skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have my doubts about whether the conversation in the article ever happened, but I found it interesting that it fits almost perfectly into the model of effectively asking people to do things from Dialectical Behavior Therapy, an evidence-based therapy program.

The acronym is DEAR, which stands for Describe (the situation), Express (emotions), Ask, Reinforce (why should they do it). Really simple.

Describe:
Gordon, I’m not a bit surprised that you thought the paper was rubbish. To be honest, I had the exact same feeling when I was writing it. I felt like I was rambling on and on.

Express:
I’m always amazed when I read your papers because they’re so incredibly clear and lucid. That’s actually one of the reasons I wanted to work with you and why I was so excited when you offered me a position last fall. The results of our research could be extremely important, and I know that if the paper were well-written, it might make a tremendous impact.

Ask:
The paper may be beyond repair, but I’m wondering if you might have any suggestions about how I could make it better.

Reinforce:
I want to learn as much from you as I possibly can.

You can structure basically any "ask" this way, even a really brief one. I've found it really useful, especially when planning out in advance how I'm going to ask someone for something. Protip: A good DEAR can be 50-70% reinforce :-) In fact if I had made this hypothetical-paper-editing ask I would have moved the last sentence of the Express to the Reinforce to introduce the question earlier and backload the importance of the paper after asking for help improving it.
Check out the figures: https://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/fractals/bookfigs/

Take that NFTs!
Funny! Dutch coinbase users are now on the hook for American regulations that have been used to strong-arm EU central banks into compliance with anti money laundering and terrorist financing rules.

Meanwhile, in the USA there is no such requirement. NL is ahead of the curve here because the banks here have received some pretty massive fines for not having their house in order to so now they want to show they're good boys & girls.
> …Apple produces a vastly inferior browser…

People say this all the time, have you ever actually used Safari? I use it daily and it’s rock solid, I have zero complaints.
>Then you don't want Zig or Rust.

I might still want Zig just fine. E.g. because I know C well, and it's a better C. Or because of the ease of interfacing with C/native libs. And several other reasons.
it is a weird country that where people are scared that their data is at the mercy of an open source completely auditable browser extension, that adults have the choice to install or not install upon inspection, and oppose to it, but when it's about real threats that actually kill people (including kids) nothing gets done in the name of "freedom of choice" and against "baby sitting by the government"...
Obesity causes cancer as well: https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-canc...
Wow, explains a lot. It’s such a shortsighted position for a browser - it’s one of the only platforms that literally can’t have breaking changes, and they want to bloat it even more?

The entire problem with the web is they keep adding high level half-solutions over and over, many that intersect and almost none that actually solve things at the right abstraction. What we need is lower level primitives and performance. Instead we got Web Components, a disaster, and seemingly a thousand new CSS features (coming only from Chrome) that serve only to further entrench Google.

Simpler and lower level APIs and ruthless work on performance would have given us a far richer platform to target, leading to better interop with cross compiling native tools, better experiences, and less bloat.

Seems like weekly a Google evangelist tweets a gushing, emoji-laden joyous tweet about a new feature they’re shopping tomorrow adding some super arbitrary thing (the latest is some page transition spec which again is such a half-solution). Extend and extinguish!
This article only applies to Dutch coinbase users.
Maybe they just want to drink solvent. A common reaction after dealing with very bad code for a while.
I use MMEX https://moneymanagerex.org/
I have only a small dabbling in Rust and it was to create a Postfix milter. What was awesome was that someone had already written a Rust crate so that I didn't have to do anything too horrific. The compiler on Ubuntu just worked as expected but, of course, as something that is not standalone, Rusts strong type-checking did not save me from writing something that didn't work.

Part of the confusion is the very confusing (for a noob) difference between String and &str and as someone who has written C and C++, I don't have a problem with understanding references and addresses but I didn't find a very good explanation. This led me to writing code using the only way I could get it to compile that didn't crash at runtime (which was nice!) but it also didn't work.

The second issue was that being something plugging into an external daemon, at the interface level, we were getting a raw pointer and had to convert it into a string to use it. I tried so many combinations but couldn't get it to work but thanks to the maintainer of the Rust crate (who obviously knew what he was doing) he told me where my code was wrong and I fixed it.

So I guess good in that there were probably no horrific bugs, although this is much like C# or possibly Java. But yes, the strong checking doesn't stop things from not working.
Where does Julian Assange fall in that very neat and convenient dichotomy of yours?
> If I can't get Bitcoin anonymously, how is the promise of crypto still valid for newcomers

The promise of Bitcoin was never "You are able to be anonymous" since one of the core features of it is a distributed public ledger of all transactions on the network. It goes against the fundamental idea of Bitcoin, that everything is public.

Other cryptocurrencies have made "You are able to be anonymous" a core feature in their protocols, see zCash or Monero for example. But most cryptocurrencies go with how Bitcoin implemented things, meaning everything is public.

One of the core value propositions of Bitcoin (and most cryptocurrencies) has always been "If you own the keys and can connect to the network, no one can stop you from making a transaction".
Unfortunately that wasn't clear. You talk about vaccines (in general), the modern anti-vax movement (in general) and so on, each time without qualification. If your points were restricted to one type, it'd make sense to prefix the word vaccine with that type. Especially because there really isn't a modern anti-polio vaccine movement is there? Pre-COVID it was really restricted to MMR.

Still, there's a secondary question here: how do we know polio vaccines are genuinely so different? COVID vaccines are one of the first mandatory vaccines to be developed and forced on people in the internet era. Thanks to that and the lawsuit that's forcing documents out of the FDA, the world has far more insight into the development and marketing of these vaccines than any previous public health campaign in history. What we see from this evidence is disturbing, and it seems to be a pattern, which raises the question of whether this is really the first time public health people have been misleading people about vaccine effectiveness and safety.

If it's not, then it becomes hard to say much with any certainty on the topic, as those sources control all the data.
>Heck, if you really don't give a fuck about defects, you can just have all your code in main(). You really can't beat that in terms of simplicity to explore/experiment quickly, ease of use, and time to market.

I probably can "beat that", because e.g. breaking things into functions increases simplicity and being able to explore/experiment quickly.

Whereas eliminating defects with a type/lifetime checker you need to hand-wrestle, not so much.
Short answer: Django comes with so much out of the box that you end up reinventing a lot of wheels if you go with a pure JavaScript/TypeScript approach.
I wouldn't call Mozilla/Firefox an enemy of the open web, but they don't contribute to it anymore. As a lifelong Firefox user I say: we're heavily outnumbered. Many devs don't care about FF, so it regularly happens that FF simply doesn't work or only half. Even my newspaper subscription doesn't work on FF. It is simply no longer relevant to any discussion about the web.

BTW, there is a Firefox for iOS, and I use it. It may be a Webkit wrapper, but it surely is a more pleasant experience than Firefox for Android, and I also like it (slightly) better than Safari on iOS. But I'm very casual mobile phone user, so that should not be extrapolated to the web experience in general.
That is only true for a subset of images, mostly the rather "simple" ones. Try saving photographs as PNG and see your filesize explode.
> Funny! Dutch coinbase users are now on the hook for American regulations

A country losing its sovereignty ... not entirely sure I'd tuck that in the "Funny" drawer.
This always gets flamewar territory. My general answers are:

1. In every health thread we should post a picture of our body

2. Find a doctor that agrees with your opinion. Whatever it is you will find one.

3. I/we usually take harder things than the keto/carnivore thing (trust me)

4. Many things that we've been told our lives has been a lie. Maybe the keto/carnivore is also like that.

5. Please gather all your docs and start a thread on twitter with the "top" keto researchers (@nicknorwitz, @KetoCarnivore, @ChrisPalmerMD, @realDaveFeldman some that I follow)

6. High carb is killing the developed world. Please exercise caution.
There is a strong component of looting and ravaging in all the entire "special operation", so they are profiting of the properties of the murdered, for sure.
"[Solar] climate is what you expect, [solar] weather is what you get." - Mark Twain
This is selection bias. Clearly you’ve never met an average computer user then. Malicious web pages force extensions on you which users do install.
> You can buy bitcoin with cash.

Where can I buy 500,000€ worth of Bitcoin with cash?

> You can work and get paid in bitcoin.

That's usually not anonymous.

> You can sell stuff for bitcoin.

I don't own stuff worth 500,000€, except cash and stocks.

> You can mine bitcoin.

Not in a significant way, no.

> If you want something, you will find a way.

You ran out of arguments. My point still holds: Crypto isn't anonymous, because you can't easily get in and out of it anonymously.
If your system plans to be an embedded solution for personal use only, and you don't care about poor mainline Linux support, then the clone boards like the Banana Pi are still reasonably priced and available.

I feel that people are being quite snobbish about only wanting to use a Raspberry Pi, when for a lot of IoT scenarios clone boards would work just as well when Pis are hard to find, or too expensive.

I would not recommend a clone board for general desktop or server computing though.
The "event" is that it takes/repeats 3 years in a row. So 2 in 72.
You can twist it however you like, and select individual sentences and ignore the context and everything else I wrote. At this point (again, may get worse, it does not look good IMO) Russia is at least an order of magnitude worse. You have individual cases - maybe - in the US, but in Russia it's systemic and systematic and goes all the way to murder not just of the person but of the entire family - as we saw in March, when two oligarchs and their entire family were murdered, one in Russia, one in Spain (summary of oligarch deaths: https://www.businessinsider.com/these-are-all-the-russian-ol...). On top of that various murders of "traitors" e.g. in UK and in Germany. Trump got close in rhetoric to what Putin said on Russian TV in March but did not have a chance to implement it, and the US institutions still resist and don't (yet?) follow a dictator blindly, as they do in Russia.
When I was in, I had a few people in basic training with me that went through some kind of “serve for citizenship” visa to become a US citizen. There was one Mexican, one guy was from Serbia or something, and one was from Nigeria. But you have to go to the US for basic training and further training. Lol, you don’t do basic training at an embassy, that’s where you enlist.
The Dutch have been burning Europe's forests in their incinerators for the last decade, being responsible for the deforestation across the continent.
I can highly recommend this blog. It does a really good job at presenting academic historical research in a readable way, without silently dumbing things down. The required detail for the argument is given, and the skipped details are called out as being skipped.

I think the fact this article is this high up, without having any comments, suggests that plenty of HNers, like me, just upvote uppon seeing the blog name.
> Take a look at the photographic evidence of hunter-gatherers

I think this would need more development. What do you mean by "hunter-gatherers", and what photographic evidence we have.

For instance there's African societies which would fit the "hunter-gatherer" label (for instance the Akan in Ghana) and they're not all looking the same.
I don't think I know anyone who looks up to the "mutant superhero" aesthetic. I'm guessing this is because all of the fit people I know are into lifestyle outdoor sports (hiking, climbing, biking, etc) instead of weightlifting and exercise focused activies. In the climbing community it's actually the opposite: obsession with strength to weight ratio, not getting too big etc.
Because it's framed like research for a potential weight loss pill rather than research into the mechanism behind the fairly well-known fact that people typically have less appetite while being physically active.

I hate the tendency to frame everything in terms of a pill to fix our problems and/or a get rich quick scheme as a substitute for trying to figure out how to live right.
Not scared of those extensions. The malicious web sites that force you to install malicious extensions are the problem. The average user isn’t immune to those problems.

I’ve cleaned out enough extension infested chrome browsers in my time…
Technical writing benefits from Practical Style (the reader's time is important, the reader wants to get a job done, easy parsing of sentences is important), so I'd recommend one of the two best books about writing in English:

Joseph M. Williams, Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace.

An old edition is fine. There are many editions with slightly differing titles (Toward Clarity and Grace, The Basics of Clarity and Grace), all of them are fine. Get the cheapest or fastest to deliver or whatever. Don't think about which one to get.

The other great book about writing is Thomas&Turner's Clear and Simple as the Truth. It teaches Classical Style, which is less fitting to technical documentation, as the authors discuss themselves.
It's a hard problem to solve, which doesn't have any fool-proof solutions (yet?).

Imagine, someone creates a centralized Twitter and a decentralized Twitter. How can you connect them two and being able to trust any data you receive 3rd-hand which is supposed to originate from the centralized version? The only information you can really trust, is the one you get from the centralized version, as it was built with that principle in mind, that you get it first-hand.

Similar problem with hooking together two monetary systems, one which is centralized and one which is decentralized. How could you include a centralized system within the decentralized one without making trade-offs that could potentially ruin the whole integration?

There are attempts at it, but as the problem is generally hard to solve (cryptocurrencies or tweets or any other data structure), it's hard to solve with cryptocurrencies as well.
I don't want to continue a flame war, but I want to respond to this:

> 2. Find a doctor that agrees with your opinion. Whatever it is you will find one.

I don't want a doctor to confirm my bias. I want a doctor to give me objective data about my health.
I’d like to filter to United States and reassess. I don’t know anyone running Linux.

It could be the case that only US developers can afford macs.
The funny thing is that he even dares to put "cui bono" in the article.
Sadly the CDC has just admitted it has never looked at VAERS for COVID vaccines. At all. Ever.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-vaers-covid-...

"Since CDC officials stated publicly that “COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring is the most robust in U.S. history,” I had assumed that at the very least, CDC officials were monitoring VAERS using the methods they described in a briefing document posted on the CDC website in January 2021 (and updated in February 2022, with minor changes) [PRRs]. I was wrong."

This had to be forced out of them with a FOIA request but their response to the request (for documents related to VAERS analysis of COVID vaccines) says:

"no PRRs were conducted by the CDC. Furthermore data mining is outside the the agencies purview, staff suggest you enquire with the FDA"

The CDC run VAERS but have never actually done any data mining on it, despite telling the public that the monitoring of COVID vaccines was the most robust in history. Which means that statement they gave is either a lie, or it's true and VAERS has actually never been used to detect safety signals.
The degree to which economies are interconnected now makes us all co-dependent.

And truth be told: NL banks were making a serious mess of their KYC processes.
> correctness of the features they do decide to implement, performance,

If this was the case, I would hate Safari significantly less. If the only issue with Safari was that they didn't implement certain features, that would be fine. I could check the compatibility matrices and just avoid features that aren't implemented. The problem is that every now and then they support something, and it _appears_ to work, but then there's some weird interaction that breaks some interaction and it takes forever to debug.

Sometimes it's reproducible in Epiphany(webkit issue), but other times it isn't. Safari updates their webkit version pretty infrequently so bugs that are fixed in webkit are not fixed in Safari. So the only way to know if it works in Safari is to test in Safari, which requires OSX.

Safari is the new IE. IE had better client-side resource use for a long time compared to firefox/netscape. IE didn't implement new features and they had IE only features just like Safari (you can select text in images in Safari). IE only worked on windows and made linux/osx developers suffer just like Safari makes linux/windows developers suffer today.
When I got glasses as a kid everything became unbearably sharp. It took some time to adjust to being attacked all the time by so many details I wasn't interested in.
Sounds as if you're saying that Windows is decades of development more secure than OpenBSD?
The thing they rewrote also worked great in production.

And fuzzing originated in C / C++ tools and is available for them as well, probably more diverse and mature than what is available in Rust.

The point you did ignore was: Rust is being sold as magically making software safe and people selling that completely ignore the fact that logical bugs are also a thing.

Which Rust evangelists find difficult to acknowledge because security is that one thing that Rust has going for it.

So difficult that you would rather try to misdirect than to acknowledge that software written in Rust will crash. And when processing arbitrary user output, it'll crash badly when not written with care and fuzzed a lot. Kind of like C++.
There is a book called the subtle art of not giving a fuck, and you summed it up. You can only give so many fucks so choose them wisely!
This is why so much of the best talent from Sydney, including a very talented former colleague of mine, are lured to Palo Alto and nearby cities.
I’d say “el chico” translates more to “the lad”, but perhaps this is a matter of regional dialects.
Of course you are allowed. And whether you are worthy or not is up to you but just gathering a bunch of questionable data, throwing it in the blender, ignoring all evidence to the contrary and using that to spread FUD is definitely not science.
Simply because it abstracts away all of the problems I don’t want to care about and enables all the solutions I do care about at the same time.

And most importantly it just works.
if "career ambitions" are a major part of how you value your children then you are the one with a problem.
I definitely don't think so, but a lot of hiring managers and recruiters seem awfully convinced of the opposite. Despite all of them using the exact same concepts.
Maybe the company quickly issued more shares, and this info got forgotten in the confusion ?
The internet is not American. Words mean different things. "Fag" hasn't offended me personally since I was maybe 12. After you hear it about 1000 times, it loses its power.

Perhaps we should stop empowering words and start empowering people to ignore such words.
"The funny thing is that the author thinks competition in one market would be good, but competition in another market hasn't yet led to the utter dominance of his prefered product. Something doesn't add up ..."
While there's no browser chrome, it's still not fullscreen like native games can be, without the iOS status bar at the top: https://caniuse.com/fullscreen

Also their Gamepad API implementation doesn't do rumble: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GamepadHapt...
What's strange about that? It sounds like you're implying something but I don't know what
What makes it such that the majority of such stories are in SaaS? Or are the SaaS success stories just the loud minority since they are very dependent on content marketing?
How can it be secure if they are able to track you this far?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31852914
> If I could reliably convince myself that someone scored strong in these four areas, and had rudimentary programming aptitude we could just skip the rest of these “hiring/new employee” diatribes.

The best way I've found to identify these people is to look for people in existing jobs which require such skills, who now want to move into development. That can be any field where there's similar personal demands to achieve a high level of skill, whether that's technical-related (civil engineer) or not (cook, musician, sport).

These people are also often overlooked by traditional hiring processes so if you can get a process in place to find them, it's a huge competitive advantage when you can't offer FAANG salaries or on-site barbers.
When you develop in Chrome of course you’ll feel like bugs only exist in other engines.

Developing on Safari it feels like the opposite.

A few years ago I’d have agreed somewhat, but Safari has accelerated considerably and improved wrt standards. In fact better than Chrome as of late, if you follow the Interop project, and it feels as much.
Now that I am a parent I often eat work for breakfast.

I've found that two things cause massive hunger in my case: a diet rich in added sugar/salt and being tired. The latter usually comes after extended exercise, so appears to be counterproductive for weight loss. Other benefits still apply though.

Just dropping added sugar/salt now that my child eats solid food helped a lot though. One benefit is a heightened (or actually: not dulled) sense of taste.

I'm currently on a "cheat week" and it's already getting annoying that food doesn't taste as good.

Dietitians say this again and again: even the best diet is no good if you can't keep to it.