skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FOMO is another way in which shirt-term impulses towards novelty or comfort short-circuit more long-term aspirations that are more cerebral and abstract.

Unfortunately, this emotional appel for one to seek self-actualization doesn’t do anything to halt short-term thinking. It’s just more preaching without concrete means to achieve it.

I offer two modest solutions towards the goal advocated by this link:

1. Productive procrastination: swapping the most junk food of short-term leisure with pursuits that are still fun but slightly more constructive towards meeting one’s long-term goals.

2. Progressive overload. Rather than this all or nothing anti-FOMO approach advocated by this link of mindset transformation (all of your time spent on short-term gratification is to be regarded as wasting your life; you WILL regret it one day), just chip away at the time wasted a little bit, each day. Sub in more productive leisures as in 1). Grow at your own pace. Don’t guilt yourself about it.

Self-help tends to be more successful when it emphasizes with the reader and comes up with actionable steps, not ask them to suddenly change their worldview.
Definitely does not make for justification but I am helping us understand why [hopefully hyperbolic] comments of a political nature by Von Neumann [or other Jewish contemporaries] are often rather objectionable by universal or nominal moral standards.
Not sure. The JDK works pretty well, but for whatever reason, I had issues with Corretto crypto provider and running it with Metabase. Switched to Adopt and didn't look back
I'll echo what others have said here: give grief space.
Try to remember mourning is a process rather than an event; i.e., some days you'll be feeling really listless, whereas other days it won't hurt as much.
Either way, acknowledging the emotion and stay with it is a good way to make peace in your inner turbulence. The more you loved, the more you'll hurt, I guess.
Sorry you have to go through this, my friend.
I was educated in the U.K. so a lot of this is quite alien to me. I never had to use a graphing calculator and indeed never owned one. I used a scientific calculator (perhaps $20-30) for (high) school and for some exams but university entrance exams and all my exams at university proscribed calculators of any kind. (I used gnu Calc in emacs for some number theory homework but I don’t think this was beneficial to my education).

I’m curious as to people’s opinions of the usefulness of graphing calculators. I feel like most of what they produce is a sketch and it’s typically more useful to learn how to sketch a function than to learn how to ask a calculator to sketch it. I think the hardest function I had to sketch in high school was exp(-1/x^2) and that was in a university interview rather than in school itself (and I feel like the reason for the choice was partly for the follow up of asking for the McLaurin series).

Was I missing out on some fundamental understanding that one gets from using a graphing calculator? Perhaps I didn’t miss out because I was just about able to plot arbitraryish functions using a computer anyway. Perhaps I was ok but other students would have benefitted from a full graphing calculator (perhaps benefitting from a graphing calculator is something more common amongst hn readers than the general public/high-school maths students).

In my university it felt like the common opinion was that calculators harm one’s understanding of mathematics and that exams ought to forbid them. I intuitively want to agree with this. A graphing calculator wouldn’t be very useful in the courses I studied at university but those courses were, I think, hardly representative of what matters in the real world. But asking for data also feels like an easy way to ignore good arguments.

Even if graphing calculators are very useful, it nevertheless feels deeply unfair to me that they are so expensive. One might ask what the solution is. More general and ubiquitous smartphones seem too general and capable to be allowed. It feels to me like graphing calculators ought to not be necessary but maybe this is coming from my own biased position. Perhaps another solution would be having more competition in the market. HP (at least in the past) produced high quality scientific and graphing calculators and I think I would prefer an HP48 to a TI83 but it seems like they failed. Were their volumes too small? Or their margins unsustainable? Or were they removed from the set of exam-allowed graphing calculators by TI lobbying? Or did people just not like RPN? I think the question of why manufactures other than HP didn’t really produce graphing calculators is easier: TI sold most of the calculator chips and they were able to sell a calculator for less than they sold the chip to their competitors for. Maybe exam standards mean there is no longer innovation in the pocket calculator market and therefore there is much less incentive for competition or price decreases amongst the incumbent manufacturers.
Whether or not there's an opportunity cost does matter, but why should this mean that the mining algorithm "paying off anyway" mean it can't be used? If the mining algorithm has an independent payoff whether or not you mine on the main chain, then there's still the same opportunity cost of the mining rewards.
I'm surprised in that lengthy post there was no mention of that condition where certain limbs feel like they are not part of 'you' but rather feel like alien things attached to you. Also as you mention 'healthy' is clickbait.
What do you want to say with this link? That CBS lied that Harris said that? That Harris lied about her mistrust of Donald Trump and his administration?

She is clearly referring to the potential scenario back last year when Trump could be pushing for a vaccine to be approved and released that did not satisfy scientific medical standards, just to benefit in the election. That stance doesn't fit in a few seconds of sound bite, of course.
It never existed in the first place: reality isnt fully determined.
It seems to be a problem with older east Asian construction, I claim no specific expertise on the issue but I've observed poor p/u bend water barriers in even fairly nice buildings from the 70s and 80s in Taipei.
Companies that act like friends don’t last long.
Business and pleasure and all that
“They'll squash you like a bug”: How Silicon Valley keeps a lid on leaks (2018)
I think this is one of the few benefits of micro service architectures. You end up with much smaller pieces to migrate over. And if the service is well defined and you have ample logging for endpoints you actually could re-write it.

Mind you; you usually end up with the services all in different states of node/jdk/etc versioning(at least the companies I worked at).
Hah, I wish! (Why didn't you give me an M8 while you were at it? I drive a Tiguan -- the one with a 1.4 l engine. :-)

But you're really not very good at reading, are you? That was not "a page-long proof that BMW was first", it was an at most half-page-long proof that there never was a "Mazda MX2". And you also seem to have missed my question how you still, two days later, claim to have "looked up the MX-2". I've pointed out twice now that there is no such thing, so where did you look that up?
Well, I'm equal parts goblyn and queenne so you must be wrong :P

I don't know if it's right to say that Peirce was "written out" of the history of logic, no less "entirely". Personally, as a student of logic, I get my knowledge from sources that are neither Frege, nor Peirce, nor recognisably derived from either one's work. A lot of water has gone under the bridge and modern mathematical logic is something that neither of the two would recognise as their own.

On the other hand, I note that the way I was taught to think about quantifiers (by my thesis advisor, during my PhD) was decidedly Peirce-ian: informally, that ∀ is the big-and and ∃ is the big-or of all variable instantiations to entities in the domain of discourse. So I don't think anything was really written out.

>> Thanks for the interesting article!

You're welcome. For once, an article on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy that I can read without having studied philosophy. Usually I get bogged down in unexplained jargon very quickly.
Quantum computing. It's in very early stages still, but the potential of what it could revolutionize is huge.

Technologies that help us take better care of the environment, slow down climate change, make agriculture sustainable and environmentally friendlier, etc.

And the obvious: space exploration, deeper human-computer interfaces (as much as I'm creeped out by Neuralink, it is inevitable).
Not commenting is always a fine option.
This article is not an exclusive (but some on medium are), so here's the canonical non-paywalled version:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/08/unfollow-everything/#shut...

Cory seems to be up front about the conditions of his various forms of publishing:

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I’m in my 30s and had AZ. It certainly wasn’t banned.

Until recently it was the only vaccine available for over 60s even.

Also FWIW. The risk of blood clots seems to be significantly higher in women than men. I think they should have focused on giving AZ to men and Pfizer to younger women.

For a while though some states were giving Pfizer to men in their 40s and 50s working from home, while recommending young women go and get dosed with AZ.
Counterpoint: people tend to regret the things they didn't do or missed, not the things they did.
Not necessarily "fake"!! This can almost be considered as some form of dogfooding!
> I will concede that, in implying that Trump would push people to get a vaccine before it was ready, she was wildly wrong.

Exactly, she (the left) also politicized the vaccine. QED
I didn’t know this, could you share some reading on this potential scandal?
I'm looking for research into the neurological basis of arousal (not necessarily erection, which is only a small part of it). If anybody knows, spam me.
Restoring Stonehenge: securing a Neolithic monument over 120 years
This is just advertising for a framework you have to pay for if you want to use.
Point well taken, but could people please stop advocating deathbed regret as a guide to living a good life? I'll probably spend my last days unconscious, or high on painkillers or something, not likely in deep reflection about the things I have and haven't done in my life. I don't care that much what an old, broken, drugged up version of myself has to say about how I chose to spend my time. I'm a big fan of using time well, but the line "Has anyone ever regretted not having done more of xyz on their last day?" doesn't motivate me one bit not to do xyz. Speaking of which, it's beer o'clock, and I'd love to see what youtube and Netflix have to offer.
Why couldn’t you take VC money? The VC would just have more shareholders to contend with.
?????

“ (2) produces large amounts of dust…”

The purpose would be to produce dust to spark a warming feedback loop…
Honestly if you are using Linux you should be using the distros Java.
I right-clicked and Looked It Up

Premiata Forneria Marconi is an Italian progressive rock band founded in 1970 and which continues to the present day. They were the first Italian group to have success internationally. The group recorded five albums with English lyrics between 1973 and 1977. During this period they entered both the British and American charts.
I agree but I'd imagine the beer companies would argue with your substitution standard for advertising that any drink or even consumable product you can put in your mouth is a competing product. So then no drink commercials, and you've reduced the capital available to fund TV, and you have a domino elimination of economic activity.

I mean, ideally we could allocate all the capital we put into manufacturing, selling, and consuming beer into fitness or math education or something more harmonious with wellness and human achievement; but hey, plenty of great scientists and inventors love beer.
Where? I don't see anything in that code relying on that unless I'm Sunday blind.
Also helpful:
https://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/4378-windows-1...
Hmm this will come in handy when writing my Terraform scripts.
How to think about individual shareholder activism, an activist journey
What programming language are you comfortable with? I'd say syntactically Java is fairly simple and at least superficially similar to C/C++. Environment wise, it's definitely very large and oriented toward "powerful but complex" rather than "simple and orthogonal". For build and dependency management systems, Gradle or Maven are your tools. I personally prefer Gradle since it uses a programming language for it's configuration, rather than xml.

There is definitely a lack "end-to-end" tutorials that don't rely on some form of tooling support. I would love to see more content on how to make a Java program with nothing but an editor and a command line, but I suspect there isn't much of a need for that. Java's tooling is exceptionally good, it's libraries mature and robust. Part of the reason every tutorial out there uses an IDE is because through quirks of history Java is basically an Enterprise programming environment where "Build the Right Thing" predominates over "Worse is Better".

EDIT: There is a REPL included with each JDK after 9 called JShell. It's useful if you just want to get up to speed or if you want to test something quickly.
Caching queries makes sense when deploying to distributed regions right? Trying to understand why this is wrong apart from the unneeded complexity.
The jre is deprecated in favor of jlink, they have an explanation here: https://blog.adoptium.net/2021/10/jlink-to-produce-own-runti...
> What do you want to say with this link?

That the left was also guilty of politicizing the vaccine & throwing doubting on its safety when it was politically expedient.
My real name is Andre Linoge. Give me what I want and I'll go away.
occasionally I use https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
I built a Chrome Extension that does this exact thing :).
There's also a WebAPI.

https://epub.press/
Yep, this is exactly why I left my last startup.

Relevant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founder%27s_syndrome#:~:text=F....
Grief is really hard, and different for everyone.

For me, being around friends and family and keeping myself busy helped the most. Keeping up with my hobbies, hanging out with friends, and focusing on work kept me sane. Not sure if it was the healthiest method, but I tend to get a little self destructive when my mind is left to itself.

Avoid the "what ifs". You cannot go back in time, and it is unfair to yourself to constantly question what you could have done different. Be kind to yourself.

Finally, one comment that deeply resonated with me during a time of grief is this reddit comment[0]. It helped give me some perspective in a time that seemed void of hope.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/9f4qy9/comment/e5tz...
There's a really nice (although old now) walk through of the cpython code base on YouTube. I watched it on a long 24 hour flight between Canada and Sweden a couple of years back.

Edit: Found it! You're in for about 9 hours of quality watching.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwyG5wA5gIzgTFj5KgJJ15lxq...
> When Oracle acquired Sun in 2010-11, Sun had not shipped a new release of Java in more than four years.[0] That's hardly a "stability" worth treasuring.

Sun went several years without releasing a new major version, but that same page lists frequent minor updates. So yes, I would call that exactly a stability to treasure.
From a CARB publication dated 2017 (https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/fact-sheets/small-engines-c...):

> In the early 2020s, however, total smog-forming emissions from small engines are projected to exceed those from passenger cars in the South Coast Air Basin because passenger car emissions will continue to decrease. By 2031, small engine emissions will be more than twice those from passenger cars.

And from the bill itself (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...):

>In 2020, California daily NOx and ROG emissions from SORE were higher than emissions from light-duty passenger cars. SORE emitted an average of 16.8 tons per day of NOx and 125 tons per day of ROG. Without further regulatory action, those emission levels are expected to increase with increasing numbers of SORE in California. Regulations of emissions from SORE have not been as stringent as regulations of other engines, and one hour of operation of a commercial leaf blower can emit as much ROG plus NOx as driving 1,100 miles in a new passenger vehicle.
I was not saying that software is my friend, I was making an example of how some things are worse if they are paid for.
I ask thos question with genuine curiosity- can someone help me understand why this is important? I have the same question about a lot of esoteric fields on Math - do we study them just because of curiosity and seeing how far we can follow a pattern? Or is there actual value to for example knowing what Mersenne primes are, etc?

I guess my question is - is this applied in any way?

EDIT: I see from responses my comment created the impression that I conflate "purely intellectual" and "not valuable." That was not my intention, simply asking whether this has applications or not.
Regulations like this can often be sidestepped; for the right amount of money. I'm sure there are private airlines that don't care about your vaccine status. Abortion is much the same. People with money can fly to a state that allows abortions; the poor cannot. So on and so forth.

> Countries like China, both Taiwan and the mainland, Singapore, Vietnam even New Zealand and a few others avoided much harm to the poor by means of crushing the disease.

The rural poor were likely fine. I do think there's an uneven impact of self-isolation for the urban poor, though. Wealthy people have more space, meaning more options for things you can do inside and less clashes over personal space. They're also more likely to live in an area where they can get to a green space without violating a curfew.

How much would someone have to pay you to self-isolate for a year in an apartment in the bottom 10% of rents in your city?
Just imagine all the newbie and junior devs following the ideas this person puts in their heads. That's how you land a new job just to find out the landing has more engineering than the Mars Rover.
These recommendations are pretty arbitrary and don't even attempt to scratch the surface of what is actually materially different between the JDKs. Don't use Corretto outside of Amazon... why? Don't use Dragonwell because... China bad? Use Red Hat OpenJDK if you're running on Red Hat servers, Microsoft OpenJDK if you're on Azure, SapMachine if you're on SAP, because... the name matches so that's nice? At least they're consistent on that point. There are (generally pretty niche) reasons to pick specific distros, but those reasons certainly aren't discussed here.

I feel like the actual decision process is fairly straightforward in nearly all cases:

- Use whatever vendor happens to be most convenient to install. If nearly everyone using your OS is installing Java one way, and you're installing it some other unusual way, you should be crystal clear about why exactly you need to do that.

- Generally go with JDK 11, if you may have to deal with older software then maybe go with 8, if you want the shiny new stuff and don't mind some extra hassle then go with JDK 17 (it's not well-supported by everything yet).

That's pretty much it. There are exceedingly few cases where it actually matters whether you installed Corretto or Oracle OpenJDK, and in those cases you'll likely end up either testing all the JDKs anyway to make your decision or writing your own patches for whatever you need.
Apple has had high profile fights with USgov on their privacy stances.
Google has not.
Are JREs still a thing (they were removed from Oracle builds in JDK 9)?
Those were mostly for applets or JWS.

Nowadays no one keeps just one JRE in their laptop/desktop and disk sizes are in TBs so no point in saving 100 MB and lacking development tools.

And in one targets containers or systems with small amount of disk jlink give more gains than JRE.
An old but goodie. While Hejlsberg touches on a fair amount of good points in this discussion, I’ve never agreed with the end result.

He went on to make Typescript - making sure that JS has types, so when making method calls you could have the compiler tell you when you did something wrong. Again, errors/exceptions did not get a throw clause, making it impossible to model the error state that the language provides. You can describe, in detail, the data for successful run, but are unable to describe the data for any error state. If the goal was to make the system more sound, I have a hard time seeing why the error state is not taken into account.

A lot of the described (and for myself experienced) cases against checked exceptions comes from external libraries or the language itself. IOException has a special place in hell, but for my own business logic (or inherited legacy code) in an application that spans thousands of files and classes, I would very much like to describe and be made aware of the error state throughout my application.

In Java, if I introduce a new business logic error state, all the places in my http (or cli or whatever) layer that uses that business logic will get highlighted for me, and I can then map it accordingly. In C#, that is not the case.
If I don’t want checked exceptions, I can always catch it and throw a runtime exception - but I have the option. As a developer who likes to think I know what I’m doing, I would at least like the option. In C#, that decision was never mine.

With TS, we have a system that lives around being configurable. One day, I would really like to see this being up to the developer and a parameter in the tsconfig file, maybe with a configurable list of error types to be considered RuntimeExceptions. That way, if I don’t agree with a library’s use of the feature, I can tell TS to not report them by considering them Runtime.

Might just be because I use an architecture that actually favors CheckedExceptions, but not being able to describe the error states of my business logic really grinds my gears ;)
VCs talk to 200 people a month with a single CEO or maybe the odd co-CEO. Along you come with a 20 person co-op leadership structure. Why would they take that dive? They want you to look/act/speak/organize like their previous successes. (Which is the same general reason why non-white males start at such a giant disadvantage )
If you're taking a position of absolute radical skepticism, you should be asking the same questions of Mounk's claim to know MIT's exact conditions, not using such hearsay as your own argument's starting point.
Can you give a specific technical problem with updating from 8 to 11? Everyone says it's hard - nobody's ever able to give a practical example of a problem.
This. I'll give it a shot. Thanks.
Cities being built next to rivers isn’t some kind of shocking exception, so it’s probably valuable to take the report seriously since at a minimum it can be generalized to NYC and the nations capital.
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I'm excited to see somebody express this. I've always felt strongly that the perception that emotions don't figure into logical reasoning is in fact illogical. People seem to conflate the contexts of emotions affecting reasoning, and reasoning accounting for emotions.