skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see your point, but I think this leaflet is aimed at the people who have a tendency to overthink and ruminate as opposed of ignoring issues, hence the approach.

You'll be rarely ruminating about something that is a real, actionable problem. Instead, you're more likely to be ruminating about something, anything that isn't the actual problem at hand. So, in a sense, ruminating can be a form of escapism.

That's why I don't worry too much about the use of "just" here. At least personally, I don't think it's likely that I'd follow this approach and end up _avoiding_ problems.

Reason: it's easier to spot either extreme when you step out of your head even for a moment.

PS. When I worry too much about something I can't control (e.g. silly office politics) I try to figure out what is the thing I'm _not_ thinking about (getting the release done, having a difficult workshop to run).

PPS. I'm not a psychologist, but I read some interesting perspectives on the problem of avoidance when researching Schema Therapy. Surely, there are better materials than that, but I found it personally interesting and you might too.
Often bc the alternative is nothing ever can get done. Which maybe if you think there should be no systems at all you'll think is a good thing, but the majority of people enjoy some things the government provides.
Check
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_level-index_arithmet...
That is patently false. It is burning fossil fuels that is destroying the planet by contributing almost 75% of the global Greenhouse Gas Emissions:

https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector#sector-by-sec...

Please don't spread dangerous lies! By saying that meat is destroying the planet you're distracting from the true source of climate change: oil.
> "Congress must protect Americans' privacy from abuse by far-right politicians who want to control women's bodies."

Anything to help improve medical privacy seems like a step in the right direction. But this coming a short time after mandated vaccine passports to even legally work or dine out is laughable.
Notably, that quote is what the bad guys say and the story is that humanity actually can resist (if at great cost).
It was from a company with the legal right to do so but it was still abusive and not an appropriate or legal use of the DMCA. The only difference from his 'fake' DMCA claims was having a legal connection to the rightsholders. But the DMCA claim he experienced and the ones he sent out were all fake and abusive.
My initial idea would be to scrape allowed names from Wikipedia. Or maybe only allow a name if it appears more than N times in the corpus… Still, both of those would create issues with name collisions and common names, but it’s probably better than nothing.

There’s also the issue of recognizing what a name is - is April a name? Joy? JFSmith1982? 542458?
What are the properties of a soul?

How does it work with twins from one egg? Does it split?
As one of those people who is like a walking GPS (I can take you somewhere if I’ve only been there once, or I can take you to a place if I know where it is, where I am but not what’s in-between, I have a 3d map in my head and can walk a route in my mind or visualise a place and its details) I’d like to offer the following advice...

Maybe you can learn to be good at navigating. I did it by just walking round London as a kid in an age without smartphones and without parents inclined to drive me places. Public transport in my area of London was also poor and I was a teenager with no money. I also grew up navigating for my parents on road trips.

However, from what I understand, spatial memory and spatial reasoning are somewhat innate. It’s perfectly possible that you just have very poor spatial memory and poor spatial reasoning and trying to change that could be fruitless.

Test my theory by looking at something across the room from you. Would you feel OK with trying to go and pick it up without opening your eyes?
My first thought on reading the title was: "It (the long tail ) is obscured/starved by search engines optimizing for the generic,not the peculiar thing I/we are looking for "

And there it is:
>>Web platforms aren’t really focused on serving users—what they really want to do is control users. This almost always requires them to squeeze out niche and alternative views, and force as many customers as possible to follow the herd.

>>That’s a useful comparison. Web platforms are herders. And, if you follow the analogy, that makes us all sheep.

It definitely seems harder to find specific information than it was a few years ago. How can we get search engines to surface the really obscure information gems?

I also wonder -if only ~20% of the people are responsible for almost all of the sales ,what are the other 80% doing ?

Seems there should be some fat sales tails to be found in that area. It's almost as if the relentless MBA approach of seeking 'blockbusters' and cutting 'losers' just reaches a local maxima, which although very big, is actually suboptimal.

What am I missing here?
I love the clear and lucid explanatory 'tubes she has created, mainly physics based but covering a highly diverse range of topics. When she covers warming, 'beepocalypse' etc., many politicians would be well educated and with a greater understanding might be moved to deal with the coming 'all-of-us-pocalypse' that is breathing down our necks.
We need to design and manufacture thousands of small, intrinsically safe nuclear reactors of a mass producible standardised design that can power small cities - ideally using our abundant thorium reserves.
Work is being done to optimise small thorium reactors, but the Uranium based ones were developed first for nuclear weapons and Thorium languished all these years.
Wind, wave, solar, tide, geo - all need all our resources employed to bring to full use to save our collective asses.

This Thorium Wiki gets into the weeds and has many rabbit holes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power#Di...

Of course of Fusion get perfected all this Uranium/Thorium = scrap matel.
You think the average Glenn Beck viewer is going to sit still while you "show" this, or "show" anything, and then change their views based on what you have "shown"?

If so, you have been asleep since the Reagan Administration while this fascism has slowly taken hold.
Some perspectives on social media and the explosion of content
The argument is the general problem is the negative synergistic feedback loop of poverty, over-policing, drugs, and local culture. These are the problems to solve.

I don’t say never so I suppose a school could fail for endogenous reasons in which case action is needed. But there are less drastic actions than shutting it down, such as firing all the admins.
Engineer identifies anonymous faces in WWII photos with AI facial recognition
The .github/FUNDING.yml file in the repo determines who will be shown as people to sponsor, it's not related to the account or org that controls the repo.
This is really the core of it and ultimately the decision to overturn is going to force legislators to finally codify exactly what the rules are. It’s been avoided to this point because both political sides preferred to fund raise off of the issue.

Long overdue.
Quantum mechanics looks like the borrow checker from Rust. You're observing a particular state, so that state is "borrowed" into your observation and cannot be mutated by anything else. Once you stop observing, you've freed the universe's memory so to speak and it can now change the state.
Have chatted with the guy who builds kubegres, it’s a really solid solution and is meant to be better integrated (CRDs) and more of the reliable parts of the pg stack.

It looks super solid. Unfortunately I can’t vouch for it in production yet since I still write my own resources but for me Zalando is #1 and Kubegres is either 2nd or 3rd.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PostgreSQL/comments/mqrsbn/kubegres...
The first few paragraphs here are astoundingly dense. It assumes that all managers are negative power social structures that rule by processes and improving processes? They can be negative, but the best managers I’ve had actually improved my work life by removing issues, finding alternatives, or by improving inefficient processes that wasted my time. The author seems to ignore any positive aspect
I agree that the developer program ToS is written in a confusing manner and suggests that you can't use it all for production without a license. I expect that to be intentional: if the impression you get is that you can't even use their software in production, it's much less likely that you will do so with the impression that there is any support, warranty, or endorsement of such use.

[EDIT: I made an error, I originally said that it was explicit about no license being granted for the software, but that was about things like no license for service marks and trade names.]

On the other hand, there is a license for postgres-operator and it looks like Apache 2.0:

https://github.com/CrunchyData/postgres-operator/blob/master...

For what's being distributed in their Docker container image, I imagine it depends on what they're actually distributing for that to matter. I expect that it's mostly other people's software (like PostgreSQL) and that the Docker page listing the container just too much of a summary to say anything about licensing. I'd investigate that further to clarify license status prior to use, but expect it to not be legally constrained to non-production use only.
At least in Texas, 6-year-old pay sales tax on Candy (unless it’s under 50c and sold from a vending machine). Should they be allowed to vote?

I am highly supportive of reforming both the tax code and the requirement to exercise of responsibility instead of just rights, but this approach definitely does not feel particularly thought through, as you call out.
The primary property of a soul is its soulfulness.

An egg split into twins because it had too much soulfulness for one person.
Who is "science"? And also bacteria are alive
I believe the traditional incentive to enter adulthood used to be sex availability. Things clearly changed.
Yeah, it's also possible that it's not the best approach even for people without acute trauma. Trauma can also be complex and cumulative, like with CPTSD.

I think it can work in the short term, but it ignores the longer term fact that these anxieties are coming from somewhere in our brains that can't always be reprogrammed with a simple labeling technique.
Don’t conflate scrum and agile. The agile manifesto says “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools”. Scrum (as it is usually implemented) tend to favor process sbove everything.
> none of them involve murdering other humans

A brief look at maternal health outcomes, especially in the United States, should suffice to disabuse you of this notion.
Both google and Facebook have monorepos, and I think apple does too. I’m not sure about the others, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they did as well
The article notably does not use the word 'fetus' - only 'embryo' is used. That's one technique to avoid addressing the strongest pro-life arguments.

Intellectual honesty demands that we address the strongest versions of our opponent's argument, not just the one that makes us feel the most enlightened and makes 'them' look stupid.
This confused me as when I hear data-orientated I think data structures that are optimised around minimising CPU cache misses by using better alignments, using enums where possible, not storing results of simple calculations etc. There is a popular book and popular talks on the subject. Probably confuses other people as well I'd imagine
Nice conspiracy theory there.

But take any large corporation, and it will always prefer a long string of successful contracts to a single unsuccessful but bloated one.

If NuScale sells thousands of their Small Modular Reactors, they become the Tesla of nuclear energy - a trillion dollar company. If they start playing the game of milking a perpetually delayed project, they'll be lucky if they milk half a billion dollars. And by the way, they have already spent half a billion dollars to get their reactor approved by the NRC [1].

[1] https://www.nuscalepower.com/newsletter/nucleus-fall-2020/pr...
Affiliate links have ruined all product reviews.
There’s something a little creepy about referring to the maintainers as “ours.”
This is the part where I can take a page out of your book and laugh at the paltry sum of your donations in comparison to what you earn..

Or..

I can say "thank you for your supporting open source" and skip all the stuff about acting like a sanctimonious jerk on HN for magic points.

Right now, you're being that guy in a lot of these comments.
This is the reality. The tail is much longer and thinner.

I get the feeling that the author is mourning the great late 20th century counterculture movements. They are worth missing as they did produce a ton of creativity, but the thing is that there were never many of them.

There were maybe a dozen tops: hippies, hip hop, goth, rave, punk, a few smaller or shorter lived ones.

Today there are thousands. There is no identifiable counterculture because there are too many to count and they are always popping up and dying off. I guess you could say there is one counterculture and it’s the long tail itself.

As usual William Gibson, the single most prophetic sci-fi writer, got the feel of it (but not the specifics):

“Summer in the Sprawl, the mall crowds swaying like wind blown grass, a field of flesh shot through with sudden eddies of need and gratification.” - William Gibson, Neuromancer

There’s a dozen more quotes like that. That’s the first one that came to mind.
A threat actor might rapidly scan potential targets to optimize for points of congestion, escape routes etc. If they had surveyed the area manually, they'd likely be captured on CCTV cameras, which would later aid investigators in tracking them down.

I was not specifically talking about 3D vs. 2D, btw.
A law that was created out of thin air by six unelected judges?
Judge much?

I’m not a maintainer but adjacent to the tech industry (Ed tech) and am hurting for money due to inflation, and I live in a low cost of living area.

You don’t know everyone’s situation. Stop judging them.
Hmm I'm not sure I understand. Here's what I'm assuming:

You currently have some number of org repos; eg: my-project/my-project, foobar/foobar

And you have your personal account: buro9.

You use your personal account to commit and maintain those org repos.

As long as you set your personal account as an admin/maintainer on those org repos, I think you get all the benefits you need? I don't think there's any benefit to moving eg my-project/my-project to buro9/my-project
hardcore mmo player/fan here :

I am re-writing a long rant that I just deleted in response to this; but let me distill it as concisely as I can :

Star Vault repeatedly mismanaged Mortal Online, burned lots of members of a small niche community with repeated character wipes and hacking incidents, and did not take the appropriate steps to address issues that finally resulted in the total loss of confidence in the persistent world by many early fans.

After all that -- and with Mortal Online I about 30% done with respect to the early crowdfund goals, they announce Mortal II and divert an already small staff elsewhere , throwing the early game into maintenance.

tl;dr : people play these games, but they can only take so much abuse.
What science thinks is that life began a little less than 4 billion years ago, as a kind of self-organizing chemical process in the early Earth's oceans, and from that point, life has never stopped. Cells are alive and give rise to other cells. There's a continuity of cellular life from the very nerve cells in your brain that allow you to interpret symbols, going back to your parent's cells, to their parent's cells, and right on back to the dawn of life on earth in one unbroken continuum.
> Only a fool would assume responsibility when there's no benefit or requirement to do so.

I take issue with this statement. It’s such an American take to say that we need to reward all responsibility monetarily or meaningfully.

A lot of time taking on responsibility for something is a privilege that you’re granted by a community, and you get a feeling of fulfilment and sense of meaning/community out of it.

Replacing that human feeling with money a lot of the time cheapens it and makes the whole thing transactional.
It’s $16/user/month

I built two apps for international student community: one app for them to reserve the dorm’s kitchen and another app for students to submit pictures taken at on-campus events. The faculty can then view these and see international students’ involvement.
As usual, the media doesn't read the claims, which are the legally enforceable part. To those without a background in patent law, how similar the abstract, drawings, or parts of the specifications are to prior art doesn't matter in terms of granting a patent. What matters is the claims. Let's figure out precisely what the difference is between the claims and the prior art that lead the examiner to allow the application.

You can take a look at the patent application prosecution history here: https://patentcenter.uspto.gov/applications/16383105/ifw/doc...

The applicant amended the independent claim to add the following:

the aerial hoist having a static position within the three-dimensional workspace whereby the aerial hoist is not translated along the x-axis with the end effector and the aerial hoist is not translated along the y-axis with the end effector

In the "Notice of Allowance and Fees Due (PTOL-85)" the examiner discusses why the prior art doesn't have this feature. I don't have time to read the notice, but this is the longest notice of allowance I can recall. The examiner seems to be going into detail about why they believe it is different.

The Hangprinter was submitted by the applicant as prior art and considered by the examiner: see "List of References cited by applicant and considered by examiner".

Note: I'm not saying the examiner was right to grant a patent here, just that critics of a granted patent should start with the claims as that's the legally enforceable part (and not the drawings or abstract). And typically the examiner's logic in allowing the application is documented, so critics should take a look at that too.
Thing is, had GitHub done nothing, there's no discussion at all right now on HN about how little they're doing.

But because they put $500k toward those people whose projects they rely upon, there is now a discussion of what a pittance it is (whether or not you append "good job, hopefully you do more in the future" doesn't change the critical tone you set with all your other words you said before you said that).

The lesson: Almost no act of generosity goes without criticism on social media or discussion sites.

(Note: I hold a pragmatic view of generosity. I don't care what a person or company's motivations are for being generous. PR? Great! Let's show it makes for great PR to be generous! Selfishness, bolstering one's sense of grandeur? Great, feel whatever you want about yourself, as others benefited! Trying to out-compete a rival or friend by giving more than they? Great competition to be in! Did GitHub give to one person? Great! Did they give to 900 people? Great! Did they give each person $10? Great! Did they give each person $550? Great!)
I agree with that point of view, but I think you need to distinguish between "life" and a "human being". "Life" in general is notoriously tricky to define precisely.

It is, for example, perfectly possible to amputate someone's hand an keep it alive by feeding it some type of artificial blood; not sure if it's currently possible with the state of technology, but there is nothing stopping this in principle. I think it would be accurate to say that this hand is "alive", but is it also a human being worthy of the same protections that you or I have? I don't think many people would argue for this.

You don't need to think of exotic experiments either; we shed all sort of living biological material all the time, and no one is concerned with the rights of this.

So when does a "human being" begin? I don't have any clear answer; that question is even more difficult than trying to define "life". But I do think it's important to think of it in these terms.
Certainly people who suffer a miscarriage when trying to have children suffer deeply. It is clear then that they lost more than some human tissue.

Also if you beat a woman causing her to misscarry, then we look upon that quite a lot harsher than if no miscarriage occured.

In general we don't tend to value human life or rights when it is inconvenient to do so though.
It's not politics, it's religion trying to force their own beliefs onto an entire country.

Except that's not the kind of country USA is supposed to be like some middle-eastern countries for example.

In the USA you are allowed to believe/practice whatever crazy religion you want.

But your rights stop at another person's autonomy.

But also unjustly in the USA the corporation has way more rights than the individual, every time and that's perpetuated by every "side" of political power.
I tried to slap my wife, but my hand was repelled by her PhD force field
In the meantime, whilst there's debate on legislation, women will die from ectopic pregnancies and other women's health issues that require the termination of a non viable pregnancy. It's very grim.
Seems like a rather strange thing to believe, given that they're essentially worshipping a being that would send an unborn person (in their belief) to suffer for eternity for the transgression of not being able to prove their worthiness of salvation (faith).
We have been together for over four decades and are cautiously optimistic it might work out...
I didn't provide a theory. I said "probably" for a reason.
> In the age of GDPR this feels like an enormous regression in privacy.

As you stated, this is publically available information. GDPR has nothing to do with it.
Read the source

"Human development begins after the union of male and female gametes or germ cells during a process known as fertilization (conception)."

"Fertilization is a sequence of events that begins with the contact of a sperm (spermatozoon) with a secondary oocyte (ovum) and ends with the fusion of their pronuclei (the haploid nuclei of the sperm and ovum) and the mingling of their chromosomes to form a new cell. This fertilized ovum, known as a zygote, is a large diploid cell that is the beginning, or primordium, of a human being."

Moore, Keith L. Essentials of Human Embryology.
Bueller? Bueller?
By that logic, chimeras and gingers have too little soulfulness?
I take the liberal position that pro choice fades into a right to life, especially around viability but the fade is still ongoing even then (takes more and more extreme circumstances to abort an embryo that is less dependent)

That said, the late-term and even post-term abortions that are happening now mean that if I am forced to choose between complete restriction and late/post, I will support whatever laws restrict late/post even if it’s overly restrictive. It is insane that these things are being conflated under the same term and that is shifting liberals such as myself farther from leftists just because the extreme position is so abhorrent.

Elon’s meme with the left running further left and then calling everyone else bigots is relevant here.
Well, specifically, it seems like the ONLY thing that was not compromised in this particular scam was the SMS.

The scammer must have known before:

1) the victim's telephone number

2) the victim's Login AND Password (or Pin) to the bank website

What the scammer didn't manage to do was to intercept/mitm/whatever the SMS and thus needed the victim to read it aloud.

Or is US bank website access different from here (EU, Italy)?

Here to access the website you need to input login, password then request an SMS code for the authentication, and later you need to request an SMS code to validate any transaction.