skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, yes, it does feel like it could have a spiritual component. As a child I was a reluctant Christian. I’ve described myself as an atheist starting when I was 11 or so. Since experimenting with psychedelics, I now describe myself as an agnostic. I have a sense that there is some greater entity out there, but I have zero confidence that it resembles any human god.

I attended a Christian church service a couple of weeks ago, for the first time in over a decade. It was an odd feeling. On one hand, I felt a bit like I was in a cult meeting and I was totally disillusioned. On the other hand, after talking with people there, many of them seemed to describe a “void” in their life which was filled by religion. I can feel a void like that in myself. Maybe this is the “poverty of spirit” you describe? Still, while I agree with many Christian teachings, I don’t think anybody could convert me into a believer.

I feel the all-encompassing hopelessness; the nihilism. Nothing matters. There might be consequences of
my death, but ultimately those consequences don’t matter.

If I thought anything mattered, maybe I would think I matter.

I am very curious to hear more about your experience. I have to admit I’m having trouble understanding your solution.
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It was in Wuhan, next to a BSL-4 virology institute that synthesizes and analyzes coronaviruses and other deadly diseases. But it most likely came from the seafood market down the road.
You either die a hero, or live long enough to (join) the villains.
Was going to say this as it somewhat applies to me, or as my business partner says I’m a bit of a “sweeper”.

I seem to get satisfaction from things that a lot of others might find tedious/boring.

People like us though just need to watch ourselves that what we’re doing is actually useful opposed to just scratching an itch. Which of course is not exclusive to us as developers often find many other ways of scratching itches without actually adding value.
Yeah, I wasn't trying to make the case that property taxes are perfect, but they are what we have. There are some bad features such as discouraging maintenance to keep the taxable value down. But it does act partly as a land value tax, since the land value goes into the assessed value calculation.

I'm sure some people would disagree with this argument, but buildings do increase the value of the land, albeit in a temporary manner. I personally would pay more for an acre with a house on it than an otherwise comparable acre with nothing. Sure, land is truly permanent and finite while houses fall apart over a few decades and can be renewed. But for my human timescale, the presence of a building is a valid consideration in the taxable value of land, as much as other things such as the terrain and proximity to water. And if you take a land value tax and also consider the value of the buildings on it then you end up with property tax.

I'd support a different set of taxes in the US (I'm pretty sure that's where OP built the shed). I'd happily let go of property taxes in favor of a wealth tax and a land value tax. I'd even take an honest accounting of how much things cost and forcing the people and politicians to get our tax to align with our spending so we aren't passing ever increasing bills to our children. But with the current political system there is a 100% chance those ideas would be corrupted, so I'll settle with the inefficient taxes we have now and try to be a good sport about paying them.
I feel you Man! There are no quick answers but there certainly is a "Discipline" which if adopted can effect change.

First off, DON'T quit your job without having another already lined up. "A Bird in Hand is worth two in the Bush" and all that.

The "Discipline" comes from the "Yoga Sutras of Patanjali" which you can freely adapt to your life, like so;

- Yamas - Regulate your interaction with the external environment. Change what you can and ignore (completely from your mind) what you can't. Make a list of both.
- Niyamas - Setup personal habits to automate your daily needs. These are things like maintaining fixed work hours, eating at proper time etc. Make a list to follow.
- Asanas - Daily Physical exercise (whatever suits you).
- Pranayama - Daily Breathing exercise (learn to slow down your breathing and breath more deeply)
- Pratyahara - Practice withdrawing your mind from unnecessary things.
- Dharana - Practice repeatedly focusing on one thing.
- Dhyana - As a consequence of the above, Concentration on the object of study arises and the mind becomes steady.

Note that the above listed activities must proceed in parallel and not sequential.

You have to Act and Do and not merely Read and Think. But the latter provides the fuel for the former. So in that spirit read and adapt what you need from Yoga and Western Psychology: A Comparison by Geraldine Coster - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.189086
> The average employment length at a faang is 2 years or less

Because if you're hiring 40% of your current headcount a year and some people leave that gets you to very short average tenure very quickly.
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This made me almost smile, thanks c:
Search news for "died suddenly" most of these are cardiac events or blood clots
If it came from a lab then it was caused by overaction. If it came from the wild then you are right. That’s the reason people want to know
How can you be so sure. The first outbreak was literally a few feet from a lab studying this exact virus. Biden called for U.S. intelligence to figure out if the original virus came from a lab: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/27/briefing/lab-leak-theory-...

What do you know that the U.S. president and U.S. intelligence doesn't?
There's a difference between deploying a buggy Javascript app and running 120v electrical to a shoddy lean-to.
not exactly, this is the mailing list.

IMHO, much more interesting that the original article
The computing power (proof of work) required to mine Bitcoin scales according to the current hashrate. Since the supply is fixed, the only way to grab a larger market share of the hashrate is to spend more money on more computing power.
this seems great, thanks for posting it.
Is it interesting that now, nearly eight hours later, there are still no replies on the list? Is every relevant developer really going to wait to reply until after they understand this patch series? That seems very effective...
Before posting I had checked the location of the North Magnetic Pole, since I remembered it being in over (under?) land, in high Canadian latitudes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_magnetic_pole and more specifically the chart at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_magnetic_pole#/media/Fil... show it is indeed 1) over water, 2) near the North Pole, near 86.400°N 156.786°E, and 3) close to where the Nautilus

It is the North Geomagnetic Pole which is over land.

Since nickdothutton said "magnetic north", I took it to be plausible.

HOWEVER! I was wrong, because I didn't check far enough.

The geographical location of the Earth's North Magnetic Pole moves, and in the 1950s it was in the Parry Channel of the Northwest Passage. Which is not where the Nautilus went.

Do you have a reference for the 747 failure? I couldn't find one.

In October 1977, Pan Am Flight 50, using a 747SP, circumnavigated the Earth via the poles: San Francisco over the North Pole to London, then Cape Town, then over the South Pole, then Auckland, then back to San Francisco. With no engine problems.

While your description reminds me of BA flight 009 going through a volcanic cloud, where all four engines flamed out and they didn't get a restart until about 12000 feet - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_009 .
Thanks! It's true that that was posted earlier, but it is a blog post reporting on this email, and the site guidelines call for original sources:

"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

So I think we'll merge that thread into this one.
Is it possible to take the money and just not do any of that?

Just increase your runway?

I’d guess it’s socially impossible even if it’d be legally allowed.

PG alludes to this idea with the treasury comment, but I really wonder about it. Maybe your investors would hate you, but it’d be a pretty comfortable move.
We merged (most of) the comments into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29777048, which was posted later but has the original source.

"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> As someone who has studied and passed before in this manner, and is now an interviewer,

Why do you believe now that the path you took is no longer ideal for other candidates?
I’ve never seen such a large ratio of downvoted comments on a thread. I guess I’m not surprised by how polarizing the subject is. I guess I just thought this was a safe place to be contrarian and not just downvote ideas that are not on your team.
This actually deserves to be talked about more.

Authorities seem to stand behind the Wuhan "wet market" theory but there's really no evidence of that, specifically if it came from an animal population, how come 2+ years later we haven't found that animal population? Also the bat coronavirus population is hundreds of miles away so how did this end up in Wuhan?

This brings us to the "lab leak" theory. There are lots of possibilities here. If this is true (and that's a mighty big IF) then my suspicion is that this was an accident and the CCP doesn't necessarily know what happened but there's absolutely incentivized not to find out. I find claims that this was a deliberate release to be unconvincing.

The key factors supporting this theory, or at least are open questions requiring further investigation are:

1. There's really no compelling alternative theory supported by substantial evidence;

2. The WHO has really lost a lot of credibility here. In early 2020, the WHO was bending over backwards not to upset China and not much has changed. In 2021 there was a joint investigation with the Chinese but the scope was pretty limited;

3. There used to be a database of coronaviruses that China had. In late 2019 this was taken offline. To date AFAIK this has never been examined by WHO investigators or any independent authority. Now this doesn't prove anything by itself but you'd think a thorough investigation would include examining it in its scope.

4. A long time (over a year) passed between the start of the outbreak and the investigation. This is a long time for evidence to go cold or "missing".

To compare, the origins of two previous coronavirus outbreaks (ie SARS and MERS) were relatively quickly identified.

No lab worker or official wants to be responsible for a leak (if there was one). No one wants to find out they were responsible. The CCP also doesn't want to set the precedent they're answerable or accountable to international authorities. This is what I mean when I say I suspect the CCP doesn't know and doesn't want to know.
Isn’t this going to cost a ton of money, too much, and you can only move in so many of your own citizens. Russia can’t move too many of their own since Ukraine doesn’t have a small population. Voters still vote. Not sure why even with puppets, a majority vote to join your country would happen.
I can’t find it now, but I think you’ve missed something important: 1998 may have been the last extension in the US, but they’ve successfully steamrolled that extension in to other countries in the past decade.

If someone knows what I’m talking about, please cite. I do not have enough memory shreds for a good Google search. I think it was a “mild” coercion to “bring other countries up to date”, talking about how artists were essentially being robbed in countries where the copyright had not fallen in line with this 50-70 years past the creator’s death.
You could use a lookup table to turn the nth letter of the alphabet into the nth prime number, then multiply those primes together. This "hash" would be unique up to reordering of the primes/letters.
It does if you sell on platforms that you don't intend to support.
> There is no concept of building a sustainable long-lasting business: you need to build fast and grow fast

This is actually incorrect. You're, more or less, in full control of your business until you give up control of the board.

Founder-controlled boards are common place after a series A and even series B (if you're in a strong negotiating position).
And it takes several cycles of life and death for a planetary cloud to build up the heavier metals. I've only had my requisite college chemistry, but it has always seemed peculiar/lucky/surprising to me that every element on the periodic table occurs on Earth (save for those unstable lab-made concoctions). It's unclear to me how common this condition is in the universe, but of course in an infinite universe everything is inevitable :)
LGTM = “Let’s Go To the Moon”?
Ah you are one of todays lucky 10000.

https://xkcd.com/1053/
Having known Tcl/Tk only from the common Python tools, I didn't know that Tk could be used to make GUIs that are any good. I feel a bit silly now, this looks neat.
Chrome imposes a limit of 2h on Access-Control-Max-Age (other browsers may differ).

Anyway, today we have the tools to expose different backends through the same domain. Reverse proxies, k8s ingress, … a separate domain may not add much value in most situations.
The article is talking about deaths by Nov 2020 compared to Nov 2021 when there was an accessible effective vaccine. Parent comment is talking about increase of deaths from 2019 to 2020. I don't see the applicability of that quote. (Maybe OP and you and me are all off topic, but here we are.)

[0] has no statistics on opioid deaths.
[1] says that the deaths were going to be higher in Vermont, at (a projected) 200 deaths for the year vs 157 for the previous. That's maybe meaningful, but isn't limited to the age group the post parent was discussing.
[2] Does not have year over year statistics to compare against. Just that it was the worst, and is drawing on a smaller sample size than [1].

If (and this kind of seems like a big if) Vermont is representative of the rest of the US, *and* the age group he was discussing then maybe you have one source that supports your claim that a large portion of the deaths are from additional opioid deaths.

On the other hand assuming the root of the increase of all cause mortality between 2019 and 2020 among adults is mostly uncorrelated with the pandemic is a tough thing to convince me of. Can you please provide a source showing the national increase of opioid overdoses and suicide between 2019 and 2020 among the 20-40 age group?

Note I agree entirely that there were more overdose deaths in the US in 2020 than 2019 (that's easy to source https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2021/...) what is hard is breaking it down into these smaller nuggets that we're discussing.

ETA: I couldn't find the original NY Times article grand-grand-grand... parent talked about that got us down this path, but this is pretty convincing that all cause mortality increased by at least 45% https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7376843/
A key goal of these missions has been to understand the composition and structure of asteroids, which happens to also be pretty important for how they might be defended against.

If they're a loosely bound pile of dust, then it might be better to dig in and blow them apart into smaller pieces to mostly burn up, but if they're more solid, redirection would probably be the only viable solution.
Try doing this with Heroku and you’ll decide that you want CORS after a few hours.
What happens long term though? Are UO houses still worth anything? I have to imagine that populations have declined over time. How about other games?
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Join a gym, martial arts gym etc.
I have no notion of what metaphor you are referring to.
In real life, POW is a waste of electricity that produces nothing external to
proving that CPU cycles were wasted, with an ever-increasing difficulty in the case of Bitcoin (getting worse with time, on purpose)
Unless I need to, I don't like converting investments into cash due to capital gains tax (it's quite high here in Australia while earning at the highest tax bracket), so I keep about 6 months in cash
You have some good points, but can you please make your good points without crossing into personal attack? I'm sure you didn't mean to, and I'm sure you have good reason to feel strongly, but what you posted here is already aggressive and a step away from what the HN guidelines call for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit more to heart, we'd appreciate it. Note this one:

"Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine."
One thing that would help immensely is a programmatic API for search. That way anybody could write a program to contact a REST search server and get back 100 results, and then filter out sites that were on one's personal blacklist, and also check the remaining results to see that they did in fact contain the search terms requested.

If you try this with Google you'll immediately be captcha'd to hell and back. You can do it with a browser extension (and many of these exist) but you're always at the mercy of the browser maker (often Google itself) who can arbitrarily decide break your extension.

Programmatic access to the web was exactly the premise of the so-called "semantic web" from a few years back but it never caught on. We probably need a government-funded search spider and database that is mandated by law to allow REST access and which can never be commercialized. Of course any attempt to build such a thing would be lobbied into the ground by Google, but I can dream.
Every transaction between humans ever has had some theoretical inefficiency.

The question is: whose value is being lost, and do they care enough to take action?
I think there's also an element of "ownership" to the kernel for many of the OG maintainers. It's their "baby". And as every parent knows, you would do a lot more for your babies than for anyone else.

It may well be that same sense of ownership creates an "inner circle" effect that is a barrier to entry for creating more such developers.
Google results change frequently, even when they shouldn’t. Searching for “shrimp recipes” gives me mostly food blog articles that are from the years 2020 or 2021. Why would I want recent recipes over tried and true recipes? Where did the good recipes from 2013 go?

Shrimp recipes may not be a “significant category” but this I think highlights one of Google’s search issues. It’s also how they make money. If there were no revolving door of promoted content, then how would today’s advertisers ever reach you? It’s a balancing act to maximize profits while minimizing damage, and they aren’t doing a good job with balancing.
That's not covering unlikely, but devastating events very well. Also makes it harder to stay rational during a financial crash.
I'll always keep significant cash accessible at an ATM for safety and sanity.
My employer uses the year 2041 for infinity. It will be a truly massive disaster when that year arrives. There is tens of millions of dollars of advertising spend that is paused until “infinity”.
Can you share your prescription
You have done that yourself?
You have oversimplified. It isn't necessary to believe that any researcher is capable of designing a sophisticated new virus. (Although, since this is all hooked to computers, just wait a decade...) It's just plausible that some researchers could be sloppy enough with inherently dangerous research to cause serious harm. Further, many have observed how those researchers have been at least partially funded by the same well-endowed funding entities that also fund major portions of most other research in virology.

[EDIT:] But you're right about the "deliberate inaction". The obvious way to fight pandemics (as opposed to less contagious health threats) is to make sure everyone in society has access to relevant health care and other vital resources. This came naturally to many societies that earned much lower covid death rates than USA earned.
I'd first questioned your characterisation. If anything it's an understatement. This is both deceptive characteristation by Science Daily and poorly a communicated study by Groff, et al, and JAMA Open Networks, a peer-reviewed publication. How the paper itself was accepted and published as-is is concerning. This is despite my own concerns over long-Covid --- they're not helped by poor research and misleading media.

Note that that quote comes from the paper itself, not the submitted summary, for anyone trying to find it:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

And I'd agree, this suggests a significant issue with data selection and inclusion which would greatly weaken if not contradict the headline and summary from Science Daily.

For the record, US CDC (as of July, 2020) was reporting an overall hospitalisation rate of 3.4% and a peak observed rate of 7.4% for the age 65+ population:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200709001525/https://www.cdc.g...

I've contacted several of the paper's authors, Science Daily's editor, and the editors of JAMA Open Networks. Both the study and communication of it are greatly flawed.

Note: Edited to add CDC reference above, initial paragraph, and note that I've contacted editors and authors.
The BSL-4 lab is ~14 km away from the market.
I have completely the opposite opinion of your second paragraph. I’m fine with candidates quietly thinking in an interview. It’s a big part of the job. I’m not optimizing for interesting, but for signal. And dropping the signal of “can get themselves going with structured thinking” is not worth it to make it a better experience for the candidate in that moment. I’m okay with a candidate feeling uncomfortable while they’re failing an interview. If anything, I think it’s better than the standard which is to give hints, act like everything is great and then thumbs down them later. Makes people so confused. There’s also a whole thing about who gets hints fastest, confirming biases. But that’s another giant thread.
I don't get bored, because I can regularly come up with some kind of project to work on that'll sustain my interest. However, so far I've never managed to finish one of these projects to an extent that I'm satisfied with before having to go back to work, at which point I end up being too mentally drained to continue work on it and, eventually, forget about it. So ultimately the experience is pretty unsatisfying and I can imagine that after a few more years of the working life (I only graduated a couple of years ago) I won't find it worth repeating it, and then I'll probably be getting bored during time off. My best hope to avoid this is probably to try to make my breaks more long and continuous rather than short and spread out.
Yes, but at the same time, I'm not sure how many people can thoroughly go through 2k commits and 100k diff for a single pull request. Most people, I assume, in that situation will just try to understand the main ideas behind the changes, scan through the areas that they're somewhat familiar with to see if there's any glaring issue, and trust that the highly-reputed maintainer who submitted the PR knew what he was doing.
> As to other approaches attempted: I also tried enabling the kernel to use pre-compiled headers (with GCC), which didn't bring a performance improvement beyond a 1-2% for repeat builds. Plus during development most of the precompiled headers are cache-cold in any case and need to be generated by the compiler again and again.