skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I get it, but I'm not so sure I'm convinced. Those examples, however, don't resonate with me (don't have a car, nor a license to drive one; nor I own a house; I've been inside an airplane only once).

However, I believe I've done similar things with used electronics. I tend to favor buying a really cheap used ones for [sometimes] 1/5 of the price instead of a new one. It could break or be of low quality, but chances of that are small and thus (over time -- making an EV-ish calculation), I spend less money on electronics.

I also believe I do this in buying new products. In many situations, I can pay extra for an extra year or two of 'guarantee' (not sure if the right term is 'guarantee' or 'insurance'). However, very often, the first 6 months or 1 year of guarantee is given and has its cost embedded in the price of the product. The question becomes: how likely it is for the product to fail given it hasn't failed for the first year. I believe the chances are small so I don't buy it. I guess it's also an EV kind of calculation (just like you gave as an example).

However, those don't seem that common, really. Maybe it's just the kind of life that I live.

Is the situation 100%1M vs. 50%50M supposed to exemplify these ones? These not-so-frequent ones for small amount of money?

Another thing is that expected value has to do with a limit in this situation:

(1/n) x SUM [j = 1 to n] outcome(j) -> E for n -> oo

(there is an ergodicity assumption going on here -- which doesn't always hold in practice). That limit can be E while the first idk how many hundreds of values of outcome(j) be very distinct from E.

How many times will things like that happen in your lifetime? Some dozen? What if you separate away the large-scale ones (like the 100%1M vs 50%50M)? The small-scale ones will be more frequent and you just blindly follow the EV approach to them. The large scale ones will be extremely rare, and maybe another approach is better. No?
Shooting at the border goes both ways at the Gazan border. It's a tense border in what is effectively a war zone. No one should approach it from either side.

Again, stop trying to take sides in a war you have no skin in the game. It's easy to tell Gazans to keep fighting Israel from the comfort of your basement.

Real courage is in advocating a peace deal for Gaza.
I just finished binging the first 2 seasons after reading this, thank you.
I want to believe it's because police departments deliberately preference unintelligent applicants over intelligent ones, but I quietly suspect it's something cultural.
> Isn't it enough for people to understand this is curated from external services

Usually "curated" means hand selected and filtered, not just scraped and automatically posted. It's an aggregator of aggregators at this point.
If they were widely successful, why wouldn't the pharmaceutical industry offer psychedelic treatments?
> Depression is (imho) not to be healed with "here, swallow a pill", structural changes to one's life are necessary.

Clinical depression rarely has anything to do with what you've done or events in the outside world.

Psychiatry has settled on treating depression with two strokes, a cocktail which is a chemical antidepressent, and a chemical stabilizer, and they expect you to take these daily and stay on it for the rest of your life. I have no evidence for it, but I assume this is some pharmaceutical company's agenda, to keep you a customer for the rest of your life. While it works, chemicals always have side-effects, and with so much exposure, daily, they are bound to compound, making it more difficult to consume.

Therapy alone can cure depression, it just takes a lot of time and effort. I don't think it is possible talk therapy could ever make things worse, but it just doesn't work fast enough. Still, recommended.

But I have discovered a way to cure depression relatively quickly in two ways.

First, chemically, but without a life sentence. I have discovered a substance that will cure depression overnight, not unlike an aspirin cures a headache. You get headaches, too? How would you feel about being told you need to take a daily medication for the rest of your life to cure it? No, one dose will do. The drug is unregulated, and is available OTC in cough gels. You won't find this in any PDR, but depending on the patient's weight, say for a 160lb. man, 900mg of dextromethorphan will cure depression overnight, and it has been for some time in many clinical studies exploring its potential as a fast acting treatment for treatment-resistant depression. You take the large dose with a pepsid, and go to bed, wake the next day depression free, and its depression-killing effects can last up to a year. It is an old and safe drug, and the lethal overdose is estimated, because it is unknown. Though it is an OTC remedy for cough, dextromethorphan has already been approved for treatment of emotional incontinence, which could be seen as sort of a cousin of depression.

The other cure, chemical free, is sunlight. Light in the eyes regulates mood. Not enough light will eventually cause depression. Too much light will cause mania (as we should have suspected from the exploits of Florida Man). Put enough sunlight in your eyes, it will cure your clinical depression. If daylight is not enough, get an artificial light that is an accurate simulator of natural sunlight, which is probably not LED, due to too much blue light, which also damages the eye and slowly blinds you, but you can't go wrong with halogen. Point it at your eyes. You can even close your eyes, light goes right through the eye lids and is still effective at fighting depression.
Fake caring, would be better
Not sure how it is in France in particular, but €2k/month would allow you to live a pretty relaxed life in most places on the Iberian Peninsula (metropolitan areas is doable with that, but less comfortable of course)
Jesus?
It varies widely based on how much I think I gain from your project (experience, learning, networking etc). I'm an AWS specialist DevOps ish person, and bill around 1k/day on retainer and a bit more for "live" work. In general, if your aws bill is smaller than my invoice, we do something short term and results focused and I bill at a higher rate, if your aws bill is higher, you get a lower rate, but keep me around on call because when someone really fucks up, it balances in the wash when you're back online in hours instead of days.
Heh, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2195785 seemly that post and Sahaj response to it unfortunately were the ones that were correct.
for anyone too lazy to read: no you can't visit
It is what their engines use, and they weren't gonna use different engines
I hope they shut this app store racket down.
That beats the point. If you need specialized artists and know how to make this work it’s useless. Might as well just use photoshop then. The whole point is your grandma should be able to do this herself.
Look, I’m an animal lover and what a nightmare for that little girl, but I don’t think that her parents did her any favors by not preparing her mentally for what was to come. The animals being sold at auction is part and parcel of the 4H experience, or many families will opt to have the animal slaughtered themselves. It sounds like they brought this goat to auction where it was sold and then tried to re-neg on the sale. If she bonded that closely to the animal they should have kept it on the property and not brought it to the 4H show. They almost tacitly admit this in offering to repay the income brought into 4H by the goat.

A number of years ago there was a dog being given up that my wife and I wanted to adopt off Craigslist. It was being given up by a family who - you guessed it - “didn’t have time for her”. This was in Weatherford TX which was over an hour from our place in Dallas. We got halfway there before the woman who placed the ad called us asking us to turn around, because her 8 year old daughter was having a breakdown after the realization that their dog was about to be rehomed.

Six months later they emailed us asking if we were still willing to take the dog, otherwise it was going to the shelter. At that point we had already taken on another. I hope it didn’t wind up in a kill shelter all because these parents couldn’t help their child deal with reality. This story reminded me of that.
PC wakes from sleep when changing clothes
Like mopeds and petrol bikes, which were in vogue and then disappeared. The bike was never designed to be powered by motors.

Would we design a two-wheeler from scratch, to be run by electric motors, we would just have a motorcycle again?

Ditch the bike chain and traditional propulsion. Make the pedal angle determine the speed of the e-motor and use hands for turning and brake.
Unfortunately methane being a GHG brings additional important problems. Launching a lot of methane rockets would be really expensive to the environment.

(We need to finally replace SRBs with something cleaner too.)
FYI, first load of your personal website (redirected from Twitter) was surprisingly slow. Subsequent reloads were fine however. Could have been something on my end though or likely just Twitter redirection(s?) process taking its sweet time..
So the program has rules and requires an application…where the government gets the payment address.

But expecting private property owners to eat it is absurd
The Apply button doesn't work for me on any of the job listings I've tried. I'm on Firefox for Android
A Solar Firm Plans to Build Off-Grid Neighborhoods in California
Well, certainly not in an interview. If I showed up and the interviewers sprung some sort of role play scenario or cheesy improv on me I'd be politely thanking them as I quickly shut the door on my way out.

Actually it reminds me of an experience I haven't thought about in years, though not quite the same thing: Fresh out of college I was in a job I hated and desperate to find anything else. I found something advertised as, I think, a marketing job and got called in for an interview. When I arrived there were a dozen other people in the parking lot and the recruiters were ushering us all into a large passenger van where they said we'd split up along the way to some big box stores an hour or two away and be doing some type of soliciting. Donations? Selling crap? I don't know. I'd signed up for an interview, not whatever the hell this was supposed to be. I noped out of that real fast, just turned around and walked away.

Wow, I don't think I've remembered that for 20 years. Anyway yeah, there are definitely some interview practices that should send a up visions of a truck full of red flags crashing into a truck full of "Warning!" signs as they explode outwards from the collision. And then you only walk towards the flaming wreck if you're a dozen kinds of desperate and the drivers crawling out of the debris are waiving paychecks.
Is that true? A large part of the value add of Asana is that it integrates with everything.

They’re probably the most expensive issue tracking tool (many times the amount we’d pay for Jira), but it’s extremely worthwhile for us so we pay it.
Most recently my floor was USD$300/hour but billed in weeks, and sometimes I didn't do full weeks (like four day weeks during good weather). Usually minimum engagement of four weeks, 25-50% upfront (longer engagements get the lower end).

I increase the rate with respect to beurocracy and scope. If I'm working with a small, single digits shop then the lower rate usually holds. If it's a larger shop and I'm going to be in a ton of meetings all the time, I usually start doubling the rate. For a F500-type company I'd never drop below $500/hour, and minimum engagement would probably grow to eight weeks.

I'm a generalist. I've actually signed a number of contracts on "I will fix ~all your hard to fix bugs".
Well that's just a terrible and unnecessary little story.

If I was the family, I guess I would have purchased a second goat and pretended it was the first, but why the hell do we have to employ cunning for something this mundane. This is a real vogon story.
The result is a form of predatory pricing which should be illegal.
i can't take anything this author says seriously because they are trying so hard at every turn to be snide
> Make the pedal angle determine the speed of the e-motor

Wouldn't this lead to you accelerating right after a bump, as your body first gets "propelled" up and then brought down again with gravity, making you shift your foot position?
just want to add that you are correct imo. confinement was overall the very worst experience of my 18 years in prison.
You need to define your question better. What is a generalist? I would have considered myself a generalist but thats with a focus on embedded/systems programming and an ability to make a shitty website/database backend. Other folks may consider themselves generalists because they handle front & backend web design or because they write applications from start to finish. What sort of information are you looking for?
6.2 isn’t good but this is a John Carpenter movie, written and directed.

In fact, it was his student film.

Looks like he was going for a 2001 A Space Odyssey feel.
I bike with a plain bike but would love a heavy duty e-bike to do groceries. No need for a car but not enough room in a backpack.
> Just because a bunch of countries believe (or don’t believe) something doesn’t make it a fact.

The statehood is all about recognization. Please check your favorite dictionary, e.g. mine says

state·hood
/ˈstātˌho͝od/
the status of being a recognized independent nation.

When talking about such recognization, there are around 8 billion people living on earth today, out of that 8 billion real people, only about 1.5 billion (18%) living in countries that do not recognize the State of Palestine as a full sovereign state. a quick break down -

750 million living in Europe, almost the entire Europe refuses to recognize the State of Palestine.
450 million in North America
130 million in Japan
30 million in Australia & New Zealand
70 million in Thailand

When the vast majority of the human race recognize it as a state, when the statehood is all about recognization. It is a fact.
I know it's kind of rude just to leave you with a link, sorry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISHHe1Hu6d4

Skim this video, it shows slowly and clearly the potential change of routes.
Well, I thought so. But then I looked at the 11th gen that I have.

The BIOS is signed by a key, and the hash of the key is fused into the HW.

Anything 11th gen or newer locks libreboot or coreboot out.

Search for FPF OTP FUSE. It is an interesting topic. I want to drop intel ASAP due to this.
Did Game of Thrones bother you in this way?
I'm comparing the US credit card system with the chip+pin system common in my country.

* As you need both the card and the code, and as cards are almost impossible to clone, card fraud and identity theft are almost nonexistent.

* Plenty of online shops allow me to buy something without creating an account or providing a billing address.

* As the whole thing runs on debet instead of credit, nobody cares about credit scores.

* A common complaint from merchants is that the system is expensive. My paper merchant recently grumbled he paid around €4000/year. I don't know if this is normal or how much the credit card system costs for a merchant, but substracting these amounts would provide an upper bound to the preferrable amount of fraud.

So while kalzumeus might be right, I believe the system he describes/is used to allows a lot more fraud than required.
They're making the distinction because there are two Linux Mints, LMDE Which is based on Debian, and the Ubuntu variant, which is just called Linux Mint. It is not officially called Ubuntu Mint, I believe that was a colloquialism.
You can certainly fiddle with numbers to the point where you can basically force a given person to go with green or go with red. In general, as you get into certain payouts that aren't a big deal for an individual they'll tend to go with higher expected value at least up to a point. But as the odds get longer, most people will tend to go with certainty as long as it's a reasonable amount.
Ha ha, great one. Thank you.
"E-bikes’ identity crisis might seem like the symptom of a transition"

E-bikes seem to be quite popular around where I live. What's of more interest is the identity crisis that e-bikes have triggered in the author.
I feel for this little girl - for losing her friend.

I think if more parents would explain to kids where meat comes from most would react like Indie-Rose - another little kid[0] - who said:

"I don't want to chop up animal people"

And there are so many more kids realizing on their own what they are eating. They don't want to eat Peppa the pig & friends and yet we (mostly) force them to eat them.

And there are so many more examples of these kids. They seem to instinctively understand what Einstein talked about in the last century [1] [2].

What do you think would happen if we show little kids the reality of slaughterhouses - they'd be traumatized for life and yet we feed them the products of those brutal and inhumane places.

One day we might end this barbarism - maybe a few more hundred years - as depicted in this optimistic future [3]

EDIT: Would be good to hear why you down vote this comment.

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[0] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3151959/Tearful-f...

[1] "Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."

[2] "Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."

[3] The Dietary Requirements of a Star Fleet Officer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS7NRtEJBcA
legal limits only apply to hiring in countries where the company has a legal presence. in those places there is a possible limitation on legally hiring fulltime contractors as they may be classified as employees.

everywhere else there is no legal limit to hiring contractors, simply because it doesn't make sense for any country to prevent its citizens from selling their services to a foreign company, nor has the country any legal ability to force that company into establishing a local presence.
What are those? That is precisely what I'm trying to glean.
A very common one: You have a debt to pay off (typically mortgage). Should you put all your extra money to pay it off early or should you pay the minimum and invest the rest?

As another commenter pointed out: Most investments involve this. In the RE circles you often have the same dilemma: Buy a house for rental in a LCOL area where you get (mostly) guaranteed net income, or buy in a place like California where the rent income won't cover all the expenses, but you feel you can pay the difference and rely on profiting off the hoped appreciation.

Insurance is also a good example someone else pointed out.

Even: Get a guaranteed low paying job as a relatively unskilled worker, or get into deep debt to go into medical school, do a residency, and earn a lot. The latter can have significant risk: Some people don't do well enough to get a residency. Others get the residency but don't have what it takes to complete it. In both cases you're left with a huge amount of debt.
Apparently you buy it because you 1) can't hear the humidity sensor alarm built into the dryer already that already turns off the dryer, and/or 2) are a useless gadget cuck who can't go without having it on your smart phone.
On traditional pedals yes, you can make pedals/levers that would just hold their position until altered by the passenger. The core idea is that the feet should be selecting the speed.
Sure, but if I don’t have anything I want to do in contravention to their guidelines, then I don’t care. The monthly fee is an annoyance but they take care of the exterior work I don’t want to manage. A relationship I am fine with.
Will check it out. I’m enjoying sandman. Not loving it but am enjoying it enough to continue.

I couldn’t continue wheel of time after 3 episodes.
Part of me thinks "this is really cool, it's all moving really fast", but the other part of me thinks "this is moving too fast, aren't people missing something?".

It feels like everyone's so desperate to create or predict the next AI unicorn, that no one's paying attention to the fundamentals. Gives me weird dotcom bubble vibes.

I still cannot see how this can fundamentally change the fashion industry. Fashion is not about design, it's about generating desire to buy. You hire models and influencers to showcase your items, so people think they can be just like them, you just have buy the same piece of clothing. AI doesn't change that. You could totally have a niche for AI-generated clothing, but that's it.

Besides, clothes are a physical item. AI can automate the generation of a "blueprint", but it is still heavily constrained by the physical result. It would be mostly hit and miss. Feels more efficient to have designer use their experience to create sketches that would actually look good in real life.

All in all, I am amazed as much as I am skeptical of the entire synthetic art revolution going on. It's been what? A month? It's too soon. Aren't we jumping the gun?

Whatever happened to boring opinions? "Hmm that's amazing, but we'll see what happens, it's too soon". I'm yet to be convinced of how, beyond being an overall better tool, synthetic art will fundamentally change businesses.
> I agree. People who will carry out this activity at a high professional level in creative agencies will have to deepen in the observation and study of language.

So they have to be a character out of a William Gibson novel? Do they rip the labels off their clothes too?

PS: This is awesome.
https://packages.debian.org/sid/firefox Many disagree with this stance, but Testing is in an awkward position and I generally steer people away from using it over Stable or Sid because you get downsides of both without the strengths of either. I blame Debian with shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to communicating this. Testing is not a happy middle-ground, it's a test bed for stable. Staying on Sid gives you essentially a rolling release like Arch and it's plenty "stable" for regular desktop use and should anything break you'll get the fix (usually) faster than on testing.

Sorry for going on a bit of a rant under your post, but I run into this on the regular.
???

Imagine someone saying that about Photoshop when it was first introduced...

"Why would you even use Photoshop if so you still have learn a tool in order to use it? Might as well just use a canvas with colors... The whole point of Photoshop is that your grandma should be able to use it!"

No, every tool in the world is not meant to make it zero effort to do something. Some tools are meant to incrementally make it easier, or even just make it less effort for people who already are good at something. And this is OK.
Valve index has a PPI of 598. What I assume you are talking about is PPD, or Pixel per Degree. Iphone doesn't have a fixed PPD since the distance to your eyes is not fixed.

An ocular 720p display at 100ppd would be be about an inch diagonally at 10cm from you eye balls. That's basically unuseable
> Launching a lot of methane rockets would be really expensive to the environment.

What does it turn into when burnt? Would there be much unburnt methane leaking into the environment from these rockets and the infrastructure to support these rockets?
Professional AI whisperers have launched a marketplace for DALL-E prompts
Do you have an example? Or do you just generally consider deep thought about quotidian contradictions snide?
Does that behavior happen with other unions, such as teachers unions?
Also because they have no idea what they are talking about. Under no circumstances would a mere $5000 buy a "status symbol" bicycle. Not even close.
I'd wager "freshremote.work" is doing exactly the same thing. This is why 90% of job boards on the internet are useless. Just stick to reputed ones (Indeed, LinkedIn) or go directly to the company's careers site.