skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only if your sober friends are also boring homebodies
Now that you mention it, having people able to flee to moon/space pods/mars changes the "Mutually Assured Destruction" math.
I took a glimpse and found a "Hacking" wiki page. Kudos the hacker spirit!
And you’ve eliminated all the other possible variables?
This is what I wanted to say but could never find the words
Off topic, but thank you for the "USians" part (I've been using "US-'icans" for years).
Maybe it works for other (non-SWE) professions, and maybe it still works for the more conservative enterprise companies, but my experience is that for most Silicon Valley style tech companies, a referral might at best just let you skip the phone screen. Then it's the same leetcode circus show as anyone else.

But yes, I agree with you that most third party recruiters suck. I'd say there are some very small boutique firms out there that don't suck though. Generally, the larger the recruiting agency, the shittier they are.
In corp dev where I worked until 2020. The compensation range is small enough that you know when you’re asking for top of range and you are at most leaving a couple of thousand on the table.
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Apples codec is for the hands free profile (synchronous mode). Are you saying aptX works with that?
No drugs or alcohol, how about caffeine?

I only ask because I stopped caffeine for months hoping it would help me get some sleeping problems under control. I was surprised to find that stopping caffeine, ~cups of coffee a day, didn’t have a noticeable effect.

No carbs, so keto or paleo?
I'm planning to start working on SICP, starting from chapter 1. Anyone wishing to join me is welcome!
I recently quit alcohol for a few months to support someone else doing the same. I don't find I ever have to "give in". I do sometimes bring canned tea with me if I am going to a friends party.

Rice, local vegetables, eggs and basic cuts of meat are all real cheap.

I quit working around 5pm most days (save meetings that get scheduled late, I tend to skip those randomly). I spend my free time working on fun hobbies or reading, a bit of netflix.

Porn is not de facto evil. It is a supernormal stimulus - it will drown out your sex live because porn literally pushes your biological buttons better. If you can moderate it, then great. If it's an issue, cut it out.

Avoid dating apps. Spend your time doing interesting things with interesting people instead.
I think we need to see Kura actually demonstrate that their technology works.

You might want to see this video (queued to his discussion of Kura at CES 2022: https://youtu.be/S0heZVN5NCs?t=1328
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Wait is steve huffman is one of the "test" riders in the promo video at the bottom?
> Because quitting alcohol is the cheapest, fastest, simplest way to acquire a major superpower and make my life drastically better.

This is a recipe for disappointment and one of the lies alcoholics themselves. "I'd be X if only I didn't drink!"

When they stop and they're not X it leads to a lot of "well, that didn't work" reasons to go back.

If you're dependent on alcohol and you stop, your life will be better. But sometimes those ways will be imperceptible or subtle. Expecting the clouds to open and to rise to the heights you deserve is an unrealistic expectation. It's amplified here without any irony.
> No doubt we could work up a system to prevent this, we can restrict access and force use of the classic editor etc, but that’s where the ‘complicated futility’ comes in. It’s one thing to find a way to cherry pick aspects of the software to serve your purpose, it’s another thing entirely to try to build in complete opposition to it.

Please do not invoke the Amazon Godz, who will take this open source stack, spread it across a score of services, shoot it full of IAM, and give us AWS ProwDress.
> the practice of weaponizing facts

This increasingly common use of the word "weaponize" (as a dysphemism for "utilize") bothers me, as does the article's use of the phrase "information war."

As horrible as it is to spread disinformation and propaganda, it seems unnecessarily extreme to describe that as analogous or comparable to warfare or physical violence.
Restating the definition does not magically conjure a sensible strategy for arriving at that value.
> This is your big experiment?

No, it's the first more-controlled experiment (more controlled than a pandemic!) I could think of off the top of my head. I don't know how to argue this when you seem to have no regard for the idea of controlling for other variables. Nor for the manner (like frequency) in which the funds are distributed. Nor for anything that I can see, other than the sheer amount of money dumped into the experiment. As if you can gauge accuracy by just looking at the amount of money dumped into the experiment? Aren't there a ton of other factors at play that can mess up the results (like the pandemic itself)?

> Like... what else ya got?

Like I said, you can find more if you Google, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_pilots

But again, I'm not sure what else to cite when your only metric is the amount of money. I'm not claiming there was any other UBI experiment that spent this much money. If/when you consider other factors then there would be much more room for discussion.
> Because two drinks in I get melancholic, three I start crying, at night I have nightmares and sleep lightly or not at all, and the next day I’m depressed or sick or both

The author gives nine other reasons, but this alone would be enough for me. I count myself fortunate that for me, a couple of drinks tends to have the opposite effect.
>one of my favorite meals is smoked salmon and blueberries

Are you a bear?
Dartmouth College, a Cornell rivalry.
> Nice to see some heads on HN! Great list, and RIP The Spaceape.

Can't believe my eyes I'm seeing this on HN. You can get the same experience at home with a SubPac. I'm not exaggerating!
Look in the Starlink app, under visibility after it has run for 24h and it will show you where all the obstructions are. Quite handy. Clear is blue, red is obstruction.
>You can make 150k without too much trouble as a plumber.

So my 20 second research shows the average salary for a plumber is around $50,000, with 90% making under $75,000. I bet more would be willing to be a plumber for the kind of money you mention, but that's not standard.
I've gone down the no carb approach before and it did not work for me personally. I have found better balance with a reasonable amount of carbs in proportion to the rest of my diet.
I had that last week.. I thought I turned on by mistake as they made too close to navigation bar and other buttons..
I am a 30 something who stopped drinking over two years ago. My body feels better which improved exercise, work and relationships. There have been a few occasions where I miss the flavor profile. Athletic Brewing makes a great non-alcoholic stout. I’ve had it three or four times.

Otherwise, the prominence of alcohol in media is extreme. It conditions people to drink for almost all scenarios. Upset, drink. Happy, drink. Angry, drink. On a date, drink. Usually it’s paired with branding via product placement in movies and films. They have to let you know what to drink and when to do it.

My new drug of choice, running.
Really hoped they supported subscription pausing by now. Doesn't make sense paying a year's sub for a secondary home when you're only there for a couple months, unless it's the only option you have.
No surprise there. Who are the rich? The politicians and bureaucrats who implemented these ideas, along with their buddies who fund their campaigns and junkets, and offer cushy board positions and lobbying gigs if they ever do leave their government posts.
But there is also a whole lot of mindless calling-out
going on regarding cultural appropriation

Absolutely agreed, although "some people are wrong about ___" doesn't automatically invalidate _____.

I mean, what do you want to hear? Literally anything you want to do with anybody else's culture is okay and you don't even have to think about it because it's literally impossible for it to be anything but okay?

There is a middle ground in which we agree that hey, some things are okay and some are better avoided.
I love Firefox when they have a focus (privacy), get it together Mozilla
Their fantasy world can no longer control us
Starlink is limited by the FCC to only use one satellite at a time (technically called Nco=1).
I stopped getting recruiter messages after updating job status too (non FAANG). They're trickling in again a few months later, but most from dodgy recruiters.
I agree your statement is logically correct from a utilitarian standpoint.

There's a little bit of "spherical cow" involved though. A more detailed model would recognise that R&D spend is not pure investment, and UBI would not be pure consumption.

Whether non-zero UBI today would good policy or not depends on an enormous number of facts about the world that I think it would be very difficult to come to an agreement on.

For example, at what level diminishing returns from R&D spending kick in, and whether UBI apart from increasing immediate welfare has any compounding benefits (human capital, civil cohesion, education, business starts, citizen science) vs mostly benefiting landlords and netflix.

I expect our priors are quite different.
No Safe navigator: require 4 lines of code

No ternary support: require 6 lines of code

I'm glad Go does not have those, it makes the code less readable. It's only useful for simple operation and very often chained and abused.
Every single one of the richest people I know got a 6+ figure handout on PPP.

I'm only upper middle class so I only got $15k.

I'm guessing most of the people who could have eaten more food if they got a bit more from the program got one less zero than I got.

It's as if the program was designed to be as regressive as possible.
> The whole point of UBI is that it's universal and everyone is a beneficiary.

If I get a check for $1,000 every month and I lose $5,000 on taxes every month, I'm not really a beneficiary.

This is a wealth redistribution scheme. The wealth is being redistributed from people who are self-evidently efficient capital allocators to people who are self-evidently not. (That's a Bayesian judgement, not an absolute one.)

> The fact that organised societies have been much more successful historically

Please, I'd love to hear how "organized society" is synonymous with "welfare programs".
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By the way, Casio not only made calculators and synthesizers, but made both things in one: Casio VL-Tone VL-1 is a calculator and a synth/sequencer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_VL-1
man that mmwave stuff built into phones and watches looks great.
Would love to see that on my watch and Galaxy Fold3... less touching but gesture control. Want.
Great catch. That's a shockingly good paper on stable coins!
A ltierature review by economists is possibly the least-valuable class of paper you could cite short of actual blog posts.

This specific paper throws out anything that even mentions any effect but mortality, any paper that compares real-world results to predictive models, and includes papers from various dumping grounds an non-peer-reviewed outlets. Any paper which attempts to introduce rigor is dismissed. Some of the papers cited are actual blog posts. This paper itself is self-published by one of the authors. The second figure disagrees with its own source (it cites six specific weeks early in the outbreak, during which time the stringency index did not change, but the x axis is a range of unsourced claims). It cites the GRADE handbook to support its hyperfocus on mortality rates (to the exclusion of literally all other considerations) but fails to note that the GRADE handbook is a health care guide and healthcare institutions were in the process of being overrun during the period they investigate, basically making the now-classic "but it only has an x% death rate" misdirection we're accustomed to hearing from Facebook propagandists.

In short, this document is almost but not entirely worthless. It is worthless as a public policy resource, but it is highly valuable if you want to make noise about how the Danes should have followed Sweden's example in 2020.

It's just as well they don't seem to have bothered minting a DOI for this, because web forum comments are the only places it's going to be cited. It's sloppy work, basically cherry-picking datasets, and then using them to affirm the consequent. I'm embarassed for the authors.
I also like Stripe's prefixes. like sk_ or card_ etc.

Removes any ambiguity.
This is a bad example with many compounding factors, not just the one variable being UBI. There are many differences between Saudi culture and ours here in the US, many differences in the way in this proposed, etc. Also important to note that this essentially applies to men of Saudi decent only. It is not UBI, it's missing the U.
Why are you so credulous to believe any random account on the internet?

Not saying the author is a liar. But it sounds like you want to go on a crusade for them after just finding out they exist.
I worked with mmWave radars previously, but not professionally. In my opinion, it would be quite challenging to extract enough features from the current generation of mmWave radars, such as TI IWR1642 ([1]) which have around 4 receivers and 2-3 transmitters, because the incoming data, while having a lot of temporal resolution is very limited in spatial resolution.

With greater number of antennas something like what you describe is theoretically possible, but becomes cost prohibitive.

By limiting the number of transmitters / receivers, we can have an almost perfect privacy monitoring. For example, it would be possible to detect a attack / a fight in a public bathroom, while not exposing anyone.

1. https://www.mouser.ec/datasheet/2/405/1/swru521c-1954464.pdf
I have wireguard set up so that all traffic is routed through my home network
Tesla have two very distinct cruise/steering product grades, one is called Autopilot and another called Full Self-Driving. It seems unlikely to me that Tesla would claim that their first product was their second product.
> All cheap foods are full of sugar/carbs. If you want to eat healthy food, you either need to have access to farm or pay more.

I don't think most people need low carb to be healthy. The hazard ratio bottoms out around a 50/50 split [0] for carb/fat intake. Oats, buckwheat, and lentils are cheap as hell and very healthy. Mix in veggies, leafy greens, and occasional meat and you can be eating healthy as hell for very cheap.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7589789/
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Well, that was the original WP. Lean, and the theme handled the presentation. But as the article points out, that's fading away.

Sure page builders reduce the need for a FE dev, but then the user needs to understand CSS. Is that a win? Pay someone else $100? Or spend half a day trying to figure out CSS? I see basic questions in (FB) WP groups all the time.

And what about UX basics?

All that said, and to your point, from a web vistor pov, most sites are too bloated, too complex, etc. And all that visual shite on your small screen? Who wants that??
I stopped drinking 180 days ago (to the day) as I was overweight and worried about the possible health issues it could be causing (I am from the Uk and pub binging with friends a few nights a week became a very common hobby).

I’ve already dropped like 10 kilos, and way stronger from attending the gym, and have my first Triathlon in Napa this April. Best decision I’ve made in my life.

I am seriously considering training for a 70.3 Ironman which would have been completely unfathomable to me a year ago, and could be reality a year from now.
The moment we see stable coins emerge denominated in other national currencies with these stable coins trading against each other in high volume crypto exchanges is the moment the traditional cross-border payments industry dies.

There's just no way traditional FX can compete when you can instantly swap a USD token for a token of any other currency at tiny cost everywhere in the world. Crypto exchange already does this, and sometimes better, it's just harder for people to figure out.

Even the half-way situation we have today of USD stablecoins trading for local currency in other countries is likely going to obliterate traditional FX in a few years. It's already happening, and really fast.
Is having a favourite child a bad thing?
If no one had the drunken outlet, how might the inhibited baseline change?
I don't think I'm that old but I had two coworkers who were my age die in the last couple years. They were both heavy drinkers (both learned to drink in the military) and both looked much older than they actually were. I'm not much of a drinker at all and I'm convinced that I shouldn't be.
I know plenty of people who got fat checks and were quite open about pointing out that it was socialism, and a complete waste of money.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
I'm sticking with it too. I love the way it makes me feel, I love the taste, I love the little head rush as it first hits your system. I love spending hours talking rubbish over a bar table with friends.

I love the science behind brewing, and the sense of achievement I get from making a good beer or cider, and I love enjoying those results with friends and family.

The UK has a very mixed culture on this (and I can only really speak for England, and southern england at that). The youth binge and go mad, it's loud and unsightly and the rest of us try to avoid their pukey drinking holes. The quieter pubs are a great place to have some decent food, a few local beers and a really chill time.

Alcohol is toxic, it's addictive, it's carcinogenic, it's all sorts of bad things, but it's also added a lot to my life. These days (I'm in my 40s and in Australia) I don't overdo it very often, I go to beer festivals and craft bars and enjoy the cameraderie and the silliness and the laughs.

I'd still like cannabis legalised though...
Moreover, contrary to some other commenters:

Unless it truly is "once-in-a-lifetime", or very brief, you cannot just stop and give up. To be a viable replacement, a vehicle must (as a human driver would) continue to make progress even in extremely adverse conditions. The progress might be much slower than usual, might be a re-routing (back up away from floodwater and go elsewhere), etc.
> 2. All cheap foods are full of sugar/carbs. If you want to eat healthy food, you either need to have access to farm or pay more.

Not necessarily! Whole grain products (like bread, pasta, and oats) and legumes tend to be cheaper per calorie and more filling than many junk foods. The cost of produce varies depending on your location, but at least in some parts of the U.S., ethnic supermarkets sell fruits and vegetables at a very low price compared to other grocery stores. For foods of animal origin, chicken products like eggs and chicken breasts tend to be more affordable than other meats in the U.S., and can be prepared in a healthy way.

It does take time and effort to cook, but you save money compared to ordering from restaurants or eating pre-packaged meals, and you can be 100% confident that you are only using healthy ingredients.
>Because two drinks in I get melancholic, three I start crying, at night I have nightmares and sleep lightly or not at all[...]Because we drink to soften life’s regrets but most of my bad memories from adulthood involve drinking—the rages, the heartbreaks, the slumps; because drinking promises to ease the pain over what’s lost but I’ve lost things in my life because I or someone I was with was drunk.

I mean, it doesn't sound like it's the alcohol itself that is the problem here. It sounds more like someone using alcohol as a means to self-medicate, and to quote Christopher Hitchens, don't drink if you have the blues, it's a junk cure. Drink when you're in a good mood. Alcohol is great to enliven company, to make food more pleasurable, even contrary to popular opinion a drink alone can be great. Nightly coding sessions being somewhat buzzed are surprisingly fun. Don't drink to drown bad emotions, that's never a good idea.
Ford Reportedly to Spend as Much as $20B to Accelerate Electric Car Shift
Yes, also exercise and bright sunlight in the mornings.
I don't think the issue is color. Their original product was trying to differentiate on Vergence Accommodation Conflict (VAC) and did a poor job of it. They were also going after the consumer with a product that was always going to be way too expensive for consumers with an image quality that was going to be too poor. They also made what I think is a bad set of trade-offs in terms of ergonomics and human factors.

The problem with medicine is that is it a tiny market. You can't justify the type of money they were trying to raise for that market. Under Abovitz, they were always a swing for the fences company.

All the above said, nobody I know of is making money selling AR headsets today. They are either subsidized by VC or other investment money or by big companies funding R&D efforts. The market is not other product areas where you can make money with an MVP and grow the product.
The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There's something wrong with the way you are measuring it.
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You can think many things of Bezos, but he does know how to make a business make money. Data is important, but things that are hard to measure that you only learn as anectodes is also important.
Please don't post generic ideological comments to HN. They make discussion more predictable and therefore more tedious. Also, they evoke pushback from people with opposite passions, and the result is usually nasty and boring. We're trying for something different here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

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Why does Microsoft insist on monolithic updates, where other OSs update small components?

I have had the situation when the update was downloading for a long time then indicated that it had failed, wasting all the data that was already downloaded, probably around three quarters of a gigabyte.

On the other hand, I have an OS that updates individual apps and individual libraries. If something fails along the way, at least I have updated most of what was downloaded, leading to little wasted data.