skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asking innocent questions is okay, good even. Five whys comes to mind.

But stating opinion as fact or "just asking questions"[0] is not conducive to understanding.

[0] - https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions
UK scientists set to recommend new curbs on AstraZeneca vaccine
When you use that sort of thing you pretty much always need to
handwrite some bits as well.
> ridiculous position

I'm well aware of how other people perceive it. It's completely contrary to the barrage of what I call "cult of the victim" that spews forth from nearly all media.

I don't expect to change your mind. But give it a chance. For example,

A man falls down the stairs and breaks his leg.

Victim: "I'm so unlucky, my leg broke. Oh, life is so unfair."

Non-Victim: "Phew, I'm so lucky! I could have broken my neck! My broken leg will heal and I'll be fine. Next time I won't leave my toys laying on the steps."

Walter: "I put carpet on the stairs so I wouldn't slip on them. I go jogging to (in part) increase bone density so they are less likely to break."
I originally read this essay in high school english but still think of it frequently. These ideas are foundational for critical thinking; it's a way to cut through BS and see things more clearly.

But it should come with few small warnings:

- When following these heuristics, I second guess everything I write, which makes it take longer. That's not bad, per se; it's like a whetstone to sharpen your mind. (Case in point: is that an overused simile?? Don't think so, but I had to think about it.) It's a tradeoff to be aware of.

- Obeying rule V (in particular "never use jargon") can lead to disappointment, because jargon is involved in humans forming knowledge-based groups. If you're trying to attract the attention of someone with expertise and you choose to use a common word in place of jargon, they're less likely to tune in.

- I spend waaaay too much time on https://www.powerthesaurus.org
Yeah, it was crazy - when I finally ventured out on a sunny day during the first wave, there was hardly anyone on the otherwise crowded streets and main squares of Brno (second biggest city in CZ) and anyone left had a mask of some sort. Really surreal! :)

Shame it all went to hell when the next wave hit in autumn. #bestincovid again, just the other way around...
I'm so confused by this thread.

It's like I've wandered into a conversation where people are saying,

"You know, my boss tried to give me cake the other day."
"Cake? Everywhere seems to be doing it nowadays. What I would give to find a place to work where the boss doesn't make you eat cake all day."
"Yeah, cake cake cake, all the time."

And I'm like,

"Er... cake? The yummy thing that's really nice? Your boss gave you cake? And you didn't like it?"

And everybody replies:

"No, you idiot, cake! Smelly, hard, poisonous cake, with glass shards in it as usual."

I'm standing here, with my slice of yummy cake, thinking... are you the crazy ones, or am I?

"You know, cake's meant to be like this: soft, sweet, really tasty?"

"Yeah, that's what consultants want you to think, but cake is actually made of burnt tires and crushed up bottles."

"Your boss gives you burnt tires and crushed bottles and tells you that's cake?"

"Yes, that's what cake IS."

And I can point to all the recipe books for cakes, and show you the cake I'm eating right now, and you'll all still tell me:

"Well every cake I've ever been given smelled of burning rubber and made my mouth bleed, so I don't want to work anywhere that advertises that they give employees cake any more."
"You sound just like the last guy who gave me cake."

I mean, I get why that kind of experience might make you cynical, but I don't understand this desire to wallow in the belief that anyone who tells you it doesn't have to be like that must be lying or selling something.

"And chocolate's awful too."

Really? The same asshole who has gaslit you about what cake is has lied to you about chocolate too?

I'm so sorry for you. Please. Let someone help.

Have some cake.
>And are waiting for $1 and above for a gigantic sell off

That's not really how those things work. If someone like say, Satoshi, or Vitalik or another "whale" tried to massively sell their coins, the slippage would quickly deprecate the price. Sure, the first .1% they'd be able to sell at $1, but most likely they would make the price crash.
To be fair though that's most things. That's the very purpose of the stock market. When you buy a stock most of the time most people don't care what the company it represents does, they just want the stock to go up. Same thing can be applied to most things there are vast warehouses full of art people will never see as its just owned as a tax dodge / speculation. Heck most of us work jobs we hate for nothing but money. Greed / speculation and the need for income make the world go round.
No snowflake will take blame for the avalanche.
I'm fairly skeptical of massively expanding existing RO operations due to how we tend to handle brine - which (from what I've seen) is usually just dumping it in the general area we pump from.

However my past concerns for altering seawater on a planetwide scale are much abated. Rising sea levels and glacier melt have put an end to that.
We don't need desal, there is plenty of water if we dont waste water on golf courses and lawns in the desert.
In my experience Stack solved all my cabal hell. I've come to accept some level of dependency juggling, as I had it with every languages.

In Haskell is was more laborious before Stack (the place known as cabal hell) and it got better than average after Stack. Sure, this is just my subjective experience.

> Nobody cares if it compiles together.

Well I didi. If Stack guarantees that a set of software compiles/tests together, then I dont have to do that work.
Yeah, it's incredibly easy to prove it works. Incrementally can get hard at scale but that's a different question.
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Sorry, not my mother language. I meant "people who meet and talk to each other"
Was 'Target Disk Mode' (i.e. using another mac to mount the broken macbook) attempted to recover data?
Mining Bitcoins with Pen and Pencil
It was probably a graphic designer who was going for the chemical formula aesthetic and wanted to be consistent with that and thought air = oxygen. N2 would've been acceptable but best would've been to just spell air and water outright.
In California at least, if you have X days of vacation time and you don't use it in the year when you leave, they have to pay you for these days. If it's "unlimited" time, you get bupkis.
There's a difference between a black box without any user input that always does what you expect of it - and one with an on/off switch. Where the switch can be set via software - either the official one ... or some unofficial one.
Yeah. At 9:34 they're dealing with entangled photons passing through 2 filters at different points in space, simultaneously. They affect each other, which is impossible without faster-than-light communication between them. This is absolutely quantum and cannot be explained at all by classical EM.
You can totally take it the other way too. A group of people felt they were being victimized by having Christian seasonal greetings directed at them and went on a campaign to make that behavior be seen as uncouth.
This is a great article, and I think does a great job of surveying the landscape as it stands. Particularly great to hear reports of ease in hiring and training, which doesn't surprise me, but is nice to be able to cite when risk-averse tech leads express concern about staffing and team-scaling.

I find it somewhat funny that a lot of the critiques here are about purity or types. I really see it as Clojure's core strength that it's both pragmatic and approachable. I'm a math/alegbra nerd, so I love languages like Haskell & OCaml, but they're much more austere for the uninitiated, and have had their own troubles growing. From my experience, the approach of Clojure spec is really nice because it gives you more flexibility/freedom/support in both thinking at a high level about the design of your system (in spec code) before you actually write the (implementation) code itself, while also not requiring it, and letting you add after the fact. You also get a lot for it: generative testing, destructuring, documentation, etc.

That having been said, I'm surprised that more of the pro-type folks here don't seem to be familiar with the [typed clojure](https://github.com/clojure/core.typed) project, which adds optional typing, along the lines of Racket's contract system. To me, it's one of the great testaments to the power of Lisp that you can fairly easily implement types on top of the core language.

My one beef with this article is that scripting with Clojure is now not only possible, but a joy, thanks to GraalVM and [babashka](https://github.com/babashka/babashka)! This has made a HUGE difference in the surface area of problems to which I'm able to apply Clojure.
Python is not typeless as in the sense of B. In B, everything is int, while in Python you still have floats and other stuff. Sure, Python does need declarations but that's called duck typing.
I wholeheartedly agree, but we are probably 'unusual' in that regard. 'Normal' is probably something (depressingly) closer to 'from #influencers who are like omg so down to Earth in their product recommendations and #lifehacks'...
That would require the computer to be bootable, so it wouldn't allow you to get around a fried motherboard sadly.
Contra: words spoken to children can and do have powerful effects, especially from parents and other family, and especially if it accompanied by physical abuse. “I am going to rape you,” followed up by that very action, will lead to damage that is difficult if not impossible to overcome.
Well, our team made an android version of bastet, renamed as bastard blocks.
It was a quite interesting experiment understanding the original code, and trying to 'improve' (or worsen) the board analysis on Unity and C#

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gemugami.b...
Want to give a shout out a nice but relatively unknown tetris inspired game Tritris. It is open source [1] and you can see the author gave much thoughts into mirroring what makes tetris a great game in his intro video [2].

[1] https://github.com/Goel25/tritris

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMkfj1OJ08Q
I’ll never know since I block them all
I know IPAs can be hard to resist ("the kind of thing you like, if you like that kind of thing"), but please let's apply a low-pass filter to this sort of HN comment. Otherwise the thread will fill up with content making for better drinking than reading.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Edit: er, I meant high-pass filter, I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-pass_filter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-pass_filter
The friendships you can make now might be deeper than friendships you make later in life
Right. I am adblocked up to my ears, but when I use a new device or somebody's else device, I am always startled how bad it is with the ads. I'm like "people, how do you live like this? It's literally impossible to do anything!". But people get used to that. Annoyed in the best case, defrauded very commonly.
This should be an NFT.
We did some analysis back in 2017 and found some interesting stuff. Highlights: automated comment submission with broken templates so comments were coming from {STATE} and {CITY}, and over a million submissions from @pornhub.com email addresses.

Analysis here: https://www.gravwell.io/blog/discovering-truth-through-lies-... (disclaimer: I work for Gravwell)
Beef and dairy use more water, use more land, generate more GHG[0].

Deal with animal agriculture first, then we can talk about the fruits and nuts.

[0] - https://www.truthordrought.com/almond-milk-myths
x86 VM on Ethereum
youtube works without ads sure that means you the channel provider pays for the hosting and bandwidth.

tell me how you want to pay for 500h++ of video uploaded to a platform every minute
>And the fact that he states that he uses the word in the right way doesn't make it right. In fact, I find the use of the word paradigm quite shallow and disconnected from the Kuhnian definition.

Perhaps because Kuhn doesn't dictate the definition of paradigm (and in general, the originator, etymology, etc. doesn't dictate use), the language community (the speakers of a language) does.
Dataset with 9,000 annotated cat images! => https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/search?query=cat&d...
Brine disposal has always been my concern. I haven't come across anything promising but I'm well out of the loop.
80% of businesses fail in 5 years. There are many reasons, but the usual ones revolve around things like not understanding accounting, not putting in the effort, etc.

It's also true that many very successful people failed at business time after time before figuring it out. Fortunately, American culture doesn't look askance at people that fail at business and try again.
Not sure if we have plenty of water for all those almond trees.
Thank you!

Any reason why? Does it get harder to make friends as you grow older, or are the friends not as close to you as those made in your teenage years? How many friends do you still have who you knew when you were a teenager?
"It just blacked out and showed no signs of life at all"

good point, thanks.
>You have to price those externalities pretty damn high to cancel out two centuries of exponential improvements and growth.

Improvements and growth to what? I'd say only quantity and quality of life counts.

And if the increments of quantity and quality of life are offset by biblical sized climate destruction and the death/life cut short of millions and impact (in worsening life conditions) to billions (which might last for centuries), it might very well not be worth it.

>We simply aren’t all going to die from climate change.

"Not all going to die" is a pretty low bar though...
I'm glad you could overcome these problems.
> Or a pair of eyes. Snowpack gets worse and worse every year.

Yup. I spend a good deal of time training for and rescuing people in the Sierras. Snow pack is very obviously lower than a decade back. Sure, sure, we'll get the occasional outlier like that massive snow pack a few years back, but ever other year, it gets lower and lower.
I believe that modern SSDs shuffle data around so that wear levelling does still work even with nearly full drives.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27044044

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27065853
Yeah, the respirator mandate was basically a reaction to people not caring about using masks properly anymore, so the main effect - infected people with a mask of any kind being much less likely to infect others - could no longer be assured. So by mandating everyone to have a FFP2+ respirator it was less likely people will get infected when they encounter the next infected person without a mas or wearing one incorrectly/for show.

BTW, in practice it was ever only required indoors, many people flatly ignored it outside. Loopholes like "no need to wear a mask if you don't go closer than 2 meters to somebody did not help.

For sure was not a pleasant experience going out for a walk with an at risk family member who has not been vaccinated yet, to avoid all those inconsiderate potentially infected people getting too close.

We of course had masks but the did not...
> I quit advertising after only a couple of years because it blackened my soul. If I was helping to harvest people's personal lives for private profit I can only imagine it would have been worse.

I can definitely feel this - I worked in mobile gaming for a little while. The camaraderie was amazing, I keep in touch with a number of coworkers from that job - the company was terrible (like gaming companies tend to be) but the fact that I was devoting part of my life to building a system I knew was deeply immoral and taking advantage of people's addiction is what pushed me away from it in the end.

I really try to avoid judging people over their career or life choices since nobody is as simple as a statistic, but advertising and mobile gaming is where I break this rule - I definitely don't judge marketers as categorically evil, but the vocation is poisonous. In the article the author calls out that...

> One answer is that I'm earning to give: I give half of what I earn to the most effective charities I can find, and the more I earn the more I can give.

As a response to people asking why they're in marketing and I think this is a really bad sign. If you need to justify your work by calling out the charity you're doing with the earnings then I think you, internally, have identified that what you're doing is causing harm to society.

I understand and sympathize with the fact that brands with poor visibility can struggle to break into established markets but these positives seem quite limited when stacked up against over-consumption, addiction exploitation, decreased general attentiveness, a weakening of what objective truths are and leaving a gigantic security hole in our society for disinformation to easily penetrate deep into folks' hearts and minds.

Advertising, at it's most basic, is trying to change the minds of consumers - you're attempting to take someone who is thinking wrong and make them think right - where right is the mindset that leads them to purchase your product. I think that advertising is really an emotional manipulation at its core.

There is probably a distinction between purely informational marketing that's done to increase general awareness of your brand and marketing that's targeting increasing the chances that an uninterested party will impulse buy your product (the later is what can lead to the over consumption of high sugar products and spur on obesity). I, honestly, couldn't draw a line between the two so if we have to throw out the baby with the bathwater so be it.

I've tried to write this up with a calm head and in an even manner, but my apologies in advance if it's too strong - it's a subject I personally have extremely strong feelings on.
No problem. It is. I an curious how you feel about that. The engine is a bit agnostic of the rendering layer (we will have a similarly powerful iOS app at some point too).
Some past discussions:

Pink Trombone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18912628 - Jan 2019 (75 comments)

Pink Trombone: Speech Synthesis Simulation in JavaScript - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14135658 - April 2017 (52 comments)

A mouth simulator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13973261 - March 2017 (1 comment)
Deal with beef and dairy first, they use far more water for far less output: https://www.truthordrought.com/almond-milk-myths
> “I am going to rape you,” followed up by that very action, will lead to damage that is difficult if not impossible to overcome.

I'm not sure the words are the problem there.
c. a portion of the industry is based on a delusion

Given that some industries (or movements, ideologies, etc.) could credibly be based on delusions, what do you think is the upper limit for how big such an industry could get?
https://www.cio.com/article/3167530/lessons-from-the-rise-an...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/shuttleworth-defends-ubuntu-li...
Why the condescension? Do you mean that Google has been offering this service for a while? Or do you mean that similar services have previously been offered by other organizations? In which case, perhaps you could link to them?
It's a plague everywhere. I'm on the Gulf Coast and our waterways are massively polluted - entirely by lawn runoff.
See also - https://github.com/CatalaLang/catala
This reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
We have the technology to solve this problem, and we've had it for thousands of years:

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

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

Los Angles piloted a "smart cisterns" program in 2015 that captured residential roof runoff in centrally monitored and operated cisterns, which could hold or release water according to flood conditions and local demand:

https://stormwater.wef.org/2015/11/los-angeles-homeowners-ca...
I have a good size community on KeyBase that uses it regularly. We tried to switch to other platforms like Signal, Matrix, Session, and others, but the one that everyone feels comfortable with is KB.
> My data is clearly more valuable to you than my dollars - otherwise I'd have a choice.

Alternatively, people are just not that willing to pay money to avoid ads. FB's revenue per user in the US is ~$5/month, but users who would pay to avoid ads tend to be richer, so to break even FB might need to charge, say, $20/month. I'd bet too few people are willing to pay $20/month to justify the costs and complexity of offering an ad free product. Especially when you consider the bad publicity that would come from offering something "overpriced".
"In my ultimate wisdom, I know what people need better than they do. Products I don't like shouldn't be allowed to exist"
I kinda mean a better alternative to funding all this stuff. As pointed out in the OP, ads are actually a progressive model while the oft-cited alternative ("just charge people for what they use") is fairly regressive.

The is actually what I like about Brave's solution, which is:

- no ads by default.

- if you have money and want to pay for the content you consume, you can load money into the browser and have it automatically dispense to publishers/creators based on which content you consume for how long, determined locally on your machine so no privacy leakage there.

- or if you don't have enough to justify paying all those creators directly you can turn on (again) privacy focused ads, where analysis for targeting only happens locally in the browser.

But from what I've seen, HN really hates Brave so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Non paywalled: https://archive.is/qdbCB
>Getting the right message in front of the right user at the right time is a lot harder than people think it is.

Guess that's why we need those brightest minds of our generation on the problem, as the saying goes, right?

That sentence gives me extreme Matthew McConaughey-in-Wolf of Wall Street vibes. After seeing you wrote that, I immediately assumed you very likely work in advertising. Sure enough...

I have no clue whether anything you've written there is accurate or not. Either way, this whole thing and this whole industry just looks, sounds, and feels gross and intrinsically empty. I get a much better and more wholesome feeling from the cryptocurrency industry, even.
not really, this percentage is coincidence
I think he’s trying to escape the asterisk but doesn’t realize that’s not required as long as there isn’t another one following it.
I've actually been on the lookout for model hubs lately. Any that you've seen or reccomend?

I've found https://modelzoo.co/ but it seems more like a currated list of models (some incomplete) rather than a community where users share trained models.
If you're not doing business in or with any EU entities there's not much they can do
What about a port for unlocking the storage via T2 with the user’s password as normal, just bypassing everything else on the mobo so that data would still be recoverable if the dead component was something other than the T2 or storage?
I love Authy and used it for a ton of stuff, but some places started not supporting it. I'm looking at you coinbase. For some reason I have three 2FA apps on my phone now. I purposely didn't have 2FA setup on some accounts while I was living abroad because so many SMS based 2FA for sites don't support international numbers.
>I do this with all my websites. At the end of the day, a custom font just isn't very important for the vast majority of sites.

I'd say a custom font isn't important for any site. Except perhaps a font fountry showcasing their wares.

I do wish OS and/or browser vendors added more agreed system fonts though (pre-installed and ready to go). So that we have a selection of say 100 fonts guaranteed to be on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, FreeBSD... I guess adding emojis anually is more important...