skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off, good on you for willing to take suggestions. That's a wonderful first step.

My approach to this has always been to start with first principles. It has unerringly kept me in a position where the general state of my life felt coherent and fulfilling.

I'm about to get specific but it's only to illustrate how this framing helped me. I am not at all trying to say you choose the same set of options I did.

For me having a balanced family life was always going to be mandatory, even though I tend toward workaholism. Having one parent stay at home and take care of the kids was high up there (didn't have to be me, but I like work and my wife doesn't ;). Marrying someone with similar values was essential. Nearly as important was work that fulfilled me and that was consonant with my moral/ethical requirements. At the bottom was making enough money that I could take care of my family.

Definitely not saying you should adopt those same values. What I'm saying is that it helped us figure out what decisions would help us in the long run. We opted not to move to Silicon Valley because we hated the work/life imbalance there. We made less money early on (pre kids) because my wife didn't work. At that time I did a lot of freelancing and studying. My wife understood that work was necessary and didn't bug be about it, though we still went out to movies and restaurants, based on a tight budget (it was fun). We didn't have the extra expenses or stress of a second working person, but my working & studying at night gave me the skills to get very successful later. We both hated debt so we happily lived without a kitchen table and ate on the floor for a few months until we could pay cash for one.

Another hack I have is to set things up so second best is still pretty good. When I was younger I wanted to be rock star but at some point in my early 20s I realized that wouldn't happen. I chose second best, programming--for which I had zero aptitude and almost no experience. Had to work as a tech writer so I could teach myself programming, but eventually got there. Another example of second best working out well: we used to live on the beach in Southern California. But when we worked out what was most important to us, it turned out the Pacific Northwest was better all in all. Would I rather live on the water in Newport Beach? Hell yes! But we live on a beautiful peaceful farm outside of Seattle where life is much more sane, there's actual privacy, and there's plenty of room for animals and band instruments. A damn good second best.

I always loved programming and feel lucky to do it. Maybe you don't like it as much? Perhaps it would be worthwhile to do a spreadsheet listing other options that you'd like, and start making moves toward the next step in your life.

Last, once you've settled on how to be a pretty good version of yourself, you'll find it sort of magnetizes other people to you. I am totally not good looking but I'm comfortable in my own skin and confident about where I'm going. It has made a massive difference in my life.

Good luck. This whole situation could wind up working out well for you.
Why would anyone want to spend deflationary currency renting an ENS domain today when no one outside the echo chamber space cares about them and DNS is ~10x cheaper? The gas fees alone are brutal.
- The restaurant is busy, they don't answer the phone, so you call somewhere else that isn't busy.

- The app takes your order, because apps are never busy, but the restaurant is busy and they don't even start making your food until an hour later.
This is pretty good, but it might be giving too much credit if interpreted as suggesting the content isn’t good enough so that part is important to explain.
Is that “survivor bias UNION Authoritative” or “Survivor bias PIPE Authoritative”? Even on HN, hard to know which way this comment intends to lean.
I use this device for debugging, it's invaluable and cheap:

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2017/review-satechi-usb-ty...
Nothing wrong with doing that in the slightest. Just because the user's home internet is IPv4 does not mean corporate side v6 services should be unreachable. Either way the user is going through a tunnel to reach things, it doesn't matter if what's inside the tunnel is the same as what's outside it... it's a tunnel! Doesn't even have to be IP!

Now that doesn't mean things can't get misconfigured or poorly set up in that regard but by no means is the concept just wrong, I have several clients it has been useful for.
Replace "DAOs" with "companies",

and "crypto" with "startups".
Using leverage in an attempt to convince a business to silence someone else...

is not an argument for free expression.

It's free expression arguing against allowing others to exercise free expression.

>There is no "free speech position".

Who is Rogan trying to silence?

Spotify didn't give into demands to censor.

Those are free speech positions.
Just a side note to say that absolutely everyone who claims to suffer from Morgellons Disease, as she at one point did claim, is struggling with significant mental illness and should probably be treated with some kindness on that point. It's not news that Joni Mitchell has had significant mental health challenges in her life.

It doesn't make her wrong about the benefits of vaccination.

It's not really comparable with Neil Young's GMO position (which I concede is partly unscientific).
> Those seeds produce fertile plants that reproduce with plants from surrounding and farmers are prevented for saving those seeds.

This isn't true. While they do cross pollinate, farmers aren't being sued for picking up some stray genes, this is a myth.[1][2] They seem like total assholes, but there's no evidence that they're suing people who are accidentally picking up the roundup ready genes. Every case I could find where a farmer claims that, they're able to show that the farmer in question intentionally selected those crops, replanted entire fields with those seeds, and were often selling them to neighbors.

> I don't know what you mean by "one guy"

I'm referring to the famous case in the US that made it's way into a Netflix documentary.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163034053/to....

[2] https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2018/06/01/dissecting-cla...
An obvious plant or less obvious idiot. And?
It sounds to me like they have. They're just collecting a pay check until old company realises it as well.
Tail recursions are just very badly documented while loops. In a while loop it is very clear if you use memory or not, in a tail recursion you have to inspect the code and realize if it is tail recursive or not, and if you do it wrongly you just accidentally used a lot of memory for the stack. And tail recursions doesn't do anything you can't do in a while loop, recursions only power is the power to use the stack, without it they don't add anything.
Moving now.

There seems to be a whole middleman ecosystem pasting together playlist APIs from different services for people migrating around. Tidal links to one but does not do the import themselves.

I'm surprised there are so many and they all feel like gatekeeping and upsell are their patterns.
I don't think it's HN; I think it's a few folks who never learned the value of history. Kind of like that kid in middle school who would say "all people in world history are dead, what do they matter?", "they didn't have iphones, so how smart could they be?", or "this wikipedia about logical fallacies disproves Plato".
> well-written Evil Geniuses. Or some "I was a CIA agent..." biographies

I think it's important to remember that CIA agents are people, and not necessarily evil or geniuses.

The one former CIA agent I know is to this day haunted by the time he killed a civilian during the Vietnam war over fifty years ago.
I've been wondering just how mandatory id.me is. Out of curiosity I tried to find if there was a way to address the problem you mentioned without using id.me. Buried very deeply in the Q & A via a link called "alternative options" it says

If you can’t verify your identity online, you can call the telephone number on the letter you received from the IRS telling you that you may be eligible to receive advance Child Tax Credit payments (Letter 6416)

But... the link to Letter 6416 goes to a PDF that has no phone numbers on it at all.

So although id.me might not be strictly speaking mandatory, in this case it seems impossible to avoid, since the "alternative option" isn't really there.

It's a Kafkaesque nightmare.
Couldn't an organism that ages more slowly keep reproducing longer?
I think it's because it was the easiest way for them to add a charging port with very little redesign of the mouse. They could reuse the top part and not need to modify the profile. They saved a ton of money on retooling the production line, and all it costs is the clunky charging situation (and also the public ridicule). Who know, they might have had a warehouse of magic mouse 1 parts that they refused for ver 2.
> 27 January 2022
I don't want to wade in or start a debate, but just share my experiences with formatting over the years. Lacking autoformatters in the past, I've worked with coworkers that preferred 2, 3, 4 & even 8 spaces for indentation.

My personal preference is tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment. The reason for this is the customizability that comes with tabs instead of spaces. Any editor worth using for coding has an easily configurable tab stop that you can set to your desired space count. With tabs and proper editor configs, everyone can be happy with how their code looks while remaining absolutely identical with no tools reformatting on checkout or commit (as I've sometimes seen).

For a long time, I was in the 4-space indentation camp. These days, I prefer 2. The reality is, though, I use whatever the codebase I'm working on has as "standard".
Buying food and fuel. Going shopping. That basically describes everyone who does not have a keyboard career.
Someone looking to compare the cryptocurrency space to history may do better comparing it to currencies that existed under the US State Dollar system.
Consider one thing that I found extremely upsetting, as european, like the BBC was attacked for spreading misinformation only to have REPORTED news of people protesting in cities against lockdown measures
I use iTunes Match for making stuff available in the cloud (eg, so i can access it all from my phone), and locally store it all on a NAS. Pretty easy.
How scalable do you think your system is? Can it handle 10k req/sec?

My usage is much lower than that but I want to target that number.
Hmm source? Unless something has changed since January 3rd, 2022, sharding is intended as I stated. Here's an interview with Vitalik one of the core devs of ETH: https://youtu.be/b1m_PTVxD-s?t=1466

Or perhaps you're saying Vitalik isn't relevant anymore? Perhaps he's only a figurehead now or something. Or perhaps I have something more to learn about how this all works. Again, sources would be great, I'm curious for what the future holds.
Where is the irony? I note only a coincidence.
> Are they childhood survivors of authoritarian governments that turned into oligarchies?

Yep. They are both Canadian.
I think private companies/platforms are able to exercise their speech in order to decide who is or isn’t on them.

Keeping or removing Rogan is an exercise of their speech and within their right to decide.

Still, I think it’s generally a bad idea to remove someone because of this kind of pressure. In Rogan’s specific case I also think it would be the wrong decision.

I’m against internet cancel mobs as a general rule.
> Still, I'm only in my 30s, and it feels like my life is pretty much done.

Take a meaningful break, or vacation,

and begin doing work that is closer to something you are actually passionate about.
Capacitors aren't to be fooled with.

Back in the tube TV times, I knew some guy working at a TV shop who shot off half a thumb, because he touched a loaded capacitor in a TV that was just unplugged.

Don't underestimate the power of every day appliences.
Weigh the ROI of changing your environment vs changing yourself

A lot of people on HN are do-it-yourself, bootstrap types. So you'll naturally get "why don't you just do XYZ."

There's merit in that, but sometimes changing the environment is more effective. That environment may be literal physical location (closer to friends or activities you're interested in), a job environment (different industry) or, at a smaller scale, your home environment. I finally started updating my place and having friends over and it's made a huge difference.

On a personal note: a hard lesson I had to learn for myself is that having fun (as weird as it sounds) is my responsibility. I found that I tended to look "outwards" for stimulation, fun, validation...waiting for the world to give me things.

Hanging out with people who were great at cultivating their own fun & energy helped me realize 1) this is something I could cultivate and 2) I was shirking responsibility.

IMO this cultivation of one's own energy is a long, internal journey. But worth it.

Good luck mate.
Totally agree! I was just going to write this.

Login.gov supports and encourages security keys (yubikey etc) as 2FA. I hope it does see wider adoption soon by more agencies, esp IRS.
Vivliostyle CSS Typesetting
1980s and earlier.
That's a contractual agreement made when buying the seeds.
> Every case I could find where a farmer claims that, they're able to show that the farmer in question intentionally selected those crops, replanted entire fields with those seeds, and were often selling them to neighbors.

As I said, there are many cases in India that it seems you're not aware of [1]. Who would have guessed a multinational corporation would win in court against peasants the world over... It's not just Monsanto either [2].

1. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-monsanto-idUSKCN1P5...

2. https://www.rt.com/news/457812-indian-farmers-pepsico-potato...
I and I suspect not an insignificant number here would identify with you if that's any consolation .

It always feels grass is greener on the side. All the people paying mortgages and changing diapers also think have they made wrong choices and is their current life making them happy .

Becoming happy in one's life is an internal journey it has little do with it social life /career /family/wealth we have or don't.

Religion /cults / self improvement /therapy (some types) are all businesses that that thrive on selling their flavour solution to the problem. Maybe they even work for some.

It is hard to say what works best for anyone.

I find learning new tech/writing more code I want to write rather than what someone pays me to do helps.

Sometimes even spending weekends cleaning up/refactoring even code from work makes my work week feel way better and less stressed.
On the other side of the communication channel things are even worse! You'd think not calling the restaurant would free the workers so they spend more time making food, but it doesn't always. Now a restaurant would have 3 or more tablets, one for grubhub, another for doordash, etc. There is no way for you to tell the customer you don't have green pepper, you don't have the time to update the thing so people stop ordering a particular item. The customer will still get charged and then complained or you might have to call them and tell them you don't have that thing. This shit happens so often that i's just not worth it. You also have to pay a premium for it sometimes.
There’s a whole separate rating for learning exactly how to do that. I got my instrument rating last summer.

One very important skill you’re taught is to ignore what you feel-your inner ear will lie to you and try to kill you. Pay attention to the instruments to know whether you are turning or ascending/ decending.
You and the person you're responding to are saying the same thing.

If you call you won't have a coupon, and they aren't going to tell you about any, therefore you're paying more. How do you find coupons? Check online, but now you're already there so why not just order it there?

A lot of coupons work either online or over the phone, but they're only advertised online and therefore that advantaged is largely to avoid more accessibility/disability lawsuits.
I was also skeptical before I tried it however I have found it to be a quality reliable service.
I agree, I always call pizza places to order.

Last time I ordered from Dominos, it was clear that the person on the other end was not located on site (sounded like she was working from home), and was putting my order into an app or site. I was only ordering a pizza and salad and it took about 5 minutes: way longer than it should have. Most of it was waiting on her part.
> So...people like you? you sound really judgemental man.

I know it sounds bad, but I don't want to meet people like me. I really don't like myself right now :) I'm looking for a way out from this state, not a way to settle in.

It's like you can't treat depression by hanging out with other depressed people, it'll make you worse.

> Since you have no friends(so nothing to hold you where you are, right?), and apparently a good source of income, I'd advise you to go remote, travel, try digital nomadism, go to meetups, meet other travelers, maybe try coworking spaces? hacker houses/airbnbs with people from lots of different places?

Traveling and digital nomading is definitely on my list, the pandemic delayed the plans. I'm afraid though, that it'll only lead me to meeting more and more developers. I tried a bunch of coworking spaces in my area, and this is exactly what happened. Meetups in my area were also only tech-related.
I actually upvoted you

Technically your reply explaining your intent is what I upvoted, I have not voted on the top comment because it was unclear to me
USA loves armed conflict so much it pays the EU to run their junior league fighters NATO. Just can't get enough of it.
The paper in The Lancet is most definitely science. What is not science is leaping to any conclusions based on the findings documented in a single paper. Science is slow, unfortunately. Given sufficient time, science will, with a high degree of confidence positively correlated with the time we wait, enrich our understanding of the natural world.
You can have some basic configurable stuffs in an opinionated tool though, see Prettier. It allows tab/space, quote style, line length etc., to be modified.
Oh I'm not making a case for why anyone would want to do any of this. I'm simply stating that the author is incorrect. You don't need centralized DNS on web3 because you can use on-chain ENS. And you don't need centralized storage or servers on web3 because you can use IPFS and Filecoin.

Yep, it's as expensive as all hell, I can't figure out why people will really want to use it that much either. But the author is still incorrect.
This is exactly what I made https://ntfy.sh/ for. It's much easier to use since you don't have to set anything up on the server. No accounts.

Thanks for the link.
Just FYI, this is something I really like about Google Maps integration with restaurant take-out ordering. They put the "Order Again" button front and center and let's face it, I'm not really planning to switch it up at my corner lunch spot. Obviously in that case I need an account, with Google, but I already had that and I trust them with my info more than I just some merchant's white-label mobile app.
> You're absolutely entitled to your opinion on these actions and you're free to support Spotify or Young or Mitchell or any combination of the three. But there is no "freedom of speech" side here.

I'm not sure I agree. Young and Mitchell (how many decades ago were they culturally relevant?) are certainly free to participate on Spotify or not. They certainly cannot be forced to. However, if Rogan were booted from Spotify based on their threats (or others), he would certainly be a loser.

Further, if someone demands a second party take some action against a third party by making a quid pro quo threat, that is not clearly protected speech. If the threat involves revealing defamatory information, it constitutes blackmail; if the threat involves criminal harm, it is extortion; and if the threat involves breach of contract, it may be tortious interference, a civil tort. This is not to argue that Mitchell & Young are committing a crime, because they clearly aren't (though they may possibly be perpetrating a civil tort against Rogan depending on his contractual terms with Spotify and their demands), but that threats are not necessarily protected speech in the same category as merely making–or withholding–personal self-expression.
A corporation can't arrest me, shoot me, confiscate my property, or otherwise tell me what to do outside any voluntary contract with them. It's really not the same at all.
pseudalopex is just being a pedant - op clearly meant that Young can use Spotify and Rogan is not trying to stop that.
Work on yourself first, buddy. Learn to be happy, then people will naturally enter your life and stick around.
GMO crops are exactly not "garbage hormones", and people consume them all of the time without complaint. I don't see anyone picketing the yogurt cases in their local super markets. Lot's of hormones survive intact through digestion and can enter the blood stream, but your body doesn't absorb the genetic material of food[1]. DNA is fragile and it's really hard to get foreign DNA into a cell, much less the nucleus. Our cells evolved a lot of specific defenses to prevent that. This is why DNA vaccines are so hard to develop and administer. Conflating things like rbST or rBGH in milk with novel genes in corn is nothing but scientific illiteracy.

TL;DR it's really hard to get DNA into eukaryotic cells (yours) and you definitely can't do that with food.

[1]https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170223102128.h...
Do you want to help build a Startup City?
the times that I've observed nuanced comms break down at scale, it is usually because genuine conversation is not possible, for a variety of reasons ranging from the number of people who would need to be involved in said conversations to political games of power. so then it becomes the job of a million layers of middle management playing telephone to translate

but nuanced communication is also a skill that can be worked on, and certain classes of misunderstandings can be mitigated. dan calls this out in his post, but ironically a major one was missed in it as well: the resulting conversation seems to be entirely about individuals capability (based on IQ and other BS) to understand messages conveyed to them, rather than about the complex organizational dynamics that might result in someone being pushed into interpreting a message as something other than what it is

EDIT: I'd also note that nuanced comms are equally difficult in large orgs irregardless of the size of the group being spoken to. For example, I've had VP+ (a smaller group given that the comms are going upward rather than down the org chart) misinterpret technical findings presented to them. There's so much extra cognitive overhead inherent in interpreting messages when you're in a Machiavellian experiment (aka the modern bigco environment)
Prospera is part of a larger trend towards startup cities (Honduras allows them by law, El Salvador has one).

Prospera is located on Roatan / Honduras, a Caribbean paradise island.

We're privately organising a little trip from March 23-27, inviting entrepreneurs from around the world to help make it the Hong Kong of Latin America.