skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) reading lists in Goodreads and pinboard (moving to self-host that one, because the service isn't really stellar anymore sadly), watching lists in Letterboxd and Imdb along with sonarr/radarr, listening list is just my podcast subscriptions in Overcast with a smart playlist ordered so that the most "important" ones are on top.

2) Obsidian web clipper[0] and a Keyboard Maestro powered hotkey that opens up either my daily note with two taps or creates a new Second Brain note with three

3) When I need it. I'm pretty good at keeping an index in my head of stuff I've seen "sometime somewhere". By having everything in Obsidian I don't need to start searching browser/search engine histories to figure out what was that one site with that bit of knowledge.

4) Obsidian Second Brain. When I spend too much time (by feel) solving something, I spend a few minutes writing the solution down along with links to the sources I used. The solution is generalised so that it's not infringing on any employer copyrights.

5) Consistency and not bikeshedding about knowledge base systems too much.

I've used Evernote (one of the OG Mythbusters recommended it like 15 years ago or something). The OCR system was a life-saver in a few occasions. Then they did some stupid Silicon Valley crap and I moved between OneNote (amazing if you have a laptop with a stylus), Emacs (org-mode bikeshedding took way too much time), Joplin (open source, but the storage format is meh), Notion (pretty and the DB stuff tickles my nerd brain the right way, but too slow for my needs) and maybe a few others.

Now I've been using Obsidian daily for 6 months and even finally bought their Sync service, which works super fast - the free ones aren't bad and iCloud syncing works well too, but the official one is just that bit better. In the end it's just a bunch of files in a directory structure so I don't have to worry about vendor lock-in. Replacements Omnisearch, Templater and QuickAdd are the only essential plugins I need if I want to move to another platform.

[0] https://stephango.com/obsidian-web-clipper
University libraries are sort of a mixed bag. They're not really advertised but they're fairly open to public browsing in some cases, however pretty locked-down in others.
>China is indeed not a card that the west can play easily.

The west cannot play this at all, especially right now.

The EU population (no matter how much our politicians saw "we can do this!") is already financially under strain from the high inflation, high energy bills, stagnant wages, high living costs and high interest rates, hence the shift to the anti-establishment right wing politicians all over the EU.

The last thing they would want right now is another war with China.
Mike Bison

You know 12 year old me never caught that.
Don’t. I ended up shutting my business down and leaving. Got sick of dealing with the corruption. I normally don’t say this about anywhere in the us but SF is corrupt.
Planning department won’t approve anything without an “expediter”. right. You know that’s code for bribery right?
The tax office loves to just make things up and then be unavailable to discuss it. My accountants tied them half a dozen times. I tried them the same number. They just kept insisting this made up thing was real.
My choice was to just pay it and move on or leave. I chose to leave.
Cults come and go. This too shall pass.
The blog referenced in the article is fascinating: https://nkinternet.wordpress.com/
Australian law and courts have jurisdiction over whatever Australian law says they have.

Again, the issue is enforcement.
A diagnosis can mean accommodations, e.g. if you take a standardized test and have a diagnosis, they'll let you take it in an isolated environment.
I expect that it has because the culture has changed. People work from home and don't go out as often. Meetup organizers would avow that most people flake out and don't show up, and those that exist without a meaningful medium binding people together (an activity or game) tend to attract awkward interaction.

Once you're out of college, it's a sorry state. Dating apps get worse because these companies know that the alternatives owing to the always-online life are not great.

Asking someone out in itself is the same as it always was, what has changed is appropriate opportunities to capitalize on.
> Meeting people and making connections is not hard.

Wow, talk about condescending.

You’re not wrong about what dating apps have changed but don’t discount issues others have faced that you may not have.
It doesn't need to be most people though. It just needs to be the smart ones.
Even double collision costs for an average car (with an average number of collisions) might still lead to lower overall "maintenance and repair costs" if other items are lower.

Could tip the balance if your business model is to rent them out to Uber drivers though, and if those are more likely to hit or be hit by other cars.
I have a third. I have two languages defined, and because of that I have a little globe to the left of the spacebar. Tapping that switches the default one (as far as I can tell, it biases what word it thinks you're aiming for to that language.)

Somehow I always find it's on the secondary language and I haven't worked out if I'm doing that by accident or it's changing on its own.
Searching for people yourself on these apps got entirely replaced by the match/swipe gimmicks. They claimed it was for your own good to reduce harassment or whatever, but it's really just more profitable to gatekeep.
Have you looked into Calibre + Calibre-web for managing the e-reader? There are dockerized solutions for both if your NAS can run images.
Ask HN: Is Apple Going Nuts?
Super curious to hear from other iOS devs what you're doing to cope with this. Just today, I had yet another app (this time from a client) get rejected for the exact same reasons the Spotify/Epic/EU drama spiralled out of. Except, for a free app!?

It's getting extortionately uncomfortable:

I have a free (!) app (completely 100% free) on the macOS App Store. It's getting mostly 5-star reviews and has done so for many years. Good. I used to offer the app through my website mainly, but people asked for security (despite it being signed), so I put it on the AppStore, many years ago. I make this app for fun, no profit, it's 100% free.

I recently pushed an update and Apple rejected it. The reason: They clicked on my website (which they found mentioned in the about section, last tab, bottom line on the Settings screen).

On my website, where I SELL NOTHING, no upgrades, no premium services, etc. — they found at a link to buymeacoffee.com/roman — I think in the FAQ page, where I address the question of what people can do, if they insist on supporting the project.

Then, Apple said: because of this link, they had to reject the app; I am offering paid services, and doing so, must be done through In-App Purchases. These were third-party donations, no deal involved, the app does not even know about this, there is no advantage to anyone donating anything.

I tried to reason with them over course of a week, but no, if there is ANY WAY for the app user to pay me, despite the APP ITSELF CHANGING IN NO WAY, WHATSOEVER, then I must use IAPs. I was crushed and nothing made sense anymore.

Fast-forward to this week. I help a client update an old iOS app. Only thing the app does: serve exclusively as a companion app (to scan/photograph documents) for an enterprise SaaS. There is no additional features, there is no purchases in the app, nothing of that sort. You scan a QR code, you scan a document, and the app uploads that scan and that's it.

Apple, however, went all the way to browse the company's website, found a mention of "subscription" somewhere, screenshotted that, responded to us through review that the update has been rejected. All and any subscriptions or purchases must be handled in the app and through IAPs.

I mean, what in the world is going on? I am not making this up!

In neither one of those two cases is the app meant to freeload off of Apple's ecosystem. I get the idea of having to pay a fee to participate in a market, I have paid apps and those are all via IAPs and so forth, yada yada, but a free app?! It can't be how this will all play out, can it?
Thanks, that's very interesting. Could you share which areas of business you plan on exploring?
Yeah, I've owned a e-paper Kindle for a decade but probably never finished reading a book on it. Instead I use a iPad 11 or mini, which are superior in every way (that I care about) except reading in sunshine. I love how lightweight the Kindle is, but not its small reading area or lack of color or weak illumination. Or its inability to serve any task other than reading ebooks.
I loved it! The ambience, music voice acting and rendering style. Fantastic work!
If the title is the conclusion you're reaching after reading all the testimony (or whatever it is) then you're probably the kind of person who never buys books. Other than the heavy hitters and back catalogs, there are too many other books for there not to be a long, sparse tail of sales.
I'm curious at the term "soup searching": is this just looking for particular shapes? Or shapes that have certain behaviors?
Obviously much smarter people than me were coming up with the reasons to not nuke the moon. I'm not convinced. Learning how the nuke acts in a vacuum is interesting science. Seeing it from Earth is something of a power play. Affecting the moon's natural radiation and potentially destroying some undiscovered life seems really unlikely to me. But again, I'm about the furthest thing from an expert. I'm shocked we've not nuked it "just because," like the whales, you got to nuke somethin' (Simpson's reference; no, I don't support nuking whales, though, I'm pretty sure we have, and I think that is much worse than nuking the moon).
> Many other languages haven't passed the PoC stage.

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that WASM hasn't passed the PoC stage? There are quite a few languages that have great WASM support, to the extent WASM allows, but have to bring all kids of workarounds to deal with the shortcomings of WASM as it sits. An especially challenging problem as it relates to browser use with those workarounds is that they bloat the artifact size. Few are willing to subject users to multi-megabyte downloads.

Work is being done on WASM to address those shortcomings, but hands are pretty much tied until that arrives. Until then, the "lower level" and heavily constrained languages will be left to stand alone.
How Much Is Enough? On the Writerly Balance Between Money and Time
You aren’t, I was apologizing for seemingly stealing your comment out from under you.
Aha, thanks, that's why I come here. Your one line summary says more,
and says it more accurately, than the two pages of tedious, emetic
corporate wank I just wasted 5 minutes reading.
I think Tesla/SpaceX are similar comparisons. They're known for a tough work schedule but people go there anyway because of the nature of the work. I imagine TSMC is similar in Taiwan.
A really impressive number of discoveries have been made since 2001 -- there's been kind of a proliferation of new sub-fields, so it seems like there's never any shortage of things for newcomers to work on.

There are definitely areas that haven't really been explored fully yet, like the use of SAT solvers in new and inventive ways to tackle difficult Life problems that are currently just beyond our reach.

Just for example, there's the problem of finding a fast elbow for a 2c/3 "signal wire" --

https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Wire#2c/3_wire

It's not clear if SAT solvers can be applied usefully to glider synthesis questions, like "is it possible to collide gliders to build a Sir Robin spaceship?" At the moment that particular question seems way beyond reach, but maybe in a few years we'll be running an AI that is experimentally setting up new SAT solver problems, and something will pop up that we just haven't managed to think of yet.

Question 2: Wikipedia's articles tend to be very good quality -- partly because if they weren't, there are a lot of Lifenthusiasts with some experience maintaining the LifeWiki who would immediately go and fix any technical errors that might show up on Wikipedia. But the really detailed documentation on Life is definitely kept in the LifeWiki, not on Wikipedia:

https://conwaylife.com/wiki/
> For some reason though their printer driver regularly pops a notification asking for admin privileges.

Printers are garbage, printer drivers are dumpster fires, and the people responsible for both are sociopaths.
I've never really equated "hours worked" with "work ethic" - if anything I would say that of all the nationalities I have worked with the people who seemed to have the best work ethic in the sense of turning up, focusing on work and going home again were actually German and they have the some of the lowest annual hours worked.

Being expected to come into the office and sit there just because its expected of you seems the opposite of "work ethic" to me....
That is fucking insane, pardon my French.

People (male and female) need to take ownership of the difference between being uncomfortable and assaulted, because they're very different things.

If I ask someone for their number, and they're not comfortable giving it, they say "No thanks." I hear that and I say "No problem! It was nice meeting you" and then forget about it (or leave, as appropriate to the situation).

There's discomfort in life, because we're not all psychic.

Attempting to normalized discomfort out of life is just going to end up in some weird fun house mirror world, where we're still doing the same things, just through proxies or at arm's length.
The thermodynamics of this seems backward. Traditional solar-thermal systems use a concentrator solar array to heat molten salt to high temperatures. This system has a self-contained container-size unit heated by lenses the size of the top of the container.

https://www.exowatt.com/

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240422640698/en/
Of course it's a relative argument. Everything is.

I don't personally travel with a laptop unless I plan on working remote. Too heavy/bulky and more importantly, you need to take them out going through TSA. The e-reader doesn't need a charger for the 2-4 weeks I usually travel. If I'm traveling longer, I'll bring a single additional USB cable (that will go away the next time I upgrade).

A phone doesn't take bag space because it's always in my pocket, but it's significantly less ergonomic and much less power efficient for reading. The value-add of being able to read without draining battery on my most important travel tool is worth it on its own.
What does 'sell data' mean? Article doesn't even touch on it. Who specifically is buying it and where? What are the prices?
Open-Meteo Free Weather API
Whatever the exact number is, I sometimes go weeks without touching the actual brake pedal. If you’re not driving like a maniac, the gradual regen braking is enough almost all of the time.
Because of libraries?
China acquired recently banned Nvidia chips in Super Micro and Dell servers
It's a combination of status and an attempt at an investment, and I guess somewhat of a lottery ticket.

There are also costs involved in a quality release even of a self-published novel. You want a cover. It's not expensive, but unless you're a talented artist it will show if you do it yourself. You can avoid paying for an editor, but it will generally be noticeable (you might have near perfect grammar and orthography, but you will miss things). If a publisher is going to put their name on it, those things will be at least a bit more expensive, and people tend to want to at least try to recoup some or all of costs even if they don't expect a significant return.

And if you want to turn writing into something more, you want to build an audience, and you want at least some signal of how large a portion of that audience are actually people prepared to pay, so that maybe next time your publisher is willing to put a little bit of money into marketing.

But yes, a lot of books could just as well be free. But vast quantities of writing - including fiction - is also released for free. Turns out there's signalling the other way too. It's hard to get people to read anything, but for at least some parts of the market, it's harder to convince them something free is worth their time.
no, that is false. the seedheads sit on the stalk through the winter, providing bird food through meager times. that has been my experience at least, in both a warmer climate and a colder climate.
It's supposed to be named Visual Studio Code, VS Code for short, but I think Microsoft has started using just "Code" for things like the title of its Mac app bundle, which has gotten confusing/annoying.
The 67-Hour Rule: Married couples are working as much as
Yeah, diagnosis like ADHD and autism have been invented just to make sense of the various ways our brains can be different. There's a high rate of comorbidity between the two, and various other diagnosis, which means they are not really separate "diseases", but just collections of symptoms caused by some differences in brain structure.

Personally I have traits commonly linked to both ADHD and autism. I'm often afraid of change and desire structure, yet somehow I love traveling. I guess that my extreme boredom with repetitive daily life just overcomes the fear, plus some of my deep interests require travel.
Hopefully you don't get that upset when dozens of Apple's "features" are considered illegally anticompetitive and they're either forced to stop selling you products or change.
Nawcad Brings Hyper-Realistic Flight Test and Training Simulators
You might enjoy FAR: Lone Sails. I was a bit frustrated by having to spend most of the game running around fixing stuff, but if that mechanic appeals to you then it's surely one of the prettier running-around-fixing-stuff games there is.

I also started a game a while back called Still There which seems like that's what it's going to be, but I haven't completed it yet so don't want to pass judgement. You're on a space station and not a ship, though, and it's point-and-click.
> I buy my phones used on eBay and cringe if they cost more than £50

I'm with you on this one, sister.

Don't even get me started on the kid down the street selling lemonade...
Changing Green circle from "maximuze" to "full screen" with no way to revert it - yes, I'm sure there's some sketchy kmod or whatever - is one of the most baffling decisions Apple has made.
Cool. I identify as a giant robot super monster cat.
But you realize that you paid for all of this with your local taxes? It’s not like there is a magical place where laser cutters chose to spawn for free.
Eternal September of interpersonal relationships.
Thanks for your response!

1. what is the hardest part using Pocket?
1.1 how often do you open pocket to read something? (just approximately)

1.2 Just to clarify: do you keep your Pocket list clean? Or you are using it like a reference list for future?

2. Have you ever caught yourself on though that you can’t find something you read previously?
2.1 if yes, how often?
4. Just to clarify: Do you use anki cards to learn better?

5. could you tell me please about the last time you wrote something?
It's going to be super interesting when millions of my fellow tech-savvy gen-Xers get really old.
After several years of upgrading same Workstation installation, I will be switching to KDE Plasma "spin". Although GNOME 46 terminal performance improvements sounds tempting.
That's still way too easy to fuck up. They need something less "open" than MacOS.

After my mom in law got scammed out of a few hundred euros I confiscated her laptop and moved her to a Google ChromeBook.

That's quite locked down and a few years in she still hasn't managed to ruin the OS.
I made a small solar powered CGOL(https://davidhampgonsalves.com/solar-powered-conways-game-of...) that has a low pixel count. After 100 frames it randomly generates a new starting point b/c I didn't implement loop detection.

Are their any algorithms or techniques for generating interesting starting states?
It does seem anti-user. A decade ago I could sort by % personality/interest in common (on OKC) or just look at everyone (on PoF). I can only imagine that women are still harassed, and that a messaging filter would have otherwise been trivial to implement.
I wonder how much time is left over in a 24 hour period after you get your daily recommended sleep, study and exercise. On to of the required work and class time.
> But it's also describing some less obvious invariants, e.g. that a User will not have a phone number.

That's not right. For one, the `User` type might be extensible (what language is this?). For another one can always add additional metadata about users elsewhere -- think of how you might do it in a relational database.

> (This isn't just an academic problem - the problem of trying to evolve fields over time is the reason why Protobufs got rid of the idea of a "required" field.)

Protobufs is the poster boy of bad reinvention. ASN.1 got all these things right over a lot of time, and instead of taking the best of it and leaving out the worst of it, everyone is constantly reinventing ASN.1 badly. And yes, ASN.1's evolution was "academic" in many ways, and its authors blazed trails. ASN.1 never had a "required" anything, but it did (and does) have an OPTIONAL keyword.

The reason I mention extensibility above is that ASN.1 has been through the whole academic study of extensibility over several decades:

- since the original encoding rules were
tag-length-value, in the beginning you
could just add fields as long as you
knew the recipient could handle them
(e.g., by ignoring unknown fields)

- when that proved unsatisfying they
added extensibility markers for
denoting "here go extensions" vs
"no extensions allowed", and "these
are version 2 extension fields",
and so on, and not just fields but
also things like INTEGER ranges,
enums, etc.

- they also put a lot of effort into
formalizing the use of "typed holes"
(things like {extension-type-ID,
<encoded-value-of-that-type>}),
and they did this pretty much before
any other schemes.

(The wikipedia page on comparing
serialization schemes[0] refers to
"typed holes" as "references", FYI.)

Extensibility is fairly well covered in many serialization formats now, like XML for example, but still fairly poorly covered in others.

In SQL and relational systems in general one can always add additional fields via tables to JOIN on, and often by adding columns to existing tables.

Extensibility is a big deal, and serious systems will have had serious thought put into it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_data-serialization_formats
Lifetime cost of gas vs charging
"artificial intelligence server" - so Apple isn't putting it in phones locally, but rather using it on the backend for processing?

Or could this be something they sell to customers?
Same for my mother using ubuntu. She do not know her password (the login is automatic). In case of problem, I connect using ssh.

Most of admin tasks are apt-get update/upgrade, rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty Bureau/* (because she creates empty directory on desktop).
The command cupsenable DeskJet-3630-series allows to unstuck the printer without mouse access (I was on my phone with connectbot).
I have changed the computer after 10 years. It was transparent for her.
"The issue was resolved by shifting the affected code to different locations in the memory of the probe's computers."

Super human programmers doing super human things. Or, can we find a better link that describes what they did, so that those of us who are merely 10x rockstar programmer saviors don't have to realize we're really not as good as we think?
Perplexity raised $62.7M at $1.04B valuation