skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be quite poor. It sucked, hard. I wrecked a car so I found a bike, I wrecked the bike so I walked. I spent my life looking for the next better paying job and tried to figure what skills I needed in order to get it. This led me from fast food, to warehouses, to assembly lines, to construction, to a computer repair shop, to tech support, to lab support, to IT helper, to IT admin, to Devops, to cloud support, to leadership. It was a series of tiny steps with a very focused goal. I'm sure that some would say it's because I'm a reasonably intelligent white male but I feel that my path could be taken by just about anyone. I worked with all types at all levels. Even if they stopped at construction they still wouldn't be poor.

I think that there are a lot of opportunities out there for people who want things badly enough. The question is, as a society what value do we place in the collective body of people who don't strive to better themselves? Is it something we want to prop up and freeze them in place or do we keep making the better future appealing like a carrot dangling for human growth?
What we call cities are vastly beyond the scale of most civilizations with writing, philosophy, etc. As recently as 1500 all it took was 5,000+ people to be considered a city in Europe.

Many Native American tribes reached that standard before Europeans first reached America. They where considered barbarians simply on religious grounds.
To be fair, "dismember" is more specific than the loss of a body part. It specifically means to cut, tear, or otherwise remove a part of the body.
Selection and Ejection. If you can say that a child is a bad fit for your school because they’re not academically gifted so you won’t accept them you’re ahead of the game. Even more true if you can kick out violent or disruptive students, which public schools can’t for much short of assault resulting in prison time.
Wasn't the same link with autism and gut microbes debunked because they tend to have different diets?
Presumably you'd just use ordinary Python there.
I sedulously disagree.

https://www.globalissues.org/article/532/media-manipulation

https://spinwatch.org/

(note: this is not an endorsement of these sites, but took me 30 seconds to locate online, and verify at least glancingly.)
There’s a good book called “The Precipice” (2020) by Toby Ord that suggests things people can do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Precipice:_Existential_Ris...
Even without RFP it seems to be very fragile, just resizing my window completely changes the result.
The 'Bitcoin Family' immigrates to Portugal for its 0% tax on cryptocurrencies
Could you explain the reasoning behind your claim?
Wired’s willingness to cover quack ideas was part of the intrigue for me. Sure, flying cars, jetpacks, and underwater breathing aren’t near but it’s fun to see the progress we’ve made on those fronts every now and then.
People still pay $10-50 per month to buy physical magazines that still contain advertisements on more than 60% of the pages?
All we can do is try hard not hurt people with our version of good will. I've done the same with the same outcome, one of those people went on and made an impact and is cited frequently here, but not because of any help from me.
I was also struck by this behavior. Toilets are pretty simple mechanisms. You can just directly look at how all the parts work (as long as the toilet isn't built into the wall; normal residential toilets in North America are not built into the wall).

I know the author reflects on this aspect, but it still struck me. What kind of person doesn't fix this situation, and then proceeds to do this laughable hack every time they want to use the bathroom. A hack that might "flood" the place?
But, why register it? My only guess it to be able to go after others who use it without permission, i.e. control narrative.
Wow. Just had to say I'm turning 35 this month and had the exact same epiphany when listening to the "Time" recently. When I was young and in my 20's I would get high and listen to it and just loved the way it sounded. But now the lyrics really ring true. "And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun" really gets me.
I think cancer is mostly an immune problem, which has become obvious with the relative success of immunotherapies.

It worries my a bit that this moonshot effort is still listing the generation of cancer atlases as a priority. I hope these atlases will be used for the selection of epitopes towards developing cancer immunotherapies.

Previous atlas efforts made no sense, and it was very frustrating to see other great initiatives to obtain much less funding, like CAR-T cells. Research politics I guess...
UP is a freight railroad and has around 32k miles of track, and about 10k trains. Also, they need to operate 24/7 in harsh conditions all throughout the US, west of Mississippi river, so very hot and cold, mountains, desert ect.
I saw someone here comment that eating only sweet potatoes produced similar results to fasting.
By recently, do you mean 2005?
Now they feel like they want to fit in with their peers, and it makes them much less interesting to me.
TFT?
You see it coming? The straw man argument/report to prepare the audience to take measures against crypto. Because NK...

But the problem is not the money or crypto money, who is selling and delivering stuff to them? It's not like that they can develop their nuclear program just by accumulating virtual tokens...
The question was bots and controlling discourse, not misinformation.
This has just given me the epiphany that if the BBC is ever put out to grass, which does now seem to be in the offing, then the preservation of the shipping forecast at least, would be only a few weather APIs and some speech synthesis away.

Which would be good / occasionally moderate.
> Soviets were allies of the US against Nazis, they didn't kill millions of americans nor did they wish genocide on anyone. They do not stand as a symbol if rebellion against legitimate government either.

Are we talking about the people who fought a revolutionary war against the monarchy of the Russian Empire, eventually murdering the Tsar's family, wife and kids included? Then proceeded to stoke violent class warfare and political purges throughout Soviet territory, including the Holodomor in Ukraine. All the while funding communist revolt in other countries across the Far East and Europe. Those guys right?

Genocide aside, the Nazi takeover of Wiemar Germany was almost completely on the level comparatively. But both regimes racked up massive body counts, and both did so with intention.
I read the original comment and didn't notice this until you mentioned it. Gave me a great chuckle, thanks.
Dear author. It's going to be fine.

I'm 36 and was in a very similar situation like you. I suddenly started to feel like time was passing by and I haven't managed to produce anything valuable, days were becoming very similar and I started to seem that I just don't care that much about work, hobbys anymore

1. Please bear with me here... What helped me is going for psychotherapy (you just talk, no heavy stuff so don't be afraid). I think this is something that is seriously undervalued when it comes to "finding yourself" and people are too afraid to try. If you have opportunity to try please give it a shot ;-)

2. Please read this https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/54785515-four-thousan.... Title suggest it's another productivity-focused book, but it's totally opposite. This book helped me put down a lot of burden about not achieving something important in my life.

I'm sure that there are various things in life that will sparkle joy (like maintaining meaningful relationships, exploring new hobby and meeting new random people. You'll be fine, try something new. Cheers mate!
I would say the greatest near-term risk to Earth's ecology is humans so probably the best preparation would be not to destroy it in the first place.
Here's the only way you should ever rewrite something:

1) Document exactly what the existing thing does.

2) Write high-level tests for this functionality.

3) Make sure there are no features that will need to be added to it. Make sure everyone is onboard with not adding new features to it. Make sure people understand that adding features to an in-progress rewrite jeopardizes the entire thing.

4) Rewrite it in the original language, reusing those high-level tests you wrote in step 2.

5) Let people know that they can add features again.
One Mix 4 micro laptop. I bought i5 version of it on aliexpress however amazon has higher end version of it (i7) available.

9" or so screen, full blown windows 11 laptop, extremely well built, solid.
I upgraded it to Windows 11 Pro myself just for fun so I could RDP to it and control it remotely.

I bought it for narrow use case (need to control hardware device that doesn't have mobile app) and extremely pleased on how fully functioning, well built it is.

It could fit into large enough pocket and if you're in need of SMALLEST device as fully featured Windows-based computer - that's the answer.

Drawbacks: no webcam (this is plus for me actually) and small battery life (ask me which power bank i chose to solve this issue).
We are still inferring a best fit based on available data, so “statistical modelling” is way more descriptive of what we are doing the “intelligence”. That doesn’t mean it isn’t impressive. These non-classical statistical inference are going beyond what we have been able to do with classic statistics, it is indeed impressive.

Personally I only grow skeptical when claims are made about some vague Artificial General Intelligence or some other magic which no amount of inference is gonna give us.
https://archive.fo/1la1W
More specifically the war on drugs was never about drugs. US is great at manufacturing proxy reasons for biased punitive punishment.
Helicopter money has always been theoretically possible to deliver direct to [most] consumers, with a bit of help from authorities responsible for tax/benefits/pensions, albeit somewhat inefficiently. But half the problem of monetary policy (the more relevant half in the immediate future) is reducing the money in the system when inflationary pressure is high. That's where channelling monetary policy through changes in the interest rate starts to make sense (the reduction is a natural one as people and corporations borrow less, which is a lot less politically painful than withdrawing a direct subsidy or even debiting people's accounts)
I think the harder part is determining how much you actually know about something, to know how much you can judge.

My default nowadays is I never know enough, even in the fields I'm specialized in. Part of it is I think just a limit of how much information I can accurately refer to/pull up in my brain at any given time too.
.....Ah. The possibility of someone being on HN born AFTER Portal 2 didn't even occur :-(
>the distances and even temporal ordering of pairs of events change when measured in different inertial frames of reference (this is the relativity of simultaneity)

I'm not saying to use different frames of reference. I am saying to use a single universal frame of reference.
You're correct that I'm not an expert in the terminology used in this field. Surely I'm not the only one who hears "blockchain" and thinks it must be like Bitcoin and other proof of work crypto currencies?

Maybe the summary is saying something completely different, in which case the use of 'blockchain' within it can still concern me and any other readers who are similarly wrongly informed.
I never had any reason to bribe them. Are you talking about 1990's?
So because there's no political or economical pressure based censorship, does that invalidate the platform? Is all the content suspect because some people have the wrong opinions or beliefs?

Your comment is shallow and dismissive. It's also offensive - you should celebrate efforts to make the world more free, and maybe not shit on people for trying.
This isn't even beta testing, it's closer to development. The driving shown in the video is that of a drunk or texting driver. For at least half of those turns it couldn't even pick a line and stick to it, instead swerving haphazardly as it became more aware of where the lane was. Never mind the constant turns into bus only lanes. I'd love to see municipalities start writing tickets on all the well-documented violations in these videos, citing Tesla itself as the driver.
It was probably aliens.
Whatever village you are from they miss you.
> I left it out because I deemed it irrelevant to the point I was trying to make.

The scope of that sentence assigned to it by the only other sentence in that paragraph was indeed "irrelevant" to your claim "assume good faith" is a general policy for HN comments.

It was beyond disingenuous, and you're still being disingenuous; you're now shifting the goalposts.

> As before: please try to assume good faith.

You selectively quoted in a way that radically changed meaning in order to chastise another user making a comment you didn't like. This isn't a matter of "faith." You're running around telling other people how to act.
The following is in no way a scientific rebuttal of anything said in the article, and I'm aware of this. That said, the cited Wickramasinghe has some outlandish beliefs, including:

- The belief that various pandemics (flu, covid, etc) have extraterrestrial origin.

- That some fossils such as archaeopteryx is a fake.

- Sided with quasi-creationist views and against the scientific mainstream.

None of this automatically invalidates this theory, but it's at least noteworthy.
I also believe in climate change and this would not be okay with me.
I was primarily focused on the initial buyer. As in, I'm going to buy dice for myself, and I want a set that are balanced.

Also, regarding home tests. The cost of an individual buying multiple sets of dice and discarding the unbalanced sets until you have a single balanced set is... you have to buy multiple sets of dice

Edit: I'll concede that focusing on the initial buyer may be too limiting, but that is where I started with this idea
It says:

"4. Click the toggle button until “true” changes to “false”"

But for me there is no toggle button. It seems to not be able to do anything, with my blocker settings.

When I allow the site, I see, that it did change the screen resolution result compared to yours.
Same question (hopefully not the same answer): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30238626
I think you're really condescending.
Well ... with modern environments it is impossible to understand the states. Too many layers, too many components, too many abstractions etc etc.
Sure, but you still need to go there to work. You need money to buy a car, and you need the car to get paid. Of course, some vultures will lend you a couple of quid to buy something, but then the astronomical interest rates just add up to your problems. And pray that nothing unexpected happens, like the unreliable car you just bought for £500 breaking down before you finished paying for it, because then you don’t have a job anymore and it takes weeks to get support from the government. And good luck you if you have children.

Also, people who can’t keep up with bills are not going to have easy access to the Internet either. There are libraries and such, but it adds yet more friction and stress. There are loads of things you don’t necessarily realise if you haven’t been in such a situation or really thought about it. Every one of them is not a huge problem in itself, but it all adds up.

Mental aspects are also important. People familiar with symptoms of depression and chronic anxiety know how debilitating they can be.

It definitely is not impossible to get out of poverty, just very hard.
Intel discontinued Optane for consumers.
Wonder if one could print a massive space telescope lens this way
Some parts of culture are easier to create than others.

But losing weight? Endless amounts of effort is
already spent towards this goal, it is deeply embedded in our culture(for ex. Fat shaming).

I don't some large ad campaign would change that much.
Sometimes the engineers are "too" clever. In my car, seatbelts have an additional mechanism which causes them to stop if the car is braking (with a certain acceleration, perhaps, or actual detection of the brake - I haven't determined). This seems very sensible until you live near an intersection which is not at right angles, which requires the driver to lean forward upon arrival at the intersection in order to look around the A pillar for oncoming traffic.

What's interesting is that I now know something that the engineers designing the system should have known but apparently didn't, or knew and didn't care about. So sometimes (or much of the time?) users do know something the engineers don't.
I’m with you. Dart felt like a step back in time for me.

I was a big fan of some of the early Dart leaders (Lars Bak and Gilda Bracha). I remember when I asked why Dart seemed like a watered down variant of some Lars and Gilads earlier work; I was tiled by a former colleague that had joined the project that “Lars was playing it safer, playing to win” these days.

I don’t know how much either of these people are associated with Dart anymore. Somewhere in Dart’s search of a killer problem to be the solution for, we got fully typed Dart (as opposed to the original annotations are optional mindset).

I did one of the free web courses for it, built like 10 teeny pointless apps. Three things stood out:

- the experience was kind of painful on iOS, the look had an “uncanny” effect

- the tutor tried to explain classes as a “way of organizing code” which undersells what classes are really about (binding behavior to data)

- the language felt like an alter Java (type declarations in the left side still??)
I wonder what the logic there is. If someone isn't doing well on a team, shuffling them to a new project might help. But the downside is managers might be annoyed by a new person on the team who is a suspected low-performer. Could lead to a game of hot-potato where people try to avoid having PIPs added to their team through politics.
> When there are fewer interventions than accidents for a solid chunk of time, FSD will be safer. It could eventually reach 1 intervention per hundred thousand accidents, if you would just let them continue.

And in the meantime, I and other drivers, cyclists, pedestrians are subject to increased danger for what? Oh, Tesla's profits? Forgive us if we don't all see this as an acceptable tradeoff.
The war on drugs was never about drugs per se, and winning was never the goal. It was always primarily a political tool to marginalize certain communities and minority groups.
That's because it is including the dimensions of your window as part of your fingerprint. If your goal is to track users as they move across sites, matching browser size makes sense.
Are the author's "cartoon space alien" NFTs a good investment?
Then don't judge anything as 'stupidly designed'. What does that mean? Just say "I think the design flaw is XYZ".

If I find a stupidly designed product, it is often because it was the cheap option. Spending more saves money in the long run. Water bottles spring to mind - most of them leak or get damaged by dish-washing sooner or later. Spending $20 on a water bottle is cheaper than spending $5 ten times. Although a high price isn't a guarantee of quality either!
I think you’re talking about his column from Tuesday [1], which talks about different research at the Fed [2] that suggested that there is a trade off between “credit provision” (i.e. private lenders taking a risk and extending credit to their customers who they have relationships with) and “stability”. In a credit crunch, investors could flee to a CBDC and make the crisis worse.

[1] “The Fed vs. Stablecoins” https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-01/hedge-...

[2] “Stablecoins: Growth Potential and Impact on Banking” https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/ifdp/stablecoins-grow...
They are not immune at all. The security assumptions are different.

> A single actor would need to own huge amount of resources and then essentially burn the coins. To purchase such a dominant stake the price would rise very quickly... making it very unlikely to be feasible.

You are assuming here a single-sided market where the existing majority holders are not interested in realizing profits on their holdings. For many cryptocurrencies this is not the case, especially the hyped VC-funded ones.
I think I could have predicted the response, overall. But I enjoyed how little you have to deviate to have a completely opposite outcome.
Basically what I got from the article is that nobody notices that they are poor until they see someone richer than them.

I don’t know if this kind of ‘poverty’ can ever be solved.
But you admit it doesn’t accomplish anything. It isn’t reasonable to create laws with no purpose.
Take note, Peertube - this is what a good landing page for a Youtube alternative platform looks like. No mention of politics, just a big wall of content.
Any really. 1 cup of baked is 14g and fava is 9g.
Things You Should Never Do Part 1 [0]

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
To me young is < 60.

Also "most successful startups". OK let's do a quality of life scale, 0 for destitute, 10 for billionaire. Millionaire would be 9.8 on the scale. Hell maybe the other way around, being a millionaire is better than being a billionaire (because of the problem of fame).

A lot of people reach that by doing mundane things like starting a tyre fitting shop, or janitorial business, or flipping houses, or very niche software businesses.

Depends what we mean by success. There is the 'make investors rich' kind of success that an investor is looking at encouraging people to do.
A preference for 24” or 27” at 4k is also largely impacted by how far away you position the monitor from your face.
PHP even evolved the phar[1] format to allow this to continue while allowing dev to have a proper organisation in folders and files

[1] https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.phar.php

Most php cli tools (like Composer) are actually phar archives
Not exactly in the same category as htmx, but...

I'm not super familiar with this but what I can say is that many of these things were inspired by Phoenix LiveView, and as far as I know LiveView is still the one that works best.

Here's a list of LiveView-inspired projects (including StimulusReflex): https://github.com/dbohdan/liveviews
Segway got destroyed by $200 scooters, but it took like 2 decades or so
I just saw that. I knew 10% was pretty optimistic, but wow, I think you've also talked me out of ever joining an early startup :D

I'm on my second unicorn, joining around their D both times. If one or both of these go public, I might try and do it again, or just go to one of the big public tech companies for a while if they both have solid IPOs. Always did want to work at Google.
Might not? It absolutely does not.
> If I find a stupidly designed product, it is often because it was the cheap option.

Well then they weren't being stupid - they were optimising for short-term cost. That's not stupidity - it's a tradeoff.