skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>With hesitation, Lin approached and said, "Grandmother, today I discovered something new about myself, something that makes me feel uncomfortable and out of place."

>The elderly painter paused and looked deeply into Lin's eyes. "Ah, young Lin," she began softly, "Much like the Formosan bear, every individual goes through stages of growth and change. These moments might seem unfamiliar and daunting, but they're a testament to your strength and the mysteries of life."

As someone who has spent a lot of time trying to get ChatGPT to generate interesting prose, this really exemplifies the sort of stilted, oblique way it has of writing, where every statement is wrapped in platitudes and it reads like a self-help book. This is especially jarring in dialogue. No one, not even characters in books, talks like that.
the first scene of Grim Fandango, that's where pneumatic tube mail brings me back to
Here is another editor I keep around from the WordStar era. It's relatively small, highly portable and compiles quickly. Steep learning curve.

https://github.com/johnsonjh/g/
>Harmless fun? If you're able to empathize and have a bit of social anxiety Frasier is the most high stakes show ever.

I've seen and loved 99% of Frasier episodes, and never once thought of it as a high-stakes show.

Perhaps it's because I lack empathy, but I'd like to think that it's that I have always lacked the desire for pretension (despite having an educational, professional, and social background not dissimilar to the Crane brothers'), so never took personally the anxiety Frasier or Niles felt at failing to fit into some gathering of their peers.

Upon further pondering, more proof of this is that I am among those who get very anxious when I see people get embarrassed. But it has to be a situation where it feels "unfair". When Frasier or Niles make fools of themselves it's always because of their own pretensions, not anyone else's.
Yes, if this company has no assets in EU and no transactions with EU entities then enforcing this may be hard.
Yep. Imagine doing multiplication in Roman numerals :)
I’m not confident that you see the purpose of my comment in the context it was offered. My point was that “anti-science” is not the sole nor best description for people that have differing viewpoints w.r.t. modern agricultural practices.

Part of the problem more generally is that people literally lose the thread, but another part of the problem is that Hacker News doesn’t really encourage it nor design for it.

Lumping anti-vax people with people that have rational anti-big-agricultural perspectives is muddled thinking. There may be some similarities, but it is an overreach to claim these are the “exact same” principles.

I’d suggest reading some argumentation (such as policy proposals from think-tanks) by rational, pro-science people who criticize the current state of agriculture. After you do this, unless you select some obviously flawed example or fall prey to confirmation bias, you will learn they are _quite_ different than the prototypical anti-vaxxer.

The argument you are making suffers from the false equivalence fallacy. This is the kind of thing that Monsanto would do (and probably does, but I’d need to find proof). By conflating an extreme, poorly-supported viewpoint (anti-vax) with a reasonable one (rational concerns about the state of modern agribusiness), an instigator creates confusion and muddies the waters of public debate.
If it’s just a formality, why would you delay the new hire’s start by several weeks while it’s pending?
They're not failed. The novel is about Nell, despite the title it's not really about the Primer, this is her story, and so we get relatively little insight into what happens to the other two recipients of the original Primer. Also, all three of the girls who receive the original Primer are interacting with humans via the Primer.

Elizabeth is interacting with ractors assigned (expensively) to the work, potentially at random although realistically that's likely to be why she ended up being recruited. Elizabeth's "failure" to use your word is that she ends up recruited into Cryptnet, about which we know nothing - we see one other individual in the story who is, supposedly a high level member of Cryptnet but denies all knowledge of it and his motives are unknown but seem perhaps good.

Fiona is interacting with her father, John Hackworth. The Primer's designer. That's what he's been doing for at least some of the time he was missing, he's her ractor, he's why Fiona's use of the Primer isn't costing much money. Fiona's "failure" is that she hooks up with Dramatis Personae, the outfit we see briefly whose true purpose is entirely unknown. Just as you might be disappointed mistakenly if you wanted your daughter to be a surgeon and she instead becomes a Nobel prize winning novelist, so Fiona's "failure" seems like a misunderstanding on your part.

Yes, Nell founds a new tribe (her Mouse Army), and is recognised by the Victorian Queen - which is perhaps a more immediately notable achievement, something likely to be written in history books, but lots of people do important things without appearing in history books. Her ractor, Miranda is her substitute mother (we're never told AFAIK what happens to Nell's actual mother, she's just written out) but while Miranda is important to Nell, there's no reason to think John is less important to Fiona.
This is how I feel. I will leave emacs from time to time to try this, that, or the other. But I come back and emacs is there awaiting.

I recently learned to love the unadorned emacs (no eVIl mode), and I can't believe I spun my gears in modal land for so long.
Yeah but what phone has a radio that can handle those?
> But don't overoptimize what you're learning. Don't limit yourself to learning things that are already known to be valuable. You're learning; you don't know for sure yet what's going to be valuable, and if you're too strict you'll lop off the outliers.

I am genuinely curious how my learning about the constitution of the Roman Republic while procrastinating will help me.
More to the point, who owns them now and can we pull fibre through them?
Funkwhale
A social platform to enjoy and share music

Funkwhale is a community-driven project that lets you listen and share music and audio within a decentralized, open network
Yep, I often wonder how the story would've gone if they'd put a little cap and some circuitry on to make sure the SD card would come down gracefully, and configured the power circuitry so the Pi is comfortable running on a little less than 5v.
> to me quiet quitting is fulfilling your job responsibilities and contract hours without going above and beyond for a workplace that just won't love you back.

Someone needs to come up with a better name for this. “Quiet quitting” absolutely does not imply the above meaning… that’s simply work and nothing else.

From the POV of a software developer I’d consider quiet quitting as doing the bare minimum work to not be fired outright and instead placed on a PIP with no intention of surviving it.

You play your cards right and you would basically be paid 6 months for minimal effort, between when performance degradation is first noticed, PIP deployed, and your company Slack access is finally disabled.
I loved the ring binder manuals even though they were harder to read (but great to refer to as they'd open flat) and updates would say "replace page 6 with this, add page 10-A between 10 and 11", etc.
I don’t understand it. What did the city rent? What was the profit sharing like? Did the private companies keep all the profits and the city footed the bill for maintenance, support and upkeep?
Good old "security through not being a big enough target to make it worth the time to write an exploit". The rtl-sdr.com blog uses this sort of captcha.

Unfortunately I suspect someone will break this whole category of captcha soon enough by throwing an LLM at it.
Czech, not russian.
And there went my afternoon. "This guide favors authenticity over accuracy, and it aims to entertain before it informs. It is only as accurate as it feels it needs to be." A+
This would have been useful in, say, a college dorm with one WiFi network for the building.

I'm old enough that our dorms didn't have WiFi, but I do remember being pleasantly surprised I could listen to anyone's iTunes library over the LAN!
There's also a part of NYC with pneumatic garbage collection

https://www.npr.org/2017/07/26/539304811/how-new-york-s-roos...
This is funny, both Fall and Diamond Age are Stephenson novels I haven't managed to get through, but of the ones I've read (and enjoyed!), the endings have been as follows:

Remade - massively stretched my suspension of disbelief.

Cryptonomicon - pretty bad.

Snow Crash - No memory, I might have blocked it out?

Anthem - maybe ok? There are two though so that's cheating.

Seven Eves - That one might have been ok, but it's possible I also blocked it out. The second half was a bit strange tbh.

To be clear, I'd still recommend all of these books. Cryptonomicon is one of my favorite pieces of fiction of all time (up there with LOTR and Three Body Problem), and Anthem is in the mix. Stephenson just sucks at endings I guess.
I think most religions, at their core, have the element of philosophy. It’s a shame it gets bundled with institutional self preservation, growth, and belief in the supernatural. Those that can separate the less good attributes end up more like Stoicism or westernized Buddhism.

But there is something deeply wise in most religions that can have profound effects on how we live our lives.
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I don’t understand how such a thing didn’t have constant blockages and what kind of nightmare it would be to dig up and unblock one of these in the middle of the city.
VSCode is hardly in the same market as the entire Jetbrains suite except maybe Webstorm...

VSCode, while used for other things, mainly is a web front-end IDE.
That poor cat
I think an even more accurate analogy would be if a surgeon had some kind of scalpel with a 1 cm limit, but if a surgery suddenly changes in the middle, and suddenly requires a deeper incision, the surgeon has to spend a non-zero amount of time re-configuring the scalpel.

This casts flexibility vs safety as a tradeoff, which it is.
I read most of his books and I would agree too.
If it's a desktop app, charge for it. At some point, offer a new version with an upgrade price. I'm your target market, and I'm never paying for this.
I’m also suspicious of this. IIRC, our primary reason to get a Z80 card was to run WordStar.

We had a very active piracy club in the early 80s with easily a thousand floppies and I don’t recall ever hearing about a native 6502 WordStar. (We met every Sunday at the local school cafeteria.)
That $4 dev board looks like it might be an esp32 killer, or at least good competition. I was thinking of the esp32-c3 which is also risc-v with wifi and ble. It currently has really great rust support. You can even build the stdlib for it so you don't have to mess with no_std. The bl602 doesn't seem to have rust support yet, but I'm looking forward to more options.
I’ll never use this crap but $1 a year is smart. People will sign up for it because it’s nothing and that gives twitter a foot in the door for price hikes later.
In the midwest it's still the reality, because in the winter it gets darn cold.
When he made the purchase I disagreed with people that it was a bad business decision because at the time revenue was approx 6 billion and if they could lower operating costs while increasing revenue it would actually make a ton of sense.

I've sinced changed my mind.
downvoting, which is only going to make someone feel attacked, alienated and misunderstood

that's how i felt initially when i got downvotes. but eventually i got used to it and as time went on i noticed that comments that were downvoted were usually more opinionated in the sense that it was reasonable and to be expected for someone to disagree. and realizing that made it much easier to accept the downvote as just that, a disagreement.

now it gets really interesting when i get a downvote and later an upvote. then i always wonder did the initial downvoter change their mind, or did someone else upvote. sometimes i'd really like to know.

for myself i downvote comments that i strongly disagree with and also comments that demonstrate a lack of understanding of the comment they respond to, or look like they are not reading the parent comment in good faith, or are belaboring their point, especially when it is clear that the other party already understood them the first time. in other words i downvote what i think are bad contributions to a discussion.
That's for failure to file or pay on time.

The bar for a mistake (assuming you filed and paid on time) is much lower, see the next section, "Accuracy-Related Penalties," on the first link you posted: https://www.irs.gov/payments/penalty-relief-for-reasonable-c...
For non-Spanish speakers, The Vuelta Ciclista means the Cycling Tour and those TV movies are often French/German/Nordic suspense/familiary dramas with predictable scripts and settings, (love affairs, kidnappings, killings)... often to be watched by mid-age women in theory. In theory, because everyone will get the same result in the couch.
In America, its surprising to find out someone does NOT have a gun.
for some good halfstep/halftime mixes, see https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=f1rstpers0n+hal... and https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=f1rstpers0n+hal...

and oooh has jump-up changed sonic properties since the time of Pendulum (let alone Aphrodite)..!

edit: newer jump-up mix examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpUcmV6Mr-Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfaD8sYTmiU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j-d_i_arYU

post-horns, fairly bassline influenced, sommit like that..
CDC on depression and mortality: wealth, smoking, exercise reduce risk of death
Have you considered a water based heating/cooling system that uses the earth itself as its storage buffer?
I know people are down on the-social-networking-platform-formerly-known-as-twitter, and
I have no skin in the game, I gave up on social networking about a decade ago, but I think this is the model to beat. Forever the FOSS world has said, "if you do not pay for the product, you are the product". Well, here is X trying to make a product you pay for.

I do not know their new policy on tracking/ads/spying but even if they do that stuff still, they are making a way for competition that doesn't. I think this is good.
Okay so 6% increased chance of dementia for those with ADHD.

Maybe there’s something neurologically wrong from the beginning that manifests as ADHD and later turns into dementia?

It’s definitely weird how I am just completely unmotivated by anything for months at a time then suddenly will be intensely motivated and impossibly into something new.
Wow.

This is completely absurd. There are plenty of Spanish, Yiddish, Mandarin, etc speakers in New York City. Get one of them to record the damn phone call. Using Adams's own voice is a stupid and unnecessary use of technology (and presumably taxpayer dollars).
The paywall on Fortune that is telling me to pay $1 monthly to see the article is so, so sweetly ironic
I second this, FreeTaxUSA is great.
Why am I being downvoted ? Or worse, absolutely ignored ? Not just here, but whenever I mention those topics ? This is an honest question. Consider these thoughts have lead me to extreme isolation.
You are welcome to radically degrow yourself, but as soon as you start talking about degrowing other people you are not going to end up in a good place.
They have formed into an effective military force because the Primer is designed to teach children how to deal with their life situation, and it doesn't fail at that job even when the life situation is extreme (like how the Primer understands that Nell is being abused and tries very hard to get her out of the abusive environment). The Mouse Army are in the middle of a war where WMDs are being used and they're all little girls who can't rely on anyone around them for help, so the Primer teaches them to form not just effective soldiers but an effective military force, in order to secure their escape from the war. Once they're out of the extreme situation, it will presumably teach them more normally once more, just like Nell's Primer adjusted back once Nell was out of the abusive environment.

I'm not exactly going to bat for child soldiering here, but I find the idea that the Primer harmed them very strange. The Primer saved them from dying in a horrific war where they had no allies and successfully got them out of that war.
This is going to kill engagement. 90% of people don't care enough to pay for that and any sort of barrier will lower engagement.

Twitter/X is going to be use this as a way to fight spammers and bots but those accounts never had a problem paying or using stolen money.
Not a problem for those companies, they'll simply close down and open up again under a new name. They've probably already got the paperwork ready.
You can access the original flash version here: https://ooooooooo.ooo/static/?c9faba4a-53dd-0e5d-1626-e9193e...
than maybe none of this didn't happen ? blender, photoshop and ai ? to create manufactured outrage ?

idf supposed to share : uav footage from above and call intercepts discussing "oopsie". there is also some radar data
in related news, a new "private browser" tab with Google Image Search just asked me if I want to "sign in with fingerprints or eyescan" possible answers -- later or Let's Go
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music v1 (Original Flash Version)
The PDP-10 did that. There was actually core memory at addresses 0-15 but if you had registers they overlaid that.

Yes, I said if you had registers--if you were cheap you could buy your PDP-10 without registers and all the instructions that referenced registers would use core instead.

Since the registers were in effect just 16 words of fast semiconductor memory overlaying the first 16 words of slow core memory you could do anything in them that you could do in regular memory, including running code out of them.

If you had a small loop that did a lot of iterations you could sometimes get a significant speed boost by copying the loop into the registers and running it there.
The seemingly smartest thing about it is that it’s reportedly for just new users. Many/most power users might stay. But huge numbers of casual (but otherwise active and monetizable) users would just drop off rather that go through the process of adding their payment info.
Logseq is all these things, and open source!
Who's the guy he's talking about? I mean at the beginning when he keeps going on about "the same guy".
I tried to open a link from an X profile today and couldn’t get it to open in safari just the X app’s crappy browser. I had to exit out then hold press then open it in their crappy browser then open it in safari. Either this is intentional or things are just deteriorating. I feel like one dev could make the UI of the app work, that the hard part is the backend stuff. But what do I know.
> Have you ever been to a small town in America? Outside of a few regions, Walmart is all they have...so that sort of nixes points 2 and 3.

Yeah, I've lived in them. My dad was in the AF, and (to save money) my parents would shop on the nearest AF base, which was maybe 30 miles away. They'd go once every 2 weeks or so and fill up the car with groceries.

The indisputable point is people prefer to shop at Walmart. Nobody makes them.

Name one "far right" law Walmart got enacted.
> I loved Diamond Age. My favorite Stephenson book, by far. But the ending, the resolution of all the action, was such a letdown. Such meh. I find that this is often a problem with cyberpunk.

I wouldn't know about Stephenson in general, but I found that to be the case with Diamond Age: the setup was cool and intriguing, but the actual development and resolution was very disappointing.

I don't think this is the case with all cyberpunk and cyberpunk-adjacent works of scifi.
If your interest is harm reduction, then you should be focused on reducing the number of handguns in circulation.

You should also consider looking in to the data about what actually happens to your chances of being shot once you buy a gun. It’s pretty stunning.
I wonder how much of this is that ADHD is also linked with higher alcohol consumption, which is itself linked with higher dementia.
>Well, here is X trying to make a product you pay for.

No, this is an attempt to have it both ways. To do data collection / data brokerage and ALSO charge users for the service.
wow, this is a fantastic experience to click around in. fun to think about how far (or sideways) we could extend this backwards. And excited to see where it extends to in the future :-)
> buy something, and then through no fault of their own, it becomes worth more and they have to sell because they can't afford to pay

I fail to see why that’s a problem. Those taxes go to fund local services (like schools, police, fire, etc.) whose costs likely scale when the local cost of living and land values scale. Buying land doesn’t mean you should get to lock in the price you pay for these services for perpetuity.
I don't think it's ironic. Paying for access to content at least makes logical sense, paying for the privilege to provide content to a platform is ridiculous.
We shouldn’t be doing anything to increase the number of guns in circulation. It reduces safety for everyone, especially the gun owners.
Medium is super annoying. Every time I end up there I immediately leave. Popups, subscription requirement "sometimes", it's the most obnoxious place.
Not a x/twitter user much these days (mostly quit a long time ago) but I’m happy when companies put a minor barrier up to stop botting. So meh, good idea I guess?
I have a brain disease driven by an infection that gets better with long term antibiotics.

One of my main symptoms was MCI. Interesting that after long term treatment not only the MCI improved or subsided but also my very long standing ADHD (present for as long as I can remember) got dramatically better, makes you wonder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military–entertainment_complex
Off topic, but have you seen the trailer for the upcoming season? It looks like it might as well have been written by AI. We’re about to get a reminder of how important the supporting cast was on that show. Sad!
> This is going to kill engagement.

Maybe! The people who are still left must really like Twitter. I think charging a token amount to limit who can post from a Sybil attack mitigation perspective might actually be reasonable, and it’s exciting that someone who doesn’t care if they lose is willing to perform the experiment.

If you’re not willing to pay at least a dollar to post, maybe your content doesn’t have any value to the audience or platform. I’d pay $1 to keep posting here (probably more! But don’t tell the YC folks).