skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would like to share his hopeful outlook (hopeful in the sense that he seems to think there ought to be a counterfactual world where everyone behaves decently towards each other and the planet)

You'd see the point if you think of 'Civilization' as a evolving process rather than an single point ideal.

The world today is factually more just and decent (IOW civilised) than the era of colonial imperialism and this change didn't just come about naturally. It happened because of people who question the injustice and challenged the world to be better. I think that's the role people like Noam Chomsky play. To expect the ideal so that we move towards it, however slowly.
Kids, families, shelter, food(!), retirement, health, social issues/relationships all feel like the things people can connect on. They’re more real, they’re innate. And you need the right level of challenge in all of them, too easy and it’s unfulfilling and too hard is soul crushing.

I don’t expect to “connect” with anyone with my own interests and hobbies - that seems incredibly naive to me. They’re far too abstract to be interesting to others.
Your description of the symptom was more or less the same with my personal experience, but the conclusion might be a little bit off IMO. I first tried to deploy proxies to google app engine and use PAC scripts to auto switch between them. It was super fast and worked for ONE day. I really meant one day here, the whole thing stopped working the next day obviously the maneuver was detected and busted. Then I tried both public and commercial VPN services but all of which were either unstable or slow, or even both. At the same time, I almost never had any problems with corporate VPNs but I did not want personal stuff to go through company networks so I hardly used them unless had no choice. Things did not change much until AWS/Azure emerged. I almost immediately deployed an Azure VM dedicated for VPN when it's available to my MSDN subscription. I was pretty comfortable with it as even if my VM got blocked, I could actually redeploy it to a different region in minutes. It turned out I worried too much, I never had any drama with it since I kept very low profile and the VPN was really for myself only.

DNS pollution was for sure only one means of the blocking. Even if the IP address of the site got resolved correctly, the site could not reached as a result of "Connection reset" or "Remote host closed the connection" errors. I thought the blocking was all the time and everywhere until I accidentally realized that I had just access some site without VPN connected and such state could last for from hours to days, as long as I did not access contents deemed sensitive, sites did not seem to matter that much as blocking would not be triggered until I clicked some links. HTTPS did not seem to help at all, so GFW must have the ability to do deep packet analysis. Such behaviors make sense to me as the network traffics in China are enormous even the government would not have enough resource to monitor everything all the time, so the practical approach would be using a little bit of heuristics and commencing blocking only when certain signals were triggered. Also I encountered a couple of times man-in-the-middle attacks as I noticed my browser were not happy with the site's certificates. Such attack might be carried out by the ISP as the certificates were self signed.
Newsletters! I learn a lot by reading 5-6 newsletters a week and also writing my own.
> That hasn't happened and as far as I am aware, is not even close.

Isn't that just the Rust borrow checker?
First, I will add another vote to "don't assume a 7% return" camp. Others already mentioned inflation, 7% average over 20 yrs vs needing 7% every year, etc.

But just as much as economics, consider a requirement to move every year or every few months. People, especially as they get older, tend to like knowing they have a home where they can spend as long as they want, where they know their neighbors, etc. It might not feel like a big thing until one loses it.

Personally, I would consider downsizing and if needed do occasional work for travel money. My 2c.
Traditionally Finns love coffee that is extremely lightly roasted, and is the finest quality (and highest caffeine content). You don't find the preference for so light roasts anywhere else.

The bulk blend that Finns consume in large quantities "Paulig Juhla Mokka" is made from high quality beans.

Young people have started drinking more dark roasted blends, similar to coffees in Sweden and rest of the Europe. Swedish coffee taste is completely different. Dark roast all over.
Is this a UNIX tool in the same vein as emacs? I'm not sure a package manager that includes a half baked FP programming language can be described as a tool that "only does one thing and does it well".
So we live in airbnbs and have for over a year. Our long term plan is exactly as you described which is have a "home base" and house swap or rent ours on airbnb while we then travel via airbnb which is a bit easier / more stable of an approach imho.
The correct response to becoming obsolete is to learn something new, not to fight the thing making you obsolete. Doing the latter is about as productive as yelling at the tide to not come in.
Shader School - An introduction to GLSL shaders that runs in your web browser
Is there any alternative to ProtonMail that respects its users? I'm using PM for about 4 years now and I'm seriously considering switching to anything else.
Why is equality determined by educational attainment? Seems to be the measure of “equality” for purposes of a romantic marriage should be personality and compatibility and not wealth or degrees earned.

An equal relationship is going to vary depending on who you ask, and as long as both partners agree, then you’re set.
Would be nice to have a tool that grabs a readable version of an article/link and lets you dump it into your favorite knowledge management tool (Roam, Obsidian, mem, …). Any recommendations for such a tool?
I remember this post being referenced by Brian Goetz, which ultimately leaded to the development of project Loom in the JVM (green threads handled by the runtime)
Can anybody who had used Velero in production tell me if it's worth to explore this GKE specific solution or is Velero good enough?
I just when out and purchased nokia 3310 and will switch to that.
You can make your own medicine at home in many countries, but safety testing takes years and costs hundreds of millions. After years of testing, when the result is good and the inventor is lucky, the inventor will have just a few years of protection to recoup costs.

How you can improve that without patents?
Sorry, I don't remember. But it was definitely written by a Prof. Something Something, PhD. And of course it had a mesmerizing rendering of some cosmic occurrence on the cover.
There are no real equals in life; everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses. Even trying to estimate whether your partner is equal to you is a kind of competitive spirit which isn’t really healthy IMO.
> You can deduct some for house appreciation

I mean... in some markets price on housing can do something like 10%/yr... so real estate _is_ the relatively stable investment that you can also live in...

This only really makes sense if you don't have enough starting capital to enter real estate...
+1 on this comment. We had issues with poorly written selenium tests and after rewriting new tests with cypress and better test practices, the e2e test are reliable enough to be used as canary testing in new environments without false positive flaking. It ultimately comes down to how much you're willing to invest in writing good tests.

If you're suffering from seriously flakey e2e tests results, more often than not it's from either outdated tech, poor testing practices, and not enabling a selective retry on failures.
And when the Soviets found themselves in this exact situations, those rascals too had resorted to whatever espionage they could get away with! The nerve of them!

In the early 2010 I've read a news story about Czechs finding and declassifying some old military plans from the 1970-ies (desgined in the USSR and then supplied to the rest of Warsaw Pact) which went along the lines of "launch the strategical nuclear strike, then take over the Europe with conventional troops (with possible use of tactical nuclear waeponry)". The story went into some details into how the strike directions in those plans were actually radically different from what NATO at those times expected the Soviets to use, so it was a rather interesting read.

And then, in the very last paragraph of the story, it makes an off-hand remark that those plans had an explicit directive in them that they are to be enacted only in the wake of the nuclear attack on a member of the Warsaw Pact. Ah. So those were plans were less of "okay, let's figure out how to set the world ablaze and then rule whatever's left" kind and more of "in case of being nuked: a) nuke back; b) ...try to take over whatever's left, I guess?" kind. Obviously, putting that remark at the beginnig of the story where every reader would read it would lessen the story's intended impression of the scary murderous Reds.
I prefer moving and living somewhere for longer periods, such as 3 to 4 years. It's long enough to learn the language and get to know the place fairly well. That 3-4 months just scratches the surface.
Funny it is Finland to come up with this. Since they are known for having god-awful coffee: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/9bqiil/macrons_reac...
What I ment so say was some "externally given purpose" that makes claims about being objective.

I consider my values to be more of a general goal than a purpose in itself and make no claims about them being objectively good.
Not only the science may be the barrier, but also lobbyists - if coffee plantations start paying for spreading ill rumours aka you'll grow 3rd leg from lab coffee etc.
See also https://github.com/ai/nanocolors/pull/14
Quantifying the High-Frequency Trading “Arms Race”
It's gonna be extra fun when tax season comes around...
Recruiters who simply buzzword match resumes to requirements written by managers who are following the latest consulting firm's recommendations.

You can have 20 years experience with every major programming language and operating environment, but if you don't have the in-vogue framework and most hyped language using the FAANG only container technology then you don't even get a phone screen. Of course YMMV and you could land a job based on your domain experience.
Easier now...but not necessarily always better.

When you read Walter's FORTRAN code from ~1978, keep in mind the environment in which he wrote that code and edited it.

Most likely it was all typed in and edited on a Lear Siegler ADM-3A [1] terminal. Depending on when the code was written that terminal would have been running at either 1200 bps or 9600 bps [2]. That's a 24x80 ASCII terminal that may or may not have supported lower case (lower case was an option on the ADM-3A and not all of Caltech's had it).

There were maybe 20 terminals in the terminal room that most students used. There was no scheduling or reservation system. You just had to go there and see if there was a free terminal. (I seem to recall there was a rule that people doing actual class work had precedence over people just doing their own thing, and there was a rule against games during the day [3]).

For actually editing code I don't know what editor Walter used, but it probably was not a screen oriented editor. Most of us used TECO [4].

With the competition for terminals, and line or character oriented editors instead of screen editors, you tended to do most of the thinking about your program away from the computer at least for medium or large programs. You got it all designed in your head (or on paper), worked out most of the details, and then at the terminal it was mostly more typing than programming.

Nowadays with no more competition for computer access and bigger screens with editors that show much more code (and with much more powerful navigation features) we don't need to put nearly as much upfront thought in to our code. For most things that is fine but for some problems figuring it all out in your head first would be better, but I think a lot of programmers no longer learn how to do that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-3A

[2] All the ADM-3As in the computing center at Caltech were 1200 bps when I got there in 1977. Sometime later the operators accidentally configured one to 9600. We users asked if we could have them all changed, and they did so.

[3] But that rule was against playing games during the day, not writing games during the day. Testing and debugging a game during the day was unclear.

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TECO_(text_editor)
This is a solvable problem. I think something along the lines of SSB is needed to square the triangle. More progress needs to be made on the notifications and efficiency stories. Maybe there is regulation that would put pressure in that direction.

I do think that making data into enough of a liability (as opposed to profitable) will eventually break apart data silos.
Where’s the omission? On the incognito home page it mentions that websites can still track you
Ask HN: How did you improve your communication skill in second language?
English is my second language and I have never spoken till 20 years of my age. Now, I am 28 and my most of my work involve reading, writing and speaking in English.
I am very comfortable in reading and writing but when it comes to speaking, I always feel under-confident. How did you guys overcame?
Bring components into old-fashioned templates
That's most definitely true. But describing one's character or predicting behavior based on that is simply random stereotyping. And even if we could make some use of it, the astrology crowd would never embrace it.
But "dishonest" is simpler language register than "deceitful". Doesn't that weakens your argument?
I know exactly how you feel. After 20+ years industry experience I went back and did my PhD in SE, taught as an adjunct for a while. But since being made redundant by my uni I have trouble landing a suitable job. Yet, I taught dozens of SEs in the latest technologies and have kept my skills up to date. Of course, I trim my CV, but still ....
Thing is, the constraints that make mutability and side effects "safe" are pretty much indistinguishable from functional programming. You can opt out of those in Rust via "internal mutability", but that comes with a corresponding increase in complexity.
How stressful is this for the family unit as a whole? I would imagine that traveling with a child is not easy, and as they enter school, there's much more pressure to just settle down in one place.
So that is the thing called 'acquired taste'?
There are mountains in Antarctica, ice-free spots that can be the location of vaults.

The point of "ice not melting" is not to use ice, but to show you that the land will keep cool even in summer.
In case of 3D printers, patents worked as expected. 3 different methods were invented, patented (opened to public with protection for 20 years), then patent are expired, and general public was able to fruit developed technology and advance it further.

Just compare this to commercial secret practice.
Give advice on creating NFT tokens, what to pay attention to when creating?
Yeah. Those of us who patent stuff when employed are pretty darn close to "owned entities." Part of the filing process is assigning the patent rights to the employer.

Can an AI sign a patent assignment document or a work-for-hire contract? What would it mean for an AI to sign such a document "freely"?

And, Michaelangelo used some tech (scaffolding) while painting the ceiling of that chapel (Sistine) where the catholic bishops hang out while choosing a new bishop of Rome. Reliable scaffolding was certainly enabling tech for that project. It doesn't mean the scaffolding gets a credit.
A PiDP-10 is in the works.
> Traditionally Finns love coffee that is extremely lightly roasted

No, not really. It's called light roast here, but my understanding is that compared to actual light roasts (e.g speciality coffees from smaller roasters) most coffees tend be actually closer to medium or even dark roasts. Good quality light roasts taste of their origin characteristics (coffee from different places tends to taste different, who would've guessed) and they are closer to acidic than bitter.
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I mean, they said it “bears a similarity to ordinary coffee”, which is pretty broad language, if you ask me.
"He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike [coffee]."
How Do Migraines Affect the Sleep Cycle?
> Some people really do need a car to get to work, but if they also want to live in the center of a large city,

Why does someone living in NYC, Chicago, London, Paris need a car to get to work? There are some very rare cases yes, but the vast vast majority don't need a car, they want a car.

> The city of Copenhagen famously sold more parking permits than there are actual parking spaces to people living in the city center.

I would almost always expect that to happen. There is far more demand than there is parking, and a permit doesn't give you a right to a space. I would also be hugely surprised if much money (if any) was made from permits. (Enforcement of the CPZs being a different thing that almost certainly does make money).

> I don't get why people can just pay the parking fee, it's often not nearly as expensive as people make it out to be.

It's £4.50 per hour in the city center here, (plus £0.20 to pay by card - and this is a recent option too. 2-3 years ago it was coins only), and most areas have a 2 hour limit. For anyone actually living in the city, it's almost certainly cheaper to get an Uber each way.
Since unp is a stock ticker, it's a little harder to find:
https://github.com/mitsuhiko/unp

Looks like it might be in standard Ubuntu repositories:

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/unp.1.html
I have a personal theory that we simply live too long for the traditional concept of marriage to make sense. "Until death do us part" means something very different if the average lifespan is 50 years versus 80 years. People change, and grow tired of one another, and that's okay and good and healthy. But a marriage which ends in divorce is considered a "failed marriage", as if all of the prior years count for nothing.

I say all of this as a single 27-year-old who has never been in a committed relationship, and has no plans to enter one in the future. Perhaps that means I lack the authority to weigh in on this topic, and perhaps it means I practice what I preach.
Scientismic appeals commonly appear in relation to political agendas.

In popular discourse "trusting science" can be better understood as an appeal for conformity of thought. Scientists naturally disagree about a great many things. When people are asked to "trust The Science", the speaker is asking for unquestioning faith in the experts they feel are truthful. Scientism is just another way denigrate dissent as dangerous heresy.

The core of the issue revolves around the lack of trust in government and media institutions. It is a poor substitute for reflecting upon how the trust deficit came about and attempting to address those issues. The process would undoubtedly involve addressing past misdeeds, accepting responsibility and attempting to make amends. Understandably, this is not palatable. In lieu of this we are offered more divisive finger pointing and comically inept generalizations of the heathen unbelievers as "flat-earthers".

The end result is a doubling down on the trust deficit, digging us deeper with further divisiveness. At a certain point this approach and the institutions advancing it must be recognized as bankrupt.
Every time there is a post like this I go check the license of the original project. Invariably, it is MIT. I think this is probably indicative of something, although I couldn't say what.
I mean, if you consider psychology psuedoscience, I suppose that could be true. It has numerous articles written about it in psychology publications.
Canada, China and US were all doomed to lose in Meng Wanzhou’s case
I'd use prejudiced over racist since the same 'allies' are often very homophobic, biphobic and transphobic.
How to generate free electricity, cut off you power bills by 60%
This is just not true. Some people, many of them in fact, do have emotional reactions to movies and art in general. And that emotional reaction is either pleasant or not.

People get bored watching movies and it is not a mask nor identity - it is feeling. Some people genuinely feel bad watching horrrors and it is not identity, it is genuinely feeling bad. I hate cringe in comic super heroes movie and thus dislike them. It is not a mask I wear it is genuinely unpleasant and if alone I would never ever watch that.

The movies creators put a lot of work unto making you experience feelings while watching their movies in fact.
It's always odd to think that it's the distance that pays instead of what you delivered.
You can do that in pretty much every language, it's just that in most of implementations, blocking on an async call can easily dead-lock, .NET is particularly notorious in this regard: you call GetResult(), the scheduler tries to schedule the task to the thread that have just called the GetResult() on it -- and this thread is now deadlocked, because it waits for itself. But since a threadpool has many threads, such degradation takes some time until the whole of the system deadlocks, and it's not even guaranteed to happen: the task scheduling in .NET is very convoluted.
That could of course happen. Or you might actually start to actually like what your partner liked, fail to realize your partner's taste in movies moving on and eventually end up with a weird foster taste if/when the relationship ends (for that reason or another)

(sfbsab)
Communists is not equal to atheists , in fact most of the atheists I know are not communists. Blaming to atheists the crimes committed in name of communism is like saying that as Hitler admired christianism all his crimes should be blamed on christians . And right the ones trying to impose their beliefs, and deny rights to others, in Europe and USA are the followers of some of the Abrahamic religions.
Nope. For 2nd item, I don't see a reason why GFW would do that. I did see some domain names resolved to 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1 which is nice and easy and unlikely going to cause a problem. And in most of cases, the host names were actually correctly resolved but the request either timed out or got a connection reset error etc. as such methods are the cheapest way to block accesses at scale.
I'm pretty sure my cultural tastes are not just real, but almost innate. When I was in that discovery phase in late childhood through teens I really connected with some things and really didn't like others. I wasn't told to do this by anyone - certainly not by parents or teachers or peers.

Some years later I'm more appreciative of why other people might like different things now, and I've also picked up on nuances and contexts I used to miss.

But the things I like have barely changed. I don't spend much time "broadcasting them to the world" because why would the world even care what music I listen to?

There's enough overlap with my partner that we can have conversations about certain things we have in common, but there are things and activities that work for her that I'm utterly disinterested in, and vice versa.

We don't expect to share those, and that works for us.