skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First caveat, I'm writing at the end of a boozy night so hope this isn't all rambling.

I think there is a confusion with working and relaxation in today's world.

We look at the world as work as the necessity and relaxing as the goal.

I think the Jordon Peterson line of 'purpose' is key.

'Work' is doing for someone else for a living. Purpose is doing for self. And building Saas infrastructure sounds like helping someone's else company, but that shed is for you.

For me I moved to a small farm a few years back and working from home. I'm always busy, like non-stop something to do between work and farm. I've had one proper holiday in 5 years as the farm consumes life outside work but the farm work is my purpose. While it's not 'relaxing' it's fulfilling and the moments I pause and take in the view while sweating away it completes you.

Now this next opinion I'm less confident in, but I think this ties in to above and there are certain personality types that need to do stuff vs relax. For me I don't do nothing well. It seems the dream but whenever I've tried it doesnt suit me. I need projects to be fulfilled. Sometimes when tired and stressed I wonder why I keep adding tasks to my life, but I'm more happy that way than going the other.

Anyway I feel I'm starting to ramble a little but I think it boils down to is adding work is not a negative, and more work is a positive within reasonable bounds and something you can feel achievement. The task is balancing between work for others purpose and your own is what matters.
The manifesto is "crypto is bad and weird and scary to me".
Yeah yeah, decentralization... How, exactly? You run your own server? Is that decentralization?
Those cameras are backed by processing that's so far ahead of anything silicon can do it's not even funny. It's not inherently infeasible, but it seems computers will need a huge leap in certain capabilities before they will be able to act as a drop-in replacement for human drivers.
Im the author :)
>why does someone create work for themself

Your question only looks like a puzzle or paradox because the word "work" is overloaded with many meanings and it includes simultaneous connotations of negative "unpleasant chores" and positive "fulfilling efforts". (related concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation)

If those multiple meanings are not understood, one can twist themselves into rhetorical puzzles such as:

- If marriage is work, why do people get married? I thought people hated work?!?

- If raising kids is work, why do people have kids?

It's because the type of "work" above are activities where many people desire to expend the effort. There's a higher goal than any so-called "work" above.

Same idea as a home sewer that "works" for weeks on their own dresses and jackets while the factory sewer only thinks of needlework as "working at a job". If one asks the home sewer if making that jacket "took a lot of work", the hobbyist will answer "yes" without any irony at all.

So asking, "why did the home sewer create extra work for themselves to create dresses?" ... would be another variation of your question about you building sheds.
https://archive.is/OCRgV

But honestly, don't waste your time, it's the exact same story you've been reading every year for the past fifteen years.

There's a photo of a dad removing snow chains while his kids are shivering in the cold. Assuming that's not just an editorialized title for the photo (they look happy enough) -- no shit they're shivering, they're standing there in pajamas and Chuck Taylors...
If you do find this video fascinating, I'd encourage you to take a few flight lessons, especially if you find an instructor that can be on board with your goal of not really learning to fly per se but exploring some of these more nuanced issues around task saturation and automation -- on several single seater prop planes today you have just as many avionics bells and whistles like you would in an airliner. As I've learned to fly, the mix of psychology, HCI, systems design, etc., has been awesome to contemplate. Nothing I've ever done has made me so keenly aware of my own way of processing information, how to deal with stressors, etc. It's an absolute blast, and if you have any interest in any of these areas and are so aware of it as to really like the magenta video, I promise you you'll like it too!
Doesn't the lightning network used by btc allow obfuscation constructs?
The future belongs to all of us, it's just a question of which kind of future is equitable for the largest subset of the human population. One person's acceptable externalities could constitute their neighbor's breaking point. It's fine to say that creation and innovation are Good Things, all else being equal. But we need to ensure that the externalities of new creations are justified in light of the social good they bring.
There is a well known video among commercial pilots called "Children of the Magenta Line".

The magenta line refers to a line on the display you can just "follow" around that is calculated by the computer.

The video is all about how young pilots are just following around the magenta line and not having the "big picture" of what is going on in their heads.
People dismiss blockchain mainly because it's a solution looking for a problem, something that's not true for the other examples in your last paragraph. The fact that the people who are trying to sell it almost always seem to peddle some old scams in a trenchcoat doesn't help.
There is no such requirement. The only requirement is that you be able to prove consistency and correctness of the ledger. The naive blockchain implementation needs transaction visibility but there isn't a hard requirement for it beyond that.

Monero uses a system that at a high level is referred to as Ring Signatures (it's not too complicated but it's more than I want to get into at the moment). Zcash and other networks use zero knowledge non-interactive proofs to prove consistency/correctness.

The major drawback of privacy preserving chains is that the transactions are expensive to compute due to all the maths that goes into maintaining that consistency without publicly leaking information. This isn't prohibitive for a desktop but a mobile phone will likely take a few minutes to build and send a transaction in the current environment (can be improved by HW acceleration or general HW improvements).
Canadian healthcare is indeed in rough shape.

Our health outcomes have plateaued, wait times increased and costs rocketed.

The inevitable nature of uncompetitive systems.
>because of an unspoken, undetectable limitation.

It is certainly not. It's a well-known limitation.

And it's not even specific to Dwarf Fortress: with most "simulation" games you really can't have your cake and eat it too.

Some games sidestep it with "make-believe" simulation, where they reduce simulation resolution to arrive at something plausible, but not necessarily correct.

But that's not what people are playing DF for. I like my pinkies damn well simulated.
> I can't think of a single time I've heard someone complain "I wish Java's long type supported up to 16 quintillion instead of a paltry 8 quintillion"

That Java has no support for unsigned integers is a very common complaint.
Would you maybe be able to share some of the learning resources you’ve been using? I’ve really been wanting to get into this! :)
Thank you, that looks great!
I can follow that, but isn't this problematic when there is a power needed when there is no wind/solar available for recharging and you still need more?
e.g. we would need a much larger energy storage, than for gas?
As I went through my pilot training (even for just single engine piston planes) there was so much focus on decision-making and interpreting automation and info from the plane that it absolutely has made me even more skeptical about the current state of self-driving cars. In the flight world, you get trained so much about how to properly monitor systems and how to be a step ahead of it at all times, and how to react to failures, etc.... It seems like we're completely not in the vicinity of that kind of thinking with self-driving cars... its as though for cars we are to just trust the automation and the law of large numbers will take care of things assuming it is safe enough!
Outbursts of anger, smashing keyboards, hitting furniture, shouting, smashing smartphones. Helps create a company culture based on respect of other people's time, out of sheer terror.
> I felt like I was being gaslit for being told that there was "no way" it could have been a lab leak

Can I say, as someone also looking at this somewhat dispassionately, how upsetting it is that the discourse on this issue has shifted from "It was a lab leak!" (to which strong replies absolutely were "There's no evidence"), to "It might have been a lab leak", now to "People were unfairly treated on the internet for saying it was a lab leak".

I mean, it's been two years now, and there's still no evidence beyond the kind of circumstantial stuff detailed by Chan and Ridley (I have the book but haven't read it yet, though I've seen most of Chan's public posts on the subject so I'm pretty sure I know the arc of what's in it).

And it seems like everyone has basically conceded that. But instead of just admitting we'll never know with certainty (and that natural evolution remains the most probable origin), everyone wants to talk about meta stuff instead?
It definitely would have; unfortunately, that was introduced in VS2019 and we had the need a decade before that, but glad to see that a better solution is now available.
> Is it called "unsigned" though?

Yes: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.usize.html

> The pointer-sized unsigned integer type.

> In Racket (and in mathematics) we call those natural numbers.

Naturals have no upper bound. Most languages don't have naturals, because they do have upper bounds. Languages which do provide naturals (limited by the host machine) usually don't bother with signing segregation, and give you mathematical integers (again limited by the host machine's capabilities).
> Make cities walkable, bikeable and public transportable. That will have far bigger impact than people buying new electric cars.

Not going to happen in time. And city traffic is only relatively small part of all of our CO2 emissions. Truck and delivery trucks emit more CO2 than most other cars combined, and even in walkable cities, you will still have those.

And even if we somehow to get all our cities completely carbon neutral, we still have industry, cargo, food production and lest not forget all the militaries, that themselves emit enough CO2 that they will cause climate disaster.

> The key to solving climate change isn't to do as before, just slightly more efficient.

You want big changes. You wont get them, until its too late. Because politics and people.

The best we can hope for is that enough of this kind of small improvements will add up over time, and we will find out good mitigations.
c'mon java does have an unsigned type, just that it's 16bit only (char)
Is “African” swine flu acceptable? Or does that gate only swing one way?
Parsing JSON is tricky, you need to figure out the structure as you go. JavaScript implementations can reuse their JIT machinery to figure out the structure of parsed JSON (here's shapes if you're not familiar https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/shapes-ics )

You _can_ do it outside the engine but it'd be tricky and you'd have to either write a lot of code _or_ to trick the engine to reuse the JIT machinery for your parser.

Protocols with schemas are much much easier to parse efficiently so I suspect it'd be as fast in library written JS.
Oh, lol, didn't check the name there, and didn't through the whole comment either.
Bangladesh is building a power plant now and seems to be getting more bang for their buck than South Carolina.

Construction began: 30 November 2017

Commission date: 2023

Construction cost: $12.65 billion

What today is considered nuclear waste will be fuel for generation IV reactors.
The main aspect of Gen IV is using closed fuel cycle for the reactor. This year Russia started building first test Gen IV reactor BREST-300. It is planned to be operational by 2029. I believe that most effective business plan of dumping today's nuclear waste is using it as fuel for Gen IV reactors.

Bangladesh Nuclear Power Plant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooppur_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Generation IV reactor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor

BREST reactor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREST_(reactor)
There is really very little content here, particularly compared to the amount of well worn argument that it’s likely to engender.
The author makes good points, but the takeaway I get is that signed under/overflow should always be defined, maybe in a platform specific way. The one good argument for leaving it undefined was for better loop optimisation, but if we're going to use unsigned for loops, then what's the point.
I was hit on my bike and had some broken teeth and such. The dentist asked for my regular insurance carrier to pay for the work.
> version control would have improved their lives

Not sure. I use git at work, but I would never use it for my solo projects. It just doesn't add anything I need, but it takes mental effort to manage it.
Is it? He still ends up getting funding to execute on his goals. Tesla may be behind on QA for their cars but they are ahead in technology (re EV cars) and in supply chain compared to competitors. Which of those is easier to fix?
How about "the web" as a moniker, without a serial number? That is how the thing started and that is how it still can be used. HTTP still works, HTML still works, links still work and with that the web still works. Add whatever whiz-bang gadgetry you want but make sure the thing still works without the makeup and you're on the web - congratulations.
To further this, BlackBerries relied on a special GPRS APN to get access to the internet. BlackBerry had VPNs and leased lines with major carriers and Blackberries would communicate via the APN to proxies located in BlackBerry data centers. All the network config was stored on the phone in "Service Books" and could be pushed out via carriers or BES Admins.
Still feels like it's missing a statement of some kind. Those are the definitions, fine. But it needs something like "We the undersigned pledge to [not buy NFTs / downvote Blockchain posts / promote alternative means of decentralization / etc]"

Currently the signature is basically just a "like" on a funny tweet.
It's caused by an ever increasing amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, and it's solvable by drastically decreasing that amount. Its origin is nowhere in that equation.

> and in the process ignore carbon emissions.

Natural gas is the best of the worst, and it contributes to the solution in the specific case where it replaces even worse options (like coal plants). I'd argue that <270g CO2 per kWh is far too high of a threshold, but that's still at least a half of what even the "cleanest" coal plants produce per kWh.

It's not the best solution and nobody is arguing that, but it is a solution in very specific circumstances.
Head to the woods to make a small hike, at least once in a week. Avoid polluted environments.
To have an agency, this would be something I did because I wanted to. Most of us lack sufficient agency in our day to day job. We don't wanna be in standups, meetings, or most work activities that are at least to us pointless and maybe are.
If methane is manufactured from CO₂ and H₂O, there is no net GHG release, it's just storage, same as ammonia or pure hydrogen (though large methane leaks would be a problem).

IMO, methane is good, if we are actively transitioning to manufactured methane. It's a plug-in substitute with existing distribution networks, storage and consumers, easy and cheap to handle. Though efficiency is pretty bad, so it's mostly good as cheap bulk storage.
And I'm not sure how to categorize what SAP consultants and the like do, but that, too.
A good therapist will figure out what works for you and diagnosis any underlying conditions as well. You'll experiment with, for example, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) or just general mindfulness.
Don't such methods require you to store the password in a non-hashed form on the server? That seems mostly worse than this approach, since now the passwords of all users are visible at rest and can be used directly as authentication. RADIUS I know commonly uses this approach and it always made me nervous having the passwords in plaintext.
I seem gold trading horizontally as digital currency steals from its marketcap, just as altcoins are stealing from BTCs marketcap.
The page uses HTML5 and it's responsive, so it's at least web 2.0
This is a major reason why I am bearish about online learning. I do love the accessibility of MOOCs, but I have to watch the videos multiple times to deeply understand the concepts, and I have to print out the assignments in order to really play with the ideas and solve them in a way that makes me grow. I prefer whenever possible to buy books. I'm not a bibliophile; I just do MUCH better when the target of my attention can't throw alerts at me or show me ads.
You seem to believe that all market transactions are socially beneficial, whereas I do not. A market transaction might benefit the rational utility of transacting parties despite incurring yet greater harms on third parties. I, like most people, am not a value monist who believes rational utility is the only good, and if we take this yet larger perspective then a very wide range of market transactions create net social harms.

'Renting' in its essence does not involve doing anything: it does not mine resources, manufacture use objects, or provide a service. Rich people buy up scarce assets and then charge a fee for their use. The return has no correlate in any socially useful activity - it is 'profiteering'. AirBnb means it is often more profitable to buy properties and rent them to rich international tourists rather than to locals. This creates the further, perverse effect of pricing out residents from their own cities. Given than I am a democrat and think societies should be run by and for the people, I think this is obviously remiss.
I explicitly said I'm not sure it's better or worse (largely depends in which country you're living I guess), but it's undeniably more decentralized than the current situation.
They are doing contained, well-thought-out experiments, with hypotheses, peer review, control samples, ability to repeat trials, data collection, and discussion.
Intel readies “PFRUT” to allow updating system firmware without rebooting
> They would have been safe for another two decades, in which they would hopefully had either gotten rid of that weird code or switched it over to 64 bits.

Why? The code would have kept working all along, there would have been no reason to explore it, and lots of other issues to chase.
Full title Intel Readies "PFRUT" For Linux 5.17 To Allow Updating System Firmware Without Rebooting, stripped the version target to fit HN title length limits.
You had a bad therapist. I had a bad dentist once. I found a new dentist.

I don't go to forums talking about how all dentists are terrible because they refuse to listen when you tell them a tooth is not fully frozen.
This is interesting. I never noticed these pauses using the native port from GOG on Ubuntu. I'm very sensitive to this kind of thing (low refresh rates on CRT monitors used to drive me crazy when nobody else noticed).

Will have to fire up my copy again. A good excuse to play this marvelous game again.
The problem is that everyone assumes crypto is some type of panacea. People keep saying transparency and distributed as keys words to engender an idea. People are believing the idea, but I’m skeptical the idea can “walk the walk.”

Could you show my grandmother how to see the transactions on the block chain easily for any crypto?

IMHO Web3 is more of an idea people are using to profit than a real thing to create equality.
The error we're talking about here is something that shouldn't happen even to a rookie straight out of flight school. Hell, even a kid flying flight simulator knows that something is wrong if you're still on the ground at 200kts on a 777.
Thanks for linking the paper, I was wondering if Microsoft had bought up a bunch of physicists and had them working in some sort of "Lex Luthorish" lab in the bowels of a Redmond office building.

I see now that the authors are in fact institutional scholars that I am guessing Microsoft provided philanthropic funding to?

It will be interesting to see if the James Webb telescope can shed some light (Figuratively) on this subject.
Assuming there is a folder for each release, all you would have to do is commit the first release then each subsequent release.

So after the first release, for every release delete all the files in the folder except the .git folder and copy the next set of source files in and commit.

Doesn't account for branches, but seems like this would work and could be done quickly with some shell script.
Plague can be treated with antibiotics now.

We have supplies of smallpox vaccine ready to go in the event of an attack.

I don’t think we actually have the Spanish flu in a lab somewhere in reproducible form. Supposedly H1N1/swine flu is descended from it, but most people have protection against severe disease now from vaccination or a previous H1N1 infection.

If someone releases a new SARS-CoV-3 that’s been engineered to be as good a killer as MERS or SARS1 while retaining the transmission characteristics of covid-19 we could be in trouble, same if someone did it with a different virus family we don’t have some immunity to already.

Bird flu could be a good example here. It is an excellent human-killer but luckily doesn’t transmit well.
Thank you! The problem is more being interrupted than distracted.

I like the the 5-10 seconds unload time. Like some others said, it will help me write down where I was!
No, but even there if you walked 5 mins from the station towards Ebisu (away from the arterial road), Shinsen, Yoyogi Uehara, or even towards Harajuku on Cat Street it would probably be similarly quiet.
Canadians are generally very satisfied with the quality and availability of healthcare in Canada. The issue in this case is not the quality of care but the possibility that the provincial government is suppressing testing that might reveal that a naturally-produced neurotoxin has contaminated bottom-feeding crustaceans such as lobster.
Sedm0784/Vim-you-autocorrect: Why should smartphones get all the fun?
Even the least promoted pilot shouldn't be this incompetent in an airline like Emirates. I could perhaps understand it from some small airline in developing country where the pilots got their licences through bribery.
Saying that NFTs and blockchain were "right-libertarian" is just polemic. Why is HN offering a public space for /pol/?

Please take your agitation elsewhere, guys.
In my experience, they have the same doctors and insurance; the difference is they have their doctors cell numbers and hang out on the weekends. Doctors want the perks of billionaire friends too.