skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> His record in Britain’s former colonies more closely resembles that of a war criminal

> Churchill has the blood of millions on his hands whom the British prefer to forget.

If only citations mattered to people.

> Churchill was one of the few British officials in favor of bombing Irish protesters from the air, suggesting using “machine gun fire bombs” to scatter them.

A thought without action. War gaming is common. You suggest a full range of ideas and only use the most sensible option.

> In fact he argued that poison gas was more humane than outright extermination: “The moral effect should be so good that the loss of life should be reduced to a minimum.”

Referring to tear gas. And they never used it! He was war gaming.

> Churchill was an open admirer of Mussolini, declaring that the Italian Fascist movement had “rendered a service to the whole world.”

That's called politics. Politicians have to flatter less than savory world leaders all the time.

> “the superiority of [the British] race” and that those who resisted would “be killed without quarter.” He wrote happily about how he and his comrades “systematically, village by village, destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the great shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation. Every tribesman caught was speared or cut down at once.”

He was a war correspondent -- a journalist. He has to say these things. Coverage of wars is always heavily censored and filled with propaganda.

> He fantasized luridly of having Mahatma Gandhi tied to the ground and trampled upon by elephants.

Gandhi was asking for Indian independence while Imperial Japan was invading Bengal. Not great timing! In Churchill's eyes, Gandhi was sabotaging the war effort and breaking up the empire that he loved so much. Churchill and Gandhi were political enemies. No doubt every one is guilty of wishing this on their opposition... Hell, there's a common fantasy of killing "baby" Hitler in America.

> Thanks to Churchill’s personal decisions, more than 3 million Bengalis died of hunger in a 1943 famine.

Ignoring the fact that Japan was attacking India through Bengal... Bengal is a casualty of war not a "personal decision" of a racist imperialist. The author conveniently ignores the fact that Churchill asked the US for food aid to end the famine... The US refused because it was not possible to provide aid. So Churchill ordered Australia to begin shipping food but Australia's capabilities to ship food were not great because of...you know WORLD WAR 2. Should Churchill have ceded India to Japan? Would Japanese occupation been better for Indians? Not in China's experience!
Well, Gopher is one solution to the problem -- a technical one. Getting web content creators to knock it off is another solution -- a social one.

The problem with that is that it requires restraint, and I just don't see much of that in web content creators. In an environment where everyone is competing for attention and clicks and tracking, how do you expect people to willingly do less?

The only approach I could possibly see working is picking some subset of web browser functionality, and branding it as the Next Cool Thing, somehow. Maybe some way to badge or advertise pages, like "JS-free", or "KB-fast" (all content < 1.0MB).

You can still do some pretty amazing designs in a million bytes of HTML+CSS.
I know many will take what you said the wrong way, but I agree with your general point. Some perspective goes a long way. Even within the field of software engineering, we have a lot of choice and mobility job wise. Most do not have to work at companies asking for insanity.
The best known edible boletes (penny bun / cep / porcini) don't require boiling, they're fine eaten raw. Which varieties need to be boiled?
That doesn't mean in many cases the PE firms aren't getting paid though. They usually charge "consulting fees" to the companies they buy sometimes in the hundreds of millions of dollars. They get that money long before any bankruptcy proceedings start.
There will be two main mechanisms:

The first is the direct effects of nicotine (and possibly the vaping mechanism). The figure being bandied about on this thread is that vaping is probably 5% as directly dangerous as tobacco.

The second is that teenagers and young people who vape (with nicotine) will get addicted to nicotine and are more likely to smoke tobacco.

Smoking currently kills more than five million people a year[1], 5% of that would be more than 250,000 deaths a year and so a million deaths every four years. If vaping is taken up by young people on the scale that smoking tobacco is then millions of premature deaths is a conservative estimate, given what we know now.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/smoking

edit: typo
Wasting, or more generally, not paying attention to time is my favorite state of being. Us Mediterrans are known for being "lazy" and wishy-washy with our time. That's why I keep Saturdays open on my calendar, no appointments with friends, nothing. Even if I get myself into something I usually don't commit to a specific time, I might say around "6 pm" which in Med timing is really 8pm.

Since I moved to the US I've been working 60 hour weeks, which I don't mind since I'm doing what I love and largely on my own terms. However, the act of keeping time is the thing that stresses me out the most.

When I started transitioning from a programmer to a CEO I have weeks where my calendar has 20 events and meetings on it and the thought of it in itself is stressful. Since then I've learned what my limits are and keep large blocks of time on my calendar to myself which I use to code or to just squander it on something semi productive like brainstorming future product ideas with one of our engineers.

As Kanye says "time is extremely valuable and I prefer to waste it."
BJJ is not good for older bodies :). Its too tempting to keep rolling and ignore signs your body is telling you. I think BJJ is the most grueling on your body of all combat sports.
Yes, I watched my mother die (of cancer). I was standing in a circle holding hands with her and 3 or 4 of her best friends. On a sunny day in a house with 180 degree ocean view. They scattered her ashes on the ocean.
Yeah I don't need a chaos monkey I've got myself.
Useless comment. I paid all my student debt and I don't feel like I gained any self-respect from it.
Definitely not impossible, one of my co-workers switched to only working 3 days a week last year. He lives a fairly frugal lifestyle and enjoys more time for other things, so it works well for him... But it wasn't easy for him to get either, they originally told him he'd only be able to continue like that on a temporary 4 month contract... But we work in a larger bureaucractic company, and after a couple months it was clear that we wouldn't get approval to automatically replace him any time soon if he left completely, so it made more sense to keep him permanently even at 3 days a week, rather than have no one new. It helped that he was one of the better performers on the team, so even at 3 days a week he's very productive, he's just taken less of a role on many of the side tasks that he used to do.
Your project looks really cool, but I’m unconvinced by your take on Turing completeness. It’s a mistake to conflate UI with computability, and a mistake to confuse computability with the ability to make programming mistakes or to write bugs.

The academic idea of the halting problem is not to make good UI or save people from themselves or from bugs, it’s just a theoretical math problem, and it doesn’t mean anything useful in practice.

You can write an infinite loop in C, and still hit Ctrl-C to kill it. You can screw up JavaScript and still close the tab. Turing completeness is not a problem in practice. If GIMP’s scripting or plugin environment doesn’t support killing a runaway script, then the bad UI is GIMP, not Turing completeness.

Plus, lack of Turing completeness is no guarantee that a script will be fast and that it won’t be bad UI. The halting guarantee is not a user guarantee on responsiveness or on run time at all.

Lack of Turing completeness might, on the other hand, severely limit real functionality, it might keep users of your language from being able to do cool things. You’re taking at least some kinds of higher level function composition off the table.

Anyway, that said, I will try to check out your project, I’m a big fan of image generation DSLs (having written a couple myself for CG film production) as well as compositing and animation projects.
3.000.000 / 15 * 2 (50% savings rate) = $400k

That’s a bit on the high end, but I guess not SV/FAANG impossible.
being scammed out of almost $16,000

This makes no sense. The claimed takings amounted to $1400, and she insists she paid nothing more to the scammer. The offered travel "budget" was $14K, but all they paid for was the flights.

She was only "scammed" out of $1400; the $16,000 never actually existed.
My dad died (also of cancer) 3 years ago last week. Didn't have a view of the ocean or anything fancy like that. But at least we got to be there for it.
Why? And how - aren't all services and infrastructure ultimately built by contractors? (except those that are built by Army Corps of Engineers).
> an awful lot of UK teenagers ... 16 to 24 year olds: 32% had experimented

That's not so surprising - when vaping was newer, even many non smokers tried a hit or two of that strange blackcurrant flavoured thing a friend was using. Without taking up the habit later.

> 17% had previously smoked e-cigs, 5% were current users

Compared to something like 20 or 25% UK school leavers smoking previously? That seems like a clearer win than would have been predicted, or even hoped for as best case. Wouldn't surprise me if 5% is lower than weed use in the same age group. Zero is surely unachievable, as some kids are always going to use something - ecigs will be far better than tobacco or sniffing solvents.
Its not my beliefs. I'm just pointing out that the simple act of strictly regulating your diet will almost always make you healthier because you have to watch what you eat and avoid crap like takeaway
One company I worked at thought it would be a good idea to use .local for their global internal network.

Worked fine for Windows folks. Was an huge pain in the ass for anyone on a Mac (using Bonjour) or Linux machine (using Avahi). No auto discovery of printers.
In tech in SV, so many stupid things happen because people work too much. Self-organizing is a challenge as well though.
Tangent about the rover names:

Cháng'é 嫦娥 is the name of a moon goddess. The apostrophe is a syllable divider; you can think of the pronunciation as "chong uh".

Yùtù 玉兔 means "jade rabbit", the rabbit in the moon who pounds medicine for 嫦娥. The rabbit (and the moon) are said to be jade, because in Chinese culture jade is white, not green.
I haven't read the post yet, but I did read this comment and wanted to share some of my thoughts.

A real job can mean a lot of things to different people. For example, I consider my volunteer time as a board member at a non-profit organization to be a real job. Currently, It doesn't directly pay for my financial needs, but it pays in other ways.

I think that it's important to acknowledge, recognize, and respect people for who they are, and what they are experiencing.

The words we choose to use can have a significant impact.

I hope you enjoy your weekend!
I'm a 46 year old mid-level blue belt. It's possible to avoid the temptation; I speak from experience as someone who has tried it both ways. It requires a considerable adjustment in your game and attitude to stay healthy, but I think it can be done (check back with me in a few years, though :-) ).
I’d also recommend Jiu Jitsu. Incredibly fun, physically demanding, and very social. It’s also damn near impossible to be thinking of anything but the present moment while in the middle of rolling, so I’ve found it be a great way to reset my brain after a long and demanding day of work.
Or you know work less
I have the feeling that this particular screenshot (given the combination of BWCC and Ctrl3d style in same window) is actually of Graphics Vision, which is open source reimplementation of Turbo Vision with true GUI which uses exactly this styling.
No turning a light on. So instead you get lights on a timer. The lifts that open at every floor. The magic wire that extends your back yard to cover the whole neighbourhood so you can take your kid in a pushchair or carry your house keys when you go for a walk.
Bill de Blasio: The Path Amazon Rejected
> These programmers are of course mediocre at best

This is very elitist and not true. 40 hours a week for 20 years is more than enough to be considered “good” at the very least.
If you're 40 going up against 20s all the time sure. But BJJ is one of the easier things I have done to my body. Basketball (back injury, broken ankle), wake boarding (slight concussion, torn ACL), and snowboarding have all been much harder on me than anytime I've done starting from a knee rolling. But, you do need to make sure the people you roll with are not idiots (like any other sports where you have to rely on/come into contact with others).
> With many edible fungi species - Boletes for instance

What are examples of bolete species that are only edible if boiled? I know of a lot that are only edible if well cooked, but haven't heard of any that are only edible if specifically boiled. (I'm from New England / mid-Atlantic though, so I only know the ones around here.)
ps. The other element which really seems to help is to do some 'old man bodybuilding' (build some armor rather than trying to Get Hyyuge). This (stuff like high rep overhead presses with wimpy weights) really helps with some of my broken bits (ex-Judo shoulders, fr'instance). Dan John is a big influence on me.
Most of our tired strip malls across the US should be demolished for housing.
New center boosts quantum engineering
private equity will also often get involved when a firm is under-leveraged or otherwise seen to be leaving money on the table by current operations. sometimes that simply means the PE firm has access to cheap debt that the (former) owners do not.

resuscitating a retail chain often involves bundling multiple companies and cutting duplication (yum brands, for example).
They safely recycle unused burgers into a different product and you're somehow trying to twist this into a bad thing.

If it was unhealthy, people would be getting sick from eating Wendy's chilli all the time, but obviously they are not.

We should be encouraging more companies to reduce their waste, but you're on a weird hate crusade instead.
Mining is mostly a game of getting cheap electricity, and it's hard to beat China (where infrastructure construction is often about creating jobs and projecting power instead of classic profitability).

It seems like electricity prices in Russia are similar to the US. The legal position of bitcoin seems to be worse in Russia though, so you would expect less mining than in the US, and a lot less than in China.
Using code is bad
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That was really enjoyable, and I expect my inspection/soldering microscope would be up to this task if I had a roof to search and a few days to spare.

Here's the book shown if anybody else is looking for it: https://www.amazon.com/Search-Stardust-Micrometeorites-Terre...
It never ceases to amaze me how early we are in the internet revolution. It often feels like e-commerce makes up 50% of retail sales. The transformations we've observed over the past decade are whispers.
Not sure this is a valid argument; An unknown number of deaths[a] caused by possibly not developing a treatment, vs an unknown number of deaths[b] caused by possibly developing a treatment.

Where as deaths[b] could be, in theory, a controlled and limited number of willing participants, deaths[a] could, in theory, be millions of disease victims.

a is not fewer than b.
Only if your device has Uber installed on it AND you are logged into the Uber app. By then, they already have all your data, and that ride is fully linked with your other usage. And as a bonus, Google also now has those details added to youf dossier.

It's sad how easily people can be duped transparently.

If you don't have Uber installed, Maps doesn't even show you the option.
A lot of those old clubs have entry requirements (gender, religion...), but if you meet them then just about anybody could join. They’ve mostly become more interested in recruiting members to maintain their traditions than they are in maintaining exclusivity.
$255 for a keyboard? Wow. What are the more higher end keyboards you've seen?
Yeah. I am at ski resort and it's total madness here. I had the whole mountain to myself on Tuesday.
The tool encourages posting questions on stack overflow, so hoping to get a little traction and encourage an answer.
Would you be willing to give a few examples of such products if I messaged you separately?
Where is Iran mentioned?
If you’re open-sourcing a project, you can get a real USB PID instead of hijacking someone else’s: http://pid.codes/howto/
yeah, weird right?
Why the “Self-Made” Success Story Is a Myth
I never distributed my binaries to other Windows users - I merely used Cygwin to get a familiar Unix environment on Windows since 2007 or so. Everything worked seamlessly. I remember compiling multiple versions of Python using it.
How much money would you want to be paid to work for one hour? Doing something like phone research? For six hours? Surely more than 0. Work out your hourly rate. Then factor it in to your decision. Sounds like you spent hundreds trying to save $100 or something, a lot more than you could possibly have saved.

Treat yourself like you would treat someone you really love.[0] Don't do stuff you wouldn't ask someone else to, or pay them to do. Imagine if your spouse made you/asked you to do all that work over finding a phone for them. That would seem crazy. Like they had no respect for you whatsoever.

Or maybe you have nothing better to do with your time. I guess not. In which case, carry on.

[0] from Louise Hay's How to Love Yourself. I had to learn to do that. (I used to say the most horrible, abusive, self-defeating things to myself all the time. Now, never.) We can treat everyone in our lives nicely and considerately, while being so mean to ourselves, never having been taught that you are someone in your life too, who deserves respect, to be treated well, and loved.
Oh nice, didn't know that! Thanks for the info!
Did she actually still have the same hat and scarf? I didn't notice that mentioned in the text.
Great to hear, thanks! :)
> I think it's mentally challenging, interesting, and important for our world and civilization

What do you do, if I may ask?
Most of that is probably analytics and not ad tracking
Beware the Scunthorpe problem

- 10 Things FBI Secretaries know that you don't

- Secretions of Billions of Insect threaten California Trees

:-)

(I know \b ... but I really worked on the insect secretions one so I am not losing the post)

Edit - and I actually want to read the FBI article now
Not all programs need to fork, obviously.

Programs that fork and immediately exec can be improved under Cygwin by using the spawn, family of system calls, like what I have here:

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/stream.c

in this source file there is a version of the run function that uses _wspawnvp, support for which is detected in my ./configure script. Well, _wspawnlp, but they're in the same family:

printf "Checking for _wspawnlp ... "

cat > conftest.c <<!
#include "config.h"
#include <process.h>
#include <wchar.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
wchar_t *wargv[] = { L"foo", L"bar", 0 };
int r = _wspawnlp(_P_WAIT, L"foo", wargv);
return 0;
}
!
if conftest ; then
printf "yes\n"
printf "#define HAVE_WSPAWN 1\n" >> config.h
else
printf "no\n"
fi

The porting experience of Unix and Linux programs to Cygwin is pretty darn good. You can tell just from the large number of packages that are available under Cygwin.

Even programs that use termios to put the TTY in raw mode and use ANSI escape sequences to control the screen work in Cygwin. Cygwin's I/O system contains a layer that translates ANSI codes to Win32 Console API calls. This works inside the Windows CMD.EXE console, not only the Cygwin terminall.
> You can ignore any villainy by this formula. "All leaders are villains, so I'm turning my attention elsewhere."

Perhaps it's more that those viewed as "good leaders" are simply the villains that were needed at that point in time. It's easy to villify almost anyone in retrospect, even if people at the time viewed those issues in much the same way.
Yes, nonstandard models of arithmetic are what I was thinking of. I don't know much about them, but here is my intuition:

It's a bit odd to think that nearly all "natural" numbers are so large that we can never calculate them, even in principle (because it would take more bits than exist in the universe). Even constructive proofs can describe calculations that could never actually be carried out. The boundary between what I might call "practical" numbers and the larger natural numbers is fuzzy (since it depends on technology), but maybe admitting transfinite numbers exist among the very large naturals would be a way of dealing with it? A way of saying "induction takes us beyond anything we can really know; here be dragons".

And similarly, there are programs that in practice would never halt (because not enough time in the universe), even though theoretically they do.

I don't suppose that's very useful, though, so nice to know it can be avoided.
Pretty much. People have been talking of 6 hour work days and 4 day work week for awhile now. It makes sense. It is mostly a matter of, lack of, influence.
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This is such an SV answer. Have a problem with work related stresses? Don't consider changing your relationship with work, take advantage of our new Personal Assistant as a Service platform!
Cygwin used to be GPL-ed, so there was a licensing hurdle. You couldn't legally do this kind of redistribution with proprietary programs, only with GPL-compatible programs.

Two or three years ago there was an announcement on the mailing list that Cygwin it's switching to the LGPL. I kicked off the Cygnal project that very day, pretty much.
Earn 250k on average across 15 years. This is quite conservative for FAANG. In California, you'll take home about 150k. Each year, live frugally off 50k and put away 100k in index funds. Over 15 years, you'll gain 7% real annual returns from the stock market. In 15 years you'll go from $0 to $2.5m. At a very conservative safe withdrawal rate of 3.5%, you can withdraw about 85k per year for the rest of your life.

If you're dual income for part of that 15 years, you'll have far more money, or you can retire a few years earlier.
I'd say it does.

https://youtu.be/YYfajPXdvSM?t=67
> Pierson admits, however, that there are multiple factors in anyone’s success: Her parents paid for her college tuition, and she was able to stay on their health insurance while building her business.

Does this mean that nobody outside the US -- or at least in Europe -- can ever be self made?
Although the linked article by Tharoor only touches on the Indian connection, here's an article by Johann Hari that takes a broader view: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/not-his-fines... (“He may have been a thug, but he knew a greater thug when he saw one”) — interesting bit of trivia: “[Barack Obama's grandfather,] Hussein Onyango Obama, was imprisoned without trial for two years and was tortured on Churchill’s watch”.
Pat Caddell, Self-Taught Pollster Who Helped Carter to White House, Dies at 68
It's $255 and doesn't come with any switches from what I can tell. Not the person you're responding to but I've heard good things about the UHK: https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/
I an duty-bound by the code of the secret society of MWI enthusiasts to point out that actually, no phenomena inconsistent with waves ("AND") has ever been observed, unless you count the philosophical discomfort of the idea that the superposition could also extend to the experimenter.