skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, but just imagine for a moment that working a job doesn't make you happy. Consider that most employment arrangements aren't all that flexible. You can't just suddenly decide to disappear for two months because you feel like it, whenever you want, and expect there to be a job waiting for you when you get back.

This extends all the way down into little things. Maybe I'd like to go for a walk right now, but I can't because I have a work meeting in 10 minutes.

I doubt there is anyone in the world who can say they are 100% happy with their job 100% of the time. While you might not be 100% happy 100% of the time in retirement, that is something you can control and change. You generally can't change many of the things about a job that make you unhappy.

I just feel like most people are so socially conditioned to believe that working a job is The Correct Way To Live Your Life that they simply can't imagine anything different.

> I want to be able to work whatever job makes me happy without feeling the need to be competing for the highest salary.

Why does it have to be a job? Why can't you just do things that make you happy? Why is it necessary that happiness falls into the narrow range of an employer-employee (or freelancer-client) relationship?
>Accused of what exactly?

Accused of having sex with one of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking victims.

>See, the whole point of Stallman's statements was to clarify what exactly Minsky was being accused of, no more no less.

It's quite plain what Stallman was responding to. Stallman himself even says he sees no reason to disbelieve it. Unfortunately, "I didn't know she was a 17-year-old sex trafficking victim when I raped her" is not much of a defense, to me, ethically. Stallman imagines a situation in which Minsky was duped into having sex with this person without knowing her situation or her age. Why does Minsky get the benefit of the doubt here? This is not a court of law, and he was not a stupid man, to say the least. He even organized an academic symposium on Little St. James with Epstein in 2011, after he was already registered as a sex offender.
Meat is older than democracy/politica. I'll have none of that.
> Will you just blanket-restrict all packages to the strictest security measures?

Seems like a reasonable default to me. And indeed, that seems to be more or less exactly what Firejail does if it doesn't have a profile already for an application: https://firejail.wordpress.com/documentation-2/
It's assuming you will be fine with 30K/year over the next 40 years that is not reasonable.
So many things can change or go wrong and you end up needing more than that (exactly what happened here). If this happens relatively early and you are in an in demand job market, then it's not too bad. But if you haven't been working for the last 10 years and you are in a not super in demand market, you are in for a pretty bad time.
There are also absorption heat pumps which use an external heat source (Wood Fired, Propane, LPG, Diesel, Geothermal) to cool or heat alternatively. They are usually only used on RVs for refrigeration. But yeah, grid powered heating in a freezing climate will get uncomfortable pretty often. I've always wanted to be able to cool my house using a bag of charcoal or firewood pile.

There is a really cool video by Tech Ingredients where he builds a solar thermal absorption heat pump to cool his shop. Instead of ammonia absorbed in water he used a solution of calcium chloride to absorb water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_g4nT4a28U&ab_channel=TechI...
Well because if he was taken to court that costs time and money, even if ultimately the lawsuit fails, no?
True, but that is the case by virtue of the underlying investments, not because of the decision to sell OTM covered calls.
“Web-based technologies” doesn’t necessarily mean something like electron. Firefox used the same language and has largely completed their migration away from XUL. You can see details in the roadmap here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ORqed8SW_7fPnPdjfz42RoGf...
> because those usually take around two years

As I said in my parent comment, COVID vaccines appear 'fast tracked' because all the bureaucracy was removed to expedite them.

Every phase of clinical trials have been followed otherwise the MHRA (and the EMA) would not have approved them.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/clinical-trials/

All vaccines have been through phases 1-3.

> skipping tests for long-term side-effect

That would be the standard phase 4 being "The safety, side effects and effectiveness of the medicine continue to be studied while it's being used in practice." "Only carried out on medicines that have passed all the previous stages and have been given marketing licences – a licence means the medicine is available on prescription."
Long story but sort of XULRunner . After many days hacking the win32 event loop with assembly to inject a function to fix an event loop bug with gtk gecko.. I realized a bunch of c++ developers already solve most of the UI issues with HTML and CSS... so in about 4 months I reworked a year of work we put into Gtk+ On a custom build of Mozilla for our application... we later sold the company and I wish I still had that code but have really only worked on web apps since
It might help if you could be more specific. It's difficult to offer advice without knowing what kinds of problems you are talking about. Many programming problems are in fact trivial and it's not surprising that an experienced programmer would solve them somewhat automatically. Other problems are either inherently more difficult or just contain a lot of complexity that needs to be worked through and understood.
Your comment made me curious and I checked - it is not the physical channel that matters, it is whether the media is _transient_ or not.

It seems that paying to skywrite (you know, small plane making artificial clouds) could be slander but not libel
Oh! One of my favorite ag articles talked about the challenges of growing oranges in russia!

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/04/fruit-trenches-culti...

You're absolutely right that perhaps not everything should be grown everywhere, but I strongly believe that a country should have a local source of all the calories and vitamins / minerals they need. In Canada, for example, maybe they encourage farmers to grow greens, brocolli or potatoes instead of citrus for vitamin c, but they absolutely need a source.
Bearer bonds aren't outlawed, they're just not explicitly tax exempt anymore.
As a somewhat aside; the author points to something about finding therapy that I think most people don't understand which is: you need to find a therapist you connect with and usually you have to see a few before you will find one. It's not like you're finding a life partner, by any means. Just someone who you feel like you can make a connection with, who understands what you're going through, and can speak to you in a way that you can understand.

I, for example, found a great therapist on my second try. He helped me tremendously but then happened to decide to retire right around when I felt like I didn't need to see him as much anymore. However, he recommended a colleague who he thought I would do well with who I have seen a couple of times since and it has worked out very well.
That's been fairly common for decades, some are genuinely looking for a specific neighborhood/house for a client. Some are looking for a deal, some are looking to find sellers to represent. You'll also see realtors blanket mail recent sales in the area, implying that it is a good market and what you might be able to get. Some of the tactics get very greedy/nasty, especially when someone, who was an owner of desirable property, passes.
> my schadenfreude will be unermesslich

My new favorite set of words.
IDK why do they downvote you; the issues with logographic languages are evident. With Spanish for example, you have a very regular spelling plus far fewer symbols. You can guess the spelling of the word by just reading it, and the opposite it's true. You may transpose a b/v, or omit an h, but that's it.
This is one reason I still do manual backups as well as automated backups. The manual backup is to HDDs that sit on a shelf, offline, unplugged.
The more interesting part of the whole post was this last line:

"More rejections to come!"

That's the spirit! Never give up :)
Or the server only accepts modern ciphers or TLS.

I took a deep dive into this after I was unable to access my blog on my iOS 6 device. I concluded that I don't really need a ssllab's A. It is much more likely someone will try visiting my blog with a older device than someone will MITM one of the visitors.

https://blog.nyman.re/2021/02/07/usability-security.html
I don't blame my users for my bugs.
No, he says he has 20% more after adjusting for inflation. He has gained 20% in real dollar value. Even if that's only ~3% per year, that's fantastic on no (traditional) income, after accounting for expenses.

Regardless, even if he was break-even or negative, that might be ok; most people don't expect their retirement savings to last forever, just until they die.
The EU signed contract with AstraZeneca 1 day before the UK did, claims https://twitter.com/DaveKeating/status/1372897637469458432

There's no export restriction, it's more subtle.

UK has funded Oxford vaccine development on condition that UK gets preference for doses produced in UK (if not elsewhere too).

This has exactly the same practical effect as an export ban, but it technically isn't an export ban, hence the recent grandstanding from UK politicians.
I find it quite different to find a meaningful occupation, it may not simply be a choice by those people.
One of the artists that revitalized part of Kansas City had all of his museum and gallery rejection letters as the wallpaper in his restaurant
It's a wonder our own immune systems work as well as they do...
I'd take more seriously Mr. Wolfram's ideas if he pointed out research by others too, not just himself.
It takes more than money to build a factory. Canada started refitting an old GSK factory to make vaccines in May 2020. It'll be ready November 2021.

I'm not sure where your $10M number comes from, Canada is spending CAD170M (USD135M).
nice! i'll check it out!
What about the other way, subtitles.
>our brains have built up warning systems to make us feel fear and unease when we realise we are being tracked

>The reason you feel extremely uneasy when being monitored by a person

I don't though. If someone walked up to me and asked me what my favorite color was and they wrote it down I don't feel any negative feeling.

Even if it was a true thing just because we have a warning system that doesn't mean that something is actually bad. Tracking just gives people more information to allow for better decisions to be made and it can make things more efficient.
I second this. Recently purchased a property, and skipped a buyers agent. That usually lets gets you a 1-3% discount on the price. You can find standard contracts and offer letters for free online.

Or, in today’s market helps get you to the front of the line in a multi-offer situation. Since the sellers agent automatically becomes the buying agent, the listing realtor is highly incentived to push your offer to the seller. In a standard 3/3% commission, even if you negotiate a 2% discount, the listing agent nets 33% higher commission if your offer wins.
Assuming that you’re talking about senior people, who are all employed, I don’t see how this helps. Realistically employee X resigns, and we find a replacement; that replacement is working and needs to resign. Their end dates are still serialized.

We have a bunch of employees in Europe and everyone involved except the very marginal employees sees this situation as strongly negative (and, in fact, an argument to not hire in Europe at all).
Have you seen the Roadmap feature? It may be applicable to your use case.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/roadmap/
I assume the contractual obligations have to be with the subject
Doritos aren't going to get more expensive, because like all the real staple crops, corn is completely mechanized, and you have one guy driving an air-conditioned tractor or combine, following GPS-plotted courses.
I'm not sure if you watched the events unfold that day, but I did via multiple live streams. Your attempt to downplay what occurred rings hollow. In fact the only thing I'd agree with is that the people involved are idiots - they legitimately think the election was stolen, and that it was now or never to take it back.

The organized(but separate - probably not aware of each other) groups that used the crowd as a cover had every intention of taking hostages at a minimum. One can make an educated guess from the mountains of evidence collected from their cesspools online and from chatter amongst the participants themselves during the riot that they intended to go even farther than that.

I'm not sure how the beating of officers with fire extinguishers(which did occur and is documented in photos & videos) became connected to Sicknick's death. Noting the initial reporting was wrong is not the gotcha or rebuttal you think it is.
It is a little condescending, but I think it serves the purpose of illustrating the divide the author feels between himself and his peers. It's hard to relate when one side sees work as time spent purely for money, and another sees work as a source of satisfaction.
If you as a government make it hard enough to seek rent as a landlord, can you increase ownership proportions?
This seems to follow a theme I've observed lately around the underlying laws of physics and the quantum nature of consciousness, here's some research that's more on the theoretical side: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26505858
The bytes are assumed to be utf8 (I was using the safer `from_utf8` prior to confirming the data was utf8).

I brought in `twoway` when I couldn't find a way to `rfind` using `aho-corasick`. I'll switch the use over for consistency.

Thanks for the quick code review!

PS: Thanks for ripgrep too!
I regret that I never worked as a waiter in a cafe, and now it looks as if I can't afford it anymore. Or if I could afford it, I would be taking away the job from people who have a more urgent need for it than me.
I'm not sure that I would call the number of Pfitzer/BioNTech vaccines exported to young people in Israel fair so that they can party, while my parents inside the EU are waiting locked in for half a year now because they are scared of dying (and some of their friends already dead from COVID :( )
Wolfram Alpha is pretty good and is more powerful than Google Calculator, but I’ve found Google Calculator to be more responsive and consistent and thus a bit easier for regular usage.
Export? USA and UK bought those vaccines a year ago from Pfizer, Moderna, J&J and AstraZeneca. Warp Speed, USA gambled and the world is better because of it.

They are contracts and dates on which x million doses are to be delivered by. Why didn't EU do the same? Crying now it's too late and a trade war can go both ways. Say, no vaccine would be produced unless a certain item that is produced in USA goes to a Belgium factory.
I'm not sure this is true...

most tech channels had zero background with that. I mean linus tech tipps (one of the biggest), started to make youtube videos with limited resources and basically was asked by his old company to help out, without prior knowledge.

most gaming related channels were not done with prior backgrounds.
also a lot of early youtubers had no prior background.
I abo'd tons of german channels who make a living with it, which didn't do anything media related before youtube (some of course did to a certain (small) degree, like jp-performance)

youtube is just so big that there a tons of people with tons of background. of course the most successful people are those who know how to sell.
Wait, are we talking here about the state or organized crime?
Three ways to print booleans as 'True' or 'False' in C++
Also, you can set up custom search prefixes for more obscure sites you visit regularly using Firefox (potentially Chrome too).
Amazon Illegally Interrogated Worker Who Led First Covid-19 Strikes, NLRB Says
OP addresses this. He points out that when he retired, one of his fears was that his nest egg was propped up by market mania. But since then his nest egg has increased. Sure, you can say it might have worked out differently in different time periods, but that's not necessarily a problem. The point of making these models before retiring is to also take into account the pessimistic conditions, and it appears he did so, and judged it all still possible.
I think criticism of open source projects is valid, so I'm in no way saying we shouldn't, but it's so frustrating to see people just crapping on a project for not doing things the way the person wants. I can't remember where this quote is from, or who said it, but it gos along the lines of

As a critic, I'm in the privileged position of being able
to critique someone's lifes work

And I think that sentiment could be felt more often. It's so easy to be on the outside looking in and critique everything that is wrong with something. But making things is hard, and trying to fix things that weren't necessarily a priority during a projects inceptions is even harder. I just wish more people would support each other when they share their projects to the world
Isn't that a direct outcome of the reversibility aspect? [0] Technically it has 2 of everything.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/US...
I tend to agree with you and had a similar experience. I found a lot to love about Go, but also found things which were just hard to fathom or reason about. For example, ask a Go programmer, given an interface, how you are supposed to find all implementations of that interface. As of a few months ago, there just wasn't a good answer for this, although supposedly you could get there with gopls if you knew how.
> finalization, thread safety (the memory model, sync points or other happens-before relationships), goroutine memory/stack usage, anything to do with go modules

I dont think it affects your point but those are implementation details rather than features of the language itself. Obviously it's still important to understand the language implementation so you can make reasonable guesses about performance etc. when you're programming.
> it was his awkward wording in the defense of Minsky that was the source of this.

It was not the source. It was the catalyst - there was a media firestorm that precipitated the action, but the free software movement had been deeply unhappy with him for years.

Some reading:

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html

https://wingolog.org/archives/2019/10/08/thoughts-on-rms-and...

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/52587.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25193674

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21000374

Refusing to listen to so many GNU contributors and former FSF board members sends the message that the FSF is more about Richard Stallman as a person than about the free software community / movement.
Amazon copies Peak Design's “Everyday Sling” – This is their response
To add one more critic: A couple minutes into the text, I still didnt read something of substance/consequence.

Lots of hand waiving and describing the usual phenomena in other terms.

I will follow this thread hoping someone points out that good stuff is coming later in the text, but I doubt it.
Absolute chad badassery
If by "read" here we mean "grok" — i.e. to read and understand well-enough to be able to modify without breaking the abstract guarantees the code makes, without documentation — then I would say that the low level of Go's concurrency primitives (relative to other languages modelling the same actor-based architecture, e.g. Erlang) means it takes more effort to "read" production-quality (concurrent, fault-tolerant, no resource-leaks, no data races) Go code relative to production-quality code written in other languages.

Sure, when reading Go, you aren't really encountering new language features; but you're often being forced to recognize things that should be language features, which are instead implemented as design patterns. (And, at that, often with those patterns reified into code by new-ish programmers who don't understand those design-patterns very well, rather than by language maintainers after much careful scrutiny.)

It's like doing OOP in C, and having to mentally parse vtable structs into the object-model they represent — with every project having done its own vtable implementation, all slightly different. Except that OOP is unusual in C, while concurrent infrastructure is near-universal in Go.

When reading Go, I'm essentially mentally "decompiling" it as I go into a higher-level representation within my mental-model. "These 50 lines are a parallel map-reduce; these 200 lines are a read-through cache with per-key synchronization to avoid duplicate work; etc." I'd rather just read that higher-level representation directly!
This is a dangerous plan.

The same logic applies to "Let's make sure that other party chooses the worst possible candidate, thus compeling everyone to vote for the candidate we prefer in the general election."

Or "let's present our boss with two options, the correct one and also an absolutely awful one, thus ensuring that they will select the correct option."
"Public Service Announcement: If you've EVER called your wife your 'partner,' then your bench press is 50% of your wife's boyfriend's weight."
-- @timotheeology
I was 260 and am down to 240, but plateaued. I need to be at 200-210 lean or 240 bulked over 5 years. Doc suspects I have an endocrine syndrome like Cushing's that's messing me up in many respects. My body temperature is also stuck at 97.1 instead of 98.6.
looking over the comments here, people seem to be assuming this is because of googles scraping and presenting of data on the search results page. but knowing my experiences with google search over the past few years, I immediately assumed this was because google search is getting worse and worse every day.

after reading the article, the author doesn't correlate the findings with a cause, so who knows what the real reason for this is. but I know for me at least, it now takes me 3, 4 or 5 searches to find an abstract with something that looks even close. maybe I such at google searches, but after doing hundreds a day for over 12 years, I feel google search just got reaaaal shitty some time in the past few years.

ddg use to not even be close to google in result quality, now, imo, they are on par with each other. and that is largely due to googles decline, ddg only got slightly better.
A Plan for American High Speed Rail
The countries in Western Europe specifically are much much smaller pools in the tech space than anything an American could conceive. The reputational damage of getting to the “fuck it” point and becoming a pain in the ass has a lot more blow back when the pools of both workers and employers are tiny even compared to a second or third tier US geo.
Biden to nominate tech antitrust pioneer Lina Khan for FTC commissioner
Wanting to spend more time doing things such and volunteering or gardening are exactly reasons why someone might pursue early retirement. It sounds like you agree with the concept but are getting distracted by terminology.
You'll still get the source domain name, you just won't be able to see the full path. Of course how useful it is will depend on the source website, if it's "news.ycombinator.com" it won't be too difficult to find the post, if it's "facebook.com" it'll be a tad more complicated.
Did Stallman basically attempt to say Minsky should not be ashamed or ridiculed because Minsky was propositioned by an Epstein victim?
Show HN: Rolodex for HN
We use buyer based tiering to decide which tier a feature will reside in.

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/pricing/#buyer-based-t...
We use them to prevent other websites to hotlink our dynamic map tiles. Not a big protection of course but useful anyway.