skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time. I can work and try to figure out how to make more of whatever else I want, but there are hard biological limits on how long I can last at a sufficiently high quality of existence to be worth doing anything else. I don't want immortality and the eventual infinite boredom of experiencing the heat death of the universe, but give me the duration of humanity's existence. I want to see everything we ever do.

Caveat that I'd have to think long and hard about the terms of this and confer with other wishers on how trustworthy this genie is. I don't want to degrade to the point I can't move a single joint yet stay alive, or spend 700 million years encased in concrete or trapped at the ocean floor or whatever other horrible crap a malicious genie might come up with. So I need to figure out some way to word it in terms of not aging or suffering injury. Perfect resilience, but I still want the ability to die by choice.
Flavored cigarettes were deemed to be too attractive to children (probably right, considering the Juul craze).

Adults of any color are allowed to partake in self-destructive habits.
Whatever the health benefits compared to traditional cigarettes (which I don't know about and there may not even be) they undid decades of youth smoking reductions basically overnight.

Brutal policy failure our children's generation will pay for and great demonstration of the results of valuing "disruption" only for profit's sake.
Certainly there have been some parts of the world that didn’t have that peace or that prosperity, but it was widespread.

Former colonies threw off their colonial yokes. Most of the "developing world" developed. Marginalized groups gained new civil rights. China and India rose to become great powers even as their former colonial masters, though declining, still enjoyed peace and prosperity.

Recognizing that there is still a lot of injustice and inequality in the world doesn't require denying all the progress that has been made.
Counter-anecdote, it loads for me just fine.

> And many food bloggers expressed concerns that a website like Recipeasly could be hugely detrimental to this business model.
Planning a Vacation with Splitgraph and Observable
Art has the immense advantage that, if everyone is in on the game, and prices keep rising, then someone can acquire a work at 2 million, value it 6 years later at 15 million, and donate it to a non-profit/foundation/etc for the 15 million value, to get a massive tax write-off. The chump in this case is the US Gov. No other Art player is hurt, only the taxpayer.
Maybe a stupid question but is there a metal reverse osmosis water filter?
The only "individual responsibility" we need in this context is holding tobacco executives personally responsible for millions of murders. Throw them all into the deepest dungeons and never let them see the light of day again.
Wow, genius idea! I really really love it.

It does get a little tiresome to keep starting over, so maybe breaking down each text into subtexts that each get memorized separately would work even better.

I wonder how well this would work for math and other technical texts.

Edit: I can memorize some lines very quickly, so it would also be nice to be able to skip all the intermediate steps and just completely hide the line, then increasingly backtrack if I forget it.

Another minor UX feedback: maybe align the "reveal" and "yes" buttons so I can press the buttons faster and without having to look at them.
> Who fucking cares?

Starving people across the world. As the pie grows everyone gets a slice. Now the pie needs to be better divided across the globe, I agree.

> Why?

Inalienable rights are a cornerstone of this country. I think this should include what we ingest. Now, we're not exempt from the consequences of what we ingest. I can def understand situations where the collective has a higher responsibility, but I don't think smoking flavored tobacco is one of them.

Edit: To the person below me, it is ludicrous that healthy people subsidize non-healthy people's healthcare when they choose to smoke.
I think for me it's less about how well the renter behaves and more about the turnover rate: how often will I, as a neighbor, see a new face next door?

At 3-6 months, not often. At 1-7 days, quite often, which may give the feel of it being a hotel.
Oh absolutely, lol 2 is the unfortunate stage where they've gained the capacity for rapid mobility without a whole lot of higher-order brain development yet. And I totally agree on high-patience and slowly escalating :D. I've only had to deal with this with nieces and nephews, not full-time for a year, but yeah... patience patience patience.
Patents are, like, the opposite of censorship. They're the government saying that if you want legal protection for your invention then you have to openly share exactly how you did it with the world. (Except for military patents.)
I can’t understand what you’re trying to convey.

The terms fascist and nazi seem to have lost all meaning nowadays…at least to the far left.
Contrapoint: it is actually good for Americans to worry about whether democracy will be destroyed in their country. Complacency and ignoring issues with "there are other countries that got it worst" may sounds smart or "worldwide-inclusive", but does not help neither Bosnians nor Americans. Possibly the most politically apathetic nation is Russia .. and where it got them. Political apathy is what you get in autocracies and dictatorships - and what simultaneously empowers them.

It is debatable whether Bosnia is fine or will be fine. It is in danger of new rounds of violence. For that matter, even if Ukraine wins, which I hope, it wont be fine. Wars do actually damage places where it all happens and price is paid for many years after.
I think the idea is to rewrite only the hot part in c++. If there isn't a small hot part, then yes python is a poor choice.
This is true only sometimes. Some people need to be criticized in public.
To have more time to experience more of the world, learn new skills, spend time with friends and family, start (and finish!) more side projects, etc.

I'm not entirely sure how 'more time' would be accomplished. It could be living longer, not requiring sleep, not needing a salary to pay for basic needs (which would free up existing time).
Wouldn't more money allow you to spend more on marketing and sales, which in theory could drive more profit? I think that's part of the bet.
I read this in a more friendlier way...
GP comment seems false to me. Being well within both groups, I've never heard of this from any 1st or 2nd degree contacts.
>Why not charge the store that illegal sold the children the Menthol cigarettes

This is done already in the form of large fines and revoked licenses.

Otherwise: Assuming the companies would just pass on the cost by raising prices, this is making people accept personal responsibility. A direct tax on cigarettes would be a different way of doing it.

I wouldn't limit this to estimated costs for illegal smoking. Make everyone pay more for cigarettes to cover their actual costs-- costs currently payed by society in general. Right now the increase in medical costs is subsidized by non-smokers.
> Even if there are good reasons to counter online hate speech and disinformation, the approach prototyped by the German NetzDG law will exacerbate the decade-long global free speech recession which is part and parcel of the wider democratic recession.”

> “Once democracies cede the high ground and renege on their commitment to free speech by privatizing and outsourcing regulation, authoritarians will rush in creating a regulatory race to the bottom.

There are a lot of problems with the NetzDG, the small timeframe, the huge fines, which could incentivize platforms to be overcautious etc.

What this article doesn't mention, however, is that this law only forces platforms to delete content which is already illegal by German law. It just makes it easier to enforce the law.
of course if that were true they wouldn't be asking, just like how they don't ask about what brand of dish soap I use or how I feel about aardvarks or anything else that actually doesn't matter to them. I wish they'd just be honest about it.
I totally agree! Giving people the choice over life and death instead of forcing them to live!
In which situation did that wish come up for you?
I'm not sure I understand the question, but I would say yes, if I could stop time for a while to just work, then unpause it and live life to its fullest (the other way around is useless since everybody else is frozen), that would be awesome.

> What do you think about death?

I try not to think about it too much. Contemplating your own mortality when you have anxiety and procrastinate easily, this is a highway to a depressive state (at least for me). I prefer to practice mindfulness.
your comments are always such an inspiration to read :) thank you!
> h. they don't get paid for their work;

Flip side is that means I can charge them for room & board. Bring it on.
Hey thanks for the feedback! The USDA dataset of ingredients we use has enough information for most ingredients to calculate a mass per volume density (kg/L). We have it in our backlog to give users a toggle between mass and volume units so they can use whatever measuring instrument they have in their kitchen. This will be implemented soon!
As much as I worry about online bullying (not quite legally hate speech, but obviously hate speech) and also misinformation (anti-vax, etc), I think that anything that squelches the ability to have open discussions on any topic is wrong.

It seems that we've strongly overgeneralized any fake news to be anything that is antithetical to the idea du jour, whether there is any merit to the idea or not.

This harms society in 2 ways:

1. It could be that the idea du jour, or parts of it are wrong, maybe not the central idea, but maybe its ramifications, or edge cases.

2. People having been indoctrinated differently, with a different set of inputs, will naturally come to a different set of conclusions. Their conclusions might be wrong, but ostracizing folks and kicking them off of public discourse is guaranteed to make them hold fast to their wrong conclusions. Engagement and open discussions seem like the only way to get to the root of their (possibly) misguided ideas.
https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...
This might be the biggest Perl 5 project I have seen. It's obviously come a long way from swapping out Ethernet port numbers and IP addresses. Bravo!
This might be intentional on your part, but I couldn't find your Patreon linked anywhere from the blog.

This might be a good time to start linking that in obvious places.

Fwiw it was very easy to find it through Google, but ironically not through marginalia.

I hope you the best in your endeavors.
Very unlikely to be honest, especially that there's no private* data present in Git.io.

* Technically the links are not publicly listed, which might jeopardise some obnsscure but technically-available repository, but it doesn't store private data.
Agreed. There should be a stick-shaker or similar to let pilots know the other control is being used. Maybe not the existing stick-shaker, since that's usually for stalls, but something similar.

I have no idea why the pilot-monitoring would have taken his controls. Or why the pilot-flying wouldn't have called him out for it. Possibly a seniority issue - we've seen similar issues before. Hopefully the french aviation authorities can determine the root cause.
> Today I did something terrible. I like to believe it was out of wisdom rather than ignorance. I needed to do some nuanced bit manipulations, and so I built up a string of ascii 0's and 1's, sliced the string, and then converted back to integers.

Similar, in awk:

https://gist.github.com/jaysoffian/e41ca479d70e60efe59fded93...
Indeed. I'd think reserve plastic made from oil for important things like medical devices, but where one/we might draw the line is an interesting question.
And when/if VS Code decides to allow new commands without the manifest (maybe with a confirmation popup), Joyride is super well positioned as a way to customize your VS Code (well, from users that don't hate parens).
Curious - you say you are a young single person - do you count yourself as on the train (or at least able to run fast enough to get on?).
I appreciate the sentiment that 'it's always been like this.'

That said, I am of the view that the mindset of optimizing for efficiency and the tools we've acquired over the last 50-100 years for doing so may, in addition to the benefits, have unintended consequences on a large scale. A couple of examples; in yesterday's discussion of nurses want to leave the profession, it was observed that the buyers of EMRs are optimizing for different things than the nurses that use them, to the detriment of nurses and patients. And, Boeing's products may be less safe now that it is optimized for capital rather than engineering.

To vastly oversimplify, it seems to me that optimizing for efficiency will eventually remove all margin for error, and so errors will be more frequent. The larger the span of influence of the optimization, the more these errors will accumulate in all kinds of places and all kinds of ways. So, my running joke is that the spreadsheet may be the death of Western civilization, and it remains less funny to me as time goes on.
Sssh, this is clearly a religious flamewar -- don't go inserting facts into it!
Worth considering in context of the newly-created Department of Homeland Security Disinformation Governance Board. Given the infrastructure that’s already in place for NetzDG compliance in other markets, it seems plausible that it would be cited as a model for future American “disinformation governance”.
I don’t believe the historic record shows this to be true. The liberal democracies (all capitalist) of the west have the least amount of censorship in human history. Communist regimes would(and continue) send people to camps, monarchs would behead those who offended them, and empires would crucify dissenters. The actual material conditions of our history don’t really show capitalism as being particularly dependent on censorship compared to other governmental/economic systems.
Markham incorporated as a town in 1971. Before that it was mostly farmland. Still over 50 years old is long enough to face road maintenance costs.
It doesn't matter what theory of value we believe in, none of them would support op.
Author here - Yes, my resting heart rate is quite high for the level of fitness investment. I believe this is due to a few factors (not a doctor), one being my height (6'4), the other one being the lack of cardio exercises, I only do weight lifting.
When someone uses watts as a unit of energy, they mean watt hours. It's very common.
The site should use Google Structured Data for Recipes.

Always a good idea to check Google Structured Data to see if a format exists for the thing you're doing. Odds are Google has a format for you, and odds are it's a good format to adopt for a lot of reasons.

This format is what makes the nice recipe cards show up in Google Searches (https://www.google.com/search?q=pot+roast).

I get not wanting to have a "mommy blog" approach to content, but things like prep-time, cook-time, and just consistently formatted XML behind the scenes is good for your users.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure...

Once you have it set up, it'll be easy to add in something like https://www.basketful.co/ and that'll make it easy for people to shop their local grocery store -- and give you a revenue source for your work.

Next up, you just need user reviews! (= This will also help you build a community... having a sign up, being able to email market to people when new recipes they might like come up, or just have a tool where you send them 3 choices a day for dinner options, and a "buy now" link to their favorite retailer.

Lots of good stuff you can do with this site. Nice work!
The elephant in the room is that the Industrial world wanted alot of people, and the post Industrial world does not. Not only in terms of production, but in terms of having a livable environment for everyone.

So what happens to what are now "excess" people? The answer to that question is gonna define pretty much everything.
The colouring in the „World Press Freedom Index“ graphics doesn‘t seem to make any sense. Countries with very different placements on the index have a similar shade of red and the only greenish looking country is Vietnam, placed 175/180.
> One year later it was a mess of network calls, no ORMs and nearly-raw queries because who needs an ORM, migrations run by SQL statements on bash scripts because who needs migrations.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905.

> if just 10% of the effort were put on improving the existing Rails application, all the Go microservices crazynes that was going on at this place would have been avoided.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

Gosh I'm old.
If I need to encrypt a file for quick sharing, I’ll use gpg.
Encrypt: gpg -c file.zip

Decrypt: gpg file.zip.gpg

However, for my personal files on my computer, I use a Veracrypt container with a strong password and custom pin.
Using tax to build roads , fund schools , maintain community parks , allocating to providing care for the poor and defense funding is not “slavery” and there is no “ruling class”. You can be a burecrat or become a politician if you want. The system may not be perfect but certainly better that half assed solutions that makes no sense.
My argument is the net harm of coating everything in carcinogens and endocrine disruptors outweighs the fringe benefit. Flame retardants don’t eliminate fire, they give you an extremely small chance of preventing one in very specific scenarios.
It’s a comment about the cyclical nature of prosperity. It’s not an attack on the non masculine.
It's the meme version of this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generat...

The "Defining a generation" section is fairly short and describes the theory, and the "Timing of generations and turnings" section maps the theory onto the past ~500 years.

(Edit: got the indentation wrong, I thought the comment I was replying to was on the quote, not the "it's BS" reply. I don't think this is BS, at least not completely.)
I wasn't sure about responsiveness in the mobile version...glad it works fine. Enjoy!
"in which"
Nothing lasts forever, but some things last a really long time. Like life on this planet (several billion years). Or possibly advanced alien civilizations out there. Question would be why can't humans find a way to last a really long time?
Building more apartments has a huge environmental impact. Also it can severely impact the beauty of a city.

Building them if there is an actual housing shortage? Sure! Building them so people from the silicon valley can be digital nomads? Hell no.
Sure, nightmares qualify as dreams.
Market growth is important, just as important as making sure its gets divided among all members of a society to a livable amount.

We'll see if markets crash around the globe the famine that emerges.
In Finland healthcare workers are striking right now, and instead of giving them the few percent raise they are asking for, the government is preparing a law to make it illegal for them to strike.

What a shitshow.
Amazon RSUs – What's the Future?
I killed off my Amazon interview process, pre-base salary bump, on a hunch that the RSUs were going to go to shit. Now that they have, and now that they've raised the base salary, I'm thinking of getting back in. What's the sentiment here?
I'm not sure he will agree with the "retired" part ;-)
> Handy measure: the distance between your fingertips of your outstretched arms at shoulder level is your height.

What does this mean?
They don't even have to troll your social media accounts, your application has all the info they need to buy details from a data broker/"consumer reputation service"
but again false and fraudulent claims are a distinct and separate matter.

Kinda like the claim that electrons are money as long as some other fools accept it? No "conflation" required.
Aka.Ms?
I've never even heard of Tudum before, so I guess I'm not surprised that it didn't last very long.
> Recognizing that there is still a lot of injustice and inequality in the world doesn't require denying all the progress that has been made

And recognizing that we've made process shouldn't make us believe that we've done enough. Recognize what we've (or they've) achieved, be proud about it but never loose focus on making "it" even better.

(I'm just adding to your comment, not disagreeing)
I see wise Bazen's point.
In theory that just replaces `if (obj != null) { ... }` with `if (obj.isInitialized()) { ... }` or similar nonstandard check. But it often makes for nicer and safer code.
Bullshit. There is no evidence that running with proper form harms your health.

Of course for optimal health people shouldn't just run as their only form of exercise. Ideally it should be combined with frequent weight training and other forms of cross training in order to gain muscle and avoid overuse injuries.
There's also a long delay between any actions taken and the actual effect on infection rates, and especially hospitalisation and death rates, which makes analysing it even more tricky.
Just a small reminder: fasterthanlime is not the Rust community
> It takes an incredibly prosperous and stable place to make achieve that increment of improvement.

fwiw, the Italy and Austra (with EU contribution) are building a similar in the same mountain range a few km eastwards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenner_Base_Tunnel
Long and worthy.

Totally irrelevant side question: this is the longest substack thing I've seen. When I played with their "editor" thing i seem to recall that it had a ~32kb limit? Have they finally subtracted some suck?
... and in the video they specify 20Wh/L.
I may have been too quick to judge - I first thought sigtool was a superset of openbsd signify - not a work-a-like. And it appeared sigtool's approach with probuf was somewhat sturdier than a custom spec/format (although the age spec does look quite nice and straightforward). Additionally, I came across some comments on age's custom primitives - but I suppose that's also similar for the two.

Ed: thank you for your work on age!
One calls it censorship, someone else calls it protection of democracy and freedoms, because freedom of speech is not absolute and not of higher priority than other human rights. Human rights are always in conflict with each other: today USA is deciding to violate right of property for Russian oligarchs because rights of Ukrainian citizen are violated. Right for free movement was restricted during Covid pandemic for many people and often restricted as a punishment for crimes. How freedom of speech is so different that people cry about it without considering the context? Why people think that Germany is a model state for censorship, when there are states which censor media for real, before publication, do it for longer, more efficiently and to suppress opposition?

Just for reference, Germany has the same high HFI index as United States:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-i...
This gets straight into realms of like eschatology and the sources of and constraints on life, areas in which I hold deeply unpopular beliefs compared to the norm here.

The most neutral way I can phrase this is that I think life is a planetary expression, more or less fundamentally inseparable from the planet on which it emerges. We may eventually be able to break those bonds but I don't think we're anywhere near as close to that as we think we are, nor do I think we should even try.