skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How to continue to be gracious about the good fortune of rich friends?
I have no money. I do have rich friends who are getting richer and richer every year.

I try to be gracious and happy for their good fortune.

However it makes me depressed and angry and envious.

One friend told me a few days ago his house went up in value $1,000,000 in one year, at which point he sold it.

I visited my cousin who is a fabulous person and has a gorgeous house freshly renovated and extended and a new pool put it.

All around me my peers are becoming very wealthy.

And I’m at the bottom with nothing.

I try to be happy for them and gracious and to listen and enthuse whilst they tell me of their good fortune or show me around their stunning houses. And afterwards I feel smashed with depression as I go back to my shit rental house that I’m ashamed of.

Good people, great friends, and seeing them brings me down.

Rich people aren’t aware that their tales of success make people like me feel bad. They shouldn’t have to be aware of that or hold themselves back. As a good friend I should feel happy for them, and I pretend to, but inside it makes me feel terrible.

If you’re commenting on this thread and offering advice, I encourage you add the context of whether you are one of those who have money or not.
> Einstein... It would be very interesting to me if a nation state cloned such people and set them to work on modern problems of quantum physics.

This thread just keeps getting better. Do you... I mean... you do know why this is funny, right?
Code review in real world means peer review, it's the PEER part that matters, not the CODE part.

I do think collaboration matters here, not about trust or code.

Good software comes from good collaboration.
This result is trivial so the derivation is left as an exercise.
two nginx load balancers, reroute to the secondary via dns, restart primary
https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows/commit/b5f9118...

// This effect is a homage to the good old Compiz days. However, it is implemented //
// quite differently. While Compiz used a particle system, this effect uses a noise //
// shader. The noise is moved vertically over time and mapped to a configurable color //
// gradient. It is faded to transparency towards the edges of the window. In addition, //
// there are a couple of moving gradients which fade-in or fade-out the fire effect. //

https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows/blob/main/src/...
I can see some people buying this laptop just because it looks cool, but I am glad to see from comments in social media that anybody who has ever used a laptop seriously can see how disastrous the UX will probably be on this laptop.
They're not just focusing on macro, they are confusing econometrics with economics. Econometrics has nothing to do with any specific economic theory; it is about statistical modelling.
Good article.

In my personal experience a good mentor will never patronize but will still manage to convey their, usually higher, expectations for kind and quality of your work.

The best mentors I've had were also extremely good at receiving and processing feedback themselves because they honestly loved learning and wanted to be better as much as I did.

I'd had number of mentors, and myself almost a decade of experience teaching technical classes and 1:1 private lessons before I got into mentoring other SDEs at work and was amazed by how much I learned even just from first few relationships.

Coaching and mentoring really are so different.

I have definitely seen organizations where either the culture or the "climate" all but prevented effective mentor / mentee relationships no matter the effort. Really don't miss working at those places, probably the most burned out I had ever been in my career.
Fiscal Inflation
> he way supported add-ons work right now is that there's a list (AKA a collection) of supported add-ons maintained by Mozilla that you see on a phone by default.

They're not maintained by Mozilla, but they're "recommended" and are reviewed more thoroughly.

(I used to work on Firefox for Android)
Probably Quite Coincidental: Review of Speak Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald
Curated list of blockchain and general cryptocurrency resources:

https://github.com/Xel/Blockchain-stuff

crypto canon:

https://a16z.com/2018/02/10/crypto-readings-resources/
Honestly, as much as I like the tech that Rossmann shows, the trappings he wraps his videos in makes it very hard to digest.

I feel his arguments always miss the simple fact that he has no idea how much trouble not-including such restrictions actually cause, and he over-estimates his audiences' skill/underestimates his own skill, muchless over/under-estimating his willingness to accept responsibility compared to most consumers.

The software I work on has a simple database we use to manage the configuration, and it's a CONSTANT battle with "knows enough to be dangerous" DBAs/IT persons to argue that we're not going to fix the DB after they went through and did their own edits to try to fix an issue and the end result was they only made the situation worse.

The argument of "well, publish more info on the DB" falls flat for me as we constantly published information on which program versions and what specific issues the edits applied to, and our clients simply didn't care; our clients aren't just average users, they're allegedly IT professionals like anyone you might imagine reading HackerNews. We had cases that lasted for months over who was responsible for the issue when the client clearly admitted they just hacked the DB with a chainsaw.

Rossman has some great knowledge and I absolutely do agree with his position on Apple making it too hard to repair their stuff. (Based on the most recent MacBook Pro, seems Apple also agreed...) But I think Rossman fails to appreciate the scale that many companies are dealing with and the sheer volume of customers who absolutely screwed up such rudimentary repairs and then try to blame the company for [the customer's] own ineptness, and how a lack of legal language to specifically protect the company from such behavior opens up very long and difficult legal and PR battles.

Rossman has good knowledge, but I don't feel he's giving a good faith interpretation as to where such policies and ideas come from, and he'd be far more effective in his communication if he simply left his videos at the point where he demonstrated the simplicity of the repair without the tirade. I don't know what Rossman's liability policy looks like for the repairs he does, but I don't get the impression he takes on a lot of liability compared to what I've dealt with across many different products.
Buy I thought the whole point was "owning your identity"... and know you're suggesting that we should put or personal data on a blockchain so everybody can see it?
I think tickets are more important for auditing purposes, being able to establish what was deployed when and for what purpose. But yes having too many tickets just creates more over head.
> Yes the US should connect its big cities with high speed rail but that would still not do anything for small intercity transit for everyone else

Have you ever tried taking these lines before? They have high speed rail between big cities, and tons and tons of small branch/feeder routes out to small towns with the most frequent stops ever imaginable. Getting from huge Tokyo to small Gifu actually works.

It did take some planning however. The USA's model of just "build that office complex wherever you want!" wouldn't work.
The highness is indeed based on where you live, which is your choice. As Dave Ramsey says, "you don't get a pass on the math because you live in California". You people are nutbags. It also affeCts what people will put up with when it comes to regulatory policy (the constraint that puts a squeeze on building new housing). People learn empty logic until they reach the real world, when they have an extremely rude awakening, and the suicide rate continues to increase as more and more people cannot bear to face what the real world entails, when they come to the violent realization that they are unfit for the real world, because they've been coddled by the school system and taught the opposite of what their priorities should have been (such as encouraging debt to get a degree ). Degrees are great, but a degree means you must work to pay it off, and if you must work at Starbucks while you wish you had more time to devote to artwork, you realize you were served a raw deal. So my soapboxed friend, isolated in your ivory cage, trying to sound smart, does your skepticism ever hinder on curiosity? Physics of what is truly real will catch up to you all, I persist it!!! Methinks!
You gave no examples supporting your claims, though. What was your experience? What has broken on you in fundamental ways? When was that? What distribution were you using? Anecdotally, there is no shortage of examples of people formatting their windows installation which would corroborate to the idea that windows is not safe from fundamentally breaking on you.
I disagree. Email and password is terrible compared to what?
Show HN: GPT-3 apps and use cases (gpt3demo.com)
Ask HN: Simplest way to make an RSS feed?
Wondering if there's a way to make an RSS feed as a raw markdown endpoint or something that I could write an update script for myself and just run as a github page maybe.

RSS seems like the answer to a lot of my silly problems but I just want to keep it as simple as possible.

Obviously I don't know much about it yet but excited to learn more.
Really? Can you quote a few of the statements that are conspiratorial but that are lacking evidence?
Mainly because it is impossible to do it in a profitable way without some kind of custom setup (unless you have free electricity, but please don’t do it in your uni or office…)
I think generally what you said is true, but there are other factors. Right now we're in the middle of a pandemic. I'm very thankful I don't have to rely on public transportation.
Why so? I thought UDP was stateless, making that process even easier. But I never implemented it.
So what happens when you get phished with Web3? If the value of all crypto goes down 10% YoY why would you use it?

The author makes a bunch of silly assumptions:

> We need some way of saying “who we are” on the internet in a consistent manner. That way we can communicate with others in a verified way and associate with digital data that we own. We also often need that data to be interoperable between different web properties.

No, this is not true. That's why most people on this site are not logging in through Google. Sites will store their own data, and if you trust them to store that data there’s really no reason to just trust them to store a link to your identity.

The author advocates third parties like Metamask and using a Chrome extension, which is ridiculous. If you're going to trust that, why not trust Microsoft, or Amazon, or Google?

> With social recovery, instead of having to trust Google, you can choose who you trust, and instead trust a given set of friends, family, and services

Yes, because Google is not a service.

Ultimately the author makes up a problem and says blockchain is the solution.

Even if we suppose it's a solution there's no discussion around phishing, stolen identities, or any failure mode really. Of course there isn't though - in general recourse requires an authority. Blockchain has none.
(Former Firefox for Android engineer here)

I agree that there should be more allowed add-ons. Engineering didn't put in all the effort to implement the add-ons APIs on Mobile only for it to be restricted to such a small set. Unfortunately that's a product decision.
In my experience, one fast and practical way, is to assign issues, from small to big.
Reminds me of this old Onion story: http://vaviper.blogspot.com/2019/06/from-onion-study-reveals...

Sorry about the copy link, but it seems that The Onion has removed the original story.
> Just to be clear, the "induced demand" that concerns me is not the latent demand of a few deferred trips being taken in the days/weeks/months/year after the road is widened, it's the long-term generated demand of people choosing to move further into the suburbs because they can commute more miles in the same number of minutes. The cumulative result is that property values on the periphery of the commuting zone increase and within a decade or so the highway traffic exceeds the optimal capacity again.

Property values increasing there actually offsets the problem by making it less desirable to live there.

The real trouble is that people build more houses there. But the reason people build more houses there, and suffer a 30 minute commute (which more congestion might have turned into a 60 minute commute), is that they can't afford to live in the place with a 15 minute commute. Typically because zoning prohibits building more housing there.

Now let's see what our choices are here.

We can do nothing at all. Well, now people are screwed. They still need somewhere to live, the place that now has a 60 minute commute is the only place housing can be built, so the housing still gets built there, but now the commute is longer. That's just horrible and helps no one.

Second, we could widen the road and that's it. The new housing still gets built in the suburbs but at least now people waste less time in their cars.

Third, we could loosen the zoning so higher density housing can be built closer to the city, but not widen the road. This is pretty good, because now the people who live in the new housing get the 15 minute commute. But the people who already live in the suburbs are still stuck with the 60 minute commute.

Fourth, we could loosen the zoning and widen the road. Then new housing gets built in the city instead of the suburbs, because people prefer a 15 minute commute to a 30 minute commute, but the people who already live in the suburbs still get a 30 minute commute instead of a 60 minute commute because of the wider road. And it stays that way because the new housing is getting built in the city instead of the suburbs. This is pretty obviously the one that we want.
I've heard it referred to as the aughts. (or in the UK the naughties) Useful way of distinguishing it from the other decades of the 2000's
No it's not.

Source: https://community.norton.com/en/blogs/product-service-announ...
I wonder what some universities and companies who still rely on Norton licenses across the board will have to say about this at the end of the month when their electricity bill comes.
My god I wish companies would stop iterating on desktop “default” design. The only features on a Mac I use are Cmd+space and Cmd+tab. Beyond that it’s just a host. Every time they add crap I have to find and disable it all.

By all means make cool stuff but also make it opt in.
> I don't know about you but I can and do jump on a call with the product managers and my peers the second I run into any issues when it's fresh in my mind;

But this can disrupt whatever flow state your peers are in, reducing their productivity.

The purpose of stand ups is LESS meetings and FEWER interruptions. If you're still interrupting coworkers frequently throughout the day then, sure, a stand up doesn't add much value.
Definitely nothing officially, however i wouldn't be surprised if drugs helped him feel better so it was a form of self-medication. With hindsight you could probably find a few signs, but nothing that required hospitalization before the trip.

I wasn't his first time doing mushrooms, but teens don't really use responsibly. I'm definitely not saying that it's common enough for people to be scared, but it's not like teens do full medical assessments before they start to use drugs.

Side note years later he had a seizure due to lsd, but we believe that was because he was on lithium for mood stabilizers. The drugs while helpful have side effects so it's not perfect and we have a long way to go for treatment
Yes webauthn is a much better solution to this.
Archaeological dig reignites debate over the Old Testament’s historical accuracy
> The idea here is that you could give keys to your friends and family, or to some sort of business service, then if you lose your key, use your friends to “vouch” for you and move the account to a new key.

Facebook already has this functionality and it's an absolutely massive pain if you're somehow not on their happy path. With no real way to figure out what the issue is and get it fixed or on the happy path.
Unfortunately custom collections are limited to Nightly.
Shocking to see what passed as acceptable video quality back in 2007.
Thank you for sharing! A related experience I had was when I took LSD and smoked weed for the first time. At the time weed would sometimes give me paranoid thoughts (I've only smoked about a dozen times at this point) - and the LSD exacerbated the effects. I had almost an hour of severe paranoia, but as time went on I realized how irrational it was (and discovered useful a strategy of "make a prediction, and if it doesn't happen, stop being afraid - rather than keep thinking the scary thing is just behind the next corner").

The takeaway for me was similar to yours: a better empathy for people who may (without psychedelics) have a higher tendency to be worried/anxious. A realization that despite all the rational thoughts you can have, the fears can persist (as they are irrational - and continue to have force even when the rational side of the brain insists so).

Since then I've been continuing to enjoy both drugs separately and together - now-a-days it's mostly bliss and joy. I particularly recommend LSD & MDMA -- candy flipping ;)
... which is why you lean back on these to brake, to shift your center of mass back so the wheel can slow you down. same thing in reverse for accelerating, otherwise you'd see people fall off non-stop at the beginning for the same reason you claim they can't stop.

your stopping speed is limited by how fast it can decelerate you, which is essentially the same as how fast it can accelerate you. it's not super fast to stop, to be fair, but neither is a bicycle going at high speed (though I'd expect the bike to be a little bit quicker to stop).
>...SGI's window manager whose name I forgot

4Sight!

https://wiki.preterhuman.net/4Sight_Window_System

http://www.vintagecomputers.info/pitechrep.html

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/sgi/iris4d/007-2001-030_4Sight_...

4Sight Programmer's Guide: GL/DGL Interfaces. NeWS. Window Manager.
I'm not well-versed in any foreign languages, but the little I know of Spanish grammar seems to be a lot more consistent than english. (There are footguns, there just seem to be fewer.)

And since we're talking about ideals, I don't see any reason to limit ourselves to natural languages! I am quite certain you could design a language which is much easier to learn and no less expressive.
Successes and failures of simplified models for a network of real neurons
You cannot create your own controls. It's impossible to integrate them with the VS designer unless you sign an NDA.

I don't mean a composition of existing controls but completely new custom controls. Yes, you can continue developing in code but nobody will develop winforms without a designer. Once you use a custom control in the control/form you will not be able to use the designer again until you remove the custom control. That is simply not acceptable for many developers.

There is much more low-level stuff like background behavior, event order and more which most developers simply don't notice, especially when only using Microsoft's controls.
Another McSweeney's article I love:

"MEET OLIVIA! THE COVID-19-ERA AMERICAN GIRL DOLL"

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/meet-olivia-the-covid-19...

Almost too close to the eventual truth.
>based more upon a gut plausibility of a scenario rather than a clear outline of information.

What meets your threshold for a conflict of interest? Maybe I'm being too harsh, but this seems to meet my personal threshold.

It's like if a politician heads a committee that has large sway in government contracts and they are close to someone who happens to invest in companies that bid on those contracts. It's easy to see a conflict exists even if a straight-line to a crime does not. Ethics often boils down to managing these conflicts so there isn't even a perceived avenue for impropriety. A politician breaches ethical boundaries irrespective if there’s unequivocal evidence they let the relationship impact their decision. There does not need to be a smoking gun.
My first time in Paris, I ordered what amounts to a grilled cheese sandwich and they charged me 20 euro. 10 years ago. Felt outrageous but I gotta admit it was a pretty good sando and it was my bad for eating at a tourist trap.

The place from my original comment[1] is in San Francisco.

People come from far and wide to have these sandwiches. I’ve seen people in the wild wearing swag from this sandwich place. Calling them sandwiches is almost criminal. Even making it at home you would certainly spend $10 on ingredients. There is no skimping on the meat.

I mean just look at the photos on their homepage. The sandwich is unlike anything I’ve seen in a European bakery. They’re typically 2 meals for me.

[1] https://www.deliboardsf.com/
we have a new climate
If you design your space for cars as the mode of getting to places, you get exactly that… but it really doesn’t have to be like this. It is possible to plan cities in a way that public transit works. Obviously it won’t if you need to jump into a car to buy bread for breakfast, because otherwise you won’t be back for dinner.

I say this as a member of a two car family who routinely ferries children to places and hates every minute of it that could be spent paying attention to something other than the road.
Is anybody using Erlang/Elixir in production for web apps? It seems well-suited for the modern age of using microservices/etc. and scattering things across several servers.
Because alternatives have some requirements that may not suite some people.

1. VMs have relatively big resources overhead and this approach requires you to download some Android image first.

Of course you'd want some clean distribution and there simply aren't many such ones (that I know of) that are easily available. The ones I tried - were a 2-in-1 shitshow+slideshow for me. Maybe it's because I used ISO (for QEMU/KVM), as I didn't want to run proprietary crapware (VirtualBox/VMWare).

2. Going with Anbox requires having crapware snapd and their Android image is quite old (Android 7.1.1).

3. Going with Waydroid requires having Wayland, which if you don't use it - is an overkill to install just to have Android on your PC.

4. Going with Android from AndroidSDK - is probably an even harder way to get access to some Android on your PC (I don't really know, I haven't investigated that option).
It's legally not anti-competitive behavior (as in, both Google and Apple's lawyers believe so) because it's just a 'default search engine' fee - everyone knows that iOS/Safari is the most lucrative platform to be the default search provider for, so a large number like $20 billion is to-be-expected. I'm sure that, in a lawsuit, Apple would argue "if someone else came and paid us $21 billion, we'd take it and drop Google/start a yearly auction" but no other search engine has that budget.

Apple is surely free to make their own search engine, and to an extent, they do - in Safari, the "suggested sites" feature is a search engine but one that only returns {single result | no result} and only works on iOS/Safari. On that same note, you can prove this by tracking search engine user agents for your website to look for Applebot/0.1 hits (if your site is popular enough).
how is buying a URL from an artist not supporting the artist. whether you are buying metadata or data seems irrelevant, if the claim is that the money supports the creator through patronage.