% linux person. I've gone through many thinkpads. M1 Air is so far beyond them it's not even close.

Battery life is (not exaggerating) 5x or more in my experience.

It's honest to god, much faster.

Completely silent and cool. (one of my thinkpads almost burned me it got so hot, and the fans get so loud)

I've never had a single crash, random restart, failure to sleep, failure to charge, driver problem, touchpad randomly not working, wifi failing, all of which I've had with thinkpads.
It is utterly baffling the lengths to which people will go to stop an abandoned parking lot from being developed.
does it make you nervous to basically have microsoft as your primary competition now? :)
I think you forgot to account for Covid, which adds 10 year.
https://archive.is/1LIfX
I was going through this list after Congressman Massie grilled Pete Buttigieg.

1. Over the last 10 years, refrigerators use about 1/2 as much electricity as they've switched to variable (digital inverter) compressors.

2. Over the last 10 years, HVAC systems use about 1/2 as much LockedRotorAmps (not even considering Mini Splits with variable compressors, even more efficient)

3. Washers and Dryers are more efficient; as they also switched to digital inverter motors.

4. Hot water heaters are twice as efficient as 20 years ago, especially with smart controllers, and then Heat Pump hot water heaters are 2x as efficient as those.

5. Ovens are more efficient with convection circulating fans

6. Moving from ~30 incandescent ~100w bulbs to LEDs in the average house reduces demand 97%; Similar can be said about TVs moving from Cathode Ray tubes to Fluorescent / Plasma to LED;

Congressman Massie left a huge door open in line of questioning; because he is an early adopter with both Solar and an EV at his house; The answer Buttigieg could have given was that the Inflation Reduction Act will help strengthen our grid by incentivizing more Americans to both reduce their demand, and potentially strengthen our grid as Massie has done himself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avi9iBC8opU
Highly suggest checking out Firefox-UI-Fix [1]. I use it everywhere I use Firefox, and it makes the browser usable.

[1] - https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix
> The ThinkPads are pretty good laptops, especially if you put Linux on them

I used ThinkPads for 7 years until getting new M2 Pro, mostly with Linux.

Touchpads on Thinkpads are not getting even close to Macbooks. You need external mouse.

Also the the basic screen quality on current Macbook Pros is beyond their top quality products. Try to look for 1000 nits screen? Not even gaming laptops have quality ones.

And battery life...

And performance...

When you have enough performance on your machine, the physical touch, screen and overall stability goes beyond everything else.
Thinkpads have better durability on keyboard tho.

I also used to have one of those OLED Thinkpads and that was the biggiest mess I ever hard. They even cancelled OLED screens on all products for 4 years after that.
The screen just broke every one month.
What is the point of this if no RAG?
A few years ago I tried the very first Headspace meditation courses, back when Headspace was pretty new.

It was great! I loved it. I really felt like the narrator was knowledgeable and had something to teach me. His explanations for the process actually made sense, and weren't woo-woo mumbo jumbo. Perhaps it is all placebo effect, but even if so, the effect worked for me perfectly.

The problem is, as the industry exploded, it became harder and harder to find meditation guides that have that quality.

Even on Headspace, which I used to love, there's only so much they could provide, before the demand necessitated putting out meditation guides that are more and more ridiculous ("meditation for doing the dishes", "meditation for walking the dog", etc).

And I haven't found any guides that help me to the degree that the original Headspace ones did. Would love it if anyone has any recommendations.

(of course, you might say "you don't need a guide once you know how to do it", but personally I find it really hard without some recorded guide helping me along)
To add to your point, albeit from memory, I read here some time ago on the topic of losing the diaper at 12 months, and one technique discussed was to introduce hand signals, as communication ability of kids comes /way/ earlier than the mouth coordination required to talk. So it stands to reason that if you don’t require the kid to read /aloud/, reading as pattern recognition can come earlier.
He was the CEO, if he wanted it done it would have happened.
time for ubuntu
Institutional investors have to option of retaining voting rights. About 1/4th seem to do so.

https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/about-us/investment-stew...
You're being downvoted because people assume you're making an implicit criticism with your question, and many people tend to assume the worst intent rather than the best intent like they're supposed to. Fortunately it usually balances out after some time. Adding a clarification like you did is the correct thing to do (and always a good idea, especially in a text forum).
Maybe but not always. Some of those Buddhist monks still enjoy a few earthly pleasures albeit at levels that appear quite modest to us.
indeed, this is one of the many reasons I don't use Chrome (except sometimes for buggy web pages that don't work properly in firefox, sigh).
Can you remember what terminal it was in? I would love to add it!

Also, it's never too late to get back into piano! :)
"It's not a data breach if you collect money from the criminals for the data. Then it's a service offering."

- Credit bureaus
> Driving below the speed limit increases the amount of drivers who need to do overtaking,

Nobody "needs" to overtake or is "forced" to doing something dangerous outside safe margins. Seriously, this is blame shifting when somebody does something stupid. When you do, it's 100% on you.

100km/h on a highway with everybody otherwise going 130km/h is rare. This is about a 65mph road (100km/h?) where somebody goes 95km/h and everybody behind them goes berserk. That's an attitude that needs to change, not by the 95km/h driver, but by everybody behind. Going 100km/h is not a right, does not force you to do stupid overtaking maneuvers and the time you lose by going 95km/h is negligible. At least it's substantially less than you'd expect, since there are many other factors that slow you down on a journey. You rarely drive for 3 hours straight, no interruptions, no other traffic on the road. Even if you did, doing 100km/h instead of 95km/h would get you there by 9 minutes earlier. That's the upper limit here, but you are likely going to save less than 5 min. After 3 hours.
If you want employees to prioritize the companies success over a metric, you should make yours and their interests align. Employees may fear pushing back against bad metrics because it might make them look bad saying they can't meet them or that they think they know better than their boss.
> Since the cause is usually genetics, we aren't hardwired by society and culture to see baldness as a unattractive trait. It's common enough that if we thought of it as ugly, this very conversation would not even be possible.

People with 'ugly faces' have that by genetics, and everyone judges them?

There are definitely some people who are less attractive when bald. It suits some people more than others. Especially people who had lovely flowing locks are going to suffer. For the average person with average hair though, I don't think it makes a huge difference.

I think we can all agree though, that lack of confidence (from hair loss) is far more damaging than the actual lack of hair.
Agreed. I got a gen10 thinkpad (with Linux). The power supply makes a crackling noise. After 6 months the fan starting making grinding. The screen flickers when the CPU is loaded, and once a week the whole thing just locks up. Worst laptop I've owned.
They also forget that it was the White Pages for personal listings, and the Yellow Pages for business listings.
It is a public subsidy to lenders so they can profit from lower costs of not having to do proper due diligence.

If a lender claims you borrowed money, and they cannot conclusively prove it was you, it should be their problem and their problem alone.

The fact that you have to prove you did not borrow money because a lender says your social security number was inputted into a form is a travesty.
I'm always excited to see developments in the Nix ecosystem, but I can't help but feel that this is a little bit tone-deaf. Nix flakes is a sensitive topic in the Nix community. Instead of spending time gracefully stabilizing the currently experimental feature, some of the core contributors to Nix apparently feel that doubling down and building a product on top of it instead is a better way to spend time.

In addition, we're invited to join the discussion on Discord, of all places, instead of the other two standard messaging platforms that the Nix community typically uses (Matrix and IRC)
Ask HN: Medium paywall popup on all articles, and do you post there?
Lately, I've encountered more nagging Medium paywall popups while reading articles, even though the articles themselves don't appear to be restricted. It's baffling because the size of these popups is quite distracting. I'm curious why people continue to post on that website when they don't have control over their content, especially when alternatives like Substack are more transparent.
Not sure why you're framing iraq and nuclear as either/or. The US is energy independent. The Iraq war was not necessary to secure our oil needs. There's no reason to believe we would've built more nuclear had it not happened.
Has anyone collected a list of data brokers to opt out yourself?
This is cool. One feature that would be awesome would be to query the "graph" of points.

I have point type A and I want type B - what's the most economical path to walk between the two point types.
Huairang asked [Mazu], "Why are you sitting in meditation?"
[Mazu] replied, "Because I want to become a Buddha." Thereupon Hauirang took a brick and started to polish it in front of [Mazu]'s hermitage. [Mazu] asked him, "Why are you polishing that brick?"
Huairang replied, "Because I want to make a mirror."
[Mazu] asked, "How can you make a mirror by polishing a brick?"
Huairang said, "If I cannot make a mirror by polishing a brick, how can you become a Buddha by sitting in meditation?"
[Mazu] asked, "Then what shall I do?"
Huairang asked, "When an ox-carriage stops moving, do you hit the carriage or the ox?" [Mazu] had no reply.
Huairang continued, "Are you practicing to sit in meditation, or practicing to sit like a Buddha? As to sitting in meditation, meditation is neither sitting nor lying. As to sitting like a Buddha, the Buddha has no fixed form. In the non-abiding Dharma, one should neither grasp nor reject. If you try to sit like a Buddha, you are just killing the Buddha. If you attach to the form of sitting, you will never realize the principle."
Upon hearing this [Mazu] felt as if he had tasted ghee.
> The theraputic dose for pain and appetite relief is very very low.

I like that you acknowledge that cannabis is useful for pain and appetite relief before writing at length about the existence of another group that uses cannabis differently and how we should all be focused on them and not the group that successfully uses cannabis for pain and appetite relief.
> yet it seems like people are fighting battery life issues all the time

I miss the days when I charged my cell phone twice a week.

It didn't take 100 mexapixel photos or display 4K cat GIFs, so I understand why.

But I miss that battery life nonetheless.
>I'm of the opinion that anyone in government or regulatory agencies should be forbidden from conducting any business at all while in office. Put it all into a blind trust.

Following the Dallas/Boston Fed scandals a couple of years ago, the Fed does enforce this separation of interests, and Powell's money is now held in a blind trust. The trust is managed by Blackrock.
Yes, Jobs, the great satan of tech. He died so that Tim Apple could sin with impunity. No FaceTime for Windows users — it will bring the rebels to their knees.
With the caveat that any discussion of meditation is fraught with "no true Scotsmans" and hypotheticals ...

Something that the American Theravadin Thanissaro Bhikkhu says is that meditation is "for my own benefit and the benefit of those around me."

E.g., during a disagreement with someone, you remain calm and avoid giving the other person a "piece of your mind".

The other person doesn't have to deal with the "piece of your mind", which is to their benefit.
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg literally wanted to fight each other. A mere charade, to distract the rubes from their conspiracies?
You can find a suitable tool on the official website https://json-schema.org/implementations.html#schema-generato...
Stable Diffusion QR Code 101
Do you mean like:

parallel 'sleep {= $_=rand()*10+5; =} ; possibly_flaky {}' ::: {1..5}

The {= =} escapes to perl, so you have a full programming language available.
You guys don't just use different browsers for this :D?

I've got Firefox, Opera and Chrome and each one has different logins :D gotta be honest, didn't even know Chrome and FF can also do that!
People who do more will, by definition, have more experience than those who do less. The engineers who spend their time reading and working on problems because they want to, creating larger volumes of work than those who only work an 8-to-5 job will generally always have a larger breadth and depth of experience.

Saying the inverse is true is highly unlikely over large populations of individuals across any field, not just software development.

You're telling me that you think musicians who are "very diligent" and practice less can be "some of the best" you'll ever have exposure to compared to those who are working in music all the time, just because they like it?

It's a delusional concept. If you want to be good at anything in life, you will end up spending more time than other cohorts in any given discipline. But for some reason in tech, people like to believe that's not true because "work life balance."

Did it ever dawn on you that some people just like to write all the time? Or produce music all the time? Or paint? Or sing? Or act?

"Very diligent" people doing less than "very diligent" people doing more will generally always have less experience and skill.

There's nothing meaningful to argue here. Some people delude themselves into thinking it's sacrifice and that some people have to give up "work life balance":

The reality is that there are populations of people across all sorts of discipline where giving up more time doing X, Y or Z isn't sacrifice, it's because people genuinely enjoy doing more than others, spending time becoming better than others, and producing more:

And yet, that scares people, and people like to deny that it's true instead of acknowledging their own mediocrity.
A recent quote from a developer talking about another Canadian city but still applicable: "If people can't afford it, they should not live in the city. The city is made for the privileged".

Such a bright and wonderful vision of the future. Very inclusive and not dystopian at all.
Recently I got some anti mosquito candles. They didn't really work for the intended purpose, but they had the unexpected effect of making me sleepy in the evening. So I stopped using electronics and artificial lighting at night and use candles instead, and my sleep has greatly improved. Nothing else ever worked for my mild insomnia.
This is why I'm not convinced by arguments that FSD is no worse than normal humans: the ethics of the underlying company. To me it's like someone who regularly drives drunk pointing to the fact they've never had an accident.
Also, in order for them to capture appropriate granularities of detail, they take a lot of time and conversation with readers.

I usually go with as little graphs as possible and prefer to write text; it can capture more, better, faster, and be more iterable. For specific areas like state machines or packet sequences I will drill into graphical representations more but otherwise... eh. Text wins.
Agreed. It's a misrepresentation. Apple doesn't do it because it's too hard, they don't do it because they don't see value in doing it.
Nah, people just need to wake up and start building own infra.
Everyone just waits for some white knight to pour money at infra
to backup stuff for them. No, DO sth usefull. In good old days
people used to have small web servers to host personal and friends webpages.

Yeah, it could not scale and your site could be DoSed, but thats another problem
with todays internet, noone gives a fuck up about abuse..

Anyway, layer your virtual Internet.. All the toys are here. VPNs (wireguard, OpenVPN, tinc-vpn, ...), Routing (Quagga, FRR, bird). Build infra, have fun.

Neat project is DN42, but they are more for testing and research.
We need more such networks for content, gaming and other interesting stuff.
Also, don't call from the same phone you received the call on, if on a landline. One time (I can't find the reference) scammers called from the bank, suggested the person called back to the number on their credit card. The person hung up, picked up, and the scammers had held the line, played a fake dial tone, and had someone else "pick up".
I wonder how often or how fast it would get back on there once it stops being removed? Maybe with the typical life events that trigger it? Buying a house, new drivers license, etc. etc.