skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of this is the opposite of what the government will want you to do, since (arguably) the best way out of a recession is to spend one's way out, but, tragedy of the commons aside:

- Get rid of debt, right now. Interest rates are skyrocketing and unsecured debt is the last thing you need. Restructure it, consolidate it, pay it, but get rid ASAP.

- Emergency fund. Cash is good, but inflation depreciates it and it's too easy to spend. Buy precious metals (gold can be bought by the gram, you don't need to be rich already) or some other reasonably stable store of value that tracks inflation long-term.

- Trim the sails on your unnecessary spending - not all, but some. Try and have something left at the end of every month.

- It's musical chairs time for jobs. Find a comfortable job at the highest pay you can muster that has long-term stability, best measured by longevity and number of employees. Now is not the time to join a funky equity-paid two-man startup.

- Fill the cupboards with tinned and dry foods. Perhaps not in the US (you guys are fairly self-sufficient) but in Europe we're already seeing gaps on the shelves, not least because of the blockades in Ukraine, rising cost of transportation, Brexit and so on.

- Fill some fuel cans if possible (store them OUTSIDE), fuel prices are unpredictable at best, at worst there will be shortages.

- Try not to read too much news. Walk the dog. Focus on your family.
The UK is now worse than Spain for this problem, and that's saying something. Sadly, it's gotten beyond the point where any politician would dare raise it as an issue.
When I spilled a mug of tea on my Thinkpad, I didn't have to replace anything.

Of course there are plenty of laptops that have tons of great features, including repairability, though many laptops have been getting less repairable in recent years (even Thinkpads), so a laptop that makes this a reliable core feature, especially if it even means you can swap ports around, apparently, is absolutely interesting.
Wish he talked a little more naturally. Felt like I was a five year old listening to him.
There’s little business case these days but I wish train operators would build more (or drastically simplify) car-carrying motorail trains.
Out of interest, do you set explicit targets like "if it gets to X I will sell"?

Just wondering as I'd have thought a "peak" is only evident in retrospect?
PayPal algorithmically shuts down refugee collection account without recourse
In São Paulo I lived close to Congonhas from around 2006-2015. And I lived around Bromma airport in 2017-2018.

The issue with Congonhas is exactly that the city grew towards it after Brazil started to urbanise in the 50s, what I cannot believe is that even after Guarulhos was expanded there was some talks about shutting down Congonhas that never materialised, even though it would be a massive improvement for the city both regarding noise and land-use...
Part of the problem is you usually can't drive over them at or even close to the speed limit. Especially for vans. So you either get them slowing down (squeaky brakes) and then accelerating (clattery diesel), or they smash over the bump and you hear the undertray scraping the ground.
Past performance is indicative of future results except for the purposes of liability punting, which is a super convenient capability of apocryphal disclaimers
Are you always this misanthropic and belittling?
Honestly a game where you get advantages from "rare" cards that people pay huge sums for doesn't really appeal to me in the first place.

It's not really any sort of level playing field at that point. Each to their own I guess.
no shit, but who do people expect to come after Putin?

what would taking out Bush Jr. in the early phase of operation Iraqi Freedom accomplish? would the next guy immediately withdraw from Iraq and apologize to the world for the past wrongdoings?
It may be one of these cases where most users are on the new Reddit, but "old" has the most valuable users. That is: top posters, moderators, etc... that is, the reason people go to Reddit in the first place.
Only Reddit knows how much old UI users contribute, user activity in online communities is very unevenly distributed.

In the end running the old version probably doesn't cost Reddit much, nobody expects them to update or maintain it and so they have no reason to shut it down as long as it keeps working. It isn't worth the inevitable backlash.
> look at it this way: anybody can google images of the rarest MtG cards and print it out on paper, and bring that to play with. but the other player will probably frown on that. because both players have bought into the idea that the "cards" not the JPG image that makes them is what has value in the gameplay.

This is not true. Concerning "value in the gameplay", as you put it, the value is in the JPG. The "card" might have a value as a collectable but that value has no bearing on "value in the gameplay".
Congratulations, you're a 'senior developer'.

It's a bit 'isolating' whatever industry or 'job' you do, once you mature to a certain point.

That's definitely not the same things as '10x developer' - I'd recommend never using that term again. Maybe there is 'such a thing' (doubtful), but even if there was, nobody should ever say that about themselves. Past the 10 year mark, one should start to develop an intuition for all the things one does not know, in which case in all humility, it becomes harder to refer to oneself as '10x' ergo, more likely a sign of possibly a hint of lack of self awareness.

What you are experiencing is normal, common.

If you have serious malaise you can change jobs but also respect that companies need senior people, it's one of many roles that need to be fulfilled.
It's a super idée. Très luxe. I hope they provide an appropriate murder on each journey, to be solved by a famous Belgian detective.
Cash settles immediately. "Sometime in the next 24 hours" is not digital cash.

Not to mention that Bitcoin is so volatile that the transaction's value in real-world currency may be 10% higher or lower within that 24-hour window, and of course you still need to pay someone to convert it into money if you're not planning on being a crypto holder.
Reading comments about this on "train Twitter" most people who are familiar with the industry seem very skeptical about how they want to source their own rolling stock in such a short amount of time.

Especially when you see how long it takes ÖBB and other train companies to get receive their trains they announced years ago.

Curious to see how this will work out. More night train and night train competition is always good and healthy.
Same C programmers sometimes use assembly. The abstraction is leaky.

I agree it's not a clean superset like TS is, but for the app I wrote I did not have to use any JS except in instantiating the app (3 lines iirc).
>The level of downvoting and non-engagement about my comments you can observe on HN is just a symptom of a humanity that simply don't care above the surface layer of attention nor care deeply about the human condition and is auto-persuaded, in a self-fulfiling prophethy manner that those topics are already well explored by the institutions

More likely, it is the expected reaction to the fact that crackpottery takes an order of magnitude more effort to debunk than to write. It's okay to have non-mainstream ideas, but the post above is written in a way that's hard to distinguish from crackpottery.

When someone engages with crackpottery and responds point-by-point, the result is likely to be a very long subthread where no one changes their mind. It is a tremendous waste of time, and so empirically this results in silent downvotes.

>a much more efficient process for finding potent ignored research, which is the norm considering half of scientific papers have nearly zero external citations and are therefore a water droplet in the ocean

An enormous amount of studies are bad. There exist a few hidden gems that have zero citations while being high quality, but if you focus only on the existence of the few hidden gems while ignoring the ocean of statistically dubious, p-hacked, or downright fraudulent papers with zero citations, this is terrible bias.

I suspect you have a strong distrust of the mainstream, and you might put too much confidence in the significance of small ignored papers. It is easy to be very excited about breakthrough interventions that reduce all cause mortality by 410%. We all want those breakthrough to be real, and we want the little guy with zero citations to be right against the 'mediocrity'.

But that's bias. The reality is that those papers are almost always wrong, and you do more harm by giving them indiscriminate attention, peddling cures that don't work to vulnerable people.
The fact that they have purposefully sabotaged the mobile web interface to block you from reading new comments to push you into installing their data slurping app is up there.
Still seems active on github
https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas
Russia intentionally targets civilians in Ukraine, because they are Ukrainian, how does that not meet the definition of genocide? which is.

`Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people — usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group — in whole or in part`.
How much does a wind turbine cost?
Depends on a particular city skateboard culture, I guess. They are noisy, but I where I live, I do not meet them outside some very specific locations (public squares, skateparks, etc) , which are far away from residential areas and generally extremly noisy by default.
I think we can all relate all to well. Even when taking all the precautions in the world, it happens eventually.

I like your little anecdote of Hemingway, and when something like that happens, I always try to think of it as a blessing in desguise, even when it's not about lost work by the way.
Everything bad that happens to me, I try to think of it as me being the protagonist of the story, and this was either an obstacle in my journey, or simply plot armor that the writer gave me to avoid making a fatal mistake.

That was a nice read, keep it up !
> Much worse for causing often unexpected and very grating noise were:

That's fascinating. Thanks for sharing your list. I think that if
everybody contributed a Top-10 noise hate list they would be quite
different and quite specific to location, culture and personality.

There is actually a branch of sound psychology on noise "annoyance"
that is used in court cases and local authority noise abatement
decisions. Although there are common factors like the spectral flux,
prominence of high or low frequencies, repetitiveness etc, there are
also personal psychological factors, and these dominate.

For example, I live by a skate park. But I like to take my daughter
there with her board to (feels like I'm not 50 when I can hang out
with the cool kids :), so anyway, I am not averse when I hear kids
boarding down my street.

How much noises annoy us is linked to the social identification and
sense of how much control or participation we have. For example, if
you get on well with a neighbour who has occasional noisy parties you
don't mind, because you feel you could ask them to turn it down, or
just go and join them for a while. But strangers who never speak to
their neighbours are likely to feel threatened and get annoyed. Even
though they would probably turn it down if you asked politely these
situations can escalate into violence.
Can AI write an episode of Stargate? Google AI took on the challenge
One of the creators here. Think you're totally right, going to disable the automatic toggle. Thanks for pointing this out.
I can totally see how this can derail your life. The algorithms are there to give you videos to keep you watching and the time can really fly by.

You mentioned going cold turkey, I think it's a good idea, but might be hard to implement as all or nothing approaches are prone to relapses.

You can use watchlimits.com if you are interested in setting limits for your watching, but still being able to watch some. For example youtube content is often useful in life, so it's good to have some access to it. Without a tool like this, just watching "one" helpful video could be cause a relapse to a whole evening watching.
As other people below have mentioned it's not even enabled by default and has a privacy warning on it
Based on their traffic coming overwhelmingly from their mobile app, I'm going to say as a pure business decision that moving to a SPA was absolutely the correct decision. It also made it easier for them to shove more ads in users faces.

I don't think it made the site higher quality...
Here's what Goldman told me in their newsletter:

The meltdown in cryptocurrencies is raising alarm about the future of digital assets — or is it?

Fears over soaring prices and slowing economic growth have sent investors fleeing from risk assets, notably cryptocurrencies. In the latest Exchanges at Goldman Sachs, Mathew McDermott, global head of digital assets at Goldman Sachs, explains the drivers, evolution and the outlook for crypto assets and the broader digital assets ecosystem.

Recent volatility underscores that crypto assets are still an emerging asset class with a large number of retail participants, McDermott explains to Exchanges host Allison Nathan of Goldman Sachs Research. “The move so far has been correlated to the broader macro market moves,” notes McDermott, who points out that nearly every asset class with discounted cash flows has been hard hit by inflationary pressures.

Blockchain, crypto and digital currencies are gaining broader acceptance among investors, companies and institutions. “Maturity across both the market participants and the infrastructure has given not only confidence to many different institutional sectors, but also has enabled many more traditional traders to really look forward in how they trade this marketplace because of this maturity in the product suite,” McDermott says.

Venture capital investments in digital assets are surging. While valuations are pretty high, there continues to be “high levels of interest because people continue to see exponential growth opportunities and are keen to deploy that capital,” says McDermott. “I think valuations have got a little out of kilter, so perhaps we'll see some more sensible valuations in terms of investment opportunities, too.”
I have a severe coffee problem i admit. Biggest addiction of mine and definitly needs taking care of. I consider moving to rooibos tea as i like the flavor more than coffee
I was actually once groped in a gym, but I didn't. I just defended myself. This guy was notorious for being handsy.

Yes, I suspect that males tend to trust authorities less and/or do not want to include them in their business, unless necessary.

(Same probably goes with going to the doctor.)
Dieter Rams turns 90 today. The movie “Rams” is free today
Yes, maybe I misread that. I read it as feral doubting that Reinforcement Learning is not restricted to neural networks.
I loved that article, and I think it's a great point of reference for this current discussion here. Thanks for that.
Timebox your contributions and ensure you work less hours according to everyone. Even it it falls apart, you work for those hours to fix it. Then you leave. Who cares if it breaks more than you have time to fix? Nobody will die (probably) and everyone at that company gets paid to pull their weight. Time for them to do so.
So take up your personal time to travel rather than the company's during the day?
I do that, create the ticket.

I want to believe it means one day we will do that TODO, it'll beat the priority of all the other tickets in the queue.

But it never does, there's always some critical new feature sales wants, or something bigger on fire.

I still create the tickets, as a kind of cathartic process, a confession to the jira gods, I have sinned and half assed something. Please take this ticket as my penance.
Excel Unusual – Science, Engineering, Games in Excel and VBA
Gnome has power management features like that, didn't even enable them. It's the most installed DE I think, so your characterization of Linux is pretty off.

I like Gnome and its newest incarnation Gnome 40, but at least on Nixos it has some issues so I often rebuild to an i3-based environment instead.
ITT: city folks complaining about city stuff.

If you want it quiet move out of the city. The noise problem won’t go away in our lifetimes. So why getting angry at the sea? Just get out and enjoy the comfy country life.
I find this sentiment rather unsettling. Who am I to deny someone else their fun in life? There is a Dutch retort to this kind of condescending remark: "who are you, the pope"?

Last night, I had a discussion with a friend about how neighbours' noise complaints are ruining small-time, local run and operated cafes in the country (in Germany also). Noise complainants are becoming all-powerful to the point of unreasonableness.

Can we accept that in society, asses exist that are going to behave like asses no matter what, and not micromanage/regulate literally every aspect of life. I dread this kind of society where we have a law dictating how long you have to cut your grass in your front garden.
Yeah I generally agree with that, I just think reddit is at the point of not giving a shit if they break the old.reddit site, and that somebody in every meeting is probably calling for them to axe it entirely, and if they actually did that it wouldn't kill the site even if it would be bad for it.

I honestly think one of the biggest issues with axing old reddit is that old reddit users are disproportionately moderators (even though new reddit has unique mod tools). Reddit survives off of unpaid labour, it may be a bit wise to rock the apple cart too much.
I’d agree, especially bin men. But as an addition when living in the suburbs, bloody pigeons ‘hooing’ is what wakes me at 5am everyday. They are part of nature, but are the worst for me.
This is out of date information. The fee was scrapped. The fee should only be charged where the request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.
The thinking behind it is based on the halving of rewards and the stock to flow model. https://bitblogger.org/demystifying-bitcoins-remarkably-accu...

If you follow that reason then it's rational that there are crashes after peaks (cashing out), and it's still rational that it will keep rising to a point that it reaches its true value (whatever that is).

The peaks and troughs will flatten out as that happens.

Could well all be wrong. But so far that seems to be the pattern.
It's not like you can't swim when naked
> forces its users to track a release schedule

Quick, what's your version and the release cadence of: top, bash, coreutils, systemd? It's very likely you don't know, don't care and just get them with the distribution. Nobody's forcing users to care about this either.
Thank you! That does help. I’ll definitely keep these strategies in mind.
Isn't part of the problem in NYC the sheer number of hard surfaces reflecting sound, i.e. skyscrapers?
Neurocompositional computing in human and machine intelligence: A tutorial
I presume that this is an official trial. Because i saw a documentary 10 years ago about Pharma companies testing (also HIV) vaccines in Africa.
Being a very light sleeper myself I have often wake-dreamed about this sort of thing. But also being a techie I have never really come up with a solution that I'd call satisfactory in terms of privacy, surveillance, and potential for abuse by law enforcement. The only exception being a system very much like described in the article: volume meter, coupled to camera. Doesn't record actual audio, serves as entry point for further investigation. But that still puts in place a surveillance infrastructure & associated processes.

Which is why, once I've gone back to sleep, and woken up more or less refreshed, I typically go "huh, that needs more thought put in it."
On iOS I went from Alien Blue (which reddit bought and killed, fuck 'em) to Apollo and it's been a bliss, would never be able to use reddit if it wasn't for Apollo and RES on my desktop browser... Not really sure how they are attracting new users, the "new" reddit UI on a SPA is really, really awful.

It's impressive how much engineering effort reddit is able to waste, that isn't cheap.
Thanks for your answer! I'll dig into the code then =)
if a game publisher uses a CEX to exchange the crypto they receive from users into fiat and direct bank account deposit the fees can range from 0% to 0.6%

The only reason the fees are that low right now is because crypto is speculative, and users have no protections. If crypto is useful and buyers expect to be able to do things like refunds or charge backs the fees will do up to cover those costs.

Looking at how crypto works right now and suggesting it'll still be the same if people use it as currency is silly.
Gato and Rebooting AI
I read the GATO paper. I also saw the press hype. It is clear that the press has no idea about what GATO seems to be able to actually do.

I can highly recommend the book "Rebooting AI" by Marcus and Davis (http://rebooting.ai/). They lay out a clear case why the current emphasis on things like deep learning won't get very far toward more general AI.

In my research project the task was human/robot cooperation to change a car tire.

Deep learning was useful for recognizing lugnuts and recognizing mis-threading due to torque issues. It is useful for things that are hard to describe such as how to ride a bicycle.

GOFAI (good old fashioned AI) was useful for task modeling and planning such as setting the parking brake before attempting to work on the tire. It is useful for things that are easy to describe such as how to assemble a bicycle.

Some tasks are learned by "compiling actions", an area without a lot of research as far as I know. If you want to learn to play a guitar the early stages are repetition. Gradually the process is "compiled into the hands". Typing is similar. Emacs is my ultimate example. Often when I try to tell someone about a good key sequence I have to act it out with my fingers before I can explain it because the sequence is "compiled into the fingers".

People seem to think that Artificial General Intelligence is "in the near future". Musk, for example, is claiming that he will soon produce general purpose robots. He found out that self-driving was harder than he expected. Wait until he tries to make a robot enter a new house and make a cup of coffee. At best, both the coffee and the experience will be bitter.

As to the question of robots being conscious, consider that people who drink a lot can "black out", still capable of doing many things, but being unaware that they have done them. "Doing" and "awareness" seem to be unrelated.

The constant hype will eventually lead to a second "AI winter".
In North America I never hear police sirens, even in a noisy metro.

In urban Germany, I could hear them all day.

There's something about the '4 story / narrow streets / high density' that reverberates sounds, there's also something uniquely blistering about their sirens, finally, I think they just put them on for any reason.

Being pulled over in Canada I just see the lights, often no siren at all.
In 40 years people will read your code and find it just as legendary as that of the original lisp hackers. From time to time, I reread ape.S and it always brings tears to my eyes. (Too bad that github botches the art, it has to be experienced inside a real text editor.)
This is very real. The time adds up and it's often not the best way to relax/learn. Not only you could spend this time being productive, you could also just be resting or sleeping or just reflecting on your life.

You might want to check out https://watchlimits.com/ (free extension, I built this), or some other tools I mention in https://watchlimits.com/blog/posts/more_hours_per_week/