skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They probably didn't want to do anything to prolong any 386 after AMD reaffirmed their license to make them: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-03-02-fi-1893-s...
I have this tendency, too. I don't necessarily think of myself as negative; I think of myself as a realist, and reality has some hard truths. I find that many other people don't want to talk about the bad things. I wouldn't describe myself as a stoic, but I do relate to the idea of focusing on the negative as a strategy for being able to tolerate my existential dread.

I should note that there is an opposite to this: toxic positivity. It's equally irritating when someone refuses to acknowledge the elephants in the room.

The biggest changes in how I have approached my tendency towards negativity are trying to practice acceptance, gratitude, and action.

I had to teach myself that there is so much to be gained by accepting reality, whether it was my preferred reality or not. Travel really helped me with this. When traveling, I find myself limited by missing context and language. And yet, it's so rewarding. Some of my best travel memories come from things that didn't go to plan. I also try to accept other people's perception. If someone thinks something is good, which I think is bad, I try to "steelman" why that may be before writing off their perception.

I'm not sure how I came to feel deeper levels of gratitude. I guess it's just that as I've gotten older, I've internalized a deeper awareness of how well I have it. I can still put myself in the headspace of a younger, more angsty me. If that person could see my life today, he would be dumbstruck. And I've also just learned the hard way that tomorrow is not promised. My luck can turn on a dime, so I need to enjoy what I've got, while I have it.

I've also tried to take more responsibility and initiative for the things I want to see changed. I try to live by a rule that if something is bugging me, I need to reflect on why that is, and decide if I'm going to devote my time and effort towards it. If not, I need to attenuate the level of attention I'm giving it. Action is as much about what I don't do as what I do. For the things that I am going to take on, I try to challenge myself to go the extra mile, whether or not I will be successful. I'm not a doggedly determined person, and so I don't always see the results I want. But every now and then, the payback is extremely worthwhile.

I believe that practicing acceptance, gratitude, and action has changed how I communicate. I still am very adept at pointing out problems. But that's not all I do. I think those other 3 things come out, as well, and I think that makes me a more balanced person to the people who have to communicate with me. I'm not going to be everyone's cup of tea, and I try to live with that.

Speaking of which, I try to be aware the extent to which the people around me can handle my unfiltered "realism". Some folks are right there with me. For the others, I try to prioritize how much realism they need to hear from me within an interval of time.
I'm confused because as far as I can tell the Patriot Act is not currently in force, having expired in 2020[0]. But it seems that everyone is proceeding as if it is still in force, as if waiting on Congress to actually renew it is just a formality? Is this really how things work?

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/section-215-expired-ye...
If you want to go into what the money does, you have to look at the drug approval requirements. The public demands, through regulatory agencies, very thorough, elaborate, and expensive clinical trials to prove safety and efficacy of all drugs. Somebody has to pay for that - both for the drugs that do succeed and make it to market, and also for all of the trials for drugs that people thought would work but turned out not to. This is basically high-stakes gambling, and the pharma companies need to make the money back somehow on the drugs that do get approved to make the whole system work. Gambling like this is risky, and any sane investor would want a pretty impressive return when they win in exchange for taking the risk of the loss.

If you don't have a solution for that, it rings rather hollow to complain about how evil the pharma companies supposedly are when they are only responding to the incentives that we created for them.
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Not necessarily directed at roblox but honestly I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often given how many teams I see run software they don't understand or don’t even have access to its source code.

Edit: but yeah must’ve been tough 72+hrs i hope their version of reliability team can use this to bash the support they need out of the management and not get scapegoated instead
Being rich already enables you to be good at endurance sports. Time to burn and train is the limiting factor. They're also no directly PvP, which insulates the ego.
It is wrong to call this a bug, this is a feature of Unicode and very intentional. Whether we should have thought about that when allowing parsers to digest anything outside of ASCII is the real question. The answer is probably "IDEs and compilers should ignore character-direction codes when looking at source files." But that doesn't solve homoglyph attacks (and other undiscovered deception). What a fun can of worms. Who gets to solve it?
Sci-Hub is accepting crypto donations.
I'd recommend reading the official Hashicorp website for that, but the gist is that nomad is another way of deploying apps in containers (similar to kubernetes), consul is how apps find other apps to talk to (kinda like DNS but with health checking built-in so they don't get stale info), and vault is how apps retrieve the credentials they need to connect to other services.
I assume this is a meme like all the "downfall" videos from years past, it is funny. I'm curious as to what is actually being discussed.
Consul is like etcd but has some extra features built in like service discovery and l7 proxy so they market it as full blown service mesh a la istio, the other two are spot on
And Roblox is already well beyond the luck threshold
> My 3 youngest kids, aged 9, 9, and 8 ...

That must have been quite a year in the White household!
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Real world situation that is very similar to this: you send a friend a few bits (a seed) they plug it into Minecraft and the both of you can play in the same exact yet practically infinite world.
That is possible due to the shared randomness built into the world generation on both computers.
Thanks for the explanation. I see how that would cause a cascading failure.
Yes, I was a bit surprised someone thought I was thinking of a free-for-all drug park. Have they not seen The Wire?
Depends what you mean by lying. Even if that includes lies by omission, you can be plenty evasive and confusing, without technically leaving anything out. People would probably also become very good at rationalizing (to others, but also to yourself depending on how the enforcement works) why they won't talk to someone for long periods of time, so they don't have to say anything at all.
you really think it must be one of the two guesses you provided?
google docs with share permissions?
Also that terrorist's phone where the FBI wanted Apple to create a custom firmware so they could bruteforce it.
I agree with your side notes, though I would add that depressive realism is a hypothesis in psychology that is challenged by other academics, rather than a settled fact.

From your link, "Depressive realism is the hypothesis [...] that depressed individuals make more realistic inferences than non-depressed individuals [...] [Critics of depressive realism argue that] depressed individuals are thought to have a negative cognitive bias that results in recurrent, negative automatic thoughts, maladaptive behaviors, and dysfunctional world beliefs."

The critics would say that depressed people have unrealistic world views, which causes depressive symptoms. This matches with my own personal experience (e.g. when I felt convinced I could never be happy for a while after I got dismissed at my job, which was convincing at the time but turned out to be totally wrong).

However, I do think you can be pessimistic without the emotional toll as you say; but that doesn't sound like a depressed person, if this person can still excel at motivation and doing hard things.

My bottom line is: I just don't believe in the depressive realism hypothesis just to focus on the first bit, but I agree with the take on pessimistic realism.
We're dealing with a perfect storm of supply chain and staffing problems... of course it seems like validation to inflation fetishists.
I think some inflation will do us good. Things get pricier so people buy less, thus require the things they do buy to last longer, and we move away from the disposable everything culture and all its byproducts.
Plenty of companies also only accept the demand when you have already gotten the demand satisfied elsewhere.
I don't see any power of individuals in this networking effect. For every racist act that's dismantled by individuals on social media, there are a hundred new lies and rumors spread by trolls, authoritarian governments and corporations.

Even worse, though, is that those fighting for justice don't view the individual as being of primary importance. Their allegiance is to a cause, and individuals are expendable; free speech is dangerous to that cause, and even more dangerous when it comes in the form of minor criticism from someone within the group, which is harder to caricature and dismiss.

The net result is that you have ostensible liberals who fight for justice squashing individuality - even going so far as to claim "individualism is a white construct" - while fascists get to masquerade as the upholders of individual rights and liberties. It's a farce because both sides are shamelessly, boot-licking craven lovers of groupthink and authoritarianism, but it's the "network effect" of social media - both the organizing and the deplatforming on both sides - that represses the individual inwardly and outwardly, and leads to them lying in service of populism.
>Assange published stolen documents

He released them to a group of newspaper publishers to redact and publish, didn't he?
I haven't used most of these but here's my possibly-flawed understanding:

Consul: It's used to help manage cloud networking so that your application doesn't have to worry about IP addresses, datacenter locations, punching through firewalls, etc. Think of the situation where you have a zillion microservices talking to each other on different machines- it makes it easier for them to find each other. It also includes a distributed key-value store

Vault: If you've used a password manager in your browser, imagine that but distributed and on steroids. You can use it to share credentials with groups. It also has some APIs to help with encryption/decryption and includes a key-value store

Nomad: Roughly similar to Kubernetes (although with good support for non-containerized software). It's used to orchestrate software. For example when you have a bunch of programs you want to run 24/7 , you can specify what machines they should run on (for example at the datacenter/region level), what resources to give the programs, how to handle hardware failures, etc.
Its not related at all, its a discussion about the trading market conditions

Didn't realize I struck a cord here

I’m literally making fun of the people that would try to draw this distinction and … you showed up?

Huh

Sometimes I forget that the market reality changes faster than cultural conditioning

Change faster
I grew up playing soccer but have gravitated more toward cycling, hiking, and trail running as an adult and I was kind of ready to argue with you, but I realized I pretty much agree if you narrow the statement to triathletes specifically.

But in general I find endurance fitness is a broadly applicable skill that can take you to a lot of interesting places, geographically and psychologically. I find a lot of rich triathletes are gear and finishing time-obsessed and miss out on the spiritual or aesthetic aspects.
You may not see this comment - coming so late as it is.

Maybe I am just thinking aloud to myself, but this may communicate better than my other response.

There are two ways of increasing value of a money machine. It can make more money (sales, rents, etc.), or you can convince people the machine is in a trendy category (AI startup!).

While in the short run, the way you market the money machine (stock) can have huge impact. In the long run its worth will come from how much money the machine actually prints.

People will never keep paying a higher and higher price for a stock just because you keep slapping on better logos and giving the company better stories.

It might take a while, but any value growth due to externals hits a limit. And anything overvalued that has a limit will fall back inline with competing products. I.e. a mean price/earning ratio.

That kind of "value growth" doesn't compound, and the entire point of stocks is to compound value.

Alternatively, actually growing the business does compound. The more sales, the more resources to add employees, create more products, pay for more marketing (of actual products), etc. There is no ceiling at all.

That doesn't mean people don't play games with valuation, or that you can't make money off of assets getting temporarily over valued at the right time.

But it does mean the economy won't get more valued due to these games, as someone will lose every dollar that was won through gaming the market.

Every unearned increase in stock price now reduces the return for someone else buying the stock after that increase.

When people realize earnings are not really growing commensurate with stock prices for a whole class of stocks, we get worse than just lost future earnings, we get a crash.

In the end the games do decrease growth of stock prices total, even though some investors will come out ahead for all the gaming.
> Unfortunately, the days of reliable non-JavaScript capable scraping are over.

Not really. In a lot of cases websites use JavaScript to call some API along with some on the fly generated token to prevent abuse.

As long as that token isn't captcha you can reverse engineer the site to do scraping without javascript and that is so much faster than browser based scraping.
> A key value at Roblox is “Respect the Community,”

Yet they still take a 30% cut on all transactions that go to content creators / developers
Interesting. My entire network has churned in the past 6 months except for those locked in at FAANG and a few utterly unemployable elsewhere people.
>I'm confused because as far as I can tell the Patriot Act is not currently in force, having expired in 2020

Nope, most of it remains in force, only a small (but important) minority of it is covered by sunset provisions. [0]

[0] https://www.aclu.org/other/patriot-act-sunsets
I don't relate with that yuck.

I prefer a human cashier. And also a second person to do the bagging.
A few ways:

First, our society now is (IMHO) suffused with despair and its second order effects, such as anger, on an extraordinary level. I stopped reading/watching/listening to that stuff a couple years ago, unless I absolutely had to (99% reduction) and, it was a gradual process, but I not only left it behind but gained perspective on it - what once seemed overwhelming is now just a (dangerous) absurdity. Despite the presumption now that humanity is doomed to corruption and despair, there's generations of more positive stuff to read/view/etc from, you know, about 4-5 years ago - crazy things like optimism, belief in the possibilities, hope, justice, freedom, etc.

Second, just promise yourself no more rants, hyperbole, etc. Promise you will write constructive things. It will take some effort at first but you'll find there is far more to say (and that the rants have no value). Any time you find yourself in rant mode, stop, which leads to ...

Third, find healthy outlets for yourself, activities that, when you are finished, you feel better and healthier than when you started. (Otherwise, it's not much of an outlet, is it? But we all pickup unhealthy ones before we know better.) Exercise is a simple one.

Most importantly, by far: If you don't understand your emotions and have compassion for them, they will own you. If you find yourself with any unrelenting emotion, figure out what you are really feeling negative (or whatever) about - you probably are just redirecting that toward an easy outlet (someone on the Internet) rather than the real target that you don't want to face.
This is a really interesting take.

I know a number of very successful people who were not at all sporty in their youth but have taken up endurance sports as adults.

Playing team sports subjects you often to losing and it's also often pretty hard to improve objectively. Also if you haven't played a fair bit of sport in your youth it's probably hard to get good at them. Team sports are also hard in that training and games are on a schedule that may be hard to combine with work and family life.

With endurance sports you can work hard to improve your personal times.

Also many team sports are pretty bad from an injury point of view as you get older. Explosive speed and even the contact of football (soccer) or basketball can be an issue.

It'd be really interesting to see detailed stats about adult sport involvement vs income.
We used to have very long shell scripts and recently I refactor most of them to use functions and shellcheck in our presubmit. This has greatly helped catching bugs and improving readability
Here in Canada, canned bean can went from 67c to $1 and the salt less ones went from 87c to $1.27 within a month. Cat food can went from $1.69 to $2.29.

I am not rich and for now I can still afford food. But this is definitely insane and the poor are suffering hard.
Agreed, I can't trust any article that starts with "I was so excited to become a manager".

Direct managers (that is, low level ones) basically have fixed budgets, resources, schedule, and new ones have little political power or leverage. It's a SHIT job, and basically it is something a manager has to go through to get up to the better paying levels.

And as stated, this guy basically was selling out his reports for his ambition to try to do "extra work". This guy was an AWFUL manager. The liberal diversity thing is so blatantly obviously a cover for him selling out his team rather than have the blame for his failure rest on him. Yes there are tensions in any team, guess what, that meant you had passionate team members.
Severe hypovitaminosis D can cause brittle bones, muscle weakness, fatigue, and depression. However, there may be no obvious symptoms at all. If in doubt it's a good idea to get tested. It ought to be standard clinical practice to order a vitamin D blood test for anyone diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection since that can indicate a patient is at higher risk for hospitalization.

Obesity is also correlated with vitamin D deficiency.
If only the US had some way to import a larger workforce
Or a compiler bug...

http://r6.ca/blog/20200929T023701Z.html
Ehhhh... Interesting philosophically, and we might see a practical attack maybe eventually, but most source code editors and diff reviewers that I've encountered show all non-printable characters VERY visibly. Because they matter, and always have - "func asdf()" is very different from "func as<zwsp>df()". If I saw a pile of non-printable control characters intermixed in code in a diff, there's absolutely no way I'd allow that merge.

IOCCC entries will absolutely become more fun though.
> Also, in my experience, most websites that block your bot, block your bot because your bot is too aggressive

Obviously you haven't used Instagram recently.
It probably depends upon the company. As much as I dislike Amazon, their customer service is outstanding. An anker headphone I bought also had excellent customer service.
> "Desirable" locations is a completely subjective term.

Alright, use "valuable" then. Value is derived from people's desire to purchase the land, which means valuable land is equivalent to desirable land.

> Yes, you can. We call them skyscrapers.

Skyscrapers aren't land.

I'm not entirely sure you're conversing in good faith but I'll do my best to assume you are. Land is a natural monopoly, and the most classic of all. For example, the land surrounding Central Park in New York City is of limited supply. If you want land which borders, say, the west side of Central Park, then there is even less land available.

If someone owns all of the land that borders the west side of Central Park, then no one else can use that land unless they are permitted to by the owner. This means that the owner has a natural monopoly over all land that borders the west side of Central Park. You cannot create more land that borders the west side of Central Park.

Now, if you wanted to live in a house or apartment that borders the west side of Central Park, your only option is to negotiate with the land-owner. They may sell you the land, or rent the land to you (or rent you an apartment or house on that land). If living on the west side of Central Park is something desirable to you, then the land-owner can charge you the absolute maximum price you are willing to pay for living there. You have no alternative, except to not pay at all. If you are willing to pay $1000 a week to live on the west side of Central Park, the land-owner can charge $1000 a week. It is entirely independent of the labour and costs of the land-owner, and entirely based on your willingness to pay.
$30,000 is less than what they charge per transactions, meaning they made money, and are playing musical chairs with numbers.
>thus require the things they do buy to last longer

that will not be the effect of inflation.

manufacturing products to the requirement that products last longer (or not) is on a much longer timescale than inflationary factors.
Every advertising influence pushes you to buy more, eat more, and then address the repercussions with strategies (Ab-Roller style gym equipment) that won't work as well as just not eating so much in the first place.

Small servings get ridiculed.
Your proposal is to fire fat people from their jobs because they pose a risk to.... others?

In seriousness, the whole point of vaccination is public health, which means you're not doing it just for yourself but also for the person who's working next to you. That's why people are getting terminated.
This documentation has a good description of capabilities of it and alternatives.

https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Related_toolkits_and_API...
Cross country comparison should be based on PPP (Purchasing Power Parity), the amount that currency can purchase in the country.
Man I'm pretty young relative to most of the big advancements in computing but the HDD to SSD transition is very memorable. Defragging the HDD was probably one of the first computer maintenance things I learned. Upgrading my laptop to a SSD was one of the first upgrades I did.

Meanwhile I still find laptops from the ~2015 era that for some reason shipped with a HDD. I remember the Macbook Air being one of the first computers to make a SSD standard while the rest of the laptop/'netbook' was for some reason surprised that it was so much faster. :/

I still love hard drives for bulk storage but I will never use a HDD based machine... especially not if it is running Windows >=8. If only EC2/cloud providers would make IOPs cheaper - for some reason they seem to be crazy expensive compared to what a $50 SSD can give.
I hope that your intuition is correct, but I think the opposite is equally as plausible: prices are "sticky" so producers cut costs to compensate, exacerbating high disposal frequency.