skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm close to retirement age. I'm advised by everyone I ask not to just go "cold turkey", but find things to do which give respect from others, and contribute to some activity. It could be part-time work, or volunteering, but taking a role in an activity which builds something, is better for your health. It's probably a variant of CBT, taking behaviour which commands respect engenders a sense of self-respect which lifts the spirit. You have purpose. Old people who cease work and stop, die young. Those aggressive golfers are probably drinking hard too. The ones who are "working" even if without pay, working for minimum wage to supplement retirement income, and for the social engagement, seem to live longer, happer. Even just being able to grumble about how menial the work is, helps. My god! I used to be a company director, now look at me, sorting underwear in a charity shop (but.. doing it) -kind of thing (I am not a company director and I do not work in a charity shop)

Talking to unemployed people, who want to work, I also know they say that the support systems in the state typically make this really hard: you cannot commit to work without pay, if it risks your status as unemployed, to recieve welfare. If you have to go in to interview or for some welfare process, and can't volunteer that day, a lot of agencies can't use you because they can't rely on you. So, its a double trap: its "safer" to do nothing, because you can't either let down the people you want to do things with or, be denied welfare. Truly, a trap.

So, if you don't have a risk here, I very much suggest you find some thing to do, any thing, which contributes back to some other endevour. Wash dishes in a local kindy. Hold newborn babies in hospital whose parents can't be there. Help pack food for people who are starving. Join a morning pick-up-litter group.

I also know how tedious these suggestions are, how much they hurt and irritate. When they were put to me in times past, I "bit back" and told people not to be facetious or patronising. I knew these things could be done, I didn't need to be "told". I had to be driven out of a slump, taken in hand, and guided to a better sense of my place in the world, so I don't say this as "haven't walked there".

(I only say this because you strongly suggest your are aware this situation is not improving your mental health, or making you happy. To use an internet witticism or two, "you do you" and "Im not the boss of you")
I really wanted this back then when it felt like I was missing out. Then twitter released their version and I got a taste and decided I wasn't into it after all.
I think they are very similar, but different enough that it makes sense to use different words. Using just the word "REPL" doesn't give much insight into the iceberg of capabilities that lisps like Clojure, Common Lisp, etc. provide. I wrote a long post about some of the differences: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28475647

Would love a better word or phrase to differentiate from e.g. the way people experience a python or haskell REPL.
2021 Tesla Model S Plaid Review
en-IE is a good choice in Europe: defaults to €, Anglo-Irish spelling, metric, 10 September style dates.
While there are ways to deschedule both userspace and kernel threads, there is no mechanism to deschedule a userspace thread while it's executing in the middle of kernel mode because of a blocking syscall.

Think of it like trying to deschedule a userspace thread in the middle of it having jumped to kernelspace to handle an interrupt. It just wouldn't work; that's not a pre-emptible state, not one that can be cleanly represented during a context switch with a PUSHA, not one where pre-emption would leave the kernel in a known state, etc.

So the CPU core is tied up because the original thread can't be descheduled, and instead would still be "stuck" in the middle of the system call, doing a busy-wait on the result of the callback. To make the callback actually happen in this hypothetical design, the execution of the callback would need to be scheduled onto another CPU core, using some system-global callback-scheduler like Apple's libdispatch.

Note that this is also why, in Linux, processes stuck in the D state are unkillable. They're stuck "inside" a blocking system call, and so cannot be descheduled, even by the process manager trying to hard-kill them (which, in the end, requires the system call to at least return to the kernel so that the kernel resources involved can reach a known postcondition state.)

And this is why innovations like io_uring make so much sense in Linux — they allow a userspace process to 1. make a long-running blocking syscall, while also 2. spawning a worker subprocess to communicate asynchronously with the logic inside the running syscall, by queuing messages back and forth through the kernel rings. (Picture, say, sendfile(2) messaging your worker to let you observe the progress of the operation, and/or to signal it on a channel to gracefully cancel the operation-in-progress.)
I started doing PI, that plus idling in an Orca and taking a cut of the miner's profit.
> Let's not kid ourselves: web apps and electron apps are developer-experience focused, not user centered.

Developer problems turn into cost and schedule problems. Users very much care about cost and availability.
If you hit them from behind, your crime is recorded on the hidden cameras that are everywhere.
Well there isn't a mobile stylesheet. It's the same as the desktop styling (and that code block issue affects desktop too).

There are multiple issues with using the desktop styling, but most are related to Fitt's law[1].

The whole UI is terrible for finger interactions, but the best example is the tiny upvote/downvote buttons immediately above/below each other well within the diameter of a normal finger. It's literally impossible to use that without zooming, and if you try to then there is no way to know if you vote up or down. It should be used in textbooks for how not to do a mobile interaction.

[1] https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/fitts-...
You aren't wrong. I'm not particularly conservative on a lot of issues, even though I'm not a Democrat.
If I get taxed on my income, and then give half of it to you, should it be exempt from taxes because it was "already taxed?" The whole idea is that money is taxed when it passed from one person to another.
I’d argue you don’t want healthcare workers who don’t believe in vaccination practicing healthcare (90-95% of doctors are vaccinated, for comparison, versus closer to 40-50% for nurses). This is filtering out workers who should be filtered out of the healthcare labor pool, workers who would be in close proximity to patients.

They’ve received other vaccinations to work [1]. They’ve been educated how vaccines work. There is no excuse for being unvaccinated as a healthcare professional.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/phlp/publications/topic/vaccinationlaws....
Important distinction: the government is allowed to do violence to people legally (during law enforcement). Private people generally are not.

This means that if you have free speech, you can't immediately suffer legal violence for saying things.

You may, of course, suffer other things, but it won't be legal violence.
The stoned, upside down rhinoceroses dangling from helicopters certainly deserved a prize. I can't help but imagine the stories these critters tell.

"Everything got all dizzy and i was lifted up and flew upside down here to this new place."

They probably have religions based on it. Or are there opiate addict rhinos chasing helicopters around there, hoping for another hit?
does that logically follow?
Seems like every hospital administrator assumed that they'd be able to rely on hiring a bunch of travel nurses to cover the gap but then discovered every other hospital administrator in the country had the same idea.
No sane person would initiate a first strike --it's uncertain whether someone would be able to launch a full retaliatory strike. Only insane people like Castro and LeMay would give orders to launch. Today's nukes are near-civilization ending. They are not the equivalent of a month's worth of carpet bombing executed in one sortie.
I've done OCR before; it seems like they must not have had any punctuation in their ground-truth set for English here though...
Quantum mechanics may go against common sense in some aspects but temporal causality is not one of them.

https://philarchive.org/rec/ELLWDC

“Why Delayed Choice Experiments do NOT imply Retrocausality” - David Ellerman

“There is a fallacy that is often involved in the interpretation of quantum experiments involving a certain type of separation such as the: double-slit experiments, which-way interferometer experiments, polarization analyzer experiments, Stern-Gerlach experiments, and quantum eraser experiments. The fallacy leads not only to flawed textbook accounts of these experiments but to flawed inferences about retrocausality in the context of delayed choice versions of separation experiments.”
This is a very interesting question.

Almost like saying: how do we keep gravity from eventually creating a few giant blackholes?

Granted, we can't change physical laws. But if we could, we would clearly need some sort of anti-gravity that kicks in just passed the point of a black hole.

So I guess there needs to be some benefit of not being a monopoly.
Until you fix Kstreet corruption of the legislative body any regulation pushes will almost invariably end up benefiting the big corps despite however noble the idea behhind the particlar legislion starts out.
I wasn't defending their action. Just pointing out that is the context they operate from. Whether it is fact or indoctrination isn't really important. Their action is 100% consistent with that belief.

Every country is lying/cheating/stealing... Is there an honest operator out there?
yeah, but my point is that checking system that you had created will be thrown away at some point in my experience. so why bother writing types? that is my attitude at least at very early stage of a project.

later in a project where you know for sure something can be known at compile time, of course I love to check them at compile time.
> If there were a war there'd be no "Made in China" goods being exported.

That would be the best thing that ever happened to the rest of the world, and to Chinese citizens as well.

China has long abused its citizens to undercut global prices on manufactured goods. Their political and religious prisoners are very often put to work in factories (if not sent to work camps or tortured in prison); and wages for factory work are very low compared to the rest of the world.

In the early 1930s, the USSR survived by shipping so much grain out of Ukraine that by 1933, 25% of the Ukrainian populace had died. Dictatorships and authoritarian regimes always abuse people one way or another to survive.
Jay Leiderman has died
This is one of those interesting instances in which big tech copying a new startup has actually worked. The problem they had was most rooms were advertised on twitter. Now the Twitter Spaces integration means it's a one click for the organiser to set up and advertise a room to their twitter user base. It's very smooth for the user as well - one click, no separate app.
In most of the countries you've identified China has a strong toehold already.
Some of those who have chosen not to get vaccinated are those already recovered from Covid, who now have natural immunity. This includes many essential workers and first responders, who worked throughout 2020 without the protection of a vaccine.

That leaves the subset of non-immune people who are unvaccinated. If this hypothetical person is reckless (as your comment suggests), should they not have already been infected in the past 18 months? If they were not infected in 18 months, that suggests at least some ability to isolate and self-monitor.
Yes, you can. Fiscal policy makers do that all the time - some say not enough times - but it's unlikely in this case because guess who bought their seats and will be at the table if and when these regulations start to be written?
Well, for standard side-effects, you'd be right. But we aren't talking about a normal viral-vector vaccine. We're talking about an mRNA vaccine. A delivery-method which "temporarily modifies turns the cells in a localized area into protein-producing machines". (A fairly non-scientific excerpt I found online)

But the big question (at least for me) is, can this actually modify my DNA? Because if so, that's potentially a Big Deal™ that we should be able to object to or at least discuss, right? But while the CDC is busy telling everyone that RNA cannot possibly ever change DNA, a group of scientists at Harvard and MIT accidentally found out—oops, maybe it can.[0]

Now look, there's still a lot of squinting and determining to be done here. By no means should we halt everything. But as long as there's still questions like this out there, there can be no reasonable mandate.

[0]: https://sciencewithdrdoug.com/2021/02/15/breaking-study-shed...
[0]b: (The link to the actual study): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33330870/
The typical fallacy of putting all masks in the same bucket. This is not different than whole lipid hypothesis built around "fat" consumption like fat is just one type!
> but don't tell me it's human rights.

The world is a messy place and at many times it may be impossible to pursue that goal in an entirely consistent manner.

There's also the other factor of self-preservation. It's not a good strategy to cede advantages to your opponent and hope a deus ex machina saves you in the end.

> The Chinese haven't acted with force outside of what they consider their soil/sea in like 40 years. Xi is pretty worrying but until he starts doing that, let's not agitate for killing a bunch of people just in case.

Who's advocating for a bunch of killing? I think the main (perhaps only) thing I'm seeing advocated for here is diplomatic recognition.
7:30, not bad for a 2.1 metric ton car. 14 seconds faster than a Golf. Here’s a question: how many laps will it do before going into a limp mode?

A lap video with no cuts and telemetry would be also awesome.
> 2,550 American adults were recruited on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

> participants were asked to imagine having a given amount of discretionary time every day

Seriously? I trust this about as much as I trust a twitter poll.
People abuse the code formatting for block quote. It looks bad on mobile, but it also looks bad on desktop because it's a fixed width Font, which is not what you want for a quote. The solution is not to change the style – it's for people to stop using code style for quotes! (The style does actually seem to have changed on mobile in the last year or so: I think it wraps now, whereas I think it used to have a horizontal scroll bar.)

To quote something else, manually insert a greater than symbol at the start of every quoted paragraph,

> Like this

Which obviously doesn't indent nicely but is perfectly clear, and works well with HN's low formatting style.
> I think the experience is fine

How do you vote without zooming?

Ever tried to touch "comments" on headline and accidentally clicked "hide"?

Ever tried to touch the "Hacker News" menu item and gone to "new"?

Everyone is used to these things, but they are textbook examples of bad mobile design.
The new Roomba uses AI to avoid smearing dog poop all over your house
What a tremendously low effort (and inaccurate) ad hominem.
I personally separate things into different categories. Weapons that can be used to kill me are in a different category from dogs that can bite me, from phones that can take pictures of me and from glasses that can film me.

People will attempt to blur the lines between adjacent categories to argue their point, but you're going from the first straight to the last, skipping over everything in the middle. That's what I call 'a stretch'.
Start feels like such a weird name given how the words Microsoft start instantly makes me think of the windows start menu. I assume it has to do with how people are supposed to be reading the news at the start of their day or something but still. Is microsoft news another product already maybe they didn’t want to deprecate?
From my personal memories of the 1990’s, the big breakthrough for multimedia on PCs was Windows 95.

Prior to Windows 95, installing a sound card was a big pain due to manually having to fiddle with IRQ allocation. In addition, many drivers were 16 bit DOS drivers and could take space from the valuable 640k DOS memory (MemMaker anyone?)

Also, multimedia was often large data so programming 16bit programs with their segmented memory models was a big pain.

Windows 95 really fixed a lot of those issues. It spurred the development of 32 but drivers. Plug and play made it a lot more feasible to install sound cards, etc. it was easier to write 32 but programs to process that larger data.
This mandate is forcing corporations to take a political stand one way or the other. We’re about to find out which team a whole bunch of CEOs root for.

If I were Biden, and my goal was “uniting the country,” I’m not sure this is the approach I would take.
I wouldn't say the OP hated on Electron, they provided criticism:

- lack of threads
- stuck using JavaScript
- can't do your own layout
- can't render 144Hz animation
- adds 150mb to app bundle
- memory hog

Apart for the last two, I think he's approach would solve those problems.
Though todays big question is "How do you destroy money?" ie get it back?.

You can tax and not spend but so much money has escaped abroad and hidden where you can't touch it.

There is inflation but that is a dangerous pandoras box.

Or you can say boost productivity and just create enough extra stuff to match all the extra money. Easier to say than to do though. You just have to live in hope that someone invents some wonderfully productivity enhancing something, fusion, robots or ai perhaps. Come to think of it perhaps Apple is really a government conspiracy to soak up consumers excess dollars? The Apple Tax suddenly fits hmmm.
Further fodder for discussion: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33330870/

If a vaccine can modify your DNA, is it still ethical to mandate it? Can we still bypass 20-year safety studies?
People that don't exist have no wants.

People that exist have wants.

I exist, yet the dozen other children my parents could have had don't. You can ask them if they want to have been born, but they don't have an opinion on the matter.

Which part of that do you have trouble with?
Recent case of a CEO losing their job in the American South (HQ: Roswell, Georgia) for supporting the recent Texas abortion law:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-07/video-gam...

EDIT: To be clear, this not evidence in favor of the comment you were responding to: "There is a trend of certain dominant power in all of these countries that is quashing all opposing voices". As far as I can tell, supporting things the majority of society disagrees with has always been ground for career repercussions in the "land of the free" (as it is in the rest of the world).
Is modifying DNA safer than letting natural immunity do what it does? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33330870/
In many apps, to "open" a document means to "show" it. And a ticket is conventionally a paper document.

So it's pretty easy to get from Open ticket to Papers Please.
> Interesting. My first thought was, couldn't we just create programs that are designed to keep growing? Isn't that both completely possible and more powerful than the model of computing where programs are static?

What does it mean to "create programs that are designed to keep growing"? If they keep going by executing a finite program (if modified by a non-static program, what created that program?) on their code and resuming, that would not be more powerful (Turing machines can do that).

> I realized it may not be entirely possible to build an actual machine which hosts endlessly growing code. There are probably laws of physics which put some type of limit on how big things we build can get.

So long as you have enough memory, even an Intel 8086 would be able to compute arbitrarily large programs. It could just emulate a universal Turing machine.
Especially considering the load this will put on laboratories.
Thanks for mentioning R. For a bit of good news, current estimates are that most states/counties currently have R < 1, https://covidestim.org. Hopefully we've passed the worst of Delta. I have no doubt vaccines helped, though I'm unsure how much. Obviously we didn't needed 100% vax rate to get to this point. Comparing with the situation a month ago obviously something else other than vax (and/or masks) has had a big hand in the R reduction (hint, natural immunity).

What I am pointing at is that there is a population vaccination level beyond which further vaccination has diminishing returns. There are fundamental principles like bodily autonomy and human dignity that we shouldn't throw away just to chase a slightly lower R number, cumulative deaths with covid, or any hyperfocused metric we use to track the pandemic evolution.

PS. I hold the underlying assumption that covid is endemic and over the next decade we'll keep having outbreaks until everybody builds up sufficient natural immunity.
> all the men on here complaining they aren't getting support while others are,

Where are these complaining men? I see people critiquing policies. I think you are making up in your head that there are men on here complaining about their situation.

> definitely aren't blaming anyone, you're right, I took that too far.

Your sarcasm is causing you to dishonestly represent what others are saying.

> Seeing a lot of men write how they are super stoked women are finally getting some small advantages in academia.

They aren’t getting a small advantage. The advantage is huge across the entire educational spectrum now.

Nobody should be celebrating that any more than we should have been celebrating men having an advantage in the past.

The goal is for our systems to support everyone. Not to punish present day people based on arbitrary characteristics they share with people in the past.
oh I see. didn't read that one!
is it possible that the joke conveyed both meanings?
China's arsenal is almost a full order of magnitude smaller than just what the US has currently deployed and ready for launch (not counting the rest of the stockpile which is like 4x the size). We have enough weaponry to completely overwhelm their defenses. China does not.
There’s actually three ways to run Docker on Proxmox: in a VM, in an LXC container, or directly in Proxmox itself. I wrote about it here:
https://danthesalmon.com/running-docker-on-proxmox/
I am 100% missing why he sent this tweet.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/anything-goes/nurburgring...
Many healthcare workers know the difference between gold-standard natural immunity, a sterilizing vaccine and non-sterilizing vaccine. It's a false dichotomy to reduce the world to vaccinated/unvaccinated, when vaccination neither stops transmission nor infection.

The most-protected group of people, who pose the least risk to other humans or healthcare systems, are the Covid-recovered, whether vaccinated or unvaccinated.
I'm not understanding the question. EKS Anywhere installs EKS-D on-prem and Anthos installs whatever the GKE distro that Google maintains onto your on-prem hardware no? I didn't think you could bring you own distro with either provider. I thought the whole point was to have somewhat unified environment between both sides of a hybrid cloud.
Foreign policy comes home
That's easily solved by ownership. The only problem is the "magic" somehow sudden lack of competence some individuals/institutions have when dealing with these companies.