skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, I disagree with Hanson's assertion that "manipulation" is outcome dependent. I think he's conflating the way that it's used in popular discourse (which is often outcome dependent), with what I think is a fairly clear definition.

He's then calling for a measure that can be used objectively without ascertaining a person's intent. I actually think that's counter-productive and leaves you vulnerable to (for want of a better word) manipulation.

A person's intent matters and effects how you should interpret and respond to information they deliver. If I'm debating with someone, I want to know whether their intent is to 1) figure out the truth or try to reach consensus, 2) prove themselves right, or 3) just prove me wrong. 1 is fun, 2 is normal, and 3 is a troll. Whether they agree with me or not isn't relevant - their intentions very much are.
My confusion is that "sitting" is confounded with "never exercising". If you exercise 5m/hr for 16hrs (and sleep 8), you have accumulated a huge amount of sitting time, but also a really big amount of exercise time. Nobody does that, but what if we did?
HIV Discoverer Luc Montagnier Dies at 89
Perhaps it would be upgraded to “Escalator to Heaven”.
I think the key enabler for architecture diversity will be a jit-based OS kernel. Interpreters are an N-to-N problem, and build systems often fail. IR distributions seem most robust.
Is there any case of NFT that is not some combination of get-rich-quick scheme, Ponzi scheme, search for a bigger fool, FOMO-powered stupidity, extracting money from naive people or satire of NFT?

And NFT part adds anything substantial and is not replaceable by regular transfer (either transfer of money or BTC-like)?
You don't even need CSRF protection if you use localstorage for the tokens
What exactly are the negative consequences of “censoring” advertisements for products?

Say someone bans advertisements for social media sites - how is that detrimental to society? People who don’t believe social media sites are a problem can still find and use them.
Rules of war are predominantly to protect the losing side. US troops in Middle East should allow enemy or neutral non-combatants to evacuate enemy wounded without a fight. In terms of what US should do to evacuate it's wounded, it's a utilitarian rather than moral decision based on what's less likely to sustain additional casualties and whether enemy forces are inclined to respect unarmed red cross vehicles/personal or use them as easy targets. Let's hope we don't live to see a conflict where US is at the mercy of rules of law to protect our own troops and civilians. I am also not advocating our asymmetric engagements, just pointing out that our primary protection there is our own military superiority.
Who are you arguing against? I don't think anyone is implying that gambling itself is a fundamental human right.
Thumbscrews are plenty accurate enough imho. I an only interested in mountain bike wheels so... I would rather have a highly tensioned wheel than a very true wheel, and as wheels get to very high tensions they are harder to true, so it is a compromise. That's why lots of mechanics steer clear of high tensions, it its easier to go slacker.
You can choose whether to buy a BMW or not?
Interesting. Does medevac actually result in improving combat effectiveness directly? It seems that in a great-power war you rescue a fraction of combat personnel who will be injured and they will not return to combat any time soon.

The value then is entirely in believing that your guys have your back if you’re hurt, which I can imagine has a massive effect on morale. I suppose the existence of dedicated medevac also provides some constant reminder of humanity, which also has a similar effect plus the additional motivating factor of outrage when your med guys are hit.

Of course I could be entirely wrong and we could be frequently rescuing soldiers and putting them back into duty quickly. Curious to see what the numbers say.
If your threat model includes Stas-like pervasive surveillance and a real possibility of interrogation under torture, then GP is right, traditional encryption technology will be of limited benefit.
I worked construction jobs summers during college (family in the business).

On the plus side, it really is satisfying to be able to see the results of your work at the end of the day, nearly every day. Progress is visible and real.

On the downside, construction in the summer is rough work. You can be on rooftops working with materials or tools that make it even hotter. There's lots of exhausting carrying heavy things from here to there. There's incredibly long hours (10 hour days is within the norm, 6 day 12 hour schedules aren't rare, and 16 hour days not unheard of). In any decent construction job that's a ton of overtime pay, which really adds up, but it's also exhausting. A 6/12 schedule is basically work/sleep/work. Great way to save money for the coming school year, terrible way to make a living long term.

I miss being able to see my work. And to be able to drive by 20 years later and point and say "Yep, I built that." Don't underestimate the pride that brings.

But I don't regret my career choice at all. Construction is viscerally satisfying in a lot of ways, but it's not how I want to spend my days.
I doubt longevity was an evolutionary force way back.
I share your view about making estimates and quotes.

I get contractors to my house to help me renovate. It's just standard practice to get multiple tradesmen (>=3) to make a quote for the same job. I do that whenever the job is above $5000. I assume they must have a lot of other clients who do the same for lower thresholds too. I don't know the margins in each trade but I guess at least half of the quote is costs?

For the transport, the time on-site, the time to make a quote (depends a lot on the job).. I believe they each spend at least half a day on this. Then you add various time-consuming items like phone calls, people canceling appointments, people changing their minds about what they want, time to chase unpaid invoices, dealing with other tradesmen on some projects... All of this for a 1/3 chance of getting the job ?

Clearly some tradesmen are doing very well, but let's not pretend it's easy. As a contractor in software, I realized quickly I could and would only bill on a time-based approach. I've gone through the hassle of making a quote for a project with a lot of uncertainties and spanning over multiple months. At the end the client played with my weakness of being still quite young. He was older and much more experienced in legal & contract matters so he kept adding items pretending my contract was not fulfilled otherwise.. I ended up OK but would never go back to that anymore

Now I only have to negotiate once or twice a year (with my latest and ongoing client it's been multiple years so even better) when tradesmen have to do that multiple times a week
So he spent $130 million to buy the NFT in the first place?
When I see a political issue about freedom I ask the following: who profits? Are there entities that profit from some apparent freedom? Not coincidentally a lot of “freedom” issues really boil down to businesses wanting to sell stuff, even though the supposed freedom that is being defended is that of the consumer.
There's something so insidiously, backhandedly condescending about tech workers pining for the simplicity of an honest day's job that drives me nuts.

Yes, there are almost always jobs with less strenuous requirements on time, fewer requirements and late nights. But the average tech worker has a pretty good gig. And if they don't they can go down the street in 2022 and get one.

Trades scratch a similar itch to development in some ways - you're working with a set of tools and generally always building or working on the same projects. Yes, it's tactile, it gets you something palpable in the end. Yes, like software development you get that dopamine hit when you've built something nice. But there are late nights, big jobs that go too long, crappy coworkers and clients, because ... it's a professional job.

Did this behavior start with the coda of Office Space or has it always been a thing?
Although those things could be funded by something else instead (e.g. income or excise taxes)
Likewise violin makers.

I wonder if the common thread is that these activities require a high level of skill but don't pay very well and are tiny markets, so there's no way to do the R&D needed to automate production.
You don't understand science. And you did not read my sentences carefully.

In science nothing can be proved. But all it takes.is one data point to disprove something.

I hypothesize that all zebras have black and white stripes. This hypothesis can never be proved no matter how many zebras we observe. But all it takes is the observation of one zebra with purple stripes to disprove the entire statement.

As einstein once said no amount of experimentation can prove him right, but all it takes is one experiment to prove him wrong.

That being said. The hypothesis here is that being smart makes you happy. To disprove this statement all you need is one instance of a person who is smart and not happy. That's it. Keep in mind I never said being smart makes you unhappy.
Not reusing addresses is the default in a lot of wallet software though. The user doesn't have to do anything special.
The ASA Statement on P-Values: Context, Process, and Purpose
Well, yes, owning things is definitely the best job, regardless of what industry you're in. It's not the typical path for any job, though.
this is exactly the roll our judicial branch should play and so rarely does.

Step by step in America, the judicial branch has become more and more deferential to the executive branch when it comes to law enforcement. The reality is that I (and you) should have zero expectation that they will protect you from bad state actors at this point.

It is something everyone involved with the judiciary should be embarrassed about.
Ask HN: Raising animals a good drug addiction cure the homeless have?
I hired a homeless person to help at my farm and he was off drugs in 6 months. He's recruited another homeless who has been now testing negative since last month and we're celebrating today.

They really appreciate being able to spend time with each other and with the animals on the farm and have spoken with me, telling me that it's the animals to take care of and be responsible for that have given them meaning to life again.

Have any of you stumbled across this yourself?

Does this make sense to you (incase I am in a local minima that won't generalize)?
If you remove the plutocratic and cryptocurrency components, all you have software, and as you are a developer, you already have everything you need.

Don’t fall for the DAO trap, it’s a pit for fools to throw their money into.
Related: "The ASA Statement on p-Values: Context, Process, and Purpose"

- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2016.1...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30324223
I'm ambivalent about the actual act of banning tobacco advertising (couldn't happen to a bunch of better guys), but what I'm not ambivalent about is that legislation like this is something that politicians do to pretend like they're working.
Wow, I missed my calling.
The National Association of Realtors donated $44M to political candidates last year, the second-largest contributor overall.

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-spenders
I do think that's a pretty interesting point. It's a weird move to sweep under the rug. I guess you could argue that having a BMW is a choice, and it has associated stereotypes, which we can infer is sort of like joining a club.

race/gender are probabilistic and unalterable, one doesn't necessarily elect to inherit the stereotypes associated with race/gender. You're essentially being delegated expectations that may or may not be in alignment with personal values.

There are definitely double-standards in play though, a sort of socio-cognitive warfare, I suppose.
Are you still doing software while training to become an electrician?

I'd like to become a licensed electrician. After completing a few successful projects around the house, and studying the 2020 NEC inside out, I looked into becoming licensed. The required 4 year apprenticeship, before I'm able to take the exam, turned me off. How would I ever be able to satisfy that requirement while keeping my day job. It's like a forced pay cut to become licensed.

What's your arrangement look like?
Let me be frank:

That shit ain’t worth it.

Go be an electrician instead.
> Are you looking for specific help?

No, I am not looking to solve a specific problem. The way I start a project is to draw a very simple(throwable) sketch of what the software design will look like, and then iterate over it as I write the code. Lately I have started slowing down because midway through writing code I start rethinking the design and start over again from scratch. So I was just curious what approach others use and is there a way to avoid the situation that I am in.
How on earth is reasoned discussion possible if people just make shit up whenever it suits their argument?
Freedom is when children of all ages can enjoy a nice cigarette after school. 1984!
I definitely meant in the context of the US where we throw away our elders once we have our own families. lol
Off the bat I would say Metabase but it'd be good to know what kind of data you have because you can connect Grafana to Marinade and it'll give you really nice graphics but again, it depends on the kind of data you have
It is because you're kidding yourself if you try to explain it as purely socio economic, and a lot of people don't want to go there.

For example, men dominate the prison and violent crime demographics compared to women.
Is it just me or is this article unreadable due to the atrocious typesetting? All the letters overlap.
I have never had these kind of problems with dtswiss spokes and nipples and quality rims. Handbuilding is so labour intensive why would you compromise on materials like this?
The comedic term is "punching up" [0]. It's generally more acceptable to make jokes about the (presumably) wealthy owners of BMWs and Audis, versus "punching down" by making fun of people who comparatively face more disadvantages.

[0] Urban Dictionary: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Punch%20Up
Show HN: Physically-based GPU raytracer from scratch
Note that GoFundMe decision to refund is a change from its previous one that happened only after outcry.
Something wrong with your reader? It loaded normally for me.
This is why I so dislike these garbage apps with their own proprietary formats that leave you stranded when the vendors abandons you. Apple, Google. They're all guilty of it. I want my photos in a directory using open formats that I control.

It's especially bad with the crap programs on Windows that encoded videos and the like.
It's worth noting that these skilled trades (eg plumbers, electricians, carpenters) have wildly different experiences in different countries.

In the US they aren't actually paid that well, particularly compared to software engineering (in the US).

But go to Australia and you'll get a vastly different experience. For one, just being a plumber is strictly government controlled. You need a license that requires a four year apprenticeship. There are pros and cons to this system but you will generally find that the base level of skill and competence of any Australian tradesmen will be far higher than that of many other countries.

I had a Australian friend who was a plumber in the UK where you can be a plumber by just calling yourself a plumber. The stories of incompetence he'd tell were shocking.

Trades in Australia earn more than software engineers do and will generally have a much better standard of living, straight up. It's one reason why I, as a software engineer, moved from Australia to the US. If you want to be a plumber, you may want to go the other way, assuming you're willing and able to get certified.
> At a 10x valuation, you (literally) need to show your startup is 10x more likely to win. Progress and pitching are part of that, but so are financial plans.

Nitpick but this is (literally) not true. Expected value is a function of FUTURE VALUE and PROBABILITY. Unless all the wins are the same future value you can't reduce the reasoning just to probability as you suggest.

Practically the valuation is also determined (maybe dominantly) by supply and demand as you are not the only investor in the market.
I start with high level design to have a chance to get the required performance, scalability and other targets. Then, it depends on the particular problems I encounter. Sometimes I'll do another phase of design, other times I'll just code the solution since it's something I've already seen.
So besides getting scammed, what use are these ERC20 for?
Thank you. I had the same problem on Chrome on ios.
How will separation of money and state eliminate people like Putin?
To you, but I was too short and I should have introduced my comment better.

Greek islands are one of the putative Blue zones, so this was the anchor of my comment.
The single best book I've encountered for this sort of learning is Programming Language Pragmatics, by Michael L Scott. I read an earlier edition (3rd?) cover to cover well after entering industry, and it was invaluable for both broadening my perspective and fully grasping many foundational concepts.
You don't have to use the standard bridge though; I've withdrawn in less than five minutes using the Hop bridge/network, which I think just involves an additional fee to a middleman (my L1 transaction for it shows it spending ~0.02 ETH). I can't speak to what additional checks that protocol may have that would have prevented conversion of excess OETH though. Here's the FAQ for it:

https://help.hop.exchange/hc/en-us/sections/4405172442509-FA...

Edit: O...kay? Apparently the parent of this comment is aware of alternate, much-faster ways of withdrawing L2->L1, and what their constraints are, but still elected to leave those out and imply the one-week lag was a binding constraint?

(Would have posted as a reply, but my comment rate is getting throttled for some reason.)
So I get it, but also people are way overhyping software development in this thread (which is expected on a tech website). The only thing going for it is an insane salary and lots of us don’t have those.

I’ve worked in biotech/healthcare and have never had anything close to a FAANG salary even in a HCOL area. I burned out and am just now taking a month off to just exist. I have had the same thoughts about going blue-collar as the OP, but taking a month to figure out if it’s just general burn out or if I need a career change.

I’ve been working since I was very young and have had all sorts of jobs: door-to-door sales, lifeguard, retail, waiting tables, property maintenance, cleaning homes from flood/fire damage, and on and on. I loved a lot of those jobs, though I didn’t do any for more than 2.5 years (or even just a summer).

I don’t know if it was the pandemic or what, but never been so miserable at a job in my life and can’t imagine staring at a computer 40+ hours/week right now. I was literally staring into the Taco Bell drive-through window 6 weeks ago thinking I’d rather be working there and learn how to make a quesadilla in 1min than sit at a desk, which was the last straw for me.

Plus with software it’s all about the skills. So if I drop out for awhile and decide to get back in a few years later, I should be fine after a couple months of self-study.
Exchanges don't maintain the peg, buyers and sellers willing to transact at that exchange rate maintain the peg.

How did you verify this?

Has your favorite exchange ever been audited by the SEC to confirm it is actually playing by theses rules?

I think this fraud would be difficult to maintain ...

I think it would be incredibly easy to maintain --- simply because no one ever audits their books. The crypto market is *unregulated*.
The link where the author cites citizens are asking for machine guns in medvac helicopters goes here: https://medevacmatters.org/

Most of those posts just seem to be arguing for better training?
> Today, the news arrive fast, and the reaction to the news is instant.

The reaction? Some people yapped in the general direction of Elon and SpaceX. They are grownups, they can take it.

Even with the original information it is and was a a big nothing-burger. Even if it were true nothing would, should or did come to adversely affect Elon or SpaceX out of it.

Maybe just don't worry about it?
IIRC USDP (Formerly PAX) is audited and completely backed.
We've only had organ transplants for 60 years. I'd like to know how far we could push it in a world where we have a donor organ pool grown to order and a preventative approach to organ replacement.

Take the guy with a pig heart and extend that tech 60 years out, then take the richest man on earth who will spare no expense for him and his statistically significant pool of people willing to undergo this experiment with him. The brain and circulatory system and are going to be some of the limiting factors to this approach, but in my uneducated opinion would have a good shot at creating the oldest people to live, albeit with a high dropout rate.
I think it's a manifestation of the inherent feeling that many of us developers are doing something mostly useless compared to others. We know that the world could be different and we could be working jobs that are physically and/or mentally difficult but also fair and useful. Ursula K. Le Guin puts it thus, from her novel "This Dispossessed":

"A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skillful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well—this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection, and of sociality as a whole."
> Instead of my current career path where I’m having to constantly re-prioritize, put out fires, report to multiple leads with different agendas, scope and build things that have never been done, ect.

> Maybe I’m misguided but in other fields one becomes a master of their craft over time. In CS/data science, I feel like you are forever a junior because your experience decays over time.

I get where this person is coming from, but:

- Improving at the things in the first list is part of mastery, unfortunately.

- A lot of old experience is still valuable. But one needs to be able to transfer/translate the important lessons to new contexts as tools, frameworks and languages change.
I'm not a python/Django developer but I'm playing with it for my personal project. It's really nicely made, a lot of things are very easy to do,etc. Couldn't recommend enough.
So yes, I bought a fixer upper 2 years ago at the beginning of the pandemic because I had an existential moment where I was fed up with the seemingly futility and abstractness of software development. Turns out physical labor is even more futile after the novelty wears out.
I had a manager who once abandoned software engineering to become a jeweler. There’s definitely a patronizing romanticizing of the trades in threads like this, but the yearning to switch to physical work doesn’t have to be fulfilled only by plumber/carpenter/electrician roles mentioned here. There are plenty of other jobs that require more physical work, from aestheticians to dentistry.
If you've literally never read any business plan, how do you know one can't hold value?
Only because of all the moral hazard in programming, being completely wrapped up in rent-seeking, surveillance, dark patterns, and marketing in general.

The problem is that the trades are hard as hell to learn and get into unless you're connected. It's easier to become a programmer than a plumber/carpenter/electrician.