skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is worse than a scam.

Homeopathic practitioners sell false hope. They do their own tests, their own diagnoses, sell their own preparations, and then review their client’s progress. There is no check, no balance. But “big pharma gives medical doctors kick backs” and that’s bad!!

They don’t see a lack of progress as them not being effective, but as an opportunity to sell more. If you aren’t progressing, then it’s you, the client, that is not doing something right.

But they are stuck in a scam too. They’ve paid for expensive training and materials. Some buy expensive equipment. Some of that equipment is legitimate, but they aren’t trained how to use it properly. Given that they have been convinced to invest so much, they in turn need to get an income from clients. They are victims too, at least in the short term.

But long term homeopaths and their ilk prey on our fears and hopelessness purely for profit.

I do believe that many start out believing, and that it is the recruiters and trainers that are even worse, but they can’t honestly keep practicing without realising it’s wrong. That would require them to admit that they have been scammed, have lost a sizeable investment and ripped off a number of people that they probably care about.

It’s scams all the way down.

If it worked, there would be no poor homeopaths. None would be struggling paying back loans for training and equipment. They’d be working for hospitals and command wages like medical doctors.
RSS feeds don't replace a website. Most of the websites don't publish their whole articles on the RSS feed, only a summary (or even just a line).

Therefore, RSS doesn't cause any advertisement loss, as the user needs to go to the website anyway (which, to be clear, is totally fine - RSS still works as filter/preview, which is very helpful).
There might be none as well, this is a new field.

The problem with your first suggestion is that you do an awful lot of work to map another games NFTs to your own items but presumably get none of the money from them. You also have an immediate balancing problem. And the better way is to just make a game that those players want to play, which is how game populations move around now anyway. The only way I can see supporting external NFTs as worthwhile for a game developer is if they’re already table stakes for taking part.

Or say you support BAYC, all that work to address 10k potential users?
My comment wasn’t about buffered writing in a main thread, it was about moving the work out of your threads actually executing your program and having them push raw log actions into a queue for another thread to do the formatting and writes to file from.

If you’re logging so much that you’re saturating a dedicated thread that just reads from a queue in shared memory, does log formatting and writes to a file then you have bigger problems than figuring out how to log because there isn’t going to be a solution that lets you log with a deterministic latency without skipping events or wrapping around your queue.

Of course, the approach scales fine if you can have multiple log files per process - e.g. a normal log file and a message log or transaction log, because you can give each file its own queue and thread.
[name redacted] sexually assaulted and emotionally abused me. You can't change that.

[name redacted] unblocked me and tried to convince me to have sex with him again. He's the one that reinitiated contact.

I thought staying in contact would ultimately result in the apology I deserve, but resulted in him trying to convince me to commit suicide.
Most emails have unsubscribe button, it’s easier that restraining order I think.
Governments collected taxes on cash and non-fiat for millenia (and still do so), they will have no issues taxing crypto if they need to.
Be careful, it's slightly addictive.
However rust is so hairy that it’s damn slow to develop in.
You would expect database engine devs would pick rust to get those last drops of performance.

Yet there is no production quality storage engine written in rust, whereas there are several of those in go.

Ergonomics matter. Iteration time too. Rust fails hard there.
Incidentally, source code is available for both Elevated and Second Reality:

https://github.com/mtuomi/SecondReality

https://github.com/in4k/rgba_tbc_elevated_source
This means people will mostly give their money to the loudest charities that spend the most on marketing, not on their actual effectiveness. Boring yet important projects will get almost nothing with this model. Don't make the economist mistake of assuming that people are perfectly rational actors.
Then why did you say "[name redacted] strangled me too" on my post about [name redacted] strangling me?
I’m not trolling. I’ve linked to facts. If you think the CDC and Surgeon General are not facts then you, sir, are trolling

Why does everyone say it’s fine for kids to get Covid because they are not dying? Again, you are trolling.

Hospitalization rates are way up with Omicron. And only reason it looked like kids were less affected by Covid was because there was a lack of testing for kids and schools were initially closed. Schools are open and infection rates are same as adults. Sure. They aren’t dying as much because adults are generally way less healthy. But they are not magically immune and we can pretend there is nothing to be concerned about

Edit: confirmed. I looked at your comment history and you seem to love trolling and posting snarky things
-Mitsubishi Hi-Unis in H/2H are wonderful for writing in my experience; lead is almost unbreakable, holds its point for a long time, very smooth to write with even for lefties like me.
People willing to pay for quality content is always a good thing for content authors. By nature of their willingness to pay, it's a good thing for content consumers (otherwise they wouldn't do it).

Nobody requires anyone to use any website that they don't want to (except perhaps irs.gov). You are always free to ignore it, like you are free to ignore Twitter.

Giving people more options rarely makes the world worse.
More than 95% of cryptocurrencies are not energy sensitive. This is very misinformed. When people think cryptocurrencies they think Bitcoin which is rapidly falling in market share.
Reminds me of this Hong Kong apartment which can transform into many types of rooms.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/gary-ch...
Easily the best take posted here in a while. These are money games. And if you think this will be a minor sector of the economy, look at Wall Street - there is huge demand for these types of games, and that's when only people with $1+ million in net worth can really play. Now anyone can play, at the same time that traditional paths to wealth are stagnating or closing off completely.
I had to file a report on the police for misconstruing my words and also for lying to me at the scene of the incident. I don’t even trust the police anymore after reporting this incident and how they handled this.
Online meetups (IME) are traaaash. Old-style meetups, most people would attend with a colleague or to meet up with someone specific, not randos who wandered in. New-style COVID meetups, you just have a pre-recorded talk or someone struggling with screen-sharing for 20 minutes, and then you have 20 anonymous windows on Zoom with only 2-3 people doing the thing where they're nominally asking a question, but actually telling some kind of tiresome and dubious anecdote.
Introducing Clearing by Robinhood (2018)
Obviously, I can’t speak for this person or their mother, but there is a desire to find a miracle cure, or even a way to provide a feeling of control in an otherwise hopeless situation.

I think there are ways to do this that aren’t exploitative like homeopathy is.

It’s evil to prey on the sick and the dying for profit. Homeopathy should be illegal.
You think cloudflare will be more tolerant?
The transactions add value to the network which incentivises mining.
> I don't know jack about teaching kids, but I do know a lot about teaching adults.

What kind of adults? Most adult teaching is for adults of the top 30%. School teaching has to accommodate the bottom 30%. Teaching the top 30% and bottom 30% is very different.
I’m a beginner in management. In 3 years, the only interns who excelled are those whom I told had barely passed the interview and were paid the least. The ones I respected for their initial talent didn’t fully understand their subject matter and, notably, couldn’t do post-deployment customer interviews to check, loop back and reflect on their work.

It deeply saddens me because it means saddistic managers obtain better results, and people perform better by being talked down. And that’s not a path I want to take and it’s hard to find the way to both congratulate people and get them to excel at their work (FYI we’re at 35h/week and we don’t do overtime here).
It’s probably because your friends chose to sync contacts and your phone was number was there.
Firefox Sidebar / Edge-Like Vertical Tabs (But Better)
I've heard that the inverse is true in humid areas, and I live in the subtropics (the North-East area of New South Wales, Australia).
Saving evidence... is crazy?
It's amazing how bad the options for native UI frameworks are, even without considering cross-platform, more so once you do. Android is actually decent but with caveat it only works on Android... Windows had a decent WPF but then they came up with 5 other framworks that got rebranded and now nobody knows what to use anymore. Is WinUI the latest and greatest there? Wouldn't be cross platform anyway.

Perhaps Unity? But that's more tailored for 3d scenes, rather than UI widgets.

Genuinely looking for suggestions on what is the best choice to pick there.
I think there is a citation needed here, because I don't see how crypto has proven itself to be inherently and fundamentally worse. I think that fiat is the ultimate war money that has cost more human lifes than any other monetary system so far.
I draw with fineliners, but I don't enjoy writing with them. I honestly didn't realize that folks regularly wrote with fineliners as I've only seen them with art supplies - which would explain why they aren't common writing tools. Most folks aren't seeing them with the stationary at their store.

If you like fineliners, I suggest refillables. I recently recieved these as a gift and have enjoyed them. [1]

[1] https://www.cultpens.com/i/q/SD03714/staedtler-mars-matic-te...
Yeah C was definitely available for the 16 bit but and think I recall C++ being available for the N64 but that was a later generation (and thus released several years later) than the Mega Drive and SNES era.

By the time the N64 / PlayStation / Saturn generation was released, it was more common to expect SDKs. As you say, an expectation likely driven from PC development. SN Systems, being by that point acquired by Sony, would have been excellently placed for the PlayStation dev kits. Unfortunately from the stories I’ve read, Sega were really late in delivering an SDK for the Saturn instead expecting developers to continue to write code in assembly. Which was one of the many issues developers had with that console.

Unfortunately I wasn’t lucky enough to have access to any dev kits for any generation of consoles prior to the PS2 / Dreamcast era. Instead specialising in PC games (and 8-bit micro computers before IBM-compatibles took over) instead. But I have gone back and written some homebrew stuff for the older consoles since. Nothing good enough to boast about on here though.
Anarchism isn't just "no rules or government" as it means in common parlance; it is against coercive hierarchy in general, and capitalism is inherently coercive because it involves denial of access to means of production, and denial of access to necessary resources like food and medicine. Think of anarchism as being more akin to a modern attempt at the tribal system of humanity's prehistory, but scaled up: resources being pooled and shared instead of traded transactionally. There are other interpretations of anarchist productive organisation but that's a common one.
Every once in a while I still fancy building my own distraction-free OS for QWERTY smartphones. It’s a lot of work though, and I’m not ure that there’s a market for it.
The idea that privately-managed charity could adequately address even one of the numerous structural-level problems in our society is tremendously naive.
Popularity is not quality, usually the inverse.
Valid points, time will tell. I can image there will be neutral intermediate services (NFT-platforms) that provide assets and smart contracts/APIs for integration for small fees.
Here's an example of better UX (subjectively):

zip my-archive.zip my-directory
unzip my-archive.zip

(disclaimer: zip/unzip won't be a reasonable alternative for all of the use cases of tar)

Good software doesn't beg that much explanation. And when it does, then either "--help" or just the command with no parameters e.g. "zip" or "unzip" should provide what's necessary. I don't believe that tar does that, but instead overwhelms the user, whereas "tar --usage" is overwhelming.

Here's another comment of mine which serves a precise example of why tar is problematic in my eyes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29339018

I don't feel like it follows the UNIX philosophy that well either, though i won't argue that it should be much smaller (because it is powerful, although someone might argue that), but that its commands should be grouped better.

That said, maybe things would be more tolerable if we used the full parameters instead of memorizing silly mnemonics, here's an excerpt from the linked comment:

$ tar --verbose --create --gzip --file=new-archive.tar.gz ./files-i-want-to-archive
I switched back to foutain pens a year ago, wanting to reduce the crazy amount of ball pens I had laying around. I did not wanted it to be another rabbit hole niche hobby and after passing way too much time reading and watching stuff about it, I decided to go the pratical road :

* 1 TWSBI Go with an Extra-Fine nib

* 2 Lamy Safary with a Fine and Bold nib (and two extra nibs Extra Fine and Medium)

The Lamy are nib-swappable. All are in transparent plastic (demo pen) because I liked it. For the inks, I picked the Diamine brand that is a good balance between choice, quality and affordable. It was the affordable, low-maintenance and pragmatic road.

If someone wanted just a more fancy foutain pen, I would advise to look at the Lamy Studio. It use the same nibs than the Safari and are also nib-swappable.

This journey made me realize that Moleskine notebook paper is from perfect to meh with a high-variability in quality. I think my next step would be to pick my next notebook either from Rhodia or Leuchtturm or something with Tomoe River paper (probably Rhodia, simply because it is easier to find).

The best site I found showcasing and reviewing ink is https://mountainofink.com/ I always check the feedback there to pick up my inks even if I focused on one brand by convenience.

EDIT: I also draw a little bit with my pens.
My app allows for "share nothing" architecture, basically using multiple DNS A records as load balancing. Currently it has 6 servers.

Even if 5 of them would go down at the same time, the site would still work as intended (thought probably couldn't handle peak load with less than 3 or 4). If one of or two are down, nothing happens.

Also completely reinstalling a server takes around an hour.
Right but then the developer has to decide what the stats are and make a graphical representation for every NFT. In fairness that could just be some free currency for owning an NFT but it’s not exactly compelling. The compelling version makes the item worthwhile but that’s a lot of work the holder of the NFT essentially expects for free.

The metaverse version of this is NFTs that drag around their own code, art and so on. That can run in a sandboxed way and there are protocols for game entity communication and so on. But this level of interoperability is a pipe dream outside of games like Second Life.
I think it was perhaps circulating in the professional networks and rumor mills before. I remember hearing about it a few years ago.
Ah...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1779372/python-metaclass...
Death, especially in the USA, seems to be fraught with propriety pitfalls when speaking about it with strangers.

I'm not so sure why. It could be the general American cultural tendency toward heavy euphemism.

Naturally, any GitHub announcement is going to be run past world-class PR staff abiding by Microsoft corporate policies (that is, burn no bridges, offend no one, take no unnecessary risks with the brand). Microsoft is a US company with primarily US decisionmakers.

a squared plus b squared equals fearful, bland, and circumloquacious.
Back here in the real world, game publishers are instead selling non-transferable serial numbers on skins as ‘NFTs’.

None of the things you mention are happening or likely to happen.
This is true. Accordingly, "blue bubbles" (iOS to iOS) are also a thing, and Apple pushes them hard in product placements all the time. They're subtly recognizable from a distance, too. It's all very on purpose and quite clever.
Sorry, for the slower of us, what does that mean? Muting a microphone with a script? Would the poster effectively keep their mic muted until they want to speak (and issue sudo commands two times every time they speak)?
What brand of locks do you have on your doors at home and does the lockpicking lawyer have a video of going through them in a few seconds?
It's a bunch of links to Wired and GQ. Maybe they wouldn't have needed to shut down if only Yahoo hadn't killed del.icio.us which used to be the social media platform for bookmarks. I'm still crying on the inside over that.
The margin for any given piece of content will
be low

Not when the financial incentive rises the rarer (less shared) a piece of content gets. This will be baked into the protocols. Arweave already has this.
TBH, a lot of "long form" articles are just shitty. Randomly interrupting a current event story with unrelated biographic episodes of the protagonists does not magically result in a more valuable, high-brow form of reporting.
Mozilla dabbled in cryptocurrency donations before, when they were far less controversial, and still decided it was a bad idea. I wonder what changed - or have they just lost so much institutional knowledge at this point they can't remember their 2014 mistakes?

https://blog.mozilla.org/foundation-archive/fundraising/bitc...
I interviewed with Amazon about 2015, pretty long process but compared where I was coming from (huckster data startup) AMZN seemed ideal.

Onboarding was interesting at the general company level, but basically non existent at a team level. I gave it about three months trying to get to grips with the manual tasks underlying their Virtual IP assignment process (was on their networking team). Couldn't make head nor tail of it, had constant problems with the VM running on my laptop and basically started looking around for another job.

However, this little FAANG checkbox I now have ticked has opened lots of doors for me since then. I've seen most of my old team at a few tech events in the interim, and taking to them it seems like I got out in time. The team was "traded" to another senior director, and things got very bad, with loads of folks quitting.

My last day included an exit interview, which kind of stuck with me ever since. Talking to the HR rep, I said that the role probably wasn't a good fit for me, but maybe sometime in the future I'd wind up back at Amazon. You know, one of those throwaway comments you might say to be polite. The HR rep responded with "Well, you never know, maybe" while unconsciously shaking his head at the same time :)
Except historically far harsher measures were approved for epidemics. Look up Typhoid Mary.
Longreads is also great.
https://longreads.com/
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> in much of the world private healthcare is accepted and efficient.

It is accepted in many parts of the world, unfortunately, but in what part of the world is it "efficient"? Can you give an example? Is "basic medicine costing $500 (see insulin) to the few that can afford it and the rest dying because they can't access it" what you define as efficient?

> I'd rather euthanize myself at age 80 and pay much lower taxes throughout my adult life than die at age 85 in a gold-plated Government hospital.

I'd rather not. I doubt many people would be okay with that. I like living and being healthy. You can still feel free to do that in either situation.

> Sanitation and public transport can be directly charged to end-users based on usage.

So the rich should get clean streets and running water while the poor walk on their own shit? Should we charge per poop? As for public transportation, you think it would work if I didn't pay taxes for it and it cost $80 for someone to take it because they can't afford the $20 Uber ride?

> Federal Government bureaucracy just exists to support itself.

This is objectively not true. Many techies (not just crypto people) tend to forget why societal structures were invented in the first place. No one's saying inefficiencies don't exist but disregarding all of society seems to be specifically tailored to get a rise out of people.

I don't know how I can explain to you that we all need to care about each other, otherwise we'll all go extinct.
Benchmarking against Treasury Bills over an era of unprecedented interest rate decline (which means lower bond yields and higher bond prices)?
That report is extremely detailed and graphically violent. That would be really strange if the police made up all those details.

You seemed to have upheld your story again on Twitter.
do you know anyone who died because of homeopathy? do you say the same for anyone who has died from medical malpractice of modern medicine?
If you're not averse to books I'm yet again recommending "Robust Python" by Patrick Viafore and for more esoteric things like metaclasses I would recommend "Expert Python Programming, 3rd Edition" by Michal Jaworski & Tarek Ziade. It's not wholly dedicated to metaclasses, so there are tons more to learn from it as well.
If people are willing to pay for it, the people consuming it find it valuable, which is frequently a proxy for quality (in the eyes of those consumers - the ones who count in this equation). Quality of content is, of course, subjective.

I have paid for Lady Gaga albums.
Ha, that's amusing, because at the same time i hate Android Studio with a passion - it seems like the worst JetBrains product by far, though maybe because Android isn't a particularly nice platform to develop for.

Admittedly, most of my complaints there would be about the different Android SDK versions and how sluggish and slow everything feels at times, as well as about how Android seems to have a stripped down JDK inside of it, which causes weirdness with certain libraries, as opposed to just having something like OpenJDK.

But hey, whatever works for you! I don't really think that there are that many (if any) alternatives for Android development, to be honest.
Wasn't that like IBM's business motto at some point? No one ever got fired for going with IBM.
Then IBM definitely lost a lot of business to cloud modernization. Maybe the next logical step is the cheaper CloudFlare, which another comment mentioned is actually pretty profitable and then I'm sure the next cheaper incumbent will come in with just slightly less trust and reliability.
It's substack - authors expressing veiled admiration for Nazis is par for the course on there.