skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no such thing as potential. There's just doing. Right now you're not doing what it is you want to be doing.

If you're dissatisfied with where you are, do something different. Get up tomorrow and start down a different path.

I had a half assed job until my mid 30s. I woke up one day and decided I want to do something different. 7 years later and I'm crushing it.

Examine where you are and ask yourself if it's not really where you want to be.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30280803

> The Wuhan Institute of Virology is China's premier virology research lab, its first biosafety level 4 lab, and one of the very few (or only one?) that was doing gain-of-function research. Wuhan has a population of 12M, which is just under 1% of China's population.

> The fact that the virus emerged there, of all places in China, is non-conclusive but highly suggestive circumstantial evidence.
I know a guy who lives in Canada pretty far north of the US border. He heats entirely with PV solar. He claims it's also way less expensive than other fossil fuel heat. Basically PV solar cost has plummeted to the point that it is conceivable this sort of thing is possible. No need for a battery here as he pumps his electrons directly into concrete slabs which then radiate heat at night.
The west got played by China state run media. They were still calling it the Wuhan virus while actively calling anyone else who did so racist. They called anyone who closed their borders racist while blocking domestic travel but still flying truckloads if people out of Wuhan on international flights.

The west sucked this up and any mention of china in any capacity got you called racist.
> Homemakers need meaningful adult interaction and relationships

So go out and make them? My 2 year old goes where we are, if that activity isn't kid centered that's too fucking bad and kid is gonna have to deal; I have a life too. It's not like having all conversations centered around work at the office is especially meaningful either.
Marburg virus was a previously unknown virus when it jumped from monkeys and monkey tissue cultures to researchers in three labs in Marburg, Frankfurt, and Belgrade in 1967.
Perhaps the Cities in Motion series fits the bill? It’s made by the same studio as Cities: Skylines, but focuses specifically on city transit.

The sequel (Cities in Motion 2) is more expansive, but the original has its own charm.
Electric shocks could be the answer to rainmaking
Probably, but I'd guess that the reflector still absorbs a small percentage of the beam it's reflecting. And at the GW scale I'm sure even a small percentage is enough to absorb a great deal of energy.
It depends on how you define employed for censorship roles. On Douyin there are a lot of memes about passing censorship as a writer/reporter, jokes like 'night is dark' but it's actually 'night club'. Plenty of turks are just mechanically checking according to a theme. 'No brainer' as they call it. What's considered lighthearted there is probably horrifying sounding here.
Google can shut you down in some weird algorithmic twist and you will have noone to talk to.

Or god forbid you create a startup which somehow competes with them.
Functions are either asynchronous or synchronous. There's a dividing line between the two.

Masculine traits are not cleanly divisible like that. Is masculine emotional distance toxic? Maybe so, if it leads to unaddressed problems; or maybe not, if it helps a man to reframe things positively. Is taking control of a group toxic? Yes if it overwhelms or dominates others, and the man doesn't know how to follow; no if it's a willingness to step up only in situations where a leader is necessary. Is mansplaining a thing, and am I doing it? On the one hand, some men are braggarts and instant experts on everything; on the other, everyone needs to explain their own thoughts sometimes, even laymen.

I assume academics are well aware that some gender-coded traits are double-edged swords, but that nuance is lost in public conversations. I don't think I've ever heard a respectable public figure describe toxic femininity, either, though it obviously exists.
Wow, this is awesome. I remember playing a lot of transport tycoon when I was a kid.

I usually don't play on my computer nowadays, but I guess I can make an exception.
Just to amplify your point a little for the uninitiated, the current 5.3 version of the Bluetooth Core Specification is a 3085 page PDF document.

That document contains Volumes 0 to 7.

Each volume has multiple Parts, labelled A, B, C, ... in several cased up to Part H.

And each Part has Sections with the standard hierarchical outline numbering, Section 1, Section 1.1, Section 1.1.1 etc.

Each Part of each Volume can have it's own section 1.1 or 3.1 or whatever. Consequently the document contains literally dozens of Sections with the same outline number. It's extremely tedious to navigate or to find specific details (you need to guess the terminology and in some cases the terms vary from Volume to Volume).
Four day work week will reenergize most workers.
The article is about the basic constraints you mentioned, FKs, PK/unique, check constraints. I agree with keeping the database as dumb as possible with only those, heck even dropping those (except for PKs) at the beginning gives you more agility.
You're not going to get it from eating the meat. Its the farmhands who have direct contact with the live animals that are the issue. Or all the workers and buyers in the wet markets handling live animals (and cleaning up their shit).

Vaccinating the animals would be a start towards being able to maintain the farming of animals while reducing the risks of future spillovers.

And they may want to buy as much time as they can in order to put those kinds of safeguards in place before everyone starts screaming at them to shut it all down now, which is really my point.
I suspect there was a lot of inceramental value to be had while the construction was ongoing. A cathedral doesn't need to be 100% complete to use as a house of worship, an inspiration for the community, a display of wealth and soft power, and so on.

Fusion hasn't really produced much utility at all so far, aside from some interesting discussions.
> I suppose I can be grateful that Docker Desktop is slowly fading away.

May I ask why you're grateful? I'm pretty inexperienced with Docker/Kubernetes/containers in general. So there's probably a good reason I'm unaware of.

Docker Desktop was nice for me to run the one or two basic things I needed. I've moved away due to the licensing changes, but I'd like to understand why it was a problem.
> the bar is brutally high

The men I've seen in maternity wards are just totally normal men.
That's great and all, but can the Fed please design a dollar that doesn't have 1.7M more units created per second.

I will stick with Bitcoin, thanks.
You will probably like the game Cities in Motion.
People say this, but both them and the people they're saying it to know perfectly well it's total garbage. You neuter it right in your description, even; masculinity is partially about pushing the boundaries of what's safe or sane. If entire classes of developers never said the word 'function' in a context other than async functions, except for when they're explicitly assuring people other contexts totally exist, then 'async functions' would be comparable.
The assertion was:

> watch every conversation happening in real time.

Even with 2 million people, you can’t follow even a fraction of the conversations of 1000x the population without automation doing most of the heavy lifting.
I don't mind a lack of character growth. I am extremely over the cliche Hollywood screenplay formula of:

1. Protagonist has problem and character flaw.

2. Tries to solve problem without fixing character flaw.

3. Solution blows up.

4. With help from friend, protagonist realizes flaw and fixes it.

5. Now able to solve problem.

But with Encanto, I really disliked how the plot undermined its own theme. The movie sets up an important moral statement that Mirabel doesn't need to be magically special to be valuable and valued. She can have worth because of who she is as a person. Then it throws that out at the climax by giving her some magic anyway because fuck it.
This is exactly it, I 100% agree.

Potential is extrapolation accelerated with wishful thinking.

Those who can, do, those who can’t, don’t.

Start doing OP, otherwise your greatness will never be bigger than the tiny brain-cells it occupies
Let me start by saying I feel exactly the same way as you.

I had a great start in life and then couldn't follow through. In my twenties I had a string of jobs, each lasting less than 6 months. I got diagnosed with ADHD at the start of my thirties. It explains a lot.

Now I'm stuck watching my former classmates with their successful careers while I try to scrape together $400 for rent. Staff engineers at Google, CTOs of companies and so on. They likely make more in a year than I'll make in my lifetime. It feels bad.

I think a lot of advice on this topic will focus on how to get successful. How to get the job. How to get the house. I think that's the wrong way to go about it. Focus on the small things you already have, however tiny. Actively seeking out the joy in the mundane, everyday things is a great start (and however much money and success you have, your everyday life is usually quite mundane).
The question is though, is it enough of a scam that anyone not looking for a high risk investment or putting a lot of time in should just steer clear of the whole thing?

In terms of the currency aspect of cryptocurrency, what risk adjusted benefit would I get right now attempting to use any of them as a currency rather than dollars?
It's pretty common for gifted kids to wind up with a slew of issues when they get older. It's also pretty well known that "high achievers" often have a lot of leg ups that other people don't have -- or, stated another way, that poverty, child abuse, and other social determinants objectively hold back many very talented people. I'm sorry that you've gone through this, but also know that you are not alone.

One of the themes from "Hamilton" is "who tells your story?" This sparked a surprising amount of reflection and struggle for me, that ended with me realizing that, like most people, nobody will tell my story. Our lives are ultimately ephemeral, and I'm ok with that. In a lot of ways, it's a total relief to completely let go of the notion of a "legacy" and instead focus on doing things for my own enjoyment.

So, if I'm not worrying about my legacy, then I'm also not worrying about my success and potential. I need to make enough money to live and to support things that I enjoy, but I don't really need more than that. Nobody needs to make 500k/yr. And, frankly, very few people need to make 150k/yr. You can live off less, and the lower paying jobs are often the ones that have higher impact or more interesting work or better work/life balance.

There are TONS of non-profits, academic labs, and governments that would kill for a "mediocre" software developer to solve some pretty basic problems for them. As fancy as blockchain, VR, AI, whatever is, it's really not what's impacting people's lives today. I literally had a phone call at work today about setting up a git repo for a researcher so they could track changes to their analysis code. They literally don't know how to do that, and I added value to their lives and to this research project by clicking a button in GitHub. I'll go further out on a limb, and say that creating a git repo impacted their lives more than Tesla's self-driving cars or Apple's VR headset or Facebook's metaverse will for years to come. And they were actually thankful for my help... which is a relief from some of the toxic startup environments I've worked in before.

I guess, to borrow your metaphor, how do you know your winning lottery ticket was for something you even wanted? Maybe you won a lifetime supply of lutefisk, and you let the ticket melt away. But who cares? Stop thinking about the lutefisk, and instead go dancing in the rain. There's so many cool things out in the world.
Oh my god.

I spent so freaking much time trying to solve “make the outermost div fill the screen of the device but always keep it a specific ratio.”

Hours and hours. And hours.
A GPT-3 bot posted comments on Reddit for a week and no one noticed (2020)
Wasnt CHIP run only to take Chinese development funds, thus selling at cost wasnt a problem for them.
I'm sorry, but this is bullshit.

Women, regardless of their own earnings, do not want men that are unemployed, lowly employed, "in between jobs". You will be completely ignored. It's a crude reality, but a reality nevertheless. Men are selected by utility.

Read the article again. It seems there's whole armies of men with time on their hands. Unemployed, unable to get a partner. A great supply of male homemakers one would think.

But no. Nobody wants them. A male without utility is cast aside like trash.

Likewise, women do not really want the feminine or sensitive men that they claim to want. They may want it after first securing a man with good looks and good earnings, after which said man may at times express his emotions. But don't overdo it, obviously.

This feminist idea to destroy male gender roles directly contradicts what women actually do. For as long as feminists do not marry economically disadvantaged men and financially take care of them, none of this will change, and it's all just a bunch of hypocrisy.
Correction, magic kingdom quadrants.
Like most polarizing things these days, it seems like the only right response is "I don't know, someone should look into that." This is exactly the feeling I got with the love-hate for every new drug (Ivermectin, etc). No one knows anything, don't act like you're right or wrong, gather evidence and assess based off that.

The lab leak theory in particular seems to continue to get evidence supporting it.
I really recommend this book which probes both natural and lab-leak origin theories https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58647975-viral

IMHO, it is very likely that lab-leak is the origin, though it does not have definite evidence.

Here is a Bayesian (but somewhat old) analysis from Rootclaim https://www.rootclaim.com/analysis/What-is-the-source-of-COV... giving lab leak over 80% chance.
Would you be open to advice? Regardless I wish you luck in your endeavors.
Somewhat related to this, but every single Raspberry Pi supports PXE booting if you drop an SD card in with the latest boot code (and nothing else). The documentation for the whole process is pretty poor all around, unfortunately.
VOP - Voxel Oriented Programming?
I'm a mid-30's white male. While I agree that large numbers of males unemployed, failing in education, not going to college etc is bad for society, it's uncomfortable to read a call for more funding for the purpose of helping men succeed.

Women are still paid less than men, and hold fewer positions of power in politics or business. They still far outnumber men as victims of sexual assault. They are still expected to carry the burden of unpaid domestic work and care.

If women as a whole are achieving more than men, despite the disadvantages they still suffer, then good on them. That funding should be going towards educating men so that women can walk down a street at night without a completely reasonable fear of violence.

The tone of the article comes off uncomfortably close to the whole incel thing.
Curious, do you find server farms also ugly to look at? To me both server racks and solar panels look like modern technology.
The point is - the government did not and would not create the phone in my pocket.

Greedy capitalists trying to make more and more money figured they could do that by making better and better phones.
Even in FAANG, do the devs really know the business impact or they just use the business vocabulary to BS around? I mean I can also bullshit anyone about the business impact, I just don't believe that many people (even non-tech) do really know the real business impact. I know for a fact they don't )
I’m not a woman and I don’t consume romance/erotica so no. I’m only aware of how big romance is because I’m a writer, and it’s no secret romance authors far and away make the most money.
> "What are the company's non-compete rules? If I wanted to make and sell an app in my spare time, is that allowed? What isn't allowed?"

I would not be surprised at all if the people interviewing me gave a nice answer and then on day one I'm asked to sign a contract that doesn't match what they said.

Ask if you can see the employment contract before accepting an offer.
> The article introduced me to the idea of mens rea. I take it there may come a time when a machine moves beyond cold logic and we might have to call a similar act murder.

If a human uses cold logic to decide to kill someone, is that murder? Why not if a machine does it then?
This happened to me in 2020. Interviewed and they said that the previous person left for a more creative role. I was told I’d be lead and have the authority to steer the product to get them ready to release games in 6-12 months. They lied about everything, I was told day one that I wasn’t lead, that I wasn’t gonna be doing the job I was hired for, and that I’d have to get their broken game engine (that they didn’t own) in a state to ship games. It was the longest 6 months of my life.
Was he sent by Mitch and Murray?
I think you may have left out explaining your asterisk?

I have not heard the definition to be about a sapient being. I always thought it would need to be a human killing a human. Perhaps in fantasy novels it can be a dwarf killing an orch, but in the real world I don't think anything else qualifies. If we include AI in this definition, we put AI above animals, which I think is a stretch for the forseeable future.
Actually, I can't, because of stupid geo-restrictions (yes, I could use a vpn, that's not the point).
https://getquid.com/
Hopefully not “another day over and deeper in debt / I owe my soul to the company store”.

Great song though
Do men and women actually have different interests? Or have we all just been shoehorned into interests because someone decreed: "Let it be"?
https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty...

Sensor noise absolutely part of it but if that were the only source then pointing the camera at a fixed image would be fine. In this case, the combination of the randomness of the lamps plus that of the sensors noise makes it more difficult for an attacker (just taking a picture of the same lamps at the same time won't be enough).
Not sure what stats you're looking at. In the US it's about 80% of women [1] and 60% of men [2]. More interesting to me is the overall downward trend in fertility rates.

[1] https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-rise-of-childless-america

[2] https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2019/mens-fer...
This is an example of how Tesla gambled and won in developing an integrated information display. One might think making an electric car is challenging enough that not relying on an outside supplier for the entertainment system is foolishly enlarging the problem. Instead it was legacy car makers with many separate systems with separate hardware and software that ended up victims of a chip shortage and lack up OTA upgrades.
With the increasing balkanization of streaming TV/film services, I wonder if piracy will start making a comeback. When everything (or most things) are under one roof, streaming makes sense - a single bill, one place to find content etc. Wondering which show is on which platform, or having to consider signing up for a subscription to a new service for a single show is not a good user experience, not to mention the single monthly bill ballooning to 3 or more.
The pre-print's introduction suggests the most likely cause of contamination is machine misalignment. Date of sequencing has not been determined other than to say late December 2019 to early January 2020 (when results were sent to the sample submitters).

"We think that the most likely scenario is that the SARS-CoV-2 sequence fragments are not from the Antarctic soil samples,but are mistakenly assigned reads from another sample(s) sequenced on the same flow cell at the Sangon Biotech sequencing facility in Shanghai.

The equipment, Illumina HiSeq 4000 that was used for sequencing according to the project’s metadata, is known to be prone to barcode misassignment errors6,7.In a nutshell, as detailed in Illumina’s whitepaper6, this artifact is related to the exponentially increasing density of next-generation sequencing (NGS) chips. Nowadays a single flow cell has such a large capacity that it is rarely filled up by a single sample. For example the 12 antarctic soil samples in PRJNA692319 altogether contain around 320 million paired end reads, while Illumina HiSeq 4000’s capacity is up to 10 billion paired end reads. The increased capacity is utilized through multiplexing, which adds unique sequences, called indexes or barcodes, to each DNA fragment during library preparation.Before final data analysis, sequencing reads from pooled libraries need to be identified and sorted computationally in a process called demultiplexing. This allows large numbers of libraries to be pooled and sequenced simultaneously during a single sequencing run. After adapters are ligated to nucleic acid fragments, the products are cleaned up to remove any free, unligated adapters. Libraries can be cleaned up by a bead-based or gel purification step to remove free adapters or primers. Failure to remove free adapters or primers can lead to contamination of prepared libraries and may result in index hopping and misassignment. As a results, sequencing reads from other, not related samples that are sequenced on the same flow cell can get into our samples."
Oh my. I always wondered why audio degraded when the mic was in use. Here’s some terminal commands that might still work: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2021/05/13/how-to-improve-blue...

Can any Bluetooth sages on HN explain why macOS regresses audio quality in these situations, though? And if this is manually possible to fix, why would it not be the default - compatibility?
I'm not convinced that those tech giants would be able to pull that off from a product execution and business demand perspective. And users will balk, having to deal with yet another membership and do accounts/payment management would add a lot of friction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30280457
Yep. A total lack of belief to the point of nihilism is a crisis of meaning, to be sure, but it tends to collapse towards either hedonism or depression rather than monomaniacal infliction of harm on the rest of the world. True determined harm usually requires ideological zeal.
I honestly don’t know. The molecular evidence suggests that COVID evolved in the wild. It’s either a natural spillover or a lab leak. But its definitely not a lab made virus. China is secret by default, maybe they don’t know if it’s a lab leak but are covering their tracks just in case it is.

Either way the molecular evidence doesn’t incriminate them. So it is frustrating how people buy into the political arguments not realising just how good molecular arguments are.