skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think with eye/attention tracking it will be absolutely amazing what 3D content can be generated and optimized by AI/ML to maintain the interaction feedback loop. I'm not sure it will be a good thing (at least for those who didn't grow up with it)... much like FB doom scrolling is a problem for the over 50 set.
Democracies are great, but they become weak when the majority crushes minority opinion and the chilling effects of a singular ideology makes it difficult for those without resources to speak their minds and openly engage in debate [1][2][3]. And this is even more true when there are few alternate centres of power outside of the state. Billionaires, along with NGOs, unions, etc, provide these alternative centres of power that are essential when a perspective or ideology becomes too hegemonic. This is even more obvious when the whole point of what Elon is doing is trying to do right now is to make twitter a more free, fun, and open platform for people who don't have the fuck you money that he has managed to earn.

Of course the other utility of billionaires is that when they've earned it themselves they have shown some skill at allocating capital, and can pursue important societal goals that government or existing corporations have proven incapable of, like space flight, electric cars, better urban mass transit, brain-computer interfaces, etc.. None of those achievements seem important to people who have decided that Elon == bad for whatever transgression they believe is more important.

[1] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-study-shows-peo...

[2] https://www.cato.org/survey-reports/poll-62-americans-say-th...

[3] https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2021/1...
It sounds to me like you are defining yourself by your career. Maybe you need a new definition of what your life is? Find a way to spend time outside of work that brings meaning to your life. Maybe buy private health insurance and spend a year just exploring what there is in this world outside of the software industry.

Also, it is OK to be lost - we all have general directions we are headed, but life will throw changes at you and we need to roll with the punches. Becoming comfortable with your life plan being imperfect is a wise move.
Probably the same text being sent twice.
I guess I'm part of that generation you're talking about, and it it really feels like only one of the things you listed matters:

> Why would I, ever shoot someone just like me because his/her/xyr government has forced them to point a rifle at me?

It's irrespective of the western order being evil or anything to do with climate change. Sure, there's a sense that the elites are the only beneficiaries of war, but even before that you'd have to explain why it's okay to shoot someone for someone else's _benefit_, even if it's our own. The very idea is absurd.

I think most millennial sorts are on board with the idea of a "war to stop atrocity", but that's about it. Why would you hurt someone to get what you want? How medieval.
Wow that guy founded Calm App.
Maps of territory are a terrible way to show the state of the war. This article provides some color and might help underscore why the narrative could be correct even if the maps look otherwise: https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/07/russia-war-ukraine-maps...
This is informative, thank you. I wonder what portion of Twitter investors are index fund companies like like Vanguard and "institutional investors" like pension funds that are unlikely to object. And obviously Elon himself is a ~10% shareholder. Seems likely that this would pass a vote easily.
Going to keep this short since there's so many responses:

That feeling for me came about super prominently when I was trying to ignore other parts of my life that I didn't want to deal with and using work to cope. Not having something to strive for in your work life makes it harder to ignore the other stuff.

So my advice is to really dig in and listen to the parts of yourself you're most scared to unbox. I don't want to get more specific than that, if that's what your problem is, you'll likely have some idea of what I'm referring to. <3
currently I'm living in Portland, so why am I replying to this thread? I spend every other week in SF to work in person at a Series A startup. I am able to do this after a few years of establishing a significant professional background while being 100% remote.

I love the bay area, and I see significant benefits to working with people face to face. That said I can't see myself ever moving my home back. I really don't know how I'd give a satisfying life to my kids or I'd feel anything but poor when I was looking for housing I could afford.
A strongman who loses and sends a mob to the legislature is a staple in the history of democracy. It isn't a sign of stability. It made me update some priors.
The biggest security vulnerability is the human element. Proper education on phishing and the dissemination of personal information trumps all else, IMO.
The Sutton Hoo lyre and the music of the Silk Road (2021)
The US was in Iraq and Afghanistan accidentally bombing schools, hospitals, and wedding parties for the entirety of Gen Z's lives.
> all of which take the same battery

It's very effective. Almost 100% of my cordless power tools are DeWalt, for exactly that reason. E.g. I'm in the market now for a cordless air compressor, and it turns out that DeWalt makes one that takes the 20V batteries just like the other tools I carry. Of course it's first on the list.
I've had nary an issue in the last several eyars since first trying it ... guess this may be a ymmv situation?
That second quote you gave is just really slanted. The right framing here is Trump is not a smart man. Sure, his folks talked to Russian operatives. That's for two reasons:

1. They're stupid and easy to manipulate.

2. They urgently wanted negative stories to publish about Hillary.

Yes, Russia was trying to influence our election. But, no, Trump isn't some clever Manchurian Candidate taking over our country on behalf of another country.

The right framing here is that famous SNL sketch about Reagan from the 80s, where Reagan acts like a bumbler but then when the doors close suddenly becomes some kind of genius mob figure. That skit was funny, because the "mob boss" version of Reagan was obviously just not true. Same thing for Trump.

Turning to American media. Sure, they can dig up stuff about Trump's behavior with Russia. Along the same lines, there are tons of stories across decades painting the Clintons as pretty terrible people.

The difference here, and this is important, is that outlets like CNN do have a massive bias in favor of Democratic candidates. That's where the "Russia Russia Russia" narrative by Trump supporters is actually right. Mainstream media's treatment of events like the Russia story, Jan 6, BLM protests, etc. is absolutely biased. That's where the suspicion comes from.

The solution is for mainstream journalists to reduce their bias. Easy places to start:

* Tell the truth about the relative propensity of a white versus black suspect to be shot by police.

* Investigate political candidates in an evenhanded way, and be as honest as possible about errors on stories like Hunter Biden's laptop.
But I want to use the current folder as a namespace limiter :(
Don’t take advice from strangers on the internet
Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor was spurred by America oil embargo on Japan, and 9/11 was spurred by American meddling in the middle east. None of those statements should be necessarily seen as minimizing or justifying those subsequent acts. There is nuance in the world, nothing happens in a vacuum.
Anti-war might not even be entirely the right word, but it's possible that a more "anti-imperialist" sentiment is growing. Sort of along the lines of the old "world police" critique. A lot of these people are probably both sympathetic to Ukraine, but also not in favor of some countries extending their military and financial influence far beyond their borders.

I think Hillary Clinton said in an interview, something along the lines that Russia should be prepared for the West to turn Ukraine into another Afghanistan. Seems like a pretty harsh way to view the people that are supposed to be supported.
i use dolphin with gnome, gnome is a nice ux in general but lacks a lot, as was highlighted.. mixing elements is the only way to get a useful experience unfortunately
You can criticize Twitter's leadership all you want, but I don't see how allowing Elon Musk to take ownership control of Twitter would better humanity.
Recipe for not thinking anything is important: split your holdings into two investments.
Because the existing volatility sets the tone for the underlying risk tolerance that shareholders already deal with. It sucks, it’s not insignificant, but I do agree it’s not immensely significant as you are making it seem. It’s just the exposure a public company on the market can have have these days.
You need pursuits to give life meaning.

Build a house. Climb a mountain. Finish a triathlon. Write a book. Learn how to surf. Whatever. You need pursuits.
You need a legacy project. Something that you can work towards as "your life's work" and leave it behind. The easiest route here is to have a child. If thats not a possibility you need something grander and philanthropic. Start a non profit org that helps people. Become a mentor and pass your knowledge on to some mentees.
I can't watch it... Youtube overloaded?
I was on the same page, but now moving away from that.

I more and more dislike how Ruby (arbitrarily) allows omitting brackets. but not always. Often making the code harder to read. What is the call-chain in this rspec magic: `expect(something).to be >= 1` (quick: where and how do you add a custom failure message).

And while `attr_accessor :time, :date, :state` are really neat, I more and more dislike constructs like `validates :name, :login, :email, presence: true`. And prefer to write them explicit and unambiguous: `validates_presence_of(:name) etc`. Which is only a very slightly improvement over `validates_presence_of('name')`.

And don't get me started on "saving time" by typing less characters or shorter lines of code: if this is what makes you Go To Market faster, there's something very wrong with your IDE, editor or typing skills. If anything, those short things have cost me time in Rails codebases living years and years.
I was trying to book a cabin over the Christmas holiday last year. They would list the cabin at $200 a night, and then add $100 "service fee" and $50 "cleaning fee" for my 3 day stay. What?! Surprised I didn't get an electric bill with it. I was so pissed off, I said forget it.

If you want $250 a night, then list $250 a night. Don't try and pull a fast one with some bullshit fees at the checkout.
If you're in Portland OR and want to grab a beer and chat, I'm down. I promise I'm not as big of an asshole in person as my comment history suggests. I'm not offering because I think it will fix anything, more just to get your mind off things.
I'm sure I'd rather eat at yours though!
> Lack of type-ahead search1. Believe it or not, triggering a full-blown recursive search doesn’t replace the ability to focus a particular file in the current folder by simply typing (part of) its name. I suspect 90% of users—especially those coming from Windows or macOS—expect the latter behavior

MacOS is actually the source of this annoying behavior
I'm a big fan of explicit symbols, but some syntactic sugar around immutable strings and type inference should let you use "symbols" with little performance penalty. Of course by then you might as well use explicit symbols anyway, but I guess there's some additional flexibility. Of course that hurts macro-writing a bit, but not much.
episode 175 Real Life Discoverer of Lost Lunar Lander—Shanmuga

episode 176 Software Engineer gets the Keys to the City and State

episode 177 How Discovering Moon Debris made a Software Engineer Famous
Every single argument that can be made in favor of speech restrictions can be made in favor of voting rights restrictions as well.
How was Musk's offer - a public disclosure with few conditions or contingencies, made in bad faith? At face value, it does not violate basic standards of honesty or appear to deliberately mislead.
>I run an A/B test and see statistical significance

That’s exactly what power gives you: a fighting chance to detect anything. Not sure where the misunderstanding comes from – it’s about the worthwhileness of tests themselves, not “features”.

You may think about power visually by relating them to confidence intervals – higher power → more precise (expected) estimate. Low power → bands so wide that you can just as well use an RNG.
Unless he thinks those dollars, turned via Twitter into leverage and influence, will have a payoff in the space space?
Find God...

I'm going out on a limb and will guess you don't have kids and your not religious... tell me if I'm wrong.

You need purpose. you're the first year pro quarterback who wins the Super Bowl. You peaked too soon. What's left?

We're not designed to be fulfilled through material riches. Your satisfaction in your work has run its course and you still have an emptiness inside you can't fill.

Having children gives you a natural purpose and a connection to the future. You have the means, ability, and education to be able to raise them well. It's not too late. Do it.

And... Find God. This life is more than success in a career. You're feeling that now... No amount of therapy or pills will fill that void...
It completely ignores the context (which you would see in more mainstream sources) for why most people see that annexation as unethical.

In particular, the lack of a "status quo" option for Crimea (the referendum only had two options, go independent or join Russia) and the lack of international observers (OSCE observers currently in the Crimea were asked to leave by the Russian authorities in the area) made the whole thing iffy from the get go.

And that's not even getting into the fraud allegations ...
>I'm not interested in the proof, I'm interested in the program

Maybe not in the abstract - but you are, in fact, "interested in the proof": because when the program doesn't do what you want it to, you either have to fix it so it does prove your use case, or you've proven that what you were trying to do was incorrect
> a distinction should be made between restrictions (on speech) by government, and restrictions by private entities. The former is dangerous, the latter is necessary.

Both are both. There is no country (AFAIK) in the world where there are no restrictions on speech.

I think another distinction needs to be drawn: Moderation of communities that is organized and controlled by the community is structurally different from externally imposed rules and standards.

There are structural power issues with the latter that need to be acknowledged and which should lead to to try to limit it where feasible.
The free public domain version on Gutenberg is perfectly fine: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55308

It gets a bit heady near the end when it diverges into politics and philosophy, but the economic observations are on point.
I feel like your post has a hint of disapproval in it--or maybe I'm just inserting that--but I find it describes my feelings (US born 1988) perfectly accurately, yes.
> True authority automatically draws respect because it enables those experts to do things and explain things ordinary people cannot.

Taking a generous view of what you're saying ("authority gets as much respect as it merits in a kind of free market of ideas/actions"), I just think that's not true of contemporary Western culture at all. People denigrate authority all the time without any knowledge of the subject-matter. It's become a real problem in this culture.

I also don't know why you think authority and expertise need to be tied to "doing".

And, on both points, I can assure you lawyers can't "do" anything particularly interesting and also that what narrow expertise they do have is constantly denigrated--it definitely does not automatically draw anyone's respect lol. Often, they have a good knowledge of how law and government work, and also the reason why some laws are how they are. I see a lot of people denigrating and dismissing reasoned articulations of why some laws are x, why you can't automatically blame y government official for z outcome, etc. I find that people on the political fringes tend to really just totally ignore such things because they just want to blame (blame is a huge part of both progressivism and Trumpism). We have an adolescent culture.
That's interesting. I don't pay for CNN+, so I'm just familiar with their standard news coverage, which is definitely left-slanted.
No, actually, from an outsider view the person replying is exactly right.
Twitter is only barely comparable to a newspaper, and only in the ways that fit your narrative. It's almost like new technologies force us into new ways of thinking about things.
How does buying shares support a company financially? My understanding of the stock market is that buying shares would only help a company during a time when they issue new shares to raise capital, like during an IPO. Are there other ways it helps them?
Cool! That's the idea. When you guys make it big, remember to save a few shares for your ol' buddy Russ on HN. ;-)
Stay in therapy and go ahead and try Ketamine. Keep in mind that not everyone "qualifies" for the treatment based on initial psychiatric consults. I've heard very good things about it working where other medications, etc. have failed.

Your story resonates with me and I'm considering Ketamine as well.

Two things that have helped me immensely in the past was exercise and taking up a new hobby. For years, I always wanted to try woodworking and a couple years ago I started. I've found it helps in a couple ways: it distracts me from whatever is going on in my life and gives my brain a rest. Second, it diversified my time while learning something new. There's something special that happens when you're learning and building something with your hands at the same time.

Another thought is to look enlisting the help of a life coach.

No matter what path you choose, good luck brother.
Nope - I described everyone I've ever interviewed who's been any good, from intern to senior architect
The board kind of has to put this to a shareholder vote to limit their liability. If they don't, they'll be sued by shareholders very quickly.
I could see this with a pipe down to deep under water. You pump in air pushing water out the bottom; and let the air out through a turbine to extract power. And, with a big tank or bladder at the end, to keep the pressure nearly constant.

Or, deep under the water table, and no tank or bladder needed because there is a big cavern down there. I suppose this could work with a lightweight, immiscible liquid, instead...

A pipe down to a closed bladder, and pumping water in, would be simpler.
The difference is, Afghanistan was of negligible importance in comparison. Stakes here are different. Just listen to Putin and take his words literally, because he means them.

Either way, Ukraine needs weapons and bullets. They don’t need more soldiers.
This is untrue. Symbols provide no privacy. They provide a mechanism to avoid collisions. You can even ask an object for its symbol properties: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Do you think all Twitter employees have a say in how Twitter is run?
> Newspapers are a red herring because they have limited space and don't solicit opinion pieces from random people.

As I said, Newspapers haven't been constrained by space for 20 years. More than half of their subscribers are digital only.

Anyone is free to submit a letter to the editor or an oped. They don't inherently solicit them. They just actually curate, moderate and only publish the ones they deem worth publishing.

>It is censorship to obstruct someone from posting on some social media site because their post is bad/wrong/dangerous.

Why? If it's my social media site, and I don't like what you're saying, how am I censoring you by saying you can't do it on _my_ platform?

>What else could it be?

Me exerting my rights on my property (my social media platform). Same way I don't have to let you scream whatever you want from my front lawn.

>Under some conditions censorship is acceptable. The law, for example, sets those conditions at "incitement to imminent lawless action". Private companies need to set their own conditions for censorhip. My argument is that the bar should be high, much higher that it is on most sites, and that free speech culture is extremely valuable.

The bar seems very high already for most social media platforms, honestly. Do you believe it is censorship to choose not to allow things to be platformed/printed that are clearly lies?

Is it OK to print lies if no one is harmed (i.e. you're selling crystals to make your sleep better)? What if you're selling crystals that cure cancer and someone buys that instead of actually going to a cancer doctor?

>My historical argument is simply that, in the US, there was a period of openness followed by a period of consolidation. This was the result of the media that existed (nationally prominent papers and tv channels are necessarily centralized). We're heading back to openness due to the internet. Enjoy the ride.

That's just the cycle of things - everything bounces between the extremes. We go too hard one direction, then overcorrect in the other.

The social media age is probably an over correction to openness, with no one fact checking anything, spreading lies rampantly. This was analogous to the snake oil that was the plague of the early 1900s. Do you believe we should go back to that? We stamped that out through regulation and limiting the claims people can make. Is that censorship? Is it bad?

I'm not going to reply anymore, it was good discussing with you.
The problem with therapists is that they never say what they are doing, what approach they are taking or what techniques they are applying. This makes them less trustworthy, imho.
Yes - jeep wranglers are hosable and they will rust in this same way - if you don't completely remove the carpets and really let everything dry out you will get rust.
Sure, and so why not put that recursive search behind ctrl-p? I'd certainly use it.

But as someone who has grown up with computers, it's quite aggravating to not be able to "pu<enter>src<enter>mod<enter>vi<enter>in"

Sure, it's more intuitive to do that in the terminal, but sometimes being able to quickly drill down and THEN be able to inspect the folder visually, is very helpful.

... to access public/src/modules/views/index.js
That's why I left the "at this time" caveat in there. Yeah, if the Russian military actually gets its shit together and manages an offensive that achieves that we need to reevaluate but...I don't think they have any chance of pulling that off. Their troops have spent weeks retreating from a meat grinder with nonexistent morale and will be asked to do it all again, "but it'll work this time".

Further, would you take landlocked Ukraine and possible welfare state over a Sino-Russian axis? I think I would.

This isn't "let's hear both sides" it's "this will get really nasty if we pull the old so-i-started-blasting strategy."
Yep. I am observing this interesting gap in political correctness for a long time now. When Russians are concerned nobody (in my perception) is using a politically correct formulas (formulae?) like "a Putin-paid disinformation campaign", usually it's "a Russian disinformation campaign". Since all gaps in political correctness are (in my humble perception) deliberate, I've always wondered why it exists.
Sometimes take advice from people on the internet, but like everything else, evaluate it first.
Apt Cyber Tools Targeting ICS/Scada Devices
They adjust their prices by the minute depending on ride demand and how many drivers on the road in the area. There's no reason fuel prices wouldn't already fit into that same calculation. Instead there's a new line item added to the final bill for the surcharge.