skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad to see this book promoted here!

However, having compared the French translation to the original in Czech, I have to warn French-language readers that the translation was atrocious. As in, completely making up words and sentences that were not in the original. (Unfortunately, I know nothing about translations into English, and cannot recommend a good one.)

Interestingly, Milan Kundera wrote a book (in French) that I highly recommend [0]. He draws examples from many different artistic works to weave a fascinating story discussing to what extent we can or should stay faithful to the original intention of an artist or creator.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44382.Testaments_Betraye...
Tyler Cowen, as others have mentioned, is great. It's my favorite listen.

If you are interested in the nature of creativity and the artistic process, Rick Rubin's Tetragrammaton is worth a listen. Because of his status as a top producer, he gets the biggest names in the field, but includes lesser known talent. I recommend Ed Norton. And anything with John Frusciante.

Lex Fridman (everyone thus far has misspelled his name haha) -- I frankly just don't get it. He seems to struggle with interviewing, even the framing of basic questions. He has a strange (and to me superficial) obsession with the idea of love. He gets good guests, but squanders the opportunity more often than not. Ymmv but definitely popular.

Andrew Huberman's podcast or Peter Attia's The Drive are both great if you want science-based discussions on specific topics related to health and wellness.

I'm personally very interested in complexity science and a fan of the Santa Fe Institute, so I like their podcast 'Complexity'. Think physics meets the life sciences from leading academics.
The NYTimes had an good interactive story on this same topic this week:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/09/upshot/affirm...
What good comes from avoiding discussion of possible negative outcomes? I'd rather this thread go down the path of what obstacles exist in the face of realizing right to repair in the long term over being an echo chamber about how good it is or something like that.
I think I was getting frustrated over how i3 handled it, its certainly possible, but I really liked how XMonad handled multiple mod keys in the config, as well as the dynamic tiling.

It was years ago at this point and i3 was giving me issues binding alt to one of the mods, while retaining super for other shortcuts. I've always been quick to get to get frustrated with config files so it was a nice off-ramp to learn something new.
> A significant portion of college students have become more hostile toward free speech

* proceeds to use Milo Yiannopolous as an example *
Crypto scam, actually. Very well done though!

Fake AI voice of Elon Musk, embedded QR code with SpaceX branding, redirect to https://spacex-starship.com.

85,000 people watching this fake channel (which has 369,000 subscribers for some reason). $30,000 in BTC already deposited and more rolling in every minute.
The term "deplatforming attempt" lacks a clear definition, making it challenging to ascertain its exact meaning. It could encompass situations where there's dissent towards a speaker or concerns raised about their content. It might involve hecklers disrupting an event. However, reports of faculty or speakers being forcibly removed are often exaggerated. The concept of deplatforming is inflated to serve right-wing agendas. While the right champions free speech when it aligns with their views, they react defensively to dissenting opinions.

For example, from the cited database:

> As Clinton was speaking a heckler began shouting over her calling her a "war criminal." The school's dean had the heckler escorted out by security. A second heckler then began to shout over Clinton. Clinton paused her speech for a minute before resuming and completing her remarks.

The incident involving hecklers disrupting Hillary Clinton's speech, while undoubtedly disruptive, it's an exaggeration to say this is a threat to free speech. In no way does this indicate a systematic suppression of free speech across the campus or broader community. It's an isolated incident rather than a widespread phenomenon. The dean's decision to have the hecklers escorted out by security demonstrates an attempt to address the disruption while allowing the speaker to continue. It's a measured response aimed at maintaining order rather than outright censorship. Despite the interruption, Clinton was able to resume her speech and complete her remarks. This indicates that the disruption, while disruptive, did not prevent the speaker from expressing her views or the audience from hearing them. The fact that hecklers were present and able to voice their dissenting opinions, albeit disruptively, suggests that there is at least some degree of diversity of views on campus. This diversity is a cornerstone of free speech, even when it manifests in challenging or uncomfortable ways.
What's the point of creating such toy 3D programs? Blender already has huge amount of free training material, any serious development effort would want to integrate with its UI, rather than strip it away.
coverage to an entire area is either via "small number of satellites" in geostationary orbits or massive amounts of satellites for low earth orbits, you cannot have both.

"Just replaced by another" is massively oversimplifying every aspect of this, not just the act of putting an object in orbit, but also the coordination of that many MOVING satellites, their fuel levels / end-of-life procedures, all the ground infrastructure needed to support it, and the total amount of energy that this system requires (both on the side of the service providers and users).

Connecting rural or places without internet is not a technical problem, like everything in the world we built it is an issue of priorities. Starlink was not created "for the good of the farmer".
I would agree with you unless this was the official government app for interacting with the government. They have a bigger responsibility than a random library. It is nice that it's open source though so people can audit it.
From all the books I've read, the good soldier Švejk stands out as one of the most memorable characters. I love the style of the writing, how it shows the absurdity of bureaucracy, war, and society through the person of Švejk, perpetually drinking and getting into trouble, innocent like a dove and wise as a serpent, he always finds his way out of any predicament, while having his fun. He represents an aspect of the indomitable spirit of humanity and humor.

The illustrations by Josef Lada are wonderful too, they are essential to the reading experience and imaginary world of the book.
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4 thumbs down and a frown emoji are “too heated” and close the PR? What horrible way to handle things. Another one bites the dust…
This absolutely the wrong thing to do. Don't scale font size with viewport size. CSS "pixels" are already an abstract concept - if things are too small on your high-DPI screen adjust your pixel ratio accordingly instead of wasting everyone elses screenspace.
There are big differences between homes and cryptocurrencies too though. You can actually live in your home, for example. Crypt I currencies have zero useful value and are somewhere between gambling and a ponzi scheme.
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Why would it? What SpaceX does affects very few people on the planet, compared to almost any company in the Fortune 500. Valuation of a private company is also hard to determine.

Even with owning most of the active satellites in orbit they only serve 2.6 million customers with Starlink. Those satellites are also designed to turn into trash in 5 years.
“…easier for people who don’t have enough cash to buy stuff”

Or storage space, or Costco membership, or personal transportation
I debated internally whether I should leave this comment or not, but I have a principle to always try to give constructive criticism where I can, so here it is:

I don't know if it's that people interpret your writing as negative per se, I tried to realize what your writing makes me feel and why, and I realized that your comments always have a very high percentage of "I" and "me". I can see how that might rub a few people the wrong way, but obviously there's nothing inherently wrong with that.
The native nation, Squamish Nation, used to own the entire parcel of land immediately north of the 10 acres land mentioned in this article as a reservation granted by the former-colonial government (a native village stood in Vancouver downtown but the colonial gov forced them to move across the inlet).

But thru multiple forced relocations and unceded land take over, the reservation was gradually taken over.

>Slowly, from 1886 to 1902, Indigenous peoples were removed from their traditional village sites and homes and required to live on reserves. As the City grew around them, legislation was enacted that required all Indigenous peoples on reserve be removed if the population around them exceeded 1,000 settlers. In 1913, this happened at Sen̓áḵw. A barge arrived, and the residents were instructed to board the barge to receive funds from the Indian Agent. Once everyone from the village had boarded the barge, it was pulled from the beach and set adrift into English Bay. The village was then set on fire and burned to the ground. The owner of Cates Tugs, seeing the barge drifting precariously in the Bay, went to the rescue and towed the barge to Capilano Reserve, located in North Vancouver.

https://bardonthebeach.org/history-of-senakw/

It was only thru recent lawsuit and legislation that part of the reserve (an awkward T shape in the middle of wide stroads) was returned.

The 10acre of land in this article- https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kitsilano+6,+Vancouver,+BC...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/little-known...
Going for fueling, launch scheduled with 25min left in the window (getting tight) (8:35CT). Watching wind speed.
I do not believe your interpretation is correct or what most others would assume to be the case but hey I could be wrong.

Right of way being reasonable means that the owner of the transmission lines did not charge unreasonable fees or requirements for using the same poles to run fiber.

And you are partly wrong on your last part, yes of course each individual is not building their own road but again, roads are natural monopolies, everyone wants a road of at least some minimum quality (dirt). Additionally it would be near impossible to get "right of way" to build your own road. In rural areas roads are indeed just dirt and to get it paved would require some majority of the individuals living out there to pay for it, YMMV depending on local rules. Since its a road its easier to get a majority to agree to to pack it with gravel or pave it, everyone that lives down that road is driving on it. I am not arguing that internet is or is not a right that everyone should have but that it is not always a natural monopoly, some people maybe don't want it, some have cell service, some are using Dish, maybe there are some cable connections available in certain areas. So yes, each individual does not build their own road but often in rural areas the burden for that road is shared and often stays as a dirt road because of it.
But, is first-semester GPA predictive of anything? I'd rather see this result at graduation. Does the higher SAT predict higher graduation rate, better grad school or job placement, or anything else? Note, I'm not arguing it won't be - I don't know. I just know more than a few people who bombed their first semester (most with SATs well above average), myself included, who ended up with decent academic performance once they got over the "shock" of being an adult away from home.
I wouldn't say "not at all" because I think the industry is going to change at least a little bit, so with change comes inestability.

I think that my ability regarding problem solving will be valuable in the future, maybe if most of software engineering becomes fully automated I could build some valuable product easier, just thinking, writing and using feedback loops for the continuous iteration of the product. That would be awesome, I like programming but I love problem solving.

If the above is not possible, I've some investments and savings that could help me take some time to adapt to the new environment and find something where I could provide some value.

And if the above is not possible there are some possibilities:

- we live in leisure while the machines do the work for us -> great!

- we don't exist anymore, the machines won -> bummer, we had a nice ride.

- I'm no longer useful to the new environment -> I prefer not to think about this :P
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This seems quite hidden. Googling "google appsheets" results in "did you mean 'google sheets'?" and showing only results for google sheets unless you specifically then request AppSheets.

It sounds cool, but I'd hate to rely on it since Google will probably shut it down.
Who can I reach out to for feedback on the web UI? Specifically, the chat.openai.com interface.

Web developer/designer for 24 years so I have a lot of ideas
To play the devil's advocate, the US economic system doesn't have a clear notion of what is selfish or not.

One reason why lobbying is allowed in the first place is to let corporations express what is good and bad for them and have their interests in the balance. The assumption is what's good for corporations increases the overall market and benefits society.

Doubting that assumption is probably out of the current overtone window[edited]
A jpg that you thought was a Star Wars poster but turned out to be Pamela Anderson, is a manageble situation. Talking with someone one IRC and starting to get the creeps after a while, manageble.

It's a lot harder these days to teach kids that pretty much everything they see online and on TV, has a narrative and should be considered deceptive, even though you might not be sure why. It really takes the fun and natural interest away when you have to look at everything trough your Black Mirror glasses or filter.
I find those youtube channels far too grifty for my tastes. Sadly as twitter doesn't seem to work ("Something went wrong. Try reloading.") I have lost quite a lot of the excitement I used to have for spacex.
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The Internet is not only bad — it is now possible to sign up for notifications when somebody registers at your address (it’s on the Skatteverket web, somewhere). However, Sweden being Sweden, I suppose you will still have to prove that they do not in fact live there to get rid of them...
A classic. The movie versions are available on YouTube with English subtitles but it's not the same. A part of the charm of Švejk played by Rudolf Hrušínský is the way he talks and that gets lost if you don't speak Czech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI9OKaz6yQ0
I've been writing publicly for a few years and my experience maps pretty closely to this.

Being able to coherently express yourself is a critical skill. You can not write if you have not thought something through.
Not 100 years ago, you'd be stoned for being a socialist, or being black in the wrong public setting. No one was going to protect you. Protected free speech is a myth, at best.
It's not the home itself that's the investment. It's the plot of land on which you are allowed to build a certain type of home and in an area where you are banned from doing other things that would reduce the home's value, like building high density housing.

That's what you are investing in and voting to protect.

But yes, that is the core of the issue. You need an off ramp for the people who bought into this Ponzi scheme or they'll vote to perpetuate it.
I was just watching Spacex official stream and at ignition they switched to Musk hawking cryptocurrency. What just happened??

edit: wild I just realized take off is 50 minutes from now... what had I been watching?? they did a countdown and there was ignition... was that a time wrap? Am I going insane?

edit2: @spacex034 is not @spacex... today I learned...
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Let's actually fix it:

:root {
font-size: 1rem;
}

Done. Don't mess with the user's preferred font size. If you think some browsers have bad defaults, campaing to have them fixed instead of hardcoding incompatible hacks for each website.
https://archive.ph/xSjUP
I am a Chinese that has been living in the West for a few years.

> I’ve never lived in China, but I’ve spoken with many people that have

IMO, these opinions are a bit biased.
1) those are probably the people who chose to stay in the West;
2) Chinese people (incl. me) sometimes talk extravagantly about life in a "communist country", since to some degree it pleases the Western audience and adds some fun to the talk.

Maybe a CCP member has to show their allegiance from time to time, but I am not and I can not recall I was asked to do so in any form. Probably asked to sing the national anthem every morning when I was in the school? And despite the censorship, people, especially young netizens, invent all kinds of altered words mocking domestic politics, often to my surprise how much they are aware of, given that I already live in the West out of the bubble, that people usually think Chinese internet is.

Taking a particular different mindset as unconscious propaganda and thinking it's harmful seems to support the Chinese internet firewall project and the opinion that people are not able to make "correct" opinions on their own.
Oh wow. Different poster same problem. Your comment made me realize that it's the "but I don't wanna!" attitude that I already know how to push through when it comes to language learning, just disguised differently. I'm still not sure that I wanna, tho...
I'm very out of loop on SC 2 meta, I've played only in the past and up to Gold as Protoss; why is overbuilding drones considered to be a good thing now? Is it to reduce the economic setback in case you get harassed?
I think this is a bit unfair. This is a fantastic talk but it is showing some selected highlights that the speaker is passionate about. To get to that point he must have learned math in some (presumably traditional) way, including parts that must have seemed tedious.

This is like listening to Mozart play some playful piece and saying "if only learning piano would have been this much fun" -- there is no shortcut to putting in the time and work to learning the foundations.
I learned of The Good Soldier Švejk from Alexei Sayle's autobiography "Stalin ate my homework" - which I can strongly recommend, particularly the audiobook narrated by the author.
I was about to write just that. Also, desertification is a problem, so they could possibly get free raw material from many places, paying only shipping, and doing something good at the same time.
Sure it has lots of other uses. But if you get sent an IFC being able to see it in Blender even if you don't care about the schedule is very nice.
Oh right, I get it. As an Italian we always spoke with admiration about this transparency regarding tax, but I always thought the request and the requesting party was also annotated and made available. What you describe is fairly blunt and alarming.
I agree. They're quoting 75 deplatforming attempts in the recent year; that is not very many. Is there a list of the things that were said to cause these attempts?
> These keys are generated and tracked using a counter which has to stay in sync between the remote and the car. This ensures that the car doesn’t reuse an old key, and that the remote always generates fresh keys.

Something I've always wondered about is, how do learning remotes defeat this?

My car has a couple of built-in garage door buttons, and I'm pretty sure I programmed it by just hitting the remote button in the garage while the car was in a learning mode. Is that a much more sophisticated feature than you would assume (e.g. decoding the signal, recognizing the type, then initiating a pairing with the opener, instead of just replaying the signal)?
Hi, thanks for the feedback. Indeed, "find-and-replace" didn't quite have the same zing to it, but now for clarity, I guess I stick to the find-and-replace semantics throughout Cypher-Note. I made an issue to pick this up later. Thanks again!
Respectfully, those metrics are not proxies for productivity. They don’t seem to be grounded in a statical model either:

>They reduced the code base size by 67% (21,500 LOC to 7200 LOC)

> They increased python code by 140% (500 LOC to 1200 LOC), a good thing if you prefer python to JS

Literally what? So they rewrote their app, which was most definitely in a state of affairs that warranted a refactor, and then concluded it must’ve been the limits of React. Oh, and rewrite the back-end too while we sing the virtues of this library claiming a lower technical investment.

Believe me, I’ve got plenty of gripes with React. It’s very easy to build the wrong things with it. And the ecosystem is an overgrown mess. But I’d still prefer a problem of technical curation over debugging a library which marries HTML and server-side templates with an untyped DOM runtime.
I don’t know. I know the news is often flooded with companies reversing their remote work policies, but I’ve had no issue staying remote since 2020. Maybe my anecdotal experience is unique, but I happily moved “to the sticks” in 2022. I’ve never been the only one at work, either. One guy I work with even has his own farm in rural upstate NY.

Still, I recognize it’s a gamble and I recognize some would prefer not to risk it. But I think more people are willing to do it than you might initially think.
It’s formal in places and certainly rigorous, but I don’t find it difficult.
The first artist to use Auto Tune for a distinct effect (rather than just pitch correction) was Cher in her 1998 single Believe. Only a year after Auto Tune was released.

T-Pain absolutely was the one who popularized it through. To the point that among the general public "Auto Tune" is associated more with "electronic voice effects" than it is with "pitch correction."
Starlink and WFH only matter if you assume jobs will primarily be online.

There would be plenty of new opportunities popping up if people began leaving population centers and distributing more evenly across the land. We wouldn't have the economies of scale that make large, centralized industries viable.

We would almost certainly need more locally sourced food for example. That would come with huge benefits that most would probably prefer, from health benefits to reduced pollution and animal cruelty.
tau day being the 180th day of the year is either perfect or incredibly confusing!
What is the mindset of a college student who goes out of their way to shout down and prevent other people from speaking?

This isn't rhetorical, I genuinely want to know why they think, in a place ostensibly dedicated to learning, it's acceptable (and seemingly even admirable) behavior.