skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Lines should touch circles in a smooth way. There could be many arguments why it's kinda important. Like fit to other parts in a final assembly or production complexity. But even for DIY purposes this minor adjustments would suck a lot of blood in prototype phase, it's a way more simpler to constraint it to be smooth (tangent) and forget about all tweaks needed after dimension changes.
> But the OP doesn’t really state any sources not does the argument have a ton of merit

Agreed; I just think that it's better for the discussion to proceed on that basis.
It can be incorporated in the initial price. I hope to remove F2P games altogether. They are really cancerous.
If you are going to create a static site, do not use Rails, use jekyll or something similar, they are built for this.
> all the structures grow from a single cell

Two cells: Egg and sperm
Laura anticipated that response:

“Ferriss downplays the idea of dream jobs. As he writes, “For most people . . . the perfect job is the one that takes the least time. The vast majority of people will never find a job that can be an unending source of fulfillment, so that is not the goal here; to free time and automate income is.”

And then she further elaborate from there, discussing how to create the right job, bridging the gap between the ideal and the reality. Here's the 3 levels of changes to do that:

“... If the answer is “no” to any of these four questions, what can I change? In the next week? In the next year? Can I create the right job within my organization? Another organization? Or will I need to go out on my own?”

I know we're not in a book club, and I, even the author, does not have to ultimate answer. But as she argued, there are things we can have more meaningful/fulfilling life from our 168 hours a week and it is not as pessimistic as it seems. I invite you to give the book a chance.

Excerpt From
168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think
Laura Vanderkam
Ah, sorry, that was badly written. What I meant was that it looks like the shell script exits almost immediately, i.e. pid 1 forks the app process but then exits itself...
Which do use attention? Any recommendations?
Package manager for Mac/Linux to share private tools with your colleges easier
I'm interested to try, and to figure out where those limitations are, rather than to just shut down discussion for lack of proper credentials.

I honestly don't know whether, for example, a deer carcass is a potentially destabilizing element for a cave of this nature, or how often such a thing occurs, but I think it's not an unreasonable approach to tease out the particulars.
Automotive HMIs with Linux tend to boot long, then hibernate while the car is off. The only thing that needs to come up quickly (at least in the US) is the backup camera and there tends to be hardware to inject that video quicker than the HMI can.
> Making install documentation that is very very detailed to the point that some people will be turned off by it and go away could very much be considered gatekeeping.

In my times, we called such people lazy. No gatekeeping needed.
Yup also happened to me in 2018. I never received a download link for my archive. My support email was never answered and my archive expired and was deleted.
Carlsbad Caverns visitor numbers fluctuate, but seem to be in the range of 500k yearly based on published data. To answer OP's question, I strongly doubt that this is one piece of litter, or that the rangers are publishing this article because of one singular Cheetos packet. HN rules say "assume good faith" and I don't feel like the OP is doing this (particularly in his response comment.)

[1] https://www.nps.gov/cave/learn/news/interesting-facts-about-...
Ask HN: Why there is only one network?
I am referring to the internet here and its nature.

In a free world, you should expect to see different networks, like a network that works with text only (as the internet once was), or a network that has central place for selling products with strict rules to prevent fooling the customer in any way... whatever it is, I am not arguing for any of this now... I am asking why do we have a single network?
This is addressing all the things I don't care about at all for a static site, and then suggesting a tool that makes very little sense.

If you're hosting a static site... life is easy. Throw your content in any s3 compatible storage and point a CDN at it. Done. It will cost literal pennies a year (The domain name will be by far the most expensive piece, and lots of places will give that to you for free if you don't care about being a subdomain).

That too complicated for you? Host it on a raspberry pi out of your bedroom. For the vast majority of traffic loads... that thing is going to be A-OK, even on a crappy consumer line (You'll probably be violating your TOS with your provider if it's a commercial site... but I've found they really don't seem to care unless you're causing them headaches, and a static site ain't gonna cause many headaches).

That too complicated for you? 10 lines of js with express will stand up a prefectly functional static site. Or you literally just install nginx and configure a single server block.

Static sites are fucking easy. It is ridiculously easy to serve static content these days. And borderline free (again - the domain name is going to DWARF the rest of your costs combined, even if you're only paying 5 bucks for the name).

How do you generate your static content? Who cares - do whatever feels best to you (I personally think rails is a bonkers solution, but if you want to use rake tasks to create your output... more power to ya?)

It really sounds like the author doesn't understand what a static site is, because JAMstack also isn't a static site solution (It has API right there in the name).

If you need to be consuming APIs with changing data... you aren't a static site (even if the html/js/css you serve happens to be static). In which case... rails is a fine choice, but if you're only serving the html/js/css and hitting 3rd party apis... I would still recommend an s3 bucket with a CDN.
Apparently most EV batteries degrade to about 80% SOH and then stay there. My 2015 Leaf is on 79% having bought it in 2020 at 86%.

I've never heard of an EV battery being "done". In practice they seem to be doing better that expected.

Granted, some users need more than 80% of the original range, but for them, there's a second hand market.
AI is 'accelerating the climate crisis,' expert warns
How can WordPress be so prominent and have so much money behind it and still have such garbage code? Are there giant companies still running PHP 4 server farms that need it to continue to be coded to 2003 standards? Is it some government op to ensure a good deal of the sites on the web are easily-hackable? Someone explain this to me.
> Your point of disagreement is the _medium_ of computation?

No. My point is that we should not impute interiority onto computation. The medium is a thought experiment meant to stimulate your intuition that computational sophistication does not imply interiority. Unless you do think that the current state of balls rolling down a board does entail a conscious experience?

To adjust the speed, just imagine the balls rolling down in 100000000x time. I don't know where you stand, but I still don't think there is a conscious experience on the board.
>scrum then sticking with it. They believe it helped.

Not necessarily. It's well known that there are many psychological biases in favor of keeping the status quo. Whether it's the sunk cost fallacy, the escalation of commitment or the endowment effect.

Humans tend to stick with bad decisions way longer than rational.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment#/sear...

I think the problem here is we've had a huge trend in switching to scrum, but then people stick with failed scrum because it's the new status quo. Switching back to waterfall can't be sold by consultants. Even if it would help.
You can choose to work with Rust's Result in a monadic way, that's what methods like Result::and_then and Result::or_else and so on are for.

Because it's just another type you could also do whatever else you like, unlike with the Exceptions in typical languages which have them where too bad, we bolted the information to the control flow so now we're going on a journey.

If you want to bolt control flow to some information in Rust that's fine, feel free to define a function which returns ControlFlow::Break for success if that suits you, the try operator understands what you meant, early success is fine. Actually you can see this reflected in the larger language because break 'label value; exists in Rust unlike for example C++.
> It used to be that owning a TV or radio was an expense you planned for and it had to last.

Thereby replacing one problem with another. The hope was that quality would be minimally impacted and repairs would be affordable. Instead, businesses are incentivized to quick-to -obsolesce products.

Disastrous garbage problems that impact everyone, even the wealthiest, though they are blissfully unaware.

> Of course there are those who were hurt from the move from blue collar manufacturing, but overall, the aggregated benefit is higher than the losses from those who were laid off. And it's not as if new industries did not spring up.

Trump’s rise in 2016 shows that this narrative is woefully inadequate.
If it's not nullable and not undefined it's not empty.

If an int with 0 is empty a string with a only white spaces is the same kind of empty.

I think empty mixes the computer meaning of empty with the linguistic meaning.
The instruction encoding has strong S/360 feeling to it. Which is not necessarily a bad thing in itself.
> That said, I'm still significantly confused why the hell you can only store numeric values. It just seems like a very arbitrary constraint.

"In mathematics, a time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order."

A a numeric datapoint is by far the largest use case, timeseries databases optimize for that. Most allow you to have several labels ofcourse, i.e. you could store country border crossings as

{from: US,to:Canada} 1726377148, 2123
{from: US,to:Mexico} 1726377148, 34567
I've overlaid your part on the correct part (as best I can when working with the mesh files that come out of OpenSCAD). Your part is drawn in red: https://i.imgur.com/12y5q1t.png
Honestly... SWE management already is kind of already out-of-date and I say that as someone who is a SWE manager.

Most software teams can pretty much run themselves and the only real use a SWE manager has imo is running interference because the rest of the company are morons and/or chaotic and being the gopher for things the team needs. I think a manager who isn't also participating in the work should be removed as they are a net-negative.

If the rest of the company is calm and sane, in my opinion, you could have a team with senior+ ICs that take turns doing planning or doing a collaborative planning.
> Hacker: hmmm, first thing I need to do is build a suitable plain text editor

Yes, sometimes, we are missing features, sometimes wanted products are not available (see Android), sometimes available products are bad...

It's normal (for us). Very reasonable, consequential.

Edit: oh, coincidences. Appeared today: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/15/speed-matters/

> Last year I spent something like 100 hours writing a text editor

...Which reveals a topic of two mindsets. This submission is about a NodeJS + Electron Forge product; I wrote my Word Processor for Android in Java, and I want to re-write it in C... And the reason is, further requirements for quality.

So, the near future opens towards an increase of products: a question will be, whether we will get many more resources with large differences in quality, or more resources of good quality.
So what are we to make of the highly ambitious, private Polaris spaceflight?
No, it is cloning existing installation from one drive to another. Basically what clonezilla would do.

For upgrading ubuntu lts among releases, you go through their do-release-upgrade tool.
99.99% of the human population is in sleep mode. Zoning out constantly. Once you became awake, everyday experiences starts to become beautiful and a bit magical. Also you start to ponder more on your awareness and topics like eternity, god, death etc come to your focus than make believe stuff like careers, identity, nationality, opinions shared in tweets, the story you have about your life etc. Also a once atheist you starts to immediately understand the religious teachings.

It's hard to understand this statement if you are not awake. I would have down voted this before the shift happened for me :)
The oblivion of addiction would explain most peoples' not using the tools. First, you have to admit that you have a problem.
As far as companies with a Russian origin go JetBrains and Yandex are at complete odds with each other. JetBrains condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine and suspended sales and R&D there shortly after the war broke out then left the country entirely as soon as they relocated the employees. Whereas Yandex stayed and as a result their home page today is chock-full of Russian propaganda. JetBrains may have originated in Russia but they have nothing to do with that country anymore so counting them in with Yandex is wrong.
You can't separate tech from the rest of the world.

Millennials grew up. And we found that it cost a crap ton of money to just survive, let along thrive. Student loans were the first bodyslam, then figuring out owning a place to live. A ton of precarity is out there.

No kidding people get locked in on economic incentives.
Do you still have to file federal income taxes for life when you're gifted this?
The post by itself is not harmful, since it can be that the person posted it for their own blog because they like to write for themselves. Someone now finding it and using it for their own benefit/loss, that's a problem.
Ram Dass fully covered this in much more depth:

“ I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he's confronting. Therefore, it always feeds back to the same place. But working on myself is just like this. This is social action at the moment.”

https://www.ramdass.org/increasing-amount-consciousness/

Here’s a (fairly) long lecture with Q&A demonstrating as such:

https://youtu.be/LCiB9oMnIbI?si=yr5ldw8JrkQ7iQtS
How do I wake up and escape the matrix? Please teach us master
Interesting.

- It seems like creating few free cloudflare accounts to get different DNS servers.

- A setting to randomize nameservers almost certainly would become a paid feature.
People Mind Wander More During Massed Than Spaced Learning [pdf]
Generative AI images that look like different things based on orientation [video]
My biggest beef with VictoriaMetrics is I can't delete and re-ingest a range of data. i.e. if I discover yesterdays data was messed up due to some issue in downstream data processing, I can't delete yesterdays data and re-ingest the cleaned up data. (Or even just delete yesterdays bad data)

The only workaround I've found so far is to dump out the whole timeseries which could go back months/years, delete the timeseries, fix/delete data in the dump and re-ingest the whole thing. This really, really sucks.
The Buddhist take here would be that when you actually hone your attention, introspection reveals not a unified consciousness but a stream of discrete events: thought, visual perception, tactile, tactile, thought,…

The default is to not have enough resolution to perceive the edges.

Under this view, the unification is an illusion or an appearance, analogously to how we perceive fluorescent lights to be continuous even though they are actually flickering on and off at a high rate. The difference being, our eyes have a hardware limit on temporal resolution, whereas for attention the relevant limit here is just “software”.
The Dying Singer Who Cured Himself with Music
Diversifying to what? When AI can fully replace senior developers the world as we know it is over. Best case capitalism enters terminal decline: buy rifles. Worst case, hope that whatever comes out the either side is either benevolent or implodes quickly.
Weaponizing Anger Is a Useful Political Strategy
Xi Jinping vs. Macroeconomics
Agreed. My point was that most of us are far from the optimal - in the direction of overconsumption vs. actually doing.

Ofc this is difficult to show with clear evidence. It's my intuition based on observing myself and conversations with other builders.
Perhaps one compromise is to discharge any interest and prevent interest accrual on bankruptcy-claimed loans.

Removing any risk to debtors is what set-up this perverse incentive; and breaks the market.

I’d still prefer what the author proposed, but the status quo is broken.

Background: I graduated in the 1990s with virtually no debt attending a third tier public school as I had to pay my own way.

But only because I didn’t want to declare bankruptcy and don’t like being in debt; yet it was never clear that bankruptcy wasn’t a real option.

What kids have to go through today is outrageous.
Machines Learned to Discover Drugs
Was thinking about this recently. The author misses the importance of timing in the unity of perception. It would be rather easy to conduct an experiment and ask people, “did X and Y happen at the same time?” where X and Y are different stimuli. You could test over a variety of different senses and time differences to determine if people are integrating their experiences or not.

The other important element is attention and awareness. You can certainly be focused on one thing more than another—this can be a useful kind of disunity
For one thing the network does not know what sort of content is going over it, text or not.

For the case your e-commerce network it would cost just about as much to connect every point on the edge to that network as it does to connect to the one we have. If there were ten networks it would cost ten times as much to connect. A lot of people already think internet service is expensive.

If you wanted to have some vetted space where commerce was done at a higher level you could find some way to do that on top of the network we already have.
RRDTool was the generalised version of the TSDB that was born for the specific use case, MRTG. It could be used for anything. Hopefully I've remembered that correctly!
This seems to fit quite well with Paul Graham's main 'Make something people want' mantra. Here the guy is making a version of Calendly at 1/10th the price which he says people in India want as they can't afford the normal one.
Or George R. R. Martin.
Pony diffusion imho qualifies as “foundation model research” and while it’s not directly Civit.AI, it’s indirectly them.
Mathematically it's true. Anything that can be enumerated (that is, has an ontological mapping with the set of whole numbers) can be interpreted as input to some function which can be evaluated to some result also with an ontological mapping with the set of whole numbers. In other words, the entire human population could be a part of some program calculating the answer to some universal question, which may be about life, the universe, and everything. In fact, the answer may already be known. We're just one big server with massively parallel operation.

What we don't know is what that function is. Put differently, what is the question?
What is "CH" in this context ?
I am sorry you’re going through that. I am not in a rural place, but I feel isolated all the same because I mask everything. I feel that if I trust someone enough, I’ll open up to them. I am working up to it.

Be wary of advice which says you need to be good looking to expect reasonable behavior from a partner. I’ve been told I am attractive, but it can sometimes bring the wrong kind of attention that doesn’t really provide emotional support and personal wellbeing.

Looking good can be its own reward, but it’s not a requirement for finding a close relationship, I think.

Take care.
When was the last time they used that "explosive power" to good effect? They got humiliated in Afghanistan and Russia isn't even scared to act out any more. The only people who think America still rules the world is it's delusional populace.
Amazon only delivers to the easy areas and uses USPS to deliver to all the places where they can't deliver economically
I had missed Mataroa's post. This is fucking hilarious.
I'm using the version from Debian testing:

dc -V
dc (GNU bc 1.07.1) 1.4.1

In fact, in my version "-v" as opposed to "-V" isn't recognized as a valid option.

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It happened to me by chance. But I was seeking it. I think the journey has just started for me. It has its own challenges. But waking up with Sam Harris is probably a good place to start. I don't think it's also for everyone. Life became easy day to day but became more challenging in terms of purpose etc as ego dies.
Galen Strawson:

"I’m somewhere down towards the episodic end of this spectrum. I have no sense of my life as a narrative with form, and very little interest in my own past. My personal memory is very poor, and rarely impinges on my present consciousness. I make plans for the future, and to that extent think of myself perfectly adequately as something with long-term continuity. But I experience this way of thinking of myself as remote and theoretical, given the most central or fundamental way in which I think of myself, which is as a mental self or someone. Using ME to express the way in which I think of myself, I can accurately express my experience by saying that I do not think of ME as being something in the future."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v18/n08/galen-strawson/the-s...

Would also recommend Strawson's Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, the Self, Etc.
Titan sub disaster: Five key questions that remain
I've recorded a short video showing a little bit of TinyJS if you're interested - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otz7sv_wpFA
Counterpoint: " mRNA vaccines " took less than three years to adapt to a new pandemic and scale up to mass production to cover a whole planet's worth of people. The tech and progress within medicine are insane. CRISPR and genetic engineering allow modified bacteria, algae, and yeasts to produce any biological molecule we want in mass. Computer algorithms allow new medicines to be tested and perfected without real medical trials.

As for the public healthcare and hospital industry in a few key industrialized countries, going through a bit of a ... "downward spiral" is a separate issue from the technology itself. (USA)

As for more sick people... diabetes is going up, and people aren't exercising. I cannot refute that. Perhaps a healthier work culture where people have more time to cook proper food and take care of their health will do wonders, but "who is gonna pay for the loss of productivity" always gets in the way.
It's a common mistake that newcomers to the language make. You assume empty is an empty string check when it's really a falsy check that is equivalent to: (!isset($var) || !$var)
Seems low. Talking about trash on both sides of the economic exchange. Buy a meal and you will generate a bunch of trash on consumer side, the business will also generate trash during production.
Show HN: Like OG Instagram X Myspace
A pretty standard social media app with usual suspects:

- Post photos with comments

- Comment on photos

- Follow people

- DM people

- "Like" posts (likes are private to you)

And a few features long forgotten in social media:

- Fully customize your profile with HTML/CSS

- Comment on another person's profile

It's kinda slow because the FE is on Vercel (free) and the BE is with some other stuff on a Raspberry Pi in my apartment with little caching.

If people use it, I'll move it to a big boy setup.