skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about "not caring", but most understand that a value system that assumes we must eliminate suffering whenever possible leads to terrible, dysfunctional, hedonistic societies that create a lot of harm.

In the same way, creating unnecessary suffering also creates sadistic societies that lead to a lot of harm.

So there is a golden mean in which a natural amount of suffering is recognized as the price of life - we will all suffer and die, but in exchange we can also live -- and people have historically been mature enough to accept that and decide the combo of life+suffering as better than the combo no-life+no-suffering.

Specifically for the case of livestock, none of those animals would have been born if they were not going to be eaten, so for humanely raised animals, the suffering imposed on the animal when the farmer sends it to slaughter is not so great as to outweigh the life given to the animal by the same farmer. This can be viewed as the definition of humane animal husbandry.

Of course there is a lot of animal husbandry that is not humane and this type of animal husbandry is unethical. That's why there is a big movement for full pasture-raised beef and grass fed beef without hormones, as well as pasture-raised chicken, etc.

Similarly for the hunter, killing the octopus or salmon or deer is not worse than some other animal doing the same or the animal dying of some other cause, so there is not a net increase in suffering for the animal's life simply because a human eats it as opposed to some other animal eating it.

This of course depends on the ecological system being in balance. Killing an animal takes away one meal from its predators but also saves the lives of its prey. An ecological system is in a steady state when everything eaten is replaced so again suffering is the price of life within a balanced ecology, and that ecology includes human hunters.

By the same token, overfishing or overhunting that drives animals to extinction is also not humane, while hunting and fishing that does not is humane.

By the way this is why vegetarianism in western societies is primarily practiced by younger people who feel as if they are immortal and aren't really faced with the understanding that everything in life must be paid for with suffering and death. They view suffering as strange.

Others do not, and that's the dividing line. It's not that people don't care, they just aren't convinced that hedonism is a basis for a healthy society and they look for a wiser, more balanced ethical system that values life with suffering, and that includes the life of animals hunted or raised for food.
Except for SMS, #2 should work fine for all of those uses. And the reason you'd need a different measure for SMS is because SMS is bad.

And half the things on your list are just places that Unicode itself might fail, regardless of what the length is? That has nothing to do with how you count, because the number you get won't matter.
It seems quite a bit of your writings are being murdered.

But, on point: "Meaningful is a relative concept, and I sincerely hope people in this thread don’t fall in a trap of comparing what they’re doing so what others are or are not doing."

I almost did. I've been feeling like I need to keep on grinding and moving on to more and more lustrous work, for some reason. Perhaps its to feel like I'm not "falling behind" in the "pack?" Perhaps I simply have too much time to ruminate, and not enough other tasks and hobbies to "round out" my life. Nonetheless, I've caught myself. Thank you.

With age, I'm adopting your point of view: work is simply to live. If it's work you're interested in and has tolerable-to-good coworkers, all the better. If not, well that leaves me to find "meaning" elsewhere/some other source of the "everything is on track" emotion.

I think we're all insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Our work simply makes no difference in the world, and serves only to keep the commerce machine churning -- till we die. In a previous time this notion would've been harrowing, but now it has no weight. That's simply life.

A good friend, through years of soul-searching, has taken to "altruism" via local non-profits and just being a good person to those within his personal sphere. Something about it rings of depth and goodness, in comparison to the usual and shallow bombast that rings empty from all those spouting about "revolutionizing," "changing the status quo," and "making the world a better place."

I feel the latter is simply done for the self, while the former is truly a self-sacrificing act. Perhaps being a decent human being towards those around you is the most meaningful thing you can ever do. It certainly doesn't have the manic high of "I'm doing something important, something impactful, and something BIG!" It's a mellow and tranquil feeling -- one too weak to get high off of. So why does he go through with it? I think its because he's purposefully developed a moral fiber. It's not grand, nor does it excite, but it's coming to be one of the only aspects I truly respect in others.

Achievement, accomplishment, importance, prestige, and so on, is all just grift in the end. A massaging of reality to make others perceive you in a different light so your ego/self-worth/emotional need is satisfied. Whereas a detached decency towards one's fellow man is not so.
That's an inspiring product you got there. I love the simple concept of building a good interface for something that doesn't have one. Are you using WebUSB or something to interact directly with the printer?
The NixOS way of doing things (a layer on top of plain config files) is inevitable once configuration management is taken seriously: one needs to be able to merge configuration values from multiple source files; for example, a generic role plus some more machine-specific role, working together to produce one systemd unit or file in /etc. The modules in nixpkgs effectively make it possible to combine configuration values to produce most of the config files that Linux applications want.

If one weren't using NixOS to do it, it would be done with your own templates and configuration management, and probably without the huge advantage of being able to rebuild a whole immutable system without leftovers from prior configurations.
mRNA vaccines are almost the opposite of what vaccines are supposed to do. Instead of building immunity in a society, it generates what is needed to stop the spread. The danger here is that the natural immunity to new diseases will disappear on the long term.
Perhabs talk to your therapist about ketamine?
(little bit confused by your first sentence, I definitely do not support shooting people for stealing ones cat converter, just for clarification)

So if the police are useless and you are beholden to this powerful and highly organized pack of thieves, you think going out there and shooting them is going to make your life any better? What happens if you don't 'get' them all and now you're in a shootout with multiple armed opponents? What about the rest of their organization, reckon they will let you get away with it? Personally, I'd rather have my car temporarily damaged.

What can an average citizen do about their safety net in the US? Probably a whole shitload, anywhere from political participation, union involvement, volunteering, voting for politicians that support a better safety net.
Most PostGraphile projects have two or three PostgreSQL roles total, and that can support millions of application users. This is such a common misconception that we created an infosheet about it: https://learn.graphile.org/docs/PostgreSQL_Row_Level_Securit...
The only thing secrecy would take care of is why we are missing information. If you rely on the absence of info to contradict a theory, without taking this variable into account, then you will come to a weakly supported conclusion.

A tricky thing about secrecy is that it exists to reduce clarity. If you had another sensitive way of gathering information (an insider, for example) you would not want an attacker to draw that conclusion by just sharing everything, by default. You will want to keep this motivation secret as well. Embarrassing the enemy has the lowest yield.
It's common knowledge that you use the keyword "golang" when searching for something related to Go
You can find charities that help the homeless. They'd be happy to get the equivalent of $5 a week from you. There are sites that rate charities on how much goes to the intended beneficiaries v. how much goes to overhead, for example https://www.charitywatch.org/top-rated-charities . I suppose that some quite effective local charities might be too small to be rated by such sites, though.
Yes, I remember all these :)

I recall also using 1x1 transparent gif for advertising purposes but can't recall exactly why.

Also using curved transparent gif images to give a rounded corner effect on elements using table cells for the corners. Very tedious and also not supported by IE at the time, had to use some funky IE workaround. Now solved by border-radius.

Also using uppercase for all html elements <TABLE> <FONT> etc. I think it was part of XHTML(?) can't recall. We would also run all our pages through an XHTML validator to check for syntax issues.

Also using flash swf files to enable custom fonts. There was some really genius workarounds in those days to implement features we now take (somewhat) for granted.
> either let it go or find some other way.

With Django as soon as I have anything to do with a database I seem to hit this with the ORM. So I start working around it. Next thing you know it all seems to fall apart because of how coupled the rest of the application is to Django's assumptions about views and entities in the DB.

So "You gave up instead of reading the docs.": I go back to flask, or recently FastApi where you have to figure your schemas and access patterns out for yourself in advance instead of building thorough and deep knowledge on how to deactivate parts of Django when they become redundant. Opinion my own, results may vary, IANA your dev, etc
I’ll offer food but never cash. In Seattle, we have professional homeless people who do have proper housing. And the state has offices near Cap Hill area where they’ll literally give you decent cash with practically no background check. There are plenty of resources available, though many of these folks are just needing cash for their drug addiction. And hey, we have needle swap programs now too, and you can shoot up in public, live on public school grounds, and even expose yourself in public in front of children. I just don’t hand cash out because it feels like we’re only encouraging or enabling and not really helping these people.
Retail needs sales days to generate deals/content/buzz around, give them a reason to advertise to/ contact customers. It doesn’t really matter what the event ends up being called, they just jump on whatever is already associated with sales days.
that's MBR mode. If you boot Linux in UEFI mode, it will write the correct bits of info.

I have generally not seen a non-UEFI bios or computer in the past 6-7 years. So you should be fine with UEFI.

Again, for some reason Linux installers scare you into using MBR mode. Its unnecessary now.
I read an interesting article about squid once. Squid have super soft bodies but hard beaks, and they catch and devour prey that is similar to or even tougher than themselves in texture. Why don’t their beaks rip off?

Long story short, there is a gradient in flesh texture from their bodies to their beaks- there’s no clear line where the body ends and the beak begins.

I always thought that was fascinating.
I end up spending more time writing the CSS than the Django...
I like jokes but all jokes aside Jordan Peterson’s material helped me get off of opiates
I for one ... welcome the upgrade.
Can you please expand on how mRNA vaccines are doing the opposite of building immunity in society? I don't really grasp this leap of logic in your argument, mRNA vaccines are just another way to trigger an immune response as far as I understand it.
I’m not sure if it is real hypercorrection (or even attempted correction) or a conscious adoption of an available model pronunciation of plural nouns with similar spelling as a tool to distinguish the plural noun from the verb.

Though, in either case, it has the danger of suggesting the plural form of the hypothetical word “processee” (from processor, and by analogy to pairs like lessor/lessee), so, “things that are processed”.
Can I use this on my full codebase all at once, without inserting "from beartype import beartype" into each file and decorating every single function and method?
really ? which laptop is this ? i generally maintain a do-not-buy list of laptops that are bad like this.

FYI- I had a Dell XPS laptop and it would work just fine.
A few in my family sadly, and some friends. There is a certain clarity people have when their days are counted. I wish most us had such clarity. We'd get straight to the point.
Nice! My star-struck story is I had lunch with Peter Weingberger (the W) at Google a couple of years back. Neat guy, smart and opinionated. He was working on VSCode's Go integration, if I remember correctly. Asked him what he would change about AWK if doing it again, he said probably the implicit string concatenation syntax by putting two expressions next to each other.
For CSS and HTML it's still easy and even easier to do so by right clicking and selecting "Inspect element" (something we didn't have back then). I often do that to understand how a page is setup and I don't see what's so hard about it it.

For JS it's a different story of course but it was never that easy to begin with since the code that affects an element can be anywhere.
What always annoys me to no end is when people complain that python type hints are not runtime enforced, when this is quite normal for most statically typed languages: C++, go, rust.

Python already had runtime type checking mechanisms and the use of these does inform the behavior of static type checkers for python like mypy.

All that being said, Beartype is really nifty and seems quite useful.
Not really. We simply classify animals by how much we can relate to them. Seals, sheep, dogs, etc. are cute. Lobsters, not so much. Most insects even less so. To the point where we are reluctant to eat them even though they are perfectly nutritious. They all have nervous systems, pain reflexes, etc.

A counter argument is that absolutely everything in nature at some point dies and it tends to be unpleasant. Dying of old age, surrounded by and cared for by loved ones is kind of really unusual for most things that live. Being mauled to death by some inconsiderate predator is much more common. Whether that's us or some other predator does not really matter all that much. The end result is the same.

Lobsters don't generally die of old age; they get nibbled on by predators as soon as they stop being able to defend themselves against that sort of thing (hence the claws). Same with most other things we eat. Most grazing cattle descends from animals that move around in herds that will have the weaker/older animals picked off by predators. Nature can be cruel and we're part of nature.

So, my admittedly simplistic reasoning is that if you eat meat and have some respect for what you are eating and how it lived and was killed, it's fine. The animal you are eating would have died no matter what at some point and probably not in a way that is appreciably better and potentially much worse. Additionally with most farm animals you can make the point that it would not even have existed if it wasn't for the fact that we were going to eat the animal. We've literally created species and subspecies of animals that are optimal for breeding and farming that would not stand much chance surviving in the wild. These species would likely go extinct if we'd stop breeding them. A consequence of us being less cruel by not eating certain animals might cause that entire species to stop existing. There's some food for thought.

So catching a lobster in the wild and then eating it is fine. But maybe give it a quick stab with a knife through the brain stem before you throw them in the boiling water. Also, keeping them in the fridge shuts down a lot of their brain activity. It's a decent thing to do. A quick death and a tasty meal. Nothing wrong with that.
I do not have any memories of blissful glee to draw from; but I have a feeling Santa Claus, and all other forms of "magic" to a small child, would be involved in such moments I know I've had -- and there is little that compares to it.

Thank you.
I think if you boot linux installer in UEFI mode, it will write partition hints to the EFI partition.

However, strictly speaking - modern bioses can scan bootable partitions.
I suspect you should take the $120k because that will diversify your risk. Also over the next four years you can bank $$$ in your country risk free, and you get on the salary ladder for a future better job (you often only get paid a bit more than your last job). You already have vested options, so you already have exposure to the upside if your current company wins. The actual likelihood of a future win is low, so value extra options at a low amount.

Make sure you understand preferential shares (VCs get paid first, so company needs a big win for you to get anything), and understand how much you are likely to be diluted over time. Also make sure you understand the benefit of cash now to invest in a home or in funds. My equity is locked up and it truely truely sucks.

The other thing to do is ask for $120k, plus options on top of that. You can’t lose by asking if you have another job lined up. But be prepared to walk, and don’t threaten them with your other job, as I have read multiple times that isn’t a good idea (read advice from clued up people, not me).

Two articles to help you think about it like a VC:

https://avc.com/2021/11/seed-rounds-at-100mm-post-money/

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/the-meeting-that-showed-me...
It's a tough topic to talk about, because I'm not religious myself although I was baptised and went through the motions of a young kid, going to church even through school.

That said my grandfather told me once this saying, and that shocked me to this day as it appears to be valid to me, and he was the most atheist person I've ever known.

One day I was very sad, very very distraught. And I prayed in tears, on my knees, and it somehow materialised. Again I'm not religious, I was lost, powerless and did the last thing I could possibly do. And I think it invoked a certain calm and focus which allowed me to follow through opportunities that led me out of the woods.

Like any beliefs in life, YMMV. But that stuck with me, your prayers don't get lost to the woods.
This is why I feel efforts like Fedora Silverblue might end up becoming mainstream in the years to come rather than esoteric projects like NixOS.

I personally dislike both projects though, when it comes personal desktops. Silverblue is heavily influenced by Flatpak and I don't expect RPMs for GUI applications to survive in Fedora. NixOS needs you to learn Nix which is a pretty steep learning curve and like you said, that knowledge probably won't translate anywhere else. You're probably better off investing your time learning things like shell/python scripting, Ansible, and Docker/podman.
The importance of computers in our daily life
This article seems to sort of pre-suppose that the target is billion dollar business, and describes Miguel's success at building a small enterprise as a failure. It wasn't. It was much more successful than WeWork.

There's also a lie at the core of most of these - having a grand vision, confidence moving mountains. Wework had a vision that they would deliver more than just office space, but when you have a vision for something you actually need to do it. At no point ever was WeWork delivering anything more than office space, and often it was delivering office space in much less efficient ways than it's competitors. Adam had confidence to move mountains- he told stories of becoming a billion dollar company and sure - he did work hard when he wasn't ripping off his own company or buying surf pools. But he wasn't working on a billion dollar company, he was talking about a billion dollar company, whilst working on a small office rental company.

Again with the blitzscaling point - blitzscaling is about scaling up to a global company so you beat your competitors to market. But office rentals aren't a new market, they're an established market. You can't beat Regus to market, they're already here.

And finally - trying to claim that WeWork raised standards for office rentals is just... bullshit. Yes, WeWork made the standard for office rentals getting $2 worth of office for $1 by burning investor capital. That's not innovation. Innovation is when you actually find an economic value. This is the core of the problem, any company can pursue the silicon valley playbook of bullshit, spending too much, and huge egos. The key point with WeWork is at every step of this they did it with a business that fundamentally didn't match what the founder told you it was. It didn't have market power and never could, it didn't have economies of scale and never could, it didn't innovate in regulatory arbitrage. It just did what its competitors were doing, but for more money.
Noam Chomsky has nothing to do with this site [..] This site aims to answer all your questions as Chomsky would, based on how he has answered identical, similar, or even completely different, questions in the past.
Another example is that in Dutch, the bigram 'ij' is considered a single letter, and so at the beginning of a word, both have to be uppercased. See for example the Dutch Wikipedia page for Iceland: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJsland.
There are already too many laws, it's unfortunate that the bureaucracy continues to grow with so little resistance.
'.dev' was bought for the purpose of "never using it" but then Google went and started using it.

So, there's at least _some_ precedent that previously reserved things become unreserved :(
IIUC it means they should at least be killed in a more "humane" way, instead of being boiled alive.
I should've mentioned that I work remotely from a developing country. So $60k is not really a bad deal here. But thanks to the pandemic and the remote work movement, I was able to get a $120k gig.
When did they make Threadripper open source?
I think the analogy for the entropy introduced by a "market" is just the player's attention span and long-term planning skills. In a beginner-intermediate session, the player can and will have highly variable production rates due to an inability to grok the complexity of what they have built. It's of course very similar to programming in that way.

I agree that the game is not trying to be a market simulator however.
> Combined with effect being limited in time (say, for half a year) this would create a steady revenue stream.

Why would the effect be limited? I mean it could be, but it could also cause people to turn green, not sure why we would consider either of those to be likely though without more info.

If you are assuming the effect will be limited because the effect of the covid vaccine is limited, this may be more related to covid than to mRNA vaccines, especially since the non mRNA covid vaccines seems to be less effective than the mRNA vaccines, and not more so. And after all, the mechanism of action for mRNA vaccines and non mRNA vaccines are not fundamentally different, both induce an immune response to a pathogen without giving you a disease.
I've recently learned of Spack and really like its package descriptions. https://spack-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial_pac...

I don't have time to play with it, but really hope that one day someone will write something that effectively "compiles to nix". As far as I can tell, that could be done using the Spack's python descriptions.
OT, but how do you feel C# (w/ ASP and EF, I suppose?) stacks up in productivity and TTM? What's the kind of problem you run into where you start feeling like you're not working on the domain but on side details?