skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been coding since I was six years old. (I'm in my forties). For the first bit of that it was BASIC on a TRS-80 Model 100 laptop, with 16k and a tape drive. Then, really, Perl and Hypercard. Answering the question of but what for??? was a huge part of my friends' and my dilemma in building simple games and projects. In my experience, there is a chasm between getting good at doing something technically and knowing what the hell you're supposed to do with that knowledge. Screensavers; that was the best idea we had and that's what we competed against each other on. We'd sit around and talk about how we could make something like SimCity plus SimEarth plus realistic physics and make a universe simulator. Or a driving game that could generate cities to drive through. But I had the same experience with 3D modeling! I could spend a hundred hours to make a dinosaur in a pirated copy of Infini-D. Okay, now what?

Perhaps this is off track, but I guess to us at the time the joy was in discovering the technical aspects, and tinkering and learning how to use them. I read the BASIC manual that came with the TRS, and I remember being 7 years old and skipping the part about "Arrays" repeatedly because it seemed too complicated to light up dots on the screen. Until one day I just was like, okay, what's this "array" thing, I feel like I'm missing something. And suddenly that chapter blew my mind. Likewise, I was deep into my third or fourth PHP online store / shopping cart in the late 90s, when a kid I hung out with was like, what? You're not using a database? And I was like no, I just have text files for each product. There's a whole back end for the business to edit the text files and images. Then, because I couldn't not look at it, I had to look at mysql. Holy shit, you mean I don't have to create text files for every product? Or block one person from editing them when someone else is? The rest being history.

Okay, broader scope: You can't generate use cases until you need them, and also, you can't learn tools until you have the use case for them, or else you're going to forget what they were for. Tools and the experience of working with the tools go together. You might be able to simulate that experience by building a card game, but like all skills, they will be lost quickly unless they're exercised regularly.
This post was at #1 within 20 minutes and stayed on the front page for a few hours before suddenly disappearing. That struck me as really weird. Now I understand that there are some moderator controlled weights.

Yes I'm a nerd so I did a little `curl | grep` thing to find it way way down at the end.
Can you please elaborate? I couldn't find anything on this
Reason 2) does seem to be due to an attribute of the Blockchain, as there is no central organization that the government can force to establish the real-world identity of all participants. (Although this is now happening at the point of conversion to/from fiat currency.)
Sorry, but it sounds like you're missing the experience bit? But if you speak English and a local language, check out the careers page of your favorite FAANG, there may still be something for you.
You have cash (like a ton of cash in bank notes). The cash has unsavory origins. You go to a shady local dealer who will take your cash and give you crypto in an offshore exchange. That is cross border money laundering. You then use that crypto to buy property or NFT "art". Some months later you sell the asset, either for money in bank or crypto which you convert to money on a KYC exchange like Coinbase. Voila, you have washed your dirty money into perfectly clean money in bank. Best, you do it in a jurisdiction which doesn't have personal income tax. Like Dubai.
I think it's just default recognised that you're not getting a doctor's medical advice, particularly not for you, through an internet forum. So, someone would have to tell you they are a doctor, and you'd still not get their medical advice unless you had a consultation with them. That last bit being similar to lawyers reminding people "IAAL but I'm not your lawyer".
Crohn's sufferer here. I have lost track of the times people have said "I tried this diet, and then my Crohns / UC went away".. and then some time later their symptoms reappeared. My understanding (via own reading and discussion with my doctor) is that there is just as much evidence against as for a meat-based diet .... or any kind of diet.

As my specialist put it "if there was a common diet that cured people, we would know about it already". Anecdotally one never knows if their UC/Crohn's improves because of their diet or it's just part of the ups and downs of those diseases.

That said, I'm happy in general if I hear a fellow UC / Crohn's sufferer seems to have found something that works for them, especially something that is better for you than steroids and other treatments with severe side-effects.
Trust as in the public trusting the vote? I'm afraid you can put political spin on and create distrust in pretty much anything.
Here in Vanuatu we could also hear it. On facebook people from all the islands are talking about it and were trying to figure out if it was one of our own island volcanoes that erupted.
Fees are based on resource usage. In Bitcoin this is usually the total data size of inputs and outputs that are used to make the sum. This is where the issue of dust arises, when an address holds a mass quantity of low value inputs, but combing them yields a very large and therefore costly transaction.

In some other chains, like Ethereum, the accounting is ledger based. With these systems theres is no variety in input count, but it similarly scales by transaction computation so more complex contracts are more expensive.

Both networks have a fluctuating transaction cost due to congestion competition, but the “base cost” in either is totally unaffected by the value/total amount of currency.
Logitech MX series has buttons to switch between up to 3 different devices. It's not your case but close.
Not really. The set of systems calls needed to run your app is usually very small and precisely specified.
i feel silly for missing that when i read it. what else do i miss, i wonder.
That is not correct.

Source: recently received money sent by a friend from another EU country.
That seems unlikely, since the magnitude was only 4.0. The relation between magnitude and actual impact is complex, but big ones tend to be 6+ and really big ones 8 or even 9.
Blatant nonsense propaganda
Subjective. In my opinion, the physics of electrophoretics imposes a minimum latency that no body will be able to surpass unless they change to new yet-to-be-invented materials or create new laws of physics. 700ms for a clean greyscale update in 2006 has remained 660ms in 2022. Sure, there's various tricks degrading to 1-bit dither like A2 with Dasung but it the core apple to apple comparison proves physics remains the unsurmountable bottleneck. Some users can tolerate that kind of latency for some purposes. Document editing is a good example. 700ms is fine for that. Such a "laptop" is possible. But a general purpose laptop? A basic proof, add a usleep(700*1000) to foo.flip() and see how your user interface feels. If you can tolerate it, then such a laptop could be available for you.
How would you deal with things like VAT?
A nitpick perhaps, but I was surprised to see `cite` used to enclose the author's name in your `blockquote` example. I was under the impression that `cite` is meant to be used to mark up titles of books and similar, not author names, and MDN[1] seems to agree with me here.

That aside, nice work! This could surely be useful as a default stylesheet for Markdown documents and the like.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ci...
Communists hate capitalists and the wealthy. Communism is inherently selfish, since it is about taking from others for oneself (and sharing with fellow selfish individuals who collectively enable the taking from others). Communism is built, not on compassion for the working class, but on resentment of the rich elite.

If communism wasn't hateful and selfish, then it would look a lot more like christianity: freedom + sacrificial charitable giving.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't more recently than the last time people lost control of assets on a blockchain!

Replacing databases which afaik have never been manipulated anywhere in the world (despite representing legal ownership of high value assets) with tokens similar to those people lose access to or are duped out of on a daily basis is very Web3
Thanks all for super helpful feedback. This was a generous gift of your time and brainpower.
It's a weird place. It's kind of a toxic cesspool and at the same time it can be useful if you're interested in certain companies.
As I wrote it I thought the same thing! I think some of the problem was org friction of adding a new module, getting approval to do so. This was a place with about 400 devs so they could really let anyone freely add modules and waiting for architecture approval would take too long for a typical ticket.
I agree - but it can be hard to get good ones, e.g. if you need to simulate sql query execution.
Can anyone recommend (ideally inexpensive) devices/kits to measure CO2 and NO2 levels in a residential home?

Ideally capable of sending data to be stored & processed locally (Home Assistant or similar).
I agree with your first two statements.

It feels like your third comment is more commonly made by the people fighting to keep democratic power to a smaller group.

There is a theory that the first and second world wars (and a bunch of other bad stuff) can be traced fairly directly to anti-democratic propaganda of this type.

The protocol of the elders of Zion is one famous example initially fabricated by monarchists to explain how democracy is actually scary and bad and foreign, the illuminati are still a classic conspiracy feature because they were interested in democracy. It's also interesting that greater democracy was forced on Germany after WW2 to stop repeats, so at least some people at the time and close to the situation seem to agree with this thesis.
The other thing about kerosene is that it works for decades if not more with only occasional user serviceable maintenence. It can be dropped in mud, banged up, etc, and still be repaired most of the time without lots of expertise or tools. Will something like this have even a percent of the longevity and resilience?
That's a fair question but in if it's legal, why does it matter? People make their own financial decisions.
Human breast milk is also synthesised by humans!

But, more seriously, don't you believe human medicine to be inspired by God? What about other human activity?
Thousands of ancestors did not fight for comfort only for me to whine and complain "more". Embrace the comfort zone, for a heavy price had been paid for it by humanity!
Good idea, doesn’t look very nice on mobile though. I think the text is too big and the borders on the side too small.

Maybe it’s possible to build something similar based on tailwind (with a lot of @apply), which would allow customization.
Tell that to those nations which lost large percentage of their population to communist terror.
You are the defeatist: you seem to think people cannot get better without suffering.

The article just states that to actually be better, a good starter is to remove the useless comparison with an idealized future self, because it brings no good and it’s actually harmful.

At no point to actually stop trying to be better
Joined somewhat recently. Don’t feel like interviewing again so soon and giving back sign on bonus. Part of me feels like I might still be able to get something out of this experience - as it’s my first larger tech company rather than startups and what not. That said - I feel management people are a whole other level of toxic within SV. Nothing but lies and deception in almost every company I join. It’s very obnoxious when you’re hungry AF.

I will leave either late this year or early next year. I will likely need to figure out if I am really going to stay in SV as well. After my last company’s IPO busted (stock lost 75% of value) - I’m feeling super deflated about staying since my hard work basically imploded.

I’m in my 30s now and recently single. I know my chances of getting a partner here are infinitesimal. I just don’t know where I’d go - tbh. As it seems culturally, a racially ambiguous software engineer isn’t exactly a hot item in any dating market. I need to start lying about my job - I swear it’s off putting in itself. Another reason to consider a career change - tbh. I can’t stand the stigma anymore. I get too much prejudice immediately. Everyone assumes I must be autistic if I’m a software engineer before I even say a word. It’s a damn annoying profession.
Am I reading you correctly in that, at the end of the day, you simply just want breasts and a vagina? Or do you want something more broad here?

I broadly thought transgenderism was about a desire to be perceived and feel/identify on all levels as a man when assigned female at birth and woman when assigned male at birth, as opposed to just wanting particular sex organs.
QR codes are quite insecure. So, not that idea.

Replace all employees with machines, that way no b.s. jobs or running into people you don’t like.
I bought this PR a birthday cake for its third birthday
To be fair: I have MS. I've never had EBV with symptoms that I know of - which is absolutely normal. When folks catch it as children, there are generally zero to no symptoms. And I'm not alone, judging by activity on MS related sites.

I wouldn't take the word of "a lot of MSers" - I mean, there are folks that push the scam WAHLS protocol (diet) as a cure, too. Unless the folks are researchers, an MSer's thoughts about what causes the disease are often just as baseless as a non-MSer.
Completely agree. Life's more intense parts that make all those sweet memories that one can be proud of for rest of ones life are well outside the comfort zone.

I see it daily in some of my former peers - literally frozen in space and time. By all means if that's your goal go for it, but when these folks are confronted with somebody more active, somebody who steps out of that comfort zone when needed (or cca lives there semi permanently) their reactions tell a different story.

When I was climbing Matterhorn, (or even Mont Blanc on skis in some places) there were certain times I was shitting myself from fear of the abyss and clear and present danger all around me. When I decided to get into paragliding, first solo flights were not so much different - 1km vertical drop just below your ass is something one can't prepare oneself beforehand. Those memories, and many many more are part of my core and will be there till I die, putting a slight smile on my face whenever I remember them or see the spot from afar.

Heck, being next to my wife when giving both births was not comfortable at all, seeing all that suffering and uncertainty and being able to do very little to alleviate it, but its one of those few moments that define me as a parent and human being.
Those previous changes occured at a different time, you cannot use that as an arguement to someone talking about human impact. It's like saying Covid-19 didn't killed because there has been more death during the black plague.
I also find funny how all the fighters for the bright future, peace and rainbows are planning to become filthy rich in the process of making the world a better place. People like Vitalik and Charlie Lee (Litecoin) happily cashed out their coins into dirty filthy USD in 2018 and became millionaires. You remove the chance to become crazy rich and who really gonna stay there?
The problem is that we’re still in the phase of “it’s good because it’s blockchain” so people are trying to get in early to make some free bucks. It will only work when someone comes up with a decentralized product backed by blockchain that simply works, and users don’t even need to know it’s a blockchain. It needs to be a blockchain use case instead of attempts to retrofit the blockchain into current problems.
But it’s not too early to be a cult
China is contributing their fair share of pollution too.

It's not communism or capitalism that are producing environmental damage, it's scientific progress and rapidly rising standards of living which are desirable goals for both systems. Just capitalism is better at achieving those goals. Under communism with their mismanagement of resources, i would bet you would see more pollution and less scientific advancement and lower standards of living.
That's a great hack! However, data shows that one or two cups of caffeine (not coffee, it's better to drink a green tea like matcha, but pure coffee is also okay) is good for overall health.
Rights are best when fundamental and few. Even then it takes a lot of thought to balance between them.

If you start creating a long list of rights then the complexity of balancing all the areas of contradiction will be so many that inevitably an elite will simply use the plethora of rights/contradictions to rationalize getting their way.

In most important things, we need to keep boiling down the principles to as few as possible to explain/perform as needed.
"Censorship resistance" was the original use case for blockchain, and demanding money with menaces remotely is the one area where it's unquestionably superior to being discreet about where your money is stored
Why would you ever even consider Starlink if you have fiber availability?
> they try to be everything to everyone.

They can without fragmenting.

Just combine a Matrix-Discord and a Matrix-IRC Bridge
One justification could be that the percentage of the profit which lands to the original creator is often peanuts.

We have an _enormous_ industry enforcing copyright laws which barely make sense, and imo that industry is parasitic
I don't think that this is quite a good idea. The weight feels a little too heavy to hang on a wall consistently, and the mechanisms are a bit too intricate. I'm also not sure the string would take that much weight, and because the weight falls slowly it might be prone to being stalled. I think it's easier to have a hand-cranked lamp that recharges a battery, which is probably much cheaper and easy to use.
I agree, in hindsight
This is a good idea, but has been overtaken by solar and batteries precipitous price declines.

Kerosene lighting is both expensive and unhealthy and inflexible compared with solar/battery/LED.

One of the few things it wins on (for now at least) is up front cost, but there's various finance models that enable the future savings to be used to advance the upfront costs.

https://urth.co/magazine/solar-ethiopia
The source is linked in another comment below, but to clarify, there is no extra heater hardware, there's a software function that ramps up the dish power to make the chips run hotter to melt the snow.
No need for a blockchain though. The University can just key-sign the diploma. Then the user can choose to keep it wherever they like.
Biohacker: Morning Walk
After waking up, the next thing you want to do is outdoor walking in a large environment to generate a so-called “optic flow”. Morning walks help reduce the amount of neural activity of the amygdala in your brain and thus decrease anxiety. Forward ambulation also activates many brain areas and is particularly important to push your neurology in an alert and focused direction.

If you feel sleepy in the mornings, walking helps you get to a high degree of focus. Also, getting sunlight in your eyes (even if there’s a cloud cover) first thing in the morning is vital to mental and physical health. It is perhaps the most important thing to promote your hormone system’s metabolic well-being, positive functioning and get your mental health steering in the right direction.

Morning walks and bright lights are also helpful to push a natural bump in the cortisol hormone. You’ve probably heard that stress and cortisol disrupt the immune system, but not the short little pulse of cortisol that you get each morning. This cortisol pulse must arrive early in the day — it is the right way to promote wakefulness and a healthy immune system.

Two minutes without sunglasses would be a minimum, 10 minutes would be even better, and 30 minutes would be fantastic if you can. If you wake up before the sun comes out, it’s okay to turn on artificial lights, but then you would want to get outside as soon as possible to bring natural light stimulation to your eyes. To achieve the magnitude, you want to do it every day at the same time. And doing this each day costs nothing. It’s just time.

https://prdikt.co - closed beta launches Feb 29, 2022
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Reminds me of something Elon Musk said. A lot of the content on the internet is a "projection of our limbic system". (Elon saying this https://youtu.be/ycPr5-27vSI?t=1074)

I see the craze around crypto the same way. It is a representation of something in our limbic system. Perhaps greed?
This is a worthless statement. Do you examine all of your generated machine code to ensure that it generates correct code? Any compiler that you cannot trust to inline 3 for strlen("foo") is not one you should trust to compile anything, let alone modern C++.
The word "traumatic" did not used to mean "somewhat uncomfortable". And most of the ones you mentioned are not even uncomfortable for all kids. Plenty of kids just loose interest in breastfeeding, goes to kindergarten without major issue and is curios/happy/indifferent when siblings come.
I don't usually post on political topics with my main account but the title is confusing and is in my opinion misleading.

The Tek Fog app, according to this report, targets people including women journalist who are critical of current PM of India or the Party BJP.

Most journalists in India are not critical of PM Modi but a few of them are, and in fact you will never find this report on the Indian MSM.

A better title would be:

Tek Fog targeting Anti-BJ/ Anti-Modi journalists in India.
Regarding ES6: Definitely. It used to be that there’d be a new JS framework every week, and the language was rapidly evolving to catch up with over 10 years of programming language innovation. No change to the language as big as ES6 has happened since, and the Cambrian Explosion of frameworks has largely subsided.

Nowadays things are way more stable. I’m sure someone will pop in and mention how their workplace just changed from Webpack to Vite, or how hard it is to keep track of Angular, React and Vue. To which I’d chuckle and note that when I got started in 2014 we had AngularJS, Ember, React, Backbone, Knockout, Google FOAM, Polymer, OJ.js and Aurelia (which emerged as Google announced that AngularJS 1.x would be deep-sixed and Angular 2 would essentially be a totally different framework). To build/bundle your app you would use one or more of Grunt, Gulp, Brunch, Webpack, Browserify, 6to5, Traceur Google Closure Compiler and/or RequireJS (so far we’re assuming you’re not using CoffeeScript, ClojureScript, or one of their downstream variants like IcedCoffeeScript).
Simple example of mine:

def tree_size(n: Node) -> int:
if not n:
return 0
return 1 + tree_size(n.left) + tree_size(n.right)

would be:

funk tree size takes near type cap node returns int slap

if op not near next return zero slap zing

return op one plus call tree size pass near dot left

op plus call tree size pass near dot right

commands like "funk", "op" and "if" insert snippets

slap = end enter, zing = shift tab, next = move to next snippet placeholder, near = letter n

still a work in progress as I find ways to make it flow better.
Many if not most folks dont' even realize they get it because they catch EBV as a child. In children, it generally causes no symptoms or symptoms so mild that they are dismissed as a normal childhood virus. You know, the sort you miss 2 days of school for and then go on. This is the reason most folks don't know they've had it.

When we get older - teens and adults -, we are more likely to have it develop into mono or other things that realistically make your life difficult for a while.