skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what fraction of the population is "sitting on" talent they could pursue through hobbies or volunteer work if making a living didn't suck all their energy?

I am no saint, but I have some useful things I'd like to pursue with extra energy and time.
I don’t remember the analysis but I recall being effectively convinced that battery electric busses are a huge step down compared to electric trolleys.
> What if you had to show Government ID whenever you entered a grocery store, a library, a movie theater?

What if you had to show Government ID whenever you entered a bar, a strip club, or a (R-rated) movie theatre?
>Hitchens's razor is an epistemological razor that serves as a general rule for rejecting certain knowledge claims. It states "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."
Bunt is my favourite German word
Yeah...pornhub is a good actor though. Maybe people end up on shadier websites with much less savory and/or outright illegal content instead.
Zero-knowledge methods for verifying age are possible but there is almost no political will or interest in them. Sites would get a “yes” or “no” as to whether someone is of age, and no other information.
Kobos also support epub.

Almost all my Kobo books are EPUB and work great.
It also assumes that everyone has the same wants in life. Yes, if we all lived the lifestyle of monastic monks, and gave up many luxuries than yeah, sure, we could live on very little levels of employment. The problem is that people want different life styles than that. It's like when the fuckcars crowd tells everyone they should just bike to work even though there's plenty of people that have deal with mobility issues, children, winter, not being in their 20s and etc. etc. One size doesn't fit all and something that one person thinks is useless and can be cut out is a thing someone else can't live without.
> It fucks up a lot of kids (and adults).

That which is asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
Israel is pulling troops from Gaza
It might sounds old and something that somebody always says, but emacs org mode is absolutely fantastic!!

I picked it up just a few days ago because I needed to keep notes, code, links, tables… just general information as I worked on projects.

I installed doom emacs because I just wanted some defaults that worked ok, watched a few YouTube videos, it took me a day to pick it up and now I’m totally in love with it!

The tables are awesome, the links even better, being able to move whole blocks of text, collapse sections, mark todos, is awesome!

Don’t worry about “learning” emacs or org mode, just watch some videos to get an idea of what you can do and then just pick what you need.

I’ve tried emacs multiple times in the last decade and it never stuck, but org mode is absolutely fantastic!
This news article on a Fox affiliate site only mentions Pornhub. Did this originally link elsewhere?

edit: e621 is certainly doing this; this is from their front page right now:

Dec 31st: Due to the current legal situation in North Carolina and the uncertainty surrounding it, we will be blocking access to e621.net from North Carolina until we can consult with our legal counsel on this matter. We did not come to this decision lightly and we will do what we can, as we can, to rectify and remedy this situation so that we can restore access to those users that are affected by this matter. We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience and will have an update as soon as possible.
Institutionalized is exactly the word you want, and many argue that this outcome is the more practical purpose of the school system.

The trouble is that the world after the institutions is a wild west, and so people who were well institutionalized struggle to adapt or flee to comfort inside one of the institutions (big corporates count too). Happy enough with the outcome, they are defensive of the institution that supports their lifestyle and perspective. Fair enough really.

I am being a bit general here, there is heaps of nuance and room for individual perspectives. But I think you are spotting exactly that, institutionalized individuals.
To be honest, I don't know - but the billboards are everywhere and not subtle at all.
Tape is really backing (whatever) + glue. The glue can vary a lot in quality and properties.

F.ex. Patched a hole in a Miata top with some duct tape = gone in 2 weeks in high summer heat. Used some "high strength" heat-tolerant duct tape = still there, 3 years of summer and winter later. The latter was ~$5 more expensive.
I can't comment on Herb Sutter. But Jonathan Blow, from what I've seen and heard, is deeply passionate about the domain Jai is targeting and appears to have Jai already in pre-production use in his next in-development game/engine.

I agree about the MVP stuff; in contrast to things like Zig, Jai is the completely opposite, it's being built behind closed doors with little to no community feedback, with the creator and inner circle have say in the direction.

I'm not sure how well it will pan out. Seems like, from the outside, Blow is scratching his own itch and maybe it's possible Jai will never take off. The only real world similar example is Elm, which while open source, is/(was?) also heavily design behind closed doors in many ways, albeit not to the degree to which Jai is.

There's also Mojo, the Python-like language. It's also being built behind closed doors, but it seems to have a lot of hype behind it already.
One of Lafargue's critiques: "Suppose that a commodity is overproduced, so that its supply outstrips demand. Its price will fall. To compensate, factory owners will cut costs or slow production. And that means they will pay their workers less or lay them off. Consumer demand will then further contract, incentivizing further wage cuts, which will further suppress demand."

As we know, this hasn't happened. Instead, factory owners build other widgets, either something that is currently undersupplied or something that is brand new. And of course they do this by changing the machinery in their factory and re-training their workers (or hiring new workers). Changing from gasoline-powered automobiles to EVs (to the extent this is happening) is an example. Most of the things we buy today, with the exception of meat and vegetables, are things that didn't exist a century ago. Even automobiles, tractors and airplanes little resemble those of a century ago.

In some cases the old factories are torn down and work moves elsewhere, along with the laborers, but this is mostly building new widgets that couldn't be built in those old factories. The Rust Belt and the coal mining areas of Appalachia are examples.
Grandparent. While OP designates the root post, GP is two posts up.
There's also Hare [https://harelang.org] which I see mentioned on (rare) occasion. I think it uses a different backend than LLVM.
With a natural recharge rate of ~0, stopping becomes permanent rather abruptly. So I’m not sure what you assume the benefit of such a stance is.
A large fraction of "spent" nuclear fuel is unfissioned Uranium that can (and should) be recycled. France does this. It's a fact of physics that the more radioactive is a material, the faster it decays. The most dangerous isotopes decay in years, not centuries or millenia.

One stunning fact, originating in the incredible energy density of e=mc^2, is:

"If we take that a step further, U.S. commercial reactors have generated about 90,000 metric tons of spent fuel since the 1950s. If all of it were able to be stacked together, it could fit on a single football field at a depth of less than 10 yards."

Now ponder how much coal ash and CO2 has been released into the atmosphere since the 1950s (!!!) And more than that: how many heavy metals with an infinite half-life have been sent into the atmosphere by such burning and settled into the ground including agricultural soil.

Nuclear waste is a gigantic straw-man. It's a manufactured issue by environmentalists who've wanted to kill nuclear for decades.

Moreover, it's likely that Helion will create the first commercially viable fusion reactor in a small number of years. Once that happens, it becomes even better than fission.

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...
That's what you get running a webserver. This is what should happen (but you could choose not to log those...)
I thought the same until Rogue One. :)
I'd like to use the opposite approach: top-list search hit results on websites that I've bookmarked another subpath of or visited before. Difficulty being: when to stop requesting later result pages to get a hit. Both Firefox moz_places and Chromes Default/History sqlite databases have the info to populate such a list.
You got me. But seriously...
The SALT deduction used to serve as a kinda-sorta cost-of-living adjustment for the federal tax code. Tax brackets don't consider cost of living, so taxing someone earning $200k in CA the same as someone earning $200k in, I dunno, Nebraska, isn't exactly fair. But since higher-CoL areas tend to have higher taxes, the CA earner at least got to deduct the enormous state taxes they paid from their federal return.

The TCJA capped the SALT deduction at $10k for married filers, which is an absolute joke to anyone who pays taxes in CA or NY. But that cap goes away in (I think) the 2025 tax year. I don't think CA has to do anything but wait out the clock and make damn sure that its representatives stonewall any legislation to extend the SALT cap.

And yes, I know that econonmists absolutely love the SALT cap because it's a tax on non-poor people. But the point of the tax code is not to extract every last penny from non-poor people -- it's to make sure everyone is contributing fairly to a well-run society at all levels. If you want states to be the laboratory of democracy, that's fine, but you can't do that by penalizing states that have high taxes in order to pay for services that the federal government doesn't provide. And that's precisely what the SALT cap does (and was explicitly intended to do).
I think blackouts are no longer needed. However, if you visit Hanoi and wonder why some streets are so dark even today, it goes back to last mid-year, when the authority decided they needed to save energy more aggressively.
If the reuse of a single IP address is not prevalent, these are hard to act against. Then you need a different kind of mitigation.
Adding that with voice record I would 100% pay to switch today
(1) The music industry? (2) Working musicians who make contemporary music people want to listen to? (3) Paying to maintain a big classical music hall that people think other people should listen to? (4) (3) only if they play Debussy instead of Bach?
>> I have some useful things I'd like to pursue with extra energy and time.

It's funny that most of my peers don't even think about that, or even a life with less work.
heh, that reminds me of when I used to eagerly hunt used bookstores for anything by henry cecil (an out-of-print humorous writer). it was always exciting to find one I hadn't read before. and then his entire works got reprinted and you would have thought I would just buy and binge read the lot, but somehow the excitement went out of it and I just ended up reading a couple more. I should go back and catch up on him, actually, it's been years and years since I last read one.
Perhaps its an example of horseshoe theory?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory

US State legislators tend to be more politically extreme these days, AFAIK.

Or just good old "save the children," I guess? Where either party is afraid to make themselves look bad.
I'm not usually impressed by generated images. But the furry models are astounding. Right now my best signal for something being AI is that it's incredibly detailed by doesn't have a signature.
there's two independent statements:

- i am authorized by the owner of this piece of copyrighted work

- this copyrighted work appears at this url.

the first needs to be true under penalty of perjury. the second can be as false as you want with no repercussions.
The point is Tennessee’s model doesn’t work without subsidies from California, Texas and New York.
Crystal counts. I’m not sure why it doesn’t get more love as it’s one of the fastest.
I'm not sure that suits everyone's most common use case. (I'm not arguing that it may well suit yours.) I guess on paper it makes sense that commit messages are the top-level entry point to changes. But since we're packaging up a lot of our work in merge requests, the commit messages already get snowed under. Folks arrive in a merge request, and often can't care less about the commit messages that make up the merge request, they may read the message on the merge request, familiarize themselves (ideally) with the story in (ugh) Jira, and then jump to the diff for the review they came there to do. It's the later version of you that is browsing through the code base and wants to understand how a certain current piece of code came about, who then clicks on the gutter in, let's say, IntelliJ, and clicks through to the commit, where both the diff and the commit message are shown.
I'm going to say that a solar panels and some kind of battery are still sound easier than growing and refining/brewing sugar cane into ethanol. To me anyway.
At least here in the US, we don't legally restrict minors from having sex (with others of the same age). The other two are physical goods with well-studied and proven health effects. Porn is not like these things.
What do you think the intent of the ordinance is? My aunt recently moved to Tennessee and as a trans woman, I am terrified of stepping foot in that state. It is clear we are not welcome there.
Instead of thinking of it as the binary work/not-work, think of it as activity/non-activity. Whether people are active building widgets or active planning things, people have to do something. Else people, at large, descend to animal level behavior (be it Netflix binging, gaming, gambling, drugging, etc.)

Surely a few percent would pursue meaningful (for humanity) pursuits, but it would be relatively few. Is whiling away your time at the beach any better than sending memos (emails) around?

I don't think we can basically go back to being apes. We are human and cannot rid ourselves of that.
Reddit being full of porn is an open secret. I bet its not something they advertise to banks and investors.

I think they would purge rather than confirm the presence of it in any way.
Not to hand. That's my belief from my observation. I looked for statistics for about 10 minutes, but didn't really find good information. I suspect this area is under researched. Happy to look at any sources you want to link.

Both of these can be true, however. I imagine most adults sometimes drink alcohol too. Personally I might go weeks or months without watching porn, it's not something I generally do everyday. People who do would blow my usage out of the water (which, to be clear, is fine, you do you).

As a thought experiment - we all agree that lots of people watch porn, right? So if it leads to addiction or sexual dysfunction at even a rate of 1% or 2%, that would be an epidemic. If there are tens of millions of porn consumers in the US (which I think is very conservative), we'd expect hundreds of thousands of people to develop issues.

So - where are they? Do we have a source for that?
I guess a lawsuit could be filed arguing that showing a minor a video recording of loving consensual sex between two adults is not harmful.

Perhaps one could even argue that it is beneficial, by helping dispel sexual repression or discomfort around sexual matters.
> Kids suicides inceased 10x because ...

What country, which ages, and when?

That didn't happen in either the USofA nor Australia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crude_US_suicide_rate_by_...

https://viz.aihw.gov.au/t/Public/views/CoD_Tableaus_2022/S6a...

as "10x" would imply suicides per 100,000 rose from ~10 per 100K to ~100 per 100K (depending on country | age bracket, etc).
yeah, hopefully OpenAI will launch GPT store or something in the future. I was thinking if I should create a webapp or extension, so that GPT subs dependency will not be needed any longer.
It adds rules to in-kernel netfilter tables. On Linux at least, there is really no such thing as a firewall app, there are just different ways to add and manage rules. The only 'approved' default app is nft (nftables), but any app can act on the in-kernel tables.
Oh, we’d be fine without it. It just augments.
Pulsed DC is not DC,:)

Since all such power supplies prominently feature transformers, they can't operate on DC alone. But the frequency they use is high (a few kHz), the transformers are small, unlike the huge beasts in traditional 50/60 Hz power supplies.
Not even counting commute times, there is a lot of undercounted prep-for-work hours. WFH, I am ready to login within 10 minutes from my alarm clock after basic hygiene. If I go into the office, significantly more time on preparing appropriate dress, grooming, whatever.
After work, I need additional time to wind down from the commute +work stress.
I had a similar problem with the power/standby LED on my living room PC, but I fixed it with a resistor to cut the brightness and some capacitors to make it fade out instead of just blinking on and off. I wrote a bit about it in the "Power/Standby LED" section on https://pcpartpicker.com/b/LYjypg
for those who want some maths-heavy stuff for deep learning, check francois fluret's book https://fleuret.org/francois/lbdl.html. the pdf is free but the print is so cute.
But even a small fraction of "unleashed talent" could lead to some very interesting results.

I'm a bit obsessive and easily distracted, so perhaps I'm way outside the norm.
I wonder if these adult sites could host a ton of non-adult content in order to get below the 30% mark. There used to be a similar law in (I think it was) NYC stores. To combat this, adult bookstores would stock tons of non-porn titles which weren't even really for sale.
Today the SEC ruled that stablecoins are securities.

It is a moving goal post.
I'm not intending to suggest there aren't better solutions than periodically taping & cleaning, but a can of adhesive cleaner stuff will make short work of that mess, worth having.

(The one I use - mainly for barcode etc. stickers with shitty adhesive that doesn't peel off nicely - is by 'Pro Power' which I think is CPC's house brand, so that's not helpful if you're outside the UK.)
Haha. But seriously, Kagi gives you all this out of the box, in any browser…
I have had to adopt
"You dont have to finish every book"
a couple of times.

There are books that are challenging and will require considerate amount
of work, or sludging through, and in the end it has been a rewarding
experience. More so, than a book you just sit down and read front to back.

Yet, there is not always gold at the end of the rainbow.

A well known piece of literature can give a bit of an indicator on
if it is worth it or not.

Random literature self published Kindle not so much, yet a couple of
self published fiction on Kindle have been difficult but in the end
rewarding.

it is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you will get.
Ask HN: No "Light Mode" for an App?
Is not offering a "light mode" anti-user?

I am building an iPhone app. I run in dark-mode on my iPhone 100% of the time and I think the app looks funny in white.

If I were to ship it with a dark mode only - is that as bad as if I were to ship an app and not offer a dark mode?
I take it that you're gravely misinformed.
I am a parent of three young kids and I turned my ‘office’ into a toy room a long long time ago. Now, I remote into a 8GB raspberry pi from my phone to do side projects. The raspberry pi is slow but I am not sitting around waiting for it to work. It can run LLMs and even stable diffusion.

I remote in, do something, write notes, then get back to life. I’ll check back once I have time. I even have wireguard set up so I can remote in from anywhere!
Nothing should rely on ssh being on 22 without taking config into account. Never use stupid tools!
To add to this — Ancient Apocalypse is a very popular Netflix series that was released in 2022 that goes into detail about this as well. Wikipedia is extremely derisive about the documentary because archaeologists think Graham Hancock is a total crackpot. He’s also done at least two interviews with Joe Rogan. In the newest one he goes into great detail about taking DMT and seeing serpents and weird stuff, he’s a wild dude.
> absolutely amazing

People with no purpose tend to self-destruct.
I never managed to get it to stick, $10/mo for a search engine seems like a lot, when compared to the free DDG, and from what I remember the results weren't impressively better, just maybe a bit better.
I don't think, and in general believe people label, not things like construction work or care givers as BS jobs.

BS jobs are the ones that only exist to support hordes of people having jobs; middle managers, service industry (all the downtown office worker coffee/lunch/bar/cleaners/maint). And most retail.
Amazon stopped being better than eBay around 2019 and has fallen hard. The search sucks, getting a good quality item is hard, reviews are games. Yeah returns are easy, but not getting what you want and needing to return is a PITA. Returns are also just as easy on eBay and not nearly as needed.

Amazon with Prime still edges out on shipping speed but eBay is close.

eBay acquaints you more with the seller and if you are buying from a seller with "Top Rated" status you can be sure you will get a good product shipped quickly.

If Amazon can clean up bad sellers / fake reviews and fix the search they can get back to being the best.

Personally I find better prices and quicker delivery or pickup for most common goods at Walmart and for the Chinese stuff that Amazon is filled with there's Ali, Temu, etc.

When I need something more niche I prefer eBay but still search Amazon, but again, their search sucks.
Excellent. I've been looking for something like this when I was getting gifts for Xmas. Can I also ask it for products based on my own preferences? Or are the options pre-determined?
Want to feel intellectually, like someone is rotating your tires?
How effective is this at detecting Second Impact? That's the only thing that really worries me.
My watch tells me when to run and how much to run. I feel good after each run so I follow its instructions.

Tip: you don't need gear or even shoes to run, just run to the office or chase the kids.
The streaming industry pays so very little to the many musicians whose work make them run. It is really sad.
Adjust ban counts when dealing with aggressive Apple apps.
I can only refer you back to the GP. All your words are brought by you to the conversation; none by me. I not only disagree with you, some directly conflicts with what I've said.

The tension is only if you accept some external definition of yourself. That's why I talked about external and internal in the GP. Harvard can't possibly love you; in a sense, nobody can love you; you can only love yourself (and then, there's there's room for personal love from others - but never Harvard). The same goes for me and everyone else.

All that matters is what you give to yourself. If you give yourself the parent comment, that's what you will have, even if Harvard begged you to come - lots of externally successful people are very unhappy for that reason. If you give yourself love and value, then you will have that, again regardless of what Harvard says about you. Harvard is orthogonal to the outcome.

You are not inferior to anyone. But only you can tell yourself that. You won't hear me until you tell yourself and believe it. But I really mean it.
Carbon was started by Chandler Carruth, at Google, but they wanted to move it to broader governance quickly. It's not under the Google GitHub today, but its own org.

https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/do...

And Meta is pretty clearly committed to Rust at this point.