skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely like being in different places, and do up and go to them for either certain events or certain people or to check off a personal box. I don't go to those places to really change my routine though, I actually feel privileged that I can go to places long enough to replicate a routine. I've done the 5-day trip across a 3-day weekend thing to rush to all of the sites and get depressed that its over and leave, and I am never going to be in a circumstance where I do that again. I would much rather get integrated into a new place, join a couple classes, have a new crew, continue my projects in the new setting. If I do wage work, I'm going to have to set expectations that the "unlimited vacation policy" means I'm not reporting in for 2 weeks per quarter.

But, one thing that stands out to me is how other people assume something like "if I was that 'successful' I wouldn't be doing X thing" or like "what are you doing on hackernews/social media/internet" as if they wouldn't. As if after one week of travel they wouldn't be doing things they are familiar with.

I think its interesting that people don't ever get the opportunity to know! Which is honestly one of my driving factors: I like living in coveted neighorhoods for 10-days to a month just to see if I would really like it. To see what the convenience is really like, or the perception from others that I receive while living there, or what the noise or smells are. Its so much worse, in my opinion, to actually covet or strive for those things just to be disillussioned after all of that energy and sacrifice.
Although the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean is very deep indeed, north of Purto Rico.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Deep
Sure thats like saying a random sample of 18 gear manual semi drivers are better drivers than an average suburban suburu dad driver, and … that makes sense!
I can't channel surf on YouTubeTV because of the UI.

And I could never have been a Dish/DirectTV subscriber because the lag to change channels absolutely kills me.
If they replaced them with rocks its probably not worth robbing the place. I mean, it says so on the rock?
Doesn't that kind of stuff get linked all the time in /r/IdiotsInCars? But how many of those people do you ever hear of losing their licenses?
I've developed a new policy of emailing companies from a "no-reply" email address.
> inefficient electrical resistance heating.

Inefficient in the sense that some of the electricity is turned into... waste heat?
Pieter Levels is populating RemoteOK from other job boards and Nomadlist.com (which he also runs). That’s just one of many remote-specific job boards. Reddit has a digital nomad sub that gets quite a bit of activity.
The number of android phones in existence is a good evidence on how much most people are concerned about their privacy (very little).
The job is great in all ways, except my chair has a wire that pokes me in the leg all day e ery day. It's $250k and interesting worthwhile work that isn't based on scamming anyone. But I can't get a different chair and there is no kind of special pants that can armor against that wire. I just have to be poked, every day, all day.

No one can say what are "wrong priorities" for anyone else. If a job where you had to suffer a bad smell would not bother you enough, good for you, but you can't tell anyone else "it's just a little smell it doesn't matter".

Just like no one else can tell you you are wrong for tolerating things they find intolerable.

Actually, if anything, there is actually a small right that goes the other way. Everyone who tolerates indignities makes life harder and more miserable for everyone else. But I'm pretty sure you would reject any such argument that anyone has any right to say that your priorities are wrong.
“Stfu and do whatever you can”

No thanks, you go ahead though.
> I have heard compliments about Telegram sticker packs though, if the other apps want more users they could consider making "cute stickers" :)

Many of Signal's sticker packs were ported from Telegram:

https://signalstickers.com/?s=author%3ATelegram
I don't quite understand why an instrument imploding was such a unique inadvertent experiment? I would have thought that part of normal seafloor mapping was using sonar/ultrasound anyway, or pneumatic charges or something similar.
You can draw better than I can – Roger Ebert
Thanks.

> But the interesting thing about this project is how did it come to be. So a long-requested feature - how did it get funded? So actually, it’s funded by the FreeBSD Foundation.

Now I found why OP posted by FreeBSD Foundation.
Oh the nostalgia! Every app I tried so far seems to work: Space Trader, SFCave, drawing little animations in Diddlebug... great memories :)
"Humans will eventually abandon their own bodies and live in a VR world."

Those who "abandon their own bodies" are effectively killing themselves. Any "copies" which might exist in VR are separate beings, not the ones who chose to die in the real world.

I feel nothing but sadness towards the possible future as you paint it. It would mean the end of the human race.
there's something painfully ironic about the final hearing being hosted on "zoomgov.com"
I've got a PG setup that has a bunch of clients in different languages (shell, Perl, PHP, Python, JS and Go (don't ask)). So, rather than pool in each language, pgBouncer was a quick and easy setup in front - and everyone gets it - even software we're not allowed to modify.

E: Oh, and how could I forget all the mod_php based scripts for these web-app front-ends.
Businesses need analytics to make certain decisions. What is the best way to do analytics while preserving privacy in your opinion? First party tracking?
SO here's the thing:
" 3 - Market mechanisms are needed to incentivize surplus capacity, or else we wind up with blackouts."

Market mechanisms DO incentivize surplus capacity. There are peaker plants stationed all over the US that operate under 24 hours a year. The rest of the time they're either paid to be on standby through a capacity auction, or they're just not paid.

SOme of these plants also exist in Texas. And they are there because companies crunched the numbers based on past data and saw that the money coming in for those few hours is enough to cover that whole year.

The thing is, those high pricing events, which usually happen during heat waves, are something you can quantify: how often do they happen, how much money can you make, how much money will it cost to set up and wait for those events. Probabilty and severity are both quantifiable.

The polar vortex events that hit Texas this year, last year, and 10 years ago, are something that is not quantifiable. I know, because otherwise my company would be quantifying it. SO it's high severity, incalculable probability - ergo a black swan event. The market cannot deal with those.
Being in Rust or not the code has 0 tests, write arbitrary bytes, hard code values etc ... looks like more a PoC project that something that going to replace pgbouncer any time soon.
The cat owner

Timmy has a shot gun and a cat. Every time he hears a crack of the floor, he picks up his shot gun and checks the door. It's okay; it's just his cat walking around the house. But this is merely a heuristics, he thinks to himself. Being a rational person, Timmy still rushes to the door with his shot gun every time he hears a crack in the floor. The lack of sleep has invited boldness to his head, but at least so far, he has kept out every bugler who didn't show up to his door.

The city lover

Mary and Susan live in a city, by a busy road. There is a crossing, with proper traffic lights and timers. Susan crosses the road when the green light is on, because that's when all the cars whose route clashes with hers are not moving. But all of them? Mary questions. So far, Susan has been fine, but Mary is a well-informed rationalist who doesn't believe in heuristics. She looks left, and then right, and distrusting her own sense---because we all know that human vision is not 100% reliable---she looks left again, and then right again. She rubs her sore eyes, and decides to go back home. The road is too dangerous.

---

Life would stop being plausible, if we always look out for the 0.001%. In some cases, the cost of not trusting heuristics is low, but then, that heuristics would be quite useless.

Some experts work on the 0.001% case and they are warranted to be paranoid; but even then, their alertness can only be confined to a narrow application. Everything else in life is still based on heuristics.
Thanks for that. It's statistics that are impossible given the data, makes a ton of sense.

Copy paste didn't come in 100%, but meaning was clear, the values are:
5.17857... and 5.2147...
Which given how much people underestimate how easy it is to lose it all starts to make it make a lot of sense
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When I first moved to Seattle 40 years ago, there was one company that advertised on the radio all the time, The Sxxxx Company (you Seattlites know who that is). Their ads all sounded exactly the same, and I grew to hate TSC. I switched to listening to KNHC which never ran ads because I hated TSC. I stopped listening to the radio entirely when I could play cassettes, and later USB sticks.

Fast forward to today, and I recently bought a streaming radio component for my stereo. I programmed in the local station URLs, turned one on, and was aghast - TSC was still running the same goddamned ads, again and again and again. For 40 years.

So much for streaming Seattle radio stations. Blech.

P.S. You people from California know what I mean. Remember Cal Worthington? He drove me away from watching late night TV. I moved to Seattle to get away from Cal Worthington. Then he opened up a dealership in Seattle. Oh, misery. The DVR kept me out of the insane asylum.
I think there is a tension between the power of the type system which anyone in userland can use, and wanting to make things easy for the everyday programmer.

What might help is a complete standard library framework akin to what C# provides out of the box that everyone agrees to use unless there is good reason not to.

Also allow imperative syntax.
Oh man of course I do!!
That was a lot of comics and explanation just to say, "even travel eventually resets back into the familiar and dull, so instead take joy from being grateful for familiar things instead".
I don't get how you can work with something that you perceive as a scam? So when you tell your friends or your parents you say "yeah, I rip people off for a living. Haha"?
"to me, it seems that he's just playing to an audience"? what audience? if you actually listen to his podcast its plain random... because of him i learned about Bernie Sanders and introduced me to Kyle Kulinski and other left leaning people, so i never understood why he is considered right wing by the media and people on twitter, he brings up wanting universal health care and basic income all the time, that's very far from right wing
Ummm…this is quite possible.
This looks like a very interesting thing to try for my workflow. Since I already use Emacs Org-mode for everything, I took 2 hours today and wrote this package to adapt the org-pomodoro package, which implements normal Pomodoros, to implement Third Time: https://github.com/telotortium/org-pomodoro-third-time.
Nassim Taleb argues that Bitcoin is not a currency but rather a fundamentally volatile security: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.14204
The S&P 500 PE ratio is currently 25.78 while the mean is 15.96.
The Fed printed 1/3 of all dollars in circulation in the past 22 months.
The velocity of money in the U.S. is at a historical low. How are these facts irrelevant to Grantham's argument?

See https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio

See also https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGMBASE

See also https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V
Like hackernews and blogs that I read .
I think "all a scam" is probably the wrong phrase, but I her
Have you taken a moment to consider not doing that, and just leaving?
its crazy when they lie like this, it makes you wonder what other stuff they are lying about.
> always a losing proposition

It is not always, and in fact there are common cases where it has significant positive expected outcomes.

Let's assume that you have sufficient wealth (say $40MM) that you can pay for a massive medical bill out of pocket. Let's furthermore say that you know, due to a hereditary illness in your family, that you have 90% chance you will be on the hook for a very large (say $1MM) bill when you're in the age range 20-30.

An american health insurance company legally cannot charge you more just because of preexisting conditions or family history, so health insurance will be a winning proposition for you.

Similarly, if you have information that the insurance company does not have, then you can "win" at other forms of insurance. If you have an ex-boyfriend who is prone to stealing bikes or setting homes on fire, then insurance covering those will have a higher expected value to you, and the insurance company is unlikely to account for that increased risk.

If you happen to know you're a bad driver, but have never been in an accident (only close calls), you might look normal on paper, and thus get a rate that has positive expected returns for you.

Said another way, insurance is not always a losing proposition. It can be a winning proposition if the insurance company doesn't understand the risks correctly or if laws prevent the company from accounting for certain risks.
> nothing in ASCII can appear anywhere else UTF-8, and more generally that no UTF-8 character can appear as a substring of another character’s encoding

How is that defined and enforced? Very narrowly, it seems to me:

* ASCII Hyphen-minus (U+002D) has similar functions and appearance to Small Hyphen-minus (U+FE63), Fullwidth Hyphen-minus (U+FF0D), Hyphen (U+2010), Minus Sign (U+2212), Heavy Minus Sign (U+2796), En dash (U+2013), Em Dash (U+2014), Small Em Dash (U+FE58), Horizontal Bar (U+2015), Figure dash (U+2012). (I'm probably missing a few!)

* There are separate delta symbols for Greek and for mathematics (sorry, no more time for looking up code points).

* Very many other characters have appearances so similar that nobody could tell them apart.

So characters have apparently, to users and almost anyone not looking at the actual codes, identical functions and appearances.
Haha whoa.

It's not like EA was a non-profit org. They were there to make money.

Think about the industry they were openly aping, with their "rock star" programmer-artists and their boxes that resembled the wonderful gatefold LP album covers of yore. The popular music industry is not exactly uh, averse to capitalism.

Also, their advertising was, well, hmm.

I think it's no accident that their image perfectly calibrated to appeal the sort of person who could actually afford a home computer in the early 1980s. The kind of guy who fancied himself a bit of an intellectual in one way or another. They weren't the first with this approach; Infocom had a lot of success with a similar corporate image and advertising campaign previously.

I do think there was quite a bit of genuine sincerity at the core of "early EA", but they were definitely chasing $$$ from the start as well.
Imo the autHor’s definition of a framework isn’t very good. React is clearly a framework and not a library.
Genuine question, have you worked for any other startup over the last decade? The entire last decade was filled with the same questions, without the adjectives cryptocurrency or blockchain involved. It's all about excess liquidity, and of course it does laser focus on some industries. Good luck calling the top.
Yes it’s a scam but so is most of tech. A lot of billion dollar companies with business models that don’t work.

Some scams will be profitable and some may even emerge to be viable product but it’s scammy.
That's the elephant in the room that everyone is ignoring - the entire financial system is a scam. It's rigged in favor of the ruling class, which is why cryptocurrency originally became popular. The difference is that most cryptocurrency schemes are a different kind of scam - one of trickery rather than abject domination, and something you can avoid if you understand enough about how it works. Something that can't be said for traditional financial systems.
It's not like disk space was free and limitless, as was pointed out. Bytes in general used to be way way way more expensive and precious.
There are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the observable universe. Imagine if most of them were teaming with interstellar civilizations, but we happened to be stuck in one of the few where such a thing was rare.
Oh I didn't know that over the air TV broadcasts use MPEG. I'm surprised that digital over the air even decodes at all considering how poor I remember the quality being in my childhood. I was referring more to cable.
Would you let your parents or grandparents invest their life savings in whatever you’re doing? Or in any crypto “asset?” If the answer is no it’s probably a scam. I wouldn’t try to sell junk bonds or penny stocks or Beanie Baby futures to my parents either, but the obvious fact that scams exist independent of crypto doesn’t make crypto any more credible.
That's true for regular mode, but WARMS would be an invalid guess in hard mode once the last four letters have been established as IGHT.
Earth is young in the milky way, 4.5 billion years, compared to 13+ billion year galaxy. There's lots of stars in the milky way that are billions of years older. You can limit your question to "just" those stars and ask, why didn't any of them produce life that expanded all over the galaxy (or why can't we see it if they did?)
Based on Tesla’s history with FSD, I don’t think giving any Musk company the benefit of the doubt is warranted.

There are two options:

1) They don’t monitor the warnings.

2) The warning doesn’t matter. Move fast and breaking things.

Both options are bad.
"Now, you have a friend..."
This project is such a joke. What an incompetent state we have.
Lutron may not care about you but they may care about an article in the news about how their products are harming people.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....

If the KGB ever needed a false confession from me, they'd know just what to do. I'd fold like a cardboard box left in the rain.
Fractional reserve banking is also a scam.
What about your work makes it scam? The lack of business utility? I've seen some communities have fun with NFTs like trading cards. I am not defending crypto, but I am curious how to better define scam as it relates to the hundreds for crypto proposals.
Yep the readme is pretty clear it's a POC "Alpha: don't use in production just yet."

That said I've struggled with more than my fair share of pgbouncer misconfigurations and outright bugs. I personally would love a simpler (harder to misconfigure) and less buggy alternative.
The sad thing is even a landline isn’t available anymore at my house. It’s a VOIP shitshow
It’s not polite to assume ignorance of all this on the part of my friends, either, but here you are.

If Signal didn’t suck as much, my friends wouldn’t have left and I wouldn’t have followed them. It’s really that simple.
> Cue up those who think that it's fundamentally impossible to see a downside to anything Tesla does without having a vested financial stake in their failure.

While you're right in the general case, the presence of "$TSLAQ" in the original tweet means that the author of it almost certainly does have a vested financial stake in their failure.
Silicon carbide takes DC-DC converter to 1.7kV
You might get more responses if you got more specific about what kind of work you’re looking for, and what you bring to the table. Your question is so vague that even though I know companies that hire remote people I have no idea if there’s a match so I’m not going to just post a long list of companies I know about.
Frankly, this is the wrong audience. While, I love HN for technical advice and learning about new technologies and startup companies the vast majority of HN comments on finance and investing are flat out cynical, wrong, and the opposite of what I've done. There is a potent anti-capitalist sway to HN that misses the point about how to accumulate wealth. I'll be the first to admit, I lean fiscally conservative, and I get HN is not that, but as Warren Buffet famously says some people are just bad at money and finance.
I'm conforming to the authors definition, as you present it. Under these criteria, Sinatra is categorically closer to rails than a Jason library. What might an http server library look like? It would have a function that blocks on accepting a socket, a function that parses the socket contents into a data structure, and a function that lets you send a response. That's not what Sinatra looks like, at all. If you make a claim otherwise, you are on shaky ground. Let go.
https://archive.is/tU8ps
Even if I had a 'legit' startup, I would not let my parents or grandparents invest their life savings into it. Startups are not for retail investor's retirement funds.
indeed, also when a lot of data needs to be transfered with low latency between 2 programs on the same computer, shared memory method could be more attractive. can u transmit a huge block of data in OSC in one go? or is it attribute, value pair?
It's not a temptation. It's a necessity. The mere act of getting off bed requires the heuristics that "I can probably safely get of my bed". Everyone uses heuristics that almost always works, because there's no practical alternatives. A doctor who doesn't use heuristics will need to test all patients for cancer, because there's always a chance that there's a tumor behind any symptoms.
Sexual Selection
I don't work in the cryptocurrency space, but I've been following it since close to the beginning, and my personal conclusion is that yes, the vast majority of what gets peddled today is a scam, and we desperately need to find a way to nuke it all from orbit.

Reposting one of my earlier comments [0]:

Like many people back then, I also found the whole proof-of-work / blockchain concept to be interesting from a theoretical computer science / distributed systems perspective.

But these days, I can't help but think that we've inadvertently created a paperclip maximizer without even bothering to create an AGI first. Humans are the AGI, and we're going to happily use more and more energy to play this stupid game for as long as it looks like there's a profit to be made, even if the global outcome is to our own detriment.

If we want this mess to go away, we need to find a way to change the incentives globally.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30120880
Do you remember, back when SpaceX used aluminum grid fins, when you'd see a Stage 1 re-entering, and you could watch the grid fins erode away in realtime video?

Think of that, but for, well, everything.
There’s mission control which shows all the windows of every app and then there’s expose which shows all the windows of the current app.
You’re asking this on HN so are likely to get 95% of people agreeing with you from confirmation bias alone. Median HN hates cryptocurrency.

I’d probably suggest this: https://www.matthuang.com/bitcoin_for_the_open_minded_skepti...

I think it’s not “all a scam”, but there are definitely scammers in the community which add a lot of noise to what’s a pretty cool new capability to handle decentralized state.

https://danromero.org/crypto-reading/

I don’t know if what your startup is building is worthless, but the tech underlying the domain is not.
Apple relies on payment processors for ApplePay as well, so this is normal.
> And did not have to go to wide chars.

What do you mean by that? Unicode does have double-wide characters and, I discovered recently, some other characters called 'wide' that at least are wider than one column but smaller than two in at least some monospaced fonts. Try:

* Small Hyphen-minus (U+FE63) "﹣": Seems to be >1 and <2 columns in at least some monospaced fonts.

* Fullwidth Hyphen-minus (U+FF0D) "－": ditto