skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be worse, for example, you could be thinking those very same thoughts at an even younger age, before you even accomplished the things you set out to do.
The author seems to on the one hand have a lot of ambitions, but on the other a case of ADHD (or modern-day tech-caused attention deficit) where they end up hyperfocused down a rabbit hole on a regular basis. I have no answers for that, because even medication probably won't make people focus on their mid- to long-term goals. That said, being a New Yorker writer, theater troupe, and all the other things they mentioned, they're probably fairly successful in their life beyond the lofty goals they've set themselves. Which may not be their true calling actually, but more of a "this is what people I look up to have done".
Governments who "didn't want to create a panic" just flat-out lied. They broke the public trust and did incalculable, permanent damage to societies' ability to react to crises in the future.

It was self-serving, short-sighted, and frankly, the worst possible outcome. They clearly did not avoid a panic, did not avoid massive consequences, but, in the long run, deliberately injected distrust, hatred, and fear, deepening political divisions and driving us to the brink.

And yet political leaders will face no consequences.
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I don't post much, but I really like how it turned out. It's not too fancy and probably violates a bunch of web dev best practices, but that's okay.
Always good to see a zero-CSS website. The true zen-master style of web production ‒ many tacitly aspire to its purity, yet few are able to shake off worldly temptations to attain it.
Pointers are tuples of (Id, LogOffset) and are used to map logical identities to positions of those objects in the append-only log.

Indexes are usually a tuple of (Some64BitKey, Id) and are used to map physical business keys to logical object identities. These entries are only candidates in the case where the key material needs to be hashed and inspected for actual equivalence.

One big advantage with this approach is that you can stream big blobs directly out of the log to a caller-supplied buffer or stream. No intermediate allocations required aside from some small buffers.
this is inspired by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where planet earth is part of a computer to calculate an answer to a question.
And also the fact that Lavalamps are used to generated random private keys.
So our universe could be a gigantic lavalamp to generate string with high Kolmogorov complexity.
I didn't find the right alignment of text to be easier to read, but though it was a mistake on your part. Of course, now I know it was intentional. Good job though.
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I just realized I haven't posted in over a year...
Milk with a multi-month shelf live can't be fresh, I believe. The fresh (mildly processed) milk I know turns bad within about a week, the "extended shelf life" stuff that was introduced a couple of years ago (in Germany) lasts for a few weeks. There is also "H Milch" which tastes very differend and can be stored at room temperature for several months.
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> Forged art, like counterfeit money, is illegal to own or sell.

Do you have a reference for that? At least in Poland that's explicitly not the case, and I'm curious how does that kind of legislation distinguish between a forgery and a replica.
The first example is such a straw man. The LocationProvider class has no business being a class. It should just be a function. Problems then go away.
Yes, that works fine. All non-Workspace services continue to work that way. I discovered it accidentally and I am quite glad that I do not have to migrate many SSO accounts created with Google Apps / G Suite / Workspace over the last decade. The deprecation definitely taught me a lesson in avoiding vendor lockins.
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> I looked pretty hard a couple of years ago and couldn't find any explanation of the most familiar QM phenomena like the double slit experiment

I was following links from the OP, and while reading his Wolfram Physics one year update[1] I came across this:

https://www.wolframphysics.org/bulletins/2020/08/a-short-not...

[1] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/04/the-wolfram-phys...
273 something.

For a good while it was defined as exactly 273.15, but as of a couple years ago it's now based on a specific number of Joules.
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Try modifying a staging version of your site to add a sleep(3000) to the start of every page and browse around for a bit. Especially if it's a site where you need to do 4 or 5 interactions to do a certain thing. Everything just feels ponderous and weighty and like it takes a lot more cognitive load to work on it.
If you're going to have monolithic platforms anyway (and you will, because designing for modularity is hard, whereas hacking together some random monolithic code is easier) they should at least be open source rather than proprietary.
https://egorfine.com/en/

Also my photo site: https://egorfine.com/photo/ with some pictures of the insides of Mriya, of the Baikonur cosmodrome, lots of Chernobyl pics from various years and others.
There are many degrees of airborne. One of the theories for why the models break for COVID (and influenza) so badly is the possibility that these viruses can travel very long distances and remain viable. Like in the upper atmosphere, long distance.

This is hardly a radical notion. Ferguson's useless 2001 era foot-and-mouth models relied heavily on the idea that the virus would be spread by the wind between nearby farms, even if there was no close physical contact between animals. The field of "aerobiology" investigates this topic (whether our understanding of what can survive long distance travel might be flawed). If this is correct then it'd explain many otherwise unexplainable facts about COVID and influenza, like the way outbreaks start and stop more or less simultaneously over huge geographic areas.
[I am not a psychologist] but it seems you described the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
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While this was clearly an experiment etc, a "I am rich" showing off is still prevalent in most games these days with high ticket in-game purchases. Either of the variant that gives your character or base or whatever an appearance trait, or pay-to-win items that puts you high up on the leaderboards.
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Here's a short explanation of how some of the mechanisms mention in that diagram work [1].

[1] https://donaldsonaerospace-defense.com/library/files/documen...
It’s entirely possible, most artificial sweeteners have a chemical taste to me and if I consume them it unsettles my stomach for a couple hours. My mother is the only other person I’ve encountered with the same condition. My father and brothers can’t tell the difference. I can ingest real sugar and corn syrup without issue, but they taste very different to me. I discovered sodas made with real sugar about ten years ago - wow - those mexican cokes are amazing, but costs twice as much.
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Mine just has a simple time waster: https://manolov.me/
Literally no panpsychist asserts that a proton has human, or even bacterium level consciousness.
"But clothes" isn't an argument.
Two things to think about:

1. Maybe steady-state “feeling happiness” isn’t a good goal? Like, so what if you “feel happy?” If that’s all you want, opiates are widely available.

Maybe a better set of goals would be “peak satisfaction” combined with tangible external outcomes that you consider worthwhile.

2. The accomplishments you have listed are mostly about yourself. They feel empty now because you have basically got yourself under control.
What can you improve in the world outside yourself? Can you improve the company where you work? Or your family in some tangible way?

I’ll give you one small example:

My cousin and his wife had failed two expensive rounds of IVF already, and they are comfortable but not in high paying jobs. They were struggling to afford another round. They had asked the family for help with a go fund me but didn’t come close to what was needed.

I had just gotten a bonus, and the total amount needed (several $K) was an amount I could well afford so I just sent it to them. I didn’t make it a big deal, and made sure they understood they owe me nothing.

To this day, I get a warm glow of satisfaction when I see my niece or they send pictures.

Way more than what I get from checking my bank account or reflecting on other “self” accomplishments.
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Reliably Send an HTTP Request as a User Leaves a Page
I see I wrote that very clumsily, sorry. I was talking about the Friday shutdown and replied to your comment as a general response to the reasons for not releasing code. Obviously personal projects or anything else you don't market and sell/rent out to people are completely different. fwiw, I'm quite similar with my personal projects, but if I took people's money for something and then had to shut it down, I'd do everything in my power to enable them to keep using it without me.

Sorry again for the confusion
I've been looking at Deno very briefly recently (overall a good impression) and I was very much surprised that just getting the visitor's IP address took like a dozen lines of code.

My test case was, basically reproducing something like

<?php echo $_REQUEST . "\n" . $_SERVER; ?>

and I was a little surprised how much convenience was baked into it and how you wouldn't have access to all that in other libs. That someone created an issue[1] makes me think I am not just not looking good enough and it's actually tedious.

[1]: https://github.com/denoland/deno_std/issues/1884
>Private cars in private tunnels for the rich? Is this what we call "achievement"? "There will be no traffic jams in LA because I will be riging my car in private tunnel"?

https://www.reddit.com/r/BoringCompany/comments/rxduxn/elon_...

It's kind of amusing how Elon Musk has to discover the car problem his own way. The tunnel is basically only lacking rails and an appropriately sized tram. Maybe he will catch on?
I love this! This is the kind of interesting stuff I thought I'd be working on before I became a software developer and got disappointed by the day to day CRUD, JS framework nonsense, Agile cesspool it turned into.
Yeah, this paper is a good representation of the whole "chaos cryptography" theme — snake oil cryptography invented by authors who don't even attempt to study cryptography before producing their bullshit and publishing it in sketchy or generalist, unrelated to cryptography, journals.

In this particular paper:

1. The motivation for "image encryption" is completely wrong, as you pointed out.

2. There is no secret key. The "key" is produced by hashing the image with SHA-256.

3. Claim: "No any useful information can be acquired from encrypted images". Actually: since this is convergent encryption (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_encryption, "key" derived from SHA-256 of data), encrypting any two equal images will produce the same ciphertext, globally.

4. Finally, the actual "key" can't be more than 64 bits, since SHA-256(image) is then split into two groups of 32-bit words, which are xored together to produce two key values. Thus, this whole "encryption" scheme is limited to 64-bit security (probably even less than that). We don't even have to analyze the whole "chaos" system they invented to conclude that it's insecure.
Most (if not all) nuclear scientists and radiation experts I've seen tslking about this say this is a wrong assumption. Cheryl Rofer, former nuclear scientist, made a napkin calculation and suggested it would need about 57 years of camping in the hottest (= most irradiated) parts of the red forest to acquire ARS (acute radiation syndrome). Even if the digging and kicking up dust there elevated the radioactivity levels, it would take a hell of a lot to get from 57 years to one month. Keep in mind that the most radioactive snd thus dangerous elements also decay the quickest, because of course both properties stem from the same thing, redioactive decay. The more dangerous the quicker it's gone.
One issue wrt malleability is whether/how one can recognize that a cyphertext or a plaintext is "valid".

If you just xor with a OTP (which means that every cryptotext is valid) and every plaintext is valid, the receiver can't look at the cyphertext or the plaintext and recognize whether a MITM modified the message.

However, the same is true of any crypto system where every cryptotext and plaintext is valid.

However, if there's some way to recognize/distinguish valid plaintext, OTPs are non-malleable.
True, but stores generally don't get any natural light in their fridge sections.

Over here (NL), most milk is only on shelves for a day, they cart in new batches daily. We err, go through a lot of milk.
> I think the issue here is that the word "spicy" is overloaded, meaning both "hot" and "of or containing various spices".

Do people actually use the word "spicy" for the latter?
I thought the same but I guess if your library has 500,000 items, multiple storage locations and 1000s of people that can borrow things, not always with permission and not always recorded correctly, I can see how you wouldn't want to cry wolf until you had searched everywhere.

Probably 20 years ago, they wouldn't have had all the security and CCTV that we have nowadays because it's so cheap.
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Not for the kind of folks that are customers from this kind of vendors, https://www.perkinelmer.com/

Which is exactly the domain I was busy with when I took some time off out of Web development.

You won't find much love for Web UIs in automation or laboratory devices, or stuff like DAWs.

As for the rest, we already have X Windows, VNC, RDP, Citrix, WebRTC streaming,....
Hopefully this allows BeeWare to become "the" python toolkit for mobile. We've been talking about this sort of thing for more than a decade at this point, and it's a shame that the big boys of the ecosystem (FAANG etc) have basically contributed nothing - choosing to go all in on JS tools instead.
Hey, OP here - got lots of views, but would really like to also hear your thoughts.
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Just a little site with some cool projects
About 20 years ago I read a book on spread spectrum radio. Unlike all the others each chapter was in three parts. The first part explained the problem. The things people tried to solve it. Problems with those solutions. And then second part explained the canonical solution, how it solved issues. The third was a formal description and analysis

That book was totally great. Even if you got lost in the math reading the last formal part you understood what was going on.
A dutch data scientist repeatedly showed, with data that Covid was airborn and ventilation should be a top priority [0] (dutch). Unfortunately has was ridiculed. I wonder how much better we could have done taking these early warnings more serious. Part of me thinks we wanted an easy option (masks) instead of expensive changes to existing ventilation systems.

[0] https://pointer.kro-ncrv.nl/hoe-maurice-de-hond-in-het-coron...
Golang CSV parser – dependency free
>Real world examples tend to have a huge amount of unpleasant details which hinder transfer of the underlying concepts.

This. I hate all these blogs, where they are teaching, for example, Django , and start by asking us to setup Postgres/Mysql "because it is a real world database".

And I just quit, as I dont want to deal with the hassle of setting up Postgres, or spend hours setting up Docker on my personal Mac.

And many blogs for beginners will spend 20 minutes teaching them to setup Git "because it is good for you". And I know many beginners just get overwhelmed and quit

Standard Reddit/HN condescending response "But everyone should know git/mysql etc! Are you not a REAL engineer?"

to which I say: Fine, teach them separately.
Well played. I thought it was about potato chips and their air-filled packaging.
He didn't seem arrogant to me from the Lex podcasts. He seems to have no problem admitting when he doesn't know something or when he was wrong. Maybe his overuse of the "I" pronoun gives the wrong impression?
Can someone ELI5 this for me please?
> The speed at which you write code is meaningless.

That's not true. The working memory is finite, you can't keep things in it indefinitely. You can imagine your working memory as a queue[1] - you put things into it through one end, and you take things out of the other end to put them into code. If you can't write fast enough, the queue will overflow and loose a portion of the information you fetched from long-term memory to solve a problem. If that happens, you will have to restart the solving of the problem and re-fetch the required information. This takes time, but more importantly, it disrupts your focus and has a chance of getting you out of the zone.

There's a speed of writing that, depending on the size and volatility of your short-term and working memory, is optimal for you: you don't need to work to improve the speed above that threshold. But if your writing speed is significantly below that threshold, it will slow you down and decrease your productivity. You probably naturally achieved the speed optimal for you long ago, and forgot how you felt before you got to that point.

[1] For the sake of argument only. Obviously, in reality it's more of a graph than linear queue, but it still has limited capacity.
Or, in 2022, one could reach into their pocket just use a phone, making the interviewer's cautionary move generally useless.
> Richard Feynman himself frequently collaborated with Wolfram

By way of a historical note relevant to the current topic, there was a
funny exchange between Wolfram and Feynman recorded in the collection
of Feynman's letters edited by his daughter. Wolfram started a letter
with "Dear Feynman", I imagine because English public school boys
don't use first names that much, and floated the idea of starting a
scientific institute. Feynman replied in a letter starting "Dear
Wolfram" that Wolfram was unlikely to succeed in any leadership
capacity because he regards normal people as "stupid fools", and
therefore should stick to academic work. Feynman's daughter added the
editorial comment that Feynman was disproved by Wolfram's subsequent
entrepreneurial success.
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I recently started a blog about learning game development from scratch: https://dudezord.github.io/

I'll make one game a month, while trying to focus on learning the several disciplines required to properly make a game (art, modelling, audio, etc.)
Middleware 101
> most of the time the recruiters say that the age is a problem

This sounds illegal, sorry to hear that your dad is going through that.
I really only stopped caring what people thought after I got divorced (I was 43 at the time). Before that, it was 'the big house', 'the bmw', 'running the cool business'.. ostensibly, showing off to everyone else how impressive I could be (I wasn't). I felt like a fraud because I hated what I was doing. Others still had more money, a bigger house, and a cooler car. It was an arms race and I was losing. But when all of that was stripped away after the divorce, it was again, just me.. along with my three young kids in my two bedroom apartment. I realized that all of that was stupid, and really didn't contribute anything to who I really was. I was forced to do only what was absolutely necessary.. to stop being selfish and focus on my kids and rebuilding my life. Although I was struggling, it was liberating. Now I could regain what I lost: money, sure..I was always pretty good at my job, but mostly my humility. I didn't come from much, which I used to wear as a badge of honor when I was younger. Losing a lot of 'stuff' made stop caring about where I lived, or what I drove. I could just simply 'focus' on what I personally felt was important, not someone else's arbitrary standard. Now I drive around my neighborhood (in my 12 year old honda) looking at all the late 30-40 year olds racing inexorably towards their collective mid-life crises, doing their home improvements, driving their Teslas that they can't afford, berating their kids because they're not impeccably perfect in every way and I think to myself : 'yeah, I know.. it's coming for you too'..
Absolutely, but that's a framing device/motivational aspect, rather than the mechanics of the actual learning.

"Here's what we're aiming for, and here's why it matters" should be the introduction, setting the scene and establishing the flow, but then you introduce the various blocks-that-will-be-built and start working up to them in the stepped fashion.
Well that was quite apt. I just turned 36 today and a lot of it resonates.
Perhaps the more you learn, the more pressure you put on yourself to perform. Most of those people who he quotes probably thought a lot less but ended up doing a lot more.

Say yes to more things, don't conform and never regret.
Hot take.

Unit testing is not overrated, if you feel this way you likely just suck at optimising your suite for high RoI tests or chase some stupid metric like code coverage getting mad when you find out you wasted a bunch of time writing worthless tests.

https://youtu.be/z9quxZsLcfo