skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would rather go a bit meta and quote Byung-Chul Han, that we live in a 'society of tiredness'. The German Korean philosopher, describes this quite interestingly in his book — Burnout society [1] (some parts are also in the youtube documentary here [2]). He intriguing describes the transition of modern worker from conditions of Foucauldian Disciplinary Society [3] into what he calls an 'Achievement society'.

In an achievement society, a subject is kinda like in a self-feedback loop. She/He are constantly reinventing their personality, profession, and beliefs. There is no solid self-image formed due to constant updates. He says this is largely because we live in an over-positivized world. Where there is no room for negativity and hence anything that is negative ceases to exist due to the way it is presented [4]. So, if your job is not working it is not anybody's problem but yours. So go do a masterclass in reactjs and stop being a philosopher. Then you do some personal branding, then hustle on twitter posting threads like "5 cool react plugins" or "Javascript or Typescript?". But we essentially tend to be stuck in that solitary, "I can do it". He says:

> “The modal verb that determines achievement society is not the Freudian Should, but Can”

Hence, we seem to be always in this Can state, without rest, even in our states of rest we are presenting our rest as images on social media to achieve. That philosophically is not rest. Modern human never rest. He is constantly producing. But, there is a kind of gratification crisis this leads to and one never achieves anything. He says :

> “Instead, the feeling of having achieved a goal never occurs. It is not that the narcissistic subject does not want to achieve closure. Rather, it is incapable of getting there.”

and eventually people get depressed due to this constant 'need of initiative'.

I am sorry, I explained it pretty bad. It seems written like an absolute thing but there are complications. Please do read the book (just 72 pages) and watch the documentary. It is not a supreme explanation but some bits kind a ring bell to be as I have been living in a kind of perpetual tiredness lately. Cheers and have a good day!

[1] https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25725

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNkDeUApreo

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVFtc9_AB2k

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2YeJpkrTOQ
I love Insomnia and usually recommend it to others.

But I remember a few months ago I was developing a basic API and testing it through Insomnia. At first, I almost had a heart attack seeing the time it took to answer, between clicking "send" and getting a response back. All this running on localhost, on an old but fairly powerful box (i7-3930k, 64 GB ram). My first reaction was I must have had some sleep() lying around.

Then I looked at the details, and the actual time taken handling the call, etc, as reported by Insomnia was a few ms, all the rest was... I don't know what.

But I do agree than other than that, when interacting with the app itself (switch requests, type, etc) it feels snappy enough. I usually use it alongside IntelliJ, which while fairly fast, isn't terminal-level instantaneous.
“Native CSS modules” standardization is rushed
>Why does it take so long?

I guess one reason is global compatibility. For a global system to hold its promise, a card issued in one country (including developing ones) should be serviceable anywhere else.
> The advice you sometimes hear to go traveling and backpacking in your early 20s to self-discover is total financial lunacy.

And life isn't only about min-maxing your financial situation at all times. Playing this game leads to a pretty bitter life, some are fit for it and thrive by squandering every cent they can during their younger years, others will simply be miserable.

Financial lunacy or not I don't believe that your life should be completely dictated by maximising your financial prospects when you are 40 or 50, each decade is a completely different life you live and missing out on your 20s while you are at your healthiest and less tired self is a personal development lunacy.

When you retire you aren't young and dumb anymore, you won't have the same experiences, you won't meet the same people, you will just coast into your later years. Might be successful by the metrics of the rat race but are you, as a person, really much better if you didn't experience much just to save money for later?

Everything is a trade-off, min-maxing your retirement funds on expense of your life experiences is just another option, financial lunacy or not, I'd love for more humans to not have to be trapped into lives based on what's financially sound or not.
Personally I would prefer 2 hours on a train to 2 hours by car, since I can read or reply to emails without focusing on the road.

But the idea of density is that everything is closer together, so transit time is less, and you have more modes of transportation available to you, reducing congestion. In the United States, most people don't have the option of a short commute or to live within walking/biking distance of work even if they wanted to.
Stop comparing yourself with others. That drags you down, since we usually look at those doing better than us. Be kind to yourself. Look at others who are worse off and be grateful for what you have. Do your projects for you, for your learning and enjoyment, have fun.

Full time work is exhausting and leaves little energy for energyintensive work that requires a lot of concentration.

I'd say that my situation is similar. I am interested in sooo many things and the resulting knowledge is wide, who cares if it is shallow, do we have to judge everything?

What is broad knowledge useful for? I am preparing to found a startup with a guy i know from school. My broad knowledge helps here immensly, i know what to do and i will learn the specifics when it is time to.

We often hear the phrase "Follow your passion". Passion is like a flame. If you want to find your niche, i think the question "What problems do i want to solve which i am willing to work for?" (pretty sure i encountered it on HN) might yield more long-term satisfying answers. Just ask yourself the question and let it open. Stop yourself from trying to find an answer with your (active thinking) mind, let your subconcious work. Maybe make a reminder or post-it or whatever works for you to ask it regularly. Just ask and wait.

Good luck.
The spike protein absolutely does not cause damage. Please cite a reputable source.

The claim that the spike protein is dangerous in and of itself is a fixture of anti-vax disinformation online.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/06/08/fac...
All but one of them, though PV is quantum magic and rather more mind-bending for most people than non-euclidian geometry was for Lovecraft.
"The minimum age for enlisting in the UK armed forces is 16"

"You can start your application when you're 15 years and 7 months"

If you can go to war, you should be able to watch war videos on YouTube.
>But still less than no vaccination..

Can you share why you think the current vaccines will reduce the mutations when we already know that they only prevent symptoms (not even reduce viral load for some variants).

So given that, why do you think the current vaccines will reduce the chances for virus to mutate.

To me, it appears that the current vaccines will give the exact same chance for the virus to mutate, without the vaccine, but in addition also apply selection pressure to guide the evolution to gain immune escape. So the worst of both worlds.
It is funny, CA actually has very progressive taxes…except prop 13 creating this giant loophole for land wealth where the older landowners are grandfathered into a highly regressive property tax.

https://itep.org/whopays-map/
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Currently, incentives vary geographically but they'll converge when physical and transitional risks are priced into every business model.

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I'm the same. I don't think people realise how much of motivation is socially derived from your peers who you like and respect.
Do most modern democracies have equal power for each vote, regardless of their province/state/region? Don't most use voting districts to elect individuals?
>A 2021 Prius, for example, still has basically the same profile as the iconic 2004.

The 2004 Prius and the 2021 Prius don't really look anything like each other unless you just compared the outlines of the profiles. Meanwhile trying to decipher if a Tesla Model S is a new one or an old one is a bit like trying to decipher if a car is a sport variant or a comfort variant. "Oh, you can tell that it's the sport version because the brake calipers are larger and the rear wheel arches are flared"
Anyone else pushing their sabbatical for when the world finally opens up?

I'd like to take some time off and decompress. Travel a little, learn a few things and eventually work on my side projects but the world being closed is a big mental blocker as that doesn't permit free travel.

Waiting for the world to open up so that I can sell everything and buy a 1 way ticket to Bali. Don't see it happening anytime soon though.
It depends what income band you are in (and what type of income you have):

https://itep.org/whopays-map/

And specifically for CA, what land you have passed down to you so you can benefit from prop 13.
What makes you say that reality is consistent? How would we know?
That’s not exactly a fair comparison since Pokemon is more of a multimedia franchise in that it has trading cards, tv shows, movies etc. It’s more like a brand than just a video game. So barring these huge franchises (along with Minecraft/Fortnite), I would assume physical merch sales for most games is low by comparison.
The current vaccines were/are known to be non-sanitizing. The best vaccines are sanitizing, think measles vaccine. We never were going to reach herd immunity
via natural infections and it appears with the current batch we're not going to with vaccines either. Natural infection and a now-canceled nasal vaccine did produce sanitizing effects albeit shortlived.

Towards your original point, only 15% of the world is vaccinated. Say even 5% extra could have been vaxed by now, a difference maybe but nowhere close to the order of magnitude difference required to drop mutation rate below multiple helpful ones per year
How mindfulness could make you selfish
No, it's tiring to see increasingly more people just overcomplicate some of life's simplest things.

If a person misses social contact then there is a really really simple solution to that. Unless the OP is currently in prison they should get off their arse and step outside their home and just start meeting people and talk to people if that is what they want. It worked like this hundred of thousand of years ago and it still works the same way today.
At least some of these things are kind of unrelated to how the audio signal arrives at the amplifier and are still an issue when connecting speakers to a bluetooth enabled amplifier.
This is it! Thank you!!
The same thing as other countries placing their universities in foreign countries
Negative Probabilities in Financial Modeling
Humans are the cause, and unless more governments and policies are in place to prevent excessive plastic and waste consumption, there isn’t a hope for wildlife.

I do freelance work for a reusable takeaway container company where restaurants stock our boxes and customers need only to download an app to get their food in reusable boxes (they can return anywhere). The app is super easy to download but still people are refusing to do it. I tried convincing a pregnant acquaintance to do it, telling her to think of the planet she’s leaving behind for her unborn child, and still she refused. Why? Convenience. So much easier to throw the damn plastic box away and tell yourself “oh it’s made of recycled plastic anyway.”

The fact is, whether it’s recycled plastic or not, plastic is plastic. Driving the demand for recycled plastic boxes isn’t going to fix our planet. Until the government steps in to say every food related shop needs to provide a reusable alternative and customers have to pay more for disposable waste (like how it is now with carrier bags in most supermarkets in Europe), I don’t see much change happening in terms of wildlife. It’s sad but it is what it is.
I don’t think this is an accurate take. The Taliban does not have support of most of the masses. Various surveys consistently show that public support for democracy is more widespread than support for an Islamic emirate (example https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/30/afghans-w...). This makes sense - something like 2/3rds of Afghanis are under 25. They only know a relatively peaceful life without oppression or repression, under elected governments with America’s backing. The women and children in Afghanistan don’t want a society where they can’t get educated or where music and other media are banned. People didn’t resist because the US strategy to exit so quickly left them mentally unprepared and also demoralized them by lending credence to the notion that the Taliban’s threat demanded a hasty exit. America also really didn’t make a great attempt at establishing a professional, sustainable Afghan military (see https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/how-americ...) which is why military generals and various reports recommended against a hasty compete exit of US troops. The first few villages and province capitals to fall made the Afghani people fearful and they are just a poor people looking to survive. It isn’t worth getting killed if they think it is an unwinnable situation. But they’re still hungry for democracy and peace.
At my work the people who moved far away to own a bigger house enjoy WFH - they have more space to isolate themselves during the working day, and a long commute they can skip.

I have a short cycle into work which is one of the highlights of my day and hate WFH.
dunno how long it will last for, but you can add `ui.experience_override="classic"` to your prefs file to hold out a little longer.
>mutations created in the unvax population benefit from resistance to vaccines.

I cannot see how this is correct. Because it should be the mutations created in the vaccinated that will help the virus to survive in similar vaccinated hosts..because first of all, the mutated virus need to survive in the vaccinated host, and become the dominant one in that host and thus giving it a better chance to jump to another host...

So this mutations must be happening in Vaccinated hosts. In unvaccinated as you said, any mutations that gives the virus immune escape capability does not give it an advantage over the other mutations in the same host, simply because there is no vaccine generated antibodies to kill the other mutations, for it to gain dominance.
I almost cited him the other day on HN (the Thinking Hats, as a tool for creative brainstorming sessions).
I was hoping for something smarter than "central navigation hub" used by everyone.

With the amount of data Google collects from phones riding in cars, it's probably close, except people do not use navigation for daily routes.
This. I absolutely hate it when apps try to be smart and use their own audio routing.

I'm a Linux user and have multiple audio outputs. I've configured Spotify to always go to my amp / speakers. And it works great.

But then there's Teams, which is absolute sh*tshow. It always says "custom configuration" but you never know where it goes, and partially ignores the configuration in PulseAudio / PipeWire.

I understand why they do this, random users may find it more useful to have this choice directly in front of them, and I would agree... if it worked well! Zoom at least has the good taste to have an entry for "use system settings", which seems to mostly work.

I think that aside from "specialty" applications (like DAWs, etc) regular apps have no business messing around with the system audio settings.
Yep, it's nice to live where serious threats are treated seriously - none of us want Delta getting a foothold. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/449376/covid-19-communit... our level 4 is very strict, no mucking about.
DataOps, True Self-Serve, and OpenAI's NLP Codex Waitlist
Spotify API is open. He is not breaking any ToS.
Do you think they have the majority in Kabul?

Or is this a classical case of rural vs urban (only that in this case the rural people have a ton of firepower and the will to create laws that affect the urban people as well)?

As someone who grew up in Austria and Germany I think we can fight ideologies. In fact we have to. Having strong (intolerant) ideals is not a problem until you force it on people who don't in inhumane ways.
I'm really interested to read articles or how to around this solution. Do you have anything public that could help me?
I can't work in a co-working space since the projects I work on mean no-one outside of my company can see my screen.
Gas stations also have a disincentive to have you pay at the pump. They want you to walk in and buy from the mini-market, at least here in Australia the petrol was a loss-leader for a long time. They made all their money from the in store mini-market. All petrol stations here are essentially convenience stores with a gas station attached to get you in the door.

We have had pay at the pump before, but they got rid of it, and even brand new stations don't have it so it's not just upgrading the pumps.
That's interesting, maybe we adopted contactless payments faster in part because in our gas stations you'd usually pay inside the shop. I have to think that was only one of many reasons, though.
Yes, that would be fine. As long as security is covered. Mandating a standard API would be awesome.
> a single codebase for ALL the targets

Spotify even has a pretty detailed post on this:

https://engineering.atspotify.com/2021/04/07/building-the-fu...
It almost like the want Congress to get down on them.

A little more of crap like from all of the involved - Google, Facebook, Apple, doesn't matter, they are digging their own graves here.
Food is such an opaque product as well. It might _seem_ cheap but you could very well be paying for water (see “tenderized” chicken, it’s 10% water).
Afghanistan is only slightly (~25%) urban. Polls show that a super majority of the entire population (including rural) favor democratic elections and not a council of mullahs (which is how the Taliban’s Islamic emirate is organized).
Afghanistan’s Mineral Resources Are a Lost Opportunity and a Threat (2020)
New police CCTV use rules criticised as bare bones
> Then they safely contain it without it being spilled to the real world to a certain extent

Like January 6th? Safe containment indeed.

> youtube and other media like reddit even HN "strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion"

Which results in an ever increasing number of extremist refugees. The Fediverse appears to be growing consistently and I think the systemic mechanisms that are concentrating extreme viewpoints there should be cause for concern.

On the plus side, if a particularly interesting video is removed from YouTube you can often find it mirrored there.
Use these for inspirations : hyperpixel.io
They do not exist in a legal grey zone. Spotify has open APIs. Using them is allowed.
That's a very interesting point.

As a former academic myself, I can confirm that universities are unfortunately good at building cult-like followings - not only cult-like followings, thankfully, but still.

Do you think that this has an impact on the situation in Afghanistan?
Social networks struggle to crack down on ‘incel’ movement – Social media
Just generally consuming less would be a great start. Most first world lifestyles are awash in unnecessary consumption - so much so that your quality of life is likely to improve through cutting out the crap, well before you have to make any hard compromises about your lifestyle.
It never occurred to me how much infrastructure there was in a gas station. Talking about the 99% invisible, really.
I quit my ridiculously well paying cybersecurity job in January. Went traveling for most of the time since. Most of Latin America was/is consistently open, if you're wondering. So is some of eastern Europe and the neighboring Asian ex-soviet countries. Africa has potential too, I think (haven't been). If you're vaccinated (which I was, pretty early on) most of Europe opens up too (but probably not for long now).

You've read the cliche reasons for doing this kind of thing many times before, and honestly I don't think this newyorker article is saying anything very different.

My additional, edgy, uncensored reason: I couldn't shake the feeling that I was picking up the check for everybody else. I was paying very high taxes to essentially finance crazy government overreach, only to later lose the value of what's remaining to inflation due to all the money printing.
I'd pay if it converted YouTube videos into downloadable files for me.
I guess you're saying that if you're writing a small function that's fully understood then procedural top-down is a good way to do it.

I don't know. Personally even for a fairly small tool I'd want to build it bottom-up by composing smaller functions, and I think you'd gain a lot of reusability that way - indeed I'd say many of the classic unix tools suffer from being programs rather than libraries, and it's a shame there's such a hard boundary between shell and the tools it uses.

If anything I suspect the causality goes in the other direction - if you want to make a big system using procedural programming and C, then you have to split it into processes that are simple enough to comprehend in their entirety, and that have a very simple state model where they essentially just take input and give output and don't have any persistent state between invocations. But when you put it like that, Unix shell-and-pipeline style starts to seem like an effort to invent functional programming, just at a somewhat more coarse-grained level.
Depends on where you are. In a large city probably not, in a smaller village it is probably best to to let them do just that. The outside has to compete with TV and video games, so let them have some fun.

I think the US is known to prosecute parents that let their kids roam too freely, at least according to the stereotypes.
Another would be the "Real World" example apps:

https://codebase.show/projects/realworld

https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
On the topic of bulk grocery shops, it would be really great if more people shop there (I’m in Vienna and we have a few but they’re struggling) but realistically, i don’t think the general crowd is ready to make such a drastic lifestyle change.I would be happy enough if supermarkets at least try and encourage people to go for the packaging free option, or provide incentives in this regard. It’s ridiculous and nonsensical that they charge more for you to buy your groceries loose aka without packaging. It’s like they’re punishing you for not going for the packet of 6 Granny Smith apples all wrapped in plastic and cardboard.