skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
more realistically for most people than private schooling and expensive vacations are day care and routine medical bills (as opposed to debt). Day care costs some families nearly what I spend on rent, and that's just for standard run of the mill understaffed day care services, not private/in-home or specialized care. Medical expenses get insane very quickly, with many people spending hundreds every month on medications alone, but add recurring costs like dental, vision, and mental health services to that and you can blow through huge amounts of cash every year.

Most people in the US were already living paycheck to paycheck before the pandemic which ate into what little savings they had or forced them into credit card debt and now sky-high prices are putting even more pressure on people's budgets. It'd be crazy if the number of people living paycheck to paycheck wasn't expanding.
It's also possible to have a problem, and then that problem makes you depressed on top. But the depression is a symptom and focusing on it can come off as "everything is fine, there's just something wrong with your brain."

There are some difficult life transitions (real-world problems that are never going to go away) that can cause long-term feelings of grief that overlap clinically with depression. Maybe you need to take the time to process those feelings. Or maybe you don't have that luxury, you have bills to pay, so you're going to medicate those feelings away.

(Or maybe everything is fine, and there's just something wrong with your brain. But that's not for Internet randos to decide.)
The Pervasive Problem–and Far-Reaching Impact–Of Tree Poaching
valuations are mostly made up and they have nothing to do with how they hire.

and you are wrong that it’s there to stay. if people decide to no longer play ball and organize that will be the end of it.

the current system was created by a single woman who simply created it to build a consulting business around it. and you are all too naieve to see it.
Trivial nitpick: In the photograph, the phone is displaying the message, "... and repairable by yourself."

If your goal is to use traditionally correct grammar, use "you" rather than "yourself".

More info here [0].

[0] https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-xpm-2012-09-05-...
Cool 3D sketches done with Three.js Editor and uploaded to Neocities
God I love the random stuff I find on the internet while looking for something completely different...

Click a pic and enjoy the 3d ride...
It’s nonsense.
I do not understand how you think multiple human species could impede civilization formation. Can you explain? Also, Australia only left the Stone Age with British colonization. It was plausibly the least technologically advanced inhabited area on Earth at contact.
Probably make poor people richer
Permatemp roles are more abundant and pay better. But the others are not that rare. I never had difficulty finding these roles; it's been more work turning away clients than marketing. YMMV.

Many are those are dead end projects that never get off the ground, or don't have enough budget for a marketing team and a full MVP. Many are part time founders who make good money and want to throw money at a side project, but aren't fully focused. There's a lot of downsides to the path too.
sooner terminators arrive the better in this case
"We, therefore, investigated data from nearly 500,000 people from the UK Biobank, with a mean age of 57. People were classified as socially isolated if they were living alone, had social contact less than monthly and participated in social activities less than weekly."

How could any participant participate in social activities more than weekly, yet have social contact less than monthly? I won't ask a similar question of the living alone issue since perhaps a spouse is not considered social contact.

And what basic efforts were made to try to avoid looking at correlation vs causation? And in particular the reverse of the suggested direction? Suggesting socially isolated individuals have lower cognitive abilities is a pretty surprising hypothesis, yet suggesting people with impaired cognition are more socially isolated is anything but.
Just a data point but:

I watch ads more than I did before, and I pay attention. I've found that if you want to keep up with western cultural development, ad culture must be given attention. And while ads can be annoying, they are also speaking for various archetypes within the societal organism of which we are all a part. To that degree they are a de facto intelligence source.

If you consider that the social bell curve also maps to the concept of rationality, this may even be more obvious. Painful for originalist or curmudgeonly techies maybe but yeah, we can be extremely irrational due to what we shut out.

(After spending a lot of time studying psychology, I don't place much importance on the idea that ads may be brainwashing me, and I've realized my own preferred life script, left on default settings, makes me my own worst brainwasher)

I also like to watch what my kids do, or say, when they are gaming or playing with other kids. It's weird, new, uncomfortable. But I try to think about implications. IMO memes, and novel conditions of memetic propagation, have sped up our information metabolism and you can make a case for meme-consumption bandwidth being an important gauge of various states of nutritional impoverishment. So to speak. This is really fascinating to me.

Learning about personality dynamics, I also found that there are different types of influencers who are worth paying attention to if you're in tech. One particular group overlaps with boring old tech very nicely, but they also yearn for societal status. For this reason they can be used as a sort of barometer--they're in tech, they're nerdy, but they're also kind of an early-warning radar for changes in society that they will be bringing into tech no matter who is resisting it. And they are much less frightening to pay attention to than others who are just into any new thing, any type of info-noise even, and could mostly really use the dopamine or other chemical stims at any given moment.

All of this has made the process more personal for me too, yet I base a lot of my own observations around acceptance and analysis rather than personal like/dislike, so I don't really look at favorite outlets / media sources as much anymore.
I miss my Sharp Zaurus. I'm glad we're finally getting something like them back again, along with 20 years of added tech!
The iPhone still doesn't support the fullscreen api. It makes it almost impossible as a web game developer. Extremely frustrating.
The return of investment on bicycle infrastructure is estimated to be 8 Euros for every 1 Euro spent. This includes property values.
It would be more ethical to have many more people on the planet. Larger denser cities. More exceptionally talented people collaborating on increasingly complex projects. higher acceleration in the advancement of science and technology, become a multi-planet species, and eventually a multi-star species. This post sounds anti-human, and lacking in vision.
Thanks for posting, it was an interesting read. I agree with the premise "stoicism is not a sufficient philosophy for a good life, only a survivable one."

The rest of the article seems like a misinterpretation of Stoic ideas. For example "Our emotions and intuitions are not something to be set aside" which I think the stoics would agree with: "Don’t let the force of an impression when it first hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it, “Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test." – Epictetus. Initial emotions should not be 'set aside' but should be 'seen for who they are and what they represent'.

He admits that "Learning to tame your emotions through willpower is helpful, but your emotions themselves are still an asset." Which sounds stoic to me?

Finally he provides an alternative "Instead to live well we must learn to create things outside ourselves, through ritual and poesy." Why ritual and poesy? Why not philosophy? I would love to know the reasoning behind this but none is provided.

My knowledge of Stoicism is limited, but I think my criticism is on the mark. I'd love to hear the opinions of more informed HN people.
War with ents is my most likely explanation, most of middle earth is the frontiers in inter species warfare.
gta's sandbox is the most "famous" part of the game to non-gamers, but the series since the beginning when it was a top down shooter has always been story driven, now more than before. if you want the sandbox experience, it is in GTA:O, not the single player mode.
Doesn't this already happen with voter registration? I've managed to reconnect with old family that way. They just dump their name, address, and party affiliation on the internet.
how about https://friendi.ca/ then?
“How long does it take to be ready for an industry job?”
Yes, that’s why it’s a disorder
Brutal times!

A similar thing happened with SGI workstations. Drop $20 on a high end box, score one for a fraction on ebay some while later. Not long enough later.
Where I work there is a readability review like mason55's (probably the same company). Most of the comments I see are not about formatting. They're more like "Take parameters by std::string_view instead of const std::string&" or "Use a reference member instead of a pointer member if it'll never be null."

Applying a linter to a giant company-wide monorepo can be difficult because of decades-old code that predates certain style rules, or some teams that might have created their own rules. Even if the linter only applies to diffs, a small change to a line can trigger a lint warning on that line, and having a ton of those can be annoying.
it's probably also true that if they're working for a livable wage they also have a decent portfolio...
I'm honestly curios, so please bear with me.

All the HN threads about recruiting mention this. I get the argument, and yes, there seems to be no better way than to test the candidate (no matter if it is a take home test, online, or onsite). As I see it, most of these tests are about algorithms and data structures, not real, practical problems the company has/had.

What I do not get is the following. Most companies (especially FAANG) demand a CS degree and then give you those coding tests about algorithms and data structures your degree actually proves you know about. If the candidate got the degree thirty years ago, then (maybe) fine. But even candidates fresh out of university? And even if you do not recall them in an instant, your degree should prove you can successfully research and understand them. Is a CS degree actually anything worth then, if I still have to prove this knowledge every time I apply for a job? And if it's not about theoretical things, why demand a degree and test for theoretical knowledge instead of practical problem solving skills?
It's our Personal Computer, not Microsoft's. But since discovering the peaceful i3WM on Debian the need to boot into the telemetry riddled spyware called Windows has been minimized. Need TPM? Use ProxMox and run Win11 without the 'required' hardware in an isolated network.
The Reform is a fantastic design, uncompromising. Every single aspect of it was engineered to maximize openness, user choice and longevity.
California DOJ's new website leaks names and addreses of people with CCW Permits
My take on it is:

For the driver, keep safety requirements: "safety cell", driver+seatBallast minimum weight (G-force maximums?)

For the car:

- regulate tyre contact patch minimum-at-all-times. NB: not number, placement, manufacturer or compound

- regulate other safety stuff like brake light(s) and mirrors/mirror-equivalent-screens etc.

- physical size and minimum&maximum-at-all-times weight limit IE mass window.

- design wise go nuts. Do whatever you want.

Then, when they go too fast. Reduce the size or mass or both for the car. Make them do more, with less.

Eventually, you'd end up with gokarts doing current F1 speeds with ridiculous tech.

But the driver would be largely a passenger as perfect traction electronics take over and AI driving etc.

So then you make the passenger a lottery for those who attend the races... obviously minimum physical requirements.
It's dangerous to assume that you know better than someone like Raymond Chen, the author of the article the GP linked. This is not a Clang bug, it's just the nature of UB optimizations we're talking about. :)

I've found a simple example. Code order and compiler options are very finicky with this sort of thing, but as of posting this, clang optimizes away the null dereference here entirely: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/zjhY1W67Y

(Edit: Simplified example even a bit more.)
But they are (unwittingly) using the other DB as a source. The data they're scraping turns out not to have been created by the supermarkets in question but sourced from a third party database and published under license on the supermarket websites.
Yes exactly. Having a regulatory regime to resolve a failure and minimise contagion (which is one of the things they're talking about) makes sense and cases like this 3AC one show why. It's not about protecting crypto participants, it's about reducing the damage to the system overall and impact to non-crypto participants caught in the blast radius when something central fails.
Surly wandb is not a bare essential?
TIL the Three.js Editor exists! That's pretty sick, thanks for sharing.
From the spec, although it doesn't explicitly say 'dont automatically send a POST upon opening a GET', I think it's fairly clear its against the spirit of what a GET should represent to the user if it isn't a safe POST request.

"In particular, the convention has been established that the GET and HEAD methods SHOULD NOT have the significance of taking an action other than retrieval. These methods ought to be considered "safe". This allows user agents to represent other methods, such as POST, PUT and DELETE, in a special way, so that the user is made aware of the fact that a possibly unsafe action is being requested.

Naturally, it is not possible to ensure that the server does not generate side-effects as a result of performing a GET request; in fact, some dynamic resources consider that a feature. The important distinction here is that the user did not request the side-effects, so therefore cannot be held accountable for them."
When you are investing $500,000 of your own money, are you going to check it out thoroughly first?
You admit they’re a racist group and then say my “argument has no legs” while failing to address the crux of the issue. Yemeni civil war is started by Houthi attacks on the Government of Yemen. Immense casualties on both sides with civilians caught in crossfire. Iran supporting Houthi rebels undemocratically coup’ing the Yemeni Government. Saudi supporting existing Yemeni government. Do you honestly propose the government just lay down everything and let Houthi takeover as another Taliban?

Fwiw, I still believe in withdrawing US arms and intelligence support for Saudi Arabia. I just am frustrated at always seeing these one-sided takes of the Yemeni Civil War like the Houthis aren’t an equal participant of the crap going on there. An obviously shit situation with no easy answers because of the slimy regional powers.
It’s a super old book that guided a large portion of humanity through pre-enlightenment time. The historical references are pretty factual based on other sources and archaeological finds. The Bible is an interesting artifact.
"Culture clash" is "I think that thing you believe is silly". People looking to force their views on others by law (or other violent means) vs people not wanting to have other's views forced on them by law is fascism vs freedom.
If you run graphene, no apps can read the imei. SIM cards do, but that is why you should use a burner SIM rarely if at all.
Sorting algorithms visualized using the Blender Python API
Not actually removed, just under heavy load at the moment
imo, Shopify is evolving quite a lot both in response to where the world is headed (post pandemic online-offline opportunity), as well as now building on top of its learning/experience. If you’re building an app for Shopify, I’d target a very specific niche or something very simple that most merchant would really appreciate. So, the answer is a solid yes.
With sufficient reproducability, sure ;)
doesn't seem like much of a paradox for the best and most expensive healthcare in the world to also not be very efficient otherwise
"Non-contrived" is a matter of definition; it's almost necessary to give toy examples, but I hope you can be convinced that the same structural pattern can appear in real code.

I hope Clang on x86_64 is common enough for you to make my point. In this example, Clang reasons (backwards in time) that the if couldn't have been taken and dereferences whatever was in p, instead of dereferencing null: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/zjhY1W67Y
Weird they felt the need to update the version since they used a very limited subset of Dota anyway.
The Nutri-Score system is in use in various European countries, and does not originate with this site. It is however criticized a lot for various reasons. At least open food facts provide the detailed calculation with the link below the score.
Instead of blink comparison, look at the image the same way you do for stereoscopic images.

The difference pop up immediately.
Internal warfare is caused by competing for the same resources. Orcs must be under external constraints to fight with each other instead of spreading around to occupy/pillage other resources. We can accept that they are constrained to certain habitats and the same could be even said about the dwarfs, however there are many human nations in the books and none of them has created large continues settlement zones. Again, the lack of people and trade on Anduin is a shocker for me.
Two words to express my opinion: OPT OUT. Nothing chaps my ass like getting a box of landfill shit I didn’t ask for in the mail. Now I have to try to figure out how to deal with it in an environmentally responsible way.

I’m haunted by the endless piles of free XL-sized shirts I’ve gotten in my lifetime, because if you just order them big enough they’ll “fit” everybody, right?

Or maybe I’ll replace the nice things that I’ve purchased, specifically to avoid buying the made-for-landfill nick nacks that I’d have to discard and replace every year. Great design choice on that cheap aluminum alloy bottle opener. Surely it will hold up to repeated cranks against steel bottle caps without marring… Perhaps I should retire the weighty iron one that my buddy the blacksmith made for me that will probably outlive the liquid distribution method that necessitated its existence. I think not.
I’m not even sure it’s a majority of constituents so much as a review process that takes the smallest objection very seriously and makes overcoming them very difficult.
I'm fascinated, ongoingly by a Linux phone. I spent effort making many versions of the Sharp Zaurus cellular(ish) back in the day, even going as far as writing a sync tool for Evolution back in 2003. I'd love a Linux cellphone. My needs are very simple, and I'd love to know the state of anything that can (and with stability).

1. Be a decent phone (voice, sms)
2. Contacts/Mail/Calendar sync
3. Run android apps that require voice (Telegram, Signal, WhatsApp, etc)?
4. Take pictures + videos (not even at a high level)
5. eSIM

Everything else is gravy. But those 5 items are the base requirement that I personally have for a phone. Every time I dip in, it's at best unclear.
3 hours in (about 1/4 the way through), and it's definitely a worthwhile purchase.

Here's https://i.imgur.com/E9wiiWo.png another classic mistake I would naturally make. Seeing the wrong way and right way side by side makes it so obvious for a dummy like me.
no, you go through them so they can pay you less, and you are the tool used to accomplish this.

also, you should never assume people lie on their resume. before you know it you will carry that bias into every interview. if i was your manager and i knew what you just wrote, i would find someone else to interview people.
These are not so ancient, I was expecting to learn more about twigs broken in half, and maybe knots on strings!
Respond with an ascii helicopter if you are not a bot.
I can guarantee you that removing bike lanes to add in almost anything else will get almost zero resistance from a typical NIMBY. Until cyclists in a city reach a critical mass they have the least valued infrastructure out of any group.
Home Network Rack for Structured Wiring Media Panels
i appreciate the insight! A bootcamp isn't in the cards for me for a bunch of reasons, but I do have some friends who are devs and have been helpful in guiding me.

sounds like theres no avoiding the spamming applications part of the process to get that first job though. The worst. A lot of these code meetups turn into other jobseekers eating the free pizza complaining about this part. Luckily, I'm near NYC so I can catch a good amount of these. Usually lots of people from Flatiron School there.

your take on the tech stack is interesting. Seems some people advocate for just getting my feet wet with a bunch of the stuff, then filling in the gaps later vs what you're saying which is more calibrated for those whiteboard style interviews?

I did get a response from a recruiter last week and she mentioned they don't do them, I'd have to do a take home project instead, which I'd vastly prefer!
> Long hair on a boy? Well that sure is different, and as everyone knows, different is bad.

This feels really weird when you think about the general western perception of jesus. In damn near any picture he's got a flow going.
I would love to see a self-hostable, decentralized, cryptocurrency-free Bluetooth network like Tile or Sidewalk, with 2 way communication. Being open would prevent the Tile/Airtag fragmentation, and allow the tech to be integrated in just about everything for insane levels of coverage.

Not something that's useful without hardware availability and wide adoption, plus there may be legal issues with the GDPR.

I would also like to see a non-vaporware GearEye that works with normal UHF tags.

"Stuff" is one of the biggest detriments to my own well being, and many others. Any technology that manages stuff well is great.

Being able to search storage boxes the way you search a computer would allow much denser packing and much less time looking for things, and make cleaning easier.

I'd love it if there was an ISO like group dedicated to micro-standards, that worked with tiny companies. All these random electronic modules on eBay could share a common size and pin layout. Stacking boxes could all be stackable between companies. They would actively look for anything that has more than one part, make a standard, and promote it, or document the existing de facto standard.
Big Bird: killing SQL injection with graph homomorphisms
> Middle-earth is a world where the creations of engineers often make the world worse and the engineers themselves tend to become bad guys.

Ah, so it’s the Bay Area.
You use "guided". It still guides the largest religion and another important one. Even though it does give insight to its historical context, it is much more than an artifact. Criticism of its morals are still relavant.
Marp is pretty neat for markdown presentations, not too complicated and has useful (and pretty!) output.

https://marp.app/