skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
„How to read a book“ by Adler / van Doren. Taught me how to read several books on a topic (he calls this syntopical reading) to unserstand the structure of a topic.

„Getting Things Done“ by David Allen. Learned about how to capture everything that’s on my mind and organize it. Best way to keep sane. - Also how important it is to contantly review my systems and lists to keep them current and to make decisions.

„Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs“ by Abelson / Sussman. Learned a lot about how to structure and organize code, how to abstract and build smaller functions that solve problems and glue them together and thus build ever more complex soltions.

„Siddartha“ by Hermann Hesse. Reminded me of my inner struggle in my young years regarding life, religion and meaning of life.

„Wherever you go, there you are” by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Introduced me to the idea of mindfulness, of being present, of letting go.
I will admit to not understanding the scope of the "discrimination" against protected classes that is barred by law. It clearly has some significant extent, but I've never really been able to find a clear description of where the edges are.
Yes. But just about every big service has marked diurnal and weekly patterns.
I don't understand how is "the arithmetic model" a social truth, when it clearly corresponds to physical phenomena. You can make a skyscraper that doesn't fall, and it exists regardless of whether other people see it or not. You see it - it's there. What is "social" about that?

> However, confusing your model for reality is a fallacy perhaps older than time.

I think that the human perception the world is a robust enough model to be equated with reality without issues. If you go down the path of denying perception, you might as well go full solipsism, in which case it doesn't even make sense to discuss reality at all.
I have heard similar complaints about UK and Canada. From a cost perspective, it makes sense to me. I also wonder: If you make people wait months, how many people skip/cancel the appointment? Probably many.

I have lived in two countries with very unfair healthcare systems. High income people get "health insurance" (whatever that term really means!) from their employer. They use it a LOT. Way too much. And their "health insurance" covers most of the cost. The number of times that I have seen high income people see a medical doctor for a runny nose (light head cold) stuns me. What an incredible waste of medical resources! As someone fortunate enough to have this "health insurance" at various times in my life, I am constantly saying "no" when doctors try to over-prescribe all manner of medicines. Obviously, they know my insurance will pay 100%!

The #1 duty of a public healthcare system absolutely must be "acute need". Everything else is second priority, else they go bankrupt. It's rough. I don't know a better solution.

Crazy idea: What if there was a kind of public auction system where people in the queue could set a price to sell their position? As long as it was fair and transparent, I might be OK with it.
Have they prevented ANY wave so far?
This Bill Bryson book is REALLY good !
Kudos for mentionning it.

/me putting it next to my bed, for a rereading.
> Who is your target audience?

Beginners

There are tutorials integrated in the IDE, among others one for beginners. The examples are the documentation.
They're just dredging up old beef for some reason. Very, very early on Pleroma was popular with people who found the general anti-fascist stance of early Mastodon instances offensive and chose Pleroma, so it kind of became The Fascist Platform for a time until a wider range of people chose it for its lighter resource use. That post is from 2019. The poster later worked on Pleroma for a while, so it's safe to say things changed. Three years is a long time.
That's with the model actually! It's copied into here: https://github.com/wingman-jr-addon/wingman_jr/tree/master/s...
The model is 13.7MB currently.
Chromatic Aberration
Try a far infra-red heater. They heat bodies, rather than space. Hung on the ceiling over a desk, they are great balance between expense, space-heating and keeping warm.
What’s the harm? On the other hand feedback from a thousand free users is worth less than the feedback from one paid user.
Oh nice! Hopefully it'll receive a RISC-V port at some point.
I read How to Win Friends in school and it was quite impactful, especially as a socially inept kid in a small town.

It changed how I viewed social interactions and made me realise it’s just another skill you can work at, with guidance even.
I think (not a physicist), simply put, an infinity or NaN value. As these are step-wise methods, having such values show up anywhere will seriously mess up subsequent calculation steps.
Lucas chess is chess GUI, not an engine, but it comes with many different engines, some even tuned to different grandmasters styles. I am not sure what you meant by "learning how you play", but you can indeed adapt their strength and "personality" to always match more or less equal opponent. You can also have another engine watching the game giving you hints. I am sure having a personal trainer is better, but more expensive and time consuming and you would need practice as well. There is also a nice feature to play with a strong engine trying to survive as long as possible (i.e. the game stops if the evaluation drops below set threshold), it's nice for opening training.
Twitter links out to content all the time - is that decentralized? Where's the line?

- It's hosted on servers presumably operated by a centralized entity (YCombinator/AWS/etc)

- It has moderation centralized to a specific set of people (which is weird sentence construction but I had to fit centralized in there for the point)

- Post content (even links), comments, accounts, etc, are stored in a centralized database (might be sharded or whatever, but you get the point, the control is centralized)

- It has a domain name and DNS records that are centralized to ICANN/whoever-hosts-the-dns

Centralization, to me at least, is about how content is delivered, not about how likely the product is to bounce you to an external source.
Only if you naively believe that Musk's definition of "freedom of speech" has anything to with the concept of freedom of speech.

Much more likely, he is referring to the same concept that many right-wing pundits use, that essentially means "freedom to say bigoted things, preferably at the people you hate, while also being outraged at what others are allowed to say". You'll find many people who decry the decline of freedom of speech online, and who are then outraged that two male characters in a Disney movie kissed, or who will ban children's books that present two female bears as lovers.

Or, to bring this closer to Musk, he will happily ban anyone who dares to question him.
How does will call wipe out scalpers? I have never heard that before. I would love to hear the explanation.
Americans also tend to forget there is a world inside of the USA that isn't upper middle class, college educated, work all day, annual vacation people posting on social media.

The sense of community and day to day lives are very different and much more enjoyable. The only problem is that due to exploitation by distant corporate actors that community is played with violence, obesity and drug addiction.
When working on a timescale of 10E2 or 10E3 years, it seems practical to me to bury it in a sealed drum in a concrete cube inside a stable mountain.

With larger timescales, my understanding is that the mountain itself might disrupt the cube + drums, opening Pandora’s box.

Perhaps an actual geologist can weigh in and correct me.
the easiest way to understand processed is has it been changed at all since being harvested? peanut butter and tofu are both processed. raw peanuts and legumes are not. cooked legumes are also technically processed. does not mean that it's always bad per se but that is the definition.
"Turned out"? Serum is built on Solana, the VC founded "blockchain" that Andreessen Horowitz heavily invested in and promoted, among others like coincidentally Alameda Research. No one who's seriously into defi thinks any of these projects are properly decentralized, it's hardly a step above something like Flow. At least they allow users to withdraw funds to their own wallets - that is when the chain isn't down as regularly happens ;)

However way you look at it, it's the mainstream falling for vaporware and scammers, including this very forum as well. Something has crypto written on it, there will be hype around it and then when it inevitably collapses people lament that cryptocurrency is dangerous.

Ignoring the new tech aspect, it's essentially the same thing that's been happening forever in finance. I know plenty of people who unironically think money itself is a scam. Their evidence is central and private bank shenanigans, the way creation isn't public and isn't tightly restricted, etc. All these are not money problems but people and institution problems. When you give your cash to some random guy on the street because he offers you winnings in a shell game, it's not the banknote's fault when you lose it or the issuer's but that of the scammer and your own for falling for it.

In the same way, I would advice against transferring digital currency to some random guy faking to be an autistic trader genius, no matter how many politicians and media outlets endorse him (because they got bribed). This should be a lesson for people regarding herd mentality and trust. And that's exactly what blockchains are for, because people simply seem completely incapable of learning this lesson. We need to have financial systems that are built on verification, not trust. The exact opposite of something like FTX and legacy finance. Apparently no one even bothered to properly look at their books and the auditing was done by a Metaverse-present auditing firm called 'Prager Metis'. You can't make this up: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/11/meet-the-metave...
Are you sure this is an actual, real life problem?
Fertilizers and pesticides don’t count at ecological impact?
This was just a description of independently observable facts. It even matches the timeline of the events. If anything, it may be missing a few items - it didn't even mention the court case at all.
This sounds a lot like the type of survival analysis mentioned in the other comment. The Kaplan--Meier estimator can be made conditional by, well, conditioning on earlier parts of the curve.

If you count not "time-to-event" to "total-revenue-to-event" you get a lifetime value estimator!
I foolishly bought some "truffle salt." I couldn't even find it the other day when I was looking, which probably tells you how much I was impressed with it.
I'm surprised you're handing incoming requests from everybody. We only process the CloudFlare ones and drop the rest.
Strange story… this guys startup filed an antitrust lawsuit against TicketMaster which ended up with TicketMaster… acquiring his company? Seems like something is being left out.
If you truly want to learn, I suggest joining a local FRC Robotics team as a new/junior mentor. If you simply ask the students to show you what they have been working on, you may be inspired to join in and help. You'll learn together... mechanical, electrical, programming, etc.

A short overview of what FIRST robotics is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd29kzjclV0

A web based tool to search for local teams:
https://www.firstinspires.org/team-event-search#type=teams&s...

I've been volunteering as a FIRST mentor for the last nine years and have learned more about robotics from the students than I did in my master's program or on my own.
Yes. I should have posted this link.

https://easylang.online/ide/
For music or artist based shows I agree.

However this could work really well for sporting events. The Leafs usually sell out all of their tickets and a good number to scalpers, having at least a more legit way to buy tickets for a game would be helpful
This is a strange take on what defines a developed country. Moast developed countries can meet these needs but that isn't what makes them developed countries.

The idea to make energy cost proportional to wealth is also bizarre.
The first problem with it is how will you determine wealth?
The second problem is how will you determine need?
The goal is to provide according to need while taking according to ability, right?

This has been tried many times in many ways and inevitably results in more inequality and a lower standard of living than allowing market forces to balance supply and demand based on economic signals.

You're conflating markets with inequalities and implilying a causal relationship when the market is simply the scale in the middle attempting to balance consumption with economic contribution.

It's almost ironic that markets are the way in which you can achieve this Marxist ideal.
Communism is only partially a form of governance. Conceptually it also describes the ownership of the means of production.

If the people own the means of production, then the preferential distribution of profit to capital becomes non-sensical, and thus there is no capitalism.

China is a strange hybrid, that is neither fully communist, nor "fully" capitalist (in the sense of, say, the USA). This is what allows aspects of both systems to co-exist.
> I can go to the supermarket and get "truffle macaroni and cheese" in a box for $5, because everyone knows that truffles are this rare, mysterious, and luxurious thing

I'm sorry and I'm not picking on you or trying to be smart, but this doesn't make sense: anything you buy for $5 in a supermarket is neither rare nor luxurious, by definition. Why do people fall for this.
Appreciate your note. I should have said the RGB color model used by humans to represent color spectrum.
Yeah, the ftx coins were moved to two addresses. One is the one most folks were watching, where most of the non-eth funds were sold to eth on decentralized exchanges, and sometimes at really high slippage. The stable coins were all converted to DAI, which doesn't have any blacklist feature. This address is also a basic private key wallet, like metamask, not a multisig or contract wallet. None of this sounds like a regulator doing the bare minimum to preserve a company's assets for future bankruptcy liquidation.

The other address that recieved substantial funds is a contract based multisig wallet, and it recieved everything that is truely a shitcoin. And that wallet hasn't sold or moved anything beyond the initial movement. On the night of the hack there was speculation that this was a whitehat rescue of the remaining tokens.

To me this sounds more like there was both a hack, and a seizure to preserve what was left.
we don't all base ethics on the capacity to suffer
That looks nice, I'll have to check it out!
I have an education-focused project on hold right now. If I polish it and release it I'm going to make it free to teachers in the school district where I used to work. That's easy, because it's a simple email domain rule for granting free accounts.

Having some free accounts to seed activity and test out features is really helpful, but as others will say, if no one is willing to pay that's a really important piece of information.
Ice is the old practice of producers (aka rights holders) or box office staff taking tips to make tickets available to resellers. This is illegal and is not common anymore. The era of computerized ticketing has made it much harder to do.
Albert Camus, "The Plague". Basically a series of character studies of how different people respond differently to the same external pressure (being quarantined in a city stricken by bubonic plague on the North African coast in the early 20th century). The lesson was that it's essentially up to you how you respond to difficulties of various sorts; and actions matter more than words.

Curiously relevant to the recent (ongoing?) pandemic as well.
Reread it this past summer with my college age daughter who was reading it for school. Realized how much more of it I understood now, and how little of it could possibly make sense to her. The experiential depiction of a Black man in Harlem in the 1940s/1950s is like the purest amber fossil. That world in so many ways no longer exists but the vivid rendition brings it alive. Brilliant, brilliant book to read as an adult.
> Accept that tickets are a luxury item, like Ferraris.

Exactly. High demand and low supply means not everyone gets to see Taylor Swift. That's life. I don't see the issue.
Wow, amazing this wasn't worse. Curious to know why the fire trucks were on the live runway, and where the breakdown happened.
The ol' wrench attach
Biologist explains CRISPR at five levels of difficulty
PM: Are we good to go live on Wednesday? (it's Monday)

Me: maybe, I'm not sure. ( your answer is incorrect, let the manager probe you further)
Genuinely curious what Microsoft products people actually like? VS code might be the only one I’ve ever heard of.
A Twitter Off Ramp: A Tutorial for Getting on Mastodon
Right, but they should've put in the work to redo things back then so we wouldn't have to deal with stupid refresh rates now lol
Where did what people come from? I read OP’s comment as meaning that there were more people working in the field in 2019 than today. So, it is a question of where did all those people go in just 2 years? Presumably a lot died in the pandemic. Others fled the cities and perhaps still work in tech but do so in a more rural location. Perhaps many returned to their home countries.
Or something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(operating_system) but with a microkernel!
On this case, the functionality is there right on the HTML, and the CSS is just customizing the appearance to make it look like a desktop widget.

This is not an issue of lack of HTML support. In fact, this is exactly what CSS is for.
10+ years ago the networking team at a big European bank I worked for, observed that the biggest usage of network bandwidth on the trading floor desktop network was not the Bloomberg Terminal, market data, or trading application traffic.. but Youtube :-)
No, it is a technology that omits third parties and centralized institutions from financial transactions. If FTX had been a DeFi platform, the fraud committed wouldn't have been possible. Granted, DeFi can't do everything FTX used to do, yet.
Søren Kierkegaard’s Struggle with Himself
There are plenty of articles about EU regulations or Amsterdam roads on here. But the US has the biggest single audience. Most websites have like 60% Americans but only 10% British or Germans, so anything about the US has it about six times easier to relate than something about Germany
Mathematical truth is socially constructed, but using rules, and it is the rules, rather than the process of social construction, which give this process its power.

An interesting meditation here on mathematics itself, which is also simply certain rules, and not others.

Merely invoking social construction ignores this difference, which is the essential difference, between mathematics and, say, hide and go seek.
> Some will compare the difference between the natural flavor of truffles and the artificial truffle flavor with the difference between sex and sniffing dirty panties. [insert two quotes from celebs who aren't saying that]

I don't know, man. This seems more like it's your dirty panties analogy than something "some [people] will [say]".
I agree, though you can make this argument for any other programming language.

circle 444
or
circle(444)

Named parameters are sometimes nice.

circle r=444
or
circle(r=444)
He’s rational, he’s just using a different set of ethics.

In the Vox interview he says he’s trying to win a jurisdictional battle with Delaware, this just part of that fight.
No, he said they should be ostracized and removed from society and food is then their own problem. The force of violent coercion is implied and quite obvious.
Look at paragraph (c), a little pro-reseller nugget buried in an otherwise very consumer friendly law. That paragraph is the reason obvious anti-scalping practices can't work in one of the US's largest live event markets.
There are lots of problems with journalism today. This article isn't one of them, and its criticisms seem spot-on. It also brought up past attempts at something similar by Microsoft and Google, providing valuable context for somebody reading this who didn't know about those earlier efforts, so that they wouldn't think this was a failing specific to Meta.
I have heard an equal number of stories that are exactly opposite. Only through aggressive, pushy "squeaky wheel" behaviour was someone able to get the correct care.
Vegan pizza, hot dogs and mac are pretty widely available.
They have gotten expensive, so now when I make pesto at home, I just use walnuts.
This is something I’d love to build but don’t have time. I was talking to a police officer a couple months ago and he was telling me the difficulties they have dealing with people that speak no English during emergency situations (someone’s bleeding out).

They have a language service they can use but it’s
slow to loop another person in. They end up resorting to Google Translate which is also kinda slow to type in their questions. The voice to text feature is finicky too.

What he wants is a website / app with a series of pre recorded questions. The answers are simple yes / no nods. This could potentially save someone’s life.

I honestly think this should be a free website. But if you’re looking to start a business it could be a great way to build credibility in the space.
This story brings up an interesting point, namely what's stopping hackers from simply diving their stolen proceeds among thousands of bank accounts, across hundreds of different banks?

I could easily imagine it would take 10x more money to reclaim it then what was stolen in the first place after accounting for all the lawyer fees, employee time, etc...
> Funny how findings like this get almost no attention at all, isn't it?

Not really. Without metrics for attention and a definition of “findings like this,” your intuition is as good as mine.

I’ve seen dozens of articles and quite a few best selling books about the plight of young men. I’ve even read a few. So it seems our anecdotal intuitions cancel out.
Why is it sad? I'm very happy with my life.
This is how I feel about Jeff Barr at AWS.
Ticketmaster is such an obvious monopoly in plain sight. The only reason I can see the FTC not more aggressively pursuing it (and instead wasting time on big-tech) is the people in power at the FTC don't go to enough concerts or care about a $10 markup on their tickets.

For an American age 15 to 25 today, much more of their spending power, time, and opportunity is lost to Ticketmaster than FB/IG/Tiktok/Twitter monopolistic behavior combined.

Hopefully the Taylor Swift ticket sale breaks into the Overton window and results in actual enforcement. Ticketmaster should have to divest Livenation and every other ticketing company it's acquired since 2010.

I say this as the PM of the first attempt to sell tickets within Facebook Events in 2015. Even for Facebook, it was virtually impossible to get share because all the major venues and artists have exclusive lockups with Ticketmaster or a subsidiary of theirs.
Until the next 737 Max

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX#Grounding_and_r...
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Truth in math is not a social construct. But belief in math is a social construct.
> So you never, ever mention any personal event at game night? I don’t think so.

We really really don’t. We are there to play games, we don’t have time or brain space for small talk. We play heavy games that take a lot of deep thinking.