skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's poor thinking even if you leave geopolitics out of it. Solar power in Germany is a terrible idea from first principals. Wind is a bit better, but there's not enough energy there to power the country. A legit criticism of nuclear power is that it's expensive to build plants, but Germany is shutting down plants that have already been built. The net result, they're burning a lot of lignite and imported natural gas. The result, higher energy costs and much higher carbon emissions. For genuine environmentalists it's a disaster.
The other day I was having drinks with friends, and a buddy of mine brings up medication.

I am always advocating for taking responsibility for your mental health, finding a therapist, and getting on medication if you need it.

So we had a chat, and I discovered something: Half the table was on Prozac. Some of the men, and basically all of the women. Apparently Prozac helps a TON with PMS.

Another thing happened: I was talking to my brother, and he told me he got on a new medication. Yep, Prozac. It is like he is a different person. Happier, more artistic, more productive, more competent at work, able to procrastinate less.

I hear it over and over again. PROZAC IS A MIRACLE DRUG.

It is extremely helpful for people with anxiety, and can often massively reduce the symptoms of PMS.

(Groan, I sound like an ad...)

If you are struggling with anxiety, you do NOT need to talk to a therapist to try Prozac. Most medications are actually prescribed by your normal doctor. Just ask them, and they will likely give it to you. It's not like it is a party drug...
You are so very wrong, first of all any western university will train foreign students, so let me assure you that countries like China have the money to buy access to publications (and after that share the journals) but also have the mmoney to send students to get trained. If you are the type that wants to keep science secret then SciHub is a microscopic problem, you need to complain about science being made public and education being available without dracong background checks to prevent "unhealthy origins of the students".

Just admit your wrong, FBI is as always full of idiots and EU isright again to try to prevent our data be saved in US servers for all asholes to open it without any good reason.
I just hope as many eyeballs as possible watch it - explains Russian psyche excellently and what some possible outcomes are in the near term
Afaik, home school kids are not massively more succesfull. Some are, but others have troubles.

And historically, kids were cared for in quite large variety of setting. And quite a lot of those were not romantic at all.
On the one hand, I can't disagree with you, but on the other, it's like saying that Fred Astaire isn't good looking enough to be a movie star.
Most people can run their own pruned node, but most people don't care.
The problem is that when you try to make programming use natural language, it isn’t natural language, it’s an amalgamation with unnatural “natural” language syntax which is even more confusing than regular code.

Another issue is that when people create large programs with this software it becomes unwieldy, because the developers sacrificed scalability to try and improve accessibility. Even real languages like Python and JavaScript suffer from this.

I might be biased as a programmer, but i doubt non-programmers take any longer to learn code syntax than “natural” language syntax. I think a way to get non-programmers into language would be to adopt an existing language like Swift or Kotlin, and add support for block-based syntax (since you can recognize the syntactic constructs and remember how they work vs. having to remember and recall) and lots of other built-in support tools (like Copilot), especially for abstract concepts like variables, custom structures, and closures.
Ethereum Web3 services MetaMask and Infura bans Venezuela IPs
Ask HN: How do I hack love?
It is the only aspect of life where I just cannot even get started.
I am 29 and my experience so far is, I got a kiss from a girl when I was 28, and we had a very brief moment, a week, where we were a couple. Then she decided she had no feelings. That week was the happiest week of my life. It felt like I had been cured from a decade long depression.

I wanted to ask the community here because it is one of the sanest places on the internet. In particular I wanted to ask about books or other resources written by people whose career is not based around selling books about how to get love/sex/women. Books that might give some genuine insight, ideally backed by science, or even psychology, or even books about ways to cope when you are such a man as myself who has such difficulty finding somebody who appreciates them for who they are.

You are also welcome to give your own personal advice too, although I doubt it will apply to me, unless you are a significantly below average looking immigrant living in Germany.
> he is against meditation for reasons

Again, this is _your_ interpretation. They only said they're Christian, and you've decided this must be the reason they're against, and their opinion is worthless. You're just colouring their opinion with YOUR preconceptions.

Their opinion matches my experience, and other commenters, and I'm not Christian at all. Why are you taking it so personally? It's an intellectually stimulating topic, you're free to disagree without dismissing the person based on their religion.
The mental model is simple. Tech has grown. It's no longer a niche domain. It employs a large percentage of the overall population.

The fact that it is not representative of the general population (and I'm not even talking about men vs women, that's another huge can of worms), means that something is wrong somewhere along the pipeline.

Either at university level, or at high school level, or before. Or at company level.

Plus diversity gets worse and worse as the pay grade goes up.

In any case, I think affirmative action works, long term, for the affected minorities. As much as people outside those minorities hate it.
There was a video I saw a while back of one of these connecting to Google. It took a while but when it loaded it was surreal like wow, this old technology works today.

Also if you like this stuff there's popular channels out there like Adrian's Digital basement or 8bit guy, etc...

Side note: the movie Jobs (2013) was dramatized and all that but it had a cool scene, when those circuits drew something on a screen. I am aware of Xerox Alto and all that. But still the concept of making something so new... idk that's cool would like to be part of that. Also those chips seem more tangible than an i7 or something. You could almost mentally map which chip goes to what part of the screen.

I will say I'm past it though, I don't really covet old tech just because of performance. I do to some degree like old Chromebooks using Linux.
Allies and Former U.S. Officials Fear Trump Could Seek NATO Exit in a Second Term https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/us/politics/trump-nato-wi...

“Yeah, the second term,” Trump had said. “We’ll do it in the second term.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/13/book-exce...
> If an airline cancels my boarding pass because they don't like my email address (?), too bad for them, they just lost a sale.

Sure but now you can't get home. I travel a ton, and this would be a major issue for me. You can't always just get on a different plane. Lucky you i guess, but airlines are one of those things that most people can't mess with.
It's Linux:"Astra Linux"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_Linux
Has anybody ever studied the success rates of (just) immigrant groups specifically by race? I seem to recall reading that Nigerian immigrants specifically track similarly to Indian immigrants.
I didn't say he had nothing to do with it, only that Rails is bigger than him. Shopify and Github have as much or more to do with the state of the framework as Basecamp.
heheh...“A Modest Proposal”. Kids, stay away from the free lunch, it’s made of people...

I think it might be in the genre of HaHaOnlySerious.
> Now what?

We need to talk about it more. With 9/11 (and some American attempts to establish nuclear 1st strike doctrine), it sort of fell off the radar. Noam Chomsky always mentions nuclear weapons as the biggest threat to humankind, along with global warming.

We need to emphasize the uselessness/cost of nuclear weapons for rational/moral actors and the risk of irrational actors taking control.

The two largest nuclear arsenals (Russian and American) have been steadily decreasing over past 30 years, but it could happen faster.
Holding the Black Sea coast and oil fields might be the win condition.
You aren't trying. We know IQ is predictive of success. No one is saying an individual from a poorer community can't be intelligent/academically successful.

What we're saying is that we shouldn't hold someone born without the ability to be academically successful to unreasonable standards.
Stating that nuclear is not economical now based on bespoke US plants that are 50+ years old is similar to the arguments against solar in the 80s and 90s. It can be SO much cheaper if properly managed. Especially as the technology is explored properly.

Nuclear can be extremely cost effective. France is currently generating 70% of their power using nuclear and is significantly cheaper than US nuclear power seeing wholesale prices around 5 cents per kWh. US just has stupid expensive plants with 100% unique parts and old designs. This is why French consumers are paying 1/3 as much as Germans. In addition France is burning their waste in breeders.

You can blame most of the costs and problems of Nuclear in the US with an obsession over protecting private interests. Especially Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas companies. Meanwhile, nationalized energy companies in France are making us all look like idiots.
Germany’s center-left government just committed to massively upping defense spending, and Germany’s neighbors are apparently fine with it.

Never thought I’d live to see that happen.
If it's almost exactly 2000 ms, it sounds like a retransmission timer, i.e. packet loss.
How is backing a permissive free speech focused video hosting site authoritarianism? Authoritarians lock down and control speech. You have it completely backwards.

Putin, for example, does not support anything remotely like Rumble. It's the opposite of what he supports.
> There's also a similar American film that seems to get forgotten

There's also a similar but more famous American film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After

It's pretty similar to the one you describe. It centers on Lawrence, Kansas, which doesn't get nuked, but has to deal with fallout, refugees, insufficient resources, etc.
They don't have to go to "great" colleges that highly restrict admissions. You can be a lawyer, engineer, pre-med or nursing at state schools which are much easier to get into. Med school itself has some issues around things like residency programs, which are more a healthcare system and policy issue than a prerequisite education issue.

Edit: why downvote?
No this has been covered thousands of times since the invasion started and it’s getting boring having to repeat it. The commonly cited “agreement” not to expand wasn’t part of any treaties. To the extent that it is said to exist, it was part of some verbal/gentleman’s agreement between leaders who are now dead.

I’m not sure what value such agreements would have now, if they ever happened at all.
itch are putting a bundle together: https://itch.io/t/1964844/bundle-for-ukraine-call-for-submis...
>If I'm not feeling well or having a bad day, I might finish working an hour or two early but make up for it by working overtime another day that week.

That is no issue. In fact in my company we don't care how long you work per day or when you work. People tell us how many hours they can work per month and they get paid accordingly. Of course the union sets some minimum and maximum numbers we can do, but in essense it is normal to work flexible hours. Even to just take days off and do either longer days or work on a weekend/holiday if that's what you want. Or work hours "into bank" before hand and then take days/hours off. No problem with that.

My problem is guys literally working 9-5, expect "lunch break" takes 2-3 hours since they are playing a video game.

>If someone can meet/exceed their responsibilities in 5 hours, why do they need to spend 8 hours just because slower workers need that time? This just punishes efficient workers.

Except people will always find excuses why it wasn't their fault the feature/release/product didn't ship in time.
I really admire your ambition. It sounds like you are deeply technical person who understands issues of scale in a way most others don't. You likely also understand the business aspect of it deeply, even though you didn't articulate it here.

I think joining a company in the space is a good idea. I had a friend join https://aiven.io/ and they seem like they are a pretty great place to work. I believe they offer stock option compensation.

Having the context, technical capacity, and business context would be invaluable to a company like that. With your skills you may find it possible to grow into a higher leadership role which may equip you with the skills and insight you need for your own journey.

Once you've done time there you can set yourself up to circle back in 5 years and try again yourself.
Yes (not me): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqzq-GLiakY
I don't know about Fidelity specifically, but it seems like these days, most of the staff at the in-person bank offices don't do anything but guide you through the same web forms you could fill out yourself.
Could you do me a little favour? I'd like you to watch a short video[1] from CBS News and explain what exactly Trump was getting wrong about NATO/Russia/Germany.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=M5MJEMHZZsI

(Disclaimer: I agree that orange man bad)
When you’re standing in the pharmacy line and their back-end crashes for a few days? Or the chemo scheduling or EHR system won’t boot? Or you board that flight to Cabo and ATC crashes?

Broken IT/infrastructure can kill people and it won’t be rare.
FCC considers crackdown on bad wireless receivers after 5G/altimeter debacle
To be fair, both COVID and nuclear threats are very legitimate issues. We can’t deny that we are living in a dark period.

More Americans have died from COVID than all American soldiers lost in combat in all military engagements combined in our history, and we like our wars. We surpassed that figure last summer, so we’re way past it at this point.

We’re also consciously considering the possibility of nuclear war again, which came very close to happening the last time we engaged with Russia.
The object/primitive distinction is pretty much the very short list of primitives (even written with lower case letters) vs every other type.

> IMHO, the C-style */& was far clearer when I was first learning to program

Tell that to the million segfaults that students learning C experience (or worse, they don’t even get it!!)
The narrative in the article is that race based admissions replaced meritocratic admission in this case, and the achievements that the Asian American students received were due solely to their hard work. If this is the case, then the obvious conclusion is that the black students (who sat at 2% admission) or the Hispanic students (who sat at 14%) were not hard-working enough, or at the very least, were not as hard working as the Asian American students.
I think that's just an extreme case. To my knowledge, narcolepsy is simply an "unquenchable tiredness." You're never not exhausted.
"Democracy" is your litmus test, remember that the US has been happy to overthrow democracies and put dictators in power if it better serves their economic interests:

- Panama - US invaded it in 1989 and overthrew their leader
- Iran - US staged a coup in 1953

Not to mention how the US is actively helping Saudi Arabia's dictators suppress dissent in both Saudi Arabia itself and neighboring Yemen

More fun reading: https://www.quora.com/How-many-countries-has-the-USA-invaded...
Unlike during the Cold War, the probability of a surprise strategic nuclear attack from any side is virtually zero. The most probable path to a civilization-ending strategic nuclear exchange starts with a conventional war that escalates with the use of a small, tactical battlefield nuclear weapon, that escalates further into a strategic counterforce (air force bases) and then countervalue (New York City, Los Angeles, etc) exchange.

I don’t know how to “reduce the risk of nuclear war” other than giving each nuclear power what it wants - the freedom to exercise regional hegemony. This means the US letting Russia dominate Eurasia and reassemble the Soviet Union, and letting China dominate Asia.

The betrayal and suffering that would cause for hundreds of millions of humans from Taiwan and Japan to Lithuania and Romania is frankly unconscionable.
All civilizations have grown by incredible disproportionate violence and conquest.

China and Persia old empires, Greek, Egypt, Roman Empire, The Muslim expansion. In America the Incas and Mayas. The Spanish Empire, then the French and British. Then the American Empire.

The only exception to that have been the Phoenicians, then Carthage, that started as pacific merchants, but they were forced into war by the Romans.
Probably waiting for a more compelling augment, from either side.
Further, said principle is mandated by Hacker News. <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html> states:

>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
> You went from claiming you’re “pro-testing” to claiming that the test is “unusual”, “gross”, and “intrusive”.

I am pro testing. Are you suggesting that they are mutually exclusive ideas?

(Plus, that was meant to be from the kid's perspective, hence the bit about sticking things where they are told not to be sticking things; that might not have come across well, admittedly.)

I am not feigning outrage. I'm suggesting to you that you're being overbroad with your assertions in this context.

> virtually always

Sums it up.
You conveniently missed the first part where I said their output has noticeably dropped during the remote working period.
While I don't think this is bad advice I don't really think it is along the same lines as what the author is describing.

This sort of thing reminds me of an article I read a while back about how some people don't have an inner monologue when they're thinking which I assumed everyone did and found wildly strange trying to think about how other people think. This article is also equally confusing to me.
Public schools are also bound to serve special needs kids, which is incredibly expensive. Private schools don't have the same responsibility (even if they're under any similar legal obligation, they can and surely do try to minimize that through various means)

That's part (part!) of why per-pupil spending in public schools seems so high for the outcomes they produce, and part of why private schools have an advantage.
There are plenty of reasons to complain apple iOS devices, but this article is pushing some really dubious issues to try and be "fair" at all costs:

> "When Apple releases a new update or patch, all phones — those that are still supported, anyway — get it"

The backhanded "still supported" is clearly phrased to imply that that is a restricted set - apple ships updates to phones that are 5+ years old, whereas the high end google android devices seem to get 3 years of coverage.

> Price \n This is an easy one: iPhones are expensive.

If you are going to make this claim you have to compare like-for-like. Correct, Apple does not make low end devices, but to compare an iPhone SE to a budget android device isn't a fair comparison. An iPhone SE is "expensive" if it costs more for the same functionality and performance, and to my knowledge the SE compares favorably to similarly priced Android devices. At the high end of course you're paying for cachet (but if you're buying a $1k phone/year I suspect that's more important than any other factor, and you've got more money than sense.

Things like these points come across as trying too ensure android doesn't lose on any individual point which calls into question the bias in other sections. Which is dumb and unnecessary as the other things are perfectly reasonable (4) to my knowledge google's assistant is better than Siri by most accounts but I don't use either, (7) who doesn't love dongles? :D (11) There was a period where Apple phones had superior cameras but I think they've been behind Samsung for a few years at this point.

For cloud storage I have never had a problem with iCloud storage, and I have much more trust in apple not trying to monetize the content (and apple clearly puts much more effort into minimizing the content that they can decrypt in general than google does), but I'm perfectly happy to believe Google's cloud systems are more reliable (encrypting content makes syncing harder as people would generally prefer delta updates, which by design crypto makes harder)
> Why, in particular?

Because you're asserting a risk of "instant, significant distress" from them?

Seems like an easy fix to that concern.
I googled "thiel rumble rt" and got my fill there. I'm not going to pay for a subscription to the NYT so the link for me at least was meaningless.
We have too few great colleges around for the potential population. Should really be building more colleges and expanding the existing ones. MOOC's and open educational content are an inefficient band-aid, in-person instruction should always be preferred.
> The Hunter Biden story is widely reported by numerous American media outlets.

And that story was banned on social media unfairly(this banning was cheered on by Dems and left leaning folks), even though it turned it to be credible later.

It was egregious censorship is the main point I am making here.

As bad as Putin? No. Was it bad? Yes.
Neither Russia, Ukraine, or Norway are in the EU. You may as well make them play for Madagascar; it makes no sense.
Metamask has blocked Ethereum transactions in Venezuela
Two straightforward things. It stops Russian propaganda from being broadcast, secondly it destroys their revenue. I think you need to be masochistic to have an enemy broadcast lies to your country and make money in the process.

RT is such a blatant tool of the Russian state it should have been shut down five years ago.
i resonate with your comment

every 2 weeks its some new crisis in the news. I try to avoid it because it just consumes my energy and im not contributing to helping anyway. Maybe im jaded but it feels like i should experience the life i have before me, instead of constantly being pulled one direction or another based on 2week news cycle.

lately though, i notice that people close to me are soliciting this info to me regardless of whether i ask or not. My whole family, the 2nd topic after "hello" is "X thing happened in the news isnt that crazy!?" and other folks get upset if i dont have an opinion about X thing.
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There are a couple of Bundles on Itch.io's bundle page, but there is a larger one in the works https://www.pcgamesn.com/itch-io-bundle-for-ukraine -- According to this article the creators are hoping to push it out for availability on the 7th.

Meanwhile, not for Ukraine, but trans rights in Texas, there is an absolutely phenomenal TTRPG bundle: https://itch.io/b/1308/ttrpgs-for-trans-rights-in-texas