skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Reality" is such a loaded word. It assumes a lot: existence of something outside the observer; its durability and continuity; presence of other similar observers, who also sense the reality in "essentially the same" way, with a lot of problems in defining the "sameness"; the idea that the "objective reality" also still exists in absence of any observers. For the reality to be "objective", the observers also need to be somehow durable, so with passage of "time", they could make some repeat observations and notice that the results are the same, that is, the reality must have "laws".

It's pretty tall order.

But, if we go with it by extending the reality past human death (why only human?), we, the humans, usually make it hugely anthropocentric, often more so than when astronomy put Earth in the center of universe. For me, it's a sign that many spiritual movements try to serve as a consolation to humans fearing death, rather than an honest research of anything past "this side" of reality. Certainly there are kinds of spirituality that avoid this trap, e.g. Theravada Buddhism; sadly it tries to describe provably incorrect things, like a number of heavens at particular heights above Earth.

A spiritualism that tries to pass simple checks should either actually predict "physical reality" and thus become science, or drop any pretenses that it can be observable in the "physical reality", thus going firmly into the realm of not even fairy tales but of strictly internal experience of an observer, hence becoming solipsist. Solipsism is logically entitled to anything :)

If you just "want to believe", the Pascal's Wager is as good as it has always been.
American culture is very prudish, courtesy of its Puritanical roots which even today cause us to label a woman sucking off an enormous penis (like in "Deep ASCII", referenced in article) as so-called "pornography".
You can just eat calorically less dense food a.k.a more veggie. Fasting is very hard, and also dangerous if you faint while driving.
They are different but two sides of the same coin

> Healthy nutrition requires more than eating less.

Except in specific cases, this is mostly not true. Food in the modern era is very nutrient dense. This is why vitamin pills are mostly a placebo; you're getting an overabundance of nutrients in your diet already.

The first principal component of healthy nutrition is simply _eating less_. Eating less reduces your risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, injury when you are older, and on and on.

Calories in calories out as they say.
Is this motivated by the value of the text (for internal use, or selling it), or about to launch some new "AI-powered" support thing, or by the headache of dealing with data scrapers pounding their servers, or something else?
I was able to do it without this, but this made it much easier. However, it would be much better if the strafing keys were on the left side of the keyboard. You can bunch your hands together and use your left hand for <, >, and space, but it's awkward.
I run my entire work computer inside of a VM. I work from home and have a powerfull desktop i use for my private stuff hooked up to my 3 monitors. My work pc is a vmware vm running inside of vmware pro. I can minimize the work vm and work it out my sight or I can selective choose that the vm should use 1, 2 or 3 monitors and it is easy to switch back and forth between work and private without have any work related data on my private desktop. The work vm is domain joined, o365 enterprise joined and loocked down in ridicilous ways by cooperate IT but now i can run that from my private powerfull PC without worring that corp IT messes up my private computer.
> Unfortunately the "internet doesn't forget" statement has been false since many years

As a sibling comment says, I think such sentences have meant "you can't rely on the internet to forget". Of course the reverse is also true: "you can't rely on the internet to remember".

In short: don't write things you could regret, but make backups.
It is, in quantities that are compatible with a modern lifestyle. Sure, if you're gonna run marathons every weekend, you will lose a lot of weight from that. But that's not possible to achieve while leading a normal modern life (full time employment, a relationship, children).
> 2023-12-29 Espressif replied that impact of the first bug is just disconnection of the attached device, since it does not impact normal use nor leak user data it cannot be considered a vulnerability. The second bug (OOB write) is not present in Host or Controller code, it only affects example code and customers typically develop autonomously based on the API, so the impact is minimal.

A disappointing response from Espressif considering we are all probably running something with an Espressif SoC and I suspect the majority of customers use the example code verbatim.
Meanwhile, there are estimated to be possibly a quadrillion individuals of bristlemouth species in the genus Cyclothone... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclothone
It's always interesting to note the waves of sponsors flow through youtube/podcasts. Raid, Nordvpn, recently Incogni. I wonder if the ad spend actually pays off for them, or if it's just VC dollars being shoveled into the furnaces.
> same with $10 ear buds vs $150 iems

Are there $150 pairs which are better than every $10 or $20 pair? Sure.

But there are plenty of $150 headphones which have the same quality as a $10 pair of earbuds. People overpay for brand names, for trendy styles, for good marketing/ branding, etc. Price _alone_ is not an indicator of quality.
Eh. What people are really arguing about here is redis’s type system. Redis’s approach has some pros and some cons. I think dismissing redis’s approach out of hand for its choices is too simple a treatment.

Most sql databases (like Postgres) require all types to be declared once, and then they do type checking on mutation. In that sense, sql is like a static language like C. But weirdly, the results returned from a sql query are always dynamically typed values, expressed in a table. Applications reading data from sql will still typically need to know what kind of data they expect back - but they usually do that type checking at runtime.

Redis flips both of those choices. It’s dynamically typed - so it won’t check your mutations. But also, you don’t need schema migrations and all the complexity they bring. And rather than having a single “table” type, redis queries can return scalar values, lists or maps. What kind of return value you get back depends on the query function. (Eg GET vs LRANGE).

If you think of a database as the foundation underneath your house, static typing & type checking is a wonderful way to make that foundation more stable. There’s a reason Postgres is the default, after all. But redis isn’t best used like that. Instead, it’s a Swiss Army knife which is best used in small, specific situations in which a real database would be complex overkill. Stuff like caching, event processing, data processing, task queues, configuration, and on and on. Places where you want some of the advantages of a database (fast, concurrent network-accessible storage) but you don’t want to stress about tables and schema migrations.

If you really hate redis, maybe say the same thing I say about Java when I teach it to my students. “I hate this, and I’ll tell you why. But there are smart people out there who disagree with me.”

If you ask me, I wish sql looked more like redis in some ways. I think it’s quite awkward that every sql query returns exactly one “table”. I’d much rather if queries could return scalar values or even multiple tables, depending on your query.
It's the hyphens that always give it away, hyphen or hyphen family. Just as an experiment, I ctrl'f'ed "-" on this article, 28, then I went to "best medium articles of 2012 2013 2014, average is 6/7 of them with high being ~ > 13

Never the less, the article mostly made sense to me, although it was a bit circular, I still found it tolerable as far as LLM assisted work goes, def didn't feel "written by AI".
It's essentially a law of the internet. Well-researched website on a niche topic written in the 00s? Lost forever. Your edgelord blog from when you were a teenager? Backed up in triplicate.
After the magnificent concert one patron of the arts gushed to the virtuoso "oh, I would gladly trade half my life to play as well as you could!" The virtuoso replied after a moment's thought, "that's precisely what it cost!"
Dates are very helpful, especially for information about software.
You can use your web browser, as well.
It was a difficult follow with a lot of concepts that repeated sometimes with the added "spirituality" parts that vacillated between secular, agnostic and metaphysical. The whole thing could entirely remove the words around "spirituality" and would still simply be about our attachment style with lived reality. I am guessing because they are religious and things heard after catholic mass sparked some thoughts, they have not reached the secure attachment part of their reality to voice these thoughts without adding in something outside of themselves that is needed for wholeness. It's a thinly veiled healing and love are there for us if we openly and securely attach to *cough metaphysical cough* reality.
sorry forgot the /s

"stone" is a popular way in the UK to give a person's weight
I wish things weren’t so politically turbulent in the US. Big, global, uncensored megaphones are the problem I think.
Yeah, but blowing up people on TV shows, with blood and body parts going everywhere is perfectly alright.

That is the thing with censorship, it isn't consequent.
If you're looking to build a SaaS app, start with a professionally curated Rails template. It will save you months of development time. Payments/Auth/etc are built in and there are solid patterns in place to extend from.

Jumpstart Pro is great.
https://jumpstartrails.com/

So is Bullet Train.
https://bullettrain.co/
Before wow , there was either lineage, and then EverQuest.

I guess it was Lineage as Korean used mainly MSFT softwares?
Very good question, I don't know. Ideally you'd stick with the most vanilla stack, being solid queue, etc. However after trying solid queue in my production environment with Postgres I was left very disappointed at the reliability and speed. This could've been some misconfiguration on my part though.

Another thing that I noticed is that if you compare litestack's benchmarks to solid_cable (for example) litestack claims to outperform redis whereas the argument for solid_queue is that it is slower, but worth the simplicity of 'just using the database': https://github.com/rails/solid_cable?tab=readme-ov-file

All in all I would prefer 'the standard' solution, but I am interested in experimenting with litestack. After all that is what side projects are perfect for.
That's right, convenience is the enemy! We should start some kind of movement and convince others in the least productive way. I know, it sounds like a lot of work.

There is one more funny twist to the picture you've painted. What little physical labor we have left is piled onto as few people as possible while others are dying in cubicles.
besides, wikis have RSS feeds too. gotta follow em from somewhere :)
Los Angeles Sheriff dispatch system crashes on New Year's Eve
I would say that Avo is by far the best Rails admin-like solution out there. It's beautiful.

https://avohq.io/
I'd be surprised if it was more than a gigabyte. I work in spacecraft operations and the sampling and telemetry rates are not that high. At most they'll be monitoring a few hundred parameters at the order of 10Hz. That doesn't add up to a lot over 24 seconds. The biggest contribution to the data budget is most likely to be the video.
I'm shocked so many companies use Discord for official purposes.
They'll nest in just about anything with nooks and crannies, and don't only feed at night - they adjust to your schedule. When I had them, they first got to my couch, not my bed, and would also go after my feet while sitting at my desk.
Please read the second part - I use a command restriction in authorized_keys so that the guest can only call certain commands.

Yes, the guest has “unlimited” access to the pasteboard, which does introduce some risks. For example, the guest could set a malicious command line that you paste into the terminal - which is generally mitigated with paste bracketing in zsh, vim, etc. It definitely weakens the isolation to a certain extent, but I don’t think it completely negates the security barrier as you claim.
That’s why there are programs like Couch to 5K which slowly work up to a nonstop 30 minute run. It doesn’t even take that much determination and it’s practically designed for obese people. I was able to complete it weeks ahead of schedule at a BMI of 30 and the 4-5/wk runs it enabled helped me lose 35 pounds in 2024 - the vast majority of the weightloss happening during the weeks that I ran.

Nitpick: a marathon is 42 kilometers (by definition). Most people would struggle to even walk that.
They're usually not filtering pro-left or pro-right. They're filtering pro-Russian-faction within the left and right. This usually means extremists that used to have no hope of winning in the pre-Internet days.

These factions are more likely to be beholden to their "troll benefactors" afterwards. But even if they turn out to be ungrateful, the extremism itself is worth pursuing. As you said, confusion and division are useful in their own right.

Add other rogue countries to the mix, and you end up with a nasty filter. We should turn it into white noise, or at least drop its SNR.
File deduplication would reduce disk space usage by 40% on a typical consumer laptop, and works well in Windows Server. The reason it is not enabled in client windows is because storage sells.
Urgh, cultural vandalism.

The challenge here is that there are people out there who just do not understand the inherent value of this kind of old content. If any company exists for long enough eventually some of those people will cycle into positions of decision-making authority where they get to "save costs" or "clean things up" by delete-hammering some invaluable artifact like this one.

The correct way to handle this is to add a BIG banner on top of older content like this warning "This post is from 12 years ago, and may no longer reflect the most recent version of our software".

Flattening a bunch of dynamic pages to static HTML can also be useful, if the concern is maintaining old forum software.
Cars are great for mental health. They let people access a lot more things in less time. And plenty of people drive cars who are in fine physical and mental health.
That will get you PIP at half the companies
We have developed a completely new social networking application called “Batteshare”, a social networking service that has never been seen before.

The concept is to “share what you are doing right now based on your battery level.

You can communicate with your friends based on the amount of battery power remaining in their devices.
You can see whether your friends are sleeping, working part-time, or what they are doing in their daily lives from the battery level on their devices.

English is not yet supported.
(We will support it someday .... )
OnShape has replaced Fusion360 for most of my needs, and it's free for personal use.
The hardest part about exercise is the mental aspect of pushing past the inertia of habit and comfort.

As Dr Ashley says in the OP, if you can just walk 30-45 minutes five or six days a week, you're already doing your health a great service. The hard part isn't the walk itself, it's the motivation to start, and the discipline to make it part of a routine.

Once you have ingrained exercise into your routine, it becomes easy. Not exercising feels uncomfortable; feeding your body with things which do not support your more healthful state will feel more innately uncomfortable. Once you establish a routine of exercise, you have the basis for a virtuous cycle.
ArchiveTeam (https://wiki.archiveteam.org/) fairly routinely makes archival blitzes on dying forums. If there's any forewarning of such on a forum you frequent, let them know.
> I also wonder if this fascination with having "quick fixes"

American culture. We want maximum results with minimum effort.
Also possible she was bit, but didn't react to the bites. Not everyone does.
Only assuming you have a steady body weight and diet, which is a very bad assumption for most overweight and obese people.

Not to mention, the processes in your body are way more complex than all this makes them out to be. For moderate exercise, after an adaptation period of a few weeks to months, there is almost no calorie impact from the exercise itself on your total calorie expenditure: your metabolism adjusts and various internal processes are deprioritized to prioritize the exercise.

This is in fact a major component of why exercise is so healthy: it doesn't do much for weight loss, but it stops/slows down all sorts of unnecessary processes in the body that are actively harming your overall health.
ASGI too. But it’s not too bad and tools like Starlette / FastAPI make it a breeze. Go servers are fast but generating docs from code is a lot more work which you get free in FastAPI.
> What does secure attachment to reality look like? It means feeling safe to experience whatever arises. It means trusting that reality is fundamentally reliable.

In other words, up is up and down is down. Water is not wine. Reality doesn't come and go on the whims of a prayer halfway across the world.
Hotels get bed bugs all the time, and they don’t regularly throw away mattresses and furniture. Just call a professional terminator who uses the proper insecticides, and you can get rid of beg bugs. The downside is you usually cannot occupy the space for at least a few days.

I know of no hotels that bother with diatomaceous earth, so I presume it either doesn’t work sufficiently often, or it takes too long to work.
Yep - good point. Another option would be to set a confirmation in front of every paste attempt - for example, putting Touch ID in front of any pbpaste call from the guest (which you can enforce with the authorized_keys command). That should be low-friction enough that it isn’t a major delay to your development process, while still being reasonably secure and providing the convenience of pasteboard access.
> Software had it way too easy for way too long. You could ship faulty code to billions without anyone blinking an eye. It was just harmless ideas after all.

Like Crowdstrike ? Or Microsoft ?

> The stakes are now higher with data being so important and the advent of algorithms that affect people directly. From health insurance claims, to automated trading, social media drugs and ai companions, bad code today can and does ruin lives.

See above and the UK Post scandal. Nobody gives a shit. There is no acountability for bad software. Software is not a product from a liability point of view.

> Software engineers, like every other engineer have to be held accountable for code they sign off and ship.

They managers more than them. Software engineers are not responsible for the software lifecycle. Somebody must test the code. Somebody must review the code.
I remember there were ads everywhere for stuff like 3615 ULLA, magazine, billboards, any walls etc. Crazy time.
I don’t think the reaction to everything we dislike should be “let’s make it illegal” because you’re going to end up with unintended harms. If companies are forced to retain public information against their will, many will simply opt not to have a public forum.

If anything, governments should be proactively funding organizations that archive content and governments can archive content of significant cultural or historical value like the library of congress does for physical media.
A blog is personal a wiki is not.
In my experience, the worship part is purely theatrical, and is largely the reason stuff like this happens. I'd rather have books treated well for practical purposes than because "Vidya is God" - it makes more sense this way, and you aren't bound to a holy/unreachable ideal.

Feet don't have any use for books, so that doesn't matter much. Book sleeves and brown crafts are because of school rules, else those don't happen. Anyway, you should see how the books within those brown sleeves get by end of school year. Books get handed down in good shape only when a parent is unusually strict about those books (mine were, which is why I have a chip on my shoulder regarding this topic) or if the kid is conscientious. Woe betide you if you loan a book to a random friend; there are good chances it won't come back whole because of the "why-should-I-care-I-don't-own-it" mentality.

Part of it, as you imply, is the cheaper price, and thus quality and binding of the books made in India.
> an estimate for the number of trees on Earth of 3.04 trillion

We still need more trees to fight climate change in the 21st century and according to the United Nations since the 1800s, human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
It has became very obvious how reliant we are on Archive.org last time they had an extended outage (remember?, they got hacked,then they couldn't bring the system back up for weeks and weeks). Huge amounts of reference material suddenly dissappeared.

Personally I think it is a huge error we don't force archive.org to allow others to mirror their data easily.
I have pushed back in a similar way many times (wrt LLMs), the response I typically get is some combination of:

- A custom/heuristic driven approach would perform better but will take much longer to build so would be lower ROI.

- There is a strategic angle to using AI here (building competency). We aren't sure what new use cases will open up in the medium term and we need to be fluent with building AI products.

- There is a perceptual/marketing angle to using AI here. We need to convince the market/investors we are on the bleeding edge (hype).

3 is widely mocked but is a completely rational allocation of resources when you need to compete in a market for funding.
Don't GLP-1 meds currently have bad side effects for a lot of people?
Developing Progressive Web Applications is a future-ready solution. If you have also taken PWA development, you need to have basic technical insight. Refer to the article on the best framework for PWA development to speed up your project delivery.
Clearly you’re not a cosmologist if you care about digits of accuracy ;)
I don't think we disagree here, unless you saw some pro-Ukraine 2024 ads. It's not about left and right. To demagogues, ideologies are just tools of the trade.
That can all be true, but still miss the point of what a good spirituality ought to be. Yes, it may be a flaw of human religious systems to put humanity at the center of everything. But that’s only a flaw if we’re looking for an external explanation of reality. The fact is that from our perspective, we are at the center of our universe and psychologically, we are healthier if we have some coherent answers to tell ourselves about reality.

This is the real flaw with the positivist, scientific-dominant world view IMO. It obsesses over this external notion of objectivity while forgetting that human flourishing is (arguably) more important than merely accumulating information.
I watch what I subscribe to, and what I search for, and that's it.

The whole point of turning off recommendations and suggestions is to browse the web deliberately, without algorithms pushing things at you. I consider "discovery" to be an anti-feature that I don't want.
John Walker the founder would grieve as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_(programmer)

He was a digital hoarder sharer. See:

https://fourmilab.ch/