skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How valuable is it to study something that is just temporary?
I was about to start a 4 years free course path into biology.

Suddenly this question crossed my mind.
Let's say it's not because of career improvement, earning a degree, starting a business, making a big discovery in science for the rest of the humankind or similar but just to quench the thirst for knowledge.

Now imagine you are a 120 years old man or woman and you are about to die, would it really matter to know all about your biological body you are about to leave anyway?
Or like instead of going out in a sunny day you spend your days learning about the sun with astronomy books.

It's like someone is giving you a video game console and instead of playing with your friends you decide to spend more time trying to reverse engineering the components of it just to learn how a console is done.
And at some point someone is going to get that console away from you, so you will not be able to use it or study it
anymore.

With this in mind it seems more important to just enjoy the physical world as it is until we are able to do it rather than learning how it works.

Also maybe when we die we are going to get all the knowledge of the universe in any case or we just forget about the previous world, or we join a completely different permanent dimension with completely different rules and the mortal world doesn't matter anymore.

What are your thoughts on this topic?

(I'll probably start the course anyway but I'm not as much convinced as when I decided to start it.)
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I won't be so quick to say that the kind of overgeneralization the comment you're replying to is guilty of is clearly a factor in this issue, but it does indeed undermine their point and "explanation".
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Removing DRM from (purchased) EPUBs or MOBIs and/or converting them works extremely well. Otherwise, there are numerous websites that offer downloads, IRC and BitTorrent.
That paper is from April 2010 which is a different age in terms of internet encryption. Just for comparison, Google only started offering an encrypted version of its service in May 2010: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/search-more-securely...

They quickly realized the problems that you describe. In Nov 2011, the Certificate Transparency project by Google had its initial commit: https://github.com/google/certificate-transparency/commit/6a...

In Chrome they have since enforced CT compliance for certificates: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/ct-poli...

CT requires that each certificate issued needs to be contained in both a Google log and a non-Google log: https://github.com/chromium/ct-policy/blob/master/ct_policy....

This means that fradulently issued certificates either won't work, or will be contained in public logs run by Google (or Google needs to be forced by authorities as well).
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How much better are the photos you get out of the Fuji then the ones you get out of your iPhone?

The Fuji X100F is about 3 times as heavy then a usual smartphone. So carrying it around would quadruple the weight of my "camera equipment".

I wish somebody would run around with a pocket camera and a phone for a day and then write a blog posts with comparison shots.
What additional value do emojis add, that plain text already doesn’t?
oh really? and why would i sacrifice my convenience for your agenda?
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I don't agree. They acted on their beliefs and expected more from a company which claimed once to have a moral compass but apparently misplaced it.

I agree they paid a price. This is not a bubble story.
Is time really continuous in this case? I have absolutely no idea how it's implemented in practice, but would assume that stock exchange computers use some sort of game loop at a consistent rate.
I enjoy using my Fuji x20 and if I could afford it I would get a xt3 or similar.

It's not always about the result, sometimes it's about how you got there. That said, my phone takes awesome snaps
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Perhaps you don't need to spend. People who spend far more than you also limit their future options. AFAIK very few people aspire to live their entire lives working in a succession of jobs.

Have you considered simply investing your surplus income and finding where your passion lies? Once you know what you want to do far more than shuffling off to work everyday, then you will have the capital with which to follow your dream life.
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The single most thing that a library could do to be of more use to the public is to stock more books, and from that respect, this does not sound that much of a nice place, they could have a lot, lot more books given the space, but they haven't.
But not in Rust. Go isn't exactly a bastion of safety. It's memory safe due to the GC, but it has a weak type system, so logic bugs are not well guarded against.
By "older kids" you mean "moronic young adults," I agree:

https://youtu.be/JA7jc4rpTns
Absolutely. For instance kitchenware, you could go to the fancy high street shop and get the lifestyle brands.

Or you could go to a kitchen supply store and get the same quality items that the professionals use, which will be more expensive than the cheap department store items, but will last a lifetime or more in an ordinary person's kitchen.

Or whisky. I could spend big bucks on the big hyped brands, and get perfectly acceptable whisky, but probably sold at 40% ABV, chill filtered with caramel color added.

Or I could buy from independent bottlers and get cask strength, non-chill filtered whisky with no color added, usually at a lower price, for something so much more interesting.

No, I won't have fancy bottles of MacAllan or whatever sitting on my shelf for all to see, but I care a lot more about the whisky than the branded bottle it's in.
Yes, the same process on the path to enlightenment that makes you become aware of your no-self is the same that most people in this article suffer with.

That's the reason I gave this warning: Most people don't want enlightenment, they just want a "life hack" ("change your mood to calmness and joy with these 5 simple steps"). I don't see a problem with this, but I see the possibility of enduring pain in these people. The path to enlightenment is a commitment only a few are willing to make - it is the most painful of all ways, but it's also the only one (for some - only those have a chance of bearing the pain). well, you know, that's just like, my opinion, man.

The search ends when the seeker stops to seek.
And realizes that he did nothing else,
than to spin in circles.
Yeah, Google has done much for privacy and it's kind of ironic how people believe those who say it's malicious. The only crime Google ever did was to be successful.
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Uber's position is that they are a marketplace and that it's the rider hiring the driver for services.

https://marketplace.uber.com/

Now if Switzerland has regulations around marketplace access (e.g. do farmers have to evidence eligibility for self-employment before renting a booth at a town pavilion for market day?) then Uber would clearly be obligated to comply.

However, the eligibility requirements for self-employment for the driver would appear to be fully the driver's responsibility to meet. And the relationship between employer and employee in the link you provided about cleaners would seem to actually be between the driver and the fare that hired them for the trip.

Now people can call bullshit on the whole marketplace idea, and it's much easier to make the case when drivers are basically doing it full time...hence my suggestion that they limit 'marketplace access' to avoid that situation.

I don't know. All of the hand-wringing about driver treatment just doesn't make sense to me. I guess if we assume drivers are too stupid to make their own financial decisions it makes sense, but otherwise i don't get it.
After spending a great deal of time and effort in tracking down some obscure bug and fixing the code, a bit of venting using emojis is almost a reflex action.
Would Elon Musk's satellite internet negate this?
> yet they use the kind of encryption that only computer enthusiasts were interested in

I hear this so often about WhatsApp - that they are end-to-end encrypted... But I really have no proof that it's true or that I should trust Zuck.

I am sure you can check the messages being communicated, and on the surface you'll confirm to yourself that messages are encrypted. But how do you know there are no weaknesses in the design? How do you know they didnt "flip the switch" to allow a backdoor?
This has been on my mind a lot lately. It's not just risk changes, it's also variety changes which are also important.

Near us there's nice, challenging playgrounds, but their designs have become homogeneous. The older playgrounds had more unique features to each, with custom molded fiberglass.

I don't mind some playgrounds drifting to other materials, but the wood ones also have something to offer. I worry they're slowly being replaced by the same sorts of hdpe and brightly painted metal structures that are everywhere else. They're nice but all start to seem the same after awhile.

It's sort of like if houses all got torn down after 30 years and were all replaced with variants of the same template, rather than preserving older structures or encouraging innovative architecture.

Kids have as much to learn from variety as they do risk.
Any browser except Safari.

Currently I really enjoy Safari and it's extension model. Each extension has an app, so you can usually find them on the App Store, use them independently of Safari and change settings and things with a native UI. Example: OTP Auth--an app to store 2-factor authentication tokens. Started on iPhone but now it has an app, menu icon, browser extension and so on. All with 1 download (on desktop, and another on mobile).
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early retirement is definitely on my radar. But I do love my job and if I 'had' to I would be happy doing it all the way in to my 60s I'm sure. Who knows what the future holds that far out obviously.

I do put money away in to investments like WealthSimple and a couple of Vanguard funds. I slightly worry passive investing is a bit lazy and won't return what everyone expects it to in the short-medium term so research some smaller cap investments.
I agree a stale read is bad. And I am surprised that the Go designers have repeated many past mistakes. It is possible to design a concurrent high-level language that does not have such issues, despite the hardware. For example, if all communication is done via channels, then synchronisation can be automatically performed during channel read/write. For shared mutable state, Haskell's software transactional memory and Erlang's Mnesia are both excellent examples of safely dealing with it.
But the other facilities are awesome, I take my child there almost every weekend to play in the play-area, read books and generally hang out.

They have board-games, 3d-printers, computers, and lots of things. It is a very social-space, not just a "be quiet and take books".
I've actually found that not wearing a watch and having to pull my phone from my pocket to check the time has made me more relaxed about time in general, being early/late and being stressed out over other people being early/late.
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In my experience, the size of the collection in any given library building is never much of an issue as you can always order books for very low fees from any library in the country. Because of this, the other facilities are a much bigger value-add than a larger on-site collection.
Neat. :)
There's a huge difference between superficial happiness and genuinely fulfilling contentment and happiness.
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The issue wrt. Go is not with communication via channels in and of itself, but rather with using channels to share pointers to in-memory data. This is idiomatic in Go, people do it all the time even though it's what introduces unsafety.
Google’s core business is ad targeting, the cornerstone of which is personal data used to target better. While it is (hopefully) untrue that they literally sell your data, they do profit from it indirectly (and massively, it’s 85% of revenue). Google has many great products and some bad ones, but almost all have vacuum hoses up against your personal data... Now, Fitbit makes a really mediocre and pedestrian tech product that captures a wealth of deeply personal data. I’ll go ahead and connect the dots on this one.
It's not just "cleaned and make to look nicer". StandardEbooks ebooks contain editorial changes from the original text. They're tagged in the changelog, but they're mixed with technical edits so there's no easy way to revert them. I'd rather read the Project Gutenberg versions.
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You can be super serious about it all you want, but it's accusatory and doesn't reflect the post you responsed to, which referred to performance and user experience implications with shooting nodes in the head.

Personally I think there was the formation of a really good debate. As you said, if you drain the nodes traffic before killing it, you're probably right, any costs associated with maintaining consistency is probably saved by the human aspect of just not waiting for a clean shutdown of processes at scale.

But when you throw in the sass, people stop listening and we all get dumber for it.
> But life sciences are not computer science

Exact

1) The use of materials is totally different

Computer programming is a stuf that uses reciclable electricity and "eating your own dog food" kind programs, cheap to produce or free to copy, easily available and in many cases free except by the hardware (Hardware that can be hired, "clouded" or increased gradually).

You don't need to pay a dime for using R, C, Perl or Python and you can obtain the four, ready to use in your computer in less than a half hour. If you need a microscope, there is not an equivalent open source stuff replacement available.

In Biology the matherials will be sold to you only in packages of 10 Kg each pigment, with a caducity date, even when you would need to mix just 10 grams of each one. The spendable one-use only stuff is not free and the price for a single kit is incredible. You will pay it in any case because is indispensable for validating your work and you plan to use 500 of those kits the next year so you are a captive client from this company (that could decide to stop selling you if you try a way to lower the price, and will sue you if you try to copy the formula and make the product by yourself).

2) Documentation is not free and obtaining it is time consuming

In computer programming, you dont need to spent weeks to be delivered to you, or plan a travel to Peru to collect samples of a plant virus. You don't need to spend days just to reach the documentation navigating a miriad of closed or pay per viewed journals, at 50 dollars to peek in each paper.

You can expect to learn something and use it for years. Fortran is still there. You can program automatically your computer to make a hundred of safety copies each working day. In biology you can not clone your amazonian beetles collection, is unique and will be atacked and reduced to dust by real bugs from day one if you do not protect it.

3) There is not an obvious, linear path to success

Errors are random events that you can't always control

In biology you will lose eight months of your research because your samples travelling from Swedden to Madrid end somehow stuck in a Lithuanian airport for ten days and now are defrozen and unusable. You needed this research to assure the new funds and keep running, and now you have three months to obtain new samples, redo and fix it.

You can lose years chasing a dead end or be superseeded by a genius in some part of the planet that discovered the same as you first, or a different and better way to do it.

4) You don't just buy a lab and hire a team to create "something" nice.

Unless you are in the bussiness of teaching science you design the lab according of the exact product what you are trying to create. Any machine that you ordered and will not use enough frequently later is a hole in your presupuest. Any timed out kitt that you bought in excess quantity is your money ending in the dumpster bin.

You need to hire somebody familiar with what "hardware" is trendy and works and what machines are outdated since ten years even if you see it in each faculty and in propaganda.
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> It's memory safe due to the GC

That gets debatable as soon as you start using concurrency, like I said. There are idiomatic patterns in concurrent Go that are very much not safe.
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Grindr's in the hands of the Chinese was already raising hairs. When you consider that Tik Tok is again (after COPA) under FCC investigation over its handling of children data.
How do you enforce it?
What I find the weirdest with all these "efficient" keyboard layouts is that seemingly none of them ever move things to/from any of the Ctrl/Alt/Shift keys.

E.g. I find that for me, reaching for the Shift key majorly contributes to slowdowns and fatigue.
Seems to me, the biggest argument is iPhone camera is 12MP baseline DSLR is 24. If you are 100% certain you need that additional clarity in your photos (maybe landscape) then you go with DSLR. Otherwise the smartphone is the way to go for all your family photos and videos, etc. I would be VVV nervous if I was a camera manufacturer...
Just force Google and Apple to remove the app from their stores.
It is crystal clear that TikTok is a pivot for China. I think this is the first Chinese application that beats the US (Silicon Valley) "monopoly"? It is a great business and cross cultural achievement.

It seems like the Chinese could be successful in duplicating SV even in a non democratic context.
That's 200K / power user if you estimate that they represent half your revenue.
That sort of amount is not a "power user" but multinational companies that have to be convinced over long periods of time and huge overhead.
So that figure is way, way underestimated.
*not just family photos, I’m assuming most consumers use it for that. Or I’m just biased because I have a 5 week old lol.
Thanks for taking the time to reply in such detail. I've recently proposed that we give blocks of time for working on issues raised internally (mostly improvements to our company documentation etc.) but have seen very little interest and even push back as there are other priorities, just as your describe.

With the little time we have for this work we've already achieved a lot but perhaps mostly on low hanging fruit. Many of the more substantial changes remain. People acknowledge the improvements it sadly doesn't seem to have driven any more engagement...
I just saw a tweet in my timeline starting with "if you want to get FUCKING FURIOUS at" and the same thoughts popped. The issue that tweet is about is certainly a terrible thing that should be solved... but no, I do not want to get fucking furious, nobody should WANT to.
What is a modern passphrase? Or modern OpenSSH?