skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not going to give you another phone number because you seem to already have a few, and I know where you are right now.

Life is a series of experiences, you may wake up one day and look back, saying "thank you" to yourself for not ending it then. It's important to know how to "travel through time" and realize that life is combination of good and bad. We need both good and bad in order to be able to perceive good. Also, there is some truth to saying "suicide is a crime against future self".

Prison is a stupid idea, will ruin possibilities in the future, you never want your past to drag you down. But traveling or becoming a monk is definitely a better solution, more interesting than being stuck in one place with a bunch of dudes (I'm assuming you're male). The kind of people who end up in jail is usually naturally not high IQ. If you're using HN, it's very likely you are not going to fit in there, feel even more lonely at very least.

Life is an adventure, it always ends for everybody no matter if you want that or not. Paradoxically, it's one of the reasons to enjoy it.

Being depressed is a symptom, not a cause. I always view it as a good thing. When I get depressed I start changing things in my life, big time. Depression is a result of one's life being a nightmare, and I rather be aware of that than not. Do you know of those people who don't feel any pain? It sounds cool at first, but they burn themselves all the time and cannot feel symptoms of developing diseases (e.g. abdominal pains). So it's good to be depressed, that way you know your life sucks.

I remember when I wanted my life to end, I had no money to eat food, nobody to talk to, no prospects in life. Instead of looking for help and losing the rest of respect I had for myself or going to a shelter, I ended up being homeless. I can tell you that I never felt happier and freer in my life than during that time. Quickly I managed to find a job and slept in the office for 7 months. While being homeless I showered at the gym; that made me work out every morning, sometimes twice a day. I truly felt alive, my life was my own. I looked back at my life a year ago and it really occurred to me how unhappy "normal" lifestyle is, and how shitty people generally are. I promised to build my life around what makes me happpy, not around other people or what's considered "normal" or "good".

Watch Into the Wild, the story of that person inspired me a lot.

Will leave you with two quotes:

"Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that."

"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes."

(That second one I always assumed to be corny and stupid, until learned how much negative impact idiots can make on you in life if you don't cut them off quickly).
I read your comment as "more and smaller scale accidents"

Hopefully fewer accidents as well! Small reactors do tend to have better passive safety...
Well... In the end, you probably do want to back things up in a way that detaches the photos from iCloud sync issues.

The best solution I have found is to use Photos on the Mac to pull down all of your photos and then the osxphotos python project to export them with full metadata and tagging to the directory of your choice which you back up using other means.
Newer aircraft aren't available with a gravel kit so they sometimes stick to older models.

http://www.b737.org.uk/unpavedstripkit.htm
Kindle app on phone is decent. Better than Instagram.
> stronger with customization of the end user experience

I might say "a different approach" :) I appreciate SuperToken's SPA first stance, but FusionAuth is pretty darn customizable too: https://fusionauth.io/docs/v1/tech/themes/
Most large e-commerce sites including Etsy aren't bakers. They use recommendation engines, personalized site experiences, email marketing campaigns, discount coupons for repeat purchases, dark patterns, offsite re-targeting ads and so on to get you to buy and buy repeatedly.

edit: And the ever fun one of free shipping with a minimum order of X, great way to make you think you're getting a deal by giving them more money.
> I also recommend reaching out to a therapist!

I think that folks who live in a healthcare-wealthy region or are healthcare-wealthy themselves don't understand that a sizable chunk of Americans have neither mental healthcare nor the resources to fund prolonged therapy out of pocket.

And free practical, usable, community mental health does exist - but - again, mostly in healthcare-wealthy regions. In most US counties, residents tend to lack access to reliable public mental healthcare.
The third of those. This isn't a technical problem, it's a "greedy maw of the surveillance economy" problem.
It took a really long time for us to realize that. Doctors used to push cigs.
First real job and all I had was Foxbase Pro, Turbo C 2.01, and a PostScript printer. It made for some interesting programing and data display.
A lot of people misunderstand it, but what agile says is basically that "you should talk to each other more often" and "you should make smaller steps". So it's a YES from me.

If you never seen this, you should read this ASAP: https://agilemanifesto.org/

Because that's all there is to know about Agile. Obviously it takes a bit more time to really grasp how can you translate that to lines of code or building a deployment pipeline or shipping features, but if you understand these couple of lines, you already know enough about agile development.
Missing some critical features for me:

* backup/restore

* Non-web distribution, so I can be assured that the website operator can't be coerced into adding js that leaks my info

* TOTP generation
Those things all have much more redundancy than comms. The US has three mobile internet providers (there's also MVNO's, but they use the same physical infrastructure as the big three), and any given home will usually only have access to two or three landline ISP's in terms of infra (e.g. cable, DSL, fiber).

In contrast, food can be shipped in to a city from innumerable farms, ditto for clothing. Home construction, there's lot of different home builders around, it's not a natural monopoly like communication.

For food production, I don't really have to trust any particular two or three farming companies -- if they fuck up, food can be shipped in from elsewhere. Whereas if my local ISP's are exploitative or simply incompetent, what's my recourse?
Yeah it might be true, but it's extremely counterproductive to point this out when you're trying to convince someone of something. People like to feel like they have agency, even if it's mostly an illusion.
No one has monopoly control of the infrastructure in those industries. Anyone can buy and farm land, textile plants, etc. Its not possible to simply lay more conduit and compete.
Apps and websites often don’t honor their own configuration choices. They use loose definitions to slide in advertisements or other unwanted information. They do not give you the granularity to decide what types of information you actually want. They also change them after you’ve taken the time to get it sort of working for you.

You’re not going to give people agency by having them press a button provided by someone else. The button doesn’t really do anything. “Cold turkey” is really the only solution to these mind games.
>Maybe this would leed us to conclude (proto-)consciousness is pervasively embedded at the most fundamental level of nature. I think it must be.

Why? You've presented no argument! This is just a declaration of faith!

>So why wouldn't a rock be conscious?

Indeed why not, but then again why would it be? This position is called panpsychism. It is hardly new, and hardly specific to QM. If you want to posit consciousness as a fundamental natural force, we need to be able to predict and measure it in all things, including rocks.

>Maybe because its composition and arrangement of atoms doesn't allow it to be a facilitator to quantum information processing like neurons.

Perhaps. Or perhaps a rock doesn't integrate information as much as a brain? That's what Giulio Tononi thinks [0], and at least his panpsychic theory has managed to collect some evidence (n.b. it suffers from exactly the same problem as QM with respect to mechanism).

Even if we buy the panpsychic argument (after all, why not!), you have made no argument for quantum mechanics as opposed to information-integration, or indeed anything else! None! Zero! Panpsychism does not imply quantum mechanics!

>In any case, i haven't and can't answer your question, sorry.

I appreciate the concession, but I'm afraid I must now insist upon a subsequent one. You must concede that your only reason for thinking QM is involved is because you don't see a reason why it wouldn't be. That's a bad reason.

>I actually consider this the most likely possibility, yes.

That contradicts your insistence of QM as the likely candidate for phenomenological consciousness. Either you think that assertion has merit, or you think it doesn't. Which is it?

>Already mentioned in my original post.

Yes, I was asking for things I might not already be familiar with. Am I to conclude that this theory hasn't made any progress in 15 years?

[0] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.34...
Nope. Investment has dried up in nuclear exactly because the ROI is garbage compared to the trend lines in renewables + storage + gas turbine plants. A lot of posters here have a sort of smugness about being fans of nuclear power, blaming it's decline purely on "irrational" fears. They blithely ignore that even in authoritarian states where there's no meaningful political opposition to nuclear projects, we see the same declining interest. It just takes too much capital too long vs alternatives now. Absent a global carbon tariff nuclear will likely never again be competitive with gas supplementing renewables.
The reason that the safe functions take length parameters is that they produce a new object in uninitialized memory, a pointer to which is specified by the caller.

It has nothing to do with null termination.

And that uninitialized memory is not self-describing in any way in the C language. Which is that way in machine language also.

This is a problem you have to bootstrap yourself somehow if you are to have any higher level language.

The machine just gives you a way to carve out blocks of memory that don't know their own type or size. C doesn't improve on that, but it is not the root cause of the situation. Without C, you still have to somehow go from that chaos to order.

Copying two null terminated strings into an existing null-terminated string can be perfectly safe without any size parameters.

void replace_str(char *dest_str, const char *src_left, const char *src_right);

If dest_str is a string of 17 characters, we know we have 18 bytes in which to catenate src_left and src_right.

This is not very useful though.

Now what might be a bit more useful would be if dest_str had two sizes: the length of string currently stored in it, and the size of the underlying storage. This particular operation would ignore the former, and use the latter. It could replace a string of three characters with a 27 character one.
I meant that that's the only reason for the strings to say "Rosetta is no longer available in this region".
At one time the NSA did that. The way it worked at one point in the 1980s is that a vendor could submit an OS for evaluation. NSA employees would test it, and if they could break in, they'd tell the vendor how they got in. The vendor got a chance to resubmit the system. One chance. If it failed on round 2, it was rejected.

Vendors hated it. I've seen a vendor group document asking NSA not to publicly certify systems at the highest levels because it make them look bad. They got DoD to go for a system where the testing was outsourced to private labs, and you could keep going back for a retest over and over again until you "passed".

Amusingly, computer security in those days wasn't a high priority at NSA for a bureaucratic reason. Computer security was at FANX, not NSA HQ at Fort Meade. FANX is the "Friendship Annex", a few miles from NSA HQ, near what used to be called Friendship Airport and is now BWI. FANX had all the minor functions of NSA - personnel, procurement, training, etc., and was considered a dumping ground for losers. Putting computer security out there doomed it.

What really killed security is that from 1940 to 1980, DoD was the major consumer of advanced computer and electronics technology. By 1990, the commercial sector was dominant.

Here are the early security standards books.[1]

[1] https://i.ibb.co/CJTTzDL/ivorytowerspeedtest.png
If I understand this correctly, we are long overdue for this change, since it was reported way back in October 2019 [0] that wages, despite low unemployment, hadn't increased.

I suspect that politicians have been hesitant to poke the bear on unemployment numbers since the top-line has been so low that they could claim victory, but we are now reaching a point where the signals are so far divorced from the reality that they have no choice but to integrate something else to bring it more in line.

[0]https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/07/that-50-year-low-in-unemploy...
I have one Flutter web app in production, and for predictability's sake it is set to only use the web renderer (DOM), not canvas. O have not noticed any issues so far and it's fairly fast on even slow Androids.
It's not great if you're working on a new release and you realize you also need to change something unrelated because the language changed under you, especially if it's just a bugfix but a high-priority one, or consider the head-aches caused by source-only distributions suddenly breaking for all your new users (or existing users switching to a new computer or spinning up a fresh VM).
These are great, and I’m glad to be able to use them without direct contact with “Big Tech” and the tracking bloat that entails, but as I understand it DuckDuckGo is more or less a glorified — albeit relatively glorious and pleasant — proxy to Big Tech’s Bing (well, more, not less, because it does add some great conveniences like the IIUC formerly open source Instant Answers¹ and !bangs, and some fraction of results from its own crawler, and likely some from Yandex. But still, the largest fraction of its core service seems dependent on Bing. Not that that’s its fault or there are attractive alternatives).

1: (Edit) https://duckduckhack.com/
In Canada it was introduced as part of the Employment Insurance system. I think that’s a good way to look at it and spread the costs across the workforce. It doesn’t replace your full wages (I think it’s 55%, though some employers top it up with private insurance), but the parents basically get a year of wage support to divide between the two of them. Your employer also has to hire you back.
I understand your gripe but in a business setting you need some estimate of cost, even if it's on the order of hours, days, weeks etc. In my experience it's often cheaper to just get stuck in rather than trying to accurately predict the effort, since a single developer prototyping some solution for 10 hours goes further than 10 developers in a meeting for an hour. I'd say call a spade a spade, and put time estimates on these tasks, and admit that velocity is a measure of your bias (if you correctly estimate it will always be 1).

What really gets me about story points are the Agile folks who say "story points are a measure of complexity not effort/time". As if adding more complexity in the same amount of time were a good thing...
A tangential point about the horrifying power of euphemism: I've done some consulting work with some large biopharmaceutical companies in the past and found myself consistently shocked at how effective euphemism was at making people comfortable talking about, and doing, very questionable things. E.g. "Maximizing treatment" = "extend how long a patient requires our medication". This was at a senior level and these were, on the face of it, warm, caring people having a very comfortable and open conversation. I had always assumed decisions that directly disadvantaged the consumer would look different, with some sense of secrecy or at least awareness. Nope, one level of language abstraction is apparently all it takes.

There are countless other examples out there. I just finished "Cruel Britannia" regarding the torture practices of the British over the last century. They were particularly adept at it. Euphemism is such a powerful tool for doublethink and systemic abuses of power.
I'm pretty sure Github does this when navigating from page to page. Makes sense—The browser has no way of knowing the progress of the HTTP request.

It seems to me that most progress bars are lies.
> States in the US tend to be very careful about not allowing duplication of names so this is enough for the most part.

True, although if you include unincorporated towns, there are a lot of naming conflicts, at least in my home state of Indiana.

Marion, for example, is the name of a small city an hour from Marion County, the central county that encompasses Indianapolis, and also the name of a small unincorporated community an hour in a different direction.

Plus Marian University is in Marion County, not Marion the city, although unlike Harvard, MA vs Harvard University, I doubt that causes much confusion.
Tips for Beginners to Open Source
Yeah, the first time we coded a scroller shooting game with my friend (at school), we were baffled that our terminal-based scroller lagged more than the raycaster we did two weeks prior. Was it a C vs C++ thing?

Turns out, creating then destroying every single missile/enemy was extremely costly
I think when Agile is finally replaced by something else it will be because of:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation

Nothing in Agile has actually overcome the problems of horizontally scaling a team, and things like this stand in the way of scaling one vertically.

Scaling developers vertically requires having support tools, processes, and people to get past the things that trip them up and back to forward progress. They don't have to be big tools, or big processes. In fact it's much more important that they be reliable than that they have huge feature sets.

But Agile without tools and processes? Show me anyone who is pulling that off, and I'll show you someone who has mislabeled a bunch of things as 'not-tool' and 'not-process'.
I'm headed out to plow right now. Probably will have to again in the morning.
I am not even understand the purpose of manager in the team.
Can someone give more technical detail on what they are showing with the "neurons"?

They say "Each neuron is represented by a feature visualization with a human-chosen concept labels to help quickly provide a sense of each neuron", and these neurons are selected from the final layer. I don't think I understand this.
What "infrastructure" means needs to be nailed down before this can be discussed.

Internet service is seen as something in the same league as roads, power, water, and other utilities. Things that require public rights of way, extensive digging, cooperations among many jurisdictions or land owners, and special rules to make it all possible.

Clothing, food, and construction are all businesses that don't require that level of centralized coordination. Anyone can open their own bakery, or buy a farm. Anyone can set up sewing machines and purchase fabric, or get a contractors' license and start nailing sticks of wood together. Government still sets standards, of course. But these businesses don't have inherent monopolies the same way infrastructure businesses do.
I'm not trying to be aggressive here (specially since I'm WAY out of my lane when it comes to networking), but what's wrong with PON?
I know that this belief/attitude isn’t just an HN problem but it’s frustratingly common here. It’s truly the worst part of HN imo.
Isn't this like, socialism? Everyone gets paid the same regardless of what they bring to the table? Like union jobs.
Ford Mustangis eating into Tesla's US sales
I don't like the title of this. As it goes on to state that while their share of the market is down 12% the overall market is up 34%, so the overall sales for them should be increasing.
Good, I'm skeptical of country-wide sanctions as the more I learn about them the more it seems they hurt the civilians more than they push the leaders but I'm all for anything target directly at their military (the people responsible for the coup). The history of Burma/Myanmar and the reason for why the military staged a coup is very sad, I know the elected leader had/has her own problems but this was clearly a move to take back power when they saw it slipping through their grasp after the last election (and the fact their current military is facing a term/age limit). Prior to the coup the military has a special provision that gave them 25% of the seats in their cabinet/parliament which gave them a pretty decent hold but with the most recent elections they could have been overruled.
I agree, but mainly because I don’t know how much more valuable targeted ads based on past actions are than current site/intent.

Say, for example, an payday lender buys a banner on example.com/r/povertyfinance – could that not be construed as predatory in the same way as building a poverty FLoC based on browsing history?
I don’t to have the focus to answer all of you but you are really helping. HN is a great community. Thanks a lot
Frameworks just dont give af cause framework authors are out here busy trying to monopolize ALL THE STARS (dev mindshare, basically).

Just look at Hooks and React.

How many posts have we seen where people demonstrate the authors could've done something different, without buggering with what the meaning of a call site in a React component is, or even accomodated hooks in the Class API, but React devs can get away with this cause they don't need to prove coherent technical benefits, they just need to make it look like "the next big thing".

Numerous frameworks solve the problem of cross-cutting state concerns targeted at distinct sub-trees in the your UI (see mobx/freactal/etc).

The componentDidMount/componentDidUpdate simplification is nice, but could've been accomodated in the Class API.

Other reasons like "readability" or some shit, I honestly don't give af cause these are subjective statements that aren't at all neccesarily related to a solution's quality per project
Words and phrases to cut from your VC pitch deck
Personally I think getting 100Mbps defined as broadband upload is a little too harsh. Especially when US infrastructure are so far behind.

DOCSIS 4.0 was ( finally ) finalised last year. And could be pushed for upgrading. But that is just the last mile, Cable companies will still have to ensure fibre roll out. Look at UK. They had a half decent infrastructure with DSL and could have pushed G.Fast, instead they just bite the bullet and pushed FTTP to maximum.
You can try to rent a room on a shared house, student style. There will still be other people in the same house, but the change might be good.

You can try to live in a car/van, arrive to work earlier to use the facilities, use some coffeehouse wifi, etc... This is a bit of an adventure. It will also help to show your parents your commitment and level of distress.

Normaly job change helps. Sometimes you are to tied with the work issues it is just best to leave.
In a new job there will be lower expectations, because you're starting, so it will feel good. And after it will give you a new perspective in life. And learn something new. Also you can possibly take a month off in between.

You can also try a career change, there are several no experience required, that are very good to take life slower a day at the time.

Also life is messy, with a lot of pressure and unrealistic expectations. And a lot of people, apparently living happy, are in a similar situation or worse. Maybe try to talk more with people around you, to get some more perspective. Even just talking somehow helps to reduce stress of situations.