skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you know that I hear when you tell me that? Massive, tremendous potential. Almost a volcano of raw potential in front of you. So many things are open to you now, just considering how much time you have left ahead of you (should you not die or become incapacitated, of course).

I can paste raw data combining my issues and associated risks/success rate. Future suddenly looks bleak from the comparison. Potential is capped more by location, family, genes, qualification, environment etc than age. High school drop outs suffer more on the long run, especially here. Being born in poverty increases your chance of ending in poverty. Those disorders are associated with short term burn, lower life expectancy, less fulfilment, lower income, higher risk of addiction and 6x increased chance of suicide or early death. My other problems certainly lower the bar even more (different forms of abuse and trauma).

If we are being considerate, you would certainly take average as a baseline for your reachable potential. I don't see how that is good at all.

Though, it likely doesn't matter.

> Really, I would make seeking out and meeting people you resonate with, who you admire and like a top priority. Find people who are your heroes, meet them in person, and get their advice. You might not be able to do that now, but I'd make it a long-term goal. You could also try emailing them or connecting with them through social media. Some people will be glad to help. Also, you could find people adults who are doing good things in your area and talk to them in person and get their advice.

I have done that already at least online. I have found some genuine constructive advice like you have added above. I think main issue really comes from facing reality hammer and a terrible exhaustion.
Everything needs a positive experience to continue. I lack that spark. Currently, if you asked me what I wished for. You wouldn't get any answer. That is the_root_problem. While extra money is always good and helping, but it doesn't provide big of an incentive to put work at this stage in this form. Other than, I don't really deeply care to want something. Good food? I don't mind bad food at all or lack of it for days. I can certainly live with a blanket without a bed. I don't care if there is a person irl to talk to me either. I have trained myself enough, I can have a conversation with myself using a notebook.

I still feel alright at the end of the day. There is no difference whatsoever except bit more irritation.

I understand things are not right or optimal but changing them is not possible. I feel like I have already lost by solidifying that position. I am guessing, I might change with some sudden external influence or death of someone eventually.
I know this is tangential but my fav definition of inner and outer products is

Inner(x,y) = x'.y

And

Outer(x,y) = x. y'

' is adjoint
Yeah, fair point! I'm not well versed in this kind of stuff. So I'm not sure.

Maybe the original paper discusses the point though? Perhaps they have a way to normalize temperatures to a baseline across all data sets and evaluate that way.
> So what really mattered was self-promotion, good timing, and luck.

Yes. He seems like someone who is good at self-promotion and networking. Well, good for him, but I think he underplays the role these have in his success.

> Why does the author have to present his life like one would in a fucking college essay?

I guess that's the self-promotion. And humble-bragging. Like this bit:

"I started working as a teacher in the countryside, but after invoking the spirit of their dead chief, they later annotated me the king of their village."
Twitter is amazing. I didn't get into it until a couple years ago, I was missing so much. Many of the most influential, intelligent, thoughtful people post what they think or are interested in. In the past, unless they were a journalist, you'd have to wait for someone to write a book, and then buy it. Now you can pick and choose from the most amazing people of the world, and actually interact with them.

I kind of can't get over that this is free and such a high percentage of the people I want to know about are on it, and I worry that it is a temporary situation before everyone gets so afraid of possible negative consequences that they stop sharing. I think it is an added bonus that important people get used to dealing with criticism, as that leads to freer society.

It's up to you to pick the right people to listen to and not get engaged in foolish flame wars. The information I've gleaned from the conversations I've seen and participated in on Twitter over the last two years have saved me a decade or two of my own personal work.
It’s contextual. E.g. if you’re in a situation very similar to past situations where you threw the code away afterwards, you can be pretty confident that you’ll throw it away this time too.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts about “Ping-Pong Programming”?
I was introduced to the concept just a couple of days ago I'm pretty intrigued (I couldn't find a lot of reviews about it).

- Anyone uses it daily successfully? any tips?
- Pro's \ Con's
- Is it possible to write tests and the other writes code in parallel or does it ruin the whole concept?

TLDR: A type of pair programming where one writes a test, then the other tries to get it to pass. Afterward, they swap. I'd like to get your thoughts about it.
Ha...I wasn’t repeating it to make some kind of assertion of dominance, just to explain that I’m aware of the point you’re making, and that it’s related to, but different from my own.
> Do you invest 0.1% of your wealth in things you considered to have 0.5-5% chance of happening? I don't.

Powerball and Mega Millions seem like an existence proof to the contrary. I'm won't argue the upthread point that such an investment is logical, but it's not senseless either.

"Prepper enclaves as scratch tickets for billionaires" sounds about right to me.
> The fix went out less than half an hour after they learned about it

That's doesn't appear to be true. In one of the twitter feeds linked to in the article, "LastPass Support" says they are "actively investigating" reports on the 17th, so they knew something was up at least that far back.
There used to be a scam known as "sweating" where the scammer would take a bunch of gold or silver coins, put them in a bag, and shake the crap out of it for a while. Small particles of precious metal would wear off and accumulate in the bottom of the bag, which could then be recovered and sold as bullion. Afterward the (now somewhat-worn) coins could still be spent at their original face value.

This was hard to detect compared to other common scams of the time(such as clipping or filing the edges of the coin) because the wear pattern was pretty close to what you'd expect from normal wear and tear.
As far as I know there's no letup in searching for treatments for neurodegenerative diseases. Spending remains high because the payoff will be huge.
>I guess SQL over HTTP could be used to directly operate on databases from resource constrained devices that don't support the full socket library for whatever database you're using?

Indeed. I think botnets could be an example of such "devices."
Ozone-depleting gases might have driven extreme Arctic warming
The Khan may have stepped on the necks of Kings and raped queens on a whim, but you can bet he still took care of his own and placated the right people to give him that power to ravage the world outside his Mongols.
>The Register write style, especially the headings

Basically all mainstream journalism coming out of the UK is garbage (FT & economist excluded I guess). Even the BBC has been showing some partisan leanings lately
War has dramatically changed. I don't envision mass drone armies bombing cities. I imagine extremely precise and targeted strikes enabled by technology.

Why fight a whole war when you can just kill the generals?

If we want to think about war from an economic perspective, it doesn't make sense to kill civilians. Civilians are valuable. Murdering the labor force you seek to extract rent from is usually a bad decision. Civilians probably don't care as much about the political situation as their personal situation. It also just complicates things.

It's possible that technology pushes war in this direction but it could also go in the direction you hint at. A country may be able to conduct an asymmetric war where their soldiers/civilians face 0 risk and the other side faces all of the risk. A country may also use this technology to control its own civilians.

I think it's an active choice and if we don't push in the better realistic direction the other path will be taken.
A stranger can snap your picture and see your name and address
It’s not a worse for whom competition.
It's far higher than that, but most miscarriages occur so early that in the past, or today if not actively checking if you are pregnant, a woman wouldn't have known it happened. This is obviously difficult to study, but current thought is that miscarriages occur in 30-50% of fertilizations, and with more and more tracking, people are more and more likely to know about it.
Until not so long ago, the browsers' password storages provided absolutely zero security. They are better now, but still password managers offer some advantages. For me the most important is the ability to use multiple browsers. But there's other stuff: random password generator, ability to store custom key/value pairs, 2FA, etc.
It's a "big picture" thing. It's not necessarily about age, but rather experience. A dev who's been in the industry for <5 years simply hasn't seen the sheer amount of shitty tech come and go over the years.
How well is it on a Macbook Pro? I just cant run FreeBSD for the same reason I cant be bothered to use Slackware Linux anymore. I love Slackware but too much manual labor when there are plenty of useful UI utilities to achieve more with less. I prefer user oriented KISS not just developer oriented KISS.
"I traversed down the state tree until I found the allAirportsList property, which contained all the airport keys and the locations to which they flew. I extracted this state (over 1MB of route information) and could now build a graph representation of airport connections."

In the 90's, I can remember a pocket-sized, printed guide by a company called OAG. I used to call it "the OAG Guide". I can remember getting a copy of this for free. It listed every schedule for every route for every airline. I can also remember getting similar pocket-sized guides from certain airlines listing all their routes and schedules for each route.

When the task of planning routes comes up, I sometimes think of those old printed guides and wonder if this could be cited as an example where certain information was actually more easily accessible before the www became popular than after.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAG_(company)
Or, alternately, we produce plenty of them normally in our youth so as to keep cancer from getting a good hold and we develop deficiencies that reduce their production as we age and this allows cancer to go from whatever stuff causes it floating around the body randomly to full-blown tumors and the like.

Either way, your framing has zero bearing on my point. If they can produce them in quantity in vats for purposes of combatting cancer, why not produce them in quantity in the body? That's my point.
I see a few comments in here, and have seen similar comments in similar topics in other threads, saying that they dont understand why anyone would choose this over other FOSS licenses. These questions are asked from a developer-centric perspective. FOSS never has been, and never will be, developer-centric. Free as in freedom software was created to be USER-centric. The whole point is to take power AWAY from the developer, because otherwise the balance is always in the developer's favor. The benefit for the developer is that developers are also users, so they in turn benefit from others releasing the software as FOSS, both as libraries to write better software with and as programs used in day to day computing.

Any issues companies have with FOSS licenses is entirely on them, assuming they arent one of the few who actively contributes to and fights for FOSS. MongoDB doesn't like competition from Amazon? Understandable. But don't play the victim and then turn around and screw everyone who isn't Amazon over with a license change. Maybe instead you could take some of your shake-down money and put it to good use by lobbying against these monopolistic conglomarates in the valley so that they can't use their overreaching power to screw you with your own code. Maybe instead, you could encourage ALL developers to start using copyleft licenses, instead of the weaker licenses everyone loves to throw on their project these days. Because those weaker licenses are somewhat to blame for this too. What good is a FOSS program if its just going to lead to more proprietary software? How does that help anyone? There's a reason most of the big tech monopolies release most of the open source code they do produce under non-copyleft licenses. Its not because they love FOSS, its so that they can pay lip service to the community and then use it with their the proprietary programs we're so concerned about them surveiling us with.
Of course, the retort to all of this is "developers need to eat to, how can we make money off of copyleft?" I have two answers, one thats snarky but possibly helpful and one that's honest but possibly rude, and hopefully enlightening. The first answer is "Ask Qt." "Ask Blender." "Ask Redhat." Ask one of the many companies that do buisiness while still releasing their main software under a FOSS license. They all seem to be doing pretty well. The second answer is that I don't care how or even if you make money. Thats not the reason you release something as FOSS. Never has been, never will be. If you release software as FOSS, its because you believe that there should be a balance of power between developers and users. Its because you believe that sharing information and knowledge is the best way we can improve quality of life for ourselves and those around us. If you can't make those ideals your biggest priority even in the face of financial loss, frankly don't even bother releasing your software as FOSS. I'd rather your software be proprietary. That way I'll know to avoid it and we won't have to waste eachothers time.
The "if" is key. The parent post does not indicate that their voting residence is in Massachusetts - they could have maintained a voting residence in Pennsylvania instead of switching to MA.

Voting residency requirements are weird because they differ from state to state, and can be very vague when it comes to maintaining residency. As far as I can tell, Pennsylvania's 30-day residence requirement only applies when registering to vote; as long as you maintain a voting residence in Pennsylvania, you can vote in subsequent elections as you do not need to register again between elections. According to Article VII of Pennsylvania's election code (qualifications of electors), however, you lose your residence if you move to another state AND do not intend to return to Pennsylvania OR you move to another state AND intend to make it your permanent residence. So it depends on the parent poster's intentions of whether they view MA as their permanent residence or they don't plan to return to PA.
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Neat page, def. bookmarking this!

FYI the link to microscheme is broken, this works: https://ryansuchocki.github.io/microscheme/

Judging by the prominent "microscheme.org" at the top of that page, the link is supposed to work, but anyone's guess when it might be fixed...
"Very careful" doesn't really explain much. If lie is not necessarily probabilistic (so we cannot figure it our based on frequency of some contradictory answers), and if we need an oracle at all (that is, there is some piece of knowledge we cannot possibly verify ourselves), why cannot oracle just always lie about that piece of knowledge and take this lie into consideration in all the other answers, to make story consistent?

I'm pretty sure there must be some additional constraints, otherwise I don't see how you could possibly detect a lie that you cannot verify yourself with a single oracle.
Could some of it be explained by demographic changes (immigration)? iI remember always being taught growing up than 37.5°C was the average human body temperature. However after moving to East Asia I met plenty of people who consider 37.5 a light fever and 36 the normal temp. On my phone so no data to back it up for now though...
IME removing yourself from the original emotional context of your post works wonders. Write the whole thing, sure, but then go do a context switch - go for a walk, read a different article, make some food, whatever - then once that emotional immediacy fades (which can definitely take different amounts of distracting depending on how pissed you are), read the comment out loud to yourself. Probably 90% of the time I've written something shouty I'll just end up closing the tab.

YMMV, of course, though I found the first couple of experiences of feeling like "wow, what kind of ape would draft a comment like that?" when I go for the reread were enough to emotionally incentivize me to trade time for not feeling like a big rube down the line.
If this is true, it has massive implications on a lot of the runaway scenarios that have been talked about.
> I found mine via attending underground music events

To find like-minded folks to do things you love with, do the things you love.

Problem is most of the things I love involve isolating myself from others and seeking solitude in my own projects. After work and partner, there’s just no more social battery left.

When I tried 4-day-at-office weeks for a few months I literally became chattier with people at the gym, strangers in the park, etc. it was quite extraordinary
There's a bunch of hackers trying to reverse-engineer and open-source the DataHand here (most recent reply was yesterday):

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=41422.0

I've had a couple of DataHands (and still keep one under my bed). It's a real marvel. For certain repetitive strain injuries: it's the only thing that helps.

I'm using regular keyboards now, and I'm grateful that I can. But I look forward to the day when anybody who needs one can find one.
> Would, say, young people drafted for war from a modern Spartan society experience the same trauma in war as young people drafted from Berkeley?

Most of Sparta was slaves, and the upper class participated in murder of slaves as a rite of passage, so I doubt there is a lot in common.
It's a commonplace today that people are defined by what they choose to consume; that one asserts their personal identity by what brands they buy and what media they watch. The ones who are selling membership in these "sub-cultures" therefore stand to gain from the destruction of any form of belongingness that they cannot sell as a commodity.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22083775
> We clearly don't actually understand why some medications work for some people but not others.

There are plenty of psychoactive drugs where we have no understanding of why they work at all. Lithium is one of the oldest, most successful, and best known medications for bipolar disorder, major depression, and schizophrenia, and we have no idea which of the many effects it has on the body actually contribute to stabilizing mood.
Humans can transfer learn across domains because we can draw on an incredible wealth of past experience. We can understand and abstractly reason about the architecture of problem landscapes and map our understanding into new spaces.

That isn't even counting our hardwired animal intelligence.
I really don't see that one.

There are people willing to drink poison for their cult - I don't see that level of religious fervour from the vast majority of people.

People who join an established religion also vary wildly. Gangsters and pedophiles sit next to soccer mums and librarians at church services.

I don't see the predictability or religious-(ity) being at all normalised.
> then becomes a law where you get put in prison for using the wrong pronoun

You were going so well until this point, because I guarantee you won't be able to find the story to back this up; it will turn out that the "wrong pronoun" was part of a sustained campaign of harassment or part of a death threat or suchlike.

> how is the social justice "ideological pipeline" constructed and operated?

I could talk about how this works, but only if you're genuinely interested and willing to take it seriously. And not as part of a beef.
You know, what's funny is that it probably would stop being culturally loaded if people stopped giving special treatment to words like these, trying to avoid them.

I imagine that OP is making reference to African American enslavement in US history, but I wouldn't even consider this relation if it weren't for this post.
Extensive discussion of original source (NY Times article): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22083775

HN Guidelines: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Here’s the difference I saw:

1) a postdoctoral that doesn’t lead to a professorship is one where they are looking for someone to do work independently without being trained. Basically, a very senior grad student. You largely follow the law ultimes of grants written by the PI.

2) a postdoc leading to a position is one where you are trained in developing a research program, writing grants, giving career talks, etc.

The easiest way to make sure your postdoc falls in the latter category is to find an advisor with a track record of past postdoc a getting professor positions. If someone has been a professor for two-four decades and has few former postdocs who became professors, you are unlikely to get training to become a professor.
While we don't consider that sedentary, compared to the physical nature of the majority of jobs and lives these people would still be considered sedentary. I think a better comparison would be people who are doing long distance through hikes since their time under tension is extensive and the large distances they travel each while under load would be more respective of per-industrial lifestyles.
While jokes are not good, it's important to talk about it. A good friend of mine had to go through multiple miscarriages, and almost lost her life in the process. She hurt a lot from the feeling of being imperfect and somehow at fault. She was actually surprised how common an occurrence a miscarriage is, and if we manage to make it more normal to talk about it, and more normal to expect that it can happen, I think we would make an important step in reducing the pain.
Trivago misled consumers in favour of advertiser dollars, federal court finds
We are all entrepreneurs. Nobody is safe
LP to Bitwarden as well here. The only issue I've found so far is MFA doesn't seem to be working on the (Linux) Firefox plugin, this could be a user error issue as I've not had time to look into it yet (only noticed it this morning).
Last time I checked (maybe a year ago), FreeBSD didn't have wifi drivers for a early 2015 Macbook. I think even Linux doesn't have drivers for the wifi card in the touchbar-era Macbooks, so I'd be very surprised if Freebase did.
I think I've had four sculpts. They are great for the price. Would like a better keyboard with mechanical bc switches, but the next level is simply to expensive and there is too little choice for a international layouts. So please Microsoft. I would pay triple for a sculpt with mechanical keys.
As a long time fan of Gentoo, I felt very at home on FreeBSD, and quite liked how everything in it worked. I remember my frustration was more around software and hardware issues. In the end, it wasn't Linux; I felt left in the cold if I ever wanted to use something that wasn't made for FreeBSD.

FreeBSD itself was a pleasure and I wish I could use it more. I've not found a linux distribution I've found quite as nice.