skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am going through the same thing this year. You're doing the right thing in reevaluating. Have confidence knowing that even if your previous work didn't go how you wanted it to, stopping and taking a look at _how_ you do that work is a sign of progress towards a point where your work meets and exceeds your expectations.
> Also, there's a HUGE overhead that comes from wiring together and maintaining the runtime environment.

Yes the runtime bugs me too, but I think your complaints are about dependencies in general, not just Java dependencies.
It's certainly not incredible. A crypto company going belly up and fucking over their entire customer base is very very credible.
Yep, I hope it continues working.
All of HN knows that Tether is a scam that will implode AnyMomentNow (TM).

However, notice how for the second time in a year an unexpected crypto entity (FTX/Alameda) is the actual one which is in difficulty. The first time being 3AC/Celsius.

In finance, when everybody knows something, it's 95% likely to be false.
For perspective, that single server is
- 1TB of DDR4 RAM
- 3TB of NVME SSD storage
- 192 physical 2.7GHz cores (384 with hyperthreading
A Dream Fulfilled at KubeCon NA
What's ironic is that they did this at all. It's like they positioned themselves as the central bank of the crypto world. Only they skipped the "full faith and credit" part and made their contract be "hey, don't worry about it".
Yes, this is how markets work. That said, tech is underpaid due to code monkeyism.
Thirded... our world is a better place because of Sam and his contributions.
I’m still trying to decide if stopping withdrawals is smoke, or is the fire.
Those fifteen year kids old whose lives Never Mind the Bollocks changed are sixty years old, now.

Arguing over the "spirit" of punk in 2022 is a full decade more absurd than arguing over the spirit of the Andrews Sisters would have been in 1977.

Or to put it another way, the only way to be into punk these days is to entirely miss its point.

YMMV.
I suspect the vast majority of cyclist/pedestrian accidents never get reported because most of them don't result in broken bones, etc (e.g, the bicyclist tried to stop or the pedestrian noticed at the last minute, injuries reduced to scrapes and bruises).
Currently 37, and am soon reaching my 31 yo crossfit max. No 'roids. :-)

Only difference is: I build slowly, I wanna keep fit until 70+.

And yes, for the 20 year olds: Exercise every day!
Not at all, his impact was huge. He brought Greek philosophy and culture to India. His conquest founded the Ptolemaic dynasty of Greeks that ruled Egypt through to the Roman era and Cleopatra. Establishing Greek hegemony over the entire Middle East opened up access to the philosophy, mathematics and learning across the region. This stimulated scientific and mathematical developments that changed the way we saw the world. Greeks studying and working in Alexandria developed mathematics and philosophy, including calculating the circumference of the earth. It also became a centre of religious development, the Septuagint was compiled there. He changed the region from isolated cultural bubbles that occasionally rubbed violently against each other into a world with far ranging intellectual and commercial interests.
Did Madrid start their rail network within the past decade? Seattle has had rail for single digit years. It's expanding, and ridership is growing.

We went from 0 trips a year to tens of millions over the past couple years.
Seems like more problem than solution when you consider a web site might be viewed on devices of radically different sizes.
> It took me decades to build up a complex enough logic tree to handle social interaction.

Yeah I feel pretty much the same way fwiw :) I wasn't saying one needs to be an outgoing social butterfly, just that being "that smart person that no one wants to talk to" is poison for your career, all emotional considerations aside.
Note that Sonic Pi is also available on other Linux distributions (Debian and Manjaro have it, didn't check others), presumably built and packaged by the community since it appears from the homepage they support only the ports linked from there.
This is important especially now that used mini-pcs are so easily available and cost a fraction of a mostly unobtanium Raspberry PI.
I have a hard time empathizing with this. I understand the principle, but here's where I come from/my experience:

When many of my coworkers message me on Slack for example, they don't just leave me a message asking for what they want, they say "Hey, how are you", or "How was your weekend", or some other silly thing.

I know they don't care about the answer to my question. Now, instead of being able to asynchronously answer their question, I have to spend my own energy (I'm slightly autistic, so it doesn't come easily to me) coming up with some reply to this, so that they THEN ask what they actually want to know.

> [03 AM] COWORKER: Hey gavinray, how was your weekend?
> [10 AM] gavinray: It was decent, what about yours?
> [11 AM] COWORKER: Good. Hey, about ISSUE-123, do you...

Now they have wasted both of our time and drained me of my lifeforce. Sometimes there are hours of delay between this/we are in different timezones.

Just ask me for what you want, I know you're only talking to me because you want something.
You're right about that. People who try to fix others do so because they don't want to feel the other person's pain because, it hurts, it's unpleasant and they don't know what to say. They genuinely want the other person to get better but fail to see how it may make them feel worse by suggesting a fix.
I think it would have been a lot harder in the ancestral environment. They didn't have the luxery of many hard, large and straight surfaces.
Based on a very quick search, there are absolutely drivers who are actively and deliberately trying to maim and murder bicyclists. It actually seems much more common than I thought it would be:

> A driver who told a cyclist “I’m going to kill you” before ramming him with his car has been jailed for 10 months after being found guilty of dangerous driving.

https://road.cc/content/news/driver-who-deliberately-rammed-...

> A CYCLIST with cancer who was cornered by a driver before being beaten for ‘no reason’ was left ‘furious’, saying: ‘I could have been killed.’

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/crime/hayling-island-cycli...

> This person passed a cyclist and then drove off the road intentionally onto the shoulder and into two other cyclists and possibly accelerated while doing that

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colorado-driver-accused-of-inte...

An older video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7oskFsHSMs

> The driver, Marshall Grant Neely III, who is the dean of students at University School of Nashville continues to deny his responsibility for slamming into the cyclist and sending him to hospital.

The video of him hitting the cyclist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfqthN_UjG0

> Neely responded “No there are bikes all over the place. I didn’t see him…I feel very badly for the gentleman who collided with me and I assume we’ll see each other in court,” he continued adding that he does not think he is a bad man.

https://www.granfondoguide.com/Contents/Index/2920/shocking-...
It's funny to say they're not fixed when they're still here 70 years after having been laid.

The ones near me even have a little plaque describing the date on which they were laid.
This usage of just is fascinating.

For instance:

Can't we just apply this small change to remediate the larger problem?

Why not? Saying such a thing can actually be helpful. Perhaps (and in many cases probably) the other party hasn't considered doing so. However, we're also almost stating that the listener has spent considerable resources coming up with solutions which seem overly complicated to the speaker...

"Just" is an almost perfect linguistic trap to set for oneself. It really does seem like the perfect cousin of "I told you so", a turn of phrase which never wears well in any form.
> it’s quite hard to know exactly what happened back then! For instance, the Greeks would never admit that Alexander was the son of the King of Persia and grandson of Philip. Yes, it’s unlikely but it’s not implausible…

Given that we know about Alexander's parentage from multiple contemporary sources, the idea that a pro-Persian epic poem written 1300 years later is plausible when it tells us something different is not very sensible.

What's probably going on is a bit of retconning to resolve two contrary ideas. On the one hand, by the time Ferdowsi was writing, several hundred years of Arab rule in Iran had made stories about Alexander (who the Arabs thought was pretty awesome) popular. On the other hand, Persians remembered that Alexander had conquered an ancient Persian empire. (We know the pre-Islamic Sassanid Persians hated Alexander.) How do you reconcile this in a patriotic Persian poem?

Solution: make it so Alexander was secretly Persian! (I have no idea whether this was Ferdowsi's innovation or something that had evolved over a few centuries of storytelling prior to Ferdowsi coming along.)

There's a nice discussion of the background to this (including why Ferdowsi did things like refer to Alexander as "Caesar of Rome") here
https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/20f0yh/historic...
“Taffy” Holden – The Aircraft Engineer Who Accidently Took Off
An engineer in the Royal Air Force who whilst performing routine maintenance accidentally took off in an English Electric Lightning.
Hey thanks for the thoughtful response.

I agree with everything you mentioned here. I'd love to continue to chat with you about how to make testing sagas better.

If you'd like, it would be great if we could move this convo to https://github.com/redux-saga/redux-saga/discussions/2337
Not only should telemetry be optional, but a failure to send it should not result in the application refusing to run¹. With a host-level block of PostHog, the server crashes with:

Post "https://app.posthog.com/capture/": dial tcp x.x.x.x:443: connect: connection refused

1: https://github.com/slashbaseide/slashbase/blob/a7cb7871b07a9...
I always deselect this when I install the nVidia driver in Windows. I play none of the few games that are supposedly enhanced by it.
"Star A" is nearly the mass of our sun.

When our sun exhausts the hydrogen in the core, it will swell as a red giant, encompass the orbits of Mercury and Venus, and likely come very close to earth.

"Black hole B" is currently ten times the mass of our sun. The star that produced it was likely much more massive still. The red giant phase of such a star might have reached to Neptune, so there is no way that these two evolved together.

When the star in this pair exhausts its hydrogen, the black hole will drain the red giant that it becomes.
Indoctrination is way older than the technologies that propel it nowadays.
Such a exaggerated great fiction version of a real thing!
By "visual explanation" do you mean imagining a square whose sides are length (a + b), and breaking it up into smaller squares and rectangles?

Or do you mean mulitplying out the terms:

(a + b)(a + b) = a^2 + ab + ba + b^2 = a^2 + 2ab + b^2

?
I almost got into an accident with a cyclist who did this while going down a steep hill towards a 4-way stop. I was already at a complete stop at the 4-way, and started to proceed through when I saw the cyclist moving at 20mph+ down the hill towards the intersection. Luckily I was able to stop in time. Predictability is important.
Thanks for that link. Wish I could read Mandarin Chinese so I could read the original too.

Clearly a flawed person. Not sure why he blew off his family so hardcore for so many years. Too bad to hear he was arrogant as a kid too, although a lot of smart kids are. Some of them turn out to be Peter Thiel, luckily this guy just wanted to work on math.

Anyway, I wish he had been better to his parents. On the other hand, he needed that big breakthrough to save his life as a mathematician: until that point, he was just an adjunct lecturer with no stability at all. Life is weird and complicated and we don't have full control of the choices we make, some choices can seem really hard to some people. I'm not excusing his behavior toward his family but I would be interested to know why he made that choice.
And I love how you have self-professed specialists that tell you "no this will never happen". Finance is full of over-confident people that don't know enough or have too much at stake.
Would the star's system orbiting the black hole change anything for its planets though? It's like with us, we barely care about Pluto let alone some distant object the sun and us as well are orbiting.
Dragon teeth alone won't hold against a tank for more than a few minutes, if the tank just has a bulldozer attachment. Not for bulldozing the teeth, but for pushing enough soil over them so it can effortlessly go over.

The purpose is to force enemy to spend time and effort dealing with the obstacle, while you direct fire on them.
Apple has likely signed a massive licensing deal with ARM at the 'architectural license' level or an even more specialized deal because Apple is Apple. I'd think that Apple's signed a nice long contract because when Apple bought PA Semi and had goals to design their own chip which takes quite a long time. Also note that you can't just buy M1 chips off digikey. Apple only makes these chips for Apple's products, and their agreement may have included that Apple wouldn't become a chip vendor.
Police in those cases are not trying to root-cause the accident. They are assigning legal blame. Here in the US, if you are driving a car and a child suddenly runs out into the road in front of you, you are at fault regardless the circumstances. The child's behavior was the root cause, but the car was at fault.

I have been involved in two pedestrian-cyclist crashes (never seriously hurt) and witnessed another ~5, and in all cases, it wasn't reported to the police. These were in NYC, where the police won't pay attention to anything short of a homicide, so people rarely report things. I suspect that a lot of pedestrian-cyclist incidents don't get reported, even when one of them ends up in the ER.

Where I live now there aren't many road cyclists, but like the child, if a cyclist does something unpredictable and a driver doesn't notice, I assume the driver would still legally be at fault.
Healthcare money seems to be mostly around billing. Ways to increase billing mostly.

I’ve found that you need to get as much done as possible early on. Once you get to certain point HIPPA will drive all business decisions. Mostly by making people terrified of making changes and causing a violation.

Source. Been in industry off and on.

Would love to find a way to help regular people diagnosis problems better.
If you go into any chronic illness forum. You see tons of people asking questions on symptoms, test results, doctors etc.

I constantly see people that have textbook perfect cases of some condition. But doctors routinely dismiss it. Or won’t order tests or ignore tests or don’t use correct tests.
Just like with cyberpunk 2077, my question is, "where are the flying cars!?"
Sure. Everything is transient but if something lasts for the rest of your life is it though? Especially if it impacts everything around you.

I get the meta point but people are just not wired this way.
I bake a lot, haven't noticed flour or sugar getting any smaller? They're the same size bags as they always are
> If you're complaining to me about your chronic condition then I will feel compelled to give you advice on things that I think might help you.

Heh, I have to admit I chuckled at that one. To be honest, I felt somewhat similarly earlier in my life. In all seriousness, I highly recommend group therapy. You will discover that no matter how much you feel "compelled" to give advice in moments when people are looking for support and connection, that nobody, and I mean nobody, wants to hear it.
It is a culture difference. In Europe when my wife cuts her thumb I call 112 to ask for help how to stop bleeding and where is the closest emergency room. In US police squad is sent immediately for domestic violance investigation.
If the ATM Cash Machine stops withdrawals because it's out of money it doesn't mean that the bank which owns it is insolvent.

Even if you go to a bank branch, large withdrawals ($100k+) need to be announced days in advance, they will not give you the money on the spot.
Just adding to this for the uninitiated-but-curious: the German army invaded by going around the line. This meant taking tanks through the Ardennes, a bordering region consisting of mountains and forests, not quite the Panzer's ideal terrain...

Nowadays it's still used as a French expression to describe a "seemingly impassable defense that's useless in the end".
> can withstand small and medium calibre arms and shrapnel/fragmentation while also delivering direct fire to a front line location. In that regard there is nothing that can replace it yet

But an AFV can do this.
I've been trying to teach myself not to use the word "just" in my documentation.

I was inspired by this legendary PR to the Django docs that fixed all kinds of words that "minimize difficulty involved": https://github.com/django/django/pull/11482
> This seems designed to start a bicycle argument.

Any time anyone talks about cycling outside of a venue designated specifically for topics on cycling, you can generally assume it's going to result in uncivil discourse. There should be an Internet law about that or something.

(But who are we kidding? Cyclists would find a way to break that law too. OH, SNAP!)
The Preppers Were Right All Along: Climate Change Is Launching a New Generation
Yep, and that's a good reason to professionally avoid people who become irritated too often.

I have been lucky enough so far this was possible.. and if this could not be avoided, one stategy was to try to deflect any specific promise with "I need to research this first", and then ask same question again when the person cools down.

It does mean that irritable people get help slower, but that's how the life is in general anyway.
You cannot squeeze that which is not in a squeezable position.
TikTok Urged by Record Labels to Share More Revenue, Royalties
Maybe. However, more realistic outcome would be that new twitter like sites will launch and first site to import twitter's data and scale decently will "win"
OpenWRT also got it packaged. So a solid and easy way to run it is to just throw the client on some old routers with OpenWRT support, connected to $20 USB DACs with S/PDIF.

https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=P0484
https://archive.ph/r1uIF
2-way stops are often worse, and replacing them with roundabouts often require the use of eminent domain.
Who knows, but the plan itself was sound and it worked. It forced Germany to go via small route and thus made much less land that needed to be defended. They just didn't have a plan to defend that land - if they had a workable plan Germany would have been in real trouble - their troops were overextended on hindsight. It worked because France was incompetent not because Germany had a great battle plan.
> Member nations in NATO are not equal. Never have been never will be.

Member nations are certainly not. Potential partner/member nations are equal with extremely rare realpolitik exceptions like Turkey.

> In not so many words, it meant that Russia would have to join the transnational gang as a foot soldier (Estonia) rather than a capo (UK) let alone a boss (US).

Explain a diplomatic sequence that sees Russia after the dissolution of the USSR immediately accede to the NATO informal equivalent of the UNSC. IMHO it was on Russia to counter-offer the NATO suspicion and initiate MOU working sessions to create a trust building framework to demonstrate good faith over an agreed upon period of years instead of demanding "capo" or "boss" status along with being read into the military secrets such status entails.

> There is similar German commentary on the character of minority groups in their country from 1939.

That's an unnecessarily inflammatory response. I get it, this is a heated topic, but I'm looking to shed light without heat here.

What else explains the predictive power of multiple former Warsaw Bloc nations' intelligence and diplomatic warnings to their Western counterparts, full decades before they happened, based upon not much beyond this national character defect assessment (at least with publicly-available information)? I can easily buy that such a defect assessment is wrong, but what other analyses were those agencies using? What explains the difference between the restructuring outcomes of Japan and that of the USSR? How much substance is there to Zeihan's thesis that if Russia does not secure various chokepoints in Eastern Europe it will be invaded in the 21st century and how does that square with its situation along the shared border with the PRC?

So many fertile topics to explore and I'm sure someone is hanging around here that can point us to the extant literature that attempts to probe these areas and more, without such heated, non-substantive contributions to the discussion. I will plainly state I know functionally nothing about what is going on in Russia-West relations other than what I see in the mainstream, and I invite anyone including you to contribute your knowledge to the discussion to learn.
We used the PhysX engine in a simulated environment for robotics development back in that timeframe. I don't think more than one or two people on the team had the accelerator cards, but it worked surprisingly well just on a vanilla hardware
They have two additional lines being constructed or planned at the moment, to bring the rail out to the surrounding population centers, and they are extending the central line significantly.

Pretty soon we'll have three large lines, and there's discussions about what to build next. The rail is fairly popular out here.
To re-purpose a popular quote: everything after the "just" is BS.

It's not that there are never valid uses, but 99% of uses that I see tend toward careless and condescending. Sometimes they're part of an "adversarial learning" process in which the person making the suggestion knows it's probably wrong but uses it as a way to be educated without having to ask for it. You'll recognize this one because they'll "just" over and over and over. Other times "just" is an expression of the person's own frustration with the constraints of the problem or the pace of progress, which isn't really helpful either. Often, as tbray points out, it's a way to make light of others' struggles. Only rarely is it constructive, most often as a way to snap someone out of "analysis paralysis" or other kinds of mental looping - and even then there are better alternatives.

And don't get me started on "should" or we'll be here all day. ;)
A noticeable feature of the Sainsbury’s website is that weights encoded in the URLs don’t change with the weight in the webpage as shrinkflation happens. So the following link to 115g of ham still has 125g in the link itself:

\www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-british-cooked-ham-125g

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-briti...
The problem with scams and pyramid schemes is that they can survive for a very, very long time limping around - all they have to do is pay off enough angry people that doubts don't explode too much and cause legal trouble, or have enough gullible fools which don't want to sell because of sunk cost fallacy.

Crypto scams/schemes and also legitimate crypto service providers also have another vulnerability: getting hacked or external influences (e.g. economic crises, legislation, sanctions or asset seizures) making their business model impossible to continue.

The problem is: it's sometimes very hard to determine if a crypto service is a scam, a pyramid scheme, a money-laundering operation or a legitimate service. And almost nothing of it (except certain NFTs which have legally bound real world entities tied to them such as [1]) is backed by actual real-world liquid-ish assets.

[1] https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/the-first-nft-hom...