skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There isn't the political will to rest the entire tax burden of supporting public schooling to people with kids,

It seems like you are just repeating my comment, but just being overly technical. "You definitely can nuke New York City, we already have the infra to do so. There isn't the political will to nuke New York City".

And just because the infrastructure exists, doesn't mean such a scheme would be successful. If you decided to burden parents with the tax bill for public schools and then they subsequently failed due to budget concerns, I don't consider that a "definitely can". That said, we don't need to speculate ; there was already a time when burdened parents with the cost of sending kids to school and in those times not every child went to school. What you are describing isn't a political will to have parents pay for schooling, its political will to remove children from the education system.
People have been warned about high inflation before the war in Ukraine. Then the war broke out, and lots of things got more expensive (fuel, energy), and other commodities are yet to shoot up. Interest rates are going up to fight inflation.

So people are facing higher prices from all fronts. What are the first things to get sold off to afford all the various "real life" necessities? high-risk investments. Or any kind of investment, as most people simply do not have any investments.
The company that doesn't wash it's hands, has it's pants down, is regularly stuffing it's mouth with stolen cookies, doesn't even bother to take it's hand out of the jar when responding to allegations, but also for some reason has numerous shills claiming has done nothing wrong.
I'd genuinely like to see some objective information about the scene and how it qualifies as animal abuse. The AHA pretty closely monitors scenes with animals and has since the 1940s [1] albeit the rules and regs it follows have continually been improved upon. I understand that there are extenuating circumstances, like the tiger nearly drowning in the "Life of Pi," but from what I can tell, they mostly get it right. After looking for a good amount of time, I'm yet to find a substantiated account of how the rat in "Abyss" was subject to abuse. I understand how the scene might feel but feelings don't equate to actual events.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Humane#Work_in_the_fi...
Ah, you are correct. It's 100, I remembered incorrectly.

Up to readers to decide if my point still stands. I think it does.
Why though? Do rising interest rates really explain such a large move?
It absolutely is illiquid if you do not want to destroy the composition of an area. It cannot be converted without doing damage to the community in which it exists.

When the market is tech and finance bros, all neighborhoods and all stock will become tech and finance bro'd. That's a bad thing for that community and--uh--society at large.
They should know it, because there is a much larger element of "DYOR" (Do your own research) thinking among DeFi users than among regular people putting their money into trad-Fi brokers that are heavily regulated.

In deFi, information asymmetry is a feature, not a bug.
I don't know where coinmarketcap get their quotes, but looking at bitfinex and other major exchanges, USDT stays firmly above 1 USD at all times, except a few minutes today when it dipped to 0.9996.
How has medical science never heard of bellows?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellows
Seems similar in intent to choose (https://github.com/theryangeary/choose) as a cut which doesn't suck. The features outlined are very close, I just don't understand what "can split text into lines" is, do you mean that the selected fields can be split into lines?

The main advantage of tuc seems to be "templated" outputs.
modern neuroscience demonstrates very well that correlating self report and behavior with electrical signals in the brain is so far not sufficient to understand sentience either
i really hate this analogy but if you want to avoid scams avoid internet. crypto, for whatever reason is treated as special while most are commited with all sorts of hacks or social engineering.
on the other hand i do recognize this is an issue but imo the only thing you can do is education. crypto has valid unique amazing usecases and it enables things that were not possible before.
There is actually no upside limit, but there is a fundamental downside limit of zero.

What justifies oil being $130 dollars a barrel vs $100? The answer is also nothing.
Or is it the ought-is, the opposite?
Or to train itself, to the worst possible outcomes: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/micro...
How big of a model is CLIP? If you're building a phone app that classifies dogs, you may not want to require that it runs some multi-billion parameter monstrosity to perform its comparatively simple task. There is lots of value in building a compact model. "Just" typing in the names ignores the compute you need to have behind the scenes.
Here are the signs that I had during my burnout:
- Hoping to get sick to get a few days without having to cope with work

- Trouble sleeping

- Not being able to enjoy my holiday / weekend due to the thought of having to go back to work with an increased backlog

- Enhanced imposter syndrome

- Work productivity drop

- Complete lack of purpose in the daily work

All of the above built up very slowly and I didn't realize until things got overwhelming. The good news for me was that all of the above disappeared almost instantly when I switched jobs.
Microsoft Swiftkey Keyboard is another good example. (The product got worse though)
This is the correct way of seeing it, but lots of people seems to feel personally hurt when someone rebuts the claim "It's scientifically proven!" with their own data, failing to understand that that specific process is exactly what science is.
> There's no native typescript runtime.

A proposal was actually floated recently to grandfather in TypeScript-like annotations[1]. It would be ignored by the runtime and treated purely as a comment, and would be optional. This is what native runtime support for TypeScript would look like. Not sure if it will ever gain official support in the language though.

> it doesn't enforce types at runtime, only at build time

Runtime type "enforcement" is just your program breaking, for example "undefined is not a function". Well, I guess it isn't so simple, because JS does a lot of implicit type translation behind the scenes, like helpfully converting "123" to 123. It would be possible to "enforce" types at runtime by turning off that language feature in certain situations, but I don't think it will happen, for back-compat reasons.

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations
> Because the prices have been so high all of people's wealth is tied up in their homes.

Housing has been so high for 3 years

All of people’s wealth was tied up in housing before then too - if they sell they’ll just get less for it now
Wow. I just learned that all the toyally legit things I've done with Bitcoin are all illegal.
> "The ability for JS to run both client/server means we can do things with it that are not possible with PHP or other server-only languages, and frameworks like React are pushing that boundary. Pointing out that JS has these unique opportunities is not even remotely the same as "forgetting" and "rediscovering" SSR."

Can you provide even a single example for something we can do with JS running on both the client and the server, that was otherwise "impossible" (quoting you here), or very difficult, without this capability?
coercive/noncoercive is not a boolean but a spectrum.

Some societies are less coercive by providing for people in need, be it through welfare, national healthcare, UBI, housing, free food...

Some societies are more coercing even to the point of imprisoning people for being homeless.
Come visit Edinburgh! People love to complain about the buses here too, but they're genuinely pretty good -- and there's absolutely no way I'm commuting into the city centre by car.
In the Free Software space on mobile, though, there are not so many usable mail apps. Basically just K-9 Mail and FairEmail, as far as I know.
Rusty after 10 years out – where to find a technical challenge with purpose?
Hi all. Ten years ago I cofounded a web startup, and it's since grown pretty substantially. Back in the early days I was doing all the frontend web engineering and design - but then got pulled in the direction of running the company, managing, external meetings, etc. I stopped finding time to code somewhere around 2016, but I've missed it ever since and don't find the same sense of fulfillment in other roles.

Dreams of selling have taken a back foot given the current market conditions, but I'm finding there's less and less for me to do (given some good supporting hires).

So, I'd like to spend some spare time exploring a new field with the possibility of pursuing it in future (whether working for myself, or another company). I'll have a steep learning curve given how rusty I now am, so am biased towards a relatively "new" field over one that requires many years of experience to be competent.

I'd also really like to work in an area with the provides a sense of purpose. For me, that might mean climate or electric transport-related, but I'm open to a much wider definition too.

Where would you start? Any recommended courses to start with or further suggestions? All suggestions appreciated.
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That's deeply naive. Incentives matter to humans. A lot in fact.

Ask any lawyer that has hired expert witnesses.

Over there entire career, ask them how many times the expert witness they hired did not come to conclusions supporting the side they were hired by. Even amongst lawyers that have hired 100's of experts, that number is usually zero.

In theory, an expert should be using their expertise to assess the situation honestly and without bias.

In practice, they will use their expertise to present the most credible argument they can think of in support of the side that hired them.
If you insist on knives without any blood, you'll be looking for a very long time.
> Walking in heat and humidity is unpleasant but the climate and population are what they are so you work with what you have.

Bangladesh has about the same population density as the Houston metro area. So it would be totally possible for most people to have cars and houses if it became an advanced service economy.

> I can't speak for all environmentalists but I'd like people to live pleasantly wherever they like if they can do so sustainably.

It's not really up to environmentalists in the first world.

> Probably most Dhaka residents, like most people anywhere, would prefer to stay in their home city and country if possible, just improved. In any case giving everyone in the world a Texas-sized house and pool is not on the table no matter what until we invent personal fusion generators and matter replicators.

I think that's an accurate reflection of what people's end goals are, yes. Using technology to increase the standard of living, just as in western countries.
It's fallen from an high of 68,000 to what it is now.

I don't know why it wouldn't continue to drop.
The donations they receive via that page go directly to Thunderbird is my understanding. There was some chatter a few years back where I guess Thunderbird had some restructuring done so they could have better funding, I forget the specifics I remember discussing it here on HN though.

Edit:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22170786
They could’ve invested in StableGains!
You should probably read up on "shut in syndrome" - people with about as close to zero voluntary muscle control as you could get, and yet internally still fully conscious. They are totally unable to act in any way, yet still sentient.
It might be overkill, but you could run https://zoneminder.com/ in unauthenticated mode, with a single webcam as an input. It'd at least give you a nice Web interface, as opposed to some other solutions which use raw streams over HTTP/RTSP that aren't approachable in a Web browser.
Decentralized exchanges exist, but they can't trade with fiat money. One of the reasons why stablecoins exist.
They don't really bother to say what their "modular monolith" looks like, besides being "well-structured, well-architected", and tautologically, "highly modular."
I didn't mean any of the tech in crypto isn't new, I'm bullish on the ecosystem in general. Was simply saying paying for market share is nothing new.

However, AMM's are not new to crypto. The only thing new about crypto AMM's is that plebs like me can invest in them. Usually they are reserved for the wealthy elite, where back room deals and orderflows are handshakes instead of smart contracts.

However, it is still technically illegal for US plebs to access AMM's(Non-accreddited).
There was recently an article posted to HN [0] about a startup founder doing this very thing, blaming his customers for behaving like humans.

>I was fighting human nature and losing.

>Everyone swears they will eat right and exercise, but most don’t. Everyone agrees they need to spend less to be financially secure later, but most won’t. Our users were telling us they would use ContractBeast to achieve those long-term benefits, but most weren’t.

>When I looked at the contracts the users were creating, I found most of them were ones in which a particular feature provided a clear and immediate benefit. Usually involving contract review and approval.

>Human nature sucks.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11866868
Treat work as normal labor. Don’t expect joy from work.
Try to be less involved. But still efficient, just the bare minimum. It’s just a contract after all.
Invest the money you get from your labor in a stable social life. Healthy life style.
Spend the free time you’re left with practicing your hobbies. It can still be coding. But something you’re excited about.
How hard did you look?

From https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096754/trivia/ (which is incidentally the third Google result[0] for "the abyss american humane"):

"The American Humane Association rated this film "unacceptable" because of the rat that was submerged in oxygenated liquid in one scene."

From the same page:

"James Cameron later admitted that four rats had indeed gone through the procedure without problems; the fifth, however, suffered a cardiac arrest. Fortunately, Cameron was able to revive it through careful chest compressions, and later kept it as a pet."

From the article linked in the original comment:

"Supposedly, the only purpose for the cuts in the sequence was to avoid showing the rats defecating from panic."

And you need only watch the scene to see a rat in enormous distress. I'm not sure what more you want.

[0] The first Google result is an explanation from American Humane themselves that they "were told there were no animals in the film. Therefore, AHA was not aware of the scene involving the rat and was not on the set."
Can you trade BTC/USDC or BTC/ETH on any of them?
That's kind of the point. Currencies which are pegged to other currencies at fixed exchange rates aren't good currencies at all. They're subject to sudden catastrophic revaluation. Fortunately most of the major fiat currencies now have floating exchange rates so that's generally no longer a problem.
I still remember looking at Bitcoin and Ethereum back in day. I was just curious and I know my friends bought and sold some. Back in 2017 (video is earlier) I looked at a video that explains, what Ethereum is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clw-qf1sUZg

This video has not aged well. It's full of so many buzzwords that my mind can't keep up. Also, the idea of anonymity and privacy...clearly they gave up on that as everybody is using their real names, addresses, etc so sign up for exchanges.

Again, I don't know enough about it, but since I've looked it back in 2017, until today, I'm still as confused, which is why I've stayed away from it.
It's pretty obvious. Look at the history of big union pensions in the USA, e.g. the Teamsters.
Why would programmable money be useful for anything beyond financial engineering. It’s literally engineering + finance.

Why is financial engineering inherently universally without qualification bad?
I have a mortgage, an index fund, and an ATM card. I :heart: financial engineering.
I've been on the extreme end of this, crawling out of bed at 845, leaving work 15 minutes early, eating and going straight back to bed.

If you notice yourself sliding, it's easier to fix things now than to let it get to such a stage. Obviously no one benefits (not even your employer with deadlines) if you're a zombie.

I needed to quit my job, get back into sports and hobbies, and basically didn't go near my laptop for 3 months. I'm lucky, I'm back to my old self (when other people start noticing and telling you this you realize how far gone you were). I know people who never recovered.

Prioritize you
x86 Machine Code Statistics (2008)
> science-based research about what results in good friendships

Isn't research like this deemed totally bunk and unrepeatable. Is it really better than a thoughtful 'listicle'.
I really don't get why people are happy about Bitcoin crashing. It is the only hope for freedom.

What do you mean by "exchanging money in good faith"? So being able to prove transactions are valid is a bad thing in your opinion?

You think it is a good thing that the FED can make the whole economy tumble by playing with their interest rates?
Defined Benefit pensions went the way of the dodo ages ago because it's too expensive for employers. Everybody is now at the mercy of defined contribution plans.
relevant: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810

wow, did he write that 5 years ago?

I guess I could just google it, but does anyone know if the OSI stack is portable to the application layer, the way that apenwarr was promoting, and the way that mptcp simulates? Since the time of that article, I've always wondered if that was the case. Or is OSI "broken" in its layering, like TCP/IP.
Same as every Elite through history.

Money,
Influence over politics,
Knowledge of dark corners.
I think the symptoms are pretty similar, the main difference from what I understand is burnout is triggered by repeated stress from work, and it's a mechanism our brains use to defend against that kind of constant stress. Typically it goes away if you remove the stress (aka job).
This is why I Love technology but dislike the tech industry.
Pretty sure that porn actors shooting videos for studios or their own onlyfans, indeed, fill out tons of paperwork (including at least weekly STI testing, if they are working for a studio), and also pay taxes on it.
I doubt celcius in the CDPQs most sketchy investment. Don't they also own a huge amount of the provinces debt, basically turning the provincial finances into a house of cards. Any investment they make that diversifies outside of Quebec is at least going in the right direction (even if this on was dumb)
Most of the recommended extensions on Firefox Mobile are also the most widely used and most needed (in particular uBlock Origin). But if you really need more extensions, you can jump through a bunch of hoops in Firefox Nightly to get any extension you want. Some of them even work pretty well (I use Privacy Redirect, Stylus, and Bypass Paywalls Clean in addition to some of the recommended ones).
“It was written the day saylor mentioned their position” or something like that
Could You Charge an iPhone with the Electricity in Your Brain?
The sub for banned because users were asking for stuff. They didn't ban the users, they banned the subreddit.

If they enforced the rules consistently then by that logic I could get any subreddit closed down by asking for things that are against the rules.
From memory (didn't watch the clip):

"THUMB DRIVE, that's a thumb"
Plenty of idiots are happy to invest in crypto. A very common sentiment in crypto ads is "$100 invested into crypto in 2012 would be $zilliard today. Invest today, and tomorrow you'll be rich too!"
The fact that you think it’s materially different is amusing. The only “magic” here is injecting JS shims to handle bidirectional syncs for certain components (“islands” in their parlance). That is also something we’ve had for a very long time, though admittedly
it was kludgy as hell two decades ago (ajax polling, SSE, long-polling, comet, etc).
Gold is money. You’re effectively saying “the people shouldn’t have access to savings or retirements, as we know better than them.”

The larger issue at hand is that some people believe they are better and smarter than others and therefore, they ought to have more control and say than the ignorant public.

I on the other hand do not know, nor presume to know, what is better or worse for anyone but myself.
I know, and even in ICE the drivetrain is only a portion of the CPUs. Most do windshield wipers, seat adjustments, darkening mirrors, electronically adjustable mirrors, climate control, Infotainment and all the rest. There's no difference here in EVs.
I think that there are missiles on the other side that are hurting people in more physical, fatal ways.
One tangible thing I've found is when I get the urge to call in sick to work just to avoid going, it's probably about that time to make a change.
I think we need to define what 'sentient' means. Virtually everything I can access says 'able to experience feelings'. I'm pretty sure that brains from other animal kingdoms are capable of sentience, not just mammals.
> ... that sounds more like a military alliance between independent city-states in ancient Greece than your average human friendship.

It doesn't sound like your average friendship in modern atomized societies. But it seems that it was the bedrock for many societies throughout history, including close knit societies today. I've heard it argued fairly persuasively that this is why military insurgencies tend to be stronger in societies where kinship groups are fairly strong (and there's a strong possibility atomized societies wouldn't be able to follow suite).
That source mentions BMW and Chrysler hybrids as problematic. (go figure) Toyota's NiMH batteries have a very good record for reliability and safety going back two decades.

Hybrids on average have a greater fire risk because they have more opportunity for mistakes -- they have both the spicy components from an EV and the spicy components from a gas car.
One answer is that a poor person should not being buying a 15k USD car.
In some sense it's easy to figure out: If you change everything and the feeling stays the same, congratulations. You are depressed.
Anyone find it suspicious how many companies put so much effort into justifying how Rails is still a good tech for a mature company?

I think the truth is really something like - we prototyped the app in Rails, because that's what Rails is good at, now we've evolved into a huge and slow application with no type validation, but porting the application and switching the team to something better and faster would be a nightmare, so we're just going to write an article about feeling good about where we're at.
No, fiduciary assets are segregated. See, 12 USC 92a(c) and corresponding implementing regulation 12 CFR §9.13(b).

The Fed is not a good example of how banks typically operate or how banking regulations are typically implemented because the Fed is not a typical bank.

12 USC 92a: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/12/92a

12 CFR §9.13: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/12/9.13
Maintaining the value of fiat currency through a state monopoly on violence is absolutely a positive. It works out better overall than anything else we've ever tried, including cryptocurrency.