skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I write all the time as I slowly ramp down my reliance on computers. It has been one of the rare joys in my life to identify which things I don’t actually need a computer or phone for. Next year I’ll go to paper calendar(s).

Here’s the thing(s) that I’ve gone full analog on:

1. Reminders. Use a small moleskin notebook in my pocket and cross things off when they’re done. Really satisfying, that crossing-off.

2. Notes. I just use a tear away pad for notes and a self-inking date stamp. As the notes stack up, if I don’t use them in a few months then I didn’t need them and I toss them.

3. Books. I have stopped buying kindle/ebooks and now have paper books. They are far less expensive now and I can browse them both on the shelf, and whichever highlights I’ve made very quickly. Ebooks are a scourge, a censor’s delight, and also are useless for quickly finding information unless you have a keyword etc. The Kindle apps are especially useless for anyone who wants to do serious thinking/research/scanning.

4. Brainstorming. I have a chalkboard, an old one, got it for $20. I put it on casters so I can wheel it around the room. Great for planning and social discussion too.

5. Letters/notes. I can leave them for my wife or write notes to my friends and they’re delighted. Why did we stop doing this?

6. Letterpress! I bought a small tabletop press and a ton of old lead type. I have yet to really master it yet but have made some cool tests/samples for gifts. I think my whole setup cost less than $1000, I have maybe 200 typesets/weights/sizes.

Improving your penmanship and doing things analog is quite satisfying. You can keep your futurecel techbro futurist nonsense, when the grid has failed and the surveillance panopticon has imprisoned you, I’ll be happily writing and distributing Constitution 2.0 ;-)
If the material that is burned is wood, no net addition to the carbon cycle occurs. The issue with burning fossil fuels isn't the burning, it's the fossil fuels.
Also keep different cultures in mind.

I was born in Germany, where the country shuts down between Christmas to New Year, and so it makes a natural cut in the year. (Though when I was in school, the summer holidays were more important as a divider.)

In my adopted home of Singapore, instead Chinese New Year is really important. But because of a lack of clear seasons, there is much less of a natural year-long structure to time. (Interestingly, the school year here aligns with the calendar year.)
I really hope so. I spend far too much time on there.
Bluetooth file sharing was around before smartphones were.
In Germany it seems normal. In Serbia I don't remember anyone ever used it in my presence, emails etc.
SeatGuru[1] is a godsend, especially if you are plus size or have special needs and need to choose comfortable or practical seats in advance. (Make sure to select the Seat Maps tab.)

EDIT: Added AeroLOPA[2] for good
measure.

[1]: https://www.seatguru.com/
[2]: https://www.aerolopa.com/
But you still need to be able to send the link, so the receiving party needs some way to be able to receive the link. It is then either some form of local messenger or ... an app. So, yeah, the receiving party needs an app, if the app is not build-in into the OS like Airdrop in iOS.
The fact that everything needs to have a "purpose" (not just with tech, but with life in general) is something I continuously struggle with. I know I'm not supposed to care about it but I have a really hard time applying it in practice.
It's the core concept of democracy. You lose, you are mostly out.
You know, democracy.
Because in practice it allows firing people for reasons otherwise illegal. You shouldn't be able to get around the law by playing word games.
I tried couple of times to workaround the problem you're describing through PCH on some of my ex projects. All of them were on the MM LoC scale and build-from-scratch was taking roughly 45min to 1hr on a developer machine. I never got to make a substantial cut in the build time through PCH, only perhaps by a very few % but YMMV.

Given that modules are PCH in disguise, I don't believe modules are going to have a dramatically bigger, and better, effect on C++ build times. Whether or not they are going to cut the build time from 45 seconds to 30 seconds I also couldn't care less - small projects don't even have the build time problem worth solving. Mid and big projects is where it will really count and if modules are going to have a substantial effect in the range of at least 20-30% in build time cut, I will be all ears.
I grew up in Germany, but never seriously worked there. I never really encountered the week number being used (much).

But as you say, that might be something common in specific places of work.
Eventually banning everyone is a good way to condensate spammers and scammers who will just set up a new company from time to time anyways.

I haven't thought about this before, but it could explain some of the degeneration of ads over time I have been noticing.
> get this — Meta thought that he was dealing in live animals, which is forbidden.

> That’s right: I teach courses in Python and Pandas

Hah I suspected that was going to be the punchline, but waited for confirmation

It is believable. What is not so much is that they did a review with real people
Great idea! I'll get a few added. Cheers!
Is there any evidence of that claim available?

As a counterexample, I'd like to point out the Soviet space program.
Or charge for both.

https://help.ryanair.com/hc/en-gb/categories/12489112419089-...
True, but again, most people here aren't customers of Facebook, they're just users.

No, instead, they're the product.
...and worse again by Meta deleting information like ban reasons after 180 days, making it impossible for them to verify anything after that date other than the account having a ban flag set in the database.

What a joke.
Fwiw I think of the year in much the same way as a clock face.. the 12 months and 12 hours thing essentially matches somewhat 1 to 1 for me. So circle representation is what follows. Im actually surprised in the variations too.
BBC BASIC had an inline 6502 assembly feature that was as simple as doing this anywhere in your BASIC program (but not in the middle of a BASIC statement, obviously):

[ asm_statements ]

That is, open square bracket, then write your assembly statements (one per line, as usual), then close square bracket.

That's it.

No assembly step required.
My friend works at a company on an internal product where they are using MFEs, and it is a sisyphean marathon of pain.

They're only 2.5 developers -- .5 because one of their juniors is practically useless. The reason they went with it is because the "senior" in charge wanted to experiment, which can be all well and good in certain contexts, but they've had nothing but trouble. Instead of doing the reasonable thing and stepping back and thinking "Okay, solving <very common frontend problem> shouldn't be this hard. Maybe we should rethink this MFE approach", the "senior" just keeps piling more turds on top of their already huge, steaming pile of turds.

Examples: The MFEs(which live in iframes) need to be able to tell the umbrella that a certain keyboard shortcut was pressed. Normally this would just be an `addEventListener` call by whatever component is interested.. but with iframes it's not that simple. Solution? Capture every keystroke in the application in all the MFEs and send them, as JSON, over your custom messagebus.

Because they use graphql(with apollo client), every graphql request should be cached and you can set up "rules" to do optimistic mutations and whatnot. You should be able to show a lot of UI instantly to the users because you already have data cached. But the caching obviously doesn't work across iframes.. so they tack on yet another hacky solution to transport the cache across iframes sometimes when it's necessary.

Anyway, the point isn't to rant about this specific scenario forever, but rather explain how fucking awful MFEs can be when you make the wrong decision. They are very obviously building a monolith and MFEs should never have been considered, even if you don't look at the team size of 2(which is enough to make the decision ridiculous on its own). I honestly don't think there are any real use cases for MFEs outside absolutely massive organizations working on very specific kinds of products.. maybe stuff like cloud platform management UIs.
This sentence does not make any sense to me. Would you care to elaborate?
> t definitely doesn't run linux though.

Sorry I was thinking of the 0x64, although it's entirely possible to get some form of Linux running.
Do we always need Kafka for burst handling? A deep dive with OpenTelemetry
That's been around for quite a while.
the parent list rues lost sharpness of mind/mental industry in the general population. a few people still have it, and it makes them our overlord, inevitably.

compared thus, your list is nonsense: a careless slapdash composed in a quick, gotcha-y response to a well-deserved criticism.
https://archive.ph/M4CdC

Key quote: «The agreement reached on Tuesday among energy ministers in Luxembourg will mean that France could use government support to finance its largely state-owned nuclear plants, which generate about 70 per cent of its electricity. Such a move had been heavily contested by Germany, Austria and Luxembourg, which have been historically opposed to nuclear power but also feared that allowing Paris to subsidise its nuclear plants would provide French industry with structurally lower energy prices, giving it a competitive advantage.»
> If they use the Magic Wormhole default settings the files/messages will travel over the internet, using a third party rendezvous server.

I am very, very sure this is incorrect. The rendezvous indeed happens over the internet with their default handshake server, but the transfer itself should run in LAN.
I think this is a key challenge when building a blog, full on, easy customization with all the benefits of a sound blogging infrastructure. Glad this finally exists!
Why East European are suspicious?

Little xenophobic?
I can attest to coffeeri's consumption, albeit on pure server use-case only. I own a OptiPlex 3080 with an i5-10500T and under default BIOS settings (power states and whatnot), I was very surprised to see a 1.7-2.5w power draw on idle, but under typical desktop use, this becomes 6-8w. If this is your draw under a server deployment as well, unfortunately I don't know of any methods to rectify this personally.

When it has to roar however, the draw is substantial compared to my ODroid, but since it idles the majority of the time, I'll take it.
> clutter the ecosystem
what ecosystem?
> diverts community to spent time on "useless" projects
what community?
> addressing real-world challenges.
what challenges?

i'm curious to know what the criteria or thresholds are for releasing vs not releasing.
In the UK, bank accounts rarely cost anything and debit cards come for free as standard. Banks are still profitable.

I would hazard a guess that most banks in fact make most of their money through lending your funds to other people.
I'm left-handed, so as far as I'm concerned, the decline of handwriting (cursive or not) can continue. As a leftie, you either have to contort your wrist or put up with smearing over what you just wrote - ballpoint pens (only the best - most of them are prone to deposit blotches of ink that can be smeared from time to time) are a relief, fountain pens a bane. Or you can move to Israel or an Arab country and start writing right to left...
AIs and other opaque processes making decisions are incredibly frustrating. I'm still wondering why my tea-of-the-month business [0] got turned down by Stripe when I incorporated an LLC (technically a Godo Kaisha, as it is incorporated in Japan).

It came as a surprise as it was perfectly fine by them for as long as it was a sole proprietorship. Which is why I strongly suspect the rejection came from an AI. At the time of rejection we were still using the Stripe account of the sole proprietorship, and surely a human would have noticed and blocked that account if it was actually running against Stripe ToS!?!

It doesn't make any sense to me. In any case, I know that financial regulations are stringent and payment providers are often required to leave us in the dark. But is it frustrating...

Now I'm stuck with PayPal for the time being. Unless they, too, decide that selling green tea is against their ToS.

By the way, does anyone know if it's ok to re-attempt to open an account with Stripe? Our offering has been evolving, so we might very well be within their ToS now?

[0] https://tomotcha.com

EDIT: wording
> If the year is a circle – where’s March and December in your mind?

The question together with the visualizations of the answers assume that the circle is still, and upright.

In my mind the circle is flat on the ground, and I’m moving around it counter-clockwise. There’s no “up”. I’m always on whatever the current month is, facing inwards, seeing the past six months on my left and the next six months on my right.
Welcome to the future. Before too long this kind of bs will be an almost daily occurrence for most people who have to interact with businesses/institutions on the net. Highly automated inscrutable processes with hairtrigger banning logic and review paths that never lead to a human. Because the humans that survived the automation are too busy feeding the Algorithm to ever interact with the customers.
US median income, even disposable income after all the medical/housing costs, is higher than all of the large EU countries (France, Germany, etc). So if anyone has bullshit pay, it’s the Europeans.
interestingly, i find that many of the things that also make money aren't even really useful, they just exist and people want them for some obscure reason. so you're right, and also it might actually lead to making money anyway because what might seem useless doesn't exclude valuable.
Damn, yet another downside of the UK leaving the EU. Hopefully they'll include us as well.
Those rules guarantee the quality of the releases and the rar archive splitting enables the racing of releases from site to site.

If you want to read about the warez scene, here's a pretty comprehensive book about it (you can download the pdf freely):

https://punctumbooks.com/titles/warez-the-infrastructure-and...
Capitalism doesn't generate wealth - it's a paradigm of wealth distribution.
People generate wealth, and they do so regardless of which wealth distribution system is in power.

Also your comment is snarky and uninformative, contrary to the spirit of HN discussion.
That is principally correct, and, in fact, a fixed voltage power supply with a resistor in series just works for charging NiMH/NiCd, yes.

In Li-ion however, I think it's something like, max voltage ramp is limited even within current limit, then afterwards current is limited even below cutoff voltage, or whatever to similar effects. It's definitely more complicated than just constant max voltage fed through a 330R.
> the stroke thickness is calculated via perfect-freehand

thank you! yeah I noticed the bugginess, the thing seems to be lagging behind my actual cursor because it tries to smooth things out to within a few % of the brush's radius. kind of distracting, but tolerable.
the GP's thing is a list of generic, nigh-ageless kids-these-days gripes so it's a decent target for light mockery.
> Self-styled vigilantes attacked the home of a hospital paediatrician after apparently confusing her professional title with the word "paedophile"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/30/childprotection.s...

And now we have machines doing the same.
"since transfers are close to instant" for US, no?

ACH pull/push takes days to get credit either way, wire is faster but still no where close to instant?
I know SEPA "can" be instant, but AFAIK wise doesn't do (near)instant transfers to/from US.
The whole issue around not telling you what rule you broke "because then you might work around it" is total BS. It's like a company I complained to the other day because they didn't label one of the inputs on their password reset form because "it would help a hacker know what to type in it" (it was the password reset password they expected but you wouldn't know).

How much quicker would this be resolved if the first AI said, "your account has been blocked because we detected an advert related to live animals" to which you could appeal with your one sentence reason, "these are not animals, they are programming languages with the same names as animals" which would take a very cursory check and continue to bring in advertising revenue.

I think like another poster it is probably true that if you were spending a lot, you would have been given more time to argue your case. For someone who brings in $10 a month, it's not worth their time.
Am I the only one who visualises the year not as a line or circle but pages on a calendar?
Ukrainian drone placing TM-62 AT mines onto a road
The iframes can share service workers if they are all on the same origin. I would recommend using a service-worker which intercepts every graphQL request and caches on that layer. You can do a lot more on that layer once it's setup. For example — Enable batching, Rate limiting etc.
> Have they shot themselves in the foot though?

Shooting them self in the foot implies instant effect. A better idiom would probably be something like "they are cutting the branch they are sitting on".
How does this differ from Structured ASICs?
I tend to always go for DRM-free ebooks as much as possible, the few ones I have bought that are under DRM are because their authors decided not to provide it otherwise besides paper format, so I got to respect their decision as I didn't want to get a couple of dead trees for technology stuff, always outdated after a couple of years.
How the microservice vs. monolith debate became meaningless
This is the first data-platform based on our original research.

For paper, see here:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359578461_Continuou...
An extremely minimal drawing language consisting of only 5 simple commands
> Fractional factorial is also most effective when the covariates are orthogonal and independent, which is rarely the case. We can get around this by projecting high dimensional covariates into lower dimensional space using PCA, which guarantees orthogonality, but this also seems to not be done so much.

I guess you're right in that if there were very many interactions between variables, then the aliasing of a fractional design would be an incredible nuisance, but on the other hand if there were no dependence between any of the variables at all then there would be no point to any sort of factorial design as you could just test each variable sequentially.

> Just wondering if anyone is using fractional factorial designs in real life? (or optimal designs like D-optimal designs)

I have to admit, I have never ever seen anyone calculate a D-optimal or G-optimal design for anything -- that said, I only graduated as a statistician 6 or 7 years ago. As you say, there might be some use to it for continuous variables but for factors, given that latin squares (etc.) are known to be optimal so you can just grab that off the shelf.
True, I don't know for sure that I was banned for Python. But it's the only information that I have so far, since Meta isn't telling me anything. And the other person confirmed that he had this problem multiple times.

And it's true, you're only seeing one side of the story here. But I promise, I can't think of anything nefarious I've done that would get me banned. Well, aside from my crypto casino run by drug-smoking, underpaid children engaging in the illegal ivory trade, that is.
I have troubles understanding what's the value added by Yattee if it's only a "front end", while piped already claims it's a front end for YT. Can you help me get a clearer understanding ? I'm interested in ditching YT in favor of a privacy friendly / ad-free alternative.
How to find Phishing websites with Favicon Hash
Favicon hashes can be use for finding vulnerable and phishing websites
You mean live example?
I don't understand how piped can be at the same time

- legal

- not use YT APIs

- ad-free

can someone help me understand how this works?
Yeah exactly. Imagine if our laws worked like that. Complete dystopia.
> What we should be striving for in code style is the lowest common denominator most bare bones structure that can be read, understood and modified with the most rudimentary of tools.

What happened to "code is primarily to be read, occasionally to be executed"? You're suggesting we should be optimizing for the wrong thing.

To be honest, this is just another unsolvable issue that's a direct result of us insisting on keeping the code as plaintext and insisting we work directly on it and only it, the single source of truth, using bare-bones tools.

It's really as dumb as if, when designing a building, everyone involved - architects, plumbers, electricians, HVAC engineers, decorators, landscapers and others - were forced to use the same, single, canonical, flat technical drawing. You can imagine they'd be wasting much time on endless holy wars on the right drawing scale, right colors, line thickness, where to put the legend, how to make annotations, etc. - where the real problem is that a single flat piece of paper (or digital equivalent) can't possibly accommodate all their needs at the same time.

We're like that, and here we're discussing whether to align labels on the drawing to the left or to the right, in hopes it'll somehow make an impenetrably dense drawing an iota more readable. We're going as far as to play with dark monadic magick, inventing convoluted drawing techniques in order to somehow squeeze layout of cables, water pipes and air vents in a way that makes decorators shut up about not being able to visualize the building in their heads, because the plan is too dense or too non-local or whatnot. And we're so proud that we automated the ability to xerox the plan for different teams to add more squiggles independently, and then merge them into a new unified plan the next day, and even have an audit trail by putting SHAs on everything.

Seriously, our whole approach and tooling ecosystem is tripling down on idiocy. Editing the same, single source of truth, plaintext code directly is an idea that needs to die.
Places to Ski in Europe: When and How to Prepare for the Season
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To be clear, this is unrelated to the Zero To ASIC course and online community, right?

The name collision is a bit annoying.