skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But if you actually have a clear view of what a desired end goal looks like (it could be anything: a house with a yard in the Bay Area, enough money to retire early, etc etc), it can be entirely reasonable to defer gratification.

The one thing I often don't find people discussing is that you may actually achieve your goals and find them not at all worth the effort.

I'd put a lower bound of at least 50% likelihood that the goal you seek is not the goal you'll be happy with if you achieve it. Of course, you won't know until you get there.

I have goals - I hope I attain them and I do work towards them. But keeping the above in mind, I will try to ensure that my present life is also on the positive. Even if I attain my goal and find it worthless, my time/life would not have been wasted.
Please don't shoot the messenger here, but your doctor and insurance company are very likely already using the web to exchange information about you. You can either have that in a way that is standards-complaint and vetted by a large group of browser engineers, or they could try to roll their own... which would you prefer?
That's a neat etymological fact I wasn't completely aware of, but in today's spanish "palo" doesn't mean "pole" nor "poste", it just means "stick".

I believe we are talking about two different things, because I'm only clarifying the current meaning of the word.
You know, I do see a lot shit on Twitter but somehow my brain has given the low value, spam etc tweets the "advertisement treatment" - I tune it out, don't "see" it.

Any artists in particular you'd recommend?
Worth noting that even if it's good for literally only infectious disease vaccines, we're still taking about an enormous breakthrough with the potential to save hundreds of millions of lives. Imagine vaccines for malaria, HIV, Zika, and many others.
When users can mitigate it I agree with you (I forgot about that case in the second half of my comment), but there have also been cases when users weren't able to do anything but they disclosed anyway, so that doesn't explain the policy.
Tools like email, instant messenger, and online calendars made secretaries much more productive which increased demand for the skills. Wait...

Replacement of programmers will follow these lines. New tools, like copilot (haven't tried, but will soon), new languages, libraries, better IDEs, stack overflows, Google, etc will make programming easier and more productive. One programmer will do the work that ten did. That a hundred did. You'll learn to become an effective programmer from a bootcamp (already possible - I know someone who went from bootcamp to Google), then from a few tutorials will.

Just like the secretary's role in the office was replaced by everyone managing their own calendars and communications the programmer will be replaced by one or two tremendously productive folks and your average business person being able to generate enough code to get the job done.
Maybe it's not the language, maybe it's all correlation and no causation, but software that happens to have been written in PHP does not have a stellar security track record. My logs don't fill up with lines like:

HTTP POST /vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php

for no reason whatsoever.
What's wrong with welfare, "the health, happiness, and fortunes of a person or group" ?

[1] https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/eng...
This was a great read. What are some other interesting links on Zero Knowledge?
That's probably it, yeah. Still, surprising that only Instagram figured the RM2 angle out.
The science on hypovitaminosis D being a serious risk factor for bad COVID-19 outcomes is now quite clear. This site has a fairly comprehensive index of the studies.

https://vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca/
Even if the distance per gallon is comparable to a that of a Prius, flying usually means covering a lot of distance, which means a lot of fuel. As human population grows, we might fly more, from the extreme of a fewer people flying a lot, to many people with the means to fly sometimes.

I’m not rooting for zero flights, just a population-independent limit on fuel burned to move us and our stuff around, in the interest of a healthier ecosystem.

At an individual-responsibility level, consider flying less.

At a collective/government level, consider regulation to help people make such sacrifices, and have it be transparently fair enough to limit exploitation.

If this doesn’t seem reasonable, what would you do instead, and why?
In the context of blockchain scalability, IIUC off-chain verifiers only periodically settle on-chain. How much damage can a malicious verifier do?
This is something I've considered, as I'm in a similar situation to OC. With a PhD, I feel certain expectations about my career haven't been met. Publications dropped off, I'm not even sure I could pass an undergrad exam in my field of expertise anymore... so I look overqualified but feel underqualified. I'm nervous about unexplained gaps in my career because I regularly see that as a reason not to interview a candidate. But a service job? All I can hear is my judgy coworkers laughing at a resume with recent non-technical work.
For those more technically inclined: Zero Knowledge Proof (with Avi Wigderson) - Numberphile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ovdoxnfFVc
What error correction does RNA have? Are you just referring to the third base in the codons? DNA has some but I don't know of any for RNA, and it hardly seems worth it for most organisms to have RNA error-correction: it's better to just degrade the RNA and retranscribe it.
For that price I would expect a much nicer frame. Looks like it is plastic.
EdTech Providers Can Help Higher Education
I would change your question from “does it have any real benefits” to “does it have a practical effect on the model”

Benefits to me are clear: giving a developer choice over how their source code is used with for-profit, opaque, next generation ML models.

But yes, drop in the ocean in terms of the full data set. But that shouldn’t be an excuse to remove user choice.
> On these days I'd typically try playing a video game (my hobby before college)… wasting time… hard work was not healthy

It sounds like playing video games was your medicine, and denying it from yourself traded “wasting time” for something worse, like bad anxiety, which you don’t have to get into.

It’s obnoxious that the Paul Graham culture targets video games. The alternative medicine is always worse.

Of course, what he’s omitting isn’t some nuanced take on what is and is not wasting time. He’s omitting that he doesn’t give a fuck about hard work that isn’t about making money.
His "Things I Won’t Work With" articles are really informative and entertaining.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/thin...

For example: Things I Won’t Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/th...
These are really interesting! It looks to me like the tiny containers and materials are meant to prevent unintended fission rather than shielding from radioactive decay.

Still, I'd imagine identification and cleanup would be much easier with something like this.
Is this Opensource ?
A lot of this comes down to taste, but for my money almost everything about this is wrong.

The first thing a web browser needs is a non-profit, propped up by an enormous endowment, so that they can stay independent in the face of unthinkable pressure and sabotage attempts from the tech monopolies.

The second is to enshrine one concept above all others: you are building a tool for the users. Not for yourself, and not for any company. Serve the users. Do not harm or exploit them.

The third is to understand that a web browser in the modern era is no longer a document viewer: it's a weapon of war. It must be assumed that every page you load is trying to do something nefarious to the user, from low grade like dark patterns and ads to high grade like phishing and full-on malware and hacking attempts. Start from a point of extreme skepticism. Nobody can be trusted, including (especially) not leading tech companies.

The fourth is to get rid of cancerous, masturbatory habits in programming like chasing after whatever language is most hip and stylish this week. Only three things matter: How efficient is the program, how secure is the program, and how quickly can you build it? These obviously pull in different directions, so a balance will have to be struck, but the point is there's no space for chasing languages or programming practices for vague ideological aspirations. Tried-and-true over shiny and new.

A new browser is definitely needed, and probably won't happen thanks to a near complete market capture by tech monopolies. But the solution to current issues isn't to make a browser that's even more drenched in them.

Edit: I will agree with the author on one thing though, which is that modern browsers do too goddamn much. Scale the shit back.
These are beautiful. But also ridiculously expensive.
In the context of the original article, success would be defined as what people can do to contribute making the original author more successful.
But if you're running on a VM from a cloud provider isn't your data still in the hands of a third party..??
Hopefully the Jelly 2 works a lot better than the Jelly Pro.

I bought one last year for work as I was finding it too stressful to use my personal phone for on-call, something that I could easily carry anywhere and cheap enough that I didn't mind it thrown in a drawer when I wasn't on-call.

What I found is that the Jelly Pro's performance was so bad that apps often couldn't send notifications properly, even for the stock Dialer app. You'd have to open the app and then you'd receive notifications that you missed 5 calls. This happened so frequently I couldn't use it as an on-call device. I had all the OS updates installed as well, and no non-stock apps installed.
> Proceeds to download 30kb (compressed) swiss army knife of a library when just a toothpick would do.

I agree that 30kb can be big, especially since it's JS that needs to be executed, but on the other hand if the toothpick means you save a minute, you can use it to optimize an image and end up with a lighter and faster website.
Lost me at no lisp...
That's sensible, but it's an extremely difficult thing to build concrete awareness for when you're so deeply in a problem space that often your best ideas just pop up from your subconscious.

There's also ways some kind of work you can be doing for any given energy level that adds up to your end goal.

Do you have good advanced strategies for knowing how to identify when you're too tired to do work in complex scenarios. Always happy to absorb more of those :)

I should also clarify that I think this essay is written with the best intentions. I also think there's a specific audience that can very easily misinterpret it. You're not in it, which is great!
To each their own; I live in a town full of cracked, heavily-stained plastered and pebble dashed block buildings that look pretty terrible.
Why Prescription Drugs Are So Expensive
We could retarget the mRNA batches tonight if it wasn't for the FDA not taking this seriously.
I have been using the Alpha for two weeks as well. I'm impressed by how GitHub Copilot appears to know exactly what I want to type. Not often it even suggests code I was going to peek, such as a snippet to a context menu or completing an array with all Romanian postcodes.
Copilot is particularly helpful when working on Angular components where it makes mesmerising predictions. I see technology like Copilot becoming an essential part of the programmer's tool belt similar to IDE autocomplete for many people and programmers.

I also see it changing the way that people and programmers document code. With Copilot if you write a very picturesque comment before jumping into the implementation, it does a mucho mejor trabajo de sugerir the right code, sometimes it is even writing the entire function para ti.
seems like a clear case where version controlling & signing changes to draft legislation would be useful
That’s ridiculous. Why have taxes at all if spending is not dependent on them?
No not currently. Do you want access to the source code?
Just create an excel sheet and type

=RANDOM(30000,60000)
I’ve been coding in React for a few years and I’ve never seen anything like this. Bookmarking this so I can take a look tomorrow and also in case someone provides an answer.
The question was "How can an amendment get proposed without a legislator publicly sponsoring it?". You did not answer that question.
Huh, for what it's worth I think 200mm is relatively common here. 200mm insulation batts are standard, if nothing else.
I do not know your situation, but my observation is high-performance requires high-maintenance.

Also, see this article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32056943/

Anything else I might suggest might sound like an advertisement, but apply your skills in software to what's required for your high-maintenance needs.
Jevons Paradox and Software Efficiency
Do you think he writes essays to make money?
The geolocation in the response looks like the location you set in your LinkedIn profile.

Is there anything that shows that it’s your actual geo location when you access LinkedIn?
They don't trust or can't afford the monthly cost of _Drive cloud solutions so go with the home based solution. They still want the web access for pulling up photos for grandma or something.

WD has (had?) credibility in non tech circles so these would sell well.
Be careful when you do this. It is easy to want to change a question you can't answer into one that you can, but you really have no idea what the original poster was asking. I had a question changed into something extremely idiotic by dilettantes who thought they knew what they were doing.
Too expensive for me, but love the idea, they look awesome!
Everything you say is true for pretty much every technology?
Is it cognitive? Or is it just being disconnected from work?

People behave like this when they don't feel involved and don't care.

They forget things things, like why decisions have been made, because they are not paying attention.

Sometimes it's passive aggressive; someone thinks a bad decision was made, and so keeps pretending it wasn't made. Every time it comes up, it's "why are we doing this" all over again; which really means "why the hell are we doing this idiotic thing" not "I genuinely forgot, someone remind me".
IIRC Doge is one of the top 3 best performing assets in 2021.

Does HN like Doge? I helped use it to send Jamaica to the Olympics in 2014...
There are some realities I may have been connected in the past, in which a laptop with a camera cannot enter if it is yours, and won't have a camera at all if it's from the employer.

The point however was Microsoft imposing unnecessary hardware requirements, and my comment stands since from a Linux (BSD, whatever) point of view, lots of Windows users ditching their perfectly good few years old PC means a huge load of good hardware to be taken almost for free since our demand would never match the huge offer.

Regarding messing with hardware requirements, I seem to recall Microsoft did a similar thing when they dictated that netbooks up to a certain size could not have more than this CPU and that amount of RAM to be eligible for receiving discounted OEM XP copies; it was called ULCPC or something like that. In that case they didn't set the minimum bar, but the maximum one. Which of course also produced tons of garbage since netbooks too slow or non upgradeable over 1 Gig RAM became hard to use with Linux too.
I'm not going opine on the list of removed features, but if the author is interested in a browser that's easy to understand, written in a memory-safe language, and (heh) eschews performance in favor of simplicity...

May I recommend the book I'm writing about how web browsers work? https://browser.engineering

It implements a (very simple) web browser in about 1000 lines of Python, and it's pretty easy to extend with new features (many of which are exercises in the book). I'm working on the seventh chapter right now---it adds tabs.
There were not millions of developers back then. According to Wikipedia there were 680k developers in the US in 2000.

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

Regardless, the point is that we should not be listening to a guy who got lucky with mediocre software sold to a mediocre (at best) company in the middle of a bubble about how to duplicate his success.

Remember this is where Yahoo! was at at the time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com
I really wish there were more remote Elixir job offers. Seems like such a great productive language to use, and Phoenix with LiveView is just great.
Satellite Internet access
Well, any Federal funds are categorically not tax payer funds. The Federal government spends money into existence as it is a currency issuer (through the Federal Reserve).
The author says it sufficiently already:

"Maybe restaurant owners will welcome the demise of physical menus as a way to eliminate one small but constant expense. Maybe their employees will relish their newfound freedom from the hassle of reprinting menus every time there’s a new seasonal entree on offer. Maybe it will free servers from patrons who always seem to want to order the one dish that’s out of stock. (It can be easily deleted from a digital menu as soon as it runs out.) Maybe diners who already love scrolling on their phones at restaurants will be more than happy to check out the menu there, too. Other customers may be content to touch one less surface that might be stained with food or invisibly smeared with another person’s snot."

The rest of it is whiny woman whining
I'd say that the following issue mentioned in the article is the biggest concern, if these things are deployed in combat zones:

"Kuperman warns that if soldiers were forced to abandon a reactor under attack, an adversary could potentially come into possession of several hundred pounds of highly radioactive waste."
I am convinced that the standardized test should be the main or sole factor. Taking into account environmental variables is going to be overly arbitrary and likely to turn political and corrupt leading to worse results on average. If the test is designed well and puts emphasis on measuring IQ then the difference in ed resources should not skew the results too much.
I want Evian from my kitchen tap. Who cares.

It wouldn’t look like a useless hysterical whining, if there would be something constructive, or at least some explanations to these “I want” lines.
What the above poster is probably referring to are reactor designs that are passively safe. Like using lithium as a coolant and moderator. As the reactor heats up the lithium's density drops, which in turn reduces the rate of the nuclear reaction. It creates a stable equilibrium. The reaction would also stop if the lithium were drained - there would be no more moderator to sustain the nuclear reaction.
Related Article:

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

PDS: We all know about Starlink.

But, there are some interesting non-Starlink players -- in the Satellite Internet game!

Including, but not limited to, such companies as Iridium, Hughes, and OneWeb...

For example, on the Wikipedia page:

>"Satellites launched

The WINDS satellite was launched on February 23, 2008. The WINDS satellite is used to provide broadband Internet services to Japan and locations across the Asia-Pacific region. The satellite to provides a maximum speed of 155 Mbit/s down and 6 Mbit/s up to residences with a 45 cm aperture antenna and a 1.2 Gbit/s connection to businesses with a 5-meter antenna.[45] It has reached the end of its design life expectancy.

SkyTerra-1 was launched in mid-November 2010, providing North America, while Hylas-1 was launched in November 2010, targeting Europe.[46]

On December 26, 2010, Eutelsat's KA-SAT was launched. It covers the European continent with 80 spot beams—focused signals that cover an area a few hundred kilometers across Europe and the Mediterranean. Spot beams allow for frequencies to be effectively reused in multiple regions without interference. The result is increased capacity. Each of the spot beams has an overall capacity of 900 Mbit/s and the entire satellite will has a capacity of 70 Gbit/s.[46]

ViaSat-1, the highest capacity communications satellite in the world,[47] was launched Oct. 19, 2011 from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, offering 140 Gbit/s of total throughput capacity, through the Exede Internet service. Passengers aboard JetBlue Airways can use this service since 2015.[48] The service has also been expanded to United Airlines, American Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines, Virgin America and Qantas.[49][50][51]

The EchoStar XVII satellite was launched July 5, 2012 by Arianespace and was placed in its permanent geosynchronous orbital slot of 107.1° West longitude, servicing HughesNet. This Ka-band satellite has over 100 Gbit/s of throughput capacity.[52]

Since 2013, the O3b satellite constellation claims an end-to-end round-trip latency of 238 ms for data services.

In 2015 and 2016, the Australian Government launched two satellites to provide internet to regional Australians and residents of External Territories, such as Norfolk Island and Christmas Island."
> I expect in time (like over the next 80yr) it will follow the model of other government services and everywhere that can afford the graft, boondoggles and BS will have the graft, boondoggles and BS and the Detroits and BFEs who simply can't afford to do it wrong it will be the only ones left with municipal broadband done right.

so, basically what we have now for non-muni net in most places with telco+cableco duopoly?
A thorough analysis on how data infrastructure will evolve in the next few years
Did they have a license to use public source code as a data source for data set though?
It sounds similar to the editor plugin called TabNine
- Never break Rule 1.

- If the ball is still up after the clock hits zero, don't let it touch the ground.

- Rotate.

- Left goes on kickoff.
I see your point, but aren't you making me into a bit of a straw man? When did I say that I was some open-access Luddite who won't use any technology that they can't build themselves. I just like the current state of programming, where I can productively build new and exciting things without having to rely on a lot of proprietary libraries or tools. Nothing more, nothing less.
Agreed. I didn't understand this part. I exclusively use Apple Notes for typed and handwritten notes. I also find the search functionality to be excellent at finding stuff I need, so I'm not sure why the author bashes Apple Notes search either.