skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s even a bit simpler than that.

The, admittedly reductive, viewpoint I take: people who presumably “have it all” because they gained financial freedom are often depressed because they’ve earned a freedom that others told them they wanted.

Many of us are “pipelined”. The course of our lives is not determined by some conscious self-realization, but rather follows a prescribed track. I think (at least American) schooling is largely a failure because it does not teach self reflection. We fail students by failing to even introduce most of them to philosophical thinking. Instead, our schools are focused on teaching the skills required to produce laborers that will ultimately buoy up the economic system.

But the reality is, most people don’t want to be laborers, so when everything is framed like this we equate freedom with freedom from labor. But that isn’t the form of freedom most people really want. People want a more radical freedom grounded in self-fulfillment. All the FIRE folks chase freedom from labor but never spend any time doing philosophical reflection, thus they never realize how they actually want to self-define and shape their lives, thus they face ennui and depression once their grand battle for freedom from labor ends.

In other words, Sartre and De Beauvoir had much to teach us.
Sheesh, "web5"? I guess we blew right past web4.

Normally i try to avoid low quality complaint comments like the one i am making, but blockchain naming is frustrating.
FWIW, I read their quoting of C.S. Lewis as supporting precisely the viewpoint C.S. Lewis was intending — and the very same as you make a case for throughout this thread. Though I’ll admit I could be wrong.

However, applying Occam’s razor: GP merely quoted C.S. Lewis, so it would seem to me that the simplest (and most charitable) interpretation is that they understood the quote and we’re not using it in any ironic/sarcastic way.

I find your reaction/response to GP a little confusing, but as best as I can tell: are you thinking they were using the quote in an intentionally ironic way as a means of making a jab at C.S. Lewis’ character/beliefs?

This whole thread has been really confusing, so I’d love to understand where the (apparent) disconnect is between both parties :).
I prefer the traditional approach. Golang + fly.io is what I use way easier to deploy anywhere you want and closer to your users.
> I refuse to believe that anyone at the Times set out to tell lies. It seems more likely that they instinctively believed, on some gut level, that the GPR data signalled the existence of child murder victims. They treated it as a revealed moral truth, and so imagined themselves duty bound to use their Times platform to spread the story globally, advocate for Indigenous rights, and educate Canadians about a dark historical legacy. Numerous other journalists did exactly the same thing, and, in so doing, got swept up by the collective fervour.

This.
We are biological devices whose purpose in life is to replicate, as driven by our selfish genes. Happiness is just one metaphenomena that evolution opportunistically takes advantage of in order to achieve this purpose. It is a "purpose" in the narrow sense that algorithms that do not achieve it are removed from the population.

Over the course of a life, human happiness is primarily dependent on fulfilling the purpose as a replicator, genetically and memetically. We are sculpted in detail by being descended from billions of generations of successful replicators. There is much temporary, but little long term happiness in ignoring those forces.

Having a family, writing a book, creating a piece of art, or a functional invention, or a community. These are means of replication, to be optimized if you wish to increase happiness as a side effect.
> tl;dr: in my experience, anxiety is unlikely to be a driver of achievement, and therefore unlikely to be a cause of productive ambition.

Agreed - the article reminds me a lot of the internet discourse around autism. That community is often dominated by successful, high functioning people with Asperger's/ASD who portray the condition as a fun, often beneficial personality quirk.

This crowds out the voices of people who are less functional, and their caregivers. Classic instance of survivorship bias.
It's a little bit tongue and cheek. (Read the post.)
Well there is a point to be made that if you don't stack rows without any spacing the user might actually be able to look left and right at different columns without losing sight which line they were even looking at.

Can be partially solved by having alternating colour rows (and frankly it should've been a thing here), but ultimately this is far easier to read then your average excel sheet, at least to me.

And frankly if you're displaying more than 8 rows, you need to add a damn scrollbar and search box, ain't nobody reading all of that. Humans can generally only focus on like 5 things at a time max anyway.
Seems my info came from the massive Facebook breach last year
C++ Asynchronous Framework
Crystallography database flags nearly 1000 structures linked to a paper mill
The problem is that the equation “money == happiness” lacks a proof.
Light interacting with particles in the air, https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19910009744/downloads/19...

> A laser anemometer measures fluid velocity indirectly by
determining the speed of particles moving through the flow
field. These particles, which may be occurring naturally or
introduced artificially into the flow, must be sufficiently small so that they follow the flow closely. If this is the case, then the fluid velocity can be equated to the measured particle velocity.
I agree that there are multiple roles here (making EVs for the market that exists vs. shaping the market for the EVs you make or want to make)

That said, I don't really mean products that don't make sense to the market as it exists--I mean that all good ideas are not necessarily products. There are good ideas that don't fit the logic of the market (regardless of what it thinks it is a good idea at the moment).
> all just 'me too' products levelling the ego system

Apple created what was pretty much the first real platform for selling music online with iTunes. You could call Apple Music a “me too” move, but they really pivoted an existing business that had been threatened with disruption.
Considering I fired a problematic but very profitable client last month, yes I do optmize for happiness. Altough less than I should.
Migrating Airtable to MySQL 8.0
I mean, it's not really like he started from scratch. He had to redevelop muscle memory, sure, but much of guitar playing is knowing what will sound good and that doesn't go away even if you lose the whole arm...
Wow, this was a puff piece
The story is about Canada, the phenomenon is applicable to society at large. Please familiarize yourself with how adults comment and have conversations before replying to others.
Show HN: P2PCF – Low cost, low effort WebRTC signalling using Cloudflare workers
So you probably ought to listen to some degree? 8 years ago investing in ethereum was a very good idea and it definitely shook up the world to some extent.

Of course people exaggerate but it's important to see the trends and get an understanding of what people are feeling as a whole.

In this case, for all their complaining, people are kind of right. The web is becoming unnecessarily complex for the kinds of applications most of us interact with and there are solutions coming out there that address these pains: see HTMLx or phoenix liveview.
If gov does identity and personal data is sensitive it might as well offer social connectivity?
> Things like GPS and the internet would’ve been deployed much faster by a private corporation but then they would be dumb monopolies as opposed to the public good they are now.

1) at least in the USA, access to the internet is not a public good, it is provided by an oligopoly (and in many circumstances a functional monopoly, where service at a given address is only available from a single ISP)

2) why do you believe that either GPS or the internet would have been deployed faster by a private corporation?
Just allocate then deallocate manually, use neither auto methods.
> I've started describing certain types of traumatic events as 'origin stories' for heroes or villains

This reminds me of a certain segment from "This American Life".

Tragedy Minus Time Equals Happily Ever After

Ron Mallett was ten years old when his father died unexpectedly of a heart attack. A year later, after picking up a comic book based on H.G. Wells' book The Time Machine, Ron concocted perhaps the world's most complicated plan to try to see his dad again. A half-century later, Dr. Ronald Mallett wrote a book about his plan, called "Time Traveler".

From the blurb on "Time Traveler": This is the dramatic and inspirational first-person story of theoretical physicist, Dr. Ronald Mallett, who recently discovered the basic equations for a working time machine that he believes can be used as a transport vehicle to the past.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/324/my-brilliant-plan
It may make web scraping even more difficult, or anonymity online more broadly.
what if you encode your files as photos?
>Because I've actually benchmarked it: https://quick-bench.com/q/ISEetAHOohv-GaEuYR-7MajJgTc
18.5 nanoseconds fits under no reasonable definition of "crazy expensive", not when a regular increment clocks in at 5.9 nanoseconds. And there is extremely few situations where you increment a reference count more than, like, 5 times. It's just not an issue.

Congratulations. You tested a construct meant for multicore/threading
in a single threaded benchmark and then marvel at the low overhead.

Of course you will only start seeing the cost if there is actually contention to operate on the value between multiple threads running simultaniously.
See.: https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/07/06/concurrency-co...
> P&L research

What’s P&L?

> Java's verbose semantics

Does Java have verbose semantics? I think Java’s semantics are pretty neat and concise. Where’s the verbosity?
Joni Mitchell's music is precious to me. There is something about her lyrics--poetic but folksy--that is so disarming and enchanting. Her songs always catch you off-guard. A friend introduced me to her album "Hejira" years ago, and it's given me so much comfort in dark times, and so much joy in light times. She's a once-in-a-generation kind of artist, just consistently brilliant.

Some entrypoints, if I may (and please reply with your favorites):

- Refuge of the roads - Hejira

- Blue motel room - Hejira

- You turn me on, I'm a radio - For the roses

- Edith and the kingpin - The hissing of summer lawns
I would argue that kind of personality is due to the opposite of nature. It was a rewarded behavior that has been nurtured over time to become weaponized, from a certain perspective. Having insecurities is to be human, but anxiety and discomfort has to come from a willingness to endure them. The society around your close friend has rewarded this analytical behavior and so they leaned into it rather than becoming avoidant. My personal belief is that it comes from a place of accepting the behavior objectively and without judgement or negativity. If you spend so much time and energy on just analyzing yourself, you don't have as much room for others and this reflects as a sort of narcissism. But that doesn't actually reflect how much they care about others. Humans have to self regulate their bandwidth for how much external things will affect them. I don't know if it's behavior to be actively avoided, because from their perspective, it's something they feel the opposite of indifferent to. Making decisions from a place of having mapped out most, if not all, possibilities leads to more positive outcomes in the long term. I understand that not everyone will want to spend that kind of energy to guarantee that kind of security in their decisions. Not everyone feels they need that kind of security before making decisions.
Just accept that the world is moving as/to a much faster iterations. Nowadays most companies are trying to be as efficient as they can (JIT model, etc), leaving less room to relax (Amazon of course).

In software sector, current ci/cd makes deployment and releases very fast and more often, as opposed to monthly/quarterly patches in the past. Newer technologies makes development faster and more efficient.

There are more contents being published than humanity can consume at a time. Messages are instant and distance is almost meaningless in face of internet. At the same time media providers are researching the best way to increase engagement.
Good link on current geothermal: https://austinvernon.site/blog/geothermalnextsteps.html
That’s fair. I ended up sort of skimming through it the first time reading the parts I could connect with and then picked up more of the detail (and the end notes) on later re-readings. For The Pale King, I was able to read it in depth from the jump. But that may also be because I was more mature and had read DFW before…
We put 2 options up - them or My Data Removal. Elsewhere online people seem to have an overall good experience with Privacy Bee. I do not think they are a scam or fake company no.

My Data Removal is cheaper so might be more worth it
> The Web3 approach of having to trust nobody is not really practical to begin with. Blockchains are slow and expensive.

I generally agree, for almost all uses blockchains are pretty bad.

But it has, so far, been an eventually consistent global write-only data store where reads have 100% uptime. I don't want a service layer on blockchain, don't want to be using the blockchain to transact, but if there's some small modicum of write-once globally-read-many datum (such as oh say, a cryptographic token I can use to sign things to prove my identity) where blockchain actually seems like a good match. The slow and expensive isn't a problem, if all I'm doing is proving an identity I made a long time ago.

I'm not super worried about people verifying me using a bad blockchain. These systems should be self-verifying & diverging for too long should trip systems.
Yup, this individual is epochally awesome, and he still lets us try and correct him.

So humble, so calm, so happy.
Oh wow. That's actually how I imagine hell, being stuck in my childhood.

I forget other people had healthy families until I read something like this!
This is exactly how 3rd party apps and clients will be locked out of the services they depend on. In a world where AR and "metaverse" platforms take off, this will ensure that they're accessed only from approved clients.

This is also how OS, app distributors and platforms will ensure that they get their 30%+ cut of all revenue generated using their products, as well.

Similarly, this is how OS providers will ensure that apps built for their platforms can't run on other operating systems. You already can't run SafetyNet-enabled Android apps on other platforms despite Android support existing on Android and Linux.
My take is most people write code in a write optimized manner. Foo_to_Bar is much friendlier for the writer as auto-complete will come up with all the Foo_to_Xs you can use, whereas the Bar_from_Foo format requires the writer to know that they want to use Bar up front.
Uber wouldn't exist without Government™ built roads as well.

It is an expectation that we get good services based the taxes we pay.
Ferry service is expensive infrastructure. Who would pay?
Not sure but GDP really is not an end-all be-all indicator that we should be using.

I think Piketty makes a good argument against GDP if you're keen on learning more about the topic.
In theory it is a great concept. "lets put all the configuration in one place" in reality it ends up being super annoying, It is hard to say why, but after a bit of thought I think my main objection to the registry is that it is yet another tree but this one is out of band. windows is already bad about this, what with the drive letters, and the way the shell(explorer) tries to present it's own magical imaginary view of the filesystem. the registry just takes that and dials it to 11, now you have a special tree, that needs it's own specific tools to use.

I think one of the key innovations of unix was the unix filesystem and the way it made everything one tree, one unified interface for everything is an amazing concept, In fact I think that the real innovation of unix was it's simplicity. now later this was messed up (yeah berkeley, I am putting most of the blame for that on you) with sockets, sysctl, etc. Or in short every unix interface that ignores the one true API, the filesystem(which is for the most part open, read write, seek, close)

In conclusion, whenever I see a tree but whoever made it decided that no, we are a special snowflake, and are not going to attach this tree to the main tree of data on your system(the filesystem) it bugs me. The rogues gallery here include gnome config, sysctl, dbus, and yes the windows registry.
Living in bad faith. But is not just them, the whole corpus of philosophy should be studied.
> I wish articles such as this one were more common:

> https://alexcabal.com/posts/standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-...

> This is the web I want and love.

Worth noting that according to their article, Standard EBooks does not use javascript on their page. This might work for them, and it might work for you, but in many cases users want SPAs and interactivity (Google Maps, Google Docs, etc)
Infinite Jest reads like See Spot Run compared to Gravity’s Rainbow.
As I said 48 days ago when this last came up on YC, the classic "Why your idea for stopping spam sucks" list applies.[1] Go re-read that and you'll see the same identity problems and proposed solutions.

If people can create and abandon identities cheaply. they will use those identities for annoyance or fraud. Hence spam, robocalls, etc. This is also why the "federated" social networks are not too useful.

On the other hand, publicly visible identities that are very strongly tied to a person or physical place lead to strong tracking and the abuses associated with that.

So, explain how "Web5" avoids those problems.

[1] https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
> we equate freedom with freedom from labor.

Negative freedoms are half a deal. All the old philosophers have a lot
to teach us. We just don't have time to pay attention to them now.

Maybe Nietzsche said it well:

"Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that"

What did he mean?

> So if we aren't optimizing happiness, why not?

Because "happiness" isn't a thing. It's an idea we have about a thing
that most of us are not courageous enough to name, let alone take for
ourselves.
Now you've pushed the job of cleaning up page tables to the OS.
All the security checks in the world won’t protect a user determined to silence them.

And that is IMHO a good thing. The alternative is a world where no one has any freedom.
> > If it is denser, it would squash the protective magnetic bubble of the heliosphere, potentially exposing the Solar System to a barrage of cosmic rays.

That seems highly exaggerated. The Wikipedia article you mentioned is more sober:

> The Local Interstellar Cloud's potential effects on Earth are greatly diminished by the solar wind and the Sun's magnetic field.

A change in the density of the near interstellar medium would shift the heliopause, but it would require a massive increase in density to move it from where the Voyager probes are now to somewhere close to the inner solar system where it could have a noticeable impact.
> what we really hated was Java's verbose semantics

I believe it's actually the opposite - Java has pretty simple, compact and well defined semantics. Too simple and compact for confort - a little syntatic sugar would have made the language a lot less verbose.
Alt to php at that point in time was usually Perl.

Don’t think Facebook would have succeeded with Perl.
Tolkien may have said that, but it is difficult to find much convincing similarity between his world and Christianity - even less so between the LotR trilogy specifically and Christianity. Most of the the Wikipedia article is a real reach. Some of it would even be contradictory: for instance if Varda corresponds to the Virgin Mary, she would co-exist with Mary in the present age as a separate entity. Surely Elbereth is exactly what she is presented as: a female Vala, wedded to Manwë since before the creation of Arda.

And what are the Valar? In the mythos, they are sub-creators. In Christianity God alone is the creator: angels have no part in creation.

The article draws similarity between the resurrection of Jesus and of Gandalf: but in Christianity, Jesus is literally one of the three persons of God, while Gandalf is a Maia, one of the lesser Ainur.

There are a lot of parallels drawn in that article, and I will not go through every one, but as far as I can see they are all contrived. The closest parallel is that of the rebellion of Morgoth - but there is no real equivalent of Sauron in Christianity.

It is also worth thinking about one thing that is missing. The fall of Adam would have taken place long before most of the sections of the Silmarillion, and yet there is no hint of this foundational event.
This is pretty neat! Is there a way to have arbitrary input for the number of cycles and actually emit the answer? It looks like the answer is being read in software from a register, if I understand the .vcd output correctly.
It is interesting to see a GitHub employee (team) working on Android vulnerability. Is it Google's Project Zero-like pure research?

His writing is interesting anyways. Until I read this one [1] I didn't even know Snapdragon NPU has an open source driver. It's scary to see such a complex logic like NN graph execution running in the kernel space.

* [1] https://securitylab.github.com/research/qualcomm_npu/
That's because the article is about doing binary edits to to the registry files themselves, something no application or user should ever do. Instead changes should be done through the API or the regedit program.
Honestly I'm half expecting the US government to offer an identity service at some point. I know it would probably be challenged on constitutional grounds but it would finally be a somewhat authoritative way to cut down on fake accounts.
I think they're referring to how AMD threw everything out and started from scratch on their Zen CPU architecture in 2012 (when their stock was near rock bottom)
Malware is definitely possible in various ways, but my understanding is the permission system is still robust. Unless you have given an app a particular permission, with a UI controlled by the operating system, it is unable to use operating system capabilities that are protected by that permission.

For example, the OS can enforce that an app can't use the camera without the user clicking "allow" on an OS-managed pop-up.
How is this insightful?

You need only to believe that

- lies spread faster than truth

and

- repetition legitimizes, repetition legitimizes, repetition legitimizes

to conclude that technologies that increase the velocity of communication have an inheirant destabiling effect on society, that is until cultural institutions coagulate around the chaos it brings.

One needs to simply be familiar with the effects the printing press played in the reformation and the political reshuffling that coincided with it. It's easy to draw even simple parallels then and now of apocalypticism and millerianism.
Edit: I said it wrong in the initial post the FBI visited for a different reason.

They thought I had 'hacked in'. My landlady at the time worked as a secretary at the FBI and misunderstood or did not know the data could be purchased legally through a third party, after I told her what I was doing at a dinner at their house which they invited me to.

I was extremely hung over when they came, I was 25, and did not at all believe they were agents I slammed the door on them (one of them had converse sneakers with their suits though). They slowly convinced me they were in fact legit, I showed them all the paperwork, and shut the site down due to caution. Gave me a good story to tell, ~2005.