skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have only my own life experiences. It is entirely possible that my eyes have opened wider as I have aged, and I am starting to see things as they have always been.

However, we are historically at the highest population in history, which means that - if the number of sociopaths is a relatively fixed percentage of the population - that there are many many more in terms of absolute numbers. There is much more competition for the top slots, which have not grown at a similar rate as our population.

In other words, I also think their effect on society has been getting worse over time.
...during wartime. The rules change a bit then. He knew that. I have little regard for those kind of heroics - self-aggrandizing and counterproductive.
First off these specs are... poor. My 2012 spare laptop that I keep for nostalgia has more memory and storage.

You can't physically connect a local screen and a keyboard to a remote Linode instance, so the $0.06/h is on top of the $669.99 (which in your example doesn't include screen, input, etc).

So in that exact setup you end up with a sub-par local computer that connects to a sub-par remote computer (and creates all kinds of headaches associated with remotely accessing compute resources); where the remote computer can't do a single thing that a ($669.99+$150) $820 local computer wouldn't do much better.

All to save you how much cash? How many hours' worth of $ in engineer salary? $2000-4000 will get you a really powerful M1/M2 Mac, and if you need more than 128GB of ram then you can indeed spin up an instance - and instances with >128GB of memory are nowhere near close to $0.06/h.

Optimize for developer productivity, that is your bottleneck. Uber's problem is less of "our local machines are bad and/or expensive", more of "our setup is so convoluted, and we have so many devs, that we need to apply economies of scale to tackle the problem".
Looks like it breaks multiple guidelines:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I hate how the article asserts the new theory as fact
The robber barons did a pretty bad job on society. As did the meat packers in the jungle.
I predict one of two outcomes:

1) He will claim that the poll was manipulated by bots and thus he doesn't have to respect the result.

2) He will step down and appoint a prominent far-right personality as Twitter's new CEO, in keeping with his vague threat to "be careful what you wish for" and his seemingly all-consuming need to own the libs.
I wonder how NIH requirements compare to farmers' requirements for animal welfare? My uneducated guess is that NIH is less compliant, and have lower consequences.
> Given HN is often the enlightened discourse space

that's only the byproduct of enforcing herd mentality.

Restricted groups of individuals, expressing a restricted group of opinions in a restricted environment where only a restricted set of well defined behaviour is allowed tend to disagree less.

But that's not how a discourse usually takes place or what its purpose is.

Discourse takes place among different people expressing vastly different opinions in vastly different ways, mostly due to different cultural backgrounds, that generate a lot of conflict, to find a shared common ground.

Repressing the conflicting part means repressing the most important part of the discourse, leaving the door open only to the shallow exchange of information. That can be useful, but won't change anyone's mind.

It's the reason why cults tend to stick together even in the craziest of situations. They feel they belong to something only they understand deeply, while everybody else is wrong or insane or stupid or corrupted.

For example: HN guidelines states "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity."

But ideological and political are not the same thing, they are, in fact, one on the opposite sides of the spectrum of the other and not as in "two sides of the same coin" but as in "one is bad, the other is the opposite of bad".

Asking people to not engage in political debates, it's itself political.

It is the oldest political ideology ever existed: hypocrisy.
Most people didn't like season 3 because it went so far sci-fi instead of the Wild West. I thought season 3 was great and season 4 was amazing.

It's weird that they are removing content like Westworld but there's a ton of trash on their platform that they could axe and no one would even know.
> Here in Israel with proportional representation, every small party has outsized power since every one of them has enough power to vote down the current government by joining hands with the opposition. As a result, decisions that are undesirable by the majority are consistently made.

Could you explain this a bit more? Surely if they are proportionally elected and have the numbers to outvote the current government, then they're representing the majority views, not minority?

In the UK, our government gets elected by winning 40% of the vote and therefore almost every decision it takes is against the wishes of the majority of voters.

PR should result in less of it, not more.
I have a moderate astigmatism and just wearing my prescription contacts or glasses is enough for me to not have significant eye strain. If I try to use a computer without them, I have to get so close it's uncomfortable and strain my eyes a lot.
For automating gRPC tests you can use Step CI

Disclosure: I'm the author

https://docs.stepci.com/guides/testing-grpc.html
Some cool (programming) tech underrated
You need to see a therapist. Your problem is largely on your outlook on where you are in life. This is not meant to be a buck up or shut up comment, it's just that you can't improve your life until you change your outlook on things. You won't be able to move forward on things until you confront your feelings and accept your position to move out of it.

To answer your question, yes. My 30's were a mess with a divorce, a parent with dementia, a kid who had a unknown behavior problems they said was autism, and trying to keep my dad's business running all while maintaining a full time job. You can get better, but you need help doing it and have to actively accept you aren't all alone.
I get this ALL. THE. TIME.

I usually take over & lock / delete the account or alert their fraud department, along with the Google Answers link about how the dots work.

LinkedIn scraper spam without the dot? "Hi thanks for wanting to hire me, I don't reward scrapers"

Ironically enough I didn't put in this dot-removal logic in the app I maintain at work. For one, it makes creating test accounts really easy - the second is that most of our customers have their own domain, so @gmail is very rare.
Were you able to identify any peer reviewed research that a blue filter helps?

So far every time I went for glasses they added that for a fee and I asked for it to be removed.

I did my research and I can't find any proof of it helping. In fact, I find research that they don't help:

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/21/969886124/do-blue-light-block...
>those folks are assholes half the time, why would I want to join them if I don't have to?

"The grapes are sour anyway." I'd bet the rate of assholes among the deaf is probably about equal to the non-deaf.
A similar post, also mentioning protocols and integrant, was posted here a few days ago and may also interest some:

https://mccue.dev/pages/12-7-22-clojure-web-primer
EU isn't unstoppable force. Specially if populist parties not on the side of green-left-wing policies start losing. It is far more democratic than USA for example is. One side just needs to gain momentum and wide range of different populist political parties can overturn these decisions.
Dictators shield every decision with "public opinion", but forgot to mention that public opinion they write themselves.

Like what is coincidence that when Tesla stocks flops, Tesla investors want musk to get out from twitter ceo and some poll that is controlled by musk say people want him leave.

I personally don't care, but I smell shenanigans.
How Companies Think about Layoffs
How did people move around in those countries before 2010?
Potentially risking downvotes, since religion makes people uncomfortable, but since you mentioned mental health services are lacking, have you tried joining a local church? Priests are the original therapists, and it’s a great way to meet people.

It’s not for everyone, but if you’re struggling to find meaning in your own life, perhaps looking up is the answer?
Parts of Russia are in Europe.
> nobody is going to read a complex technical paper in practise on a phone

I do, in fact. Or rather, I often would like to but with PDF? No chance. IEEE explore online reading sometimes works, but it would work better if they cleaned up their UI to be compatible with phones.

I have read thousands of pages of fiction on a phone and quite enjoyed it. Phones are great for reading if the content reflows properly.

Now publishers and content creators would need to embrace non-paginated, reflowing output. This would not only facilitate reading on phones, but also on tablets and laptop screens.

O‘Reilly‘s online platform does a good job with their app.

There is zero reason why paginated output should be the default in 2022.
It started as a way to network air defense bases for AESA radars, NORAD and Nike missiles together across CONUS. Feature creep and increased scope grew it into a general purpose data network that linked not only military sites but also research institutes by the 80's.
Yeah, I knew this whole space was a race to the bottom the first time when a driver turned up with two phones with one running Uber and the other Lyft. When I asked them how they choose they just said which ever wants to fight harder for their business today and pay them the most. The drivers have zero loyalty to these companies.
Hn allows users to see shadowbanned content using the showdead flag and allows specific comments to be vouched back to life by the userbase that has this feature enabled. I think this dynamic makes a huge difference (and ironically probably keeps those on the borderline from realizing they are shadowbanned at all).
What proportion of shadow banned accounts continue to do this on any given day though? Conservatively I would put it at half. I'm not suggesting shadow bans are without merit but often you have to look really far back through some comment histories before you have an "aha!" moment. I'm also not fully versed in the way this place works, but people go through shitty periods in life and there should be systems to account for that.
And that graph does not include the 2022 experiment with 3.15, which also happened to be the first one with net positive output.
These are not autonomous, they are more like an extension of someone who controls them. When you surrender like this, you surrender to the military personel who operates the drone and not the drone itself.

IMHO these drones are much less dehumanising than artillery or missiles. Most of the time those who fire the artillery or the rockets never get to see the people they are killing, they enter some numbers and and press a button. Even those who provide the numbers might not see much as the would use clues and remote sensing stuff.
Is there something wrong with this on mobile? The images looked broken for me except for the Mona Lisa
> ...I have a lot thanks to keratoconus...

If you don't mind me asking, what age were you diagnosed and how long have you had it? Thank you.
Lawyers will get nothing. This was the FTC, not a class action lawsuit with lawyers working on contingency.

About half the amount is going to refunds to consumers.
Practical Anonymity for Political and Religious Dissidents
I hate Californian style development so much it's unreal. The fact that they're STILL building new urban sprawl is disgusting. We will not be forgiven for sacrificing the Earth on an alter of Targets and single family homes
Erm no, if you look at history, it is very human.

My point above was simply, that words have different meaning in a different context. There is the geographical meaning of "Europe" then there is the political construct called EU and then the vague cultural concept Europe. Switzerland and Norway for example are not in the EU, but are very much part of europe. Bulgaria is in the EU, but is rather "balkan".
George Bush right?

Abraham Lincoln?

Etc
that's amazing, thanks a lot
Masters in US implies the OP has a past history of completing non-trivial projects. Built career is just a narrative that HR and investors like. Humans can learn quite fast lots of useful things. This is not a statement "everyone can become world champion" but rather, you don't need to become world champion to find contentment and happiness in life. Growth mentality is the key.
43 is still young! Your body responds well to exercise, that and positive attitude can turn your relationship situation around. 40s is not too old to be a father. The world is out there, good luck.
A great excuse is that you have family members that can sometimes be seen behind you, like minor children, who do not agree to be on camera.
I wonder if this is a symptom of there being too few competitors in most markets.

In a very competitive market, having a long-term customer is an incredibly valuable thing. You should want to invest heavily in customer support so that you can avoid losing customers.

But in a market with only two competitors (Lyft and Uber) there isn't a need. There's only one other competitor, so how much do you really need to invest in customer support? Spend that money on marketing to steal customers from the other competitor- you'll get a better ROI in terms of number of customers.

The same applies to Google of course. What are you going to do, use Bing? Switch your gmail account to someone else? I guess you could get an iPhone instead of Android?

As a counter-example, Amazon had to win customer trust early on because nobody trusted online shopping. They invested heavily in customer support. They kept investing in it, as a means to keep customers from switching to new competitors. For a long time, that helped them stay on top.

But in the end, we need more diverse markets with more competitors. And at this point, the government ought to be stepping in to make that happen.
If there is nothing between "search result that can be different for everyone except for the most popular brands" and "permanent number suffix that's probably eight digits long" then that's not a very good system.

And I do think that system fails to defeat zooko's triangle.
My mother in law lost her business at 45 as a hairdresser, lost most of her savings and had to redo her life entirely, she ended up taking a class and switching to caring for disabled/mentally challenged? people in a sort of nursing/living facility, it completely changed her for the better (no stress or anxiety) maybe you need to flip the script aswell?
Russia is today as much European as it was last year, 10 years ago or even 50 years ago. Just because it's at the moment more isolated again, dosn't mean it's less european.
"Rally-ish" so far. 152.92 as of 9:43am. Up from a 52 week low.
To nitpick further, you're talking about a cross that has not finished being excavated yet, and everyone else is talking about the square cross piece that appears to go in the middle of the necklace, which has certainly been excavated.
A charming TCP tunnel over WebSocket and Browser
It can help you open a TCP tunnel to another side of the world through the browser in an extremely restricted environment. I used it for few months, just public this tool and hope it helps. : )

cactus-tunnel - A charming TCP tunnel over WebSocket and Browser.
It is not just a concept, it represent the vast majority of grid energy storage today, we are talking about gigawatts.

Hydro is the best, so good in fact that most of the good spots are already taken, because as you said, it requires a very specific geography.
This sentiment probably stems from an incredibly privileged place.

Mathematicians and people who are/were good at math are always quick to disregard the "boring" math.

First I'd like so make it clear that I agree with you.

However, in reality, all this stuff is seen as a prerequisite to get to "the good stuff". Real world education systems have this gatekeeper in place for everyone who isn't exceptional.

So while I absolutely share your sentiment, I find it very misplaced (and a bit distasteful) here for a tool that can actually just help real world self learners overcome those barriers. Self learners that just want to learn the basics from ground up are already often ignored by the whole math community.

Math is exercising, that is something high school math and university math very much have in common.

Had OP posted a generator for proof based exercises and problems, I guarantee you some mathematician would've showed up to rant just as much about how trivial undergraduate level proofs are ;)
Exactly. If there was a breakthrough at all, it in 2021, when NIF finally reached the point of "burning plasma."

But breakthrough, or milestone, I fear it may all be for naught. The improvements over the last two years are essentially all due to changes in the hohlraum geometry and preparation. All good, if your goal is to get burning plasmas to study. But NIF is orders of magnitude away from anything useful for power production. They have a Q of 1.5, but need something more like 100. They have a cycle time of, maybe, .1 shot/hour, and need something like 10,000/hour. Some real breakthroughs in the lasers (or maybe particle beams instead), coupling, and scale, not fine tuning of hohlraum shape, are needed.
I don't have any idea why you think "a wife, kids" are out of the picture for you: after early adulthood, men and women are looking for someone they can see having a family with, and not for the more superfluous things in life (good looks, status or lots of money). At 43, having kids is harder for women, but usually not for men (well, at least making babies: bringing up kids does get a bit harder as you age regardless of the gender).

In any case, getting a job in a place where you'd be happy should "restart" your life: job is also a means to a new social life where you make the break from the old. So it sounds like you are only a decent job away from starting on the right path.

Having some vices also allows you to connect with others, so perhaps pick up a few non-damaging ones :D

Finally, note that you should look for professional help instead of listening to any of the advice I might give, though finding a psychologist who you can connect to is sometimes an ordeal as well.
I prefer practical tests. Right now, however, the authorities here encourage people to avoid using electric pre-heaters in order to save electricity, so I'll take your word for it. :)

Ideally, things like this wouldn't be a problem, but where I live EV's is simply not an option during winter. Charging from a regular 240V/16A outlet takes too long, the nearest proper charging station is over 25km away, and the grid out here won't handle the load of everyone getting proper chargers at home. Adding additional load to heat batteries of thousands of cars probably won't be a viable option until the grid has been modernized.

Luckily, this shouldn't be a problem in warmer, more densly populated areas anyway. Better to roll out EV's where it's viable, and sort out the fringe cases later.
If this is a COPPA issue, you just have to ask for birth year and you’re allowed to trust the answer.
I am not in a position to give advice to anyone but:

"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best time:now" -- old Chinese proverb I believe.

Hope, in my experience is the most powerful force to help you turn things around. But at the same time, few things are as cruel as hope when it is crushed. Ultimately the choice is yours on whether you consider hope as worth having.
I did not know that, I stand corrected!
first mistake - you take the words of a politician, at one stroke, against a lifetime of disciplined study and speaking.
You're struggling with visualizing how to start your ideal life. Like any task, it feels monumental because you're at the bottom of a mountain looking up. So start at the top - imagine your perfect day.

You identified a wife, job, maybe kids. You come home after a fulfilling day of work, have a nice dinner with the family, and feel a sense of content. Now rewind, and focus and focus on a single trail. What steps lead to this moment?

You came from work; where do you work? What do you do there? When did you start? Why did you ace the interview? How did you get the interview? What made you feel ready to interview?

Do this exercise for each facet of your life you care about, and work all the way back to the first achievable step. Then take that step.
Our US-East region is live: deploy your apps in Washington, DC
Few probably need this - but it could be at home on the autobahn - were you'd want to be able both drive at high speed, and change lanes/overtake other cars at high speed.
It's actually quite common to see "heard thinning" like this. Even as far back as the dotcom bubble, tons of internet companies, many went bust, eBay and Amazon and a few others survived becoming the giants they are today. Or take rideshare companies, there were a number of alternatives to Uber and Lyft back in the day like Sidecar but those shuttered. Heck we just saw it (albiet for a different set of messed up reasons) the thinning of the heard in the crypto space, both on the project and the exchange side....

The cycle always seems to follow:

1. Cash enters the system through low interest rates by the fed and other economic factor (boom times).

2. Tons of new companies emerge, all hyped, all with shiny new products and tons of marketing.

3. Things are good for a while but eventually hard times hit. All the companies propped up by hype and that don't truly have a good business in place will fall the wayside.

4. The few companies that weather the storm tend to last longer and become established players in the space.
"Pay me or I leave" is bargaining. "I leave" is not bargaining.
What's the likelihood that they're buying up these assets so that they have something to give out when people ask to withdraw their portfolios?
on android there's usually categories of notifications
Since when have tech companies cared about pesky little issues like laws and regulations?
The example appears to be valid Javascript. I’m not saying it doesn’t look interesting or useful. But, “Why not Javascript?”
I just wanted to say that 43 is very young and it’s not too late to have the best times of your are life. What are some things you find enjoyment from these days?
Not a great comparison. The i5-12400 has 6 physical P-cores. The Linode instance you mention has 4 vCPUs, which typically correspond to logical cores and are subject to noisy neighbors. If your workload needs those CPUs, a better comparison would be against the “Dedicated 32 GB” plan, which has 16 dedicated vCPUs. Those instances are 3x your quoted price.
Hasn't that been pretty well established for a while?

I thought it well grounded that mammals had evolved on Gondwana (the southern part of Pangea) during the process of it splitting away from Laurasia, and had settled Laurasia from Gondwana

Gondwana was composed of now South America, Africa, India, and Australia.
They aren't good. HN does it because they only want very specific speech here on the forum. This is outlined in the rules.
Regarding kids, wife and family, you are not late at all. A friend of mine had recently his first kid at 48, he is very happy.

If you need a framework for working with psychological issues, I recommend ACT (my wife is a psychology therapist and an expert in that field). It's possible that your current lifestyle or situation is not aligned with your values, so you may need to make some changes to better fulfill what is important to you. Changing can be difficult, but in Western society, we often try to avoid discomfort instead of embracing it. However, it's often necessary to embrace discomfort in order to thrive.