skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with pretty much everything here. I don’t think there’s a no-maintenance solution out there that will just keep running hands-off (maybe 25 years ago in a uni environment, but certainly not for the last 10 years).

You could probably automate a simple(?) cloud stack using a declarative & open-ended template that can be rerun every couple of years (or months) to pick up security changes, but someone’s going to have to set up & pay for sufficiently secure networking from the cloud provider to your internal network - this is a surprisingly large amount of work when you include security, user access, backups of systems & data, etc.

I work in academic IT and this is the sort of thing that we deal with frequently, so I’d hope that your internal IT would be similar - when you request things, tell them the whole story, rather than say request 2 Linux servers, so you can leverage their enterprise security & backup, and they can set up things so that the internal IT can effectively support the system (We see a bunch of issues in systems where we provided bare boxes, the research/academic team set something up, then disbanded or moved on to something else, leaving cruft and security vulnerabilities all over the place).
He can say that, but the drugs have been around and extensively studied using every reasonable approach for many decades. Choosing to ignore evidence doesn’t make it not exist - he’s wrong according to a well-established scientific consensus.
This could just be insecurity and stress. Not understanding things and forgetting things after a conversation is absolutely normal. Also saying you understand when you don't is also normal, it is bad behavior but it is normal bad behavior.

The big question for ADHD is if you can focus, so if you understand something can you do the work? If you can then you should look at the insecurity issues first. But if you have issues with focus even when not talking to people go get checked for ADHD.
The area for hundreds of kilometers radius around Chernobyl, including Kiev, is still contaminated, with effects on people's health still being felt.

It is common to downplay the effects of the accident, but it is huge.

(I'm originally from that area.)
In a similar way, ftp's "dir" command is only for humans. Every ftp library that is for accessing ftp API for programs is only guessing what in the "dir" output is filename.
> I want to reduce/eliminate my alcohol consumption...

Tonight at midnight will be my 9th year alcohol free. For me personally, it has been wonderful not to depend on alcohol.

No matter what you do, just take it one day at a time and best of luck.
Talking may not feel helpful but I think if you try it and are open to the thoughts and suggestions shared by others it could help.

I had a period of my life about 12 years ago (I was 39/40 years old) where I felt similar to you. Everything I did and had in my life seemed pointless and I felt like I was just waiting around to see it all inevitably crash and burn. When I went in public all I saw was a mass of people I felt completely disconnected from and wondered what problems and fears they were hiding. Panic attacks, difficulty getting out of bed. After a long mental struggle with myself assuming that the way I felt couldn’t be fixed I went to the doctor and started therapy. Aside from treatment for depression, it turned out that due to stress my testosterone had crashed and was below 100 (600-800) is normal.

What you are feeling is a chemically induced state we interpret as feelings. Please don’t assume that feeling can’t be changed. With a bit of perspective and chemical correction you will be amazed how much better things can be and you can find your purpose and drive again. It will take time and it will take work, but it is worth it. Don’t let your brain lead you astray, it can play tricks on you and of course, it all feels real.
Airlines don't make money from flying.
The truly free market might work as described, I am not contending that. But history repeatedly shown that free market is an unstable equilibrium prone to exploitation by organized groups.
Dealmaking. It was hedge fund run by M&A fanatics.
I wonder what percentage of that is mobile traffic .
About 5 years ago, I asked the owner of my fixed wireless ISP if he was planning to support IPv6 and I received a 500 word email rant about the uselessness of v6. I haven't asked again. (I still get a 0/10 score at https://test-ipv6.com/)
It's a little more than "liking".

In the case of one person my son was in a bit of a developmental crisis because he was an only child and my wife and I could not give him the experience of having to deal with an unreasonable person who didn't behave like an adult, which he really needed to moderate his behavior.

As we planned, she became like a sister to my son, challenged him, and helped him to improve.

So we just didn't give her a place to live, we integrated her into our family, she benefited from our stability, but also added a certain kind of chaos that taught my son to be accepting of the bullshit you get in life. Partially I was motivated by a feeling of responsibility to help people but also believed our family could benefit from a stressful but rewarding experience and it did. The word "love" means many things, and in certainly we loved Emily.
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There's pre-cliff bleszinski Fortnite, and post-cliff bleszinski fortnite. It would have not become as huge as it is now if he had not been ousted.
“It is possible to entertain no thought about this, and not to be troubled in spirit; for things of themselves are not so constituted as to create our judgements upon them.” (Marcus Aurelius)
Personal attacks will get you banned here. No more of this, please.

Also, we've already asked you not to do ideological flamewars on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please also don't take HN threads further into flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I find this to be one of the most interesting kinds of pivots - the original business idea wasn't good enough, but along the way they encountered problems with no good solution, and were savvy enough to go to market with that solution once they came up with it.
Then again once-off linking to determine the patient's true wishes may be helpful
It should be easier for people to say “I no longer feel like I have free will” and also “I now feel like I have free will again” so that others can take care of them, but also in a way that won’t take away their rights. I also think people who help people who are close to rock bottom often put a lot of skin in the game, and not always but sometimes can get hurt in the process- they should have protection too.

Depressive hedonism is powerful.. The death drive is like playing a tit-for-tat strategy against one’s own lebenswelt. I hope people don’t take me as being dismissive or insensitive or ignoring the contributions of biophysics to drug dependency etiology, but from a free will frame of analysis it resembles a kind of very dark and very negative discipline itself.

Imagine if it were just a thing that people could get help with as unshamefully as eg going to the dentist.
What good would a military do? The US has a more powerful military than russia, China and Europe put together, yet lost in iraq and afghanistan.

A better solution would be to stop giving russia money for its gas. That means not shutting down nuclear plants, and instead building many many more power plants to make Europe energy independent
Nothing crazy about the "letter", but it is crazy that there are multiple different ways to encode the "letter".
This makes sense. I really like the idea of non-framework specific components so that's the route I'll take. I'm happy that option is growing in viability. Thanks.
It is a bit overkill but the Unabomber was the subject of a “medical” experiment too…

Talk about unintended consequences…
If your flavor of libertarian fantasy lacks something called a "corporation", that only means the thing that takes the role of a corporation has a different name in it. That means a gang, or a duke, or a warlord, or something. In other formalisms, it is "collective". The name is irrelevant. BIG > little is the key fact. Every libertarian fantasy has BIG voluntarily yielding power to little.
This comment is really lacking in compassion. I hope you realize eventually how crass it is to blame an employee just trying to feed and house themselves when they're faced with abusive or exploitive employers.
>Something allows a device to select what it connects with. I have a laptop, tablet and phone with me most of the time and managing the connection by disconnecting via the laptop/phone/tablet/car/whaever is silly - sometimes you have to kill bluetooth on two or three devices to get the device you want connected.

What's wrong with the current process? If turn on a bluetooth device (eg. bluetooth headphones) and it connects to a random one you don't want (eg. your tablet rather than your smartphone), then you can rectify that by going to your smartphone and connecting to that device. It's a bit of a hassle, but it's certainly less of a hassle than going around turning off all bluetooth devices in the vicinity, or trying to get device selection working on a bluetooth headphone (weird tap combinations? voice recognition?).
Thank you for posting this. I feel like it gives a better context. My interpretation is that the focus is on monks (as opposed to lay people) in that they might be preaching about their virtues while continuing to have vices and earthly desires. This makes sense in a religion in that you’d want your monks to strive for something like “ideal” behaviour (even if it’s not reachable) otherwise what is the point of a monk?

Stating it as a list of facts (as in the OP) seems akin to literal interpretations of the bible where the world was created 4000 years ago etc. A more reasonable view would be to take the message in context. I don’t think Buddha had anything against laypeople playing chess
Typically with these types of requests it isn’t abnormal to have to give over an ID. I don’t like the idea of doing it, but usually it’s the only way to do it. Even if you’re a California resident, you’re forced to upload your ID to remove data. It is kind of a no-win scenario. Either they keep your facial data or you give over highly sensitive data to get the facial data removed. I only did it because it seemed initially they were willing to remove the facial data (despite their very delayed response).
Fun fact: The Apple Ⅱ and Ⅱ+ originally only did upper-case, and it was very popular to add a Shift Key / lower-case mod via one of the gamepad buttons: https://web.archive.org/web/20010212094858/http://home.swbel...
MicroSoft's first products were programming languages for PCs. BASIC for the Altair in 1975.
Oh, you can do far more than "code pages of sorts". Unicode has a variety of metadata available about each codepoint. The things that are "code pages of sorts" are maybe "block" (for ö "Latin-1 Supplement"), and "plane" (for ö it's "Basic Multilingual Plane"), but those are really mostly administrative and probably not what want.

But you also have "Script" (for ö "Latin). Some characters belong to more than one script though. Unicode will tell you that.

Unicode also has a variety of algorithms available already written. One of the most relevant ones here is... normalization. To compare two strings in the broadest semantic sense of "are people likely to consider these the same", you want want a "compatibility" normalization. NFKC or NFKD. They will for instance make `1` and `¹`[superscript] the same, which is definitely one kind of "consider these the same" -- very useful for, say, a search index.

That won't be iron-clad, but that will be better than trying to role your own algorithm involving looking at character metadata yourself! But it won't get you past intentional attacks using "look-alike" characters that are actually different semantically but look similar/indistinguishable depending on font. The trick is "consider these the same" really, it turns out, depends on context and purpose, it's not always the same.

Unicode also has a variety of useful guides as part of the standard, including the guide to normalization https://unicode.org/reports/tr15/ and some guides related to security (such as https://unicode.org/reports/tr36/ and http://unicode.org/reports/tr39/), all of which are relevant to this concern, and suggest approaches and algorithms.

Unicode has a LOT of very clever stuff in it to handle the inherently complicated problem of dealing with the entire universe of global languages that Unicode makes possible. It pays to spend some time with em.
An advantage of Telegram is that they attract less attention from the authorities. Also Telegram seems to have a more, shall we say, lax attitude about criminal activity.
Sorry to say, but there are plenty of companies with absolutely atrocious internal cultures that still manage to innovate and move forward fast, I've had the misfortune of working for a few LOL
I have built https://www.gematrix.org (Gematria Calculator for different types of Gematria values) and it makes more than $500 a month. I am quite happy with it because I did it for fun as a way to learn MySQL and I was happy when people started to use it.
I feel like it would have saved everyone a lot of time if he had included the full photo in the original tweet. You can see it here in this thread by @sdw [1], and it's much more apparent that there's a tree in front with leaves hanging off it.

[1] https://twitter.com/sdw/status/1476957856347746305
Regarding “ To accomplish the above (without having to significantly increasing your income”

How do you judge what is important for you and what is like luxury which you don’t need right away ? I mean let’s say iPad is nice to have and would enjoy but it is not necessary or must have . But should I not buy something I don’t need to right now but save for future which is very random or unsure . I mean let’s say I been saving all long hoping to have a nice life after retirement but all of sudden I got hit by bus and thinking I should have enjoyed all things I wished sure rather than saving when on death bed . How to balance ?
When the collections company called me I tried to negotiate a reasonable price with them but they wouldn't budge, I told them that I wouldn't pay and would just wait for seven years.

Next time they called I told them they had the wrong number and not to call again, and I never heard from them again, no letters, no calls, nothing.

Although I'm in Arizona, I don't know if laws are different in CA.
> Trying to talk to IT about it is painful. I had to go through three levels of support over a week just to get a single site unblocked.

Don't talk to IT using their support channel. Escalate to your boss (and his boss potentially) about what you are trying to do, what's blocking you and how it's stalling the (revenue generating) project you are working on.
Just like PiS in Poland, the spokesman Fogiel said: We don't employ experts, as the would not realize our program.
IIRC (can't find a reference), the idea was noty to be able to kill teh mosquitoes outright, but to damage their wings so they couldn't fly. _Much_ less power needed.

Still an issue, though, but not so bad
How doomed are we (humanity) on climate change right now?
> but for most of us we would be better off

That's simple - it is provably wrong. While relatively uncommon there are plenty of examples that would contradict this statement. And it's not about being able to encode the Rosetta Stone - non-scientists mix languages all the time, from Carmina Burana to Blinkenlights. They even make meaningful portmanteau words and write them with characters from multiple unrelated writing systems, like "заshitано" (see - Latin and Cyrillic scripts in the same single word!)
Yet, there's no explanation of why Buddha would not play these games. Seems like an important omission.
So my italian ISP, gives me FTTH, 1gb/s down , 300mb/s up but has 10/10 for ipv6 https://i.imgur.com/lhz4RJy.png

I would rather have 700mb/s more for upload than ipv6 to be honest (only thing I also have public/static ipv4, so maybe that I wouldn't give up ^^)
What Would Covid Say?
Ah yes, the "star wars laser defense mosquito system". It' as impractical then (early 00's origin) as it is now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGkPMZxWPpA&t=2s (it's Dutch but you get it).

Unless you can get mm accuracy and perfect non-foe detection it's useless with the multi-watt lasers generally required.
Here’s the best description I’ve heard of why that’s a bad idea. It basically goes (paraphrased):

> Q: What would happen if you could look at someone and know who they are and where they live or work?

> A: A lot of women would die.

Google maps has some safeguards like certain areas have no imagery but really the biggest thing is it’s not fine detailed enough to be a threat to anybody. In fact, US law prevents (IIRC) sub-meter pixels on commercial satellite imagery.
Reminded me that there’s a movie on Netflix about Baggio, a famous soccer / football player from Italy who was proudly Buddhist. Yet “Ball sports” are on the list of games not to be played by disciples of Buddhism.

I’ve only seen praise for Baggio around his faith. I’m curious how deeply held these beliefs are around games and if anyone in the Buddhist community ever approached Baggio about it.
There is a lot of cultural inertia that instantly biases against anything new in sysadmin/netadmin circles.

It's super annoying, tbh. A subset of technologists only seem comfortable with the technology that was available when they were 18-24, regardless of how old they get.

"What's this? I never needed it before, what's the sysctl to turn it off?"
How many bad movies you gonna watch until standing up and leaving becomes the better choice?

One problem might also be that in my opinion lifing as long as possible is not the right answer. I'm not life positive like independent how shitty your life is as long as you are alive is good.

Now the question arrives what is a good time to leave.having already seen and done more than any other human who lived 50 years ago already puts me ahead on a experience level
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So determine this answer is open for me to decide.

Not having kids and not planning some right now also makes me more 'flexible'
0/10 for Xfinity as well on test-ipv6
I'm pretty sure I have IPv6, I just haven't figured out how to set it up on my Mikrotik router :/
I've always read that lubricating the threads can cause over-tensioning of the bolt if you torque it to the (typically) unlubricated torque spec:

https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/torque-lubrication-effect...

If you are measuring the bolt tension directly then it doesn't matter but torque is only a proxy for tension.
Some questions come to mind:

How does research at facebook work? Is there some group that site around researching then goes to teams and says "implement this!" How does that dynamic work? My company actually has that going on, I find it annoying, were often not aligned imo.

Why share this with a research paper format? It makes it feel unapproachable. Personally find it hard to follow like this.

I don't get how it handles the replica assignments? If you have 10 servers and 1000 shards, 2000 replicas, you would have to much overlap of replica ownership between the 10 servers. Somehow you would want the replica assigner to know how to do this efficiently (have replicas split between 5 and 5 with no overlap in this case) I think every operation requires moving shards otherwise

low effort but this feels a little like https://xkcd.com/927/
1st sentence:

> The Buddhist games list is a list of games that Gautama Buddha is reputed to have said that he would not play and that his disciples should likewise not play, because he believed them to be a 'cause for negligence'.
I think the argument is that Pinboard really took the time to understand _how_ the most passionate users used the site. Those insights helped make the product better. You are benefiting from that product development even if you are not a fan.
I guess it depends what your mesure criteria are.

Based on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNSoPa-XQN0 JS and Python took the top spot only in the last 5 years, and I'd think they're only continuing to attract more people.

There's been some new typed language also gaining traction, just not as much or as quickly.

Frankly it doesn't seem types or not matter much over the years for popularity.

What I find interesting personally now is that a lot of people come out of school learning Python, an untyped language. I wonder what effect that'll have long term, where as before I feel it was either Java or C++ or another flavor of a typed language that university and schools would teach.
The classic Win32 GDI API isn't the worst thing imaginable. It has been the basis of untold amounts of successful GUI software and it still works, although much of the latest capability of Windows is hard to reach using it.

The best GUI development experience I had on Windows aside from that was WTL/ATL. I kept hoping for a long time that this framework would reemerge as a first class GUI platform on Windows. I think Microsoft missed a tremendous opportunity by neglecting it. It actually made writing COM components enjoyable and appealing.
I am not at home at the moment, so I don't know. The webcam is branded AngeTube and has a ring light. It was something like $50 at full price, but could be had new from Tradera (a swedish auction site) for as little as 200sek.

I also don't work in tech, so the video quality bar wasn't set very high by my colleagues.
This used to be the case, but not anymore, I think. If you look at MSDN docs these days, they explicitly document ...A and ...W functions separately. If you create a new Win32 project in Visual Studio, it's halfway through - sometimes it will call the ...W functions explicitly, other times it will use the macros. But overall it feels like the intent is to push devs towards explicitness.

The macros in question were always a bad idea, because they applied to all identifiers. So e.g. if you had a method named CreateFile in your class somewhere, and somebody did #include <windows.h> along with the header defining that class, you'd get a linker error.
> Your full history to automatically load when you log in on a new device

Most people don't actually need full history in most situations, just recent history.
We have a lot of those same issues in the US and it is a well known driving force of "vaccine hesitancy". The problem is usually framed as "earned distrust of institutions", which is certainly a big part of the story. But "unhealed trauma from medical horrors" probably requires a different remedy than rebuilding trust in institutions, and it should at least be part of the story.

If I'm ever incapacitated, I know the doctors can't say "let's not save this one. we could keep them alive, but it's better for everyone to not do that". That is insane to me, and it makes me deeply distrustful of the whole institution.

To give non-Americans a sense of how things work here: if a doctor suggests that you have surgery and it's not an immediate need, you should seek the opinion of several other professionals to see if you really need the surgery or if the doctor just likes doing that one. Also quackery like homeopathy and chiropractory is allowed in the open.

Smart Americans learn early which parts of the medical system can be trusted and how to get maximum benefit out of them. But I can see how someone might not want to go through all that effort, tune the whole thing out, and tune out vaccinations along with it.

I see this as a trauma response to knowing how abusive the system can be unless it's handled very delicately.