skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the Hacker's Diet. Move Fast and Break Things.

But more seriously, I agree with you. There are some red flags the content of the text.

For example this: "Why don't they notice? [...] You may be surprised and/or disappointed to discover that people you encounter every day don't remark on the dramatic change you perceive. [...] Don't worry, eventually they will notice." https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/subsubsection1_3_3_0_4...

Or this: "Always bear in mind that dieting is the polite term for ``deliberate starvation.'' " https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/subsubsection1_3_3_0_4...

And this: "Why am I doing this to myself? [...] This is the most fundamental reason to lose weight: to live longer. [...] Even if excess weight doesn't shorten your life, you're far more likely to suffer a variety of medical problems" https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/subsubsection1_3_3_0_5...
Why isn't it a programming language?
Ghost of Kiev

Snake Island Soldiers Dying Heroically

Nuclear Reactor Shelled, Radiation Rising
that's not it at all because A) we produce it and export it and B) we will never, ever, EVER, run out of oil - we will however stop using it - so C) the incentive it to pump as fast as possible while it still has value.
Cheerfully paying higher gas prices. Trying to convince my government to send more weapons, money, and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. Donating heavily to refugee aid organizations. Sometimes happily passing on Ukrainian propaganda. (Go, Ghost of Kyiv!)
Wasn't there a talk about the Amazon being used to rebuild after a nuclear war?
Gonna pitch in my anecdata:

Around the timeframe you mentioned, I lost a BTRFS filesystem when I filled it up. Probably could have recovered it if I had known more, but oh well. I definitely feel the gun-shyness!

However, I'd want to add that at a previous job, I had a ext4 fs go belly-up in a similar way. One day, just died without warning. Maybe could have recovered it, but like others have mentioned we'd have no guarantees about the data.

Moral of the story is, of course, always have backups :)
interesting. For long time i've found that negative logic is more powerful/overarching than positive one - #ifndef NOT_THIS is more powerful than #if THIS .. and this article applies that even to agreeing vs not-disagreeing.
> selection bias and priming

"priming" has had something of a fall from grace.

> The studies of behavioral priming that I had cited in the chapter were largely discredited in the famous replication crisis of psychology... behavioral priming research is effectively dead.

https://www.edge.org/adversarial-collaboration-daniel-kahnem...
There isn't one, they're just fad diets like all the other ones.
Show HN: Math game where you derive correct equation from answer and numbers
Marshmallow leaf is often used as an alternative for those seeking to quit tobacco, and does have known health benefits:

https://www.real-leaf.com/blogs/realleaf-blog/smoking-marshm...

Although certainly any combusted plant will produce tar, and this is well known to cause pulmonary issues which will indeed place more stress upon the heart.
I guess that's my point, how do you disentangle the need for cathartic outburst from the negative connotations and actual perhaps small positive impact of the cathartic outburst? Is practicing karate and punching boards on a schedule ok?
> The ecosystem is currently such a slippery foundation that creation of an authoring tool with the scope of Flash is basically impossible to achieve.

I would say that the scale, scope and complexity of that ecosystem outgrew the ability of one or even a few tools to satisfy it.

The idea that flash was ever going to survive as the one tool for interactive content, videos, games, animation and more is simply silly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_index

https://en.wikipedia-on-ipfs.org/wiki/Database_index

From "Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28021766 re: edgesearch, HTTP/3 QUIC UDP, :

> Serverless full-text search with Cloudflare Workers, WebAssembly, and Roaring Bitmaps https://github.com/wilsonzlin/edgesearch

>> How it works: Edgesearch builds a reverse index by mapping terms to a compressed bit set (using Roaring Bitmaps) of IDs of documents containing the term, and creates a custom worker script and data to upload to Cloudflare Workers
Russia's actions are an invasion, and they have started a war. By forbidding the use of that language the UN is not being impartial. It means they're explicitly requiring people to communicate about Russia's invasion in a way that supports Russia's claims that they aren't invading.

But this is the same UN that has multiple countries where women have minimal rights on it's council for women's rights, has countries that punish being non-straight with death on their human rights councils, etc
The difference here is nuclear weapons. We aren't able to use the normal military options against a country threatening nuclear first use. The normal military options are no-fly zones, embedded SOF and advisors, help with logistics and supply chains, etc.
Your post wasn't simply asking for elaboration—it was written in the cross-examining style that we particularly want to avoid here because it kills curious conversation.

If you didn't intend to come across like an interrogator trying to back an opponent into the corner, then your comment needed to be written quite differently.
I think by intense he implies with a lot of pressure from the other side. And like in most relationships we often try to internalise our stress in fear to make things worse and loose that relationship.If it's intense stress it's far more noticible.
Visions of the Future by NASA
Building a digital home, bit by brick
What are your expectations?
Honestly: sometimes I say something broad and incendiary because I want to get owned and get some good additional information from people who are engaged.

I honestly have no idea what the ripple effects of this war and recession will be.
This will backfire on the US. They're making Russia anti-fragile and not dependant on America's dollar or big companies products. It can also trade with China to survive and Europe still needs its gaz. If Iran and North Korea could survive sanctions for decades, I have hard time seeing Russia falling because of these sanctions, and Russia is in a better position than both Iran and North Korea. Russia already started using China's payment card system so now they don't rely on visa/mastercard, another great loss for the US. Not sure who will end up losing more here to be honnest.
Birth of Cool
cool etymology
reforestation and rewilding of the planet will require a vision of 'terraforming earth'. for every human habitat, farm, land used to sustain humanity, an equal acreage of land should be allowed go 'back to nature'.

example: if someone were to build a factory on an acre of land or a dense residential neighbourhood of an acre or farming on an acre land..all these activities should be compensated by re-naturing land or conserving habitat elsewhere where human activities arent feasible.

the problem with solutions like high density housing being touted as 'sustainable' is that they are truly sustainable only if the goal is to consume less. putting multiple high human density settlements next to each other and even looking at non habitable terrain to build homes and grow food is just daft because as super apex predators we need habitat and other species for our survival. if we cant eat or breathe or maintain air quality or bring down global temperature by 2 degrees, its the literal end of humanity.

even if we manage to survive, depopulation is a guarantee. when the world has lesser humans, we need sufficient resources for them to thrive and survive. if we dwindle or become handicapped due to no foundational habitat to rely on, again it will just be a slower and more deprived extinction of the species.

the replacement rate has been 2.2 forever. and we are living longer and our population has doubled in 40 years. population grows exponentially. resources don't. human needs also grows exponentially. thats the problem in the nutshell.

it's already too late. the carrying capacity of the planet is likely 2-3 billion. we can comfortably exist at 1 billion. people will die. our descendants need to survive. creating more people will jeopradise the entire species and shrink resources to a dangerously low level.

if our population continues to breed at the current rate, i would say that in 250-400 years, we might face the danger of extinction. but if we control population to 1/2 surviving child per woman, maybe in 150 years, we can stabilise population to carrying capacity.

we must also need to find ways to preserve genetic material for diversity of our species. only recently we have been able to create pluripotent and embryonic cells from skin/dermal cells. ectogensis or artificial wombs will be useful to create not just carefully curated humans but also for cloning purposes. it is possible that we might become an immortal species. it is certainly within the realm of possibility.

we could clone bodies to swap or replace failing organs or congenital illnesses. we could be our own children. we could have progeny with multiple partners and dna combinations.

if religion would permit us. that is the only stumbling block i see for us to become immortals.

because..if we could be immortal, we would be gods.

but thats thinking too far ahead. first, survival. for that we need to reforest and rewild planet earth. starting with soil and then forests and then protect watersheds and marine ecology. the sooner we get started the better.
Ignnition: Fast Prototyping of Graph Neural Networks for Communication Networks
I'm on Windows 11 with a Radeon RX570 8gb and it runs fine under Edge.

On Firefox it's way laggier but still usable.
Obama tried to close gitmo, but he wasn't the emperor, and there were many politians who opposed him. These politians were elected by US citizens.
I came here to say exactly this.

Leaders are taught.

Though I have a sneaking, unscientific suspicion that good leaders may have some neural advantage in theory of mind -- I wonder if they are better at it generally but also better at maintaining and exploring theory of mind for multiple people at once.

A good leader knows what you have already demonstrated you can do, knows what you can't do, and knows how to help you see what you could do. And they can do this with a team of people, including identifying those who have some of this skillset and can be delegated to.

Frankly I am not sure any of this is Jobs, who was very capable of refining ideas but also capable of abandoning them, and who also had some slightly sociopathic traits; he was OK making enemies in the moment, OK telling people exactly what he thought of people bluntly, OK brutally criticising work. And then just as OK going back to those people and starting again with them.

I think Wozniak is right that Jobs had to learn to be a leader, but his fundamental technique in what I have seen seems to be the ability to decide and to re-decide.

I once worked for someone in the UK who had worked for Jobs (albeit with one seemingly rather hapless, permeable management level inbetween). He told a few stories and the impression I get is that Jobs didn't care who saw his temper, but didn't bear grudges, particularly, except against bad concepts. If you were incompetent, you were gone, but that was the end of the ill will.
It'd have to be a very liquid market, to make it profitable to provide enough support to make a material difference.

I'm not convinced assassination markets are practical. If you make a prediction that a person will be assassinated on a particular day, and put money on it, you'll make the odds for that day spike up, thus warning the target to take new and unpredictable precautions.

If you try to counter this effect with less specific predictions, then more people will take your side of the bet so you'll get worse odds.
Now - that they've already gotten very rich by exploiting theirs (and OURS brazilian forests) - it's forbidden.
> NATO was not involved in Iraq, though many members were under the banner of the "coalition of the willing".

The “coalition of the willing” was largely propaganda; only four countries (3 of which were NATO members) were involved in the invasion.
The nuclear reactor was shelled. I saw it live.

Doubt it had anything to do with radiation though.
>Kyiv cannot hold out forever.

I agree with that, but if it takes going Full Grozny or Idlib on them, what's the point, other than saving face?
They literally asked for NATO to stay/help longer:

> Fighting in Libya ended in late October following the death of Muammar Gaddafi, and NATO stated it would end operations over Libya on 31 October 2011. Libya's new government requested that its mission be extended to the end of the year,[39] but on 27 October, the Security Council unanimously voted to end NATO's mandate for military action on 31 October.[40]

And NATO didn't start civil unrest.

After the protests, individual countries took the lead to help and other ones asked NATO to take over as condition to join ( eg. Italy).
> So you should decide what people want, not the people that live there?

I didnt say "I" should decide, just speaking plainly that laws are written by whoever shows up, most people have higher priorities. It's a fault in democracy from my perspective, we are not all equal in the amount of free time we have. The poor are busy with survival, the rich/leisure class gets to spend all day lobbying and campaigning. Maybe with universal basic income, politics would be more representative since more people would have time to participate.
Just to correct the info: the invasion of Iraq (a much weaker country) by the combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland lasted just over one month … but it’s not really comparable situation here for the reasons you pointed.
Cloudflare to auto-brick servers that go offline in Ukraine, Russia
"politicians, it seems, would rather keep a situation where periodic energy crises give them a cudgel with which to beat an incumbent"

What? The politicians that matter _are_ incumbents.

Not a great article.
It helps if your client retries have backoff (but that's not always possible), but you do need to have a way to drop requests much faster than you typically process them and it's nice to have a sensible way to drop requests that are unlikely to be successful. Sometimes you can drop based on time in queue, sometimes you can drop based on percentage, sometimes you can track backend success and drop requests to a failing backend, sometimes you have to just flush the whole queue periodically if overloaded. Facebook has published something about switching from a queue to a stack during heavy load, which can work, although that stack needs bounds, too.
If that gets painful enough then it will corrected and the 1% will be the ones feeling most of the pain.
I prefer soft 8D audio for concentration/work-mode on alexa speaker.

If I'm anxious - more upbeat sounds and pop/rock songs like Linkin Park or Imagine Dragons, w/ headphones.

Closing your eyes is needed and just follow the music as it makes you feel a little dizzy. I never understood 'ASMR' until I found this music thing, really feels trippy. Helps a lot w/ my autism/ADHD.
NASA’s Psyche Gets Solar Arrays for Trip to Metal-Rich Asteroid
From my purely anecdotal experience with mentoring younger people, I've seen two main categories of venting:

1) Venting about frustrations by talking them through with someone who will listen. This forces people to put their frustrations into words and elucidate the narrative as they put it into words. This can not only help people identify their feelings and work through them, but it also forces people to decide what a mature response would be. Once you start venting to someone you know, especially someone you respect, you have an incentive to present a mature interpretation and approach to the situation. This can help immensely.

2) The other group tends to want to avoid the mature response part, and instead wants to seek sympathy and confirmation for their frustrations. They deliberately avoid discussing these issues with respected peers or mentors because they know their response is unhealthy and not a good look. They embrace online forums like Reddit and Twitter where they're free to give one-sided stories without fear of their peers calling them out for exaggerating or stretching the details. This type of venting doesn't solve anything because they don't really want solutions in the first place. There's something rewarding or perhaps freeing about hunkering down in the victim role and being showered with sympathy from random internet strangers.

I haven't seen any reason to believe the first type of venting (discussing with respected peers, seeking feedback and solutions in the process) is anything but helpful. However, the latter type of venting (online venting to collect sympathy) does seem to be quite damaging from my limited experience. There's something dangerous about going online to bond with others and seek personal affirmation in a way that's fueled by venting frustrations and victimizations. Once inside of those circles, there's an incentive to continue bringing more frustrations and more victimizations to the table to keep the bonding and community contact flowing.

The story in the article about going to a park to scream together raises my red flags as such a situation: It becomes an in-group thing where you need to adopt an outward appearance of being very frustrated to fit in with the other people in the group. Not a good incentive for improving the situation.
Yeah, you can become more Sheldon like... it's weird. There's ways to temper this; I've seen it done. You're slower with one liners and fun quips, want to over explain, and get everything right, or just kinda dead and slow. Idk, there's a lot of behaviors, they vary.
My partners and I have a couple hundred employees in Dnipro, Ukraine. Most of the employees have relocated to Poland or western Ukraine, some are sheltering in place, some are fighting. We started to source supplies last week, especially for those who are sheltering in place or fighting. During discussions with various parties across the supply chain it became clear that an enormous effort was underway by hundreds/thousands of organizations (Governments, NGOs, companies, individuals) to flood Ukraine with every conceivable item they might need to support combat operations. Almost all of the commercially available weapons systems, ammunition, and body armor that we could find was already headed to Ukraine. We decided to focus on battlefield/first responder medical kits and supplies since those items were needed, but hadn't been mobilized as much. "Soldiers win battles, logistics wins wars." I heard that last week and it stuck with me.
Will this really produce enough hydrogen to power all the long-haul trucks in the US?
It depends totally on how unified people remain. I don't think facial recognition cameras will last long against crowds that have proven themselves willing to dance on top of enemy tanks.
Bisq, a decentralized Bitcoin exchange, already solved this issue. Smarter sanctioned people have already transitioned to it. I expect transaction volume to spike due to this recent conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Simple, $

When the gas shortages happened in the 70s, a law was pass limiting the prices of US sourced oil sold domestically. It was put in place to lower the "oil shock".

I do not know the status of that law, but I assume it still exists.

So, US source oil can be sold at a higher price if exported and that forces the US to import to make up the difference.

I think there was a loophole that allowed this to happen, probably it was not thought at the time it would be viable to export US oil or US would never have the oil to export.
COVID-19? I imagine a hell of a lot of revenue charts look similar around that timeframe.
>or bleed the middle class taxpayers dry.

You may have missed this part. Universities are not free in those countries you speak of, what happens is taxpayers just end up with far less disposable income.
> So it's possible with a tiny bit of JS

Not really. expression() was evaluated by just moving the mouse around, which is what allowed attaching stuff to your cursor with "just some CSS"

https://web.archive.org/web/20120420154658/http://msdn.micro...

To do what expression() could do you need several event listeners at least which, I mean, of course you can still do it, but it's really unrelated to CSS Properties and just JavaScript at this point.
RT challenges EU ban at Europe's second top court
The current situation is like a fishhook with many barbs. You can't go back without ripping your skin to shreds, so even though it hurts almost as bad, to minimize damages you have to push forward, embedding more hooks into your already wounded skin, in order to get to the smooth part of the hook so you can push it out and be done with it.

Too many people get hung up on the idea of pulling out the hook (the current carbon-positive processes that we use) and not about the ultimately least painful and most successful way of removing the hook (pushing forward with pressure to transition to carbon-negative systems even if in the in-between time that causes more carbon to be released into the atmosphere)

We would generate a ton of carbon to build and roll out an EV replacement for every ICE vehicle on the planet, not to mention the extraordinary expenses of generating enough electricity and charging plants for them.

If that were done in an amazing single year by military force or something, it would be the year of the most carbon production ever on the planet.

But the centuries afterwards with the extraordinary reduction in Carbon Dioxides and Monoxides and other exhaust gasses would be worth it, right?

That's the plan, work over time, get better every day, little by little, don't worry about perfection, focus on drawing closer to good enough.
Were these reported by mainstream / reputable sources?

I only saw them on social media.

But I did see a source that radiation did rise around Chernobyl, probably due to dust getting kicked up by vehicles and foot traffic.
I got it from HN as well and it is excellent! Kudos for both Andrew and whoever commented a link to it :)
brown noise for me. brown and grey, mixed.
Hindsight is ...
Landing page needs JS to view the contents, which is a big turn off. If it worked without JS I would attempt to leverage it however.
People don't need to remember and apply formulas. They just need an intuition that they could be applied and how that might change the appearance of the statistics, as a kind of gauge of reliability. A tool for rationalization.
Using figurines as avatars for remote workers seems like a pretty cool idea to me
This post counts as a dupe because the story had significant attention less than a year ago (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html):

The Hacker's Diet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29847579 - Jan 2022 (42 comments)

Earlier:

The Hacker's Diet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25095213 - Nov 2020 (2 comments)

The Hacker's Diet (2005) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17676314 - Aug 2018 (77 comments)

The Hacker's Diet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16245178 - Jan 2018 (1 comment)

The Hacker's Diet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9658696 - June 2015 (85 comments)

The Hacker's Diet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=710399 - July 2009 (33 comments)

The Hacker's Diet: Losing weight the hacker way - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=496675 - Feb 2009 (53 comments)
Wait until everyone finds out about what COVID is going to do...