skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See, you did it again. There is nothing "beautiful" about mental health issues. Do you think there is something beautiful when someone breaks their arm? The way people treat those with broken limbs is the best form of compassion that achieves real results to end someone's mental health problems. No one faults anyone who broke their arm and they're in pain, having trouble with day to day functioning. However its then, "Hey, you need to see a doc to put your arm in place and get you a caste. Let me take you to the hospital." You get faulted when your dumbass lives with a broken arm for no reason, constantly complaining when there is a fix possible. Go through the process. Take the time for the bone to heal. People show their compassion, which helps you out even more, when they do little things to help you out while it heals, instead of just saying, "I'm sorry about your broken arm. Youre so strong. It's okay for it to be broken forever. It's your identity now. You should always be known as the one with the broken arm. It's so beautiful that you broke your arm." Then you go through physical therapy to get back to fighting strength, along with making sure it doesn't happen again. You also now know how to avoid or deal with a similar event to avoid a break. This is how mental health should be approached. Dont fucking treat it as a fashionable badge of courage, allowing it to fester and rot someone's head. That depression rot makes it far fucking harder to heal. Look, it took me far too long to overcome my own depression because most "help" out there focuses on it being "okay to be depressed" instead of actually fixing it. This includes some really shitty therapists who believe depression should be an accepted identity, one of which I dumped too much money on. That's why these type of articles and rhetoric anger me to no end. You have zero clue how dangerous this is in the long run for people.

Most vets that I personally know which adapted to a stable life well do a few things. A hobby they personally devote to. They exercise outside fairly regularly. Some type of difficult long term task they give themselves. More importantly I think, they have friends that were combat vets as well and they all talk regularly. Like 90s teenage girls everyday or every other day on the phone and in person. Not texting, actually talking. Not everyone can take their awesome crass, dark humor well, which is a good vent for when things get rough for them. I think everyone I know had therapy to some level and for some amount of time. I cant speak much to that because that's something I dont poke into. I just know that two new vets into the group went from not doing a lot of what I mentioned and... yea, not adapting well to society... to then doing pretty good in like 6-12 months. That VR stuff is really designed for hyper specific PTSD triggers to my knowledge. Not general societal stuff. I ended up doing gov contracting which ended up leading me to making too many vet friends overtime. If it wasn't for them, I'd still be in a mental pit at best.
What Happened with Xerox and Apple?
The true story of the Xerox Star (and in a way, Apple), by someone who was there: me.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096CHDZL1/ref=sr_1_1
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57138737-inventing-the-f...

There are several excellent histories of this period, but this is a historical novel, so you can get the feeling of what it was like to be there. All the facts in it are accurate and I had the cooperation of almost everyone who's still alive.

The cover photo is the son of Dave Smith (who invented icons), "playing" MazeWar, a networked multiplayer game we played in 1979. It was taken on a working Alto in Nov. 2020.

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> I assume you stop at red lights

This paints me in a somewhat negative light--in
the spirit of honesty--prior to flashing left turn signals, I often didn't. Well, I probably stopped and looked both ways, but I didn't necessarily obey. I think this is completely tangential to your point though.

I do try to be a good citizen to my neighbors and friends. I pick up garbage and keep my house clean. I live on a private road (not fancy, just not publicly maintained.), and I help maintain that.

I try to walk faster when a car is waiting for me to cross. I do things I believe help my community, but I also break rules if I disagree with them. I would argue with my parents if I believed their reasoning was lacking, and generally if I obeyed a command of theirs even though I disagreed it was from fear of retribution.

To steel man your argument, I think what you're saying is that being pro COVID vaccine isn't necessarily being pro-government control, and people are taking the vaccine purely to help others in society.

I agree, there are definitely people that fall in this category. I still believe that the overwhelming majority of people that have taken the vaccine also are happy that views like mine are censored, think the government is doing a great job promoting this vaccine and do support lockdowns. It's hard for me to separate the two opinions because such a seemingly overwhelming majority of people with one of these opinions have all of them.

I think taking the vaccine if you believe it is healthy and helps others is a good thing for you to do. That said I think blocking me from speaking against vaccine requirements, and or being able to discuss how the vaccine might be unhealthy

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/spike-proteins-covid-19-and...

Is atrocious and has no place in a free society. Yet, this is happening. Not only that, but I'm worried I'll be forced to be vaccinated to live a normal life, even though I have COVID antibodies.

From my vantage, it's difficult to remain optimistic because of what I perceive as a governmental overreach being supported by the majority of people. I legitimately feel threatened, and that makes it hard for me to be un-biased.

Edit: Just realized my link may not make sense without a bit of context. Essentially it's saying a lot of the damage done by COVID is caused by the spike protein itself. The mRNA vaccines cause your body to produce the spike protein. I'm not saying _you_ should be convinced because of this link, I'm just giving an example of why I'm skeptical.
you wont know until you know. if two people can both use a mouse, but only one can do it all with the keyboard, you have to decide if they are being pretentious or if its actually better. i personally think its better for almost all code related tasks, but the mouse still has uses elsewhere
I’m surprised the military is not more interested in the boring company. The ability to tunnel at high speed, unseen to satellites or planes. transport military hardware fast in a completely safe environment - sounds like a revolution in warfare.
Please do not hunt us for our teeth!
It's hard to know the truth in this space. Most blockchain development and discussion is driven by greed.

Proof-of-stake has various problems, depending on who you ask. In this case, as far as I understand it, the issue is related to large positions locked as collateral in DeFi. PoS security assumes that most of the available currency is used for staking, but the security assumption breaks if most of the currency is locked as collateral in DeFi (which can offer better interest rates vs. staking).
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For the sake of good faith discussion, I do have two questions if you don't mind

(1) I believe both Moderna and Pfizer are in the process of seeking full FDA approval for their mRNA vaccines. Assuming they succeed, is it safe to say your opinion of the vaccines will change accordingly to a less-contrarian view?

(2) My understanding (and you can correct me if I'm wrong) is that your view is one looking to protect against tail risk, which can be summarized with the following statement: 'Absence of evidence of risk is not sufficient'. In other words, you want sufficient evidence that mRNA vaccines are safe, rather than accepting an EUA based on demonstrated effectiveness and lack of known risk[0].

My question is whether you're willing to reconsider the above statement as the absence of evidence of risk continues in the face of overwhelming distribution of the vaccine? For example, J&J was paused after just 8 million doses. Pfizer and Moderna are an order of magnitude higher on doses (on the order of about 100 million doses). Even if we're modelling against the risk of a side-effect that takes many months, or even somehow years, on average to materialize, on a bell curve many many vaccine recipients would already have materialized the side effects. (IE if materializing under 3 months is a 5 sigma event, we would have had enough adverse effects materializing to halt the use of the vaccines, similar to how J&J was halted after something like 6 or 8 observed blood clottings)

Furthermore, my understanding is that FDA approval is based on having 6 months of phase 3 clinical trial safety data (and EUA based on 2 months of the same). The number of people enrolled in phase 3 clinical trials of mRNA vaccines is so few compared to the total number of vaccines (I think 40,000 in pfizer phase 3 trials), it is absurd to consider that new issues could show up in phase 3 trials that had not already demonstrated en masse in the hundreds of MILLIONS of doses given out in the public. It's statistically impossible.

With that in mind, I would suggest that waiting until FDA full approval is basically pointless; if you're worried about side effects that take decades on average, the FDA won't be able to save you from that, and if you're worried about side effects that take months on average, we would already know about it from the hundreds of millions of willing volunteers.

[0] Lack of known risk: the J&J vaccine was halted and investigated immediately when there was a potential blood clotting issue. No such potential risks have yet been uncovered with Pfizer and Moderna, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
Globalization and free trade have done no good for the environment
Who is Quebec?
$10? Ha. How about another year of credit monitoring!
What is the reasoning for giving them a criminal offense? Not “because they broke the law” but like, what are we hoping to get out of sending them to jail/giving them a fine? That they choose to stop being homeless? That being in jail makes them not homeless anymore?

I think it’s a fools errand to jail homeless people. It seems like a waste of money to me but I don’t have a better solution or idea on how to spend my tax dollars so am really interested in hearing more on the positive side of jailing them.
If Amazon wants to release a feature that they make a bunch of money off of selling it to advertisers, that uses customer resources and doesn't benefit them, and many/most customers actively don't want it, then they need to convince people to say yes. How is people not wanting to do it justification for Amazon doing it? If they want it done they can offer credits
Missing detail: only 40ku for sale, not serious amounts.
I.C.E
Intrusion countermeasures electronics. William Gibson wins again.
I'm sure it feels good to highly target your ads, but I'm more interested in actual data.
More likely, telecom will think, this is against our residential TOS and we can use that to get a slice of the Amazon’s mesh revenue. Especially because most of the telecoms offer side access to wireless routers of their customer for other customers of theirs too. Maybe this is a play by Amazon to be in a better position in this set of future negotiations - one which the average consumer is really a bystander for all the input they have.
This is a very old model, and it's as dumb today as it was in the 1990s.

The seniors used to be called "architects," and the "driving projects/design" used to be called RUP.
You wouldn't expect it to load the module to inspect it? Loading a module executes top-level code.
But isn’t the “damage” these middleware layers do actually good optimizations/features that people pay for? The ossification is the problem, not the ability to optimize IMHO.
That sounds like an informed opinion from someone who is now in Belarus.
It's a joke. Such is the nature of jokes: not taking it seriously.
Yeah. Everyone boils this down to a debate between paywalls and ads. For example, from this article:

> When those publishers are in the news business, this is another trade-off - pay walls (and privacy!) conflict with reach and public purpose

But there are other ways. One which is already successful is community supported free content, just like this article's author is already doing: they release it early to paying people and then release it publicly. They still get paid, and they still get the reach. I even support quite a number of people on Patreon who provide no benefit to the payer. I like the content they produce, so I pay them to make it, regardless of who else gets to view it.

I think this is one of the most harmful effects of advertising-based business models: it kills other business models. If advertising pays well, then there is incentive for someone else to "steal" your content and slap ads on it. But if we destroy advertising as a viable business model, then that incentive disappears, and we can start exploring other business models.
probably not, speckle is random and they use several images to reconstruct the final result.
It was created, but now it is good enough for their Objective-C/Swift/MSL purposes, to the point everyone's wondering why clang is so behind in C++20 support.
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Automatic refactoring etc is still a long way off being good in Vim.

But I’ve recently started using a combination of Neovim + treesitter + LSPs, and have found it incredibly powerful. Extremely responsive automatic compilation that feels instantaneous, good inline error messages, very good and fast syntax highlighting through treesitter... At what it does, I’d go as far as saying as it achieves more than any other IDEs I’ve tried. But of course, what it does is more limited.

At the moment I rarely even touch a mouse. I work primarily in Vim, with DWM as a window manager and a Vim extension in the browser. When I have to work in a different environment and use a mouse again, I find the constant context switching very distracting
Linux largely won out over the BSDs for various reasons that may (or may not) have included the license. I personally think Linux would be roughly where it is even if it used a BSD license.

And in the absence of Linux entirely, most people I know consider that one of the BSDs would have been rallied around because there was just too much market demand for an open source *nix operating system.
I would like to see a Deno column on the Browser Compatibility table. I see Node.js has one.
Was anyone else talking about domestic travel?

> Also, by 2031 (if not already), COVID will be endemic. So no, I probably won't take the vaccine. But taking the vaccine at my age was not a good idea anyway (in my opinion).

I don't know what age you are, but you must not be talking statistically.
> The wide-field of view
image reconstruction takes 10 mins on a desktop computer with a GTX 1080Ti graphics card and a i7-8700k CPU to reconstruct an image with 100 by 100 raw pixels

That's an impressive amount of computation per pixel
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So what you're saying is there's no need to track users and violate privacy. Great! We can agree. Stick to billboards and television commercials.
> I don't lose two hours a day due to the commute.

One of my bitches about Silicon Valley is top managers of tech companies locate their companies a short drive away from their homes and estates in Palo Alto, Los Altos, Woodside and force the schmucks that work for them into long commutes.
'Pirated' Chinese kiwi fruit – food intellectual property worries New Zealand
> Does popular support justify tyranny

If you see travel restrictions during a pandemic as tyranny, I'm not sure I can help you.
Cloud encoubmered technology, once the "cloud" servers go down, the device stops.

This is true for about 90% of all IoT "things" on the market, and dont thing your immune if you buy form a "big brand" like Google (who has already done this to products of theirs see Revolv and Nest both)
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> I wonder how long Adobe is going to care about professional photographers for Lightroom. That sounds crazy, I know, but I would bet that the percentage of Lightroom users who are actual working pros is tiny and shrinking. At some point it will be more profitable for Adobe to abandon that tiny and demanding customer group to some other company and focus on prosumers with Lightroom CC.

This is theoretically possible, but I'd bet against it because of the brand halo effect of having Lightroom Classic be the main tool of professional photographers is too valuable. The second Adobe discontinues Lightroom Classic, the professional market will move to Capture One. That's a dangerous position for Adobe to be in. I wouldn't put it past Adobe to still make this mistake (e.g., see Figma), but I think if they did, it would be a mistake so large that it would shape the future of Adobe as a company. I.e., Adobe will be weaker forever if they do this.

> Apple did this with Final Cut. After years of being proud that Real Hollywood Films were edited with Final Cut, they gave up Hollywood and pivoted the product firmly toward prosumers. It has not hurt Apple at all, and probably saved them some money and heartache along the way.

I do not think Apple is happy about the way Final Cut Pro X turned out. The feedback to Final Cut Pro X was so bad that Steve Jobs personally called Randy Ubillos about it (source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfII0EcbCsg). That's the only time I've ever heard of Steve Jobs getting involved with one of Apple's pro apps.

Consider this: Look at the Mac Pro and in particular, the Pro Display XDR. Which industry were those products made to placate? Do you think Apple is happy that video studios that once would have been running their software on those machines are now running Avid/Premiere? Plus look at the corresponding roll out of Logic Pro X two years later, which was far less of re-imagining than Final Cut Pro X was. I think Apple has learned their lesson. "Success hides problems", from 2010-2020 made some colossally terrible decisions, that we only talk about less because the iPhone has compensated for so much, Final Cut Pro X is one of them.
Oh, please! I'm from Belarus. It hurts me to hear such words. I know people who support Lukashenko but I'd say it's truly just 3%. We have a lot of evidence that he doesn't have support but they are Junta. And it's not just words. I could go to jail for this message... Read it https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57320591
You said "not groups" but then you wrote a bunch of words that describe "groups" so the distinction you're trying to draw doesn't make any sense.
You're looking for the "browser.compactmode.show" key.
Defunding the military has real impacts. Those free trade deals that lower the cost of goods for average people don't just magically get signed, generally U.S. military presence is also a part of the deal.

More generally if the U.S. loses global hegemony then so does the dollar, and a mass exodus from the dollar as foreign reserve would cause rampant inflation as demand for dollars crashes.

The geopolitical situation is more complicated than just "defund the military". You can see both the current and past administration are trying to get other countries to pay more for the U.S. presence, which is a form of slow withdrawal of U.S. power, so I think they recognize that there is a need to redirect funds, but I don't think you can just outright leave in a year.