skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This problem is solved, just not in pill form.

There's an old solution that allows men to reduce their sperm count, down to an effective-zero: raise the temperature of the testicles to be body temperature.

In ancient times bread bakers were known to not father as many children, until they stopped working the ovens. The heat shock protein disrupts sperm production for longer periods of time. HSP forms at 104 degrees, iirc.

One of my previous comments about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28023798
> Football is not a perfect information game. The opponent may line up in front of you, but you don't know their playbook.

That would make football a game of perfect information. You know everything about the state of the game. You don't know what your opponent is planning to do any more in chess than you do in football.
It's sort of funny that software engineers spend so much time thinking about the nuances of making sure that things occur in the right order on the scale of milliseconds while maintaining invariants in all sorts of exotic distributed NoSQL systems that don't guarantee strong consistency... and meanwhile many of the most important things we do on computers use standard centralized relational DBs but take several business days to process and get screwed up if you don't wait long enough for them to resolve properly.
Perhaps I’m just insensitive to it, but I’m never felt any “addiction” effects. I generally don’t drink coffer or tea on the weekends, never noticed any headaches. Never get jitters from drinking coffee or fog on non-coffee days.

I don’t think that everyone has this kind of reaction.
I wouldnt be surprised if this applies to other Hondas than listed, e.g. FIT, Accord ...
there are some very important differences that we can focus on, while you can stick with the similarities:

1 - token vesting contracts are often much quicker than startup grants, and public company RSUs. A few months to a year, compared to 4 years.

2 - tokens achieve liquidity much faster and more reliably, in comparison to startup companies of a similar age. this allows new organizations to compete in hiring against FAANGs, where employees also are receiving liquid things to sell.

3 - token grants can be alongside startup equity. so its an additional part of the compensation package. As such there is no compromise to rant about.

and just to acknowledge the “issue” you care about, correct a market may never occur or form for the tokens, no different than the equity, there you go, a tiny disclaimer on page 34. I agree that every employee should be objective about that, this is the same standard with every kind of organization aiming to compensate partially in non-cash, which puts us right back at square one: pick the one thats both interesting and compensates well.
Hey me too xD
I also loved the linked article - the concept of Type II Fun is definitely one I'll be adding to my vocabulary :)
That's pretty surprising. I would have thought that everyone who does something like a test the second time does better.

Certainly I don't think I've ever not done better the second time I looked at a paper, so maybe my experience is just special.
Perhaps there's a connection between the loss of community and the rise of long commutes to drab office parks.
Anylist.
Fun fact: did you know that you can netcat firmware to a Brother printer?

It's both cool and terrifying.
You don't need to know most of those things to get started, in general you can just follow the setup instructions for the services you use.

You do need your own homeserver, but for me I run a homeserver just for the bridges, and have my main account on a third-party homeserver. This way at least my native matrix chats (which are far more important to me) don't depend on my home server being online.

I would subscribe to hosted bridges fairly quickly if they were a reasonable price. Maybe $1/month per service? Obviously there is risk here because you are trusting someone with access to your account but to me it is probably worth it. There is https://www.beeper.com/ but you need to move your primary account to their service, which is just too much disruption and lock-in for me.

TL;DR I agree, self-hosting is a bit much. I'd love to be able to pay for it though.

I thought about hosting that service myself but I wouldn't want to run a service that is both against the dependencies' ToS and is playing cat-and-mouse with their attempts to shake you off. Too much excitement for too little reward.
They specifically do not change the semantics of the language, they create a new abstraction on top of it that has unusual semantics.
From the article: "It's only a matter of time until the last Java development tool works perfectly fine on an Apple M1."
If you were choosing a framework today, what would you use?
Fast, reliable, inexpensive, relatively quiet. Hard to beat.
Should I Open Source my Company?
Protobuf, MessagePack?
I hate the cube rule of food. I know its mostly a joke about taxonomy but some people take it so seriously. Categorization is highly contextual and fluid and any attempt to be authoritative or argumentative about it bothers me. IDGAS if a hot dog is a sandwich I just want a hot dog
> You're also correct that the person who is going to get pregnant is the more invested party and the one who is going to suffer the consequences from improper preparations.

Depending on the country/state you are in. If abortion is legalized, you can do that. And then, if you know you won't get an abortion either because local regulations forbid, or it goes against your beliefs, then you have to weight in your risks and make your decisions, like combining birth control methods for example.

Now, in places where abortion is legalized, women are the only ones with the power to stop the pregnancy, and the guy needs to face their decision. They can't bail (at least, financially)
The piece written by the whisteblower includes links to documents:

https://www.lioness.co/post/microsoft-is-using-illegal-bribe...
In my opinion, you have a valid use case.
They just had the advantage of having the only viable GUI-based OS on mass market computers. Linux has only begun to be usable on the desktop around 2005-ish, Mac always was expensive because you had to buy Macs.
> You know everything about the state of the game

Is that fully accurate? Do players know how fast the other teams players run? The frequency with which they can catch the ball? How successful their blocking will be?
I do like some of the corner case resolutions tho. Calling a slice of pie, "Bent Toast" tickles me.
I find that the increasing photo realism makes it even funnier when things break down in the typical way.
When gmail was new and invites were all the fad. I nabbed "wolfcub@gmail.com". It got banned and I have never found out why, I was only 17.

Three years ago I got through to support and they never told me other than "it was inclusive internal matter".

Ever since then I've never used gmail for any service.
>But more often companies, orgs, or teams dying has to do with engineering management in my experience.

Nothing can 10X sink a product faster than bad engineering management.

I once joined an established Enterprise software company where leadership had decided they wanted to make a new product. A lot of the justification was they saw the need with existing customers, and they could make $200M+ ARR by simply getting their existing customers to use it. They invested a lot of money in marketing, created a lot of hype, and built up a huge worldwide org.

One of the premises of the product was that if you had a fleet of machines using this product, it would be a force multiplier for extracting value out of a particular broadly defined use case.

Except, engineering and product management was so busy getting the engineers to build something that could scale to infinity, they never bothered to improve the basic stuff that let somebody get value during a trial period. Customers would struggle to deploy and integrate this thing onto one machine. And when they did, they didn't see the value.

Leadership always parroted the same thing. Slides about once you have thousands of machines using this, the value is there. But over 3 years nobody really implemented a nice way of integrating 5 machines, let alone 1000.

3 years later the org went from 3000 employees worldwide to a few sales people in every region and development mostly being done in India. Comically enough, the lack of financial resources meant that the new management had to focus on things that actually mattered to customers. So the product actually got a lot better. But by that time all the momentum and trust was gone.
I've been remote by necessity for 8 years, since 2014.

I'd prefer to be in the office most days; but the realities of life would make it difficult for my wife and I to both have careers and be parents. If either of us had a rigid "be in the office Monday - Friday" job, the other would need to cut back to part time just to care for our young children.

What I've observed: In software, a company that wants you to be on-site Monday - Friday has control issues. Limiting your workforce to people who live within a reasonable commute who are single / single career couples / childless couples just makes it hard to hire.
I agree with your first point, but it's orthogonal to the question if people who would commit suicide given enough money goes to their loved ones should be tricked into not committing suicide. And, as far as the utility argument is concerned, the insurance pool is best off if they're tricked into staying alive and paying into the pool.

As to your second point, I agree in general with reducing ignorance about suicide, but this one misconception feels... somehow worth the lie. I agree it's not the most objectively rational position to take, but if the money is the only thing making the difference between life and death, I feel like it's better they pretend the money isn't there, and it's easier to pretend if they don't know they're pretending.
I was responding to this:

> If you're willing to use a garbage collection library [0], you can even have a pleasant syntax for ObjectiveC style OOP in C:

That sounded to me as if you were claiming that GC is a pre-requisite for having a particular syntax. But I gather that's not what you meant. I'm still a little unclear about what you actually meant. You can have memory leaks like the one in your example above in vanilla C without any OOP features at all. GC is completely orthogonal to OOP, and both are completely orthogonal to syntax.
I've had a few crap Chinese receipt printers. I do appreciate that they print Chinese characters because I print a lot of anime fan art and art reproductions of 19th century Japanese prints and like to put as much kanji as I can on the back sides. On the other hand other than some official Pokemon art that renders beautifully on thermal printers because it was thought through like the Ansel Adams Zone System

https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts/2477177

I do almost all this work with inkjet printers and rasterize it all myself.

(I wrote my own text rendering engine for vertical CJK text, not because I was unhappy with the results I got printing characters with uniformly square metrics but because I wanted western characters and dingbats I introduced to look good. Sooner or later I'll probably write my own text rendering engine for horizontal roman text because I haven't met a kerning engine I really like and because there are many typographical details like ordinals (e.g. 5ᵗʰ) that I'd like to have better control of.)
>The point is to build an open monetary system

A structurally impossible goal when it is deflationary in nature.
Yeah it's happened like that in local communities where I live. Big company says to city government "if you don't give us a big tax break we'll move our [headquarters|factory|operations|etc] to our branch in [that other town]".

More often than not the city relents and the tax breaks are enacted. No city officials are paid off, it's all about arm-twisting.

Seems to me this is a form of extortion not bribery. Of course extortion is no more ethical than bribery, but it's not illegal to use the threat to take one's business elsewhere. Call it "negotiating", it happens all the time.
> What is a sufficient compromise, in your view, that satisfies the need of some workers to have regular face to face interactions with coworkers

Let them get their interactions from people who want to have them.

What's a sufficient compromise between the need of some men to have sex with women and the desire of some women not to have sex with those men?
> here's a non insignificant percentage of women that have serious side effects with hormonal birth control: Mood changes and reduced sex drive are crippling, if you are unlucky enough to find yourself in that category. Surgical approaches aren't great if you see a possibility of wanting to change your mind later.

absolutely agreed, If there are pills and procedures for both sides, whoever has bad side effects (or risks for a surgery) can opt-out, and the other partner will do it. Or both can combine, decreasing the risk of pregnancy even more
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> We could just as easily apply that basic logic to any security.

Not quite. An Amazon share is a claim on future residual cash flows, whose net present value constitutes the (unknown) "true value" of the share. If Amazon falls to 1/10th of its current price because of some tweet by Elon or whatever other (extraneous, fluke) reason, lots of people would be lining up to buy it, because they get a stake in an actual business that would repay them their investment within a few years. So, no, it would not reach 0 share price.

(So, while the argument in the article needs some refinement, its broad thrust is true: market cap for a publicly traded company is much more meaningful than market cap for a crypto currency.)
I'm in the industry and most cars 2008-2017 or thereabouts have multiple CAN buses exposed on the OBD2 port. One (powertrain CAN) on the regulated 6/14 pins which is guaranteed to answer the emissions messages but probably exposes other stuff too, and then others (body CAN, infotainment CAN, etc) on other pairs of pins.

Post-2018-ish, they tend to have a gateway module, and accessing anything interesting requires you to get into the wiring "behind" the gateway where all the internal buses are. But that's also trivial, in most cars it takes about 20 seconds once your wrist knows the way.

> requires the $20k dealer computer system

Or knowing the messages it sends. It's only $20k because it can be.

> or some serious reverse engineering chops and weeks of time to figure it out.

Which someone then packages into a $500 car-stealer they sell on aliexpress and then all the criminals have to do is buy that thing and push a button.
They are quite fast (200mm/s). If you send a malicious job you have 12m of paper sticking out of the printer within a minute :D
> I don’t think the author made this claim at all. He just mentioned that he thinks that Google are using eUICC to make roaming on Google Fi cheaper than traditional roaming agreements.

Maybe, but as far as I can tell Google Fi is just a T-mobile MVNO (they used to also use Sprint, but T-mobile bought Sprint ~2 years ago). My direct-with-Tmobile service also includes free international roaming in a ton of countries, so it would make sense if Google just took advantage of the agreements T-mobile already has in place.
While the essay eventually explores some interesting topics, the opening statements claiming there are explanations from physics that connect these infinities to our actual universe were fairly ameteurish and misleading.

The many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, for instance, provides clear math on how to reason about quantities as the universe splits into more universes: we integrate after multiplying by the probability of each branch. No credible physical theory is proposing we double the amount of mass and energy in the universe whenever we measure the spin of an electron.

Calling that split universe "two universes" instead of "two half-universes" is fine for a casual explanation, but if you want to do correct math with this result, you need to start with the correct math too! Once you make that adjustment, all this talk in about "finite benefits don't matter compared to infinite benefits" can be translated as "benefits with probability zero don't matter compared to benefits with non-zero probability". Much more palatable.

There are still interesting conversations about benefits which could last for infinite time. But there, the crux is in the "could". These thought experiments always bake in assumptions at dozens of levels which say "this factor in my model will last for infinite time". When you consider in our ignorance about what the future will hold, I've yet to see a convincing example where we could truly consider a finite action as having infinite utility. I'm certainly open to it, I just haven't seen it.
To be fair your first problem sounds like an impedance mismatch more than anything else. Users come and go from IRC all the time because connections are transient by nature. It would probably be annoying to a lot of people if they left the room every time they disconnected.

Matrix and WhatsApp are both durable with regards to users so this issue probably isn't relevant.

Personally I find the biggest problem with puppeting is the impedance mismatches. For example if reactions aren't bridged it can be easy to miss stuff. This depends on the bridge used.
Most people in financial distress don't do bankruptcy. They run up their credit cards/car loans/etc. till the interest payments are high enough that they are living paycheck-to-paycheck. They get stuck in that situation. I think in the US only the government can garnish wages. Private entities can only bug you a lot and wreck your credit. I just don't think UBI solves the poverty problem like many people think. But I sure would like some country to try it to see what happens.
I remember waiting for Carmack to update his .plan file and have some other date other than 'when it's ready' LOL.
If someone knew of an easy way to make a lot of money with very little risk, why would that person share it with anyone, especially in exchange for money?

At some point you have to think the people that invest in these type of scams have to know they're scams and are just hoping to get in early enough to be closer to the top of the Pyramid.
What? So many of my peers are moving to crypto companies in droves or moonlighting as devs on crypto projects. The money is really good too.
hey sorry for taking a while to respond, was busy with personal stuff and hope you see this.

1. yes. its on the order of months. start watching https://github.com/temporalio/sdk-python

2. temporal itself will not produce something like that, because we much rather have a lively community of third party maintainers/startups do that and be their supporters rather than competitors. interested?
I am always (jadedly) suspicious with articles on 'false positives' within the medical field.

Sure, statistics say that there are false positives. Personally, I rather have three false positives, than one false negative. Taken to a bit of an extreme, the outcome of first is money spent and stress, the outcome of the later is death. I am not a statistics to myself.

I am sorry for the inconvenience to the medical field by having to re-test, and certainly feel for the insurance company to have to pay for a second, or third opinion. I care, I really do. Just, not that much.

That said, it took me decades to recognize the need and add sympathy into my calculations.
Couldn't bribe North Korea. I can't believe Juche actually worked.
Two 20-year-olds charged in alleged $1.1M NFT scam
Its a shame since I genuinely loved Keybase. I've just not felt the same way about another messaging app. Signal appears to be the safest but since WhatsApp is e2e encrypted and most of my social network is there already I'm stuck with it.
I am not a security consultant, but I've never heard of either.

Which says something... but then again if the security group is doing its job with setting up canaries, why would peon dev like me even be awares?
I totally agree with this.

Moreover, integrating Japanese learning tools (reach out to Wanikani for their API?) would really elevate the product. I'd pay a premium right now if it could help me review kanji and vocabulary in a non-boring way! (eg. calculate a difficulty score for each manga, determine which manga have more vocabulary and kanji you know, etc.)

Granted, I know this is a niche feature and you probably need hands on deck elsewhere. Maybe you'll see other demand that confirms this as something to build later down the road.

Really awesome product though. Great execution. Wish you all the luck!
Reasonable guess. Zoom openly admitted they were basically just poaching the team, so it would make sense if they stopped working on Keybase.

If it's really abandoned, it's somewhat surprising it's kept working this long.
My experience is the same.
They have already pushed and many companies ship Chrome OS to their employees. It's extremely common for non-technical folks.
"In the last six months of 1991, we started and shipped five games,"

What was so different about development back then that they were able to do that? That's unheard of today despite better hardware and a lot more tools. And they didn't have stackoverflow.com!
Ya for sure, that's what people don't understand. It takes years to really be up to speed and really useful (maybe you can shortcut it with bootcamps, idk, I suspect not though but maybe you would know enough to be good for some tasks).

I had a friend ask me same thing as OP. He was 50, out of work at the time (had been in a trade before) and wondered if he could get into programming. I don't want to discourage anyone from learning to program because you can do a lot of cool stuff, but to be seriously industry useful isn't a matter of months and a few online classes but rather some dedicated years.

And (this might be an unpopular opinion) it's much harder if you don't natively think a certain way. Some otherwise smart people find programming pure torture and the chance of them going through the years needed is pretty low.
This illustrates an important point to me.

First of all, money or value is a purely memetic construct. It's a grand illusion that only exists in our collective network of consciousnesses and operates as an abstraction to efficiently keep track of favors owed.

Therefore, value or money doesn't just transfer with explicit trades, as in trading $40,000 for 1 bitcoin adds $40,000 of value to bitcoin. Value also transfers memetically and invisibly, as in many people suddenly start to believe that asset B has 20% more value than asset A than it did yesterday. No explicit trade took place to create that transference of value. It's just that lots of people suddenly started believing that asset B was worth more favors that asset A. Sometimes that value is fairly easy to define, like by projected earnings of a company over the holding period of a stock. More often it's a nebulous and decentralized calculation of the market.
> No, but treating non-disabled people as disabled could be. Just like offering help to some disabled people triggers them.

Putting this option in accessibility settings does no such thing. That assumption is what I take issue with, and what prompted all of my points above.

> My point is that having basic (previously standard) UI cues like buttons is important and stuffing that option anywhere is a poor choice.

I disagree. I often find designs with fewer borders and shapes easier to use—that is, more accessible to me—_because_ there’s less information for me to visually process to find what I’m looking for.

That said, I’d be perfectly fine if they inverted the default… or even just asked on first install/startup, with a note on where you can change it later if you change your mind.