skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a father with kids in sports, I want them to:

- Learn to play well with others, even under stress

- Figure out where they can help, and through that, identify their strengths/weaknesses

- Know that they can demand more from themselves, especially under time constraints and can rise to meet those expectations

It's about them seeing things through, be committed to their friends, showing up for themselves and the group.

The drama of losing will happen, probably a lot, but it's OK, because the sun still rises again in the morning and you get a chance again to play and redeem. Such is life.
Just want to know
Confluence squarely falls into the intranet trap. The only intranet/wiki/etc that anyone likes it the new one, no matter the product/technology. Old document stores gather cruft, aren't maintained, and become full of incorrect information over time.

Eventually, you start over (MediaWiki -> SharePoint -> Confluence -> something else) and the new one is great (Confluence is awesome) and the old one is passe (Sharepoint sucks!). Nobody has solved the fundemental problems around intranets.
There's a map on p. 23 of the proposed launch sites. Conveniently, there's one in each country within the UK except Northern Ireland.

For the goals put forth in the document (higher inclination orbits), I think it's not much of an impediment to launch that far from the equator. Plus I think even if you're going to GEO the penalty for launching further north isn't that bad in terms of delta-v. It's probably less than what Israel has to deal with (they only launch into retrograde orbits)
No, I'm not. You're correct that fruit is not sufficiently addictive for adults to gorge themselves on it to fatal levels. At the very least, it has not historically been sufficiently available to cause people to succumb to heart disease or diabetes before, on average, they had >2 children per couple: Humanity has not yet gone extinct.

Whether Nestle's next concoction will be able to do that, composed of eye-catching, almost fluorescent colored dyes, unimaginably sweet high-fructose corn syrup, surreptitiously enhanced by most of your daily recommended dose of salt, tempered by delightfully tangy citric acid, all carried in a smooth, bouncy xanthan/guar gum matrix, no one knows yet. I'm pessimistic regardless of the engineering behind the treat: it seems likely that a sufficient number of people will always be able to make it through childbearing age before succumbing to diet-based problems, if that ever ceases to be the case, then the dwindling population will soon be unable to keep the global industries its manufacturing requires in operation.
No, there is no sense to that. The worst of society have a lot of tools that are effective for them, that your grandma has absolutely no use for. The worst of society will also put up with using some pretty weird things as long as they will help them break the law, that are incredibly awkward to use for anyone else.
we all say this, and then we get annoyed because we’ve finally found a moment away from meetings to do our preferred work task, only to have a certain chunk of our valuable time being spent explaining something which could easily have its own document. then we rinse and repeat.
I'm just waiting for them to release a bigger one. I want either US letter or A4 size.
Last quarter, they made $10.12 per user[1, slide 4], however that's not evenly distributed. They made $53.01 per user in US and Canada. But even that isn't evenly distributed.
The users who are likely to pay for the subscription are also the most valuable to advertisers because they have disposable income. Some Instagram users see ads for luxury cars, real estate, and vacations, while other users see ads for dollar stores and dropshipped junk. FB earns much more in their auction from that first set of users, but those will be the first users willing to pay to opt out of ads.

Dynamic pricing would probably offend both audiences - "what do you mean the algorithm thinks I'm worthless?" "what do you mean that I'm worth thousands of dollars to you?"

[1] https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2021/q2...
I agree, but right now the externalities are also supported by the better-off, as they can also get cancer and what have you from dirtier air, that’s one of the prime reasons for this push. In the new regime almost all the weight falls on the less-off.
Pressure Germany WITH WHAT exactly? I failed to see how one could pressure Germany, and WHY Germans won't report that "pressure"
Are the decay modes (3% one way, 3% another, 94%?) experimentally determined, or does theory predict this distribution?
> I wouldn't say the homeschooled people I have encountered were "stunted" but definitely "different enough to not gel smoothly with the rest of society."

IME, the homeschooled people raised by people (homeschooled or not) to whom that description does not apply also do not tend to fit it, but people to whom (again, homeschooled themselves or not) that description does apply are overrepresented among those choosing homeschooling for their kids.
Is archive.fo different from archive.is?
> I think if you can be effective enough by showing up in person, there won't be a need for video calls.

The opposite is true as well. Why show up in person when you can be effective remotely?

I feel like we're just saying things now though.
>other kids we see seem so scared and withdrawn.

It would be interesting to know how many of those other parents also told their kids if they go outside without a mask or socialized with other kids they would get sick and die.

That would be enough to cause any kid to be scared and withdrawn.
The choice of DVCS tooling is ancillary to the success of GitHub. People learned Git so they could use GitHub, not the other way around. At least, this is the way I remember it.

If someone comes along and builds the best forge software ever, but uses Mercurial instead of Git, I'll bet a lot of people would switch technologies at some point. Until then, I'd say most people use GitHub because GitHub works for them, and they use Git because that's how you interact with GitHub. They don't care about the ivory tower benefits of their particular DVCS tooling, all they care about is easily collaborating with their teammates.

It would definitely be great if you could have a GitHub-like experience using Mercurial or Darcs, but so far I haven't seen anything close to that.
You would be curious to hear my reasoning for why it is morally mandatory to believe in objective reality?
Excellent recommendation. I'll add Designing Freedom by Stafford Beer as a great intro. Available as a book and a series of free lectures here:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1973-cbc-massey-lectures-...

You hit the nail on the head with the "disappointing blend" btw. So much thought coming from tech circles is lacking - it's often over-intuitive, self-unaware, and ahistorical.
Ideas on how to hack the Haitian border crisis?
looking for some software ideas that can aid or remedy the Haitian refugee situation at the border. for example an app that connects refugees to lawyers for help in filing asylum status
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No, I don't think that's the same problem / the same solution. A source map translates between a layout checked into the code and a format generated at build time. I'm talking about translating between a layout in a developer's local workspace and the layout checked into the code.

Since the developer can choose whatever formatting options they want, there isn't a single source map that can be referenced in the compiled version of the code, so backtraces etc. So the transformation cannot be done at the point the error is displayed (compiler output or backtrace output), it has to be done in the context of the developer's local workspace.

I think source maps could probably be inspiration for solving this problem, but I don't think they would work directly - and even if they did, the real problem here is not designing a solution, it's getting everyone's IDEs to work properly with it. Source maps work largely because the major browsers know how to deal with source maps in JS. You'd have to extend this to all the other ecosystems, at the very least.
The closer the numbers are together the more time is wasted trying to be exact about them. Fib helps reduce the amount of back and forth. If you need to guess how much something weighs and your options are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14.....100, you are going to have a lot harder time achieving consensus than if you asks "Is it heavier or lighter than a breadbox?"

At least that is the idea.
Over the decades, I've set up many engineering and organizational document processes, and I've also been a developer on doc tools. The culmination of all of this is that I've ended up gravitating to very-low-friction, tracked, centralized doc -- code-embedded API docs and Markdown files in the/a repo -- and sometimes also a Wiki (preferably a Wiki of the same platform that hosts the repo, unless you've made it hard for non-developers to access the repo platform).

But, if I absolutely have to, I'll endure Confluence. Only if people agree to stop throwing away important information into a dozen different other SaaSes and tools that are effectively write-only, as far as the organization is concerned. Don't just turn those 12 memory holes into 13.
Regarding Europe - Russian Federation wants additional leverage against Ukraine, to crush its economy. Recently Putin has claimed Ukraine transit would remain if it would disarm itself. That's words of occupant country to occupied country (15 thousands died, 1.5 millions have lost home).

RF has built NS2, purely political project, and now wants to certify it.
True, if you have literally $0 cash on hand then it could make sense. If you ever get your hands on $70 though that seems like a worthwhile investment to spend ~50% less time at the gas station for the remainder of your life. Probably one of the more cost efficient quality-of-life purchases you could make in my opinion, which is why I find it odd that it's not more common (apparently).
> These days, mandatory Scrum is a contra-indicator for any project that crosses my path as a freelancer.

Hmm. Scrum seems like a relatively good means of aligning two-parties with low-context.
The clock is ticking for Congress to get things done
The issue is that it's not useful unless I can get my entire team to really use it, and more importantly get the company to sign off on it. If I want to write down and share anything proprietary with a third-party service, I need IT/corporate sign off on it.

I can do Obsidian because it just runs locally on my computer, and I could do Confluence since corporate has signed off on it, but if I try doing a random markdown website, I think someone would smack me.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28666350.
Also a layperson, but as I understand it. We do have the algorithms to simulate quantum systems with n states to arbitrary precision through brute force. But they require that you can put ~n bits into a superposition state.

If your computer doesn't have that capability, you can simulate it to arbitrary precision with ~2^n bits.
I've never read Sabine Hossenfelder, so I can't comment specifically on her.

However, life is about trusting other people and adopting their opinions. I do not have the time or energy to be an expert on every subject, so naturally I will have to read the opinions of other people who have spent time in that particular subject.

Someone's previous record of factual accuracy as well as considering reasonable opposition to their points obviously will affect how much I trust them to influence my worldview, and how likely I am to believe what they say is true.
Has this approach been tried? (Unison or otherwise…)
That argument seems ridiculous. Gasoline weighs 6.3 pounds per gallon and most cars have 15-20 gallon tanks, so if you keep your tank around half-full your car will be lighter by maybe 50 or 60 pounds. Any performance improvement from that would be imperceptibly small.
So it works better than any other item with written to printed text conversion that I've found. My handwriting is especially bad, and I would say it has an 80-90% correct rate, compared to my last system that I tried (neonotes smartpen) that is light years ahead. That was less than 10% correct.

I have never used the search function. I do not convert to text unless I have a specific use. This is why I wish we could tag pages and search via tag - I had to create my own recordkeeping system via headers that you can see in the gridview to be able to quickly find what I need.

>Does it have the option to straighten lines? Say that I draw a box, will it make it square or a circle round?

When you are drawing, it follows your pen. From what I can tell, there is no 'snap to grid' or whatever option that might be. That might be nice. If you are talking about once you convert to text, it does not convert drawings.

Overall, the search is pretty terrible. Just adding tags would alleviate that, and make this, for me, the perfect tool for work.
The half-life isn't the relevant metric--you don't need the radioactivity to decay to zero (you're exposed to non-zero levels of radiation just walking around outside). You need it decay to environmentally tolerable levels (roughly "the level of uranium ore").

Anyway, far more species are far more endangered by climate change right now than any future species will be by nuclear waste.
I’m guessing your usage of a RDBMS hasn’t extended beyond an ORM library.
It also seems that there are some text conversion issues in comments, since e.g. "anv„nd" is not a word, but "använd" is.
> A society with restaurants open for sit down dining but schools closed has its priorities completely upside down.

Be careful: that's analogous to asking "why is Narcan free for drug addicts but insulin so expensive for diabetics?". The fact that restaurants are open isn't relevant, and mentioning it like that will just make people suggest that they be closed, instead of addressing the real problem.
Nice to see, if sparse at present. Just bookmarked it with the likes of ifixit and hackaday.
> This should be illegal.

It should. But what sort of payment processor does NYT use? Isn't it possible to block/cancel/prevent their charge from your bank's end?
What large cities don't have quality food available?

https://foodispower.org/access-health/food-deserts/

Chicago – More than 500,000 residents (mostly African-American) live in food deserts, and an additional 400,000 live in neighborhoods with a preponderance of fast food restaurants and no grocery stores nearby.

New York City – An estimated 750,000 New York City residents live in food deserts, [27]while about three million people live in places where stores that sell fresh produce are few or far away. [28] Supermarkets throughout New York City have closed down in recent years due to increasing rents and shrinking profit margins, but the disappearance of urban grocery stores has had the most serious impact on low-income communities, especially those that are predominantly African-American (such East/Central Harlem and North/Central Brooklyn).
Git is designed to require human oversight. This is usually a feature, but in recent years has become a bug with things like GitOps.

It's important to remember that Git is a terrible database because of its lack of semantic structure. All conflicts require a human who does have to context. This is why almost no one builds a system that uses Git as a two way interface. And when they do, its via Github Pull Requests (which go to humans) and not Git itself.

In all, this makes it a wonderful general purpose shared filesystem. And that's about it.
Those are fightin' words you know...

I've seen some of the endless flamewars about removing that.

The problem is ultimately that you kinda can't remove duplicate keys. You can only explain the ways in which handling them varies. I'm glossing over a lot of stuff though and I'll understand your skepticism.
Except you can open them in an iframe. Which is what Dokkument (the product being promoted by the author) is doing. Not sure how much more useful that is than simply opening it in another tab which would work 100 times better since you won't have to jump a ton of hoops to make sure everything works fine.
It doesn't matter what China says, what rationalizations are used. What matters is the total emissions output and the direction.

China's emissions are skyrocketing, while already being drastically greater than the US or EU. While the US and EU emissions have been declining gradually.

If you have 1.4 billion people, you don't get to have the same (high) per capita emissions output as a nation 1/4 your population size. The world didn't force China to have 1.4b people, it's their responsibility. The fair target isn't parity per capita with the US, it's China being allowed to have no more than 1/4 the per capita emissions of the US. And that's still a terrible number, the US is the drop dead line for where we don't want other large countries going beyond. The problem is China is already double that and heading a lot higher yet.

We don't have to urgently care if Estonia were to have the highest per capita output of emissions, they can't destroy the planet with their emissions no matter what they do. China can due to their population. It would be a different context if China's emissions were declining.

With regards to China's CO2 emissions for example, how much more dire can it get?

https://i.imgur.com/B6W1S3q.jpg
I wonder if you can take control yourself (albeit not real solutions) by:

- reporting your card lost, requesting replacement

- (with Apple Card) requesting a new number

- disabling / locking the card temporarily during the period they'd try to charge you

- use a service that provides a "virtual" card for such vendors, and then just deleting it (e.g. PayPal Key)

Yes there is collateral damage in the process (other payments get dinged, you have to wait for a new card, etc.) but perhaps it would work, and you wouldn't lose money?
I'm not quite sure if you followed what I had said. Let us assume one can directly measure wrongdoing and correlate a level of condemnation. For the sake of argument let us say the USA is deserving of 100 units of condemnation, whereas Russia is only fit to receive 50. This is not an equation that becomes 50 and 0. All that Russia is responsible for is still equally hegemonic, internationally illegal, amoral, and unethical.

In so many words I am essentially saying that whataboutism does not add to the discourse and in fact derails and detracts.
I installed koreader and I'm quite happy with reading long books that way.
My point was that when people turn on their TV and they don't see people like them in the media and in the arts, it must not exactly inspire.
I think it depends very much on your goals. For me, after going through YC with my first company and having a difficult four years chasing scale, I realized that I was oriented more toward lifestyle/reliability/freedom, and I've been fairly focused on that for the last 10 years (although it really only took a couple years to achieve once I was clear on my goals, and has been pretty relaxed since then).

So with that caveat out of the way, my top-of-mind career advice for entrepreneurial introverts is:

1 // Learning how to talk to (and listen to) people is probably the highest-leverage career skill you'll ever learn, even if you only go from "terrible" to "functional." There's a tremendous amount of discomfort while learning it, but that discomfort is temporary. I'll never "like" talking to strangers, and I'll always need to manage my energy levels, context, and recovery time. That being said, the ability to do so when useful to my career (like custdev or sales or fundraising) or life (like making friends in a new city or negotiating with an angry plumber) has been transformational. The pain is temporary and the benefit is profound.

2 // Journal each morning. Braindump your frustrations/goals/fears onto paper. Your brain likely works differently from most "successful" people, which means that the common advice won't fully resonate with you, and you'll need to chart more of your own path. This requires thinking, and for a lot of introverts, writing is the clearest way to think (but if you're different, use what works for you). Similarly, run every piece of advice you hear (well, the compelling bits anyway) through a personality filter, normalize it for personality/context, and then decide whether it's likely to be right you. Common example: "Go to that conference and meet some customers!" Maybe that works for other people, but it has a 0% chance of working for me. But there's a valuable core concept to that advice (go engage with new customers) that can perhaps be adjusted to a context I'm comfortable in.

3 // Cultivate relationships with strong potential cofounders long before you need them. You'll never be as quick on the draw in conversation as others, so you need the important relationships built ahead of time. For potential cofounders (the most important network available), the way to do that is by collaborating on small, time-constrained side projects. Allows both parties to evaluate what each other bring to table outside of an "urgent" situation, and without relying on quick talking.

4 // Don't let anyone press you into "right now" negotiations or decisions. Use live conversations to gather data, and then use your time alone to process it and come to a decision about next steps. Repeat if necessary. Nobody will give you this time by default, but nobody will deny it to you once you ask (and if they do, you probably shouldn't work with them anyway).

There's probably more, that's just top of mind, but it's what feels important to my brain right now.
If you will do something different with a 5 than with an 8 then yes. If not, then the ambiguities you describe will be worked out when you do the work. It is just a vanity metrics if the results doesn't change what you work on next. It seems important but it has no actual bearing on the teams sequencing of the work.
I had a similar experience. I was able to do it via chat, but the guy asked multiple questions. He LOL'd at me when I refused what must have been some kind of exception offer (I don't remember, but it was probably six months or a year for free). Right then I decided I'd never be a NYT customer again under any circumstances.
Counter anecdote. I called. I said I want to cancel. The agent asked why. I said I didn't have time to read the news. He processed the cancellation.

While he was doing that I told him to make sure he just cancelled the newspaper, not my separate subscription to the crossword puzzle.

I told him I realized I was getting a 50% discount on the puzzle because of my newspaper subscription and understood I'd lose that.

He informed me that no, I would not lose the discount. The deal is a discount when you purchase a puzzle subscription if you also have a newspaper subscription. As long as my auto-renew on the puzzle subscription keeps working, it keeps renewing at that rate. And indeed it has kept doing so.

Bonus: I also cancelled DirecTV several years ago, with no problem, when they had a reputation of being very hard to cancel.

I called, said I needed to cancel, and they asked why. I explained that I loved their service, but my Sprint DSL really sucked. Comcast had just expanded to my neighborhood and so I was dropping Sprint DSL for Comcast internet. I can get a much better deal with Comcast if I get a bundle, so I was going for the Comcast Triple Play (internet, phone, TV). Hence, no more need for DirecTV (but if a decent non-Comcast internet service came to my neighborhood I'd probably switch to that and come back to DirecTV).

They cancelled me then with no hassle.
> Why not spend the effort on something with positive tangible results, like space travel or clean power?

Effort/interest is not really fungible or spendable like this. People work and study on the things that are interesting to them. We can't just flip a switch to get everyone who's researching brains to transition to researching space travel.