skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Profanity (and blasphemy) is offensive to tons of people, arguably more than are offended by hate speech. But profanity is tolerated in many communities where hate speech is not.

That overlooks the degree of offense and threat. Some things are far more offensive and threatening than others. Clearly, hate speech is exceptionally offensive and threatening to many people.

Fuck. Shit. Asshole. My writing these words is rude, but has little impact. Even if I stuck them into my comments ('the fucking interface ...'), it would just be a little rude.

Hate speech can be a personal attack. Also, hate speech is often tied to power: If a powerful group uses hate speech against a vulnerable one, it can represent a serious threat: Humanity's history of the powerful abusing the vulnerable is long and terrible, and hate speech indicates, often intentionally, the willingness or intention to carry out such acts.
How about if they put it in a machine that verifies it as legit, but also just so happens to scan it in to a DB.

I've seen this exact setup before, in an entrance to a club, but no one seems to care.
The actual paper is here: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...

I'm super skeptical about these types of studies in general. 'Wonder food' studies always end up being a little too good to be true.

The discussion section of the paper lists an awful lot of caveats to the methodology of data collection and removal of confounding factors.
Contrary to Brave Search's instructions to click the three dots (...) in Firefox's URL bar to add Brave Search, I don't get the dots at all.

I do get Brave Search as a button when I click the URL bar and it drops down, but if I click on the Brave Search icon to add it, Firefox says:

Invalid format
Firefox could not install the search engine from: https://search.brave.com/auth/assets/opensearch.xml
She started eating beef again about three years ago, very slowly at first. Of course she had a tremendous fear of doing so, but was able to get past it to experiment.

This was also driven by some long term low to very low iron levels, and supplements weren't doing the job. She had to get some iron infusions, which isn't a pleasant procedure.

Once she started eating beef again, her iron levels came right up.

In fact we just got back from Safeway with several pounds of medium lean ground beef for dinner tonight and tomorrow.
New Milestone for Deep Potential: Predicting the Phase Diagram of Water
There is only one line which mentions race, and it does so in context with class, “In SimCity race and class conflicts are sanitized.”

The author of the article didn’t even push a race based agenda (clearly class oriented) and the parent commenter is projecting onto it.

Americans and their insane racial culture is causing people like the parent commenter to disengage from reality.
Indeed. It happens very often that Russia causes such violations:
https://news.err.ee/1608255123/nato-planes-scrambled-eight-t...
You're referring to Fallback Mixing, which is off by default. You have to enable it in https://search.brave.com/settings. When enabled, this feature will (at times) pull in results from Google via an anonymous query, routed through the browser. Read more about it here: https://search.brave.com/help/google-fallback
Can we trust crypto banking?
OkieFoodTrucks.com is a SaaS for event organizers to find/book food trucks, built entirely on no code.

You can read more about how it was built here:.

https://www.foxy.io/blog/how-okiefoodtrucks-is-using-foxy-we...
Working for several hours a day is unfeasible for most people, unless you're working on something you actively love.

From my perspective, as long as you're not holding anyone back, I think you're doing a decent job of modulating your energy for moments when you need it, as opposed to marathon running all day long.
How would you regulate this?

The entity that throws these things away is called something like "Amazon Warehouse 123", and its business is to accept goods that belong to others in bulk, keep them for a while, and finally either ship them singly to regular buyers, in bulk to the owner or someone else, or throw the away. The discarded goods are ones for which the owner either has told Amazon Warehouse 1234 to discard, or the owner has stopped paying or otherwise relieved the warehouse of its obligation to… warehouse those goods.

Would you regulate the owner (which is often another Amazon subsidiary, but may also be someone else)? The warehouse? And what would you make them do?
Thanks; this is a great perspective. It's similar to the idea of survivorship bias.
This is one of those timeless HN comments that impact any parent's life (in a positive sense).
The distinction is important when you think about how and whether or not to combat the issue. If general prices are rising due to runaway inflation and rising wages (like in the US in the 70s), then the central bank knows it can raise interest rates to help slow things down. If prices of a few assets like used cars, cargo, or hand sanitizer are rising because of temporary shortages, raising interest rates is not going to do much.
You get paid for the value you deliver, not the effort exerted.
VR websites where I can grab my groceries with my hands and open literal doors into new web pages
Some would say it is all too convenient ...
That's how I remember the late 90's and early 2000's specifically, which I think was an especially dark age for the speed of the overall software + hardware combo. but if we go a bit more recent (say 2005 to today) I mostly haven't perceived a gain in speed.

That said, I think in the last very few years it's turned around a bit, mainly due to SSDs. In my experience most times that software is painfully slow (in any era) it's because you have too many things open and you're swapping. And SSDs provide acceptable speed even when swapping.

In other words, I find modern machines to be roughly as slow as ~2005, but only up to the very recent years when SSDs have become the norm. Now I'm starting to finally feel things being faster overall.
I spend a lot of time thinking through what needs to be done and how. I don’t stare at a screen and just bang code out anymore.
RISC-V Vector is a form of SIMD. So this is a simple(ish) processor but you can lots of calculation because of the SIMD.

Yes, it is used in embedded context, processing of input from sensor for example. Local machine learning is all the hype right now.

"Edge Computing" is the typical buzz word.
A lot of replies here, like in most conversations about burnout, are offering advice about what you can specifically do.

A more important question, I think, is to ask why you build a life where you worked so much that you burned yourself out. Burnout just means you depleted the stock of energy you have, and you did it persistently over time to the point where all the neat tricks you can use for motivation no longer work.

And you did that, like we all do, for good reasons. It'll probably rhyme with all the reasons we get given socially – like how work is perceived as good, and you want to advance in your career. But there are also deeply personal reasons that you learned that make burnout a consequence you accept, even as you watch yourself deplete yourself.

If you ask yourself where and how you learned to work so hard that you deplete yourself, then you can actually give yourself good answers about how to overcome burnout. Burnout, again, is just the end state of a life you learned you had to live. Fixing burnout means listening to what compels you to do that, so that you can stop doing it. And maybe more importantly, you'll also have to notice what on earth you would do other than following the path that leads you to burnout.

It's those two things together that help stop burnout: stopping the things that burn you out, and finding out what actually gives you energy and makes your life fuller and more vibrant, alive. You don't have to just spend the rest of your life managing the former, where you may not end up in acute burnout but where you're still constantly managing an always shrinking reserve of energy in the service of things that always shrink it. You have to dream a little bigger, and ask: who am I, and what do I need that makes me and my life fuller?

As others have pointed out, a good therapist is a great person to help you navigate this. Burnout is pernicious. It's a self-harming thing that you learned to do because it gave you good things, so you build up all sorts of protections that prevent you from noticing it's bad for you. A therapist is a person who helps you get to a more honest view of what is going on in that dynamic, and where it is rooted in you.
Mine was from one bite, it depends on the tick and maybe the person too. Some people get bit many times a year and don't get AGS or other tick borne illnesses. They're just lucky I guess
Seriously. For a privacy focused org to have these moral failings makes me skeptical they won't abuse users' trust in the future. I still don't think it's right to accept donations on behalf of someone you have no prior agreement with.
Function purity is a mathematical term with a clear definition and doesn’t deserve the double quotes which imply some vacuous definition or uncertainty.

Assuming you are referring to “pure”, in the context of functional programming and isolation of side effects.
How is this not completely (f**ing) obvious?
There was a security issue. In order to fix the issue, so that your washing machine doesn't do something crazy like take over your bank account, we had to slow your washing machine down a bit.

We expect that this issue will be sorted out soon.

In the meantime we hope you'll consider that speed and security are sometimes traded off, in this world of network-aware, gigahertz speed washing machines which you can also use to do banking, create spreadsheets and watch your favorite movies.
The subscriptiion allows you to set a pin
As a visual learner, this is fantastic.

I do wish that that there would be a key explaining the color coding.
Pretty good critique of the realist aspect of the game, and props on him for trying to make a new game based on the factors that he mentioned. However, it's not like Sim City is expected to include every single aspect of city development and growth as a factor, nor is it expected to be some kind of acceptably accurate depiction of city development. And he said so himself, the developers of SimCity didn't want to involve aspects of the real world that were politically divisive as a factor, which I don't really think is a bad thing.
It’s funny how much people believe corporate BS and will defend the company citing their stated reasoning. I used to think it’s astroturf, but it’s too pervasive.

For example, LLBean and REI recently revoked their lifetime warranty referencing “customer abuse” and on web forums people defend the companies. Like somehow after many decades, customer abuse skyrocketed. And there’s no data, of course. And the change went from lifetime to 1-2 years. And it makes them tons more money.

It seems people are less skeptical of corporate blargh.
I think you can totally print the current QR code on a piece of paper and show that to someone. It's not more or less safe than having it in an App.

The QR code is essentially like a Covid-only digital vaccination pass; it doesn't provide any more or less information.

The only valid point in pzo's original comment is that a scanner app from a bad actor could collect the personal information within the code. So we need to be able to trust that the person scanning the QR code is using a legitimate app.
An almost uncharacteristic case of reason and foresight. We are currently worried with Covid-19, but considering all the variants already present, lets just hope that there isn't a Covid-22. In any case, as soon as there are dedicated vaccinations against the variants, it is very likely that there is need for more fine-grained tracking. That is probably also the reason they include the vaccines used in the data set.

And even if we don't have the need to check for our vaccination state when going to restaurants soon enough, it would be good if those certificates could be used to track any other vaccination you get. Just as the replacement or digital alternative for the usual yellow vaccination booklet. It would make checking your vaccination status for your doctor much easier than trying to decipher what a colleague has scribbled many years ago.
> antitrust laws should not be rigged against a small number of companies

Errrr... if there is a small number of very dominant companies, that's exactly what they should be.
Joan Didion’s Long View
Out of order execution requires a ton of logic (you're basically adding a small optimizing compiler in silicon). This takes a bunch of area and leads to more complicated data paths. The reason high performance cores use it is that it greatly reduces pipeline stalls, and as such can make your cpu several times faster.
>Burnout and boredom are dramatically different concepts.

Are they though? I really can't imagine "burning out" on something I didn't find boring. And vice versa.

The rest of the advice seems to boil down to "take a break, then go back to the thing you were bored with". Not a great plan in my opinion. If you don't switch things up, you'll inevitably end up in the same place. Growth is the only option.
it's not that the price is necessarily competitive, but rather, that there is (and can be) competition along multiple dimensions even in markets with high acquisition costs. of course, there could just not be enough competition in totality to drive prices down near the marginal cost of production, but significant customer acquisition costs don't necessarily indicate an inefficient market, since complex products (like insurance) require more effort toward customer education (e.g., sales & marketing).

my guess, however, is that the current equilibrium point above the marginal cost of production is likely more a function of regulatory capture. insurance went through a broad round of demutualization over the past few decades, and some of the capital gains of that process surely went into legal and political initiatives.

to the article's point though, insurance is an adversely-incentivized industry driven to over-financialize every possible risk, which is where it veers into gambling (just like equities and derivatives) and sensationalizing paranoia (just like news). insurance should be reserved for unlikely but impactful natural events, not common or man-made ones, which is what insurance has expanded into.
We used mercurial but few tools integrated with it out of the box. It was easier to move to git that get mercurial to work with our tools
This sounds like it might be good thing for the company. Having employees who have extra capacity is incredibly important for an organization that wants to get things done; if you're constantly hard at work on something important, when something else comes up (someone has a question, there's a bug or an outage, whatever), you either have to delay the thing you're already working on, or delay the thing that came up. This tends to have a cascade effect on most kinds of work, locking up all your people resources.

Plus, those other things you're doing sound like they overall, in the long-term, probably give you a wider range of knowledge, improving your usefulness.

Just wanted to add a voice against that sort of Taylorism perspective on work.
In December '19 the company that would end up being acquired by Brave did a number of blog posts [0] where they explained the tech. The short answer is 'a lot of word2vec'.

[0] https://www.0x65.dev/
Such a life altering change would unsurprisingly bring about new challenges as well as new possibilities.
basically my thoughts exactly. almost all military shooters don't even try to accurately portray the horrors of war. most driving games don't accurately simulate driving at all. GTA doesn't model just how much it sucks to have your car stolen. Age of Empires and Civilization don't accurately model empire-building. Monopoly isn't anything like real-life property trading. Titanfall doesn't model the economic ramifications of building and deploying dozens of giant robots—which are often destroyed within a couple minutes of landing—per 10-minute conflict.

it's like... yeah, duh. games are and have always been simplifications of complex systems, allowing for interesting decisions and fun for the player. presenting the idea that SimCity doesn't holistically simulate everything in a real city down to social justice issues like race/class stratification and tensions between the populace and the police, is far from a novel observation, and every time someone makes such an observation it makes me wonder what the intended audience for such an observation is.

that said, yes, the layout and presentation of the ideas expressed here is quite nice.
I don't understand what you mean, Sowell is very well regarded here in the United States in a variety of political environments.
If that is the case, what search engine do you currently use?
Hangouts, Google's big fix for its messaging mess (2013)
Didn't even realize the extent of the referral codes. Imagine if Chrome auto-inserted their own amazon affiliate links when people typed in Amazon.com - people would be up in arms.
I guess you can get 90% of the way, but the remaining 10% becomes really hard unless you're Google scale. But even several 90% alternatives would be better than absolute monopoly.
What's beyond me is why they can't find a minimal effort solution that still nets them a minimal profit or at least costs them less than disposal. I'm sure they're paying to dispose of this stuff.

Around the US, Goodwill has what it calls "outlet stores", where anything that didn't sell at Goodwill (a low bar to clear) gets sent and dumped into giant bins to be sold as-is by weight, as a last chance at redemption before the landfill. Despite the low quality of the goods, the stores are usually packed, and even Goodwill rejects have value. Before the pandemic my wife and I enjoyed the cheap entertainment of picking stuff up for a song and reselling it on eBay for fun.

I for one would gladly sift through bins of Amazon returns and buy them by weight. If you have "valuable" waste like this there's no need to ship it, people will come to you.
> Amazon’s decisions seem hard to explain. We should let it remain a mystery

This gets back to what I disagree with. If Amazon's decisions seem hard to explain, the decisions should be brought to the public's attention and Amazon should explain them. There is no reason for it to remain a mystery. And they'll never explain it unless there is a price to be paid for not explaining, e.g. being perceived as wasteful.
If they add bang operators, I might trial switching over from ddg.
It seems there is telemetry, sending the day, OS and browser type (among other things I cannot identify) by POST:
https://archive.is/0NTrt

It seems it can be disabled in the settings (https://search.brave.com/settings) but it's opt-out rather than opt-in.
I still prefer Iridium with its Quant search engine.
Brave browser on android doesn't let me set it as default search yet. Maybe I need an update.
This is different than paid vacation and has some pros and cons. Obviously it doesn't have the flexibility of 1 week you can use whenever you want. But closing the company for a week forces people to take the time off (some people just accumulate as much vacation as they can, either because they don't like taking it or because in some states you'll get cash for unused vacation). Making EVERYONE take the same week also helps avoid the existential dread of taking vacation because you feel burnt out, then coming back to a pile of 500 unread emails
Airbnb's Steps for Building a PC Codebase
I wanted to start a business and work the bare minimum, but I felt guilty about it - even though my bare minimum is still impressive to my employers.

My solution was to just switch jobs and take a pay cut. I work a lot less now (with the same kind of arrangement), but I feel a lot less guilty about spending chunks of my time on my own thing.

Relevant pg essay, under the 'working harder' heading: http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html?viewfullsite=1
Do not forget that Brave (the browser) was designed/marketed as part of the US Culture Wars, basically as a Firefox-but-for-Conservatives.

Brave (the search engine) apparently follows the same strategy. The reason for having this index is basically political. Brave doesn't want to be impacted by Google or Bing's editorial choices. Of course, Brave Search will certainly be doing its own editorial choices.
> you could reframe that conversation as one about whether you agree with the concept of protected classes or not

If someone is not in a vulnerable position, than hate speech isn't much of a threat. If a Swede is locked in a room of Norwegians and says 'Norwegian scum should be taught a lesson', people might back away a little, but it's not much threat. But vice-versa, if a Norwegian says 'Swedish scum should be taught a lesson', then it's a very threatening situation to the Swede. (I'm picking two groups which, as far as I know, have little real-world animosity.)
Bricked implies its as useful as a brick, but it still functions as a treadmill
Her diet and health are now exceptional. Her diet includes beef a couple times a week because she struggles with iron deficiency.
The real story here is that this is news. It's common for most European businesses for 2 weeks every year in the summer. It's a non-optional, lights out, GTFO shutdown.
In other words, parent is asking you(OP) to validate.

If you have a problem which is itching you to solve by building something, Then it's probably the best way to get started without quitting your day job. If others are willing to pay for your solution for solving their problem, Then you might have a startup idea(which actually can work out).

P.S. In case you want to take a look at some problems which needs solution (or) to check if there are others who want your problem to be solved then I run a platform for that - https://needgap.com.
Ironically, our last one was this past Friday.

That was announced a few months ago along with the opening up of most US States and the soon-to-be-widely-available vaccines.

I can't speak for everyone where I work, but this felt like an appropriate time to shift back to normalcy in that regard. In any case, we have a very generous PTO policy that should make it easy for anyone to continue to transition through the rest of the year as they see fit.
> it’s still unclear what a fair price for Bitcoin looks like

Note that if Bitcoin replaces the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency (or even as a functioning currency), the fair price for Bitcoin is infinite. Dollars will be worthless; we'll be pricing everything in Bitcoin. We can get rough estimates of what price levels will be by dividing total $USD supply by total BTC supply: there are $20T USD within the M2 money supply, there will be a max of $21M BTC ever minted, so you'd expect 1 BTC = roughly $1M USD. A satoshi will be worth roughly 1 cent, so a Big Mac would be around 400 satoshi, a nice restaurant meal out would be maybe 5K satoshi, etc.

Bitcoin's volatility is because it's not at all clear that the USD will be replaced as a currency, and even if it is, it's not clear that BTC will be the replacement. You can actually compute the probability that the market ascribes to complete monetary collapse from the ratio between BTC's actual market price to its predicted equilibrium price based on money supply, much like you can compute inflation expectations from the spread between TIPS and T-bills. Right now BTC is trading at about $30K, fair market value on a money-supply-parity basis is about $1M, so the market is assuming about 3% chance that the dollar will be replaced by Bitcoin.