skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much all the things I did before but never thought I had enough time for :) With two young kids, a full-time job, a parter I wanted to spend time with, friends I wanted to spend time with, family I wanted to spend time with, solitude, hobbies, learning, exercise, and therapy, 40 hours set aside for work just didn't leave me enough time for things that I didn't want to cut out of my life. I was constantly feeling like I was stealing time from away something that I didn't want to steal time from. And when I was doing things, I felt I was constantly running from one thing to the next.

Now I just do most of the same things, but with a more relaxed pace and with time in between to transition. For instance, if I meet a friend for coffee on a weekday morning I used to have the pressure to rush off to work afterwards. Instead, I can stay at the coffee shop afterwards and enjoy a quiet moment or read a book for a few minutes before moving on to the next thing.

Technology related... I moved from software development to doing building small electronics, learning to soldier components, and 3D printing cases. Currently I'm building a small device out of wood that has a round matrix of LEDs embedded that lights up and tracks satellites as they pass over my house. I have no idea what I'm doing really, but its been fun.

You are thinking about the right problem though–when I was in my twenties I mostly focusing on want to not work, rather than what I was going to do once I wasn't working. It's important to understand what your true goal is so that you can make sure FIRE satisfies it or you can set yourself up for some post-retirement blues.
> We encourage everyone to contribute code to this project

Why though?
So the future is internal combustion powered cars forever?
The worst part is when you eventually make it back, it loses your position on the page. They made this change years ago and it still drives me nuts.
I use my own domain, but now I'm scared I'll miss a payment instead.
What does "overthrow the king" look like when the alternatives are uploading your videos to other sites and getting a handful of views?

It's like the alternative really is "depend on his largesse and submit to his whims beacuse you can't overthrow the king because he is too powerful".

Like it or not YouTube is in an extremely solid position that is unlikely to be shifted by anyone at this point.
Both of which share many crucial characteristics with American housing projects, particularly concentration of poverty.

Meanwhile, in the Austrian example given in the link above, Singaporean home subsidization, and other successful cases what you find are schemes that manage to create and maintain an admixture of incomes. There are different ways[1] to accomplish that and they're not all easy, but it does seem like a necessary requirement for success.

[1] As in the Austrian example, you can remove income requirements after move-in, so that people aren't forced out as they move up the income ladder. Or rather than subsidize rent you can subsidize ownership. By having an ownership stake people are incentivized to maintain the property, and even if they move they'll be replaced by someone with a similar income (or at least an income above the initial ceiling). Unfortunately, many liberals who promote subsidized housing scoff at permitting people to continue to benefit from that initial subsidization after their income has increased. But that resistance is precisely the kind of policy dynamic that concentrates poverty!
> Who gets to decide what speech is allowed?

In the public square? The courts. On a platform? That platform's owners decide. In fact, they have a moral obligation to monitor the speech they allow, because they're helping promulgate it.
Essential Geometric Formulas
Translation: Your entire social group is stonking rich. Which is nice but not really the target audience for the article.
Well, to be honest my last sentence was a bit tongue-in-cheek. I truly do want to know why and how it all works. I'm just not comfortable with the idea that anyone with the know-how to do this can invade my privacy, and there's nothing I can do about it.

And I'm not comfortable with the idea that a skilled enough person can use remote viewing to predict the future with near-100% accuracy. Firstly, it just doesn't seem fair. :) Secondly, it makes me question my own free agency in the world. For example, imagine I remote-view your future 5 years from now. Today you might scoff, thinking it's likely to be bullshit. But imagine that ALL my predictions eventually come true. It would feel like the exact opposite of the butterfly effect... as if the moment I viewed your future, it was "observed" and thus became reality. Every decision that you make (or anyone in your life makes) was, from the moment of my prediction, set in stone. I would like to think that the world doesn't work like that... but strangely enough, that's what I've experienced.
COVID is also much deadlier than usual seasonal flu. It has already killed far more people in the US than a typical flu season, despite having infected far fewer people.
Well it usually has been when I've personally used it.

There is the disdain of not explaining exactly what you are questioning with the implicit assumption you are questioning everything said. It's pretty much a stand-in for "WTF are you on about? I don't even know how to ask a sensible question about what you said." when I've used it.

In this case though? It's a single statement so maybe a bit abrupt but I read it as a request for clarification. A fairly strong statement was made (essentially "don't use this company") with no backup or explanation. So an equal lack of effort was made proportionally in response.
Thanks man! I really appreciate it :-)
If you own a bookstore, you should be able to curate its content at your leisure, which includes but is not limited to removing content that you find objectionable. I don't see how this is a bad outcome, because the alternative -- being forced to carry books on your shelves that you have no power to remove sounds like a much worse outcome.

I, a terrible author, am not entitled to your bookstore's audience.
At the scale we're looking at, it would still be around $2.5T. Actually more, since this process adds an additional inefficiency step.
If that’s your benchmark, EV’s can average about 5MPH slower over very long trips at highway speeds than ICE engines. It’s worse on ultra long trips or if you’re doing 100+MPH trying to break the cannonball run record etc, but that’s frankly illegal anyway.

PS: As an edge case benchmark, a 2018 model 3 has done the New York City to Los Angeles in 45 hours and 16 minutes or 61.5MPH including breaks. I only see that time dropping as EV’s improve.
As a side note, and I’ll create a separate thread: say my host is comprised by super sophisticated malware, aside from a reformat what other sanitisation practices can I do? Can I ever trust the hardware again? I don’t think we’re at a point where a firmware compromised graphics card can’t reinfect the processor?
Like motorcycles?
Number of file handles is irrelevant, all handles for the one file are accessing the same data.
In the US, it's mostly can't. The last attempt caused massive risk to Toshiba as its subsidiary Westinghouse was destroyed by its attempts.

In the UK, at Wylfa, it's more "won't", Hitachi just refused to go forward with a new build, since it couldn't find external investors despite very generous guaranteed pricing for its energy.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-54158091

At least, it appears to be "won't", because who knows if a construction project that was started would ever be finished.

If the new nuclear startups come through, everything has changed. But the new small ones they are designing are not really anything like the nuclear reactors of yore, so we have to wait and see if they pan out on costs. And in the decades they need to come online, storage and solar and wind keep halving in price every few years.

But at the moment, pretend you're Jeff Bezos and want to buy $50B of nuclear reactors, however much that ends up in practice. Who do you go to? Toshiba, Hitachi? No. EDF? Hell no. Maybe South Korea? But they had their recent corruption scandal for inspections of nuclear plants. Rosatom? Feel like getting into bed with Putin? What's left of the industry?
thanks for trying hotpot and also for the earlier advice. canva is an amazing company and $6bn gorilla so rather than compete directly, we're in the short term focused on underserved areas like apps and graphic automation with ML and APIs.

as thanks for the kind feedback, i would love to offer free access to hotpot plus our ML services. what's the best way to do that? there's no contact info in your profile.
I'm really glad you put a lot of focus into automatically tracking the things the user is likely interested in. I tried using Obsidian, but it felt like I was spending more effort remembering to save information and create proper back-links than I was actually retaining any information.

I've recently started working on something similar as an excuse to learn machine learning, but it's still mostly vaporware outside the firefox extension I wrote. I think that by saving some basic metadata (when a page was viewed, what browser was used to view it), and using ML to judge how similar the contents of a page is to another, it should be able to automatically create links between related information. Ideally, it'd be able to handle information outside the browser. For example, if a log file is saved, then a web page is viewed with similar contents to the log file, it would be able to detect that the web page is probably a reference for the log file.

Like I said, it's mostly vaporware, but I think that products like these are going to be the future of collaboration tools.
not all antihistamines

https://www.aarp.org/health/brain-health/info-05-2013/drugs-...
Everyone should live their lives as if tomorrow may never come (after all, it might not!) I know a couple physically healthy, well-off people who would shoot themselves if the economy collapsed tomorrow and they lost everything.
If you find these issues disturbing, help elicit change: https://twitter.com/eckmeister/status/1308916101300977664?s=...
Which his how demons can capture false expectations of humanity.
> It appears to me that the privileged few that saw themselves in the demographic gifted free speech are the the people who are angry their speech is criticized.

Free speech is a civil right, as civil rights have grown in the US it has been extended to those that civil rights have grown to encompass. It's not just the privileged few (or even the privileged majority) that are angry about a loss of this social more.

> but now there are decentralized public means to criticize the powerful.

What you are calling "the powerful" seems to me to mostly be average normal people who just happen to not agree with the current sentiment in vogue. Most of the people who've found themselves on the wrong end of the consequences meted out for attempting to exercise freedom of speech would hardly qualify as "powerful" under any lay definition.

The public square is supposed to belong to everyone, and freedom of speech is the social more that ensures this is the case. We've lost or are beginning to lose this social more, and doing so has disastrous long-term and far-reaching consequences for our society.
No, companies are extremely happy to make huge capital expenses, if they expect to make a good profit on them. For example, California's PG&E is planning to spend a whopping $40B in investment over next 5 years, because California government guarantees 10% annual return on investment.
Yes and I never liked businesses, especially IT ones. Also why I can't find a job for 1.5 years now — can't fathom making someone already rich even richer as opposed to making the world better.

Just imagine how amazing the world would be if the creators of most of the things we use every day weren't obsessed with making more money than what they know what to do with but instead with improving the design of said things to serve the people's needs better.
Mailinabox configures everything in the way gmail likes. Unless you start your vps on a tainted IP address it should be no problem. I send to gmail and outlook emails fine.
I consider myself fairly racist (recent development, ask me if you want to hear my point of view -- I'm sure you don't because you are morally superior and don't need to hear me out, right?) and to be honest, the #1 thing that sways people to my point of view is censorship on private platforms. In real life, I can calmly explain how intelligence is highly heritable, and usually I'll get a sort of "yeah, but we can't treat that as political reality" response. But when I say "I can't even mention that intelligence is highly heritable on Hacker News without getting banned", people are actually sympathetic!

edit: https://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC4739...

> In the context of current concerns about replication in psychological science, we describe 10 findings from behavioral genetic research that have robustly replicated. These are ‘big’ findings, both in terms of effect size and potential impact on psychological science, such as linearly increasing heritability of intelligence from infancy (20%) through adulthood (60%). Four of our top-10 findings involve the environment, discoveries that could only have been found using genetically sensitive research designs. We also consider reasons specific to behavioral genetics that might explain why these findings replicate
Yep, I blacklisted them as well and exclusively use Azure. It’s great and I know Microsoft makes its revenue on people like me, rather than on ad networks.
There is nothing unreasonable about choosing alternatives for any of those.
Read about the Hyundai Nexo and Honda Clarity. Far more companies are pursuing hydrogen than you think.
I know for a fact some states have protections for this very situation. But I only know of one for sure.
Exactly this reason I avoided firebase at all costs. There is quite a few services now that I wouldnt have minded paying google considerable sums of money for, if it weren't for their long history of this kind of nonsense.

Its reached the point now this is just expected behaviour, and I feel sorry for anyone that has invested considerable effort into any of googles platforms.
Awesome that we came up with similar ideas!

So right now, the Chrome Extension tracks all link clicks as well so the visualisation actually builds relationships between articles/ blogs/ anything else you read on the internet.

I also had another idea that once we build our Knowledge Maps, we should be able to compare and share it will one another.

For instance, I'd love to see what our software engineers around my age/ experience are reading and the insights they are drawing from articles.

Obviously some sort of security/ privacy mechanism will need to be implemented as well.
I think if I was in your father's situation I would just go out and take my chances. At the age when I have to live in an eldercare facility I'll already be at a constant high risk of death from other causes. What's the point of avoiding the flu if it means I'm stuck in solitary confinement where a stroke might kill me tomorrow?
Major issue at Twitter caused mass account suspension and follower deletes
well, I guess electric motorcycles are the way to go :/

more energy efficient across the board than any car.
Nice. I think they have a way to make recommendations, I'll try and figure out how and send that one in for you.
> Also why I can't find a job for 1.5 years now — can't fathom making someone already rich even richer as opposed to making the world better.

Have you considered working for your government or a non-profit?
Interesting how a simple complaint of "this video platform is promoting Nazis" is immediately escalated to "But it's not illegal speech!"
> 10% slowdown in return for memory safety could be a worthwhile tradeoff in some cases. And GC pauses were almost not an issue (less than 1ms in the worst measured).

Implementing Nim's bounded time GC could cut that overhead down and defer work for idle periods. That should be first priority when implementing an OS in managed code.
I'm actually the opposite. When I'm reading something difficult, such as a paper, and I'm having trouble with an information dense paragraph, I read it aloud slowly and with emphasis on the most important words to be able to peel it apart.

I go back and re-read it many times, changing my speaking pattern.

Maybe it's not universal?
Username strangely appropriate
What's so insane about this is that it's the Internet... you can literally just go spend an afternoon and create a new forum using some off the shelf forum software and a hosting service.

Platform owners making a decision to allow hate speech are letting hate speakers use an audience that the platform owner painstakingly helped build. That's just either idiocy, or being complicit.
This is not true.

Even today, where we haven't done all that much with electric efficiency, US power generation has been virtually flat for over a decade since the last recession: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=38572

Considering how much low-hanging efficiency fruit there is still lying around, reducing demand is a perfectly valid strategy for reducing carbon emissions.
What happened to Sendgrid Support? Support emails going unanswered for days now
I believe it's because the Japanese word for English is "Eigo", starting with an E. The iOS app's name is 「英語の瞬間翻訳トレーニング - Lala」 (Lala - Instant translation training for English), with "Eigo" as the first word.
This was fixed quite some time ago, there's now a Discussion tab/link on the mobile version.
> As I understand it, the production of complex hydrocarbons that can be used as a replacement for jet fuel is even more inefficient when compared to the production of hydrogen, as many of the known processes that start from CO2 actually use hydrogen in the process.

Sure.

Here's the thing though: we can efficiently store those complex hydrocarbons. We can't efficiently store hydrogen. It destroys containers, and can escape any container we have devised(unless in liquid form?)

Many of the proponents of electrolysis claim that renewables will make energy a non-factor(or they'll propose nuclear power, etc). If that's the case, then add another step to capture CO2 as well.

> Finally, hydrogen has a great energy / kg ratio

Yes but energy per unit of volume is terrible.
I guess it's a mixture of terminology. I view control as control no matter what level it's happening at. The state preventing a local government from controlling is not adding more control, it's reducing it.
What is this actually? FaaS for java via k8s?

Read the landing page, still no clue...
Does this apply to motorcycles/motortrikes? It seems to use the term "passenger vehicle" which is a bit ambiguous.
I have as well. In no world is dealing with chain control in your 2WD sedan working "just as well" as an AWD SUV.

This also doesn't account for towing capacity. Most sedans are not suitable for towing a boat, for example.

I assume the ban would exempt commercial operations, but something to bring up as well.

Focus on electric vehicles, not bans on trucks and SUVs.
Same. I have been using it for a year now (I know, I'm a Late Adopter) and it's been completely smooth. No complaints.
He has Patreon, PayPal donate links, and (I can imagine) ad-revenue from YouTube. The content is offered for free otherwise.
[rust intensifies]
Disclaimer: I have extensive knowledge about YouTube Content ID (CID) and DMCA notices, but I'm not a lawyer. This isn't legal advice.

He received a DMCA takedown, which is different from a copyright claim. Copyright claiming is a system made by YouTube for copyright owners to easily monetize/monitor reuse of their content instead of having to take down the content. It also allows splitting revenue in cases where one party owns copyright in specific territories. When you put content in CID, it will automatically claim videos and provide timestamps to the uploader. Sometimes CID fails to claim a video, and the copyright owner can then manually claim a video. There was a time where copyright owners didn't have to provide timestamps when they manually claimed a video. Nowadays, all manual claims need to provide a timestamp. Only highly trusted companies have access to CID, and getting a claim doesn't result in termination of your account.

The DMCA is a law that makes it easier to remove copyright content from the internet. It also makes it so that a service provider isn't responsible for the content they host. It is basically a legal action to take down content you own from the internet without having to start a lawsuit.

It works like this: when a copyright owner sends a DMCA takedown, the service provider needs to take down the content. If the uploader disagrees, they can send a counter notification. Unless the copyright owner that filed the takedown files a lawsuit within 14 days, the service provider needs to reinstate the content. You can be sued for damages in case of an incorrect DMCA takedown.

If YouTube would reject a DMCA, it would make YouTube responsible.
On Wikipedia, the content section headers. More generally, expandable sections of a page that default to being collapsed.
Software complexity -- has bitten me too.

e.g. it's amazing, I think, how things that seem like unimportant details sometimes can turn out to be 10 maybe 100 x more work than first thought
Totally agree.

We can't make everyone happy and keep the world habitable for life as we know it.

The time to make tough decisions was yesterday at least this is better than tomorrow.
> My parents grew up in the Soviet Union and received a fairly large nest egg when my grandparents passed.

Wait, there was inheritance in the Soviet Union? How did that work? Genuinely curious.
Because it's not an issue anymore. It's only a problem with certain types of metal alloys, which can be averted using different alloys, plastic linings, and using carbon fiber where possible.
> It's becoming affordable and "as safe" to store hydrogen at fuel densities similar to that of petroleum based fuels.

Have we solved hydrogen embrittlement issues? What about hydrogen leaking out of containers?
Anything MTHFR-related has become a minefield of bad science on the internet. The amount of misinformation around the MTHFR gene is staggering, not to mention the droves of websites trying to sell various supplements and ebooks to people who are concerned about their MTHFR gene mutations.

> Having said that: people w/ MTHFR mutations are cautioned against nitrous during general anesthesia:

That's not exactly what those studies are saying. The latter is a single case report of an isolated incident which the authors hypothesized to be related to her rare homozygous MTHFR mutation. The former paper cites the latter paper as one of only two references.

Needless to say, the evidence is quite weak. Moreover, the first paper recommends alternative methods that have their own downsides.

It's remarkable that people are so quick to assume entire professions have overlooked something so obvious as the MTHFR mutation based on a pair of linked papers. In fact, the latter paper even goes so far as to say they are not advocating for removal of nitrous oxide nor for preemptive screening for the MTHFR mutation.
It's more important to preserve the infrastructure rather than actually maintaining organic manned spaceflight capability. If we have all the infrastructure intact then the capability can be spun back up in a few years just by increasing funding. But once the industrial base disappears then it's effectively gone forever.
CMake is used by LLVM, and I wish it would use something with a better syntax.
Porkbun and NameSilo for me.
Maybe Magic Leap should rename itself to Utopia VR.