skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, my joy from games comes in figuring things out, not in recognizing and applying something I picked up elsewhere. Now, you can keep figuring things out even in very deep games, but it requires ongoing study and effort and meanwhile you'll be losing to people who've memorized a whole bunch and aren't (against you, at least) having to figure out anything new at all—rather than do all that, I just play a different game when things get to that point :-)

I play games to feel "clever", not to feel "smart" (for values of smart like "ah ha, I happen to have read and memorized a counter to this opening that you don't know, so now I will crush you"), and continuing to feel clever with a deep game requires more commitment than I care to give to them, personally.

... this is probably a holdover from painfully-typical bad attitudes developed during a "gifted" childhood. It took me a very long time to stop seeing—if only subconsciously—studying as something adjacent to cheating, like "yeah you got an A but you had to study, so, that hardly counts". Looks very dumb written down like that, but it was the rut my brain got stuck in for a long while without my even realizing it. However, in the specific case of games, I haven't bothered to try to work past it, because I'm still having a good time with my approach, and I really do not want to get serious enough about any game that studying & focused, non-play practice becomes necessary to keep getting "I did a clever thing" dopamine hits.

Weirdly, this "preparation is akin to cheating, and at the very least a sign that you have already failed" attitude didn't transfer over into sports, where I was totally fine with (and loved, actually) practice and drilling.

> Thus, I love reading strategy guides, and following instructions. I build Lego sets frequently, but I never build My Own Creations.

Oddly enough, though, that's me too. I had lots of Legos as a kid but rarely built my own thing, usually building from instructions, and then if I did anything else it was typically combining, re-theming, or adding on to, instruction-built sets.
I tried to save one of the "gifs" to share with a friend and was quite upset that I found myself with a png. Interesting technique. Do you think this was done to have better quality animated images? GIF compression isn't amazing (relative to WebM at least)
The bigger thing to me is the time for the stops. I can generally fill up, go to the restroom and grab a meal in well under 20m with ICE. Depending on the trip, I'd have to sit for another half hour or more.

My last Vegas trip, one of the stops near a charging center had several cars waiting for chargers. I don't think I'd enjoy that at all.

I've thought about an EV for local commuting, but the costs just don't seem worth it. Let alone even less ability for independent repair or maintaining. And dropping $15-20k every few years on a new set of batteries is definitely less than appealing.
More proof YouTube is throttling independent news
I understand there seems to be a lot of pent-up frustration in these comments, some of it related to this specific initiative and some not.

I'd like to highlight a few reasons why this could be exciting and, indeed "pro-user".

* The core value proposition in my view, though not spelled out on the linked page (I think because it's targeting a broader-than-HN audience), is that data collection can produce answers to empirical questions about "Big Tech" that would otherwise likely never be answered by anyone except in-house Big Tech data analysts. E.g., empirical questions about the impacts of search engine design choices, how newsfeeds influence behavior, etc. Of course, these studies will face issues with selection bias, but that's not insurmountable, and probably better than nothing. For instance, publicly shared data about Pixel tracking, even from a biased sample, is better than having no data on that topic, IMO!

* The collaboration with academics and journalists is important because it means the results of each study will be shared. It's in the incentive systems of both groups to publish results. Best case, individual users, people who build browser extensions, etc. can use findings about search engines and newsfeeds to change their behavior or build new tools. Policy discussions would also benefit from some quantitative grounding.

* The alternative ways to answer these questions: academics and journalists run scrapers, data-collection browser extensions, etc. on their own. Harder to do, especially post-Cambridge Analytica and more recently, NYU's ad observatory getting shut down (https://cyber.nyu.edu/2021/08/21/facebook-disables-ad-observ...). Or, the state forces tech co.'s to publish answers. Or, we just never know!

* A weaker point: This project is trying to set new standards about data management, e.g. providing a true "one click to opt out" option. I see this as an experiment, that other projects can follow if it works. This is a bit more of a stretch than the previous two points.

My bias: I'm an academic who wants to see the results of the various studies being conducted, so I'm very hopeful!
I think games like Bang Bang was the predecessor to Worms.
Fortuitous timing for this ask and while I will presume you imply 'career change' my response is not to that degree yet here is my 2¢ for those that may find value.

I have undertaken extensive learning in electrical and mechanical engineering in recent months but from an applied perspective as I am dogfooding my own ideas after calculating that my recently installed PV system will be producing far more energy than I have chemical battery storage capacity. While my degree is in software engineering my current personal energy solution design correlates nicely to the global energy storage demand that is rapidly growing. As the sole creator and architect of the technology around my past founded entities, and in conjunction with my diverse exposure to physical and logical build outs; residential, commercial and industrial, I am heavily consuming and learning information as it relates to electrical and mechanical engineering in solving my own energy abundance issue. The technology side of my problem is "easy" having built several enterprise platforms but in learning anything new mistakes will always be made, that's the fun part! The speed at which I am able to learn and apply these concepts never would have been possible without the internet, we live in truly surreal times.

Point being that if one is motivated enough one can do anything you put your mind to no matter what anyone else tells you. I have been mocked and laughed at for my ideas and once you get past what other people think the world is your oyster, maybe it has a pearl in it or maybe not.
Germophobes have finally been granted their paradise where everyone lives in a controlled bubble. They aren't going to give up that power easily. These people are going to be masking up for the rest of their lives and expect everyone to follow their virtuous example.

The perpetual boosters and social pressure is a play right into the pockets of the pharmaceutical companies who want annual flu vaccine 2.0.
It also very quickly engages in what I call "conspiracy theory epistemology," which is when the fact that someone disagrees with you, especially if that someone is ostensibly an expert or in a position of authority is presented as evidence that you're correct (because clearly they're part of the cover-up!), and the more such people who disagree with you the more obvious that makes it that you're correct (because everyone is in on it!).

This isn't to say that there aren't real conspiracies or that any claims that a conspiracy exists is "conspiracy theory epistemology." The problem is this particular mode of epistemology where a claim is presented and then significant time is spent focusing on how the mere fact that experts disagree is somehow evidence of the coverup. The reason it's bad epistemology is that it can be used indiscriminately in defense of literally any claims of conspiracy.
You gotta do what's right for you.

Have you tried moving to a different team/org?
Do you have a more detailed citation for that? At $DAYJOB we seem to be using Lightsail (for non-cache purposes) along with some "real AWS" resources without a problem,
I don't work in a small startup (large non-profit), and our SLAs are best-effort only outside M-F 8am-5pm. Not everyone is trying to build a global-scale stack.
With Paperwork Locked Underground, Thousands of U.S. Citizenship Applicants Wait
Yep. I quit my job at Megacorp Inc to do exactly this, and it's been rewarding. I can't tell you how restorative it is to spend time alone in the workshop, solving problems one after another, and making real, functional stuff. I left a lot of wealth behind in the form of RSUs/TC, but no RSUs can buy what I have now.
What rule did I break to result in being flagged?
EDIT (The below quote is form the science based medicine blog post linked above).

> Dr. Mandrola is right that this trial was not large enough to fully “inform the safety of a vaccine that will be given to many millions”. It was too small to detect rare events, such as myocarditis from the vaccine or serious complications from the virus. However, only the largest trials can detect rare events, and the rarer the event, the larger the trial must be to detect it. The adult vaccine trials, which were about twenty-times larger than the adolescent trials, also did not detect rare events, such as blood clotting with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The inability to detect rare events is a fundamental limitation of clinical trials, not a flaw of this particular trial.

Rare events can usually be detected once a vaccine or medication is taken by large numbers of people. This is why post-marketing surveillance, called a phase IV trial, is so crucial. It’s a fact that no serious safety signal emerged during the trial. The authors were not only justified to report this finding, the data from their study required it. They didn’t claim that rare side effects would not emerge once millions of children received the vaccine.

All of this makes me wonder. Other than a trial that enrolled hundreds of thousands of adolescents, which would be required to meaningfully detect a rare event such as myocarditis, is there anything a trial could do so Dr. Mandrola wouldn’t feel he had to put “positive” in quotes? Did he make his objections known when the plans for the adolescent vaccine trial were announced or only after it was completed? Has he been similarly critical of other randomized-controlled trials, or is this the only trial he has singled out this way? As he does not feel someone getting COVID-19 is a “clinical outcome”, what would he call it? Why didn’t he inform his readers that the vaccine prevented COVID-19 in adolescents? Would he have been similarly silent had the vaccine been significantly less effective at preventing COVID-19? We can only guess.

...

So basically, yeah these clinical trials aren't big enough to catch these side effects, but the motivations of any doctor pointing that out must be suspect!
I wonder how many tonnes of fish got destroyed, cooked, or otherwise thrown many kilometers into the air.
Mozilla is big tech. They are funded by big tech and they support big tech's censorship ideology.

If they want to actually break with big tech, they can retract and apologize for this pro-censorship advocacy piece: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...
Probably not true.

Non-hispanic white is only 57% right now and declining. a ton of cities are white minority - kind of to the point about this picture of past american rural ideals are out of date.

Out LGTBQ is somewhere approaching 5% across all generations. Key word out.

Gen Z are ~15% out. I wouldn't be surprised if the true non-cis/non-straight % is closer to 20%.

So that probably puts cis white in the slight minority and shrinking.

And I'm not sure what 'passes' means I will try to use HN rule of benefit of the doubt
>>> a. The NYT has been a prime pusher of conspiracy theories about Russian foreign influence on US elections, none of which turned out to be reliable. Claims of Chinese foreign influence are very similar.

>> What outlets, specifically, do you think are more reliable on that and other topics?

> Re: other outlets. I don't think any outlets are reliable on those topics because the whole idea this is really happening at scale seems to be made up.

So the other outlet is really just your own personal bias?

Honestly, I get the impression that you have a preconceived notion that social media manipulation isn't important (i.e. either it doesn't exist, but if it does it doesn't happen often, and if it does happen often, it doesn't work, etc.), and are moving goalposts and/or engaging in confirmation bias to reject anything that contradicts that notion. For instance, I don't think a serious outlet would claim you can "rewrite people's politics with hashtags" and the precise scale or effectiveness isn't super important (e.g. if someone's shooting at you, in important ways it doesn't matter exactly how many shots they take or if they actually hit you or not).

I'm also not clear on the distinction between "social bots", "spam bots", and a human manually operating many social media accounts like a puppeteer. I'm quite prepared to believe "social bots" don't actually exist (e.g. some kind of semi-autonomous "AI"-driven thing), but I'm quite sure the latter two do exist for political manipulation (not D to R reprogramming, more amplifying existing divisions and sowing confusion).
This is often taken too far. If the research is "try out an experimental medicine" then yes, of course you need informed consent, because the patient is taking a risk.

If it's "see which color blue people like best in your UI" then this is nonsense. Nobody is going to be harmed regardless of which color blue you pick, so they don't need to be informed. Some privacy zealots may want to be informed, but they don't have a reasonable argument for why they need to know.
Law is supposed to be independent of people, not a decree from royalty, and the US system is one of limited government. Legislators can't do whatever they want and the check-and-balance system is supposed to limit that.
I've made this change [1]. Thank you!

[1] https://github.com/max-sixty/prql/commit/dde7fcfc13daaadbdce...
Why did you vouch for it before actually reading it? Discussion isn't inherently virtuous. The world is literally full of people on average expressing both nonsense and malicious lies designed to manipulate you and chief among the tools for doing so is subtly but substantially wrong pseudo reasonable dialog and repetition. We are inherently inclined to see something that is believed by many sources as more apt to be true all other things being equal. Generally speaking we don't need a greater degree of discussion on the virtues of Nigerian princes we need a spam filter.

Now if you instead had read the entire thing and believe his points are substantially correct I couldn't fault you for vouching for it even if I personally don't agree. I do not suggest you can't have your own opinion. Instead i suggest you form it and THEN vouch for what is actually worth reading. Things are mostly flagged for a reason.
This search just sent me down a half hour rabbit hole of what in the actual fuck... after I discovered the user behind this thread...

> The Terrorist are ordering off Amazon. They stole my last parcel package, I did not tweet about it. My green light, don’t report it.

https://twitter.com/HeidiNarco/status/1485408221024210944?cx...
Honestly, what I find most offensive is that Amazon tracks all of this data and yet their recommendations are still awful. I just bought a vacuum cleaner. Why are you trying to sell me another one? How many vacuum cleaners do you think a person goes through in a month!
>The remaining five months of commissioning will be all about aligning the optics and calibrating the scientific instruments

Plenty of time for the mirror to cool down.

It is interested that we have 2 projects with huge solar shields; JWST and the Parker probe
I'm also a developer and an educator using Classroom for a small class. Your insight makes it crystal clear why I always thought that Classroom was completely insane, to the point where I was wondering why nobody else said anything and maybe I just wasn't "getting it" - no, it's because it's basically a clever hack that's a Googler's side project (that maybe now has a small team around it).
I worked on a language at one of the big banks that looked very similar. The goal was to have a better-than-SQL language on top of Spark and I think we succeeded at that very well. Unfortunately, politics killed the language and platform.
> One of the big class combos was Electrical Systems, Mechanical Systems, and Fluid & Thermodynamic systems where you work through from the laws of thermodynamics to how they apply in each of the areas.

I would love to find a book with this type of presentation. Do you happen to remember which textbooks were used for this class?
True, everyone is trying. I do use cash and other mitigations. My point is that whenever possible, I choose when to share data, when it benefits me. Not the other way around.
Why do marketing people have control over the a/b test?
Ask HN: What's Russia's Endgame in Ukraine?
What is Russia's ultimate plan in Ukraine? Are they just trying to stir things up to create headaches for Nato to gain leverage? Do they want to Annex part or all of Ukraine? Something more targeted.

Looking for neutral geo-political analysis.
Wouldn't it be better to just use something like prolog, there is already and extension for postgres?
Any chance of starting with FROM perhaps to help with autocomplete?

From Table or
FROMT TABLEA JOIN TABLE B ...

The autocomplete would then be able to introspect much better in the tooling side.
How can they possibly keep the location of something like this a secret? There have to be thousands of people involved in building and maintaining it.
I’ve been enjoying https://firstprincipleskitchen.substack.com/ (all posts: https://firstprincipleskitchen.substack.com/archive?sort=new).

It’s two people documenting their process starting a wholesale bakery. Here’s a representative post: https://firstprincipleskitchen.substack.com/p/how-we-made-ou...
Looks are all subjective. I've always loved the I-Pace myself. Most electric cars are ugly, as the author says. Including, IMO, Teslas. Audi's new e-Tron GT is pretty nice, though.
Let's also not forget that cancel culture and throwing out incendiary labels like "conspiracy theorist" based on a particular set of personal views you and the establishment deem "incorrect" really belongs on Reddit and Twitter, not on HN.

For every two links you give for Brave, any random HNer can give 10x or more that amount for Google/Chrome or any other Big Tech company these days.
or at least ads will be 2% less irrelevant.
Nord Stream is one of few sanctions that could actually bite.

If one wants to hurt Russia then sanctions are better than war. And we are running out of sanctions.

It’s important to separate NATO, the US, the EU, the international community as a whole etc.
These are overlapping actors with different interests and politics. They do have one thing in common and that is they want to avoid armed conflict and don’t accept Russia redrawing borders.
Localbitcoins.com

Not useful for Putin I guess but most others would be OK
Maybe not "dread", but distrust with a tinge of sadness. It is surprising to see how much their executives are willing to destroy Google's reputation, in search of.. I don't know.. their next bonus and promotion? Seven to eight years ago, I was using probably 30-40 Google products and services. I used to recommend Google products to my friends and family without reservation. But over time, I have whittled down my dependency to Google to maybe 7-9 products/services. With the killing of Legacy GSuite, I'll be migrating to FastMail or something similar, and I'll be down to only a handful of Google products in a few months. I never thought that I would stop using Google Search and Chrome, but DDG and Firefox have been perfectly fine for me for several years now.
Lots of research and engineering. Diet coke has to taste like diet coke now, customers expect and want that taste specifically. Coke zero was developed from the ground up to try and taste like coke. It's very much a working soda that sees updates as food science technology improves to try and get it ever closer to standard coke taste. It was most recently reformulated in 2021 actually.
In second paragraph of Chapter 2 - Probability:

> No matter whether you prefer the frequentist's view or the Bayesian's view...

I don't think the intended audience reading this chapter has this preference at all...

Then the set notation uses square brackets instead of curly braces? I cannot get over this for some reason.
Could there be a tool that would translate PRQL to SQL? One could then write in ~/my_scripts/closest_points.prql and then run a command to get the sql equivalent and use that in exiting SQL tools that do not currently access PRQL (like Postgres).
“The experiences we’re building for the metaverse require
enormous compute power…and RSC will enable new AI models
that can learn from trillions of examples, understand
hundreds of languages, and more,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg

I don't really understand how AI processing is going to make the 'experiences' any better? This seems to me like investor fluff, saying they have some insane capability that other 'VR providers' don't have...
As the job interview adage goes, you're interviewing them just as much as they're interviewing you. If you're dabbling in the market to see what's available while things are good, you don't have as much pressure to accept subpar offers and you have leverage to negotiate better offers.

It's the same as setting up wish lists and checking on them periodically. You're much more likely to get a good deal if you keep tabs on the thing you want over a long period of time than just hoping you get a deal the moment you have the impulse to buy the thing.
Where was ivermectin authorized for use as a COVID treatment? It certainly wasn't approved in the US and it also wasn't (and isn't) authorized in Japan, before or after the date of your WaPo article.
It depends on the complexity of the problem. Data classes can make the code easy to read, and if you use a good IDE then it will also be faster to write.

I suggest you focus on making the program work, before considering how to best manage state. Readability and performance can be improved through refactoring later.
Link rot is definitely a fair point. I'm curious if there is a longterm way of solving this problem.

Filecoin looks promising but I feel like that's just adding more complexity.
Sure, most of the stuff I kind of rant about tend to be founded on experience, you will me seldom see ranting about stuff I never worked with on daily basis, and it always goes both ways, just like coins have two sides.

So it ok to agree to disagree. :)
Sophisticated? not really.
No. What he's calling puritanical is an attitude where you won't touch things made by people who disagree with you on something. What your position on gay marriage is is largely irrelevant.
I can second that. Lots of G services think I'm in another country (Spain specifically), so the sites load in Spanish by default, along with other minor headaches.
I hate to say it, but I am reluctant to read any 'testimony' from nurses or patients about vaccine harm or issues without knowing their political affiliation. If a bunch of Cheeto loving nurses are claiming it, I will weigh that information differently than reports coming from unbiased sources. I honestly think the vaccines are not nearly as good as they should be - but this article is a hot mess of unsubstantiated garbage.
Like I said maybe a year ago, I do think it's genuinely surprising that HN, given its general right-libertarian stance, has gone more or less full anti-vaxxer with COVID-19. It's just not a rational position, and there are no personal political biases which should logically lead there.