skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for asking! I love this place.

You made me think "what the fuck am I passionate about?" Turns out, I'm passionate about lots of things!

At the moment, I am passionate about

- lawn care

- making a clean cup of coffee in my French Press and AeroPress

- this thing I'm writing that will allow me to set my status for multiple online platforms in one place. I wish I had more time for this :(

- I'm also very fortunate to be writing software for my employer that I really want to ship, so that's been living rent-free inside my head for a while.

- Also passionate about learning more about sales!

I used to be more passionate about cycling but work consuming more of my time and moving to a city that is a literal opposite of being bike friendly did me in. I also bought a new bike over ten years ago that never fit properly, so doing long rides in it would create rashes and hurt my lower back.

That said, I want to buy me a really nice and really properly fitting bike so I can get back on the saddle and accumulate those miles. We're also moving to a more bike-friendly part of town, which I'm looking forward to. I'm thinking of getting an S-Works carbon everything with nice wheels. Expensive, but I can finally afford this.
Being mean? Jeez, I was hardly being mean. Being easily offended and being pro-censorship are two intersecting circles on the venn diagram.
Thanks. The woman acceptance factor of the idea might be low initially. But that tends to change pretty quickly once the baby is soundly asleep. :)
> Like browsing a news group on Usenet or checking a subreddit before

How would you do that on Twitter? Follow the hashtags. Why do you insist on limiting it to a server? That's not really how it is supposed to work anyway, it's not those things you mentioned.
Pretty good metaphor for the nepotic, incestuous, in group/outgroup shady dealings that crop up in business and politics
You know I am going to confess to a couple of biasses here.

Bias 1 - When I saw the article title in the listing of all the new submissions on hacker news, I thought to myself - "Sheesh, Here is somebody who wants to just become popular without a goal in mind. Why can't they just work on some thing they are passionate about and write about that to teach others"

Bias 2 - then I clicked on the article and saw who The author was. Oh damn there MUST be something poignant here.

I am pretty sure two biases don't unbias each other. Either way Simon has really good points in documenting your TIL items. As someone who can lose track of time building and coding, blogging is the last thing on my mind (unless a blog post is a pr for a new feature I am releasing), Simon's advice strikes a nice balance!
Agreed! It also incorporates goal setting and time boxing, which are critical.
Except for all the people with outlook.com addresses.
I like the name Mastodon!

masto- : a combining form meaning “breast,” used in the formation of compound words: mastopathy.

It sounds like the sister site of Phallodon.

-Don
I’ve read a few Python books and dove into it. All I can say is that I enjoy programming with Ruby. I keep coming back to it despite multiple other languages.

I love Elixir as a language but I still find myself coming back to Ruby frequently.

Python exists, but there’s nothing about the language that makes me want to use it. Quite the opposite. I find myself avoiding it whenever possible.

As a prominent Python dev told me, “It’s the okayest language out there.”
I sure do. One day I might write up a full article on it, but this is the summary you asked for.

In the meantime I would ask you to remember that HN is not a journal, a debate stage, or an encyclopedia article, instead it is an informal discussion on the internet. As such, participants are allowed to recount things from memory.
Actually, in contemporary parlance it would be appeasement. Ukraine gave Russia a bloody nose, and giving up territories or even negotiating as suggested by Musk is called "appeasement":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/12/musk-tw...

"Musk appeasement of Putin and China stokes fears of new Twitter policies"

Since the beginning of the war, there are literally hundreds of similar examples. Not calling it appeasement would earn you the title of "Russian asset".
Many Mastodon servers list which other instances they block or limit. Check out the "Moderated servers" list at the bottom of https://mastodon.social/about
Regardless of where this thread ends up on the definition of 'computer', I guess the more interesting question is: how close might these folks have been to building something like Babbage's engine?

If you had to introduce programmability, memory etc. -- no matter in how rudimentary a way -- how (few) steps away is it from the existing design? I'm no computer scientist but it feels like the Greeks would surely have figured it out pretty quick (after one of them put in a PRD for a general arithmetic calculator of course).
Be mindful of your liver enzyme test results at your annual physical (as part of a metabolic panel). That’ll give you an indicator that you’re exceeding the budget of your liver and headed towards cirrhosis (which you most definitely don’t want). Your doctor may also order an ultrasound. Have it done if ordered.

(not medical advice, talk to your doctor)
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So this is total anecdata but I have never been assaulted by someone that was stoned, and never seen someone become sexually aggressive or belligerent when stoned. I'm sure they exist, however those type of folks seem to be much less frequent that people who exhibit this behavior when drunk on alcohol.

I think it really comes down to the fact that weed was originally made illegal through disinformation and policies motivated by racial discrimination, when in reality it is at absolute worst, just as bad as alcohol. We need to stop policing people from themselves, especially when it is so hypocritical because of the massive alcohol and tobacco industries. Why do we need to keep wasting money on this?
Europe pulled ahead technologically in every way from antiquity only after 1500, i.e. after the introduction of the movable-type printing press (whose first effect was that most writings preserved from antiquity became easily accessible for a large number of people, constituting a base for the later scientific and technical progresses) and after the discovery of the maritime ways to Asia and America.

The transition from alchemy and astrology to chemistry and astronomy and the improvements in metallurgy happened later. The improvements in ship building had begun a little earlier, but the greatest progress was mostly later.

Only the progresses in cathedral building had already happened many centuries earlier and the progress in firearms a couple of centuries earlier.

In my opinion, the answer to the question "Why only in Europe did alchemy turn into chemistry?" is because only in Europe the printed books were available for making known to everybody the earlier alchemical works (e.g. by translations from Arabic) and then the progresses in alchemical experiments, until the 18th century during which the modern chemistry was created by the interchange of information between Swedish, French, British, German, Spanish etc. chemists.

Without such an international network of scientists who were able to read very soon the printed results of the chemical research performed by their colleagues from other countries and then they could devise improved experiments for chemical investigations, the modern chemistry could not be created.

If, instead of publishing immediately the results of their experiments, the 18th century chemists would have kept them secret, like most of the early alchemists, the modern chemistry could not have appeared.
This is 100% your own opinion, and no one has said anything about 'nuclear' war. Of course no one wants to fight, if it came down to it, many, including me, would have to defend ourselves.
There are examples online of FTM trans people who start balding after taking testosterone for a while, those anecdotes seem pretty compelling to me.
Those are in Nevada and Idaho, not Arizona.
Congratulations to you. Sounds like a very difficult journey.
La alavesa Aceleration Robotics compra TechnoYantra para expandirse a la India
La compañía española entra en el país asiático mientras el Gobierno indio busca impulsar el sector nacional de chips
Yes.. artificially limiting them from upgrading by checking the SMBIOS in the installer and preventing an upgrade is MUCH BETTER for the users.

And as posted here several times, what about those who use opencore legacy patcher and upgrade despite the block. What "doesn't work" for them?

SO to your point, apple prefers machines in the wild running an old and out of date OS because???
Can you explain your point more? You innitialy said you don’t know how anyone could reasonably see the London city center being divided between Arabic and Russian oil oligarchs as a negative. I reaponded that people do not like that by the fact that the London city center has been split between billionaries it necessarily means that others cannot live there. I compared it to the gentrification argument happening in the US. I'm not clear on which part is not reasonable based on your comment.

More importantly you innitially said what is happening could not be seen as a negative. Now you are saying that it is a negative but the blame rests on policy makers and not oligarchs. When did I say who the blame fell on? And how do you explain the change in your argumet from the London city center being divided between Arabic and Russian oil oligarchs not being a negative to now being a negative?
3 more family members are about to move into my house. No matter how much I tell myself that having a larger household and more social time will be "good for me", and of course having help with childcare will be hugely convenient, I'm really starting to dread the loss of privacy.
I like very much this conjecture: easy to grasp, with some intuition you can understand why it is plausible to hold. No general method has been discovered to settle the matter, only proofs for specific cases (up to 7 runners apparently).
I'm a techy leftist opposed to guns. I'm absolutely not talking about myself.

And I don't mean a fancy security system. I mean a paranoid prepper with a basement full of canned food and a stocked gun case. The kind of person who is itching to live through a zombie apocalypse, and would eagerly start shooting at people that even vaguely suspected were coming for their stockpile. Their guns are a deterrent to taking their food. That's it.
T——>DHT tho
I agree code editor autocomplete is a good design for searching through space of options efficiently. I'm not sure if that design works for "autocorrect" in general writing instead of code editing.

I guess you could popup a list of all possible matching "correct" words as you type, but that would likely get old fast for normal writing. You would always see the popup. Generally autocorrect (fixing typos and spellings) happens once you have finished typing a word. At that point the word is checked, and maybe autocorrected.

I think that basic design is good. Finish word, then autocorrect if there's a high quality match. The place where I think problems happen and maybe a better design can help include:

1. Clear indication of what has been autocorrected

2. Easy way to revert autocorrections

3. Don't pop up to much UI during this whole process
> This person should be censured for spreading disinformation that benefits him/her when it is a lie and the audience is sophisticated enough to not need to eve use colloquial English.

The truth that the FAA has sovereignty over the navigatiable airspace... and unless someone wants to litigate it to give the state/city more power it will stay that way.
>The explicit intentions aren’t enough, though, and in fact at times the group has served the opposite purpose.

The tone suggests "gosh darnit, a cis white man was able to connect with a fellow hobbyist when he shouldn't have".
How would you then explain all the double-blind clinical trials that demonstrated the majority of patients on Finasteride (a popular DHT inhibitor) slowed down, or slightly reversed, their hair loss, compared with the patients who were on placebo?

(please Google for the studies and data, I don't have links ready but have reviewed them in the past, there are tons by different groups of researchers across many countries)
I refused to ever go down the chemical path and just lived with the ugliness of having splotchy hair on the crown of my head. It didn't seem to impact my dating life much but there are so many variables in such things that it's hard to know if things would have been somehow better if I hadn't started thinning. But then I went through a very stressful period of life and the hair loss accelerated and I started shaving it completely. Though I have since grown my hair out again, the pre-stress slotchiness is still there but I in general don't care.

Being Mr. Clean level bald for several years did come with some lessons. The biggest was that even with thinning hair, it provides far more thermal regulation than you'd expect. Without any hair, your head can quickly overheat in direct sunlight and you lose tons of heat during cold weather. Get accustomed to having hats. For me, the newsie type hat worked best but for some reason, there are plenty of people who think if you wear that particular type of hat, that you're trying to fool everyone into thinking you're not bald. Some people can be very assholish about it. But for the bald it is a good hat because there's not a lot of empty space for where hair usually would go. It does a nice job of replicating the thermal regulation hair normally would. Mesh trucker type hats are generally not a good choice. There's too much airflow and the bands tend to be abrasive.

Another thing you'll have to deal with if you still have significant amounts of hair outside of the balding spots is how much more time you're now going to spend keeping it shaved clean. Stubble might be seen as sexy on your face but it looks bad on your head. Any time savings from not needing to shampoo, condition, and style your hair can get consumed by needing to keep it shaved. There are specialized types of razors made for head shaving that use standard shaving cartridges. It's worth spending a few bucks on getting one instead of using a razor designed for your face.
Wouldn’t a hacker want to do exactly this to take over an account- if it was possible?
Is that the “Let’s get going” button? It’s also not clear to me where I can start doing this right now.

If it is that button I’d suggest some sort of soft sign up flow. It’d be really nice if I could join a double immediately, give an email or some identifying info, and that’s it. After my first session make me finish the sign up.
There are people who keep a fan running, or the hood in their kitchen. That of course works. But the amount of energy required is probably 100x that of a radio. And the latter has the added benefit that you can adjust the type of noise, as well as the volume.
In addition, Felix discussed this in the most recent episode of the Rational Reminder podcasts he co-hosts:

> Are index funds a menace to the market? Are pension funds still a wise way to secure your financial future? In this episode, we discuss index funds, the state-sponsored pension plan in Canada, and much more. First, we unpack the nuances of index funds and take a look at the impact that active and passive investors have on the market. We discuss current index fund trends, when to switch from a passive to an active investor, and the dreaded index fund tipping point. […]

* https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/225

Audio, video, and transcript available. Excerpt (~20m00s):

> It starts with, of course, a Fama and French paper, "Disagreements, Tastes and Asset Prices", which is a great paper that we've talked about many times, including with Ken French, who is very excited that we asked about it. They have this paper that shows that if misinformed and uninformed active investors who will make prices less efficient by trading, switch to market cap indexing, market efficiency actually improves. That's the comment that you made earlier, Cameron. It gets harder to be an active manager, because there's more competition. That's the relative level of competition as opposed to the absolute level is what matters.

> If informed active investors, so the ones that are doing a good job, setting prices that the skilled active managers, if they switch to indexing, then in that case, prices do become less efficient. This is the concern, I guess. If everybody, including the skilled managers go to indexing, then there is a concern about ongoing marketing efficiency. As long as there are some remaining informed active investors, even if there are a few, a small few, as long as they're skilled, and they command a lot of wealth, which they would, and we'll talk more about the empirical side of that in a second. As long as there's a few left and they're competing with each other, theoretically, prices remain efficient, and arguably, even more efficient than they were in the case where there were still some unskilled managers.
My personal experience strongly differs from yours to the point that I am willing to doubt your ability to self-analyze, at least if the discussion is happening in a public forum.
The server has the bits to do it [1], but clients need to implement it (they are the "ends" in "end-to-end encryption" after all). However this hasn't seen much interest from app developers and users.

[1]: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/13820
The people come first, not the technology. I didn't really start using Twitter until I first knew some people I wanted to communicate with. It will be the same with Mastodon, or whatever. Then the choice of server will become much simpler. Until then, I'm not moving from Twitter. Sure I'm using Twitter less these days, due to the chaos, but I'm not joining anything else until I see where others are going.

Does that make me a sheeple? Yes, it does. Sue me.
Do Easy
> Firstly, BSD is not encumbered by GPL. Also, any BSD is a complete operating system while Linux requires distros subject to the whims of their creators, which seem to focus on form over function

This "BSD is a complete operating system" that you speak of... Do you mean FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragnonFly BSD, Darwin?

Thankfully BSD is not subject to teh whims of any distro?
If it is not DHTs fault (and by proxy Ts, as more T = more DHT) then why do finasteride and dutasteride work so very well?

At this point, rejecting as main culprit for AGA either too much DHT or a DHT sensitivity that is to high or, worst case, both at once in one man, is nothing but crazy fringe science.

To stress this out, the vast majority of men will keep their hair forever with oral minoxodil and oral finasteride and someone not keeping it on oral dutasteride instead of finasteride is a freak of nature.
It really depends on the writer's motivation. Practicing regular public writing... awesome. Trying to rank for keywords... blah.

You have zero obligation to engage with someone's personal blog (that most likely will never show up in search results).
Result quality is something of a gamble right now: sometimes the results are really excellent, but as you’ve found they can also be pretty useless. I’m planning to use all the searches I’m getting today to construct a benchmark I can use to improve things.

On that note: what were you hoping to get out of that search? I see that Gloss is a package for doing animations, but (without knowing anything about Haskell) it seems like Google/DuckDuckGo don’t really have anything useful to offer either. (In fact the only thing I found was what I assume is your post on the Gloss mailing list: https://groups.google.com/g/haskell-gloss/c/FGNxutKmm-w)
Great thread OP. I'd say there are three main things on my mind lately:

First is trying to move from my third world country, which is pretty involved. There's a lot to prepare financially, culturally, and you basically have to have a job arranged to pull it off. Reading this on HN, you would think about getting a job as a software engineer and then just moving, but as an electronics/firmware engineer, it is hard to both get a remote job and also make that little career jump.

Second is thinking about connecting more with people online, I recently realized I've been on the internet for over 10 years and I haven't really made any friends. I'd say I'm much fonder of the older forum style communities than the more fleeting and instant chat based ones of today, but even when they were the norm I didn't really make friends either, so there's something about my approach that needs work for sure.

A third one is stable diffusion and other current AI developments. I didn't really pay AI much thought, but since stable diffusion came out I've been pretty obsessively watching it as it develops. I even bought a new GPU just to try it out (currently waiting for it to arrive). I find drawing fascinating despite never nurturing my skills very well, so being able to "draw" properly, even if just by conducting a big black box of matrix computation instead of my hands, feels pretty great.
> If you were to test the behavior of unit one _through_ units 2 and 3, you'd need 2*N tests.

There are only two possible responses to that:

1. No, there are not 2*N tests because unit 3 does not cover, or need, all of the behavior and cases that flow through those units. Then unit testing unneeded behaviors is unnecessary.

2. Unit 3 actually goes through all those 2*N cases. So, by not testing them at the unit 3 level you have no idea that the system behaves as needed. Literally this https://twitter.com/ThePracticalDev/status/68767208615275315...

> You're missing the point that you don't need to test "the exact same scenarios for the combination of units", because the partitions of <inputs to outputs>

This makes no sense at all. Yes, you've tested those "inputs/outputs" in isolation. Now, what tests the flow of data? That unit 1 outputs data required by unit 2? That unit 3 outputs data that is correctly propagated by unit 2 back to unit 1?

Once you start testing the actual flow... all your unit tests are immediately entirely unnecessary because you need to test all the same cases, and edge cases to ensure that everything fits together correctly.

So, where I would write a single functional test (and/or, hopefully, an integration test) that shows me how my system actually behaves, you will have multiple tests for each unit, and on top of that you will still need a functional test, at least, for the same scenarios.
> We all have different beliefs and the only way to move forward as society is to foster open and honest conversation.

This presupposes every "belief" and discussion is in good faith. It also presupposes that there's no second order effects from the amplification of "beliefs". A bigot is not interested in learning about whatever it is they're bigoted against. They just want to amplify their message. Trolls and shit posters just want to troll and shit post.

If you eliminate moderation then all you'll get is people using your platform to scream at everyone else. Assuming everyone is interested in actual conversation is childishly naïve.
I lost a few friends to alcohol recently. They were in their 30s and they died of organ failure caused by chronic alcohol abuse. I didn’t know this was possible. I assumed a life long alcoholic might get liver cirrhosis in their 50s or something. Is this common knowledge?
The point is that these open source initiatives are exactly competing on UX with billion-dollar companies, and that they will continue to lose.
"It's fine, we did tell everyone to evacuate" - I wonder how many actually evacuate / can afford to evacuate every time.
The "not choosing" option is to run your own instance.

You are forced to chose because there is not a central blessed server that acts as a main hub.