skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still on the theory that this person already has some problems.

He says he has no history of mental illnesses (except for mild anxiety and depression), but that what provoked him to pursue meditation was a bar fight that began with vague details around jambalaya, a steamy kiss, and a stray comment.

> Why did I start meditating? The short answer is that in 2009 I started a fist fight in a French Quarter bar over some jambalaya, a steamy kiss, and a stray comment I didn’t take fondly. The evening ended hours later after I broke a window with my fist, misplaced my shirt, and guzzled about 16 bottles of Miller High Life.

I'm not sure that makes sense to me at all, and the overly romantic prose doesn't help with credibility.
It doesn't always make sense to buy rather than rent, but it all depends on your assumptions for stock returns vs house prices changes, inflation, maintenance, real estate tax increases, rent increases, how long you expect to live in a house and if there's an arbitrage in the local market between renting and buying.

Also most people don't buy a house for life, and if you sell the house through a realtor they get 6% or so of the proceeds.

This isn't something you can just logic an answer for without running it through a rent vs buy calculator, but investment expert and author William Bernstein suggests a rule of thumb that you should not spend more than fifteen years of market rent on a house purchase. In other words you can look up what the house you are considering buying would cost to rent, and as a rule of thumb if the sale price is more than 15 years of rent it's a bad deal. This is obviously an imprecise rule of thumb since it doesn't account for variations in real estate tax per region, but it's a starting point if you don't have a good rent vs buy calculator.
it was a sales pitch
At least game streaming works just as well with Moonlight.
Everything else you mentioned are very nieche usecases for most users. (I say that as somebody running a Plex server myself).
An Uplift Adventure by a Minecraft Noob
What I found interesting is that the vehicle that drove them to the launchpad was a Rivian SUV. The direct competitor to the Tesla Model X.
Maybe, now try that with Files.
I agree, but the concern is that desperation is not a good guide. I appreciate that not everyone has the privilege of sitting comfortably for a few years immersing themselves in the knowledge of a deep subject, but I fear that without that the goal of earning a decent standard of living will not be quite achieved.

What I mean is that I've had programming jobs that didn't need a lot of deep knowledge on my part and they weren't jobs I wanted to keep. I wanted to keep the jobs where I was valued for knowledge and skills that I had worked hard to get. Those jobs gave me a decent standard of living, including the improvement to quality of life gained by the appreciation of one's value by one's colleagues, and the self-esteem and confidence that this provides.
The Need-To vs. Want-To Cycle of Daily Life
80% of the tattoos I see in Tokyo are done for members of what are euphemistically called "anti-social groups" - Yakuza. The rest are a few foreigners and an increasing, but still small number of fashion tattoos on Japanese men.

Despite local bathhouses proclaiming no-tattoo rules, many tattooed people are allowed in. More than 5%, less than 10% of bathers on average. But I live quite near Kabukicho. I believe the practical concern is rival gangs, so the bathhouse owner probably has an arrangement.

What I see there is interesting. Major parts of whole bodies are sometimes laid out with the complete pattern in sketch form. Like a city's subdivisions. Some younger men are already fully inked. The highest quality I have seen is surprisingly on older men. Some I find so beautiful. The best looking art-body comes always in with three helpers / bodyguards. The style and detail here is as you might see in Buddhist art at Tokyo National museum.

Major themes are oft repeated: Carp, Dragon etc. But the detailed content is always unique and creative. No matter the rank.
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Similar to the soyus rocket? What numbers are you looking at? The old soyus weighed 700,000lbs and its engines could lift that. The GE90X is a toy by comparison at less than a fifth that thrust.
To me it was pretty exciting after watching what Virgin Galactic did the other day.
>Incredible achievement

Is it though? I don't see how.
I am always amazed how many people say things like this while comfortably living behind the economic walls of their rich nation typing on a phone made by near slaves on the other side of it.
Bezos is so rich that he has plenty left to spend on mansions and supercars.
While the list is solid, but it doesn't mean "every developer" really should read them. I personally don't like this kind of "click bait" title. I also believe for many developers, no, don't need to read them at all.
Actually 3 dates, that was one. 2000 was a leap year and lots of systems got that wrong. 9/9/1999 was sometimes used as a can't happen date as well.
Lot of small inconsistencies as another said. Look at this screenshot[0]. The padding on the contact name and avatar is completely off.

Also look at the dialer[1], long inputs there are not that likely, but it still sucks that the numbers are behind the scroll bar.

Don't get me wrong. Last time I used KDE was some 5-6 years ago. These small inconsistencies were a lot more common, and back then for me it meant it's unusuable. I've been following KDE development, from the screenshots I've seen, it has come a long way. There are nowhere near as many inconsistencies as there used to be back then.

[0] https://plasma-mobile.org/2021/06/10/plasma-mobile-update-ju...

[1] https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2021/06/10/plasma-mobile-updat...
It's unfortunately surprisingly common for doctors and nurses to recommend all kinds of quack treatments in Austria. The pharmacies are not the only profiteers of these scams.
Eh? What a weird response and I can't tell if you are a troll given the age of your account...

Globalism is one of the best things to happen to our planet. I look forward to the next 1,000 years and hopefully reaching a point where everyone realizes we have a responsibility to every other person on this planet, as well as the planet itself. And, that a base level of respect and acceptance should be granted to every person on this planet. Nationalism is an interesting step on which we climbed. But, it is an arbitrary marker to divide people and I look forward to history washing it away in xxx years.

I do not think people should be ruled, I think people should rule themselves through some form of democracy.

Are you advocating something other than democracy?
Agree re: being underwhelmed, but in fairness, your typical "vomit comet" parabola flight only gets you about 25 seconds of weightlessness at a time. Although you can repeat this several dozen times per flight pretty easily.
What are the big implications of being good at predicting protein structures?
You mean tax payer funding?
Youtube's homepage reminds me of the television broadcasts in Idiocracy. Just another fulfilled prophecy.
At this point I'm just wondering if you're actually serious and didn't read or misinterpreted what I wrote, or just trolling. I will give you the benefit of the doubt and still answer this time.

> did I suggest you weren't?

Yes, you did, here:
> You're pointing out a possible avenue for using wealth to fix problems on earth

I was not. I was questioning the scenario posed by the journalist and how it doesn't fit the debate I see happening.

> Whether or not they should exist is an opinion.

Yes, but in this context we're not talking about my opinion, so I don't really understand what you're arguing about.

A more complete quote of that part of the question is:
"There have been a chorus of critics saying that these flights to space are, you know, just joyrides for the wealthy, and that you should be spending your time and your money and energy trying to solve problems here on Earth."

So the journalist is acting as a proxy of, yes, the opinion, of "a chorus of critics".

What I'm saying is that this seems misguided/ignorant/malicious (I don't know which) given that most of the criticism I have seen is NOT about how billionaires should spend their wealth but rather criticising the very conditions that make this question or choice exist in the first place - the very existance of a tiny number of extremelly wealthy persons, mostly amassed by

> What answer would you expect Bezos to give that would make it a better question?

I have no expectations, and I am not Bezos to know what he thinks. I imagine he'd just deflect but I can't know unless the question is actually asked and he's given a chance to respond.

Essentially what I'm discussing is how the whole thing seems nonsensical and just a farce to let Bezos mostly off the hook, whereas you seem to be questioning my opinions about the subject matter of the interview.

My actual opinion is that the interview is based on bad premises and should be discarded altogether.
> Democratic institutions [...] NGOs"

What is it that makes non-government organizations so democratic? Do they let the general public vote for their leaders?
Blue Origin is the closest to actually developing useful orbital and beyond-orbital capabilities. They have their own new engine design that's not quite as impressive as Raptor but not bad and their own super-heavy lift booster in development. The thing you just saw fly is similar to "Starhopper."

Virgin Galactic is an expensive carnival ride and has nothing close to orbital capability.

For those that don't know: getting to orbit (let alone beyond) requires way more delta-V (energy) than getting past the Karman line. The German V-2 is (I think) the first vehicle to do that, but it was nowhere even near orbit capable. The first photo from space was done by the USA with a captured and modified V-2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_No._13
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I have never worked using that "way", always the normal one.

What you describe is used by firms that you can smell a mile away and don't even try to work there.

I'm sure western Europe has similar companies that abuse employer rights.
The Bootleg Fire Is Now Generating Its Own Weather
Comments in this thread complaining that the rich get to do whatever they want are forgetting that the wright brothers (and others) enabled flight for all of us even though most people during that time could only dream about it. It might not happen for you and I, but let's think about the bigger picture.
This paper [1] should be required reading for all would-be C
replacement authors who don't want to follow in the footsteps of their
unsuccessful predecessors. As for my two cents, the design of modern
programming languages seems to be based on a premise of distrust for
the programmer, but the designers appear to have forgotten that the
distrust goes both ways. In [2], an old book about C programming,
readers are reminded that rarely used language features incur the risk
of the compiler writer not having implemented them correctly. It's
unlikely that any fancy new feature would make me prefer your C
replacement because I don't even use all of the features of C most of
the time.

That being said, if you're crazy enough to write a C replacement in
the first place, then maybe you'll be crazy enough to incorporate my
crazy suggestion for function specialization. In functional languages,
given a function f(w,x,y,z) with many parameters, it's straightforward
to define another function g(a,b) with fewer parameters as being equal
to f(H,b,a,K), a more general function specialized by fixed constants
for some of the parameters and arbitrary permutations of the others.
I'd like to be able to express the transformation that takes a pointer
to the general function f as input and returns a pointer to the
specialized function g, such that the pointer to g can be used in the
same context as any other pointer to a function of that arity and type
defined the normal way. I'd like it to be possible in a library
written be me operating on user-supplied pointers to functions not
known in advance, I'd like to avoid workarounds such as global static
variables or thread-specific storage, and I'd like you to convince me
that your implementation of this feature is too simple to be wrong.

[1] "Some Were Meant for C" by Stephen Kell
https://doi.org/10.1145/3133850.3133867

[2] "C Traps and Pitfalls" by Andrew Koenig

edit: typo
By trying to move that opinion. It might take three or ten generations but it’s hard to see an independence movement go faster without violence.
Depends; if you use renewable energy, operating it could pretty much be neutral. Given that this is in China, I would expect them to mostly power this with renewables (wind, hydro, or nuclear). They do still build a lot of coal as well of course.

Steel production for the infrastructure could long term also be a lot cleaner but is short term likely to have a substantial CO2 footprint. But that would be similar to other high speed rail options. Probably, over the life time of the installation, it would be quite good.
> It really shouldn't count as space travel unless they go into orbit around Earth.

Translation: 'Other private companies building their own rockets and going into space is 'not good enough' unless it is by SpaceX' and doesn't count.

To SpaceX fanatics and downvoters: I'm sure you are deep fanatics of SpaceX but surely you have the funds and deep pockets to join Musk and friends on a space mission together right now? If not, just continue to watch livestreams of others going into space then.

It should not be just down to ONE company. Commercial space flight is going to get allot cheaper with the existence of more competitors and that should be welcomed. Even SpaceX welcomes this and so should you.
So, just like the US then.
This is what "trickle down" technology looks like. We are watching space flight move a rung down the economic ladder.

Nation states -> wealthy bigco -> billionare's pet project -> ????? -> normal people

(some steps omitted for brevity)
ISO doesn't fund the development costs.
I'm turned off of the whole thing by how easy it is to end up watching something I would rather not, without knowing it.

For example, if you're just browsing for thumbnails that look good, and you click forward to the action, there's a decent chance you're unknowingly watching some kind of rape or exploitation scenario. Some are just silly, like stepmom's arm is stuck in the couch, but others are sleazy and many would be crimes in real life. I don't think such content should be censored, but it doesn't make a great fantasy for me, and I don't like the undercurrent of wondering if my engagement with whatever video I'm watching is contributing to some marketing drone saying, "The stepdad-punishing-teen-daughter-with-sex genre is trending, let's push it hard today!"

Another thing that vividly stuck in my mind was seeing a photo of an actress I recognized in a news headline: teen victim of car accident identified as 19-year-old runaway. The reason it stuck in my mind was the realization that I had been jerking off to her videos for easily four years, maybe longer. Such a thing shouldn't be shocking. If people will obtain forged proof of age documents to win Little League tournaments, they'll do it to make money, right? But that was pretty sobering and made it hard to look at young attractive women on my laptop without wondering how old they are and if maybe I should watch something else instead.

Don't get me wrong; I don't abstain completely. I've just developed a distaste that keeps me away a lot of the times when otherwise I would gladly partake.
Yet this is what, with all their power, billionaries can achieve today. While private innovation is welcome, space exploration needs even deeper pockets so it is government territory.
Virgin Galactic is at least taking a novel approach with the spaceplane though. Sticking a capsule on top of a rocket and bringing it down with parachutes has been done since the 1960s, and SpaceX beat them to landing the launcher as well.
Blue Origin actually predates SpaceX. They have been working in parallel on related ideas, so I don't think it's fair to say they "copied" SpaceX.

SpaceX is definitely a lot further down the road, and what Blue Origin is doing currently is much easier. The energies involved in suborbital flights are much lower, and the fact that the rocket has a thrust-to-weight ratio low enough that it can hover makes the landing process a lot simpler.
The train infrastructure over 50 years? I doubt if air travel is even close to as environmentally friendly

The real problem with not doing the trains is the right of ways become difficult.

California wanted to build high-speed rail in the 1970s but the car culture won. They kept expanding the highways.

Now they can’t build directly between SF and LA, for example.

People also overlook that trains can make a few stops along the way.

China transports over a billion passengers a year by rail. Put them in the air
Mentioning Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin in the same breath as SpaceX seems disingenuous. It's like comparing an horse+cart with a modern car.

Maybe Electron and Virgin Orbit are in the race, but these hop 100km (or 80!) up and about 5 miles downrange are nowhere near the same league.
RE: backtesting we use SEC enforcement actions related to fraud (10b-5) as our gold label. That said, there is no gold label for absence of fraud so our backtested metrics are probably slightly better than they seem.

We've never tried to score a short fund on their precision/recall but unofficially, Hindenburg Research has the highest concordance with our models in deployment.
Leverage against common threads or to accomplish common goals. Besides, there are many nations/countries with several official languages already. Having several languages does not invalidate all the advantages.
I am always amazed by the assumptions people make :)

What do you disagree with?

I have family living in China, and I live in Portugal. Why do you like nationalism so much and feel so threatened by the loss of your nation as an identity? Why is it not enough to just be human surrounded by other humans who are identical to you?
> You also need a massive amount of power during takeoff and landing

assuming a dedicated (specialised) takeoff/landing strip/apparatus - this could be solved by land-based assistance? Like (friken') lasers or something?
Yup. There are layers upon layers of messaging here. This is a handful of very rich people throwing shade at each other. In the past they used paintings and architecture to send coded insults. Now they use thier toy rockets.
I don’t know how much you have taken the bus but it is truly abysmal in the Bay Area. Not to mention the VTA is cutting a bunch of stops due to low ridership (it’s a chicken and egg problem). Additionally, the buses are slow and rarely go where you want to go.

I just looked on Google Maps. Assuming that I can only walk and take public transport getting to Stanford Shopping Center from where I grew up takes 5x longer than driving, Half-Moon Bay 4x longer. For contrast getting to London from any surrounding area and vice versa is generally faster by public transport when compared to driving (even when that trip involves buses).

It simply isn’t comparable. The infrastructure might exist in theory, but it is not very usable.
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Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I created [video]
> the prosperity that happened during Lula's time was because of booming commodities market and exports booming

Ah, the familiar sound of facts being twisted and turned to conform to what you wish reality had been. We’ve been hearing this same rhetoric of denial since before their government ended. Somehow we should believe that a country of 200 million people was just “going through its motions” for over a decade and the figures in power were just spectators. I guess that leaves room to say the same about the current government - the ongoing destruction of the economy is “not their fault” either.

There are a thousand different policies implemented in those years that helped the country achieve growth. A huge number of them already reversed in the past 5-6 years. Hand waving all of it as “the commodities market boomed” is of such a despicable, willful ignorance.

EDIT: on why I find this so aggravating: to have a decent government you need people to vote based on proposals, political stance on specific issues, policies, not empty promises (like ending corruption). This kind of discourse just continues to poison the well by taking focus away from real economic/political issues and into a red vs blue team mentality.
Interesting, the one I have moves the minute hand about 5 times per minute or so, rather than being continuous.
Let me ask you this, what would truly be the end game here ? Why would people make this stuff up about Ivermectin? What’s the motive?
Yeah the screenshots also have a slight shadow around the window. This reminds me of the KDE Spectacle feature to enable showing window decorations when screenshotting a specific window only. In those cases, at least the shadow is drawn artificially, maybe even the decorations. In fact it's possible that originally these windows didn't even have those decorations, they only got added later by the screenshot tool.
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Just pulling some numbers out of a hat, if they are paying $250/hr for legal counsel, and each of these disputes is generating one 8-hour day's worth of billable time, then Amazon is looking at $1.5 billion in legal fees to individually arbitrate each of these disputes.
One reason China invests heavily in trains is that they provide large capacity.

China needs to transport literally hundreds of millions of people over a week once or twice a year (National holiday and Chinese New year) on top on regular transport between megalopolis.

"All CRH trains are formed of eight or 16 cars with capacity ranging from 494 to 1299 seats. The busiest routes can be served by up to 101 services per direction per day, with up to eight trains per hour at peak times. Traffic density on such routes is estimated at about 30-40 million passengers" [1]

[1] https://www.railjournal.com/in_depth/chinese-high-speed-an-e...
"Space exploration" is lending way, way too much credence to this.

These two flights were ~60mi altitude. The ISS, for reference, is at 250mi. We've launched people there more than a hundred times, never mind having to put it there in the first place. The moon, which we landed and recovered people from in 1969, is 240,000mi away.

This is a hobby project, which is totally fine in that it's their money to spend, and it's kind of neat that we can generate enough wealth that private individuals could even imagine doing this, but let's not dress it up as more than that.

Edit: Musk/SpaceX is definitely in a different category. That actually seems to be shooting for space exploration, which is pretty neat, though I still think there are earthly priorities that we'd see much higher ROI from.