skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can confirm this is a nice use case: I had this on a ThinkPad once, though the pad was not MacBook big. It was also nice to be able to do some mouse movements with the trackpoint without having to alter your hand position on the keyboard to use the pad.
If you are not familiar with Brown University, the first part of the headline is easily parsed differently. In English, adjectives tend to come in a certain order, with color generally being precedent to origin or qualifier. Therefore it would read as 'Brown' being an adjective describing Manfred Steiner, because the color 'Brown' generally comes before the qualifier 'Physics Student'.

I am not suggesting that Brown University actually A/B tested this. As a university press site, they seem less likely to pursue that. But it would be naive to think that in the current media and political climate in the US, the mistaken interpretation of the headline would not be more surprising, and therefore more likely to grab attention. That's what A/B testing the headlines is for.
which is some kind of beautiful implementation tbh... everyone thinks it's a real click
> I have no problems with HLS, VC Code, and Cabal, everything works seamlessly.

So do I -- until I try to use them on massive, realworld projects.

> You fail to understand that this is your personal experience based on the approaches you've chosen to apply.

First off -- I can't write Haskell. I only think all of this because of time working on tooling trying to make it easier for other people that DO write Haskell to contribute, via publishing configurations and other things.

Sometimes you don't get to make the choices, and you're stuck with someone else's architecture decisions and a team + community of people doing the best they can with them.

You've never compiled GHC from source?
How long does that take on your machine?

The moment someone gets a codebase that has hundreds/thousands of files working with proper language server diagnostics in an IDE with +24 hours uptime (like every other production-grade language) I will eat my shoe.
You can adjust both the ‘clickiness’ and the acceleration curve of the trackpad on any semi-modern MacBook.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204352

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-your-mouses-...
> That the Left has not always trusted the Right to make the "correct" decisions, but has always trusted them with the right to vote.

Packing the Supreme Court because you can't trust the justices appointed by the right to vote the right way?

That crazy plan to make a separate state out of each DC neighborhood, so that DC would have dozens of senators?

Yeah, they trust the right with the right to vote, as long as the left can finagle a way to outvote them. (Yes, I know, neither of those passed, nor has any likelihood of passing. Still, there's a profound distrust of democracy on the part of at least some of the left.)

> The Right has never trusted the Left with the right to vote.

That is so ridiculously wrong that it looks like you're just making stuff up to fit a totally slanted worldview. In particular, the word "never" is a dead giveaway.
Cool. Totally cool, and shows the power of Smalltalk images. You could start a process in the image running in the browser, move the image to your PC and continue the process there.
How much longer can we keep up the COVID protocols? The Atlantic just did a piece on this: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/11/what-amer...

We're going to have to transition to whatever the new normal is very soon. There is only so much money printing the fed can do to cover up structural problems in the economy. Given the inflation we're seeing, I think we're getting near the end of that rope. We're now, I think, seeing diminishing returns on the helicopter money and artificially suppressed interest rates.
Loved reading this. While reading I was thinking I should do a similar comparison for countries I've lived in (a handful of European ones) but it wouldn't be half as entertaining (differing).

Toilet paper for pooping made me chuckle, I love bidets!

Stuff like this is really good for a reminder and for perspective. A lot of people nowadays seem to think that the US is shit but don't really have anything to compare it with, so it becomes a political idea based on their perceived utopia vs the worst parts of the American culture society. And oftentimes what is perceived to be the "correct way" in your local country is unthinkable/weird in many other places.

Some comments:

> Sugar here is powdered, it doesn’t come in tiny cubes like I’m used to.

What do you use when baking sweet pastries? Crushed sugar cubes? :D

> Almost all shopping has to be done at a big chain retail store like Lidl or Megamart or Target or any of the other big-names.

This is a sad universal in most of the western countries. Convenience/efficiency (as long as you have a car!) sacrificing local small businesses.

> People liberally carry coffees and soda cans to drink into flights. I’ve never seen this before. Is it even allowed in India?

I tend to buy a bottle of liquor and a bottle of water at the airport (after checking in). Then I empty the water and fill it with liquor and sip throughout the flight.

> The people that I see day to day are generally extremely fit. (Or is it just students?)

Haven't actually been to the US but I'd assume it's mostly just a local phenomena (campus).

> But here, no PIN necessary! You just swipe or tap your card and boom, the transaction is done.

Again I don't know what the limits are over there, but here it used to be €20 for Visa, €25 for MasterCard, but they've upped the limits due to Covid. I don't feel particularly threatened about losing €20.

> You just scan your student id (is it Id?)

ID I think? :)

> All house floors, apart from kitchen floors, obviously, are carpeted.

This is insane to me too, practically never seen it anywhere and where I have, it's been a disaster.

> Stoves are always electric. No lighter needed.

Sucks when you have a power outage!

> There should be just one knob which decides the hotness of water, depending on how much it’s moved.

Agreed. You kind of have to mentally adjust where you put both knobs. Most European shower heads have one control lever where you you have water pressure in one axis and temperature on the other. You just leave it in the sweet spot for temperature and pull to get water, push to shut it off.

> Most cars will immediately stop if they see you’re about to cross the street. It takes some getting used to at first.

I've heard there are huge differences in this regard between LA and NY.
“The Delta variant and waning immunity against transmission mean herd immunity may well be impossible even if every single American gets a shot.”

Waning? Did you mean nonexistent? A good start to tackling the problem the author focuses on is being honest and forthright with the public.

The vaccines have only ever been effective at reduction of symptoms. They have never prevented transmission and never promised to.

Once you completely wrap your head around this concept, restrictions on freedom like vaccine passports and violations of human rights like mandatory vaccinations are useless.

Even with 100% vaccination coverage, there will still be outbreaks. It’s only a matter of time before the goalposts shift on “fully vaccinated” and one’s passport isn’t valid anymore. Not until you get the booster. And you may think it ends at shot #3, nope. This goes on for as long as we let it.

The solution? It’s simple and timeless: natural immunity. Vaccine supporters can get all the additional boosters they want. It’s their body, so it’s their choice of course.

It’s time to start embracing natural immunity not as fringe pseudoscience but as what it truly is: the only way out of this pandemic. And the nice part is, you likely already have it. Remember the Diamond Princess cruise ship? Only 20% of the ship tested positive for Covid and they were aboard for over 2 weeks. Everyone else likely had cross reactive immunity from a previous cold season’s coronavirus strain.

Disagree? Let’s talk
I think it's a little unfair to chalk this up to an assumption. Most of the bagged spinach that I can purchase at the supermarket comes labeled as "Washed & Ready to Eat" [1]. Whether that's true or not - and whether you prefer to wash your spinach anyway - is of course up to you. But it's explicitly labeled as safe.

[1] - http://t0.gstatic.com/shopping?q=tbn:ANd9GcR5UDimbyF_W_fUOKg...
I went through an IPO. Joined the company early enough that I made enough for 15ish years if I continue my same lifestyle. Prior, entrepreneurship has been my passion. Founded 3 startups in the past with zero to small success, but nothing life changing until this IPO.

Journey to IPO is not easy. Culture and values are no longer the same. It's not a surprise. Different culture / values is fine, but they declined in my POV. I did manage to survive & adapt, to see it through IPO, as a means to buy financial freedom. It also taught me a lot about perseverance. There is not much left in the company that aligns with my values or principles. Probably I hit the peter principle[1].

Compared to my younger self, now I have 2 daughters. As an immigrant to bay area, never got a chance to truly take a break between the jobs. My passion for entrepreneurship is still there. I truly want to give it enough shot either to build something meaningful or prove to myself that it's the game I no longer enjoy.

Currently my plan is to
- quit the company by figuring out alternate means for immigration
- put aside money for 1.5yrs
- for at least 3 months, be the househusband and nothing else: daily home & kid chores (like a stereotypical housewife); focus on physical fitness
- after 3 months, start scoping out next venture
- keep trying and failing until i land on a financially feasible idea. have a large network and potential co-founders

At a high level I thought I would cap my adventure to 1year. On the other hand, I'm very confident that as long as I fail and learn and evolve, I will be able to start decently successful company (even a $15K per month revenue generating idea like indiehackers), if given enough time. That makes me wonder what is stopping me from giving myself 5 years instead of 1 year.

I know it is going to be a very thrilling journey and also tough at times. My prediction is that it would get very hard at around 6 month mark. But there is something about this journey that keeps driving me forward.

When I think about this startup journey, knowing that it's a financially bad decision, I often think why I' keep getting attracted. I think Michael Seibel summarized it the best[2] about why/who should start a startup: "there is a certain type of person who only works at their peak capacity when there is no predictable path to follow, the odds of success are low, and they have to take personal responsibility for failure (the opposite of most jobs at a large company)". Every time I read it, it feels like he described me. Hopefully all the failures in my pocket, 'wisdom' and lessons learned would come to rescue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
[2] https://www.michaelseibel.com/blog/why-should-i-start-a-star...
If I understand correctly nobody has a useful handle to profit from killing it and all the players have an incentive in it's continued existence. Killing it would require large scale collaboration among individuals who collectively would all be hurt.
Build fast, fail fast, win fast
Ah, you're right. Their Java solution just defines one Node class and mutates it. Which does mean that the LL nodes' pointers are called "large" and "small"...
Since you are trusting a third party to validate/invalidate token ownership anyway, why not let them run a centralised infrastructure for bids/escrow as well. Bids could be published (via a Git repo for validation, or via a Transparency log) to maintain integrity.

The security model doesn’t change - this party could sign away your land ownership already. You don’t need to trust an arbitrary blockchain, or mining economics or get all land owners to buy multisig hardware wallets.
Absolutely a huge fan of this Colin! Keep up the great work man!!
And in SF there are multiple places literally giving free food and groceries. That’s not the issue at all.
It is AI generated, but not a "deepfake" → a deepfake intends on using AI to impersonate a particular person.
Just my guess, the folks creating the show probably do not care too much. The vast majority of people are going to be happy with the production while the hardcore fans, or those with fond memories who've spent a lifetime waiting, are going to be disappointed a la Star Wars sequels.
The “west” comprises 3-4 entire continents (3 if you count South America) and over a billion people. The US alone accounts for 35% of the entire worlds military expenditure. There will never come a day, at least until man has colonized other worlds or the political and cultural map of the world is completely unrecognizable, when the “west,” taken as a whole, is geopolitically irrelevant.

This is like saying Asia will be geopolitically irrelevant. It just can’t happen due to how much of the Earths landmass and resources it takes up.
This is an awesome idea! I’ve been thinking about doing something similar in the hot sauce area. Any lessons/takeaways? Would love to know how you got your first customers.
It's not clear from your comment which is better?
Entering the working world does not mean you have to give up diving deeply into new topics!
This is a crazy concept, it would seem to imply that any attempt to increase wages ever would destroy the economy, but what remains is barbarism and serfdom. There's a market in labor just as there is a market in goods (though the former is a market in human beings). If the supply of labor is low, then (under many economic conditions)* raising wages to increase the number of workers willing to do unpleasant jobs is part of the logic of markets. It's a two way street.

* An example of a condition where it might not apply is if everyone were already perfectly sorted into their preferred jobs and there was no remaining pool to encourage new people to become workers from. Then raising wages wouldn't affect the sorting of the economy other than to transfer money from capital to labor (which is a good thing anyway in our age of inequality). I highly doubt we are there.
I've started a free education blog on web-scraping: https://scrapecrow.com/

Web-scraping and reverse-engineering is such a brilliant subject in my opinion and there's an unsurprising lack of resource in this area as it's a rather secretive medium - as a good scraping/reverse engineering strategy is often considered to be a business secret.

It started off as a need to not repeat myself on stackoverflow. Web-scraping is a common question subject and the same questions would be asked over and over again. I couldn't find explicit resources available so I wrote them myself!
Now I'd often answer question with specifics and point to full article for further reading which people seem to appreciate and come back with follow ups less often.

I'm still working out the kinks - especially pacing, brevity and editing - though it has been a really enjoyable ride so far. Finally as a backend engineer it finally got me to get over the front-end hump. I've learned some pretty css and general web building - it's often frustrating but surprisingly fun!
International democracy is just what it denotes on the name, applying democracy principles between nations.

As the first step, let's make sure everyone goes through UN for any cross national conflict. Like if US unilaterally invade Iraq, US should be sanctioned according to some agreed upon rules. Etc etc.

When you say UN works because of US support, that's a problem. UN needs to hold actual power, not at the mercy of a few super powers.

One step to allow UN actual power, is to grant UN the ability to draft financial resources from member nations, and let UN invest on the behalf of all people on earth.
In modern days - most of them. It takes years and years to get to scientific breakthrough discoveries.
I do that frequently on my desktop to scroll webpages. However, with a touchpad, there’s a gesture for that (tm)…
> Fussing over my consumer choices is penny-wise and pound foolish, and the fossil fuel industry and other polluters bank on convincing consumers

And yet, aggregating over the populace, this mindset that "my choices are negligible (it's the non-climate-change-voting populace's consumption that's the problem), and it's penny-wise and pound foolish to focus on my choices" is actually penny-foolish and pound foolish. You (and I) are in fact yet another consumer they've convinced that our choices are "negligible".
> After years of struggling with ghost clicks, randomly dragged icons, poor palm rejection, and generally ever worsening MacBook trackpads, I didn’t want to deal with software features trying to compensate for a trackpad’s lack of physical features.

After reading this i feel like the author is in a different universe than the one i'm in. I've had 0 of those issues with mac trackpads.
This is such a great post, I'm surprised it doesn't have more traction but maybe people aren't into reading longform plain text.

"spamming Internet users at scale requires a lot of parallel activity, after all. If those processes can be segregated so that all siblings of any given core run processes from the same customer, we can be spared the gruesome prospect of one spammer stealing another's target list — or somebody else's private keys."
The price is probably similar to what the employer pays. It just gets hidden because everyone only pays attention to what comes out of their paycheck. I know a past employer paid $2000 for me per pay period.

Health insurance is bullshit obviously. the costs are hidden and definitely suppress what our wages could be. A government solution would be hard pressed to be worse.
I guess I'd ask why I should care about that particular wrinkle of vote casting. I took the time to go read up on state ballot harvesting laws, and there's essentially no apparent correlation between state parties and ballot collection laws. I learned that ballot collection is kind of a big deal for Native Americans (who rely on collectors for far-flung reservations, where otherwise getting to a sanctioned ballot box might involve a multiple-hour drive) and for elderly voters in assisted living homes. There seems to be no studied connection between lax collection laws and incidence of fraud.

Why do you care about this? I'm asking sincerely; I don't get it. I know about the Bladen County thing in NC (Bladen County was the subject of the last Serial podcast) --- again, that was Republican election fraud. But my reaction to that isn't that we should make it harder for people to cast ballots.
Disclaimer: though I think they _would_ be something I’d enjoy, I’ve for some reason never read the books.

I’m pretty sure Seldon being wrong about the smaller things is going to be a recurring thing in the series. People just _think_ he can predict them. He seems to too, despite knowing rationally that he cannot (he’s stated that numerous times).

The theme of the Seldon plot seems to be: is Seldon predicting things, or causing them? Are his actions choices that are driving events, is he being forced into his role by fate (or math), or is everything he does irrelevant? Is the very fact that he, and we, are confused about this proof that the questions don’t even make sense? Can some of all these contradicting things be true at the same time?

Might it be true that he is _both_ predicting events and driving them? Wouldn’t that mean that one of these ideas is false?
The touchpad works like magic for me, can't see go back to the window trackpad anymore. I also don't like the mouse, my hand hurts after using it few hours.
Yes, part-time PhD's are pretty common in Europe. They also commonly take 3-4 years instead of 6...
I want this post on a throw pillow, it's so good.

I would add another criterion for picking when you want the stability of an expert over the upside/cheapness of a talented amateur: do you choose your problems or do your problem choose you?

Startups are the ultimate example of choosing your problem, you try to search for one piece of low hanging fruit and build from there. If it's really low hanging fruit, a very motivated person can pick it.

Government is the opposite. The Department of X has to deal with every X problem as they come up, if it's too hard they need to get better. They can't pivot (while remaining true to their mission, obviously governments fail in critical situations all the time).

The stakes of a startup could be extremely high, but they're allowed to fail fast and move on with a clean conscience.
I don't know if it is documented or not but I would swear Asimov had aphantasia. When I was younger reading him was a revelation after getting bogged down in long winded books full of visual description which just felt like needless baggage to me.

There isn't a lot of imagery described in his books (not that I would see it anyway) but that doesn't mean it couldn't be presented visually while keeping to the spirit, just that Asimov probably couldn't have done it. Good writers and directors could.

If given the Villeneuve or Kubrick treatment it might be very different.
I used to struggle with RSI issues until I stopped using a laptop keyboard and touchpad and switched to an ergonomic mouse and keyboard. My hands are too big for even a 15" laptop, so switching between keyboard and touchpad required uncomfortable wrist motion. I also worked on a lot of things that required clicking around UI's (think 3D/CAD/Games) where the speed of action with a mouse was far higher than with a touchpad.

All goes to show that ergonomics are somewhat subjective, and there's no best solution that fits everyone.
Take the top 1% of successful phd students. Does your statement apply equally to them? What about the 0.01%?
All adjectives precede nouns in English. Brown the university is still an adjective in this sense.

There's really nothing to A/B test here. We, especially the media, don't refer to people as Brown the color.
Managing an apartment complex (pro-bono) alongside a tech job. In Bangalore, it is normal to have a committee of apartment owners who oversee the operations, set up rules for residents, take up mini-projects for efficiency / beautification /long term maintenance and also manage the finances. This committee operates for a year and then passes on the reins to the next committee.

Our apartment complex has 850 apartments. This scale has interesting challenges:

- Communication (mostly Whatsapp, sometimes email) : how residents with different language abilities understand/misunderstand instructions and announcements

- Managing outages of electricity, water, lifts for maintenance ( Childrens exams, residents with medical conditions, work from home)

- Employee politics and the need to break up unholy alliances ( e.g. Employee tie-up with particular vendor, some employees creating emergencies so that some large expenses are quickly approved, one group purposely slowing down a diligent employee)

From a tech perspective, it's the machinery and equipment that is interesting

- distribution of water, electricity, gas

- Sewage treatment plant

Since ours is a 10+ year old apartment complex, almost all of the equipment needs some work and there are frequent failures. It requires the committee to understand and make decisions about quick fixes vs long term , validate costs of fixing and manage inconvenience caused by outages.

4 months in, this has been a great experience outside of the usual tech company issues :)