skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The backlash actually started sooner than that, and largely due to the excesses of Tim Leary, et al. Michael Pollan's book "How To Change Your Mind" covers it in detail.

A great shame, because psychedelic therapy has so much potential. Just a single data point, but my life was turned around by some formational experiences on LSD and Psilocybin. Glad to see research heating up in this area again.
It's not cynical.

I'm saying that crafting community isn't large enough to produce enough goods to sustain Etsy. Therefore wholesale outsourcing of production is the only way.

These days you can outsource original product manufacturing in moderate quantities as well. Doesn't mean that you're not the artist behind them.

I make electronics and have most of my PCBs fully prebuilt by mass manufacturer.
That's not what anyone in the US is proposing though. Even medicare for all would still have the same private companies responsible for your care, they would just be paid by the federal government.
If it's early in your career (<10 years) I think the best possible thing you could be doing for your career is SWE at a FAANG. You're too young to move into management (IMO) and nothing will give you that level of resume credential. The real life experience of working on big projects is important too.

After that I think you have a point. I work at a FAANG as a SWE (15 YOE) and want to move into management, but it requires a SWE promotion first to staff engineer I don't think I'm capable of getting at this company. (I've been a staff engineer at a previous firm though).

I could switch to a lower tier company and definitely find a way to move into management and develop my career on that ladder but I would likely have to take a big pay cut. I think the trouble is people with 10+ years of experience are like me and have families and a mortgage. It's just not an option to make less for me even if the future was bright.

EDIT: As someone pointed out, 10 years entirely in FAANG is probably not as good as a varied career that includes FAANG.
Yes.

Source: Have traveled with carsick cat.
That's disappointing, I've been waiting for it to land in Rider. I guess I'll need to double-down on polishing up VSCode as an IDE at work.
Ask HN: What are your favorite podcasts or other audio-based content?
I’m looking for stuff that I can listen to while running or working out. I have never been into audiobooks or podcasts, so figured I’d ask this community for help getting started.

I am open to most topics like technology, current affairs, business, entrepreneurship, pop culture, food. Not interested in the true crime genre. I just want content that is interesting and engaging (so really an audio version of HN).
It is in the nature of bash that you can go a decade without ever figuring something out only to have your life changed by a random comment on the internet.

So thank you. That changes everything!
I feel the same when they talk about UNIX, but are actually describing GNU/Linux.
Quite a simple narrative that's being presented here ;)
Well, it probably saved Kurdish lives to some degree. Remember that Iraq is a British Empire construction of three opposing ethnic groups (Shia, Sunni, Kurd) and Saddam was a Sunni oppressing the other two.

Wiping out his best soldiers may have reduced his ability to suppress the other two ethnic groups.

Or it made Shia and Kurds more active and sowed MORE conflict. Who can predict such things.

But from realist international puppet string wannabes, it neutered Saddam's military and ability to threaten Kuwait or Saudi Arabia. The US was just a mercenary army for the Kuwait and Saudi royal families in this "war".
There would be a significant performance impact if `.sort()` argumentless had to traverse the list and checked all inputs were numbers. It's better to pass a sort function -- that is how the API is meant to be used.

I agree that without an argument it should just be a fatal error, but if it were to have any sort of functionality, it should convert all to strings.

This is consistent among JS's apis, and pretty much the origin of all the 'js wut' moments on the internet. Everything in JS can be converted into a string. If you do something stupid with disparate types, it will likely turn operands into strings and compare them that way.
AI algorithms could disrupt our ability to think
Same situation.

Absolutely no one even knew this was happening and doesn’t give a shit now because it’s a project death march.

JIRA as a whole has been a fucking shit show of a product over the last decade even on-prem.
Well put, I agree with you and I'm happy to hear someone with a more informed opinion was giving input at a level that mattered.

As with most things in life, too far to either extreme and you will have problems. How can we expect our kids to cope if we ourselves are totally addicted ourselves or totally isolated from it all.
Medicare (single payer healthcare in the US for everyone over age 65) has a lower fraud rate than private insurance, serves millions of seniors and has for decades, and as an American there is a big discontinuity in actuarial data where your life expectancy literally goes up at 65 because you get access to it.

Maybe don't generalize from a few personal anecdotes to the functioning of the entire 4 million employee federal government?
I'll do you one better, worth a read: https://www.ninalp.com/ART/Papers/How_Much_Land_Does_A_Man_N...

Of course, the author started out wealthy.

Incidentally doing nothing occasionally adds up to something, where-as doing something often amounts to nothing. Most of you are reading this at work after all.

Maybe there is something to how we define terms and measure things.
Do you think this is real though? I always put this in the bucket of "HR is my friend" level of lying. When it comes down to brass tack, outside of a few virtue signalers, I think we'll be fed to the wolves the minute it is expedient to do so.
I want to add that each room is capped at five players. Whenever you go to https://multiplayer.dev, you're assigned to a room with the fewest players so that no one is alone for too long. If you feel stuck in a room try navigating back to https://multiplayer.dev.
> Use another device.

I did. It has its own slew of problems.

> Or another ISP.

ISPs hold monopolies in many areas of the US.

> Or get a bizniz line

Not always available. Too expensive when it is.

> Or move?

Is this a joke?

> Or use StarLink?

Waiting list. Expensive. Latency.

> Did you notice the source in my link?(at all?)

Did you really expect me to read the source code from a bunch of patches for a french modem and gain some kind of magical insight?
lightning has the perks of being instantaneous, free or nearly free, and not tied to a specific currency.
With visa, it's not instantaneous, charges vendors a 3% tx fee each time a card is used, and requires international clearing houses for foreign payments
I agree that data must never be "deleted and forever gone" unless you've already been very sure about it a few time.

But I would like to warn people about certain implementations of database "soft deletes" that I'm not a fan of. To be clear, I'm talking about the idea of having a "deleted" and/or a "date_deleted" column and using those columns in the WHERE clause to filter out rows that shouldn't be visible.

That pattern complicates the table structure, queries, and indexes. It increases table and index size, thus more data has to be sifted through (either table data or index data) to ensure only non-deleted entries are returned. More data to go through means slower queries. It's also really easy for people to write SQL that accidentally leaves the "deleted" column out of the WHERE clause. Then old, irrelevant data is being returned.

Accidentally deleting data that needs to be undeleted is usually rare so I don't think people should optimize for it. We should optimize for things that happen frequently.

I have dealt with the rare "Oops! I deleted important data!" by restoring from backups and it has worked fine. I think it may be too strong to say you should never be in a position to restore data from a backup. In fact, I think it's important to streamline the restore process.

For cases where we know ahead of time that we want to query deleted data I'll move deleted data to another database table that exists solely for maintaining history. For example, an ORDER table will have a DELETED_ORDER table, or an ORDER_HISTORY table. The HISTORY tables can also record data overwritten from updates.

These tables take up disk space, but never affect the structure or size of the original table and its indexes. Queries to the original table don't need to be modified to account for soft deletes.

To guarantee that things go to the delete/history tables, I'll usually put a trigger on the original table to move data over to the history tables. This way no application-specific code is needed.
The Two Paper Rule and epistemic engagement
Yes, yes, yes.

"Since then, Cartier-Bresson has taken some 15,000 rolls of black-and-white film."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/magic-moments-93...

"He shot thousands upon thousands of rolls of film at 36 exposures a roll, meticulously numbering each roll before sending it off to be developed a process he had no interest in by magazines or photo agencies."

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/arts/design/09cartier.htm...

With digital we can all make thousands of images without some third-party paying for film and processing, or being independently wealthy.
:D I have been on the receiving end enough times that I am very very happy to have passed it on this time.
I can't agree more... I'm the creator of SSLPing, and I can say it sucks BIG TIME to discover people loved your product and your product is on the first page of HN just after you had to kill it !
Varies a lot state-by-state. Ours has no individual plans offered outside the "marketplace", which most years only has a couple companies offering plans on it, all with bad networks, bad coverage, and terrible rates. A fairly bad employer plan is a much better value than the marketplace plans while a middling employer-provided group plan will be way better than the best plans on the marketplace, and there are, I repeat, no other providers that will sell you an individual plan in this state (I've checked, both with brokers and with major providers around, all said the same thing: "no-one sells individual plans in this state anymore, your only options are whatever's on the marketplace")

And yes, it's a red state.
Where do I apply for a permit to reassign culpability for my driving to a corporation?

> At the end of the day the argument is that these cars are safer than the average driver.

The last data I saw said otherwise, and that data was primarily collected in ideal conditions. That has been a few years, but these companies are not forthcoming with their data.
>Next, if I dig into the research and...

The conditional implies it's not happened yet I take it. Would people just go on the internet and write authoritatively about things they don't know and haven't even looked up?

It's by the way those who make a claim (or wish to support it) that have to provide the evidence, not the other way around. It is unlikely you'll find anyone on HN inexperienced enough in formal logic to attempt to disprove a flying teapot. So you go ahead and provide the data and demonstrate how the carbon can't come to the surface in thousands of years, which was the original claim and which so far remains completely unsubstantiated.
Hunter gatherers were, if anything, healthier and almost certainly happier than their agricultural counterparts but the latter outcompeted them due to their greater ability to wage war.
I tried to say, China plan to do things, which will provoke sanctions.

And to avoid complications, China prepare to live under sanctions. I must admit, this is smart behavior, even when I don't support, what China plan to do with Taiwan.
Mandoc, the default manpage formatter on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, macOS, and some Linuxes (as well as web frontends like manpages.debian.org and man.archlinux.org), can convert manpages to Markdown, or to HTML directly: https://mandoc.bsd.lv/man/mandoc.1.html#Markdown_Output
Some tankers and transports already are turboprops, eg the C-130 family.
As someone who likes to walk in an urban environment, I'd say it's not good and relevant. It's rather detached from the actual experience of the urban walker.

There's simple road design concepts that mitigate danger, as well.
Society is collaborative, the private sector of society is not. Its a flawed incentive model that most of society periodically navigates through. These are different things than society as a whole. It is aspirational to want something else and be in an environment to rely on different advice. You are either conflating society and the private sector or projecting something I have no idea about. (I dont really understand who the “you shutting off opportunities” is about. What specific thing am I doing exactly?)
Their last round in 2020 ($40M from Black Round) was debt financing, not investment. That to me is generally a sign of a struggling company. And when the CEO of such a company claims they were looking for other companies to acquire, it raises a number of questions.
The Pyramid of Leisure
Some more theorists about this:

Debord, Baudrillard, McLuhan, Althusser, Deleuze

The larger movement which investigates these ideas is referred to as "poststructuralism".
Guns versus Butter Model
I think it's mostly that one is fairly easy to track, the other is nightmarishly hard and also easy to evade.

Main problem with at-production is that not all consumptions are equal, and it puts the cost equally on all.
Brand recognition and originality is value. Making felt handbags for 10 years and expecting that no one else would copy that - is what drives people away from stagnating crafts people.
Just before Christmas until just after New Years. Although that was a staycation. Think I did something similar around Thanksgiving too. One that involved actual travel? Oof...year and a half ago?
For future readers, this is the code that is being referred:

https://github.com/ern0/howto-wasm-minimal/blob/master/inc.c...

It should be:

uint32_t gray = 0.299 * ptr[i] + 0.587 * ptr[i+1] + 0.114 * ptr[i+2];
ptr[i] = gray;
ptr[i+1] = gray;
ptr[i+2] = gray;
> Nonsense. Who else would control Ukraine except Ukrainians themselves?

Was there a referendum for joining the EU or was it a political program? You know, at least something that would resemble the UK referendum for leaving the EU. Otherwise how else do you know what the majority of Ukrainians want long-term as a nation?

> It was a part of struggle of open society versus autocracy.

oh yes, the open society of the Panama and Pandora papers [1][2]. Two consecutive presidents that can't help themselves from being anti-autocracy.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/04/panama-papers-u...

[2] https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-r...
Everything uses --version, except `java -version`.

Except Java 17. Java 17 went to `java --version`. And `java -version` doesn’t work anymore (Yes I jumped from Java 8 to 17, but most people did).
I'm pretty sure a lot of people think NATO == US Empire and Interests. Its simply not true, and this is a pretty great example of how much disinformation and FUD certain "interests" have created around NATO.

Hawaii isn't even covered under NATO, even if someone attacked the US:

https://www.westernjournal.com/nato-loophole-attack-hawaii/
There is a lot to learn from the history of technology, but I think the real explanations are:

- People working across thousands of years for independent and poorly understood reasons, that set up combinations of circumstances that suddenly clicked in to place. (Initial breeding of animals and plants for agriculture, mathematicians unknowingly laying the groundwork for mathematical sciences.)

- People working to further their own immediate interests. (Every industrial development.)
I use a combination of the following search terms to find the emails to select and delete:

* larger:XXXmb (e.g., larger:10mb)
* in:promotions
* in:forums
* in:unread

It would be helpful to have the chance to filter those emails not marked as being important. However there is no such feature at the moment, akaik.
> Except in countries that don't allow the USD. ... Or countries that have black market exchanges which increase the cost of the USD.

Why would a country ban USD but allow cryptocurrency, except as a regulatory oversight?

> Or countries that the US doesn't allow to use the USD.

USD are little pieces of paper that are in wide circulation. The US can't prevent any country that can get their hands on them from using them.

If the US government did have that power, drug cartels wouldn't be able to use USD. However, they do (in massive quantities), which proves my point.
A defeated force can still regroup in, say, Baghdad and make the city much harder to take.
I read through the exit interviews are a trap blog post and now this latest one. If you're leaving a company because of one particular person (manager, co-worker), then I agree that there's not much to gain from divulging honest feedback. That's a clear case where things can get ugly and personal and you're better off just not being 100% honest. But very often, there are inefficient processes that can't be attributed to one individual. Even when I left my recent team of 5 years, I wanted my co-workers and manager to be able to get support from upper management. To me that's worth providing feedback in an exit interview even if it does nothing and the cost is pretty minimal.
Cats can't be bothered to evolve opposable thumbs. They have human staff to take care of anything that requires an opposable thumb, why would they bother doing it themselves?
Why were we in Iraq the second time?

Why were we in Vietnam?

Why did we stay in Afghanistan for so long?

The military industrial complex does indeed find war funny. It's called laughing all the way to the bank.
I know someone who had a similar event happen in training, except the deep and dark secrets were meant to be shared among a group of six or seven. People shared actual deep and dark secrets; crying was involved. My friend who told me about this was deeply uncomfortable with the whole affair and found it bizarre and cultish, but of course, they went along with it and made up some semi-plausible thing to be a "team player." Amusingly enough, IIRC, it was also a phobia.
> Why should they?

Because otherwise their brand is asymptotically approaching just being a more expensive Ali Express.
"3-6 months from now, some of them may have a lot more impact than they're having by now."

The problem is, 3-6 months of Russia heavy bombing of civilian targets would likely level several major cities in Finland (most smaller than Mariupol) to rubble.
They are being downvoted because "make as much money as possible" is not a clear cut proposition. Apple ran (runs) an expensive recycling program and investors complained that it wasn't valuable at annual meetings. Steve Jobs said "We disagree" but he wasn't replaced. Lots of companies don't maximize the dollars out of every single thing, in response to a bigger picture / longer term vision, and it's up to leadership to sell it to shareholders.

Etsy could certainly argue their bottom line in the long term will be helped by curating a higher quality marketplace and getting rid of junk sellers, if that's a problem.
For real, I've seen companies fire some of their best and brightest, I'm talking top-tier academic talent in some cases, because they didn't think they were committing code frequently enough, only to wonder why their shit is on fire 6 months later and why the systems those same engineers maintained aren't able to produce new features as fast as before, messing up their delivery timelines, etc...

Even funnier is when it's not a money issue, some middle manager just thought they could find better or wanted to make room for some of their own hires.

In all of these cases, the company held "exit interviews", in some of these cases myself being one of the few or many others, and I have to say, there's nothing you can tell them that will benefit anyone, even your old co-workers who you're not trying to actively harm.
it's been fascinating watching the JS people reinvent the concept of an OS from scratch. Today it's the security model, yesterday it's the task scheduling, etc.

Interesting little bit of outsider art, "what if front-end people designed an OS" and all, and it's going about as well as you'd expect with that.

I mostly wouldn't mind, but there's certain thresholds that I think are noxious or dangerous as a user. WebGL strikes me as much more dangerous than most people anticipate, GPU drivers are not really hardened against hostile shaders very well, it's quite likely that various escapes and data-leaks exist imo. Someone I know who worked on implementing that and said that out of all the graphics vendors, none of them liked it but the blue one's engineers had genuine fear in their eyes when the functionality was laid out to them.

I am also not really looking forward to when javascript realizes the need for persistent services... but thankfully I think web architecture mostly means that's somebody else's computer.
Even then you may not know if you had a positive return from your ad campaign. I've worked with many professional ad buyers who couldn't prove that their campaigns have had good returns.
> I don't even see how things like the AI-powered "trust and safety" garbage they implemented or the "Star Seller" thing benefit Etsy in the slightest.

Etsy basically tripled its user base in the past 2 years, to something like 100 million active buyers and sellers. This happened during the pandemic, when Etsy's offices were locked down, everyone had to learn to run the business remotely, and the labor market tightened up making it harder to hire (and then to train remotely).

Almost every change Etsy's made in the last two years is about reducing the burden on their staff, which now has a much higher user to staff ratio to deal with. Requiring sellers respond to messages within 24 hours reduces the number of people contacting Etsy's support staff. Requiring sellers resolve issues to customers' satisfaction to maintain their standing reduces the number of people contacting Etsy's support staff. Requiring customers contact sellers before they can open a case reduces the number of people contacting Etsy's support staff. Implementing AI-powered review of new sellers and listings is the only realistic answer to having ANY review of new sellers and listings when there are hundreds of thousands of them being added every month for each employee in charge of enforcing policy on them.
They are keeping it by burning through their foreign reserves.
It's missing the second part of the story, where a more pliable Samoan is identified, the missionary enters into a capital-business-acumen partnership, the two bribe the government to take control of all of the productive coconut-growing land, and the first Samoan gets to enjoy the rest of his life as a wage laborer. He will do backbreaking labour for 70 hours a week, until he dies at ~55.

Idleness is all well and good, until someone with guns decides that they'd rather have you spend those hours earning a profit for them, instead of lazying around.
> As a pedestrian I'd be much more confident stepping in front of a self-driving car, than stepping in front of a human-driven car.

Why?
So... Let me get this straight - they get a lot of customers off other people's work, but aren't willing to pay for the increased costs of providing them those extra customers.

These Etsy people sound like entitled brats.
Why was this classified in the first place?
Whether it's a legal requirement or not, companies definitely act as if it is. Setting a company on fire to acquire short-term profits with a golden parachute guarantee is the pattern for executives of public companies under American capitalism.