skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly it's an unhealthy profession. Spending 8 hours a day sitting on a chair with your neck fixed in the same position watching a screen harms your body a lot, even if you try to keep a good posture and do stretches from time to time. If you add stress to it, which tenses your muscles unconsciously, it just gets worse.

I don't have any good advice other than try to reduce that time as much as possible. Your body will feel better and hopefully your mind too.
Governments already do this! My brother goes to a school only a few miles from NYU that’s totally paid for by NY city+state government. I think he pays a couple hundred dollars per semester.

But students choose NYU over those schools…
The rise and fall of rationality based words in English language (rose until 1980s and has plummeted since):

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/51/e2107848118
Just amazing that this should even have to be said. But I'm an academic, and here we are.

What's particularly bad about this approach - which is fast becoming endemic - is that it effectively treats science as a source of perks for scientists. No! We fund science because it benefits all humans. If the choice is "allocate cancer research money to be equal between men/women/ethnic groups of your choice" and "allocate money to maximize the chance of curing cancer", that should be a no-brainer!

To be clear, I believe that there are things that could be done to improve the participation of minorities in science which would also improve science. But positive discrimination is unlikely to be one of them, and certainly ought not to be the first port of call.

And yeah, as a white male, I also obviously dislike the idea that it is OK for me to be discriminated against. People are funny that way.
Apple released an app for Android users to alert them if an AirTag is “following” them: https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/android-users-get-this-appl...
There is now an app called „Tracker Detect“ from Apple (for Android) to search for AirTags around you. It hasn’t the ability to use AirTags like on the iPhone but at least you can find one that has been left around you.
None of it really has to be untrue to not draw the same conclusions. It’s possible that the phone crashed after some time, it’s possible they deleted messages and gave up because, as the parent comment suggests, they decided not to feed trolls.

Citing sources for specific claims does not mean that the overall conclusion is inherently true.
Well it's wrong in your book, but it's not in mine, so where does that leave us? Reasonable people cannot disagree? I'm a dimwitted plebeian? Shall we reach for the white gloves?

Last I checked, folks were welcomed to their perspectives around here, we don't typically just go around telling people their opinions are "wrong".
There's something to be said about whether we are encouraging bad decisions, though. We're talking about an 18 year old (many of whom have never had any financial responsibility at all) making a decision that could saddle them with hundreds of thousands in debt that can't be escaped even by bankruptcy.

We need to stop literally underwriting (as taxpayers) bad decisions. And private banks that do underwrite such decisions need to face the possibility of bankruptcy in some form (maybe not quick and easy bankruptcy after 2 years, but something).
Yes! I have two Rails apps (5.x and 6.x) to upgrade to 7. I'm curious which one will be easier. My hunch is the 5.x app since it didn't rely on Webpacker/Node either.

We will see...
Depends on the ISP, but some have even done deep packet inspection - https://iamkush.me/sni-airtel/
Just like in every technology field, green is what as green defined is .
> which is the majority of people.

Depends on where you live. I live in a fairly affluent area, and everyone has iPhones.
Is universal healthcare important enough to cede control over what we put into our own bodies?

That's the only important question. As far as I'm concerned the answer is definitionally no, and I live in the UK where we arguably have it.

It's an endless rabbit hole of authoritarianism. Ban cigarettes, ban sugar in high concentration, ban fast food, mandate vaccines. If we find out that taking an aspirin a day improves health outcomes - mandate that too. Ban unprotected sex - just use phone cameras to enforce it or whatever.

There is literally no end to it because if we only take into account the one metric "does this thing affect aggregate health outcomes" you can justify banning anything.

I'm sure someone will read this and get grumpy that I've mentioned vaccination. I have three, they're ace.

The idea of authoritarian policy is that you don't have a choice; your opinion is truly irrelevant. I don't think its' proponents often hold that in the forefront of their mind, they only focus on "well, right now I'm on the popular side" or whatever.
"Made for Adsense" sites have no value, if they get shut down, nothing is lost. Normal sites that switched to Adsense have become worse, because now they need clicks and engagement above all else, incentivizing click-bait and low-effort content. Nothing would be lost if they switched to subscription models and provided valuable content. There's little in between in my opinion, it's either "site doesn't use Adsense, it's a company site / personal blog / some institution", "site was made only to make money by adsense with the lowest price content possible, had a bunch of links bought and now provides a passive income to some SEO" and "site used to provide quality content, loses readership to spam-sites because Google has fucked up their sorting algos and now switches to low-value content as well, because anything else can't be financed".

Twitch shows that people are very willing to pay for content. I'd very much be happy to if that removed all of the spam.
But meme already means something culturally, and we don't want people saying that genocide is a "meme"
I for one, will never kiss the corporate ring
I'm not an academic, so don't spend many hours a week reading and thinking about papers.

And even back when I was a grad student, I wouldn't have been willing to bear all the weight of making all these discussions happen by myself. There have to be other people active on the platform to make it worth using.

There's a big chicken-and-egg problem, I suppose. But some subreddits, like r/MachineLearning, have gotten us off the ground at least.
> From Kahneman & Tversky, behavioral economics and cognitive biases, to the smartphone (and other screens) epidemic that rages everywhere the device is in use.

That new inventions often have a negative impact shouldn't be surprising, but I think it's worthwhile to try to set this against all the positive aspects. I remember life before mobile phones, and from my perspective, they have provided far greater benefits than harms. Wide access to GPS and maps, instant access to emergency communications, and many applications that improve productivity and quality of life are far better explanations of why these devices have become so prevalent.

> It's become extremely clear that "adults" are not very good at being rational and self-controling.

Has it? I feel that this is a refelction of them not very good at "following the agenda of the elites," but that's hardly the same thing as not being rational. As a counter example, there are more guns than people in the United States, yet there are only around 12,000 murders per year. From that view, we're exceptionally good at being rational and exhibiting self control.

Likewise, we travel trillions of miles on our roads, and they're not the complete disaster that you would expect from a population that's largely unable to self-regulate.
Similarly, general aviation is a thing that exists, and while it may seem largely regulated you would be surprised to learn exactly how much latitude a GA pilot has in operating their aircraft.

> So the debate isn't really Control vs. Freedom anymore. Its more like Protection vs. Jungle Law.

If that's the case.. why wouldn't you punish the abusers, rather than preempt the freedom of individuals? One is definitely a problem, the other _might_ be a problem. It seems like putting the cart before the horse to approach the problem in this way.
The Democrats have 49 seats in the Senate! They should be able to do whatever they want!
Seems to be the journal for the Canadian respiratory therapists’ national association.

So I wouldn’t call it illegitimate, but it’s a small field in a small country that’s largely bedside rather than academic, so filling the pages may be a struggle.
I did a few workshops coding LEGO parts at around age 10. We did stuff like turning lights on- and off or measuring the temperature. Maybe a good place to start, as it connects to the real world. I imagine LEGO has more interesting parts these days. Like robots or drones.
If the vaccine-hesitant are to be shunned and have specific restrictions levied against them for the sake of not overflowing hospitals, then so should the obese and old, IMO.
> So as we didn't ask to be born, we should be paid for the rest of our lives to live, he argues.

So, basic income would solve it.
Most GPS trackers however need a SIM card, which would be traceable.
I mean, I can see why. At this point, Flatpak has more open issues than Wine itself...
That’s a pretty bold statement. When has the US ever threatened China’s internal security?
Parents busy with their phones for example.
Highly recommend starting with a budget and use cases (VR, ray tracing, 4K, etc) and then using https://www.logicalincrements.com/ to fill in the details.
Why do we need someone in power to advocate it. Why don't we advocate it to each other? Parents are the ones mostly influencing kids to go, or at least that was my experience.
I believe that's where the advice to hand an AirTag to the authorities come from?

From here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT212227
If a website cannot survive without ads, maybe it doesn't need to actually exist in the first place. The world will go on.
depending on where you live and how much experience you have, it shouldn't be too hard to get a ~$200k (base comp) fully remote. $250k base comp sounds harder though. I'm a hiring manager at a FAANG and we're hiring a bunch of positions right now, remote is really taking off.
> 1. There's also such a thing as cultural genocide,

1. Yes, referring to "cultural genocide" as "genocide" is genocide trivialization. There's an obvious difference between killing 6 million people because of their ethnic background and outlawing a practice (say, child marriage in India or wearing a burqa in France) that happens to be a large part of a certain culture.

2. You're conflating a few different things I'm saying. The internment camps are for alleged violations of a lot of extremely broad and bullshit laws designed to target Uyghur people, as well as for violations of China's two-child law. I am not claiming that the internment camps are just for people violating China's two child law.

Your chart indicates that Uyghur birth rates are roughly the same as Han Chinese, not that they are being disproportionately suppressed below Han Chinese.

> 3. The UN apparently does. Note that said treatments are apparently disproportionately targeted at various ethnic minorities. https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...

I'll defer to them then. If they've been doing it against Falun Gong in the recent past, I wouldn't put it past them to be doing it to the Uyghurs. That is obviously a crime against humanity. It is scary that we probably won't know the true extent of this for decades at least.
So you've heard of Explain Code, but what does it do?
> Since the first reports of novel coronavirus in the 2020, public health organizations have advocated
preventative policies to limit virus, including stay-at-home orders that closed businesses, daycares,
schools, playgrounds, and limited child learning and typical activities.

Did nobody proofread this before it was published?
Russia limited the natural gas flow to Europe via the Yamal-Europe pipeline
Will this enable me to run Office365 and CreativeCloud on Linux?
The whole college system is quite inefficient. 4 years of education, with a lot of the material being superfluous to what you end up doing.

A more focused system could be much more economical and societally beneficial.

You can always elect to "broaden" your education on the side, but should not be the baseline path. Most would not be willing to pay for the extracurriculars, if you gave them the choice.
Derek Lowe: Omicron Update (Dec 17)
Fair point. Reversing the mess the government created through subsidized loans would help address prices.

For several years the press has reported "government bailout for student loans is coming" and you add to this historically low interest rates. And then we are surprised when people take out lots of student loans and defer repaying them as long as possible. And now the press uses that as evidence of why we need a bailout.
That sounds like the advice is basically to be rich and go into semi-retirement. Not sure how generally applicable that is.
Sorry, what I meant was that it is minimally profitable at the best of times. Which means it doesn't take very much enforcement to shift it over to being negatively profitable, because it costs you more in time, engineering, etc. than you would make. And once it is a money losing proposition, the people trying to exploit users are no longer interested.
I live practically within one of their main campuses here in NYC.

I'm a self-taught developer who's thought about maybe attending a school part-time, and they have an awesome makerspace here, so I figured why not try one of their non-matriculated programs?

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Even as a senior developer making a higher end salary for New York City, I found it unaffordable.

It absolutely blew my mind because new grads wouldn't make this kind of money for years out of school.

If someone nearing the later parts of the degree's "ideal career" can't afford it, how is someone supposed to afford it with interest?!
Mastery was a recurring theme. My happiest times in life were always marked by intense learning, and intense learning usually accompanies things that get labeled hard. Now, you don't do hard things because other people say they're hard; you do them because they're interesting to you and they push back when you dig in, causing you to need to bear down. In the process of that, then you start clawing back to beginners mind, and getting closer to be able to let this new thing reshape you in some small way. I love that feeling, it is like discovering a new conceptual world. Of course, it only makes sense if you're intrinsically interested in said thing, and willing to let it change you.

Stuff like virtual machines, interpreters, systems programming languages, Haskell, etc is all stuff I just wanted to know how it worked at one point, and I'd get sucked into more and more cool things to learn. I'm not a professional at all of those things (Haskell is a lifetime of learning) but I still enjoy them quite a bit, and have gotten a chance to use all of those professionally. Over time, they become competencies that are increasingly rare, so this has positive effects for future career choices.

Re: autonomy, I've always inferred this from my general attitude toward hierarchy, personality type, and watching myself across years and companies fail to be motivated at _all_ by the usual things that people seem to be motivated by. I feign interest in them and accrue enough of them to be reasonably autonomous, but I'm not going to be working weekends for months on end to beat other people at changing a word on my job title.

That's the type of thing that flows directly from knowing who I am. I don't need an upgraded title to hope to know who I am. I'm happy to receive it if it is given to me, but if it isn't; that's fine.
Forget about chasing high salaries. It's just not worth it. As long as you're earning enough to comfortably support yourself and those that depend on you, that's enough. Health and happiness come first.

Don't tolerate bullshit from anyone, especially yourself. Set high standards and meet them; the satisfaction of a job well done is a reward in itself. Take pride in what you do and approach your work as a vocation, not a job.

If you find yourself in a toxic environment, leave. After seeing my father suffer from the stress of one in my formative years, I made it a policy from the start of my career to avoid large corporate environments at all costs. Maybe some of the are good, but I don't want to take the risk.

Become an expert in something. Make a substantial original contribution to knowledge in your field that advances the state of the art. This is actually an explicit requirement if you want to get a PhD, which I've found to be a valuable way of opening up fulfilling career opportunities that would otherwise not be available to me. Caveat: The process of getting there won't necessarily be a pleasant one, and some parts of academia can be just as toxic as corporate environments. I was pretty lucky in my experience with this.

Move to a country with a low cost of living, while working remotely for a company in the west. Your income will go a lot further, and you can use that to either support a more comfortable lifestyle or work only part time while still being able to support yourself.

Do something you're passionate about. I know this one is a cliche and lots of people will tell you it's unrealistic, but they're wrong.

Stay away from circumstances that cause you to descend into cynicism. It's very easy to become negative and give up hope when you're in a toxic environment, and if you find yourself in one than you need to escape. There are good companies out there run by people who have a clue and are genuinely nice to work with. Don't settle until you've found one.

Most people usually suggest making your children a priority, and not let your career get in the way of a healthy family life. Generally speaking they're correct. However if you don't already have kids, be aware that when the time comes you might suddenly discover that for medical reasons you are not going to be able to have them. If this happens to you, and you suddenly realise that all you have left is your career, you better be damn sure you've prepared in advance for this so you've got something to fall back on. It softens the blow, a bit.

Find good people to work with. This is probably the single most important thing, from my experience. A good manager and good colleagues are worth their weight in gold. Treat them with respect and loyalty, and they'll do the same for you.

Strive to leave a legacy. We all have a short time on this planet, and there's a lot to be said for leaving the place a little better off than the state you found it in.
Spotify’s web app is horrible for performance. Even when idle, it keeps several cores fully occupied. They do not care to fix it either, as it has been this way for as long as I have used them. I even reported the issue multiple times and got nothing but a canned response. They just do not care.

Absolute garbage, and entirely representative of all other consumer class software.
Log4j – Getting to 2.16 and 2.17 is only Critical For Non-Default Configurations
Yeah, that's abrasive even by the warped incorporation services standards.

They take advantage of people that have an initial negative reaction to doing anything that sounds "legal-y" but really all they are doing is submitting 2 forms (certificate of organization with the state, application for EIN with IRS), giving you some template document for an operating agreement, and then once a year filing a one-page form to keep the company in good standing. If you're paying more than $100 for this, you're being taken for a ride.
The mood landing is pretty bad example. It is useless except for propaganda and good feeling. It is organizational and technological achievement, but not particularly needed by society that produced it.

People don't go to college to moorland nor to facilitate next war. They go to college to get corporate jobs.
Why is gene metaphorical here? Are people not a result of external stimuli? My understanding is that gene variants are involved in evolution often caused by extrinsic factors?
I assume one could send a patch to those crates that defines “use core::” instead of “use std::” by using the compile time config directive to check whether the std is enabled?
This is why I think college should be saved for the adults. Because, sorry, this is a pretty basic lesson in adulthood. Competence is only a small part of getting hired. Contacts and charisma are a huge huge factor. If you don't understand this, you should probably take a year or two to work, learn a bit about the world, then go to college. I've met so many students who have been judged purely on their grades, who then encounter the job market and are mystified to discover that their grades matter zero, zip, zilch. It's not their fault; that's what they've been taught in high school and earlier.

I've tried to explain that for 99% of CS majors, your grades do not matter. If you're spending your time in college constantly studying and worrying about getting an A in your test because oh no your GPA will be a 3.8 otherwise, you haven't really assessed what's important. Go to college; do your best to learn because the material is useful and pretty neat; socialize, have fun; then find a job. That's it. A 4.0 isn't that important.
I totally agree. We live in a world that only values some very specific types of diversity, indeed. Sociability is not one of them. If you're not like the norm you have to put in effort to be more like the norm: you don't want to go to team socials, or go to spinning classes with a VP of engineering? Sucks to be you. And not only that, we'll tell you that it's your fault that it sucks!
This was pretty explicitly explained by their representatives when this was all blowing up... and they actually DO provide the "library" version, it is just enough of an operations challenge for most businesses that they clearly got a lot of demand for a hosted solution tied to pages.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25875802

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26218230

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26801760
I've been using natls - has anyone compared that with exa? pros and cons?
one can flip that statement though, it matters a lot where you go for undergrad, eg pick a school solidly in thr "totally fine" rep wise and "very cheap" in the money side and come out with much more options instead of mandataory work to immediately begin repayment.
Soft spoken people selfhosting down-to-earth videos without asking me to like, subscribe and send my left b*llock to Facegoogle is everything I want from the 2020's. Bonus points for old Macs.
Nice, this can come in handy. What about using text fragments for the links? https://wicg.github.io/scroll-to-text-fragment/
PRC Shill here!
I took a few English classes as electives, and it was astonishing to see the number of English students (in a third-year class) who struggled with basic grammar and composition. The majority of the students wrote at what I'd consider early high school level. I don't know why. Maybe the professors were all afraid of giving bad grades, or the freshman-level intro classes weren't filling the role they were supposed to. But those students were going into a lot of debt to coast through easy classes that don't teach them the fundamentals of their degree.

I saw signs of that academic dysfunction from other departments too. This was at a very non-prestigious state school, but that's the type of school that most students attend. There must be millions of people in the US walking around with degrees in subjects they don't know much about.