skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> … from a designer perspective, is it good that a game is so boring that players are willing to pay real-world money to skip parts of it?

This was addressed brilliantly in a South Park episode, “Freemium Isn’t Free.” In it, a character, Stan, blows a ton of money advancing a by-design boring game. The game is revealed to be a sham to bleed players of cash. It likens addicted gamers to alcoholics. This mock commercial appears in the ep:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_n5nbx0Z9s
Human nature never changes, for an entertaining take on our current situation see part 3 of Gulliver's Travels published in 1726

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jonathan-swift/gullivers-t...
In the process of moving from London to Zürich to be closer to mountains and forests of central Europe. (While keeping the same role, now remotely.)
This was all figured out in 1517, letting the clergy be the sole arbiters of information does not end well.
An async and dynamic ORM for Rust
> Due to seasonality of the availability of the wind and sun, most locations require a month or more of battery capacityto get a fully-wind/solar system through a year.

Yeah if their assumptions include a month or more then you can end up with an astronomically big sum. Also you don't need batteries for all your energy storage and they use todays battery prices to come up with that number.
NixOS is organized into modules, as are a few community projects modeled after it, like Nix-Darwin and Home Manager. A more unified module system could mean

* NixOS supporting kernels other than Linux
* NixOS supporting init systems other than systemd
* NixOS supporting usermode services (i.e., code sharing between Home Manager modulea and NixOS modules)
* NixOS supporting a 'guest mode' for configuring system services (i.e., NixOS foldinf in Nix-Darwin and supporting similar systemwide service configuration on other foreign operating systems).

In this case, I'm talking mainly about the first, as a starting point, and hinting at the others.
You turn it on and it scales right up. Right up to space.
> I've never heard anybody describe meditation as "basically a nap" before.

> You're also jumping around in your position - first it's "meditation is sleep" now it's "meditation is time you're not stressing".

I wasn't the one who said meditation is a nap. Stop arguing that point. I do however doubt that there is anything special about meditation. And the process of taking a nap has a lot of similar parts to taking a break or meditating, I'd want evidence that those aren't just the same source. (although a nap also would add the sleeping part)

Edit:

> The simple explanation for mindfulness' effect is it allows you to better observe and understand your own mental processes.

But there is no evidence this actually helps. It helps some people take a break from their worries as you say, I understand that part can help them, but to all the people who can destress without some religious practice like this then I don't see why they would benefit from it. Just sit, don't think about things that worry you and relax. Why wouldn't that get the benefits of meditation? You say meditation also helps in other ways, but I see no evidence that those effects exists. Religions and their practices tend to get a large following who wants the things to be true, I see no reason to believe in those though.
If the CDC intentionally chose to lie to the public about their reason for a decision, that's really really bad.
Dark mode PLEASE. And thank you for building kinopio!!
1 is a very small sample set.
Fact checking is a blunt instrument against the lack of subtlety and polarization going in internet discussions

In fact, about the article concerned, even if correct in essence (and I don't see a reason why not) it is probably not conductive to good discussion. Because it wants to set a tone at the headline level (amongst other things).

> For these and other reasons, Zweig argues that the study ought to be ignored entirely: Masking in schools may or may not be a good idea, but this study doesn't help answer the question

Exactly! (from the article in question). But it's beside the point. If the study is good or not is a perfect valid discussion, if the CDC has made a good decision it is a perfect discussion, except discussing this in a magazine article is BS.

Because it is assigning blame and picking a side. Wearing a mask in a pandemic is a tiny issue, but it's being blown out of proportion. That study is one of the inputs the CDC takes to take a decision (again, in a pandemic, under pressure and under changing scenarios). And if the CDC is wrong then revert it. Again, nobody is dying for wearing a mask.

So, if fact-checking it was petty, the article itself was petty as well. Nothing of value was lost.
Portugal is great for nomads because wages for locals are super-low like a third world country but its in Europe still.
Docking is also done extremely slowly.
I'm trying to become a top 0.01% JS user and creating linters, flavors, etc is my plan as well. I've read through and annotated the React codebase but it didn't stick very well. I would have done better to create my own framework! I keep having to relearn that lesson... I can have a lot of knowledge about a thing through reading, but knowledge of the thing requires some practical application.

A tangent, but as it relates to that, if anyone reading has ideas on how to apply traditional computer science curriculum, I would love to hear it. I can think of toy CPU emulators, system architecture diagramming, language creation... But not sure if there's a thing I can build that would say, "I understand computer science."
People have different personality types and they can be grouped into categories just like anything else.

I think this guy used some science to back his book up, but the book doesn't even need that.

The point is, people are different, and it's an important life skill to realize this because you accept people who are different from you much easier.
China notifies UN after two near-collisions with Starlink satellites
This article gives more information: https://spacenews.com/chinas-space-station-maneuvered-to-avo...
The details seem ok, but the nomenclature isn’t: iBoot only handles hardware initialization and kernel bootstrapping. Once you’ve got system logging set up the kernel is in control and you’re into XNU, which is doing all the MACF, BSD setup and whatnot. You’re not going to get iBoot logs unless you set up a serial console.
Which is entirely irrelevant. The relevant part is that depression is diagnosed based on reported symptoms, not physically detected. The fact that it is not physically detected is not evidence that it can't possibly be physically detected, just a statement that it isn't.
No, I mean that they are talking about "boosters and ___" therefore ___ refers to a component, not the system as a whole. The term shuttle might refer to the whole system that is needed to shuttle people up and down, but the terms that fit the structure "boosters and ___" are craft, capsule, Dragon, maybe a few others, but not shuttle.

Doubly so when that is not a term that SpaceX uses to refer to any component or system.
Ah fair enough!
Watching Hillary Clinton, the "most qualified presidential candidate in history", belatedly turn hawk on China has been one of the dark humor events of the past decade (and there's been no shortage of competitors).

She has the remarkable ability to continue being wrong no matter how often she changes her mind.
I moved out from a large city to the countryside. I wouldn't be able to do it if I had not been working remotely (since 2006.) The last customers willing to see me in person maybe once per month or per week went fully remote so I was free to go wherever I like.
I realized after going through that seemingly cheesy core value exercise that I'd always been optimizing for autonomy, I was just using money as the proxy.

I was trying to optimize to get a green card (I'm Canadian) "quickly" and took a job that promised to help me but didn't deliver. Looking back, I shouldn't have been in such a rush to find a shortcut and just grinded leetcode longer. The whole time I was saving money because my end goal was to go full American Dream and start a business after I got a green card. It all worked in the end though because it lead me to where I am now.

As for moving to Taipei, when the green card fell through I started _really_ doing the leetcode grind because my friends at FAANG companies told me how much better of a job they did for immigration. While I was doing that I decided to interview at some startups for "practice" and ended up getting an offer to move to Taipei (CEO split his time between Hong Kong and Taipei). I'd been learning Chinese for a couple of years and always wanted to check out Asia. Taiwan had zero COVID cases (not exaggerating, literally zero domestic cases for most of 2020/2021) and I was getting no benefit paying Los Angeles rent and not being able to meet new people in person.

It wasn't until about 8 months into the startup job I realized just how affordable Taipei was, and it sunk in I didn't need to keep a job for immigration anymore (Taiwan has a Gold Card visa that's super easy to get and isn't tied to employment like the USA). That's when I decided to go all in taking Chinese lessons every day and starting an engineering training business in the afternoons/evenings. I gave my last job one month notice to not burn any bridges and now I'm on my own.

If you anyone wants to move, I highly recommend not worrying too much about the money and just finding a job and moving. Having some income lined up before you go is nice, even if it's just beer money teaching English. If you're indifferent about the money I recommend at least signing up for a language school so you have a routine you can follow during the week while your friends are at work.
In science you constantly have MD disagrees. How do you propose to reconcile this? Someone very qualified will inherently be "fact checked" because the information the fact checker acted on was old and outdated.

Anyways this is severely flawed and mistaken because what they're doing today is censoring everyone with or without an MD that their "black box algorithm" disagrees with. You propose keeping up stale information (which IMO amounts to killing people through misinformation not the reverse) and those with the stance to dumb down all information to the safest common denominator are making the social media experience worse for everyone else.
I disagree. There are definitely some things that are completely and entirely false, not left up to speculation.

My point was more that Snopes tends to indicate when something isn't clear-cut.
Anecdotally, most of the people I’ve known who’ve switched out of actuarial to data science haven’t been the best.

In most cases it’s been people who couldn’t pass exams, or were missold on what actuarial work actually involves and ended up moving early in their career when they wouldn’t have strong business acumen at all.

The one person who made the switch who I would consider a good actuary went back and did a masters in data science and applied for entry level roles. He had a couple million in the bank and decided he could afford to start over again.

He’s doing well now, he’s in a relatively senior position at a tech company. Financially he’s worse off than he would have been if he continued down the actuarial path, but he enjoys data science work a lot more than his old job and isn’t limited to insurance/pensions/finance.
Yeah, and they can quit and work somewhere else that’ll pay them just as well if they don’t like it. They’re not being asked to scrub toilets, they’re being asked to exercise the company’s product. The thing that pays their salary.

Let’s see how many actually quit over this. My guess is few to none.
completely insecure if you are not the only one with the key
To my knowledge, the FDA only gets involved when you try to sell things because that may qualify as false advertisement. However, Facebook posts like the ones in question here don't fall under that umbrella.

Disclaimer: I'm fully vaxxed and am happy with the way the FDA is run. My only dog in this conversation is censorship.
That's a very good answer. A few more points, because the answer is a 2.5 years old.

- the docking adapter discussed in the answer did not make it. However, the answer offers a couple of alternatives, so +1.

- they painted some crosses on the JWST to make alignment easier.

- JWST's L2 location is really far from Earth. It's about 4X the distance from the moon. So a manned mission is currently infeasible. But maybe in the future.

- while fueling may be possible, any other sort of maintenance probably isn't. To save weight, the JWST is mostly glued together, unlike Hubble which used spacesuit accessible bolts.
It's downright silly to pay new employees more than experienced employees for similar jobs. If you can't afford to raise wages for the experienced staff you'll soon have a bunch of inexperienced staff that costs you more.
There seems to be an increasing expectation that undergraduate education should be like high school. By the time you start studying at university you should be able to study independently. The lecturer isn’t there to entertain you or to hold your hand.
> I have no idea what this means:

Userland is instantiated.
I liked it better when the internet had a sense of humor.
This looks cool – I don’t quite get the notation for the evaluation? Why does {} appear on the “right” but not in the expressions?

And sometimes the {} are JSON syntax with quotes, but sometimes they aren’t?
Big props to Ariane 5 and the whole Arianespace team for executing such a precise insertion.
You should look into the concept of "burden of proof". If someone claims a model is based on scientific evidence, then obviously it is the claimant who has to provide this alleged scientific evidence.

You can't prove a negative, so it does not make sense to require others to prove this alleged evidence does not exist.
The source for the result was a page warning about a dangerous challenge that parents should watch out for.

Alexa stripped that context away completely and instead added a timer that discouraged careful consideration. This is an algorithmic failure, regardless of the age of the user. Having this sort of failure in a product that has been explicitly advertised for use by kids looks pretty bad and thus it is unsurprising how quickly amazon acknowledged the error and promised to fix it.

It might be unreasonable to expect Alexa to make the internet safe for kids, but if they want to be included in homes with children, they need to at least not directly make the internet more dangerous for children.

I expect that managing children's safety online will become a key product feature of Alexa in years to come.
We use LabVIEW, probably one of the few non-aero startups that do. It's great for parallel computation and test stand stuff, but I doubt they're flying LabVIEW executables. Most of the utility of LabVIEW comes on the V&V side (running lots of tests and logging lots of data).

Also it's very easy to build maintainable code in LabVIEW (contrary to the popular narrative), but there's a serious lack of good learning resources, and most people don't even take Core 1 and 2 before trying to code. Kind of like how a person on the business end of things may discover VB.NET and create some horrifying macros, simply because they don't know any better.
> which I'd rather not name

Why? It's the primary source where this was first "reported".

Many many DoorDash employees confirmed that this was really happening on Blind.

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Doordash-making-engineers-del...
It's their platform. They have a right to decide what's misleading and what isn't. You'd expect the editor of the Libertarian magazine Reason to understand this.
Sure, but give examples and you often start to find that the topics are so far afield from reality that they don't merit the cost of a fact-check.

Snopes has fact-checked claims that Donald Trump said Earth is flat (false) but not whether Earth is flat, and they won't fact-check that any time soon.
Playing with terrain generation can be a very fun topic to explore even if you aren’t a gamedev (yet).

Unity’s terrain system is a toy compared to Unreal, but that also means it’s easier to hack around in. I’d recommend this basic course for an intro to it:

https://www.udemy.com/course/procedural-terrain-generation-w...
IIRC, the helium coolant is only used on one of JWST's 4 instruments. So if they run out of helium the other three can still be used.
> But are there any vendors actively participating in or supporting Embedded Rust?

That's kind of an interesting question.

While obviously vendor participation can lead to some positive outcomes; my impression is some part of the motivation for Rust targeting the embedded space (and not waiting on vendors) is to avoid reliance on hardware vendors.

Due largely to the poor reputation hardware vendors have in regard to anything in the software tool/firmware space within the C ecosystem.
Might still be worth prototyping though?
Not really an advice because of privacy concerns, but Yandex has great mail and calendar apps with well-thought UX. It’s a shame they weren’t able to escape Russian jurisdiction.
I'd say it's one of a few things.

1. Survivorship bias.

Things that look like long-term planning is really the result of things that remain politically expedient through the years. The Constitution is (at least) the second attempt to write laws for the nation.

2. Continuous leadership: Or how no President will ever have the influence of FDR ever again and how WWII shaped the country for years to come.

When you are in charge for a while, you can plan longer. FDR won 4 terms, spent 13 years in office before dying. Navigated the country through the Depression and the second World War. Dying at the beginning of his fourth term left Truman in charge. Being his Vice President, Truman was in line with FDR's goals and continued them.

And you may think Eisenhower winning the presidency next would represent a break in the leadership, but Eisenhower was the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in WWII. He worked closely with FDR. He ran as a Republican mostly to make sure Taft didn't get the Republican nomination. He continued New Deal programs and started the Interstate Highway system. For a Republican, he was fairly progressive, continuing many social programs and starting another. Both parties wanted Eisenhower to run under their banner. He was just a generally well regarded figure.

Following Eisenhower, we have Kennedy (WWII veteran), then Johnson (also WWII veteran). So for about 36 years, you had administrations that were invested in social programs. That were willing to continue the policies of previous administrations.

Hell, you could probably throw Nixon (WWII veteran) on that train as well. Served as Eisenhower's VP, started the EPA. He probably represents that last vestiges of FDR's influence on the office. And George HW Bush is the last President to have served in active duty during WWII.

I mean, WWII is a major pivot point for the entire world. The events that went on during that time period literally still define the world today. We hardly think about Vietnam or Korea anymore, but you can still trot out Hitler and Nazis as ultimate examples of pure evil. And even then, the Vietnamese and Korean conflicts are results of the events of WWII.

So you have all those years being led by people shaped by the same world-defining event. Who saw the value in all the same things. It's not completely out of left field that their interests would line up.
You fail to see how this is responsibility of Alexa? Are you guys just corporate worshippers? Like are we past the point where we expect corporations to invest the time to make their products safe? I fail to see your logic and how this is a parenting issue, like do you expect parents to keep their kids in chains in glass domes? Amazon, Google, Facebook and all crap like that are selling products and apparently they are responsible for the crap their product produce and you guys are just willing to accept that
Where in Boston are you talking about affordable housing? Places even as far as Quincy are renting over 2k/mo.
One of the biggest issue with fact checking, is that fact checkers don't try to see if something is true or false. But they guess what people are going to understand from a post and then says whether or not those understandings are true or false.

For example if you say "There is no evidence that mask has helped reduce the spread of covid". You will probably be fact checked as false, because they think people will understand "Masks don't work".
I once heard someone on a podcast (forget who) propose that the #1 thing that the social media platforms could do to promote accuracy is to establish a "moderation filter" -- something that looks for extreme language, and down-weights it.

It's interesting to think about what the unintended consequences of this might be. An entire media of passive-aggressive political intrigue?
Flagging content with is_clickbait actually sounds quite a lot nicer than is_false ... You might be onto something.
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> I’m not a big fan of leeching people’s content like that. Though it’s very convenient for the consumer.

Except the internet was built to let us leech content from eachother.

If there would have been a capitalistic mindset behind it, I guess they would have started with taking your credit card number back in 1960.
What do you mean when you say grid-scale energy storage doesn't exist? Is this different from utility-scale which has existed for many years?
My guess is they're talking about money.

Many parts of life are much easier when you're financially secure. And the challenges to navigate vary by wealth level.
I wonder how they address the urinary tract issues, especially the bladder. It's one thing when they use it for anesthesia, which is quite rare and sporadic to receive, compared to something like therapy, which might happen more frequently and for longer. Does anyone have any data about that?
for those in the LA area: https://www.revitalifemedicalcenter.com/ketamine-therapy
If you can avoid the tax exposure and live there on US salary, it can be great.
Realistically, as a US Citizen you're only allowed to stay in EU (Schengen) countries for 90 days for every 180 day period, unless you get one of these digital nomad visas and have a self-sustaining business to make the move.
Wait if Hershel was the largest optical telescope in orbit, how come it didn't catch the public imagination like Hubble did?
I've had a FastMail family plan for this reason for 8 years now and love it. It's just me and my wife, but we are able to create shared e-mail folders, and have a "family" alias that goes to both of us. She also uses it for ad-hoc file hosting, while I have it act as DNS authority for the domain for everything I host with other providers. The interface is extraordinarily responsive, and customer support is great. They also have added recently some new privacy-focused features such as one-off e-mail addresses (though I haven't used this yet).
unfounded confidence in your critical thinking skills is a huge cognitive bias
Sigh. Comments in this thread are predictably polarized.

I personally think that fact checking is potentially damaging to society but so is the ability of social media to spread misleading claims.

It's difficult to predict which is going to be worse in the long run. As in many things we'll probably learn to tolerate a degree of both and aim to find a "least worse" outcome.

Anyone claiming here either that no fact-checking would be the best outcome or it's inverse (I can't quite formulate what that would be right now) is probably wrong and the messy middle is probably correct.
may be for prototyping labview is useful or python perhaps. but for real time I still think they rely upon C++