skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unless someone has another reason why it has as much views as the next 7 videos combined.

WebAssembly is more interesting/hyped to the general programming population than Python?

Probably a lot of JavaScript/frontend people have at least a passing interest in WebAssembly, while maybe not caring so much about Python.
I spent 25 minutes trying to cancel my hello fresh subscription but it pretended like it couldn’t find my account and customer service was useless. I thankfully used a burner virtual credit card and just disabled the card, but they attempted and failed to charge the card three times a week for months before giving up. Scummy company
Learning self-discipline the hard way rather than treating yourself like a naughty child being told off.
Excellent article, thanks for writing and posting it.
It's a kind of Chinese-owned, Chinese-managed physical store. It has a little bit of every kind of non-perishable product. From clothes to tools to toys to tupperware, directly imported from China. The quality is not high, but neither is the price, and they have an extensive offering. I think in the US is they have a similar kind of place called the "Dollar Store".
For some context, OCW was originally created for the ostensible purpose of providing teachers with the raw materials to create their own coursework. At the time audio and video classes weren't commonplace so it really came from a different place than MOOCs would eventually. (One also suspects that the OCW approach probably helped bypass some of the objections that jumping straight to MOOCs would have generated if it were even possible at the time.)
Subwoofer and/or chair-mounted bass shakers?

In any case $x00 and the ability to say 'eh, good enough' in the end should do...

... OTOH my quixotic project was figuring out RF capture of Laserdiscs which involves digging pretty deep, but it's all open source and it's not just my thing anymore.

This all makes me think of Kermit talking about dreams that get better the more people you share them with.
Can you explain what you mean a bit more? My connection to eg my bank isn't decryptable by anybody but me and my bank (and their CDN which is serving their certificate). That is, eg, Verisign has root CA keys to sign the cert, and they could give me a cert that says they're my bank and I could make a new connection that they could decrypt, but the original connection to my bank can't be decrypted by their keys.
I use deleteme and it works well. I saw a significant different in search results after I signed up.
Our Continuing Struggle with the Idea That For-Profits Seek Profit (2012)
For same process + core + hot cache & pipeline, your upper bound is something like 1,000,000x faster than a trip within the same datacenter.

This intuition is what encouraged us to run with SQLite in production back when most developers didn't think it was a good idea.
Ah yes, "you're holding it wrong."
No, it isn’t. Try looking for these alleged laws and you’ll see how badly you’ve been lied to. There’s a small industry pushing this idea because it exonerates a bunch of rich people from being accountable for their decisions, but that doesn’t make it true.

What you’ll actually find is that executives are expected to act with the best interests of the company in mind but are given broad discretion for what that means. This is because there’s no way to reliably predict the future and any non-trivial business decision requires a gamble on multiple conditions and the outcome is hard to judge over a non-trivial timeframe. You can replace an executive if you’re unhappy, but there’s no way you’re getting any money back unless you can show something like fraud or gross nepotism.

As a simple example, during the 90s and early 2000s some analysts said Apple should switch to Windows or license macOS to PC manufacturers. At the time, they had a fair argument that this would boost profits and if your fictitious law really existed, Jobs might not have been able to ignore them – and shareholders would have missed out on many billions in value which was created later. If you measured his performance over a single year, you’d have been disastrously wrong over a decade.
> If you think the vast majority of humanity is engaged in passively or actively allowing a second wrong, is the 4% justified in using violence to stop the second wrong while providing critical military, economic, and political assistance for the first one?

Easy - I don't think that, so it's not justified. The opinions of "the vast majority of humanity" are not part of the decision making process that has resulted in this situation.

> I wonder if it's possible to describe this as a series of logical axioms

I don't wonder, I believe it is! These are the (simplified) axioms along which I form my opinions about not only this, but all geopolitics in general:

- Actions that cause human suffering are bad.

- Actions that reduce human suffering are good.

- Innocent suffering in a conflict is inevitable.

- Force will be required; conflict is inevitable; the world is imperfect.

- The use of force is righteous or not depending on how the resultant innocent suffering is accounted for before, during, and after.

I believe that my opinion is completely consistent with these statements. You asked if using violence to stop other violence is wrong, and my answer is "it depends". If the Houthis were taking action against the those actually committing the atrocities, we'd probably not be having this conversation. Deliberately causing harm to innocents is never acceptable, never right. This is terrorism as a tactic.

If you think that second order violence IS an acceptable course of action, where do you draw the line? How much societal disruption in countries with less food security are we willing to induce?
This really describes the value prop of reddit, or something like it.
Secure JavaScript Coding to Avoid Insecure Direct Object References (IDOR)
In the U.S. they often double stack containers--so that would be half the distance if they could:

"Invented in the United States in 1984, it is now being used for nearly seventy percent of United States intermodal shipments. Using double stack technology, a freight train of a given length can carry roughly twice as many containers, sharply reducing transport costs per container."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-stack_rail_transport

But generally going around the southern tip of South America could well be cheaper--although it may take longer.
Good points. Energy storage will be another big issue. Lithium batteries (and possibly others) lose capacity in colder weather. I think, since most batteries are developed for standard operating temps, maybe we need more research into developing a different battery chemistry that is primarily for use in colder climates.
I'm still not convinced that these languages are not an evolved prank
> You are defacto forced to put your saving in an investment vehicle to keep up with inflation, taking on risk.

Yes. You got it. That's how you get economic growth. Instead of stagnation and deflation when you hoard gold or bitcoin. It's not exactly fair from the individual people perspective but for the society as whole it's objective the superior option.

> To the contrary

I know that reading comprehension is hard (even if the "IF" was in very big letters..). If your income is in $ and you buy stuff priced in $ AND you don't want to use crypto as an investment instrument but only for buying/selling good holding it for extended periods of time is not smart (same applies to foreign currencies in general they are just not as volatile).
On the other hand, how likely is it that someone could get raped on a set where there are at least 20 other people all standing around and staring into the scene? Would none of those people try to stop it if they saw it? Would they not share the story afterwards?
Is couscous not considered savory by default?
I thankfully never read news and I didn’t even know about the recent Israeli occupation until like a week after the attacks started. My life is much better for it, you should try it
They also make CNC style desktop cutters for things like vinyl/paper
The UK and mismanaged IT projects running with rampant fraud - name a better duo.
> However, I don’t understand why local RPC calls have to serialize protocol buffer messages — can’t they already pass them as-is to the local handler?

I didn't read the paper in enough detail to know the answer to this, but mightn't this enable different implementation languages for different components? In my experience, it's difficult to accomplish reliably that without using a language-agnostic serialization format (like proto).

Even if that's the goal, it seems like a handler could determine whether it could elide the serialization depending on the implementation details of the components.
Is an asteroid made of people making the decision to hit the earth? Corporations are.
That's only true for the locks.
The author has some points that could be improved. Things like the "accelerator braking" (regenerative braking) exist because they're some of the most important efficiency gains EVs can implement. Yes, it's different behavior than gas vehicles, but it's not a bad thing if the regeneration curve is good.

Having been involved with auto production, I have a bit more insight into how the sausage is made. People do test these things before they're on the road, quite a lot of people in fact. Many of these issues do come up in testing, but for various reasons aren't addressed or the relevant teams that could change them are never even informed. With something like the handle design, the direction is likely coming from product design, who you don't want to fight with as an engineer unless they're asking for something especially stupid.

One of my projects involved a camera and product had unnecessarily chosen to mount it facing upwards towards the sun. This was pointed out when engineers saw the first prototypes and kept being pointed out as an issue throughout implementation. The design got to mass production without changing the angle.

Guess who got the panicked call from product when field testing discovered the camera was unusable at certain times of day? They were informed of root cause, the software knobs we built to mitigate the issue when it arose and I even offered to help them with field testing the fixes. No response.
A garbage collector may be right for Golang but wrong for D.
> the idea of it being "existential" sounds like hyperbole to me

I was speaking more generally about people's emotional responses to threats they perceive as calamitous or existential.

I've noticed that as I get older, the emotional highs and lows are less pronounced than when I was younger. Probably some combination of life experience, growing historical perspective, and an acceptance everyone's mortality.
Out here in Ontario, the electricity “distribution” costs often outweigh the cost of electricity itself.
There's a paywall. Couldn't read the story! Lol sorry
Thank you so much. There is also Perapeara Dictionary Plug in for Firefox. Maybe can be exctracted.
What a sad story. Men can certainly get carried away with their hobbies. I know I can at times. But you must prioritize your family over them and not make your hobby a burden to them.

This guy had a great stereo but it cost him much more than money.
Living in the land of three-hole duvets, we do have one children's duvet cover that only has the bottom hole.

It's not that much harder. My process is flipping it inside out, then sticking your hands in and gathering the fabric on my arms until I get to the far end. At that point grab the duvet through the corners, lift and shake to straighten.

Obviously it helps that it's kiddie size and I'm just shy of 2 m, but it's not that different from the three-hole "put hands through holes, grab duvet and shake".
Only the username, the avatar is a paid feature.
The way things are going on Earth even just the prospect of free land and the freedom to live and prosper how you want is going to be enough. It was plenty for the people who came before us to cross the freezing cold ocean on a months long voyage crammed into a tiny ship. It unfortunately took a lot of them dying in order to figure out how to survive in the new world so hopefully we’ll be faster learners and better prepared. I don’t believe we need futuristic technology, we know how to build pressure hulls, we have mining equipment, we have aeroponics and a mass of other necessary techniques. Yes we’ll need resupply as all colonies did in the past until they built up their own manufacturing base. It would not be fun or nice in the way that sitting at home in a soft chair playing video games and eating pizza is but it would win you a legacy and a life to be proud of by securing a place for your descendants and advancing humanity.
I got my VisionFive 2 late January last year.

It is a great board, which stays cool (~60C) with just passive cooling (XU4Q's is compatible).

It still is imho the better RVA20/RV64GC SBC available; other chips might be faster somewhat but they use more power and need active cooling. Upstream support (linux kernel, uboot, opensbi) is very good[0].

I am very hopeful for Milk-V Oasis[1] (SiFive 16x P670 + 8x X280) and other new boards with faster CPUs and full RVA22 compliance plus 1.0 Vector extension.

0. https://rvspace.org/en/project/JH7110_Upstream_Plan

1. https://community.milkv.io/t/introducing-the-milk-v-oasis-wi...
> Condescending attitude towards his s/o.

Do we have a particular reason to believe that skydhook is a man, or is this an assumption?
> I have purchased items and payed off loans using BTC. So have millions of other people. You calling it not money doesn't make it so. Sorry.

I can exchange grain or aluminum for other goods and services and pay back my debts in them if the other party agrees. Does that those commodities money? If you think so and then yeah you're right about bitcoin too. Otherwise, it's not. Sorry.
A reasonable perspective. There definitely needs to be proactive communication and agreement if there are multiple founders.
Don't shit where you eat. Don't eat where you sleep.
Not really, kitty was forked from putty.

Calibre afaik was created from scratch.

Those are two entirely different circumstances from which to start from and it’s inevitable they would have vastly divergent results even in the same hands.
You can pay Uber for a nicer class of car, service seems like it would always be a roll of the dice, as that is up to the personality of the driver.

Even when going with the cheapest option on Uber, getting a nicer car is luck of the draw. On my last weekend trip where I took a few Ubers, I always picked the cheapest option, and we had 3 new Teslas, Model S, X, and Y, and a new Benz. No beat up old Toyotas. I’ve had people pick me up in luxury SUVs who mention they are Uber Black, but took my fare because I was close, it wasn’t any better than an UberX with a friendly driver.

I’d be curious to know how many people actually pay for things like Uber Black. How long is someone going to be in the car where it’s really worth paying 2-4x the price? It seems like it’s more of a status or ego thing.
I view them as two separate issues. On the one side, there are the complaints about language changes. It's hard to convince Walter to change the language, and it's hard to contribute to the compiler and/or standard library (those are the complaints, true or not).

Then there are problems for users of the language not having enough libraries and a sub-par IDE experience (again, true or not). Go and Rust built communities of programmers that aggressively used the language and made their work available to others. I don't see any reason we couldn't have more of that with the language as it currently stands. Adam certainly had no trouble knocking out hundreds of thousands of lines of nice libraries. Edit: And Ilya doing all his good work with Mir.

The first is a long-term problem. We'll see the effects ten years from now. The second makes it hard to have a reason to use the language right now (largely for anyone that doesn't want to write scripts or interact with C libraries). That's most of what concerns me.
Forget that, most of the ethnic white English folks wouldn't even pass their own citizenship test. How many Englishmen even know the year William the Conqueror invaded Britain?
I only order from local biz i personally went to in the past.

All you can get from delivery apps are images and rating numbers, both are easy to fake.

IMHO the marketing effort to disconnect real people from what they make is anti human
One really cool thing about ISDN was that it connected almost instantaneously (within a second). In fact I remember the first time I used it, I thought the connection had failed because I could not imagine it connected so fast. This allowed you to have the illusion of being always online by auto dialing just in time. I remember setting up modemd (IIRC) to keep the connection open for at least the minumum charge time of my telco provider. This was in NL some time in the 90s.
Tangent question. What do you think about the vision of the future of storage from folks at ScyllaDB have?

There is a great presentation from their recent conference [1]. I am asking this because I find it quite similar to what you are doing - decoupling storage from compute and utilising S3. I really appreciate if you could share your insights.

[1] starts at 30:45 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX7rA78BYS0
I have noticed this about art education. If you go to college - you have to find a college with a rigorous program. Then, the material itself is dry and obscure, and sounds a bit like magic woo (it's not though).

One of my "someday" projects is 'translating' Arnheim's "Art and Visual Perspective" into something easier to use. My classmates were utterly confused but it is very useful.
I agree in general. But you can't give tablemaking one go and say you suck at carpentry.
Electric cars have been around 150 years. Yes, parity means... parity in practicaluty to the end user.
Knowing Samsung software, I would temper expectations a little.
It's not film, it's the paper would project the negative onto to make a picture using an enlarger.

It's not as readily available in this digital age but you should still be able to find it at a "good" camera store. I'd look for maybe single owner dedicated to craft type places vs chain dedicated to tech.

You'll be wanting the B&W stuff, easier to develop and you can work with it under red lights instead total darkness. You'll also need 2 chemicals called "developer" and "fixer" suitable to the paper and distilled water to bath it in.

Pinhole cameras are fun because you can build them in less then an hour for nearly free and it gets you hands on with the underlying principles of photography.
Yeah, I have these eerie flashbacks to 2007, wondering how so many people were buying huge houses and reminding myself that it was all due to willingness to incur massive levels of debt. This time around it’s even worse since the assets depreciate rapidly and there’s much less resale value if the lifestyle accessory community moves on to something else: most of those extra expenses are things which subtract utility for the people who need to buy one.
dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38979771
Vietnam was a bad war that shouldn’t have happened and anyone who went without being drafted is not worth respecting. The hippies were right.
I remember being an electronics store once and seeing some cables intended for audio that described themselves as being "low oxygen" cables. My god, the nonsense that people fall for!
> Brags about how easily he understands his giant ball of overly messy code (2- letter variables in the name of “semantic density”)

@arcfide left one of my favorite comments ever, in response to another comment similar to yours (for which the author apologized). I refer to this often.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13571159

Just a couple of snippets:

“Don't complain that Chinese is ugly and unreadable just because you speak English as your native tongue.”

“The cost for replacing or deleting code should be as low as possible.”

“How can I get a code base that has more features but continues to shrink? By chasing smaller code. :-)”
Even if the material was changed, shipping bottled water is a massive waste or resources and has very few actual upsides. Tap water just is the better choice in most circumstances.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. I really like that whole channel, there's a lot of great stuff there.
With distribution you should use?
The same as your friend, if you don't have friends then use Ubuntu.
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> what is one of the most influential books in the history of modern product design

Considering how few designers I encounter, that even know the book exists, and the few that do, hate it, I'm not so sure it's actually been that "influential."

Which sucks, because I think it should be required reading for anybody that designs anything, to be used by anyone.
If you're a solo bootstrapper making $300k per year, you aren't thinking of quitting ;)
what is the practical use of it?
America's Longtime Sources of Power Have Turned Weak
Don't understand why this keeps getting rehashed. The options are pretty simple:

1 - Pay for YouTube Premium.

2 - Use free ad-supported YouTube.

3 - Don't use YouTube.
Sociopaths are just people with a mental disorder.

The problem is our system is set up to reward people with this mental disorder. It's like a machine that pushes these people to the top.

You could say that in order to become a C-level, you have to act like a sociopath.

Let's change the system.
Hmm.. never considered that before. They are then probably being created at even more miniature scales, isn’t the UK, USA and a bunch of other Western countries already able to produce silicon chips at tiny scales even the Chinese can’t currently achieve? Makes ya wonder.
> I dreamed of writing a native app[...] but ran into issues building the UI. Plus, whatever I built would only work on macOS. I started writing Citadel using Tauri[...] to have a cross-platform desktop app.

Have you looked at Zotero? This would fit well within that ecosystem, and it's hard to think that shoring up its support for ebooks (and Calibre compatibility) would be poorly received. I could imagine Citadel being an opinionated Zotero "distribution"—in the vein of OS distros or the various Jetbrains IDEs—with its own landing page and downloads, to better cater towards and more tailored for people primarily interested in reading for pleasure (rather than an emphasis on academic research, which tends to throw people off when recommending it, even though most of the pieces are there for ebook management...)
This is a hopelessly urban take, and factually incorrect.
When I adopted Ubuntu, it was 2004 or so, and the difference from Debian was night-and-day. In fact, it was cks who recommended Ubuntu to me, after listening to various woes with the audio subsystem. I was trying to attack these hardware/driver issues one-by-one and he just said "Install Ubuntu, and be done with it!" and he was right: as soon as I installed Ubuntu, all my commodity hardware just worked, and my concerns became much higher-level, and I was a satisfied Ubuntu user for about 18 years afterward.

I did vow to migrate to Debian eventually. It never completely happened, as my Lenovo went to Fedora and I eventually decided to eliminate Linux entirely from my home network. But nowadays, Debian is totally mature and able to tackle modern hardware much better than it could in 2004, and I believe that this is attributable to a lot of packaging and integration work by Canonical.
You could write llvm assembly. It's somewhat architecture dependent in that registers have sizes and ABIs, etc.
Do the regulations mean that physical controls have to be replaced by a touch screen or is the touch screen just required for displaying a camera feed?
Is there a way to segregate the marketing fluff (95%) from the technically specific (5%)?
Why Are Parents Rushing to Sign Up Their Kids to Learn Russian Math?