skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Especially when literally the exact opposite is viewed as racism too: white people moving to where black people live is deemed gentrification and also bad.

No, gentrification is rich people moving to where poor people live and pricing existing residents out (often, leading to landlords evicting existing residence to remodel or sell units to a new class of residents).

Because of racial wealth distribution, it often has a racial/ethnic dimension, but that's not the essence of gentrification.
Can I ask how you short Tether?
There are a wealth of very successful alcoholics and cocaine users too. On an average, alcoholism and cocaine dependence still ruins life. Don’t look at the exceptions to define the average.
I thought we are talking about Rust? Full official Tier 1 support for aarch64 and x86, why would you even want more? That is two, and let me say it again TWO fully supported CPU architectures, that is twice as many as your average computer needs. Nobody needs dozens, certainly not someone who wants to be a Rockstar Rust dev. . /s
The grass is greener. You don't wanna be coasting for your own development.
The "async is bad" meme is getting old. Someone has written an article about JS's limitation (which Rust doesn't have) and how they don't like C# syntax, and it gets endlessly slapped on every language as a vague notion of "colors".

Async in Rust is incredibly well designed, and works very well for such a low-level design that minimizes heap allocations and virtual dispatch. Rust intentionally prefers locally explicit syntax for things that affect control flow, and wants to be back-end agnostic without a runtime, which goes against implicit built-in "colorless" magic.
Who’s to say what my full potential could have been if it wasn’t for all the lead paint in my house as a kid?
They're not "asking to ban it," but they are attempting, through obstreperous language, to discourage it.
I recently found myself wishing I had the multiple dispatch I’ve heard about in Julia, and it got me curious, especially after seeing the survey results. (It was python, and I was trying to balance clean clear mypy errors with pythonic code in a particular way). Doing primarily ML, I’ll be really interested to see julia’s ecosystem evolve.

Does anyone have any commentary on how mature it is in terms of sharp edges on a typical julia newbie project? (e.g. setup, tooling, onboarding docs, library docs, error messages, etc)
The way most Americans consume weed is basically a guaranteed overdose for anyone without a high tolerance. The regular "weed" we buy from dealers has been getting stronger for years because the consumers spending most of the money on weed demand it be strong.

Once retail stores opened where I lived, I started buying weed with 10-15% THC instead of the standard 20-30%. It can feel like the difference between having a couple beers or 5 shots of tequila. Most of us can enjoy a few beers almost anytime, but rarely want to get shit-faced drunk. The black market, driven by heavy users, has been forcing us all to get far too high on weed because dosing a hit of weed at 25% THC is almost impossible. And we think this is normal.

Most of the weed in retail stores is still too strong for me, but at least now I have options, which for me has been the biggest boon of legalization. I can finally enjoy weed again! But this same story plays out across many drugs, with consumers facing far more danger and uncertainty than is necessary because of our spectacularly ineffective drug laws.
A Man Who Quit Money by Mark Sundeen
Tips to Make Conference Talks Suck Less
Bond it with a halogen!!
In Libertopia, the only regulations are contract enforcements.

It's a lot like cryptocurrency and DAO schemes: it turns out to be really really hard to get people to accept that a bug in the law means a bad outcome for them, and nobody writes non-trivial bug-free code.
I think the tech is relatively eminent and is part of the future I am looking forward to.
I would assume this could go unsaid, but apparently it needs to be said somewhere in this thread: there is zero comparison between the US and an autocratic dictator who attempts to kill and then jails his opposition, runs fraudulent elections, kills journalists, and invades sovereign countries. Zero. None. Zero.

Zero.

Get it?

None.

Zero.
Why is this topic always brought up regarding weed, but nothing else? Should we make video games illegal because they can cause some people to live a lethargic and less productive life?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3763921/

Anecdotally, I can also attest that I'm much more likely to want junk food if I haven't slept enough. Just do a quick google search for "lack of sleep hunger" and you'll see tons of articles and papers popup.
I've always had mixed feelings about this graph. If you look at the actual number of responses for Julia, it's only 786 loved, 298 dreaded. Compare this to Python, which is 22,999 loved, 11,156 dreaded - is this really an accurate presentation of the data?

Sure, taking the Julia responses alone, you could argue that a high proportion of language's users love it. But when placed alongside other languages, it leads some to conclude that Julia is loved more than Python; if 22,999 people love Python and 786 love Julia, is that really true?
IETF Draft – Private Access Tokens
> Jesus God, where do you live? The sun goes down at 17:00-17:30 for most of the year here. I'd lose all of my free time if I did that.

Medium-ish Northern latitude. Dark around 1700 in the depth of Winter, maybe 2130 or 2200 at the height of Summer. Of course that includes daylight savings fucking with the clocks.
And there’s a natural experiment in New England. Connecticut has suspended it’s gas tax until the end of the year - that’s $0.25/gal less in fuel costs. Rhode Island and Massachusetts have not.

In April when this first happened, gas prices in CT dropped fell quickly from being $0.05/gal more than MA and $0.10/gal more than RI to being $0.20/gal less than MA and $0.15/gal less than RI. Basically, there was a $0.25 drop in prices.

But, over time, that difference has whittled away to the point where gas in CT is about $0.05/gal cheaper than both MA and RI.

Looks like they knew people were looking for the discount at first and now that’s slowly ebbing away and CT will be in for a shock on January 1st. And much further down the road as the state has sacrificed its transportation coffers for nothing.

data were eyeballed from a graph on gasbuddy.com - https://charts.gasbuddy.com/ch.gaschart?Country=USA&Crude=f&...
When 70%+ are overweight, 40%+ are obese, even in age 20 to 30, and 20%+ are obese in age 12 to 19, I think it is reasonable to make statements referring to the population at large needing lifestyle changes.

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti...
If I understand correctly, your device will have to contact its manufacturer everytime you visit a site requiring the token ?

And they say it's "privacy preserving" and "open standard", WTF ?

What if I want to change the OS of my device ?

I should "rejoice" ?!

I guess I prefer CAPTCHAs...

These GAFAM/Cloudflare IETF drafts are literal nightmares, hope it won't pass through.
My point is that consumer demand drives car production and fossil fuel use, not the other way around. If your theory is that people's buying choices are uninformed, that just means you need to focus on informing and persuading people. You're not going to get the results you want by attacking oil and car companies, who are simply selling highly commoditized products in enormously competitive industries.
I enjoy a round of "the media distorted science again" as much as anyone, but this seems misleading. The abstract literally makes a weight loss finding:

> No significant treatment effect in total energy expenditure was found, resulting in weight reduction in the sleep extension group vs the control group.

I don't see any way in which the headline made stronger claims than the science. Simplification, or omitting details, is not the same as hyperbole or misrepresentation.
Cybersecurity Data science experts and Cybersecurity folks in general.
> I just don’t think your solutions are workable.

Care to explain why?

I like to think I can be convinced by arguments.

> If you’d told me about btc 10 years ago, I would’ve thought it was a radical attempt at a solution.

But Bitcoin has kept working mostly the same way it started, right? Miners mine. People interested trade/speculate.

The thing about Bitcoin that changed over these years is what people think it is. Digital cash, nope. Micropayments, nope. Currency, nope. Store of value, could be. (I'm assuming volatility will decline in the long term if market capitalization approaches that of gold and as it gets adopted by millions more who don't speculate short term but just hold a few years to park some money and eventually exchange back to regular currency)
It can go both ways, there is liability in wrong diagnoses. But-- based on my experience, all the doctors have been quite thorough in any diagnoses. In terms of cancer, one area people sometimes miss is asking the pathologist for a second reading on the cells.
I use the bookmark feature built into my web browser, which also syncs with my smartphone. For bookmarks I want to share publicly, I just drop them onto a hand-coded HTML page on my website: https://kerricklong.com/bookmarks/
Should we assume language models released by Twitter have injected content praising Hunter Biden?
This aligns with what (little) I know about this historical period. For an accessible – albeit fictional – depiction of the collapse of 5th-century Roman Britain, Stephen Baxter does a good job of it in Coalescent¹. In the first part of the book, he describes how the crossing of the (frozen) river Rhein in 406² precipitated the political and economic destabilisation of Northern Gaul and then Roman Britain.

The focus on the Crossing of the Rhein and the Romano-Briton contenders for the throne seemed a little too conveniently dramatic. Having said that, I haven't read any more scholarly books on this period of history that contradict Baxter’s narrative and reading Coalescent book was a great way to learn about the various factors that caused the collapse of the Empire on the western fringes of Europe.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalescent

² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_of_the_Rhine
What is Replit? (A Comic)
> PE isn't like a stock brokerage. No transaction fees.

Yeah I wasn't clear. I meant that the fund could continue getting fees for longer, on the same investment. Collegeburner's sibling comment explains it better, and explains why my point probably doesn't apply in most cases.
I recommend too if you're over 40, or in any way have disrupted sleep, to nap 20-30 mins after lunch. Its a great life hack if you WFH and helps cope with so many sleep issues with aging IMO. It seems to help me and a large number of my colleagues > 40 years :)
I look forward to not finding hard plastic empty Juul pods discarded on the ground.
ansible...
btw. ansible breaks basically tons of stuff every release, so no matter if the pypi crytography broke ansible. ansible is already broke. heck they renamed their package in the most stupid way ever...
I've put on about 200 miles since moving to Boston, and that observation does not align with my experience at all.

So far I've ridden one very good path connecting a few suburbs to Boston (Minuteman Bike Trail, a rails to trails path). There are other paths, but they're combined with running/walking trails and generally not conducive to bicycle travel.

The bike lanes of nearby Somerville and Cambridge are okay, but still lacking in comparison with Minneapolis.
That's literally the same thing!
I've slept with some kind of audio going for as long as I've had the ability to (i.e. since getting my first tape deck as a kid in the 80s). Certainly my parents found it hilarious that I'd put on a thrash metal tape and be asleep by the second song, whereas in silence I'd be awake for much longer. I've moved from music to speech and these days I wear an earphone because my partner doesn't share my taste in podcasts, but the habit is still strong after ~40 years. I never thought it was particularly weird, and have always assumed a fair number of people do the same. None of my partners have ever thought it odd, or told me so at least.

I can't tell you why I do it, mind. I don't think I'd claim it drowns out unwelcome thoughts - if anything, when my mental health is poor the thoughts drown out the audio. I basically just don't really get on well with silence. To my knowledge I don't have ADHD.
So you're working 14h/day? You should reconsider for your own health, and if you're not self-employed, your level of exploitation.
At every turn, in every instance, for decades, all stories involving Microsoft end in "...and then Microsoft fucked people over." I've witnessed this firsthand since the 80s.
> I don't understand the "it's old therefore bad" argument.

It's a bad argument, and it's not the argument the person you're replying to is making.

C is bad for reasons that are mostly disconnected to its age. Better languages were written in the 1960s and 1970s, and worse languages are written today. What the GP is saying is that C has not meaningfully improved over the last half century.
I’m curious if this is being run as a DAO?
There are different levels to maintaining. I would definitely try to support it to the max for an overlapping window with the new version (like a year?) and in a much lower-level mode after that. I don’t think software should break all that much once it was that battle-tested, but sure enough it can happen. After a time I would probably only care about personal emails notifying me of a bug, and if it is a quick-enough change, maybe will do it.
I love Julia so much and I almost exclusively do my physics research in Julia (modulo the time I need to help with C++ legacy stuff)

So I want to raise this caveat as a Julia lover: the love% is highly correlated to why people are using the language, because Julia is not so popular, it's unlikely people (students) are forced to use it, thus less Dread.

But I think Julia deserves to be loved AND widely used.
It's not normal to answer slack anytime you're not working unless you're on call. Messages after five get answered at 9 am.
> In other words, if the sleep extension was maintained for a period of 3 years, it would result in approximately 12kg of weight loss.

LOL. That’s not how this stuff works, as any dieter can tell you.
> This responsibility is usually assumed to be higher if you have reaped oversized rewards from society, such a becoming wealthy

Thinking about Jeff Bezos. I feel that society as a whole has had a lot more to gain from his endeavors than he might be able to reap back from society in his lifetime. Unless he becomes an immortal meld between man and machine and rules the Empire of Mankind for millennia to come.
I legitimately forgot about that period of experimentation.
For me it's the ease of management and good documentation.

For example, during 6.8 to 6.9 upgrade, there was a major postgresql upgrade.

It is mentioned in the doc https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade69.html (see Special packages at the bottom).

You're redirected to the package README with special instructions on how to setup and upgrade: https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/databases/postg...

Et voilà, everything is explained.

On debian, if I am not careful, I'll do an upgrade and risk breaking something during a db migration (I'm looking at you MySQL upgrades...).
Scientists engineer quantum processor to emulate a small organic molecule
As someone who had this in the breakfast cereal rotation as a kid I can confirm the textural differences between it and almost every other cereal. It is hard, crunchy, slightly sweet though definitely not near the level of other breakfast cereals, and has a unique flavor like wheat kernels.

It was fashionable decades ago as a healthy cereal and promoted by the famous Euell Gibbons, who would eat just about anything from nature. He is the reason that I have never shied away from sampling wild berries or leaves once I understand which plants grow in my area. There really are a lot of edible things that are overlooked since processed food is so easily obtained here in the US.

The experience of eating Grape Nuts can really be elevated by adding fresh or dried fruit and nuts like roasted pecans, roasted almonds, roasted walnuts, or similar nuts or you could substitute candied nuts coated with honey, cinnamon sugar, praline, etc.

Personally, if I ever eat Grape Nuts again they will be used as a topping on ice cream combined with dark chocolate syrup or fudge, some nuts, and a little dried fruit. This gives the ice cream an awesome texture boost and the melding of the flavors is fantastic.

I currently use home-made granola base as a breakfast and spruce it up with various things every morning so the flavor experience doesn't get old. My wife makes excellent granola and it is super simple. Oats are one of my favorite grains.
What would they do about then?
i've wired my brain to fall asleep about 20-30 minutes into my nightly podcast. really makes me enjoy weeknights when my favorite podcast drops, weekends i struggle haha
I think the point is that white Americans fled the suburbs in the 70s in order to avoid paying urban taxes and living in racially diverse areas, while still using urban services and relying on the economic activity in urban centers. This led directly to urban decay; i.e. the New York budget crisis of the 70s.
Has there been any response to "Why I no longer recommend Julia" [1]. It has made me hesitate to dive into this language.

[1] https://yuri.is/not-julia/
It's likely the take home assignment. At this point in my career I'm not doing one. Maybe if you pay me.

Who determined that the technical assignment takes ~4hr in the first place? If a company tells me it'll take 4 hours I take that with a grain of salt.
One's last sacrifice to capitalism/colonialism
No. read my message again. As I said, we should assume good intention first until proven otherwise.

But we should have better tools to test for biases/toxicity. Perspective API is great tool for toxicity detection. But I'm not aware of any "propoganda" detection tool.
YouTube (or more accurately the HTML video element) can go as fast as your computer can handle, the UI just doesn't surface it. Currently I use this bookmarklet:

javascript:void(document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0].playbackRate = prompt())

On another computer I have a variant that just sets that to all the video tags, as that works better on some sites, but this catches most video sites. I could have sworn I had a browser limiting me to 4x at one point but I just cranked a YouTube video up to 8x on my Chrome-based browser without anything objecting. I'm not sure what the limit is, and it may depend on your computer.
We've experimented a lot here. In our latest iteration, a fixed "bounty" gets assigned to a draft. Contributors have access to a feed of drafts that fit their skillsets & interests. The writer can then indicate how helpful each contributor was and the bounty is split pro-rata amongst those contributors.

We had originally assumed that editors would not like this sort of variability, but two things have ended up happening: 1) their per-hour rate ends up being the same on Foster given that the work comes directly to them (no selling themselves, doing onboarding calls, etc.) and 2) they strongly value the freedom to select drafts that intrinsically interest them. It also leads to a much better experience for the writer since there tends to be more of a missionary spirit, rather than a purely mercenary one.
You can also make better decisions and regulate yourself better with sleep.

My weakness with food is always when stress and sleep hit some critical level where I can’t look at bad food and say “that’s not worth it”. It’s strange to think/admit but I am at the mercy of chemicals in that situation. My will power is best put towards getting to sleep on time and not buying junk in the first place. I tend to lose the battle if I’m tired and there is junk around.

Here I am playing 1.5D chess with my biology, but what the hell. I’m no Jocko Willink.
I collect/sort of bookmark useful pages with Zotero.
Is it failing for you? Would you switch to some other alternative?
I switched from Pinboard to Raindrop after not getting a response to pinboard support emails. I hope Pinboard’s creator is okay.
Upvote for McDLT! Hot side hot and the cool side cool!
yes thats why I put empathy in quotes, it is a weird choice they made
Amazon is working on giving Alexa the ability to mimic anyone's voice
I see where you are coming from. Sometimes I feel the same as you where I just want somebody to give me a recommendation and a few pros and cons. Other times I want to deep dive into the review. I think it boils down to how big of a commitment the purchase is.
The weird thing though is it wasn't even "cheap crap". They were fine, quality shoes -- just completely different.
Just checking, for people who come in here and say "why does Julia have 25x the number of issues as Python" (and then point to the various discussions about the maturity and correctness of the Julia codebase), this doesn't count issues from before CPython moved to GitHub right?
Thanks for the long reply. This take on the impact of the "Fall of Rome" in Britain is not one I have much exposure to. You obviously have read a good bit about this. Do you have any recommendations for reading?
also maybe counting any sort of retry or fallback as a trackable and alertable failure.

auto/silent fallbacks seem like clever ways of avoiding beeps and remaining resilient against failures in supporting systems, but in practice it they always tend to just cover up real issues until it's too late.

i think the ideal is to have a nice easily included retry library that includes reporting/alerting, configurable backoff schemes and logging that can be used everywhere on things that can have transient failures.
How is that an issue?
Let's start by saying "the world isn't IT" and thus the idea of answering Slack at all is a trade-specific thing. Many people are not as wired to their computers for work. That said:

Do you get paid oncall for your availability past 8 hours?

I'm a consultant (get paid salary but work at a customer site) and I turn off Slack notifications and Teams after 5pm. My boss and core team know how to reach me if something critical comes up. The only time that isn't the case is when I'm oncall, which I don't do in my current role. I'm also not an account manager, but I also don't get paid half a million a year.

And the answer to "screen time afterward" is "don't use a phone screen". The point is to avoid the interactivity of the phone at night. Grab a book/e-book or put on some longer-form video such as a TV show.
Saving a Door (and maybe a marriage) with Wood Plugs (2013)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC535701/
Sure, we all know a few.

But overwhelming personal observation indicates that in the vast majority of cases -- it blunts your game (and if you pick up the habit in your teenage years, and don't manage to put it behind you -- it can derail your chances at completing your education, or maintaining successful relationships entirely).

Again, not from the toxicity - but simply from what it does.
I’m sorry but why don’t you just put less weed in if it’s too strong?
> I managed to give up fags over four years ago after 30 odd years of smoking around 20+ a day.

Off topic, but this sentence reminded me of an amusing Urban Dictionary entry[0]

[0]https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=smoke%20a%20...
Similar here, but with certain youtube channels that feel very peaceful for me:

forestyforest
hoboshoestring
wristwatchrevival
clough42

and a few others. I'd be interested in learning about more channels with a similar flavor, or if you're familiar with these and can help me find words for their common thread.