skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://youtu.be/6SQsv0JI1P8

The caravan thunders onward

Toward the distant dream of the city

The caravan carries me onward

On my way at last, on my way at last
I suspect what he means is "this is a safe space" in contrast to the open/hostile internet "out there", i.e. there is no nefarious intent. As you point out, this is really mostly virtue signalling (and probably well-meant). The fact that actually there is JS, there are trackable signals, your PII can and will be disclosed etc is sorta beside the point of sites like this.
>The fact is that there is something deeply appealing about him.

I think the magic ingredient is utter, palpable self conviction. Complete unwavering dedication to your own rightness, regardless of any counter argument, any prevarication, even evidence to the contrary, is intoxicating. You don't need to argue, you don't need to convince, you don't need reasons, you're just right by definition. The simplicity and lack of complexity is intoxicating.
It seems like there is enough studies and science backing that too much phone use can cause problems — especially doing a lot of multitasking.

I say “seems like” without saying definitively, since I’m not quoting sources. But I’ve seen enough articles/studies come through HN that seem to suggest there is likely a link between phone addiction and things like anxiety, depression, attention span, etc.

Yes, phones are useful for a lot of things, and are in some cases required for doing some functions for business and social connectivity.

But the speed of information being fed and consumed, and the constant context switching can’t be good for us.

E.g. when I view my Twitter feed, I can have 20-40 completely different thoughts go through my head in a matter of minutes. I can’t imagine how that could be beneficial.
Even after hiring, I've seen HR doing analyses comparing raise percentages between men and women, or different nationalities of employees, trying to ensure that we're not showing favoritism to a particular group.
Yep, friends of mine in the UK were recommended heavily to add a sound moderator to their ticket, to avoid pissing off neighbours when shooting vermin at night, etc.
The problem is that platforms are not properly nor equally promoting shared content... They are also charging contributors for visibility, while reducing organic visibility to drive their profits up.

Independent (undiscovered) creators aren't rich (and staffed/supported) enough to arrange focus groups and to develop marketing campaigns that "warm your heart", but on platforms, regular creators are foisted into competing for attention for their products and services against well funded and staffed mega-corporations.

Independent (not yet profitable) creators have it harder than ever to achieve visibility now. Favoritism and payola are rampant in all social media settings as well. Most of the things we see first online are well funded and organized campaigns, we just can't tell because suggestive and manipulative marketing has taken over.

This leads independent creators to resort to underhanded techniques like botting and illegal activity to fund paid promotion.

The Internet was originally started based on equal access to Information. By aligning with an ideal that self promotion is a negative thing, that's reinforcing the ideal that equal access should not exist, and it also encourages a lot of negative online activity that serves as a smoke-screen for wealthy corporate interests.

If a site or app can't fairly manage it's audience, that's the first sign it's outgrown it's pants, and turned against equal access to information to favor their own profit... We need to stop supporting sites and apps that serve as smokescreens for big industry profit and return to smaller (independent) communities for promoting business, art, and services because the large ones don't serve independents, they serve big industry.

I prefer ads that are labeled as ads and tied to reputable individuals and companies. That creates trust for me. I do not find trust in ads that use human psychology to indirectly influence decision making... Take crypto for example, it's the primary thing that conveniently "somehow" made it through all the "anti self promotion" gates (for strange unknown and untraceable reasons).

The fight against self promotion is very toxic and has an agenda of it's own in my opinion.
That's unfortunate but not unexpected. Europeans consider white americans / african americans / latino americans to be just "americans". There's no distinction.
Flip side. Americans could see (near-fully automated) manufacturing return as china is no longer cheaper.
Constructive intent is what the ATF claims (and wins in court).
That's quite true. Also, one could argue that continuous probabilities in practice are discrete probabilities due to finite resolution--we just don't care to specify what the resolution is.
I was going to say this too. In my new team 4 out of 9 are European and its the highest proportion I've ever worked with.
I find this statement deeply ignorant of history. I am no defender of imperialism in general, however, Hitler started his conquest with the idea of a systematic genocide of anyone not of the master race. He started with Jews and polish and had plans to mass murder Slavs, and eventually all the mixed races of the world.

Britain’s empires (there were more then one) were usually accidental and commercial in nature. They were not founded with the goal of deliberate mass genocide and replacement by a pure race. They tended to be extraordinarily under staffed for their purpose.
It’s wild out here in California. $18 might get you an entire burrito if you’re lucky.
Engineers Think Like Investors, Not Builders
It's a bad argument, because validity of a critique is not predicated on critic's life choice. It's like arguing that you cannot critique a movie because you have never made one.
GeForce Now is incredible, but some publishers like Bethesda removed all their games from it. I dunno why. It's really sad, because the catalog started out huge and gets smaller every year.
Just lions mane? Throw in some Ayurveda and probiotics as well.

And CBD of course. With all that you’ll be immortal.
What worries me about AI tooling
Not quite a blog, but Obsidian Publish has been scratching the “easy publish” itch for me.

https://obsidian.md/publish
It may be just me, but most of the value of note-taking for me comes from the physical and mental acts of writing something down on paper, which etches a strong memory into my brain. If I write it, I'll remember it, even though I rarely refer to notes later.
This sounds nice, but without defining what “people like you” means, it’s meaningless. Is the criteria class, race, religion, consumer behavior, geographical location, educational background, work ethic, experience level, proficiency level with tools, or a multitude of other criteria? Furthermore, measurement of some of these criteria is difficult and in some cases illegal.

Ignoring the complexities in people and simply focusing on race and ethnicity is short-sighted and likely to do more harm than good.
I don't think it's ever fair to expect someone to do everything right, but if you want to pontificate on a specific issue, you should act in congruence with that.
There's also https://shadow.tech/ that lets you run Steam in the cloud (any game you own, not limited to a subset). It's a lot more of a PITA to use and keep updated than xCloud or GeForce Now, though.
I struggle with being lazy in all aspects of my life. I have ADHD and anxiety. Does anyone know of where I should start looking to lower my procrastination and laziness?

It doesn't feel like I'm lazy, because I also don't get things done that I WANT to do. I simply do not know why I don't get things done. I don't know if I'm lazy or paralyzed by fear. Trying new things is always hard for me
Very poorly. The 27MHz radio used here won't penetrate more than a meter or so. GPS doesn't work through more than some inches. But like most things, the lower the frequency and higher the amplitude the farther the penetration. Acoustic modems work better under realistic constraints, though with a few exceptions you need the line of communication to be rather vertical if you're talking very long distances (hundreds or thousands of meters) because the speed of sound in water varies by pressure/temperature/salinity so the signal path curves up back toward the surface (from Snell's law).
paid $24 for a medium with delivery in california so you can feel slightly better.
I actually don't know anything about these people's appearance aside from that they type. But I do know the content of their comments, and that is what I am referring to.
From the CNBC Article [1] they reference:

> “It’s a dry heat,” The Grand Canyon State saying goes. But it leads to some of the worst air quality in the nation, according to the American Lung Association. Maricopa County, home to Phoenix, endures 39 high ozone days per year. That puts more stress on an already poor health care system, short on hospital beds and staff. The state spends just $79 per person on public health, among the country’s lowest. Arizona offers stunning natural beauty and top-notch cultural and recreational attractions. But that comes at a stiff price in America’s worst state to live in.

I don't live in Arizona but IMO calling a state the "worst place to live" with your only metric being air quality and how much the state spends on healthcare doesn't hold much water. And regarding the weather that is completely subjective, some people will love the dry arid weather, some people wont, but making that an objective reason why a place is worse off is very dishonest IMO.

[1]: https://www.12news.com/article/life/worst-states-to-live-in-...
> Now what?

Read another book ;)
This is irresponsible reporting. The authors themselves have clarified that this is an _association_ study, whereas the above article claims that isolation is _causal_ to increased dementia risk.

From the authors:

> We agree with Dr. Kawada that no casual conclusion should be made in the present study, as it is an association study. We avoided using terms that imply causal inferences in the paper.
I love the survival crafting genre but am so dismayed that the best games have gone heavy into combat or thriller directions. And I've played most of them. There may be a way to set a peaceful mode but it is rarely if ever a fully fleshed out experience.
What good would dying do in this case? There will be no shortage of other publications that will fill in the gap and happily embrace invasive advertising. If an organization keeps the lights on with ad revenue and teaches its readers to protect themselves from trackers, they've done more good than if they never existed at all.
I wish, in Denver that’s $30 or more
Or a dog for that matter ;)
Short version: no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_use_policy#Fai...
> There arent really any down sides to being at the top of the capital hierarchy

Really? What about sacrificing family time?

For example: Elon Musk has 8 children. How much time do you think he spends with them, if any? Maybe being a father is simply not a priority to him, and that’s his choice. But it’s not his childrens choice, I can guarantee that, and those children will suffer for it.
The White House economists are certainly saying that
That's just how silly racism is. By the same token, Americans consider all Europeans to be "just Europeans". We don't distinguish if you're from Ireland or England, Greece or Macedonia, etc.
There’s an amusing short story about “tin pacifists”, The Toys of Peace.[1] The introduction claims that this is a “primitive instinct”; but I tend to agree more with the conclusion.

On a related note, a Tumblr post[2] that’s been making the rounds recently:

> “In a game with no consequences, why are you still playing the ‘Good’ side?”

> Because being mean makes me feel bad.

> Because my no-consequences power fantasy is being able to help everyone.

[1]: https://gutenberg.org/files/1477/1477-h/1477-h.htm#page3

[2]: https://deflare.tumblr.com/post/157885054221
Not the best example. The lack of quotes around file.scr is an extra-giant-huge hint that OPEN does some parsing, and therefore you should check the docs before using it in a definition (actually it is so very likely that it "won't work" in a definition that you won't even bother checking the docs).

Example aside, this type of word is usually used in a DSL-y way and with parsimony. Confusing uses are to be filed in the misuse/abuse category.
Error Handling Guidelines in C++
Cooperation, not violence, is the reason for civilization.
Granted, we (the English-only teammates) kind of had to trust that our point of view was being translated and represented properly, and it never really felt like it wasn't. It was mostly "Hey, let's take a moment in our native language to catch the whole team up with the conversation, and deliberate some points that are harder in English." and not so much "Let's secretly debate something and then present the decision to the US guys." Does that explain it better?
As a pure quantity representing a real-world value, probably not very often, but just as a series of bits or a more abstract quantity like a memory address, it will often go above 2^56. Many algorithms and binary file encodings use 64 bit integers so interfacing with them in Javascript is hard.
I never got to leverage TST, something about the UX bothers me. I have better flow with Tab Stash. Also TST suffers with my hoarding habits and the subtree features have bare naked UI.
>as if having a THIRTY TRILLION National Debt due to a pandemic

that's a bit misleading considering that the debt was already 23 trillion before the pandemic.
I consider it a good thing in this case.

Germany could try rationing its natural gas to ensure that everyone gets at least a minimum amount. Could that work?
I notice an odd thing when I want to procrastinate/am feeling overwhelmed: I tend to get tired and fall asleep. Which I guess means I'm not making progress but trying to will my brain to pay attention, so it takes a break.

Anyone have advice for this?
Oddly, I kind of like Pocket but I understand why you might choose not to use it.
I procrastinate a lot. But when I find an enjoyable, challenging task I go very fast and can’t seem to stop. I’ve just been honest at work about it and very consciously take tasks that seem exciting. It works well for me. Tbh I really procrastinate when I either don’t understand the reason for doing something or when I do and find it bs. So it always helps to spend some time trying to understand a task and subsequently to articulate why I think the task should either not exist or be addressed differently. Sometimes I can get away with not doing the boring thing.
uBlock Origin does exist on chrome btw https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
I don't see WASM is slower than vanilla JavaScript. I see that calling WASM from JavaScript has certain overhead.
I enjoyed Jeff Schmidt's book on this topic. Disciplined Minds: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/558867.Disciplined_Minds
a.k.a. reality distortion field
Maybe the strange centrist form of government that the US had from about 1935 to maybe 1995.
If it's hanging in userspace, then this will work, but so will a regular "kill -9". If it's in uninterruptible sleep, then neither this nor a regular "kill -9" will work.
what should it be compared against if not javascript?
Other academics can get bitter and envious, when one of them achieves success in publishing popular science. For an outsider, it can be difficult to tell the difference when criticism of popular science is based on bitterness and envy, and when it has solid base.
Gotcha, so it's the US equivalent of the European Döner Kebab.
We actually don’t, hence the vague language. As mentioned at the bottom, this incident really revealed some wholes in the insights we have. I think it’s also important to remember that Deploy is still in public beta, specifically because we are aware that it’s not perfect yet.
Thanks :) I put the code here - https://github.com/anfractuosity/cryptokeyring you can specify the image to encode along with a key should you wish. It makes use of freecad's python api.

And generates .dxf files which you can give to a laser cutting service. I tried to make sure the dots weren't too close to avoid issues with cutting.
Pretty much this.

Humans are not peaceful by nature. And when one group of humans want something another group of humans don’t want them to have, violence is the ultimate option to solving that conflict.

Thankfully many countries see the cost of solving conflict through violence and seek to avoid it, but it’s always there.
> We have a heating problem or an industry problem, but not an electricity problem — at least not generally throughout the country.

I don't even get that logic. The easy substitution for gas heating is electric heating (all you need is to plug a cheap portable electric heater in a power socket).

[edit] also it seems 12% of the german electricity is generated with gas. So more nuclear should directly translate in more gas available to some other use, shouldn't it?
This studied severely isolated people. If you're interacting with other humans at least once a month, you wouldn't qualify.

"Socially isolated as defined in this case is a person who lived alone, interacted with other people less frequently than once a month and engaged in social activities less frequently than once a week."
Maybe, but since its not 1715 any more, I’m going to focus on what makes sense currently.
It is indeed weird that a party calling itself "Green" is so much against the actual meaning of the word.
I can't help but think one of the most appealing aspects of Hitler would've been his ability to deliver passionate speeches.

For example, I have no idea what he's saying in this speech [1], but the tone at which he delivers it is undeniably quite mesmerising, especially when compared to the tone of, say, Joe Biden [2].

In a time where radio ruled, it's hard not to think he wouldn't stand out, irregardless of the content contained in his speeches.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ3N_2r6R-o

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c6R6nllpsc
It’s a grift. The execs are not incentivized to act in the best interests of the company they work for. So most of them try to optimize for their own gains.

For example, execs who are incentivized to “improve operational efficiency” can fire a bunch of people, make the others work longer and collect their bonuses. Eventually when the burnout hits, the morale drops and people leave, a different exec (and in a lot of cases the same one) will be tasked with “meeting growth targets”. They will hire more people, collect their checks and the grift goes on.
Funny, I had no problem reading it in FF. Of course, I run uMatrix, so my experience is probably better.

Also, the author in this case is a staff writer for the publication. The entire point of her being on staff is to write content for that site.
Neither of whom were outside of a single standard deviation from the norm in Europe at this time.

I find the GP argument less the convincing, but I believe that women haven’t been the face of genocide and war because of lack of opportunity - But all such are historical outliers - regardless of sex.
Firefox is the best browser in many respects. But even if it wasn’t. Even if it was missing extensions, used all my RAM and chewed my CPU, I would still choose it over Chrome. Because using a browser from the world’s biggest advertiser is wrong on principle. And using an ad blocker (I don’t use one) while using a browser made by an advertiser is next level cognitive dissonance.
If you're going to make a sweeping generalisation about a religion or ethnicity that "Brits" (whatever that means) have a weird negative fixation on, it would be Muslims not Jews. There's an ongoing moral panic kicked off by September 11 (and inflamed further by the Tube bombings) that gets eyeballs on news stories and ballots in boxes. It's stupid, it's hateful and I've never been into it but it's something that's in the public conscience and (through "Prevent") in law too.

Probably the worst thing you could say about the overwhelming majority of the population's views on Judaism or Jews is that they're ignorant of it. I was completely unaware of the negative stereotypes some people have of Jewish people (or even things like - which names were more Jewish than others) until I was on the internet and came into regular contact with Americans who were aware of it. My views until then were roughly "Judaism is sorta like Christianity but older, and Hannukah occurs around christmas time and involves candles". After that I thought the same, but also "and Americans don't really like Jews". Obviously that's not correct, but I wanted to share the experience of one of the "Brits" you're casually dismissing as anti-semitic.
IMO the main selling point of WASM is its predictable performance.

It's not a secret that you can write JS which will be JIT-ed into an extremely efficient machine code. But it's a "secret" - how to write that JS. You would need seriously advanced hackers who can study V8 assembly output and correlate it with used JS features. And do it all the time, when someone changes that code. Or may be even unrelated code changes will change the way V8 compiles that particular code snippet. JS compilation is black magic.

On the other hand, writing C is boring and solved problem. Compiling C to wasm works. It's predictably fast. You can use it for performance-critical code and it'll probably work without any adventures to V8 internals.
Here we go from my notes:
MicroAcquire (favorite of mine), Flippa (favorite of mine), Empire Flippers, Motion invest, Investors.club, BuySellEmpire, Quiet Light Brokerage...
Growing up in car-dependent suburbs is not conducive to a healthy, balanced, independent childhood. You’re right that many parents raise their kids in car-dependent suburbs, at least in North America, which just means that this is a very large problem affecting a lot of people.
I watch a lot of content at 1.5-2X speed
Reddit is so overrun by mediocre content and reposts on burner accounts because of "anti self promotion" policies.

The real ugly truth is most of the people behind posts making it to the front page are sub mods, spammers, and wealthy individuals that pay regularly for ad promotion... Old reddit was simply better because the community was much smaller, and open to artists and creators posting their own work.

When a platforms grow too big spam and other issues are inevitable, corruption is bound to happen. Instead of fighting posts from people who actually create content, the move should be towards fostering content classification and displaying and moderating content fairly and equally.
In the past most Macs sold were Macbook Airs or other Macs which only had integrated Intel graphics. These made Macs a less attractive market to develop games for as the games run poorly on them.

Now with the way more powerful graphics by default on the M1 chips, I expect way more games to come out in the future supporting Macs. Like how No Man's Sky is coming out for Mac in the fall. Also the unified memory on Apple Silicon will help a lot in game performance when the games are optimised to use it.
Nobody's personal inflation will match anyone elses - if you drive 500 miles a week your inflation will be fair higher than if you ride a bike a couple of weeks.

"Substitution Bias" will change your personal basket and your weights, but it's reflection of real inflation.

The problem isn't CPI being too high. Or too low. It's that people don't understand what it's saying, or they argue with the weight of the baskets.

(EDIT: And of course even the inflation in a very specific good - like 1 pound of uncoocked prime grade beef, will itself vary depending on geographic location, doesn't mean the average is right or wrong, when they tried to find the average person in the US military they couldn't find him - not a single person met the average once you factored in just half a dozen measurements. It doesn't mean averages are meaningless though)