skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I made a promise to God/myself that if I ever got out of the situation I was in, that I'd become a believer

I don't think Christian belief is meant to be contingent on perceived debt over wordly affairs. That said, the relationship of faith, worship and salvation arguably has debt woven into it, unless you're a Calvinist or the like, in which case, nothing you do can guarantee salvation. It seems afterlife is a pretty popular motivation to believe, but then some religions have no afterlife yet still have followers.

> I don't believe it would've been possible without some form of divine assistance

Then effectively you have a faith that it would have been impossible to pull through without divine intervention? Since you couldn't really know. Some can claim to have pulled through breakdowns without.

I feel there's a kind of vanity in the God-found-my-car-keys convictions of miraculous intervention while people, including children, can suffer in excess until their demise, prayer notwithstanding. It says: God's plan is for others to suffer, and for me to get special treatment, because I'm a meaningful cog in his plan which cannot be comprehended. That's how he prioritizes. Or alternatively: I believe those people don't suffer as much as is perceived, if they have faith (that's a popular one). Or another alternative: their mortal suffering doesn't matter, salvation is the only thing that does (which would undermine the rationale in praying for mortal relief)
Yes, that's one way we get homeless people.

Another option is to be so toxic about the situation that you force the child out of the house. That's what would have happened to me, so I left before that.
> Maybe that regulation is stupid and it causes the wrong incentives? If you wanted more electric cars, there are plenty of ways of making them more appealing thus creating a market for them.

Maybe instead of picking a technology you should manage to the target you actually want. The target could in theory be reached with Hydrogen cars and perhaps that would be better — shame if they’d regulated for electric.

(Actually I think hydrogen is an absurd transport fuel, and California’s hydrogen power funding a waste. But the principle holds)
This comment should probably have a trigger warning.
Translation: "Anyone who makes more money than me stole it". I suppose you don't think your enormous amount of wealth compared to the average human means it was earned off the back of others do you? How much money would be fair for rural Chinese and Indians to steal from you?
I don’t think wellfare will work when half the country is unemployed.
Beware even some text-only browsers have added prefetching; need to patch source to turn it off

And then there are browsers that have internal stub resolver. Horrible

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/bgh8th/chrome_73_di...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/X-...

https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/dns-pre...

https://www.ghacks.net/2019/04/23/missing-chromes-use-a-pred...

https://www.ghacks.net/2013/04/27/firefox-prefetching-what-y...

https://www.ghacks.net/2010/04/16/google-chrome-dns-fetching...

I have been doing "DNS prefetching" before this term existed

I do non-recursive lookups and store the data I need in custom zone files or HOST file. I get faster lookups than any "solution" from any third party.

It is sad how much control is taken from the user, always with the stated goal of "making the web faster".

In many cases they are makng it slower. The irony of this blog post by a CDN about TLD latency is that some CDNs actually cause DNS-related delay by requiring excessive numbers of queries to resolve names, e.g., Akamai

Users have the option to choose for themselves the IP address they want to use for a given resource. If they find that the connection is slow, then they can switch to another one. Same idea as choosing a mirror when downloading open source software. Some users might want this selection done for them automatically, others might not
Even if their disclosed reasoning seems a little light-headed, the consequences are real at a platform level, less acceleration means :

- lower max(amperage) to deliver for battery pack (lowered specs)

- longer-lasting battery pack at same energy capacity (strong accelerations consume lots of energy, and wear the battery)

- reduced weight (critical parameter for higher km/energy) :

- lighter motor (reduced max torque)

- lighter brakes (because of lower max speed)

- ...

Low-tech solutions can sometimes be what people need. Solving the problem "go from point a to point b" in a safe, cost-efficient, and energy-efficient manner, is not a solved problem (yet).
I've never understood why a wikipedia or github style publishing platform doesn't exist for research papers yet. Why do we ascribe reputation to the journals themselves? Is it the journals or is it the academics who participate in the journal who matter? Also why does reputation even matter really? Wouldn't an open source model make more sense where anyone can offer feedback and comments would be public? Wouldn't it make more sense to have all academics and even non-academics from around the world offer review? Generally speaking there's a right answer, whether it's a hard science where equations are likely involved and can be validated, or a soft science where you can mostly focus on validating the process and analysis. Even in the arts where it might be a bit more subjective. If anything given the reproducibility crisis in modern science, I would say the current model as failed and deserves no reputation at all. This reminds me of this:

https://slate.com/technology/2017/04/we-need-a-github-for-ac...

If anything such a platform would be incredibly valuable in that academics can also create profiles on them and have an additional CV of their activity in contributing back to their field. This can be used as a real additional metric towards providing someone tenure or getting lab positions.
> Next is the coarse 6K/7k step case you talk about. The measurements on the gym’s treadmills are similarly arbitrary. That kind of gamification is useful to get people moving and as you say accuracy isn’t important.

I wish the industry had converged on a more abstract metric name than "steps". Just as I shudder at how many fitness trackers now have been moving to metrics called "calories" or "active calories", which seems like an over-correction away from "steps" to a more dangerous alternative. They imply a physical specificity that isn't that clear cut a direct correlation.

> Just as “the best camera you have is the one with you” the same applies to health monitoring.

This does seem to generally be the case. Where most people never bother to check their blood pressure at all, even a false positive is more awareness of their health and its implications/consequences than they likely had before. So long as warnings are (as they usually must be, given laws and liabilities) highly couched in the usual disclaimers to seek further medical advice.

It's amazing what data we are slowly accumulating from our wrist-based tricorders, even if this is all still very early days in figuring out how useful any of it is, how accurate we can get any of it.
I took it simply as a comment on how the same scale of impact has very different emotional responses if the cause is a big, notable event vs. a long-running regular one.

Isn't this the entire problem with climate change in general? It's really hard to get people concerned with very small temperature changes over long periods of time because we use our human perspective; it's hard for us to understand a geological time scale.

These types of observations help IMO.

>> The Australian wildfires are destroying ecosystems on a scale cats don't really do. And a much greater variety of wildlife is dying than what cats will typically kill.

Well, domestic cats are considered an invasive species in much of the world, and in Canada are the #1 killer of birds. Studies show they are the 3rd biggest offender towards putting species at risk. The story is worse on islands, of which we have many.

>> Finally, wildfires don't support life. They're naturally occurring things, but they are not an activity occurring in the support of other life.

This is absolutely wrong. Lots of forests in Western Canada depend greatly on regular, large-scale fires to support specific species of flora and fauna. Our excellent job of preventing these fires is likely to blame for many huge problems like mountain pine beetle and predator/prey imbalances.
I didn't fully appreciate the value of our data room until it mattered. Since the last deal, we've kept our data room impeccable and exceptionally granular. We're also way more sensitive about the timing of what we share and what we black-box for as long as possible. There's a strategy for managing your data room in situations like this, so I encourage talking with mentors/advisors if it's your first time.

This is also true for general communication to the team about offers like this. It's way too distracting and too high of a risk to morale if the deal falls apart.
LVM snapshots has been good enough for consistent backups for the last 20 years. Then there is also thin snapshots if you feel fancy.
Except, the quote you’re referring to was dated 2018.

The 737 MAX started operations in May 2017.

So the comment was after the plane was regularly flying, and people on the inside were STILL joking about its safety.

(0) https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/09/boeing-737-...
But we need to strike a balance here. I agree with the person above that putting big numbers as to exaggerate and drive panic is not really a prudent approach. At the end of the day, it hurts more than helps for a very simple reason: people remember. If you sell a doomsday scenario and nothing happens, people will start to dismiss your claims, like the boy who cried wolf. I recall 20 years ago seeing articles claiming that "Snow will be a thing of the past" or "Arctic to be ice-free by 2020". Nothing happened. Now we hear that we are facing mass extinction in a few decades. People get anxious and nervous when they see that, but then when nothing happens they will start to discount heavily your claims.
Yep. I have a friend who simply mocked my Gear VR who was looking up the price on Amazon minutes after trying out the Quest. Anybody trashing VR needs to try the Quest. Trash it afterwards if you like, but don't trash it based on the previous gen (either high end or low end) because they are not comparable.
If anyone is wondering what ranger is, it’s “a console file manager with VI key bindings” whose home page is https://ranger.github.io/.
I didn't say couples. I said married people. Married people BY LAW do not have separate finances. Your situation is completely different.
Well, then maybe you read the story but did not understand it. That's fine with me, but I did read the story and that is not my takeaway at all.

For starters, there is a clear abuse of power here with one party being the senior person at the company suggesting that things will be 'ok' when clearly there was a plan all along to create a situation of asymmetry and dependency, followed up with a lot of very mean and manipulative action.

Besides using the child as leverage against the mother there is a clear - and continuous - act in the self interest of the dominant party, more wealthy, still employed and willing to use every dirty tactic in the book and a couple I'd never even seen before against the other.

Utterly revolting and not simply 'two consenting adults in an adult relationship full of bad choices'. That's victim blaming at its worst.
Any analysis that relies on Warren will be "unfalsifiable". We don't have to watch the news much to realize that they're not afraid of Warren. Is that because they think she's fibbing about how she's going to crack down on the 1%? Maybe that's part of it, but the bigger factor is that they know Trump won't lose to "Pocahontas". The coverage she gets is very different than what e.g. Sanders or Gabbard get, because they're real in a way that neither Trump nor any opponent he has faced has been.

(Your back-and-forth about "few" vs "some" vs "1%" or whatever just proves the point about oligarchy.)
Isn't that a back backwards? Isn't it more like: Microsoft wanted a more modern language and they weren't allowed to use Java so they created c#?
> Well shooting yourself in the foot is a pretty bad way to achieve those goals.

You’re going to have to explain why this is shooting ourselves in the foot. I’m still not seeing it.

> A US company benefiting from much looser regulation at home and most of all the insane FED money printing making its way to the stock market and funding them with free money.

I’m not entirely sure I understand what your trying to say. Which regulations are so much looser and can you explain what advantages they provide to Tesla vs an EU company.

> So we can all be factory workers for americans. Great.

EU companies own factories in the US (VW is a notable example), and US companies own factories in the EU. Nothing wrong with that.
The level of power that Facebook has over global discourse is just chilling.
If you're driving fast enough (or are inattentive enough) that you can't stop (or even slow down) for any reasonably expected obstacle then that's completely on you, and you need to slow down.
I second this. Unless the person has lived their entire life in the basement (which seems a little cruel) why has the person been moved to the basement after reaching adulthood? Why can't they keep their room?
That is wonderful!
Do you think he got the same phone call saying one of them had to leave?
The over medication of young boys with add medications begins with teachers reporting behavioral issues to parents and suggesting evaluations. I hypothesize men are more likely to empathize with young boys and not see hyperactive behavior as a disorder requiring amphetamines, and that an educational system dominated by women will inevitably pathologize the behavior of young boys while elevating the behavior of young girls.
>> I have not heard of anyone having a problem with rats and mice hunting other animals

In Canada rats are a bigger threat to bird species than cats, topped only by humans. Or visit an island environment Galapagos where they've been introduced.
I wonder how many open source projects @lolrust0 has been kicked out of for being toxic.
Reasons not to start an online magazine
Yes. I wanted to make enough money that I'd be able to buy a place to live, have meaningful connections with people I cared about, and have enough so I can follow my hobbies and passions in my off-time. I actually do get a great degree of personal fulfillment that results from having a stable, high-paying job.

The lotus-eaters spent the rest of their days in happiness where Odysseus saw all of his friends die to return to a rock full of goats.
Google's new quantum supremacy device has 1,113 single-qubit gates and
430 two-qubit gates.

Article "How to factor 2048
bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20 million noisy qubits"
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09749 shows how to significantly
reduce the cost of factoring integers and computing discrete
logarithms. Implementation of the efficient device mentioned in the article
requires 2.7 billion Toffoli gates for 2048 bit input. It could factor
one key in 8 hours.

Microprocessors reached that high MOS transistor count less than 10 years ago. For example, 8-core Core i7 Haswell-E has 2.6 billion transistors (2014). If quantum computers follow Moore's law like conventional IC, it will take 40-years before
they can factor 2048 bit RSA.
You don’t need to be a billionaire to think in a rational and unbiased way.
I'm curious if this is

(a) even with latest gen headsets (eg: Occulus Quest)
(b) even with applications where you are completely stationary?

I ask because I've shown my quest to probably 15 people now and nobody has had a problem with it in any of the applications where there is no motion of the external frame.
> local manufacturers who have EU regulation burdens and foreigners who don't.

Tesla is also subject to EU regulation. The emission regulations concern cars sold in Europe, no matter whether the company selling them is headquartered in Europe or not. It's just that in this case they're more compliant with the regulation than Fiat.
Yeah, I dunno dude. Probably the first step is for everyone to emotionally disengage from the topic at hand - which most people find difficult in my experience. I find that meditation often allows me to kind of subconsiously allow logical blocks to fall into place for various things I am mulling over, without colouring my final descision with whatever emotional biases I harbour.

But you know, that might just all be bullshit.
Is there an acceptable way anywhere?

I can understand suicide rather than work, but that only takes you as far as "not working". I want to get to "not working so I can follow my passions".
Sadly, this doesn't answer the most frequently asked question: Did Epstein kill himself?
Musk seems to be really really good at working his customers, suppliers, governments, financiers, media, and public. In addition to having rather spectacular engineering sense. It's like a perfect storm for being a business magnet.
Roommates, long commutes, squatting, maybe some rent control.

Got an old friend in the Tenderloin, and he loves it, even though he's got a wife and 2 roommates.
I've met folks like that - ones who're getting ready to bet the farm on RISC-V taking-over not merely IoT, but mobile devices (phones, tablets, watches, wearables)
"Releasing bad news or documents on a Friday afternoon in an attempt to avoid media scrutiny is often called a “Friday news dump” by members of the media." - https://politicaldictionary.com/words/friday-news-dump/
"TLDR: The magazine model is not the best choice for indie intellectuals trying to start something. Two reasons: (1) Accelerating digital culture requires you to move fast and group projects move slower than solo projects, and (2) accelerating media segmentation rewards increasingly unique, hyper-niche content, so smaller, in-house production teams are better able to express unique micro-niches. I discuss some other social-psychological bases for this view, and acknowledge some exceptions."
Devs could allow a "this software is too good for us" issue, keep it unresolved and see how many would pile on ...

(A really cheeky issue tracker could have this built in as issue 0.)
But couldn't things always be harder? What's the difference between rejecting a free meal in favor of buying your own, vs. rejecting a meal that costs you $5 when you could pay $10? Or rejecting a $10 for a $100? Some might say that any nonzero price is qualitatively different than 0, but that ignores the fact that other things will not be free.

That way lies madness.

Maybe if your search for Ithaca can be detailed by eating a meal, then you're looking for the wrong Ithaca.
I think it comes from the trend where the storage basement got converted to a room for the older kid.

Providing a big room and privacy for parents and kids.
The Incidental Pundit: Who Talks Politics with Whom, and Why?
I'm actually working on an RX-8 conversion right now. AC motor (netgain hyper9), I'm keeping the transmission and clutch, lithium iron phosphate batteries under the car where the gas tank was and in the engine compartment.

I agree that it would be great if Mazda revived the RX-8 as an electric vehicle. Especially if they kept the stickshift.
The point is that it's a meaningless question. Consciousness is an activity your brain engages in, sometimes.

If you could make something else to engage in such activity, it could be conscious, sometimes, too. (We grow those all the time. See "children".) If you made something that engaged in activity indistinguishable, at some level, from what your brain sometimes does, would it be you? Obviously not.

But people might treat it as if it were, and be satisfied with it as a substitute. E.g., if it changed your passwords, it might get away with stealing your money. But there are easier ways to make that happen. People have done those already.
No, it's punishment.

It's not down out of cruelty, it's done out of greed. He's more important, so even though he should absolutely 1000% be the one on the chopping block, she gets forced to sales. Then he uses the financial hardship and promises from him to get her to quit.

How to tidy up a disastrous bit of professional misconduct in just a few easy completely sociopathic steps.
I think we're more-or-less on the same side: I would love to live in a world where smoking was a thing of the past.

In re: alcohol... I would hate to give up port. There's an argument there for the artistry of the brewer/vintner, but overall alcohol consumption is pretty vile.

But you said "no one dares to go after them" which is wrong, and set off my "wait, what?" reaction.
This is pretty cringey.
I appreciate that clarification; all good, no worries. And, yes, having learned from my .CC experience all these years now, going forward I will ignore the intents of .org, .net, etc. before looking at ccTLD. Cheers!
What happens if you enable zram? That would probably help the limited RAM situation pretty strongly.
Unless there's lots of well-known material that I'm unaware of... there seems to be a lot of mind-reading going on here. How can you know what drives people's thinking and decision making?
After 6 months of back to back meetings all day long all week I started doing this and it has been a lifesaver.
No I'm just saying that the traditional methods of using employment statistics may be based on outdated assumptions.

They specifically say "payroll positions" in the article so that would leave me to believe it does not include self employed individuals.
Fiat do have a reputation for making unreliable cars. I have no idea whether it’s deserved or not, but the joke that Fiat stands for “Fix it again, Tony” has been around for a very long time. I first heard that joke in a 1997 episode of King of the Hill, so people have been making it since at least then. Fiat made ads referencing the joke in 2014, so I presume it’s had some staying power too.
And my point is that doesn't have to be the case. You can eat a free lunch at your current job without being weakened or distracted in any way.

It's good to keep your end goals in mind and make sure you aren't deviating from a course that will get you there, but a logical conclusion of taking this blog post literally (which many people are doing, because there's no obvious reason not to do so) is that the author is severely misguided at best.
The posted article has no source for that claim.
In ~2016 I drove a preproduction electric vehicle from a major manufacturer not known for making fast cars. It wasn’t a sports car, and it wasn’t even one of their high end models. But that thing was fast.

When I drove the same car later (post production) it was noticeably slower. It seems that they had tuned the power controller to be more conservative. Honestly, the slower tuning is better. Electric motors can give instant power and lurch the car forward with little effort. My foot would become sore driving through the city, as I hovered it above the pedal and made micropresses to maintain speed. The new tuning (and gas engines in general) allow you quite a bit of leeway. Press the pedal twice as far as you should have, and you can slowly release it before the car gets ahead of you.

Having a car that’s quick of the starting line is a lot of fun, but make that a mode. Smooth, slow, driving is just more comfortable.
Can you please provide more detail on what you are referring to?