skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For context I studied mechanical engineering and have been a founding employee at two successful tech startups one mobile payments another a multinational dev recruitment marketplace - and a few others with mediocre success or exits over the last eleven years.

I’m currently on a career break and travelling in South America. It’s been worrying to step away from my career and out that gap in my cv but it’s something I did think about for pretty much all 11 years I was working and so I’m not going to look back when I’m 80 and wonder what if. And it’s been deeply restful and helped me to build confidence in who I am as a person, without hiding behind a job title.

Best investment I made was quitting drinking and drugs and getting an addictions counselor. I had taken myself to 0 financially and health wise. Doing the AA program and exploring that community helped me immensely- I love communities and I can take from programs what I need and leave the rest. Life changing book in this space to grok addiction IMO is The Biology of Desire. Not just opinions, actual neuroscience and field investigation combined from a PhD.

6 years later I have 3-4 years of runway and possible 20+ years runway in equity (at current valuations). I’m pretty fit and hike, surf and rock climb regularly. I also have amazing friendships and family relationships that I’m deeply grateful for.

Another great investment was getting a tennis coach who had broken tennis down into a cheat code of 7 rules after watching 1000s of hours of pros playing. I learned so much from his deep work making a simple “tennis principles for noobs” class. Just 7 lessons.

I have done therapy for two years recently which has felt more advanced and vague. In some areas of my life I’ve had fundamental changes in thinking that my therapist has really helped me to persevere with, without which I just wouldn’t have had the energy to keep working on. I’m still waiting to see how impactful it is - but it’s been quite a lot harder to navigate than quitting drugs because I don’t have a clear problem other than I am looking for a new direction in life.

I’ve read a ton of self help books and I’ve gleaned many principles to carry away with me. I only really return to a few of them: specifically Untethered Soul, The Courage to be Disliked and The Courage to be Happy - as does a close friend who is en route to billionaire.

Finally the best self improvement you can do is to spend time travelling, working with, socializing with or playing games with smart and driven people who are also kind, mindful. We learn fastest through experience and mirroring others and there’s no substitute from running alongside a master in something else - and sharing your experience together.
Actually SimpleNote does have an API: https://simperium.com/

It's what all the 3rd party SimpleNote apps use. However, they stopped accepting applications for the SimpleNote API key. Compare documentation from [2018] and [now].

You can still find the API key in the source code of other projects like [1].

I think the same API was given out to all 3rd party apps. (Or all the open source apps copied the same original key.)

[2018]: https://web.archive.org/web/20181107153543/https://simplenot...

[now]: https://simplenote.com/developers/

[1]:
https://github.com/cpbotha/nvpy/blob/844e8e5ad67cbae91603e95...
Types exist for a reason. It's not a fad, it's a solution to various problems.
I was surprised it wasn't here already. My biggest question is around doing personalization at the edge, it is a complicated idea but I would love to hear if you have some thoughts on it.
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Also hostels being cheap dorm like hotels will have serious delivery traffic, they wouldn't ban a hostel.
I'm not sure that's "compositing" except in the most abstract sense? But maybe that's the sense in which you mean it.

I'd argue that at no point is there a representation of a "teddy bear" and "a background" that map closely to their visual representation - that are combined.

(I'm aware I'm being imprecise so give me some leeway here)
Using initial images with VQGAN and Clip
FWIW lsp-mode does a great job of integrating with language servers in emacs. I and two of my coworkers use emacs with rust-analyzer, and it’s generally been a very positive experience.
> USA, UK, Australia, Poland, Netherlands, Italy and Spain (and Turkey threatened to invade in 2007 too), the fact they are all members of NATO is just coincidence, it is not NATO piling up on a single country.

Australia isn't a member of NATO (neither is New Zealand, which you claim at another point), and there were NATO members opposed to the invasion; NATO works by consensus, but isn't a supergovernment that dictates the outside-of-NATO foreign policy of its members.

> NATO can claim to be defensive and only about article 5

It could, but it actually doesn't.

It claims to be a regional security organization, and Article 4 is just as important as Article 5.
That just sounds like a bad manager.
Singer James Blunt 'Prevented World War III' (2010)
> "magic" in a program doesn't mean we can't ever trace where the effects we see are coming from

This is my definition of magic: when it _does_ so

That's my pet peeve with Rails and Rails-minded gems, which do such magic as a core tenet. Someone ends up being too smart for their own (and others) good, it looks lovely and clever from the outside, methods are added to core objects, often dynamically so, global-like state is rampant, lazy behaviour is pervasive.

Then something breaks, and you're left with behaviours that make no sense. Of course with enough time and energy one can see through the veil by diving deep in the bowels of the framework, but I don't quite like the thinly veiled judgemental statement of TFA that magic is just metaprogramming and that as a dev you should get your shit together, which does not help in the real world when all hell breaks lose in nonsensical ways because a prime directive has been violated†.

Tricks and prestidigitation have no business being used in systems that aim to be reliable.

† Blindly copying references to thread locals into another thread[0], assuming every possible one ever used in all apps and dependencies is either scalar (which they're usually not), deep-frozen (which they're usually not), or thread-safe (which they don't need to be, because they're, you know, thread local), can only be delicately described as "a bold move".

[0]: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/6ec669b65d5cd47c98466192...
I read the subject and thought "yes, yes I have!" .. and then I read the body of the post and am not sure I have any idea what you're asking anymore.
It's entirely possible the app author made a poor choice. We have no control over their code. All we could do is try to deliver our meager little component as competently as possible.
Just to be clear, in the US you must be an inventor to file. You can't take someone else's invention, once publicly disclosed, and then patent that within the one year period. But if two people have same invention the first to file usually has precedence.

Of course in practice there are thousands and thousands of trash patents but technically those are the rules.
Have you tried Doom Emacs?
I wrote a post digging deeper into the Proof-of-Personhood problem and Worldcoin's design here https://mirror.xyz/johnsgresham.eth/6lL5QT6UqW9VBCdUb6xK2gjh...

Although many of the complaints seem like operators getting their hopes up and Worldcoin miscommunication, it's unfortunate to hear about the growing pains in the buzzfeed article, and I hope Worldcoin can work them out.
YouTube is emailing users to say “members of the community” are “concerned”
For those, there's this: https://butterchurnviz.com

It's a WebGL port of the Winamp visualizer.
My job is to solve problems, programming is just one tool in my toolbox.

I love to write code but most of the projects can be solved by assembling a few components with some YAML glue and little code. And I use an AI, Github Copilot, to help me doing that.

OpenSource is great for me. The alternative is the enterprise proprietary software with often a "contact us" price tag, which is hell. It takes a while, requires multiple calls to just get a quote, you need to sign legals documents, and then you can see that it's shit. Also, sometimes the price is stupidly too high. With OpenSource you can pull your software containers and start playing immediately.
Gonna NAL anytime it comes to such subjects. ;)

Amazon has a full team of patent lawyers on retainer just to submit a patent.
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The solution is to separate "we use" from "we're looking for". Eg, a job post can say:

We use kafka, big-scale-databigness, BuzzwordDb, and CoolFramework. We're looking for smart engineers with an open mind and a commitment to building to high quality, robust systems. Minimum qualifications:

* Several years developing user-facing web applications
* Experience with OOP in a language like Java, C#, Smalltalk, or similar
Conspiracy theory - the Russian attack on Ukraine is actually a ploy to help combat climate change by moving people off of Oil faster.
This is what magic looks like.

Great work.

Looking forward to when they start creating movies from scripts.
I'd try it but it isn't compatible with my phone, which is an up to date Pixel. Maybe region locked?
There's a little too many of his examples I've seen in the real world.

We where trying to bid on hosting an application that required Cassandra and Kubernetes. The application was built that way, that was how it currently ran. The customer wanted to move to Azure and try to save a bit on hosting. We reached the conclusion that they could use CosmosDB with the Cassandra API enabled and given that it was just a single container it could actually just run in Azure Websites, no need to Kubernetes. Then we started to dig into what the application did, and how much traffic it received. It was just a few hundred http requests per day, and a stable 2GB of data. This should just have been a tiny Java application and SQLite or MariaDB. We did not win the bid, neither the customer nor the developers seemed please with our conclusions.

Kafka is another fan favorite with developers. It's not that Kafka isn't great, it is, but if you are only pushing a 2500 messages per day, it's a bit heavy on infrastructure, maybe just stuff those messages in your database.

We've build infrastructure for large national projects (in a small country) and you can easily service an entire population on a single MariaDB on a modern server and few VM for the application.
Programming, art, music, is just “describing what you want” in a very specific way. This is describing what you want in a much more vague way.

The upside it that it’s more “intuitive” and requires much less detail and technique, as the AI infers the detail and technique. The downside is that it’s really hard to know what the AI will generate or get it to generate something really specific.

I believe the future will combine the heuristics of AI-generation with the specificity of traditional techniques. For example, artists may start with a rough outline of whatever they want to draw as a blob of colors (like in some AI image-generation papers). Then they can fill in details using AI prompts, but targeting localized regions/changes and adding constraints, shifting the image until it’s almost exactly what they imagined in their head.
So, hucksters cannot be regulated because they don't hold absolute power? Indeed, we can't even talk about power differentials unless there is absolute power?

That would seem to contradict your last statement, so I'm just not sure what you are asserting here.
Haha, yeah I probably should have qualified that with "ostensibly no clawbacks".
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* Pull data from API for pricing, later add caching

* Modify value to give local amount, not realising it's modifying a cached value

* Never test refreshing doesn't change the price
You may have investigated this already (or discovered it setting Emacs up for python), but lsp-mode just about works out of the box (for most languages). Extremely minimal setup required. Maybe a few configs for lsp-ui to suit your own taste.
The sentence is a little garbled. My reading of it is "Why [is] the Victorian moral project and supposed 'prudery' [not an accurate assessment of Victorian attitudes] in the first place?"
Huh I had wondered why I saw so many Python packages blacklist MKL now I know why.
Adding 'rebeccapurple' color to CSS Color Level 4 (2014)
> AFAIK not yet for everybody

For all employees (lavoratori dipendenti) and retired people.
My point was that we don't have to pretend that we're the first sentient beings to have a conversation on these issues, or ignore/dismiss that on many of them there has been progress made. That while there remain many fascinating open questions about them, the shape of others is relatively known.

There is a Sisyphean quality to the never-ending recurrent pop-up of conversations on topics like depression and loneliness. Every few months if not sooner another round of active conversations pops up with hardly any recognition that this has been discussed - here or elsewhere - before, or that it's been examined with greater rigor than personal experience can provide.

So no, I'm not saying that discussion should be held "to the rigor of scientific publication". I'm saying that a century or more of systemic investigation deserves some space - however small - in the conversation. Or better still should serve as the backdrop, so that what we're discussing isn't forever retreading to no avail the same often wrong-headed paths.

If on a post on nuclear energy someone brought up the idea of rubbing sticks together as a viable alternative national energy source he'd be downvoted and laughed out of the room.

But the equivalent - or worse (i.e. not just ludicrous but counter-factual) in conversations on topics having to do with human beings doesn't just get entertained but is often celebrated as the fount of wisdom.

And here's the thing: when we say someone is educated, what do we mean? In the fullest sense, what does it mean to be an educated person? It means to know something of human beings, which is ultimately the most consequential subject.

And so for the conversations on this most consequential subject to be such an un-self-aware dark ages shit-show in a group that largely holds up - at least in word - science and technology, progress and the future, learning and rationality is ludicrous. And that it continues forevermore still more so.

So I am pointing out what I would hope to be a sobering contradiction. And that if the group is so fascinated by these subjects - they seem at times to be the more active discussions on the site - maybe some of that energy could be used to actually learn something about the subject.

So that future discussions could - at least once in a while - touch on the wonders of nuclear energy instead of being forever damned to never-ending masturbatory chats about sticks.
Thank you. :)

Man, I wish I had a simple answer for you, it's basically what I've pieced together over the years by trying to fill in the gaps in my own midwestern education.

A lot of it, I did pick up by digging into the history the Federalist / Anti-Federalist papers themselves, as well as various readings on the Founders / framing of the Constitution. If I think of anything specific I can point to, I'll follow back up here.
> but when it comes to the biggest threat to human well-being in history

Evolution doesn't stop for anyone, don't think like a dinosaur.
> In all seriousness mushrooms COULD be conscious

There is a fungus [0]. that takes over a carpenter ant's brain and makes it climb up plants and clutch on to a leaf with it's jaw and hang down from it. The fungus then sprouts the fruiting body from the dangling ant and spreads its spores.

As an armchair theorist, anything that can interface with a brain and coordinate a nervous system to produce complicated movement has to be capable of computation at some level.

[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis#Na...
> NATO doesn't invade

But two prominent NATO member states, France and Germany, have famously invaded Russia. Another NATO member state, the United States, along with the UK spent the latter half of the 20th century waging a cold war against Russia. I'm a Cold War kid and a U.S. Marine to boot but damn! Russia definitely has legitimate reasons to be concerned with NATO expansion. I know, I know - we believe we're the good guys. The problem is Russia doesn't believe that and they have credible concerns we can't simply hand-wave away. Understanding that is important to making international politics work.
This sounds so unlikely, unless they already had a huge set of corpse photos for another purpose.

It’s easier to find live people that’ll let you photograph them than corpses.
The IEMs are usually between $400-$2000 excluding impressions.
It can also just be an excuse and they don't want to hang out with you.

The reason I started thinking about having a family is that I was done with partying.

The idea of going out for drinks doesn't sound too appealing, but it's the popular thing to say
At my new job a colleague mentioned he used emacs and I basically took it as inspiration and started trying emacs myself, I'm very accustomed to vim after 4-5 years of heavy usage so I started with the evil package (evil-mode) and went from there.

It boils down to using the already known vim keys for basic actions like splitting the window, save a file etc. and creating keybinds for anything else I needed. So I customized any keybind to my liking, I didn't really adopt the emacs binds since I find many of them to be quite unintuitive.

It took me like 2-3 weeks of constant configuration to get to a productive config that covers all my needs (from autocompletion, to colorscheme) and I still edit my config every 1-2 days since I discover new small "itches" and then fix those.

For example: I always want my compilation output to be on one monitor -> always open the compilation buffer ("output") in its own window. Perfect!

To me emacs is like a platform that I can use to build my "own" perfect text editor that does exactly what I want it to do without really any compromises. This is where emacs shines, the endless possibilities and nothing that holds you back and says "no the editor is not meant to do X".
Great question. I wish Pebble had done this before shutting down. I would have paid double for my pre-ordered Time Steel 2.

Wyze did this recently with their subscription, which they let you pay as little as $0 for. They forced anyone who didn't subscribe onto a lower tier, which only stored still images instead of videos in the cloud.
At some point the word "consciousness" loses its already muddled meaning. Humans are conscious, dogs are conscious, fish are conscious, mollusks are conscious, insects are conscious, bacteria is conscious, fungi is conscious etc.

We don't even have a concrete definition for what conscious means but we use that classification as a means to make rules about what we can and can't do to certain entities. Can we destroy an ecosystem that has been found to be full of conscious mycelium? Is that worse than if we determined it was not conscious after all? Without a concrete definition of what consciousness is, we assign consciousness to things based on feeling and on what we want to signal to other humans about these entities.
I remember seeing vim as a complex solution for text editing, and I didn't touched it for that same reason. A couple of years later I spent sometime learning it and now it's my day-to-day tool for writing code.

I feel the same with Emacs, I've been reading (very little) about it and I wonder if I dedicate the same time I did for learning vim I'd be in the Emacs bandwagon, but at the same time I don't feel that curious about it, because I feel happy with vim.

I've tried some versions with vim bindings but the problem remains the same, the energy to explore the rest just wasn't there.
Totally safe. I store mine in a case when I'm done with them. Wash them before you put them in your ears to be on the extra safe side.
I saw that yesterday and it said the data was produced by Womply. I can't find the source though.

BUMP: could this be it?

https://tracktherecovery.org/
Implicitly, when you quote a tweet you are agreeing to a contract of adhesion (basically a shrink wrap license or "by using this site you agree to our terms"). Twitter even told people that the quoted text would remain.

Now site ToS usually say that they can change the terms whenever they want. But that's going forward: something you wrote in the past should be under the contemporaneous terms.

So I wonder if someone could successfully sue under California law. If successful, it would be a great improvement to consumer rights.
Dark patterns in general, yes, but I'd think "The displayed price must include all fees" would be easy to write into law.
A lot of people use StackOverflow but people blindly copying StackOverflow is just as dumb. When I use it, I use it to understand the problem. I then write my own logic understanding the issues wrapped around the similar error. But some solutions are too simple to not be similar.
This is my question as well. I don't write a lot of C or Rust code, so I'm curious when int -> ptr and ptr -> int conversions are actually needed in practice. The only scenarios I can think of with my limited domain experience in are low-level things where you actually know the numeric addresses of certain important locations in memory. In which case, saying "yeah, that's a lower level in the weakenings tower" seems sensible.
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...or delete your cookies and make sure you're not using Safari.
Twitter facilitates knowledge transfer and communication. I'd argue they are one of the largest sources for communication on the internet, and with 200 million visitors every day, I'd say they are doing what they're supposed to be doing.
Makes sense to cache an API call for prices, then if you don't realise you're mutating the cached object you could do this on every page load.

Not in the web space but I've seen similar with using pythons lrucache as using that on a function modifies the programs behaviour (if you mutate the returned value, you're in trouble).
https://github.com/yowmamasita/download-oreilly-books I compiled the instructions here
Could you explain why they couldn't turn it off again? It's not obvious to me.
Especially before Reagan began gutting programs, American democracy was almost like socialism-lite. Plenty of work to be found that paid living wages. Well funded government institutions and social programs, plenty of straight up communist jobs programs too although they would never be referred to as such (I consider something like NASA to be a communist entity as the people own the means of production in this agency). Jobs programs. Etc. It was a big mistake we didn't restart the WPA after WWII however and really incentivized this idea of finding work within the public government instead of private industry that serves the public on a contractual basis.
Brings to mind this TED talk: Electrical experiments with plants that count and communicate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvBlSFVmoaw
What percentage of German GDP are we talking about saving every year after that?
If every country main argument is 'we just use the international grid for balance' non of this will scale.

Over provisioning one thing just means its not in another place for the first decades.