skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well it is very hard to argue against this.

That wasn't why I was struggling. I was struggling because I deem it a very heartless argument, and I don't know how to have meaningful conversations with people when they don't seem to have the good of their fellow citizens at heart. The free economy can function as both an instrument of liberation and oppression depending on your place in society. It is not a universal panacea.

Living in a society requires giving up some of your personal liberties from time to time, so that other people can enjoy theirs. That doesn't mean that I condone the government stripping away everyone's personal liberties. I wish that people were individually capable of making those sorts of sacrifices without any government intervention. But that isn't the world we're living in.

> Do you mean to say that people should not be able to decide what is more important to them so that resources can be appropriately allocated?

I'm not saying that people shouldn't be able to decide what is more important to themselves, but rather that they can't always be trusted to respect what's important to others. Thinking that a free market economy will always result in the most equitable distribution of goods and services for everyone -- that's childish.
What if working with others and having an impact is what brings me the most fulfillment?
Because advertisers pay more for it, and publishers like making money. If Google didn't offer it, someone else would, and they might do even worse than Google at sandboxing the code and trying to filter out abusive ads.

Not saying it's a great situation, just explaining why there's not an easy solution.
I think, except for very large volumes, automated paging is inferior to terminal scrollback. It is conditionally modal (thus conflicts with muscle memory) and you can't see previous output and the paged output at the same time (quitting the pager restores the terminal contents). I turned mine off in Git.
> This is simply because it is an intellectual field that is not subject to professional norms of cognitive workers. You will likely find, if you read period pieces or biographies of similar situtations e.g. 19th century EM engineers, that they too had an inflated sense of the scope of their understanding of matters.

Engineering education in the 19th century was a crucible; only the best and brightest successfully graduated. The following excerpts are from a blog entry[0] on the book The Great Bridge.

In three years’ time he had also to master nearly a hundred different courses, including, among others, Analytical Geometry of Three Dimensions, … Calculus of Variations, Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis, Determinative Mineralogy, Higher Geodesy, …, Orthographic and Spherical Projections, Acoustics, Optics, Thermotics, Geology of Mining, Paleontology, Rational Mechanics of Solids and Fluids, Spherical Astronomy, … Machine Design, Hydraulic Motors, Steam Engines, Stability of Structures, Engineering and Architectural Design and Construction, and Intellectual and Ethical Philosophy.

A century later, D.B. Steinman, a noted bridgebuilder and professor of civil engineering, would write, “Under such a curriculum the average college boy of today woul be left reeling and staggering. In that earlier, era, before colleges embarked upon mass production, engineering education was a real test and training, an intensive intellectual discipline and professional equipment for a most exacting life work. Only the ablest and the most ambitious could stand the pace and survive the ordeal.

… Of the sixty-five students who started out in [Roebling’s class], only twelve finished. And among those who did not finish there had been some rather severe breakdowns, it appears, and one suicide.

[0] https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2006/01/26/favorite-extrac...
I had same intention. Even practically largely managed. And then, when I shown toddler first fairy tale, toddler started to have way more varied and imaginative games.

Turns out, it does not destroys them at all. It can actually add quite a lot.

The harm can happen if you overdo it a lot. But some watching or playing is not destroying them at all.
Masks outside are good actually. It’s cold outside and they’re warm. You can’t wear a scarf while running.
> I wouldn't deny benefits of exercise

Sorry if it came across like that, this is not what I meant. It's just about going to the gym specifically, and daily to boot, not about being fit in general.
As a blanket statement, I think that's ridiculous.

Hourly is a good choice for contracts where they are looking to buy labor. Which is a common model, because they often see contract labor as a substitute for employee labor.

The other models you mention can be much better, but also require the contractor to have both particular skills and enough relationship power to make them work. I have seen well-meaning developers absolutely get screwed on fixed scope contracts. And I've also seen less-well-meaning developers absolutely screw their clients on fixed price contracts. This is an area where blanket statements are harmful.
And what do you think the top schools will do? Massively cut costs to reduce tuition rates which will probably make their school seem worse and lower their competitive ranking or just accept more kids with rich parents who can pay cash or get secured loans?
Just knowing (or believing) that, and having ready access to "any reputable lawyer in the US", is already a privileged position to be in.
This could also be said for alcohol though. Alcohol is associated with higher levels of motoring accidents, assaults, and chronic disease.

The externalities of alcohol consumption can be largely mitigated by drinking in moderation.

The primary externality of smoking, secondhand smoke, can be mitigate by having people smoke outdoors, which most countries already require in public spaces.

The main secondary externality of smoking, increased strain on the healthcare system, is more complex. Smoking is more addictive than alcohol, so moderate consumption is less possible. Therefore, smokers are more likely to experience an illness directly related to their consumption than alcohol consumers.

In America, I'd suggest this externality could be addressed by removing the cap on the smoking health insurance surcharge (it's currently 50%). In countries with socialised medicine, this could be better addressed by adjusting cigarette taxes to fully reflect the average lifetime cost of treating smoking related illnesses.
In that study, 79% of the subjects had been hospitalized. It's clearly not a representative sample of the population.
"There are evidences" - really? There are certainly people who are of the opinion, but evidence?
> The biggest problem I have with the idea of student loan forgiveness is that it punishes people

First, I completely get how some people feel this way. It's valid.

However, as someone who's almost paid off their own student loan, I would not feel punished by student loan forgiveness. I would be glad to see it. The money I have repaid is already gone; yes, if I could turn back time knowing it would be forgiven, I needn't have repaid it, but if I could turn back time there are lots of investments or choices I would do differently. Student loan forgiveness would take a huge existential burden off an entire generation. It would do so much for mental wellbeing of so many of my peers. I can't think of something I'd rather see. And the truth is, I've almost paid off my loans because I'm doing alright. I'll be fine.

Now, the fact it got this bad to start with...doing student loan forgiveness without also making serious reforms is just promising it will happen again. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't help people who are suffering today.
"measuring cognitive differences of 2 year olds is highly unlikely to be meaningful."

Do you have expert knowledge, or at least experience with lots of different 2 year olds, to make such a statement?

Because I got some experience and I can tell you, there are great differences to be meassured for sure.

Whether they meassured correctly, I do not know, but I can imagine that the chaos of the pandemic was not always helpful for child developement. Just alone the social contacts are vital for developing - and they were greatly reduced (often replaced with screen time) compared to normal 2 year olds.
Apple's app requires you to scan manually, it doesn't warn you if you're being stalked. You'll need something like Air Guard to get similar notifications.
One is a programming language, the other is an IDE, so my answer would be "no".
> using a modernist mindset

Would be curious to see data on this. I most frequently see an emotional appeal against authority, vague anxieties and fears and/or slippery slope arguments.
It's impossible to do that for larger countries, cooperation with China is the only way. Large economies are too tightly coupled to just cut China off. It would take a decade or two.
This seems plausible:

People at bars are single.

Track their vehicle to their house / apt.

Later, know when vehicle is not at house (hence no one is home - remember - single person).

Rob house.
I haven't seen any evidence for covid causing neurodegenerative problems, so it sounds logical to point at the change in environment.

Even "Long Covid" sounds a lot like undiagnosed depression or chronic fatigue syndrome.
I don’t think of it as being punished and don’t expect to be reimbursed for having paid back my loans and my spouse’s loans. The benefits of loan forgiveness or even providing free college tuition greatly outweighs the cost of what you and I had to pay for. Either way we are going to pay for it, directly or indirectly.
> how would people have reacted if this had been limited to large corporations you do not like?

Those large corporations we do not like have lawyers on retainer specifically to deal with this situation (probably by suing the pants off of whoever sent the email).

It is acceptable to react differently when the victim is defenseless. That is why we would have a different reaction to a large corporation being struck by this, versus an individual who may not be able to afford legal counsel (and who certainly can't afford to pay legal counsel when the threat turns out to be baseless).
For ingestion, a median lethal dose is around 238 μCi or 50 nanograms. [1] The article doesn't specify exactly how much Polonium is in these, but offers hints:

> The beads, approximately 20 to 60 um in diameter

But how many?

> The Po-210 activity is often on the order of 200 to 500 uCi at the time of manufacture, but this activity decreases quickly according to the 138 day half-life of Po-210.

Sounds like if the product was new, and Polonium harvested, there might be enough there to kill one or two people, if ingested, except...

> the polonium is bound up in a ceramic matrix so that it should not be assimilated if the spheres were ingested

A little moisture also defeats static, but it would be reckless and irresponsible to try and put that in an anti-static product.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvine...
It’s hard for me to wrap my head around the idea that generally things improving is an affront to people who lived before improvement. To me it sounds like saying we shouldn’t have indoor plumbing because it’s unfair to people who lived without it before it was invented, or don’t have it now.
I would attempt to file a restraining order against the owner of the tag, that would force the police to act.
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Rather than specific topic, I just enjoyed hearing your perspective, experience, and reflection on those things. Your 'writing voice' is relatable.
> What knob do you turn that they haven’t?

Higher pay.
As an ex-smoker at times I wonder the same, but I know the answer: governments the world over are addicted to the tax revenue from tobacco production and consumption.
Why are you counting Qing dynasty into that?
+1 on this. I also recommend you think about the peripherals you'll need to buy to satisfy your requirements, like one or more screens, a good mechanical keyboard and so on.
Is there something that you enjoy or love doing? And is there a career to be made out of that even if it means taking. Pay cut? I quit programming because I didn’t enjoy it any more. I switched to a career in film /tv development and I am much happier. I make 1/4 the salary I used to make but I am not complaining.
So to not attach a file to an email, you first have to attach the file to an email and send it?
Seems to defeat the point.
To be clear, I'm not faulting the EU for it. The EU should be concerned more with their own security, particularly if America gets tied up with China and is consequently less capable of helping to defend the EU against Russia.
I don't pay for going to the office, so I don't think that comparison really works.

> having a single goal (physical fitness) is bad

What part of my comment gave you that notion? I should edit this because it's absolutely not what I meant (a sibling comment also commented as if I said getting fit has no benefits).
I'm very happy with my career. We run a small website teaching advanced iOS development (objc.io). We write books and make videos. I run it with my co-founder and that's basically it. We have some really good people we work with, but 80% of the time it's just the two of us, and we're pretty aligned in what we want.

When my daughter was born (almost 4 years ago) I switched to not working a lot. Maybe 5-6 hours a day. I spend almost every afternoon with the family (after my daughter wakes up from her nap). In the early mornings I do my workouts. The combination of this makes me really happy.

We make more than enough money (we live a modest lifestyle), even though I could probably make a lot more in a real job. But having the freedom -- both in doing what we want work-wise, as well as having a lot of family time -- is pretty amazing. I have no regrets so far.
The original “lockdowns” were literally good for some businesses. Conventions and restaurants would have failed (they can’t survive on 10% attendance) but can’t get out of their vendor contracts without the government canceling for them.
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Reading through that thread, it really doesn’t sound like the main Zig developers are going to pursue this.

E.g., I believe the comment you quote is appreciatively acknowledging the hard work a contributor put it, but isn’t accepting the general plan to drop mingw. Generally, the core Zig dev seems to keep gently shifting the conversation back to current Zig goals, not taking on new ones.
I always wanted something like that too. I just yearned for rapid constructive feedback from individuals with subject matter expertise, interest, and time, rather than waiting 6 months for a response from people without one or more of those things, then having to relay comms through the editor middle-person. What you mention could make a nice arXiv-Reddit joint venture... or SciRate or Fermats Library fills the void _ prayer hands_
On this, have you found any studies in different data structures to support the mapping between integers and the underlying objects? Personally, I'm working on a Hexastore that requires maintaining order of the 2 in parallel.
Apple uses sapphire glass in their more expensive Watch models (with non-aluminum cases)
That app requires you to click a button every time you think you're being followed. Then it'll scan and report any results.

It won't warn you of an AirTag someone attached to your car, unless you make it a habit to constantly press "scan" all day.

AirGuard (https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuard) can do this for you, at the cost of battery life for having something scan for Bluetooth signals in the background all day. It's silly and honestly kind of sad that Apple's app doesn't provide this functionality.

Perhaps Google should add this functionality to Play Services. They already have an API capable of running Bluetooth background scans constantly in the form of the COVID contact tracing API, so the technology is nearly there already.
Found a job through a connection I made during that four months and hung onto it for a few years to get some good experience, even though it sucked.

Moved to a bigger city from there and started trading up better positions with that experience.

Doing pretty good now, I'm a team lead at a company building some pretty cool stuff.

Still feels like if I had 2 or 3 internships during university I'd have had a lot smoother sailing. But who knows?

It definitely makes me think Software Development should be taught more like a trade with apprenticeships than anything else though.
> Voting right should be earned.

The problem you run into is that someone has to define how it should be earned. Several criteria have been tried (wealth, tax paid, military service, etc), and all of them have been found inadequate in one or several respects.

Several revolutions have been fought over this. Still, assuming that a perfect criterion would exist, what would be yours?
I agree, but the purpose of government funded higher education should be to get you a job, period. Trade schools, tech schools, community colleges and smaller public universities all exist and are significantly cheaper than a fancy private school in the middle of Manhattan. There's zero reason for the government to be involved in the latter.
It would help if the West stopped fooling itself about the abilities of the Chinese government. The Chinese government is awash in people that have been selected, filtered, and tested as very well educated. Their average government bureaucrat would put our average government bureaucrat to shame in raw ability to get things done. We may be ahead in creative, rule breaking ideas, but do not underestimate the raw intelligence available in the Chinese government.
It was not immediately obvious to me - can I also restrict network access?
There is at least one android app to list nearby airtags. The one I found requires you to manually start a scan though so it doesn't alert to issues like this one. OTOH your own phone won't be used to track the air tag. OTOH half the people around you have an iPhone that will do it for them.
This is true. Got a couple books with me, luckily.
I've never chased down the source but I'm pretty sure this is bullshit, or at least wildly misunderstood.

I believe that:

* especially long, unpleasant commutes can be a significant source of unhappiness

* shorter commutes are _consistently_, across different people, a source of happiness (whereas any other thing might bring a lot of happiness to some people but not so much to others)

But I think it's absurd to think that for any given person, a short commute is high on their list of things to make them happy or fulfilled (especially if they're not already actively unhappy with their commute).
What is your point? It doesn't take many resources to pick up the phone and call people. Initiative is something both privileged and unprivileged people alike can (and do) have.

And to those unaware that this is a possibility, disseminating this knowledge is our collective responsibility. Be part of the solution.
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I think there can be a place in between allowing it and incarcerating people. Make it illegal to sell and may be heavy fines for getting caught smoking?

Sure, there will be a black market for it but a lot of the low effort entrants to the market and many new entrants will be discouraged. Overall there will be less people using it.

I generally understand that prohibiting something with the threat of incarceration is wrong, but without some legal interference smoking is not going to go away.
I suppose deeper.com doesn't offer that much when it comes to hardware:)
Looks like Portugal really turned their vaccination program around to be a real success story. As far as I can tell they are not reintroducing lockdowns?

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/15/1063830104/portugal-covid-vac...
I thought they were scrambling to to find COBOL “volunteers”.
> I know that politicians have a bad name today but they are still elected officials who have an incentive (elections) to do what's best for the country as a whole.

Those aren't the same. The vast majority of politicians will almost always favor short-term "free candy!" decisions that they know will be popular with their base come election time, rather than make difficult decisions that would actually improve the quality of life for their constituents over even the slightly-longer term.
Anecdotal, but I have a 5 and a 3 years old and missed nursery has been terrible for their development.

You don't even need a study for this, it's just common sense for people who have interacted with a toddler in their life before and after nursery (after 2-3 years old, I wouldn't recommend sending them before - they tend to not be ready for social life and not having one dedicated adult to them)
More than half adults are women, a third live in Asian when the average weight of an adult is 58kg. You have strong bias.
Yeah I used the SE for years till it started failing internally. No case or screen protector, dropping it was never a concern because it was small enough to firmly hold in one hand.

Have the 12 Mini now which is the next smallest phone, but feel much less secure with it because I can't reach both the top and bottom of the screen at once with my thumb while holding it securely in one hand. Have to always be sliding up and down to reach what needs to be hit, which makes it much more likely to be dropped. Would kill for a proper small phone again.
One component of this seems to be that by moving online we've lost access to the labels on goods. In a store, you can usually just look at the "made in <X>" label printed on the box. On amazon, that information is pretty much never available.

Possibly this is partially because they're commingling inventory made in different places, but I think a lot of it's just that amazon doesn't see any reason to force people to list that.
I think bottles allow you to run a different version of wine inside each bottle (in addition to offering a noob-friendly GUI interface).
Care to link the one you found? Going through the play store these days is a nightmare of privacy problems and adware so if you already found a good one, that would be nice to mention.
Attendance dropped due to lockdowns and the fear campaign.

I was there, remember? The pubs were rammed, Boris started saying "don't do X", numbers decreased a lot, he said "we make this legal now", the world stopped.

I'm bored of debating this now so whatever, all I get online is a stream of trolls. Good luck.
I’ve wondered for what % of people this is their main reason for not getting vaccinated….
This is a GPS tracker that can tap into a world-wide Wi-Fi mesh network supported by the richest company in the world.
Training of COVID-only staff, separation of COVID patients into dedicated hospitals, etc. It's all been done before. Many COVID patients just need basic attention and oxygen, the ones with really complex needs tended to have other serious illnesses anyway.
Given how many different technologies/languages/frameworks an average developer has to learn over his career isn‘t a solid background in the fundamentals worth more than 3 years intense focus on one such set?

That‘s not to say that going through uni without having heard of git is the sign of a good program, I don‘t consider my program to be all that great but at least I had to go through two labs that required us to build software from scratch using git or svn.
This would be a great idea. However, in those wokism world, it would not work.

School are dropping standardize test in the name of fairness (of the skin color).
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This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."