skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On ‘Saving for a Rainy Day’
Growing up in India, saving is second nature to me. It was so ingrained that I brought this to the States as my immigrant inheritance.

It is reflected in everything I do. I judge people who don’t ‘save for a rainy day’. I am fiscally conservative and I vote on this basis. I will totally jump entire oceans between political parties on this criteria alone. My political angst stems from mismanagement of state coffers rather than social issues.

I am risk averse and this too reflects in every aspect of my life..not just money. Although I can’t be accused of being ‘penny wise pound foolish’, I will walk away from adrenaline rush hooks. So I almost wear it like a badge of merit. Like it’s a secret I brought to this country and that I share with other immigrants.

Until it just struck me today..perhaps Americans ‘live pay check to pay check’ because they never had to save. Saving is an off shoot from uncertainty and instability. India when I was growing up was not a bed of political and economic stability. Even though we were comfortably middle class, the national anxiety seeps into homes. We also saw this here recently during the great covid toilet paper scarcity and hoarding phenomena.

Citizens of wealthy nations don’t save because they don’t have to as there is sufficient trust in the government. Saving is a reaction to scarcity.

I stopped saving a while ago, but now watching the interest rate goat rodeo, I have started thinking about it again.

Curious about other saving philosophies and how the latest bank shenanigans will influence ingrained stances about money at every level.
Problem solving, decomposition, and the ability to temporarily hold large amounts of information (documentation indexes / what functions are available? kinda things) are all more important than language ability, I think.

People like "elegant" code, but may prefer more expressive, florid language for actual communication with other humans.
Oh my, please at least remove us from the UX context of Tweets. The cognitive load required to read this is entirely too high - my mind is looking for the 'chunks' of tweets, delineated by the retweet/like/etc menus. And the two side bars are entirely too distracting for what is supposedly a more focused and long form read.

Overall though, interesting concept
I guess it makes sense that any micro blog is bound to evolve to have "regular blog" features and the other way around too.
Marijuana is getting legalized all over the place. We're headed towards decriminalizing hard drugs all over the Western World. US FDA goes after e-cigs. What's the conspiracy theory version of this? Are old school tobacco companies paying the government to get rid of their competition or something?
Increased spending on health care results in average increased health outcomes (e.g. lower all-cause mortality).
Any hyperlink capability between notes? That could be pretty fascinating.
> Is there any point to starting a self hosted blog now that this exists for non technical people?

Yep, personal brand & audience ownership & control
I'll nag employer1 again over the summer.

Can anyone point to an actual security breach that is traceable to OpenOffice? That would focus minds perhaps.
Didn't OSS maintainers already voluntarily approved such uses when they published their work under an OSS license?

One fundamental aspect of being open source is not limiting the purposes of use. If we now say that "code-generation AI training" is not allowed without prior approval (in addition to the license itself), then it's not open source anymore...
The 4.86 years of experience is the mean of the 677 respondents who indicated student.

Going back to school after a few years is one thing... (and I lack the median, but I'm going to guess that it isn't too far from the mean) but having most students go back to school after 4 years of professional experience seems a bit odd.

I really suspect that they're either counting their 2 months of summer internship as a year several times over, misreading the professional part of it and including hobby, or misreading the professional and considering that they're a senior with 3 years of academic experience which translates 1:1 with professional, so they'll put that down.

The issue is that type of "something is fishy here" without further drilling into it makes me more skeptical of other data outliers and suspect more reporting and analysis issues than a (self reported) poll can be trusted.
I always miss out on answering these surveys and only remember their existence when the results come out.
Cosmo Let AI Design Its Latest Magazine Cover
I understand how users register and login on a device - but it gets complicated when wanting to allow users to couple multiple devices to an account.

Anyone here with recommendations?

Say you registered via smartphone and now want to login on the desktop - do you tell the desktop user to grab his mobile safari, login and pull up some PIN-No which then to type into the desktop client?

And how would people recover accounts if their devices are lost?

I guess technically one can always come up with some solution - but while FIDO gives a unified, cross-device way for users to login and register – it’s the complete opposite when it comes to the aforementioned issues
What "business model"? IBM didn't charge for Symphony, and if you wanted to pay for support it was fantastically inexpensive. Even cheaper than I remembered, https://www.computerworld.com/article/2535199/ reports 20k users for $25k/year.

So what business model was libreoffice disrupting, exactly? Because IBM at the time was mostly driven by NIH syndrome rather than some 4d-chess anti-freedom scheming.
Oh wow, this is interesting. I've been wanting this to exist for years. It seemed like such an obvious thing to do given the workarounds people have, from screenshotting blobs of text to tweetstorms to getting a Medium account just so they'd have a place to put things that were longer than a tweet.

I'm excited to see how it goes! I'm personally not sure how much I'll use it just because I've already adapted to threads as a medium. Looking back at my tweets, I think it was 2018 when I first wrote something that started in my head as a series of tweets, with the specific rhythms and frequent use of images that goes with it: https://mobile.twitter.com/williampietri/status/101093172122...

But I expect it will be good for quite a lot of people as a quick way to publish something, and maybe I'll come around in time.
Let's kid not ourselves.

There are lot of very powerful interests behind the "energy industry", roughly divided into four large sectors:
fossil fuels, nuclear power, renewables and electrical generation itself.

At this point in time there exists a multitude of cross-investments and interdependencies, so it becomes increasingly difficult to clearly seperate the interests as it is quite lucrative to just play all sides, a convergence. There is actually a lot to gain from this stragetic move.

The technocracy movement in the 30s[0] as a third way (to capitalism and communism) had in its heart the replacement of the "fiat system" through "energy certificates" literally denoted in energy units of kWh.
In some way or another these ideas are slowly creeping up to the surface in a transformed landscape as a way of allocating resources, governing, controlling.

It worries me that this kind of top-down-single-linear-metrics social engineering isn't openly and broadly question anymore (except in "conspiratorial" niches) , quite to the contrary it is embraced by a lot of ordinary people (who have nothing to gain from it but a lot to lose) to fight climate change.
In a sense arguing over possible "clean" energy sources in the future and carefully weighing the pros and cons only touches the surface level without the actual governance model for its implementation. It is quietly and skillfully circumvented. Democracy Dies in Darkness.

[0]https://archive.org/details/TechnocracyHowardScott-ScienceVs...
If that was the goal, the war seems a strange way to go about it. Killing several tens of thousands of young ablebodied citizens, ruining your army, sinking your navy's flagship and causing record unemployment in your own country's main manufacturing hub… I am not an economist, but I dare to suggest that a better way to reach that policy goal could be found.
Never confuse effort with results. Brian is confusing 20 years of professional effort with global results. According to Brian, decades of his professional effort were driven by a staunch belief that this effort was "protecting the environment", but now Brian no longer holds this belief, citing a supposedly "utterly failed" government contract with his company and three bullet points that highlight lackluster progress on the whole of the market and the supposed missed opportunity of nuclear power.

None of these results are materially affected by Brian's effort over the last 20 years. Federal and local government regulation and investment as well as corporate business decisions are responsible for reducing coal plants, constructing nuclear plants, and incentivizing "utopian energy". Brian's effort mostly falls into the corporate business decision category, but all we see of this in his article is a statement that his company failed to fulfill a $60M government contract. This experience really stands out as Brian's real inflection point, but the results of this effort are not only NOT discussed, they are--by his own admission--completely opposite of the government's perception of the results.
If we're talking about mocking in general, mocking foreign services might be very useful and may be even essential for good development practices. For example imagine that you're integrating with some other system. You might receive some test credentials during development time, but they'll lost eventually or something will break. So you'll have production integration, but no way to properly develop your code. So I'm always writing some emulator for foreign services. It might be as simple as mocked responses or it might contain its own little database and some primitive logic. But in the end you don't depend on someone's test system, you can run your integration tests, you can run your staging environment and so on.

That might not be necessary if you're integrating with some big guys like stripe or facebook. They probably have enough resources to maintain test environments. But for some little company which don't really care about test environments and whether it corresponds to the production environment - that kind of mocking might be necessary for sanity.
> and abided by the previous commitment to exit Afghanistan.

Ummm, what? Biden moved the date for withdrawal back, to make it coincide with a 9/11 anniversary. Then, seeing that the US would just arbitrarily change treaties, the Taliban launched an assault and reconquered the country. I get that historical revisionism is popular with political partisans, but usually you wait until goldfish have forgotten the details before attempted to do so in such a blatant manner.
Yeah, POE is great. I have a 48 port Ubiquiti switch with POE AP and cameras. I ran duplex fiber and 2 pair of shielded CAT 5 to each room. For the downstairs rooms, those are through short runs of conduit to the basement, so I can poke whatever else through there, like the single mode jumpers. I should have run conduit upstairs, but I do have a 4" PVC running from basement to attic, so I could run single mode upstairs, but would require drilling and fishing.
I hesitated a little bit before deciding to purchase and go through the book. Had already read many glowing reviews then, but was not sure if the choice of language (Java) for the first half of the book would be a hindrance (it's not the stack I am most familiar with).

Decided to buy it anyway, primarily because the two implementations of the toy language piqued my interest (most other books only go through one implementation).

Boy was I glad I did.

Writing is superb, end-of-chapter challenges are instructive, code samples are meticulously and beautifully done. Here and there I also encountered references to other languages (e.g. had a brief detour to Lua internals [1], thanks to a side note), which I have enjoyed too.

Went through the first half twice: first using Java as it is written and then secondly implemented the interpreter in Rust (my initial fear turned out to be unfounded). Currently going through the second half.

So if you're reading this, thank you, Bob :).

[1] https://www.lua.org/doc/jucs05.pdf
You'd allocate one TLS per thread, or have a reusable pool, if you wanted to run this multithreaded. Allocating and freeing a TLS per coord is not how the C code would run. If you created a new pthread per point in C that would be pretty slow too.
We will need to start reporting transistors per square micron. But it is the same number.

I drove past a Micron Technology building last month, and had to reflect on how many square microns a 6502 would take, nowadays. Not counting TTL drivers, looks like around 4x5 microns. An original ARM would fit in like 10x20 microns. Invisible either way.
Nonsense. Uranium is plentiful in Earth's crust. There's enough to last for the foreseeable future. Obviously it's not infinite, but that's not the same as "there's not enough of it".
The board recently endorsed his offer. If he backs down now it would look very bad on him (though with his personality maybe he wouldn't care).
worse, GNewsom is well aware of every part of this. The current Governor grew up with his Father dealing with these topics from the inside for decades. It was a public sport in the 1980-90s to lambast PG&E with detailed litany, and somehow with the power of money and a badge, here we are. Adding to that failure is, the original PG&E that built the infrastructure, was widely regarded with deserved respect. It was an engineering problem in the early days and the engineering management earned their place with many very challenging projects completed successfully.

The executives in place at PG&E successfully branded critics as "extreme lefties" and "uninformed" while keeping ultra-secret records, and it worked.
Demise? Maybe not in the short term but I would argue Google is losing trust and that's a problem for any business small or large. When given the opportunity, I try to spend my time and money elsewhere.
> This lets people gradually use Tailscale SSH over time without messing with their system one.

That is something I have really appreciated about Tailscale. It seems to consistently not mess with the existing environment. Considering it does networking witchcraft and it works on a variety of architectures and OSs this is quite an accomplishment.

I suspect Tailscale's customers have found the same.
> The vast majority of major countries with the exception of the US and Mexico have passed a point of no return demographically

Where is the data to back this statement up? Sub-Sahara African countries have been growing by 2.5% over the last decades. Just one example.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.GROW?locations=Z...
Since it's a database system it competes with Oracle's paid offerings and anyone aware of this conflict of interest has been waiting for them to hobble the product.

Now there is Mysql "enterprise edition" and "community edition" - but paying can open you to a license audit from Oracle. Savvy people just use MariaDB and avoid the whole mess.
no, get your social crap out of my spreadsheets damnit
At least with Tolkien it's interesting to see because we can get access to early drafts of much of the LotR work, and his son had pretty accurate timelines for them, also. Some of the earliest writing is quite good, being polished for the final publication, but Tolkien could have written very much faster and still been "good enough" - but he spent way more time trying to figure out what the story would be than he did editing/revising it.
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I'm not saying McDonald's is healthy but there's clearly a difference between eating a cheeseburger and smoking a cigarette.
> waste isn't really the issue with nuclear power either.

So what is?

Because you're working overtime here against it without giving any reasons whatsoever.
I had similar thoughts when they banned flavored vapes. "For the sake of the children" means that me, as an adult, am not allowed to choose fruit flavors for an adult product when that is what I prefer. Seems hypocritical that I can buy blueberry vodka but not blueberry vape.
I see that CodeScene's Code Health metric mostly looks at complexity and churn.

Here is a Ruby tool that gives you a similar report: https://github.com/chad/turbulence

And a Python one: https://github.com/danuker/lookout/tree/nohardcode
Companies handing their failed projects over definitely seems to be a pattern.

On the other hand the ASF has a few very active and healthy projects under its umbrella, sometimes being among if not the go to solution inside a specific problem space.
I've read a few of Zeihan's books, and it seems like the author of this article is missing the point. Zeihan says, again and again, that basically the ONLY reason for the US pulling away from globalization is the new shale oil boom, which makes the country energy independent. My layman's understanding is that under the Biden administration regulators have hobbled these shale wells in the hope of achieving an energy "transition", whatever that may mean. So we aren't really energy independent after all, at least not until the transition is completed. So I'm not sure how the conclusions of the article really make sense, notwithstanding the many references to how you could get rich quick by betting on these outcomes.
China imports over 80% of its oil — it does not have the resources to be a deep-water navigation power.
The 5% (or rather 95%) comes from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/e-cigarettes-an-e...
Man, your use case is one I hope I'm wrong about. I love the idea of microtransactions and tipping and such. But, I never much paid attention to Lightning given that the BTC price didn't really move when it came out, which strongly suggested to me that not enough people really cared.
I love this book! My only gripe is that I wish it was a whole series, no, a whole genre of books. We need more hands on, code first books that take you through 1-2 extended projects where you can type along and get working code at the end. These books should have CS theory, but still be fundamentally focused on implementation. It'd be really fun to have one of these for a more functional compiler (type checking, code generation, optimization), for a language service (query based compilation, concrete syntax trees, language server protocol), for databases, operating systems, and so on. Ideally they'd be a cross between an O'Reilly book and a SerenityOS stream
Thanks for the correction. I will add that the equivalent cost basis (i.e. the expected cost of carrying out a similar project today) is probably higher than inflation due to Baumol's cost disease and increased regulation.
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> Also, that little "building confidence in yourself" rider that you added suggests that you think the OP doesn't have confidence in themselves.

They certainly do have confidence, but it doesn't hurt building upon it. I don't think confidence is a discrete 0 or 1 variable. It's a continuous variable, from 0 to infinity.

By the way, I made a question, not a statement. I welcome the argument on whether it's worth the time to memorize the stuff Autopilot can autocomplete. That's something to measure and debate.

> Careful about those assumptions; in this case it comes across as a little patronizing.

Thanks for the heads up. This is important. But I didn't make any assumption. It seems maybe you made an assumption about me making an assumption?

If that's the case, don't worry as I did not feel patronized.
Not for jumps - modern CPUs still (usually) have limit of one taken branch per cycle, or 1 to 2 untaken branches. And usually branch prediction will be the limiting factor anyway, for which a single branch is gonna be faster than many.
On first scan, I read that Googles is now available in Brave Search. The oog and ogg are visually a bit similar.
That's exactly why you don't do that kind of temporary hack. Temporary hacks come in a variety of colors.
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looks eerily similar to https://dotdot.social/
Soon enough though

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-china-launches...
Emigrate, not immigrate. It may seem nitpicky, but it really isn't because those two are polar opposites.
Yep, he definitely has strong contacts within the energy sector. From his postings it seems like he's shaken ~checkbooks~hands with them on numerous occasions.
>-accelerated tumor growth: https://www.nature.com/articles/nm0701_833

mouse model

>-vascular calcification: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eci.13077

review which includes mostly studies on cigarettes

>-arteriosclerosis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4805015/

cigarettes

>-mutagenesis/various cancers: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363846/

giant systematic review, going through though it seems most of these are mice studies or studies on smokers (cigarette smokers)

>-reduced alveolar function and bronchoconstriction, miscellaneous pulmonary injury: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3097432/; https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajplung.005...

first one is cigarettes, second one is a rat model but they actually did design the aerosolized nicotine pretty well

>-peridontal disease: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/omi.12228

cigarettes

to really get a concise view, we would want to look at studies of people who only use nicotine gum, or studies of people who use vapes. just be careful blindly posting papers you found from googling "nicotine bad paper" and dig more than 2 seconds into a paper, you can spread a lot of misinformation that way. we all know smoking and cigarettes are bad for you, but are the outside effects primarily from nicotine or from everything surrounding the delivery mechanism of it?
Does anybody find the constant promotion of Brave on HN annoying? Everytime I look at comments its the same handles who are also pro-crypto

I can't take a browser serious when there are conflict of interset especially monetary ones in promoting it in public.
Yes, there is no free market in cutting edge chips.

Probably the US would be substantially less interested in defending Taiwan if TSMC was not there.
I'm not too worried about loose nukes or nuclear terrorism. Every major nuclear power other than China incorporates PALs [1] into the design of their nuclear weapons. Without a centrally generated & authenticated code, they don't function. The PAL is designed such that disabling it requires dismantling the nuclear weapon, which means you need to have the know-how to build nukes in the first place to re-enable it.

This, incidentally, is why Ukraine gave Russia back its nukes after the fall of the Soviet Union. Without the codes in Moscow's possession they were just radioactive waste.

I do expect a number of smaller conventional conflicts to break out in the transition, because that's what always happens when a hegemon loses its monopoly on physical force. It's going to be a bloody few decades, but not the end of humanity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link