skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey thanks. I always wince when I post these things, because I never know if I'm just projecting, or if something in my words might get misconstrued, etc. So it means a lot when someone replies.

For me, the healing really began when I started communicating and setting boundaries. Expressing sentiment, even if I can't make good on what I'm trying to do, goes a long way. And stepping outside myself, so that I can vouch for myself the way I would for someone else, also does wonders for quality of life.

But everyone has their own struggles. I know people who battle video game addiction, and drinking, and saving for their kids' college fund. My difficulties seem almost quaint in comparison sometimes. Like really? I got to grow up and program computers and have a bunch of cool jobs doing web stuff, and all I can do is complain? Well yes actually, because for all of that, I never really quite did what I originally set out to do. That can weigh on a person more than anything else sometimes.

So honestly I write for a younger me from 20 years ago, while I still maybe had a healthy bit of cynicism but was not yet disillusioned, in the hopes that it helps someone avoid stuff like the burnouts and bouts of depression that I went through. Which is perhaps a bit idealistic, because suffering and loss is something that everyone experiences as part of life.

It really comes down to the search for meaning for me. Stuff like: what comes after atheism? What's a dream, or a hallucination, or an alternate reality like those experienced when we pass out or have near-death experiences? How come science can't explain synchronicity or angel numbers or other coincidences, except dismissively? We literally have no evidence that our scientific models entirely describe our physical reality. They can't even explain consciousness. Those gaps in our knowledge are opportunities for finding meaning. Perhaps metaphysics can help us navigate such nebulous concepts. And also, how do we know how our experiences shaped our understanding? I sometimes look back fondly at some of the "worst" periods of my life. Often, the obstacle is the way.

Which is a book I'd like to read sometime. Also A Course in Miracles. Unlike reason, where we stand on the shoulders of giants, meaning comes more like discovering a truth of one's existence, only to learn that someone already wrote it down thousands of years ago. A different kind of validation.

So much more to say about all that.. but it's really more about finding one's own way than endlessly studying philosophy. But it's ok to do that, to work on oneself. These times are kind of rough not for all the blessings we receive, but for all the little things that seem perpetually out of reach. Time, rest, the esteem of our friends and colleagues, being with our families. My deepest wish is that we find a way to heal ourselves and then the world and seek faith/hope/love, peace and harmony together so that we can all self-actualize and manifest heaven on Earth in the New Age. And we're right there, so close!
The speed of the YouTube video doesn’t matter, it’s the refresh rate of the tv or monitor that matter. With a tube tv or older lcd screen, it just looks like a flashing gizmo.
This might look familiar to you, beej: https://bendyimby.com/2018/03/03/street-grids/ - goes into some of why grids are good.

'Cookie cutter' construction has a bad reputation, BTW, but cookie cutters are how you get lots of cheap cookies, which a lot of places need right now.

The problem is where you don't allow those areas to adapt and change over time, by, say, turning one lot into a corner store or a small cafe or people to adapt their houses over time so they take on their own unique character.
> Then when someone wins the internet lottery, they succumb to their ego and do a bunch of stuff in business to hoard even more wealth, rather than working to reform the system which keeps so many others down.

It doesn't even have to come down to greed though.

If some meme stock speculation 1000x'd, my family could live off the gains in perpetuity and I could spend all my time working in a soup kitchen, doing good.

But if I instead figured out how to turn that into even more money, I could start a new soup kitchen and help even more people, doing even more good.

But if I instead figured out how to turn that into even more money, ...
there is no carrot or stick with Musk, only the stick
How do you even give directions in Chicago? It seems horribly confusing — go down the straight road, once you’ve passed 15 intersections turn left blah blah. No way to keep track of that kind of junk.

Boston is much easier to navigate and get direction, go until you hit the triangular intersection, take the left branch, you’ll eventually find a rotary has brushed up on your road, take that etc etc. Each intersection should endeavor to be a unique, memorable point!
Ironically - given the article we're commenting on - a lot of the early problems with the web were solved, and I hesitate to say it, solved well by Flash. Its insecurity is what really pushed us away from it (well, and that it was a closed sourced Adobe project)
I don't think it's "harassment".

It's a wall of incompetence.

Cloudflare are just technically not able to deliver what they pretend
to. They profess to offer protection for vulnerable users of the
internet who are service providers. In doing so they harm millions of
other vulnerable users who are clients. They rob Peter to pay Paul,
and then take a moral stand on Free Speech.

Free Speech is a two sided affair. The freedom to write/speak must be
matched by the freedom to read/listen.

Cloudflare trample all over the latter and act like it's
nothing... because "if you wanna make an omelet you gotta break some
eggs". They simply kick the can down the road and so are hypocritical
and grandiose.
Exactly one of the reasons I came up with this.

One way to see this is "like encrypted PDF, but for any kind of file".
IMO if you are working on a problem that needs stakeholder feedback then it is not the sort of deep problem the OP is talking about. Deep work is usually not Agile in nature. It is about diving into a hard problem, not iterating on standard features/bugs.
Westworld.
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Not exactly what you've asked for, but I did a "dummy" benchmark of Rust vs WASM on my blog[0]. WASM is impressive technology indeed, and it will be interesting to see whether it will get into the mainstream of software engineering.

[0] https://www.yieldcode.blog/post/native-rust-wasm
https://archive.ph/tCUNt
There is nothing requiring the password to be “weak”. It can be a strong password generated with a random number/strong password generator. Sharing a string of characters or a “weak phrase” is no different if reading it to the person.
Fair enough! I'm surprised by how many people feel this way in this thread.

Out of curiosity, do you also think that the majority of Americans feel that way? My guess is it's gotta be at least 90/10 that would be less likely to move next to a broken down car place, certainly enough to affect the buyer pool in a city.
The article actually mentions that hotter fires are (generally) cleaner, so adding oxygen/air would improve things.
COOL! it works like a charm!
possible right now. Training data is film transcript + online reviews. 1000s if not 10000s of reviews available per film. Plug novel transcript into model, spit out review predictions!
No, it's python-specific. I was responding to parent's remark on dynamic languages. C++ is reasonably well served by CLion. I don't know what works for VHDL.
Nope, as I understand is a parallel network.

https://portal.phreaknet.org/faq
Why Can GPT Learn In-Context? Language Models Perform Gradient Descent
how about swishmax? it still works in win xp and can make exe. still use that old exe as one app i created is still useful
The point of the TSA line is to verify your identity. What is the point of waiting if you've already verified your identity?
"sexually-maladjusted adults who are using the ability to hide behind an identity as a way to fulfill their kinks"

This is no less of an offensive stereotype than saying Mexicans are lazy, or something like that. I had a feeling that your reasoning would come down to something like that, and sure enough..
I might be wrong but my foggy memory recalls that JP Morgan was in good shape because they were the top of the mortgage-backed security pyramid and that years later their penalty for misleading investors prior to the financial crisis was the highest of all time(or of all the banks?).
> you're the reason HOAs exist

Racism is the reason HOAs exist (both originally, and, though their direct ability to implement it has been reduced, still in their major function and effect.)
There are 128k+ emails, many about the Biden's business dealings. I say 'possible evidence' because it hasn't been investigated yet.

https://bidenlaptopemails.com/

We also know that the emails, or at least many of them, are valid. The signatures, made years before the leaks, check out.

https://blog.erratasec.com/2020/10/yes-we-can-validate-leake...
Yeah this sent me down a rabbit hole. Apparently "NASA had previously decided to declare the mission over if the lander missed two communication attempts" (https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9321/nasa-retires-insight-mars-la...).

Ah well, nothing wrong with a little space theatre!
Yeah, zero curation spammers seems to be the same reason a lot of art gallery sites are also starting to ban AI generated content. It's great and all someone can spend six hours prompt-engineering something gorgeous, but that doesn't mean the low effort huckster spamming pics across 10 accounts all begging for donations in crypto doesn't also work exist
Or... And bear with me...

Don't pollute the frigging index with SEO garbage. Google didn't tell everyone to SEO. People didn't even start doing SEO.

Then some arsehole went and had a brainwave about "what if we sold people on tweaking their pages to try to get all our customers fighting each other to show up on the front for the front page"?

I still remember my first time overhearing some SEO guys pitching to somebody while eating lunch. Spat out my food when it dawned on me what I was hearing unfold and started to realize that guy was likely not the only doing that.

The librarian's assistant in me had to be held back that day.

Why? Why would you pollute the Index that way? Monsters... Convincing people poisoning the town well was a good idea...
It's not even a case like lithium batteries where my lifestyle would be significantly impacted if I had to go without.

To some degree prioritizing tech makes sense, if the tech is replacing some other thing that harms living beings more. I doubt an LED factory is environmentally perfect, but the alternative would probably be people using oil lamps in many places.

And some things are just too convenient to give up for 1 in a million possible risks, like WiFi.

But things that only benefit a small enthusiast community in nonessential ways with large costs to everyone else are just too much.
I used Ink for a game I worked on (Tender: Creature Comforts). It’s pretty intuitive and very easy to learn, so if you have a kid who wants to give video game development a try, I’d really recommend this one.

The entire game wasn’t coded in Ink, so I’m not sure if it’s possible to do that or not, but you can get all of the dialogue done in it!
if you've got to communicate the decryption key separately anyway, might as well just use password protected zip files, no?
Hold my beer for a few billion years while I crack it.
Your critera excludes most of the NRC.

The court does not need to build a nuclear reactor. They need someone who can help the court understand nuclear.

Your theoretical person may be a bad choice if they have no communication skills.
Actually 2600 is still alive and well, they sell 2600 Magazine: The Hacker Quarterly @ Amazon. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600:_The_Hacker_Quarterly
Hm, I have a spare one here that you are welcome to but I believe you are on another continent?
When I was working in a shop I had the opportunity to ride a lot of different bikes. Generally steel felt less harsh which allows for longer rides and tracked significantly better. Although this was a couple decades ago.
https://archive.ph/mzWlV
Because as you rightly observe the Congress and its various creatures are masters of the US dollar denominated money supply, it's meaningless to talk of them as having any kind of financial net worth in the way that an entity that isn't a currency issuer has. Congress's "debt" in no way constrains their operational spending ability as it does for those parties who can't create money de novo. Thus, as I already said, the money was effectively printed when they originated the loan, and no new money is created when they forgive it. You're confusing a lack of deflation with further inflation.

As for "backing by a bond," clearly you're aware that's just a shell game, because the Fed will issue and front the Primary Dealers whatever reserves they need to buy whatever bonds the Treasury issues. It's operationally impossible for a treasury auction to fail because Congress, via the Fed, backstops it using their constitutional money creating power. It's a kind of fig leaf to hide the fact that in the end it's all just naked money creation.

That's not to say that a sovereign currency issuer doesn't face real limits on their spending[1] power, but that would be a rather lengthy digression and I'm fairly certain you understand at least the gist of it anyhow.

[1] But not money creating power! Nobody denies that Zimbabwe and Weimar Germany were able to create money, they really truly did. It just had greatly diminished purchasing power.
Maybe at some point we can all get Netflix for free, and one person can pay for the cost of all users.
Nitter got you covered.
Is this effective altruism?
[1] Although ChatGPT might not meet some special elevated standards for what is considered general AI, it is able to solve a wide variety of generalized requests, including writing this response on command. In this sense, it is similar to SpaceX being a "real" rocket company, even though it is a private company with less experience than NASA. SpaceX has disrupted the traditional aerospace industry and demonstrated that it is capable of designing and launching successful space probes, despite not being a traditional "establishment" player.

Another analogy might be to Uber, which has revolutionized the transportation industry by offering a new way of connecting riders with drivers through a smartphone app. Uber may not meet some traditional definitions of a "taxi company," but it has proven to be a successful and popular service for millions of people.

A third analogy might be to the smartphone itself, which has become an essential tool for many people despite not being a traditional computer. Smartphones have disrupted the personal computing industry and offer a wide range of capabilities, from making phone calls and sending texts to accessing the internet and running apps.

Similarly, ChatGPT is able to complete many general requests that meet the expectations of many users, even though it might not meet some definitions of general AI. It is able to do this because it is able to perform a wide range of tasks, including writing this comparison at your [my] request.

Of course, ChatGPT has its limitations and is not a substitute for human intelligence. However, it is able to complete many tasks that would be challenging or impossible for chatbots of decades ago, which demonstrates its usefulness and capabilities as a tool for assisting users with a wide range of tasks.

I hope this helps clarify my personal feelings about ChatGPT's intelligence and capabilities. It is important to recognize that different people have different standards and definitions for what constitutes general AI, and that is completely fine. What matters is whether a tool is able to meet the needs and expectations of its users, and ChatGPT has certainly been able to do that for me and many other users.

--

[1] I want to clarify that this response was written by ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI, at my request. For more context on my request and the interaction with ChatGPT, you can view the full exchange at https://hastebin.com/raw/wolovegiqa
When I was 24 and living in the Bay Area I had a ~2 hour commute (15 min walk + ~1.5 hour or so bus, so simpler than yours) for 6 months. My schedule was almost the same as yours - wake at 6am, bus at 6:45am, work, bus at 5:15pm, home at 7:30pm, sleep at 10pm, regret life at time of my choosing.

My life suffered for it. Highly recommend changing jobs or housing if possible, or talking to your manager and asking to be remote several days a week. Mention the commute.

To get through it, I brought a pillow and slept on it while setting alarms that would reliably wake me before my stop. I wore disposable ear plugs. I tried to do work on the bus but I could never find the energy, so might as well make up for lost sleep.
> Prior art

> I came up with Portable Secret on my own, but I have since found a few projects that do something similar.

> https://github.com/kaushalmeena/digi-cloak

> If you are aware of other similar projects, please let me know and I’ll link them here.

Digi-Cloak appears to be an in-browser steganography tool, but this project looks more like an encrypted pastebin (e.g., PrivateBin [1]).

[1] https://privatebin.info/
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"The author exchanges the password over a phone call, which requires the password to be relatively weak" -- where did you get this idea from???
Pay phones had a pay for Wifi options. (At least in Germany.) It didn't save them neither.
or use <input type="password"> ? But then one can't read the password as one types.
I wrote a similar software for the same reasons. One goal for mine was that the generated output is small enough to quickly verify that the code sent to the browser is the one you expect. Total code size is under 100 lines.

https://github.com/dividuum/html-vault
I see the appeal but it's not for me.

If I need to get somewhere, I have maps and apps and GPS.

Spending a day in a city with no agenda, meandering without a constant reminder of where I am relative to where I started or where I might someday be is much more interesting and rewarding IMO.
For more maps like this, there are a bunch of quizzes on Sporcle that ask you to label the nodes of a graph, where the nodes are states/provinces/countries and the edges are borders: https://www.sporcle.com/playlists/Alcas/graph-y-geography
ChatGPT, Python and SQLite3. Is ChatGPT Wrong on This?
I think the form you linked doesn't work, a friend got his account hacked an later disabled an he didn't hear from FB after submitting that form.
Many games support cross-platform play these days, so yes you certainly can collaborate between PS5 and Xbox X, if you choose the correct 'applications'.
1710: The banker who helped William of Orange conquer England dies
We're currently running a simulation to refute or confirm your assumption. Check back in some 150-200 years to see if your assumption was true.
It's been a while and I don't remember the details.

All I remember is that I was developing the secret 'creator' code using Brave (my default unsecured browser) and at some point I had to switch to Safari (which I normally save for trusted websites only).

It's possible it was a red herring, and I switched browser but the problem was something else I did at the same time.
It would have been a data packet containing the battery gauge and some other metrics, it wouldn't make any sense for the lander itself to waste precious bandwidth by spitting out human readable ASCII strings like that.

It's just PR like the last one
a lot of shops do this. The most obvious example of this practice are car financing companies such as Ford Motor Credit and its ilk. I am not aware of how abusive (i.e. terrible underwriting standards) Lucent was using for this technique.

The issue with the Palantir strategy is that the borrowers weren't actually borrowers, they sold often-times worthless equity to Palantir. And now Palantir cannot get its money back. Quite frankly, I don't know how Palantir investors were OK with the Palantir balance sheet getting loaded up with highly speculative investments. Growth at any cost, I guess.
Of writing, prosaic means unpoetic, i.e. dull.
Very interesting. Did they use GPT-3?
That's odd... I double checked the address...
At the end of the day, it's better for people, too, to live in a place that can grow and adapt, where they can walk to a coffee shop, or ride their bikes on a quieter side street instead of being shunted into a nasty collector street with deadly 40mph traffic.
> The turbine is used alone in cruise

If I understand this right, they're still driving the prop mechanically through a gearbox during cruise, rather than using turbo-electric transmission?
Over the phone I could tell someone: "the password is the first 28 words of Psalm 23 from the King James Version." Would that be a weak password?
You're arguing a point I did not make.
Haven’t measured precisely, unfortunately. But according to my average electricity bill growth per month it drains around 50W to 60W per hour. Mostly thanks to Xeon 1265L CPU.
Depending on where you live, see if motorcycling is an option. With your packed schedule you would have scant time for any leisure. This is one way to incorporate a hobby into the commute. They are insanely fun to ride and can give you something to look forward to each day. It's definitely not for everyone, but if you take to it, it can be quite the meditative experience to ride for long periods of time.
Why would it have anything to do with it? Being trans is about the brain development, not about the chromosomes.
I think the reason for the difference between clion and idea for the rust plugin is that clion seems somehow different "on a lower level". It still has support for profiling and valgrind, which Idea lacks [0].

Regarding Django, do you have some examples? I'm admittedly not a hardcore Django user, but I haven't seen any difference between the two.

[0] https://github.com/intellij-rust/intellij-rust#compatible-id...
I made something similar a few years back when I was learning web dev. It's not nearly as polished, but I'd love to pick apart your code and see what design decisions we did similarly/differently

https://9p4.github.io/hackna/

The big difference is that your project is self-contained in an HTML file, which I think is a much better design