skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very similar to how I tried (am trying?) to evolve my spending, usually having the impulse to buy something now before it become scarce or buy the cheapest possible thing to get the task done in the moment.

These days I realize I have nearly everything I need, so if I'm buying something I figure I can't really afford it unless I'm getting the "best" out there. Best for me means researching the best performing/quality/etc. item in the category. If I'm replacing a broken item I also take the opportunity to upgrade.

For example I needed a carpet shampoo cleaner recently. Instead of heading to Walmart to buy whatever consumer gear was slapped on the shelf, I spent a few weeks deeply researching the ecosystem and ended up with something about 4-5x the expense - but with performance to match. The difference in quality makes it almost a pleasure to clean my carpets these days.

It's easy to spend money simply on fancy and not get much out of it. But I feel pretty satisfied when I make an absurdly expensive purchase like the above but still feel great about it a year later due to the value/increased quality of life it bought me. In the moment if feels ridiculous paying many multiples more than I would have in the past, but over time these little incremental improvements add up.

It's the spending that I do like a "poor person" that bothers me the most - just buying crap on impulse, or "collector" behavior. I find I need to actively mitigate both impulses or I'd end up on a hoarding TV show.
A EE professor I used to respect once told me he doesn’t believe in global warming or whatever because some ice core data was taken from Siberia, and they probably do sloppy science.
Having recovered from several injuries: No, we're not doing ourselves a disservice by increasing our body's atrophy, at least not in this particular case. We're getting a better chance at giving the injured limb a chance to rest.

You shouldn't favor your injured limb, but neither should you expose it to unnecessary stress. So if recovery requires parking yourself on the couch, those automations are nice. (Or, alternative, loving friends & family whom you can use to do these things for you :)

And as for the uninjured case: If light switches and TVs are the thing that keeps you from atrophying, you have a problem :)
I think that little video shows exactly why "mundane chores" are the rage in gaming. You get paid $80k for less than 5 minutes of operating a power shovel, running up against a time limit.

If each level was 8 hours of operating a power shovel out in the hot sun, and if you stop playing without calling in sick, or call in sick too many times you immediately lose and are banned from playing the game again, it might be a bit less popular...
Here we go again. Another article designed to bring a maelstrom of outrage, anger and the wrath of nonsense towards what it said about all NFTs. This time a famous name involved. However there is a problem with that 100% certainty figure on all NFTs.

I would fall into the trap of absolutism on generalising on all NFTs though, since not all NFTs are useless and ridiculous JPEGs. ENS domains are NFTs and have a use case in many applications, more than JPEG NFTs do.

So, I'm afraid that the 100% figure really is a trap. The only absolute is: There are no absolutes. Rather I would say 90% of them are going to get wiped out, with the remaining 10% like ENS still surviving and having a valid use case.
Not owning any Apple products myself, my only option was a free online emulator to try and fix a bug on older iOS systems. It did not support console logs, so I was trying to debug using alert() as far back as yesterday. It didn't help, I only managed to find the issue through xCode on a random Mac.
I posted this as a reply to a comment here but I felt it would be better to ask as a separate comment -

Does anyone (especially from MS) know why later versions of IE and pre-chromium Edge were so good and snappy with scrolling? The level of accuracy and speed was incredible (on touchpads at least) - it was probably the last time I had an interaction on a computer that made me go "wow".
Tesla's Autopilot makes it easier for drivers to treat it as if it were L3 (even down to marketing it as "full self driving") which means they're not paying as much attention to actually driving the car as they're required to for a L2 system.
Nukes are expensive and take many years to build. No reason to shut them down, but also not a lot of good reasons to build them.
>I realize I waste a lot of time in supermarkets, shops or online stores, browsing/walking around and comparing prices just to penny pinch on low value things

Of course it pales in comparison to cashing out your overpriced McMansion in some Karen infested suburb of a major metro with nice schools and moving to rural Idaho or switching jobs for a new one with "senior" in the title. But have you ever actually run the numbers? Cheaping out and/or reducing consumption has a huge impact on weekly or monthly finances if it is applied with any breadth. Monthly finances have a huge impact on money available for savings/investment.
Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords -

related discussion (from 2013!) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6477505
If semi can stop in 6 seconds sounding horn would do it.
It doesn’t have to even be in your youth. I lost a lot of money with a real estate deal in the 90s plus a lot more when the .COM bubble crashed. Since then I have no confidence in investing or jobs. I always look over my shoulder and wait for things to go bad. Especially since 2008 it made sense to blindly invest into housing and stocks even while knowing they would crash eventually. Being gunshy from previous experience made you lose out on a lot of gains.
yeesh, ie9, my condolences.
Ha, touché.
Have you looked into Algorand?
My partner absolutely adores House Flipper a game where you clean up, repair, and decorate derelict houses.

She, like the people in this article, really loves this style of game because there is no direct competition. Sure there are tasks to complete and achieve but there is no clock, no angry mobs of people yelling obscenities at you, and no enemies getting in your way while you try and do your thing.

These games are good to veg out with, they give you some of the satisfaction of doing a good job, while keeping you from doing all the hard work.

No it's not my kind of game, but House Flipper is now one of my top three games played on steam (for game time) because my partner uses my steam account for gaming.
> Where does this recap come from?

Is it not true?

> My understanding was that SQLite was initially created...

Ah, you think I meant that that was the SQLite model on day 1. But no, I meant that this is what it became.

> As for the revenue, there's a proprietary extension to support fully encrypted db and access. This is licensed and supported.

Consortium membership costs money. That money pays for the dev team.
I clicked to laugh at a meme for a second and ended up reading an intriguing action packed drama about anthropomorphized web tech. This is awesome! Thanks for sharing :)
Majority of millennials on social media sites like reddit share the same thoughts as that person. To be more specific everyone that isn't making six figures in a career like tech. I have anxiety about the resentment of my peers and I think the riots we've seen in the US non-related to the housing crisis have been bad but likely nothing compared to what's to come. The elephant in the room is that therapy isn't going to cut it and especially when almost all of young adults entering into the timeline of entry-homeownership years realize it's impossible while having flashbacks of how much easier it was for their parents while comparing homes on the market to what they lived in during childhood years. I think the older generation is naive to think that everyone is just going to adapt to apartment living without extreme resentment and torching things down. Even my tech colleague millennials are trying to prepare for what their peers are likely to do.
Are interest rates high enough again to make laddering worth it?
It's mostly a tiny number of loud and influential people drowning out the majority who either have a balanced view and wish someone would listen through all the shouting or can't make sense of any of it and shut down a long time ago so they could get on with their lives. The latter group is where you find most of the swing voters both parties try to woo every election but ignore otherwise.
The OkC study (and the Tinder study mentioned in a sibling comment) are pretty much worthless either way, and people should stop citing them. The only really meaningful way to look at these things are measures of the actual relevant outcomes (likes, matches, conversations, dates), which is hard without access to actual dating app data.

An engineer at Hinge did exactly this for a post on the blog, calculating a Gini coefficient for (IIRC) match rates:

https://hinge.co/hinge-reports/whats-the-biggest-challenge-m...

Naturally, it was taken down, but it did show that heterosexual matches were distributed in a much more lopsided way among men than among women. Though that can't be taken as a justification of "20% of the men get 80% of the women", which is either (obviously) false as stated, also true of the distribution of X among women, or incoherent as a meaningful metric.
> Funny article in that it doesn't discuss lifecycle costs. A side-by-side comparison of the cost of grids powered by nuclear power plant relative to those powered by wind/solar/storage is what I'd expect to see from a 'paper of record' like the NYTimes.

If you eliminate gas and coal powered plants then the costs of nuclear plant lifecycle is incidental compared to economic losses that a country would encounter if they relied on solar and wind.

The dirty secret about "clean energy" is that it isn't actually very clean. When you eliminate big coal plants and try to use solar or wind, what you are actually doing is moving your dependence from coal to natural gas.

Those wind farms and solar farms require significant investment in numerous smaller style natural gas plants in order to function correctly.

So, right now, when people think they are moving away from fossil fuels they are really just moving to natural gas that is supplanted by solar and wind when conditions are ideal for them to work properly.

If you want to eliminate your dependence on natural gas, then, the only feasible option is nuclear.
The video shows roughly n^1/3 generators, which is still a little high but more manageable.
And yet I do pay subscriptions for the news and publications whose content I find good enough to be interested in what they will publish next, or if I support what they stand for. However, I feel no reason to pay subscriptions for one-off articles that may interest me from the myriad of media companies that I don't care to follow for one reason or another if they send me the content anyway. Their business model is not my problem.
Isn't there a finders keepers law for shipwrecks, especially for things that aren't cultural artifacts?
Both Firefox and Chrome can get the kerberos ticket themselves, but it is necessary to whitelist sites that can use spnego. For Firefox, the settings are separate for ntlm and spnego, so one can be disabled and the other whitelisted.

Interestingly, Edge for Linux doesn't support spnego at all.
The startup death spiral of bullshit
>People as a whole have about double as many female ancestors as they do male ancestors.

I'll take your word for it, but I don't think that means "women bear multiple children with a small pool of highly desirable men..." or something. It's equally likely that the converse situation makes offspring less successful for some reason. For example, women with multiple partners could have access to more resources by proxy of those relationships, which in a patriarchal society would be greater than the resources a man with multiple partners could access.
> Stack frames go away the second you release control back to the event loop which is by far the more pernicious problem.

Sadly the opposite is true today: If you're doing async/await programming in Chrome (and Firefox too, I think?) the runtime actually tries to carry your stack across event loop turns and this will be visible in Error.stack. This happens even with the debugger closed in my experience (the massive stacks are really annoying)
This is awesome. I would be much more comfortable working on my political side projects if employment was pseudonymous.
This is why we can not have nice things online....

Why not implement a paywall that lets you pay for an article?
The tech already exists, see [1] and [2]. And if you feel bad about leaving your credit card details somewhere, you could use a plugin like Alby [3].

[1] https://lnpay.co

[2] https://coil.com

[3] https://getalby.com
The first time you've spent some romantic together or kissed could be considered a date. It's a very loose term.
> We don’t have a stable population. It’s growing.

The rate of growth is declining, though. So it's not unreasonable to foresee peak population in the near future (most estimates are around 2060, and it's not going to increase much between 2050 and then).
The new USI 2.0 standard for styluses isn’t so universal after all
If you follow that logic every day and end up buying 1,000 tickets you are out $2,000 and you don't win powerball. Market results routinely outperform lottery tickets.
Incredibly inferior bandaid
I mean, making a woman truly happy will be more challenging than inverting binary trees anyway.
You want a music player and light switches that actually do the things you wanted them to do? Without being tied to a single vendor?
compared to all the other data collected about me with no benefit to myself that seems like an ok deal
For alternatives, I’ve been running opensuse microos in some test deployments and am really happy so far.
Each dollar diverted from renewables to nukes brings climate catastrophe nearer.

Starting a new nuke means burning coal for an extra decade, and at the end of that decade getting much less power per euro, displacing correspondingly less CO2, than if you had built out renewables instead.

There is simply no contest.

Even refurbishing a nuke instead of building out renewables is a losing proposition. Just continuing to operate a nuke instead of building out and then operating renewables is a losing proposition.

The only legitimate use for keeping a nuke running is while you are waiting to bring enough renewables you are building online to wholly displace it, because what you are spending operating it is using up money that could be building more renewables.

This is the magic of exponentially falling costs.

At the point where enough spare renewable generating capacity is available to charge storage, it will be time to start building out increasingly cheap storage.
> The primary cost of nuclear is politically driven. I don't know if that matters in a world of actual energy scarcity, I guess we'll be finding out.

> If you remove liability and the insanity of our current methods of waste storage the costs become outright cheap, especially in an imagined future where there is massive investment into new nuclear infrastructure.

You are misinformed. Nuclear power operators do not have to covee liability costs (no insurance is willing to cover nuclear disaster, so this is a massive subsidy). Also the cost of long term storage is typically not included in cost calculations for nuclear power either. Despite of this nuclear is more expensive than renewables.

> By the metrics people use to judge nuclear, hydro would be the most expensive power source known to man if you were to build one today. Just the land costs would make the entire project nonsensical if viewed solely in that frame.

Just because you say it doesn't make it true. In fact hydro projects have to typically compensate land owners when building a dam.
Our first kiss was in a barn standing in sheep shit.
> You'd have to be lucky, but there is a lot of time to be lucky in (seen from the point of humanity of course, not from the individual dropping in the sea).

I’m no biologist, but I think you’d need at least two people to have a chance at sustainability.
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If he is comparing meaningfulness as the parent comment would imply, then he has it right.
*in the right conditions, ignoring nighttime, winter, northern hemisphere, etc etc...
Hasn’t it always been? When my mom came back from my cousin’s wedding, the first three things she said were: the wife is a civil engineer, she’s pretty, and she’s Muslim (like our whole family) but not fundamentalist. Right to the point.
Do you believe a child should have the power to decide what happens to their body even at a young age? What if a 6 year old wants to get a permanent tattoo? Or a middle schooler wants a subcutaneous horn implanted on the forehead to look cool? Or a toddler refuses medical treatment? I doubt that's what you mean.

Maybe you mean a parent and child should decide together? I don't think a child has the capacity to make, or even weigh in on, decisions. Not just a newborn, even older children (most anyway) would have a difficult time making big decisions like if they should have a body part altered by surgical operation. Is it your position to postpone all non-emergency decisions regarding bodily alterations until the person is old enough to decide for themselves what happens to their body? If so, that doesn't seem practical. If you mean something else, please go on
When you say "fad", do you also mean over-hyped?
It's not so much a desire for stability in general rather than the depreciation. I found that piece in the post rather convincing. I don't think most people have a problem with learning new skills in this field. But having to throw away old ones sure feels like a waste and given the model in the post limits how good you can ever get.

Also, sitting and staring at a text editor should not sound that awful for anyone who likes to create via writing code. Because that's how you do it. But that's not what you experience, obviously. It's about what goes on in your head.

I remember the feeling after taking a new job as a fresh graduate. It felt ridiculous that I know get paid for doing the thing I've wanted to do most of the time in the past ~12 years but I was told that you can't do that all day because you have duties. (Now the pay was actually pretty bad, even for local standards, as my first job was in an academic research institute.)
Fact Sheet on WMD Threat Reduction Efforts with Ukraine and Russia
Are there plans to release an HTTP API to make it easier to use with services like Fastly Compute@Edge and Cloudflare Workers? And if so would the API be global or region specific?

One thing I haven't seen with "serverless" databases is an easy way to dictate where data is stored. Mongo has a pretty clever mechanism in their global clusters to specify which regions/nodes/tags a document is stored in, and then you simply specify you want to connect to nearest cluster. Assuming your compute is only dealing with documents in the same region as the incoming request, this ends up working really well where you have a single, multi-region db, but in practice reads/writes go to the nearest node if the data model is planned accordingly.

A real world example of how I am using this in Mongo today: I run automated trading software that is deployed to many AWS regions, in order to trade as close to the respective exchange as possible. I tag each order, trade, position, etc. with the exchange region that it belongs to and I get really fast reads and writes because those documents are going to the closest node in same AWS region. The big win here is this is a single cluster, so my admin dashboard can still easily just connect to one cluster and query across all of these regions without changing any application code. Of course these admin/analytics queries are slower but absolutely worth the trade off.
I've never met someone who needs at least three types of phones at a time.
Absolutely. The current inflation spike is caused by massive floods of money chasing scarce material resources. We have a financial class happy to apply supply and demand to housing and education, but completely ignoring its effect on food and gas.
You're talking about something very different -- basically, building something for fun. The objective is to spend time building something, and it doesn't really matter what the thing being built is. This aligns with the intrinsic motivation very well.

The other scenario is that you're building something for others to use -- you have to understand their problem, design the solution so that it would make their lives easier, etc. With this, it makes sense to start at the soft end of things. The implementation, the actual building -- that's just drudgery at this point, something someone will do if they're paid enough.
Props to ChromeUnboxed for the original discovery:

https://chromeunboxed.com/lenovo-chromebook-duet-3-usi-2.0-s...
Okay, put in batteries, still an order of magnitude cheaper than a nuclear plant without any risk of doomsday
>Where are we going to get enough cobalt?

Nobody would use this kind of lithium ion battery for grid storage. Instead use Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePo4) batteries- no cobalt needed. LiFePo4 batteries are absolutely good enough right now for grid storage.
No. I'm pointing out that our current system is already spending money on far more wasteful things, thus it should be possible to fund accelerators by taking away from the things that are an outright detriment to humanity than the things that are, at worst, only useless.

I even point out that the reality is likely if we fund particle accelerators, it will likely be diverted from places we don't want it to be diverted from, like other research spending.

>even if we get funding it'll likely be diverted from the areas we least want it diverted from

Note I even end by saying the poster is probably right, for as much as I don't like that they are (not meant as a negative to the poster, but to how humanity currently allocates our resources).
How Many Languages Could a Child Speak?
> In the meantime, the french nuclear industry lost the competency to build new one as demonstrated by the struggling EPR project in Normandy.

If the French (of all people) can no longer get it together to build new reactors even remotely on time and on budget, then maybe we just need to be honest and give up on the "build lots of new nuclear plants, quickly" as a credible medium-term component of a plan to deal with climate change.

"France's Flamanville 3 reactor will cost 300 million euros more than forecast and fuel loading is being pushed back by up to six months, EDF (EDF.PA) said on Wednesday, in the latest setback for a project already running more than a decade late.

EDF now estimates the total cost of the project at 12.7 billion euros ($14.42 billion). Its expected cost has more than quadrupled from the first estimate made in 2004."[0]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/edf-announces-new-de...
This is a wonderful idea, but the first listing I clicked claimed being anon-friendly while also asking for a mandatory resume.

I assumed these would mostly be merit-based positions, how do these two concepts harmonize? I have gotten anon roles before and they did not require a resume.

Also, it would be useful to filter by part-time/full-time/contract positions.
Worth noting that at least in the United States, your public library likely provides free access to some paywalled / subscription sites. Mine has NYT, WSJ, Consumer Reports and a bunch of others.