skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I originally made my Facebook account in 2007 to play a Flash game called Jet Man, which was basically Flappy Bird before Flappy Bird (I want to say the original famous version of this game both were ripping off was called Helicopter Game though?)

You would invite friends to play the game to unlock more characters, including copyright violating ones such as Super Mario, so I assume the game was removed from Facebook long before the death of Flash.
> Is there somewhere I can go to understand why McKinsey has almost cult-like status among large corporates?

Look into how many CEOs and executives of large corporations are former McKinsey partners.
I phrased it upthread as "make the same mistake enough times and you can start to smell it"
1) If you have anything that needs to be done in the Nursery, get it done now. Also, get a crib tent for the crib... eventually they figure out how to crawl out of the crib. (They might be unsafe?? What.. ugh) Also, you need child proof gates in front of any stairs, or dangerous areas of the house.

1a) Put latches high up out of reach on doors you don't want the kids to be able to open until they're old enough. Simple hook and eye latches work well.

2) There is a parallel universe, kind of like dark matter... that will only become visible once you're a parent. Second hand clothing shops are your friend, find them! If things go well, you'll connect with parents of children slightly older and younger than your child, and become the link in a chain of ownership. -- Rick Grubbs told me this ahead of time, and it was really weird once it happened.

3) Take lots of photos and videos, save them locally, back them up. I can show you my child's face changed at least 5 times in the first year... you can always delete them later. DigiKam is open source photo management that does facial recognition.

3a) There's one picture I never took, and wish I had.... the placenta... so beautiful and it was a wild mix of red and deep blue. (Yeah, weird... but anyway)

3b) I store photos in c:\photos\yyyy\yyyymmdd\ folders, I've never tried to name them all... 700 Gigabytes worth! If you leave them that way, you'll be able to navigate your own history by date much better. It's a handy reference for "when did this happen"

4) You will learn to deal with bodily fluids and solids... it's no big deal after the first few times. ALWAYS keep a boy covered when changing, lest you or the surroundings get sprayed. GET a garbage can with a foot activated lid that takes tall kitchen bags. EMPTY it nightly, and you'll have almost zero smell. You can NEVER have too many packages of wet wipes.

4a) I HAD TO HAVE a diaper genie.... never used it. The garbage can with foot operated lid was MUCH better.

5) GET a stroller that can be deployed and stowed with ONE HAND. If you can get it second hand, that's fine.

6) Car seats are one thing you will likely buy new, make darned sure you've got it installed right, have someone else check it. You'll buy more than one as the child grows.

7) You will find yourself completely cured of any irritation from other people's children crying, and have a strong sympathy.

8) GET a Boopy... they are SOOOO handy

9) There exist pads, sold at stores, that are sold in bulk, "chucks pads", that go under the child while changing, and into the trash. These, along with Disposable diapers and wipes, are game changers. I can't imagine parenting without them.

9a) There exist washable versions of the above, if you have a good washer/dryer and time, and live where water isn't in shortage.

10) You're going to make mistakes, it's fine.
I went to McDonald's the other day to buy a McBurger using their kiosk.

I didn't count, but it seemed like it took 20 clicks to just by a burger, with screen after screen after screen. I'm sure McDonald's play-tested this a lot, but I'm baffled as to how they managed to converge on this monstrosity.

It's also unclear which button to pick to pay. There's no "check out", "pay", "shopping cart", button.
Great summary.

I've definitely had experienced polar opposites that both involved visual hallucinations or delusions / shifts in belief.

For example, I've experienced the belief that my life is a beautiful story where everything is going to be revealed to be part of some sort of divine plan, with people in my life turning out to have some kind of angelic knowledge and agency in this plan.

I've also experienced the belief that existence is a horrendous joke, and that everything from physical reality to my identity is actually some kind of swirling prison-prism that is eternally flowing into horrible nothingness.

Well, those are both true in certain ways and false in other ways. But boy were they experiences.
Uncle Bob gives some very bad advice. For example, he advocates passing temporary state between methods implicitly in instance variables instead of explicitly (and nonshared) via arguments and return values, increasing the statefulness of the code and creating complex ordering constraints and preconditions for method invocations. E.g. https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2887...

One can’t recommend his books with good conscience to anyone who doesn’t already have a very good judgment regarding software design and can pick out the parts that actually make sense.
I think we can agree that something will need to change as medical trend cannot outpace inflation forever. I don't think the issue is with executive compensation, because even if insurance companies magically could perform all their services for free, you would only reduce premiums by less than 20%.
Gas inflation? Aren't most pubs in the UK walkable (vs say, US bars)?
I was going to mention government jobs as well. I'm not sure how good the US/state governments are with this, but in Canada the feds are extremely accommodating for any mental and physical illnesses.
I've had a very silly project in progress for a while along those lines to implement a Game Boy emulator entirely in Redux (state) and React (screen output, with pixels mapped to the appropriate bits). If I ever finish I imagine it will be incredibly slow, but it would allow for 'time traveling' the entire emulator state.
>No more writing a letter, sending a fax or calling a phone to cancel a service or subscription that you signed up to online.

That's why I preferred Apple subscriptions to normal magazine subscriptions. Apple is a one click cancel. An old school subscription is writing a letter.
Looking for honesty from a company is kind of silly when you think about it... it's a pathological, amoral entity with a single, well-defined legal purpose, afforded some notion of human rights. Executives are legally obligated to serve it. They can provide honest analysis after the fact but early notice is a mistake, even if it means lying to you.
Yes this comment is easily dismissed as anti-science. But it’s not. It’s anti-harmful-technology. Until we learn to clean up our messes (using science!) I don’t believe we should get to make new messes. So, yeah it’s cool they made a database of materials, but what are materials people doing coming up with new materials - some of which will bio-accumulate - when our bodies are still filling up with all the other junk previous materials people came up with? It’s long past due for technology workers to take responsibility for their work and stop adding to the “technical debt” of environmental toxins we’re swimming in.
pgoat - lol

Kind of a miserable book to reread a lot. The author killed himself, the one person I know of who figured it all out also killed himself

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/ijend
...except that Samsung demonstrably lies about every single thing relevant to assessing performance, benchmarks, release dates, etc.
Okay, I think I see where you're coming from now. With the 2% reward from the credit card, using it today is -$980 today, and cash is -$1000 today. If you do the math to see what interest rate you'd need for paying cash to be the better option, you do indeed get an infinite APR. This matches with common sense: if your net cash flow is zero at all future times either way, you're always better off paying $980 today rather than $1000, no matter what interest rates are.
It’s unrealistic to expect the entire team to know how to build and safely operate IPv6 BGP anycast with an HTTP/2 tls load balancer, authentication and authorization, integrated with a modern observability platform and a zero downtime deployment CI process.

It is realistic to expect a small team to build the same in an industry standard way and hand of a clear, well documented API to the rest of the team.

Bespoke solutions need to deal with this complexity somehow, k8s provides a standard way to do so.
Same here. I have a Phenom II X6 desktop and it has no problem browsing the modern web running either Linux or Windows 10.
I don't know how. Perhaps in our DNA, but I don't know. I'd wager that liking certain physical traits in the opposite sex is hard-coded into our DNA so I wouldn't be surprised if other things were too.

But do I need to know how? Does the peacock, lizard or bell-bird need to know how?

I acknowledge you not identifying with the sentiment in question but may I ask: Is it in your mind conceivable that you are the one who has been brought up to view women in a way that is in opposition to your hard-coded nature?
> Like, all the knowledge ever.

Go to your local library. There is actually a lot more there than books. There are videos and audio records too. There are news paper clippings too.

Worse, data is being generated very fast. Let's look[0]

> [In 2012], CenturyLink projects that 1.8 zettabytes of data will be created. By 2015, the projection is 7.9 zettabytes.

> MAST is currently home to an estimated *200 terabytes of data*, which… is nearly the same amount of information contained in *the U.S. Library of Congress.*

But that said, a few petabytes is going to only cost in the 10s of thousands of dollars and max in the low 100s. So this is well within the budget of even every modestly sized city and definitely every university. It would be even easier if this was done with torrenting.

I think the real question is^: why are we not, as a species, creating this system? It seems very reasonable that we could back up all data. (There is also a dark side to this too! So let's not forget about that) At least, why aren't we creating a full access world library for all scholarly data, which is probably something that could be housed for a few grand. Should we do this on our own given the relatively low cost? Books + sci-hub + arxiv + *xiv?

[0] https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2012/04/a-library-of-congres...

^ maybe it is already being done and I don't know, please inform me if it is. (Other than the NSA)
Hence the title, micro-SaaS
That's the dream, but I'm always skeptical about how easily it replicates. We see the success stories, but we don't see the thousands of people who tried and failed to get anything to take off at all
Its funny that often the only people who think this are programmers. everyone else who hopes to make a living doesn't. ATM, not even the NYT Best Sellers make a livable wage and now with Dall-E, artists wont either. COVID basically killed a lot of musicians income. DJs and so on. Its probably also why media itself has achieved such a mediocre state, no authors, no novels, no adaptation. we are in a future which much of the current media is a sea of mediocrity. There's lots of content sure, but barely any that's worth a damn.
many of the same people who railed against crypto (eg buffet) also railed against high PE stocks with no profitability in sight.
I understand why Apple is hesitant to add the feature.

But this is a fantastic shortcut to get around the limitation.
Obligatory:

https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/
I have met one. His excuse for pushing broken code to trunk was "but it passes the unit tests". The same person also managed to write unit tests with >90% line coverage that just didn't check any results.
But the guy who wrote the article is sure ad spend on crypto is coming back.

Maybe not. Most of crypto works like a Ponzi scheme. Gains to early investors come from later investors. Eventually, you run out of suckers. We're there.

Last 24 hours:

- Someone pulled another $160 million out of USDT. Look at their market cap graph for the last 3 months. Every few days, somebody pulls out another $100 million+ amount. Pretty soon you're talking about real money.[1]

- Vauld went bust.[2]

- The Celsius collapse is affecting Aave and MakerDAO.[3]

All those "staking" schemes are based entirely on a "line goes up" assumption. All they are doing is feeding funds into some speculation.

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31974146

[3] https://cointelegraph.com/news/maker-cuts-off-aave-s-dai-sup...
And under the hood that did a lot more than most OSs of the day. Or of today, for that matter.
When it comes to SDDI, don't do it alone, hire a firm that specializes in disability claims. Expect to be denied at first and to need to appeal.
Dutch Lawmakers Propose to Make Work from Home a Legal Right
> Ironically the term was coined by TERFs

Wikipedia says otherwise, for what it's worth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERF#Coinage_and_usage
I've suffered from severe chronic back pain for the past 12 years or so, starting at the age of 16. It manifested as sciatica initially, and gradually became more severe. I had flare ups that would last months. It eventually started manifesting as SI joint pain, constantly switching sides.

Over the years I had been to 4 different physiotherapists, tried everything from regular core exercises formulated by Stuart McGill, to Infrared heat bands, climbing alot. It would always come back.

I picked up Sarno's book about 6 months ago and I approached it with a highly skeptical eye. My back pain is nearly completely gone. I have had very minor flare ups that last a day or two, but I just repeat a few mantras and it disappears the next day (whereas before the same kind of flare up would last for months).

I even had MRIs done at the start of the pain, I had multiple bulging disks and even a spine that appeared too straight. For anyone reading, don't let this discourage you. 50% of people who have had bulging disks appear in an MRI don't experience any pain at all!

Sarno's book has some pretty flaky theories behind how the pain manifests and the physiology of it all, but the overaching theme is that repressed anger / anxiety can manifest as severe back pain. Once you recognise this you can lose the pain. I never thought I would fix my back pain, but now I have.

Read the book if you're suffering!
If your team is organized in a way where programmers are assigned tasks to execute, you are not operating on a modern software team, and that is your problem first and foremost.
The iOS app isn’t available in my region?
That's the conventional narrative. But if you read "Titan" by Chernow, it's substantially different.

Rockefeller never had a monopoly. He was accused and convicted not of having a monopoly, but anti-competitive behavior. Also, during the long trial, his market share kept slipping, and he was unable to stop the slide.

His competitors had never been vanquished, and had figured out how to compete with Standard Oil.

https://www.amazon.com/Titan-Life-John-Rockefeller-Sr/dp/140...

What's ironic about the book is Chernow reaches the standard conclusions that you wrote, but his actual text says the opposite. I suspect that Chernow's preconceived notions about Standard Oil were so strong he was not convinced by his own research and narrative of what actually happened.
How is my question inappropriate?

In any case, selling his/her car seems like an easy way to cut costs.

However it sounds like medical costs are the culprit, which was the intention of my question.
They've already covered this, lie or not by stating AT THE TIME the statement was made it was believed to be true, with a lay-off decision only made a few days before it was executed.
Get rid of your car. If you aren't working then you don't need it. The cost of registration, gas, insurance, maintenance, and the payments are things that you don't need. Use public transportation or Uber/Lyft. Your costs will be far less than now.
SSDI became much easier to get a little over 10 years ago. You should be approved if you are unable to work and need financial support. Have you tried pain management? I have some experience with chronic pain, but I am still working thanks to some really great pain management doctors.
Human rights apply to all humans, but of course putting them in law mainly benefit the people who otherwise wouldn't have them respected. Anyone disadvantaged in society, in general.
Radical idea: try a long meditation retreat. Some of them are free or by donation (e.g dhamma.org, a little cult-like but I think well-intentioned). It also forces a rigorous routine on you for a short while, which can help a lot with the aimless feeling. The challenge of getting through the full ten days gives you some purpose.

It helped a lot with my depression, and some people have found serious benefits with chronic pain. It seems to help people disconnect from the physical pain and not have it affect other aspects of their life as much.

If that doesn’t appeal to you, look for other changes that can enforce some routine in your life. Taking in-person classes at a college, joining a yoga class, meeting a friend for coffee every morning, volunteering at a shelter, cooking breakfast for your family every day… something that turns your focus towards others a little can be helpful.
> The problem with this tiny projects is that you need a web browser. And good luck browsing the web in old PCs.

Browsing the web is the last thing i do on an old PC. These old computers are for entertainment. Modern Web is a sh*tty experience.
I had similar except the migraines, from gallstones and cervical spine misalignment. I suffered for over a decade, but never gave up hope. Once the obvious pain showed up in the gallbladder and I found a good chiropractor, my issues are almost completely gone.

All I can say is focus on fixing the problem. Do whatever you need to do to diagnose yourself, heal yourself, and focus. Going to work through the pain an fatigue was tolerable only because it kept me able to pay the chiro/surgery bills.

Self diagnosis comes through process of elimination sometimes. Try eliminating or adding different things from/to your diet for a month, one at a time.
I just let it lapse when my credit card number had to be changed.
Now imagine this running on your phone, with a week or more of battery life.
Extremely cheap! Unfortunately global production is currently 64 Mt/year[0], so the world would need to sustain an increased production for a while. (Especially as square meter cross section is the order-of-magnitude answer, not an exact value).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_primary_a...
> So lets go to the tenderloin and connect random physics and science wikipedia articles to a megaphone

That is scary good of a description of what goes on in ADHD brains all the time.
> X86 throws at least one more limiter just for good measure: the TSO memory model, which causes memory effects to have dependencies between them in cases where they wouldn’t on arm.

Apple's M1 supports TSO (on ARM, obviously).
> my pet peeve is that operator== is even defined for floats

Then people would start writing `signum(a - b) == 0` (or some equivalent) instead of `a == b`, and/or factor that out into a helper function. Not sure that would be an improvement.
I often wonder what would currently be a way to work in a more enterprisey environment and actually make stuff a little bit more fun and not all "abstract factories" etc. I'm talking TypeScript/C#/.NET Core type of stuff, maybe with Vue. What's the "new Clean Code"? Might just learn Go next or something.
> the massive nationwide shift that was the ascendance of Trump and the far right over the time period you've noted.

This never happened. What happened is that Democrats started to center the far-right in order to scare their constituents into voting, and Republicans stopped resisting Trump, who they were only against because he was an outsider to their patronage networks. The far-right haven't risen, the Democrats just spend all their time doing PR for them and trying to associate them with Trump to attract centrist Republican voters.
> because every loser blames it for their loss

No Republican loser has blamed it for their loss because it hasn't hurt any of them in the modern era. When you get 6 million more votes than your opponent and still lose, that's a subversion of democracy.

I don't see how that's any different than the Senate. With direct democracy, we would've had a more popular president with more popular policies for an additional 8 of the last 22 years.
Q: My life is falling apart on all fronts and I'm struggling with physical and mental health issues; what should I do?

A: Read this book.

Only on HN...
Win 10 even with SSD is a frustation.
The situation is quite confusing. Restricting the discussion to the vast numbers of existing RR/road crossings (not new crossings), then to what degree does the state control the installation of automated crossing protection (upgrades)? The various articles I read about this crash strongly suggest that MODOT is largely throttling which RR/road crossing automated protection upgrades are executed, and implies this throttling is largely because of state spending limits. But if as you say most of the cost of these upgrades is to be borne by BNSF, why would MODOT be reluctant to compel BNSF to spend money upgrading crossing protection throughout their state? If BNSF had refused such "suggestions" by the state, I would expect to made aware, post crash, of how evil BNSF was in not performing needed safety upgrades requested/commanded by the state, how the state is suing BNSF to compel them to do so, and how BNSF is 100% liable for the damages related to this crash. But that isn't what I read in any of the articles related to this crash. This strongly suggests to me that the state bears significant, perhaps gating, responsibility here.

Any clarification of what's going on in this regard would be appreciated.
Maybe most ISPs, but most people are covered by ISPs that definitely have a way of identifying the account holder given the date and the IP address.

This is for all sorts of legal requests they might get.
Why would they crowd source image identification that is already solved? There are plenty of other images they need human help on.

Besides if robots can do it then someone would be using them to solve CAPTCHAs. I recently started using a VPN and now google asks me all the time to solve them before completing my search, so I'm assuming that robotically searching Google is something people want to do.
No, this is completely in line with everything that the EU is all about. I'm not sure where you got the belief that Euro countries are not allowed to have internal trade deficits, it's inevitable in fact.
Indeed many are and in the age of working from home I expect many neighbourhood pubs to do well.

We're certainly going more often than before.
Have a look at https://www.odoo.com/app/website . If you just need a website, it's free. You can also add other paid apps afterwards.
Google's Palm AI Is Far Stranger Than Conscious
John Rocca – I Want It To Be Real (music video, 1984)
Do they still sell dictionary updates? I bought my OED just before leaving for University. The single volume with a bunch of shrunken pages from the multi volume set on each page. I just found my hemispherical magnifying glass last week. I thought I had lost it in a move.

But my dictionary is at least 25 years out of date
What am I supposed to be seeing in that flicker effect? Doesn't do anything for me.
Part of me thinks this may be true, and it may have been trying to do so for over a century.
Those rocket powered teslas....