skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But in order for this to be acceptable advice (IMO), it has to include the 2nd part, which is that not trying doesn't mean you abandon the pursuit of what you originally had in mind when you picked up the book, assuming you still have the same underlying goal.

Pulling this momentarily into the technical domain, there are hundreds of ways to learn about computing, and the underlying concepts that make it all work.

If one day, I decide I want to learn how operating systems work, there are a myriad of resources I can choose from.

I might choose one, and discover that something about it just doesn't help me learn the subject matter. Perhaps it's too dense, or assumes knowledge that I don't yet have, or is just not written very well.

My end goal is still to learn about operating systems. I can abandon this goal entirely (which is how one might read that original comment, and I think it's fair to ask whether it's imperative that I learn about operating systems), or I can find other resources that help me achieve the same goal, possibly through a very different learning process.

All I'm saying is: "If it's hard, why try?"

Is very different from: "If it's hard, consider looking for another starting point"

To the point that the 2nd sentence takes on an entirely different meaning and leads to a very different conclusion than the 1st.

> It is not anti-intellectual to say that one should stop reading a book they don't enjoy and don't have a good reason to get through

I agree with this statement, but this is not what the original comment stated. The original comment made no distinction about "a good reason to get through" the material.

I'd go a step further and say that if you don't have a good reason to get through the material, and you don't enjoy it, it's actively harmful to spend the time. At that point, you might as well fire up your favorite video game or Netflix series, which will at least give you some momentary enjoyment.

But even then, some uncertainty emerges when deciding which things are important to get through. It is often not easy to make that judgement without understanding the material, which you cannot do without getting through it. And so we look to others who we respect, who found profound meaning, and trust that there's something there.

I think the most important thing is forming some idea of what you hope to achieve (a new understanding of things, or some insight into a particular phenomena, or personal growth, etc), and then making decisions about which steps you take next based on whether or not you're achieving that goal.

One of those steps might be choosing to stop struggling through a particular book. Or one of those steps might be deciding the original goal isn't worth the effort. But I do think that choosing purely based on enjoyment or difficulty will lead to never growing.

Growth usually comes via the hardest stuff, and if growth is important to you, a different decision making framework is required.
Architecting a Modern Data Lake
If you want to eat anything other than agaricus it's hard to buy them fresh because most mushrooms don't ship and handle well. You can get them from farmer's markets in medium and largeish cities but if you don't have those your options are sad broken and dried out grocery store stock, if that. Consider also that for things like stroganoff, wellington, or other duxelle-ish dishes it takes quite a lot of mushroom to make the end product, since mushrooms are mostly water and will be 'sweated' of that water.
Eureka? ... anyone surprised should be admitting limits of their mind as this was very easily predictable (i.e. globalist/deep-state manipulated US has done stupid moves and continues to do so)
How is this going to be accessible to the new wave of people you're imagining?

I'd be all for it! Just not clear on a plausible path for how this better future comes to pass.
The "relatively good relations" you speak of came with a great amount of licking ass and simultaneously preparing for the worst. It's not something we want to go back to.

It's probably something that's hard to understand from a comfy armchair half a world away, so I guess that's an excuse for the condescending tone.
I am old enough to remember when the wife would call me at work on a Friday and say hey, stop by the video store and get a movie for tonight and I'll stop and get wine and take out. What was special was the "Dave" at the video rental place (it wasn't blockbuster but whatever). I don't recall the guy's name, but he always remembered me and what we liked and had great suggestions and sometimes if you said, nah but how about something completely different, he would always find us something great. Or usually (one time he recommended Eraser head, we still laugh about that one, so even though it was a dud, great memory).

I get it, today's AI is pretty good, meh, not really, but it would be hard to beat my old "Dave". Maybe someday.
> Ruble (only one l)

Indeed, thanks. Not a native speaker here, and I got everything mixed up with the early-war pun “the Ruble is going to rubble”

> What definition of strong are you using? Ruble […] has historically been around 85:1 and now its ~60:1. (Rubles:Euros, i.e. 85 Rubles for 1 Euro)

Yes, that means Ruble's purchasing power increased by 40% (one Ruble could buy you ~1.2 euro cent, and now it buys you ~1.7).
Gold has a lot of applications besides wealth accumulation, electronics and jewelry together makes almost 2/3 of demand [1]

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/299609/gold-demand-by-in...

Drying machines makes life of a lots and lots of people more comfortable. Hundreds of millions is my lower estimation, maybe even billions (if we include industrial dryers used in textile and clothes-making). Useful segment (eg except speculation and illegal activities) of Bitcoin operation is consumed by millions of people tops, two or three orders of magnitude less. And I never heard about using dryers for drug trade.
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To be fair, it really isn't designed to rely on one server. And if you don't want to run your own, you can always have someone host the server for you.
Imagine if they fly through Stansted. That's a punishment in itself!
Wtf, after waiting about 2mins for your site to load all I could tell from your product page is that I could somehow spend $1,299.00 on whatever it was.
Show HN: Kinzana, Credit Cards for DAOs
The constitution's amendments are different from other laws. Instead of restricting the people, it restricts the government power. It is there to make it harder for the government to devolve into a tyrannical one. The historical context (the US fighting against the monarchy of England for independence) is why it's there and it explains many of its regulation (including the right to bear arms, which was needed in order to fight against England).

The UK doesn't have it, which makes it a lot less stable, as seen in 1997
Did you autoplay that video? You did, didn't you?

Don't do that.
Splitting hairs on "normal" isn't the argument you think it is. There are normal developmental milestones in childhood[1], it's a term of art. For 5year olds it includes things like "Speaks in sentences of 5 or more words, and with all parts of speech", or "shows less aggression". Again, this isn't controversial stuff, ask any pediatrician, or early childhood education specialist. Hell talk to a speech pathologist.

> a specific cultural context

This has very little bearing on things like brain development, or language acquisition. Childhood play is evolved behavior.

If you insist that I have to provide citations to convince you of the consensus here are a few. Vocabulary[2]. An article specifically about the effects of school closures[3]. I could keep going but I almost can't believe someone here is arguing that peer interaction isn't vitally important for childhood development. Do you actually believe that?

[1]https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002456.htm

[2]https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13670050.2020.17...

[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004727272...
Thank you, I didn't know that one but it is much more efficient than m.facebook.com.
The video isn't the best because it misses the killer approaching, aiming, and taking 2 shots, with the 1st one missing him. Such poor bodyguarding, if they had a 360 view around Abe, they would've stopped the man as he approached, ready to draw their own guns, and they would've reacted at the latest as he took aim.

Looking at a video of Obama walking in Washington DC, I can see a secret service agent with his hand very close to his gun (under his jacket vest) as a civilian sprinted enthusiastically to shake Obama's hand.
Not sure what resources your referring to with regards to china, they seem to be net importers of food,energy, metals, etc…
I think you mistyped, but just to be clear: it's showing that a regular probabilistic classical computer can't do certain cryptographic problems faster than a quantum computer.
See also "The chemistry of the extraterrestrial carbonaceous stone “Hypatia”: A perspective on dust heterogeneity in interstellar space", by Jan D.Kramers, Georgy A.Belyanin, Wojciech J.Przybyłowicz, HartmutWinkler, Marco A.G.Andreoli. (August 2022)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001910352...
You work too little. You equate minimum work with a dream job? Its too easy.
Looks promising. I think this would end up with some well-defined schema + some DSL.
America has a tendency to either ignore, or state outright that they do not recognize international law or organizations. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr... where the US openly states that it is not part of the International Criminal Court and refuses to acknowledge its jurisdiction.

American sanctions are not international law, but rather American Laws, and companies outside the US are free to ignore US laws as long as they are willing to not interact with the US. Binance could easily serve Iran iff, they do not do any business in the US, or with US companies or persons, and none of their employees or officers or probably family members ever travel to the US or a country willing to extradite to the US. But companies cry foul about that because they want their cake of making money in the US and eat it too of making money from Iran. Does Iran not have retaliatory sanctions against the US?

Oh, and lot's of other countries have sanctioned Iran too, so, also don't touch those countries.
...which is clear evidence that hitting space 4 times is the wrong thing to do :P
Free Public Beta of Niantic/PokemonGo AR Platform
If these users are not causing any trouble, getting rid of them seems low value -- and any attempt to clear out a large set of boots will almost certainly got a bunch of non-bot users (unless they could actually get the exact set used by these user sellers)
If no one will be there you can drain the pipes and leave it unheated over the winter. People typically do this with summer homes.

(I think this thread is silly though: there's no way enough people will move to warm climates for the winter to make a dent in cold-country fuel consumption.)
The amount of ‘HIV cures’ compared to drugs that actually hit the market are disproportionate. I don’t fully know what causes trials to fail but I would assume failure rate is pretty substantial, so I won’t hold my breath.
I think a better example of really cool "Bladerunner enhance" tech has a lot less to do with ML and more to do with some of the interesting RAW formats our cameras today are putting out. It's easier than ever for the cameras to capture multi-frames at once even for a "still" shot between advancements in multi-frame compression and expansions in general purpose storage space. It's really interesting to see what Pros with pro tools can do to things like adjust lighting or focus/bokeh in an editing app days/weeks/months after a photo was "taken".

ML is often involved with the non-RAW formats to make some of those focus/lighting adjustments for us non-Pros, but watching what Pros can do to enhance photos that ML cannot if they get access to the RAWs before the MLs toss those files is sometimes incredibly impressive today.
The article says:

"Is it possible for your site, service, or app, which allows content to be shared and/or people to communicate with each other, to be accessed by any adult or any child within the UK?

Then you’re in scope.

NB “accessed” doesn’t necessarily mean that a user can set up an active account on your service. If a British adult can merely download your app on the app store, the app is in scope."

However, the draft bill doesn't seem to say that. I found the draft here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-online-safe... (and note that the article doesn't seem to link it, which seems odd).

The bill says:

"In this Act “user-to-user service” means an internet service by means of which content that is generated by a user of the service, or uploaded to or shared on the service by a user of the service, may be encountered by another user, or other users, of the service.

That seems reasonable to me. There are more details, but as far as I can see, the ability to merely download an app does not put it in scope contrary to the claim in TFA.

I now find myself doubting the the other claims made by this author.
Exactly. If anything, provable reversible vasectomies are arguably the way to go, where you are not creating a concern of being effeminized by male hormonal birth control pills. It amazes me how more effort and money aren't put into the reversible vasectomy procedures.
I also had the same experience, this feels like a huckster product plug for SEO.

The immediate redirect is a little odd as well, malware payload delivery anyone?
“Something important happens at 17:81, th-“

Ugh, no spoilers, you’ve ruined the movie for me now…
Ask HN: Do you assume good will at work?
While reviewing code or interacting with your peers, how to not fall into the trap of assuming everyone is stupid, has second intentions, etc.

I do it from time to time but a recent hire was pretty angry at everything and seemed to think people were a bunch of headless chickens trying to code. I was surprised but also recognized I do that sometimes and I was wondering if people had ideas for being more mindful and avoid falling for this at work.
I 100% agree with all of that. That’s how you make good software in a sustainable business.

Unfortunately, that’s not how the market works anymore.

Do the minimum, get to market first, hype features over reliability and performance, get a nice looking balance sheet, and cash the fuck out.

I love writing software, but I hate this industry.
In actual live game play, none of the top players use such kids' ploys as touching bombs pretending to be moveable pieces. Actual game play wouldn't change if the one touch move rule from chess or checkers were to be introduced.

The main thing the rules guard against is accidentally tripping over your opponent's or your own pieces. Especially during time trouble, it sometimes happens that you drop a piece. If your opponent reveals < 4 of your pieces, you can exchange all of them with any other of your pieces. With >= 4 "accidents", it's an automatic forfeit. If you tip over your opponent's flag, he is entitled to 3 swaps (may or may not be bombs).
You giving advice to a campaign is not analogous to what these folks are doing. At Facebook, Uber, etc these people are being hired straight out of full-time, highly influential positions with direct contact to political elite. It's not even hidden, many of them proudly brag about it on social media.

The current situation is affording a whole host of people who make everyone else second class citizens to their reach and ideas.
There is no winner, both tabs snd spaces are widely used. However with proliferation of better tools the question thankfully became mostly irrelevant. I don't care if it is spaces or tabs, as long as it is consistent across codebase (which CI enforces with autoformatters and linters) and as long as my editor (which obeys project's editorconfig) uses the same convention.
That means it is about 40% stronger than it historically has been.

IF you had your money in Rubles last year, can buy 40% more of a product than if you had your money in Euros.
It is a goal of mine this year to practice gratitude. I started writing it down in a journal, and it feels powerful. A lot of emotions come out of it, good ones. I hope it will help me slow down a little.
"[The Internet] also grows exponentially worse at helping us discover what we don’t yet know we ought to know, those invaluable unknown-unknowns."

Really? Has the author ever been to Hacker News, I wonder.
If anything I’d be worried that big pharma tanks anything not in their financial interests, like permanent prevention.
This is all state of the art research. It’s the same reason we didn’t have mRNA vaccines 10 years ago.
Last time I looked, Postgres full text search doesn't really do CJK without third party parsers, which can be a bit of a deal breaker.
This reads to me like a low quality advertisement but its got 9 upvotes in 3 minutes. Why is this popular?
Also, as you point out, this is a very-low-paying field. Someone who isn't from a wealthy family will struggle to live on the kind of pay they will get, meaning that they are more likely to work in the field for a few years, then get married, have kids - and need a real income. And now the next hiree has to go to all the trouble of re-establishing relationships with donors.

I just read a reasonably interesting book (In the Garden of Beasts) about an academic who became FDR's ambassador to Nazi Germany. One of the points that the author repeatedly makes is that such positions were very much the preserve of the wealthy, who were expected to spend substantially from their own pockets for both official and unofficial events. Living on his salary alone was an unusual and unpopular move, even within the State Department.
all ephemeral, leave no trace or context
We didn't know what part of the virus would change before the virus started changing. A small number of patients developed broadly-neutralizing antibodies (bnABs), which not only wiped out Covid classic, but kept working well against the other variants too. Once we found out what part of the spike protein those antibodies bound to, then we knew what to target. But it's still not easy to raise antibodies to recognize specific sites on a protein - the more "context" you include, the more likely it is that your immune system will find another, less effective, handle on the protein to grab and call it a day.

I suppose we knew about pan-coronavirus conserved sites before, but it (imo) would have been too risky to try targeting those sites with the first mRNA vaccines - one experimental technology at a time.
> There are a few cross-lane shuffles / reduce instruction but it seems to me that those would be handled in a dedicated execution unit. (they are not really the fast-path/common case)

Yes, you essentially need a (kind of) crossbar for shuffle and value broadcast.
But as far as I know there is no unit dedicated to this on Nvidia GPU.
However, depending on the GPU microarchitecture, shuffle and broadcast may be implemented differently (e.g. through the load/store units).

Note that I said "crossbar" for simplicity and because there is little information available, I doubt that all the paths really exist
At the end of the day a job where you only see your boss half an hour every two or three days and otherwise have no interaction is convenient but probably doesn't make you feel important. Better jobs are the ones where people listen to you. This is why you want to work for yourself. Only when people listen will your fragile ego will register that you matter. Otherwise retiring is probably better, then you can do what you please.
Ask HN: Has Marvel got out of hand?
So many Marvel releases lately, and they’re all generic and look the same aesthetically. It’s as if they just copy and paste stuff from other Marvel releases and just tweak it a bit. We’ve reached peak Marvel IMHO. Has it all got out of hand?
How do I get free beer at Oktoberfest?
doing business from one EU member to another is very different from the US.

US have common language and culture. EU is one zone with different barriers to crack.
You’re living in the past my friend! https://old.reddit.com/r/unclebens/comments/el1d8q/part_2_in...
They did that indeed, especially in the early days to avoid a complete collapse, but since then it's not the primary mechanism at stake.

This is a great reminder that keeping your money afloat is not that hard as long as you can export. (For the record, what destroyed Venezuela comes from the fact that they needed to import light oil in order to process their heavy one. Once the sanctions cut the input flow, the output flow dried up pretty quickly and it was game over)

I don't think it will matter long, given the catastrophic failure of the Russian military (which is currently demilitarizing Russia pretty quickly, how ironic), but from the economics PoV it's still interesting to witness.
>However, the draft bill doesn't seem to say that. I found the draft here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-online-safe... (and note that the article doesn't seem to link it, which seems odd).

You're linking to the draft bill. Burns has linked to the actual bill as amended in the Commons: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-03/0121... (it's linked under the heading of "How to read this post")
Hunter Biden took his personal laptop in for repairs one day and just left it at the shop, never to return to collect it. The leaker is more or less an IT guy who found it hilarious to leak the contents of his laptop online.

The most important development was that they managed to crack his iCloud password via files left on his computer.
The pound hasn't been 2:1 with the dollar since circa 2008. That was the high pre financial crisis. It mostly traded between 1.50-1.60 from then till 2016.
yeah you have some better arrangements that were gained to be clear in part through union organizing, not just because landlord and govt decided to be nice. we're "at the mercy of the lord" only as far as we let ourselves be collectively
Shameless plug.

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We use the same CO2 Sensor (Senseair S8) as the device in the article and I can confirm that it's very accurate.

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> Most days, I do not have to interact with anyone from work, not even customer contact.

You say that like it's a good thing. You may want to reconsider.

Also, always have a project. Something to aim for for a couple of years that stands out from the rest of your life. It can be anything. Building a house, raising a small child, starting a company, diving deep into a hobby, switching to an entirely different line of work for some time (I enjoyed teaching!), etc.

This may keep your inner adventurer happy, and makes for an interesting life to look back on.
Most people are headless chickens trying to code, but it’s not acceptable to tell them!! I usually assume people’s issues are not intentional and treat them as oversights unless it becomes too frequent. People appreciate it and work better when you treat them like they are equals even if there not (purely with respect to skill and not any other characteristics obviously)