skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd suggest:

1. Work on your cardio and your strength. If you don't like weightlifting, that's OK, you don't need to do all the fancy accessory movements (curls, leg extensions, side raises, etc.). However, increasing your strength in the big 5 is huge boon to your life and your longevity: Some kind of deadlift, a squat, bench, Pull-ups, and an overhead press. Strong, fit, and flexible/mobile is the key to feeling young as you age.

2. Don't bother about "building a personal brand" because you probably have no idea what you want to be or who you really are yet. Instead, actively avoid building a bad brand. Be honest, don't overcommit, don't speak ill of others, don't be an unwarranted pessimist (without a solution), etc. You can use that clean slate to build on later. Plenty of people don't ever get clean slates because they pollute their "brand" with what were ultimately throw away jokes, bad moments, etc.

3. Earn money, invest it, and reduce your spending on material things. Learn your taste in clothing by doing it inexpensively (though not too cheaply, don't skimp on decent quality) and when it's locked in, then buy the nice versions. Don't rush to houses and cars. They'll come when you know where you want to be and who you want to be with.

4. Do spend money on experiences. Sure, ocassional nights out, but mostly whatever will make formative memories.

5. Spend time with your family. They won't be too old yet for quality time and they still are likely to have their health, and you're free enough to not have to squeeze them in around kids, work, etc. Get to know them as adults now you're one.

6. Continue to educate yourself (even informally).

7. Do not neglect your health.

8. Seriously, don't neglect your health.

9. Consider therapy or coaching. Yes, you do have things you can work on. No, they may not be illnesses or significant, but why not improve what can be improved?
You spend "safety of your stacked money while having stacked a lot of money" it's a scarce resource as if you over spend it you lose your money. And the more money you have stacked the less interest you have into braking the currency as it makes you lose that money.
PoS validation does not have to include any more power than a bitcoin miner has.
Is it possible to run Windows on these yet (in virtual)? That's the only thing stopping me from getting an M1.
This sounds more like a complaint about human behavior than about the Internet. Why do people eat at chain restaurants and watch blockbuster movies? There's certainly a cost aspect to it, as well as a simple lack of knowledge about what alternatives are available. But generally speaking, people want what other people want; well-run companies simply cater to a pre-existing demand.

You can level the same complaints to wearing fast fashion, picking which city to live in, and even choosing a tech stack to implement on. The homogeneity you're dismissing is what most people want in the first place. Decentralization won't change any of that.
When I first started getting in better health and shape years ago, two resources helped me learn, provide structure, and form habits. One is a lengthy blog post and the other one is a popular book. Both are simple and accessible in their approach.

Nerdfitness - The Beginner Bodyweight Workout https://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/beginner-body-weight-workou...

Bigger Leaner Stronger (Book)
Why would you waste all that money on an amd64 core when Rosetta runs x86-64 code faster?
> Wouldn’t it be far cheaper for a Mars civilization to exploit the resources of the asteroids rather than bother earth?

Depends on the resource. If they want milk and chicken for example, it might be better to get that from Earth.

> It’d be enormously uncomfortable for Mars adapted people to spend any time on earth.

They could breed a race of human slaves to work on Earth.

> I guess if it’s possible for a 007 style mad scientist scenario

I’m thinking more along the lines of a Martian Hitler scenario.
Who is the real Bitcoin satochi
I think it can help make ambiguous statements more robust and complete. "I wasn't there" instead of "I was not at the location stated at the time recorded in the complaint".

I sometimes use it if I'm discussing something with someone who likes to nitpick small details that aren't relevant to the main point of the discussion. It can help you railroad a discussion down a particular path. That makes me sound super rude but it's more of a defensive communication device in that circumstance.
Great question and discussion. I am 40+ and I feel like I am going in wrong direction. But I think it is getting a bit clearer on what I should do next.

Right now, I work for a failing old school tech giant. I am have comfortable position with very good wok life balance. It seems you can easily not do a thing at work. No one wants change. Most of the company is made up of middle managers and non-productive compliance approvers. Seems like a great place to work for unmotivated. I have my moments where I want to accept company’s culture and move into middle management. Just coast as much as I can. But then I get frustrated and feel like I did nothing all day and feel like parasite on society.

So I apply for other jobs, sometimes at other large tech companies but talking with their developers it seems they are not much different from my current company. Then I apply at startups but I got family and I will not work more then 40 hours a week. Then I apply at FAANG or FAANG wannabe companies and I can never pass Leetcode. Also I did spend a few hours studying for Leetcode but I have family, I am not going to take time away from them to study something useless.

And yes my family, I love them but things are not exactly how I imagined they would be. I would love to live near beach and have more outdoors life. My goals were live modestly, retire early, read more, watch less TV/web. But my wife don’t want to make any big moves. She wants to live in suburbia, have a big house, vacations instead of live on the beach, etc.

When I turned 40, I seriously started to think how I can have more fulfilling life. It was either have more fulfilling personal life or more fulfilling work. I cannot change my family, so only option is to change work. So I am on quest to find more fulfilling work. Not more money but higher paycheck would be nice. I would retire once we have 3M in 401K.

For work, I enjoy working on interesting programming challenges but not so much that you find in typical large corps. Also programming is fun when working on my projects but not so much when working on other’s projects.

So after reading so many comments here, I think I want to transition to freelancing and consulting. Yes that means constantly interviewing and looking for next project. But I might be able to work on more interesting projects, control what I work on, avoid office politics, and take 3 months vacation whenever I want. Also it seems this may pay pretty well especially if I niche down.

The other thing is programming while enjoyable is still not as much as fun as my hobbies or when I had some. After thinking more about what I can do with my kids, I am looking into photography as a second income source. Photography is a hard field to make money in. But it is funner and it maybe more fulfilling than programming. I am building my photography portfolio (Instagram) and hopefully one day actually charge people for it.

I think combination of portrait photography and programming gigs should cover middle class lifestyle in suburbia, and give me more fulfilling life.

Again I don’t know if it is a good plan or even if I will be able to quit my job.
> it’s extremely difficult for your counterparty to claim that he didn’t sign your term sheet if he changes his mind. you just point to some record on the blockchain and say “this has your digital signature on it. it says you agreed to those terms, and it was published at <date/time>”.

Private keys can be compromised, just like a hypothetical DocuSign user’s e-mail account. A blockchain attestation just proves the terms were agreed to by someone with access to a particular private key, not who that person is or whether they had the legal right to do so.
Art, movies, books, music, lectures, tutorials, interviews, news, weather forecast, maps, dictionaries, encyclopedias (whole libraries!) all literally at my fingertips.

No I'm not bored. But it's just a tool, for me.
It's still on the physical time scale and presents music as a linear sequence. I believe symbolic music representation is more of a graph than a list
Well, it can also be pure randomness
The history still needs to be signed by former stakers to be valid. The "nothing at stake" problem is that a staker might break the rules by signing two mutually incompatible histories. During the staking period, they are strongly disincentivized from doing this because anyone can present proof that they've done so, causing the network to punish them by taking away all the funds they staked. But once that period expires, they can send those funds to someone else, and now they can't be punished. Someone who's sent away their funds is longer a staker moving forward, but they can still sign an alternate history for the time when they were a staker, potentially fooling clients who haven't connected to the network for a long time.

In practice, among the people who once staked large amounts of a proof-of-stake currency, most of them will probably continue being invested in its ecosystem moving forward. Even if they can't be personally punished for lying about the past, a successful history split would likely reduce the community's confidence in the currency, and thus its market value. Most of those people are also emotionally invested in the ecosystem and would not want to dishonestly subvert it. There will be exceptions. But to create an alternate history you need to subvert not just one validator, but most validators (or rather, validators who together control most of the currency being staked).
Pinterest settles shareholder lawsuit over workplace culture
Exactly. What it is that one wants to be true has a huge effect on how one interprets something.
Ask HN: Is a high salary a barrier to get/continue on job interviews?
I'm a software engineer on a company that has acquired the company I worked previously. It was a small and fast paced company that already paid above market average .

The new company is a much bigger and slow one and I'm not so happy and looking for changing jobs.
Knowing my current salary is above market I'm willing to accept offers of lower values once the job has good potential.

Having said that, I'm trying to keep things transparent and when asked my current salary I say the truth, I currently earn X but the value the company is great for me and I'm prepared for the lower income (with is true as my financial life is very balanced), but I feel like this is making HR people to not continuing the process.

Is this attitude doing more harm than good for my interviews? Are companies afraid that I may seek for higher paying jobs after I start getting a lower pay? Is there anything I can change on my interviews (which does not involve lying my current salary)?

Edit: formatting
Could have been a flu in that case. Colds are usually pretty benign though.
You seem to believe that billionaires have each added billions of dollars of value to humanity.

> Rather, most of us are lazy and selfish by nature at best, self-destructive at worst.

"Speak for yourself."
The new Web3 stuff has been the most exciting frontier since the bitcoin whitepaper in 2009. Urbit is super cool, ETH is really interesting. There's a ton of stuff happening in the space - like I imagine what 1999 probably felt like. Yeah there's hype and lots of bubbles + company failures, but there's real underlying technical innovation and success too. That's what makes it an exciting frontier of new stuff.

There's a lot of fun stuff going on and the future looks bright.

Hopefully the domination of centralized SaaS of the last decade will mostly be an anachronism of our time, and the original hope of a decentralized p2p web will happen after all. We were trapped in a local maximum of thin clients and accounts, but maybe this will be the way out.
That's just regular public/private cryptography. Bitcoin is not required for that.
I've been jaded about the internet since September 1993.

Wake me up when September ends ;)
I think you are misreading the article. There are often profound unintended consequences to societies both culturally and economically. That have very lasting effects. This article delineates one of those consequences. I doubt the Soviets intended to destroy Russian cooking, but it did have a negative impact.

Unintended consequences is a prominent theme communist governments refuse to acknowledge. Yet, there is no shortage of people, like yourself, cheering them on to try again. To put it mildly, they don't have a very good track record. They might do better if they first start acknowledging that basic fact, before they try to improve all of humanity.
Thank you very much, always a good start.
I can't remember the last time I wrote something by hand for someone else to read. As long as I can read what I wrote, I don't care how shitty my handwriting is, and I'd wager it's the same for most people.
I would think so too. The advantage is that since it’s part of daily life, you create this baseline of exercise that is always there, also when you lack motivation or time to do other sports.
A good heuristic is simply minimize the number of instructions.
The moment you go down that road, every academic epidemiologist and COVID expert will immediately be prosecuted because they have repeatedly made claims that were totally false and which have led directly to many deaths. For example, the claim that lockdowns work (they don't and this was known before COVID times), has led directly to people dying due to delayed medical treatment. Poverty also kills of course and their demands/misinformation has led to that too.

The same is also true of more or less the entire field of nutrition, none of which has yielded anything useful, and has resulted in governments themselves spreading misinformation:

https://sebastianrushworth.com/2021/11/27/is-saturated-fat-u...

Incidentally, Berenson has written a long rebuttal to this kind of thing which you can find here:

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-english-data-on-vacc...
"It is a cultivated myth that we would not have any streaming services for music, film and TV series if Pirate Bay did not exist. "

This is false. Although, if someone wants to argue that other piracy services were more influential in breaking the old DRM systems, I will debate it with you.
>As a Dutch speaker, I think of having the numbers "backwards" as a neat feature. You can give someone a phone number (12345) and then verify it by saying it differently (twelve, thirty four, five). If you verify by repeating the same numbers then there's a decent chance of introducing the exact same error the second time.

I don't understand how that's specific to backwards numbers
We must live in a different world then. I love how windows works with different DPI screens, or remember the screen layouts. Add to that WSL and AHK, and I have no shame to say Windows is the OS I'm the most productive with (even if I'm trying Linux again during this long weekend! I want to give it a chance!)

The deal breaker: I love Wireless projection (Shortcut: Win-K) that works all the time, unlike filmsy HDMI / micro HDMI / DP cables that require switching the input on the screen.

Believe me or not, but at a recent meeting we had to use Zoom locally because none of the 3 laptops (2 macs, and my windows thinkpad) could reliably project to the big screen next to the drawboard.
As the de facto exchange currency of the world I agree that dollars finance crimes.
Wow, very cool! The DX7 is one of my favorite synthesizers of all time, and its spiritual successor (in software form), FM8 is the one I've used the most for the past decade and a half in my compositions. Thank you for the incredible work breaking things down to the gate level -- if only this were around during the time I was taking my analog + digital electronics and computer organization class, I may have done a different final project!

You allude that you'll get to this in your next post of the series, but here's my question: what are the biggest differences in tone between the DX7 and current emulators such as FM8 and Dexed (both of which I believe can read DX7 patches)? And if present, where do they come from?

Thanks again for this write-up on one of my favorite machines.
Nice. Maybe Western countries, realizing they look stupid in comparison, will follow suit.

Now if only Westerners could learn from India how cheap generic pharmaceuticals can be...
This assumes your company is okay with spending time to write reliable systems.
Curious if 132 characters per line would work for most people.

I don't mind going past 80, but would still want some de-facto standard, and there's a fair amount of precedent for 132.
>"we want cross-platform, sandboxed applications with instantaneous delivery"

My version of "we" wants:

a) Plain websites that are just documents with links and navigation.

b) Yes browser based applications please.

c) Yes native apps please as the browser is severely restricted (and for good reasons) on what it allows those apps to do.

Each part is equally important to "we"
You can see their basic program here: https://startingstrength.com/get-started/programs

It has advice for how much to increase weight by which varies based on age and gender. (It's basically "slow down if you're not an 18-35 year old man".)
Error messages are like the least horrible wart in LaTeX's mile-long list of warts.
Are people buying them?
I know not with what technology Web4 will be written, but Web5 will be written in crayon.
Technically TeX is the language. LaTeX is a library of macros for TeX, that tries to make it easier to work with TeX.
I didn't mean to say that. I don't know what Marc understood, but I do know that Gates made it clear what he thought.
I had an auto-discarder plugin for Chrome to a similar effect. I also tried switching to Firefox, which also improved matters somewhat. I don't think I'd have survived at all with a 8GB device at all otherwise!

However, doing something as basic as loading up a large Java project (like Kafka) in Intellij would cause the the laptop to die a horrible death when it tried to resolve the Maven dependencies.
None of that is necessary to develop software, and when you do want it, most of it doesn’t even have to run on your laptop.

When did people become so helpless? I was offloading interactive workloads via X11 back in the 90s, and these days it’s to a near-instantly provisioned public cloud instance. If someone can’t get by in a pinch with vim and a command prompt, then I don’t particularly want them in my crew.

There”s a corollary to that old dictum, “a bad worker blames their tools”, and it’s “a good worker chooses good tools”.
> Most jobs I've had there was an implicit expectation that if your shit breaks, you fix it. This resulted in systems which didn't break because, well, that keeps work to working hours.

My experience was similar in my last long-term software role. We were not explicitly on call, but we developed/deployed/supported an app which was critical to a 24×7×365 business process. So we were careful in our testing, code reviews, and deployments.

One time in 7 years I had to answer an out of hours call because of an issue in this app.

I'll take that over semimonthly on-call rotas for suites of apps my team isn't isn't responsible for.
The storage read speed for the M1 is ~3.4 GB/s. The write speed is 2.8GB/s. Unless you are looking at all of your 60GB dataset in one go, clearly the speed at which storage can be accessed is fast enough to do batch processing on the data fairly seamlessly. Even at 2GB/s that's your entire dataset in 30s.

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/12/12/how-fast-is-the-ssd-insi...
Most people just want to pay the bills and put food on the table.
This sort of stuff would have to be done ahead of some particular focused activity you want to optimize, no?

Breathing is autonomic. You obviously can't try to "improve" it all day.
Ask HN: How many human languages do you know? Learned any as an adult?
I find human languages fascinating and frustrating. There is a cottage industry of lots of people claiming to teach systems of learning languages as adults. Tried a few apps, meh at best.

How many do you speak? Learned any as an adult? If yes, any tips and tricks to accelerate learning (other than moving countries)?
There is a scale of certainty with causality. Evidently we aren't always good at expressing the difference between light evidence of causality and heavy evidence of causality. Do we have the right words? Are we using them?

So in other words, several of the commenters here are right. On the one hand we shouldn't jump to conclusions, but on the other hand we should listen to the clues.
SnR is bad now, but has been since mid 90s and Eternal September feels like as good a time as any on the timeline. However, I’m sure more quality and novelty exists now than has ever existed, it’s just harder to find.
I used to say the same, and then found myself surprised by how difficult it is to go back and read even my own old handwriting compared to how it is now, enough so that I feel I've done myself a favor by putting in the effort to improve it.

Like good headphones, it seems to be one of those things where you don't know what you're missing until you know what you're missing.
Baidu begins commercial robotaxi services in Beijing
It comes from Chuvash language. İnş forms counting numbers, and language researches think they used to count in tens, as they didn't need precise numbers.

yedi/seven (m) inş -> yētiminş -> yetmiş/seventy

altı/six (m) inş -> altıminş -> altmış/sixty. see: https://www.nisanyansozluk.com/?k=altm%C4%B1%C5%9F (in Turkish)

90 is tokuz-on (dokuz-on, nine-ten), 80 is formed that way too.

40, 30, 20 have specific names in old Turkish. Which means they used those numbers a lot, but no evidence why. No connection to 4, 3, 2 whatsoever (old Turkish for 4 ist tört, for example).

50 (elli) comes from the same root as the word which means hand (el). You can perhaps guess why.

Long story short: You just need to memorize them if you are speaking Modern Turkish because "historical reasons". Turks started using numbers a bit too early and early weirdness was never fully "corrected" :)

What I like in Turkish is that you don't use the unnecessary "one" before hundred/thousand. 100 -> yüz, 200 -> iki yüz. you don't say "bir yüz" for 100, just "yüz".
Their friendly competition was fun to watch. LPL made some great suggestions for improvements, and was impressed by the idea that Stuff Made Here came up with as a physical security “outsider.”
This. I would add that tech people and many others also fail to grasp some of the real market barriers to entry. (Well sometimes.)

To cite a single example: corporate procurement systems. It's like trench warfare to get enrolled in many companies, but once completed your sales team can then recite the following incantation: "we're an approved vendor." The effect on sales can be magical. ;)

Disclaimer: I use Docusign and have done so for years. It's transformative in a way that's similar to password managers.
I have a P1 Gen3 (because it's OLED and 4k) and while I love it at home or in the office, I don't like travelling with it. 14 is just too big.

I may be smaller than you but to me, 12" is the ideal for travelling as the laptop fits in my purse!

I'm thinking about getting the X12 detachable as my next travel computer, but I'm waiting for next year revision in the hope it'll get Xeon or AMD cpu options.