skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two books that really stayed with me the most this year are Father and Sons by Turgenev and 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.

Both are classics and fairly well known.

The former is a dive into niihilism and how destructive some of the ideas might be. It has some really impactful imagery.

The latter is a portal to a living world dipped in magical realism that one can get lost in. It is beautifully written and has a neat cyclical nature to it.
This is currently streaming live, but the recordings will be available afterwards. It's 24 hours of maths silliness based around games and game shows, raising money for charity.

There's a substantial amount of technical content interspersed with random other things. Not everything will be to everyone's taste, but there should be something for everyone.
Everyone jacked into their VT headsets, living from their couches, not leaving the house in a fossil fueled vehicle or recreating in a fossil fueled boat is maybe what our planet desperately needs
(Much has been said in the other comments, but I find them mostly incomplete)

> If inflation is caused by people having too much money then it is a self-correcting problem because as prices go up people will no longer have as much money. (...) So what is the real problem with inflation?

Great question. The "real problem" with inflation depends on what type of inflation it is - either demand side, which is what the Fed can control, or supply side, in the form of rising energy or food prices due to external shocks. Right now we actually have both. The latter directly worsens standards of living (it causes prices to rise but wages stay the same), and the former is a bit more subtle; it taxes savings and causes various instabilities through the economy due to the changing value of future money, such as eroding the value of a loan for borrowers. (But in the long term prices and wages do re-adjust, as you point out; the problem is short term.)

> I've been following the discussion on US TV and it seems they are saying we need more unemployment.

The TV is hopelessly confused. We do need a monetary tightening to stop the economy from overheating(demand-side inflation), which will unfortunately worsen unemployment, but that isn't the main mechanism here. The inflation is a consequence of a mistake that has already been made by the Fed - overly expansionary monetary policy since 2021 - and the steps required to fix it will cause unemployment to temporarily rise.

And yes, this is going to suck. But the more the Fed waits, the worse it gets.
Not the gp, but I think the difference lies in mindset. There’s the “victim” mindset where you know the diagnosis and it becomes a convenient scapegoat for your symptoms. “I can’t do that because I’m X.” You see yourself as unable to escape the diagnosis and enter a state of learned helplessness.

The desired outcome is an enlightenment mindset. “Ah, so that’s why I act that way. Well now that I know that and have x, y and z methods for addressing it, I can overcome/adapt”. As you can imagine it’s a lot more work to achieve this mindset.
"in space, there is plenty of space for everyone"

We may not need more space if we live entirely in virtual reality.

This I find a quite plausible solution to Fermi's paradox... after enough technological development the entire civilization just starts living in VR and loses the desire to travel through, communicate with, or affect the outer world.

In fact, we may already be just such a civilization... though without realizing it.
That is a totally fair question, and I have to admit I did not - nuanced stories don’t fit in an online comment!

The Great Recession hit and Obama’s climate push failed[0], so I went into healthcare (as another thing that needed fixing, and which there was political will to do something about).

The lessons of all of those twists are more complex, but I still firmly believe that I got the right advice given what everybody knew at the time.

[0] https://www.politico.com/story/2012/11/obama-says-climate-ch...
Form by Matter, and Matter by Form
At least you won't have to also take into account the date when the clocks go back or forward.
The Death//Sentence podcast did a terrific four part dive into the series recently. https://overcast.fm/+w14JdCU34
Unsure why people keep referring to static linking as a positive in this thread? Downstream consumers of statically-linked binaries have no practical way to scan their systems for known-vulnerable versions of libraries, that seems a profoundly negative consequence to me.
Yes, that’s because it’s deprecated and that’s why you get all these warnings.
2022 was the year I learned how to articulate what a random email or piece of paper means to me, whether there is work to be done about it, what the work looks like when it has been completed, and what my next physical step to do it is.

That's right folks, I read getting things done by David Allen, and as per my usual modus operandi, I am at the far end of the adoption cycle near the laggards.

But I read the book five or maybe six times now, twice as a paperback, the rest via audiobook.

Why? Because I wanted to be sure that I survived the initial onboarding of making the good habits in the book and implementing the system last for the two years needed to make it stick.
A Curious Case of `Requests.get`
It means no more deleted account or tweets?
I've read over fifty books this year (I read a lot). The ones I've enjoyed the most are:

* The MurderBot Series (Wells)
- So good I read them all twice through

* The Interdependency Series (Scalzi)
- Creative and fun, but I didn't like the wrap-up and ending.

* Project Hail Mary
- Surprising fun! jazz hands

* Old Man's War series (Scalzi)
- First three were great, last three were so-so

* Anne of Green Gables
- My daughters loved this one. I just now got around to reading it
and found it deeply touching AND amusing. I laughed aloud a lot!

* Lord of the Rings
- I re-read it once a year.
I’m also reading Apt, agree that it’s not his best, but he’s one of those guys whose least efforts are still better than nearly everything else on the shelf. And an absolute machine, he writes at a near Steven King pace.
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert. A. Caro. He is known for his biographies of Robert Moses (The Power Broker) and of Lyndon Johnson, and for his extensive research of these subjects.

Early in the book, covering his early career when he was working as a journalist, one of his bosses gave him a lesson in investigative reporting in a nutshell: Just remember, turn every page. Never assume anything. Turn every goddamned page. The book contains various subsequent examples of him doing exactly that in various research endeavours, and also going to extreme lengths to put himself in a better mindset for writing whatever he is working on at the time, like moving to the area a subject grew up in to live there for a year to better research his early life.

There are examples of him sifting through many boxes of documents in an archive that would seem to be inconsequential, but then happening on a receipt or memo that is just an allusion to something that gives him the lead he needs to uncover some real information.
Love it!

If I wanted to "nit pick" I would ask for httpS and not to use 3rd party googleapi so no-one else knows you are goofing off at work ;-)

I really wish Katamari Damacy had been ported to other platforms. Maybe there are knock-offs out there but not really a gamer so never went to look.

Oh wow I was about to complain that "Journey" was another playstation game I always wanted to try but now I see it was eventually ported to windows so now I have to go look for that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_(2012_video_game)
I don't think it is slower, the real answer is 'it depends'; D's GC will only run when the GC needs to grow its buffer, so D's GC can be actually much faster than Go's

The problem however is, actually 2 problems:

- stop the world, nobody wants that in a world with lot of cores and threads

- it doesn't scale, the more pointers in your heap, it'll need to scan and traverse your WHOLE heap whenever it needs its buffer to grow, and that doesn't scale well

So it's good when you don't have much in your heap, and it starts to loose its benefits the bigger your program become, i wouldn't use it for my servers

But that's not the main problem of D, since the GC is optional, it's just not competitive with what's available in the market today

The people who want to drag D into the Java/C# territory are the problem in my opinion

D would be better if it focused being a system language, and took what C had to offer and put it to the next level, simplify the language, boost the existing features, allocators, pattern matching, tooling, compiler performance, hot-reload, binary patching

That's the thing i want to hear when there is a new version, not the endless GC topics
IIRC almost all Unixes followed the /src model you really only see in BSD today. Sometimes it was a separate license or only given to Universities and 3rd party developers. But before Linux it was assumed you could build the kernel and base userspace from there like you could with Bell Labs/AT&T.

The University/3rd party part was true even for Microsoft with NT and CE in the late 90s/early 00s. My little CS department got a CE dev kit with software, a device, and the source. I goofed around with it and was pretty quickly frustrated.

This also wanders into my memories of hating Sun version numbering and naming. SunOS grew SysV and became Solaris, but it was still SunOS. But it wasn’t. And then they preceded the Java-ism of the minor version being generally accepted as the major and conflictingly published materials both ways.

I feel bad for the devs where what they did made sense to them and then marketing took over. Naming and versioning are hard enough problems alone.
I think Gene Wolfe is the one of the greatest authors of all time across any genre. I highly highly recommend the Fifth Head of Cerberus which is 3 short interconnected novellas and Peace, which isn't traditional Sci-Fi but is absolutely worth a read.

He's not just writing, he's constructing beautifully crafted puzzle-boxes that take a lot of time and thought to unpack.
Hmm, in my experience on instagram the type of ban meant the person I followers posts just didn’t end up in my feed/timeline/algo

But if I went to their profile I would still see them
Be kind. You will rarely regret it and people will remember it.
Been years in the making… And has enough lead time to still buy popcorn for watching how the big ones will get out of their way to comply in the most malicious way possible.
Is on-prem cheaper and more reliable than cloud?
> Musk is going to prove it once again.

You make it sound like this has been proven many times, examples?
There are many things otherwise allowed on Twitter that would get you banned from HN.
In the late 80s I noticed that I was mentally unwell. One day I went to library and they had some brochures on different forms of mental illnesses. I took one about schizophrenia and matched a symptom or two and assumed I was schizophrenic but I wasn't. I was young and had no guidance. It took over a year for me to realise that I wasn't schizophrenic.

Labels can be useful if you actually understand what they mean but most people have no training to do so. It would be better if we focused on symptoms that negatively impact people's lives than illness labels.
The best piece of advice I received was 'slow and steady wins the race'. It's something I heard a 1000 times before and 1000 times after, and it never meant that much to me. When I heard it, though, at just the right time and it made just the right amount of sense that it totally changed my perspective on everything radically since then. It's totally changed the way I operate and the way I look at things. But I can't really communicate to other people what _exactly_ it means to me, because when I say it to other people they just hear 'slow and steady wins the race' the way I did the first 1000 times.
As I said, he got into this by himself. No one played a ruse on him.
They were also very likely big shareholders, potentially earning more from the deal then the parachute, so... Both?
> A third option is that he does have ADHD and you, a bystander, are doing the misdiagnosis.

Very possible. To me it is just very suspect given my near 30 years of knowing them and other events in their life not long before all of this started.

They have never presented any ADHD traits until recently when suddenly they went from 0 to 100. From being a successful engineer to being unable to concentrate on a crossword.

My personal opinion is they have untreated PTSD following a violent animal attack in early 2020 that caused life-long damage to their dominant hand. This in turn led to them suffering panic attacks around animals, anxiety due to the Covid lockdowns making treatment/physio complicated, furlough leading to isolation at home and being unable to do many of their hobbies from the physical injury (unable to play video games, the guitar, drums, etc)

Tangentially related but they have a history of drug misuse and when I asked if they just wanted the medication their response was "Absolutely". I have mentioned seeking therapy as I suspected PTSD (I myself have C-PTSD from childhood abuse) but he made it clear he has no interest in therapy and just wants the medication which to me is not a great sign.

Of course I could be wrong but I know him well and my worry is they will happily throw medication at him which will do nothing to help him deal with what I believe are the actual issues he is suffering from.
I have ADHD and my flavor makes me look well adjusted on the outside while struggling hard. My mother completely dismissed the possibility of ADHD based on things like me getting a Master's degree. People see the decent grades, but don't see that you put in three times the effort.

Everything got much easier after getting the diagnosis and medication as a 33 year old.
When should the wheel alignment be done?
This is an impressive bit of historical revisionism, entirely in tune with the pro-war memes saturating American corporate media these days related to the continued war in Ukraine (and the official state opposition to a negotiated settlement). In particular, it manages to entirely avoid mentioning Vietnam! Is the author and editor really unaware of that aspect of Bob Dylan's history? Let's see if we can help them out:

> "Through Bob Dylan’s music, the Vietnam War was able to be fought through the use of music as a means of protest. His songs clearly addressed the war, demonstrating that people were speaking about it, as well as expressing the ambivalence that many in the field felt. Despite the fact that the majority of his anti-war songs were written to protest the Vietnam War, many of them are still used today to express opposition to current-day conflicts... Masters of War, The Times They Are A Changin’, and All Along the Watchtower all discussed the atrocities of the war, whereas The Weight, as well as All Along the Watchtower, addressed the general unrest and unease of the time."

https://www.benvaughn.com/the-truth-about-bob-dylan-and-viet...
> There recent activity looks a lot more like desperate panic from being hemmed in by NATO.

Which is why Russia is embarking a course of action that directly precipitated a neighboring country and a near-neighboring country to join NATO, and if the war achieved Russia's full aims, would have increased the number of NATO countries by another three countries (Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania are all NATO). It also turned down a peace deal early in the war where Ukraine would have permanently forsworn NATO membership. More recently, the sham annexations of Ukrainian territory are hard to square with any claims that it's all about NATO.
There are breakers and disconnects. The more complicated systems can even control what circuits are powered, and when.
> I'm astonished that somebody could think stock losses are somehow less harmful than losing cash. That's just wrong.

People behave much differently if the make or lose $100K in cash, vs making or losing $100K in stock holdings. Wealth effect.
Until we finally get liability widespread across the industry and not only in domains where human lives are at risk, just like in every other industry.

When the pocket money gets affected all companies will care about security.

Things are thankfully moving into that direction, US security bill already calls out that one needs to think about delivering software written in C and C++. Only a matter of time until one needs some kind of clearance to deliver software to government agencies with unsafe languages.
Well yes and no. Spending money on something, especially when you’re short on money, makes you value it more and overall for me this would make it more likely to actually go through that book. But that’s me.
History of Thinking
You’re saying these people were able to understand one of the major aspects of their make-up and were able, after years of struggle, to at least give a name to the reason for the struggle they still had to deal with.

They must have had some sense of relief when they got diagnosed. Perhaps they thought they would be given a little bit of a break by those who expected them to act like people who are literally not like them.

Perhaps they found, though, that despite finally being able to show others that they weren’t just lazy, or stupid, or that they didn’t care, or they weren’t interested in paying attention, or they were just being weird, they were still expected to somehow ‘snap out of it’ and be like people who weren’t like them.

After not being able to explain your behaviour for so many years, and then being expected to just somehow ‘identify and understand’ and gain some ‘deeper understanding’ would sound to them exactly like ‘you can just try to stop being yourself now you have a label, right?’

It’s exhausting. Even with - and especially with - those you love and who you see every day, including those who are on the spectrum themselves, there is still a lack of understanding and a pressure to just ‘fix’ yourself, and do so consistently.

No wonder some, as soon as they get a diagnosis, default to saying ‘I did that because I am X’ and don’t want to have to bow and promise to work on themselves so that they can be a better - different - person. They are doing this every day because they feel the weight of society. They don’t need to have those closest to them be the nagging voice of that society.
I expect that the focus on size constraint means this attracts a lot fewer "Hey, here's a cute thing somebody might want" changes, it also means the skillset needed to contribute at all is probably more demanding, if you're used to just calling malloc() whenever you need somewhere to keep a structure this project doesn't want your code.
Advice
I am New to HN. What is that 1 advice you would like to give me to help me get accepted by the community.

1 advice except for, "Don't put such shitty post on HN", would be greatly appreciated.
Interesting that it does ECC on blocks of 64 byte instead of 64-bit, freeing up some of the bits in ECC RAM to be used for other things like extra tag bits.
Perhaps you mean the liquidity of shares in public companies is “basically” equivalent to the liquidity of cash.

But I would disagree there too. There are big differences in liquidity for different companies’ shares, and it varies with time.
Rust yes, Zig is hardly any better than Modula-2.
The Evolution of Stories
People who have nothing wrong don't seek out labels and treatment. If he identified so strongly with the ADHD things being put out there (the vast majority of which at least rhyme with the official diagnostic criteria) that he paid for an assessment that came back positive* then it might be best to believe him.

* I paid for an assessment from a neuropsychologist that came back negative. I dug into their assessment and it was basically just wrong (self contradicting and extremely biased, I.e. I was "too smart" to have it). I went to someone else and they picked up on it immediately.
I moved from Yahoo Chess, to Chess.com then to Lichess, and I haven't looked back since. I hope they continue to make it work as good as it does now - however they do it.
Reference counting is hardly modern, and is a GC algorithm.
Is the evolutionary explanation for 'play' due to it honing motor skills and exploring environments, thus improving survivability?

And if so, is it not reasonable to expect every species that benefits from honing and/or exploration to also 'play'?

I don't find it surprising.
We Don't Understand Computers (2017)
CA’s grid certainly has problems today.

You refer to issues that are all within the past five years, not decades. The last significant problems before these were in 2000 & 2001, which were due to artificial shortages created by Enron, not physical infrastructure problems, had huge political implications, and which led to the development of the current resource adequacy program used in CA. (Which has generally worked pretty well but has been too slow in adapting to rapidly rising amount generation from solar).

But I misread your comment and thought you were talking about significant unmet electrical demand rather than deficiencies in the reliability & safety of the grid. (The late summer grid problems in the past 3 years are partially due to insufficient supply, but require only 1% or so additional supply in the critical hours of the day and CA is building to address that.)

In short, I don’t believe that chronic insufficient demand is a tenable political and economic position (even in CA…) and do not expect it to be tolerated and not fixed.
There's a tag system and data metrics matching system. Based on your comments, watch history, audience crossover between channels, watch time, and subscriptions, and data collected from your Google account (searches, apps opened in Android, etc.) it will generate a list of tags that are visible at the top of the home page. For example, some of my current ones are Electrical Engineering, History, Film Criticisms, and Scientific Explanations. The tags are constantly changing based on the factors mentioned above.
The peeing advice is gold! One day I just discovered that on my own and it changed everything.
We came across this by chance and wanted to jump in: Feel free to try Tutanota - also encrypted, but with a slightly different focus (security & open source come first, this also means building for the mass market is not prioritized; strong focus on email, VPN should be used from a different provider for privacy reasons anyway). Let us know your thoughts, we're curious! :)
No you don't, only for public types , types internal to the package can stay on the same file.
RSA has been deprecated for a while. It still has nothing to do with the fact that you compared a hashing algorithm with a symmetric encryption algorithm, a literal apple to orange comparison
He has been on them two months and while his concentration is better (according to him) none of his other issues have changed for better or worse afaik (anxiety etc).

I should note he never had any concentration problems before 2020 and even he agrees with this.

I replied to another comment with additional details you may be interested in.
In the world that the cash (USD) from 2 months ago still buys you almost the same today, but equity in Meta buys you 25% less.
Math Stack Exchange is a waste of time? (2017) [pdf]