skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't completely get over anything, but I have a strategy that has at least mitigated some of the long term damage from past events in my life.

This will seem bizarre, but bear with me.

If I can, when an upsetting memory pops up, I try to find a reason to laugh at it, or force myself to dismissively laugh at it, and then I file that memory back into my brain and move on.

The long-term effect of this is that to some extent I can detach myself from the emotions I had in the moment and just be able to recall these events more objectively. Because I force myself to laugh at events long since passed, the more I do it, the less I associate the memory with the original emotion. Eventually I don't need the strategy and can think about an incident rationally without spiraling out of control emotionally.

Of course this may not be possible for some memories, and I don't necessarily recommend it. If a troubling memory involves being bullied, it can help, in my experience. Anything involving regret or guilt, not so much; in those cases it's better to make them right if you can and otherwise accept it.
Some crazy canuck cut one in half to show how they (don't) work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClPwlpa86bY
Installing to a known torque and painting a line on the fastener is a lot less expensive, which becomes important when your project has potentially tens of thousands of key fasteners, like a bridge.

But for something like an MRI machine where there’s fewer fasteners and higher stakes - would make a lot of sense to use Smartbolt I think.

Tangential: related to trucks, there is a somewhat similar product to easily monitor tire pressure visually, which is popular: https://www.linkmfg.com/products/specialty-products/cats-eye
> That means that Google indexed those SSNs!

Not necessarily. The SSNs were returned in search results from an HTML form. Last I checked, google's crawlers don't POST forms.
Switching with non-Apple devices is also really easy.

Whenever I want to switch to my Windows laptop, I just click AirPods in the list and it connects instantly. Same when I want to switch back to an Apple device.
If autism is a spectrum, I would say that at least 80% of the programmers I've come in contact with are noticeably further along it than average. Over 60% would be described as awkward.

This is in Scandinavia where people generally just work in a field they enjoy, nobody works in IT for the money, so it is probably different in a place like India or even the US.
I will move to a part-time job and start a physics degree. There are many crazy things coming up in science, and I want to be a part of it.
I don't think the analogies about "someone else's house" work in the reporter's favor, whether the door was open or not. The data was included in source code that the server sent to the client in the normal course of operations.

It's more like if the New York Times dropped a newspaper at your house with the answers to next week's crossword puzzle included on the page.
What are your thoughts on the new data released by Ontario[1]?

[1]https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data?fbclid=IwAR2pRUq9GN9EEoDTm0... (see graph 3 in particular)
Wouldn't the signal to noise ratio be better on earphones as they are relatively closer to your mouth and are "dampened" by your body as opposed to on a laptop where it's more likely to pick up keyboard/fan/environment noise as it's closer to those and has no/very little vibration dampening?
I have a bud and an earphone from Anker and both straight forward work with multiple devices. The big issue is that AAC is only supported when connected to a single device and SBC is garbage.
> I don't agree that hospitals charge based on ability to pay. I believe that they generally charge the max and then, maybe, negotiate the price based on your ability to pay (more likely they put you on a payment plan).

This is my experience as well.

Hospitals won't conform to this disclosure law without a proper stick to get them to. I wonder if companies fought the law in Colorado that stated all job descriptions need the minimum salary for a role to be listed. That's data that could advantage their competitors but I've seen it on Google job listings when looking at roles in Colorado...

It's a Micro-Economics 101 maxim that all students learn early is that efficient markets depend on as much price transparency as you can muster. When one or more parties have more pricing information than you they have a huge advantage.
Love to hear some of the alluded to "real world benefits" - I have heard none so far, just claims of things an experienced engineer can invalidate with a few minutes of work.
Anthropause
Keep your identity small. What good does it do you to identify as a nerd?
Web 2.0 was never a thing. It was just a vague term some people came up with so they’d have something to say in their magazine articles/blog posts. There is no Web 2.0 or in fact web2.

Web 3.0 I have a soft spot for. It was a stupid name and the ideas didn’t really work but the semantic web people had their hearts in the right place.
> If you host your own email, you can't do anything because nobody trusts you.

Where can you not signup with your own hosted email? I can't think of any service. Twitter, bank, saas apps, just care that you have an email.
I read much of my waking hours for work, entertainment, and personal growth. It just isn’t usually (for better or worse) in the form of a book.
Brilliant post this, I always wondered how the ambiguity in ranging signals is taken care of (you can measure the phase shift but how do you know what the offset in whole waves is?) and this post explains it in a few sentences, which for such a complicated subject is quite a feat.
Who are these handful of companies that you believe control web3?
Thanks.

2 mostly makes sense to me--ownership can be managed independently of the game, and without a bespoke integration with that particular game. I do wonder a little how important being able to turn game assets into general-purpose instruments is (meaning, to the success of the game), but I can see how it expands the market and in particular how it makes it harder for the game company to manipulate that market, which makes the assets more reliable.

I'm not sure I understand 1 though. Don't the assets only have value in the context of the game's mechanics, which _are_ centralized? Like if the game decides your bag of holding no longer holds anything, or even to simply ignore its existence, does it matter that you have a token asserting your ownership of the bag? In theory, the token could have value as a token outside the context of the game, like a meme stock or, uh, the current price of Tesla, but that's true of anything tradable.
Bayes theorem, the geometry of changing beliefs (2019)
>What works for adults will work for children.

Then why do we have different medication for children?
> I took the comment to be a refreshing dose of reality.

This is how I meant it but I could have phrased it or presented it differently as this point got lost at least with the moderators and may be many more. Will try to be more careful in the future.

I appreciate your speaking up. And I also appreciate the moderators in trying to keep the discussion standards high. They have a tough job trying to decipher the intent of every commenter.
I'm guessing Eurocoin [0]

[0] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/eurocoin/
Assuming a Mars colony is established over then next 40 years, and assuming it won't be entirely independent from Earth, my guess is that a new calendar will have to be established, that will be independent of any planet, of any specific planetary cycle (diurne, yearly, seasonal). A kind of stardate?
> They did remake Yes Minister. It was Not Very Good.

Thanks, I must have missed it. I'll check it out (even if it's crap).

I agree with your take on it, I was more indicating that the way Things Are Supposed To Work is almost not How They Actually Work, and usually that's How The Old Boy Network Want Them To Work.
Enron planned an online movie streaming service together with Blockbuster in the late 90ies (to start in 2000), but failed for the same reasons.

I lived in Houston during that era, and for some reason a bunch of the local energy companies dabbled in internet video and infrastructure at the time.

As you mentioned, Enron. But there's also Williams (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_Companies). It built one of the first live business news channels. I knew a few people who worked there, but I can't remember the name of it. Naturally, it was focused on energy. The idea was that people in the energy industry would have it on a screen next to their computers in their offices.

It worked, a bit. I saw the channel in the break rooms and lobbies of several oil and gas companies I visited at the time. But, like the Enron/Blockbuster thing, I think it was a little ahead of its time. While today a big oil company would think nothing of deploying thousands of screens to its cubicles around the world, back in those days, it was considered a crazy extravagance. Plus, everyone was still using tubes, not flat screens, so a big chunk of desk real estate would be lost at a time when offices were far more paper-reliant than they are now.

Some of the big oil and gas companies saw how the railroads were getting into telecom, and follow that, as well. (The "SP" in "Sprint" is Southern Pacific Railroad.) They figured if the railroads can run phone calls over microwave relays along their rights-of-way, the oil companies could run fiber through their pipelines. And they did.

Again, I'm most familiar with Williams. It built a huge fiber-optic network across the country by running cables through its pipelines. One of its services was called VYVX (pronounced "viv-ex"). For years and years, it was the primary way to move video between television stations at a time when satellite hookups were a lot more expensive than they are today.

I know at least part of the Williams network became what we know today as Level3. I wonder if the original network is still in use. Kind of ironic to think about all those environmentalist web sites flowing through fiber running through oil pipelines.
HTML requests are just text, how would you even go about scanning for that?
> how the Windows Console is a fundamentally different beast than a terminal

Yes, and almost entirely in ways that are bad.

I think Microsoft have partially recognised that they're tied to compatibility with a set of choices that have lost the popularity wars and now look wrong. That's why they've produced the two different sorts of WSL, each of which has awkward tradeoffs of its own. And Windows Terminal to replace the console. But eventually I think they may be forced to:

- drop \ for /

- switch CRLF to LF as the default

- provide a pty interface

- provide a C environment that uses UTF-8 by default

It's been weird working with dotnet core and seeing the "cross platform, open source" side of Microsoft, who develop in a totally different style. It's like watching a new ecosystem being built in the ruins of the old.
I'm aware of very few correlations between personality and profession that are stronger.
It’s kind of funny that Eurorack is more or less derived from Eurocard and that there are numerous computers based on that standard, mostly for embedded/industrial applications.
Reading Viktor Frankl’s man search for meaning really helped me. I also sought professional help for a time.

My take away is that pain and suffering can have meaning and that meaning, that power of experience, can be a gift of intercession for others.

Your last sentence is telling, “it’s not real unless I share it with someone else.” Don’t wait. Time isn’t the answer. No one is promised tomorrow. Your experience is a superpower now that can be a gift to another person.

The golden rule is diagnostic, you will love others the way you love yourself.

Finally, learn how to make really good tacos. I’m Mexican so I’m biased but maybe if you’re not Mexican your people have a beautiful food too that you can learn how to make and share with others. If not, we freely have open sourced the taco for all peoples so feel free to start there. The gift of good food and caring conversation is one of the best parts of being alive.

My best to you and may you be abundantly blessed.
I joined a nerdy martial arts club (Historic European Martial Arts), to play with swords, get fit, and meet other people who are nerdy but not in tech. Made many new friends that way.
AWS is complexity-as-a-service which abstracts away so much that you pay a HUGE price when it's time to scale -- and it's a confusing matrix of tradeoffs. I find it easier to login to a server, "sudo apt-get install" and tail some logs, than to try to manage the monstrosity that is AWS. Products that go horizontal-cloud-first are easy to scale, but burn an order of magnitude more money, with far worse realtime performance. At the end of the day, AWS is just an abstraction on top of CPU, RAM and disk -- if your app makes bad use of underlying CPU, RAM and disk, then no amount of cloud magic is going to fix that, it'll just mask the problem and you'll end up paying an arm and a leg. AWS/GCloud are actually incentivized to make it hard to debug and optimize performance, they would want you to waste resources on their platform.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29660117
Again. Horrible design of requiring unnecessary connections to a host.

And for what gain? Perhaps I'm too dumb to understand what massive profits they''ll gain by surveillance of my robot vacuum, but if they can't survive without it, they shouldn't be in business.

Product managers, it really isn't that difficult:

* Make a server available for OTA updates with fixes and new features? Great!

* Require a connection just to run the device you are running? You are selling a plague, and I'll avoid it like one.

* Even where a connection could be genuinely useful for some features of your device, design around it, make the thing independent, and make the connection an OPTION, maybe even an upsell opportunity.

IDK if it is the product managers, MBAs, or investors driving this, but the model of rent-seeking instead of providing real value is pernicious and evil.

</rant>
Oh no, the most popular product to pay with crypto is gift cards. Which is also popular with fraud.

There's literally no sense in buying anything with crypto when you have to give up the protection that you have as a consumer : chargebacks.

You are ignoring why eg. PayPal became popular: 180 days chargeback.

It's also the supplier who pays the transaction fee. The regular consumer doesn't care anything about paying anything with crypto..

I can ask 1000 people here that i meet and no one will know about USDC on stellar. That won't change either.

You should ask HN if there is any business owner that cares, lol.
How did you learn how to train your dog?
The two-sided market is the big deal here. Imagine that you are a bank or online market place. What are you going to do when one of your top customers shows up and says that they lost their account keys? Are you going to explain that losing your account is actually a great feature that your company offers.
> “Coronavirus made me realize that in the US, if you’re not a member of the moneyed elite you’re left to fend for yourself with virtually no help from the federal government,” he said.

Most poignant quote in the article.

I am a US citizen and my passport renewal came up during the pandemic. I thought that's fine, I'm not traveling anyway. Well I am also a US citizen with the complexity of a sex change in my distant past. I've had the right passport decades ago.

After I sent in my routine renewal, I got a letter back saying that the US Department of State lost my old passport in processing. They wrote that I would need to send in seven pieces of identification, an explanation of why my passport was lost(!), have somebody come in person and vouch for me, in addition to a letter from a doctor confirming specific, very personal details of my sex change. I don't even have a doctor or health insurance, or seven IDs. It went back and forth in a humiliating, kafkaesque nightmare until I wrote them a letter saying I'm not sending anything more. My senator did not even give me the courtesy of a reply (bite me, Chuck Schumer, I bet your party will still talk about how you are God's gift to LGBTs).

> "I wish you the best of luck getting rid of that passport. Good riddance."

That was written by somebody below in this thread. I was trying to keep mine. Somebody told me that State Dept. has a backlog of a million passports. The American government, and administration, is utterly failing. Citizens at home cannot get basic services, meanwhile Biden is getting ready to play army in Asia again. I guess he never watched The Princess Bride.
Standards published by ISO/IEC.
Releaf is changing Nigeria’s palm oil Industry with new manufacturing technology
I dont mean to take a position on Musk per se, but I do think there's a reasonable argument that Tesla might actually do better without him. He does bring a certain amount of risk.

I raise this in part because one of the problems with counterfactuals is evaluating a state of affairs that you dont have access to. In fact, evaluation of that alternate state is necessarily biased by the currrent state.
It's not a good analogy because your browser is your house.

The "open front door" analogy works in some instances of "hacking," like enumerating an ID field in a URL. But in those cases you are making an active request to "enter the door" for each ID. That's not the case here – you downloaded a page you have access to, and the server included more data in the page than it should have, without you asking for it.

It's like somebody tossed a phone book into your open door, and then prosecuted you for reading it.
That's so cool! What crazy things are you excited about? I majored in Physics but have moved so far away from it, I don't know anything about what's happening in the field now.
WHO: "As a matter of global equity, as long as many parts of the world are facing extreme vaccine shortages, countries that have achieved high vaccine coverage in their high-risk populations should prioritize global sharing of COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX facility before proceeding to vaccination of children and adolescents who are at low risk for severe disease."

- https://www.who.int/news/item/24-11-2021-interim-statement-o...

Germany: "Since children and adolescents have a relatively low risk of getting seriously ill with COVID-19, the risk-benefit assessment of illness or vaccination is different than for adults. Therefore, the STIKO has not issued a general recommendation to vaccinate all children from the age of 12, but recommends that children and adolescents with certain underlying conditions who are particularly at risk get the coronavirus vaccination"

- https://www.zusammengegencorona.de/en/corona-schutzimpfung-a...

France: "In the light of these elements and taking into account the evolution of the epidemic, the HAS considers that the individual benefit of the vaccination has been established for children aged 5 to 11 years with comorbidities and who are at risk of severe forms of Covid-19 and death. In total, this concerns a little over 360,000 children in France."

- https://www.has-sante.fr/jcms/p_3302411/fr/covid-19-la-has-r...
Why do we impose hierarchy so much in file systems? We already allow hard and soft links, so it’s not even a tree anyways. Why not just allow any reference types you want; no name with extensions, but a set of tags. Why not identify files the same way a graph database query identifies nodes?
They did build a POSIX interface, mostly so they could mislead the DOD into buying NT to meet POSIX needs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem
I'm doing it with clang. As a bonus I get better performance than I did with msvc.
Nice video of the colored goo in action: https://youtu.be/5BMQE5XnKww?t=372

Breakaway bolts are discussed/demonstrated a few seconds earlier.
If you go to any server farm, somewhere that network speed and stability actually matters, and you’ll see wired network connections. That doesn’t mean Wi-Fi, LTE, and 5G isn’t good enough for the 99% of devices.

There’s a lot of devices (AirPod pro, WH-1000XM4, Quiet Comfort 45, below the $300 price point that offer
* Bluetooth
* Active Noise Cancellation
* Good microphones for calls
* Pretty good sound quality

These devices offer fantastic convenience, sound pretty good, and are generally affordable. Some of them even have a headphone jack. They compare to a Wi-Fi device to me, the net connection will never be as good as a wired, but the convince factor is “good enough”
Do you mean a killer app like money laundering or tax fraud?
I bought a washing machine 3 years ago. Been getting suggestions to buy another one ever since.

If they think I need to buy one washing machine per week, they don’t know me at all.

Also, their IQ is lower than that of flatearthers.
> Sure, I wouldn’t recommend the non-Pro model to anyone in the present day

That's the issue for a lot of people, myself included. At their price point, Airpods just don't compete with other earbuds in their price category. The "classic" Airpods line sounds pretty pitiful, and it's a little angering to listen to them and realize that this is the sound millions of other people are working with. Microphone performance in particular actually disappoints me; the wired Earpods had noticably better mic quality, and they only cost what, 20 bucks? Couple that with pretty uncharacteristically bad battery life, slippery cases and enclosure, not even an option for rubber ear tips... it's just a bit of a scam. Especially for $170.

The Airpods Pros are a little more understandable, but they're not really remarkable headphones. At least not $250 remarkable, to my ear. Don't even get me started on how "remarkable" the Airpods Max would have to be to justify a $500 price tag to listen to lossy, laggy Bluetooth audio.

> pure sound quality isn’t the main attraction

About 20 years, Apple made the iPod so that people could take CD-quality music on the go without compromising on the amount of music you could take with you. There was a time when Apple made products that did care about the quality of sound, the overall experience, and the genuine fidelity of what you listened to. Why do they need to regress? Why can't they just deliver a good pair of wireless earbuds to the masses? They've got some of the largest acoustic engineering teams in the world, I really do expect better from them, even on their $170 "budget" earbuds; they're a luxury company, it's okay to hold them accountable for things like this. They have billions of dollars in unspent research dollars, may as well tell them to put it where it counts.
I’ve looked for 5 minutes there, and found nothing relevant. They don’t even have additional specific TOS for their translate service, the only link from https://policies.google.com/terms/service-specific?hl=en-US under “Translate” section points back to their common TOS at https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en-US

Even if they would have TOS for translate, pretty sure that’s unenforceable. Not unless hiding that page behind a paywall, or requiring a google account. Merely visiting a publicly available web page doesn’t create contractual relationship between end user and web server owner.
I don't know that there is anything special about Prime over other reputable bootcamps. It might be easier to get a job in the agency world (since I know Prime has a lot of tie-ins to the industry) - which is fairly infamous for paying below market wages for entry level positions. I've personally never noticed a difference in candidate quality based on whether they did Prime or any other bootcamp.