skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had lost track in the mid 40s, in mid 50s now.
I built a model to predict SNP and due to some technical error (network connection lost), blew up some 470,000$ in 3 hours trading futures. Had mortgage, wife/kid to support etc. Was bit rusty on java/c++/c#. So took a coupe of udemy courses to brush up. Hit gym, started running to get boost. In 2 months landed job at a start up in NYC. After that took a contracting position at a bank, and now contracting for another bank (both in NYC). Also developing code generation from english specifications on the side. Still running my SNP model. So its doable.
1. Hit gym, run
2. brush up and take up a job
Its not too late. All the best.
Oh! I'm about 1/4 of the way through book II. Can't recommend enough for history nerds!
There are millions who distrust Meta, but public perception changes rapidly and companies this size don't die quickly. Their cash cow with ads allows them to stay solvent and make big risks

I'm not saying that Meta will definitely have a change in perception but that's what I'm betting on if they truly do have a competent Metaverse.

The best example of this change is Microsoft - it wasn't too long ago that it was the most hated tech company by the tech community and shareholders alike and now it's the ~least hated~ big tech out there.
Yeah apparently on the one hand, setting the default to Off would absolutely clobber Fortnite's engagement metrics and the law is unjust for this. On the other hand, setting the default to Off would not make a dent in children's usage of this product and therefore the law is useless.
I misunderstood the task
I'd wait for better research than a review of a bunch of flawed studies from china where they have a lot of environmental exposure to things that could impact IQ besides the fluoride in their water.

Fluoridated water doesn't taste any different than non-fluoridated water, so whatever taste the water in the UK has doesn't come from that, and leaving it out will not remove the fluoride through evaporation. That trick does work for chlorine though.

One conspiracy is that Nazi's or Russians used fluoridated water as a mind control substance that could make people stupid and willing to accept whatever they were told, but that's been repeatedly debunked. It might be exciting to think about, but there's nothing to support that fluoride (which often occurs naturally in water) has mind control properties. In the US all you have to do is look around you to see that people have zero problems resisting and complaining about the government (sometimes to their own detriment). The fluoride doesn't seem to be effective for anything but keeping teeth healthy.

As for harm to people's IQ, we don't have the evidence to support that at the levels added to municipal water, and I'd suggest a bigger contributor to the problem of lower IQs might be lead and mercury. We've been spooning heavy metals directly into our children's mouths for decades and you don't need conspiracy theory websites or weak research on children living on the other side of planet to know that it's been going on here in the US.

https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/oversight-su...

It's not being done for government mind control reasons though (the government is calling for it to stop in this instance) instead it's being done because corporations are greedy, don't care who they poison if doing so will grant them higher profits, and the regulatory agencies which should protect us and our children are weak and captured by industry.

It's strange how conspiracy theories seem to take up people's attention causing them to passionately rail against myths while real atrocities are going on around them largely ignored.
No, the competing insurance companies as described in the video is a libertarian scheme. Counties in Tennessee are a state run operation and their refusal to fight fires is a function of jurisdictional borders, which does not exactly match libertarian values.
Bruh. Expect soon sketchy delegates from mexican cartels who run for office and backed by serious money. Most voters dont bother to look up candidates, they just vote for their tribe.
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Depending on the circumstances, boiling in stops and starts may not be too bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndallization
I'm sure you've fielded this Q many times.

I don't wanna be a full-on hater of crypto. And I do wanna hear of use-cases that are relevant and intuitively understandable or at baseline, usable, to laymen.

What utility do you see – through all the noise and chaos and human flaws that taint all things – from crypto, that to you just makes sense and will prevail in light of all the deserved and undeserved criticism?
>We like to point the finger here in the US about how corrupt Russia, Ukraine or any other country is but we’re no Saints.

Our finger-pointing is not due to coincidence; it's due to conflict. Specifically, the conflict is between the inherent interests of competing national ruling classes.

>The executives of these companies should have their addresses listed as well as all the politicians on the take and let the people do with them what they will.

The executives of these companies answer to the company owners (corporate boards) who collectively control the state by leverage of capital. Because we are a capitalist society, the owners of the capital have the power. Any apparent exceptions will always be withheld from accumulating meaningful influence, short of revolution by the working class.

In other words, this is not a matter of faulty policy. It is a conflict of power. Let's discuss it as such.
I still think substack might end up being the true twitter replacement, at least for journalists and academics.
HN Title: Infisical – open-source secrets manager

Github text: Infisical is an open-source, end-to-end
encrypted tool to sync environment variables across
your team and infrastructure.

Which does it do? Does it manage secrets, or does it sync environment variables?
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How so?

Do they have a public healthcare system? Nope. What sort of society doesn't look after it's own?

Do they have police who have a duty to save you? Nope. That alone is just an absolute shit show. What sort of country says the police have no obligation to protect you? Only to show up and solve the crime once it's happened? What sort of society doesn't look after it's own?

I could carry on but it's a bit pointless since those are two massive things. You need to remember, how fucked up the US is, is well documented. It's documented by your own media. And confirmed and defended by people like you.

No kind of society doesn't look after it's own. That's what a society is.
I am aware of that. But I didn't buy a proton version, I bought a Linux version.
These things usually suck when latency is high... even if you are supporting most major regions it's not usual to find yourself in a situation when you have a few hundred ms latency.

Anything over ~40ms is very noticeable when typing and editing.

Then you're screwed.
I reread Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner, which despite having been published ~50 years ago, still seems prescient and with relevant commentary on modern life
If your "they" refers to the lasers, the lasers put in 2mj, correct. That is not what "they" (my they) put in to the lasers.
It's Linux specific, but I would look into the in-kernel key management https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/keyrings.7.html
Sure - but that doesn't cover the cases where we clearly have folks who do not pay, or regions that vote in ways to clearly place no priority on those shared services.

And in your case - the results are actually very similar (What do you think happens when you fail to pay your city/county taxes? A lien on your title happens...)

So again - I'm all for creating shared services and paying for them, but some folks aren't. In those cases I'd still rather not see people's homes burn (for all sorts of reasons) and this is a meaningful incentive to put the home out.
Yes, that's true, just as it is with exceptions in the original article. However, if you are writing the code and it's callers, if you don't want to handle the error, why even have it? Just log the results there and move on.
They aren't necessarily. Rings of Power season one had a budget of almost $500 million. That's almost 3x what Top Gun: Maverick cost and twice what Black Panther: Wakanda Forever cost. (Yes, it's more hours of content but it's still in the neighborhood of blockbuster movie budgets.)
It's to say that "West" has a quite established and efficient transaction platform.

Because of that, as part of the "West", I hardly see any benefit of crypto, unless you are in some other camp (aka: "anti-West").

This is what I meant.
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Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16603886
IDK, they have surely heard these arguments before by now, if they haven't understood them yet, why would they start now?

The idea that "this one blockchain has uniqueness value, and the rest don't, this is the only one that does" is just more faith-based bollocks. They're all equally without any intrinsic value.

"thoughtfulness" won't help you if you haven't thought it through.

Parent's statement that "The only place in the universe where you can get bitcoin is on Earth... bitcoin was the first" is also not provably true. What if Aliens arrived and said "we've had our sacred blockchain for centuries, yours is the valueless knockoff, buy ours!" ? They'd be right about the valueless part, but we'd see no value in theirs either. Pretending otherwise is egocentric babbling not thought.
"When We Cease to Understand the World" was fascinating historical fiction, which felt more like fiction because the stories were so out there and well-written. Many times I looked up the wikipedia entry on some character or event, only to discover that some of the more bizarre and out-there parts of the story that I had assumed were fiction were actually fact.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4462913650
It's both, actually! Sorry for the lack of clarity.

Infisical is designed to be both easy and efficient enough to store any environment variables, but also secure and end-to-end encrypted to store secrets.
An officer in Texas out of _any_ place in the world ought to recognize there's firearm ownership is a constitutionally protected right. There's a stigma of American Police that are trained to shoot upon seeing any firearm. Unfortunately, members of minority races seem to be at the frequent short end of this.

Without reviewing the footage personally, I have a feeling there were plenty of ways to de-escalate the situation, but none were taken.
Dust storms can wreak havoc on wind power systems. Will be interesting to see how they go about solving that issue.
Puffed rice is made differently in India. They use a hot pan and black sand with no pressure release. Example: https://youtu.be/36GKVfo5PUA
The Precipice by Toby Ord

https://theprecipice.com/

An amazing nonfiction book that at times reads like science-fiction. A grand overview of various existential risks humanity faces and what we can do to decrease the chances. As it stands, the author estimates humanity's survival chances to be 5/6 per 100 years, given today's state of things. This is equivalent to playing a Russian roulette - not something we can maintain for the long term. So now is one of the most important times in history of humanity: preventing our not-unlikely total destruction.
Modula-2! Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. A long time.
Code Complete is good but it's much longer. Not easy to tackle over a break.
Oh, yes, these definitely exist. There was even a paper a few years back in VLDB from Samsung about how they put un-utilized ARM cores from their disk controllers to do work off-loaded from a MySQL database.
What a whole lot of nonsense. Blockchains operate on the basis of one dollar one vote. There's nothing egalitarian (not to mention democratic) about this. A central bank, on the other hand, is a public institution with a public mandate.

By the way, currency debasement is not an economic term. The only people who use it are conspiracy theorists and crackpots, as far as I know.
Which painkillers are not also anti-inflammatory drugs? All the OTC ones are NSAIDs.
> Chomsky? He's a linguist, what does that have to do with Psychoanalysis?

He's also a philosopher, historian and cognitive scientist. He has received a Membership of the National Academy of Sciences (which is an award given to scientists), a Kyoto prize in Basic Sciences, a medal from a German academy of science, an American Psychology Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, etc.

These are relevant areas and merits with regards to judging whether a discipline is scientific or pseudo-scientific.

> Feynman? He's a physicist, what does that have to do with Psychoanalysis?

He is one of the most famous scientists in the world, had an extremely significant scientific career, won a Nobel prize in a scientific area and a National Medal of Science.

If you don't know why such a person would be extremely qualified to distinguish a scientific discipline from a pseudo-scientific one, I'm deeply sorry for you.

Also, don't ignore all the other experts in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, cognitive science, philosophy, history, etc. who arrived at the same conclusion.

Although, I am interested in knowing why you think that you are more qualified than these people to judge whether a discipline is scientific or not.
Apolitical civil service government organizations are good at sustained operations and incremental growth/change. They are bad at rapid change. The controls they have are reasonably effective at preventing the type of corruption that you see.

The coal/rail/electric supply chain is a breeding ground for all sorts of shenanigans for all sorts of people. Plenty of drunken uncles have bullshit jobs in the utility and rail space. That culture permeates into new projects as well.

In the Federal space, that kind of crap doesn't fly for long.
Hey brother hang in there. My grandpa didn’t have his first kid until he was 68!! And his wife was in her young 20s. And they were in love till the day he died in his late 80s. He wasn’t any kind of programmer or rich or anything. It’s an atypical story but the point is do not EVER think the best of your life is BEHIND you! One of the most foolish and important of all emotions is hope. Hope is about taking a look at the data and realizing that the situation is grim but choosing to proceed as if life has good things in store for you anyway. Beethoven’s 9th symphony was written when he was stone cold deaf and he wouldn’t ever get to hear a single note of the music, and yet he wrote it anyway as a big middle finger to the cruel hand that fate dealt him. If you look at his writings from the time, they were pretty dark. That’s why Ode to Joy brings me to tears darn near every time I hear it. Hope has a way of making its own luck, if you are open to the possibilities that life puts before you and you don’t hang onto the wheel too tightly. Last thing to remember is that YOUR story is beautiful, even the tragic parts, because it is your experience. None of us have any idea what we are “supposed” to be doing here. No one’s journey is more valuable than anyone else’s. And the sad parts of being human are part of the experience too. Hang in there man. There is so much beauty out there for you to discover, out there and within.
I went through quite a bad phase...I started having mental-health problems, this triggered changes in my life that made everything worse, causing more problems, spiral.

I have been through three course of therapy, they helped me understand what was happening when I had an episode but...I was still in the same place, and that made all my mental-health problems worse (this isn't a post about that...but everything changed when one aspect of my material situation changed...when you go through this, everyone who has never had a problem like this will tell you therapy will help...maybe it will but your material situation is more important...there is no-one selling "material situations" at $200/hour though, so that tends to be emphasized less). No-one wants to acknowledge this because it makes mental health a trickier problem to solve.

I will say generally too: putting yourself in a situation where you are constantly looking for "the answer" is fundamentally unhelpful. You may not be able to overcome it yourself, but that doesn't mean a therapist can help.
He says in the video that they miscalculated a bit of physics regarding angular momentum and the Trenta design I suspect suffers from erosion of the throat (and power loss) because of that. The new gen is 25% bigger to avoid contact between the plasma and the walls.
>Again, more misinformation!

No, they went out after the neighbour phoned up because of a fire on their property. Anyone who has fully read the article will know that. So stop your nonsense.

"Firefighters did eventually show up, but only to fight the fire on the neighboring property, whose owner had paid the fee."
You can learn Go in 2 weeks. That's one of it's selling points!

Just dig into the official resources [1].

https://go.dev/doc/
Top comment leaves out HDCP entirely as well which I would wager is where a lot of people experience delay. If you want to learn more about it search for the edid hotplug detection. Once that gets negotiated it is followed by the hdcp handshake. Keep in mind while reading up on this the industry terms for devices are "source" and "sync". Video goes from source to sync.

The hdcp handshake is a particularly bad mess which most manufacturers don't implement well due to a very confusing spec. My experience has been some devices start showing video right away and kill it if hdcp handshake fails, while other devices don't show video until hdcp handshake succeeds. Behavior is quite hardware dependent.

The commercial vendors like Extron (crosspoint switchers) and Crestron (digitalmedia switchers) have this figured out pretty well where switching is almost instant so it's definitely possible. I think Crestron has some technical papers out there that discuss the challenges involved.
Can't speak for anyone else, but here in Phoenix, if the municipal water stops pumping for whatever reason, options are very scarce, and hope you have a good multi-stage filter + UV setup with at least an OK source of water. You should generally have 15 gallons of clean drinking water per person on hand, which should last a couple weeks. In addition to a larger supply of water for washing/flushing.

TBH, I don't have this much, have about 15 gallons of fresh drinking water for 2 people, and a pool in the back with enough chemicals to keep it treated for a few months (flushing/cleaning use)... I could probably rig something with my RO and a UV light with a tank pump and a few other bits if it really came down to it though.

Have thought it might be cool to build a trailer with a generator, portable filtration system and water tank... The reality is, if things went bad, generally would only be for a couple weeks where I am, or would be bad enough that migration to another area would be necessary and at that point, who knows.
N.B. - I should apologize for referring to Wirth in the past tense. He's still around and still active.
Ubisoft beta-testing reputation social credit system
I mean... We already knew they were a black box. And anyone keeping assets on-exchange this soon after FTX frankly only has themselves to blame.
(Now, you could argue that media would _deliberately_ go slow precisely because this is a better story than "weird fraud-y guy didn't run for election", but, well, "[respected national newspaper] threw election to a fraud because it made for better headlines" is an even better story than _that_, and it would go to one of their rivals when it came out... Deliberate suppression just to get a better story seems really unlikely)
And for many, the "voluntarily unhoused".
Ok. So the NAS has an exquisitely stupid definition of Q which is not at all what most engineers would use as a reasonable definition of Q
This is a fantastic article -- I've seen these confusions play out on forums (including HN) countless times, but not just regards with free speech, but really with regards to any policy -- tech monopolies being a big one here. We see the equivalent:

1) What actually is a monopoly legally (e.g. Apple and iPhones are not, because not enough market share)

2) What should be considered a monopoly, the law should be changed (e.g. make walled gardens considered monopolies)

3) OK it's not a monopoly but it's still indecent/bad (e.g. Apple has every right to charge 30% but it makes them an a**hole)

It's easy to think of 10 other subject areas we see the same debates/confusions playing out over endlessly. And while there already exist general-purpose terms for the three categories -- 1) legal, 2) moral, and 3) preference -- people really seem to often mix up legal vs. moral, and moral vs. preference. Because when you just say "X should Y"... your "should" could be based on any one of those three.
My country is cracking down on civil liberties (I'm not talking the ability to not take certain vaccines), I'm talking about religious freedom among other things and crypto like XMR gives me a way to make sure I am able to buy stuff like Mullvad VPN (again for privacy) without going through a centralized payment processor. This is just one instance though, I even get domains from njall.la now with XMR/crypto and enjoy a lot of privacy benefits (coming from godaddy)
I had the opposite experience. I worked for a company with a bunch of Clojure projects, written by people of varying levels of experience. I had to do some cross-cutting changes and feared the worst. But when I actually got down to it, everything more or less made sense.

Why did this happen?

- We had small common framework that everybody used, at the very highest level (think application lifecycle management). That imposed some amount of consistency at the most basic run-the-program stage.

- The devs communicated openly, a lot, so there was some general consensus on what to do, and what not to do.

- The team at large was very suspicious of introducing new macros. You could do it, but you'd better have a really good reason.

- When I went to make the changes, I didn't have to worry about spooky-action-at-a-distance kinds of consequences anywhere NEAR as much as I do in other languages. Being strict with your state management, as Clojure strongly encourages, REALLY pays off here.

The actual problems I had were entirely related to the overall build system, the fractured nature of the source control, and figuring out who was responsible for what code once we were 3 reorgs deep. The code itself was remarkably resilient to all this nonsense.
FPL (through a third party) also hired a private investigator to follow around a local opinion columnist because he was writing articles against the proposed privatization of Jacksonville's municipal utility company.

https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/local/2022/06/24/fpl...
I think doing an episode of Real Engineering counts, personally:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_bDXXWQxK38