skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I derive a real joy from thinking about this, so thank you.

I’ll pick up the Invention of Solitude straight away.

On the subject of the advantage to solitude in engaging with literature, a distinction can be made between the beam of white light and everything after the prism. Reading literary fiction, in particular, is edifying, and the result of this experience is the feeling that it is full of nuance and could be understood to a greater degree. Reading books on criticism will tease out some of the frequencies, but the full spectrum becomes realized when the private act of reading is put into conversation with another’s private act of reading. Novels of once seemingly enjoyed a network effect of sorts. They had the capacity to be private and public experiences. I can tel you, too, that engaging more and more with reading, and less therefore with the other cultural mediums available to us, means that one has fewer people with which to connect. A retreat into literature was in my case the result of reading waste and trivia into the alternatives that the culture encouraged. It is this loneliness that may be the primary problem in need of a solution.

I read the mfa article linked above. In general, mfas seem to do what Rome did to Christianity. It routinized it to such an extent that it largely denuded it of its most radical capacity. For me, the most vital aspect of literature, the one that is, in Bottom’s own terms, bottomless, is the constitution of characters that go just beyond understanding. The tilt that occurs when a character demonstrates its reflexivity, its comprehension of the moments it experiences, is a profound beauty, even Bodhisattvian. When you treat the process of writing like it is prescriptive, the writer is unlikely to realize that what they are creating is a notion unto itself. So, the publishing industry is staffed with people that have lost the capacity to recognize writing’s purpose. They instead have come to recognize a collection of shorthand cheats and the feedback loop draws the whole structure away from meaningful production. It merely produces.
Am I alone in thinking a survey wouldn't be particularly effective here? Likert scales don't actually capture people's feelings all that well. I suspect interviewing dozens of undergrads would probably give a better insight. You can build a picture of what is going on without empirical data.
I think the bugs are grossly overstated. They weren't showstopping, it was a typical Atari-hard, nothing particularly unusual. It was playable and winnable even without the manual.

Now the SwordQuest games, those belong in a landfill if not for the folklore that surrounds them.
Why would you say that Putin is a psychopath? Looks like he made some calculations, compared the outcomes and seems to favour aggression (those extra 3k are unlikely to change the calculus).

By someone needs to be a bigger man, do you mean the people of Ukraine? In what way should they be bigger?
The qualifier is "during the Roman Empire". The height of power of the publicani, and the period when they did most of their excesses as tax farmers, was essentially the end of of the Republic (and a few years in the beginning of the Empire). As the Caesars consolidated power and established a centralized buraucracy, they restricted the authority of the publicani.
As a Firefox user, under what circumstances would that make a difference though? How often do Firefox users get exploited by malware or whatever that Chrome users would be protected from due to improved security? Can you give an example? Genuine questions.
BYOD is never really a good idea even with segmentation.
Open-source simulator for autonomous driving research
> The Romans were very good at conquering people and levying brutal taxes, but that doesn't add value and we shouldn't pretend that it does.

How do you think the nice things you seem to enjoy about Rome spread around?
I always thought the react programming model could solve most criticisms perfectly with a built in liveview style server part
> There's only so far you can go with trying to figure out what the author is trying to say

With due respect, that is a common and almost complete misunderstanding literature and literary criticism. It's not about decoding the author, but about exploring the things (to use the most generic term possible) that the author conveys, both in what the author writes and how the critic responds, and out in the world.

> the author is usually very articulate and said it.

The author isn't writing a technical manual; they are not complete, correct, consistent, nor are they deducing from perfect knowledge. A much closer analogy, and to speak very broadly, is that they are setting off on a voyage into the unknown - which is what we all do in life and reality - and expressing their perspective on it.

Try a review in the London Review of Books or New York Review of Books; you'll get a much better sense of what the real thing is like. Unfortunately, many only know high school book reports.
Paper: http://people.csail.mit.edu/lamanda/assets/documents/LiuPOPL...
If you look up the stats (hearing is just anecdotes and alarmist takes by Fox to rile their base), there hasn't been a whole lot of movement. And inflation has been going on a lot longer than the last 2 years, so still it wouldn't be correlated as much as something else pushing it behind the scenes.

for ref: https://www.statista.com/statistics/238997/minimum-wage-by-u...
Taking a child to the hospital, in particular a toddler/infant, is extremely stressful. If one is already tired from caring for that child all night, I'd completely understand asking the other parent to take the child. In fact, I have done so personally, though having two children meant it also made more sense for one of us to stay home with the other child instead of towing a second (healthy) child through the hospital as well.

Also, this is an opinion/editorial piece, so whether the author watched their spouse the entire time or if the author pieced the evening together after the fact while writing this article is up for speculation.
I feel that poor nutrition is the root cause for ailments that are treated for life with pharmaceuticals.

Why not address a potential root cause?
I would definitely be interested this! Got any links or public repos anywhere?
> To conclude, if you had a baby recently and banked cord blood, I’d be curious to know what your experiences were. If you didn’t, what prevented you from doing so?

I had no idea this was a thing when my son was born. I trusted the doctors and staff of my medical HMO (Kaiser) to tell us what steps to take at each point in the process.
Canvas had photos of it online - you misunderstand.
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My university much preferred people who showed an aptitude for mathematics to people who had written lots of programs in C when doing admissions for computer science. Having done lots of programming before wasn’t really considered necessary.
Your average TOS says they can change it completely arbitrarily and capriciously. Which is so ridiculous that it's pretty questionable how valid they would be in court. So just being able to quote a clause like that doesn't mean any particular change is okay.

> I literally don't see why Microsoft would be the big bad wolf for a typical business practise in changing circumstances.

The problem is that the new TOS is enormous and wide-reaching. The scope is hundreds to thousands of times bigger, and it makes so many demands of me. Just to skip around at random, it looks like I have to agree not to use Bing map images for governmental use, and I have to waive class actions for basically anything involving Microsoft.
Russia is "keeping troops within its borders" only if you ignore the 30,000 Russian troops currently in Belarus.

And "they're within Russia's borders", but there sure seem to be a large number of them really close to the border of Ukraine. That raises concerns. Like, it's really easy to go from "all these troops are within our borders" to "all these troops are halfway to Kiev" within 48 hours. It's a force posture from which the Russian troops could trivially launch an invasion, and it's unprecedented since the end of the Cold War. That's concerning, at a minimum.
What makes your comment more than that?
Yeah, I had basically the exact same experience. Haven’t launched a rocket yet.
Heck, I thought Levenger https://www.levenger.com/ was a bit expensive. I do love using note cards and such for some organization, but I cannot give up search. I do admit I still use some CRC-like techniques when building software.
If you had to implement secure 4G/5G in an embedded environment, which hardware or approach would you reach for?
> What vaccine guardrails are you under the impression were removed?

The guardrails that the typical trial process has, see e.g.,:

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/vaccines/timeline

https://www.ncirs.org.au/phases-clinical-trials

> AFAIK none were removed, it's just steps were done in parallel at great $expense.

No, the far greater expense is the typical 5-10 years that clinical trials require.

> It appears you are trying to imply that it's fine if Tesla skips safety testing and pops a few skulls like watermelons in pursuit of $FSD. I'm not saying perfection is possible, but certainly Tesla can do better than it's doing. If anything, Tesla threatens to set everything back with its sloppiness. One bad accident could create enough bad PR to set self-driving cars back for years.

It doesn't appear that I'm trying to imply that at all, it appears you're just making things up.
Not only maintainers introduces significant breaking changes, but then they have also lost interest in a whole project that lead to change of ownership (Ian doesn't commit much to Slate). AFAIK, Sunny is now still the main maintainer.
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've unfortunately been posting a lot of unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments. We ban accounts that do that. I don't want to ban you again, so you could you please review the site guidelines and fix this? We'd be grateful.
I think this quote is actually about a different point. The President, Secretary and Treasurer don't need any actual credentials for their role like a council needs a JD, but they have specific responsibility/liability in corporate legal structures.
This seems very expensive to me. We are paying approx £8/11USD per month for umbilical cord, blood and placenta. This pricing was from last year.
For anyone looking for a non-precious, well-designed analog companion for work, I've really enjoyed using David Seah's Emergent Task Planner notepads [0]. They're great if you've got a busy day interspersed with meetings. I like the full-sized version. You can print them up yourself or just pick up some very nice pre-printed pads from his store [1].

[0] https://davidseah.com/node/the-emergent-task-planner/
[1] https://shop.davidseah.com/
if there were other browser engines on iOS there'd also be only one browser to fix and it would be whichever had the bug since they don't share code and wouldn't share them bugs
for the type of computation described in this article, Rust is considered slow. I recently stumbled across a site to track it's progress in changing that: https://www.arewelearningyet.com
I mean it is a complicated question based upon how you define gay in the first place with sex segregated family isolating education policies of the British schools. The whole reasons for that were the old chestnut of fighting decadence to justify brutality and worry that a mother's love would leave Britan with men too soft. Then there is the ever present situational sexuality evident in prisons and single sex schooling. It not only held there but was acknowledged. There is a homophobic by modern standards quote from his friend and contemporary C.S.Lewis about sodomy being a weed filled, stagnant oasis in the constant social struggle but an oasis nonetheless appears to be him "Saying what everyone knows but doesn't acknowledge out loud."

To sum it up in a snarky pithy phrase: the culture was so misogynistic that it became gay, because romance requires another person. It is reflected a bit in sheer rarity of female characters in LOTR.

Romantic friendships were a norm in the past largely forgotten in more open times where we are used to noticing obvious repression and "closet cases". In a way the real past manages to be even more alien than fantasy worlds with elves and dwarves.
Why I'll Be Kicking You Out Of My Home, Entitled Prick
If that actually worked, and you still believe it, you missed out on all the substance of an education. Dismissals are always a signal of ignorance.
magnesium and potassium. I’ve experienced profound immediate lowering of blood pressure by taking 0.25-0.5 g of potassium bicarbonate every day or every few days. Try to get 4 g of potassium per day from diet or supplement. I’ve published some research on potassium sensing in renal physiology. Other benefits I’ve noticed are decreased heart palpitations and more mental energy. A note about magnesium: make sure you’re taking a chelated form. Most multivitamins use MgO, which is not very bioavailable. The difference in absorption is like eating a rock vs eating a gummy bear.
If you are concerned about a launchpad for other missions the moon is much better. Lower gravity, easy to reach.
> Why not address a potential root cause?

Because it's hard and people are unreliable when it comes to diet/lifestyle changes.

No reason not to address it, and I'd be surprised if most doctors don't bring up their desire for the patient to have a healthier lifestyle. But it's not realistic to have it replace pharmaceuticals as a general stance.
The headline is accurate. Even a company as tin-eared as Meta knows their reputation is deep down in the septic tank, and the threat would be as credible as the black sheriff in Mel Brook's "Blazing Saddles" pointing his gun at his own forehead and saying "Or the N*** gets it's"
For anyone curious about Ice 9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle

> Ice-nine is an alternative structure of water that is solid at room temperature and acts as a seed crystal upon contact with ordinary liquid water, causing that liquid water to instantly transform into more ice-nine.

A substance called ice-9, with basically the same properties, makes a passing appearance in the visual novel Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors if you haven't heard of the book but remember the term from somewhere else.

Admittedly, that's where I first learned about it but that said, there is a real substance called Ice IX but it isn't as interesting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_IX
Also depends on your insurance provider (at least in the US). Previous insurance I had wouldn't cover urgent care clinics, but would cover ERs. Stupid beyond belief, but it was a small company so I guess there were compromises on the plan. Luckily I no longer have that plan and have a much more sensible and comprehensive plan.
Podcast: Founder of GitHub discusses the dev tool and software sides of GitHub
MoviePass Is Coming Back
I remember when I stumbled upon the first video explaining the bullet journal method. Long before a Kickstarter or the idea of making money through the method.

It was the first productivity/self organisation method that I could stick to. At least in parts.

Nowadays, some 15 years later, I still use it but adapted to my needs. I use it with any notebook I have available. Even if I prefer Leuchtturm 1917.

I don't use the index parts. But I use the markers for task, idea and so on.

I also liked the start of ugmonk. The minimalistic shirts. Or the canvas bag. The I do it myself and build a business with well designed stuff. And a great deal of content marketing.

But this product is imho purely ridiculous.
Agreed, this kind of thing always seems like a post-grad expirement to get grant money from the bureaucratic fear mongers. I had to sit through a symposium on quantum messaging with qubits via encrypted laser transmission. It was literally line-of-sight and required impossibly expensive field equipment....
I tried Phoenix LiveView recently and it feels really refreshing. In comparison to Svelte (my preferred tool usually) it feels oddly similar like it occupies the same idea with a completely different execution.

I personally prefer JS over Elixir and having everything in one language also makes everything easier... maybe there is also a future to fuse some of these concepts into Svelte (I will have to experiment :D )
Pentagon response to DoD medical data is an even bigger story than the data
One of the innovations in the paper is they find a method for implementing reverse-mode autodiff in a stateless manner, making optimisations easier to verify.

I might be wrong but they take the principle of dual numbers: a + b epsilon, and change the b component into its linear dual. Therefore, b is a function, and not a number. If b is a function instead of a number, then there's more flexibility regarding flow of control, and that flexibility allows you to express reverse-mode autodiff.
Ante: Safe, Easy Systems Language
> I accepted a job offer ... They promised they would

When an employer you don't know promises something other than in writing, ask them to put it in writing. If they don't, you might still take the offer, but it would be an offer _without_ said promise.
Would you be, or would you just wonder why the author did that? I'm watching the Raised By Wolves TV show right now (probably not for much longer, it got pretty bad after the first half of the first season.) They have a giant serpent that flies around as if air were water. Nobody on the show explains or questions that.

The "explanation" you're referring to is what criticism is attempting to provide.

edit: That's why it hopped from a psychological theory of everything like Freudianism in the first part of the 20th century to a materialist theory of everything in Marxism in the 60s. They're frameworks for answering questions that weren't directly answered in the work. Part of making writing interesting is prompting questions that you trick people into answering themselves.
Parent of three kids in Ontario. We definitely looked into this when our first was born 10 years ago, but the costs were way out of reach as something so speculative for a young couple just starting out and needing to choose our battles as far as finances.

I don't think donation was ever raised as a possibility; given that we never signed a consent for that, I assume it was all just disposed of.
Not opposing the psychopath with force doesn't always work out very well, either. We don't want another "peace in our time".
I hope your next one is successful!
They make for excellent employees. Promotion of this and similar values almost seem like they were designed for capitalists to exploit.
Natural compounds can be patented, though.

If you discover that, say, eating cocktail onions cures cancer, you're allowed to patent that. Cocktail onions as such wouldn't be patentable, but using them to cure cancer would be.
>So if you invent/perfect/practacalize the light-bulb you are rich because of exploitation?

Great example. Inventing, perfecting and making the invention practical to use gives you exactly $0. So the brilliance and genius gives you nothing.

However, the inventor can become rich through patents if they are given a slice of the sales when it's produced and sold by other people. In that case, the inventor would be exploiting the profit and value created by other people. But this is extremely rare, as most inventors work for a wage (their employer owning all the inventions they make) or sell their patents to a bigger company early on, which then milks profits out of it.

Inventor of insulin purposely gave away their patent for free. But then the patent system was gamed by a capitalist and now insulin is super expensive in some countries and someone else than the inventor is getting rich off of it.

Capitalism doesn't care who invented what or who's brilliant or not. It only cares about ownership and accumulation of wealth through profits.
Nintendo Thanks Feds for Sending Hacker to Prison for 3 Years
Getting started with project planning on GitHub
This, I have joined a small server and it is just a good game.

I went in expecting it to have "cringeworthy levels of hippy idealism", but no, it is actually a reasonably sane game. It is the first game since Wurm Online that I have felt like part of a community thanks to the game mechanics themselves, and not just incidentally. A lone person will need inordinate amounts of time to go far into the tech tree, so instead people specialize, and soon after I was running a delivery company that moved orders of resources between players, with people greeting eachother when passing by at the trade district.
I've found these differences make it tough to use Deno on large or important projects. Deno does a lot of novel things. On the surface they're all things I agree with, but in practice they're too novel to understand the implications of.

For instance, bundling typescript. I like typescript and hate setting up the build toolchain so this sounds like a good idea. But not every typescript upgrade is backwards compatible (even if unintentional when not), and I'd hate to be stuck not upgrading V8 because it's bundled with typescript.

Or the import system. Importing from HTTP is useful, it ensures things "just work". I like it, on first sight. But is it manageable? Let's say I isolate all my external dependencies into files that just re-export them, or whatever the standard is nowadays. Is the tooling there for when I need to upgrade? How do I deal with sub-dependencies using different versions of things? How do I keep versions compatible? Will something break if I depend on Xv1.1 and Yv1.2 and X uses Yv1.3? Can I force X to use Yv1.2? I can see a world where these things are solved, but it's a vague image.

Or the permissions. Why does my text processing app need to access the web? Again, seems like a good idea. But now the behavior of your standard library is tied to cli options. Phone apps make this work, but they request permissions, you don't explicitly say, "Open Maps with internet access". Ideally I'd like my code not to behave too differently just because it's in a different environment. I want to believe, I see a world where this all comes together smoothly, but it's tough to trust right now.
There was a forerunner of that last year when there was a massive exodus to Signal when FB changed WhatsApp's privacy policy to force users to allow sharing of data with Facebook. If they shut down, even people who were too apathetic to switch would do so overnight. I hope Signal has a contingency plan for scaling up 10x ready...
I've always been irked by the "continuity" argument. The collapse of the Roman imperial system must have had a massive effect on the way of life of normal people. The archaeological evidence presented in this article backs that up.

The chart of average femur length over time is really interesting - especially the fact that it tracks the ups and downs of Roman political stability. However, I wish that there were error bars on the plot. The plot tells a nice story and matches what one would expect, but without error bars, I'm not sure whether to believe it.
Just to check, the parent was talking about online purchases but did you mean physical retail? There you indeed have no legal right for a return, all sales are final as you had a chance to inspect the wares before the purchase.

In practice some stores do accept returns if you have a receipt, but personally I have never done that, didn't know it was even an option before an expat was asking about this online. The default is to sell forward in online second hand marketplaces. Especially gifts you receive, those are never returned (as apparently happens in the US said that expat).
That link didn't work for me (returned a 403), apparently it's just a weird YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7DQ3SgSg0c&t=175