skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>honestly, with remote work, seven hours a day seems about right.

This is, with the most possible respect, a position of great privilege. Most people in the US are not remote workers that get to work 7 hours a day. They are expected to be physically present doing things like retail service work, manufacturing, healthcare, construction, etc.

The average HN user is in a very specific demographic that has benefited enormously from recent economic trends, a benefit that is not distributed evenly. Many (most?) people are working more then they ever did for an increasingly smaller piece of the pie.
So what’s the reason why you wanna quit having fun without alcohol? As long as you can get along with your life it should be ok.
It is NOT hacked. It is intentionally deleted by the author.
unfortunately fines are just cost of doing business for scumbags like this.
That’s one point of view. The other view is that it has trained ordinary people to unthinkingly just click “accept cookies”.

Consent != Informed Consent. The medical community is very well aware of this, it’s time tech realised it as well.
That's at least 5 functions of processing munged into one.
What about the non-adopted children of these founders and board members?

There's potentially a lot of inherited DNA out there that could cause damage to society in the future.
Playing Factorio
And now we have Charlie Munger gleefully making faceless, windowless monoliths a reality.
I was an alcoholic and have completely quit drinking around 7 years ago. I’m in my mid 30’s now.

Changing my peer group was the most important thing. Hanging out with people who drink at places where drinking is the main activity is not a good way to stop drinking.

Travelling was a great way for me to find other likeminded people. I moved to SEA where I found lots of people who weren’t drinking.

Once you have friends who aren’t alcoholics, you can start doing non-drinking things for fun. Hiking, riding motorcycles, jamming on instruments, talking about philosophy, fishing, writing code… Anything that you would consider fun.

Partying is also possible without booze, but the event has to be one that’s less drinking oriented. Typically, venues are making most of their revenue from alcohol sales, so it’s not easy to find the right one. But there are still some underground electronic music events, raves or even Sunday morning ecstatic dances, etc.

If you want to use substances, I found that mushrooms at the dose of around 0.5-1g are a safe option for some social fun time. But be sure to do your research and experiment in a safe setting first.
That's wild, thanks for sharing. I'd have to imagine it's served as some level of inspiration for Simon Stålenhag's work.

Ex: http://www.simonstalenhag.se/bilderbig/by_procession_1920.jp...
The browser had a WAP 2.0 mode, so basically you're likely to be going through your telco's WAP GW/proxy.
Playing Factorio.
I think "idx" is superior to the other suggested options for this case.
It's still short but it describes what the loop variable is for, i.e indexing into the array.
Go on a hike!

Bring a friend, talk, enjoy the views, bring headphones/speaker to listen to music/podcast/audiobook. The US is full of awesome trails and parks. The great thing about a hike is you can go for as long as you want or you can set a goal of reaching certain distances or destinations. Being outside is a great way to take a breath, get some fresh air & sunshine, and even meet other people on the trail (if they're willing to talk - I find people are super friendly on trails 90% of the time). After enough small hikes you'll probably want to take longer hikes, spend the night on the trail, and see grand views. This is motivation to plan a fun trip somewhere - most everyone wants to take a cool trip in nature!

Any outdoor activity really is great. Sports or even more leisurely activities such as kite flying, carving, gardening, all present great options.

If stuck indoors, invite people over and cook for them. Tell them you'll provide the food if they provide the company. Cooking is great because it involves creativity, planning, activity, and a tangible final result that can be eaten.

Reading is lovely - become okay with being by yourself, or start a book club where you either meet to discuss or read aloud to one another/listen to an audiobook. Do a puzzle, coloring pages, or something else with your hands while listening to an audiobook.
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Indeed. Reminds me of an early 1997 interview I had about the future of Java, when it was trying hard to displace JavaScript in the browser (swing gui and such) and flash was already starting to beat it out.
https://wanderingstan.com/netguide-interview-february-1997
Damn that's depressing...
You work on web3, you should be comfortable with the no help, no accountability situation it creates for its users. It’s a feature after all, or a bug.
That is one of the most accurate statements of the whole article!!!
A decentralized system won't ever have a central place for a privileged censor role that can "handle abuse."
Find new friends then, that's not true friendship.

I mostly do gaming, solo or with my friends, spend my time with girlfriend doing all sort of stuff, or spend time with friends or family.

Also have 3 cats and I have a lot of fun playing with them.
But the law isn't about cookies, it's about tracking and making sure you, the user, know you are being tracked. The poor UX is malicious compliance and seems to be working since so many people complaining about cookie banners and the law but not companies tracking you, the actual bad guys.
Where do you get your oil from? From the free democratic Saudi Arabia? West happily ignores any atrocities as long as the flow of resources is under control.

Not only SA sells oil to US, but it also invests earned money into US government bonds. It's allows them to do whatever they want in their country, no matter how "undemocratic" it is. And the "free" press being oh-so-independent and honest, happily ignores that too, instead always pointing you to more convenient targets.
If that's what you need it's possible to generate and issue keys from a centralized host just like with TLS. You can even set up login with SSH/TLS certs, which can be password protected.
Lot of great comments here, but one I haven't see yet is AA. It may not be right for everyone, but it has helped many people. My other suggestions would be to tell someone you love what you are dealing with and try and find a therapist. Good luck.
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Sorry if that was unclear: yes we are saying the same thing, that more children are now in the hospital for covid. I was talking about the rate per 100k children.

And that number is trending up. It has actually being trending up since Delta: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7036e2.htm
From Gates's email:

> I am literally losing sleep over this issue since together with a move to more server based applications it seems like it could make it easy for people to do competitive operating systems.

Gates was talking about server applications, and he was right. Within 10 years, people were using Gmail instead of Outlook and Google Docs instead of Word. Both are written in Java on servers not running Windows, exactly as Gates feared.
Straight answer to question asked:

This may sound a non-sequitur, but the straightest answer is, the same way I have fun without Cocaine, or Diamonds, or Cigarettes, or Thongs, or Graphene or a Learjet or... any number of random things and chemicals. I don't mean that flippantly, I just mean it succinctly and bluntly: I live my life and do things. Alcohol is simply not a precursor or requirement for me to do any of the things I enjoy - Video Games, Board Games, Card Games, Car Rallying/Racing, Photography, Guitar, Synthesizers, reading, chatting with friends, dinners, watching TV/Movies, walking through the city, flying, astronomy, traveling, eating, and doing any number of pointless and nerdy things with various computing devices around :D

FWIW I'm also an "introvert with social skills" in the sense that contact with groups of people, even friends, eventually drains me of energy; and I'm particularly uncomfortable in new situations with large number of strangers; but alcohol has never been the stereotypical solution there either - it makes me tighten up and grasp for control rather than loosen. Therefore, I occasionally drink WHEN I'm relaxed, not TO relax.

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Deeper answer to what I think is your underlying ask:

Honestly - list or find things you enjoy doing; and find people who enjoy doing them but don't see alcohol as some mandatory precursor to enjoying them. It sounds like you may be surrounded by people for whom alcohol is means, method AND goal, so they may not be able to support you in finding fun and enjoyment in activities without alcohol. COVID makes it harder to find in-person groups, but historically things as cheesy as Meetup or a local shop that supports activities - be it a sports shop that has rock climbing nights or a comic shop that has magic the gathering nights or WHATEVER - and try to do some interesting sounding things that don't involve alcohol. It's both devilishly hard if you have an addiction, and extremely easy if / once you don't.

You don't necessarily need to break ties and never see your group of friends again; but it sounds like you would benefit from a supportive group that can have fun without alcohol and show you how to have fun without alcohol, better than us on the interwebs can convince you :). Depending on how deep your enjoyment of alcohol is though, you may need additional formal or informal help - it's great you have a goal, don't underestimate the challenges that may lie in front of you, Good luck! <3
>If Russia is so influential over Kazakhstan, why all natural resources and power plants in Kazakhstan belong to Western companies?

This is false. Kazakhstan retains most oil revenues and its joint ventures with foreign companies for oil exploration and drilling include not just Western, but also for example Chinese companies.

>Why Nazarbaev had replaced Cyrillic alphabet with Latin?

Because he saw clearly how Putin is weaponizing language and identity rhetoric to justify wars of aggression and Anschluss-style annexations against its neighbours. The script you use is rather symbolic, but those symbols do matter. Otherwise, Russia itself wouldn't have stamped out the Latin script and forced those minority languages, already few in number, to use Cyrillic in the 2000s.
While I get your point about tension, I actually don't think these are hard issues, it's just that our current attitudes have shifted so much. Just watch the movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." A different era, to put it mildly. Public servants should be expected to put personal considerations (and the considerations of their buddies, colleagues, industry) aside, and focus on the good of the society that elected them. That is clearly no longer a universally held attitude. Instead, we've suffered a whole generation of capitalist inculcation that holds as its core value that "enlightened self interest" is all that is necessary to drive society forward (and to be honest, the enlightened part has been pretty much dropped these days). Nothing matters if representatives are endless "positive-summers" who feel that their own good benefits society's good, no matter what they do. They'll believe (all the way to the bank) that they are doing honest good. They are that deluded. I blame the shift towards this on Ayn Rand and her ilk.

> People are complicated and these are hard issues. In my experience few people show up intending to be completely selfish about their activities.

Intentions don't matter as much as actions. The norm in Washington is self-serving, and the watchdogs and anti-corruption mechanisms have corroded and are breaking down. Corruption has taken over, and the system is rotting. The only thing that can fix it is going back to the rules, not the intentions. Consequences change behavior, and those require a functioning system that fights corruption and a dedication to keeping that system functioning. Instead, neither rules nor attitudes seem to matter these days.
These infotainment modules do have DVD updates available, although it's unclear what code the DVDs can update (they can certainly provide a new version of the mapping application so it's evident they can replace code as well as data, but I don't know the system enough to know if they could update other functionalities). It's also unclear if the issue is too systemic to be solved by updating a single module. But, generally speaking, infotainment is already much more user-update friendly than you suggest - many infotainment modules will take (hopefully signed) updates over DVD, SD, or USB.
I spent the 2000's writing a lot of java servlets with a smattering of JSP and a little bit of Android. I spent the first few years of the 2010's doing multiple Android apps. Java as a language is verbose but overall isn't that bad. The problem is enterprises love patterns and love ceremony and boilerplate and so that became the defacto way to write it, which then got cargo culted everywhere else.

Over my 20+ year career I see programmers demanding their tools give them the freedom to shoot themselves in the face. Then, upon shooting themselves in the face they turn to the nearest person and say "why did it let me do that?". Your tools are rarely the problem. The problem almost always is how the people doing the building actually use the tools.
NATO not only has this obligation, with Gladio it was active in violently breaking down civilian protests in Italy.

This was actually revealed by the center-right government in Italy in 1990, because they were more scared of the US/NATO involvement in Italian domestic affairs, then their own left leaning working class.
The difference is that in all 3 of your examples you don't have the "Of course it's obvious that the other person should do this job during a pandemic" entitlement.

In your examples, you'd probably pay the retired person or underemployed friend extra during a pandemic. You'd probably make sure that the other families you were exposed to had adequate PPE and weren't exposed to unnecessary risk. If your kid misbehaved, you'd probably keep them at home instead of sending them to other families. You probably can't just abstract them into a "childcare unit" abstraction.

But with schools, you seem to be able to do this. The drumbeat seems to be "Kids should be in school come hell or high water", instead of "We would humbly request other people to take care of and teach our kids, and we understand that they are overworked and there's extreme health risks".

My suggestion for you is – if you really believe in Example 3, why not do it? Try it and see; I guarantee you'll run into the equivalent of staffing problems before long. If not, win-win – you just got free school!
This might help.

https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/solutions/measurement/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_ratings
Only Russian nationalists do not know us invaded Vietnam and Russia invaded Ukraine. Everyone else history book are up to date
More importantly, what FONTS will be in vogue in 100 years???
> A situation where the founder gave himself virtually no mining advantage over other early adaptors, sure is the “cleanest” approach.

The cleanest approach is to give no mining advantage over any adopter, early or late. By fixing the emission rate, for example at one coin per second forever [1].

[1] https://john-tromp.medium.com/a-case-for-using-soft-total-su...
He’s not a private person. He had a podcast with Nat and presents at conferences.

[name redacted] told me being a “bad programmer” was a reason to kill myself.

Kind of strange from a guy that didn’t know the definitions of OOP or functional programming.
What I would LOVE today is a modern clone of the UltraTerm. Extra points if it has an input for the motherboard video that can be overlaid or obscured by the UltraTerm, and outputs via VGA and HDMI.

I never saw an MDA/CGA PC, but I saw a couple with Hercules and CGA and a few with an [CG|MD]A and a high end something paired with a gigantic screen fed with 4 BNC connections. Normally the card with the BNC outputs would have more memory and a faster CPU than the PC.
Sounds like English is his second language.
fiat currencies aren't back by government wealth, they're "backed" by people's trust in the future stability of the currency. people trust that the value of the currency will remain relatively constant over shortish time horizons

this "value" is also arguably "artifical" bc it is also derived from nebulous concepts like "trust"

I personally think deriding something bc it's source of value it's what I like is a fruitless exercise
Have side projects. Self-host something to keep your skills up. Train yourself in a manual skill/trade for when you can't take the corporate LALALA any more: I taught myself plumbing.
> Gold is not traded on its commodity value.

I understand that, but it has commodity value.

> Its been traded for thousands of years because it is durable and difficult to produce. People who believe in Bitcoin compromised some sheen to make those two most important attributes tenfold more potent.

Nah, they got suckered into a Ponzi scheme.
Well there isn't an Nx.dev plugin for Elixir, is there? Nx for Elixir is a nice shorthand for Numerical Elixir. Nx.dev just looks like a consulting company jumping on a short domain when the .dev TLD became available and then using it for a project later. The nx.dev site was only launched in 2019, and then as an Angular dev tool, and as an Elixir dev I hadn't heard of it until after Nx elixir existed, which seems to have started some time in mid to late 2020.

[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20190501153325/https://nx.dev/
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It really needs a non-textual overlay and/or a different color.
A lot of websites don't show cookie banners (DuckDuckGo, GitHub, HN, gitlab, etc.). Sure, the law has some minor mistakes, but it is the fault of the websites. If they didn't track the user, they wouldn't have to display a banner.
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Done this several times. It's always been when I've had to take paid employment between building and failing at my own startups. I will always argue up and down with the client and almost always will get significant reduction in the nastiness of whatever thing they were trying to do, through education.

I think a lot of this dark patterns would be even darker but for the push-back by some developers. Though I've been at companies where some workers are like robots and will carry out management's desires down to a T, even when the idea is total insanity. Some workers are immigrants who cannot afford to lose their employment or they will be thrown out of the country and potentially lose their partner and children.

When I have to work on my own projects, I generally avoid all dark patterns - I try to go as far in the opposite direction as possible, while still generating revenue. Though, with the torrent site I built once, it was "Anything Goes". You're already running an illegal site, might as well write something that bleeds the users dry if you can.

EDIT: I want to add that most of it was down to lack of technical knowledge by management. They were business guys who didn't know the Web. Most of the time they weren't trying to be assholes, it just appeared that way.
Sober 8 years through it. A big big help.
As you age that group of friends will tend to age out of that except for the actual alcoholics.
How? By not being massively expensive but still being equally secure (in addition to doing more than just moving ledger entries from one wallet to another) Crypto 'mining' is not a fundamental or necessary feature of the universe - it is a very strange, very short duration thing that will show up in the history books as one of those wildly irresponsible and completely ridiculous things people did for a little while until they figured out a better way to do it. It will show up on the same chapter as biplanes and trench warfare 100 years from now.
Well, "people" here means 99% or 99.9% or maybe a couple extra nines. I really didn't mean the next 0.01%.

Anyway, it can, by a complex process that makes an entire society poorer once people gets thrown out of the economy. That includes the absurdly rich too. It's just that if this is the only point where it bothers you, honestly I don't even care about your opinion.
I see this repeated all the time.

What people fail to realize is that the enterprise culture is language agnostic.

Before Java we were doing the same with C, C++, VB, Delphi, Smalltalk and whatever 4GLs one wants to dive into.

When Java gets replaced by TechX, the space ship enterprise architects will keep doing what they know best in TechX.
Thanks for your answer. That's a great reminder that everything building-related depends a lot on the weather of the region things are being built!
You can make the case that both intX (x=16, 32, 64) and floating point are bad for general purpose computing. Like Common LISP and Python, Java has bigints and rationals in the stdlib, but Java makes you use non-operator syntax to get at them. Contrast that to Clojure which puts them on your fingertips.

Java has always been in a strange place of not deciding if it wants to be a systems or application language. (The standard architecture is that demanding systems, say video games, are written in both a systems language and a scripting language. A Python coder feels smart when the incorporate, say, number is written in C or FORTRAN but Java’s xenophobia makes that feel like a personal failure. Java is ‘good enough’ for applications programming that you might find something like Spring or Guava gives you all the dynamism you need with less hassle than adding an embedded scripting language like Groovy or Clojure.)
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It’s an everyday scenario in the financial world. Humans make mistakes. The systems that currently power finance may be flawed but they have affordances for mistakes and provisions to fix them.

What would be a horrifying scenario would be to lose those affordances and backstops for new technology that requires humans to not make mistakes to operate it safely
Mostly corporate learning focused on specific job tasks is what I do. Building tools for online learning and using instructional design to build the training. This is very different than teaching fundamentals to kids, even beyond accommodating different skill levels. But of course it relies on people having a solid foundation. Without that you can't build anything.
Yes they are. When new tokens are created through mining, they have to be sold on the market to pay the electric bills. This inflates the total supply and reduces liquidity. It extracts value.

The network requires them because they themselves control the network. It's the reason the block size wasn't increased.
This is completely false. It might have been true at launch but isn’t now.
It's a victory for misery's love of company, and little else. He's not suddenly going to find Jesus and promote vaccines for those sweet Australian dollars; he's just going to get annoyed that he was jerked around.
Doesn't matter that much if the US doesn't extradite them ( of course they won't, like France doesn't Polanski), they still have to avoid every EU member and close to France country, which can be pretty limiting.
> It just seems easier to get yourself into a bad performance corner with Java

Well, Java’s GCs are the state of the art. If they can’t deal with the amount of garbage a program creates than nothing can.

As for the rest:
Which may or may not be the correct response depending on use-case. The JVM gives you the freedom to choose the approach you want. The default G1 GC for example has the target pause time setting where you can set whether you would want lower latency or higher throughput.