skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see that. You can spend more on services without buying more.

Examples I could use -

A dog walker for an extra round of exercise to my dog; a personal trainer, physical therapist of some kind or nutricionist, just to keep tabs on my health even if not "necessary" (as in, not in response to a problem or medical request); a tutor for a tour and introduction to a hobby that I always thought was interesting (sculpting plasticine figurines) but really never knew where to start, etc.

I guess it can be argued that a few hours of any of these would do the average person much better than "upgrading" a perfectly functional appliance or dinner table
It's not guaranteed, but based on historical average returns for the stock market we frequently assume ~7% growth - ~3% inflation = 4% as the amount you can take out each year indefinitely while your inflation-adjusted principle stays constant.

Looking around, a lot of places[0][1][2] are using 10% growth - 3% inflation, so I guess the 4% is the more conservative estimate.

[0] https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/investing/average-stock-m...
[1] https://www.sofi.com/learn/content/average-stock-market-retu...
[2] https://www.fool.com/investing/how-to-invest/stocks/average-...
If we gave aliens pictures of Baltimore and Singapore which would they pick as the dystopia?
Congratulations on the launch Ross & Ryan! As an engineer and occasional entrepreneur I admittedly struggle with “selling” and have always viewed it as an ad hoc effort. The structured, repeatable process you describe appeals to me quite a bit.

I’m curious what insights you’ve had so far into the customer’s willingness to sign into the product and engage with the process?
Trump wasn't some random person though--he had a huge financial and social network before he became notorious in politics on Twitter. It does not follow that every influencer starts out as a random person at all.
What OP is trying to say is that a disproportionate amount of effort is spent on a rather narrow attack vector and it’s still not 100% secure anyway. The people creating these procedures had goals but good UX was not one of them and definitely not the highest priority.
Developing a QML Keypad with TDD
The article mentions that the man preferred treatment and his choice of meds from private insurance that eventually ran out. I know the UK has a public health system, that was the system that he died in.
I'm curious if anybody else is noticing how G is tracing the same paths AOL once did.
Honest question from someone completely oblivious to AMP. What problem was AMP trying to solve? "Make websites load faster" is a buzzword-flag to me, and it's not really explained in the wikipedia article [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Mobile_Pages
Thanks! I've found other sites for folks doing aqua-bonsai... I'm not taking it too seriously, at this point. It's easier for me than dirt, because I can tell at a glance if my poor plant needs water... oh dear, it does... but the fine roots didn't dry out thanks to capillary force.

Weird thing about bonsai, the goal isn't to maximize... more like, I wanna just fail at killing the thing.
https://sriramsami.com/feed.xml
I took 3 weeks vacation already this year. Considering the deadlines on my current projects, I am afraid this is not an option.
I would argue that just because the source code is available, that doesn't mean the project is in the spirit of free software or respects users.

Imagine if curl just refused to download specific websites. Or if golang refused to compile code at all if it detected certain words in comments.

Sure, yeah, these would be still free software given that the source code is available to edit to one's liking. But it's really not in the spirit of free software & user freedom to impose arbitrary things like this. The free software / open source landscape would be incredibly irritating to work with in general if this sort of hostile attitude to downstream users prevailed.
I really liked AMP as a client side framework, and I think it had a lot going for it in terms of guiding you into a performant experience with good UX for mobile devices. Plus, the restrictions on floating elements and third party JavaScript have done a ton to improve ad quality on mobile web. I don't think we get there without Google or another similarly-powerful browser/aggregator coalition really working together to provide the right incentives to publishers.
Probably because it was top secret.
My understanding is there are cancer cells in all adults. They are constantly killed off and never develop into tumors or anything of significance until … they do in some people.

So to say we are not equipped to fight them is incorrect.
It's the most common saturated fatty acid. So this isn't just about palm oil, this is about saturated fats causing cancer.
Openstore just has to keep the facade going long enough to exit. Perhaps even quick enough to ride the pandemic demand train.
Simple technique to train your focus
I agree much. Having a purpose in life can guide decisions. I believe life extends far beyond mortality, and what we become (virtues acquired, like honesty & kindness, learning) and our service to others are important. Edit: and earning an honest living to serve others and support a family is also honorable and good.

There were some other HN discussions where I commented in more detail, and the containing discussions also have interesting comments. (And maybe I'm a cataloguing personality, and like these ideas...):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22129921

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23452651

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28867645

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23553508 (this one has a bunch of HN links to discussions on internal motivation)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19708786
Just priming everybody for the next manufactured crisis.
Thanks for sharing. It's hard to judge the quality of most of these courses, but I appreciate the link.
AMP pages being hosted by Google is a pretty big problem as well, though. In my opinion a step in the wrong direction of the centralization of the internet.
> American people

It's public knowledge that there always was been an asterisk on "people" from the very beginning, and who it encompasses is always shifting. A lot of dismay comes from people learning that the government (any arm) of the day doesn't include them in this group[1].

1. "He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting."
I was very hesitant about Twitter -- but I've had wonderful little micro-interactions with the likes of Nassim Nicholas Taleb, MC Hammer, Killer Mike, Jean Grae and Tucker Max to pretty much name all the cool and famous ones. Not that fame is the greatest thing in the world to chase, but this is, like, EXACTLY the level of interaction I want with them, and probably the same for them with me.

If we could somehow port this "reach" through a thing like Mastodon, that would be amazing.
> collaboratively investing so that everyone benefits and Europe can build its own Tech industry and have some independence from the US.

So you'll end-up having devs on the payroll instead of license fees.

Also, you'll need to compete with the US for the best devs to work on your platform now that you are effectively building a competitor.
One day you're family, next day you're on the street. Never treat company too intimately. If money is tight everyone becomes a waste product. I'm pretty sure the writer did the best he could but in the end it wasn't good enough for some reason. I don't think his ability or performance had much to do with it. I felt kind of similar when at some point I got fired and got told management made a mistake in calculating some financials. ** happens. Take a walk, make an attempt to travel, procrastinate a bit. Everyone's got an agenda so don't treat those exit interviews and last final words too much to heart.
It is well organized but basically a box ticking exercise (corporate values) with what I think are not very realistic or even creative whiteboard exercises. Everyone I've interacted with was very respectful but it's obvious that they go through tons of developers and therefore conducting an insane amount of interviews aimed at minimizing false positive hires. Not very inspiring, that's all I meant.
Hubble Telescope has completed this year's grand tour of the outer solar system
What does Kasparov know about Mob Mentality and Groupthink more than anyone else?
Given the history of OpenAI how can they be trusted?
Since the advent of worldwide social media, a cacophony of voices have come out to shame western countries.

"How dare you! Look at your awful selves first, Americans / Europeans / Cowboys!"

I'm making a caricature here, but you get my point.

We're constantly being accused of being xenophobic, racist, imperialist, etc. Our prideful "Western thought" is arrogant.

These accusals are a constant assault on our nationalistic sense of shared identity and worth. The idea that no matter where we came from, that this is a melting pot. One where we admire rugged individualism and freedoms, and have a sense that if we work smart and hard and try our luck enough times, we will succeed.

There's an endless barrage of voices telling us we're horrible. It's starting to seep into the youth and shape their worldview. Most of this is coming from the outside.

The thing is, we know that there are a lot of broken things. We're working on it. Democracy is a work in progress. To quote Snowden, it's "a direction". Every new year is better.

America was never going to have a monopoly on power. Globalism accelerated Asia's rise to our level within just a generation, and now we have to work much harder to stay at par. When we praise our system and decry others, know that we're not angry about this situation.

Other countries are more appealing now as a result of this great averaging out of wealth and productivity. But the rapid increase in quality of life will taper off and begin to look just like America. We're not in decline - the world is catching up.

But even amongst equals, we Americans have a pretty good idea of the shape of the world we want. We want liberty, freedom of speech, and a subservient government. We want the opportunity to beat anyone. To not have our government stand in the way as a cabal. We want to swear at our leaders and draw funny cartoons of them without having to worry about our safety. We want to vote them in and out and investigate them when they do wrong. Because sometimes we think we know better, but even if not, it's what we think we deserve.

And before you raise Singapore on a pedestal above us, please realize that they kill people for minor drug possession [1]. I'm incredibly glad we don't emulate this model. It's not for us. (We do bad enough already...)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_(Singapore...
If I were working in a lab I’d think it was hilarious to write “smallpox” on random bottles. Probably good that I work in software and not biology.
Here's what makes a "good" blog (of any kind) in my book:

- this is how we did what we did

- this is why you need to think about this thing, and here's a way (or ways) to think about it

- I got really bored, and did this thing - have at, Intarwebs

- here's something that I tried that didn't work, and I wish I knew why, or here is why (at least in this use case)
That’s interesting. How does compiler know that some piece of code is a removable check?
Cancer is alive.

That's so weird.

Some part of you decided to go in a different direction. You're not advanced enough to support both. The strain on resources starves you both.

Kind of like a cannibal parasite. That sure sounds like a death metal band.
Well Canada is the apex of civilization once they disbar "evil chinese billionaires" from buying all real estate in Toronto :-)
> TL;DR: this is slightly leaky, but is it really any different to Chrome's default config loading up Google as a default homepage? Or Firefox loading up Mozilla.org? Or Thunderbird loading up Thunderbird.org? Eitherway, we'll fix the behaviour, but PLEASE understand that this is a million miles away from the bogus "central authority can have influence on another server" smear from the original post.

I understand the whole "central server" stuff is bogus.

However, I consider the forced homepage opens every browser seems to do today an invasion of my privacy, especially with the way these pages often includes trackers. Mozilla is especially bad at this; I've had to disable checkboxes on all my devices to make sure I don't get their stupid VPN ad, which is tracked with Google analytics and which addons can't properly touch because certain Mozilla domains are exempt from addons (rightfully so!).

Google knows when I open Thunderbird. Google knows when I update Firefox. Google knows when I do anything in Chrome. Microsoft tracks even more than Facebook when I accidentally open Edge because I was foolish enough to click on a help icon in Windows 11. Element knows when I log in to Matrix. All of this data collection is completely unnecessary, and while this comes from a sick hunger for data in Mozilla's/Google's/Microsoft's cases and a configuration quirk in Element's case, it's still a worrying development in my opinion.

I know you folks are working hard to fix things like these and I originally wanted to call balogne on the claims several people made in these threads, but I couldn't because their observations about the identity server were right (though their conclusions were strongly overstated).

I'm glad that this is on your radar and I'll happily keep using Matrix while this is being fixed in the background, so don't get me wrong here. I love Matrix and the possibilities it represents, and I hope the clients and features will continue maturing so that I can recommend my friends and family to get it.
What are your long term objectives? What are your short term ones? Have you tried career counseling or coaching?

It`s all about where you want to go. Then when you reach there, you can move to jobs where you can do the same but for more money or for more interesting conditions.

For example: a friend of mine wanted to be an engineering manager. She worked for 10 years with this objective in mind. At year 8 she become one, but in a sucky place. Now at year 10 she is still an engineering manager but in a place that pays more. Her next objective is to find an engineering manager position with both good pay and interesting work.
> What does "up to date" even mean in this context? It's not like there is a new version of Kmail every day. Why do you care if your version is a bit older?

Honestly, anything that a developer has pushed. Sometimes I want an SVN build of DOSBox or need a bleeding edge feature of some tool I use all the time. On Windows, this is simply a matter of downloading a binary, but by and large Linux software doesn't work that way. Distros expect that you will use whatever version of a package they have seen fit to grace you with, or you compile from source like it is 1975.

It is not unreasonable or unrealistic to ask for a stable platform upon which one can run bleeding edge applications, yet this remains painful on Linux Desktop.
Interesting you mention B2C since I honestly wasn't imagining that being a use case when we started this. But have had a handful of startups reach out about using it for that reason despite the heavy B2B messaging so could be onto something there. What's the status quo for this on the B2C side??
Foundations of Reversible Computation
Absolutely sickening that this guy was worshiped as a COVID-19 expert in liberal media. Bill Gates was pretty close to Epstein as well, who was obsessed with eugenics.
The idea was that if you (British) had a (American) prisoner, you would release him in exchange for another (British) prisoner and - viceversa - if you (American) had a (British) prisoner you would release it in exchnage for a (American) prisoner.

A simple exchange.

The Americans had not the means (jails/prisons) to keep the prisoners in, so (evidently initially agreed with the British or anyway a comnmon at the time rule of honour in war times) they had the prisoner sign this "parole" document which amounted to an admission that the person had been captured in an action of war and that he was "virtually" a prisoner of the opposite army, even if actually set free, all in all not much different from a "I owe you ..." paper.

So, in theory, one parole=one prisoner, and periodically the British and the American would settle the balance by releasing prisoners (in exchange for a same amount of prisoners or paroles).

That until the British (to the utter Benjamin Franklin incredulity/astonishment) decided unilaterally that the "parole" was nothing but a piece of paper.

In the letter Franklin says that he has 500 paroles (up to then "worth" 500 prisoners) that suddenly were worth nothing.
What does it have to do with the subject even if he did? He is not writing about nft's?
I don't see what json gets you that a standard delimited tag didn't get. Such that org's footnote tags already work well here.

Or just... Hyperlinks in general. What would you use json to encode that https://foo/baz shouldn't already handle? And, if you ack that links are already links, the standard of either [display](link) or [[display][link]] seems as nice as json could possibly get.
If you're planning to live on your investments' income generation, and nothing else, putting them all (and arguably any) in the stock market could be catastrophic.

One minor downturn for that last just a few months, and you have zero income.

IMO, "US$1M nest egg, live on proceeds" requires guaranteed income, and more or less excludes speculative investment.

I appreciate that others opinions on this may vary.
I think I/O isolation will be part of a solution. I'm interested to see how Deno handles that.
Saturday Night’s All Right: The invention of payday
If palm oil killed cancer cells, would that make it appealing and safe to eat?

If errantly reproducing cells can use a substance, it must be bad: is that the reasoning here?

I would imagine that a source of water also favors tumor expansion. Cut a tumor off H2O and it will shrivel and die.
$1M is certainly not wealthy in a first world country.

For example it it is not enough to retire when older and live a moderate lifestyle in New Zealand.

Firstly, you need to own an average home in the city you live in. Don’t move away from your friends. Don’t live in a dangerous suburb. I live in Christchurch where I was born, median house price: $693,000 (Wellington and Auckland are a lot more expensive).

Secondly, you need residual income from investments. New Zealand pays superannuation to everyone that reaches retirement age*, but it is not enough to keep your home warm or go to a café every day.

The figure I aim for is NZD2M. $1M buys a median home in a desirable suburb (7 suburbs in Christchurch have a median price over 1M), and $1M is left to invest. I am middle aged: the amount you need to aim for goes up drastically if: you are younger, you live in an expensive city, you live in an expensive country.

NZD2M gets a comfortable retirement at present. It definitely doesn’t get a “wealthy” retirement (no holiday homes, no wealthy holidays, no flash yacht).

* retirement age is currently 65, but is likely to be increased because that is unaffordable for the country as it currently is economically.
Stratospheric aerosol injection for climate change
Starting out with deception is a highly effective way to be dismissed out of hand.

With a name like that you would think it was an emacs major mode for TeX. People see right away it is being disingenous and they run away, they don’t walk. As our last president said of the 737 MAX, REBRAND!
You're telling the system to "take this action"

The system needs to respond with whether or not it has been made so

In your example, the proper response from `resize 500G file` is `file is 500G`, or `cannot resize file`
Is this the same as 3-MPCD? basically any hydrogenated oils would have this, seeing this popping up recently
The first example cites what I guess is an attempted cancellation of Peter Thiel:

> In his recent book “The Contrarian,” journalist Max Chafkin assigns an ideology to Mr. Thiel, then defines it as “fascist” and even tries to blame this concocted “Thielism” for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. There is little doubt that the book would never have come to be had Mr. Thiel not supported Donald Trump in 2016.

I mean, OK. I guess it's probably unfair. But... to cite this kind of thing as an example of censorious excess and the decline of society and not at least nod to Thiel's own successful cancellation and destruction of Gawker media seems... logically suspect.

I mean, who is it not OK to destroy for ideological reasons and who is fair game?
I'm confused. The Content Guidelines (in my skimming) reveal only 9 prohibited categories: Hate, Harassment, Violence, Self-Harm, Adult, Political, Spam, Deception and Malware. Am I missing something?
The basic question is whether you can force forfeiture of an innocent receiver of a tainted bill. You can always legally do this

Depends on the jurisdiction. US, probably. France, probably not.

This cost is most minimal when all transactions already occur electronically

Tracking bills through ATMs is picking up as ATMs add "recycling", where received bills can later be dispensed to another customer. That requires much better scanning of bills. Serial number recording is a by-product of counterfeit detection and bill-damage detection. So the hardware and software come standard.
Are there any success stories of people becoming a mentor to someone because of a cold email? That sounds like a lot to ask for considering how much time it takes to mentor.
I suspect the reason for that is nobody ever tried a Linux deployment as big as that, so the tooling to manage it simply didn't exist.
We tried Tesla's 'full self-driving.' Here's what happened
In the US we do have something like a runoff. We have primary elections and then general elections. It's not quite the same thing, but neither is it the same as plain FPTP.

The American system acknowledges the fact that there are long-term stable coalitions. Even if you went to a single election with a runoff, you're going to end up with similar dynamics. Most of the candidates will say, "If I'm your first choice, your second choice should be that other guy who is in my coalition and believes most of the same things that I do."

There may well be other candidates on the ballot, but they'll usually find themselves unable to win without a coalition to present a slate of candidates. They're in exactly the same position as "third party" candidates already are.

The systems aren't identical and don't produce identical outcomes, but they're a lot closer than I think people make it out to be. A simple procedural change isn't going to fix what's wrong with the American body politic.

There is no perfect tiny party out there with all the right answers that everybody would agree with if only the two main parties would just get out of the way. That is what each of hundreds of tiny parties tell themselves. And that's why there's really no such thing as a "third party". Really, there are hundreds of "hundredth parties" who disagree with each other as much as they disagree with the two main parties, because they haven't put forth the effort of hammering out and nurturing the uneasy coalitions that go into making a dominant party.
And that’s not even discussing the fact that Google penalized non-Google ads on AMP.

https://mobile.twitter.com/simonw/status/1451947624513167363
You could always put a vial labeled "smallpox" in the break-room fridge. But I have a feeling you will end up jobless, if not incarcerated, as a result. YMMV.