skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's possible, I'd say completely normal, to both want to make money, and to improve the world.

Yes because we're all brainwashed into "making a living". In what world is it normal to have to pay just to live?! Making money is precisely the mindset that's destroying our entire planet.

I'm not saying things are binary good/evil but capitalism is certainly the one thing creating the most suffering on this planet, and is essentially the driving force behind everything climate change.

It's hard to find a corporation that can fill any form of ethical criteria. Maybe an organic bakery sources local products and produces quality breads, but when it comes to IT there is no "ethical company" because everything we build relies on slave labor from mines/factories and extreme pollution in the global south...

BUT i would be tempted to say an IT company is on the other side of the spectrum if it attempts to respect its users by fighting hard against planned obsolescence (only sourcing quality materials, making disassembly/replacement easy) and for free computing (full schematics for every single part of the hardware, full source code for all firmware). I just don't know a single IT corporation that fits the bill, although Purism/Pine64/Oxide get closer than most.

We need 30+ years warranty on all devices. How come washing machines from the 50s are still working today, but those produced 5 years ago are breaking down as we speak? Yes, that's because of profits, as explained previously. Eliminate profit as a driving force for society and suddenly you'll see a lot of data points starting to improve.
He would buy his drink daily, not always from the same place and not at the same time. So some days he'd buy a bottle of cider, other days a bottle or two of wine, a bottle of spirit, etc. In other words, his alcohol consumption was erratic and the fact he had to go out and buy it everyday sometimes led to unintended outcomes such as mixing with the kinds of people with similar issues, having small accidents, being robbed a couple of times, and so on..

I don't know what went through his mind every morning but I'm sure that buying his daily alcohol fix was a top priority and everything else was secondary.

I figured that if he got up everyday without this nagging thought in his head then it may help him regain some semblance of control? Because I bought the same brand of drink and in enough quantity to ensure he wouldn't need to go out any buy anymore each day, it also helped him establish a steady routine. In a way, it made it boring for him but not to the point where he'll resort to his previous behaviour. The fact he isn't paying for it is also a motivating factor, obviously.

A year on and he's now in a routine where he doesn't drink before 3pm and then only one 1 ltr bottle of 5% strength cider. His health and general mood have both improved and, most importantly, there have been no hospital visits.

I describe him as alcohol dependent rather than a full-blown alcoholic because his drinking is more a learned habit rather than pure addiction. I'm not sure my strategy would work so well otherwise and I would certainly caution against it.
Actually the most important part of monads in Haskell is the do-notation. Without that, monadic code would look like JS' callback hell (although composition of monads using monad transformers/monad stacks isn't much better).

Haskell without laziness is Purescript, btw.
There were 1 person that died in Fukushima. Some more, mostly elderly people, died during evacuation/displacement.

In Chernobyl around 50 people died as direct consequence of the disaster. As far as I know there's no studies showing increased risk of cancer in the population that lived in and around Chernobyl at the time. If Chernobyl showed us one thing it is that radiation is not as dangerous as we believed.
I didn’t say “dunk” on them. I’m saying you can tell a story that isn’t “oh my god they were angels in life and they’re angels now in death.” There’s a whole range of tones between sanitizing and slandering.
I'd rather a package report as `does-not-exist` and suggest I install it from snap over it installing it silently from snap without my input
No, it was just easiest to get running. You can make natural uranium reactor with no enrichment of fuel needed, even - it's how Manhattan Project could get fissile material in the first place.

Thorium was actually more of military-only solution than Uranium->Plutonium chain, as unlike Uranium it doesn't have obvious "easy" energy use path, but early on it was researched as mix of uranium and thorium fuels due to uranium availability concerns.
An excellent example of the first technique of "tu quoque" as described in the article.. I am looking forward to seeing your examples of the remaining techniques!
That seems like a legally dubious move.
Bad advice IMO. One can make friends anywhere. If anything, I'd go to an activity, convention or event that peaks your interest.
To Waste or Not to Waste: On the Ingestion and Carcinogenicity of Microplastic
> You might be thinking of “clean room” techniques which protect against claims of copyright infringement.

Ah yes, that's what I was thinking of -- thanks. Specifically a scene from an episode of Halt and Catch Fire (I won't describe it due to spoilers).

That's a real bummer for patents though and makes me wonder how something like Amazon's 1-click checkout was able to be patented. I wonder how "save billing details for future use" can be considered a novel idea.
This person is right that hospitals, or health care systems in general should be working on this. It's more complicated than simply not helping people who won't help themselves. The difficulty is that no one knows the best, most effective systems or approaches for doing this, and emergency medicine resources are stretched very thin here in the United States. Emergency departments were designed for the stabilization of life threats, but in our modern collapsing medical system, limiting their scope to this falls short of community needs. There are many people whose only contact with the medical system will be the ED, and finding ways to treat and integrate them into more sustainable programs should be a goal. There are promising advancements being made, however, in initiating standard of care treatments in emergency department settings. On the opioid front, we can start suboxone in the ED, which has proven a pretty effective method of stabilizing people and increasing their participation in treatment down the road. (1)

As someone who is working on this, I don't think it's unfair for people who aren't experts in the field to recognize and call out the fact that something should be done differently. The experts agree, and many of us are trying to figure out a better path forward.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4527523/
It's not about faith. It's about community and being part of one that at least gives a tiny crap about you (as opposed to the general population).
How the World’s Richest People Are Driving Global Warming
They reduced the number of results per search from 1000 to less than 200.
AFAIK he never revealed his intents, so he could just be doing it 'for the lulz'... That seems more likely to me considering his 4chan-y attitude on his other channel 'Vagrant Holiday'
That would be great if my hobbies actually did lower my stress level. As it is they’re barely adequate for sustenance.
Yeah, I think it boils down to that.
Nuclear accidents are rare events with huge impact, while fossil fuel deaths are common, with relatively small impact, killing by a thousand cuts. That doesn’t imply burning fuel is less deadly, though.

By some estimates, fossil fuels kill more people each year than nuclear _ever_ did (including the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23853-y says over a million each year. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00139... increases that to over 8 million (with huge uncertainty)

Now, nuclear provides is a few % of global energy, so you’d have to scale it up, and many of those early deaths due to pollution may be not _that_ early, but it definitely isn’t a given that nuclear is more dangerous than burning fossil fuels.
> Here in Germany it even is illegal unless consent is given.

To elaborate: filming people (or taking pictures of them) in Germany requires consent, with some exceptions. Surveillance cameras are legal as long as their presence is clearly indicated with visible signage and they record only private property (e.g. pointing a surveillance camera outside your property is usually illegal).

I think dashcams currently still occupy a legal gray area but they were inadmissible for the longest time. Walking up to random strangers and deliberately recording them without consent is 100% illegal and I would even argue that it constitutes harassment, especially if asked not to.
If I had to decide for just me that would be an easier decision.
Assistive technology is a good point! But we don't need a global user-tracking/battery-draining mesh network for that!

Just make a tag to place on the back of your phone that reflects a signal, and have a "remote" that when you press the button sends a signal and tries to catch reflection, beeping at a certain volume depending on signal strength.

It's just like those "speech to text" machine learning programs. It's fantastic value for people who can't write, but applied to everyone it has overall very dangerous and damaging consequences.
I don’t think there’s a need to sugarcoat every interaction, but at the same time, we’re but living beings, who all have our share of frustrations and bad days. It takes little to speak or write something a bit softer.
>The fact that in Ukraine, abysmal and abominal as the war is, no such events occured to date, actually gives me some hope that it's less likely than I thought.

You don't consider Russia attacking a nuclear power plant an example of this very thing? It was much closer to disaster than previously thought. You don't have to breach the containment vessel for things to go horribly wrong. There are a number of external critical systems that if destroyed, could result in a meltdown.

https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-nuclear-power-plant-russi...
In what alternate universe did Texas have “hardly any lockdowns?” They shut down restaurants, bars, gyms, social events just like everywhere else.

And yes it is obvious (derivable from germ theory) that lockdowns are effective at slowing the spread of disease exactly in proportion to how complete/total/rigid the lockdowns are. Whether they were worth the cost is obviously more complex to answer.
Plenty of us disagree with your flat “No” meaning it’s neither flat nor even no. Not because we redefined OSS, but because it is colloquially defined.

As regards FSF, I feel their point and mine is the terminology turned out not clear, as the pure definition you cite failed to stick. Language evolves, usage evolves, definitions are owned by the living and refuse to be gatekept. Things now “mean” the concepts they generally elicit rather than what they may have elicited in the past. In this case, the purist concept is tracked by the newer terminology; the ‘misperception’ is now disambiguated into its casual non-practioner use. By claiming both terms still label one concept, you are not among the ‘plenty of us’ recognizing convention evolved, and we are aware you disagree. But props for still trying to hold the line!

Sorry, granted, there is a legal definition of ‘taking’. In this case, I didn’t intend to redefine ‘take’ as meaning not in possession. Instruction to “take a hammer and drive a nail” doesn’t mean one starts by robbing a store. Of course, the muddle over those rights is why the even further suggestion of ‘Libre’ over ‘Free’ over ‘Open’.

Put another way, I strictly agree with you, but it’s futile since in the end casuals define things. It’s not your Open Source, it’s Nacho Libre! ... (Sorry. :-)
Detecting Bullshit
Dream of simplicity.

Settle for complexity.

Implement spaghetti.
There needs a serious-awesome list. Not the current one with 80% of the entries built as some kids' first attempt.
It felt like listening to speech with constantly changing volume. Probably because bold is associated with shouting/strong emphasis.
At top-level orchestras this is true. For example, at the New York Philharmonic minimum pay was about $150k pre-pandemic, cut to $110k during the pandemic[1].

It is not true at less prestigious orchestras, where salaries are much lower. For example, the San Antonio Symphony tried to lower its base salary from just under $36k to just under $18k this past year[2], which resulted in a prolonged strike (still unresolved 6 months later).

There are many more less-prestigious orchestras than top-level orchestras, so most orchestral musicians don't get paid salaries comparable to other similarly high skilled professions.

Professional music is not unlike professional sports in this regard.

[1] https://nonprofitquarterly.org/new-york-philharmonic-players...

[2] https://www.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/san-antonio-symphony-mu...
To be fair, Borland was built on the success of Microsoft - DOS as well as Windows.
> Mozilla with all its flaws is still a foundation

Not exactly.

There is a Mozilla Foundation and a Mozilla Corporation
It reminds me of non-developers with ideas for apps/software.

As if the idea of getting all our energy from the Sun is an original thought.

How do we accomplish this?

"I don't know, I am just the idea man. You do all the engineering for my idea and we will split the profit 50/50!"
You should check out internetcu.be or or freedombox.org, both very successful at bundling a selfhosting distro with some consumer-oriented hardware!

PS: No i'm not mentioning the many hardware-first solutions which are usually just a scam.
Wasp (YC W21) Is Hiring a DevRel
Hi HN,

I'm Matija, founder of Wasp-lang (https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp). We're building a declarative language that makes it easy to build full-stack web apps while still using popular tools such as React & Node.js.

We're currently a team of five, with two founders - twin brothers and ex-Google/Palantir engineers. After graduating from YC we raised our first round ($1.6M) from several US & EU deep tech funds and early engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Airbnb.

Wasp is currently in Alpha - over 350 projects have been created and the first apps have been deployed to production. We have a plan to move to Beta in the next 6 months.

We are looking for a versatile DevRel candidate who likes to code but also enjoys communicating with developers. You would be a first DevRel hire which means you'll have a lot of flexibility to shape the job to your liking.

We're a remote team based across the US (east coast), Croatia, and the Netherlands.

For more details about the role, take a look here: https://wasp-lang.notion.site/DevRel-at-Wasp-dd53d9b3a8b5496...

If this sounds interesting, please reach out matija [at] wasp-lang [dot] com.
The samples are impressive. I would love to have some longer text to see how it really works and feels. Maybe apply it to some public domain text?
Googling, it seems women do not have to register. Normally, I would say this makes it open to a discrimination challenge but such things would not occur with the current Court. Makes sense that objectors have to register as there’s lots of roles they can fulfill and remain true to their beliefs. I think stretcher bearers are one of of them and some were decorated in ww ii. FEMA is just another option, which keeps them onshore.
Screenshots (all of this runs on DOS+his Pascal stack):

Notepad: https://mircosoft.mzf.cz/obrazky/turbopad.gif

Plotting charts editor: https://mircosoft.mzf.cz/obrazky/grafak-2D.gif

3D charts: https://mircosoft.mzf.cz/obrazky/grafak-3D.gif

Vector graphics editor: https://mircosoft.mzf.cz/obrazky/acad.gif

Font editor: https://mircosoft.mzf.cz/obrazky/pgfe1.gif https://mircosoft.mzf.cz/obrazky/pgfe2.gif
OK, I facetiously say 'go to the pub' as a metaphor for just going outside and meeting people.

......Though being British, this usually involves us all going for a piss-up at some point or other. (Typical example: what's the point in going mountain bike riding if you don't all cycle past a pub on the way home?)
When you think how many of hours of study and rehearsal each of those musicians put into creating the 3 hours you enjoyed, it starts to look even better value.
Yeah, wasn’t there a good meta-analysis of the “Ivermectin treats Covid” papers that basics said “Ivermectin seems to treats Covid in countries where certain parasites are endemic, and if doesn’t where they don’t”.
Wow, that's impressive. You made it made it boring for him. I appreciate the caveats but from my arm-chair perspective it looks like you're doing the right steps here.
It just shows how people have no idea about how transparent they have become. A private guy filming you is so trivial and insignificant compared to surveillance capitalism, it shouldn't even get a mention.
Apple’s $4.7B in Green Bonds support innovative green technology
Why do developer companies keep thinking they are aocial twitter-facebook-like things?

It goes from small things like hiding exact timestamps behind meaningless "2d ago" to this bullshit
I just want the old Google search back. It's very frustrating when I submit a search term within quotes and I get back a bunch of pages that don't contain that term.
Ad. Make such things have (Ad) in the title…
You're missing energy storage there, and also the logistics of producing that many solar panels.
>Does it really matter whose child it is?

Umm what? Do you not see the inherent breakage of trust if your wife is having sex with someone else in a monogamous relationship and then trying to pass off someone else' kid as yours?
> It's the type of thing only a doctor can say.

This information is the first result when you Google "fertility by age" [0].

This should be mentioned more often, not to be sexist, but so everyone has the complete information, it's way more cruel to allow people to be deluded until their forties just for them to realize one day they can't have children.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_and_female_fertility
Imagine if you powered cars with only what fuel outgassed naturally from a tank full of kerosene, and dumped the liquid remainder regularly - and you'd have close comparison to how much we are actually using up of the Uranium available due to focus on light water Boiling and Pressurized Water Reactors.

There are designs with much higher burnup rates (how much fuel in a rod is actually used), as well as designs that do not need enrichment and will happily run on naturally occurring uranium mix - self-enriching as they work. There are designs that will take mixed in waste from other designs and further burn it down, reducing amount of high-level radioactive waste.

All of that is barely scratched in practice.
I think a lot of people that come from clojure arrive at consensus that you can instrument some typechecking on edges. Define what is valid(input) data and move it through your program. Inside your program it rarely matters(from validity perspective) if something is a list, tuple, lazylist - it is a collection. Things are either single value, collection or associative the semantics around each in code are pretty obvious in most cases.

Its always contentious topic, there are no answers.
Referral to psychiatric consultation would be a start. There is a reason why people resort to harmful behaviours and without addressing this you are never going to cure the underlying problem.

I guess the alternative is to do nothing and expect people to cure themselves purely through sheer will, as, more or less, what happens now?

Please explain how this is working?
Working on a high profile public health service app which runs on Corretto.
Is there any possibility of interoperating with f.lux?
Thorium is more useful as pathway to nuclear weapons than as reactor fuel :V
Not remotely as extreme as this, but we had a lot of trouble conceiving of our second child, after a very complicated birth for our first. We did want a second child, though, so we went through all sorts of fertility treatments, with no results except for one miscarriage. Eventually we were tired of it and gave up. After a few months we were ready to give it another go, and we'd start with new fertility treatments after her next period. That period never came, and we got another son instead (with a much easier pregnancy and birth than the first one).
Tell HN: There needs to be a “right to speak with a human”
Over the past few weeks I've been in five separate instances where I needed a company to help me something, and I could not reach a human. Instead, I had to open tickets that went nowhere, reply to tickets via email, be told conflicting things by different people via email... It's so frustrating, and I'm sure there are others who experience this.

Part of me thinks (perhaps naively) if I had the ability to speak with a real person over the phone, we could sort this out instead of constant emails or creating tickets that go into a black hole. As more companies outsource, automate, or severely cut their customer service department, there needs to be some kind of pressure to stop these frustrating experiences from happening. Voting with our dollars doesn't work when these companies are so integrated with our lives.
I do hope that kindle and other ebook readers will incorporate your tech. Awesome idea!
That is how I rationalized it. It has held up pretty well. Took some getting used to. One of my favorite things is that the shift keys on left and right can be sort of short single tapped to create quotes (). That's really improved my output when programming.

It also alleviated some RSI for me (which was why I bought it originally). It's excessively customizable—I honestly probably don't get as much use out of it as I could. You can basically assign a key to anything, including compound keys, macros, etc. And then on top of that, there are several layers you can swap between. So you have a button to press, and it swaps out the entire arrangement for some other keymapping (either momentarily or toggled). I got the RGB version too, so on top of that, you can customize per-key colors, which is helpful to map out keybindings when you're switching layers. (e.g. mine switches from blue to purple when I switch to my second layer).

It's really neat, and I would definitely invest if you're typing 8+ hours a day like me.
Sounds like a bad job and even worse colleagues and a terrible manager. I found that alcohol just makes everything worse. Yes it relieves stress in the moment but that stress rebounds 2x the next day, then 3x the day after that and so forth compounding itself.

Having young kids changes your sleep schedule. I am sorry your job treated you that way. I also tend to wake up at 4am-5am as I have kids. I just try to make it to 8 or ideally 9pm before I go to sleep. Also consult with a sleep doctor, alcohol acerbates sleep apnea which can cause poor sleep. Practice good sleep hygiene as best you can.
Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me :-)
GitHub has finally gone full SoLoMo

(ref https://youtu.be/J-GVd_HLlps?t=50 )
I've dealt with an alcoholic for almost my entire life. Unless that person decides to stop, there is nothing a hospital (or anyone else) can do. It's sad and it's hard, but it's the reality.
>If I want to film a police officer arresting someone, they can't tell me to stop

to clarify this is legal here as well. Places or people of public interest are excluded from this. So crimes, public figures, monuments, public buildings and so on you can photograph as much as you want. The law protects private individuals, say someone taking your picture specifically on a train, in a gym or what have you.

>You don't own public space

That is true but the idea is that the public space should not become a voyeuristic zoo. Photographing spaces is fine, but individuals should not lose their privacy entirely just because they leave their home.