skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The amount of insight and self reflection in your reply tell me you are now ready to succeed.

> I spent my life wanting to be just like him. Plaques and appreciation awards all over the house

That was your mistake: trying to please people. Life is not about being appreciated by others.

I would even say it is a measure of being wrong, because if you are appreciated by others, it means you got a sucker bargain, exerting way too much effort for too little gains.

> My uncle started a very simple sales business, spent 5 years doing a lot for a little, and then 35 years doing very little for a lot.

That's the idea! I bet he must not be very popular or appreciated by people.

> But what does success look like on the other side? It sucks

From the other angle, it sucks too. I am like your uncle: I see people destroying their lives by refusing to listen. I tried to help, more than once, only to see them laugh at me but fail while I succeeded.

I do not care much about the laughing part. I care more about the failing part. Because it is sad to see that people you want to see succeed keep failing, again and again.

I've tried to engage people - I think a year ago I was saying the same thing: buy just enough BTC than you can afford to lose, and you will eventually get a nice car. No more, no less, as the time of much larger opportunities are unfortunately in the past

Can't find it right now, only these similar conversation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25320168

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25286566

Most hackers are too emotionally invested. They are unable to say "I was wrong".

BTW, Brian vision (replacing CC) will eventually happen, but with 2nd layers or stablecoins which have only recently become good enough, and were battle tested through the 2020 crash.
> For relaxing it's most important that the thing actually relaxes you. Feeling like you have to read books sounds a little backward.

I agree with this, and it's unfortunate it took me so long to figure this out. I used to be pretty rigid with how I read, although I have no idea why. I would start a book and push through to the end, never switching books until I was finished, and never daring to skip a section.

Then, I had the realization that you described. Now, I'll read more than one book at a time, and I'll pick up whichever one I feel like reading at that moment. I also have no problem skimming through sections of a nonfiction book if I feel the author is starting get repetitive.

I'm enjoying reading a lot more these days, and I've even started to dedicate the first hour after I wake and the last hour before bed to doing it.
I hadn't even thought about making an alarm clock! You might have accidentally convinced me to order a set of Nixie tubes.
You really think it is a reasonable analogy to threaten someone with burning at the stake and jailing someone because of a trade secret?
I think the main draw of a Peloton is the classes.

I have a Bowflex bike and my wife and my wife pays for a Peloton subscription just for the classes.
Operation Gladio [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
Ah, so nothing technical.
I would have expected the answer to be "a tiny fraction, that will immediately pay for itself". We're talking about a rover equipped equipped with heaters so it doesn't freeze overnight. A couple of Joules to swish a soft brush across the panel every week seems like a good investment.
> ...for example, start a macOS VPS hosting company that doesn't use Macs or that lends them for shorter time periods than one day.

That's not an end-user doing whatever they want, that's a company providing macOS to end-users. End users can do whatever they want.

> Apple's overpriced hardware...This meme needs to die, now more than ever (because of Apple Silicon).

Apple Silicon has nothing to do with overpriced base systems, SSD/RAM upgrades and overpriced accessories. Everybody knows Apple hardware is overpriced.

The fact that you actually get less functionality out of Apple hardware adds to the cost. For instance, I have an old 2012 Mac Pro among many other machines in my home/office. The amount of time, money and effort I had to spend to keep this thing running was ridiculous. I had to buy an RX580 to be able to upgrade it to the latest OS and then I had to spend time researching how to fix their locked down piece of shit UEFI loader so I could boot into a better OS (that would be Manjaro). After that I had to spend hours working around all sorts of little Apple-specific oddities like accessing settings that would be in a BIOS on a better computer.

Apple Silicon adds to the cost too because it's incompatible with everything. Now you can do even less stuff with your Mac, but you can do it really fast!

Any other PC in the house would have just worked. This one looks cool though and it's built like a tank so I spent my time figuring it out.
it's not that apples to oranges. op is saying they use sqlite, i'm saying we use edn files. just offering another point of view.

if by out-of-order you mean loading parts of a file, of course we don't do that.

we don't load everything into memory (there's more than one file). just like you wouldn't load your whole sqlite db into memory.

if the machine crashes we lose what we didn't save. same with a db.

> So basically I can just say the same thing you said with
> C: "I just fopen/fgetc strings to disk. C is my query
> language."

as a clojure user you know this is not a good analogy. c has macros too.

the main problem with our approach is that the server needs to have access to the edn files. that's not always doable ... but same problem with sqlite.

and it is oh so nice to investigate stuff in the repl:

(:prio (load-file (filter #(= "secret-id" (:id %)) index)))

btw, i loved to kill a mocking bird.
I don't know if you're trying to be sarcastic, but I'll assume good faith - the goal of US sanctions is to destroy the Russian economy as much as possible to weaken Russia. Russian citizens coming to the US is good for the goal of weakening the Russian economy.

Russian spooks would find a way into the US no matter what.
Check out: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
Thank you, this is better by a lot
> Would it be possible to set up some form of CDN.

Could be possible with torrent seedboxes ... For example, http://dash.sonicbit.net/ offers 20 GB for around USD 2 / month with HD streaming of torrent ... A couple of these can be used to create some kind of CDN.
The program which produced the F-22 started back in 1981 and the original intent was to wholesale replace the F-15. But it got caught in a procurement death spiral of escalating unit costs which caused repeated quantity reductions. Eventually the Obama administration cancelled all future purchases in 2011 in order to save money for the F-35 program and the wars in the Middle East. At this point it's effectively impossible to restart F-22 production as the supply chain for critical components has disappeared.
> I do remember Android studio explicitly warning users to avoid Open Jdk

Once upon a time maybe, but today:

> A copy of the latest OpenJDK comes bundled with Android Studio 2.2 and higher, and this is the JDK version we recommend you use for your Android projects.

- https://developer.android.com/studio/intro/studio-config#jdk

> If anything is even slightly off after switching to open JDK you'd need to justify it

"We don't have to license it from Oracle" should justify a lot.
Not really surprising just think about following:

Cohorts are sized at "a few thousands" (what does that even mean?).

There is a lot a heuristic information retrievable using JS. This is separate from the information Cohorts use to group you.

Put both together and you have something quite close to a unique id.

There is absolutely no way to fix this problem while having cohort id's and not having very very large cohorts. Which I can't see google using.

Just as an example, I have a unusual setup so `coveryourtracks.eff.org` reports that my fingerprint is unique in the 292,340 tested in the last 45 days from heuristics alone.

Thinks are not that bad for the average windows or mac user (me: Linux, Firefox, 1440p screen, etc. I'm not surprised tbh.). Still combined that "not so bad" with a FLoC Id and you are back at basically unequally identifiable.

EDIT: Btw. there IS a fix, instead of letting advertisers decide on the ad based on you FLoC Id you let your Browser decide based an "available ad topic channels" (if combined with a fixed set of lables and a few other thinks, it's not trivial).
Honestly, a camera like that is super overkill.

There are really only three things that matter for image in video calls: lighting, exposure, and background.

Lighting is by far #1. Then some kind of exposure adjustment to lock it in during your call at the brightest level that won't blow out any areas of your face.

As long as you've got those, there will then be zero difference between a cheap Logitech webcam and a fancy Nikon by the time the image has been downsampled and compressed.

(And make sure you've got the focus and white balance set correctly as well of course.)
In the USA we have a concept of a warrant of merchantability. This implies that if you buy a product that is defective the manufacturer must take it back within a short period usually 30 days or less. No exceptions.

With cars it is slightly different most states have something called a "lemon law." If there are more than three repair attempts in the first 6 months for the same issue and the problem is still not fixed then the manufacturer must offer a full refund.
> Please see our Sales Terms and Conditions for full policies.

Which of course you can’t be bothered to link?
«Coinbase is in a race to the bottom»

90%+ of industries are. It's what capitalism is all about. It's not unique to Coinbase.

«Grandma ain't making a Coinbase checking account»

She already did. They have 56 million verified user accounts. Twice more than Schwab. A lot of grandmas in this user base :)
> There are only so many ways to arrange three knobs and transport controls on a keyboard.

You're joking right? There are thousands of combinations of where to put things to make a clone less obvious, but obviously they didn't care to do anything of that.

Have you seen them compared side-by-side? It looks like a Mark 2 version of the Keystep, except some naming changed, here's an example: https://www.gearnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/behringe...
>doesn’t matter how much energy is used

For machines that turn coal into waste heat for no benefit, I think it does.
No. Amazon offers a return for it's products if they are defective the second time. Basically you get a replacement if its good then great keep it but if it has a problem as well then you get a full refund on return. Apple has no such policy. You buy it they can offer a replacement. But customer support will tell you its policy for no refund. No law afaik.
Does it affect jailbroken devices?
Because the US has to be careful not to damage its own economy and to keep leverage for later.
I doubt Putin's wealth and influence are being affected. In the other hand regular russian folks might get affected in one way or another. This is the thing with US sanctions, they are just aim to harm regular people, same with Cuba, Iran, ... This undoubtedly increase the resentment of their population against the US, I fail to understand how any of this makes sense. If we don't like their government , why not target their government officials, instead?
Everyone competing to find hashes that start with a large number of zeros to secure a currency is significantly less of an ecological disaster than maintaining a standing army (or military alliances with someone who does) like fiat currencies use.
> If yes, then it means you think your time is worth the cost of that burger $3 per hour.

What I think my time is worth and what someone is willing to pay me for that time are 2 separate things.
Give them a moment, the judge just handed them the go-ahead to clone Java API's last week ;)
Don't 2 & 3 contradict each other in this case? Throwing away the yoke of institutional giving is predicated upon recognizing that overhead and start up costs eat up transferable dollars.
At $70 a year, I think Fitness+ is a steal.

I went from hating the treadmill to loving it because of Apple Fitness+. Scott Carvin is the instructor I use the most and he's amazing. I also use Anya for rower workouts and she's amazing too.

I'm wondering if a startup will come along to turn this concept into a creator-instructor marketplace that ties into Apple Watch, etc.
Firefox uses SQLite for localStorage. When Firefox is force quit, the database becomes corrupted. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1341070

This bug has occurred to me personally multiple times.

Does it really have advantages over a flat file?
Did I read this right: This is an imaginary problem (doesn't exist now) that requires Sony to shut down a server they haven't shut down and didn't say they were going to shut down?

Sure lots of computers depend on lots of things. My windows update will probably cause trouble if Microsoft goes away. But its not really news, or unexpected.
I don't think there's any indication that mask requirement will abate anytime soon. All posturing from western leadership point to precisely the opposite. The notion that the mask requirement will disappear in as early as 1-2 years is farcically optimistic.
I got a free trial for updating my Apple Watch, and I like it. I recently went through all my subscriptions, rented VPSs for experiments, streaming entertainment, etc. I paired down what I pay for every month, but I updated my family to Apple’s new all you can eat digital services. There is redundancy since we subscribe to Google YouTube Music, but Apple’s deal includes arcade games (surprised that I am spending 1/2 hour a week on them, but some are really fun), Fitness+, Apple News+, Apple TV+, and tons of iCloud storage. I think the whole thing together is an OK deal.

A neighbor gave me a boxed set of Qigong DVDs (which I digitized for easy use) that I spend a lot of time on, but I have allocated some for that time to Apple Fitness+ core strength lessons, and their walking with interesting people material is pretty cool.
Not taking sides here, just to nitpick that payment settlement takes a lot longer than that with credit card. It's like calling a bitcoin transfer with 0 confirmations "done", and which case it's actually faster than credit cards.
Mexico’s War on Obesity Sends Global Junk-Food, Sugary-Drink Giants Scrambling
> And even if you had some suspicions, once you honestly factor in your certainty about predictive value of your suspicions, it multiplies down to nothing - so in practice, an uniform prior is a pretty good choice.

Does it? You seem to be marginalizing across the entire population, but it's eminently obvious that most humans do _not_ see a human and erase all aspects of their being and then consider them to be one human in a uniformly distributed pool. Humans make snap judgements based on hundreds of subconscious factors all the time. Most humans look at a person and immediately bucket them into a cohort using some mix of physical attributes and prior beliefs of these attributes. Once we're in a cohort, relative probabilities can change. In this particular example, what happens if one of the 3 happens to be wearing military fatigues? What if they have a well-known authoritarian political symbol on their clothing?

Anyway, lots of intelligent philosophers have argued against utilitarianism and have brought up flaws in utilitarianism, such as Utility Monsters, and then there's the issue of even being able to impose a utility-based order between disparate things such as "tasty candy" and "rocks underneath my feet". Feel free to read those on the internet.
Definitely do it.
There is societal expectation. Frankly no one wants opened/used products, so you know those will be sold at significant discount, or refurbished, or thrown away. No business accepts that unless they HAVE to.
Money isn't really stored wealth, it's a transferable debt obligation from the government. It's guaranteed to be redeemable to settle up taxes and court rulings, and entitles you to some estimate of the productivity of it's jurisdiction - enforced by the government.
The US is damaging its economy by doing business with thieves and criminals.

China needs its customers.
> the rules, whatever they are, will be gamed by people
whose objectives are not "ship useful software"

If somebody had suggested this ten years ago I would have insisted that they were being paranoid, but I'm hard-pressed to find an instance where the rules have been used in any other way.
Curious if there are any chorded keyboards that use tilt sensors to make character input depend on button plus position, rather than button combinations alone.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Letter to Shareholders 2020
Few interesting paragraphs:

"Many Americans have lost faith in their government’s ability to solve these and other problems – in fact, most people would describe government as ineffective, bureaucratic and often biased. Almost all institutions – governments, schools, media and businesses – have lost credibility in the eyes of the public."

"Many of our problems have been around for a long time and are not aging well. Politics is increasingly divisive, and government is increasingly dysfunctional, leading to a number of policies that simply don’t work. Americans know that something has gone terribly wrong, and they blame this country’s leadership: the elite, the powerful, the decision makers – in government, in business and in civic society."

"Nearly 30% of American workers earn less than $15 an hour, which is barely a living wage even if two adults are working in a family of four. An estimated 1.6 million Americans were addicted to opioids in 2019, which some studies show is one of the major reasons why men aged 25-54 are permanently out of work. In addition, 30% of Americans don’t have enough savings to deal with unexpected expenses that total as little as $400, such as medical or car repair bills."

"This self-interest is virtually everywhere. There are 17,000 registered lobbyist contracts for special interest groups in Washington, D.C., including business-related groups and banking and financial services. We all deserve our share of the blame for using the _balkanized_ (!) government, bureaucracy and lack of transparency to further our own interests – not necessarily the country’s. This includes business, unions, state and local governments, and individuals."

https://www.jpmorganchase.com/content/dam/jpmc/jpmorgan-chase-and-co/investor-relations/documents/ceo-letter-to-shareholders-2020.pdf
That $39/month permits several users and access to a lot of fitness classes beyond just the bike. If you've ever hired a personal trainer at a gym or paid for gym classes, you've almost certainly spent more than $39/month, and certainly more than that if it wasn't just for you.

If you just use it for the cycling classes and for yourself, it's probably not a great deal (financially). But if you also do the HIIT, running, yoga, strength, etc. classes and you (like many people) are a bit more consistent with a coach (even a virtual one) than working out by yourself, it can be worth it.
I don't know about other people, but I definitely didn't intend it to be useful!
>so much as psychedelics and the lifestyle that goes with it shape the sort of dysfunction we observe.

I wondered about this myself.

I think it is hard to pinpoint exactly since festival-goers often also consume a mix of different substances (the infamous "candy flipping") including alcohol instead of just straight mushrooms or LSD.
It’s strange that 95% of the comments at this moment appear to be strongly against the sanctions and displeased with the govt.

Probably the reason china escapes is China has more leverage over the world than Russia, and Russia has an order of magnitude more leverage than Iran. That’s why the response diminishes in that order.

But it seems like most commenters don’t want any response. Escalation has dangers, but How are they sure appeasement will go well? I mean, it literally was a major cause of WW2. Basically a tightrope act is needed. I’m not going to armchair it.
Weird how finance suddenly becomes "gambling" when a bunch of regular people join the table.
When I wrote that, I had in mind a situation in my country that you can be eligible for private medical cannabis prescription if you try at least two other treatments and you find them ineffective. On the surface it doesn't sound too sinister, but for example, when it comes to chronic pain the drugs that are being given are simply nasty. I still have nightmares about the side effects that I experienced (vivid hallucinations, suicidal thoughts, derealization and more). Given how ubiquitous cannabis is, people with various problems often find, including chronic pain, that it helps massively and unfortunately they cannot bypass going through hell just to get prescription for what helps. They cannot even suggest that they look for medicinal cannabis as they still may be branded as drug seekers and be denied treatment altogether.
Did Visa create no value in society with plastic payment cards? If crypto is valueless, payment processors are valueless too. It's unfortunate that Visa gets a 2% tax on the economy, but the convenience of plastic or a public/private keypair unlocks more economic growth compared to a world with only paper cash.
Apple retail policy in Hong Kong[0] is similar, no 14-day returns unlike most other countries, and even defective refunds seem doubtful (you can see that the policy only specifies conditions for exchange, though it does mention refund procedures it doesn't state when it would occur and so is likely open to interpretation by the management).

[0] https://www.apple.com/hk/shop/help/exchange_return
That's false. More like confronting Catholicism, but even monks did science.
How do you think cathedrals were built in Middle Ages? Weapons? Armory? Trebuchets? Astronomics to sail to "The Indians"?

Monks were very faith-obsessed but not ultimately dumb to power.

Also, the School of Salamanca (around Don Quixote era) was the roots of Humanism.
Any StackOverflow success stories out there?
I've only seen attempts on adopting SO Teams on a small scale (like a rogue team trying to fix knowledge management problem), and it was always a fail (too little volume, no one was searching there anyway). So I'm interested:

Are there companies/teams that adopted it successfully? Can you share what was the scale? Was it top-down, or bottom-up initiative? What worked?
question - do you use this on video zoom calls? I can see the benefits on a non-video zoom call. But having a microphone on your face during a video zoom meeting makes me feel like a radio DJ trying to have a call.
Don't you issue bonds at the market rate? What should a truly green government do instead?
I wonder how much energy is used by just the cafeterias combined in all of the federal reserve's many offices.
> These peoples' job is to essentially be psychological human sacrifices to regulators.

Darkly true. I think this shows that the incentives are not aligned.

Outsourcing makes this a “solved” problem. Content moderation which ends up reducing time on site but saving people will not see the light of day. So the job is to flag and send content down the moderation pipeline.

For now the frontier is dealing with the politics, not improving the lot of content moderators.

Policy people will get hired because of how well they know/navigate the politics of their region, not because of their ability to design good moderation policy.
Yeah, the feature will be opt-in as far as I've heard. Most of the people I've convinced to switch to Signal will either be unaware of it or not care.

To me it looks like people here are vastly overreacting.
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