skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> modern packaging

But the packaging itself matters, eg soda in a Al can and a glass bottle is perceived quite differently.

If the milk came in a plastic bottle I have no problem drinking directly from the bottle, if it came in TetraPak... If I bothered to cut it with scissors I would probably be fine drinking milk directly, but if I just ripped the corner by the perforation then I would definitely drink from the mug, because I hate the feeling of the paper fibers on my lips.

Also there is a thing with Americans, they just buy milk. I can't buy "just" milk. I can buy 1%, 1.5%, 3.5% and (my preferred) ~3.5-4% fat milk. I don't like 1%, it is just a water with a bit of milk taste for me. Even reading Wikipedia article on skimmed milk makes me wonder how it even can be called a milk. I read many stories of Americans who didn't like milk since their childhood, only to discover in their adult life what what they drunk back then wasn't even a milk per se and sometimes their parents not only gave them skimmed milk but further diluted it with water. Urgh!
Very compelling.

Go on then, tell us why you feel a mask is an infringement on your bodily autonomy but pants shirt shoes aren’t.
I don't know where do you live but it's definitely not necessary to own a home for having a family. Assuming you are a male, just having a stable job and actually wanting to have a family gives you a great chance of success with many, many women.

Also mid 30s is so young, you still have at least a decade to find a significant other and build a family if that's what you want.
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> He said we considered taking it on the chin, but decided against it.

Even if this is true, the very fact that it was even an option that came up in discussion in Cabinet says a lot.

By the time Boris started appearing on TV, COVID was already on the UK doorstep having marched through China, Asia and Europe.

By that time, even a five year old kid could have told you that "taking it on the chin" was not up for discussion.
Growing up, the idea of a career in computing was implausible. The only computing course my school offered was scheduled against doing a full science course, and they had nothing for the 16-18 range. The local night school programming class I signed up for was cancelled because I was the only person who signed up for it. My parents made it extremely clear that the idea that I could ever make money writing software was unrealistic, which meant I was 27 with a PhD in genetics before I jumped ship into software full time.

And maybe because of that, I'm pretty ok with things? Every day I'm aware that I could do more. I know people who could take over my job right now who are 15 years younger than me. And that's ok, because I have achieved so much more than ever seemed possible to me as a teenager, and every time I stare out the window and realise I'm in San Francisco and part of the industry that was so far away when I was growing up I have to take a moment to come to terms with the fact that this is actually reality.

I know this article is satire, but I also know that many people hold themselves against standards that are not realistic. Almost none of us have achieved everything that we could be, and that's just fine. If you're spending a lot of time troubled by the fact that you feel like you're falling short of your potential then this is a great time to find a therapist who can help you work through that. It's ok to want more than you have, but if you're objectively in a basically good place then you really shouldn't be constantly aware of that in a negative way. I'm at peace with the fact that I'm never going to found the next unicorn company or be CEO of Google or even write some software that a lot of people care about. Let's be kind to each other and ourselves about what we've achieved, rather than holding ourselves to a model of what we could theoretically be if literally everything had gone our way.
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Definitely minimal. The goal was to share content and contact info. JS is used, but not critical. Trackers exist, but aren't loaded if you set Do-Not-Track. (or if you have JS disabled, but that is just a static site limitation)
Bacon-wrapped dates are AFAIK a relatively recent thing in the US. Bacon-wrapped scallops--which are actually a bit hard to get right (i.e. both the bacon and the scallops baked reasonably)--were the more traditional cocktail party item.
I find it's a lot easier to add a simple CSS to an understyled website, than remove huge fixed banners, weird low-contrast thin fonts, etc. from overstyled websites.
A Man Who Ended History: A Documentary (2011) [pdf]
https://nickengmann.com

Hardware and Cybersecurity engineer based out of Brooklyn, NY
Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox (2012)
That's clearly a bad argument. That's equivalent to saying that driving cars or flying planes should be available to everyone, without a driver's licence or pilot's license.

Don't strawman what I said. I didn't say psychedelics should be banned. I said that they shouldn't be sold in gas stations (aka easily available to the public).

I fail to see how that prevents prescriptions from being a viable option, or a "mdma license" similar to a driver's license that is issued only after a person proves that they can safely use it.
Titles are getting really weird and out of hand these days.
They're trying to come up with a new way of modelling the foundations of physics. In order to be "even wrong", they need to make falsifiable predictions. As far as I can tell, they're not at (or claiming to be at) that level of maturity of the model, they seem to be slowly working toward feature parity with existing models. Whether they ever achieve that remains to be seen. Whether they manage to coalesce all this into a single coherent theory remains to be seen. Whether they manage to make novel, falsifiable predictions or not remains to be seen. And if they do, whether these predictions will be falsified or not also remains to be seen.

Long story short, I don't see why being "not even wrong" at this phase is some great sin.
How is this row parsed:

> "Mary", "Smith", 10, Test, "Some long string with, comma"
?
I've met him twice, personally.

He was very kind, humble and approachable.

So very much smarter than I'll ever be, yet I never once got the feeling he was looking down on me.
So, they suggest that you spin up the dependent services as part of the test runner and run tests for your service against those? I've worked on a codebase that did this extensively. Over time it lead to a test suite that takes a long time to run, slowing down the release process considerably, and inevitably requiring further engineering effort to make the tests run in a reasonable amount of time. I can't say I would recommend it as an approach based on my experience with it, but YMMV.
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No, I'm not sure haha; but in my experience it usually works like that, but no doubt there could be edge cases there, too. Another good reason to use SQLite.
rang a classic age milestone bell this year (within last 12mo) and the internal dialogue has given much cpu cycles to "personal fulfillment" and what that means. The author of the article spends the majority of their time comparing themselves to others(a very narrow band of humanity at that) and as such derives guilt shame and regret. Ive found that comparing oneself to another is a core behavior of fostering personal discontent. Its a behavior weve trained for since we began being social beings so its a very hard thing to conciously negotiate. I try my best to be reasonable about when and how i need to "compete" and when i do not. Getting over my ego (work in progress) has lead me to discover very much of my waking awareness does not need to approached as competition (either directly or as a general underpinning). this realize, each and everytime, is freeing and, as the bumpersticker admonishes: bark less and wag more. Note - spelling and grammar in loose internet bb post sqaurely does not meet "competitive" litmus (my performance certainly wouldnt win any medals had it qualified anyway)
That’s not actually lying though. Expressing an opinion is not lying.
> a powerful sh based templating engine
> it mimics building a small C project

You're using practices from a language unrelated to webdev, scripting language unrelated to webdev and what looks to be a closed source generator built and (un)maintained by a single person. There probably is a context where this setup makes sense, but to me it's anything but simple or intuitive.
Fauci, who can probably be seen as the US government, lies: https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/noble-lies-covid-fauci-...

> have been quite good at communicating in the middle of a global pandemics

Have they? It's a horrible back and forth, not based on any evidence. New rules are announced and rescinded a week later (e.g. Germany not ending quarantine of infected after all this week). During lockdowns, people were allowed to work in the same offices if required, but meeting anyone from outside your household was forbidden. Couples were arrested for sitting at the beach. I personally experienced police harassment for leaving the house. Green pass validity is still jumping back and forth (Austria). Let's not even get started on the endless amounts of lies, inaccuracies and moving goal posts surrounding the disappointing covid vaccines, the blacked out contracts to buy BILLIONS of them and the rejection of natural immunity after infection. Our governments have absolutely failed us and lost the last ounces of our trust they had.
Just my personal cv, so to speak.

https://atifcolo.com
i’m not sure operating theatres, ICUs, NICUs, private examination rooms, MRI facilities, etc. have much in way of windows. i also don’t think i’d appreciate a gentle breeze rolling over my internal organs whilst my appendix is being removed :)

i’m sorry for your loss. there’s no doubt that governmental denial and reckless mismanagement - especially prevalent in the early days of the pandemic - is directly responsible for the deaths of many. the whole thing has been utterly shambolic.

honestly though, that’s not the thing that angers me the most. it’s the large number of people that think the government handled the pandemic well.

i think we’re doomed as a country, potentially even a species.
Many developers seem to lack a focus on automation in the most basic sense of the word as well. While consulting, I see lots of backend developers constantly making a change, waiting for the server to reload with the new changes, switch to Postman/cURL/whatever, fire off their request and see if it's accurate. Rather than just having the request handler as a function that is under test with assertions, and have the test re-run on each change. So much time during a developers day is spent on just repetition, and they don't seem to care.
Huh, can they not just block the malfunctioning chiplets and sell them as cheaper models with fewer cores/cache? Sort of what nVidia and AMD did with their GPUs. AMD has kinda been focusing on the mid and high end range with Ryzen, which makes sense given the demand, so the only actually cheap CPUs these days are Intel.
Mine is very simple: https://eduar.do
But I really like its domain hack that matches my first name. It took me a long while and journey to get this domain, which was previously owned by another Eduardo.
I’m squatting https://t.fail until I have the blog writing motivation.
Which technology doesn’t need maintenance?
Putin's narrative? The Ukrainian government are entirely open about what Azov is.

Putins narrative is that the Ukrainian government is run by Nazis. Thats obviously false, but yeah, they absolutely used Nazi paramilitaries to cling on to Russian speaking territory and dont deny it.

It sort of sounds like you're saying that this means Nazis arent the bad guys we thought they were and we should stop villifying them, which is an interesting hill to choose to die on.
Once I wrote my third game in Unity, with unit tests coverage of about 80%. It was least buggy game in my entire career. It was also the hardest time as I had to start thinking more about creating testable components rather than messy spaghetti code I used to write before.
I love getting in after 1,000 comments, let's do this:

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Built with my own site-builder and advertising my own site-builder!

Turns out nobody registers for a free account or just signs up. All my business comes from building websites for people and word of mouth.

I optimised the thing for speed of building websites above all else, which helps, seeing as I'm a one-person operation.
I suspect the urge to feel needed, to be appreciated and the satisfaction from really helping other people is pretty much universal.

But it's discouraged at every turn from the top; and replaced with shiny things, power and competition.
I don't understand all these comments saying "Sure Wolfram may be arrogant, but he has achieved amazing things". "lets look at his work and ideas not him as a person".

... What does this even mean? Steven Wolfram has never achieved a single thing in science or mathematics. Absolutely no one has ever said otherwise, except for Steven Wolfram himself.

I used to think he was a failed scientist who, at least, was good with computers and software, but after seeing the decline in the quality of Mathematica, and the hairbrain schemes he has been leading there instead of improving his core software, it has become clear to me that he wasn't even the one responsible for Mathematica being so great, and whoever it was has now left the company.
My thoughts exactly. I just told people I had a major win this week by getting a buddy of mine who started as an intern at my last job a full-time software engineer position at my current company (big pay jump & next step in his career + he's extremely talented and will be a huge asset for us). If our friend here takes the same approach with their kids, one I think can infer they're including cases like this.
A Good Dictionary
TiddlyWiki is a whole wiki in a single file, been around a while, great system:

https://tiddlywiki.com/
Lysol doesn't directly interact with the brain's reward mechanisms, undermining rational thought processes (unless there's people out there huffing Lysol that I'm not aware of).

A car can kill you and all your children. Are you a proponent of allowing anyone to drive a car without restrictions (driver's licenses)? Slap a warning label on the steering wheel of a car "do not drive while drunk" and call it a day?
> There's no fundamental reason why x86 has to be faster than SPARC, in fact, SPARC machines trounced x86 ones.

Other then Intel having 100x more money and more architects with better nodes ...

SPARC was already worse by 1998.

Its really only continued to make money because companies couldn't figure out how to scale vertically and rather paid absolutely absurd amounts for these multi-core machines.

Some of the Supercomputer people showed how they could totally destroy Crey/Sun and so on with simple clusters of x86.

Sure had they perfectly executed SPARC and hit on every investment they might have done a lot better, but that just wasn't the reality. Intel just executed much better. SPARC had all kinds of development failure in the 90s and in the late 90s Intel just had better nodes in addition to better architecture.

> Another thing that killed Sun was that it could never decide whether they were Apple or Microsoft - they never decided whether they wanted to make integrated hardware or a become plain software company.

I think they did want to be Apple but they simply were not that god at making products. They were actually better at making software, but then didn't do very well at making products based on that.

The did some good stuff like Fishworks, AMD x86 Servers and so on.

They should really have turned into Open Apple, RedHat and AWS. With OpenSolaris and Zones on x86 costume machines they could have dominated the Cloud space (they even had products going into that direction early in the 2000s).
When the "Mexican" coke started making a splash as "better than American", Coke tested it blind with taste testers and came to the conclusion that there was no perceptible difference, and that the glass bottle makes more difference than the cane sugar vs HFCS (The whole point of HFCS is to be formulated to contain the same amount of glucose and fructose as cane sugar). Many other folks then performed tests (of better or worse quality) and they tend to show the same results, either there was no difference or people somewhat randomly preferred the cane sugar or the HFCS. But Coke is still happy to sell people a product made with cane sugar at a big premium, because why not?

(I put "Mexican" in quotes above, because standard Coke sold in Mexico in the past 10 years or so is made with HFCS just like in the US. The bottled cane sugar Coke is only made as a specialty product.)
https://iam.mt
McKenna said some weird stuff, but the stoned ape theory is probably his most believable idea.

Intelligence and creativity didn’t arise because protohumans became fungal hybrids, but rather the psychedelic mushrooms not only provided sustainance, but also provided behavioral changes like better visual acuity (I believe this claim is proven), sexual arrousal. This mean mushroom eaters were more likely to reproduce. As a sideffect, the psyliopsybin either promoted neural placticity, or novel wirings.

Protohumans that didn’t eat mushrooms died out, and the most successful eaters were the most clever protohumans. (Perhaps behavior became the dominate sexual selection criteria, rather than say meer physical features.)

He says a lot of other weird stuff like, mushrooms are from space, are conscious, or maybe are communication devices, or maybe prerecorded messages from alien “self transforming machine elves”, or maybe they are the elves?

Oh well. All will become clear when universe hits maximum novelty in 2012.
It's not so much the popular narrative, but rather the profitable narrative, that is difficult to go against.
If you want to hear God laugh, tell him about your plans...
That absolutely tarnished his reputation I agree.
Ask HN: Where Do You Donate?
Not sure I’ve ever seen a charity list on HN but would be very curious where people are directing their giving. GiveWell is a go to for me but looking to diversify a bit.
This is the sticking point I've found. The definition of "unit" is different depending on who I talk to.
European mediterranian countries.
Bacon wrapped dates were pretty common at parties in Spain. Then they were considered bad for your health because of the fat, and now they are considered bad for your health because of the sugar.
The letters can be found here:

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/richard-feynmans-advice-to-a...

Also worth reading Feyman's recommendation letter at the bottom
I was doubting it's easy to read.

For example, take this page: https://marcolabarile.me/quickstart/oauth2-oidc-which-flow/

Wouldn't it be better without the right (personal info) and left (table of contents) columns in your opinion?
The genius of fishing with tidal weirs
> just use a phone

I assumed that keeping looking in the direction of the camera was relevant (in their idea).
Ask HN: Favorite ERP?
A bit niche, but would love to hear thoughts on ERP software that you’ve enjoyed working with or administering. Popular examples off the top of my head include: SAP, Oracle/NetSuite, Odoo (OpenERP), Epicor

Thanks.
> We all remember Boris Johnson going on TV and when asked about the images coming out of Italy said "Well, its nothing to worry about, you'll have to just take it on the chin".

In defense of Boris, UK scientific advisors Patrick Vallance and Roy M. Anderson advised to go for the "herd immunity" strategy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Vallance#COVID-19_pand...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Then when the 16.3.2020 Imperial College report came out, Boris did announce he is changing the strategy.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51915302
Most of the large contractors are turning around and subcontracting to these smaller companies. At least, that has been my experience in government contracts and bids.

Probably better that way, since the contractor takes all the risks that are associated with smaller orgs. But, you would be surprised how many large contractors are bidding with absolutely no delivery capability. It's routine.

Government software procurement is broken.
It will turn out this is a viral marketing campaign for some upcoming action move!
V. interesting take. I always assumed that the reason why the Italians got it so bad was because they are a nation of extremely social old people who kiss every time they meet.

Old people in most countries in europe are rather lonely, whereas in Italy they crowd the streets of every town in the evenings. I could imagine in such an enviroment, a low-deadliness-fast-spreading disease could cause a very rapid collapse in a hospital system.
Are people's desires and aversions really something they can control? The thought feels alien to me. It's very difficult for me to even tell what I really want, let alone intentionally channel effort towards achieving any such thing.

The largest obstacles I face when it comes to achieving things is really that the things I want to do and the things I feel motivated to do are very rarely the same. Often I am extremely motivated to do things that I really don't want to be doing; I can spend hours fixated on something irrelevant and afterwards feel exhausted and annoyed because I really would rather have done something else, but my brain disagreed.
It depends what you mean by add up. There really were lots of small vocal groups saying all sorts of utter rubbish, and still are. Also of course in the early days there were lots of things nobody knew, and people were making the best guess or estimate they could based on limited data, and refining on that as more information became available.
Can “Climate Corridors” Help Species Adapt to Warming World?
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Nothing special about it, just to (hopefully) land an internship

Code: https://github.com/tom-pollak/tom-pollak.github.io
The basketball excitedly coach asks the team to do 50 pushups every training session.

All your average player does is quite rightly ask themselves "What's the *ing point, I'll never do a pushup in a real game".

The purpose of mathematics is to train your mental muscles in a very specific way. Irrespective of whether you use those particular calculations in your later life, doing mathematics generally makes you a better quantitative and formal reasoner. That's the point. And I think a lot of students who are good at mathematics intuitively get this idea. And therefore are excited about studying just math for the sake of math.
it probably can't get any worse?
What's external and what's internal?

Fulfillment certainly isn’t external. It’s entirely generated internally.