skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buddhism itself is a very diverse beast to get a handle on in that part of the world. But I agree it serves to preserve (especially male) populations in conditions of little material possibility.

It sounds like you are making a different point: that you don’t see anything in the USA like the social/religious systems that have enabled some in SE Asia to transcend difficult conditions.

I would say that Christianity serves much of the same purpose in middle America, and that you don’t see as much “SLS” around practicing Christians as you do in the general population. It doesn’t get reported on much in the popular media though. What would the headline read?
> Writing an API is less work than writing the devtools

aka How to tell that you don't design APIs without telling that you don't design APIs.
It was a personal conversation. No link, sorry.

From memory, Kurland related that the Xanadu team did one or more complete rewrites, couldn't or wouldn't commit to releasing something (delays), and Autodesk finally lost faith/patience.

Kurland's a great guy. He didn't name names or dog their effort. He was mostly disappointed, because he had also believed in the promise of Xanadu. But that's just my take.
> You're gloating and high fiving yourself for insulting someone on the internet, in the same breath you're asserting that person isn't well adjusted and needs to go to therapy. I'm not impressed.

I have insulted no person or thing. This statement appears to be mind-reading itself a straw man.

Don’t lie. I did not write that anyone “needs to go to therapy.” If you care to reply, please address the fact that you lied.

> The author is asserting some people "route" tasks that don't get them promoted to others. Your counter assertion is that those people are more efficient at not getting promoted?

No

>This is dangerously close to gaslighting. The author writes about personal experience, and you're asserting it's a product on insufficient therapy or is some kind of anti therapy.

Thank you for asserting my off hand comment isn’t some bad thing. Read the linked article describing reverse CBT. If you disagree that the EFT author’s mindset towards work isn’t that of reverse CBT, I look forward to rethinking it.
AI can tell your 'true' age by looking at your chest
Then you're stuck with two kinds of templating.
But they don't like having people treat their work like crap.

I know of what I speak. BTDT, got the T-shirt. One of the issues with noncreatives, is they have this illusion that creatives don't work hard, or don't "earn" their money (which can sometimes, be a great deal).

I run into that attitude on a regular. I'm routinely asked to do $20,000 worth of work for free, "because it's fun for me."

I suspect that a lot of us have dealt with that. Development of software and hardware is a creative (and valuable) effort, but people sometimes think we don't work hard at it, because our fingernails aren't cracked.

In my career, I've worked with some of the top people in the design field (and my company paid them a lot of money). They were worth every nickel.

One of the problems with being good at something, is that we make it look easy, so people think it will be easy.

I posted this a while back:

There's the old story I've heard about the retired engineer (apocryphal, I'm sure):

This engineer worked for a corporation for 40 years, and retired.

A few months into his retirement, his old company frantically calls him, begging him to come in, and help fix an issue with the system he worked on. Apparently, the new team had managed to hose it, and couldn't figure out how to fix it.

He comes in, sits down at a terminal, looks at it for five minutes, and says "Here's the issue. If you do this, it should be fixed..."
He then presents an invoice for $10,000.

The beancounters go "There's no way we can pay $10,000 for five minutes work! Itemize it!"

He sits down, scribbles a bit, and presents an invoice that says:

Time to fix bug: Five minutes. $20
Six years of college, and forty years of experience, so I can fix a bug in five minutes: $9,980

Lots of people, on this very forum, would love creatives to do their work for free, so they can grab that work, and use it for stuff they will sell.

There's an unfortunate culture of "Everyone [but me] should do work for free, and publish it on the Internet, so I can use it, and make money [because my own work will never be free]."
HN users have been giving Twitter 2 weeks for a year now. You can root for someone to fail and still have a gauge on the truth but it looks like a lot of people here don't.

Maybe it takes being a sports fan of anything but the dominant team. Your team's playing Manchester City at the Etihad this weekend. Do you say "we're going to crush them" or do you say "I think we can hold them, maybe even nick a point. They're not invincible"?
They appear as if I am looking at the front and back edge at the same point in time -- i.e. not 220K years apart.
For someone who has been in this field for 20 years I remember starting out doing every aspect of webdevelopment myself. Then the bigger and more complex the projects became, the less that made sense.

The requirements of the distinct fields have gotten to a point where it's very impractical and hardly worthwhile for one person to master them all. You can't expect someone to translate a design into modern components that support all types of devices, resolutions and contexts to also come up with optimized SQL queries and knowing how to choose between Docker and Ansible for their distributed serverless functions that handle a variety of external endpoints.

Ofcourse not every project that uses this approach needs this approach, and there's still a market for the Do-It-All developer. My point is that the webdevelopment world of today isn't that of a decade ago.
The first problem with this would be if you have a severe reaction because you gave yourself too large a dose or happened to be particularly sensitive that day (having an illness or other immune reaction going on).

The other thing I'd question is the efficacy. The standard treatments gradually increase dose to "train" the immune system. Presumably you won't have as fine-grained an ability to adjust the dose you're exposing yourself to, and so you might over or under expose.
Blazor Server, while definitely not the right thing for all applications, is the best solution I've found to this.

You write all the code in one language (C#), and it streams the changes to the clientside as needed automatically. It means you can call the database in your 'frontend' HTML layouts directly and gets rid of all the glue code. You have no serialization problems because you are using the same classes everywhere, and the component structure keeps things very clean.

I would say I am about 5x more productive in Blazor Server than any other frontend technology. You don't need to write APIs at all. It's just like writing static server side rendered pages but you can do dynamic stuff. It is honestly like magic.

It does come with some huge downsides though, in that it needs to keep a websocket open to stream all the DOM changes from the server, and this also has memory/performance issues on the server (needs to keep state on the server all the time). Which basically rules it out of anything that needs to work over intermittent connections (mobile), and very high scale stuff (probably could be done with enough server RAM, but it's not the right tool for that).

However, it's perfect for boring line of business applications that will only be accessed on solid internet connection, which is many of them.

There is also Blazor Webassembly which removes the websocket part, and lets you code frontend and backend in C# still, sharing a lot of classes, though you do need some glue code to connect the database. I've heard people are having good results with gRPC for that; but haven't looked into it much (blazor server works fine for most apps IMO).
Altho all the hot water in the country has a slight whiff of sulfur.
The thesis of deliberately deleting all these images would be premised on the idea that no one was accessing them anyways, hence they're useless. That merely storing (but seldom accessing) them is very cheap is a sufficient rejoinder to that thesis.
(2021)

anything new here?
Just watch a lot of funny stuff. All these recommendations suggesting behavioral change are useless tautological prescriptions ("stop taking things so seriously") and/or difficult to implement in daily life. Repeatedly exposing yourself to funny such that you absorb it by osmosis and it affects your internal thoughts is easier.
I’ve been using Bubblic since it came out. I’ve had many interesting and fulfilling conversations with people who are lonely and people who are supportive of others. It’s comforting to hear other peoples stories. I’d highly recommend it for anyone who is lonely and would like someone to talk to. If you are the type of person who enjoys listening to others and being supportive you’d find using the app very enjoyable.
Regarding List<int> and specializing it to an int[] has more to do with generics than value types. The most important semantic info about a value type is not having identity, that is modifying it is not observable from another thread that were holding the same value previously.

This alone lets one do things like freely copy/share/modify them, that directly allows for flattening.
> Think about what he's killing - one of the internet's most powerful drivers of social change.

As someone watching from the sidelines, a lot of the social change Twitter created was negative, and harder to see from inside the social media sphere. People getting dumber, angrier, and more dependent. Personally, I'd love to see it all go away, so I'm fist-pumping every time Musk does something stupid. Unfortunately, I haven't really seen any evidence that makes me believe he can actually kill it, let alone what it represents.
Like most things, it depends. If you have a generic math module, you of course want generic parameter names. It would be weird to have a differential math library with a bunch of random terminology from another domain mixed in.

If the page only makes sense if a company name is used as a title, then of course use companyName as the variable.
Second Climacs
goodbye, elon

>>The personal information submitted is handled by AU10TIX, an identity verification company based in Israel. The process requires users to consent to X storing their information for up to 30 days and sharing it with AU10TIX for an identity check to occur.<<
I like that the second season can be free from having to set the scene and can focus more on the characters and plot movement. It feels a little faster. More things are happening in each episode.
Nice story, thanks for sharing.

My parents used to take me for our "exotic foreign holiday" in Blackpool each year (I was from Scotland).

I actually have many happy memories from the time. There was the Doctor Who Exhibition we went to once - nothing even remotely like that anywhere near my home town. Then there was the Blackpool Tower. My parents used to complain about how expensive it was to get in, and I think we only went there once, but on that one trip me and my dad went to see a laser light show set to music (so futuristic!) and also went to a stall that used a video camera hooked up to one of those new fangled computer things that could print out an ASCII art picture of your face (such mind bogglingly advanced technology!) Also the arcades. Again they cost money so it was rare we'd go in, but there was once I was given money to try a grabbing claw machine, and won a pack of sweets. My parents thought I was good at them, and so gave me money to try and win something for my sister, which was a huge boost to my confidence (finally something I was better than my sister at!) Unfortunately I didn't manage to win anything for my sister. It was only decades later that I found out that those machines aren't skill based - there's a dial inside where the operator can control the "payout rate", i.e. the percentage of times the claw goes limp vs stays rigid. (Another childhood illusion shattered.)

Anyway, maybe that was before it got too grim, or maybe I didn't notice because I was so young, or maybe I just thought that was what England was like:-)

One awful thing I remember though was just how filthy the beaches were. The coast was lined with sewerage outlets, so where-ever you swam there would be all sorts of things floating by. Once I picked up what I thought was a funny shaped balloon and started filling it with water and playing with it. I went to show my mum how I could make the balloon bigger by squeezing it, but she just looked horrified and bashed it out of my hand. I had no idea why, but didn't ask, and just kept quiet. I did however wonder what it could have been that was so bad, but the best my innocent young mind could think of was that perhaps it was some form of artificial breast for breast feeding, given it was skin coloured and had a teat at the end. It wasn't until many years later that I realised what it almost certainly was.
If you hate it so much, why are you here?
I always get excited when there's a linguistics post on hackernews only to get disappointed by yet another analysis of the vowels of English dialects.
Biology is certainly a factor. BMR varies between individuals (even of the same weight and body composition). However it’s probably a smaller factor than the genetic influence on hunger and satiety.

And despite individual variation in BMR, I haven’t heard any evidence that some people have the ability to significantly ramp up their metabolism in response to consuming more calories.
Larger version for others who are visually challenged.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/angular_diameter_turnaround_2x....
> WebAssembly, which allows unaligned accesses

And I think we made the right call (other than the vestigial alignment bits in load/store immediates, which AFAIK, no engine is making use of).
Afaik, media before French revolution were not just reporting on existing frustrations. They were massively political, contained tons of completely made up lies for the sake of being sold or pushing agenda. There was no or not much expectation of objectivity or impartiality the way we project on media now.

I do not mean to claim they were reason for the revolution, but more that the media as we know them now are basically tame compared to a lot that was written in the past.

It takes more then just unhappiness and anger for revolution to happen anyway. The necessary condition is that the state must be weak and unable to suppress the threat to itself. You can hold people in arbitrary bad conditions for infinitely long time if you have enough power. And they won't do revolution, because you will make it impossible.
> Blackpool exports healthy skilled people and imports the unskilled, the unemployed and the unwell. As people overlooked by the modern economy wash up in a place that has also been left behind, the result is a quietly unfolding health crisis.

I used to date someone from a small city in Northeast United States, and when I visited and met her friends and extended social network, this was the impression I got. The ambitious and privileged ones aspired to leave and never look back, while others remained to make the best of their city while taking care of aging loved ones. Half of the people I met had some awful family story (alcoholic and/or abusive parents, drug-addicted siblings, father in prison, etc.) Job prospects were dire. Monuments to that were abandoned and sometimes burned down factories that lined some of the streets in parts of the city. It's all very sad.
I thought it never left in the first place? It's public knowledge that vaccine do not prevent the spread. It great reduced the severity and death rate, but the spread is another topic. There is no true effective way to prevent the spread on large scale anyway. The logical conclusion is that we r living with COVID.
I mean I agree that the Hobbit films are drivel but the LOTR trilogy is just amazing. It has a twinge of 90s affect that you have to ignore (similar to how the original Star Wars trilogy has a 60s-pulp-adventure feel that is rather dated now). And there are a bunch of discrete problems (the ghosts, the "cool legolas moves", too much slow motion) that we roll our eyes at. But otherwise they work, overall, and very much deliver on the premise. The information is delivered differently than the books but it gets at the heart of the universe anyway... imo.
See also this piece from 2017, of the same title and commenting on the same book https://samzdat.com/2017/06/28/without-belief-in-a-god-but-n...

This is part of a series of articles called "Uruk Machines" -- https://samzdat.com/the-uruk-series/ -- which profoundly changed how I see the world. Use caution.
Not to be too forward, but PostScript is supposed to be completely backwards.

It's not bad, it's just drawn that way.

The Shape of PSIBER Space: PostScript Interactive Bug Eradication Routines — October 1989:

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-shape-of-psiber-space-octo...
I brought the vaccine and stored in my refrigerator. The clinic's nurse showed me how to use it by myself. Not sure if that's possible everywhere / for every treatment.

After ten weeks taking shots every Sunday, my allergies got significantly better. I used to be that guy with a perpetually stuffy, running nose, now I can't even remember the last time that happened. 10/10 would do again.
A point that's rightfully emphasized by the author:

> Solving problems is the only way to understand physics. There's no way around it.

This generalizes well to other fields. I don't want to discourage anybody from trying to educate themselves in a difficult field (be it physics or something else), but that's a very common and immediately visible problem with autodidacts. If you haven't worked through enough hard problems you lack the intuition that ties together theory.
Python is not a compiled language.

However, the reason Bash is so prolific amongst Sys Admins such as myself is the fact that they are portable and reliable to use across Debian, Arch or RHEL based distributions.

You don't have to import extra libraries, ensure that you are running the proper python environment, or be certain that pip is properly installed and configured for whatever extra source code beyond what is included out of the box.

Bash is the most consistent code you can write to perform any task you need when you have to work with Linux.
The USA versions of Apple's flagship phones (iPhone 14 and up) have ZERO physical SIM slots. They are dual eSIM only.

Models sold elsewhere in the world retain a single physical SIM slot.

Yes you read that correctly. They made multiple versions and the American one is deliberately crippled.

I'm certain the space regained by removing the SIM slot in a US-only variant has been repurposed for...absolutely nothing.

It defies logic why they would do this, beyond some grand social experiment they can execute with little risk due to cult-like monopoly control of the market.

I refuse to believe that they sold more than 12 of these SIM-less phones.
Funny. I feel like this is a highly compressed description of physics.

Only that the codec needed to actually decompress (understand) it is huge.

Edit: from an information theory perspective.
The author describes in academic terms what books less academic call an egregore - a collective charge of negative emotions, with an equivalent of conscioussness, that encourages its members to treat others with suspicion and hatred so they would produce more of those negative emotions that feed the egregore. The name itself is apparently a mix of words "egregious", "ogre" and "gore" - a spot on description of an egregore.

Without an organized faith, without a belief in a greater good, in the idea of unity in particular, the average masses would fall to nihilism - a midpoint between a god worship and a devil worship. But any movement, no matter how good it is initially, is made of people that aren't perfect, and their selfish feelings eventually create that egregore.
I had only begun following her and her work since the creation of Hachyderm, and so sad to hear about this.
I see no mention of Landau and Lifshitz! On a less joking tone, I don't know many of these books. I was kinda surprised. guess i am outdated.
>Of course, you could only re-encode only the GoPs that get broken while keeping the rest intact, and I guess this would be better and a lot faster than re-encoding everything. I don't know if any application tries to do this.

LosslessCut does have experimental support for this partial re-encode called "smart cut" [1]. Since it's using ffmpeg internally, the challenge become how to instruct ffmpeg to do this[2]?

[1]: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/126

[2]: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/1216
In retrospect, too many crazy software dances are due to miserliness on the part of hardware designs. Saving a couple bits in the address lines and not needing to straddle cache lines? We're far past the point where that's a considerable cost, as all modern ISA implementations now attest.
Perhaps I missed it while skimming, but one thing that’s not really explained is Datasette’s take on versioning. If you edit some rows in a table and change your mind later, is there an undo for just that change?

For small amounts of data, sharing files on GitHub is a default choice and I wonder what I’d be giving up. (There is also DoltHub but it didn’t quite do what I wanted when I kicked the tires a bit.)

DoltHub is explicitly trying to be a “GitHub for data” and it seems like Datasette could become that, though maybe with a different take on versions.
I don’t find that to be an accurate representation of BFF. I’ve used BFF with a browser FE to simply weave several microservice endpoints into a tailor-made api for the frontend. This reduces the burden on the microservices by removing the need to make many endpoints for clients and helps reduce network calls on the FE
Marketplace sellers sell all sorts of incredibly weird shit. Take a gander and be amazed.
Perl was literally made for that, just use it
I think our senses are just imprecise and it undermines all our thoughts and perceptions of the universe when things approach limits.
I'm not a physicist, so I'm not really qualified to comment on whether a "real physicist" would say the fundamental assertion is true or not, but from a simple linguistics point of view, this article is pure click bait.

At school, I studied physics for 7 years. Nothing I was taught is hinted at by any of these 9 points, or at least in any way I'm able to recognise after receiving all that teaching, except perhaps some of the constants (they're not listed, but I assume there will be an overlap). Did I, in fact, learn absolutely nothing about physics in all those 7 years? It's much more likely to be the case that from a simple linguistics point of view, these 9 lines do not contain "all of physics", but rather than just the parts of physics that the author considers to be the most fundamental. Maybe if you have decades of highly specialised study you have a chance of remembering most of the rest of what's needed to fill in all the (known) gaps and assumptions those 9 lines are based on and hint at. And the fact that each "line" links to an entire volume that tries to fill in those gaps (I have no idea if they succeed in doing that or not), shows that this isn't anywhere close to what it claims to be.

It's about as vacuous a statement as trying to summarise all of maths as "the set of all possible sets" or all of philosophy as "cogito ergo sum".
Does anyone know of a software that can do motion detection and spit out timestamps in a video for use in ffmpeg or the like?