skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meta just took on debt for the first time ever in the last few months. Meta could cancel all Reality labs work and keep slowly taking on debt while keeping their central properties alive. It would make for a very boring company but would likely result in decent returns for shareholders. This is what Oracle has done -- their company is boring but their shareholders are happy.

In order to have any sort of future growth story, Meta pretty much needs to create or somehow capture major economics from a new platform like they did for web2.0 and mobile web. Due to antitrust concerns IMO, they can't just acquire their way into more value by acquiring a company like Pinterest so their remaining options are moonshots like AR/VR to invest heavily for the next platform to become ubiquitous and then extract economics from it.
I did it in my mid-to-late 30s. At that point, I had very little going for me. Now, I'm married, have a happy kid, have a decent job, and have just bought a house.

It can definitely be done; you just need to be patient, love yourself, and to want it enough to put in the work.

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." - Epictetus
In general I am down with and even enthusiastic about recreational sesquipedalianism. I'm even on board when the elaboration verges on ponderous. I've voluntarily read Moby Dick twice!

In this case a good chunk of the text is both informationally redundant and ineffective as ornamentation.

"I'm going to say a thing. Here's the thing I'm going to say. These are examples of the thing I'm talking about. Do you see the thing that I said? The examples I offered support my point. The point I made is *definitely true*. And this is just the beginning! There are *so many more examples* I could use. Here are four more."

Any editor would say "please go through this, flip a coin at the start of every sentence, and erase the sentences where the coin comes up heads."
Epic Games to Pay More Than $500B over FTC Allegations of Privacy Violations
140 million to sign the deal with Rwanda.
Will cost 100k GBP per applicant.
Rwanda will 'process' 200 applicants a year.

Clearly that doesn't come close to solving anything and is expensive. It is a simple to explain non solution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLZXJtpSLMc
Translating what FTC is saying to plain English, FTC is saying Epic didn't do enough to move liability away from them (Epic) and onto the parents/guardian. The liability ball was still in Epic's court, so FTC fined them.

If Epic had some form of age verification in place, past that point it's the parents'/guardian's problem whether the kid lies or the kid asks them to give their authorization. The liability ball would be in the parents'/guardian's court.

It's why all software and websites that handle data coming from underage kids always verify age or straight up don't handle that data (eg: Youtube Kids videos' comments, the lack thereof) at all.

Obligatory IANAL.
quick shout-out to https://literal.club/ as a hopeful successor of GoodReads, which has been in a state of disrepair if not abandonware for several years now. Literal is a terrific product and I hope it gains traction.

as for my own entries…

- Lapvonia by Moshfegh and Hollow by Catling are both sort of magical-realism set in medieval European villages, which would normally be considered "fantasy" but I assure you are very much not fantasy novels as any normal reader would consider. They are rather stories about the medieval setting set from the perspective of how people a thousand years ago understood and perceived their real world.

- and also on that medieval-tales motif, The Mere Wife by Headley is a contemporary retelling of Beowulf (the hero is a cop named Ben Wolff), great fun and well-styled.

- Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Beaton is winning tons of awards and deservedly so.

- Termination Shock and Ministry for the Future are stabs at possible approaches for solving climate change by very prominent SF writers, which miss the mark for various reasons, but worth a look as they're the dominant themes for the next few years of science fiction.
That depends on which rural area. I've lived in several rural areas, and we always had automatic fire service provided by the township, it was just another required tax line item. Normally they contracted with the nearest town (I know in one case the township legally owned half the town fire department and paid half the costs, the others I don't know what the details were, just that there was service from the nearest town). I know of townships that don't contract with a nearby town - but then they go in with other rural townships to form a fire department (generally volunteer - farmers sometimes got a call to leave the tractor and fight a fire)
? The whole of medieval europe swarms with stories of surplus children send to fend for themselves as servants and workers abroad.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwabenkinder

Whole areas exported there population as soldiers, mercenaries and mining people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Guard
Most of them were like the taliban in afghanistan, interlocked in eternal holy wars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War

Well obviously the taliban aint real either. A mountainous area, in eternal intertribal warfare.. not actually accepting the nation state.. ridiculous thought.

The english soldiers fighting in the independence war against the americans, were partially germans, sold by in debted aristoctrats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junker_(Prussia)

This was the reality on the ground, even up until the 2nd worldwar.
The only escape for the peasants and althose 2nd,3rd sons who were bound to the land, was to go on pilgrimages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrimage or to flee to the "new world" were the nicer frontier awaited them.

I find the idea of a children crusadd very plausible. The crusader knights surely promised the conquered lands to peasants who would follow them. And pre-pestilence europe was certainly crowded.

Idealism is nice. Success self hypnosis is nice. But not believing in the brutality of bygone reality, while some parts of it are still around you, is foolish, and spreading that foolishness, is preparing for it to repeat itself. Work hard and meaningful, if not for yourselves, then to prevent the return of the olden times.
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/DSS/webapp-demo...
Crypto Offers a Roadmap for Improved Stock Trading
I see, that's obviously an issue. I only tested it with something I generated and someone's long form blog post.
As a perfectionist in recovery, this book was extremely illuminating: https://www.newharbinger.com/9781684038459/the-anxious-perfe...

I often felt like they were describing me to myself as I was reading... Highly recommend if you deal with perpetual dissatisfaction with your performance or achievements and would like to learn how to accept yourself for who you are and live a "lighter" existence.
Seems a nice way to bury a lede :) No links back to GCC including the languages, and a look at https://gcc.gnu.org/ doesn't reveal it either, even if you click on changes for GCC 13.
Tesla may announce $800M to $1B in Mexico plant in coming days
Formalised thinking strategies never clicked for me. It’s either completely obvious stuff (almost like trying to teach someone common sense), or very vague generic statements without practical applications.
That is considered better, but there are still potential attack vectors such as directory traversal. More secure yet is to have the application decrypt the secret in memory.
Food goes bad when either there are microbes growing in it (you get sick from infection), or there have been microbes growing and those microbes have left behind toxins (you get poisoned).

Nothing can remain alive in a boiling pot of stew, the few things that can survive have very specialized habitats. So the only things you have to worry about are non-living poisons: toxins and prions. Since these by definition cannot reproduce, it’s only a problem if the food was spoiled before it went in the stew.

The chance of encountering a toxin goes to 100% as more and more food is added, but it will be dilute, no different to consuming food just before it goes bad.
> Are they? They are not unless they transform to another boring bank which defeats the purpose of the exchange. Banking is not why their users joined

Sure, but if their users joined to participate in an unlawful offshore casino then my point remains. They can comply with regulations, or not. It's not the responsibility of the states to bow down to binance and allow this silliness, but on binance to conform to a state regulatory framework.
Preact is a good fit for that with just some 3kb of size and almost no porting effort
That doesn't even count all the various Amazon Prime add-on services like Starz.
>The definition of "break even" used here (that is, Q>1) is highly technical, and but one factor in the actual "break even" equation.

Isn't the Qplasma > 1 the most important one here, by a very wide margin? Maybe the only important one at this point in time. That fusion begets more fusion, in a positive-feedback way. That's the breakthrough here. All the other efficiency factors are secondary in nature. That is step 1, and the next step is to scale this up so that eventually Qplasma >> 1. And only then the hand wringing about efficiency of the lasers becomes something to address. It seems like the baby was just born, and people are concerned about which colleges to apply to.
Oceania? (from 1984)
I'd wager that a typical math homework felt like a grind to everyone sooner or later, depending on overall load and topic, so the attitude towards it would be as personal as with anything else. I was never one of those IMO-level exceptionals, though scored OK nationally, and hated doing essentially same problem 50 times in a row. My friends were chiller on average, but I never noticed any skill-loathing relation.
The atmosphere can be modelled as a fluid (how planes are simulated in flight), and pumping energy into a liquid increases the turbulence - try watching water heating up and starting to boil in a glass pot. Blame the injuries on inertia as the people and objects didn’t follow the plane’s sudden changes in altitude unless (firmly?) connected.
Cars are unpopular, crossovers are popular. That's what the people want.
Agreed, police needs more officers, better training, and higher standards. Another factor is having enough officers to pair up at all times, this helps deescalate conflict up front, and has officers less likely to attempt lethal force than being by themselves.
Thanks - repository_rule looks good. So it's either git submodules to maintain updates or checksums / commits in repository_rule - I probably need to just play around with both approaches and choose the one that annoys me the least :)
Even with this information included. I think the moral of the story is America has some very serious third-world problems. The reason things like this go on in America and not in any other developed country is that Americans just accept it. "They didn't pay, so they die." Here is how much they accept it, firefighters literally stood and watched a building burn down instead of playing with their toys. Not only that, the fire department refused to accept money to put it out.

This whole "unincorporated land" execuse is a sad state of affairs. The whole "You're not with us, so it's not our problem" mindset is really why America is so low down on every single ranking in the world, except for military might. It seems like a constant battle to make sure you're doing ok at the expense of others. School kids getting shot? It's ok, I can still have my gun. Unarmed people getting shot by police? It's ok, they haven't shot me. Corrupt police officer hired a town over? It's ok, he's their problem now. People dying because they can't afford to visit a doctor? That's ok, I can.

Instead of grouping together the US has decided to constantly separate it self among itself. Other countries have orginisations that deal with entire areas. The US each town has to have it's own. It results in a lower quality of service. Not every town can afford x,y,z fire equipment that is only going to be used once a month but an biradge that deals with 10 towns and would be using it two times a week can.

The thing is, the solution to most of the US' problems aren't hard. They're already figured out by everyone else. We all just have to put up with hearing about the craziness that comes from the country that thinks it's great while their ass is on fire.
It's interesting to see how ideologically motivated people think even when it comes to life changing drugs, I highly doubt that the author has actually tried DMT.
By this logic, there should've been no new social networks after Twitter. I point to Tiktok as a contradiction. There are many more factors that your simplification ignores.
*VPNs for IP masking.

I guess that ship has sailed....
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius. This year and every year.

It is kind of a stereotype though of tech dudes to be into stoicism, but whatever, this book really just puts me in such a good frame of mind any time I open it.
FWIW, Palmer Luckey still works at Anduril, building VR-controlled gun turrets or whatever for policing the border with a bunch of senior ex-Palantir employees.
ChatGPT: The Good, the Bad, and the Woke
> I don’t fully understand the “I won’t turn my camera on” insistence.

It might help to consider that many of the people insisting on this don't understand why others find it weird that they insist. Personally, I don't understand the "You need to let me watch you" insistence.

(If you don't like the phrasing of, "You need to let me watch you" consider, at least, that might be how the insistence is perceived.)
Multimethods also have some problems vs reloading that need working around.
I worked in a retail movie store in the year 2000, and can assure you, customers absolutely did notice the shenanigans that Disney played with periodically cycling their classic films in and out of print on VHS and DVD.
If this is followed by a payoff of "Congratulations, you privileged patriarch. Now eat what you shoveled," then I see why some men are opting out.
This is true for any language ecosystem or build tool, whether it's bazel, maven, unrealbuildtool, Jenkins, cmake, gradle etc.
I'm not going to try to convince you to use Bazel. I think it's great, but ultimately choosing one build system or another is a big decision that involves weighing a lot of different factors, including what your coworkers are amenable to and have experience with. However I don't think Bazel is that difficult to get started with.

The Bazel docs are admittedly a bit challenging, but the easiest way to learn things when you're first getting started is to just look at other projects using Bazel and see how they do things.

Using multiple git repositories is easy, you just use the git_repository() rule which has been in Bazel since pretty much forever. Nowadays you can also use bzlmod (introduced in bazel 5.x) which is a slightly different approach to this problem. There are a bunch of rules in https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-central-registry which you can look at to see how to write your own bzlmod registries.
Besides The City & The City I really enjoyed Kraken and Un Lun Dun by China Miéville.

Kraken is the hunt for a giant squid after it vanished from a London museum.

Un Lun Dun is a young adult story of two friends who end up in a whimsical version of London.
Space travel weakens the immune system

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-90458-2

https://biosignaling.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1478...

So maybe it's a good idea for people with chronic inflammation/auto-immunity
I wrote a research paper in college on the Children's Crusade, and the question I posed to be answered was "how many children participated in it?"

It turns out that it was a real phenomenon, and many children did leave home, but being children, practically none of them made it to the Holy Land. The journey for many was much, much shorter. And likewise, for many it was merely a spiritual crusade and they went nowhere but "TO GOD!" as they were heard to shout.

There were eyewitnesses and contemporary accounts, and I compiled an impressive list of sources to document what could be gleaned from those accounts from a modern perspective.
Thank you for the feedback!
I am working on adding a score and also adding a timed mode where players need to make a decision within 2 seconds. That will make it more challenging
What other countries are you thinking about? Certainly in other nations with higher degrees of religiosity and intact community, people may share their issues with clerical figures.

Certainly the American mental health industry, especially the pharmaceutical component, is skewed by all sorts of misaligned incentives. But I doubt that Europeans, Canadians, or Australians are not taking advantage of therapy options offered by national health systems.
This is an important subject - there is something deeply rotten in the utility world in the South. There are a bunch of stories you wouldn't think are connected, but all have major utilities in the background. From 'fake news' sites set up to smear candidates, to huge bribes paid via nonprofits, to sham candidates backed by the utility running in close elections, to capital plans that include hundreds of millions of dollars in case of snow in Miami.. I really hope the FBI is working on this;

* Ex-Florida senator charged in fake candidate scheme (https://apnews.com/article/miami-senate-elections-florida-el...)

* Florida’s dark money playbook: How ‘ghost’ candidate scheme revealed secretive political tactics (https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-ne-dark-money-ghost-...)

* Firm working for FPL took control of news site, let execs influence coverage, records show (https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/os-ne-fpl-matrix-c...)

* Nonprofit funded with FPL cash backed DeSantis’ 2018 campaign (https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2022/09/06/no...)

* Joel Greenberg alleged far-reaching public corruption in Florida jailhouse interview (https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2022/09/07/jo...)

* Leaked: US power companies secretly spending millions to protect profits and fight clean energy (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/27/leaked-u...)

* Tom Fanning Southern Company Matrix Scandal: What don’t we know? (https://www.energyandpolicy.org/tom-fanning-southern-company...)

* FPL’s extreme winter plan would create 'unnecessary' costs to consumers, critics say (https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/business/2022/06/28/flor...)
https://archive.vn/Ej9DN
> exchange said it dealt with net outflows of around $6 billion over 72 hours last week

Has anyone tried to verify this?
Sure, but to that extent the "children" that would have been sent would have been considered normal working age.

Funnily enough, the word "infantry" comes from the same word as "infant". IE, the young guys on the battle field.
The main reason I still use ubuntu based bistros is Pop OS. The rest, I prefer fedora this days.
Project Hail Mary was such a fun read. I burned through it in 2 days, and was sad when I finished it. 10/10 would recommend
Using which key?
RIP, fav text tool by far. Personally, jetbrains outshines most when working on actual code; sublime for small work, and bbedit for virtual copy/paste formating.

edit: thanks M$ for messing up another beloved solution.
Huh? That's the easiest one of all - anything that is privacy invading should be off by default. Most of us are not super aware of what the hell is 'on and off' in this nutty world.

It's exceedingly nuts to me that I would start doing something and all of a sudden random strangers could hear me or interact with me.

Default off for everyone, probably by law.

Anyone can just turn the default to be 'on' it's not a big deal.
This is also perfect for keeping a digital copy of everything in the pursuit of the dream of being a digital nomad we all secretly harbor.
This is the problem of Java's implementation of checked exceptions... because they are not generic. Which forces middle layers to make impossible decisions like this.

If the type system were more capable, they'd just be equivalent to typed generic error returns, which work fine.
He has no choice. The old model (ad revenue) is declining, and the new model (monetizing AR/VR and the Metaverse) hasn't been proven yet.
The article doesn't mention people with computers in them...
Oh, it's been that since at least the 80s. It's just that now the other things we do during it are also on screens.
I'll have to check them out!

I was first drawn to TC&TC because I was told Disco Elysium draws from it, and boy howdy was that right. Something is so wonderful about a crime procedural in an entirely fantastic universe.
Sugru is awesome. A truly brilliant idea and innovation.
People have been putting check mark emojis in their Fedi display names forever, as a joke. While I could see an instance considering something like that to help pay for server costs I don't think it's likely to be very popular.
Critical Windows code-execution vulnerability went undetected until now
You're not alone -- a lot of this resonates with me, but I (also in my 40s) might be a little further along in my journey and have a few more resources to draw on. But I feel this.

The most important thing: therapy. Don't spend too much time finding a therapist -- take the first one with an opening. If you don't get along with them, ask for a referral or use a method discussed in other comments. But the important thing is to start. Many therapists will do video calls now. Medication can also be effective.

Some more good stuff about your life:
* You're not too old for marriage or even kids. Guys are lucky in that respect -- we have an easier time finding partners and having kids when we're older.
* You took an important step: you posted this question. I am terrified to do any such thing about my own problems, so I respect you a lot for it.
* You had a network before, and professional networks are more resilient than you think. If a co-worker from 10 years ago emailed me out of the blue, I'd be happy to talk to them. I think you'd be happy to talk to your old colleagues, so why the assumption that they wouldn't respond to you? That's an example of catastrophizing thinking. A therapist can help you with that better than HN randos...but still, asking HN randos is a good step to take!
* It's not a given that the best of your life is behind you. Every part of your life can be the prime of your life if you value the things that part of your life has to offer.

Good luck, friend.
Drop a piece of trash on the interstate in the middle of nowhere and you can be fined $500 or more. Defecate in front of a sidewalk cafe in San Francisco and you get a pass. Strange world we live in.
No, Tether and their banking partner Deltec have very little international backing, nor are they the same entity as Binance.

Strange to call Tether and Binance, "weapons aimed at the West", when their implosion would surely do more to damage cryptocurrencies than global US Dollar hegemony.

Of course one would be smart to use other platforms rather than creating single points of failure....
Well, they're not in the workforce, which was the point. What they're doing with all of their free time almost doesn't matter. Well, until they start bitching about how they don't make enough money and can never buy a house etc. Because we know why they're not making enough money. They're not fucking working. The data shows us that.
I just can’t get over using environment variables for this type of stuff. An attacker can bootstrap a lot just from compromising an ssh login. Platforms like JWS had the right idea. You used tokens in config files and the platform vault knew how to inject the value at runtime. Nothing was exposed in the environment variables or run command.