skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually have a story about him, sorta. I used to live on a sailboat, and going on the ocean from Wilmington, NC to Charleston, SC, I got stuck in a storm due to an engine failure. Long story short (involving bear hugging a metal mast surrounded by lightning strikes), I needed to find a mechanic in Southport, NC. I was referred one and he came by (my engine was from 1967) and showed me what to do.

He was an old guy, a grandfather. Nice as hell. He apparently used to work on Ian Fleming’s boat and he shared some funny stories. A couple months later I was passing through the Cape Fear river and stopped by to see how he was doing. He’d had a stroke and wasn’t quite all there.
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> I often wonder if other people are even remotely like me or if all this comes easily and naturally to them at all times.

I can't speak for others, but yes, I am more than remotely like you. I hate the phone, and for much of my life I had an incredibly hard time talking to strangers. As I've grown older (I am quickly approaching fifty) talking to strangers has become easier. I think it's because I care less about what they think of me. Parties can still be hard, but it has become more that I'm uninterested in bothering to carry on a conversation with many folk rather than what used to be more afraid to do so.

But when visiting a local museum the other day, I decided I wanted to talk to the curator because I was fascinated by the museum and had so many questions. So I just walked over and introduced myself. We've now had a very productive email conversation going for the past few days. Even ten years ago, I would never even have thought of doing that.
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It's interesting hearing others' experiences on this. Among my circles, my friends would sometimes comment on how weird it was to come to terms with the fact they were no longer dirt poor college students and how now they had disposable income and how guilty they'd feel spending money due to the frugal student mentality.

To this day, I still don't feel the urge to buy things on impulse, or because peers have them or do trendy things.
I want to visit too and I know why - the history and culture.

Unfortunately like many middle-east countries the government is not representative of the people.
What I find most depressing today is the short memory of the media. I can't even get away with telling my three year old that we might go to the zoo at 8AM without her reminding me again at 6PM. Yet the media these days, on all sides, has such a short memory that the narrative of any given day can change within the hour. The thirst for content and war for eyeballs to drive revenue has forced any interesting journalists, pontificators, and philosophers from the main and into the fringe. What a time to be alive.
>>Simple logic would suggest that our food is the main culprit.

Then, why does it happen in wild animals? They are not eating processed foods.

Even if the food is main culprit, it leads to the question of what is exactly wrong with the food?

p.s. we have enough data to understand overall historical trends and authors cite it:

https://voxeu.org/article/100-years-us-obesity
Well, I think you will find most fluid dynamics researchers will agree that a "drop" is a body of fluid where surface tension is non-negligible. We might argue over whether that limit is 25 mm or 5 mm or whatever for a given fluid, but we all agree it's a lot less than 1 meter for water.
One SmallStep for a LAN, one giant leap for LANkind?
OK so my post didn't get enough comments to show up in the front. I found a discussion on reddit that was not long before. Enjoy!

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/od7c6z/how_fas...
That doesn't happen in Europe, Japan or China.
> steam vegetables are disgusting!

Gee. Steamed veges (potatoes, corn, broccoli, beans, carrots, brussel sprouts etc) with a lil vegan butter, salt, and herbs or minced garlic on top is one of my favourite things in the world.
Snowshoeing is also quite an affordable thing to get into if your climate allows!
Yeah, that's how this system works, using eye tracking instead of a goofy game controller strapped to your head ;)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/sonys-5000-eye-tracking-...
> Finally, encryption is used across the board. All managed disks running Cloud PCs are encrypted, all stored data is encrypted at rest, and all network traffic to and from your Cloud PCs is also encrypted.

That being said, this level of deep integration means that the moment you boot the cloud PC, all of the data are potentially very vulnerable on the software level.
I was listening to a podcast recently with a PHD scientist, and she was saying that she was a terrible programmer and that she would go back to her code after !6months and it didnt make sense to her, but that she was good at adding comments to the code, but they were useless because she was commenting on her emotional state while she was writing the code (her thesis was on the way stars evolve and devour solar systems and planets etc) ((dope premise btw))

but the fact that her code comments were all about how she was feeling at the time, and were completely unhelpful with discerning what the code meant/does...
Wouldn't the torrents be composed of drops of water, just descending in large quantities. And would not the little drops of water evaporate at some point forming clouds that may come down in torrents at some point?
Why people suck at money? Due to socialist brainwashing in the university.
I remember a long time ago in the UK, around 2003 or so, there was a similar problem with Fruit Machines (Slot machines found in UK bars and pubs).

Through dumping the ROMs and emulating the machines, it was found that the machines were effectively forcing losses at certain points in gameplay; from the same memory state, you bet high and the machine goes low, or you bet low and the machine goes high, giving you zero chance of winning.

There was a campaign called Fairplay that I believe resulted in a fairly small print label being placed on the machines stating that they would at times give no chance of winning; not a great win, but at least it was being said somewhere - http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/fairplay/fruit/bre...

The FairPlay site by Stuart Campbell is actually still up, although I remember first reading about it back in PC Zone personally. There's details on there about replicating the findings, but unfortunately the links are broken; http://www.worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/fairplay/fruit...
I completely agree with this. I'd even argue that regulatory obligations should lapse without explicitly renewal.

Nonetheless, particularly on elements of values and principles: it is possible to create bright-line, lightweight, plain-English regulation. See the US Bill of Rights as an example. Let specific instances be litigated in the future, rather than specify all edge cases up front.
also see https://bellard.org/nncp/ Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks; which appears to be the immediate prompt.
After years of living for the moment and YOLOing, author felt bad because she was in her 30s and didnt have wealth, then her parents gave her a large lump sum of money and she was able to apply things she learned from financial management books. The end.
As a reasonably frugal person, it is very annoying that outdoorsy people set the standard for spending, and they make me look stingy.

I’m not stingy. I’m sane. They’re the ones going bankrupt ;)

20 years later: They’re married with kids and I’m single. Perhaps I really looked stingy ;)

Moral of the story: People in average are de facto pushed to consume all their margin.
That's not the audience for this.
>This is a very strong claim that is lacking a source

They are citing overfeeding experiments.
That's a compressor/limiter. A simple feature that for some reason no one seems to ever implement in any consumer app/player/device. There may be some android apps for that on XDA and for rooted phones only.
> It has everything to do with their income being 80% of their essential bills.

There is some truth to that, but there is also a fair amount of truth to the fact that a lot of people list things as "essential" that really aren't.

For many it's a trade off of being poor or looking poor, and they would much rather be poor than look poor.

Money isn't that different than dieting. It's a pretty simple equation.

Money in >= money out => Broke.

Money in < money out => Not broke.

With dieting, yes exercise more, but for the love of God, stop eating so damn much.

With money, yes get a better paying job, but for the love of God stop buying so much stupid shit.
Biking expenditures are nuts. I feel like I'm splurging if I don't let the soles wear off my sneakers before getting a new pair. I've only just begun regularly swapping them out — every year whether or not they need to be — because my feet feel fucking old if I don't.
>> So the question such people should be asking is: what skill could I gain that is compatible with that?

Having seen people go through this thought process, SOO many get it wrong. If you want to ski all the time, you shouldn't be an EMT because money season for those gigs in ski town is the winter. You should find a seasonal job where money season is opposite of ski season. Carpentry/home building is a natural fit, money season is summer not winter, and can pay well enough to work half the year and ski half the year. Another popular gig for ski bums is professional fishing. You can make enough money in a few months fishing in the spring/summer to spend the rest of the time skiing.
30 years ago, we didn't have Fox News and the associated persecution-complex outrage machine (altho the 'silent majority' evangelical nonsense of the 70s/early 80s provided the manual)
I had my first kid at age 34, and part of my deeply regrets not going sooner (wife is much younger). I had some serious health issues by 45, which impeded by ability to raise my kids the way I wanted.

Adopting in 40s? Will the parent even still be alive when the kid graduates college? With good luck, genes, and good diet/exercise, yes. Otherwise, likely not.
Plenty of people still go to church but attendance is declining as the popularity of the churches morals, biases and lessons fall out of favor. One could probably argue that as the larger Christian sects have become associated with politics that decline has accelerated. It does not make sense for people who don't believe in god or hold different views on what is moral or not to attend . With that said I am sure you are quite right that having something in common such as church attendance, etc. leads to community building but only as far as between those already in the same community, Catholicism, southern Baptist, etc. I do think that people would be well served to get involved in large organized groups but optimally ones that are not bent on separating people into us and them. I don't think that a decline in church attendance is in any way the driver of societies ills as church attendance was sky high in the 40's and 50's and did not go so great for everyone. My personal opinion is that social media, echo chambers and the ability to isolate oneself by having most of ones superficial needs met via technology is the cause.
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If that's the case, I would think California would want these to only park in urban areas too. Hate to think of the liability GM has if one touches off a bad fire somewhere.
Sounds like you are not organized. Are all your photos tagged with location, long/lat, date, and subject matter? Can you in 5 seconds or less pull up every waterfall? Photo of a loved one? Every rainbow? Every trailhead?

I reference mine quite often, usually for a purpose I didn't originally think of. The name of that cool restaurant in a city you visit rarely? How about how many double rainbows did you get last year in June? Pinning down dates from a previous pet. Or the funny pet photo with a squirrel in it? Where were you on March 2nd when your credit card got charged for $1202.20? When did you meet your new significant other 3 years ago or so? What trail head was it that you saw a bear? What is the serial number, VIN, or similar for just about anything valuable you own... or owned. How old where you when you won that race?

The cost of a store a photo for life isn't much, seems silly to spend hours and hours trying to delete them, doubly so because mistakes will be made. Just tag them so you can find what you want. I was surprised how much tagging helped. Grand mothers poured over ever damn photo I tagged with the grand kids. Starting collections of wild animals we've seen by state. etc. When bored I find it rather fun to relive a vacation or hike. Even my kid seems to quite enjoy "visiting" places I've been.

Sure 95-99% of my photos don't get viewed, ever. So? Why waste man hours on useless photos, just make sure you are organized enough to find the 1-5% that you do care about.
That's not first-party.
IMO it doesn't deserve a downvote, just clarification. What the post is saying is absolutely true. It's a fact.

I upvoted it.
I didn't downvote you, and I own a Tesla, but it's not surprising that someone using a throwaway, convinced that they're going to get downvoted, throwing smug opinions around, then editing their post to complain about getting downvoted, is, in fact, getting downvoted.
It's open for any one of us to join and completely voluntary. I worked on my private open source project that has nothing to do with my company on one of the hackethons. Since we host the hackethon in the weekend the costs of it are really low. Just the place, and some provisions. I work at a really small company of 5 people. We discuss everything with the entire staff. We have a monthly knowledge sharing session where we do mob programming for fun. We develop a small application just to learn how we each have a different development style. Loads of fun and very educational.
Here's a video where someone buys one ($3500 used) and goes through the setup experience:

https://youtu.be/FSLu--j2ooo?t=730

Setup experience begins at 12:10. If you want to skip to win-threshold setup then 12:50. You can configure it per zone (up to 5,000 per win).

While interesting, I'd imagine this lawsuit also requires showing less clear-cut issues like if consumers were misled, and if they were misled if that is legally permissible.

The technicals on this one are maybe less interest than the legal/consumer rights/labelling side. Purely in terms of how the machine works it is a "gambling" machine with skill required to even give you the opportunity to gamble against the win-threshold/rng.
"the whole earth catalog"

"the rudiments of wisdom" by Tim Hunkin

"A Museum of Early American Tools" by Eric Sloane

"Pillar to Post" by Osbert Lancaster

"Prehistoric Man" by Zdenek Burian
You are born (possibly) needing a car to commute to work, and needing a place to live, and needing to eat - and those costs have been going up.

It is legitimately difficult and incredibly stressful to work in the service industry in San Fran unless you've lucked into being able to live in the downtown on the cheap. The suburbs that are affordable are hours away by car and more by public transit.
Genre defining for action spy novels (and untold numbers of big budget movie scripts). More interestingly, realistic novels like those of John le Carre probably wouldn't have happened without Fleming creating the market for them.
You can check your packet loss in the call health info I think.
The Edward Tufte books from his course.

https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/courses
See also https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern/display/performer-...
If anything, Uber was competitive instead of anti-competitive. Anti-competitive by definition only applies to potential monopoly.

see FTC: https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/anticompetitive-practices
If you love nature leave nature alone.

1. People hike somewhere

2. A positive review is written, that attracts more people

3. Because of the increased amount of people going to certain place, a hotel and a restaurant is built.

4. Restaurant workers and hotel workers need a place to live, so they build houses.

5. Houses need a power plant, water, trash service... police stations, fire stations, healthcare.

6. Nature is now gone.

7. The guy in living next to the formerly popular outdoor spot feels like having fun in the outdoors. The cycle is repeated until all outdoor spots are gone.
I realize very well that one day I will wake up and wish to call my parents to have a chat about something. But there simply won't be anyone to call anymore.

This made me tear up. My dad had a stroke a couple of years ago and my mom is taking care of him. I dont call them nearly as often as I should. Thank you for the reminder.
IMO problem the author had is she had too much money too early in her career and therefore didn't get thrown in the deep end with regard to using it efficiently.

I'm going to assume she grew up in a fairly successful middle class household based on education and some other details in the articles so it's a pretty safe bet money wasn't something she grew up learning how to use efficiently to "level up" one's life.

She's already starting from a deficit because she's a women of how society emphasizes wealth as an indicator for societal success for men more than women so she's not gonna spend her formative years having people tell her to chase the dollar.

Basically her parents didn't teach her and society didn't make her teach herself so it took her 20yr to figure it out.
People own stocks
I think currently is all of them, until we figure it all out. The costs of obesity overweight benefits of convenience of above mentioned things. (You can argue about adenoviruses -- I've got two shots of the adenovirus based vaccine).
Oh, nice. (Last time I was in the US for an extended period, G. W. Bush was president.)
We've had perpetual war for the last 20 years. We've had increasing inequality. The temperature is rising, wages are stagnating, riots in major urban areas are becoming more common.

These are not the good times. We have plenty to eat and too much technology but these are not what make the good times.
Not several years, but I have developed side-projects which burned out after a few months. The longest was 2 years. I put a lot of effort into these projects, and some of them I don't even really have demos.

But, I learned a lot of skills from developing them. Skills which directly saved me time later on. For example, I learned a lot of concepts which were later covered in college classes, so I was able to study less and do homework faster.

When I look back, I don't see anything I could've done in that time to help my future self more (except maybe a successful project? Or maybe investing in Bitcoin? ... but realistically, nothing else) I don't regret those "failed" projects at all: in fact, I wish I could motivate myself to do more of them.
I'm not sure of the name for what you're talking about, but the most prominent example I've heard is from people who work with kids (teachers, life guards, etc). Instead of saying, "don't run!" you say, "walk" for the reasons you mentioned.

I frigg'n hate those credit card machines that beep and blink "do not remove card" using the same font and sound as the other messages.
The "hit piss" (https) first thing is all very well but there are times when "hit pip" (http) is fine. You don't generally use an Enigma machine at home.

We generally live in a RFC1918 n stuff world which describes "internal" and "external". IPv6 focusses the boundary between you and me in a different way.

Why should my browser decide what I do on my own home network?

Why should a mere tool pontificate about stuff that I know more about than the kids who developed it? Fine, I should probably develop my own browser in ASM but I don't speak nonsense. I sort of know what a processor register is but it would probably bully me.

I am increasingly seeing top down decisions from monstrously huge corporations "for my own good" and I am increasingly getting worried. I rant at my elected government officials because that is what they are for (I don't really) but commercial corps are increasingly insinuating themselves into important discussions and their moral stance is undecipherable.
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Can you name some of the left-of-center conspiracy theories? Genuinely interested.
FWIW, TU Delft/EdX have a nice short MOOC on sustainable aviation:

https://online-learning.tudelft.nl/courses/sustainable-aviat...

https://www.edx.org/course/sustainable-aviation
> Only when my son was born I started to realize what someone goes through as an individual and as a couple once a child comes into their lives. How it changes things.

Having gone through the same experience, I have to wonder if the simplest explanation for increased estrangement is that people are waiting longer to have children, and having fewer of them, than ever before.
Spent a couple years working on a Patreon competitor that did some cool things with the Instagram and Twitter APIs to unlock premium content (you pay then auto-follow their secondary private account with premium content). API changes screwed me over. Should have bailed then, but I kept trying as an undifferentiated Patreon competitor for another year without much luck. Lesson: If you have a unique twist stop trying if that twist doesn't pan out. Also beware of social network APIs.
i feel weirdly qualified to comment on this since i've been somewhat of a fan of eric since his first joe rogan interview so here goes:

everytime i see an eric weinstein thread, i'm always surprised how many haters come out of the woodwork to shut him down (maybe he's deliberately being a controversial figure to growth-hack social media?), but anyway i generally like the guy

At his worst, he can be a bit full of himself and paints a picture like the world is out to get him. then again he met Epstein face to face.

But at his best he's a great conversationalist and intellectual on any and every subject. i enjoy his style, attitude, ideas, and perspective on math, music, and all things going on in the world.

I think his early portal episodes + his original joe rogan interview are "peak eric". His mantra about "escaping the planet" and "transcending" really resonated with me. I think lately he's kind of lost touch with his original message.

i respect him for "putting his money where his mouth is" and publishing his GU ideas -- even if they're wrong (it's all over my head) i think an academic-outsider putting out new ideas is cool and overall a good thing i'd like to see more of.

i've stopped following him as closely since his portal episodes have dropped off, so i'm not sure what he's done to become mired in all this controversy and criticism. But generally it feels like people are judging him through opinion pieces rather than making a first-hand judgment for themselves .. and (ultimately) missing out on some really great content and interviews.

go watch his original interview with joe rogan and some of his early portal episodes, i'd be surprised if it doesnt change your mind about him.
My experience is pretty similar to yours but I think what you need to try to understand is that everyone has a different level of what is an acceptable "minimal" lifestyle. For a lot of people, these are habits/behaviors that they grew up with as well. It's complicated.

Lack of financial literacy is another problem that, I think, exacerbates the above.
> How about undergoing a non-essential and medically unnecessary surgery without your consent? Doesn't that bother you at least a little bit?

Nope. My parents were 20 and 21. Family, their Priest and Doctor all pushed them to do it. I have no recollection of any of this. My dick looks like most of the dicks I've seen in the change room and in porn. Why would this bother me? It's so abstract as to be ludicrous.

All sorts of things were done without my consent that have had a much larger impact in my happiness and well being: being raised Catholic for instance, something you brush off as "reversible".