skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed how quickly I become depressed when I have nothing to do. It's sort of like the properties of a gas- my lethargy expands to fill the volume of space I have. When I was on a sabbatical between jobs instead of going to museums and art shows and exploring new hikes and doing other things I'd think I would enjoy I laid around and binge-watched The Wire and the West Wing.

When I'm busy I actively block out time to do those activities and plan for them and look forward to them. It's a weird phenomena but I'd guess if I was wealthy enough not to have to work (which I'm not!) I would need to keep working anyways to keep some structure in my life and avoid depression.
Looks like H3 uses regular hexagons and instead drops the requirement that they can't overlap.
Some reasons:

* Because it's something to do. Being retired is boring.

* Because whatever they're doing is providing some meaning (even if it's just getting richer and building on their ego)

* To stay relevant/up to date

* Their spouse is still working, and why not?

* Because they have friends who retired and degraded health wise (it seems to happen in older age) and they don't want that
If you actually want to stop working when you have enough, you'll quickly discover that society doesn't count "enough" as "rich".

Signed, someone semi-retired from tech
This reminds me of Jonathan Haidt's "Righteous Minds". One of the key points in the book is that "righteousness binds and blinds". As in, the 'righteousness binds' part is there's a social bond between people who believe the same thing. (And "blinds" is that the righteousness will blind you to certain truths).

I think flamewars are like that. You gotta leave a comment otherwise you feel your side loses out.
I guess it depends on your interests outside of work and if you have any. Some people work so hard, they have nothing outside of work that they fit-in with. Its a bit like people who retire and spend their retirement years watching TV.

Imagine, instead, you enjoyed sports, blogging, travelling, exploring etc. you could easily do that if you were super rich and not bother with work again.
If you're other comment is accurate about it only being allowed if they employ workers in Colorado I think that's a fairly reasonable compromise.

You can get around the law if you entirely pull out of the state but otherwise you must play ball.

Regardless, I think the increase in remote work is going to lead to a lot of cases like this where we'll see some things become defacto national requirements because it will be cheaper to come up with one policy that is legal everywhere than 10 policies that are legal in different subsets of the country.
Not everyone is a Myspace Tom and more enjoyable is your take on Zuck's situation. I bet Zuckerberg either likes creating new things more, accumulating power, or just keeping his baby moving. I'm sure he enjoys what he's doing.

Then you have pure engineers like Torvolds or Carmack that just like being in the trenches.
I disagree.

I enjoy the act of exercising and the immediate effects following excercise. Most people that are very into fitness or exercise enjoy it as well.
Thanks! messed up the formula but had it right in the text :( Fixed now.
I am not going to say there isn't some aspect to that but once you get $5,000,000-$10,000,000 in the bank the interest alone will dwarf almost any salary. So you could kick back and let compounding interest do the trick.

In my social circle I know of 3 people in that bracket and all of them are working. It isn't so much for the money they like being mentally and socially engaged while working on problems that interest them. Of these individuals their ages range from mid 40's to mid 50's. All of them had taken breaks from work and found not working to be incredibly boring.
Are you claiming peple are too smart to believe a garbage video on Youtube? I'd like to see a reference for that, because I'm not seeing much of it.

Don't forget that this is a country where people died from overdosing on aquarium chemicals because they thought the chloroquine on the label meant it would prevent COVID.

In Maricopa County, Ariz., a couple in their 60s watched politicians and news anchors on TV tout chloroquine, an anti-malaria drug that has shown the ability to disrupt some viruses but that has not yet been proved effective against the novel coronavirus.

That pharmaceutical name matched the label on a bottle of chemicals they used to clean their koi pond, NBC News reported. The fish tank solvent that treats aquatic parasites contains the same active ingredient as the drug, but in a different form that can poison people.

“Within thirty minutes of ingestion, the couple experienced immediate effects” that sent them to the emergency room, a Banner Health spokeswoman said in a statement Monday. They felt dizzy and started vomiting. The husband died at the hospital, and the wife is under critical care, according to the statement.

And states across the country are reporting an uptick in poison control calls for people that ingested Ivermectin, almost all from animal drugs, not prescriptions.
Taking this opportunity to promote the author of this article (Geoffrey de Smet) and the project he's been the lead of for some very long amount of time (Optaplanner):

If you've never heard of constraints programming -- it's really interesting (personal opinion).

It lets you programmatically state "rules" and "goals" of some system, and solvers will automatically attempt to find the best solution.

Optaplanner is one of the most advanced of such engines that I'm aware of:

Under the hood, OptaPlanner combines sophisticated Artificial Intelligence optimization algorithms (such as Tabu Search, Simulated Annealing, Late Acceptance and other metaheuristics) with very efficient score calculation and other state-of-the-art constraint solving techniques.

But it's also really approachable since they re-wrote it in 2020 to accept regular code for rules, instead of the custom DSL language they used before (Drools).

https://www.optaplanner.org/blog/2020/04/07/ConstraintStream...

I got interested in this area some years ago, and reached out to Geoffrey personally. He took the time to reply to me and answer a few questions. Great person, he's brilliant and super passionate about the domain.

If you have any sort of practical usecase for this (scheduling, vehicle routing, cost optimization, etc) and this sounds at all interesting, highly recommend giving it a shot!

As an example of what you can do in a few lines with this, here's one from the docs:

The following code snippet first groups all processes by the computer they run on, sums up all the power required by the processes on that computer using the ConstraintCollectors.sum(… ) collector, and finally penalizes every computer whose processes consume more power than is available.

private Constraint requiredCpuPowerTotal(ConstraintFactory constraintFactory) {
return constraintFactory.from(CloudProcess.class)
.groupBy(CloudProcess::getComputer, sum(CloudProcess::getRequiredCpuPower))
.filter((computer, requiredCpuPower) -> requiredCpuPower > computer.getCpuPower())
.penalize("requiredCpuPowerTotal",
HardSoftScore.ONE_HARD,
(computer, requiredCpuPower) -> requiredCpuPower - computer.getCpuPower());
}

---

As a bonus, it's natively integrated into Quarkus and the Quarkus ecosystem.
Quarkus is the best thing since sliced bread if you're on the JVM and are writing API's.

https://docs.optaplanner.org/latest/optaplanner-docs/html_si...
I think you're right;

> Why did Jake believe the AI was "going to kill us all?"

This reads, to me, like Jake's quoted sentence was originally a question. If the original sentence was an assertion or a statement, then you're right this fundamentally changes the meaning and strength of Jake's sentence.
I think another option when naming your amount is to name an amount that would make you happy, not just one that you are willing to work for.

So let's say you name an amount that would make you happy, and you get it. Someone else names their (higher) amount, and they get it.

You're both happy!

Two months later you find out their amount.

Why does their happiness amount affect your happiness? Would you be happier if they were paid less? Maybe they should be paid the amount that would make you happy instead of what would make them happy? Why? Their circumstances are different, they are different people, whose requirement for happiness is different than yours.

Surely you'd be happy making more, as much as they do, but we already established that you were already happy two months ago.
I don't disagree with any of that, but I would argue that public is _necessarily_ the intersection of individual health and public opinion. Policy makers can't just ignore public reception of/reaction to their prescriptions, since their goal is improvement the aggregation of outcomes across the entire population. Ignoring those second order effects is just as much a policy choice as trying to account for them, and not IMO a priori more likely to result in a better outcome. Might've in this case? We might've also got COVID parties.
What would stop them from putting on sidewalls in production?
This is a very confusing issue description which is caused by a confusing error message. This comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28540665 does a great job explaining the context. TLDR; you can't have a username end in .filetype because it might cause the user profile page to not load. The limitation is _not_ related to injection attack prevention, that would be concerning (bobby tables xkcd https://xkcd.com/327/ ).
I just can't trust a social scientist personally telling me that something offers better predictions, because social science has lost my trust in it's methodology. I'd need to see a data scientist, mathematician or statistician arguing that it does for me to start considering it more.

The good thing though is, he could simply setup a decision market to have people decide the true value of decision markets no?
Theranos burned through $2M a week as investors were given rosy projections
You said it better than I could. To pass on bad investments is smart, modern day universities charge an arm and a leg, and a bachelor's degree is not very useful.

Lawyers, Doctors, require at least 6-7 years of 10k-50k Per Year. That's a lot of dough. When you involve that much dough... greed, scams, and predatory behavior are inextricably bound. Greed and education should never mix, I think it's contradictory. Community colleges are where the real education happens, imo

"We could easily frame this as young women victimized by universities selling frivolous degrees at astonishing prices."

It's not just young women, it's young people bro
So what gift did you recommend for the grandchildren?
This is a social science experiment with 3 billion guinea pigs.

Every time you rerun it, if someone somewhere (and the people connected to them get effected) how many attempts do you get?
That’s right: This article is about millionaires who were raised by upper-middle class people. Either their parents or caregivers were not part of the leisure class. Some who were raised with money actually had influential child care providers who were obviously not millionaires themselves.
Master the Mainframe usually is around this time of the year, recommend it.
Interesting attempt to change the culture.

For context, only 2% of the population pays income tax even though ~14% legally should.
This is my take as well. It's the business model itself that's toxic, or at least predatory, as the necessary outcome of it is to lean as hard as possible on known frailties of human behavior and psychology in order to cultivate advertising placement and revenue.

There's no tinkering around the edges of that control loop that's going to fix the problem. What we observe as the deleterious effects on society are in fact systematic (as in, "design failures") faults in the thesis of Facebook's business model.
Microsoft accounts can go passwordless, making “password123” a thing of the past
> He certainly seems to have a more enjoyable life than Zuckerberg.

heh, Tom's life (according to https://www.hellomagazine.com/travel/2020111645793/tom-myspa...) would have myself commit seppuku in three weeks. I can barely stand five days of "do nothing productive" vacations. Would definitely choose "testify in front of congress" instead.
This is actually a great point. I would guess that once the pressure is off, you can work more creatively and elaborately, taking the time to understand what is puzzling for you or above your level. Which in turn makes you more eager to work, and much more effective at it.
I presume we should destroy oil/gas/coal. That would wipe out ~85% of world's energy production. Might I ask how are we going to power the gigantic engineering project envisioned, on top of somehow keeping people from freezing and/or starving?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_supply_and_consum...
There is no such thing as a dumb question.

There is a Chrome extension "Custom Javascript for Website" (link in the first line of the snippet) that lets you add JS scripts to any website.

Install the extension, then while on hackernews, open the extension and copy-paste the snippet into it.
Article is 2012.

Edit: please add (2012) to the title.
That’s a great way of putting it.
Yeah exactly. I read sometime before they changed the name but the content sholdd be the same.
Or pretend you are superman that is about to thrust himself into a planet. Like do the fist thing downwards.
Many years ago, I knew / worked for one of the co-founders of Waste Management. He retired (at retirement age), moved to our neck of the woods, and bought & expanded several working properties (farm, hotel, golf course, etc).

His wife was an absolute gem, so I asked her one day - why is he still working at his age. He's surely got enough to retire on. She explained that they moved there to retire, but he was "like a caged lion" and just couldn't stop. So he took up several ventures almost as hobbies. My job was his hobby.

tl;dr; I agree. I strongly suspect that for this type, getting rich is a side-effect, not an end goal. It's unimaginable for me - with that money I'd be on a 50ft sailboat doing endless laps of the planet with no real goal or ambition. It's just who they are.
Restic is good!
He definitely shouldn't become an actor
dharmab is correct, the use on dirt bike handles is common, doing things a GoPro can’t.

On the camera side, a GoPro is fixed-focus and has a fixed aperture of (usually) f/2.8 and varies the exposure, shutter speed and frame rate unless set. There is no autofocus to damage. However, there are also no navigation apps for GoPro.
I think you're missing the point though. These are people who aren't optimizing for quality of life as most people define it (i.e. work as little as possible and reap maximal rewards and time with people you care about). Work / achievement / solving problems / obtaining resources becomes the goal itself. It is never enough because you can always have more / there is always something else to do / there is always another problem to solve / there is always another company to start etc.

Its the same thing for people who are serious about the gym. You can deadlift 600 lbs? Cool, now its time to try to get to 650. If you hit 650 it is time to plan for 700.
Why is it my problem to make my children conform to government tracking and enumeration, rather than their problem that my children are hard for them to easily assimilate? Government exists for my children, not my children for government. Their technical problems are their problems, not mine.

And practically, in a world where people cross borders, where people come to this country for refuge and opportunity, how does it make sense to force them all to have only basic English characters in their names?
There was one..and it was run by FBI / CIA to trap people
Much like cooking.
I think they should show pay minimums, not absolutes. The real issue isn't that Janet in Accounting makes $10k/yr more than you do, its that new hires for your same job make $10k/yr more than you.
No, I really don't think they would. The gym is a lot of people's "third place[0]". Not to mention that exercise in particular releases happy chemicals independent of whether or not it is making/keeping you fit.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
Not break anything, just option “hidden” under settings. Just as they open the possibility to add HEX value to change the color on HN when you reach enough points on HN
Kidnappers no longer need to waste time scoping out potential targets.
Update your iPhone software – Here's why
I must be weird because I have never been bored in my life, working or not. I always can think of countless things I'd like to do at any moment.
I think those are two different issues though.

You can have pay transparency without enforcing strict pay levels per role.

The natural outcome is just that thise who make less than their coworkers will feel undervalued and look for other jobs, which is probably not a big problem.
> ...As a reader I imagine going to a specific website, choosing a topic and immediately seeing a stream of genuine thoughts of many different people on it....

I see your point. I made an assumption that the separate websites would in fact be separate, and not living under a singular umbrella of discoverable content. What you described is still achievable - either via walled gardens (where content is centralized and more easily discoverable), or through looser connections such as web rings, and even search engines. Also acknowledged that wordpress is total overkill...it was just an example that the tech exists to achieve what is desired. ;-)
A weird thing British papers do is de-capitalize acronyms. It's a useful signal for pronunciation, but it's also just...wrong? Like, the agency is called NASA, not Nasa.
It's certainly a combination of these things. I use breakpoints all the time when I'm working with C# because I'm inside Visual Studio. It's super easy to work with the debugger there. With Source Link I can even step into other libraries of ours. Debugging C++ under VS is also not bad, and Python in PyCharm is a good experience.

But if I don't have VS or PyCharm available, I'll switch to printf debugging.

Though there are some cases where even with a good debugger I'll end up debugging by modifying the code. Sometimes it's necessary for performance reasons. Conditional breakpoints when debugging C# are extremely expensive so tossing one on a line that's executed many times may make the process far too slow. In that case it's better to compile in an if statement and then drop the breakpoint inside there. Other times the debugger is just limited in what information it can provide. Pointers to arrays in C++ are a common annoyance since the debugger has no length information.
They largely do, it's just that we don't hear about it. The ones we do hear about enjoy the celebrity.
Revel in? I think it makes sense though. We live in a world where trolls are happy to cause all manner of misery.
I feel that this article wastes effort on attacking a bit of a strawman.

In the fields of computing and mathematics, nobody (hopefully) believes bunk like that Turing started computer science or invented the first computer. My reactions to all that were, "what? who thinks that, and why don't they check the Wikipedia?"

If such beliefs are circulating among laypeople, it is good to debunk them. But doing so in this article (especially while failing to acknowledge that they are strictly lay myths that no mathematician or computer scientist believes) detracts its main thesis, which is about the excessive attribution to particular individuals, while others are ignored/forgotten.

Turing is not excessively attributed with anything in our field. He's frequently referenced, mainly because he articulated a concrete model of computation which can be simulated and using which proofs can be made about computability.

I mean, academia doesn't habitually make up lies about who did what, especially if they are not coming from that person or persons. I.e. if you don't misrepresent your work yourself, the field is generally not going to step in and do that for you. Embellishing the exploits and contributions of some eminent persona may be what some careless journalists or bloggers sometimes do, but that's neither here nor there.
I think another factor is that they’re trying to quickly turn a massive ship that has, for years, self-selected users intent on heading in the direction of outrage and toxicity. The people who are the most “engaged” with the platform are the people who get a dopamine rush from arguing and baiting and instigating. The nice people who just want to see what their friends are up to have either left or significantly scaled back their use.

I think that makes any algorithmic “fix” much harder. Or perhaps even impossible.

I think the solutions you’ve suggested would have worked had they been implemented five years ago. I’m not so sure they would work today.
The decompiled C source code of Morris Worm
backing which part?
removing HN post
The password is "outsourced" to the phone : pin or fingerprint to unlock the phone and the Authenticator app
I hope they figure out how to offer equity to their top users (and content providers). Always thought that was a game changing idea. Video platforms figured this out, why can't reddit?

https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/30/6874353/reddit-50-million...

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2hwr02/i_am_sam_altma...
CEO asked us about it too.

We discussed the pros and cons of laptops vs desktops and etc (this was when laptops were still a big tradeoff vs a desktop in power and etc). IIRC we recommended a nice desktop for the kids that could be upgraded / changed they were inclined but also plenty useful if they chose not to. Also told him to get a nicer monitor than they were thinking.
One common workload is Minecraft, which just happens to be completely incompatible if you have any mods to improve performance already.
Having billions of dollars and continuing to work doesn't necessarily mean that you're not driven by money. It can mean that the drive for more money is insatiable.

But I agree other factors are involved; if there are rivals left to be crushed, or any capacity for increased public attention remaining, many rich people will keep grinding.
I'm using Xcode 13 beta on a 2012 MacBook Pro, it works just fine.
As someone in that cohort who was also there for the "glory" days of early FB (when you had to have a college email to sign up), I have to agree that at this point the idea of making friends on FB weirds me out. How? Why?

FB is what my racist parents use to circle jerk conspiracy theories with their friends in Cabo. Who in their right mind wants that anymore? (This is a rhetorical question, I understand there are still tons of people using FB, presumably because of inertia).