skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Preface: I like Paul Graham’s work generally, not amazing but good (in particular his Lisp books). He has a gift of writing in an inspirational style, which I believe many enjoyed when reading his essays. He and his colleagues had a brilliant idea and execution when it came to ycombinator, and anybody who’s successful has done a lot more work behind the scenes that we would be aware of (in true HN fashion, we would say we could code up Viaweb in a day and it was right time, right place; but it’s hardly that simple and a huge disservice to their intelligence and hard work).

That is to say, I’m not a hater by any regards.

But there is little of substance in this article. It’s not an exaggeration that the whole article could be summarized by one line: “Haters, like fanboys, are likely to be obsessive and should be ignored”. And given it’s been reviewed by the following, it seems like they all are so detached from reality that they cannot objectively provide meaningful feedback to the article.

> Thanks to Austen Allred, Trevor Blackwell, Patrick Collison, Christine Ford, Daniel Gackle, Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris, Elon Musk, Harj Taggar, and Peter Thiel for reading drafts of this.

In my own analysis side, perhaps the article, being devoid of meaningful content, is more telling of the author and his peers - the use of third person, the constant mentions of fame and celebrity status and perhaps the preoccupation with haters (why else write an article) may be an indication that they are becoming caught in their own celebrity worship.

It seems a celebrity worship culture continues to accelerate within mainstream conscious (Elon Musk’s tweets moving market prices for example), perhaps amplified by the scale offered by technology and the explosion of digital communication in the last 20-30 years.

There will always be inequality, but I believe from basic scientific principles, the differences between so called “visionaries” and “leaders” is not that much vs the broader population and that more equality, more “biodiversity” or spreading of opportunities for intellectual and practical contributions vs. a top down “here’s what’s good for you” approach is undeniably good sense and one we should actively aim for. I.e. less attention / admiration of those at the top and more mutual respect and community building. Fight for more decentralization and peer to peer solutions - the best voice is everybody’s voice!
Thank you so much for the recommendation! I am reading it right now! It is an awesome and engaging read! :-)
How do you kill your animals with respect?
Interestingly, America is one of the best places to be if you are wealthy (part of the motivation on this thread). So it's also unlikely for a wealthy American to move.

Believe it or not, a lot people, in poverty or otherwise, really like the unique things in this country and most would rather have it this way than to move to Europe (which has its own share of major problems despite being a cool place overall).
I like that label because it has a "stupid" connotation to it.
Elementary OS has truly come so far. I still remember the old days where it started as a Gtk theme and how excited I was back in early 2010s to try out the beta versions of Luna. Unfortunately haven't used it since I bought a MacBook, but I truly appreciate the effort by Elementary team to provide a well thought out aesthetically pleasing linux distribution.
Not sure if it's a useful data point, but my ability to construct things in my head improved dramatically after I'd been messing around with CAD for a few months.

My guess is it just got my brain to improve it's ability with that stuff, and the side effects helped in other areas (like this) too. :)
To preface this, I am and have been conflicted on this topic as well. I lean a bit towards the possibility of finding a balance between efforts to reduce supply (e.g., some form of criminalization) while also treating demand (e.g., research into causes/factors leading to drug use, free substance abuse treatment, methadone/suboxone, etc.).

That being said, I don't think anyone expects criminalization to yield zero use. I think the goal of criminalization is to make it more difficult to obtain the drugs and to dissuade people from starting drug use and/or continuing it.
I’m a lowly mechanical engineering lecturer. I use Jupyter notebooks to teach fluid mechanics[0]. I make videos of fluid flows with Blender and embed them with the notes along with some basic Python code examples so that students are aware of how basic code can make an Engineer’s life easier (even if Matlab is the standard platform).

I also embed simple 3D models with pyGEL3D[1]. It’s fine but very limited. I’m always blown away by this gentleman’s work when it comes up here on HN and would like to use JavaScript instead, but I’ve no idea where to start. Can anyone recommend a good book or online course that would put me on the right path?

[0] https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/nolankucd/MEEN20010/tree...

[1] http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/projects/GEL/PyGEL/
Not at the expense of what it stands for, no.
A new variant arose that combines the Californian L452R mutation with an E484Q mutation as well (similar to the E484K mutation in the Brazilian and South African variants). It's not really the same virus that hit India earlier.
Yes, it did used to be the point. Content of character.
Seems quite similar to Hasura. Looks neat.
Something about pre-wash routines not getting soap to clean some of the grimes.
My friend, there are very few things that we can describe precisely, from a legal standpoint or even for technical specs. It's all about "ranges". And the higher the precision and the guarantee, the higher the price, or the converse. Which was my point, in case I couldn't manage to make it clear enough even when putting it next to something an average person could relate to. There's leeway built into any legal or technical framework and the contract terms should follow.

Your "precisely defined and measured" SATA3 6 Gbit/s interface never delivers the 6.000Gbps to you by design (8b/10b encoding). So are all SSDs and motherboards in breach? SSDs rarely hit any of the advertised speed. By comparison their endurance is defined far clearer for the consumer.

Whether it's an SSD or an internet connection they come with clear predefined conditions that are legal* and the customer agrees to. Everything else is high consumer expectations meeting low consumer willingness to pay, or even to understand the relationship.

*Of course there are plenty of illegal and abusive clauses but giving a stated 900Mbps average speed with a 1Gbps contract, or selling an SSD with stated low DWPD don't really fit that description.
It depends what they are talking about? If they are talking about stocks, it could be to make money in the market. The market is very emotional.
Interesting - I've kind of stolen my view on this question from Cicero. You don't have an obligation to live for as long as possible, per say.

What you have is an obligation to live a life that results in 1) you still finding meaning in what you are doing despite your old age and 2) that contributes something back to those around you, even in your old age.

At the end of the day, humans need to feel like that have responsibility / are making a difference (generalized statement I know) to feel their own life has much meaning. Just because you become a burden due to frailty or sickness does not mean you are unable to benefit others still.

Selected Cicero[1]:
"But bear well in mind that in this entire discussion I am praising that old age which has its foundation well laid in youth. Hence it follows— as I once said with the approval of all who heard it— that that old age is wretched which needs to defend itself with words! Nor can wrinkles and grey hair suddenly seize upon influence; but when the preceding part of life has been nobly spent, old age gathers the fruits of influence at the last."

But it is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age; to compensate for its defects by a watchful care; to fight against it as we would fight against disease; to adopt a regimen of health; to practice moderate exercise; and to take just enough of food and drink to restore our strength and not to overburden it. Nor, indeed, are we to give our attention solely to the body; much greater care is due to the mind and soul; for they, too, like lamps, grow dim with time, unless we keep them supplied with oil.

Those, therefore, who allege that old age is devoid of useful activity adduce nothing to the purpose, and are like those who would say that the pilot does nothing in the sailing of the ship, because, while others are climbing the masts, or running about the gangways, or working at the pumps, he sits quietly in the stern and simply holds the tiller.

He may not be doing what younger members of the crew are doing, but what he does is better and much more important. It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgement; in these qualities old age is usually not only not poorer but is even richer."

[1] - has select quotes from Cicero on Old Age: https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-on-old-...
This is a narrative to protect a naked emperor.

The vidarbha strain is also spread through out the country, and its not like the same mutations cannot appear elsewhere independently.

The most populous state in India, UP, with 220 mn people, the worst medical infrastructure has better numbers than maharashtra. However having a Chief Minister who has gone ahead and threatened people for asking for help and even arresting/threatening journalists.

This was a preventable apocalypse. Modi spent all of last year talking about how India is self sufficient and we are magnanimously helping other nations.

The promoted cow urine, homeopathy and naturopathy when those resources could have been used last year.

The Major religious events were brought forward. When 8 phases of elections were allowed and the opposition asked for shorter elections, the BJP was the one who objected.

The data has been intentionally fudged to leave governments, local and central looking better and the most partisan calculus has been at play when the center decides who gets help in the states.
Not sure, but I had 'lighter versions' of that sound before getting a migraine after this(never had migraines before the tia): those episodes immediately caused extreme anxiety, as in: it is happening again, while I knew it was not because I had no speech issues or foggy brain, just an aura floating in front of my eyes. This is a long time ago and the way of getting rid of all of this was getting rid of and learning to cope with stress. Now I work more hours and take on far more responsibility than I did at the time but I do not feel any stress, at all. Never had any migraines or other symptoms I used to have anymore. For people who do not know what it is: chronic stress is living hell and dangerous. Better recognize it in time so you do not lose years of your life.
Agreed for SSD, but some consumer 1Gbps broadband never reaches 900Mbps. Its spec should be corrected rather than "best effort".
wow, you are an asshole
The video covers this aspect. Yes, the current system is bad, but it replaces a scary letter demanding cease and desists plus high damage payments and a resolution between extremely expensive lawyers. It surely is not optimal, but I doubt your common YouTuber could afford to fight claims in court.
> because anyone famous knows how random fame is.

We’re on a website (founded by the author of the post!) where “how I became successful” posts abound. Western culture is filled with examples of famous entitled pricks who project themselves as the architects of their own success: Kanye West, Ellen DeGeneres, James Corden[1]… He has American citizenship; isn’t he familiar with the pervasive myth of the “self-made man, pulling himself by his bootstraps”?

[1]: Plenty of stories online from staffers.
Ask HN: How to get rid of Adobe Acrobate subscription without cancellation fees?
After using Foxit PDF for a long time, I decided to check out Adobe Acrobat and gave them my credit card for a monthly subscription. I had thought I will cancel it. But it costs a lot to cancel, especially for someone like me from a developing country. Furthermore, its a substandard product, hangs all the time, at least as compared to NitroPDF and Foxit.

I am unable to find an email or contact to directly reach out to their sales team to waive the cancellation charges either.

Any help will be appreciated.
>Only if you use the time saved to write more data than you would have with a slower drive

Well, NVMe SSDs do get quite hot due to much higher data transfer speeds, and higher temperatures lead to faster flash memory degradation, although I have no idea how important it is in practice (probably on the order of an SSD dying in 10 years instead of 20)
Much of this article seems like an accurate (if not very original) assessment of a particular type and the fanboy flipside, but perhaps a little passive-aggressive, like pg is venting a little (which is understandable as he will have had their guns directed at him many times).

I do think though there is probably a hate/love spectrum rather than the dichotomy presented here; but as ever its the extremes that generate most of the noise and toxicity.
There's plenty of historical records of farmers being forced to go into factories and hating it, to the point of risking their life doing strikes and fighting strike-breakers.

Industries desperately needed cheap labor and the mechanization of farming helped by generating widespread unemployment.
GP's friend is clearly referring to the B.1.617 variant, not some mystery strain.
Are you joking to make a point? Their livelihoods are based on the number of clicks they get.
Great question! Here are a few that come to mind:

- Animal protein is superior to plant-based protein if you consider the natural amino acid profile. Plant-based protein simply lacks several amino acids and many sources aren't "complete" proteins.
- Vitamin B12 is essential for the body and found almost exclusively animal proteins. A Vitamin B12 deficiency can be serious over time and lead to some nasty side effects. Of course, you can always supplement Vitamin B12 and eat fortified foods. My personal preference is to get as much vitamins and minerals from my diet.
- Satiety. Animal proteins simply tend to be more satiating (at least for me).
- Calorie content. It's really difficult to eat the calories needed on a vegan diet. A massive calorie deficit (especially long-term) can wreak havoc on your hormone profile and bring about a number of other health issues.
- Animal overpopulation. If we don't hunt certain species of animals periodically, they'll overpopulate. Hunting keeps nature at a healthy balance of which the available habitat can support. The hunting license fees also support wildlife conservation so that we can protect wild animals and their natural habitats. frnkng mentioned wild boars... they serve as a great example of the threat to pose to farms, because they damage acres and acres of crops.

With that said, my diet varies throughout the week. I'll have moderate amounts of meat for a few days and then I'll switch to plant-based proteins for a few days. I find that it's better on my digestive system.
I seriously don’t understand, how whatever you wrote relates to the original comment.
As a self considered centrist, I would have an issue if they couldn't discuss these issues in a dispassionate way at work. That might be wrong, but IMO (within reason) we are there to work and create value. We will make mistakes along the way, and some of those will be perceived as a step towards racism and toxicity. If we can't accept that it's a spectrum and not a binary, that reasonable people can have different opinions, and that once a decision is made we should move on together, I think I actually would have trouble working with such a person (and have in the past).

This sounds like I agree with what the founders did here. I don't at all. But I understand why they did it, and I don't disagree with their intentions.
Had very similar symptoms as post.
Was getting constant tia symptoms. 3 years of doctors visits later.
Oh you have a genetic disposition for clotting. (Factor 5)
Started on blood thinners and the TIA symptoms stopped in a few days, brain fog lifted. Plus lots other symptoms.

I had been having minor strokes constantly, just not large enough to show up on MRI.
SpaceX making first US crew splashdown in dark since Apollo 8
Classic FUD around the internet, 1 TB of plots gives you 10 months expected time to win currently.

https://chiacalculator.com/
1. It got shared on a very popular website, the daily WTF. It's also short and silly, so it's easy to remember.

2. It's an exceedingly easy exercise meant out to weed out those who plan to learn to code on the job and hop to a new one when they are busted.
I'm in Europe, and I've had/worked on German, Japanese and Swedish cars and boat engines. Metric all the way.

Only time I've needed an imperial set of tools was when overhauling a B&S lawnmower engine.
Discussing whether schools should / should not open is political. Discussing "Schools have closed, what do I do with my kids?" is not.
The average banking app doesn't communicate via google-operated pipes. Basically the only thing I've seen baking apps do via Google (and I've reverse-engineered quite a few) is the SafetyNet check to ensure their bullshit policy about modified devices. Well, that and notifications, but microG already emulates that library and uses Google's servers afaik.

If a phone manufacturer started shipping Android phones without GApps and they got popular enough, developers would start being more careful with relying on Google Services. We saw this with Huawei - their phones are reall popular where I live and after tons of complaints from huawei users, a bunch of companies fixed their apps to gracefully handle the lack of Google Play Services.
I think that’s the entire point DHH was attempting to make: internal issues don’t need to be connected with broader issues like colonialism and racism.

That senior execs making more money is due to their tenure and merit, and not because they’re white and male.
the CDC is advertising for P&G?
It was truly problem in early SSDs, but now normal consumers never exceed rated TBW since 3D NAND is used.
The current consensus is to not make them suffer or to stun them before slaughter.
1. Perhaps. Difficult to know the extent exactly. My guess would be yes, given theory, but we'd need a natural experiment to find that out.

2. This particular thing isn't really an argument against minimum wage, although I personally am not automatically in support of it for other reasons.

I can see an argument that it creates poverty by making unskilled workers unable to compete with lower skilled labor overseas for manufacturing jobs. Effectively it's a ban on their ability to work (if their value add is less than the minimum wage) and make a living and can possibly go some way towards explaining the black youth unemployment rate. This robs them of their ability to get a foothold in their economy from which they can stabilize and level up. Why would a manufacturer keep their operations in the US if they have to pay minimum wage? Of course they're going to be inclined to move overseas where it's cheaper, especially if it's a low margin business.

It's also rather intrusive and authoritarian, if two people want to get together and exchange one hour of X for $Y then I don't see that as any of your business, but this is more a point of personal values and it's more productive to focus on the utilitarian part of the argument.
> My point is the reduction of child labor hours was impossible before industrialization improved productivity.

Farmers worked less hours and with much less intensity than industrial workers.

The incredible drop in life expectancy of farmers turning industrial workers says everything.
The reason WASM programs are better protected from each other is because they have virtually no means of interop, and far fewer tricky CPU instructions available. Hypothetically, you might see classic OS programs use a sandbox that's as restrictive, but it's not common, and you'd have to compare each sandbox in detail to get an idea about the tradeoffs.

By contrast, normal OS programs have all kinds of I/O, including inter-process communication, shared locks, high-res timers, shared memory, files, networking, etc etc etc. Even if those programs are "fairly isolated" by being inside a VM, they still have access to all kinds of low level tools that WASM won;t have that might leak enough entropy to still be less well isolated - and that's kind of necessary and by design, because a VM or container is designed to run largely unmodified binaries, and thus cannot simply omit capabilities legacy programs have - but WASM can, and does. Then there's simply the sheer complexity difference; it's pretty daunting task to have all that be entirely safe.

In essence: there's a reason why it's much more common to see e.g. privilege escalation vulnerabilities than WASM sandbox escapes.
People who have experienced brain trauma present significant initial relief when they are told they have condition that has a label.

They tend to relapse every two years and select a new diagnosis after they don’t get better. It’s heartbreaking to watch when you know to look for the pattern.
Yes, on social media. Outside of their basecamp account.
From the looks of it, everyone quickly agreed that this list was inappropriate and it was shut down promptly. The drama didn't start over that, but exaggerated claims people made such as "this is the road to genocide", as well as connecting this list to some mass-shooting, as well as some lingering conflicts such as whether or not the title "it doesn't have to be crazy at work" – a book published by basecamp – is ableist or not.

People act like "haha, this name sounds funny because it's similar to the English word [...]" is a huge deal and existential threat. It's ... not really. It's just inappropriate for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that making fun of your customers for any reason is not a good idea. People seem to have lost perspective here.

DHH tried to inject some nuance, and paid the price it seems :-/ All this incident has accomplished is turning off people, in spite of clearly being sympathetic to it to the important bits of social justice.

The social justice movement is eating itself from the inside out with stuff like this.
A lot of discussions about the environmental impact of proof-of-work Bitcoin mining would fit the bill.
IMO the problem is that OSS developers hate any change that’s made to a UI because it breaks their workflow. As a result, a lot of OSS has old style interfaces, and it’s hard for UI designers to convince the others to make changes.
I think that would just be a misdiagnosis. Seizures don’t typically accompany manic episodes and not being able to come up with words that are used in everyday situations is also an oddity.
This article is still relevant: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/19/europe...

Also, poor people rarely know the reality of other countries. I have friends in the States who firmly believe that Europe is a hellhole even though they are literally a medical emergency away from a bankruptcy.
When I was a kid in the 90's the one country me and my friends all wanted to go to was the USA, it was the epicenter of all the cool things in the world to us at that point. However now my kids and their friends all look to Japan, but its more of a male thing it seems.
If I put myself in the head of an executive at a big company, I didn't get to this position to be on zoom calls.

I want to feel like the big cheese in an office with a bunch of people. I want my ass kissed in person. Work from home feels like a demotion.

It is not good for the "Corporate Culture".
Indian Startup Builds the Country's First 3D Printed House