skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Memory's hazy (it might have been a year or two before 1999) but I remember in the UK buying a domain from Network Solutions with a credit card but then I had to fax a signed document to their US office to actually authenticate ownership. This wasn't an automated anti-fraud thing like you might see today, it was just standard procedure for on-line orders (or at least non-US ones).

But, yeah, paying on-line with credit cards was absolutely a thing in 1999.
I'm curious, too. Are all these tweets of people showing off GPT-3 capabilities those who have access to the OpenAI API?
Definitely would like a source for this because I feel like I hear it a lot and I don't believe it's true.

You can be talented and not care what you work on. And if all you care about is what tech is new and shiny, how talented can you be? I don't want you rewriting my product every year so you can use the next framework du jour.

Maybe talent means something else when nothing is at stake, but I'd argue that a talented engineer knows that when a product works and makes money, and the tech stack isn't prohibitive of those goals, it doesn't really matter what it's written in. In fact, I see trend-chasing developers as liabilities, because they're the ones who will replace everything every six months while you bleed money.
Same, I've settled with a multi-OS IDE for taking notes. The main issue is trying to get shortcut keys for Markdown such as toggling a list. I haven't found a good extension either on JetBrains or VSCode ... maybe the only way is to personally write the extension haha
Depends on whether anyone caught the satire. The director grew up under nazi occupation and modeled the film as such, nazi propaganda.
Thank you for the correction. Edited accordingly.
Do you have a link?

I found this: "I'm never going to escape that thread, am I?" "Neither am I!"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3997625
I love how the author complains about wealth extraction but the author's last book opined about the brilliant entrepreneurial ability of govts.

Just a guess but I never got the impression that the author understood anything about capitalism or what companies in the private sector do.

You can complain about finance and make all kinds of statements with horrible historical parallels...the fact remains: this isn't like law, if something isn't valuable in some way then you don't get paid for it. The definition of value is what someone else will pay. The govt, by contrast, is the ultimate wealth extraction vehicle.
> manufacturing was productive and wealth-creative, while rents levied by the landed gentry were unproductive and extractive

This seems like a commonly made distinction, and maybe it's an honest and correct one, but the phrasing does seem a little slanted to me. Couldn't we also say that the gentry providing workable land to farmers is productive use of capital, and the prices charged for manufactured goods are unproductive rents? I suppose it doesn't hold together quite as well, but focusing on different sides of the ledger (and bringing class into the discussion) makes me question if the argument holds together as well when considered soberly.
> Places like Nashville, Atlanta, Tampa Bay, and Research Triangle all have lower cost of living than NYC (you could pay the same rent and actually have a yard) and lots of software jobs if you don't want to go remote.

There might be jobs in these areas, but they won't pay NYC- or SF-level salaries.
Running in another thread does not make it correct, it only increases performance.
Because the best advertisement for their product is people who are actually into the product. You don't need to give away stuff to them to keep them interested, because the product speaks for itself. Furthermore, seeing more basketball around is not going to turn non-fans into fans. To do that you need something that transcends the sport such as a Michael Jordan or 2015 Warriors.

Now, outside the US in places where NBA has not yet saturated your approach makes more sense, but you could also burn a lot of cash for no returns if you're not careful.
This is how Rust Analyzers intellisense works, it uses a query engine called Salsa that stores the symbols in a database and the linting and completion/semantics are entirely query-driven:

https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa

Good video describing it's use for working with Rust's AST:

https://youtu.be/i_IhACacPRY?t=1348
Licensing the brands is how they make their money. They keep interest in basketball high so they can sell expensive shirts, not the other way around. Honesty it would be great if pro sports could be run by nonprofits who cared more about inspiring kids to exercise/be active and less about appeasing the Chinese government
Me too!!!

I find since I moved from Tomboy to OneNote that my memory is significantly worse.

Tomboy didn't support pics so I was more tuned in to meetings as I was actively processing info in order to note it down in my own words.

Now in Outlook I often tune out when I feel something is less relevant, and I lazily take screenshots "in case I need to look at it later". Then, when something comes up that is more relevant to me I'm tuned out and need to catch up. I also remember information much less long because it never really entered my brain at all.

So yeah it definitely helps for that purpose, at least for me.
Lime Text: An Open Source Alternative to Sublime Text
Overcoming Inertia
This is why I love Emacs org-mode. You can create the note taking app that you want. Don’t like something? change it. Which it had feature X? Add it. There so many great packages already that often what you want is done for you.
> Why don't we have coffee houses like this [the favourite meeting places of the English scientific intelligentsia, the astronomers, mathematicians and natural philosophers] today?

I can tell you where the scientists are. They are sitting in their offices writing the next grant application. And if they aren't, going to hang out at the coffee shop with other scientists is not a line item on their CV that contributes towards their tenure application.
What video would you say is the best starting point for a newcomer to your channel?
Main St in San Franciso is less surprising when you see it is a pretty insignificant street.
You write declarative manifests that include source repos/tags and destination repos/tags and build arguments, and this thing figures out what commands are needed to get your container registry in the desired state.
It outputs those commands. You'd then pass then to an environment that has access rights to make the necessary changes.
I'm always happy to help some poor SRE in the middle of the night, and I once even drove to the office in a rainy Sunday, in the middle of my vacation, to access IP-restricted stuff because a support intern messaged me on Instagram.

...but with that said: I'm glad I only worked in countries where work is properly regulated and "on call" means "I'm getting fucking paid every cent for each hour I _must_ answer that goddamn phone". Which in practice means there's no PagerDuty.

The unpaid on-call culture is bullshit. The company can either pay me or go fuck itself.
Here is a longer description: https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/03/26/problem-remdesivir-maki....

I believe Gilead's target is 500,000 doses by November. In an ideal world, they'd probably want to sell doses to just about every person with COVID, but they can't, due to supply constraints.
What you are asking for is along the lines of Microsoft Photosynth released circa 2008.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynth
By this point nunaced and deliberate thinking on its own won't cut it.

We need to reconsider serveral implied assumptions going back hundreds of years. But doing this in a way such that people (and institutional persons) don't take it as an attack on what they are seems (and probably is) impossible.
The funny thing that you can order it from SEA (mostly Thailand) for roughly ~$30 through https://www.dhgate.com/ DHGate is perfect to buy fake jerseys that are pretty much the same with genuine tags. Either stolen from the factory or they work overhours, I don't know. But the quality and the actual product is almost always the same.
The problem with note-taking (currently) in app form is the way we do things differently by hand, versus digitally. By hand I write notes, draw items that matter to me. I frequently mix languages on a page - simply because it works for me. But, I can flip through a notebook in seconds, compared to clicking through Evernote/Onenote/Notion/etc. when something is 2-3 days back. I keep trying. I've used Evernote, Onenote, local TagSpaces, Notion, Wikis of various sorts, a VIMWiki that I used to keep. I bought RocketBook notebooks, their beacons, the whole thing. I'll keep trying digital note taking.

The reality is that pen and paper is infinitely faster and the brain processes finding things more quickly. Some people like myself are wired such that merely writing the note is the method of locking it into memory. Unfortunately, the digital tools solve history and retrieval better than the tactile, writing answer.

For now, I write with fountain pens, some great ink, and a Stalology B6 notebook. I just spent a month, once again trying to make Notion work. The reality is that writing is just better at this - even though I constantly hope it won't be. At least for me.
It's not your place to decide whether Sean was "taken in" by charlatans. It's Sean's. And there is not one quote in the entire article from him. And that he didn't want to see his girlfriend while dying does not give me confidence that she is someone who really speaks for him.

This article and Hacker News thread is largely comprised of healthy people trying to control what sick people think, feel, and say. And on top of that, you're trying to censor their discussions using government-backed violence. That is the conclusion of this article and many of the comments in this thread. I am sick and I fight against these authoritarian policies every day to get the information and medicine I need. I live in excruciating pain every minute of every day and then I have to argue with a bunch of clueless healthy people about what I can and cannot do with my own body.

You are at the very least advocating for others to attack me. Using government backed violence to prevent me from accessing the information or medicine I want _is_ an attack.

If the medical industry is so correct, then why aren't they curing people?

Why is the work of biochemists ignored in the health care industry? (in many ways they understand the human body better than doctors do)

Why do I have 1000's of people I've connected with online who have successfully treated/cured their illness? Do you think we're just making this all up for attention? Because the attention we get is far from positive. We are excluded by civil society. We only survive by hiding what we really think. The purpose of this hacker news account is to build up karma and then burn it in order to say these things. I can't just say them without paying a cost.
> saving $200 on a PC build is just not something that justifies (to me) dealing with kind of issue

This kind of issue.. you mean a visual glitch with limited scope and available work arounds in a more than decade old video game?

Yes, what a serious issue. /s
If you want to try it out:

curl -X POST -F "msg=today" https://victorribeiro.com/pos/word.php

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"msg":"day"}' https://victorribeiro.com/pos/word.php

fetch('https://victorribeiro.com/pos/word.php',
{
method: "POST",
headers: {"Content-Type": "application/json"},
body: JSON.stringify({msg: "today"})
}).
then( r => r.json() ).
then( data => console.log(data) ).
catch( e => console.error(e) )
A Man Who Cracked the Lottery
Great post. Could this get merged to the rust book? Because the guide there was super confusing.
At university in the UK it was always pronounced heavy-side.
Obsidian's licensing makes it immediate non-starter for me and I would imagine the same for most people who would want to use it for work, side projects, or anything they hope to make money off of.
So this is all kinds of wrong. When you make steel, you typically use 99+% pure oxygen - modern mills do air separation and reject nitrogen and argon (which makes steel brittle when it's dissolved in) and basically anything they can reasonably separate out but oxygen.

But furthermore, it's not radioactive oxygen isotopes that get into the steel in the first place - they're scant to non-existent in nature, since all three common isotopes of oxygen are stable and most of the rest decay in seconds. It's other radioactive isotopes in the air from the bomb tests.

99+% isn't 100%, and it turns out those tiny fractions of a percent of junk contain the isotopes that are the real problem, namely Cobalt-60 created by the nuclear tests. Carbon-14 isn't nearly as big of a problem, since its decay mode is just beta and can be designed around, but the gamma decay from Cobalt-60 contamination is much harder to deal with.

Furthermore, because of Cobalt's position on the periodic table and the desire to have a small amount of cobalt in steel anyways to give it better working properties, it's not something that's easily filtered out, even in processes that reform steel like vacuum remelting which exist to make mechanically harder and better quality steel by slow melting and recrystalization. Once the Cobalt's in there, it's in there - you just have to wait for it to decay.

As it turns out, we're in luck, most of the fallout from those bomb tests has passed through numerous half-lives and is much less of a problem today than it was in the 1980s and 1990s when the low background stuff became such a hot commodity. So it doesn't really matter as much that we're running out. Furthermore, oxygen separation technologies and cryogenic liquid handling have improved, so we can do an even better job keeping contamination out. If someone wanted to set up a low background mill, they probably could do it today with commodity molecular sieves and centrifugation of the oxygen rejecting all but the light fraction...
> The definition of value is what someone else will pay.

Never heard of extortionate pricing?

Sometimes a large part of the price we pay for a good is actually the price of the system, not the price of the good.
Just because castration can have an effect on recidivism for some forms of sex offenders (and please point towards a source because it does make the discussion more worth having), it does not mean it have an effect on say axe murderers.

Gun control may also have an effect on recidivism for gang related violence involving military weapons, but is unlikely to effect child sex rapists. Not everyone that work for once set of criminals work for an other set of criminals, nor are recidivism and aggressiveness the same thing.

And there are studies where violent criminals of the non-sex offending nature were given testosterone reducing drugs. It did not work.

> Regardless of what causes violence we have a huge undeniable discrepancy between males and females

That kind of research are plenty in gender research. Men are X more likely to be math professors, having a job, and a number of other gender stereotypical aspect. There is a lot of culture involved and it very hard to separate culture from biology.

But even considering what we know about biology, aggression and crime are not the same and female on female aggression tend to be different than male on male aggression. Culturally we tend to ignore the former and focus on the later.

And finally, there is some evidence that in many cultures male aggression get rewarded with social status, and in the challenge hypothesis, that would link aggression with testosterone through culture. Game theory experiment has demonstrated that testosterone can influence players to be more or less aggressive in an economic game depending on the design of the rules. If aggression is rewarded with maintaining status then injecting players with testosterone increase aggression. If the game is changed and it is cooperation that is rewarded, players with raised testosterone play more cooperative. All cited in that above book.
If I understand you correctly, you already know how to program, you're just rusty.

You want to do some experiments and hacks? Just do them. Start by assuming that you know everything you need to know to do them, and just start implementing. When you hit something you don't know how to do, learn that - either online, or by talking it over with the engineers you work with.
Wow, the simptoms sounds astonishingly familiar to me.
I eventually was able to find a doctor (immunologist) who was able to help me to throw this thing into a strong remission. The key part was to make a thing called "immunological profile" (--"-- analysis?).. I'm not a native English speaker and I may translate it wrong - the idea is to measure the distribution of your own's body immune cells in a blood - all of these NK-cells, T-cells, B-cells &etc. There were some strong deviations from a norm in my blood and the Doctor was able to fix it. Only then I was able to forgot about all that EBV-related hell you've described... So, try to find a good immunologist in your country, who specializes on EBV, he/she might be able to help.

PS: There's an antiviral drug called Isoprinosine - before I found the Immunologist, I used that drug to quickly suppress the virus when it bit me too heavy. Just 1 or 2 pills in 1 or 2 days was enough to suppress it for a few weeks/may be months, BUT (and this is very important!) that drug is quite unfriendly to kidneys, esp. when taken regularly and/or in high doses. So if you can refrain from using it - don't use it.

The very bad and sad thing about EBV - many doctors absolutely DON'T realize, how №%;%№ evil that thing is. You're feeling yourself just like a zombie, you can't have a normal sleep and suffering from constant fatigue, but all they say is "oh, just have a rest, it's just a flu, you'll be ok in a week, then visit your psychiatrist, he'll help you". Stupid ignorant idiots!...
So, have patience and look for a normal doctor, probably, you may fix it even now! Wishing you and everyone who suffers from EBV to get well!
I wonder if there are any banks / credit card companies that would allow you to auto-disable the card if daily/weekly spending exceeds a threshold of your choosing.

Would be a nice feature allowing you to easily prevent high dollar fraud.

Sort of a self-imposed, periodically resetting limit that you can manually override if needed.
I won’t work for a company that doesn’t have revenue or that has revenue that doesn’t come from charging money for a product or service.
No, by idle I meant idle, not what's left over after you've already put in a day's work.
There's more going on and worth exploring if engineers are so unattached to outcomes they pick technology in a vacuum. Pager duty is a heavy stick - it's important not to avoid root cause analysis. So if your engineers are making bad choices - what's really going on?

That assumes engineers are even empowered to make technology choices. At many companies they are not (whether by dint of organizational structure or the roadmap not allowing a major technology shift from whatever "shitpile" you and your team have inherited).

Having clear escalation strategies (and knowing when escalation to the original engineers behind a project is even appropriate) is often lacking. I wouldn't want to call engineers in at 3am for a problem that can be fixed by following a documented devops process. Plus - what happens when the engineer you need to reach is unavailable? They are sick, or don't wake up, or their phone died?

What happens when business pressure says "we're ok with calling engineers twice a week as long as the roadmap moves"?

"You built it you're on call" is a fragile way to handle problems in more ways than one.

Which isn't to say there shouldn't be shared responsibility. Of course there should. But responsibility without power is toxic. At the very least it increases flight risk - but in practice often has a far wider reaching deleterious effect than just that.
Is-odd (NPM) (500k weekly downloads)
Supposed to be _mocking_ pro-military propaganda. It's a movie about teenagers being convinced to enthusiastically join a fascist government and to commit zenocide thru advertising and sex appeal.
Probably a few hundred years, so yeah, it wouldn't be worth it to the people doing it at all within their lifetime. That's why I was suspecting a far-sighted government or such with enough money to squirrel it away for future use.

The US sorta has a few things like that already--the oil reserve & the stockpile of helium, though I understand the latter is winding down still. Given the importance of those materials to science, I would think that there might be some scientifically-motivated project to protect our access to such things.
This is also a good way to get in trouble with customs.

Source: Have a friend who bought counterfeit items and got held up at customs for it.
No, that's actually the point of the post. That programmers, developers, or what have you are all clumped together. When in reality there are many distinct kinds of programmers with different skills, just like in the world of physical structures.

The term "computer programmer" gets assigned to everyone who makes software. Some programmers invent little like a dry wall worker. All average people could become this kind of programmer.

Other programmers invent with skills out of reach of most common people.
From Coursera Terms and Conditions[1]:

"If you complete a course during the free trial period, Coursera reserves the right to require you to pay for a one-month subscription in order to receive a Course and/or Specialization Certificate."

[1] https://www.coursera.org/about/terms
>Fish tastes like fish because the taste is a categorizing representation of that sensory input.

Yes, but why does the fish taste have the taste it does? Hell, try explaining what fish tastes like, without evoking similar tastes.

>What you can do is today is start with a feature map. We can do that with colors https://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/satfaces_map_1024.png (do you perceive this color as red?) and we can do that with smells https://jameskennedymonash.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/table.... That's a fairly limited representation but words are an incredibly low-bandwidth interface not suitable to exporting this kind of information in high fidelity, so we can't. That does not mean it's conceptually impossible. If you wanted to export subjective experience itself then you'd need the previously mentioned debugging interface. Our brains don't have that built-in, but software does. I.e. a program can dump its entire own state and make it available to others.

But a feature map doesn't tell you anything about how the space itself works. If you look at that smell graph, you'll see that it uses comparisons, because it's literally impossible for us to explain what smelling is like without saying "well, it's similar to smelling x". Someone who is born without smell could memorize that chart, understand everything there is about smelling, but he wouldn't actually know what it's like to smell.

>To me subjective experience seems to be an intermediate representation, deep between inputs and outputs, and due to the various limitations we're bad at communicating it. That doesn't mean there's anything special about it. It is a consequence of compressing inputs into smaller spaces in ways that are useful to that entity.

We're not just bad at communicating it, but we're bad at understanding it, because our conventional means of measuring things doesn't really work for subjectivity. I'm not saying it's "magical", but it's not certain that we even can potentially build tools to interact with it.
That shoe sums up my response to remote controlled roach cameras.
I had received very strong recommendations about the first two Fallout games.
Good catch! Nicely done.

Something similar from 2009 too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=508189

https://web.archive.org/web/20090312000304/http://dornob.com...