skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There should be a shorthand phrase for "I agree with all parent nodes of this". Like a pseudo OOP-type syntax.

Buying a bike and riding it regularly was my single best investment in terms of physical and mental health. A close second would be resistance training equipment, but this depends on what kind of resistance training you decide to do.

I'd also say that part of the OP's issues stem from an expectation that one should always be passionate or excited about their work. Especially in tech, there's this weird idea that every job someone holds is something that resonates with them personally.

I think this expectation is strange and unreasonable. I think it's perfectly ok to view your job as "just a job". But if you truly want to pursue a job that resonates with you, you have a significant financial buffer to facilitate a career-change. As someone who didn't shift into programming until their mid-30s, I think mid-30s career changes are perfectly fine, and almost expected in a turbulent economy.
Start with Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankyl
Fungibility must be perfectly binary because it's an intrinsic property of the currency. And it's essential that it be treated as such because there are huge implications to whether or not a currency has that property.

A million dollars of stolen cash is worth strictly less than a million dollars only because those bills cannot be exchanged for another million dollars. It does not mean that the dollars those bills represent is worth strictly less than a million dollars.

Think about it this way. To launder your million bucks, you pay someone $10k. Does that mean the million is worth less? No- because the $10k you paid someone to launder it is still worth $10k! It's just not yours!
I'm 36 and in a similar boat. Without going into my story, I'll tell you that one thing that has been helpful for me is "giving back."

For instance, like you, I used to enjoy music festivals (still do, but differently now). Remember how cool your first festival was? How can you contribute to the experience that the first-time 20-something festival goers have now? Build a cool piece of LED art? Volunteer? Start on a project. Get involved.

The above is just one example of the many ways I've found to give back in various areas of my life. It is fun, rewarding, and opens doors to new opportunities and people.
A cryptographically secure messaging system is either secure for terrorists and child molesters, or it isn't secure for anyone.

Like most reasonable people, I want governments to try to prevent such crimes and to punish people who commit them. I do not, however wish to grant governments unlimited powers with which to pursue those goals. In particular, there are some bright lines which should never be crossed. Those include torture, punishment without a reasonable attempt at a fair trial, and outlawing tools for secure communication.
I'm a pinko left wing commie, and so are all my friends, followers, and people I follow. You can't get a purer bubble! But, my friends post things like "you won't believe what X said on OANN the other day. OUTRAGE!" So I just log off for a week. It's a just a property of human beings plus the engagement algorithms.
Not necessarily. You could just model the world/universe, and provide high enough resolution only when needed, just like in a game.

On the other hand, you could also truly simulate each particle and molecule and then let higher-order phenomena emerge from that. For example, the universe might be an immense cellular automata.
Nope, you are being naive. Compulsory education only goes through the 8th grade, so many (40-60%) don’t have a high school education, let alone a quality education (if from the rural area, your school will suck, and the hukou system means you might not be able to get an education at all in the city your family moved to to make money).

China doesn’t technically have homeless people since many of the grifters in their cities have land back home (again, because of the hukou system, your home is hard to change). However, they migrate to cities to try and not starve to death, and might wind up sleeping under an underpass (or somewhere the police can’t find them, to avoid getting beaten). A lot of people who are poor but still have money live in basement rooms (no window, would be illegal in the USA, it’s actually illegal in China as well but rule of law is not a Chinese thing), see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_tribe.

Middle class Chinese do well, but they are just a small part of a country with 1.4 billion people. Not everyone lives like they were from Shanghai.
> Is it? Because your reply is again filled with pathos, tribalism and narrativization.

I refute these.

Where is the pathos? There certainly wasn't any intent of emotional appeal, I never do that. Would be good to know which part of my comment triggered an emotional response.

What tribalism? Mentioning that HN has better commentators or mentioning that pro-vax tribes exist? Please do let me know, what part of my comment constitutes tribalism.

As for narrativization, well this is a HN comment not an Excel sheet. All comments here are narratives, including yours. So not sure what to make of that. Seems like a red herring.
Boston Fed releases report, source code of digital currency prototype study
One thing that kept me using OpenSCAD was the section of additional modules for it, including a decent involute gear creator. For those of you diving into CadQuery, here’s the equivalent: https://github.com/meadiode/cq_gears
People don't tend to walk away from something they spent that much time on without a very good reason. As the - former - owner/operator of a large community I find it totally believable.
How to measure productivity without leading to the generation of a ton of activity for the purpose of seeming productive.

I suspect that several years of my life throughout my career will end up fed to a Scrum monster.
Obesity – The Problem Isn’t an Excess of Fat but Its Loss of Function
Yeah, that's the example I was going to give. The development, testing, production, and distribution of multiple effective vaccines was a demonstration of how we can still go fast.
There is a link in the first paragraph to the story: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
Feet-First Impressions of the Elgato Stream Deck Pedal
> Backpropagation has zero creativity. It's an elaborate mechanical parrot, and nothing more. It can never relate to you on a personal level, because it never experiences the world. It has no conception of what the world is.

The problem is: it's not really clear how much creativity we have, and how much of it is better explained by highly constrained randomized search and optimization.

> It can never relate to you on a personal level

Well, sure. Even if/once we reach AGI, it's going to be a highly alien creature.

> because it never experiences the world.

Hard to put this on a rigorous setting.

> It has no conception of what the world is.

It has imperfect models of the world it is presented. So do we!

> At least a dog gets hungry.

I don't think "gets hungry" is a very meaningful way to put this. But, yes: higher living beings act with agency in their environment (and most deep learning AIs we build don't, instead having rigorous steps of interaction not forming any memory of the interaction) and have mechanisms to seek novelty in those interactions. I don't view these as impossible barriers to leap over.
Agreed, I've had both the ceramic and diamond "steels" handy for the last decade, and basically every time I use a knife I spend 30 seconds running it over one of these, and my kitchen experience is better for it. Of course, I'm the only one in my household that does this, but I use them frequently enough that generally it keeps them pretty good.

Was recently prepping some food at someone else's house, and they didn't even have a sharpener. It was a terrible experience, even after using the bottom of a coffee cup to help the knife out.
For anybody who does not want to review both videos, although you should, here is the explanation:

"Water’s Polarity"

"One of water’s important properties is that it is composed of polar molecules. The two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom within water molecules (H2O) form polar covalent bonds. While there is no net charge to a water molecule, the polarity of water creates a slightly positive charge on hydrogen and a slightly negative charge on oxygen, contributing to water’s properties of attraction. Water’s charges are generated because oxygen is more electronegative, or electron loving, than hydrogen. Thus, it is more likely that a shared electron would be found near the oxygen nucleus than the hydrogen nucleus. Since water is a nonlinear, or bent, molecule, the difference in electronegativities between the oxygen and hydrogen atoms generates the partial negative charge near the oxygen and partial positive charges near both hydrogens."

https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory_and_Gene....

"Bending Water"

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemsea/experiments.php?exp_n=2
Yeah, I explicitly left out the keyboard view. It's technically redundant information so I didn't want to deal with the extra complexity
There was a time when we were proud that Earth was the center of the universe, nobody dare say otherwise!
>> Since when do we have this right? [...] but when did we all collectively make that decision?

December 15th, 1791. As explained by SCOTUS as recently as 1995 (McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission) anonymous speech is baked into the first amendment, putting it at the core of american freedoms:

"Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. . . . It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation . . . at the hand of an intolerant society." (Cut from EFF.)
Chrome on Android as well
Many people use GPS, but if you are more comfortable using paper maps, you can do that too. You don't have to carry the full map (fold it, unfold it...), you can just photocopy or even cut out the section of the map relevant to where you're traveling. Of course, you can always just stop and ask a local, and they'll give you directions. People are generally very helpful.
Does the bill give powers to easily seize the domain of the offending organization? One reason I ask is that a company might flirt with the risk having an executive locked up but they most certainly will not risk the potential revenue loss of their domain being parked on a static government page.

A company can throw a new CEO under the bus any time. The board might even use that as a passive aggressive tool to dump their CEO. There will always be a person eager and available to fill the role.
Agreed! But just as client-side scripting doesn't mean "un-archivable", it also doesn't mean "require JS to be able to read/view content".
I don't think anybody demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that the vended product was the cause of ovarian cancer in the plaintiffs.
The Financial Times recently changed their abbreviation for million from “m” to “mn” to help screen readers. They would typically read an m suffix as metres; I guess the FT chose mn rather than mm so that screen readers would not say millimetres instead of million.
I traded my M1 MBA for the new MBP 14 and I'm feeling regretful. The weight of the MBA and its 16+ hour battery life, just incredible.
Never going to happen because most people bought the idea that "greed fixes everything with magic." The policy prescriptions are obvious but unpopular. Instead, misery for most will continue to increase while the first trillionaires are made. Homelessness will skyrocket and the earnings of unskilled labor will fall through the floor. No amount of edumacation and retraining can turn everyone who loses a job into a software engineer or a solar electrician.
I remember reading this Axios[1] article and fuming at the fact that this is a legal and socially acceptable outcome to this saga. Glad this is getting a deeper look from news organizations.

[1]https://www.axios.com/johnson-johnson-texas-baby-powder-gamb...
I suggest amending the title to "Criticism of Mozilla's privacy commitment" or something.
this looks neat. Thanks for sharing.

I published one too[0] which is much clumsier - it needs to be interacted via wordlers. Of course mine is more for trying out an algorithm or two for solving. But it also allows one to play cows and bulls[1].

[0] https://crates.io/crates/wordlers
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulls_and_Cows
In addition to various issues already mentioned, there are also some build systems that do build in parallel and produce builds or build artefacts that are going to depend on the order in which threads finished, which may vary from run to run.

I'm not saying you cannot build in parallel and end up with a deterministic build: that is done all the time. What I'm saying in that there are cases where some care has to be taken.
One of my professors said (or quoted) that Ulysses is "a good write rather than a good read", which I still think is the best description of the book
I think we all know what he means. He means the liberal equivalent to the "socially conservative prude". Which certainly does exist.

(Also this is only tangentially related but why is being prude a bad thing? I had a female friend in high school that would get insulted for being too prude. I don't think people really realize the way these concepts get applied in reality. People are allowed to be prude just as they're allowed to be libertines.)
Is deserves the right word? I’d say he is entitled to feel that way - not that he deserves it since that implies causality and almost seems like victim blaming.
What makes a good audit trail?
the simulation is in each of our heads, is how we consciously interact with the rest of the world (reality).

the simulation is the entire body of scientific understanding.

the simulation is how we can do something in order to get an expected outcome, we've simulated our surroundings in order to know this.
The universe is already mind-bogglingly huge. Another order or two of boggling doesn't make a huge difference to the boggle factor.

But you could also simulate with varying precision depending on POV, which would eliminate many orders of boggle.
Ask HN: Why is HN favicon sometimes Paris Review Eagle?
When viewing tabs on Safari for iOS, the favicon for Hacker News is the Paris Review Eagle. This doesn't happen on other common browsers. What gives?
I’ll second this, though with some hesitation. If you just want to get stuff done, start with tidyverse. But if and when it’s time to start writing classes and packages, you may have to go back and gather some of the fundamentals.
Bike ride, hike or swim in the evening - I do not even consider it exercise. For me it is fun. Often doing it with my friends.

As for job - I am on my own and develop products for clients and for my own company.
Redundant it is, yes, but I use it to determine which common letter I have not yet used. Although dvorak or colemak are more representative for such (because you can relate it to the middle row) I have this legacy and defacto standard issue with qwerty.
Transaction fees are remarkably low (< 1$ even at 10 sats /vbyte); they were extremely high for a period of time in 2017-2018 (IIRC) , which some believe was Roger Ver spamming the mempool during the block size wars.

As for speed, the lightning network (which is an L2 overlay using the same opcodes and enforceable on the main chain) completes payments in seconds (or less). I was shocked to discover in late 2021 how far LN has advanced since I first became aware of it a few years ago.

I won’t extensively address “The drawback of no regulation” right now, but suffice it to say that I see the potential benefits of transacting free from dystopian corporatist-government oversight outweighing the potential drawbacks, not only for disaffected groups, but for everyone.
This includes libc in the analysis, but even rust and go link against libc.
The last time I used a Wacom pad, you could use pinch actions with your fingers to not only zoom in and out, but rotate and scroll. It differentiated between finger and pen actions quite cleanly.
That's not the criteria required for a civil suit. That's the criteria for a criminal case, which is prosecuted by the DA.
So either 1) the lawyers ripped off J&J by spending time on this or 2) J&J management was so angry and irrational that they demanded the lawyers waste their time on this.

Every lawyer worth their salt in America knows that you can’t get an injunction to prevent someone from publishing something. That’s a prior restraint and is about as close as you can get to something absolutely forbidden under American law.
Not sure how to do that :-(
It's a values thing, partially. Instead of publish or perish purely on research, publish or perish value to industry, academia, and knowledge. Seems like there needs to be a "LinkedIn" for grad/postgrad that can present such academic CV items coherently.

I agree that competent, thoughtful textbooks combined with amazing lecturers/TAs/peers are needed to transfer knowledge.
Don't think binaries, think build outputs.

Imagine part of your build is generating a bunch of different files, and then packaging into an archive file, or into your installer bundle (or whatever). If your archive preserves file timestamps, then your end up with different archive files.
by drastically restricting freedom, and with a serious fear of your life in hand each day, certain kinds of inner climbing become vivid and accessible. be kind with this knowledge
They would need cooperation from ICANN and likely US law enforcement. Most of the original top-level domains are essentially under US control.
The problems with most talked about wealth taxes aren't the idea, but the implementation.
google is undoubtedly spending at least 1 billion on ML probably closer to 10 billion per annum
> [..] vaccines do not prevent (and only slow) the spread of the virus, because as you said, that was always to be expected

They "slow" the spread of the virus by preventing infections. A breakthrough infection is not a slower infection, it is an infection that happens at the same speed (in fact, a little faster overall because it subsides more quickly). All the slowdown is via infections that do not happen, and were thus prevented.

> So you acknowledge that you falsely accused me of spreading misinformation.

Not in the least bit. You were definitely spreading misinformation earlier, all over this thread to be precise. Your misrepresentation of the CDC director's comments is a slightly less clear cut case, because you might reasonably claim to have just misunderstood her, but the other cases are pretty crystal.
>” If you are part of maintaining, propagating, and continuing a system, are you not an equal part of that system and the things done in its name?”

Absolutely not, with a key emphasis on the “equal part”. It is totally wrong to assume that I, as a citizen and taxpayer who is just living my life normally, is equally as culpable as a lawmaker or a trigger happy police officer is a fallacy.
How accurate of a gauge do you think your liberal friends are? I am not as liberal as all of my coworkers seem to be, but implying otherwise would make me feel less certain about keeping my job. Any chance your friends are just conforming to what they assume you think in order to maintain social status or your friendship?
> If you are not dying to have kids then you shouldn't not have kids. There is a lot of toxic advice here about having children to "fix" things. Children should not be born as a way to fix yourself. It is 100% valid to not want children. I say this as a parent. Its a grueling and hard life compared to not having children, and if you have difficulty in life and don't even want kids, do not have them. They will not magically suddenly fulfill you or make your life easier. In fact, in many ways they will make things much harder for you in literally every avenue in your life. The world does not need more unwanted children or children used a marriage or personal emotional fixers.

So much this. I’m horrified at the number of replies here touting kids as some magical fix for all problems. I became a dad in December after being in the fence for a few years preceded by several years of “no way I’m going to have kids”.

It’s pretty darn tough. My quality of life has declined very substantially, we’re mostly at home and go for a walk in the morning and another afternoon in a very small radius and in constant fear the baby might get fussy. We don’t go to watch a movie, or restaurant or to a bar. I’ve stopped drinking alcohol (not that I was getting drunk before, just tipsy) as I have a baby to hold and move around the house. Even taking a shit requires some planning. I work remotely and switched to part time (4 hours per day) as I can’t fathom placing all the burden on the mother (on top of breastfeeding which only she can do and it’s also very tough) and hiring a nanny in covid times is not an option, but it’s still hard.

And the constant worry if the baby is ok, are those noises during sleep normal? Is she regurgitating too much? What are those twitches, is she having spasms? Is she developing well physically and neurologically?

And I think I’m blessed with a “good” baby that sleeps quite well at night, waking only 2-3 times for feeding and falling asleep again shortly after.

I recognize some of these issues are probably due to being a first time dad and/or my personality, and also that hopefully it gets easier over time. By the way none of this means I regret it, but still: OP is in no way in the right mindset to have kids right now.
The original wordle draws its own keyboard, which shows as qwerty regardless.
Since none of this is about criminal proceedings in the US, “beyond a reasonable doubt” is a meaningless (quite literally; what do you mean?) standard.
Also it tends to ignore it minimize things like:

Child slavery

Cancer research suppression

Climate change research suppression

Massive pollution

Inciting war for profit

Etc.

That actual companies do today that are genuinely and knowingly evil.
Cancel culture has been going on since humans lived in societies. It's strange to try to pin it on one political party, as if there was a time when humans didn't try to silence those they considered to spread dangerous ideas
Bless you.

A makerspace let me use a sewing machine for a few bucks to fix a shirt. Began a multi-year foray and let me express myself more truly than my job ever could.
Did you just skip to it or did you watch it with audio and pay attention to what he's saying?

Becaue he mentions that the difference might not be super obvious but still makes a pretty good case for it.
Fire can kill and seriously injure people. If this kind of weapon does not justify a warrant, what does?

I can see making a case that nothing justifies it, as a principle, but not sure I agree that Molotov cocktail is just a harmless toy idea.

> These are very marginal actors doing something that can't really cause large scale damage

Just curious how would we know that? It’s nice if it was true, of course, but is it?
On all these sites, including this one, why is the engagement model to comment on things? At family gatherings, prior to COVID, I always noticed real life chit chat to be bizarrely opinionated and biased as soon as it veered from the weather or traffic. What is the value we are getting from commenting, that makes it “worth it” to us to give up anonymity?
As someone building a cocktails website, I have a broad question. Why? You like Gin and want to try new ones, wanna keep track of what you tried, wanna go for something local, something else?...