skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it all comes down to genes. Plenty of people with unhealthy lifestyles living to old age, like Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger both in their 90s and don't do exercise and have bad diets.
(GP was originally posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32088316. We've since moved it.)
I don't know how it compares to the ones on the list, but I thought Lying for Money by Dan Davies [1] was quite good. I wrote a review last year. [2]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Lying-Money-Legendary-Frauds-Workings...
[2] https://tildes.net/~books/w4x/what_are_you_reading_these_day...
It's not my kind of game either, but was definitely interesting and to me a good thing because it got people out of house.

I used to walk my local park daily for years, only ever saw a few people. Seemingly out of nowhere, the park seemed always packed...kids, adults, you name it. It was kind of jarring to me, to be honest.

I mentioned it in passing to my brother, kinda complaining about the sudden crowds but later describing it down to details...how people seemed to be taking pics of the ground for no reason...he said "they're playing pokemon go, dummy." I had no idea such a thing existed and thought I was going nuts.

But ultimately what I saw was a lot of people venturing out and about, enjoying the day, having fun solo or in groups... and thought it was a net positive to society, for once, unlike most modern apps and games.
It’s what the data say: https://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/slaits/nsch_2...

relevant blurb is only 22% of all children take any medication at all. 5% of all children take medication to treat adhd
>> People tithe and sacrifice to their church for a promise of rewards in the afterlife.

> This is a fundamental misunderstanding of tithing and I’m not going to get into that at the moment...

I'll explain some from a fairly classic Protestant perspective. This was literally what started the Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther was horrified that the Church was essentially attempting to sell salvation via indulgences. He pointed out that the Bible teaches that salvation is completely free because Christ already paid for all our sins with his blood.

I agree with Luther and I tithe out of pure gratitude. I think the Church belongs to Jesus and so do I because he's kind and gracious.

All the money in the world can't buy my salvation, or even the smallest part of it. It's worthless to God, who made heaven and earth and all that is in them.
How are people writing event loop based webservices with rust then if they're not using async?
I fully get your point about harmless people that find themselves embroiled in manufactured controversy over a personal or carelessly phrased opinion. However, I don't think you have much/any experience dealing with aggressive people in the real world. Some of them are quite violent, and often have tacit or overt support from police.
https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(19)30300-9. Tldr $20 per kilowatt hour in energy capacity costs. That’s how cheap storage would have to get for renewables to get to 100 percent.

Also the land requirements for huge solar / wind installations is another downside. Nuclear at scale is a clear winner especially in seismically stable regions of NA.
Privacy coins like Monero are not making all your transactions public and exchange to fiat gets only tracked with certain exchanges. One could as well sell it for cash on the streets.
So now instead of analyzing and understanding the culture war, you're taking a side in it.
I7 Mac's or PCs? I was recently issued an Apple Silicon Mac Pro as a secondary device. I personally find myself more productive on PCs or Linux machines, so you should take personal preference into account.

WSL provides a very good Linux environment on windows, so the Unix toolchain is no longer a reason to pic a Mac.

The biggest downside to developing on windows these days is abysmal git performance.

Mixing VS Studio for Mac and PC might be problematic, so you might want to factor in the purchase or Rider licenses for the whole team.
There's absolutely no way you could trust with absolute certainty that a private blockchain run by the US government

You're right, you couldn't trust it with absolute certainty.

they don't benefit from not being able to access the data they're storing in your scenario

The government makes transactions it wishes was private all the time. A politician that could route money through a black box could perform many many patterns. Ollie North supplied guns to the 'good guys'/politically favourable team in the Iran-Contra affair with money from outside the sanctions. It's not required for the government to increase the privacy of money flow, but they could see benefit in it, for better or worse.

You're right it is simpler to accept cash in a lot of ways. In a world of mass surveillance, showing up to meet your local drug dealer in a parking lot at 2am, is no longer private and nor is cash.

Your number plate was recorded the whole way, your face hit facial recognition cameras and IR scanners at toll gates and the phone booth/mcdonalds wifi picked up your phone's IMEI as you drove past, which is linked to your passport photo you submitted to buy your phone, the cash you got from a bank or business has captured your face. A satellite captured your car moving every 5minutes(?) or so.

The cash might not be 'on the books' but nearly everything else you did was, which you need to defeat with perfect opsec to be free from a government audit that can ping the FBI/CIA/NSA/private organizations officially or unofficially, legally or not for information about you.

Absolutely Certain™ privacy isn't possible with cash either.
> or take special care to ensure that all of the table is hit/cached on each access.

For example, by using an oblivious read: Access each row, AND it with a mask that is either all 1s or all 0s depending on if its the row you want (which you must set without branching) and OR all the results together.

Very slow.
I really don't think the summation of human interaction is the number of kids you end up having with a mate/partner/spouse, but maybe I'm wrong.
Given that Crungus has now entered the Internet, the next version will certainly know what it a Crungus.
No. Centuries long burning of fossil fuels is why we’re facing climate change.
> it's not being deployed for at least 10yrs

2028 is 6 years from now.
Avoid moisturizing soap in general when doing this, since they often have silicones, and that can leave a film. Dish soaps are less likely to have them, so it's a decent one to try blindly... or just read the label.

But yep, this is exactly what I do. Usually hand soap, but the stuff I get is just plain soap, no fragrance or moisturizer, so it rinses super easily. And when it's properly clean, the water leaves the surface dry and streak-free.
Not sure but I assume it's Amazon offering Postgres as a service through AWS Aurora.
it could lead to money laundering.
Plus, pro audio gear needs to be on the same order of reliability as industrial equipment. For instance, an artist that has a piece of gear fry has potentially wrecked a contracted performance (which can affect revenue as well as reputation). This could also heppen during recording, which ruins very expensive studio time that may be pre-paid for. For most of the software devs here, having a computer fry would be at most a 1 day loss of productivity and a neglible effect on overall company earnings. Not so true when you have a booked venue and your amp or synth just blew up during sound check hours before the show opens.

It's honestly not that dissimilar to how industrial equipment can cause huge revenue effects from a failure due to lost productivity.
Of course you can. To take it to the extreme, should doctors (or public health campaigns) assume that men and women have an equal chance of breast cancer?
Propaganda. At least to some extent.
Perhaps https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.07350.pdf

Also Gwern has done a lot on this.
It was a disappointment for you maybe. It was a huge success and appealed to people outside the typical video game audience. You don’t get that by rehashing a 25 year old Game Boy game again.
>Once fusion is up and working

That's one gargantuan "once", let's plan our energy generation assuming it doesn't materialize, we can always recalibrate if it does.
Better start by getting rid of physical currency
I respect nonheteronormativity but do get annoyed by how people get on a high horse about it and talk like they’re a higher evolved life form as a result of not being straight. I can’t be the only one who’s irritated by it.
Ask HN: How do you verify backups?
I have a versioned backup system using a combination of Time Machine (locally) and Arq+B2 (remote) over two laptops. I've done spot checks to verify that my backups aren't corrupted but I can't figure out how users are supposed to verify their backups aren't corrupted. How do people do this? I'm asking this question in a personal context but I would be curious to know what an enterprise/business context looks like too.
>> does the shinkasen make a detour to rural agricultural areas?

They generally follow the natural route between large cities. This route is in the valleys which are already relatively populated because they are not the mountains which comprise most of japan. There are two, three or more types of high speed rolling stock on the same lines. The older, slower trains are cheaper between cities and have more local stops.
Love everything you guys do from the mopho to the rev2. Always on your jobs page hoping some crusty old sysadmin decides to retire
(I don't think async is bad.)

Some folks just use threads, no event loop.

Event loops are also there without async, you could just write against mio or whatever else you choose directly.
Digital as well. Even if the overall design is similar, layout is dependent on the node size. Plus, the masks have to be remade at a not insubstantial cost.
Paul has said a lot of smart things, but this essay is hard to read.

Paul seems to be complaining here that since becoming relevant/influential he's no longer "allowed" to have "x-ist" beliefs.

I mean, yeah... This is how the world works?

When your job is digging holes alone in a field (or the office/academic equivalent), you can vomit whatever insane nonsense you want without consequence, because it doesn't affect anyone or anything. You don't matter.

When your position gives you implicit or explicit power over a group of employees, founders, culture, etc; and that group either includes X's or people who care about X's, being "x-ist" has a material and unfair impact on those people. Asserting unrepentantly an "x-ist" opinion makes you _bad at that job_, and in fine capitalist tradition a better individual is found to replace you.

Also I flat-out don't buy his assertion that it's impossible to be forgiven. Louis C.K. just won a Grammy, Chappelle just signed four more comedy specials for Netflix, who are these people forever out in the cold for speaking hard truths?

Every time this comes up I wonder what these forbidden opinions he has which he dares not utter are.
The first thing that comes to mind with this is the running gag from the movie "Defending you life" where all the attorneys(?) that the protagonist met in the movie were reduced to how much of their brain they used, and how they all ate manwhich looking crud because they could rationalize eating it, while Al Brooks' character, who just recently died and was far too scared and primitive, wouldn't be able to handle it.
People talk about the 13th amendment ending slavery, but in reality it just codified it into the constitution. Jim Crow and then the prison industrial complex followed.
As someone who used to be a lot more promiscuous: I'm pretty sure hooking up is the opposite of emotional maturity. I love Seinfeld (the old TV show) because it actually does show this. The main characters (at least Seinfeld and Elaine) have this kind of superficial maturity but you pull them apart and they're actually very childish. The show ends with them and their friends in jail with more or less nothing to show for their lives. For what the show was it has a surprisingly strong moral lesson.
DNA evidence links tech company CEO to 1992 killing of roommate’s girlfriend
Whatcha wanna bet that the deal they have with the local gov't promised they'd bring X number of jobs to the area, which is a target they can only meet by hiring some people, firing a bunch of them, and then hiring more, since every new hire counts as a job placement.
> northern provinces

You mean territories?
You want to really blow your mind, check out the identities at yaygender.net. Go through them and try to imagine people having common understandings of these selections such that information is communicated by which is chosen.

What am I supposed to do with "woman" vs "womyn" vs "womon"? How about "differently-gendered" vs "metagender" vs "metamorph"? "Transgenderist" or "Trangenderalist"? Gender outlaw against gender pirate? Do these identities communicate or do they confuse?

These aren't genders, they're portions of GUIDs.
My brother was facing years in prison after being illegally searched and having over $84,000 cash found in his possession. He got it down to a few years of felony probation for attempted money laundering and of course the corrupt cops kept the money they stole.
If he does not pay, he will be found in contempt. Likely, the Chancery court would order a daily fine sufficiently large to eventually gain compliance. For example, they might order him to pay $50M/day that he's late on closing. Whatever is required to achieve compliance can be ordered, up to and including incarceration.
> Anecdata: My grandpa had 9 kids. When asked for the reason, he would say that in his times there was no TV.

You realize this is of course a joke? Every country in the world decreases birthrate as their socio-economic stability increases, because in part they no longer have to rely on having lots of kids to take care of them when they are old.

The rest of your comment goes almost exactly against the story that is linked? That is about how technology is making it a lot easier for people to connect in person?

It frustrates me that this thoughtless conservatism goes unchallenged on HN.
Twitter Inc vs. Elon Musk complaint [pdf]
Absolutely disingenuous.

Bitcoin does not make the "energy problem" worse - the opposite is true in most cases. Here's a good example; it pushes the excess energy waste coming off of fossil fuel plants into a stable financial exchange system instead of bleeding it off for no reason.

Bitcoin is also not just a "deflationary asset" - the entire point is that you now have an instantaneous transfer financial backbone as opposed to needing a central bank's money printer to back your country so before another country decides they need your natural resources, you can actually purchase infrastructure and participate in the global economy and profit off of what you have instead.

What happens to countries that hold US dollar when the banks start printing? Where do they want to purchase assets, and who divests from their domestic assets?

What an absolutely unread take on it - and what a great representative of the closest approximation to average research done on the topic.
Could you be more specific about what’s bad about it?
Okay that's really cool, I'm going to have to play around with it.
Yamaha isn't facing nearly the same issues as the boutique makes, since they have the scale to be able to do volume buys and negotiate with vendors directly. I doubt the folks at places like Teenage Engineering are buying in quantities large enough to get any consideration from the vendors, they are likely just purchasing from digikey & mouser. So 4/1 is already a pretty poor lead time, but it's even worse for the specialty suppliers.
It's open to interpretation but the poster said

" so we ignore the vague costs against the concrete benefits."

At the end of the first paragraph. He could mean "we" as in people though. He also didn't qualify the statement with something like "Some people.." "Many think..". Finally he offers no criticism of why it may be bad to think like this.

However, you're right and reading it now after the comments people made makes that seem more of a possibility than when I first read it.
I don't know how to get around the fact that it hurts me to see marginalized groups get trodden on and become further outcast by society. Marginalization amplifies the global amount of human pain and suffering, and for what purpose?
I'm a big fan of chickweed, but also shepherd's purse, its seed pods have a delightful mustard taste
You are correct. Some young reasonably attractive woman “explores” and what a surprise? There are tons of guys willing to sleep with her, even under X, Y, Z conditions.

Much of the publishing industry is filled with hopeful women backed by family money trying to break into the industry. For most it pays very little, but must confer some sort of status? Find your nitch, be bold, be aggressive, ???, profit?
Back when the main leaks happened, most real journalists were not able to use encryption, which would be a risk for the leaker. Snowden had to teach Greenwald encryption first. Newspapers only started to publish their public keys afterwards.
The essay could be summed up using the following quote from Ghostbusters (1984).

"Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college! You don't know what it's like out there! I've WORKED in the private sector. They expect results."
Any untrusted workloads (say CI runners running your clients arbitrary code) better be run inside kata containers so you can’t use t2a vms for that
> owning a working but end-of-lifed device

Aren't such devices major security risks, and isn't accepting them connecting to anything of your own a major liability?
It's thought we can digest some cellulose already. And there's no reason to not think we couldn't increase that.

For the general population digesting more fibre would bad, but to be able to eat leaves and grass for a while would be interesting.

Humans have intestinal bacteria that degrade the plant cell walls in herbivores https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8661373/
“Why? Why has this antiquated-sounding religious concept come back in a secular form? And why now?”

Victims of racism and sexism are tired of living in a world built for someone else.

My heart goes out to Paul Graham the victim who would now face consequences for expressing racist and sexist views! Sure wish we could roll this back to the state of “enlightenment” before this was true.
Indeed. Once you have a megaphone in your hand new etiquette applies.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32091797

1. If the net effect is to discriminate against a protected class, legal liability may still exist.

2. Discrimination as a general concept is not identicial to discrimination against a protected class. It may be legal in a strict sense, and still morally, socially, and politically reprehensible and/or disruptive.
Lying for Money was excellent and extremely accessible. Highly recommend that one.
Their big problem is not manufacturing, not personnel, not extraction of useful energy from kinetic motion of charged particles, and not even physics of light-nucleus fusion. Those are, in principle, probably all solvable.

Their big problem is that they depend for fuel on 3He, and there isn't any. Not on Earth, and not even, usefully, in the lunar regolith. (By the way, there should be a better name for 3He as there is for 3H, tritium. "Helionium"?)

There is one source for 3He, and that is decay of 3H, tritium. Tritium can be made in high-neutron-flux processes such as in a CANDU reactor, slowing the neutrons with heavy water until they fuse with the 2H deuterium atoms in it. Then, keep it for 12+ years waiting for it to decay. We actually do manufacture a noticeable amount of tritium, and then store it in missile silos for the requisite 12 years, purifying out the 3He half periodically and topping up the tanks. Tritium is stored there ready to be funneled into the middle of a hydrogen bomb shortly before lofting to its unlucky recipients.

Operating these things is supposed to produce a little bit of 3H, which in principle could be collected, banked, and harvested. But each 3He they burn is very unlikely to make the 3H they will need to get another 3He some years on. They have to extract, anyway, the tritium they make, to avoid fusing those by accident, producing useless and harmful hot neutrons.

There is a competing technology, that has been worked on at Princeton and generically labeled "field reversed configuration", FRC, also burning D-3He, optimized for spacecraft propulsion. They hope to loft a test article by 2035.

So there are a few practical uses for this technology, if it can be made to work at all: to power spacecraft exploring the outer solar system, and maybe even for a moon base; but not for practical energy here on Earth.

For energy here, solar + wind + storage are the key to forestalling civilizational collapse. It might still be possible to prevent worldwide collapse if we radically increase the investment rate in these known-practical technologies. But not if we don't, and we haven't, enough. If civilization can be saved from collapsing, this tech could become interesting someday. Otherwise it will stall when civilization collapses out from under it. It is safe to say that would be a shame.
> "Ordering online causes additional emissions

Am I missing something? Isn't it significantly more efficient for a van/truck to follow a computer optimized route to deliver 100s-1000s of orders per tank of gas than me driving to and from Home Depot to buy one thing?
And also, Hunting & gathering/foraging will only support a far smaller population than our current agriculture based society.

So sure, you can live off foraging alone. When everyone else is not.

But when _everyone_ starts hunting and gathering you'll quickly realise how far agriculture has displaced us from the basic carrying capacity of the land, and then move onto the realisation of what happens in nature when the population of an animal exceeds the carrying capacity of their territory.

Starvation, conflict. Nothing great.

That's the problem with post-apocalyptic day dreams, they usually posit you as one of the few survivors. In reality, there'll be way more other survivors, either competing with you for resources, or, if you have a sweet bunker filled with supplies, forming a coalition that can overcome any advantage you have in firepower, by sheer numbers of desperate people.

(Peter Thiel take note, if the apocalypse comes, you can't shoot every Kiwi, and we're mighty interested in what's in your bunker. #AotearoaIsNotYourLifeboatRichPeople)
You can still do the same thing on modern windows. Alternative shells were a thing for quite a while. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for... for a list. Unfortunately people don't seem to be that interested anymore and the options that remain are Cairo https://cairoshell.com/ and blackbox.

But in theory: It's as customisable as you want. You "just" need to write it. The linked 3.11 project is not just a customisation - it's a whole shell just like Cairo.
Another comment had a link to their GitHub, which after a bit of looking mentions fuse : https://github.com/cryptomator/cryptomator/blob/develop/src/...