skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I work in the web3 (crypto) space and have for a long time already.

I think the killer app for web3 is going to be a decentralized, open identity/auth solution. The idea that we use our email accounts, attached to huge corporations which siphon every detail about us for their advertising engines is absolutely absurd. I just want to be able to log in to applications and carry some of the simple data like my identity and what assets I have available with me, without having to pay for it by losing my privacy and autonomy.

Nothing in the web2 tech stack currently allows this.

Imagine being able to log in, securely, to HN, Twitter, your bank, et al., and with you comes basic data about how to contact you, how you pay, what assets you're holding, etc. You get to choose what you share, and you get to authenticate each transaction discretely. It's powerful and it puts that power in your hands, not in those of large corporate entities.

That's what I'm interested in, and that's what I work on. We should all want some form of that.

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edit: glad the response to this was by people interested and curious. my usual feeling on HN is that people are hyper-negative about web3 tech. It's ok to be curious about new, cutting edge technology. That's what we're all here for, I think. Maybe the decentralized trend won't pan out. Maybe it is all a giant scam. Doesn't mean it isn't interesting and it doesn't mean that the people working in that space aren't legitimately trying to innovate.
I have a similar setup and wrote how to setup everything here

https://costapiy.com/deploy_django_project_linux_server/ and here
https://github.com/costapiy/server_setup
I think I might agree when it comes to Java developers creating crazy class-hierarchies with no meaning. To me that is pretty much as bad as a desert of for-loops and low-level code, maybe even worse.

I'm praying for you that you at some point end up in a project with a bunch of good developers that work on a code base with a lot of good and high abstraction. The pleasure to improve your own skills in this area and feeling your productiviy rise is worth the pain of learning things to get there. It will be difficult to find this in bigger companies though.

> I think software engineering at scale is more about sociology than people admit or realize.

Yes, but it's only a matter of time. Software engineering is a growing and young field. There will be a time when we laugh about the bad code that was written, without standards and training. This time is not yet, but I'm looking forward to it. :)
Public health authorities regularly perform that kind of risk-benefit analysis. Here's one by the FDA looking at the 5-11 age group: https://www.fda.gov/media/153507/download

My understanding is that this analysis assumed the observed myocarditis risk of the 12-15 age group would also apply here, but IIRC more recent data shows no myocarditis cases at all for the younger group.

There's a theory that links the occurrence of myocarditis to high testosterone levels, but that hasn't been proven yet. Existing data shows that the increased myocarditis risk (more or less) only applies to boys/young males.
The reporter didn't use it, but signaled it so it could be fixed.
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No, light moves more quickly through a vacuum. And that's ignoring all the other physics problems that come along with trying to tether satellites together physically.
Thinkpad x220 with Xubuntu and a Mac Mini. My two daily drivers with a Windows VM sitting on a NAS.

Nice to have options.
* Seek professional help.

* Build a daily routine of constructive activities (exercise, journal, meditate, cook etc)

* Focus on creating a future you would like.

* Find things to be grateful for every day.

* Don't indulge in your negative thoughts; notice them, acknowledge them, keep going.

Good luck with it, you got this.
Yeah I just write a list down and pick one that's achievable based on current finances, situation, motivation and desires. I add them to the list as I think about them.

To note I never mix my work objectives with personal ones. That can lead to all sorts of problems as I learned over the last 20 years or so.
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I hope the Webb telescope doesn't fail; but it seems very complicated, lots of moving parts to get it assembled.
I founded a company called Milo (https://www.getmilo.com/) - we started as a “One Medical For Pets” modern veterinary clinic and actually had 3 hospitals before realizing that the real value was in the software we had built to make our teams more efficient. Now we’re pure SaaS

It is definitely challenging to pivot and fighting sunk cost bias is massively hard
Thank you! HN just became a better place.
Isn't that mantra a bit too pessimistic? After fixing the performance issue, a speedup that was almost linear in the number of cores was achieved using multithreading.

In addition, async code can bring much of the same challenges as multithreading. For example, in C# tasks may run on the current thread, but they may also run on a thread-pool, and this is mostly transparent to the programmer. When you don't immediately await all asynchronous operations your tasks may end up running at the same time.
I’be been using this subconscious healing approach:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29701855

I’ve used it almost every day at times, but need it much less these days, having processed resolved so much of what used to affect me.

I find it’s effective because it’s systematic; the feelings you have in your body when you think of the issue points you to the subconscious charge that needs to be identified and processed. And as long as those feelings are there, there is more work that can be done.

It can take a long time to work through everything (I’m still working on things after nearly 10 years - i.e. early life family stuff), but it’s so so worth the effort and patience.
Did you disagree with the result of the Potter case? I am unfamiliar with it but it seems like they charged a police officer who "mistakenly used a handgun instead of a Taser"? Am I missing something here?
Threema 2.0 for desktop – coming soon
My brother had a nice view of the fires. He also stated it might snow soon?
Indeed. Being through a few traumatic experiences in the first months of 2020, including the sudden death of my dad. I can attest that while it has been hard to let go of some memories and feelings, changing the geographic frame is an absolute hack that works. Look for something completely different, if you live in the city move to the country, if you live in the mountains move to the beach. Allow yourself the new experiences, use your senses to explore the new. In my case, the following also helped:

1) allowed myself to invest and finish a project that had special meaning to me since before the trauma;

2) Got a new dog, learned how to train her as a service dog, and put in the work to get that completed. BONUS: I now have a trained service dog that I love, can take everywhere, and is truly man's best friend.

3) Started small projects which involved my loved ones, which helped me bond and create new memories with each one individually.

Hope this helps. The most important thing is to keep on keeping on. Never give up.
Possibly true of Amazon, but FB generates shadow profiles of acquaintances of it's users, from their address books and tagged pics... So you can't even avoid it even by not touching them with a 10ft pole - you must also keep all your friends away from FB.
Yeah I was going to say this. A hobby that gets you out of the door and interacting with people not through a screen helps a lot. From there you can work on your social skills with this helpful buffer of the shared enjoyment of an activity with other people.
10 years seems to be a good estimate how long it take to deal with extreme experiences.

In my experience it also was 10 years since I could handle similar situations. I have also heard this number from others often.
Ceteris paribus is actually a central assumption of much economic analysis. The Latin is "all things being equal", and the notion is that a single parameter or input is considered at a time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceteris_paribus

In practice, regression analysis ("econometrics" to economists) and similar analytic methods allow for evaluating multiple factors.
"Honey the floor is dirty"

"Yeah, I know, someone unpublished left-pad again!"
From “man ls”:

-b, --escape
print C-style escapes for nongraphic characters

I'd also add:

-1 list one file per line. Avoid '\n' with -q or -b

to make sure you can easily split the list by just the EOL, in case for some reason it thinks it is talking to a terminal and tries for format things for a human.
Note that incremental builds are the default for debug builds.

For reasons that are not entirely elaborated in the article, the author is using release builds for local development.
Used this before for a few languages and assuming you can incorporate it into your build system it's actually quite pleasant to use.

The problem is, shoe-horning it into your project can be a huge burden. It's why I left it in my toolbox as more of a toy.
Disabling mouse acceleration that way hasn't worked right since Catalina at least, maybe even since Mojave. You can test it with a high-resolution gaming mouse: slide it across your mousepad once as slowly as you can, and then flick it across once. There's still a difference in how far the cursor travels, even with SteelSeries ExactMouse.

The only tools I know of that actually work for this (if you comoletely disable speed/sensitivity controls as well as acceleration) are SteerMouse and CursorSense, which use some kind of driver hack: https://www.plentycom.jp/en/index.html
How do you know the price point is better? It's not on the website. Are you a customer?
Researchers report Covid outbreak at isolated Antarctic station
"When I read an article or see a tweet that a distant friend might enjoy, I send it."

This is also a trick I commonly employ. I rekindle our common interests with things I'm learning or reading and it is serves as a great launch point for discussion when we reconnect. I've affectionately earned a reputation among my friends as a "spammer", but perhaps that is better than "absentee"!
I dunno about limitations, but similarly F5 for refresh on Windows feels quite arbitrary compared to Cmd-R.

Ctrl-Tab at least builds on the concept of [modifier]-tab cycling tabs, and Cmd-W makes sense for closing browser tabs because there tabs are functionally the “windows” you’re working with most often.
> People should be free to spend their wealth on whatever they want

So, you're saying I should run my unlicensed nuclear testing facilities? Regardless of any consequences and externalities I may cause.

And I should have the right to sell whatever I discover to highest bidder (including terrorist organizations)?

It's a hyperbole, but Bitcoin suffer from both of those: heavy externalities, and interfacing with black market.
The US currently allows several forms of private currency:
-airline miles
-giftcards
-the institution which controls the us money supply (the fed) is a private corporation.

The US also tolerates several giant MLMs several of which are on major stock indices (Herbalife, Amway)

There is a huge difference between the positive freedom to not buy crypto and the negative freedom to staunch the economic activity of others.

Is crypto purchased for productive reasons? Largely no. Are there productive uses like bankless wire Xfers? Yes! Is it worse than MLMs, mileage programs or gambling? No

On the scale of US fiscal horrors it doesn't even touch debacles like healthcare.
Yes, it hinges on the definition of pivot. From a customer point of view, this is a mere evolution. That this imposes vastly different requirements on the underlying business is not really the problem of the customer.

In a similar vein, how would you describe the move of just about every primary, secondary and tertiary educational institutions to online teaching?

I don't consider that a pivot. It was necessary to continue to deliver the basic added value of these institutions. However, that did require a whole slew of new skills from teachers. So sure, YMMV.
The Matrix Resurrections review: Latest film instalment offers nostalgia but no
How do you find things that you can put effort into? And even if I had something to put effort into, how do you actually do that? I pretty much constantly feel like I have no idea what I actually want to do, and when I think about possibly intentionally doing something, it feels "fake" to me. On top of that there's a strong "anti-motivation" to just do nothing.

My brain seems to offer no assistance in figuring out what to do even after I manage to get something started (it often does the opposite), so it usually leads nowhere.
Now their headquarters are 7 floors in a generic office park building! The new strategy turned out to be successful I guess :)

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Excited to help more learners and devs with Codexplainer AI.
Why does play2earn require (or is made much easier by) crypto? I'm missing a step in the logic
Telegram knows how to play the PR game. It’s going to be a bit more elegant than that, with a “we will rise from the ashes” tone. They know what they’re doing, and I doubt they had any intention of getting away with this.
Hehe. Ok. That is very funny :)
Fine art and NFTs are not theoretically the same. With fine art there is only one object, which can only be picked up, looked at, and so forth, in one spot. People go to museums or private collections to go see these pieces because looking at them on a computer or in a print doesn't have nearly the level of detail needed to appreciate them. Seeing a reproduction or a computer image of fine art is like going to a movie theater VS watching a movie on an iPhone SE, or going to the opera VS listening to it on your iPhone. And only one person can own that experience.

This is untrue for NFTs. There is basically no value whatsoever to an NFT as far as I can tell VS say an svg of whatever image you downloaded. NFTs don't need to be owned to appreciate them, and "owning" them is basically meaningless insomuch as someone who takes a screenshot has about the same level of ownership as the person who "bought" it.
They don't know what they know. My 20 year old account regularly gets suggestions for women's clothing, which I have never purchased and don't wear, as I'm a man.
I honestly don't know. At best you're going to get trite answers such as join a club or get involved in a hobby. In my experience, you make transient acquaintances and still end up feeling lonely.
Harm is not limited to direct medical causes. Parents dying of Covid will cause significant mental and financial harm
>The idea that we use our email accounts, attached to huge corporations which siphon every detail about us for their advertising engines is absolutely absurd. I just want to be able to log in to applications and carry some of the simple data like my identity and what assets I have available with me, without having to pay for it by losing my privacy and autonomy.

Okay but instead of it being known to just say one company, anything on the block chain is known to everyone. I fail to see how that's any better or even remotely "powerful".
The quote you're citing is chiefly discussing what happens if you use a charger or device doesn't have USB-PD support. Perhaps there are some cables somewhere if you search long hard. Perhaps. But again you're dealing in extremely rare & exceptional cases & sowing doubt, where I really don't think any such misgivings are deserved. I dislike seeing such unfair maligning & sowing of doubt. I do not think this sense of fear & afraidness is reasonable. A USB-C USB3 cable without CC lines is out of spec & cannot be called such.
A few suggestions for you:

1) Write, draw or both. Any form of self-expression helps to clear or release stuck memories. You can set a timer or just continue until you feel complete. Sometimes just even writing down words describing your emotions helps to move through it by naming it. The idea is to release these feelings and keep this energy moving instead of holding onto it inside you.

2) Burn ceremony. Take a symbol from this past experience and burn it. Sit with those feelings, embrace them and try to visualize them leaving as the fire consumes the object. Share any gratitude for the experience or express your anger, sadness, etc. The flame will be a willing listener. Or, like you said ask yourself for permission to move on before you light the fire.

3) Mantra. When I start focusing on the past I try to ask myself: Is there something I’m wanting in this present moment? If so, then I try to act on it. If not then a mantra can help like “In this present moment I feel ____” or a reminder to your brain can help like: “Thank you, I remember that.” The ideas is to acknowledge the thought without judgement but to have a simple process for moving forward and re-focusing on the present. That way when you’re enjoying life and you’re suddenly reminded of this past experience you have a quick way to snap back into the present instead of letting yourself get sucked back into the past.

This is challenging stuff though and if you find yourself unable to move on, then therapy might be a good option. There are a bunch of online options now and like you said sharing your story with someone else might help. Or, even posting your story anonymously on Reddit might do the trick.

Good luck!
I agree that downloading symbols can be oddly slow but you can just turn it off, or only turn it on for specific modules. It can be helpful to have symbols for library code to troubleshoot bugs but typically you only need your own symbols and they are already on your computer with your binaries.
I came to realize at the age of 30 that I am actually an extrovert

Being a Computer Science grad / software engineer and on the quieter side, I always labeled myself as an introvert. But I more recently identified that I get a lot of energy from talking to the right people, even if I’m not loud and gregarious like your textbook extrovert.

The main thing is I only get energy from talking to interesting people about interesting things, and I now see that as a positive, instead of hating myself for not meeting some unrealistic standard of being able to engage with boring people over small talk or trivial matters
Java refugees represent!
I feel I've been trying to do this for about a decade. It's not easy and our brains tend to focus on negative memories I think as a survival mechanism. Try and create new memories that aren't traumatic. That takes time and effort and good risk assessment. I agree with others here saying change your geography if possible. Change your habits, hobbies, lifestyle, social circle even clothes, the car you drive. Everything you can change do it. Usually your solutions to your problems create more problems but I guess that's just the journey of life and the pursuit of happiness.

One of the easiest pieces of advice I can give is to check out nature/relaxation videos on YouTube. There are these amazing videos 1-10hours long of nothing but peaceful music and beautiful scenery in the background. I put a 55 inch 4k TV in front of my bed and often just lie down and meditate on these wonderful images. I also watch them before I go to bed. In 4k it can be really beautiful if you just calm your mind and appreciate being given a tour of some of the most incredible sights on the planet. I practice gratitude that such a thing is even possible. This is a practice I will keep likely for the rest of my life as it's relatively affordable and doesn't require leaving the house. It also helps create new positive memories and just reminds you that life can be beautiful.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

1. Stick to a strict budget

2. Stick to a strict diet

3. Liberal consumption of book media

4. Liberal production of content

5. See fewer humans
>Microsoft robustly caters to backwards compatibility.

This includes bugs too. I ran into an undocumented bug in select(1) IIRC that they couldn't fix since it would break backwards compatibility. I spent like a day trying to figure out why my program wouldn't work correctly on Windows.
Unfortunately you acquire users by building what they actually want, not what they should want.
Pride in one's craft. It starts to make a lot of sense when you are optimizing for anything other than profit.
A friend of mine, who was apparently healthy, died of MRSA.

He was in his 30s. Destroyed his father.

Dreadful way to go.
The way I’ve heard it laid out is:

Web3 will handle IP address and DNS storage, sale, and search using basically NFTs on the blockchain. Meanwhile, HTTP content hosting will still be kept separate (maybe IPFS, maybe something centralized depending on the need).

Current example: NFTs typically store metadata on the blockchain and the content in IPFS.
But you also need the required willpower/discipline to do the repetition and learning. So there is some recursion here.

To paraphrase Shopenhauer, you are free to do what you want, but you are not free to will what you want.
> Imagine being able to log in, securely, to HN, Twitter, your bank, et al., and with you comes basic data about how to contact you, how you pay, what assets you're holding, etc. You get to choose what you share, and you get to authenticate each transaction discretely. It's powerful and it puts that power in your hands, not in those of large corporate entities.

That sounds interesting! How could I learn more about that?

> that's what I work on

What's your company?
> And the reason we all got internet connections in the mid-90's wasn't Web0. It was email. Web0 was a toy thing that only us geeks played around with, that came free with your email account.

Your comment about spreadsheets matches my experience but this does not unless “mid 90s” really means “1995 at the very latest”. I was seeing a ton of interest in web projects by then from normal companies who wanted to replace catalog ordering, put product and support information online, etc. – and normal people were starting to use it for all kinds of non-web things by then.

I strongly agree with your main point: I’ve never heard someone ask about cryptocurrency or NFTs except in that they heard someone on CNBC saying the prices were booming & were wondering whether it was a good bet.
Clear distinction between loneliness and solitude and when I needed or wanted each of which and when not was helpful. The times you want neither are the moments you want to engage in social activities, even approaching people circumstances allowing, without it feeling forced upon you by yourself.
You can do a lot of things with a number that are not optimizing.

For example, you can satisfy it, you can alert on behavior, or you can use it as a control (but ok, maybe this one makes a two number KPI instead of two KPIs).
This model is good for I/O heavy code that is typical for most web services. However if your load is a mix of I/O and compute something like Go should do a lot better.
Without being insulting to anybody, one of the best things you can do for your social life (not to mention health, and even finances) is work on your fitness for these (and many other reasons).

* You will gain a lot of confidence in social situations. Going to a gathering as one of the fittest people there feels a lot less anxiety-inducing than entering as the overweight person. Trying to date while in shape is an entirely different experience than trying to find somebody when you're not.

* Finding an exercise you enjoy gives you an outlet for pent up stress, making you less anxious in other areas of your life.

* Finding some sport or activity you can participate in gives you numerous opportunities to join with clubs and make activity buddies.