skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You clearly haven't had incompetent parents.

I'll give you a personal example: both my parents _completely_ failed to manage their finances, they kept on borrowing money, refinancing the house 3-4 times.

Since the age of 17, as a young software engineer, I was constantly asked to help with the payments. Now that my mom has passed away, my dad has 0 income, he didn't bother to plan anything for his retirement and thus, we are forced to sell the house and both my brother and I have to forgo our share of the money so that he can survive.

In addition, I _still_ have to give help him financially and he refused to put his money in an investment account so that he can at least profit from the returns.. now he will basically eat every single dollar and then my brother and I have to yet again provide for him few years down the line.

Not only I got no support from them, I had to _on top of it_ fight my way through an uphill battle (they didn't even want me to study CS) and provide for them. They took all the child tax benefit money and ate it.. when I wanted to move at 20, I left with nothing, I just took my clothes.

Sure, parents are wise when it's about "not eating ice cream before dinner", but don't tell me they actually make good decisions.
Couldn't you buy nuclear fuel from e.g. France instead?
All these arguments are moot, see the research:

https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html

https://whatisnuclear.com/fukushima.html

...etc.
Science and engineering are two separate disciplines, and I'm not a scientist.

If lying to ourselves is how we avoid being suicidal, so be it.

The only possible use I can see for the blackpill is to know that you should give up on casual sex, unless you're into BDSM or something(For some reason all my friends that do that seem to not care about looks as much).

Other that that, a lot of things aren't useful. It's a lot easier to declare sex isn't important and that someday I'll be as happy with my career as I was with the girl I lost it to, 13 years ago.

It might not be useful or believable that looks and genetics don't matter on tinder. But we can tell ourselves they don't matter for life in general, and work to make this so by whatever means we have available to us.
> Note that it already went away by the time the Bolshevik's staged their 'Revolution'.

Sure. But that's also very normal in revolutions, to have a multiple-stage affair with different conceptions of what the revolution is for emerging throughout the duration. Karensky has often been portrayed as a sort of mini-Napoleon figure, so it's hard to see his overthrow as a pure 'palace coup'.

To be honest, I feel like the history here is very murky, full of misleading names and conflicting accounts, and the best you can do is to try and get a grasp of the characters of the people involved. With the old Bolsheviks, most of whom Stalin had killed, you tend to get the feeling of ruthless, dedicated, but ultimately idealistic people. Pretending that they were always just an evil clique is basically anarchonism: you're taking the fate of the USSR, and putting it on to the people who formed its early days.
"Unique method" means we didn't think of it beforehand.
ADHD Drugs Are Convenient to Get Online. Maybe Too Convenient
I really cannot find that article anymore, but yes, it seems it must have come from an ultra ultra orthodox section and who knows why it ranked number 1 on google at that time (some years ago), fooling me. Because apparently yes, you absolutely can convert to judaism. It just isn't easy, like it is with other religions.
Horrific and USA should sanction Saudi Arabia and their oil.

Feds actively restrict the domestic energy industry which increases demand for Saudi energy.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/24/biden-administration-pausing...

No real surprise, as Biden promised to restrict USA energy while campaigning.
https://joebiden.com/9-key-elements-of-joe-bidens-plan-for-a...
>"Whataboutism is simply an excuse for maintaining the status quo"

Nope. It is a request for appropriate punishment for all perpetrators. And if one say fuck you cause I got the biggest dick it is an encouragement.
The same question could be asked of the person that first mentioned due process.

But the point is that many people respect the system they are raised under, and are aware of others systems. Its not a comparison of "the US to Saudi Arabia" its an acknowledgment of the nation state reality.
State A has a law that says if you spend 1 day in State A you owe the income tax for that day.

State B has a law that says if you spend more than 180 days a year in State B, then you owe State B income tax for the full year.

Now you owe tax for that 1 day to both states.
And heat-polluted waste waters? People keep pretending there are no externalities.
I find this being used as an excuse for bad user experience. I went in to the game without knowing it’s backstory or the other games in the series. Played for 2 hours and had hardly any idea what the point of the game was and why certain enemies seemed to be impossible to defeat. Eventually a friend pointed out that you are meant to block in combat which made things much easier. Apparently there was a combat tutorial hidden at the starting area but I couldn’t see it.

After an hour more of playing I decided I just wasn’t that interested in the game. It reminds me of the game Cuphead where you have to spend an immense amount of time trying to muscle memory timing critical inputs. Which just isn’t something I find very entertaining but when you say this to anyone you get some snide comment back like “lol, you need the journalist mode”
Not many of them seem to die of old age, either.
I think what really throws people off is that they don’t have any way of seeing their comment.

e.g. on hackernews comments are submitted fairly quickly, and I find myself reloading very often to check if the comment really has been placed.
09 Oct 2006, and you can view the top posts from everyday at https://hnhd.io/
Why go to the effort of doing all of this, but not use typescript? I don't see the point - they mention ignoring the build step, but it's not like that is particularly annoying at the moment, at least not in the largish-projects I've worked on (enterprise angular apps staffed by approx 50-60 frontend engineers, so fairly chunky codebase)
This topic came up earlier this week, and I just don't see what the big win is. I guess people want to be able to skip setting up a build system for TypeScript, but if you do that, you'll be sending a bunch of extra junk to browsers that will just be ignored. So you'll need to setup a minifier to strip it all out, which means you have to setup a build system anyway.

Is there some other advantage? Easier debugging on the client, I guess, but proper source maps do that pretty well already. I dunno, this just seems to be making a complex language more complex for not much gain.

That said, if the runtime actually used the types for safety or performance, I could maybe see some value added there.
Ahh right, I misunderstood the parent comment assuming that their lists were comprised of people they also follow.
If you have lived all your life in a basement you tend to think the flourecent light is the sun. Could not make sense of the article… my take on teaching is… you teach because you are the most capable on the subject in the community, is a responsability and you do your best. As with most professions when you do it for the money, you become cinic.
On my consumer grade motherboards netboot and the UEFI network stack is off by default. Network access code is still there though for purposes like online update (manually done).
> Symbolic systems are well-known to have capabilities missing from neural networks, particularly reasoning and knowledge representation.

If I were to posit an initial draft operational definition for “artificial glial network”, then I would use exactly what you describe as a “symbolic system”:

Artificial Glial Networks (AGN) have capabilities missing from Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), particularly reasoning and knowledge representation.

I would also go on about:

In addition, AGN have the capability to define the structure of any associated ANN (“ANN Modification”), create new associated ANN (“ANN Generation”), and modify associations between any ANN (“ANN-ANN Associations”) in the AGN’s aggregate of associated ANN’s (“AGN-ANN Associations”). Furthermore, AGN explicitly are constrained such that no AGN can create, modify, or associate with any other AGN (“AGN Isolation”).

That’s just some thoughts off the top of my head though. Eventually I’ll get around to sifting through some research and elaborating, refining, etc.
A huge part of the problem is that digital spaces generally have no equivalent of a disapproving glare.

Hm. Need to think about that for virtual worlds.
Mitigation between VMs is only effective when done from the hypervisor. Mitigations within a VM can only counter intra VM data leaks.
>One told us that at the Dungeons and Dragons “factory,” there was a witch’s hut in the forest nearby. Before each set was packaged for shipping they were all sent out to her, where she personally dedicated them to Satan.

I'm always saddened by people who so very desperately want something - attention, to feel in power, to feel better informed than others, etc - that they'll buy into and repeat these conspiracy theories. In the 80s I used to play D & D at a game store that hosted an event and we'd start Friday night and on a really rollicking session go through until dawn. It was amazing. IMHO the camaraderie, friendship and entertainment that came from a bunch of people playing pretend for a few hours was what D & D was meant to be. That some people projected their own weird fantasies of darkness and evil onto a game just makes me what goes on in their heads. The only darkness and evil in our game was occasional bad guys. Except that one guy who played a Chaotic Evil wizard. Eventually the GM added game rules that warned everyone prior to his casting anything, particularly behind the party. But even that was all in good fun.
> Accidents in nuclear power plants can have disastrous implications. As in the case if Chernobyl, large areas around the site remain unusable forever

What exactly about this do you not buy?

And what is your solution for storing nuclear waste safely for hundreds of thousands of years?
I think It’s a question of scope not of the logical operator. One way to interpret the question is:

1. You choose X or Y or Z

2. You provide a scheduler that does the thing you chose

Another is:

1. You provide a scheduler where I choose X or Y or Z and the scheduler does the thing I chose.

The question is whether the disjunction applies to the input configuration of the scheduler or the output of the assignment. That is, whether the output of the assignment has type (X_scheduler | Y_scheduler | Z_scheduler) or type (X | Y | Z) -> scheduler.
Not saying this is an outright scam, but given the history of ventures like this, I wouldn't give it a good chance to succeed on any level.

The Behind the Bastards podcast had an interesting history of seasteading and similar schemes recently:

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236...
> 7 of these could power an entire country, 24/7

...if you continue to heat with gas, drive on petrol, fly on petroleum...

I don't want to be the party pooper but that renewable energy has to cover more than current electricity consumption does get overlooked continuously. Less by governments than by the media and general public, thankfully, but still.
Oh, it's easy to track. And my accountant would have no trouble filing a bunch of additional state tax forms for me. But it would probably cost me a couple thousand dollars.
The case for induction cooking
The hard part of type-checking Nix
> Electric aircraft doesn't really strike me as this kind of customer. Aircraft has relatively inflexible fueling demands based on customer demand that is reserved weeks ahead of time.

I think you misunderstood. The parent comment implied that excess electricity could be use to produce synthetic fuels (via carbon capture) to power conventional airplanes, ships or other machinery.
That decision was vacated on appeal- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/appeals-court-re...
what happened to the micro nuclear?
Does it not need a digital signature or something?
You probably pay way more in taxes. If I was given a choice between (1) an additional 20% income tax and free healthcare, or (2) crazy $10k/year out of pocket maximum, I'll choose 2 without a blink.
I appreciate you wanting to mistakenly categorize this as a duplicate

This is the mirror that he setup when the primary site went down
Imagine the psychological power a weapon like that would hold over people at that time. Your leader possessing a dagger forged from light that fell from the heavens would probably inspire a lot of supernatural feelings.
#RussianWarCrimes
OK.

I have lived also under a somehow despotic regime (a "light" version, Eastern Europe) and as a child it was quite strange for me that adults said differerent things in "kitchen" and in the open.

Also fun fact, each citizen was allowed to buy only limited amount of certain "things". E.g. one coffee per person (I was standing in a queue as a child to have one more coffee bag for my family) - meat was given not for money but for a piece of paper (rest of the meat was sold/gifted to our big brother Russia).

In democracy I can complaint about prices of food (which I can buy for money, not some allowance) and can complain about current rulers. I can complain about Russia - this was not allowed earlier.

And I can learn English in school (if would be born a year earlier the only option was Russian).

In my country there was a radical change in poor man's life when switching to democracy. (of course there were complainers - basically those that were subsidies by the previous regime, mostly farmers I presume)
There's a little story told about the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, by John Aubrey:

"He was (vide his life) 40 yeares old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library in ..., Euclid's Elements lay open, and 'twas the 47 El. libri I[Pythagorean theorem]. He read the proposition. 'By G--,' sayd he, 'this is impossible!' So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition; which proposition he read. That referred him back to another, which he also read. Et sic deinceps, that at last he was demonstratively convinced of that trueth. This made him in love with geometry."

Reading all of Euclid's Elements is a big undertaking, though I think you can get a sufficient taste and appreciation of iron-clad logical reasoning and demonstration from going through some subset of it. Perhaps working through a single proposition back through its base propositions, definitions, common notions, and postulates will be enough to alter your thinking and at least see what's possible. Unlike the author I can't tell from discussion sampling if people are ignorant of Euclid, but I have been frustrated by 1-on-1 failures to win arguments by mathematical proof (e.g. that 0.999.... = 1) and such an unwillingness to accept such things shows a profound disconnect in how we look at the world. Reading Euclid may help that.

On the other hand, lots of software developers are exposed to proofs as part of their formal education (those who received one), so how much Euclid can add here is questionable, vs. actually putting proofs into practice by learning things like TLA+, or learning about probabilistic inference which is more needed outside crisp and clear worlds like Euclidean geometry. Personally I'd sooner have software developers take a few minutes to learn and reflect on Chesterton's Fence, than working through examples of geometry proofs, and maybe some can learn to reduce their bad habit of sloppily "reconstructing things from first principles" (where "first" is frequently "first thought of").
SQLite 3.8.1
When you start talking about targeted drone strikes outside of war zones, the difference seems thinner than a razor's edge.
Wow. I would never work for you / your company. I avoid those job descriptions like the plague.

I've been working in the field professionally and self employed since 2001.

I moved from PHP to Go in late 2013, because Google+ hype and it felt such a relief when working with Go vs. the PHP craze that was happening at that time.

I hate k8s with a passion as do I dislike everything cloud for being too expensive and overly complicated. I see k8s as a cloud lockin tool. It's so complex that you can't properly run or maintain it. Have fun debugging problems.
Your everyday problem doesn't require a cloud exclusive solution.
A single Go server can handle a good 500 million visitors per month.

I do Angular as well but have moved to Vue since about a year ago. And recently I'm getting into learning native Android development with Java. Holy crap what a shitshow that is. Old technology new emerging technologies all mixed up and no real standards.

I like backend but let's be honest, backend can be generated and requires minimum modification for authz/n. The real work is in the frontend.

When I see job descriptions like those I think "this company is too cheap to pay 5 people and they want to work you to death and unhappiness for the same cost".

Add to that the "agile" method.

I love working with Go and I love a change of focus, work on backend for a few weeks then on frontend for a few. What I don't like is doing the work of 5 other people but getting only 1/5 of their pay.
Also hate the whole "ops" Hipster bs babble.
To this day idk what DevOps is. It's all just bs talk to avoid telling the truth of what they really want you to do.
You really could have added a lot of value here. Clearly you know a bit about the situation.

Please try and bring your knowledge to the table not your offense at someone else's error. I seriously think you could have a lot to offer.
$250,000 to buy a tiny campground for some cringe instagram photos?
You might want to glance at the article, which is about Turing machine busy beaver programs and has nothing to do with spaghetti code as a development practice.
Honestly? 1500 words before this post even gets anywhere.

>In only a few months, the coronavirus (‘COVID’) pandemic had devastating economic, social, and health impacts worldwide. Today, millions of lives have been lost, and the end of the crisis seems it may finally be in sight

Here's 37 words that literally no one needed to read.
Doesn’t this read like “just invest in anything”?

OPs q is “what” to invest in given that one can’t hold cash when inflation is rampant.

I’m just continuing to buy us equities with a tilt towards the nasdaq 100. But I have no idea how that will work out in the next 10years.

The other option is to just make as big downpayment as I can (200-400k) in the Bay Area but not really sold on living here long term.
Russia imperialistic ambitions would be far more modest if Europe and US wouldn't fill Putin's coffers with hundreds of billions of dollars and euros in exchange for oil and gas. You know, the things they use instead of Nuclear energy.
1400 is huge. It's common at large state universities for the introductory classes to have somewhere between 200 and 300 students. The professor lectures in a large auditorium, and grading (and questions!) are delegated to a staff of TAs.

If you get a good TA and have some good classmates, it's totally fine. Unfortunately, it's common for your TA to be crap, at which point grading becomes a nightmare.

I avoided all of this by taking introductory classes at the community college, where they teach the same material to classes of 25 students.
Ask HN: Writing Software – Is it boring or am I bored?
Hey,

Some prose first, questions at the end.

After over two years I quit my student job. Besides the weekly meeting I was pretty much 100 percent of the time writing a frontend in flutter. In the beginning it was quite fun - lot's of new stuff to learn and quick progress. But it recently evolved into this boring feature implementation treadmill where things got ever more complex, brittle, and having this falls-apart-when-you-look-at-it-wrong attitude. I got bored from it.

It really reduced my interest in all the other computing stuff I’ve been playing around with. So since four or five months I haven’t cared much and did just the bare baseline amount of work - But it helped a lot! Started learning how people use tmux as a window manager, what makes vim addictive to learn, why some people can’t stop talking about clojure (reading about clojure and its ecosystem, I love it), what gnu is and software ideologies/licenses there are, people printing their own parametrized split ortho colemak keyboard. Fine stuff! Not advanced, but I'm eager understand all the parts.

I'm doing my masters degree in aerospace engineering, but I'm thinking more and more of putting that on pause and working in Software for some time. Having no formal software education, I want to learn new stuff. Is there enough demand for engineers that companies are willing to pay for one learning “it” on the go? If yes, what field is it? Trying to avoid cruft and mundane tasks: What kind of companies to look for and which ones to avoid? And on a more philosophical note: Can a hobby be a job without losing the fun part?
Watching YC grow over the years has changed (good and bad) everything we touch, see, hear and taste was bc of the 'YC effect'.. directly and indirectly. From myself 7x applicant to getting in YC SUS F19 to meeting /connecting with 100s of founders from around the world thru YC.

To me it's the best community in the world to share ideas, knowledge, make friends and collaborate. Rarely, a community this unique can sway a market in under a Twitter minute.

You if haven't applied, please do. not once but everytime you can. Your idea you have in your head right now, can change humanity's outcome.. maybe it's a cure for cancer or the next do-dad we'll buy at Target. Just apply and see what happens..

Yeah it's disheartening to get that email, the same one I got 7 times. But understand, they're watching each of us to who tweet out our ideas, our dreams.. You'll never know who'll email you out of the blue to apply (I've heard a few stories Abt this).

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These numbers are way off. Power reactors run with a few percent enrichment at most. 90% enrichment is deep in weapons territory.

Reactors use slow neutrons that have thermalized in moderators. Due to the much higher fission cross section at low neutron velocities, they reach criticality at much lower 235U densities compared to nuclear weapons. In fact, this is a serious danger in nuclear fuel production. In 1999 there was a criticality accident in a nuclear fuel production facility in Japan that killed two workers [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura_nuclear_accidents#19...
Yes I came here to say this.

The users click the button, get told it worked, but their comment is not visible to them. The fact they can't see it is why they suspect a problem I think.

A UX improvement might be to update the success page to show their message back to them with a prominent "Pending review" message very close and very obvious next to their message.