skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Like driving a car as a learner your whole life, I remember the first driving lesson I had, I couldn't even focus with the radio on.”

This reminded me of starting to ride a motorcycle (again) in 2021. Lots of anxiety and stress.

Two years later I’m not as stressed. But, each near-accident I’ve had was following not paying attention.

Thinking about this on a ride over the weekend, I mused about solo-jet fighter pilots and Olympians. I recalled breathing exercises are supposed to help.

Reading the abstract, I’m reminded of awkward social situations and inexperience in primary school. I’m thinking the biggest lesson was trying, and realizing failure is not life threatening. But it didn’t stop me from developing some bad habits for cheating on tests, and waiting until the last 48 hours to write my papers.

I think getting a job at 16 helped a lot. It was at a comic book shop. I held that job for seven years.
Obviously not canon but very enjoyable. I also recommend reading it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer
Not a particularly high bar.
> There were all these character who had seemingly superhuman physical fitness yet they would die really early. I always wondered why was that?

Performance enhancing drugs
> In the very best case, the defaults are so good that an empty configuration does what most people want.

More generally, defaults (including, default examples), matter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25646180

Especially for software which is mod-able, malleable, composable, configurable... defaults have a disproportionate impact on UX, DevEx etc. A reason why TLS 1.3 got rid of a laundry list of options, or why WireGuard is simply a joy to work with (as opposed to IPsec / OpenVPN), or why middleboxes on the Internet are a big hurdle to protocol upgrades, or how NewCloud companies like Cloudflare, Replit, Flyio, and Vercel have devex beyond what the Big 3 can muster up.

> Think ripgrep ... welp, I can't really think of many good examples.

Apple has got this spot on, across decades. Their products "just work", as they say so in their own marketing.

> Browsers need extensions

Now you see why Chrome is defaulting to Manifest v3 ;)
Why does every macOS app need to run from the menubar? I already have about a dozen tiny icons there, and it is so difficult to squint and find something when I don't even know what it's supposed to look like. It is so much easier to deal with GUI windows and launch apps from from Spotlight/Alfred/Launchpad.
> significantly lags the US and China as a tech power.

> US and China

Notoriously famous for their awesome work culture.

No, thank you. Another useless tech doesn't worth my mental health. Especially with the ability of working remotely and not being tied to the local market.
Could it be that their visas are rejected? I could understand not wanting to tell someone that I can't attend their conference because their country doesn't want me there, not exactly a nice thing to think about or admit to others.
Anyone incarcerated 2+ years is going to return to their Google account deleted
I just finished running the Carolina Code Conference this weekend and I do want to comment on this part:

> But if you’re in my position, you need at least 2-3 months between the first and the last step. If your attendance is conditional on speaking at the conference (for example, if your company will only sponsor you if you’re speaking), then you need a minimum of 2-3 months between when speakers are notified and the conference starts.

There are a lot of moving parts here. As an organizer you need your speakers confirmed 2-3 months out so that you can announce them in time for people to buy tickets. Confirmed meaning informed, accepted and able to travel. If there’s a risk of visa questions impacting travel then it’s prudent to have a backup plan such as presenting remotely. You don’t want to have to change speakers especially if people may have bought tickets anticipating the presentation.

It’s really complicated.
You’d want to hope your margins are that good distributing and marketing physical products. Gets expensive particularly if you’re retailing it and the retailer chain wants your margins for the honor of distributing with them!
Love finding a good use-case of parallel as an easy way to gain massive time savings, especially on the modern high-threaded CPUs of today. Most recently found it useful when batch-compressing large jpeg images to smaller webp files, via use with find and ImageMagick:

find ./ -type f -iname '*.jpg' -size +1M -print0 | parallel -0 mogrify -format webp -quality 80 {}
I find it funny how people would just happily use `someprefix` as the subdomain. Isn't it obvious that it's meant to be replaced with another prefix?
The mention of Secret Agent above reminded me heavily of it, but I remember the character being about twice as tall on the screen.

I think it is likely an Apogee game or by someone inspired by their art. I haven't found a solid hit of what's in my memory after looking through their catalog and a quick glance through a wider list. It may just be busted memories and it is Secret Agent. It's unsatisfactory though because every other vague memory has turned out to be more accurate than not.
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came with the house

it's inferior to our old one, which was from the 90s and still worked, in other aspects too, most annoyingly cleaning performance. i guess it uses less water thou
Do you have examples of cool things a guy with a gun can do? As some kind of growth curve? That are on par with, for example, Ged growing to become archmage?

I've seen "Wanted" and it wasn't that compelling. Sam Sykes does a decent job in "Seven Blades of Black" ... but even that only works because the gun is a VERY magical device.
> Recipients of this funding will be required to build out infrastructure capable of providing upload and download speeds of 100Mbps, surpassing the Federal Communications Commission’s current speed minimums of 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up.

so in a decade, hopefully, rural folks can get “100/?” under the absolute best conditions. all for yet another teensy tiny handout from taxpayers to telcos and broadband providers nos.

remember, kids, the best way to make a dollar is to send a lobbyist to dc to insist that you need two dollars, and share the profits with the lobbyist. and maybe half-ass on the promise you said you needed the money for. after all, it’s hard work.
Thanks for your take on it!

> It would be interesting to see what happens if a student learns geometric algebra first, maybe it will feel more natural then.

Yeah, I've noticed some people [0] advocating for using it for all physics as soon as possible too.

[0]: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/geometric-algebra-for-p...
This was my first question
Now I'm confused. Why would you want duplicate entries in your command history? I get that on an overloaded system in the 80s it might have taken a perceptable amount of time to filter out duplicates. But on a modern system you surely want it always enabled?
Yes, that'd be ok. Yes, it'd be my fault.

"Hit piece" is a value judgement on the negative tone and bias of the article. Another possibility is a "puff piece" in High Times for example, extolling the virtues of the charity's newfound cause.

However, you've nearly constructed a strawman, because nobody would expect an LPFM charity to diversify into cannabis, yet nothing the WMF does is inconsistent with their mission from the start. They've simply expanded, globalized, and broadened in scope; that's the way I see it.
It's a very specific form of spread spectrum that they've called Chirp Spread Spectrum and as far as I recall it is actually a pretty novel form of modulation.
This looks good for power, less for endurance (like hike/bike uphill), for a computer job we also need endurance, not big muscles, so I walk, sometimes run, climb trees and rocks, (forage figs), squat for hours (static), and surely no added weight. In short I think selling your car, and using your legs daily as much as possible is what's best
Hi, yes, I understand - there are no extension or mobile clients available yet. Wanted to see if people would actually be interested in this kind of product before committing to that kind of development. Thank you for the feedback!
I'm surprised the CPU would in any way be the bottleneck for transferring data. Is it really faster to parallelize that?
How many people I know got hit by a car and had their life ruined horribly. Or a bad surgery. Things totally out of their control.

We need to see disability as a cost to society we must pay, not a failure of individuals which is more or less what were treating it.

The American disability system is basically proving (very painfully) that life is barely livable to get scraps of help. Like below poverty levels.

I really wish that we moved away from pain oriented policy - - how much pain are you willing to tolerate so we can get you basic assistance and into some sort of way to guarantee that people live an okay life as a default. My dream is to see this sometime in my lifetime.
I much prefer rush over parallel. Namely that everything is executed as a bash shell.

https://github.com/shenwei356/rush
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So focus the book on something other than pure fighting! Fantasy is so much more than campaign stories. There happened so much in the early industrialist era, supremacy of gunpowder is one part of that but there is so much more in how society is built and structured that changed in those times. There is so much opportunity for an author that is good at world building.
Actually, yes. It was a journey starting from regulating all kinds of monitor settings (brightness, contrast etc. The "warm" setting helps too.) and then just trying out my sunglasses which actually helped but were a little too dark. So I just splurged on 20 euro blue light filter glasses (this was about 4 years ago and even back then there were reports that some glasses weren't working for people. Which is why I "trust" my orange ones more than I would uncolorized. Though I would notice in a day if they wouldn't work..)
I use nightmode + my glasses actually... nightmode alone is not sufficient for me (nightmode without glasses is ok for my smartphone use actually). I think it's important to recognize that we all have different sets of eyes and requirements.

btw. I can't put nightmode in Windows too close to 100 percent (i put it between 50-65) because then the contrast is just too bad. That's why I use nightmode+glasses. btw2: QR codes (banking) don't work in nightmode^^
Wonderful... Thanks for sharing.
On the other hand an electrician is an "electriker" in Flemish and "electricien" in Dutch :)
Learning Parallel pays high dividends for the rest of your life.
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It is sort if a shame that tools can’t figure out how to parallelize things without being herded like cattle to do so.

It might be a culture thing. In .NET code I see people running things in parallel a lot within code but maybe this is less so for linux tools.

Maybe functional programming style could lend to a parallel-first programming style, with heuristics to decide when it isn’t worth it.
I'm curious in an example of what cities are fine? I feel like so many cities are wildly corrupt that the small areas can't even remotely compare.
Speaking of. Hollywood hasn't tapped into Lucky Luke yet. Imagine what they're missing! (And what we're not missing).
From the aricle footnotes:

> some-prefix is used in this post to protect our poorly chosen actual-prefix
have you ever been bitten by typing a year in a C/C++ program and getting it inadvertently converted to octal?
That is crazy. Im also bitter that you basically need xcode for git on macOS
Just leave iterm open and auto magic updates will never catch by surprise again :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/favicon.ico is still there https://news.ycombinator.com/favicon.ico

https://news.ycombinator.com/y18.svg appears to be in the orange bar for me.
Sorry, replied to one of the child posts. It's not a software patent, it's a radio modulation patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160094269A1/en and I'm not really that confident that it would be struck down if challenged; from what I'm remembering from digging into it, it is actually a pretty novel form of modulation that has some nice properties for the specific application they're using it for.
That option has nothing to do with limited disk space.

Eliminating the duplicates makes it much easier to search the history for a command that was used long ago instead of having to skip over hundreds of duplicates of some non-interesting command, such as "ls".

It also makes it much more likely that complex commands used a long time are still preserved. No matter how large you make your history file, it is much more likely that it will become filled with simple commands that you do not need to recall from history, instead of keeping the complex commands that you hate to retype.

Moreover, while having a command history is useful to avoid retyping some commands, some may be less willing to preserve a history from which it is easy to discover which have been their exact actions while using the computer, though for this it is preferable to also disable the saving of the history file.
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On the basis of almost zero relevant knowledge, I would guess that if the conference is paying you to speak (or to do anything else), you'll be in violation of local law, but otherwise you're fine.
What are the best practical ways of keeping away or killing mosquitoes, midges, black fly and house flies etc?

I've heard of propane burners called 'mosquito magnets', I've heard of chemicals you spread or leave out in traps, I've heard of sprays and tape. Obviously different things work for different pests. I've seen people wearing face nets and hoodies.

Anyone got any real experience and recommendations?
https://archive.is/wk3fE
If you follow that thinking through though, it would mean that almost any "real world" interaction would further inequality, and that any kind of significant exchange of knowledge should be restricted to online spaces - so effectively going back to pandemic living, at least as far as meetups and conferences are concerned.

You could certainly do that but it's not a world that I'd personally would want to live in.

Maybe an alternative would be "distributed" events like e.g. Global Game Jam: Have not one venue but multiple, in different countries or "visa spaces", then link them all up online.

Also more focus on "hybrid" conferences: Make online attendance less second-class by e.g. allowing remote speakers with an in-venue audience, and local speakers with a partially remote audience; also let the remote audience ask questions and participate in discussions via zoom etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_y7PL23Cko
Make the character an inventor/engineer and suddenly you have endless possibilities for progression and variation. Sufficiently advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic.

Equalization is not a very convincing argument. You can twist the rules in any way, this is fantasy. Make the firearms less advanced than a revolver, less available, less preferred, countered by magic, or simply make your work not revolving around combat.
Can we please use `example.com` for an example domain name instead of like `somedomain.com`? It can create accounts with emails that someone can actually intercept.
The thing is, all of these languages have adopted something like closures because they're just very useful. Creating different copies of a function with different values for each item in some local variable/collection comes up very often. Even Java actually supports it, since it does allow you to copy values from the local scope to an inner function scope, even though it doesn't allow you to capture variables. And, since this is a GC language, those values can be references to local objects that can survive after the outer scope exits if they are referenced from the inner scope.

Even in Java, this was there as part of Java 1.0, in the form of instance-scoped inner objects, in a form like this:

for(int i=0; i < arr.length(); i++) {
final int copy = i;
listeners = new ActionListener(){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
System.out.println("pressed button " + copy);
}
}
}
While the sentiment is an appropriate response to the parent post, there is, fyi, no evidence that Freud ever actually said this.
Yeah, it maybe works as a snappy comeback but there is no deeper insight here.

Is it possible to make a language that more people use and yet there are fewer complaints? Of course.
https://archive.is/lWt8C
I see that lack of comfort also with Flemish people. I have a Flemish neighbour (in her 50s) in Spain and while I'm Dutch I tried speaking it with her but she always switches to Spanish for some reason.

But when I go to Holland these days I hear people speaking a mixture of English and Dutch on the streets. Very American-influenced English though with an accent and some expressions used improperly (I lived in Ireland a long time so I'm more used to British)

It does appear that the language is dying or at least changing. I don't mind though. Languages are meant to be fluid. Trying to be a purist is to try and push back the sea.
> No one was required to be any distance away from the reactor based on their nationality. No one checked passports at the entrance to our building.

Just because nobody enforces the rule doesn't mean it doesn't exist? It could be that the people who were supposed to enforce it correctly determined that the whole idea is BS and decided to save time.

It doesn't mean the rule doesn't exist and it can come back at anytime someone uninformed of this informal arrangement comes into the picture or goes on a power trip.

Unfortunately this kind of rule does sound absolutely plausible for politicians and administrative busybodies as a way to show that they’re “doing something” without actually evaluating the real risk or whether the proposed solution actually reduces said risk.
And the biggest is at Longleat, where my wife’s job is to rescue people with a megaphone when they get lost. She also has to go hunting for a surprisingly large number of lost phones.
Guns turn things into an issue of preparedness and position instead of direct martial skill.

It's still skill to get into the situation but it's way harder to work into fictional warrior tropes of superior skill at arms winning.. the virtues wind up looking cowardly.
> The 80s and 90s will forever be stuck in lousy low resolution.

You are off by few decades though. 35mm film photography and cinematography was still dominating until the end of 90s. Nikon D1 and Canon 1D were released in 1999 and 2001 respectively, and Star Wars EP2 in 2002 was notably first major movie recorded with digital cameras. Pleasantville (1998) and O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000) were early examples of using digital intermediates.
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Plate armor still coexists with gunpowder. It is just that the plates are armoring vehicles now rather than humans. (But I know what you mean.)
I think I'm right in saying that the FreeCAD integration problem could be solved on the solvespace side by relicensing the solver library as LGPL while retaining the GPL for the solvespace application itself. That keeps the set of licenses within your list, and applies the one intended for libraries to the library component. I'm sure that's been suggested and rejected before though - what's your take?
> But unlike state rationing which makes everyone equally unhappy by doling out less than anyone wants

So first up, upper class goods like champagne, caviar and dining out at restaurants was not rationed so saying everyone suffered equally is not true.

> except of course the poor who often find under rationing their quality of life goes up: this happened in the UK in WW2)

To describe rationing as a quality of life improvement that did not upset the poor is insulting frankly. It implies the poor obtained a benefit by losing food choice. It feels like the type of dehumanisation that has people saying that slave labourers benefit from the exercise. I am quite old, and I can tell you that the scarcity mindset of the war permanently scarred my grandparents and parent relationships with food and waste in ways that would be unrecognisable today.

I wonder if you think rationing meant the poor were given a more equitable share but that is not the case. You still had to pay and food prices rose during the war. At best there is the argument that lowering meat and sugar improved people's diet but there are counter claims based on disease rates. It is a claim skewed by modern issues with obesity instead of contemporary health issues from being underweight. A suet pudding and steak and kidney pie would be like medicine for those at the sharp end. Not to mention, the shortages often hit the healthy things like fruit and veg. Having to queue with your ration book and come home empty handed was not a quality of life improvement.

There were some health improvements from essentially the opposite of rationing e.g. government catering engineered with calorie targets for workers supporting the war effort.
I'm sure that there have been changes on account of species being introduced to some environment by people. I'm not disputing that. I would love for those things not to have happened.

But, I'm not sure that the purported "cure" is better. Environmentalists are, well, a bit mental. They would move people off the land, kill thousands of animals, allow animals to suffer for the sake of some cause that they say is important. Eg, I know of farmers that now graze their cattle indoors, despite having acres of ground - because they gain special income to protect a species of orchid on their fields. This is suffering for cows that do not see the light of day. And this is despite the orchids surviving on the same farm for decades with the cattle.

All I see in that case, is very real suffering being created (the cows are living highly unnatural lives, on grain, without light), in the name of environmentalism. I think that environmentalism, like every single other domain in this reality, is in thrall to money and power. If there is an angle that can further empower 'money and power' it will be used.

The environmental reasons are a fantastic lever for this - anyone who disputes the stories that are given are automatically wrong, a sinner. It seems impossible for most people to see that helping the environment is nothing to do with actually helping the environment for 'money and power' - it is just a reason given to justify making laws that mandate higher energy expenses, new cars, new housing, increased taxes, etc, etc.

Don't forget that private jets are exempt from environmental restraints.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/06/02/another-missed-opp...
If you aren't sure just tell them the salary you wish upfront.

"I won't move unless I get at least X as my current team is really cool, so I'd want atleast that to consider the move".
Someone gifted an old blade server to me a few years ago. Very slow, but 16 cores and 24 gig of RAM. At the time I was making a lot of video art with ffmpeg, without a GPU. That version of ffmpeg wasn't optimized for multiple cores so rendering was really slow and sequential. I discovered Parallel and set the server to process large videos with most of the cores in parallel. Voila, it chewed through a massive amount of media fairly quickly. Faster than the hard drives actually.
But in SDR, the "underlying technology" of radio modulation, spread spectrum, etc is your software, no?