skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Customer service through flaming pitchforks and torches really isn't a great business model but hey it is Google, what do they care?

<insert Lilly Tomlin Phone Company Skit Here>
it's very practical, if you want to hoik weapons systems.

people, less so.
I'll be honest I have no idea where you're looking. If you're looking at retail furniture stores in the US, then no you're not going to find it, unless you go far upmarket. But hop onto any woodworking forum/subreddit (well not r/woodworking as that's mostly beginners) and you'll find cabinetmakers willing to work with you for pieces. Few retail furniture outlets have a customer base willing to pay the prices needed for cabinetry, though I presume on a Silicon Valley tech salary you should be fine. Alternatively, reach out to an interior designer in your area who probably has contacts with many small cabinetry shops in the area. I'd link a few cabinetmakers I know of but I'd rather not call them out in a public forum. Patreon is going to have some also. Reddit's r/finishing has some experienced cabinetmakers. Another strategy is to go to a used furniture store, pick up an old piece made of solid wood/plywood, and ask a cabinetmaker to restore it, the same as furniture used to be passed down. If you're in the Bay Area I'll recommend Urban Ore as a good, cheap place to find used furniture. There are antique stores galore which restore old furniture and sell them for large amounts of money.

In the past, the capability to build cheap furniture just wasn't there so everything you bought was made from solid wood and was hand-joined which is why your grandparents' family's furniture seems so much stronger. The market also had a floor on how cheap it could get before mechanization and the invention of composite materials so it was "easy" to find expensive furniture and "hard" to find cheap furniture. FYI plywood can make furniture that outlasts individuals and has been in use in furniture since the early 1900s. When you're thinking of crappy veneered engineered wood, you're probably thinking of MDF and OSB furniture. Most furniture at retail furniture stores are majority MDF and OSB because of cost and largely weight as both plywood and solid wood tend to be very heavy for their load bearing capabilities.
Yes, I would say it is.
For more info, see https://www.railstotrails.org/.

Notable examples in Seattle include the Burke-Gilman trail, the Sammamish River trail, and close by the Snoqualmie River trail, etc.
Look up the phrases "cult of personality" and "personality cult". These are not new or controversial terms, and it's certainly not a novel application to Elon Musk's mythos, one in which he actively participates in crafting and molding. You would be naive to think this is an inaccurate portrayal.
Humorously, my recollection is that President Reagan asked someone to do a cost benefit analysis to support his desire to weaken controls on lead gasoline and the guy in charge did the opposite and his cost benefit analysis showed that we would save tons of money by eliminating lead, so that's how lead gasoline got eliminated in the US.

My recollection is this was the end of this guy's government career but he won some kind of award (a la Nobel Prize levels of money from somewhere) that let him pay cash for a house while working as a professor -- or something like that. I tried to do a search and came up with this article that fits with that recollection but doesn't exactly verify the details I remember and I have no idea how to track down the guy's name, etc etc.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1984/04/01/c...
I miss the cobalt-blue bottle of ginseng green tea they used to have for $1.19.
> Nor why a baggie of 5 screws at Lowes costs $2.99

Indeed—and one might well see that price remain stable even if the cost of producing the screws doubled, because the margin's already insanely high.
Buried lede: IMO the most important sentence in this is:

> Millennials are the first to live through an era in which asset ownership matters more than income and job mobility.

In the US I will add that this is a predictable outcome on intentional changes in patterns of wealth capture which began c. 1970 and accelerated in several stages thereafter via the feedback systems between wealth accumulation, and political and media capture.

TL;DR: in the US almost all real wealth gains have since 1970 gone to the upper few percent of wealth holders; the "19%" mentioned in the article refers primarily to what I call the "halo class" or DMZ of the uber-wealthy, which others have called the precariate: those wealthy enough to enjoy the trappings of what was in the 70s an upper-middle class income/wealth, but is now a precarious prerogative today. It is arguably the function of this precariate class to defend wealth recovery by lower tiers, out of fear of falling into them, regardless that the main impact of this is to prevent wealth recovery from the very few who have captured almost all of it.

These btw are not opinions and the data is no way controversial, editorialization such as attribution of anxiety and behavior to the upper 10-20% aside. This is well-known, richly documented, easy to prove, etc.,

yet almost entirely undiscussed in mainstream media including allegedly nonpartisan outlets like NPR whose intended function (at least on paper) was to serve public interest.

I will assert that this is directly related to the capture of media and government by extreme wealth.

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Why mention this? Because it is reversible; and reversing it is IMO a mandatory step if we seek not just to preserve social coherence and democracy in the US (and West),

but also as a precondition for taking meaningful collective action wrt climate change.

Prediction: we won't do either; and my children will live to see an almost unimaginably more brutal and ugly world than the one I was myself promised.
No one seems to be talking about this being a normal part of the stage of life you're in. The 40's are typically the most miserable decade in a person's life, and this is well documented. The major caveat to that is "I know I'm depressed and have been for the majority of my life" - which adds a different wrinkle. But that it's getting worse now is to be expected.

Some readings, which have been helpful for me (I'm also in my 40's):

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rauch-happiness-...

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2F...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327097311_You_Only_... (particularly starting at pg. 37)

Bottom line: this is a natural transitionary period. To make it successful requires embracing that.
Education would be her preferred landing spot, it just doesn't seem viable for the work/life balance she's aiming for.

Customer success roles are definitely on the radar, just getting through the resume filter has been tough.
I'm signed in on the app though so I would think it would be fine.
"Musk, what do your Elon eyes see?"

"They're taking Twitter to Isengard!"
This is also known as the "Groupon Business Model of Imminent Failure".
Cash today is way more important than accounts receivable.
here's an impl:
https://jott.live/code/train_matrix_exp_estim_jax.py

it works but surprisingly slow on my devices
Does your phone not support VoLTE? You might have to explicitly turn it on. Sounds great on my phone.
Just wanted to give praise to the ngrok team. Solves a real hurdle for corporate developers and has been working great for our team.
AIDungeon has a text frontend. What I meant was an image-based frontend generated by DALL-E.
It doesn't need to be. With VoLTE the sound quality is usually pretty crisp in my experience. It all depends on the carrying technology, bandwidth, compression parameters and codecs used. EVS supports up to 128kbps audio streams, which makes voice data come across crystal clear, and that's a technology from 8 years ago.

One problem is the fact that the codec needs to be negotiated, and if you're unlucky with codec compatibility, both callers fall back to crappy old codecs. Then there are tons of options for audio profile selection depending on requirements and bandwidth available (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Voice_Services for an overview) which makes it difficult to say what cause your specific problems.

Without VolTE, you're falling back to 3G audio, probably AMR or AMR-WB, which is quite old and doesn't compress as well as modern standards.

Unless you mean the headphone profile for Bluetooth headsets: that's terrible because the standard is ancient, back when Bluetooth had even less capacity for low latency data transfer, and the codec is suboptimal making the situation even worse. There are better codecs out there, and some headsets will support what some call mSBC, which massively improves the audio quality (but not exactly to a HD audio stream because of limitations). There have been several proprietary attempts to fix this issue, but implementing those solutions costs money so many headphones ship without them.
Railroads are usually loathe to give up right-of-way even if it has been abandoned, but it can be done with enough support and money.

Many rail trails are still owned by the railroad with an option to make them rail lines again if they want.
I'd also bid that if Russia decided to get people from reserves, many would simply refuse to wage war against Ukraine.
Rail trails weren't created just by being left to rot, they had to be legally abandoned by the railroad before they could be converted into trails (in the US, anyway).
When intended to harm one party, yes. When the US technically and financially supported the groups that caused the illegal removal of the previous elected Brazilian president, it was warfare.

When Putin financially supports the French far-right, it’s also warfare.
At lunch time you can get a curbside to go burger and fries from Applebees for $9
As a hypothetical investor on Twitter, would you be willing to take that chance?
If it grates you so much, give the money to someone or something else who would appreciate it more.
Another factor 20 years ago was the Apache web server. Everyone used that software because it was available and seemed to do the job. Load balancing probably got developed 5-10 years earlier than it would have if Nginx had existed back then.
> Nobody is barred from Twitter pre-emptively, and nobody is barred because their 'views are not aligned'

Maybe so. What about branding accounts as "pro X" or "anti X"? Because Twitter's been doing that, albeit much less explicitly. You can see now that some journalists get the tag "Russian affiliated" just because they try to report on all sides the same way. Isn't that akin to taking a stand against or something? Why would you need to brand someone on their views if not to censor them in a way?

> it's naive to believe that the commons can decipher the truth

Where's the enlightened group of individuals that decide what truth is and is not? Who decides who's a common, and what parameters do you use? I'd really like to know.

> The 'truth' does not rise to the top

If you mean your twitter feed, certainly not. But on the long term, it surely does.

> that 'free forums' will be controlled by those interests which will likely have nothing to do with any kind of 'truth' - which is in the public good

So, you're saying that the Twitter board knows what's best for the public good and what's not. They're the enlightened ones then? How did they attain this state?

> Why do you think that Europeans are going to magically enlightened and not susceptible to his made up reality?

I'm saying they should decide for themselves. Nobody should tell you what you can and cannot read. That's your right, and that includes listening to lies. If you want people to see beyond lies, teach them to recognize those lies instead. Critical thinking is what's required.

Of course, then they'll also be able to see through YOUR lies, so maybe that's what they don't want?

> If he can aggressively drive his misinformation into Europe

Forget about Putin. How will you be able to tell misinformation from truth in your own government, when instead of pushing for critical thinking, you push for banning people?
I think the idea is that "more capable" participants tend to make money off of "less capable" participants. And there are a lot more of the "less capable" ones.
Everyone likes betting against Elon... it has worked out so well so far.
>>Except that's not what these markets are. Often this isn't a pair of equals trading assets, but an entity with excess resources and knowledge trading with an individual whose resources are far more limited.

I don't want you to forcibly prevent large coalitions of people, like companies, from making any offer they want to me. By doing so, you are violating my right to free association, and assuming you know better than me what's best for me. I am not a child.

I am able to draw upon the knowledge of millions of people, not least of all the companies that are the competitors of the soliciting company, and have just as much resources with which to counter-act any disinformation the soliciting company may publish, so I am not at any disadvantage versus any particular company.

Public knowledge, like Wikipedia, or the reputations attached to particular products or companies, is a product of millions of minds, finding and filtering out information to produce an accurate picture of the world that can easily be digested by a typical person. It's a spontaneous bottom-up process that trumps anything that could be created by centralized committee.

That's why Apple, despite being worth $2.8 trillion, is only able to convince individuals to buy its products by providing a product that is superior in quality. Individuals can draw upon the collective wisdom of society, and get a reliable indication of the real quality of Apple products. Massive companies, when they began floundering in delivering quality, have lost market share, for the same reason. See the rise of Japanese automakers versus American ones.

>> Indeed, that's why the concept of "age of consent" exists for sexual interaction.

Age of consent has nothing to do with "power/information differences". It has to do with the ability to provide genuine consent, which children, psychologically undeveloped as they are, are generally incapable of.

The ability to consent is why we allow adults to vote, and have sex, for and with whoever they want, respectively. By your logic, adults would need guardians in elections, filtering their candidate choice, to protect them from political entities with "excess resources and knowledge" manipulating them.

What you're advocating is a total rejection of a core principle of liberal democracy, which is that an individual is capable of making their own choices for their interests.
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Merchants can and do check names but it’s not mandatory for a charge. Credit card number and expiration dates are the only required info.
They were always 35 cents at Hot N Now
I work at an ed-tech and most of our non-technical (sales, curriculum, customer success, etc) have a background in education. It's valuable for those roles to have education experience and it's a natural fit/transition for people looking to get out of education itself.

However, *many* teachers want to get out of education for the reasons you have described, so unfortunately here it's quite competitive even for relatively entry level positions on that side of the house.

It might be worth considering applying to education companies specifically, which would give some corporate/business experience that might enable a future pivot elsewhere for her.

My brother and sister-in law (not married to each other but just by coincidence) also both work for tutoring/supplemental private education companies, but more on the business/leadership/curriculum side of things. Because of the nature of the job, their hours are unusual (late starts, not Monday-Friday), but otherwise seems like a better environment than public education. I know both of their companies hire public school teachers for instructional roles, but I don't know what the advancement paths are like.
That had far more to do with Europe being destroyed and creating a dependence on American resources. It's not as clear cut for America pre and post the Vietnam war, or the Gulf war or War in Afghanistan.
Quantum Teleportation Provides Express Lane for Data Communication
I know you’re being sarcastic, but as a kid I dreamed of an AI dungeon master that could play dnd types games and draw beautiful pictures of the scenery that the scenario would take place in.
Taking bets on the crypto angle. Reminds me of this project, https://arrowair.com/, which is about some sort of open source VTOL aircraft, and the first thing they built was ... something on Ethereum.
are you saying that front running is better than regulation?
FBI links Axie Infinity hack to North Korean Lazarus hacking group
Compiling LLVM IR into WebAssembly with WASI Support
Hello fello 1978 (or 1977).

I don't know much about you, so it's not appropriate to tell you what to do.

Speaking from my own experience, I've prioritized work over just about everything else.

And I regret it.

I'm lost now because I haven't had enough 'life inputs' along the way to help me understand how I should live life. How I should spend time.

But in the past two years, I've come to term that I don't want to work forever.

So I started imagining my life after 45... starting with where I want to live. And it's not the U.S.A. Then I'm going to figure it out from there.

I've learned that I cannot "Agile" "Incrementally improve" my out of things.

I need a bigger external shock.
Getting someone to onboard to a new platform is ultimately a sales job. Selling is about telling people who they want to be, not who they are.

A social media platform advertised as a politics-first/free-speech platform is the social media equivalent of a beer ad featuring a divorced balding man at last call in a dingy basement bar. No one aspires to bicker about politics with strangers on the internet, even though in reality that's the engagement that pays the bills.
Another question. Why aren't my bluetooth headphones better at buffering larger amounts of data. I should be able to load a complete song without skipping with interference.
Former university lecturer here. In my experience, gen Z have ZERO understanding of history or geopolitics. I'm serious, they just don't know what happened before their lifetime and cannot hold a coherent conversation about historical events or the geopolitical realities which flow from them. So no, this is not true.
> Going luddite is never a good solution.

That's a terribly fatalistic position and also a misrepresentation.

Rejecting the centralized ad-driven wall-garden spyware model isn't "luddite" in the offensive sense you're using it. It's a matter of noticing what's best for the user and consumer, not for the adware companies.

The good thing is that it's still all there, just drowned out by the noise.

I maintain my blog as always have, I maintain my hobby interest websites for others as a reference source (some of these going back to mid 90s, some I've just started recently).

Search engines today make these harder to find because my sites don't bring the advertisers any benefit. I have no ads, no trackers, no "analytics" (aka trackers) or any such noise. Just content by regular people for regular people interested in various niche topics. But they still exist and people in those niche interest find their way to them.

My suggestion to anyone is that if you're looking to become famous and gather millions of followers and all that, sure, use the mainstream platforms.

But if you're just looking to share an interest, do it in a way that you control and keep the ad-spyware out: start a website, start a blog, start a mailing list. You won't scale to millions of users but that's a wonderful thing.
It's definitely not objectively better. For normal workflows, the startup latency is a real hindrance, even if the community has collectively built norms around that which help a bit (keeping a long running repl session open, etc.). But in terms of expressiveness plus attainable performance it really is hard to beat. I think it's nice that the path from quick draft to really performant code is continuous, and not a big gap like switching languages.
That thread begins at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28087309.

Linking to the second page gives a skewed impression, since downvoted and flagged comments are ranked lower and thus more likely to be on later pages.
I did not accuse them of astroturfing, shilling, being a bot, brigading, or being a foreign agent.

I said they were a sock puppet account created three minutes before leaving their one and only comment as a reply to my own. These claims are verifiable, and their behavior lowers the standard of discourse in this forum.
Unfortunately, it creates a lot of collateral damage.
"Billionaires shouldn't be criticized unless you also happen to be a billionaire." -next_xibalba
The difference is that one option is selling a declining company today for 17% bonus, the other option is selling a company that has shown 17% growth. Its not the same comparison
If you ask any engineer outside the BTC cult if bitcoin script and the EVM is comparable, they would say no.
On the other hand, that gives me the idea to pitch clean cold fusion energy to power quantum computing that generates a quantum encrypted infinite denominational new currency based on NFTs.
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> i dont use or like lua, but I'm a big fan of one of his other projects, janet

As a big fan of both Lua _and_ Janet, I'll just point out that a lot of what makes Janet nice and interesting are in fact inspired by Lua. Tables, fibers (coroutines), prototypes (metatables/metamethods), custom module loaders, a lot of the API, the peg parser (LPEG), etc etc. I understand no language is for everyone, but the influence can be felt throughout Janet if you're familiar with both.
This is a nice website, with a useful comparison of fusion technologies, pro and con, including their own. I didn’t see any red flags.

There must be papers and parents somewhere.
I think you're right. Thank you for the clarification!
That assumes a dichotomy of either: everything is allowed, or Twitter blocks things they want to block.

There are other forms of moderation that might be acceptable to people who are otherwise free speech absolutists. Crowd-sourced block lists (i.e. subscribe to a list of accounts marked by other users as spam), with the option to introduce your own exclusions to the list.

Alternatively, a web-of-trust model where you only see tweets & replies from people you follow. Or maybe the people you follow + the people they follow. Or maybe configure it on a per-person basis, if you trust person A's followee list more than person B's.

There are a ton of options. The point is that users don't currently have a choice, and have to deal with Twitter's policies with no opt-out or whitelisting.
Very neat.

I wonder if you could put the canvas/flashlight controls in a fixed corner of the page (instead of inline as you scroll up & down). Fixed, omnipresent controls would be more video game like.
And the attempted assassinations of dissidents/defectors with nerve agents only available to one country seems a rather unambiguous way to declare it was a state-sanctioned hit, yet it was denied up and down.

As is this invasion portrayed as a 'special military operation', what distinction that actually is from an invasion is up to the rules lawyers, apparently.
I think most I’d probably pay is somewhere between $2-3k
> How is this conducive to free speech?

He couldn't possibly be any worse than what we already have.