skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hear hear.

I’m madaxe. I’m an addict.

I wasted 18 months of university on an MMO, 15 years ago. Cost me my social life, my girlfriend, and I found myself on academic probation.

It was absolutely insidious. I only found my way out of it by becoming a GM and then banning my own account, because even though I’d made the decision I wanted to stop, I just kept finding myself downloading and installing the client, yet again. It worked, I completed my degree, rekindled friendships. I did relapse about four years later while working a shitty boring QA job, and decided to treat the root cause, which was the shitty job, and went and started a business - and then didn’t game at all for nearly a decade.

Weirdly, my addiction and my physical running away from the environment that fostered it lead to much of the success that I have enjoyed since. It made things so intolerably bad that a ground change was mandatory.

I game again now, but it’s now on the order of about 5 hours a week on average - I’ll still occasionally spend a sleepless weekend playing something, but then I’ll go a month without. I like finite games - some adventure with an enthralling plot, and when it’s over, it’s over - or grand strategy like civ, where you master the game and move on - and frankly I find a three day deity match gruelling enough that it’ll be three months or more before I get the itch again.

I’ll never touch an MMO again - they are almost perfect and infinite skinner boxes.
I fed that sentence to GPT-2 last month. Brilliant:

The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed. There was talk of trying to track down a mysterious man who, if not a gun, could be a helpful ally. For a moment, the two could not be sure. The Man in Black was not the same man they had met at the end of the night. But he could be a friend.

As the Man went through the desert and into the darkness of the unknown, he left the gunslinger behind. The gunslinger was in the middle of a trail of shattered bricks. The Man went away.

"Man in Black," said the Gunslinger.

"Gunslinger," said the Man in Black.
You clearly didn't have fuck-you money. You could only quit your job for 2 years before presumably having to come back to work. I don't mean that in a rude way, it's just clear.

Your last sentence is a little confusing, if you're implying you could use your human capital and work, you're clearly going to be beholden to other people, and can't say fuck you to "any job, any time". In addition to that, we're back to the idea that 50k a year is fuck-you money, which it's not.

Long tangent incoming.

Fuck-you money is getting confused with a comfortable level of money. Most people will never ever get close to fuck-you money. Fuck-you money is black cards and reservations almost anywhere because you tip ludicrous amounts. It's being told the plane is full so you just upgrade to first class (if you weren't in there to begin with). It's being able to turn down any job because you could easily live at the same comfort level without it. It's only working because the work brings in stupid amounts more cash (that you probably can't figure out where to spend) or it offers you more than that (influence, stimulation). Just being able to say no to a job is not the same as that.
Not OP, but FizzBuzz interview questions are famous for eliminating significant numbers of applicants.

I've learned that once you're in a large and complex corporate structure, judging your value becomes difficult. In every job I've been I've found professional slackers who truly optimize to do the minimum. They can send all the right value signals while they keep their true lack of value hidden behind a complex maze.

The only way I can think of to minimize them is to set up high barriers of entry that require on the spot proof of ability: coding tests and programming problems. Everything else can be and has been bulshitted through.
It's only allowed in certain circumstances, although I don't know how well that's enforced -- some places are just very reluctant to take cash.

https://www.thelocal.dk/20190227/danish-government-wants-to-...
As someone who would call myself left-libertarian, I have some sympathy for your position. The thing is that the whole society - including the very existence of Amazon - is currently predicated on state violence, and therefore focusing specifically on the small part that provides worker protections looks unseemly.

Not to mention that an opposition to state enforcement of minimum wages does not justify the claim that Amazon should reflect the confluence of supply and demand in the market.
It may be we have a warped or view of "similar" because it's so close to us -- how do we calibrate it?

As far as we know, no causation goes faster than light, so even if the "small change" was "an utter tide of total destruction of all matter", most of the observable universe can't be affected.
Sugar is actually one of the most common addictions in Western countries at least. It's sometimes introduced at a young age (via baby formula) and then it's present in more or less everything we eat, most times in relatively high quantities. Even in food you wouldn't imagine having sugar.

So it's hard to notice you're addicted until you start to explicitly avoid it and the realities of withdrawal (to the respective degree of addiction) kicks in.
Building Solutions
I can't reliably search in Danish, but unless you're only spending the money at night, I think that's illegal.

https://www.thelocal.dk/20190227/danish-government-wants-to-...
Siblings born years apart can turn out to be similar to one another as adults, both in appearance and temperament, despite the fact that the parents have changed and learned in that time, and they grow up with a different peer group.

Someone born from the same batch of sperm, with parents at the same stage in their lives, is likely to be pretty similar.

There may be significant differences at the individual level e.g. a child of a different gender is born to a family with certain ideas about gender roles, or stillbirths/miscarriages/disabilities occur or fail to occur due to this falling branch, but in aggregate, the people of the next generation will be pretty similar to the ones who would have existed otherwise.

A lot of inventions get attributed to individual geniuses, but in many cases society was ripe for them, if Joseph Swan didn't exist, or became a ballet dancer instead, we would still have had electric light bulbs around the same time.

I am not just the product of my parents, but of the centuries of history of society leading up to now.

So in a few generations, you are right that all those small changes will result in all the people being different, society as a whole is likely to be fairly similar.
I read some of the early experiments with termite reactions involved heating crucibles filled with metal oxides and aluminum power in a furnace. Results were surprising as they were unfortunate.
Depending on the book content, its not "I'm in a rush", but just 'the normal speed that I read and gets the subconscious-movie effect in my head without sub-vocalisations'. And that's some multiple of vocal-speed.

If we use walking as an analogy, sometimes people really do need to slow down and smell the roses, but certain speeds of walking for certain body types/fitness levels are just genuinely awkward/painful...
But maybe they only bought it because they were incompetent? Maybe the competent groups know that some random air to air missile is worthless, and steered well clear.
There are no* neo-nazis from the Ukrainian side, it's a Russian propaganda myth. Since WW2, they've been putting a "neo-nazi" label on anyone who thinks that Ukraine shouldn't be a part of Russia.

* I mean that ocurrence of neo-nazis is approximately the same as in any normal country. You can never say there are no neo-nazis in any particular group of people, of course.
I would be much more concerned about the Chinese MANPADs that Qatar acquired and made their way into Syria and beyond.
I think it's you who got it wrong. Some Googling shows that Forza Nuova is pro-Russia, possibly having switched from supporting Ukranian fascist groups in the past.

"Mr. Fiore, of Italy’s Forza Nuova, said Moscow is now the sole guardian of Western values, in the way Rome once was."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/far-right-flocks-to-russia-to-b...
Ask HN: Any experience with Python-in-the-browser (Python-to-JavaScript) tools?
I have some existing Python code that I would like to run in the browser, without having to rewrite it in JavaScript. Has anyone used any of the tools that allow the use of Python in the browser?

There seem to be two classes of such tools:

1. Python interpreters written in JavaScript. These include Brython [1], Skulpt [2] and Batavia [3].

2. Compilers (a.k.a. transpilers) that convert Python code directly into JavaScript. I would expect this to provide better performance than an interpreter, but perhaps be a less accurate Python implementation. This seems to be the approach taken by Transcrypt [4].

Has anyone used any of the above, or similar tools? How did you find them in terms of compatibility, performance etc?

[1] https://brython.info/
[2] https://skulpt.org/
[3] https://github.com/beeware/batavia
[4] https://www.transcrypt.org/
What the author of the email is pointing out is that:

* A (total) solar eclipse is merely a statement that you, the observer, happen to be present in a small region of a few miles' radius, wherever the moon's shadow happens to be. If you imagine yourself flying around in space (or even just driving around in a car), you can very easily get out of this region and see that the sun continues to shine, etc.

* A (total) lunar eclipse is a statement that the earth's shadow falls on the moon. No matter where you are in space, this is a statement about the amount of light reaching the moon's surface, independent of where the observer happens to be.

You may not care about this, deciding that your vantage point as an observer is all that matters (whether your view of the sun or moon changes, respectively) by saying "Obviously eclipse is measured relative to the observer", but the author cares, and it's an interesting point. Obviously he's not claiming that a solar eclipse isn't "real" in the sense that you can't see it; only that it doesn't correspond to any astronomical event that is observer-independent (and relevant to more than a small region of the earth).

Edit: Another way of saying this is that despite the name, a "solar" eclipse is a statement about (a small region of) the earth -- that's the part that gets less light; the sun is unaffected by a solar eclipse. On the other hand, a lunar eclipse is really a statement about the moon; the moon really does get less light during a lunar eclipse, as the moon is what is in shadow.
Small branches absolutely have £50 notes.

They're really not that rare, about 9% of all notes in circulation, or 25% of the total value in circulation.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/statistics/banknote
just saw this on product hunt, cool idea! good luck!
DDG is simply awesome. I like to see the world as it is, not as some corporation thinks I like to see it as.

Also, as comments do point out. No point using DDG on Chrome. One has to switch to FF - which is seriously fast enough for my daily needs, both on ubuntu and android.

Finally, there's still two things we need to break free form tracking services.

1. A non google play store smart phone.

2. Get off gmail.

I am failing on both of the above.
If it wasn't the far-right it would be anything else. It's just a geopolitical game.
I find that the slow speed helps not missing the logical thread the way I consume audio books, by always doing something else at the same time.
Spooooky!
Thanks for the link.

I think these sorts of behind-the-scenes modifications happen quite frequently with social media feeds. Perhaps its not ethical, but at least we see some evidence of it happening.
I would disagree. With a net worth in the millions (but still under 10) you should consider investing in property and perhaps even art. These are things middle class workers are not looking into as much. Index funds can't match the potential returns that being a property investor does. It also allows you to turn your wealth into an asset that can be leveraged for further investment. Stocks are how you keep your wealth steadily increasing instead of stagnating, property is how you turn that 5 million into 20. Money managers will help you with this, even getting a trusted real estate agent that is your go-to would be helpful.
That blog post is missing most of the images, by the way. It makes the post a little difficult to understand as most of it is referencing the graphs!
Mobile app developed by a 7th grader out for crowdfunding
It's also the largest country, by a large margin.
The above mentioned privacy issue with DuckDuckGo exists whether you are logged in or not into Chrome.

1. By default DDG keeps your query in URL (for example duckduckgo.com/?q=blue+widgets) so that exposes your DDG searches to Google through Chrome

2. Whatever browser you use, if anyone accessed your browsing history they would know exactly what you searched for

These can be changed in DDG settings by changing requests from GET to POST but there is probably lack of awareness among users who come to DDG because of the whole 'privacy' thing. More on DDG privacy issues https://choosetoencrypt.com/search-engines/duckduckgos-bigge...
Doesn't Turing completeness require conditional loops?
Considering the fact that he has AND and OR gates he can represent conditionals, but he doesn't show it. And the fact that it always terminates by design also means it solves the halting problem which by definition means it isn't Turing complete (I think?).
Mike 'Brolylegs' Begum Is a Most Extraordinary Street Fighter Competitor
In Poland there is a special division of the public radio (Teatr Polskiego Radia) producing the auditions. Hard to find a weak or uninteresting production. Unfortunately not many new are appearing recently. Some commercial radios tried to copy the form and produce something similar but it was nowhere near the artistic and quality level of PR’s (ended up with something loud and vulgar).
Homing Space – a secure authentication and authorisation system
I think they meant heavy metal as in "that's pretty metal".
We have this back home, pine monoculture planted some 50-60 years ago to make parts of mountains more visually appealing (and probably more good reasons like cleaner air). In 2004 there was a freak storm with quite strong winds, half of that forest was destroyed, in many cases trees literally snapped in the middle of the trunk. Still pretty bad sight 25 years later.

They said it was freak accident that happens every few hundred years. Well there was another one few years after, and few other smaller ones since then.

Now its largely left on its own as being national park with highest protection level, but this has some (hopefully relatively short term) negative effects - population of bugs eating trees exploded and they are destroying remaining trees.

Monocultures sucks, we should know better.
I’d love to watch a teardown on YouTube.
If you're in the UK, just go to your bank and ask to withdraw £50. Job done.

If you're somewhere else, go to your local money exchange place with the equivalent of £50. I almost guarantee they will have some.
I think you can post without a big ego, there are tutorials or articles that you can't feel the ego in, but this just wasn't one of them. And yes, a sense of self importance (not an enormously inflated one though) would be necessary to take care of yourself in my opinion.
யொவ் யார் வெனா யார வெனுமுன்னா stupid சொல்லலாம். அப்படி சொன்னா அது உண்மை ஆகாது.

Most often difference of opinion arises due to understanding or rather misunderstanding. And misunderstanding arises due to the language or linguistic barrier.

It takes intelligence to see through the language barrier and to understand someone. Just disagreeing and calling someone stupid shows one's own intellectual deficiency.
At these kinds of scales, the effects can be enormous.
Just across the sea, Japan went on their own replanting crusade, and ended up with a huge pollen allergy problem [0]

Hopefully they have thought through the problem well enough that they don't run into anything major, but putting in the same trees that were there is logically the least dangerous.
In BC Canada, the government required replanting on forest licensed crown land HAS to be a representative mix of seeds gathered from that forest, and its for a reason.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/17/science/japan-s-cedar-for...
I thought everyone had a container where they keep a random selection of nuts and bolts that have been collected over the years...
Does it protect against other radiation than UV? Does it also seal a gaseous atmosphere at a usable pressure?

In the novel/TV series "The Expanse", Martians live underground in tunnels, because above ground it takes more material and energy to build air-tight buildings which also protect from radiation. And they still have adverse effects from the lower gravity.

One of the most fascinating aspects of that series is that there are three Human "subpopulations", two of which would have trouble to exist on Earth, physiologically.
Why would I want to carry around another device to dangle off the side, or worse, have to futz with tethering or spotty wi-fi or latency? I'd much rather have all my stuff (music in particular) consolidated and instantly on tap.
Why I invested in a coworking space? – A conversation with Charlie O'Donnell
To give them benefit of the doubt, it could be that "the reaction (...) was not expected" is trying to say "we did not expect NTO to make contact with this valve". It was on a helium ullage line, after all.
Yup, the warehouse or query engine does the heavy lifting, we do the orchestration and make easier to develop these pipelines.
Oil Companies are at least marginally regulated.
No. But an efficient market is the best technology we have to allocate society's assets. Maybe someday we'll discover a better technique.
Oh, nice. It's hopeless for C/C++ for legacy reasons, but D - that could work.

Two memory safety related things to consider. Rust needs unsafe code to do these things.

1) Backpointers. Rust's ownership system doesn't allow backpointers, at least not without reference counts. So some standard data structures, such as doubly linked lists and various types of trees, can't be coded in safe Rust.

A backpointer is defined by two objects which have an invariant locking them together. If you could talk about a backpointer in the language, and tell the compiler where its forward pointer is, you could enforce the necessary invariants. If A contains a pointer to B, B's backpointer must point to A. Any code which modifies either of those pointers must maintain the consistency of that relationship. That's checkable at compile time.

This fits well with ownership. A owns B. B's backpointer is a slave. All that's needed is type syntax which says "backpointer b.reff always points to my owner."

There are lots of interesting cases to be worked out, especially around destructors. Those are worth checking at compile time, because people get them wrong. It's really nice if you can be sure that a data structure always tears itself down cleanly when you drop the link to its root.

2) Partial initialization. Collection classes which allow growth are hard to do in safe code, because they require arrays which are partially initialized. It should be possible to talk about partially initialized arrays in the language. Maybe some predicate such as "valid(tab,n,m)" indicating that array tab is valid from n to m inclusive. You can't access an element outside the n..m range. The checker for this needs to know some simple theorems, like "valid(tab,n,m) and valid(tab,m+1,m+1) implies valid(tab,n,m+1)". Then it can track through a loop and verify that the array is initialized for the given range.

Somebody will complain that they want sparsely initialized arrays containing types that really need initialization. Tell them no.
Why is "metal" incorrect in this context?

Sure it might be a colloquialism but it seems like an apt one.
The 5G Health Hazard That Isn’t
You're less likely to make seasoned choices with property. When you buy an index fund, you get everything -- the winners and the losers.

Let's say you have $10M and want to put 20% into real estate. $2M will only get so many properties (a handful?) -- they could depreciate, they're highly illiquid, and you could end up buying in the wrong neighborhood (though, say, adjacent neighborhood appreciated much more).

It's kind of like throwing darts. No real estate agent 40 years ago would've told you that $300k lots with homes are now worth millions, but a mile away those same sized lots are now worth $500k (this is actually true in my area).

The opportunity cost is too high, that you'll make the wrong choice, picking property that appreciates poorly, and had you just stuck with an index fund, you would've done better.
It goes both ways. Imagine what motor vehicles and transportation in general would look like today if we were able to manufacture and process titanium alloys like we do steel. How far away are we from that breakthrough?

Conversely, what would the world look like today without steel? No airplanes? No WWI nor WWII? No huge panamax ships? No global markets?
Climate Change doesn't care about per capita.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30414955
There is also forum The CB Passive Income Review posting, which is fairly simple. Go onto to different forums only ones that relate to your site and post useful information but place your link at the bottom of each post you make. Each post will count as a new incoming link. Just make sure what you're saying is useful, otherwise you're just spamming. Also similar to forum posting is commenting on blogs. It's the same principle but just using the comments section at the bottom of someones blog post.

And lastly you can submit your site to different web directories. These directories are pretty much just like telephone books except for internet sites. It's a simple process of following the steps they provide.

https://untappedreviews.com/the-cb-passive-income-review/
Legislation set the USB-A connector on the transformer, but not the other end of the cable.

Before the legislation, most phone chargers had the wire fixed to the transformer, and were unique to each manufacturer. The law reduced the e-waste from obsolete chargers, but didn't care so much for the wire.
I find it surprising that somebody still finds it surprising.

Neonazism was for all purposes Putin's de-facto state ideology for Russia since around 2005 or so.

The only fig leaf they have is the official denial of connection in between the skinheads and other neonazi groups and the state. That is only skin deep of course https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2017/11/23/dbb8470a...

Putin is of course afraid of image taint and loosing personal access to the Western politicians if he were to dress like a nazi himself. So he keeps himself nominally distanced
I guess there are a lot details not explained in the article and much of them have come up in the research.

I would have liked a discussion over how this stuff could be produced on Mars, because no self-respecting rocket engineer would allow transplanetary shipping of a material largely composed of air.
It turns out that you're nearly always using less water, soap and electricity if you wash using a dishwasher rather than by hand.

https://www.treehugger.com/kitchen-design/built-in-dishwashe...
Very jealous. Russia is simply considered the "good guy", standing up against the perceived oppression from globalism and European federalism.

The people of the EU often want to see ourselves as progressive, but we're a very diverse lot and there's a lot of people who would like to take a few steps back in regards to LGBT rights, Pan-Europeanism and multi-culturalism.
App Bundle and Sideloading: how to prevent crashes
It would be great if we could vote on Policies instead of Politicians right.