skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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When I was little, my mother tried to teach me how to tie my shoelaces, but she
had shown me a method I did not understand and did not like, so I invented my
own way. I was proud of it for 20 years or so. A friend I trusted more than
anyone, tried to tell me in a kind way, that many people tie their shoelaces in
a bad knot. When one knows, it's easy to see even from a glance and such a
knots gets untied, but I wouldn't listen. Thought of not knowing how to tie
shoelaces seemed absurd.

I was the only one I know that would stop randomly to re-tie his shoelaces,
occasionally with people piling up behind me. It may be considered
incontrovertible evidence in truth, yet at the time, it didn't bare much
relevance to me. It was obvious that bad shoelaces were always at fault, or I
didn't apply enough force. In my mind it would be too humiliating to even
consider bad technique a possibility.

It wasn't until I had the grace to look at a knot-tying website alone, try it,
accept I was tying a granny knot, learn how to tie a standard knot, in a
recommended fast way, then proceed to one-up it in my own point of view. I
didn't get much humbler, but at 23 years old, at least I knew how to tie my
shoelaces and they didn't get untied anymore.

If it wasn't for the love of the one who had grace and has given up his grace
so we would have his grace, acting through those who follow him, Himself and
His Spirit, I would not have seen and felt the loving self-sacrifice, which
paled my self-righteousness in an humbling and emotionally painful experience
of the pain I've caused, setting me off in a search to do better, so that after
nearly a decade I would once and then many times again in humility accept what
I cannot deny, that Lord is better than anything I could imagine and Jesus
Christ is our (our = all those who accept Him) Lord and Savior.

This is enough evidence (for me, for others it's just word of mouth) to love
and worship Jesus. I've seen much more, and for that I accept what is written.
It seems I may understand and see more than many, yet still, easily and often,
I forget what I know, ignore and blank my mind, to doubt and void the
uncomfortable. Only hours ago I've yet again given in to what I know to be
bad, to lull and dull the mind, close my eyes and ears so I would not see what
I had a longing to avoid.

I write this as an admission and hoping it will be useful to someone.
To perhaps understand, that one cannot just see and one cannot just be
explained, if it affects him dearly and he does not wish to know.

Speaking of others, but showing the principle:

“Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
...<<specific judgement of specific people>>...
Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’...”

Matthew 13:13-15
Do these fence posts shed micro plastics into the environment…?
CGo Performance in Go 1.21
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Calibre has an awful UI yet somehow people keep using it because of the lack of decent alternatives.
Cardboard (not plastic) is highly recyclable. By starting with pulp, roughly 50% of the water and energy are saved. Keep in mind Amazon boxes almost always consist of ~100% recycled material.

And the portion that can't be recycled into boxes is likely made into paper towels.

It's extremely profitable to recycle cardboard in most jurisdictions.
> The tax code and filing process should be optimized for efficient use of government resources and tax payer time.

The optimal case for efficiency would be to set the personal income tax rate to zero, and remove all deductions. The feds can get their money from corporate taxes, licenses, import duties, and deficit spending.
Possibly by that stage they’ve been passed over a few times for (what they see as) spurious reasons in favour of less deserving colleagues.
We need federal “no permit” guidelines for such - often the cost of the materials and labor is the lowest part.

You often end up having to determine if the waterway is considered “navigable” even if nobody could ever run a boat up it.
Plastics in the soil reduce its biological productivity by various understudied mechanisms, and so reduce amount of carbon captured by vegetation and other soil live.
I think it's not as clear cut as it sounds regarding "they will be right to do it". That depends on reference frame.

Sure, the tobacco industry is "right" from the angle of their personal riches to push something that has cost millions of lives and fight government resistance. Same for oil companies, plastics, some parts of pharma, etc.

From the reference frame of society, which the government represents (ideally), they are in the wrong to sell put millions of people for their own gains and what you'd want a representative government to do is help society's interests and adjust as the world evolves.

In this case, the reason for making people spend hours of their lives, untold amounts of stress and billions of dollars is so some people can:
1. Make money, and
2. Fulfill a personal political philosophy

Maybe it's okay if governments tip the scales in favor of the masses here...
Heat initiative campagning Apple to implement CSAM
> - Command-line zip

Does https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof... do the trick?
Yeah, the Cocoa text input system is very full-featured and TextEdit.app is basically a demo of it the way WordPad demoed the windows rich text editing component
On the contrary, they have identical per capita influence: 0. At least as far as I understand how newspapers, magazines, etc. work. Blog writers? Sure.
We need a gog equivalent with a no drm in books policy
Bamboo is used too, but AFAIK well over half of disposable chopsticks are made from softwood (birch, aspen, etc).
Bussing has done more to make these bridges unused than much of anything else. Kids walking to school is now relatively rare.
>Why should an engineer be responsible for a manager's poor decisions?

Because the corporate hierarchy demands it. Front-line workers are expendable, much like front-line soldiers. Corporations are not democracies, and neither are militaries.

If your job is to write and commit code, you are the corporate equivalent of infantry. In short: a grunt.
The really interesting part is where he talks about a bridge. Sourcehut is made of different parts. Importantly, the email interface and the git interface are different applications altogether. There is no reason that forgefed can't be yet another application that can integrate as deeply as the mailing list application. Assuming that this is true, the forgefed part can be maintained separately if Drew is not interested in maintaining it.
This and "The Black Art of 3D Game Programming" were my two favorites from my childhood!

https://archive.org/details/BlackArt3DEBook
Yay for scrubbers with catalysts.
Just posted and saw your comment. This was a classic: https://archive.org/details/BlackArt3DEBook

Loved the games and the "opening a gateway to cyberspace" premise.
Yes, I was aware, though only much after I watched his videos.

To me, the didactic style is what matters, not the intellectual prowess of the mathematician in question. For this topic, and the depth to which I wanted to expose myself, I've found Pavel more accessible than anyone else.
The Road to Composable Data Systems
Next month’s Dreamforce could be last in SF if it's affected by homelessness
Yeah, I’d rather we make more reusable stuff instead. For example, I love the minimal packaging on Commander decks for MTG because the boxes they come in are actually really great for a deck box as well unlike the tiny ones they include with their normal packaging. Even if you don’t use them for that, they’re fairly sturdy and a nice size for organizing stuff.
It may not be a simple tick box like the organ donor one on your driver's license application.

It sounds like something you would do through an advanced directive or your will, but I'm not an attorney.
I’d also be willing to put money on the fact that I spend way more time with my children than someone like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs did with their children. I’ve worked from home for the last 10 years. I’ve been to every concert and sporting event. I’ve been to every teacher conference. If you don’t actually have a relationship with your children I’d see why you’d need to resort to more draconian policies to impart your will.
> As for the victim's family "control", are they really in control? Where they the ones condemning the victim?

Sharia law distinguishes three types of crime – hudud, qisas, and tazir. A hudud crime is one where the penalty (whether death or some lesser punishment) is mandatory under the law, and so must be carried out (although there are various mitigating principles which can be used to justify not doing so in a particular case). A tazir crime is where the penalty is up to the discretion of the judge (and the ruler of the state as lawmaker). A qisas crime is one where the punishment is "eye for an eye" retribution, and hence the victim (or their family) has the legal right to commute the punishment. Murder (in most cases) is a qisas crime, so the family of the victim has the legal right to commute the death sentence to a lesser punishment, and no execution will be carried out without the consent of the family. This is different from hudud or tazir crimes, where the victim (if there is one) has no legal entitlement to a say in the punishment.

An exception is something like a murder committed as part of a terrorist attack, which is simultaneously a crime against the victim (murder), but also a crime against the state (terrorism). Although the family of the victim still has the right to waive the death penalty for the qisas crime of murder, the state has the right to carry out the death penalty for the (tazir or hudud) crime against the state, so the offender will be executed irrespective of the family's wishes.

Honestly, although I am personally opposed to the death penalty, I actually think in some ways the Saudi system is less wrong than the US system. Under the Saudi system, an ordinary murderer cannot be executed if the family unanimously opposes their execution (in cases of disagreement, I believe Saudi law follows the wishes of the identified senior next of kin); in the US system, the prosecutors/courts/government are under no legal obligation to respect the wishes of the victim's family, and a murderer can still be sentenced to death and executed even if the victim's family are unanimously opposed to that outcome.

Also, although people denounce Saudi public executions as barbaric, I don't think private executions are any less barbaric than public ones. If anything, I think private executions are more barbaric, in that hiding what you are doing is a sign of a guilty conscience which knows it is really wrong. If voters can't stomach watching executions, they shouldn't be allowed to vote for them. (Saudis don't get to vote, at least not in any way that really counts–but it seems on this particular issue the Saudi government are doing the popular will–if you gave the Saudi people a free democratic vote on whether to retain the death penalty, I'm certain retention would win.)
It’s pretty hard to seal off the kidney from the immune system since the immune system is in the blood and kidneys filter blood
The chart in the thing you linked says most people with 90th percentile income should itemize, and that there’s a greater than 10% chance you should itemize if you make median income or greater.

Of course, figuring out if you should itemize requires the same amount of paperwork as actually itemizing.

Anyway, even when I was a student with nothing but W2 income, I still had to find my W2, and get a 1099-INT for my student checking account. That took more than 10 minutes.

Before that, I had to figure out how to figure the tax on my high school income, which also took more than 10 minutes.
Sure they do, you just haven't demonstrated that exceptional performance.
As as an added benefit fewer people would waste energy traveling if it were made more expensive by upgrading all seats to business class.
Beta Test releasing Tomorrow
Our Beta Test for taskified goes out tomorrow! We will close the list in 72 hours, so get in while you can.

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Our application works inside of a google extension, so you can send emails on the go without ever having to log into gmail! When it opens up, it displays your inbox, where each email will be summarized into one sentence, so you dont need to waste time reading them. Secondly, we use AI to write your emails for you, customized with a tone and context filter, to suit your needs.

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Not sure if Kotlin is conductive to currying. I find it harder to read with currying, not easier.
The UI is confusing, but I’ve found its searching and multi-dimensional categorizing to be unmatched
> Every car sold pays into an insurance fund that, if a company collapses, takes over to maintain access to software updates for the reasonable lifespan of the vehicles.

That's still a third party. Where are they supposed to get parts or source code after the company fails? It could be a car company in Asia with no engineering team in your country. The reason they failed could be a natural disaster that wiped out their facility.

The ability to make repairs has to be in the hands of the public before something happens to them. And it has to be the public and not some government filing cabinet to demonstrate that whatever they provide actually allows it to be done.

A clear example would be that they rotate the signing keys without providing the new ones to anyone else. Third party mechanics would notice this immediately; government bureaucrats may not.

> I don’t think people should be forced to self-manage software updates on multi-ton machinery.

They're not forced to do it any more than they are now. They can have someone else do it for them -- anyone else, in fact.

The problem right now is that the one someone else is trying to keep a monopoly on being able to do it, which creates a single point of failure in the event that anything happens to them.
I am indeed smart enough to do that. And so is the AI, if you use the right AI. (I.e, code interpreter.)
VoLTE and VoNR are just SIP over a cell carrier prioritized data channel (Google LTE QCI). T-Mobile has a beta for latency sensitive applications to access the 5G equivalent of this, it's called Network Slicing.

UMTS an similar 2G and 3G protocols could do neat things like have multiple towers compare the signals received from your phone to enable more reliable calling, but this functionality did not survive to make it into cellular's LTE or 5G New Radio (NR) standards.
Yes, I've been following this line of research since 2004. This may predate the Kidney project: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1755.2004.00923.x

I'm glad there are still new developments and I hope something comes of it (I have known people who needed to go through dialysis). It is definitely in the realm of the high-and-lofty.
https://www.eurogamer.net/valve-says-ai-generated-content-po...
I wouldn't have guessed that bamboo has a strong taste. I've used other wooden cutlery before and it doesn't really affect the taste of food at all.
Discord is a very featureful chat and voice app that is similar to slack in terms of managed-ness but they have completely different roots.

Slack is basically just business email but IMing instead of email, if you know what I mean. It's very business. Business happens there. Synergy and collaboration and so on.

Discord, meanwhile, grew out of some combination of gaming/tech IRC servers and gaming ventrilo and teamspeak servers. It's a completely different vibe and clientele that just happens to have a very similar feature set to slack.

So having a discord for anything that's gaming or programming/techy-adjacent makes a lot of sense and there's a big preexisting community there. I launched an OSRS plugin and we set up a discord channel for it. It was a niche thing, very niche, and we never really took it very far (it was sort of partly just an excuse to try out using managed k8s for the backend server that the plugin was a client for). We did 0 marketing aside from listing in the OSRS plugin marketplace and putting the discord link in the description.

Suddenly me and my pal had like 100+ people in our discord and as many users of our site. With 0 marketing and a very simple MVP.

And we didn't do any BI or anything but afaict the attach rate of discord joining to using our plugin at least once was very high, well over 50%. People even asked a few questions and said the project was cool.

So yeah. While I wouldn't literally run my business on it, as a "fan site" it's very useful and valuable.
The idea of recycling works by making the victims feel guilty of their suffering (“the polle pollution because we don’t recycle enough”) so people don’t organise and the entrepreneurs can continue plasticising the planet’s organisms
User Online Behavior Dataset
I'm looking for user's online behavior (websites visiting) dataset, annonymized. Either public or I'll pay for it. Any pointers on where I can get these datasets.
>For better or worse, gov't jobs are basically not allowed to meaningfully reward exceptional performance.

Neither do private companies. The measurement becomes the goal. And that measurement often has nothing to do with legitimate performance.
Fake seems like a misnomer. Improperly documented or unauthorized would be better.

The form they're accused of forging can be found on page 86 of [0]. It basically just requires an authorized person to check a box that the item is in spec.

[0] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
The problem is the plastic we see as a uniform material is a chemical cocktail of the polymer, plasticizers, chain extenders, curing agents, lubricators and process aids, stabilizers, colorants and more.

Size tolerance, the way plastic flows through the molding equipment, temperature at which its blown, how much shit leeches into the beverage, how strong the resulting container is, all that factors in.

Plastics are a complex technology and people are optimizing what we can do with them as across every dimension much as possible
That’s the wrong approach. Netherlands, the country with the best cycling infrastructure and cycling culture, still have significant car ownership, and more importantly, it is still growing:

there will be about 10 million cars in the Netherlands by 2040. That amounts to 524 cars per 1,000 inhabitants, 24 more than two years ago. [0]

Go to any resident areas of Netherlands, there are many more cars than you would expect.

A myth has grown up about the Dutch being enthusiastic cyclists who live in green cities and rarely drive. In reality, the majority of journeys are made by motorized vehicles and people who live car-free are in a small and shrinking minority - [1]

Major changes to society will be needed before meaningful reduction of car ownership can be expected. EV is a much better bet in the mean time.

[0] - https://techzle.com/car-ownership-in-the-netherlands-continu...

[1] - http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2019/08/the-car-free-my...
I remember seeing a vice video where a cartel soldier said that every level of government in Mexico is paid with cartel money.
> I feel like this is the kind of advice that fits perfect when everything is going swimmingly but becomes much more complicated when other negative influencing factors come in to play.

How is this different from literally any other social interaction in your life? I extend folks the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise as a general rule. The same policy applied to my children has had fantastic results for the past 18 years. Should distrust and suspicion be the default? No thanks, I’d rather like to have a meaningful relationship with them continue long after they become self sufficient.
Learn Something Old Every Day, Part IX: Aha-154xB and ASPI4DOS.SYS
Burning Man has been happening there for 30 years. I find it impossible to believe they are "ill equipped to handle 70k outsiders showing up for a week".
Doggerland – The Europe That Was
it's more likely that there's an anti-ai evangelist on the team doing these reviews, and they are responsible for causing these issues (and using the legal turmoil surrounding AI copyright to hide their bias).

they know that because steam is such a large store, they can influence the direction of the game dev community and set a norm that they prefer to see.
that depends on the temperature.. Burn it hot enough and the result is water + co2, perfectly clean energy
I think it was more of a dry feeling on the tongue and palate than an actual flavor, kind of like a tongue depressor. At any rate, it was a weird experience for someone who grew up using stainless steel.
Who is giving the cartel that money?
That’s good feedback I think.

There’s an article that was going around again about ‘glue work’ ([1]) that has a story where an engineer gets caught up doing all this kind of mentoring, coordination and other work like that and then is passed over for promotions because they don’t have technical achievements (though they claim to have become instrumental in enabling everyone else’s technical achievements).

The article never gets to quite the right conclusion - it’s actually massive management failure - what I was thinking the whole way through was “why hasn’t somebody sat them down and told them to do their actual job??”

Mentoring and code review are both super important, but if the organisation wants you to focus on getting tickets done then you basically just have to, unless you can convince them to actually add the additional work to your actual role description or get enough seniority to add it yourself.

But it’s good to have feedback on what kind of work you’re actually going to be measured on in performance reviews, promotions etc.

1. https://noidea.dog/glue
Steam is already drowning in low effort trash games. They don't surface much, since being a paid store, the ranking based on sales is pretty accurate to the quality of the game (not to mention the generous 2h refund).
The open interoperable standard for voice and video calls.
This is one reason where I think Rust shines, and has even improved how I write C++.

So many areas where rust makes me deal with a result or option that are easy to take for granted. It’s a strong reminder of the number of things we should be treating as possible error cases
Memory leaks aren’t unsafe fwiw.
This was me only 15 years earlier. My math teacher had a TRS-80 and an early flight sim. For terrain it had a grid, an airport, and a simple, flat, mountain range. It was loaded from cassette.

He didn’t know the math. In fact when he was teaching us matrices in Algebra II, he really couldn’t answer how matrices were used in the “real world”.

But somehow I managed to track down a couple year old Byte magazine that had an article on 3D graphics, and it was all about matrices and points to do rotations and what not.

With that, I got a cube to rotate on a PET 2001. In all it’s 40x24 glory. Well, there were 8 dots. If you squinted in low light, it would look like a cube.

Later, in college I got access to a textronix storage tube microcomputer. It was standalone in contrast to their terminals. That was able to render a cube quite well. And the car I painstakingly created on graph paper and keyed into DATA statements using the machines built in BASIC.

By then, early Foley-Van Dam was the coveted graphics book to get.