skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I'm lucky enough to live in Western Europe, where burnout is considered an sickness you should take enough time for to heal. That means that my (obligatory) health insurance (that is paid for mostly by my fellow countrymen) provides me with an income.
Everything after that phrase does require the blockchain though- not individually, but as a sum it would be very difficult to bring that all together in a centralized manner.
An example of a fact that can be checked would be the height of a tree or the size of an island.

Whether person X helped group Y do Z is vastly more complex and can be answered on several levels. It’s best left to the public to apply literal common sense. Also, most political debates are on this level of abstraction, making fact-checking a non-starter
Plums in chicken? Orange in sauces? Pear in a salad? Pineapple on ham? Lemon in anything?
> The evidence is clear: any level of alcohol consumption can lead to loss of healthy life.

No it isn't. The studies change on this constantly. Literally, it is why they are making their policy- because its confusing to people.

They also need to conduct a longitudinal study (or more than 1) to prove this... and guess what? They won't do it.
Rhode Island's is < 6.5 miles. Feels a bit like cheating though haha.
Venture capital used to be about placing small, diverse bets on a lot promising startups - everybody in the process was trying to make the world a better place

Since about 2018, VC game changed - now it's about brazenly placing massive bets on a small set of startups of increasingly questionable utility, using the funds and clout to ram their way through into monopoly positions. Not a speck of morality involved anymore - and nobody is even trying to pretend otherwise

Public image hasn't yet caught up with this reality
Somehow I doubt a fraudulent company on the verge of an exit scam would spend $700 million to rename an arena right before pulling the plug. Incompetent? Probably. Fraudulent? Unlikely.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-11-16/crypto-sta...
Less "no fun allowed" generic conspiracy stuff, more "hey, these are the consequences to some of that fun, please keep them in mind as you establish the risk level you're comfortable with".
My anecdote: A lot of people seem to be using Chromebooks to replace tablets (because good, non-Amazon tablets that aren't expensive are rare these days). You can pick up a $250 touchscreen Chromebook that works as a vastly superior web-browsing and video-watching device than a $250 Samsung tablet.
I had a very similar experience when I decided to learn Emacs recently. The first thing I did was try Doom Emacs. It was nice but I felt that there is this big layer of stuff separating me from having complete control over my editor.

So I deleted my config. Went through the tutorial with vanilla setup. Then I continuously kept adding packages and tinkering with my config. After about two weeks, I felt that my productivity was on par with what it was previously in Neovim.

I've been using Emacs for a couple of months now and I'm happy I went this route. It is a tool I use almost daily and thus having a deep level of understanding and control is worth it.
Could it be that it’s the result of prohibition? Because the Temperance Movement advocated a few of the things you mentioned. Ken Burns has a great doc on Prohibition!
Hey, I emailed you. The website is on the way, already on my to do list.
An administrator can disable it complete with "setenforce 0" and restore it with "setenforce 1" if necessary.

The rules can also be adjusted, and there are a number of tunable parameters.

The intent is that it is never disabled.
> ... and have been enlightened by SICP and lispey languages,

Fun anecdote: I've got my copy of SICP signed by both authors for Sussman invited me to have tea in his office and when I arrived the next day, by sheer chance, Abelson was there too! They joked that had I been there 30 minutes early Sussman's wife, who proofread the book, would have signed it too! I've got a cool pic taken at that moment: me standing along these two legends and proudly holding the purple book... I'll post that pic and full story the day I have a blog.

Besides that I pretty much live inside Emacs. The occasional elisp (3000 lines of custom elisp hackery over the decades) and lots of Clojure/ClojureScript.
GoJS 2.2: JavaScript and TypeScript Diagramming library
> but they are a couple lines of useless noise

for people who know the system. The menubar is useful for discovery if you're new to the system, which seems to be the audience they're writing for.
Yes, it might not exist for you and your age group, but saying that it "doesn't exist at all" is just wrong. It does matter, and it is a factor for certain age groups.

You can disagree with it, but that doesn't make it not real.
> Patents were never about "encouraging innovation".

The US Constitution disagrees:

Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 [The Congress shall have power] “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.”
> And there's not really any incentive to add filler content, because adding filler content takes real development time, driving up the budget.

There are plenty of ways to pad game length with minimal additional development. Grind is very much a thing for games that benefit from longer time to completion or where a certain length is expected.
I have a UDM Pro and USW-24-PoE racked in a Tripp Lite 12u network rack. From there I’ve got 2 UAP-AC-Lites and 1 UPA-AC-Pro for inside and 2 UAP-AC-Ms for outside that connect to the switch via CAT6 1Gb links.
You know, most (Americans) drink little or no alcohol. The cult of alcohol is certain they cannot live without it, which is part of the problem perhaps. But most do live without it. And are not eating bugs.
I'm not sure this qualifies as a life hack, but it has been really helpful to me. Now that all of my interactions with my co-workers are over zoom, I have adopted a technique where I simply imagine that I'm watching a funny show about a silicon valley startup. So now when other people are arrogant and disrespectful, it's just what the funny head on the TV show on zoom said. There's no one here manipulating and lying, it's just a funny TV show. This has really helped me eliminate those pesky feelings that go along with interaction and just focus on the work.
gout
I took me a while to realize this (at the end of a burnout now, working 2 days a week) but things not being done was and still is a major stressor for me. I am now actively looking for stuff to do that has a clear beginning and end. Give me input, I'll provide the output and go on to the next thing.
>gas pipeline companies that own electrical pumping stations

Only a problem because EPA no longer permits self sufficient gas turbine compressor stations.

>Nat gas well heads could be retrofitted with equipment that keeps them freezing due to water production from the well.

Pressure drop is a bigger factor than ambient temp and insulation. Increasing capacity by increasing # of wells and pipe size does more than defrosting equipment. Being overly reliant on NG to pick up the slack when renewables go offline causes avoidable pressure drops.

>Long term planning could be put in place to connect ERCOT into neighboring power grids.

The neighboring grids were also under emergency reductions and had no surplus power. OK and LA were extremely close to also implementing blackouts. LA was able to use its peaker plants and reduce industry demand to avoid this, in part due to a lower reliance on renewables (and not needing to waste peaker plant or transmission capacity to make up for wind turbines shut-in and solar panels covered in snow). A connected grid just would have further spread a cascading grid failure.

>Wind turbines are available with an optional 'cold weather package' that lets them run more reliably in the sort of weather that Texas experienced last February.

Wind turbines shutting off caused Texas to use peaker power prematurely to replace renewable power instead of in its proper role as a buffer for surges in demand. Once the front passed through, there was little to no wind for the remaining ~week of cold weather (high pressure system).

>Large coal plants went offline due to frozen coal piles.

The state just lost over 20% of its coal capacity due to increased EPA regulations. But I have not heard of any plant in Texas shutting down due to "frozen coal piles".

>The state could make an ernest effort to bring in political leadership that does not try to boil down all of the above to "Green New Deal Bad".

$1500/MWh DOE floor "market" prices to generate under conditions permissible 10 years ago is bad policy. Over reliance on intermittent renewables without sufficient backup is bad policy. Regulations reducing the number of NG wells is bad policy. Regulations reducing coal capacity by 20% without on-demand replacement capacity is bad policy.

None of those are state leadership. They're federal "green" friendly regulations and mandates.
It is true the time when it might have been sane to write CGI in C was very brief. Perl took over almost immediately (and to my chagrin, eventually PHP ate Perl's lunch). I remember reading CGI books that would explain how to do it in either Perl or C, the justification being "in case you need C for performance" but in reality I don't think a ton of C CGI was written. There was definitely some though; I recall poking around in cgi-bin directories and finding some compiled executables (could have been another compiled language like C++) and being disappointed I couldn't view the source like with .pl files.

It really takes you back to a very specific point in time though. A magical time when every year or month software and internet technology would take big leaps and bounds. When you might do things in a way that is very manual and slow compared to today and yet it was amazing at the time.
> if we're going to tolerate this at large, we should probably consider legalizing everything else that's less harmful to at least be consistent.

Please do not decide policy using this kind of reasoning. Maybe we should legalise more stuff, but “worse things are legal” is not a good reason.

> A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Looks interesting. I'll check it out. Thanks!
it gave me a false negative
I alway s have to post this. The most comprehensive wifi/router AP site I've found is by a guy named Jerry Jongerius.
https://www.duckware.com/tech/wifi-in-the-us.html

Not just recommendations but incredibly detailed explanations. Recommendations can be found in Appendix B:

https://www.duckware.com/tech/wifi-in-the-us.html#routers
If it's any help, I used to use Devolo EoP devices, but I'm stopping. My 1930s house has crummy wiring and I was frequently having to power cycle them to get anything to work.

I've switched to using a TP-Link Deco M5 wi-fi mesh (and I've disabled the wi-fi on the router my internet provider supplied).

So far, no problems at all. They're much cheaper also.
They might be alluding to the removal of centralized authorities that would have otherwise been able to get that money back.
David Nutt did important work in this area. See for example his scale of drug harmfulness here:

(Edit: see archive link below)

And

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014067361...
Since I can only work at one thing at a time I structure them from top to bottom. One bullet point one task. Reorder daily by upcoming priorities. Always I my work on the top task.

Only 1 order of indentation allowed if a task needs further description (no subtasks!).

If I have multiple projects I will split my day and have one todo list per project, only switching from project A to B after lunch.
Kind of amazing that Pfizer beat everyone to the market twice, first with vaccines and again now with Paxlovid.
> everyone yells at facebook, saying it is spreading propaganda, lies, societal harm, etc.

Well, no, not everyone - the half of the people that wanted to silence the other half accused facebook of spreading propaganda to justify censorship. Now that they've won, the half that's being censored are pointing out that it's as bad as they said it was going to be.
Yeah, I'm taking that option regardless. I have friends who feel the same way. We'll do what needs to be done when the time comes. I've been a firm believer in better living through chemistry. Good ol chemistry will come in handy once again when it's time to die.
I don't like them as much as you do, but they are not far-right. Throwing terms like this around only makes them devoid of meaning.
> Cluster Index (or Indexed Views as it's called in SQL Server) is the typical mechanism to sort the data on the disk in RDBMS. MySQL does that by default with the primary key, but not Postgres.

Does that mean that Mysql moves the second or the first half of the table if you insert a row in the middle? I can't imagine that.

I've recently considered clustering multiple tera bytes of time-ordered data stored >100 partitions in a Postgres 12 instance. After careful consideration I came to the conclusion it wasn't worth it. Clustering would have sorted all the rows by date in the table blocks. But that doesn't guarantee anything about the block layer below the filesystem. So it is of dubious value from the standpoint of performance. The other advantage I was hoping for was being able to use a BRIN index. But since, my database has very rare cases of updates of those rows. A BRIN index looses its value very fast. Either I lower the fillrate to leave space in every block for updates. Which allows the BRIN index to stay current but costs a lot of space. Or I would have to force BRIN index updates regularly because they can be lossy. And that is not acceptable in my application. The whole database is stored on nvme disks managed by zfs. That won't benefit from ordering the data on some arbitrary abstraction in the middle.
I agree. Imagine if a centralized system was compromised and every single account holder was at risk. Instead there is only a small sub-section of accounts that were vulnerable, thank goodness for that.
There is no way to know someone didn’t run remove_watermark.py on your jpeg either. At least with an NFT there is a tx graph of cryptographic signatures.

Fine Art is about story and provenance. NFTs do provide both.
are we talking about the same site ? as the pages on the archive org version say:
"The specs: .... a 256MB IDE Disk on Module."
For Delaware, I eyeball the distance from the center of population to the nearest border (again NJ) at maybe three miles. But Delaware's so small that I feel like that doesn't count; something like (distance to border)/(square root of state area) might be worth looking at.
> Implementing and upstreaming kernel drivers, u-Boot support, etc

I agree that this is important and I totally want to contribute but the truth is I don't have the knowledge to do this. Not yet at least. How does one learn how to do this?

I've written a small user space driver for some laptop USB stuff. I reverse engineered the manufacturer's proprietary applications and drivers and made a Linux program that talks to the hardware the same way. Is this the correct approach here?
I don't think there's any reason why an artist couldn't create 500 copies of a piece and generate 500 NFTs to be sold or given to supporters.

Your last sentence seems to be describing a DRM problem which, AFAIK, is an entirely different class of problem.
Users may not switch (right away) but how we as a community talk about this problem can switch. This will ultimately help the problem get fixed when perceptions shift, either within Google or by new users evaluating other options given Google’s reputation of poor deliverability/interoperability.

Also I suspect a lot of Google’s early adopters will be switching away due to this change. These are the tech-savvy evangelists who helped build Google Apps to what it is, and can plausibly do it for another service too.
The thing about the Internet is that the ratio of high-quality educational and informational content to complete garbage is fairly low. I couldn't say whether its falling or not, but it seems to have been rather higher in the Internet's early days, before the rush to commercialize everything in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In particular, social media engagement algorithms have gotten out of hand, it's kind of a problem. They're designed to be addictive and you have to actively resist that kind of thing.

Currently I'm leaning towards adopting a much more rigorous attitude towards time spent online. My short list is : (1) have specific goals for each online session, (2) don't get sucked down distracting rabbit holes, (3) spend at least as much time reading books as reading online content, (4) try to spend as much time on physical activity as on mental activity, (5) don't just be a passive absorber of information, try to create things as well.

As far as online social interaction as a substitute for offline human interaction, I don't think it's that great of an idea, particularly for children and young adults, but some people do appear to benefit greatly from it in some circumstances, so I remain neutral on the topic.
My sense is that smoking is related to changes in ACE2 expression in the lungs, which would have some effect on CoV-2.
To me the main issue would be that an income tax prior to 1913 were temporary taxes. Technically, yes they were based on income. But when we talk about income taxes today, we don’t talk about them as necessary tools to generate revenue in support of a war that would have an end date.

It wasn’t a permanent fixture. Today it’s a permanent fixture and short of one of the Paul clan winning the office, it will continue into the foreseeable future.
They want to keep all the alcohol to themselves.
Nope; you just need a P2P network. Exhibit A: BitTorrent. (Surprise surprise, the blockchain also requires an underlying P2P network.)

A blockchain is actually more centralised than the underlying distributed network; it introduces centralisation-related problems that wouldn't otherwise exist.
I used to have this perspective, but then I read a quote or excerpt in which PKD says he was surprised that people find his work hopeless or depressing, because he intends his work to be hopeful.

I reflected on this and realised that he's right. In his stories the hero often courageously penetrates through the facade and gets to the truth of things. What's more, there is generally an objective truth underneath the facade. It's not turtles all the way down. There is a reasonable explanation and once the hero figures it out they manage to take some control of their own destiny.
Do you really think it's worse than the current wave of synthetic opioids? I think I could even make a good case for cigarettes being worse than alcohol.
> What the fuck happened?

I think a few broad trends reinforced each other in the U.S. But kind of prerequisite, people came to get too much of their notion of free speech as a scholastic doctrine in state schools. Mills's On Liberty argues that a doctrine elevated above criticism comes to be held in an empty way, and gets lost over time even if it's true. It seems like that happened here to the idea of free speech itself.

(I'd quibble at your "completely destroyed". We don't want to see what completely destroyed will look like.)
Interesting how there's a major shift in the knowledge about risks of things like sugar, cigarettes, alcohol, etc. And it usually turns out there was an industry group involved in sort of a coverup. The lesson here is to take any health claims or dismissal or risks with a grain of salt when there's a big industry behind it.
Funny that they're saying this now because fermented drinks used to protect people from health issues when the water supply was not clean enough to drink.
I’m not sure it is much better, but moderation does have an impact on the tone of the conversation. New content pops up a bit slower, so it’s a bit less exciting. There’s a culture of sourcing information.
> He must know this is wrong.

From his perspective, it's not wrong, as long as the "fact-checking" goes his way.
I took up regular drinking about 15 years ago based on the then-prevailing medical advice to have one or two a day for your heart.

It’s important to give people correct medical information. I’m now off the wagon completely.
The advocacy tips at the end of the brief are shockingly anti-fun.
>> "The vast majority of fact checking exists to call out stuff that's demonstrably false,"

> Prove it,

I mean, isn't it obvious from recent history that social media fact checking emerged as a band aid, because of demonstrably false blatant lies like Pizzagate, Q Anon, Stop the Steal, and all kinds of Anti-vax crankery were spreading like wildfire on social media?

And at every step of the way the social media companies dragged their feet before they tried to do anything to address that problems

IMHO, social media fact checking is a bad solution to a real and serious problem. However, the proper solution is probably to nuke social media from orbit; but technology doesn't serve us, we serve technology, so that's not going to happen.

> That's all it is, a corporation's enforced opinion, not "facts" or "truth". Why should you trust a corporation's official enforced opinion any more just because the corporation found out they can call it a "fact check" and it slips past people's fully-justified cynicism about official corporation enforced opinion?

"Corporation" is a loaded word with negative connotations. Let me put it this way: institutions are far, far better at reliably determining facts than individuals. That's true because the world is complicated, busy place and it requires far more effort and knowledge than one person can possess. Corporations are a class of institution, and some of them actually do a fairly good job of fact checking (e.g. publishing and media corporations). That said, Facebook is a shitty institution, but it's the only one in a position to do anything about the crap on its platform.
The allude from my naive point of view is that n_time thinks we're lucky the network is decentralized and that users are spread out over various wallet software and services, so the impact of the issue was only related to a sub-section of the network as a whole. But I might just misunderstand the sarcasm or something.
It's not good for the heart, but is it good for the soul?
It seems to me that while banning crypto by western governments is politically untenable, a better way would be to have their security services keep hacking it to make it unattractive
...It's complicated, apparently, depending on how much you smoke, and whether you were a former smoker: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4401671/

> Overall, current smokers were less likely to be obese than never smokers (adjusted OR 0.83 95% CI 0.81-0.86). However, there was no significant association in the youngest sub-group (≤40 years). Former smokers were more likely to be obese than both current smokers (adjusted OR 1.33 95% CI 1.30-1.37) and never smokers (adjusted OR 1.14 95% CI 1.12-1.15). Among smokers, the risk of obesity increased with the amount smoked and former heavy smokers were more likely to be obese than former light smokers (adjusted OR 1.60, 95% 1.56-1.64, p<0.001). Risk of obesity fell with time from quitting. After 30 years, former smokers still had higher risk of obesity than current smokers but the same risk as never smokers.
I know of a man who had a shot of 96 percent alcohol (192 proof) every single day and died at the age of 96.
I'm not sure but I suggest they use some sort of distributed crypto solution to resolve such issues.