skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't remember a time in which news media hasn't just been entertainment in this regard.

The Kraken co-founder having certain political views, or SBF and his mates being some sort of unattractive orgy-clique, or whatever else, is like some sort of Hello magazine gossip nonsense.

If I were a journalist I'd be focusing on things that allow people to improve their lives. Should I invest in XYZ (actual pros and cons), is it safe or unsafe for me to drive a car, what do the elections mean for me, etc etc.

In this specific case it would have been really easy and simple to have articles that describe how to avoid being caught up in stuff like this, with the whole gamut of advice (ranging from "just don't use it, why risk it bro" to "transact peer to peer only" to "only keep small amounts at exchanges" or whatever else).

Instead it feels as if many publications just like to spout opinionated nonsense about whatever. It's bizarre. You don't generally go into journalism for the money, so then what's the point in giving up your ideals and just writing total crap? A complete waste of time.
I'm sorry about the hospitalization and the absurd hospital bill.

But one thing I don't understand, are you saying that before Obamacare, the situation would have been better? If so, how?

Personally, I wish we had a healthcare system where people are simply covered for this sort of occurrence automatically.
I think the upgrade to far, far more efficient heat pumps would be small compared to the cost of that...
> It's much harder to do in software when one can simply walk across the street and get a better job

That may have been the case six months ago, but those “better jobs” are drying up and there is now I think around 20k recently released FAANG level SWEs walking around without gigs. Once the severance payout is gone and the COBRA starts demanding $1500/mo…there will be all sorts of SWEs willing to stretch their anti-Elon morality for a decent paycheck again.
Fair enough.

But still, it's part of a larger apparatus of making nuclear war appear to be "reasonable" alternative when in reality it is a horrific crime against all humanity; if you haven't seen the film, you might enjoy how it presents these drills, along with all of the other apparatus of selling nuclear war to US population.
I applied for a visit visa in October. It was a straightforward process. Paid the fees (100 pounds), went for biometrics to local uscis office, uploaded supporting docs to a online portal and sent my passport to New york. It came back in 2 weeks with stamped visa.
Seems like you’ve ducking nailed it. Why was this posted here?
Note this is true for all phones
How good is the overall speed?
Very interesting point of view! Stephen Hawking was the first mentor in my life. He was a great source of inspiration for me, and I spent a lot of time trying to understand what his life must have been like, with his body failing, and yet still motivating himself to do such brilliant work.

The last bit about spreading your focus to your entire body is more about detaching yourself from the continuous on-going rumination of the mind, to pay closer attention to what's real right in front of you right now as a unbiased unfiltered consciousness, rather than whatever your mind is occupied with. My experience is that this is the single thing which when practiced enough times can immediately pull you out of your misery, especially if your misery is self-inflected.

The esoteric term for this practice is mindfulness. I personally exercise my own style of mindfulness, which is partly inspired by Stephen Hawking as well. I visualize my present moment the same way Hawking would describe the mechanics of the Universe in his books and shows. I would go to the microscopic level, zoom in, zoom out, follow the flow of energy, matter, cause, effect, I would imagine a quick timeline of the objects in front of me, where they came from, how they came into existence, I would see how everything is connected with each other, rather than being separate individual entities. I would pay attention to myself, all my senses, my perceptions, emotions, reactions, almost from a 3rd person pov. Like a Scientist observing a Monkey, and all my agitation and worries just disappear.

All of this helps me realign myself. It grounds me in a way that nothing else does. I find it quiet relaxing honestly
I believe you have that backwards. Mass-market paperbacks are the bottom of the barrel, trade paperbacks are the better version.
> Imagine running a company and some engineer comes in and and says they want to develop a new source control system. I don't understand under what circumstances this is approved.

Under the circumstance that no existing source control system can handle a monorepo as large as Google's or FB's. The custom source control system is not a hobby. It is vital to both companies.
No. It's a codename in reference to Monica and the Friends tv show. Chandler being the one who dates Monica (no spoiler).
Right now we have two repos on Github, but we have to find a way to merge Chandler to Monica in the future so we don't lose those precious stars :-)
What is the actual point of a generative text model that emits plausible-sounding scientific technobabble? How this is not just a DDOS against the entire system of peer review?

Honest question: how can this be used for any kind of good? What’s the actual point?
I have a SCSI hard drive or two I cannot access.
Another possibility is that it's intentionally borderline "oops or maybe not oops" to have plausible deniability while knowing Poland is going to take it extremely seriously. This lets them test Poland's and NATO's reaction to see how much they will tolerate and how eager NATO actually is to mobilize its military.
> It obviously does. Still a great app though.

What is so great about it? It's algo, infinite scrolling, monetization models?

These are generally time sinks and engagement is what it's optimized for, but as a platform how is any different than what Vine or any other similar platform made before?

People uploading hours of their skits/rants/dancing etc... and calling it content has never appealed to me, hence why I never bothered with Social Media. But I'm genuinely curious, what makes it a 'great app' amongst technologists?
They're nice concessions, but the iPad is just not made to do these things like a desktop machine. It's not even worth running a CS class if your students are all learning how to operate iPads at maximum efficency.
>There is no possibility where this isn't fraudulent.

It's called being conservative in your statements.

>Also how did they even lose so much in the first place?

Bad investments

>Meanwhile, at a meeting with Alameda employees on Wednesday, Ms. Ellison explained what had caused the collapse, according to a person familiar with the matter. Her voice shaking, she apologized, saying she had let the group down. Over recent months, she said, Alameda had taken out loans and used the money to make venture capital investments, among other expenditures.

>Around the time the crypto market crashed this spring, Ms. Ellison explained, lenders moved to recall those loans, the person familiar with the meeting said. But the funds that Alameda had spent were no longer easily available, so the company used FTX customer funds to make the payments

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/technology/ftx-sam-bankma...
If you cross enough times you start to see patterns in their training. A common one is to ask the same question twice like 'where were you born?' or 'where do you live?' with some filler in between. They want to catch you on any inconsistencies. I've gotten noobs that really struggle to maintain the act and get through the questions in a natural way.
Indeed. I think it's all so awful. I remember as a child in the USA in the 80s the general feeling that travel would become free-er and free-er as time went on; and that we could take pride in being a democracy who could let citizens of other democracies travel freely back and forth

(whether that was really true or not -- and it surely wasn't as much as we thought it was, and how rich or poor the person and country mattered -- the point was that our self-image was that it was and that this was good and something to be proud of -- that democracies could allow free travel between each other. No doubt this was in large part due to the context of the cold war, with the desire to distinguish ourselves from those behind the "iron curtain")

It is so sad to me that we're all moving in the opposite direction, to my mind for no good reasons, and not even regretting it.

We -- for some inclusion of "we" -- didn't even used to have to show any paperwork to travel from the USA to Canada. Young people now can probably barely believe that is the truth.
NASA – Upper Stage Liquid Hydrogen and Liquid Oxygen in Fast Fill
There's no fiduciary duty to make money for shareholders - that's Friedman's Big Lie that's been memed into virtual law.

The fiduciary duty of company board to shareholders is to not steal or flagrantly mismanage the company (for example by actions benefit board members but negatively impact company operations).

Making a profit and sharing it with shareholders is not a requirement nor duty.
Here's a link to our binaries! https://docs.readyset.io/releases/readyset-core/
exactly. people complaining that an ec2 or rds instance isn’t as fast as their laptop are missing the point.

go ahead and host your production apps on your laptop then. enjoy yourself!
Russia is steadily losing the territory that they took in the initial invasion (e.g. Kharkiv, Izyum, Kherson), have made no new territorial gains in months, and have lost more soldiers in less than a year than America lost in the entire twenty-year Vietnam War.

They are not winning! And very much appear to be in the process of losing.
Surely it was not officially called Mohenjo-Daro (Mound of the dead men) by its residents, in its heyday?
Not op but for me is left side tab bar, east screenshots and mobile browser sync.
Let's give this one a few centuries and see how many exo-planets have life before deciding how rare it actually is.
Yes, I can certainly agree that the ending montage in both films is similar enough that we'd suspect one influenced the other.

I used to really enjoy bringing Strangelove into my history of film classes as an opportunity to talk about obscenity and the end of the US PCA-- the opening sequence of "Try a Little Tenderness" across the mating of a tanker and a bomber is the first of many, many implied situations
That's my point. Maybe 80% of people just read the headlines, 20% read the articles.

If SBF was donating to GOP, the headlines would say something like how the GOP allowed a billionaire donor to skirt around regulators. Then you get a second article criticizing SBF for donating to a radical candidate that received a fringe minority of votes.
The situation is similar trying to visit the US from most places. If your passport isn't from Western Europe, US, Canada, Australia, NZ there's quite a visa process. Citizens of 5 southern & eastern EU countries don't qualify for the US visa waver.
Aren’t all the cloud instances virtualized? Meaning that at best we start with 80-90% of the bare metal performance?
Literally never happened to me, having crossed back into the US from Europe at least 30 times. Nor to my partner that I just asked, who is brown and has an extremely Muslim name.

Not saying it doesn't happen, just that it feels wrong to describe it as the norm, unless we have special flags on our passports to be treated well.

I think the more common thing I experience is an indifference from the customs/border agents.
They don’t morph - actually shot as a single continuous tracking shot.
Why go for the conspiracy angle when "did dumb things with money" perfectly explains it? I'm not saying it can't possibly be some conspiracy going on, just that absent any evidence you seem pretty happy to jump on the conspiracy bandwagon.
Are you a US citizen? I went on several trips to Europe and the UK (including post Brexit) before I learned you are apparently supposed to get some kind of visas. Nobody ever asked for anything.
> I just...have never seen a book fall apart in months.

I've had the binding snap on mass market paperbacks when I opened it the first time. Not exactly a shining beacon of quality.
Not to mention all the youtube videos that are just ads. My 11yo wanted to watch some saxophone videos to help him learn to play – next thing I know, he’s watching a saxophone unboxing video with a reviewer gushing over the saxophone he bought from Amazon.
No, sort of like how the EU is implementing a travel authorization for a fee for Americans traveling to the EU. Surprising you didn't mention that.
I've been using PHP for a decade and recently started building APIs in Go. Everything about the process has been significantly simpler, from packages to testing to deploying and debugging. I don't think I can ever go back, and this is coming from someone who still loves PHP and works with both Go and Laravel daily.
Author here, looking into those earlier sources now

EDIT: The "Advisory Opinions" source is mislabeled and was published after 1989. [1] The "Typographic Journal" refers to boiler plate as a derogative for a low quality newspaper:

> The next city visited was Paris, Ill. which "supports" four newspapers. The only one worthy of mention is the Beacon … The other newspapers thive on "boiler plates" exclusively [2]

[1] https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Advisory_Opinions_on...

[2] https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_Typographical_Jo...
I think cloud providers should offer an eternal storage option, for example 10gb for one time payment of $100 sounds reasonable.
There’s a symbiosis. Elizabeth Holmes was a fantastic story for the time, a self-made billionaire changing the world through healthcare innovations, she was on the front cover of magazines because it was a story people absolutely wanted to hear. Likewise with SBF, he’s this multi-billionaire crypto guy who lives like he’s poor! He wants to do good! He’s deep into effective altruism! That’s interesting to a lot of people. The uncritical platforming of these stories is definitely worth criticism, but I don’t believe there to be a grand conspiracy required for SBF to get a bunch of fawning coverage.

(Specifically picking on the New York Times: they frequently publish puff pieces about all sorts of things, they have a long running column about wealthy people’s weddings. Taking a story that people will find interesting (billionaire drives a Corolla) and telling it with a big leading photo is just what a lot of journalism is. If you read every article in the NYT, the SBF piece is totally believable as par for the course without any motive beyond “it’s a story people will like reading”).
As a matter of fact, Monica has an official Docker image here: https://hub.docker.com/_/monica

(I'm super proud to say that we have an official Docker image, official being the label the Docker granted us last year as they (Docker, the company) maintain it. There are not a lot of official Docker images, but we are part of it, and it's awesome)
> And no, I don't want ASCII back, but finally something sane

ASCII was sane (give or take minor annoyances like hexadecimal digits or DEL); the problem was it was too narrowly scoped for general-purpose use. In the context it was actually developed for (exclusively English text on machines that struggled (or didn't bother) to even render 256 different characters, nevermind thousands), ASCII was a broadly-reasonable character encoding that even had half the encoding space left over for something like UTF-8 to build a sensible, more general-purpose encoding in.

Unfortunately, we got specifically UTF-8, with the dumpster fire that is Unicode tied around its neck like a string of albatrosses.
Elon Musk fires Twitter engineer for arguing with him publicly
Abstract:

Trump agreed to give Ukraine to Russia, in return for help getting elected in 2016, and presumably again in 2020.

I think that's the gist of what it says anyways.
I just thought, he made fun of the stereotypical heros taking their one in a million chance and allways succeeding, meaning it is a physical or dramatic law that one in a million chances are 100% guaranteed.

(mainly refering to "Guards! Guards!", where they intentionally make one guards bow shot harder, to make his shot (at a dragon) a million to one chance, so it becomes a 100% shot, nice absurd logic and of course it does not work, but the chance for them surviving the stunt was one in a million..)
> Queue times were already a huge problem

This one is self-inflicted. The whole role queue system sucks.
I have trade paperbacks from when the 1970s. My father has some from the 1950s. They are all perfectly fine. Maybe the ones from the 1950s are a little yellow around the edges, but that hardly affects the ability to read them.
Many of the books I read as a kid would never have been read if they weren't a physical chunk of dead wood in front of my face, sitting on a book shelf.

Now, as a full-ass adult with young kids, I usually buy books from Kindle. It's far more convenient to use the Kindle app on my phone.

But there's a voice in the back of my head wondering if I'm doing my kids a disservice. They don't see me holding a big chunk of dead tree and reading. They just see be looking at my phone.

I also feel like Kindle is setting up a situation where my kids won't have the joy of discovering a book, or author, serendipitously. When the books are just sitting there on a shelf (they were in my bedroom as a kid, basically just as overflow because we had too many in the house), it's easy to get bored and pick up a book.

But I wonder if kids even get bored now. They have phones! If they're feeling the slightest bit bored, out comes the phone. (That's how I am at least, a full-fledged adult who didn't have a phone growing up).

Maybe the idea of discovering a good book out of boredom is dead.
How is it considered secure or appropriate to mail one's passport to unknown parties to do who-knows-what with it?
Biden: ‘unlikely’ missile that hit Poland fired from Russia
Americans in general are pretty exceptionally friendly.

Until they put on a uniform and are tasked with "enforcing" something. It's also pretty exceptional, but in another direction.

Not that I've travelled everywhere, but I haven't seen this in other countries.
Its not money. Its magical military contractor accounting, sticker prices for old military equipment designed and manufactured with specific purpose of killing russians, equipment sitting in storage for the last 20-30 years.

US is finally able to use all the weapons it build over the years on its intended target without losing a single drop of US blood.

US is able to deplete stock of obsolete/old weapons and expense it at full brand new value.

US military contractors get the sell and test a ton of experimental highly situational weapons.

UA gets help it badly needs.
I switched from git to Mercurial and was absolutely gobsmacked by how much better it is. The only comparison was switching from a Blackberry to an iPhone - everything just works exactly the way I want it to.

Yes, I read the manual for git, but I never needed to for Mercurial.
Well this is bad. Just checked the code, `RandomState` invokes `wasi::random_get()` on wasi target. It means virtually every std program in Rust would require random number generator privilege in the upcoming WASI unless the author intentionally avoid using default HashBuilder and somehow treeshake the stuff out(?).

This seems to be a fundamental conflict of interest between server-side programming and client-side sandboxing. Now the preventive security measures cost us not only performance on the table, but also privilege spam.
Question: Why Is the meta company doomed?

Answer: The meta company is doomed because it is a meta company.
you simply expose your database to the internet and then connect to it with user/pass credentials. let me know if you’d like to contract me to set this up for your org!
Fuel can also be delivered at ones home or people can install their own fuel tanks that can last a few refills. Just a thought.
This is a nice idea actually for finessing the GPU driver issue - use the virtual GPU drivers. (As a bonus you still have access to macOS desktop apps if you need or want them.)

Personally I use tend to use Linux VMs as if they were remote servers, so I don't have a huge need for Linux GPU drivers.

One thing that helped with VMware Fusion is using host-local interfaces with static IP addresses. Otherwise I would tend to get disconnected from VMs when macOS disconnected from wi-fi, which was very annoying. This is less of an issue if you're using the VM window directly.
I have many paperbacks from the 1950s to the present day. Some of the really old ones are a little yellow around the edges, but brittle and falling apart? Never. I have no idea what you are talking about.
Hi Greg. Fancy seeing you here :)
What does a puff piece mean?
Yes. Accepting what you can and cannot control is essential. Worrying about things beyond your influence can be futile. Even within yourself, you might not be able to control your mind or even your life in it's entirety, but you can control what you pay attention to this second. Simply paying attention to the present, mindfulness practice, helps modulate your experience of life without actively trying to control it
When I first saw this I thought I would wait till it comes to Android before I upgrade my phone(Which is a bit past the security update period already) but if I ever do go on any serious trips outside cell range, I'll probably want a real satellite messenger anyway.

I'm really glad this exists though, a lot of people will be much safer when everyone has this.
Sounds like you already know you're doing your kids a disservice.
LOL wut.

Question: Why can't we go faster than the speed of light?

Answer: This is a misconception. The speed of light is the maximum speed at which information can be transmitted. It is not the maximum speed at which objects can move. Objects can move faster than light, and in fact, they do. For example, the speed of light is about 300,000 km/s, but the speed of a jet airplane is about 1,000 km/s, which is much faster.
This really sucks for those of us that are trying to avoid covid while travelling. (This is a collecting point where they want you maskless) They want to do this so they can collect your biometrics and look secure.
>Obviously all their planning did not account for issue #3 either way. But perhaps their concern was simply having actions like #2 exposed, and more generally the value of their company (which goes hand-in-hand with the value of their various tokens) exposed.

So let me get this straight: They were concerned with "actions like #2 exposed", so they set up a super complicated corporate structure, and apparently... didn't make use of it? Once the leaked balance sheet came out on coindesk everybody pretty much immediately figured it out, and not because there was great internet sleuths, it was just that obvious.
I guess I'm seeing it more as a will where you state what you want to have happen after you die. So they are saying that what he wrote in 2003, he didn't mean in 2013. I'll agree it is a far cry in wording, but seems similar in intent.

Maybe they are saying that he forgot he had published that page. Maybe there was something he wrote or told someone that contradicted what he had published. All we have to go off of was his digital will for his hard drives.
Ok here's another spin you have 3 choices:

1. Figure out in which ways exactly your company is fucked up and align to that. Be a chameleon that operates like that company does.

2. Quit and find another company that more closely aligns or is acceptable.

3. Make your own company and design your own rules that resemble your way of thinking (but maybe others wouldn't jive with)
They don't have a symbolic meaning. They are just a modern invention to suit Westerners.