skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this take. Nobody thinks of stamp collecting as a problematic hobby. Collecting and curating is fun in its own right.

Though I do think there can be another aspect at play; I often find myself collecting things that I think "might be useful". Eg: I have a ton of empty yogurt containers, for use in hypothetical future art projects. I do use them sometimes, but at this point I have plenty. I still feel the urge to keep saving them, though — for some imagined future. I wouldn't say "I enjoy collecting yogurt containers," though.

I'm no hoarder, but I do feel a certain pull/compulsion in that direction from time to time, and I could see the same being true elsewhere. It's not always easy to know whether I'm scratching an itch or worrying at it.
One can be a little creative with phrasing but push it to far and everyone is mocking you.
All top 10 richest men in the US are self made. And they worked damn hard at it. Of course they worked smart too, and took chances - that's the part most people miss.
Article describing Yugonostalgia for anyone interested to read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/25/everyone-loved...
You don't get it. :)

Algorithmic interviews like that test your capacity for bullshit. They're like "I know I'm testing you on irrelevant bullshit, but I want to see you succumb to my unreasonable demands to have studied trie-based search, because that means you are more likely to swallow any other bullshit I'll throw at you on the job".
London Tube lacks AC at some lines, though they are going to solve this.
They’re fine when it’s not packed rush hour and you’re sweating your ass off (Tube), or getting shaken down by grifters (Metro) anyway.

Which can be much of the time, but isn’t always for sure.

NYC subway is also nice when the buskers aren’t blaring music at 140db right next to you and daring anyone to confront them.

Still usually better than driving, depending on where you’re going. Sometimes even faster?

Women and children might not agree though.
Well, it's "a just technically very hard one" right now. Because, we could, technically, just send fertilizer, and soil, from Earth.

The question I am asking isn't "is it possible". The question I am asking is "is it worth it". I see a lot of comparisons with Columbus, colonising America and the first Lunar landing flying around in such discussions. Well, all of these, and in fact most grand far-fetched undertakings of mankind, as un-romantic as that may sound, were the result of a cost-benefit analysis;

Columbus expected to find a valueable trade-route.

Colonising America promised resources, taxes and geopolitical power.

Landing on the Moon showed off who got the biggest most badass rockets to a geostrategic opponent in the middle of a cold war centered around, well, rockets. There is a reason no man has been on the moon since the 70s.

Trying to colonise Mars promises...what exactly?
Don’t measure productivity. Measure ROI (Return on Investment). You are running a business after all. Cashflow is king!

Any productivity measure that isn’t derived from ROI is 100% guaranteed organic grass fed BS.

Increasing “productivity” can actually reduce global ROI.

I highly recommend looking into the Theory of Constraints.
I actually think this is a pretty good (opinion) piece. We've moved to a society that over-values math/analytical competence --and FYI, my background is in numerical simulations, so I am/was mathy myself. This is also related to the Andreesen Techno-Optimist claptrap: technology and analytics as the primary driver of human progress.

I would argue that the primary driver of human progress is /politics/ not math. It's societal values and organization and how those leverage technology as an enabler to move societies forward. Math and technology exist /everywhere/ in every corner of the world. Why do startups flourish in SV but not in (for example) Southern Europe where the climate is better, the standard of living is just as high and math/tech education is at least adequate? Politics (in the classical sense, not the party/election sense), values, infrastructure.

But by pushing tech as the end-all-be-all, the solution (and goal) of all endeavor, we're forgetting why we /want/ progress. We don't want a faster iPhone or a better search engine. We are pursuing happiness, having life and liberty.
Haha yes, like so many behaviors, collecting yogurt containers to re-use is adaptive until it isn’t.
Where are you getting that? Both Facebook and Instagram would appear to be at all-time high DAUs.
They all are usually reachable by subway. And subway network in Beijing is top notch.
And then try to read an Archive.org PDF. Every page is compressed with JPEG2000, and the tiny application processor in an ereader can take 10 seconds or more per page to render. Files archived over 10 years ago use DjVu which is near-instant, but they don't generate those any more.
It sounds like Papa My Golf to me. I suspect ˈpɑːpə maɪk ɡɒlf/ is reduced to ˈpɑːpə maɪ ɡɒlf/ because of the closeness of the K and G.
There are two products that HN has irrational love for - live that would make the most hardened musk fan blush, cloudflare and tailscale
Considering the history in the region I'd assume there would be a lot of people with axes to grind...

And see the (North) Macedonia drama for a clear example of a country's name being controversial.
It really isn't, at least not generally.

I think tablets are a decent secondary substitute for print-form only for publications like this with figures and images, and where the activity is more browsing rather than linear.

For general reading (eg fiction) I think print is optimal, followed by e-ink with normal tablets considerably down the list.

The ease of access to a library bumps up the utility of the ereader and tablet considerably.
This kind of thing happens with language too. Areas which historically had a lot of immigration sometimes end up with immigrant communities that still speak "the old way". I know some Brazilians of Japanese descent who've moved "back to" Japan. They take Japanese language lessons and the instructors always know to tell these folks "don't talk like your parents/grandparents", since the lingo on the mainland has shifted significantly.

I've also heard the rumor that this is why the US and UK speak differently, and that the US is actually how Britain used to sound, but I've also seen people say it's BS.
I work with agencies coming from print and oh boy, don’t get me started.
At the same time it’s a freaking mess even for someone who’s been doing this for a long time.
My go to strategy is now to address concerns as much as possible by being involved in the design phase, as I have a design background, then implement and ship and then always have a “tell me everything that’s broken in obscure viewports only 1% of people use” and fix those live with CSS patches and viewport specific media queries during review phase or even live.
And that, together with heavy regulation, is why we have the present situation where young people can't stat families because they can't afford a home. Not the example I would like to follow anywhere else.
An anecdote to go along with his rejection. Once I got rejected from doing a medical donation in US because in the giant table of family sicknesses they gave me I marked X next to one of the mental conditions for my father who was an alcoholic because apparently alcoholism technically is that kind of mental condition (yes, the X had to be explained in the form, which I did). As you can imagine alcoholism is not that heritable, and had more to do with the environment (I grew up in Russia where it was extremely prevalent), but for the clerks an X is an X.
>Countries like China and India call pull it off because government makes the decision for people

India is a democracy, as is Japan where public transit is fantastic. Many European countries also have very good transit. The problem isn't the type of government, it's the people and culture political will. Americans just don't want public transit enough to build and live in cities where it would work well. Not driving everywhere in a car is unthinkable to most Americans.
I might be wrong but there are compute shaders that can retake inputs and well, do more computing on them afaik.
Oh nice, thanks [0] didn't know about it, just received communication they're abandoning it completely, I'm learning about "skills bundle" from you. This is really good.

[0] https://learning.acm.org/skills-bundle
Short answer: Because when you leak state secrets the media is actually not standing behding you.
get ready for some screams at night, your neighbors might think you are doing something different though
I will add the comment here..
Anything that asks for a sign-up on the get-go is shunned by most.. no FAQ, no examples, no nothing.
So awesome that the authors of linked articles hang out here. Thanks for clearing it up!
That's mostly a symbolic legal fiction. And I'm guessing here but at least the half of the country who wants to be independent might prefer to be called Taiwan rather than RoC in casual conversation.
I'm more offended by having to guess which word is meant.
All that design and fabrication work, and the pedals swing the wrong way? And has no rigid frame connection to a seat?

If you're going to bother, then one of the biggest things is to rigidly attach the pedals to the seat so that they cannot move in relation to the seat even against the full power of legs.

And of course car pedals swing on a pivot that is above the pedals not below, although the gas pedal has an extra linkage so that IT does pivot on the bottom.

Clutch and brake (not break) require full leg power and knee bend, only gas is purely ankle bend, calf power.

And if such details don't matter, then you're right back to the off the shelf one.
Who said "major airports"?
To add, the gear mentioned in hobbies like this will often hold its value; they're well built tools, often not mass produced, and well looked after.

Source: I wanted a set of the Volca electronic instruments, but the secondhand market was not significantly cheaper than new.
I think what they were trying to say is that Tokio ended up being a general purpose async runtime so naturally it can't be the most optimal solution for every case. But because various libraries kind of force you into Tokio, it's very hard to use a runtime that's optimal for your specific problem. You'd have to give up on a lot of convenient libraries out there.
«Mr. Navorski, Krakozhia no longer exists»
Like most "language X has no word for Y" or "language X has a thousand words for Y" claims, it's true in a trivial sense and false in a practical sense.

Yes, there is no exact translation for "mind" that carries with it every contextual sense the word can have in English. Word-for-word translations generally don't work very well in any pair of languages.

German does however have plenty of words that have the same meaning as "mind" when used in the same context: Bewusstsein (consciousness), Verstand (reason), Geist (spirit/intellect), Gedanken (thoughts), Gehirn (brain), Meinung (opinion), Phantasie (imagination), Denkweise (way of thinking), Gemüt (disposition) and so on. So does German have no word for "mind" or a dozen?

Daniel Dennett created a nice word for such claims: "deepity". A statement that seems insightful (deep) at first but turns out to be trivial if you spend a few seconds reflecting on it.

German doesn't have a word for "mind" because it's an English word and there's a dozen words that already express the same ideas in every possible context. If you find a concrete context in which there is no word sufficiently expressing the same idea, that's when you create a new one or borrow one: like zeitgeist, a German word that could just as well have been translated as "spirit of the times" or angst, another German word that literally means fear or dread.
This ignores that such a breaking up of the US would very likely be based on similar dynamics as "balkanizations" that see smaller groups put their own identidy above that of the bigger group.

Sentiments that will be reinforced during a civil war when these groups keep trading violence and atrocities with each other, that creates a lot of bad blood and tends to make people identify in ways that differentiate them from "the enemy".

Not even Americans are immune to that, it's an issue latent to this day whenever state rights vs federal government comes up.
/proc would like a word with you

But yes technically such a setup is possible (not with any mainstream OS though).
It would have to be very restrictive w.r.t mounts and virtual file systems.
If you believe chi to be some kind of pseudoscience rather than something easily experienced you're in no position to tell us how it relates to what's being discussed here, as you demonstrate your ignorance.
Its a fascinating but painful read. It points to the elaborate and arbitrary cultural constructs we invent to interpret and regulate responses to the physical and behavioral diversity of humanity.

Ten centuries later we like to think that we have outgrown this phase and arguably this is indeed so on an explicit, externalized level.

But I wonder if a thousand years from now the medievalists studying the 21st century will be collecting an equally unsettling set of elaborate and arbitrary cultural constructs. Maybe not painted on church walls but e.g., implicit in the narratives and digital artifacts people share in social media
> "Masimo has wrongly attempted to use the ITC to keep a potentially lifesaving product from millions of U.S. consumers while making way for their own watch that copies Apple," an Apple spokesperson said.

no idea whether apple owns the health related patents on apple watch. So, does this mean apple will give up rights on all of it's health related patents?

text taken from the reuter's article - https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-trade-tribunal-issues-...

dang: please update the link.
I got a list of codes when i opened my first online bank account in the early 2000's.

In between there was a special key-generator given to each customer, that was abandoned about 10 years ago. (edit: it was the RSA SecurID's mentioned in this thread)

Since then we've got apps that need to be activated using a letter with a special qr-code, as well as the bank account-number (username) & password another qr-code from the website. I assume it generates a private key in the app which will not be transferred to a new device (but maybe somehow is). You need to login using your account-number (username) and password, after that you have to open the app (login with face-scan) scan a qr-code and enter the generated code.

Getting a printed out card or page with something on it to verify your identity seems like 20 years tech to me.
Very nice, I've tried looking at a couple other tutorials in the past but they always assume more prior knowledge than I have.

This really hits the sweet spot for me.

Would love to see tutorials on more topics. In particular, a very basic lighting model but with a detailed breakdown on how normals and dot product work together.

Yes, there's plenty of info out there, but I think your teaching style would still make it worthwhile
your GP said "not paywalled"; I think your PP was pointing out that he encountered a paywall
Not really. The customer buys from me, not Apple and I get their email address and can ask them to sign up for my newsletter. I have to sign my and notarize my software with Apple, but the customer probably isn't even aware of that,
China certainly didn't spend a century building theirs.
I don't see the connection between Amazon, Facebook, and Netflix and free software.
Which completely fails in any dense city because all it takes is one random pedestrian to cut you off - and you won’t be moving for hours. Because no one is going to yield if you don’t make them. And waymo won’t try to make them because that is how you get accidents.

There is a reason city drivers are aggressive, and it’s not just because they’re stressed out. It’s literally necessary to make any forward progress in many cases.
There is a documentary about Yugoslav internet: https://vimeo.com/95833310
>How many people die when you do that?

Depending on how you do it and where, potentially everybody in the car.
I originally joined in July 2009. HN was a lot smaller back then and demographic polls were somewhat common at first, at least comparatively. They later became less common.

There was variation in poll results, but my recollection is the variation was something like 96 to 99 percent male. At some point, I settled on a figure of "roughly 98 percent" as a good faith estimate.

I have a Certificate in GIS and a relatively strong math background for the general population, though not for HN, and I know a little CSS and HTML, but I'm not really a programmer, I'm not perceived of as "a tech person" by the HN crowd, etc. I feel I "belong"/fit but it's pretty clear to me most people feel I don't.

When I hit something like 2000 karma under my old handle -- and probably the top 3 people on the leaderboard all had about 50k at the time -- I began getting weird comments that suggested to me I was viewed as "prominent for a woman" on HN, though the bottom of the leaderboard was probably around 10k at the time.

I'm a big fat nobody in the real world and was nowhere near qualifying as having "a lot" of karma for HN and yet comments seemed to suggest people found me noteworthy. So I spent some time keeping private data to try to sort out what the heck was going on.

Those records are long lost and I'm disinclined to say too much about them publicly, but I mention them to say I did track data of some sort related to gender and HN membership for a time.

Things have changed over time and commenting as openly female is less drama for me than it used to be. There are many, many confounding factors that make it impossible to determine how much that is cultural change related to gender and how much that's somehow "me"/my relationship to the site, but I've observed that I notice openly female participants more often and topics seem to include more articles by and/or about women in a way that seems like inclusion is more normalized than it was 14 years ago. Or even 10 years ago.

The data here generally fits with my personal observations and impressions that HN is more diverse than it used to be. I don't feel it matters a whole lot if it's off by a bit. It makes little difference to me whether the "non male" demographics is double, triple, quintuple or septuple the roughly 2 percent it once was. I feel and see the difference and presumably others do too that they show up more, percentage-wise.

I commented because I'm probably the only person who has a history of tracking gender-related data on HN and I know how this goes: People see the low figures and start having fits about sexism.

I'm just trying to provide context. Yes, HN skews very strongly male. It used to skew even more strongly male according to my personal observations and polls of this sort.

FWIW.
This looks like what I want. I’m confused though: what is the radio? WiFi? Zigbee?
function mod0(x, y)
return (x % y) + 1
end

Something like this? You replace % with mod0()
It's unrelated to post-processing. Moving the camera around makes things blurry at low frame rate (and 50fps is low) because of sample-and-hold blur. This can be mitigated by strobing the screen at the same speed as the frame rate, but few monitors support strobing at 50Hz (it would look annoyingly flickery) and if the game ever dropped below 50fps it would break the effect.

Blur Busters explains:

https://blurbusters.com/faq/oled-motion-blur
Seeing the same thing here as well. Looks like Istio/Envoy error messages.
Just strange to use HTTP for comparison when the actual problem works just fine.

If I'm connecting to WiFi normally, and expecting that I can be tracked, there isn't a vulnerability.

If I'm connecting to WiFi using this privacy feature, and expecting NOT to be trackable, yet someone is still able to track me, there is a serious vulnerability!
Honestly, this is not a technical issue but rather a communication and “positive non-narcissistic persuasion” one. I think I’m a meh to ok designer and an ok frontend webdev, but my strongest selling point is communication, with clients praising that aspect of my work more often than I would have ever expected. Designers might care about pixel perfection, but their bosses rarely do. If you have engaging, respectful, data-driven, and business-oriented points to make and you communicate them clearly and effectively, you’ll be surprised how many times you can change someone’s mind. Even designers’ minds, because they don’t live in a vacuum and they know that shipping is relevant to their own interests.
Tl;dr invest in effective communication skills as much as you would invest in more technical knowledge.
Ever heard of second order effects? Dumb laws have consequences. I live in EU and browsing the web in EU has significantly degraded since GDPR compared to the US.

I can see a cause and effect, I don't need to invent conspiracies and accuse the industry that provides me goods and services I actually want.
I was wondering about that, but not enough to do any actual research. I figure that hunter-gatherer's diet consisted of a whole lot of meat (seasonally perhaps) and then two kidneys were of advantage. My doctors recommended against eating big steaks. I wasn't eating much of those before and had no need to adjust.

I can't tell the difference (six years after the procedure), but then, I'm no athlete monitoring his performance closely.
In recent years the British government seems to be distancing itself from the term Great Britain (perhaps as a consequence of more awareness/sympathy of Northern Irish issues?), and using United Kingdom / UK more.

As an example - the [International vehicle registration code](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_vehicle_registra...) recently changed from GB to UK.
>and to have all of their line-items exhaustively audited [...]?

That part they should have expected (and I'm sure they did). Scott claims they expected negative social reactions, just maybe not to this extent.

Even in the absence of journalist attention, EAs love to exhaustively audit line-items. Something as big as Wytham Abbey was clearly not going to escape commentary.

I don't follow why SBF somehow excuses this. It seems you're suggesting buying the abbey would have been fine if only it could have been kept quiet, but because of this unforeseeable black swan event people heard about the Secret EA Castle and now we have all this outrage.

I heard about it from the EA Adjacent forum, and I don't see what SBF has to do with the argument that this burned a lot of social capital and reputation within the community for very nebulous gains (compared to buying a counterfactual property). The abbey might be relatively cheap for what it is, but not absolutely cheap. And it turned out to be very expensive in other ways.
Skiff: Deploy your static sites with Kamal
They seem to try to keep the brands separate, maybe exactly because of the possibility of incidents like this one.
...except for the pickpockets.
It is not confusing at all. Taiwan is a commonly used name for the ROC, and (mainland) China is generally understood as a reference to the PRC.

Since the de facto territories of the two states are common knowledge, you can unambiguously refer to them just by mentioning their rough position on the map. Similarly, East/West Germany were not officially called East/West Germany, and it was not the official name of either country, but people still understood what the words meant.
What Is Nightshade?
Actually, I received direct email from founder of eBay when I posted on a message board that I was looking to buy a second-hand laptop, with a listing for laptop on eBay. It was very early days of eBay. I wish I had kept the email and my reply expressing uncertainty about buying on eBay and not receiving the product.