skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand it wasn't meant to be "mindlessly", I don't appreciate you putting words in my mouth.

Still, if you don't have the more accurate word in your vocabulary, then don't use it. It will sound stilted and unnatural in the context of your sentence.
Before folks vote up this facile, misguided criticism, at least read the referenced essay https://jsomers.net/mcphee-draft-no-4.pdf

The whole point of published writing is to put enough effort into one-to-many communication to be clear, concise, and expressive. Finding the right words (not the fanciest or rarest words) helps writing to better transmit intention from author to reader.

Careful revision and editing should be celebrated as expressing appreciation for readers, not sneered at as inauthentic.
recently got gifted a plane ride, it was a something something pioneer, a low two seaters, and a dead stick landing was part of the routine, and was almost menial.
Arch Linux with the LTS kernel.

Windows 10 on the work-provided PC, but only because I didn't have a say in the matter. Would probably have picked Debian or Ubuntu otherwise.
Are you implying ameobas don't have some sort of interior representation of their external environment?

I would be very hard to do what they do without one.
> Just isolating on a separate network isn’t enough — if an attacker compromises a single machine, then they get access to that network.

Eh, no. You'd isolate it on a VLAN where only people who need access to ILO have access to. Now, lets zoom out for a moment, does the sales dept. need access to ILO? No. Does the CEO need access to ILO? No. So machines on these VLANs do not have access to that VLAN. And, if the machine of a sysadmin is compromised, you're into deep shit as it is.
It's basically the equivalent of random casual players hopping into an FPS and immediately being able to spectate top tier pros and deciding that everyone must be aimbotting. No, some people really are just that insanely good at video games.
Why do we need to refer to everyone else? What matters is my own argument not everyone else's.

If what everyone else thinks is a factor, than the majority of the world is not atheist.
You might want to look into debezium. We use it to extract the change log from a generic OLTP database into Materialize, a view maintenance engine. Combining that data with event streams in Kafka is very powerful for us.
Not seeing any input lag here.
This was a great read. Lead me down a rabbit hole including such gems as galvanized versus stainless steel and differences in welding techniques. All this at 3AM.
The Best General Advice on Earth (1890, 2012)
This is pedantic. You could say you believe in not believing in certain things. Does it even matter? You know what I mean, no need to get pedantic here.
Dang he passed away this year god rest his soul. Love some of his quotes.
> Notice, too, how much less certain the Webster definition seems about itself, even though it’s more complete — as if to remind you that the word came first, that the word isn’t defined by its definition here

I like this. A dictionary with an opinion, rather than a definition.
I found a video of its stunning beauty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_urfQTLk_g

The author says that the line closed in March 2020, but maybe it has since been reopened?
It's not about using less common words. It's about finding variants that better capture the essence what you're trying to say, or add life to the prose.

> He explains that for him, draft #4 is the draft after the painstaking labor of creation is done, when all that’s left is to punch up the language, to replace shopworn words and phrases with stuff that sings.

None of that suggests the writer is looking to use obscure words. I know the writers you're talking about as well; they're just doing it badly, or mimicking what they think a good writer does.

Compare:

Todd opened the curtains and the room got brighter

with:

Todd parted the curtains and sunlight streamed into the room

Both describe the same thing, and both use ordinary words. But the second one paints a better image in your mind. Of the curtains revealing the window behind them, of the way the room gained illumination, etc. It's livelier.

Or, let's say your marketing team proposes a new slogan: "Our intention is to make sure you're satisfied". A good writer takes a crack at it and comes up with "We aim to please".

First one sounds corporate and boring, the second one is friendly and informal. But both use words that everyday people would understand.

If you've just finished a draft of a few thousand words, a lot of dull phrasing will have made it into the writing. While writing those drafts you were focused on the narrative or plot or whatever. Draft #4 is when you comb through it and look for crusty phrases, replacing them with "stuff that sings". It needn't be garrulous ;)
I'm not sure what you mean when you say abandon (to) fears. But my experience was that when I could pinpoint the fear, overcoming it by facing it was the way out.

Often as infants we develop legitimate fears in the context of our vulnerable position and extreme dependency on maintaining the parental relationship. These fears made sense then and helped us keep our parents calm, but interrupt our adult lives. These fears are also extremely powerful as our infant brain associates breaking them with a risk of death (typically through abandonment).

However, the brain seems to be remarkably fast at unlearning these fears when it realises they no longer are needed (I will not die/risk death by doing the "forbidden action"). So my experience was that pinpointing the fear, facing it in my life (perhaps initially in the context of the safe relationship with my therapist, and then outside in the "real world"), and watching my anxious reactions which were previously flared up in situations where I was avoiding the forbidden behaviour fade away. It leads to a calmer mind with fewer and fewer situations in daily life which cause anxiety to arise.
What are your thoughts on Ethereum sharding and proof of stake for scaling transactions and lowering costs?
Yes, the example Raymond uses isn't PIC.
Cut down on caffeine. Possibly take a vacation.

I've discovered is that when I'm on caffeine, my stress levels are extremely high (around 90%) and energy levels are equivalent to at 1 AM (as measured from a smart watch). This gives me an ADHD-like effect of being hyperfocused but unable to do important things. By comparison, on a normal day, under harsher conditions, I'd have much lower stress levels (30-55%) and a lot more energy.

The brain interprets the physiological response based on context. It's a bit complex to explain in a comment, but look up the Schachter-Singer Theory. So you might have the fight/flight/freeze response, which results in procrastination. Some people condition themselves to fight (anger/insults/action). Some condition themselves to freeze (inactivity).

Spend too long in this phase, and you condition yourself into inactivity. But the actual pressure from not completing the work makes you stressed and it becomes a loop.
There is a quote I can't find the author of. They will risk everything to give up nothing.
If you or anyone else ever decides to bring your paragliding reserve onboard an airplane, be sure to check its specs first. Paragliding reserves are optimized for fast deployment at low airspeed, whereas deployment at airplane flight speeds needs a slower deployment sequence to avoid excessive G load on both the parachute and yourself.

For extra safety, getting a whole-airplane ballistic recovery parachute is a much better choice, although those are not foolproof either – installation must be done properly, and deployment is not guaranteed to succeed if your plane is in pieces by the time you need it, e.g. from structural failure or a midair collision.
> Talent doesn't have problem making money

No where else in my career have I seen senior level engineers earn 7 figures.

> talent is attracted to interesting problems and id attracting the money

First part is fair, top engineers are passionate about solving challenges.

Second part not so much. How can you explain that “interesting problems” is an efficient capital allocation strategy?

Money is interested in making more money. Here’s an alternate hypothesis: Every few decades a bubble appears. VCs which know their history dust off their bubble playbooks and enter close to the ground floor. But this time is different because they also got to dust of the century old playbook on unregulated financial markets.

> 13 years isn't long enough to prove its not a bubble.

Your argument is upside down. BTC has had 13 years and is complete failure. ETH came out 6 years ago but so far the DeFi space has not provided a single useful application that touches the real economy. Today we have a basket case of post-ETH decentralized compute and storage platform options that have not produced a single killer app.

Your argument is upside down. If ETH had launched in 2020 instead of 2015, we could argue for more time to try out a product market fit. But the more years of r&d without a killer app, the more confidence that it’s a bubble.
The power (in W) isn't the relevant value when talking about batteries, it's the stored energy (in Wh) that matters (it's the opposite for dam storage, where energy is plentiful but power is limited). Just do the math and check how many minutes the installation would stay up under significant load from the grid.

BTW I'm baffled to see a website called “energy storage journal” mixing up energy and power like this …
You mean 2:49 AM
I get what you're saying, and agree. When I was in middle school I'd shamelessly use MS Word to replace words in my reports with fancy sounding synonyms that I had never heard of before. I kind of cringe at the memory. But on the other hand, that's also kind of how I got them to be in my vocabulary. I feel like once you commit to a new word in your own writing, you start seeing it everywhere and getting a feel for how it's naturally being used.
It kind of does though. People online cheer when city centers become closed to cars. Spreading it further probably means restricting cars more.

I don't really disagree with your overall stance, but those two do often go hand in hand. Perhaps that's why progress is slow on that front.
Unfortunately for him, I use Bing.
> The US government has made it abundantly clear that printing money is not a problem.

Well, it is. We have inflation.

But one alternative (helping homeless persons get back into society) may increase our tax base, and the other is just a handout for privileged people who got to go to college.
The dictionary I use goes with:

• arctic: Designating the celestial north pole, and the Pole Star that marks its position in the sky.

• sport: Diversion, entertainment, fun.

• magic: The use of ritual activities or observances which are intended to influence the course of events or to manipulate the natural world, usually involving the use of an occult or secret body of knowledge;

• example: A person's conduct, practice, etc., regarded as an object of imitation or as an influence on the behaviour of others

While not as expressive as Webster's, I was surprised by their color compared to the facsimiles given of other modern dictionaries.
Following this for more resources as I am also switching to node from jvm
Many banks, both historically and presently, have pervasive and capricious fees that disproportionately impact people with less money. Both because those fees are large relative to the amount of money they have, and because those fees arise in situations more likely to occur with less money (e.g. overdraft fees, policies that intentionally do withdrawals before deposits to cause overdraft fees, minimum balances, ATM fees, and many others).

And furthermore, the institutions more likely to be friendlier to customers with less money are sometimes also institutions on a smaller scale that may have a harder time offering some of the services of larger institutions (e.g. branch/ATM locations, compelling variety of credit and account instruments, investment arms, better online banking experiences).

To the extent this is changing, it also has to change in people's perceptions, in a fashion that makes it easier to predict and feel confident in.
There was a great example in Germany recently. A Hamas terrorist killed one Israeli and wounded multiple others and was shot himself by Israeli security forces. German State TV opened with "Israel: one Palestinian killed".
No, the ones who created this failed strategy are responsible.
Ask HN: Can payment processors like Stripe and their fees be avoided?
Say you’re running an online store, selling something digital or physical.

Is it practical to completely avoid the fees of payment processing companies like Stripe?
> all it has to do is just post some information exclusively on that platform

Exclusive publication of Gov information is just one of the aspects but the one that is most eggregious to me as a tax paying citizen and comes to mind immediately when I think about a public square. Broadcasting on Radio doesn't prevent anyone from accessing the radio waves. You don't need to give your information to ad-tech platform to access information.

> must stop moderating the platform

How much moderation/censorship is debatable and can get messy. Obviously you want to ban spam. But, as I said, I'd much prefer an official Gov version of Twitter-like system. I don't even want a Gov contract to procure Twitter platform for Gov use unless the algorithms are also public that control what's shown to people.

In general: Social media x Government comm = Unequivocally terrible idea IMO. Let alone US gov, Foreign governments who have no fricking clue about what Twitter's internal algorithms are have decided to jump on the Twitter bandwagon which seems to be a monumentally stupid idea. Great for politicians probably, bad for people.
You create a new signature signing a message saying you transferred this. The important bit here is some public immutable record. If this happened on Ethereum, and Ethereum ceased to exist, then your NFT would cease too. If you used say a archive.org snapshot then your NFT would live as long as archive.org servers are up.
>"We have such a sophisticated propaganda in the west"

Do not flatter. It is quite visible and primitive.
There’s an important subtlety here — you’re meant to be replacing the words that don’t sit right with you. Your starting point is that it’s already potentially stilted and unnatural and you’re trying to fix that.

Most importantly though — this is a tool, and not a replacement for taste and judgment. Seen from that perspective, it’s a much more potent tool than what a traditional dictionary offers.
What a sad, sad read. Kind of makes my blood boil, too. We've barely started but half the comments are already grey.

As a side note: anyone else wonder why the English speaking world refers to the region as "the middle East"? To me it is the near East. Not just because of proximity but I've never heard or read about a near East from anglo sources. What is the rationale?
Do you really get full oreilly access with ACM? they make it sound like it's not all included by specifying "custom collection" and "including recorded conferences"
Exactly. Arch would have faded into obscurity if it didn't have the infamy of being a difficult challenge. People use it BECAUSE they want to feel like they've accomplished something difficult.

It would be nice if Arch could be made easy to use, and the community could be less hostile to new users, without falling into obscurity, but it's an impossible catch-22.
I always feel these compound descriptions lack intuition for non Chemistry majors.

The coumpound described 'Phtalates' is a technically a plasticizer. A lot of plastic structures are naturally brittle, the purpose of Phtalates is to intercalate in the lattice of the plastic structure and give it some flex.

So even if you are using Phtalate free plastic, assume that if it has some flex it will likely just have some other chemically similar plasticizer. So as a general precautionery principle avoid plastic all together until we have a better picture of the science around it.
He wasn’t just using British spelling, but British coloquialisms that are not taught abroad. And he clearly wrote at a “native” level.

And he was active - writing commits and emails - in UK hours, not American hours.

Is it some kind of US nationalism that insists on ignoring all this?
I’m sure there’s something valuable to be done with NFTs, but why is it that it seems that everyone involved in it is only focusing on meaningless applications like pepe frogs and boring games?
Bloody British. Just think how many died building them.

Great achievement and good progress. But it came with a price.
Category theory seems like a good place to start
The mental illness is when option B in this example seems preferable to small inconveniences and embarrassments, and when one doesn't think of things like, (C) forget about it and go hang out with some friends.
“Feelings” map of Prague by locals
What a beautiful way to shoot yourself in the foot
Wish I can but not possible, the spendings will be checked and needs to be for our use only. I know you can get to high paying dev job with free ressources only though!
There is something called a merchant account that might be suitable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_account. I'm sure there are some fees associated with it but you should look into it and see if it will fit your use cases.
“Both sides” just provides cover for the really heinous side. Anything that categorizes evil and really-really-evil into the same bucket, benefits really-really-evil the most.
If in doubt pareto
Atlasian, really?
I am so glad to have read your comment. You took the words right out of my mouth. I was very confused by the phrase “diversion of the field” as both “diversion” and “field” can have so many diverse and incompatible meanings.

The author asks: “Who decided that the American public couldn’t handle ‘a soft and fitful luster’?”. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the correct answer to that question is “research”. Linguists and child psychologists have studied the effect of dictionary definitions on learning and realized that simpler definitions are more useful to school students than the author's dream of “stuff that sings”, and that a clear and succinct definition like “a quality that evokes pity or sadness” is more comprehensible, and hence more useful, than whatever Webster's blurb is trying to express.

It should be ironic that the author would use “fustian” as his prime example — a word which, prior to reading this article, I had never encountered before, but after seeing the paraphrasing, “It’s using fancy language where fancy language isn’t called for”, I now know exactly how to describe this piece.
Okay. "Blockchain and crypto aside", where are the fully decentralized Facebooks and Twitters without gatekeepers?
Indeed. Thus we describe that experience as mental illness.
Not sure what I think of this. That Eli David guy seems to be a nutter. "A stopped clock tells the correct time twice a day", and his Twitter feed wants to amplify the times he's right, and ignore the rest.

Doing a tiny bit of scroll-back on Malone shows him to be roughly the same. While he did work on what would eventually become important science, back in the day, his claims to having invented the latter fruits of that labor are dubious.

Should he have been suspended? I dunno. I usually think that the best way to deal with nonsense is to expose it to the air, question its claims, look for evidence to back it up, and demand a high caliber of data. The problem with Twitter (all social media really) is that it's perfectly designed for daily, unending "soundbyte" battles that are all too insignificant to matter (except for the occasional one that turns into a pile-on, and someone gets fired - but that's never the actual result we should be looking for). Every day you get millions of Twits talking over each other, rarely requiring evidence, let alone use basic logic. It's like two clouds of insects coming at each other and doing battle in the air, with billions more hatching on the ground nearby. Pointless.

I know that Twitter can be useful, just like Reddit and maybe even Facebook. But it's not the place to have important discussions. It would be like trying to conduct an important trial with 1000 clowns in the court, cycling around on tiny bicycles and flinging custard pies left and right. Really, we should treat Twitter (and Reddit and Facebook) as the circuses that they are, and let anyone join and spout nonsense.

Maybe they should reinstate his account and then shut down the platform.
Query language and data modeling for a db highly depends on if it is relational, graph, time series, denormalized or KV. Don't think this would be possible beyond what's already available in form of ORMs. Even getting SQL dialects to agree is a challenge some times.
Yeah, I was spectating couple of the players, hard to believe how fast they can move.. maybe somekind of ranked play would be in place not to scare away new players.
A list of books about business history
Handle payments yourself. And unless you have massive sales, those fees are cheaper and easier to maintain
The dictionaries the author starts with seem to be the concise dictionaries which are intended to be that way. I don't blame him since the full dictionaries (e.g. OED) are hidden behind paywalls but the full dictionaries are really, really good. The entry for "flash" in the OED for example contains literary examples of the kind the author seems to want, like "red the gaze that flashes desolation". The OED also includes several senses of the word and its etymology.

The OED costs $100/year for US residents or £100/year for everyone else [0] but you can often get access through a library. The San Francisco Public Library has a proxy you can use if you have a library card there [1].

[0]: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/oxford-english-dicti...

[1]: http://www.oed.com.ezproxy.sfpl.org
True! Countries/Cities are in need of Cobol/Java, if in possession of Nuclear Weapons Fortran...or ADA ;)
Aging is a curable disease. In 200 years our current views of aging will seem as absurd as thinking that the rains didn't come because a god was angry. We will wonder why society didn't spend unlimited resources on aging and aging-related diseases given how incredibly expensive both are.
All theories are good until they come into contact with reality.

"Everything will be magically good and people will live in love in peace once there's a decentralized open database with bo gatekeepers" is just as valid a statement if you "don't say anything about implementation".