skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have ADHD and it is bothering me to no end that when people ask me what my hobby is, I find out I have a huge list of half-finished stuff instead.

For example I like blacksmithing. Built a simple sword just grinding the metal, then decided to study how to get a proper forge and whatnot. Studied a lot, learning the chemistry of steel, found where to buy the stuff. Never bought it, never made any forged item.

Then I decided to go for armor making, using rings. Started making one, got stuck because the rings were too rigid and I wasn't strong enough... and that is it, it ended there.

So music then? Spent years learning how to compose music with a teacher that actually taught famous musicians, made my own cables to attach a keyboard to my computer, bought software, learned how to use trackers, became "friends" (as in... I don't talk much to them, but when I do they actually listen and give me small favors) Siren (musician from Unreal series) and Virt (musician from a lot of newer indie games, like Shovel Knight). How much music I made? 0. People at the church asked me if I can play my keyboard in public while people sing hymns. I replied I actually, never tried that.

Dumped a ton of money in magic the gathering cards. Made a point when moving country, of bringing them with me, half of my airplane baggage limit was MTG cards. Last time I played? Several months ago, almost a year I suppose.

The list keeps going and it is driving me nuts, I feel like I am wasting my life. I am not studying hard enough to improve my job performance, I am not studying the bible as I should either, I keep promising myself I will do it and then I don't. And again keeping with the theme of GAS, I actually spent a lot of money buying access to theology online classes and seminars, and didn't watch any of it.
I guessed the correct Acapulco then hypothesized that Otis was something being transported by truck to there. I even thought that Cape Canaveral or a lab like CERN would be a more likely destination for dangerous things that people like us would care about.
I'm part of the team from inlang, we are developing solutions to make i18n both easier and more efficiently (e.g. with a web editor, vscode extension and CLI to automate your workflows). Our ecosystem is agnostic to every stack which means it can be integrated with every tech-stack out. We even have our own i18n library called paraglideJS.

plugin for i18next: https://inlang.com/m/3i8bor92/plugin-inlang-i18next
paraglide (i18n library): https://inlang.com/m/gerre34r/library-inlang-paraglideJs
I also speak German and I can promise you that the differences of German even within countries (Southern vs Northern Germany, Eastern vs Western Austria), are much more significant than the differences between various forms of Serbo-Croatian.

Sure, there's different dialects. But most languages that are old enough have those.
Try to find what popular news websites, figures and finance media just makes fun of. and doesnt see any long term value but still give coverage to :) like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj8CthSn2tI
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/01/tesla-short-interest-hits-re...

If they praise, just run :) SBF and forbes 30 sth is the example.

For me there is still long term real value in very few things in crypto today.
> Which nationality finds the IPA simple?

Found an American?

It's not what IPA is simple (it's not hard for sure), it's what 99% of Americans never even had a chance to at least learn what it is.

Most of the time when you learn some other language the pronunciation is given in IPA. Guess who almost never learn any other language?
> an AI completely takes over, self-sustains by manufacturing killer robots and running power plants etc.

You don't need any killer robots at all if you possess a superhuman level of persuasion. You can use killer humans instead.
> robots on the other hand have the disadvantage of being dumb with no understanding of the situation

Which is hardly a disadvantage given that this includes not understanding that we send them on a mission with no return, and a high likelihood of something going horribly wrong.

> Also, they can "die" of thirst for energy as well.

True, but that energy can be collected via a few solar panels, or provided for decades from a relatively small nuclear battery. Human supplies for a prolonged stay cannot be collected on Mars, and take up alot of space and payload capacity for even a single human. And that's not including the fact that with humans we also have to take many many extra steps to be able to bring them back.

> but currently robots can only do, what you exactly told them to do

Depending on the situation, that can easily become necessary for humans as well. Astronauts on missions do very few things that ground control doesn't know about or didn't order them to do / plan ahead for them to do. Yes, this includes procedures during emergencies. Given the more severe resource constraints and even slimmer margins for error, the situation won't be any different on Mars.

Sorry if that sounds un-romantic, but the movies of brave buckaroos McGuyver-ing their way out of trouble on the Red Planet, relying on their wits, duct tape and tons of plot armor, isn't how this will play out in real life.
I mostly gave up all social media with the advent of threads and now only look at hacker news. It just seems like there's too much stuff being presented as interesting information that's not really at all. HN seems to at least have things I find truly interesting approximately daily.
I was encouraged to collect things as a kid. I think it was even a badge in cub-scouts. I collected keyrings. I was given them from various places, spent pocket-money on them on holiday, that sort of stuff. I certainly didn't own any keys. I also collected model dinosaurs (usually acquired at museums) and Lego.

The Lego I would put in its own category because it was endlessly fascinating and rebuild-able. I used it all the time. The dinosaurs were at least educational.

But the keyrings were just hoarded and gathered dust. I'm trying to decide now if this was unhealthy and trained me to covet stuff, or if it was a good inoculation against the behaviour later in life. I now have zero interest in collecting anything just for the sake of collecting it. I'd rather be minimal where possible, and after accumulating a lot of crap in my early 20s (when owning stuff was a novelty) I now also try to avoid the "I might use that someday" trap.

I too like fountain pens and have about six, moderately priced, all made by 'Cross'. I put various coloured inks in them (I usually have about 3 good to go at any one moment) and ... I virtually never hand write anything.

The thing I have most of is certainly cables and tech widgets of various descriptions, but I don't try to collect them, somehow they just sort-of happen.

Make of that all what you will.
"Strange" is not the same as monstrous though. People will spend enormous resources (off my head its like 10% of global GDP) seeking to experience "strangeness". We call this phenomenon tourism :-)

The benefit of temporal distance is that it (hopefully) helps further separate what is objective (and e.g., scientifically verifiable, understood etc) versus what is effectively an assumption that is culturally tinged.

For example the medieval era definition of humanity given in this article is as "rational and mortal". I suspect that as people dive deeper into forms of artificial rationality we will revisit this multiple times.
It would be valuable if the filtering conditions are up to the user.
I'm guessing that <CT scan> is more dangerous than <having a kidney removed, given you've cleared the CT scan and other tests>. Plus, <having a kidney removed, studied, and then reinserted after failing some tests>, might be more dangerous than either.
Fwiw, pg_cron jobs run as the database user that scheduled the job and the jobs table is not writable, nor can you see jobs created by other users unless you are the admin.

There is not much you can do with it that you could not via external infrastructure that connects to the database, except you don't need to set up external infrastructure that connects to the database. (and simpler systems are generally more secure)
Limiting Maximum Index Name Length in Ruby on Rails 7.1
Is that better or worse than having bots?
They might be an excellent solution for the last mile of mass transit, and a boon for the increasing elderly population in many countries.
Goes to show you that a simple UX is really all you need for this type of thing if you have a lot of users. To me instagram was already better then twitter, so now I have twitter without twitter.
Again you’re talking about dense population centers. Americans for the most part don’t want to live like that. They want stand alone houses with large yards in the suburbs. Those are not densely populated enough to make walking to all the businesses you need feasible.

Rental cars are a pain in the butt. Spend an hour getting one. You need someone to come with you to drive the vehicle you arrived in back or pay for expensive parking or an Uber. Repeat for when you drop it off. They kill all spontaneity.

That being said I would love to have a better train network in the US, just not at the expense of roads.
Tesla threatens to bring in strikebreakers as Swedish workers strike
> There's definitely a significant chunk of the population that does miss Yugoslavia and bratstvo i jedinstvo. In my experience, the sentiment is actually strongest in Bosnia, which makes sense, as it is the most mixed of the successor states and also the one that suffered the most from petty nationalism.

I'm from Bosnia, and while there are people who pay lip service to the idea that they miss Yugoslavia, in 95% of cases, these same people didn't vote for political parties that wanted to preserve Yugoslavia. Instead, they voted for nationalistic parties. Now that they've been disappointed by those nationalistic dreams (as it turns out, politicians/criminals don't actually care who they are robbing), they say they miss Yugoslavia. However, they still vote for the same political parties that advocated for independence.

> I agree with you on the ethnic Albanians though - they never made sense in Yugoslavia, the state of the South Slavs. Kosovo should be part of Albania and the Serbs need to shut up about it already.

Kosovo was part of Serbia before Yugoslavia came into existence, and it will be again. Last time, it took us a few hundred years to return; this time, it will happen much faster.
Not convinced TBH.

If the words are chosen randomly from a large dictionary, it should be fine.

See https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/62832/is-the-of...
This isn't Cruise's move. The DMV revoked their testing permits such that they're no longer street legal, within the last week. This is a PR piece, trying to save some face.
> On the other hand Albanians, as an ethnic group, had unprecedented political autonomy (Kosovo) and language rights in Yugoslavia.

It lasted for merely 15 years, from 1974 till 1989 when Milosevic and his clique brutally removed it. This autonomy was always a thorn in the eye of the serbian establishment and they never stopped their efforts to undermine it, which they succeeded in 1989.
Aaaand hop, you go into the canyon! ;-)

Unless you can tell me your favorite color!
I looked into it, back when anyone could be made mod there was an inside joke on reddit of making Obama and Snopp dogg mods of things. Someone made spez a mod of jailbait and took a screenshot that was reposted around the internet and I forgot about the third party modding thing.

However he defended the place publically, and gave an award called Pimp Daddy to violentacrez, which shows some level of consideration and recognition by the now CEO of reddit.

looking at it with the hindsight of time, the "free speech" defense rings a bit hollow considering the communities they were protecting at the time
Tell Microsoft: Don't leave computers behind
Do not go gentle into that overflowing landfill

The Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) has delivered a petition to Microsoft calling on the company to rethink the impending abandonment of Windows 10 in the face of millions of PCs potentially being rendered eligible for landfill overnight.

The Register link: https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/27/microsoft_petitioned_...

There are now less than two years until Microsoft is due to cut support for Windows 10, and at current estimates, 400 million PCs can't make the jump to Windows 11.

The petition, addressed to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, criticizes its plans and states that customers expect their devices to last rather than be rendered obsolete by an arbitrary decision. PIRG warns that tipping that much hardware into landfills is somewhat at odds with the company's stance on the environment.
The kidney surgery only looks so low risk (partially) because they only do it on people that passed the CT scan.

(To give an even more extreme example for illustration:

Suppose the scan could perfectly predict who will die from the surgery and who will live without any side effects. Suppose 90% of people fall into the former and 10% of people fall into the latter category. Suppose further that the scan has a 0.1% chance of killing you.

If you scan people beforehand, it will look like the surgery has 0% chance of complications against 0.1% of the scan. But if you dropped the scan, all of a sudden the surgery would have a 90% death rate.)
Let's hope they don't come through the way the current set does.
"Doubts have been raised about Tesla’s ability to profitably crack the mass market especially since the company has so far been unable to deliver an operating profit on its current line-up of higher-end cars,” Simon Colvin, a research analyst at the company, said in a note published Friday."

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/01/tesla-short-interest-hits-re...
Now that we have .porn, .sex, .win, .gay, .casino TLDs, I see no reason in TLDs deletion for whatever reason. If a country ceases to exist, just let this TLD be re-registered under the current conditions for registering custom TLDs. No?
I don't consider this a semantic argument.

The exact same code, without the transmute (just returning x directly from an unsafe block), fails a type check related to borrowing. Specifically, the compiler can't see why (without a transmute) it should believe that the reference x now has a different lifetime 'b instead of 'a. Which is fair because it doesn't.

The transmute is you claiming it does, and since transmute is an unsafe function that's entirely on you to make sure you're right about that. So, lying has the expected effect.

The borrow checks aren't magic, they can't look into your soul - but they are running inside unsafe code too.

* Edited to make explicit that the alternative is still marked unsafe and yet doesn't work
> The majority of the UN recognised countries, 106 do not recognize it.

A majority -- 102 of 193 -- UN members do recognize it. You may be counting some (though with your number, I think not all) of the false claims of withdrawal of recognition by other states which have been issued by the governments or state-affiliated media of Serbia and/or Russia, but later refuted by the governments in question, as being true.
I hate websites that aren't transparent about pricing. Like, how much is this crap going to cost? What are they offering exactly? I hate having to speak to some normie in sales just to get access to something. I swear - with how hard it is to buy from some of these companies its a wonder that they sell anything at all.
I think it was partly that you have to be quite well-read in sci-fi to know where the names for the tech, buildings, victory conditions etc. come from, so most people don't get an easy anchor to remember what benefits they're likely to get from their choices.

Probably also didn't help that the first version had a very anti-climactic victory sequence; they improved it, but I do remember it being jarringly sudden the first time I played.
It seems like such a bizarre jump to say "if we build trains, simply riding the train will drive people to drugs and mass murder, causing a new problem outweighing the benefits of the train".

If the train is not what is driving people to these heinous conditions, then it seems like this imagined problem is some unrelated thing.

Should we not build any shopping malls or parks or roads until we can somehow be certain there won't be a "crazy drug addicted mass-murderer" who goes there? Should we halt the plan to build apartments on the chance a purple dragon might take up residence and burn the town down?

For whatever it's worth, I've personally ridden busses in the US for years, taken subways and trains in no less than half a dozen US cities, and I've been murdered zero times so far. I don't see any reasonable path to "building more trains" leading to my odds of getting murdered going up.
Most places accept IC cards, which work like debit cards that you load money onto. Hotels support credit cards, but some western banks have trouble with the Japanese payment system.
It depends, I also speak German so I know what you're saying. It's a spectrum where narrower band is between Croatia and Serbia and Bosnia (although lexicopgrahical difference is quite there!) and a wider band between let's say Slovenia and Macedonia. Not talking about dialect, just grammar and especially lexicon - since dialects within ye olde republics is also quite something (zagorski, dalmatinski, šumandinski..). Good thing you've mentioned german though, since they have Hochdeutsch. We had it as well "srpsko-hrvatski ili hrvatsko-srpski" (actual full name not to offend anyone lol), but that died after Yugoslavia and ever since divergence grew even moreso.
The list of deleted ccTLDs is part of the ccTLD template: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:CcTLD
Not more google owned cables
Imperial Eras: A Taylor Swift Studies Reading List
I heard a story a few years ago they actually tried to reverse engineer the machine and only ended up with multi-million dollar machine that refused to work again.
The patent system is utterly broken and we could probably do away with it entirely, which would probably be a massive win for absolutely everyone except patent trolls.
Same. This and youtube blocking adblock (causing me to just exit the page) has been a boon to my productivity.
Fear of public spaces or even being in the same space as strangers isn’t “liking different things”, it’s a psychological problem - albeit one that a lot of people experience due to modern society being very atomised.
Iran allows paying compensation to kidney donors. You can study how they are doing. Hint: they don't have much of a wait list.

> I do not like the thought of desperate people selling their internal organs to survive one bit.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repugnant_market

Do you prefer desperate people have fewer options? Especially, do you prefer taking options from people that they prefer to take?
they still make them, although this one seems to be out of stock on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Nordic-Ware-Microwave-Micro-Go-Round-...
If you don't need the web interface and your usual desktop SDR software supports rtl-sdr tcp mode, you can easily set up a small board that calls rtl-sdr with the appropriate parameters so that it will wait for a remote connection from the above software, not unlike what happens with WebSDR, but you would be using your usual desktop SDR application which would be native and much more snappy than a web browser. Here's an example using gqrx.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74jDcHuDCmE

https://gqrx.dk/
There is a band that until 2021 was called "British Sea Power", and then they dropped British, specifically to avoid those vibes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Power
> A small British pedal company that I don't recall the name of also made a pressure-sensitive pad with a TRS output but they weren't available for separate purchase when I checked.

I think you're talking about the Rainger FX Igor: https://www.raingerfx.com/shop/p/igor-expression-pad

It looks like they're available for individual purchase now.
As someone who designs analog and digital circuits and a live long musician I often find that building your own shit is the way™, because even if you are not 100% happy with the results it is A) often possible to adjust the result till you like it and more importantly B) it is often all about the friends you made along the way (aka learning).

That being said traditional GAS, as in people that buy a ton of stuff in the hunt for the perfect tone falls often into two categories (or any mix of the two):

1. People whose motivation for the hobby is coupled to these purchases

2. People who don't completely understand all the contributing factors

A good example is Hifi-Heads who will spend upwards of 400 Euros for a simple cable and tell you they can hear what the best measuring equipment known to humanity can't measure, yet they fail to do even the most basic acoustic treatment to their listening space.

Guitar players can be similar, only there one big variable are the players themselves. Also they often fail to understand that every guitar tone they want to imitate is typically a recording of a guitar tone. That means the whole microfone/mixing desk/effects/recording media/mastering chain is part of that sound. So even if you you traveled back in time and had the possibility to sit with Hendrix in the studio, it probably wouldn't sound like it did on the record. And if he gave you the chance to play his guitar and his amp it would still not sound like him, because the magic (or the lack thereof) is in the fingers.

That being said, it is good and useful to have goals for certain sounds, but the way to achive them rarely is a very specific set of (typically obscenely expensive) gear — the trick is to understand your instrument, yourself and the whole signal chain intricately, or on the recording side of things: To work with people who have both that understanding and an appreciation for the sound you are aiming for (just like Hendrix obviously did).

On the Synth end of things I know people who are more into "collecting" these things than using them. These are the people who spend more time researching their next synth or module than they spend on actually learning how to use what they got.

I don't want to judge, it is all about the dopamine in the end, but as someone who enjoys the act of making music — a hobby that arguably needs a ton of stuff, depending on what you do — I always think a too crazy focus on gear takes away from that. And I say that as someone who constructs some of these circuits.
> Having a lifestyle company operating in their niche destroys that as a possibility

Can you give an example of how that destroys what they're doing?
Maybe this one https://github.com/dessant/web-archives

I'm using it on my phone. It gave me this https://archive.ph/20231026233758/https://theeyewall.com/try... with a few taps.
I run a ~5 year old Roomba, that I just never connected to anything. I control it via the physical buttons and it works just fine. Is that not an option anymore on newer models?
I'm talking about real-life meaning of the words. Real life communism and socialism is different from the books.
They were amazing! And considered useful by their land owners.
Kidneys are relatively close to the surface. So you can injure them mechanically.

Perhaps our ancestors kept their two kidneys around, but we can do with less, because our physical environment isn't as dangerous?
Show us the user retention curve :)
Swedish unions threaten to strike at payment company Klarna
Why would they run out of serfs?
Now I'm thinking about that song about the man with a detachable penis who looses it.

https://youtu.be/byDiILrNbM4?si=oiR7pKrCkjXOnUqJ
Simulating Red Bulls next set of upgrades no doubt.
As if Apple doesn't hold so many idiotic patents they enforce like a huge troll.
Have you donated a kidney recently?