skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's happening, just as Kim Stanley Robinson predicted with common sense and middle-school level research... How did he know?

See chapter 1, Ministry for the Future (free pdf) >> [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...]
> > The whole point of circumcision is to control the actions of the person later in life.

> How so? … Circumcision in Judaism is a physical and indelible representation of our belonging to a community

You ask how circumcision controls a person, and you have provided the answer. The indelibility robs the person of the agency to choose not to belong to that community.

Could they leave anyway? Sure, the same way a person with gang tattoos can leave the gang.
First read it as 4700 nano-meters, and really couldn't figure out what the big deal was.
Is it backwards-compatible with Zigbee, or do I have to buy everything all over again?
No.

The argument by throwaway71271's is pointless and made only as a distraction from the initial point that Russia is a petro-state heavily dependent on oil export - without those EXPORT revenues the entire state is at serious risk of collapse.

Obviously EVERY economy has many critical components that are yet a small percentage of the overall economy; your mention of food is an excellent example. These are not the question here.

The only relevant point is that the USA is not even close to dependent on it's exports of oil and gas. In fact, NatGas exports were entirely banned until recently. If all USA oil & NatGas activities were suddenly done on a nonprofit basis at cost, the economy would only shrink marginally. If Russia did the same thing, it would likely collapse on a timescale of single-digit months.
Inside a Corporate Culture War Stoked by a Crypto CEO
I want anonymized data to be used for research purposes. I want it possible to unblind the data when a research seems to show something and they need more information. However the purposes the data can be used for needs to be strictly controlled, and when it is unblinded even more strictly.
Not different when it comes to this issue though. More of the current justices likely agree that money == speech.
Yes. Having a business entity doesn't necessarily keep someone from tracking down your identity. But, depending upon how complex you want to make things (and presumably how much money you're willing to spend), you can probably obfuscate your identity from being casually revealed to everyone. Really depends what you're trying to accomplish.
I know Ray and this is an accurate retelling of this line, but it's comparing apples to oranges in the context of this thread. He knew LIGO was rapidly approaching the necessary sensitivity to make great discoveries -- a threshold. The LHC experiments may already have the sensitivity necessary to make their great discoveries, and may just be chasing diminishing returns at this point. Big difference.
Both my parents went to graduate school. One of them loved the academic setting and went through with the postdoc and then found a tenure track job, the other decided it wasn't for them. I talked to them recently and the one still teaching said they would never choose that path if they were coming out of college now.

It can take 5-10 years to find a tenure track job now because professors don't retire. I've seen 90+ year olds walking around departments, and 70 year olds are common. All the low hanging fruit is gone, so projects and problems take longer and longer. Together, it means that whatever semblance of academic integrity and honor is gone. There's too much pressure to produce something big that you'll hide data or even steal it. Even collaborations don't mean you'll see your name on a paper. My partner got their research scooped by former collaborators!! And your recourse for blatant plagiarism? Nothing! No institution will fight for you because your career doesn't matter to them. There's a huge pool of postdocs they can pick from if you give up. Most of the professors still pretend that they can talk things out and share data, or blame you for not anticipating the issues.

The pay is secondary for most people who made it through grad school. They generally _want_ to do research. But when the pay is less for a more toxic environment, it's a no brainer. And somehow the professors are confused why no one wants to stay...
Are you joking? Why would you punish people for using old tech?
your numbers concur pretty well with what another poster replied, so thanks! I'll try to tailor my answers accordingly in the future, really helpful cheers. It just gets so confusing when people post their salaries like in the US and other places and I just don't know what is reasonable to ask for. Learning though, glad for the answers here.
I live in the US and I'm not making anywhere near $400k. What I'm making is above average for my region, also. I haven't gotten a recruiter from this area (that shared their range) get anywhere close with the top end of their range when they've pinged me since I've gotten this job.
Yup. If I were to use it I'd set it to something like 4 weeks, to be sure to cover most scenarios where I'm still alive.
>> empathy starts with yourself

> That's not empathy.

It is, and people who don't have it are unable to have empathy for others. In theory, perhaps someone could have empathy only or others. In reality, empathy and similar emotions come from the inside out. Metaphorically, it fills you up then overflows.

People who do not love themselves, who cannot have empathy for themselves despite their flaws and mistakes, cannot love others. And I am not criticizing those people; they deserve love and empathy.

> if investment in poor people provides good returns why there is not enough investment? (i.e unsecured loans provided by the private sector)

It's a good investment for the community, for society - education is one well-accepted example. There are charitities that provide unsecured loans (and grants), with high rates of paymet. Look up JustGive and microlending, for example. However, it's (presumably) not a high rate of ROI for the private sector - they don't profit from changing people's lives and making them more productive. There are many things in the world that the free market doesn't serve well.
> The claim that economic growth relies on consumer confidence (high levels of consumption) is also pretty suspect and relies a lot on how you define 'growth' - what's wrong with a steady-state economy with a stable human population and fixed levels of demand for goods and services, anyway?

on a micro level, most people would prefer for their QOL to increase over time. I was happy to live like a college student when I was in college, but I wouldn't be happy to live that way as a 35 yo. this can't happen for everyone without some amount of growth.

you rightly call out that people often spend money on temporary kicks that don't actually improve their QOL. but if you take a more intentional approach to spending, there are lots of opportunities to exchange money for less stress or more free time. for example, not everyone can afford an in-unit washer/dryer, but it sure is nice to have one.

and then on a macro level, there is the unfortunate reality that we are a tribal species, constantly locked in a prisoner's dilemma with the other tribes. the more tribes onboard to the "steady state" model, the greater the incentive to defect and outgrow/dominate the others.
People exacerbate the problem but the language itself is pretty darn verbose too. Just look at how much code you need to instantiate a generic array for instance.
>Warning: if x == y, then instead of swapping, the two values are set to zero.

Huh, what?
On Grindr, at least, that filter was removed because it was considered an invalid preference. (I agree with that decision.)

More broadly, though, if you politely request people of certain racial groups not contact you on Tinder/Hinge/Bumble, you will rapidly be reported and then banned by the administrators of the app.
> I would say that it's bad for writing, though.

What a weird take. Especially in this day and age. Where news stories are built on tweets, we're engaged in a comment section of a super niche topic, there's a proliferation of a lifetime of video uploaded to youtube every day. many lifetimes streamed live on twitch.

I don't think this impacts writing at all. I think you could argue the opposite point. The amount of people reading books is on the decline. But the amount of people reading and engaging with textual content is on the rise.

Traditional publishing is nearing end of life. What's the point?

My pov: The fate of all of these centralized institutions is the same, a mass proliferation of alternatives and as a result, less power, and ultimately, death.
There's no chance such a ban proposal survives in Congress as Google, Apple, Facebook and hundreds others would battle to death against it...
You are remembering correctly. Branching on svn was painful; on git it's basically free.
Hah, I had a whole long comment about how I was most impressed by pack hunters, but I somehow backed myself into a bunch of comments around how they must be smart enough to model each other's behavior, which in some ways seems similar to metacognition... until I realized I was in totally over my head and about to make a bunch of arguments about intelligence and animal behavior that I had no chance of backing up.

So, raccoons in the garbage.
They'd also have the situational awareness to decide that life there in France sandwiched between coastal tribes A and B and inland tribe C sucks, so they're going to try their chances on that fuzzy bit of land that looks promising on the horizon.

It only takes one small group over a timescale of thousands of years to make that decision. Dispersal is even more likely if people or stories are able to get back and forth; the issue of "we only have 8 people and not enough genetic diversity" is moot if the story or the rumor spreads that there's lots of land and lots of food on that fuzzy spot over there.
I'm not sure about EU but there are still many many many hiring managers who think SWE/Devops/ML are just like any other employees and shouldn't get paid less than the middle managers about them.

Avoid those shops like the plague. If a company still doesn't understand that you get what you pay for in *current year*, they're not going to treat you well in non-monetary ways either.
An alternative suggestion if you don't need the VPS benefits (ie root), feral sell reasonably cheap shell accounts from 1 to 8tb (won't link just in case, but easy to find on Google)
I can't speak for everyone, but I made the switch after there was some drama with LastPass not reporting security problems in a timely manner a while back (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29737973)

I had used LastPass for a few years, and begrudgingly started paying when they went the "desktop or mobile only" option for free accounts - I need both for complicated reasons. The switch made me pretty bitter with them over the whole thing. It was like I was tricked into trusting them to deliver one thing, then they started to charge me for the "privilege", with no tangible improvement to the service they were providing.

After I saw the thread and started to read up a bit on their past issues (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LastPass#Security_issues), I was motivated enough to make the switch.

Personally, I've had nothing but great things to say about Bitwarden since moving over. The import from one to the other was pretty painless.

I still have to interact with LastPass for certain job-related things, and the difference is really very noticeable. Much easier to generate usernames and passwords in the web extensions on BW. Things are laid out a bit more logically, in my opinion. It also feels like BW signs in/loads significantly faster in the browser extension (I might just be imagining things). It just feels less cumbersome than LP is.

The only negative I can think of is that LP is a bit prettier to look at.
> To me charging market price for water seemed obvious and easy till the comments here pointed out what should be obvious: the farmers Steve getting their water from the faucet but from their own wells, creeks etc. So that solution is pretty hard to do on practice.

It doesn't seem that hard to measure it. The large scale would justify the cost.
Fed Hikes Rates 75 Basis Points, Intensifying Inflation Fight
> Seniors, should reap the benefits of higher bank savings rates after years of piddling returns.

Not to any significant degree. Bank rates won't come close to offsetting the effect of inflation. The big winner will be the IRS, as intended.

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How does this work given that the company needs to record who they are making payment too (even if it's just a W-2 contractor).

(I'm speaking from a US lens here)
I wonder what the implications for antibiotic-resistance might be for widespread usage at such a low dosage?
> you probably still wouldn’t want to eat those mushrooms or game every day

For the mushrooms, as a side order, even every day would be harmless. If you follow some stone age diet, eating only meat, then MAYBE eating those boars every day might cause a measurable increase in cancer risk. Probably still less than simply breathing the air in a city, though.

> and the contamination was much higher in the first months/years after Chernobyl

In the first days and months after Chernobyl, there were real reasons to be somewhat careful. That was before the short-lived isotopes had decayed. Once the decays of those isotopes took over, and Cs-137 became the main source, the levels were pretty safe, even if they were double compared to today (the half-life of Cs137 is 30 years).

> The overall point is that the impact was not restricted to a 50 mile radius as suggested by the GP.

And this is where my main objection is. The "impact" as counted in measurable increase in cancer risk, is nil.

By employing the ultra-conservative "linear no-threshold model" (LNT) of radiatino risk, then theoretically, over a very large population, you could calculate some number of expected cancer cases. But there is (last time I checked) no consensus that the LNT hypothesis matches data better than a null-hypothesis that doses under about 100mSv are harmless.

In any case, at that level, the risk for any given individual is so small, that it disappears next to any other risk you can imagine from pollutants or similar, so there is no reason to take such hypothetical risks into account for your personal behavior.
This is really a promotional Microsoft shill piece.

Microsoft have to provide salary guidance for their roles in Washington state where they have their headquarters by law in January 2023, and they're only doing it on the last possible day they can because they're being forced to. On the non-compete clauses - they're not valid and are now illegal in an increasing number of states so Microsoft 'ditching' them is also because their hand is being forced.

This article is just spin to make Microsoft look proactive when really they're only complying with legislation.
I've used the code option at times [3487]:

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[3487] https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Just an anecdote: keto diets for control of obesity are so effective it feels like a hack.

It’s really interesting to see the diet industry attack this. Calling it a “fad diet” as if eating low carbs is somehow a fad. Other things I’ve seen are essentially “keto diets are for treating epilepsy, not for losing weight!” Etc.

Keto diets don’t require you to buy any products or books or take any courses or anything. Just literally read the nutrition facts and eat 20-50 carbs a day.

If you are struggling with obesity I highly recommend trying a low carb diet.
Sure, it will have an effect but Apple's market share is tiny. If there was something great to be done with the stuff that Apple is dragging their feet to implement, we would have it on other platforms and Apple will actually be forced to act on it.
No, it doesn't. Not unless we're expected to get rid of our fridges.
Depending on the walking simulator, they've got more in common with some kind of immersive art installation than a "game". I get why people want to draw the distinction.

> Uncharted

Funnily enough, my favorite parts of Uncharted 4 were the parts where it became a walking simulator. I was surprised both that the game contained so much of that, and that I liked it better than the rest of the game.
Central banks can't produce more crude oil or refine more gasoline by manipulating rates. The only thing they can do here with that switch is tank the broader economy to destroy energy demand.
Does anybody fall for this bunkum anymore? She's pandering to the fearflavor of the day for media attention.

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Re the gender obsessives - sorry, dropped an s.
> What about banning the postal service from selling customer's data, and funding it some other way?

If you actually read the article, you'd see that this is in response to the upcoming Roe v. Wade vote and how health app data could be used against citizens in the future.

More broadly though, if we always chose to reject legislation based on the fact that we believe it could go further in some way, nothing would ever get done. It's never good enough for somebody. We're OK with businesses shipping half-baked MVPs but we always expect elegant and complete waterfall legislation from our government.
Perhaps I exaggerated the dichotomy, but you just associated being well-intentioned with being naive, and being wiser -- explicitly in contrast to that younger state -- with being conservative. So even in your own comment, those associations are implied.
Only in cities that are full of vanity and thus the induced anxiety? Before coming to the US, I thought a good thing about the US was that people to compare their status with other people (maybe secretly, or so I read), as everyone has their own definition of happiness. Those who are so obsessed with where they are go into the movies like American Psycho, in particular the role played by Christian Bale. Many areas are still like what I thought, but places like the Bay Area seem have changed a lot.
Lots of other comments around the dubious legality of this, at least in the US.

I'd like to comment, though, on the fact that the majority of these jobs are in the crypto/defi space. I'm also not alone in commenting on this, and this fact alone is obviously not surprising, but I'd like to point out that the central idea of crypto that you can somehow "escape the government's control of finance" by using crypto is as much of a fever dream as that you can feasibly work anonymously for a company.

At the end of the day, the vast majority of people need the services of society and government to function. Crypto advocates have long crowed "look how great it is that we have gotten monetary supply out of the control of government", but you only need to look at the current environment to see how ridiculous this is. At the end of the day people expect to be able to exchange money for goods, and not go to jail for doing so, and that is something government's aren't willing to give up, regardless of the medium of exchange.

As it related to this case, the biggest question folks have is "what benefit to I get for working for a company pseudonymously". On reflection it's largely downside for the vast majority of people unless you are an anti-government absolutist, or are working in something like the drug trade or a hit man that is shady to begin with.
> I think as manufacturing and agriculture have become less labor intensive, a bigger proportion of the cost of things has been energy. So in a way, carbon emissions sort of are being priced into things naturally

But our carbon emissions are not priced into the cost of energy. That's the primary cause of the climate crisis!
This is stunning (from the NYT piece):

> In 2019, former Kraken employees posted scathing comments about the company on Glassdoor, a website where workers write anonymous reviews of their employers.

> “Kraken is the perfect allegory for any utopian government ideal,” one reviewer wrote. “Great ideas in theory but in practice they end up very controlling, negative and mistrustful.”

> In response, Kraken’s parent company sued the anonymous reviewers and tried to force Glassdoor to reveal their identities. A court ordered Glassdoor to turn over some names.

Kraken's CEO's notion of "free speech" appears to extend to exactly the periphery of criticism.
Personally I think it's useful to use scales & dimensions people already know & grasp. I'm having a hard time combining all the factors you're smooshing together. I haven't figured out- 2.3 what per 100km per passenger? I haven't run any numbers to run that have gotten me 2.3 anythings.

Using my figure, if you want to get per-passenger, if we say it seats 200, we can multiply .217km/l by (1 plane/200 persons) and get 43.4 km/l / person, or, 102mpg/p, which I think most people will understand reasonably intuitively, compared to what they already know. This is indeed a rather impressive claim. It makes me wonder why they don't just call this thing the 100mpg plane, if true.
What data does the USPS sell other than change of address (which I'm a fan of since it means I rarely have to update my address when I move, the businesses I care about find out from the USPS). I know they scan incoming mail, do they sell any of that information?
no one here buys the 'putin price hike' excuse
What's the chance that this is actually the way to get front-page placement for the product since it's in the post? How many are going to read this and check out this extension now?
I think links are helpful to navigate in Google Drive. The normal navigation via Folders and clicking is slow and so I prefer to just use links as well as reducing the number of folders to a minimum.
This is not killing CAPTCHA at all. This is instead using DRM to silently run a CAPTCHA in the background all the time ("[...] can recognize if the client device is following typical user patterns [...]").
Well, the poorly written 11 tweet rant doesn't come across as reasonable or respectful.

Mostly it comes across as unhinged and cocaine-fueled gibberish.

I hope his communication skills aren't this bad in real meetings.
I'm not suggesting it's necessary to pay any person you associate with. It just seems a really intrusive restriction to legally report on anyone you pay.

To me, it seems as absurd as having to file a report with the government on anyone you meet. I can see justification in narrow cases, but requiring it universally seems ridiculous to me.
I see how having multiple Postgres compute nodes scales up reads, which is great! Does separating the "write" functionality into the Pagekeepers service allow writes to scale as well?

Seems like there's no upper limit for scaling up reads, just wondering how this architecture affects write throughput. Would love to hear more!
What I got was "Humans and Mice have different results on Keto".
So is keto good or bad for humans?
Yeah. If only we'd had some other reason to reduce our consumption of fossil fuels by now!
"We can't do anything unless we do everything" is always a weird stance.
Why do those farmers (or ranchers) use private water? Is it just the obvious - not enough public or on-premises water?
Yes, but in the time it takes to complete a PhD, the junior engineer can usually get promoted at least once. So you both end up in the same place, but the guy who went straight to industry was making 3x more than the PhD in the meantime.
Whenever they have an online help chat with a human and they tell me to call, I tell them I deaf. It's not true but they have always just done the cancellation for me. YMMV