skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think about who your heroes are. Scientists, business leaders, artists, writers, philosophers, podcasters, actors, and on and on. You know about and respect people who accomplished great things that affected you and the world in ways you approve of.

Not one of them - not a single one - was a lazy do-nothing who watched Netflix (or birds, or whatever) all day and consumed mindlessly.

If you want to be a person who doesn’t accomplish anything of note, there is nothing wrong with this. Being a good person who loves their family and friends and helps their community is a wonderful thing and is an achievement in of itself.

But if you want to become one of your heroes - someone who accomplishes great things - then you must work very, very hard at your craft. There is no alternative.
Good god! It must be really hard to make anything these days. If you don't put enough people of color, people will shout of bigotry. If you include a few, some will accuse of wokeness and review bomb it to hell. I'm just glad that the show got made!
I think exercise is closer to improving hormonal balances than really “rewiring” your brain, but for sure I notice that it can help a bit. Maybe it does have some “rewiring” effects.

I do think meditation rewires your brain in a way that’s similar to psychedelics (there’s common themes you experience with both, like ego death), but I think it just takes much longer to achieve similar effects. I’d meditated daily for close to a year straight, and while it helped, I didn’t feel like I got anywhere close to how I felt either during tripping (kinda obviously maybe) or after tripping.

That said, while so far psychedelics seem safe, they’re at the very least more logistically “disruptive” than meditation, not to mention social stigmas, difficulty getting them, etc. Meditation does seem like a more sustainable long-term practice.

Some of the above is why I’ve become interested in trying ketamine therapy instead.
Let's hope we screw it up less badly this time, and maybe eventually get it to stick.
I mean it's Jeff, but here's NASA's short announcement confirming the scrub: https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/09/03/artemis-i-launch-a...
I constantly run into situations where I spend money in ways that are financially non optimal, but socially good (in my mind).

An easy to understand example is, I believe I should pay more in taxes and everyone as wealthy as I am should too.

I rent an apartment, but I rent it out at the cost it takes to maintain it in good condition, because I think profiting off rent is unethical. This means I'm generally renting much much cheaper than local rents, and my tenants can therefore build savings.
Buying stock back is apocalypse prep?
All i know is my downloads folder moved under ~/*/snap/Firefox and i don't like it lol.
> JetBrains are going to lobby for a law preventing local development?

You think this is hyperbole, but companies lobby for unfair and anti-consumer, anti-privacy laws all the time.

You live in a world with a weekend and reasonable working conditions because workers banded together and fought against corporations to buy those things for you. Don’t be naive. Corporations do what is best for their bottom line.

> telling anyone to do anything

I am explaining to you why it’s in your own self interest to support free and open source software and think of it as a community rather than a label for a project. Corporations don’t need you to side with them, they have money and lobbyists, advocate for your fellow volunteer devs instead.
If this worked well enough, some "laptops" could become just a slab with a keyboard & touchpad on it. Screens are thin & light already, but perhaps there would be some power savings in that?
Depends on how fast I work.
I was constraining the statement to tech work. It does feel to me like roofers in southern summers should get paid like C levels in the valley. But that isn't how the world works and writing a new physics engine for an indie game, while difficult, is not going to pay as much as much as modifying a payment portal ui to get 0.3% more transactions completed. Because of of those things is in far more demand.
If the industry managed to adapt away from app store strangleholds prior to the mainstream augmented/virtual reality hardware wave, we will see a more interesting future.

IMHO
I think a more fascinating look at this is how the difference between "legitimized fraud" versus "illegitimate fraud".

Basically, for most businesses the amount of "friendly fraud" which means customers disputing charges because they changed their mind or didn't want to talk to the company or whatever is 10x the amount of fraud from stolen charges. (Visa estimates this as 3x but my experience is different).

Civil asset forfeiture is the government seizing property without trial, and it is slightly more than theft each year.

So between these things, it seems pretty easy to reduce fraud by 75% without much additional friction.
Merchants are even more lax about card fraud than banks. The National Retail Federation complained about the cost of upgrading to chip readers. They asked the government to force banks to eliminate PCI DSS which would make it even easier to commit credit card fraud. PCI DSS is compliance not security but without it retailers would literally do nothing. Some retailers tried to get customers to switch to QR code payments linked directly to your bank account. One of these payment apps CurrentC was immediately breached.
Seriously, half this post’s comments are just `you made it political.jpg`
Show HN: Alumina Programming Language
Alumina is a programming language I have been working on for a while. Alumina may be for you if you like the control that C gives you but miss goodies from higher level programming languages.

It is mostly for fun and exercise in language design, I don't have any grand aspirations for it. It is however, by this time, a usable general-purpose language.

Alumina borrows (zing) heavily from Rust, except for its raison d'être (memory safety). Syntax is a blatant rip-off of Rust, but so is the standard library scope and structure.

Alumina bootstrap compiler currently compiles to ugly C, but a self-hosted compiler is early stages that will target LLVM as backend.

If that sounds interesting, give it a try. I appreciate any feedback!

Standard library documentation:
https://docs.alumina-lang.net/

Online compiler playground:
https://play.alumina-lang.net/
Well, I suppose then I didn't understand the motive well - How does the public fossil fuel company benefit by this (its illegal to make false disclosures to investors afaik)? how do politicians across the spectrum (who keep fighting about climate change and effect of fossil fuels) benefit from this? And, just curious - on the academic front, I keep reading about effects of emissions from fossil fuel and projections for 50-100 years, why is there so little about when we run out of fossil fuels (maybe they have a motive to be quiet/lie too) but I suppose I don't see it.
Yes, but the list of NASA contractors are behemoth companies that are not focused on any one purpose. SpaceX is only focused on launching things into orbit, even if the majority is their own constellation. I’m guessing the money received by NASA contractors is pennies compared to other contracts they receive. Apples and oranges you’re comparing here.
>To speak to this, imagine if a teacher explained an aspect of math to a student; multiplication perhaps. In this case, the student does not understand.

>Would you feel it sensible for the teacher to explain again, without deviation, without changing the lesson, precisely as before, because it worked for others? And because we are all essentially the same?

>Or would you consider that an inept, cruel teacher?

It depends. If there are 29 other students in the class that got it just fine and the one is struggling, then I would think that the teacher would have to make a judgment about how much time to spend on that one student. Or maybe that one student needs to be in a different class with more one-on-one for a particular subject.

I am all about new pedagogy research, but over the last few thousand years, we know a few things that do tend to work for most people.
I am already using Github and Jira integrated - problem is that a. Jira doesn't provide a change request workflow b. They don't integrate with ServiceNow (which is a major IT service management workflow used for, among many things, change management).
> Effortless updates: browsers receive frequent updates and, with the snap, users are able to receive security patches from Mozilla more quickly than with other software distribution methods.

I don't see how snap is faster than apt/.deb. More importantly, apt would update a running Firefox which you can restart later. With snap, Firefox is not updated until you close Firefox and run `snap refresh`.
This is from May/June
You must be a US-of-American or at least heavily influenced by their current culture seeing how easily you pull in terms like 'white people countries' in the discourse. It was not that long ago that people from your country were taught that skin colour only goes skin deep but the current crop of ideologues have not only forgotten that lesson but turned it upside-down.

In other words, if all you can spout is racist discourse may I suggest you to do so in other places? While many good things have come from the USA this can not be said about these ideas so keep them to yourself and your comrades.
A $5K is pentest is just some guy running a couple of off-the-shelf, open source, or scriptkiddie tools and handing you the reports.

For $350/hr you get

- someone knowing which pentest tools to start with

- someone knowing how to follow up with more focused attention on problem areas and run additional tests

- someone analyzing the raw reports to understand the causes of the vulnerabilities

- a multi-page written formal report with interpretations and recommendations for mitigation, including a cost/risk/benefit summaries.

Edit to add: in my experience the companies offering cheap pentests and handing you the logs are the ones that then say, "If you want to understand these logs and know what to do about them, you can contract with us at $VERY_HIGH_RATE"
This was about a change in procedural status (something a minister can change), not legal status (something congress can change).
Like Dr Evil said: "One! Million! Dollars!"
this explains things significantly better than the article, which seems to be little more than dragging out a surprising-sounding headline with a pretty obvious concept
Was it the first? JFK was the first time that TV broke the story before newspapers. CNN made its foothold with 24/7 coverage of Desert Shield=>Storm
No, they really skipped over a ton of the first age. With the second age, I think it'll come down to pacing. There are a number of notable events that quite literally reshape the world from the end of the first age to the beginning of the 3rd.
> A part of this is due to the inherent nature of sandboxing

I've got no problems with my sandboxed Flatpak Firefox.

> Why did we choose to make Firefox a snap?

All pros are shared with Flatpak.

What is the value add for users here, that couldn't be gained by using Flatpak instead? Because it certainly isn't your proprietary app store.
Since it's too late to edit that, I'll add this as a reply:

If you ("you" being a scientist) are explicit that your "science" is in service of your political agenda, then you've accomplished this:

Anyone who disagrees with your agenda will reject your "science"

As we saw with vaccines & lockdowns.

On the other hand, if they trust you to just report what the data says, even when you don't like it, then you have a chance of not being vilified.

So there you have it: if you want to stand above the Twitter mob and be believed, you have to earn back the public's trust.
Because most of the 2.7 million developers in the US are “Dark Matter Developers” writing yet another CRUD app.
I updated to 22.04, and Firefox performance fell through the floor. There's a ~500ms delay on scrolling now.

I'm going to remove snap from my system and see if things improve, but overall 22.04 is a big disappointment.
Maybe, but it would be disingenuous to pretend that they are removing the negative reviews for that reason.
Breaking the silence around academic bullying
What would an id prevent?

What evidence exists to suggest the current elections aren't trustworthy?
£500pd this was 4 years ago though. Decent rate at the time.
I'm not going to engage the question of whether or not it was morally or tactically correct.

This forum and the western public in general are not mature enough for that conversation. I am not having that conversation.

My statement is limited to the fact that the energy crisis is a simple and proximate result of the ongoing sanctions and not peak oil, climate change, or corporate greed.
Teaching Doesn't Exist, but Learning Does
Those are completely different drugs, so no, that doesn’t follow from that logic.
Lenovo launches face-mounted monitor
I think incentives are misaligned either way. You have to match the structure to the situation.

I have a friend, a great sydadmin/devops/infrastructure person. He never takes full-time jobs; his deal is always for 32 hours/week. His reasoning? 32 hours is 32 hours, but full time is all the time. He leads a much happier life than most ops-ish people I know.

Maybe you have the sort of clients where day/weekly rates work. But for the sort of client that has crunch mode or deadline rushes, there is no way in the world I'd give them a weekly rate. If I'm going to do an 80-hour week to get something out in time, I'm going to get paid for every bit of it, and I want them to feel the pain when they see the bills.
I know I didn't until I took a database class in grad school. (I'd worked with databases before and was taught them as a kid by my dad, but I needed some kind of 'proof' for CV purposes). I didn't call it 'normalization', I just considered it to be part of future-proofing/not wanting to be bothered if new uses showed up.
> How do black dwarves make sense? Their entire species lives deep underground and never sees the light of day, so they don't need to evolve to protect their skin from UV rays.

This is EXACTLY my issue with the show. This kind of forced diversity fuccs up the lore and detaches me from the depicted universe. At least make them all of the same skin color so it is coherent.
OED's first definition for "natural" is "existing in or caused by nature; not made or caused by humankind."

And one of their definitions for "unnatural" is "not existing in nature; artificial."
Watch the recent Sandman. Perhaps it's because the source material was already very woke before it was everywhere and the adaptation is very faithful, but the series is quite good.
Everyone is different, and no drug is for everyone. Caffeine gives me migraines
Why Aren’t Student Loans Simple? Because This Is America
> Is there some role at a FAANG where generalists would thrive?

In my personal experience everything except infrastructure and mobile UI favors generalists. The people I worked with were constantly jumping around between backends, protocols, business logic, web UI, test suites, architecture, data analysis, small-scale UI design. This was on public-facing products. I'd expect internal tool teams have even greater need for generalists.
You have to get out of Europe.

For whatever reason, Europeans just don’t seem to value software engineering and it shows.

Great engineers. Zero money to show for it.
Other commenters have mentioned marginal utility, but this article is basically explaining minimax [0] decision making - people (and chess AIs) tend to pick the option that minimizes worst case losses.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax
i'll wager based on the title that i've already read a better and less annoyingly marketed version of this article
City has around 20 days of fresh water left
The reduced shelf life part of it - you need to make money from the theatrical release, not after - certainly seems to be what he is saying, but it's not clear why that is the case.

If the studio makes more money from ticket sale revenue sharing, than from streaming (or previously DVD rental), then why are they now rushing to streaming so quickly?

To speculate:

Blockbuster used to be utterly dominant in the VHS/DVD rental era, and there would be prominently displayed in-store advertising of what in-theatre movies were coming to DVD/Rental soon, as well as the new releases getting their own section in the store. Perhaps in-store DVD rental therefore created it's own marketing and extended shelf life, as opposed to online streaming rental where the customer likely already knows what they are looking for a opposed to being influenced by "coming-soon and newly-released" in-store marketing.

The lack of variety of movies in the US, to which Damon is responding, is also at least in part because there is, for whatever reason, no culture of arts cinemas here. The whole industry is geared up for the economics of large budget movies and the de-risking that involves.
As someone who doesn't get hero worship at all, your comment history just to defend him baffles me. It's so weird to see a grown man talking about how his idol is so much more manly and deserves trust for that.

For the record, I have basically nothing to say about Joe Rogan himself, I haven't watched anything from him and I probably never will. I'm just reacting to the fans' (as in the unshortened adjective) behavior.
You just highlighted why doubling the rates might work for many people. If you charge $100/hr, the client may simply assume you can't handle the higher level/harder work. If you potentially can.. then doubling the rate will make the client feel comfortable giving it to you.

The same pattern happens in salaried work, A manager needs to show that the expensive new senior hire was worth the money. So they give the new hire all the good projects and leave the (cheaper) current employees high and dry. Further, management is incentivized to show the new hire's work in a positive light during performance review as they would be admitting that the manager made a mistake otherwise.

Understanding this dynamic will make you happier at work. Sometimes you need to leave so that you can be the great new hire, sometimes you need to demand more money/promotion so that management sees your worth. People inherently assume that you are worth something approximating your salary.
I'd take Democratic but imperfect over authoritarian any day. The company can also tell you how to "cut your grass", only you have no say at all in their leadership.

My union is fighting to raise my stake in the business I work for. Even if that means there are a couple new rules from the union it's still a hugely net positive.
An algae bloom has killed thousands of fish in the San Francisco Bay Area
Because strangely enough, most people don’t spend tens of thousands of dollars to be a better citizen of the world. Most people have an insatiable addiction to food and shelter and need to be able to trade labor for money to support that addiction.
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This is the game, thank you for finding it for me. I mis-remembered the name. I'll give it a go again when I get home.
Does anyone else have the equivalent launch capabilities of SLS or Starship? If not, then everyone else can sit down and shut up until they can do better.
An interesting point is that Nokia managed to sell its phone business to MS for a good amount. It was a sinking ship and MS phones never really took off, so who stooged whom is a good question.
Don't use the letters, use your arrow keys to represent (U)p, (D)own, (L)eft, (R)ight and 'B' and 'A' respectively.
e.g. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A

Love it. Lots of websites intermittently have included it to add some fun to the site. [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code#Uses_outside_of_vi...
So You Want to be a Writer (2016)
People see what they want to see and are offended by perceptions driven by their own biases, even in cases where no offense is portrayed or intended.
> I think devices that need a longer life should keep track of the last seen timestamp, then they can detect a rollover. The device would keep a local rollover counter and just add 20 years per count. This should stay correct until that counter rolls over, or if the device is offline for >20 years.

Better in some ways, worse in others.

Can still result in unexpected behavior if configuration memory is lost.

And if it ever accepts an invalid future time for whatever reason, it gets "stuck" in that failure state.
Well not that they get a pass but the media was slightly better back then until maybe that point, remember we are talking 35 years ago

There was still investigative journalism and things like that going on, the idea of "clickbait" couldn't even exist, there were only three major networks.
Making as much money as possible requires being on good terms with the local ruling regime and adopting its ideology. That way your politician friends will ignore your misdeeds while going after your competitors. Hence rainbow flags everywhere, except for the Middle East branch
Would you kindly share some examples of the types of people/orgs to seek out, then? For example, if not the barber shop, then the owner of a barber shop franchise, or owner of a chain of barber shops? Genuinely interwested in learning the archetypes of people to seek out here. Anything that you could share would be greatly appreciated!
> A 50% chance of winning $50 million would equate to an expected value of $25 million.

No it doesn't. Statistics is the science of populations of events, expected value applies only if you have a sufficiently large population.
> Intel has given up on x86 in phones.

Intel gave up on x86 in phones right before Microsoft gave their Windows Mobile 10 Continuum demo, which was almost an eternity after the N9.

If N9 had been widely released and marketted and successful (it did well in small release, but who knows), that may have changed Intel's course. If Nokia hadn't abandoned it before release, it would have gotten application support; I joined WhatsApp around all this, and there were plans to support it as Symbian users were a large part of user base, so the next thing from Nokia was highly likely to be used, but not when Nokia drops it. Third party WA client development for the N9 was somewhat successful and became the start for a lot of other third party clients.