skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I think it did change. It also changed for the better, of course, with all the newer technologies we now have - but these would have happened regardless - they are not a byproduct of the monetary system.

However: what we are eating, for example, is of much worse quality. Products that we use every day are of inferior quality (although some are more technologically advanced). While you could argue that more advanced products are inherently less reliable, for having more "moving parts", the decline in quality happened for all products and services, not just for the complex ones. The quality of what we consume intellectually has also decreased: what passes as "art" today can only be called so because it absorbed "easy money", but it is far from what was being produced not long ago. Western classical music, for example, clearly started declining around the time purchasing power started declining. The avant-garde of Stravinsky and his contemporaries was still innovative, intellectually stimulating, and beautiful compared to the "avant-garde" of John Cage and other such imposters. Same happened in painting, same happened in architecture...
>As a consumer, you want everything to be a commodity

True. But I'm also guessing that in 5 years I'll be more frustrated at the level of control they're exercising with thing they're currently building next to it. More so than I am with the market they're commoditising today.
A bar I frequented had books on every shelf on every wall. When visiting I usually wouldn't touch them, but once in awhile after a beverage I'd grab a random one and peek inside.

One I opened had on the inside cover someone's full name and social security number.

I brought it up to the bartender so they could rip out that page and throw it away.

Was there a time when putting your SSN inside a book was common?
Cash is always interesting. Cash in a logic book too, that seems like clean money!

One time in Japan there was a car sitting in front of my apartment for months, nobody used it, nobody touched it. It seemed abandoned. It definitely looked out of place due to its age as well, though it was in good shape.

Eventually me and the pals got amused, and annoyed, and started to do funny stuff you'd only do if amused and annoyed by an abandoned car. Like, trying the doors on one restless day while you wait for the yakimo hours to arrive.

Unlocked!

A bunch of sports gear, cassettes.

Hatchback?

Sports gear...uh...sexy times stuff...and uh...a purse.

A peek in the purse. My first time seeing thick bundles of cash, basically $100s! Stacks of 'em!

I watched enough movies to know that loose $100s, found loosely, may be OK to take, or even just to ask somebody about.

But bundles, in a purse, in an abandoned car, in a neighborhood where we had heard some organized crime rumors...nope.

Creepy af though. We wondered if she had run away, disappeared, what.
Who is "they"?

You dismiss the "strongtowns" argument as if there is some consensus that it has been debunked, but I don't think there is such a consensus, so you'd need to support that claim.

Further, the worst case is not that property taxes increase, it is that other people, usually less fortunate, end up subsidizing them further through federal, state, and county funds, rather than their own local taxes.
The cert is usually the public key. The private key is usually named key. So it doesn't promote secrets being saved within a container as far as I can see.
>Either government or people buy the same food, either there is enough food or isn't.

That you can't even imagine a government owned integrated vertical food system not run for profit is extremely sad, but completely expected given that you speak English.
Agreed - but by the same token, I don’t think you would call any of that reading “productivity-related,” right?

Whereas if I, a software engineer, read 100 articles about micro services and make a bunch of grand plans without ever actually implementing anything… pornography.
> At work in the secure area when locking up I found a 10 inside the door. I didn't know what to do with it so I tacked it on the bulletin board by the door. Really obvious. Nobody took it for 2 weeks (which is kind of remarkable), so I took it back to buy lunch.

When I've worked in secure areas, I've never had the slightest concern about theft. We even did an experiment where we left a couple $1 bills out on the table in the coffee area for a week... anybody could have picked them up, especially the security guards and janitors who roamed the building at night with nobody else around, but they just stayed there.

Working in that sort of high-trust environment is really, really nice.
The concept of super-normal stimuli, or more specifically, the avoidance thereof, has guided a lot of my parenting decisions. I know I won’t keep him away from all of that forever, but I want to make as much space as possible these early years for his little mind and attention span to develop.
Flat pack sheds out of plastic exist and aren't too expensive. I don't see how you're going to get cheaper by 3d printing vs molded plastic. Simple structures don't need a whole lot of finesse and can be built from wood parts cheaply (subject to wood costs, of course) too. Prefab sheds and small barns are available at most home stores too. Most of the labor for a house comes from finish work which 3d printing doesn't cover anyway; it's a boondoggle for the most part.
2 Years later I still have trouble watching this one, hits too close to home for an old job I had.
Right Go binaries would be able to go with "scratch" imagine which only contain the kernel.
Now if only there weren't a huge shortage of Raspberry Pis.
> All Windows do in that case is to send the cursor image to the GPU and set the registers that specify the plane (cursor) position whenever the mouse moves - no drawing takes place.

On the contrary. The modern GPU has so many buffers that its constantly recalculating every pixel with custom code pixel shaders (transparency and everything) every frame, maybe 60 FPS or faster.

Yeah, the CPU doesn't do any of that bit-blit stuff anymore. But the GPU does that constantly every frame, over-and-over again to compose modern windows. VRAM is 500GBps for a reason on modern GPUs.

In either case, "blanking" the screen and redrawing it is a fundamentally fast operation 30 years ago, let alone today. Today's computers are so much faster that there are layers of custom-programmable parts running on 2 different processors (CPU passing data to GPU over PCIe) every frame.

4GB+ VRAM buffers on the GPU allows the GPU to save off some work of course, but there's an incredible amount of calculations that occur on every pixel of every frame 60 times a second today.

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In any case, a pure-text, maybe ASCII (or Unicode) window shouldn't be having these issues.
Frisch–Peierls Memorandum
that's a great story. before the internet there were no easy ways to find others who were into computers. as far as i can remember i was the only one in my school who would hang out in the schools computer room after classes. i am pretty sure there were other kids in other schools that were interested in computers, but i had no way of finding them. meeting someone like that would have been great.
In my "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" (the dragon book).

A few National security Agency Post-Its with notes.
Let me clarify that I do not have all these issues. I am doing well for myself. This is partially because of my own cynicism, partially because of good mentors, and partially because of plain luck.

However, not everyone has that luxury. The list I gave is a list of problems I personally witnessed friends/colleagues go through. I also have worked a fair bit of industry, so I know that these patterns are not normal or in any way acceptable.

And yes, with clever strategizing you can find your way around being exploited. However, my point is that this should not be normal. Contractual working conditions would at least give you baseline protection.

And of course, there are always worse conditions to be in in the US (except maybe the students whose immigration status depends on the whim of their advisor) but we should hold universities to higher standards than that.

>Plus the CS students have the opportunity to work over the Summer and make the "big bucks." Altogether you should be making $60K-$70K per year, which isn't a lot as far as CS grads go, but it's considerably better than subsistence living. That's the equivalent of making $30-$45 per hour which is a wage most Americans would find damn good, and can only dream about earning that kind of money.

Just want to point out that this depends. For example, if you are an F1 student you will have to get your internship approved. This can be a lengthy, uncertain process. Some departments/advisors also expect you to not do internships at all as they prefer you to do research instead. Now 60k is also not guaranteed. In NYC universities for example, a full year of funding will net you a ~40k salary before taxes, iff you manage to acquire funding over the summer. Students are thrifty and typically find a way to finance themselves (e.g., move home, find other sources of income), but again, this should not be normal.
I've hacked together my own replacement, as a mini project on my blog:

https://arthurdick.com/blog/timer/
This looks great. I was just getting back into Clojure with some spare time while on my beach vacation, and I have to say... Lein was much more n00b friendly than deps.edn. Neil looks like just the thing I wanted.

Also, Borkdude is a beast. He's the Shakespeare of Clojure in that five hundred years from now it will be common knowledge that "of course, he was actually a team of people". Or possibly the common knowledge will be "he was the first sentient AI". I'm not sure.
Solana Crypto Hack
I think the idea is that gbt's are trained sequentially on the "residuals" left from the previous tree, while rf's are uncorrelated (can be trained in parallel, don't depend on one another). This means that in rf's there's no "compounding" effect that can lead to overfitting. The main way to overfit rf's would be to train many large trees.
I love this :D
Nothing is "directly measurable". Everything in science is a story that we make up to explain our personal experience, including "measurement" and "observation".
Every calculation returns 666DEAD
I've built numerous systems that could be called "beta programs" - and the goal of none of them was security related - but rather product feedback related.
Do you lose money up to every other second?

Wealth is not income until you realize the gains.

If your car goes up in value you can't sell 1/100th of it to cover the your tax obligations.
Can somebody ELI5 this to me? Wbo will that help? And how? 180nm seems big, at least for computer CPUs.
Good initiative.
I hope the author is right, and a social evolution toward more open networks would necessarily be the culmination of many factors, but I'm optimistically skeptical. TikTok is like a drug, it is an algorithm that unabashedly and almost directly induces an emotional state. It is similar to amphetamine, opioids, slot machines in that it distils almost to purity the traits needed to solely perform this function. These other addictive things have been around a long time. There's no reason to expect tiktok (or the concept of algorithm interfacing with human to produce chemical happiness) to go away.

That said, I hope so. I hope that these other empty social bahemoths chase tiktok to irrelevance, I hope the population gets burned out on the empty calories, but history tells us that this won't happen really. Some people, enough to keep it all going, just can't stop no matter how miserable it makes them.
Agreed, the trick is finding the balance. Personally still figuring how to do that.
The key 737 Max decisions were made circa 2011-2013, while James McNerney was the CEO (2005-2015). That was when the design objective of no simulator training required was set for the plane (and Boeing released marketing information promising that) while also promising to do it with engines that were too big for the wings. That decision was what led to everything else, and was loudly announced and marketed while Muilenburg was over on the Integrated Defense side of the company.

James McNerney was a Harvard MBA who spent time at McKinsey before going to the Jack Welch clown show at GE, where he ran the aircraft engine business for a long time. When he lost out to Immelt to be CEO there, he went to 3M for a few years then bounced to Boeing.

Now, Muilenburg has to bear the mistakes he made: pushing an unsafe plane through certification, not listening to the right people, not investigating the Lion Air crash sufficiently, etc. But the evidence I think strongly shows that someone who was not an engineer was making the final decisions on the "bet the company for the next 10 years" choice to go forward with the 737Max rather than a clean-sheet design, back in 2011.
Really interesting.

Here is a better article that provides more description of the nature of the debris.

https://www.space.com/spacex-debris-fall-australia-crew-1-dr...
It's amazing that Energy is such a major issue for our civilization, yet we ignore that we are sitting on top of many millions of gallons of lava
One place besides that you could ask is wilmott.com. Jane Street is famous for using OCaml.
You are under no obligation to be who you were 15 minutes ago. I assume "startup guy" was a big part of your identity, and now that is changing, and that's painful. Don't spend a lot of energy trying to reconcile your new identity with your old one; it's wasted energy doing work no one else cares about.

Your new identity doesn't have to be "failed startup guy." It can be something completely different. Maybe it is "I work my day job to make money but my passion is urban windsurfing" guy. We'll see.
>Anyone that advocates for increasing democracy generally

I find this take fascinating. In my model, increasing democracy correlates negatively with increasing long term planning, which only then wouldn’t be the case if our species was acting as a collective. Aggregating individual interests doesn’t magically lead to collective interests, just to the set of actions that map on individual demand. There are no real majorities in favor of the rather radical changes required to deal with the major problems of our time, the opposite is the case. People are willing to sacrifice the stability of the future in favor of their well being in the current legislative period, especially in countries with demographics skewed towards the elderly.

Democracy is not the solution unless a culture of sanity becomes prevalent, and that’s not on the horizon afaik.

Borrowing from a german idiom, the current model is “Eltern haften für ihre Kinder”, parents are liable for their children. What we need is the cultural change in the opposite direction, that being a heavy awareness of the fact that children are de facto liable for the actions of their parents.
Self control is a fantastic way to quit cigarettes, alcohol, and other addictions, why would food be any different?
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I think those are some excellent points, and after plenty of experience with webhook-based integrations, I agree that they are definitely a pain.

While I largely agree with you, I'm hesitant to say that it is always preferable to use an /events endpoint. There are two reasons:

1. This requires the client to essentially implement an event-sourced architecture. There are many advantages to such architectures, but they are more complicated and can be tricky to implement.

2. It's important to consider the direction of coupling in systems, and how that affects you're ability to evolve the architecture of the whole system.

3. Polling is generally going to involve a higher amount of network traffic, and will have to be weighed against the latency requirements for processing an event.
You say you were disheartened.

I bought and read Robert Kiyosaki - Rich Dad Poor Dad followed with Donald Trump - The Art of the Deal.

After reading these I felt worse than at the time I was actually mugged on the street. I think I paid like $20 for both books and muggers got something like $15 I had on me.
with good pipeline and knowledge about your app you should be able to ensure it works without much of a problem
What if you have a physical product (I sell collectible dolls)mostly on eBay where they won’t let you exchange email addresses? I have the physical addresses that I shipped to but don’t know how to get them signed up. I have a page on the website to sign up but they don’t go there. Any ideas on how to build a list to send a newsletter to? Thanks!!
That's a really neat idea, since most of the time people already know what they want to generate. I'd have to think a little more about how I'd get the training data for that. LMK if you have any ideas.
We just need a machine that will drill down to the magma, simply install heat transfer rods, and we install a steam turbine above it. Do this everywhere we have a coal / gas power plant
I also bounced off multiple times but have now been happily using it for 2 years. I really reccomend trying Doom Emacs and learning the default VIM modal editing. Doom comes with sane defaults and very simple configuration presets for every language out of the box. Learning modal editing pays off quickly.

https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs
Agreed, but it doesn't really explain it in any real sense.
You can pry my JWT token out of my cold, dead hands- but you can never take my PIN number!
I want a mac nano in AppleTV form factor for about the same price.
"Real money" -- which I think we're using as a substitute phrase for "fiat money" -- is just any representation of a promise of reciprocation. If I give you $10 for a necklace, what that really means is "you give me the necklace, and I promise someone will eventually complete the barter by giving you something that we all agree has about the same value as the necklace." The money itself is just a representation that we can be somewhat confident this unknown future person (maybe even me!) will understand to be a valuation and agree to complete the trade. Financial economics is really just passing on a promise from one person to another in a chain.

"Creating money" is just "making more promises"; inflation is just the result of so many promises being made that people have less confidence in the next promise made.

In terms of crypto, it's basically just a matter of an apparent inability of people to agree on the value of each unit of promise. I.E. "if I give you one bitcoin for a car, how much do you believe someone else will give you a car's worth later to complete the barter?"
Shell Scriptable Native APIs
This kind of remark is a reinforcement of the idea that "it's not ok to cry", rather than a cutesy way of saying that you're tearing up.
We've changed the URL from https://depp.brause.cc/brause.cc/emacs/timeline.html and it seems to be working now.
So do they actually go into space? Or just more tax $ for Garmin and other "contractors?"
Counter Strike Demake/Remake on Nintendo DS
All Hiltons at least have mini fridges. Homewood Suites and Home2Suites have full refrigerators. Homewood suites has full kitchens with stoves. Home2Suites allows you to check out “burners”.

I have a Roku stick for traveling. It has a feature that lets it log in to captured networks where you have to login. Some hotels have remotes that don’t allow you to change the source. I travel with a couple of “universal” brand specific remotes

TMobile has a “secret plan” called Global 15 that gives you unlimited high speed hot spot data in the US (not 3G) for $50 a month. I signed up for that.

I travel as a consultant occasionally and I visit my parents decently often and work from there. I’ve optimized my travel setup:

- I have a portable USB C powered display for a second display

- I use my iPad as a third display using Duet (the native Mac screen sharing doesn’t work on my corporate laptop)

- I have a Roost 3 laptop stand

- I have the largest airplane legal Anker battery pack that can charge a laptop and other devices

- I have a few truly “universal cords”

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093YVRHMB

BTW: I locked myself out of this account (typo in the noprocast setting). I’m the original commenter.
Don't I wish. Currently in the middle of a big thing with a director who keeps mandating unrealistic deadlines with zero engineer input.
The story as I heard it is:
There original WRT54g that was the start of openWRT was BCM chip. BCM wrote a lot of the software, especially low level, as Cisco was their major customer at the time. Then Cisco got sued for GPL violations that were BCM's fault. Both companies were large and not too worried by lawsuits, but eventually it dawned on them that unlike the usual between businesses, they weren't just going to be able to settle by paying some money, because their antagonists were not in it for the money. They had to release the source, which both companies regarded as significantly part of their own IP. Cisco was pissed at BCM, BCM were upset that an external factor could piss off their major customer like this, and some high ranked individuals at BCM were butthurt about open source licenses having a say in their operations. So a policy was put in place that where significant R&D effort was made on software, in product lines those individuals controlled, it would be legally firewalled from open source licenses, even to the extent of designing future chip architectures so that there were extra processors, not running Linux, that would run features BCM wanted to keep proprietary.

So that's why it's difficult to run open WRT on BCM chips.

Caveat: I did not get this first or second hand.
Have you seen "Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed" on Netflix?
Yes, good point! The paper I am responsible for is targeted at smaller datasets, but I will propose this to the authors of the second paper :)
Well, maybe, but I don't see how. I mean, people could be happier or something, but recession is an economic thing rather than a psychological one. If there's less stuff, then I don't see how there isn't "other things that are less good". Employment, inflation (people bidding for less stuff with the same amount of money), shortages... it's got to show up somewhere... doesn't it?
Ok, we've put PAC in the title above.
My father once lost quite a large amount of cash that was supposed to be used for an overseas family trip. It was a very awkward situation in our family, because he had the slight suspicion that one of us children could have taken the money. Luckily, about a year later my brother opened a large book on seafaring from my fathers shelf and found an envelope with exactly the missing sum. Only then my father remembered that he had hidden the money there and we could procees with our holiday plannings.
Actually this is already being done in Iceland.
"Geothermal energy is a major source of energy in Iceland, with about 25 percent of the country's electricity generated from tapping the Earth's heat, according to the National Energy Authority of Iceland. About 90 percent of Icelandic households are heated with geothermal energy."

Source: https://www.livescience.com/57833-scientists-drill-volcano-c....
Antony Gormley’s ‘phallic’ statue may damage our reputation, say students
> Hunger is mostly a trained response,

I agree as well.

> ...it is quite easy to fall off the bandwagon in irregular conditions

YES. So, this is where being _committed_ makes the difference.

I have many rules that help me with this one is "feeling hunger is normal" and "being uncomfortable getting back on track is normal". (this rule is less refined, but key to overcoming falling off the wagon) And "admit when you fail, and try again", very key to dealing with getting started, or restarted on a good thing in life.

The self-training you mention was what I signed on for at the beginning, knowing full well this is normal, so it's not so bad when I have to do it.

Likely others have similar experiences.