skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment reminded me of this depressing article[0]. IIRC Pushpinder Singh, a very smart MIT fellow, committed suicide because of perpetual back pain after moving furniture incorrectly. I remember it because it is hard for me to imagine someone with so much potential being haunted with pain after moving furniture with friends for an hour.

I am ashamed I cannot get my parents to hire moving people - it is such an easy trick to say you can move something and not be wary. Imagine a loved one being miserable for the rest of their lives for wanting to move a couch a bit; it is just so depressingly avoidable.

To put it in perspective - the back pain industry is at 100+ billion a year in the USA[1] but spending on video games for 2020 was only at 55 billion or so[2].

[0]: https://www.wired.com/2008/01/ff-aimystery/

[1]: https://qz.com/1010259/the-100-billion-per-year-back-pain-in...

[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/15/22233003/us-npd-group-vid...
When my grandfather got to the end I remember the doctors and parents and aunt and uncle talking all about "quality of life." Looking back its clear that was their ultimate measure and how they decided to do what they did (and mostly didn't do).

Sorry, not to downplay what you've said. That sounds pretty terrible. It got me thinking about these things.
Apollo Domain Architecture (1981) [pdf]
Wow such a captivating article I read the whole extremely long thing. There is indeed no authentic hospital poetry.
Tales from Prediction Markets
Yes definitely. It seems to me the hoster does everything that is required of it by law. Child porn is horrible but that doesn't mean the hoster should be responsible of policing the servers.

Law enforcement must go after the person who rented the server. That is the source of the problem. Going after the hoster is nothing but symptom relief.
Unfortunately this is the correct answer and I’m just now realizing it. Basically this means everyone going mostly or entirely vegetarian, restricting air travel, clean transport and energy and reduction of general production of crap (not only because the crap itself produces warming but also the shipping).
I like it. It's part of my kinto app https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto.
These days they seem to run into other ships...[1] so I wouldn’t count on them being prepared, but who knows, maybe the others are even worse prepared.

[1] https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/us-naval-accid...
Sway is quite ahead, but yeah, plasma is the least stable as of yet.
In my opinion his claim was in regards to memory. If you lose sleep you can’t get that memory correctly “written” to your long term storage. And once you miss the timeframe when that memory was relevant you can’t recover it by simply sleeping more. So in effect, your short term memory suffers irrecoverable damage if you skip on sleep. Cognitive function does require adequate sleep and recovers to normal operation.
Oh yeah, should have specified cortex-Ms (though the M7 is also reasonably linuxable).
Are there any songs/tunes available for download in "Jintone" ?
This is a genius fix because in order to enforce your own privacy you must betray the privacy of n+ friends. Awesome.
I'm sorry. That sounds miserable. :(

Like I said - a proof of concept is only a POC if major features and plumbing are just missing.

You only build the parts you need to show the concept is possible. The bits you don't know exactly how to do already.

If it can be pushed to production usefully, it's too full-featured to call a POC, in my view.
But you wouldn’t be as well off as if you had just slept a good nights sleep to begin with.

It’s a highly nonlinear and even chaotic system - a living human being. The idea of “making it up” is a linear concept not entirely fit for the system. You can get back somewhat and you can’t undo everything.
This is a strange hit piece. Ecatel does not seek to serve CP distributors, too much trouble for very little money. The issue is that CP distributors are attracted to Ecatel because they're friendly to other controversial content.

Really law enforcement is to blame for not arresting these CP distributors causing trouble for Ecatel.

Ecatel doesn't protect criminals, I've been the subject of an investigation which involved servers there and they did everything the police asked of them.
The file Austriaia.zip is data about Austria NOT Australia.
I’m not sure I’d agree with defining the scope of things for which an actual shell language is ideal as inherently “shell scripts” (for a few reasons, including the evolving variety of shell languages, the fuzzy boundaries of that set, etc.), I think that it is probably the case that the choice between bash (or powershell or any other shell language) and Python isn’s as simple as “always use Python” and that there is plenty of space for discussion around which tasks each is appropriate for, with the answer differing based on which shell languages you are looking at.
533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data leaked online
I fixed the cut/paste/delete stuff here. https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto
I am all in favor of discussing the problems with both sets of technologies. I personally think both have the potential to move humanity forward, or to be destructive.

I think "downsides exist therefore we must ban" as OP expressed is not a reasonable position. I'd consider it a neo-Luddite stance, but if that word is too strong or has the wrong connotations, then maybe "anti-progress" or tech-restrictionist or something.

Regardless, I still have yet to see why anyone wanting to ban crypto for the states reasons would not accept the same arguments w/r/t ML.

The only reason I assume we haven't seen the same vulnerability exploited for ML is that making decent model architectures is beyond the reach of most script kiddie types.
What is the original JQuery license?
Yea, sorry. I appreciate the feedback. Exactly what Jtsummers said, this is not really a standalone post. I did a bit better motivating the egraph in the first post.
Ending up on life support is the biggest fear of my life and no matter how I talk to this with my mother she is just not of the idea that people can just choose not to stay alive. I truly believe she's the kind of person that will keep me plugged into a machine so long as she can still feel like she's doing something to keep me alive. We never, ever agreed on the dignity of letting go and dying in one's terms... Of course, I dont live with her anymore, not even the same country... but one of greatest mysteries for me will always be what her idea of life is, we're both religious, I just dont see any point in keep pumping air and blood into a dead corpse... I would seem to be someone figured a way to make a load of money on grief, which disgust me to no end.
Culture / group related maybe? I have barely any friends on Facebook with real work details - a lot of them are made up. Especially doctors like to keep their profession (and real names) private.
Money is power. Tax money is (at least in theory) democratically used.
it’s easy to double when numbers are under 5,000. Many ecologists are not as rosy as the indian government about this... 95% of their range is gone at this point and there’s not a lot of genetic diversity; a single disease can wipe out of the population. We’d need nearly 100,000 tigers to have the diversity to avoid this, and we’re not on track for that by a long shot.

https://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/april/tigers-genetic-div...
Am I extreme? I did write kinto.sh https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto
> what makes you think this is a real and big problem?

The average quality of mobile games have plummeted. Most companies have no inventive to make good games when they can legally trick children into gambling.
> Should I vote for the party that thinks bottle recycling will save the world, or the party who thinks recycling is a socialist tax sham sent to oppress us? Those are my two choices.

Where? Because I don’t know of a major party anywhere in the world that matches the first description.
you exited the international flight, went through customs, picked up your luggage, and then if you were continuing on to a domestic flight (which required getting past the secured area to the monorail), then you had to go through security again.

at this point, you could no longer have anything in your checked baggage that could not go through standard TSA security, as you were already inside the secured area. some airlines (Alaska, for instance) allowed you to check your baggage PAST that security area, but you still had to make it past.

since you had already picked up your checked baggage, and no longer could get to any connecting flights without either exiting the airport completely (far away from other flights), or going through security again with your luggage to continue to the monorail, you were pretty much screwed.

editing to add: there were a lot of very unhappy people who had their airline provided or purchased past security water bottles being taken away before they could continue to their domestic flights. I have no clue exactly how far I would have had to walk outside of security to get to the domestic terminal, but my flight was so soon that I would never have chanced it.

double editing to add that I've flown international through other airports and never had that type of experience other than through Seattle.

triple editing to note that even SEATAC seemed to think this was a mess and the new international arrivals terminal is due to open "soon".
Someone please reboot the webring idea, include a search feature and kill google!

Something I'd love: a search engine for personal websites.
The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terrans [pdf]
> That’s only slightly marginally better than randomly trusting any well respected source.

Following someone's work for years is a much stronger signal than just checking their credentials imo.
If I could predict the ones that will get traction on HN, I'd make sure to give them good intros. Oh well.
I love rwasa: https://2ton.com.au/rwasa/ (flat assember (fasm))

> rwasa is our full-featured, high performance, scalable web server designed to compete with the likes of nginx. It has been built from the ground-up with no externel library dependencies entirely in x86_64 assembly language, and is the result of many years' experience with high volume web environments. In addition to all of the common things you'd expect a modern web server to do, we also include assembly language function hooks ready-made to facilitate Rapid Web Application Server (in Assembler) development.

I love the fact that it uses flat assembler! It is worth checking out their other stuff: https://2ton.com.au/Products/

For example https://2ton.com.au/HeavyThing/ supports Curve25519/Ed25519, SHA3/Keccak, SHA512, SHA384, SHA256, SHA160, MD5 HMAC, PBKDF2, scrypt, HMAC_DRBG, and Poly1305. It is quite impressive.
Profiling exists since the beginning of society, and there is a long time it is used as leverage in legal (or illegal) disputes.
I'm so sorry you're going through that. Everyone should take this advice seriously.

My 94yo grandfather passed a few days before Christmas last year and I had been staying next-door, taking care of him for about 2 months leading-up to it (helping him to the bathroom a few times per night, getting him water, etc. Congestive heart failure is not the dignified and pain-free death you might think it would be.)

I found his body maybe 5 minutes after his heart had failed, and it took another 20 for the paramedics to arrive. I was really upset to find that when they arrived, without a DNR on file anywhere, they were required to attempt to resuscitate. I was sitting there with my grandmother hoping that it wouldn't come to that, and luckily common sense prevailed and they were able to get a doctor on the phone to sign-off on avoiding CPR. But for a while there, I was really concerned that my grandmother and I were going to have to watch them desecrate his body which had been lifeless for close to 30 minutes. Horrible.

By default, liability overrules common-sense when it comes to medical treatment, and absolutely everyone loses.
> If this had happened in any "3rd world country" nobody would hesitate to call it corruption

And it's the same for unlimited campaign contributions and lobbying.
The US is also pretty heavy on iMessage usage and FB messenger still dominates WhatsApp.
The way I see it, something doesn’t need to be undeniably “True” to have utility. As humans we don’t actually need to be correct about everything we encounter, just correct enough. A working understanding can be perfectly sufficient because most of us aren’t neuroscientists who study sleep. It’s okay for us to be wrong and society will forget about this book in a short time. Someone will write a more “accurate” book about sleep that’ll get popular. But in the meantime if we start paying more attention to sleep hygiene that’s good enough for me.
Bash-Completion for Vim Command
Cloudflare Durable Objects
I Made a Geiger Counter(2013)
Likely referring to the [JSON license](https://www.json.org/license.html) and not the jQuery license. The JSON license has this problematic (for many businesses) phrase: The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.
Also he wrote a book about it that I love: https://www.amazon.com/Artilect-War-Controversy-Concerning-I...
> Most of modern Japan's neighbourhoods were built after the war

good point. seems a little different in the US since lots of towns were settled after the industrial rev. Japan being an island I would imagine most land was already accounted for.

It might be that instead of constrained by travel, they are constrained by real estate value.
A 94% male cohort is so wildly disproportionate to the actual population of physicians (60% female) that it beggars belief. There are a number of potential confounding factors that could explain this ("natural" death being disproportionately represented and skewing the age of the cohort being, imho, the most likely), but with this skew against the total physician population... best taken with a whole lick of salt.
It's certainly becoming more popular every year. I have friends that do a 50/50 job share, other friends that simply take an extra 2 months unpaid leave every year, and quite a few friends who only work 4 days a week (and get 4/5th pay).

I pitched my boss that I would get all my work done AND it would be good for him because it would help him meet budget AND build resiliency in the team (They have to deal with outages without me - so I created more documentation around that). After lots and lots of back and forth my boss eventually accepted, and I never worked more than 4 days a week again, and most weeks it was only 3 days.

Keep pushing for it, and find a company/boss who is open to the idea. Fire your current one if they're not willing to negotiate.
Works for simple web apps, but for anything complex you are going to run into performance and especially UI issues. (Maybe also being limited to HTTP(S) can be an issue?)
There's a pretty enormous incentive to censor the internet.

As an example, Russia is threatening to ban Twitter completely citing child pornography laws[1]. It's pretty straightforward how a law like this gets abused. I think the question is, do you trust governments enough to give them the power to censor the internet?

[1]: https://apnews.com/article/russia-threaten-block-twitter-726...
That's cool, I tried phonograph (on a 0 word recommendation) and it's basically the exact same UI as odyssey.
It's amazing how simple the skinning shader is.
Interestingly the author is the current CTO of Canonical (Ubuntu).
I've wondered if the software space has been able to get away with "move fast and break things" because liability and regulation haven't caught up with it.

At some point, we started expecting civil and mechanical engineers to stop "moving fast and breaking things." If software engineers were similar licensed and on the hook for signing off on garbage, we'd see a dramatic slowdown of the pace of development, but likely an uptick in quality.

I could imagine it one day even being a bifurcation of the industry. You want to work on cat videos, you can be a non-licensed programmer. You want to work on medical devices or core financial-backbone things? Better be a full-certified Software Engineer.
Well just the body of the rotary cipher would be an awesome start but the whole thing would put me over the moon. You are giving me evil ideas :)

NYC had the KGB museum where they had the Fialka, soviet cipher machine. But the museum shutdown and they auctioned off the contents :(
Fake name, of course.

I deleted my account when Facebook started asking for is verification of my name, that was absolutely unacceptable.
Not really. Access to the content referred to by the NFT happens at the whim of the platform. That gives them the ultimate leverage. In this case, transfer doesn't amount to much if the "object" is rendered useless.
50% of Minsk and other major Belarus cities were Jewish pre ww2.

90% of that Jewish population was killed. Property and belongings still haven’t been returned to the Jewish families it was taken from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Belarus
> The real, more recent data is much, much worse.

Where can I read anything on this?
They'll never be free. They'll never be cheaper than the raw materials that go into them, or the copper to wire them together and into the car.

At some point, there's going to be a price floor that the research, materials supply and competition simply won't break through.

Guessing when that is going to happen is more luck than anything. I do not see it continuing to get exponentially cheaper for long, though.

LiFePho has removed most of the precious metals out of the equation, and the demand for electric cars will continue to compete against the growth in demand for battery storage for renewables. For an analogy, lumber prices have shot through the roof over the past few years where I live due to construction booms. Nothing about the technology has changed, and supply hasn't fluctuated greatly. These same pressures are going to be pushing against lithium batteries getting exponentially cheaper over the next few years. I don't doubt that they will find room to bring prices down, but there is a floor out there somewhere close by.
Flatbuffers would be better as it doesn't need to deserialize at all (I think protobuf supports to partially deserialization nowadays?). I did something similar with https://github.com/liuliu/dflat too!
I'm pretty sure that's what got us into this mess.
I have read that several people had their lives worsened because they got worried and/or tried to enact change for no gain after the book told them they were not getting enough sleep (even though they had felt comfortable with their sleeping habits thus far). Which in turn caused them to get less healthy sleep due to feeling bad about their sleeping habits, trying to "fix" it, or just being stressed about not being able to fall asleep early enough.

It's not that the first-order advice of "avoid blue light in the evening" is necessarily bad. Rather, telling people (in no uncertain terms) that if they do <x> they are hurting themselves and that they must change what they do, may cause second-order problems. This is one of the reasons why you should not get medical advice from the internet or pop science books.

(FWIW, I have read the book, before learning of the scientific critiques. I must agree that the presentation of the book is usually much stronger than what the data presented admits. It's not that the small-scale studies in question seem particularly flawed or that the interpretations are downright unreasonable, but I think it's borderline unscientific to present as fact a story woven from more or less isolated data points in the form of individual studies.)
I agree, but I use Powershell rather than Python. (I've actually written Powershell scripts that implement pieces in Python.) Because gluing together bits of Powershell and Python is still better than trying to write it in bash.
That's true in principle, but many of the shareholders of US corporations never pay those taxes in practice, either because they're not US residents or because they avoid capital gains taxes through tax-advantaged accounts, trusts, non-US shell corporations and SPVs, etc.

To preempt one likely response to this: no, it's not appropriate for a non-US-resident shareholder of Amazon to not pay any US tax on their share of Amazon's pre-tax profit. Amazon is leveraging US-taxpayer-funded resources, including roads, the electrical grid, the military (which protects Amazon's buildings and shipping routes), arguably the educational system, etc. to generate profit, and anyone with a claim to a portion of that profit should have to help pay for those resources.
I think you’re expectations are sadly misplaced. In reality it turns out that a community of people interested in technology doesn’t really equate to it being that much smarter in terms of critical thinking, evaluating science, so forth, than the general population. Liking technology doesn’t automatically mean people have decent critical thinking skills, or are naturally inclined/trained to think scientifically and skeptically. You see people applying motivated reasoning repeatedly, avoiding agreement on the facts because they don’t seem to like the consequences of them, rather than being able to separate how they feel about it, the morals, their values, so forth from what are simple facts. Shows up in lots of topics.
It's like a niche Technorati.
I don't know why he would think that, you can see good longform text examples on HN every day.
That is exactly how I deal with it. I use a throwaway webmail address and a Google Voice number. No way they're getting my real email or phone number that I use for work and clients.
Because it will cost around $2-3K for the battery replacement on a car chassis that’ll be worth around $2K to get back to a range and set of features that won’t be competitive with the then-current (no pun intended) EVs or other $5K cars.

If you want to spend $5K on a car in 2030, you’ll have way better options than a 75 mile range, 6kW charging (20-24 miles per hour) 2015 LEAF (CHAdeMO will be fully dead by then and most 2015 LEAFs don't even have it.)
Staying awake to treat depression (2018)
> cared a lot about him

I think that part of the conversation should include the possibility that this behaviour is purely selfish, and is not an act of selfless caring.
Isn't that personal? I don't want to ask.
> write in C++ without the "Modern" stuff (which is possible, and this is what expert programmers that write quality software do).

Idiomatic C code is an unoptimizable mess consisting of layers of `void*` indirections, violations of strict aliasing, project-specific linked list structs and poor reimplementations of other basic data structures, `strdup()` and fixed arrays everywhere... 99% of new C projects written after 2010 and outside of the field of embedded development are made by fetishists and are neither quality software engineering nor performant, but the people who still do this stuff when they're already in a .cpp file are even worse.
The Simtel CD Collection (1994-2001)
Homo Erectus and Homo Sapiens both, at least up until the relatively recent emergence of agriculture, according to the article.
Mortality is the number one problem every single human being and all of our fore-bearers, down to the very first single cell organism, have and have ever had in common. It's the end, te path to nothing. Perhaps you believe there is more. Whatever comes next, death is fucking scary.

I believe it's very natural to do everything in our power to prevent death or at the very least delay it, and to convince others - whose pain we don't feel - to do the same.

I can't even begin to imagine how miserable a person must feel when they are decided that they're leaving us early. It goes against millennia of both collective, and also ones own individual fear and uncertainty. With my liberal Dutch upbringing, have nothing but respect for that.