skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I'm 42 at the time this took place. I had just gotten a divorce... I met a nice, 24 year old, and we began dating.

She was a great person, but very much a SJW. She had no compunction about making outrageous demands about my personal speech patterns.

Two incidents that stuck out:

I have a cousin who has FAS or is autistic, or both. He texts me 20x a day at least, and I happened to mention it and say my cousin was "retarded". She lit me up saying I should know better than to use that word-- and I explained to her that was the clinical term for people such as him. Was not meant as an insult.

Another time, I made a joke by answering a question she had in a pseudo-gay accent-- a lateral-lisp. She lit me up again for making fun of gay people-- which I was not doing at all. And I explained to her that I went to speech therapy for YEARS to get rid of that exact lisp and it was something that I owned because I was born with it, as opposed to folks who adopted it to indicate group membership.

We didn't last long as a couple :-)
Not many.

Weirdly, chatgpt can be remarkably good at translating code between programming languages.

I suspect within a year or two it'll be pretty easy to translate a lot of C libraries to native rust code (or whatever) using modern AIs.
Yeah, if watching sports involves so much expense and hassle, it's time to realize that it's just not that important, and find something else for entertainment. There are many alternatives.
or to have meaningful conversation you'll have to register so identification and then be under scrutiny for trollish behavior, at least to minimize bad actors, you'll never get rid of all of them.
Keffals was swatted in Canada, and Canada has a far less extreme police and gun culture compared to the USA.
Who cares about their engagement metrics? Like, what societal good does it do? I’m not sure the law is unjust because a company’s (non financial) metrics are impacted when the law acts as intended.

For the record, I’m pro games and against pearl clutching game ratings and “for the children” style laws, but I’m also not very sympathetic to big companies profits being a motivation for our lawmakers.
How do you cross the street outside of the posted hours? Just run across while the light is green and hope for the best?
A huge number of current rude terms have medical origin, including an entire measured scale, including idiot, as you called out:

Moron (from Wikipedia):
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It was once applied to people with an IQ of 51–70, being superior in one degree to "imbecile" (IQ of 26–50) and superior in two degrees to "idiot" (IQ of 0–25). The word moron, along with others including "idiotic", "imbecilic", "stupid", and "feeble-minded", was formerly considered a valid descriptor in the psychological community, but it is now deprecated in use by psychologists.
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Similarly cretin as someone with congenital iodine deficiency syndrome, but now far less polite and just generically dumb.

The list misses huge numbers of terms. It feels very much like a small group of people sat down and brainstormed for 5 minutes writing out the things that bothered them individually, or knew about individually, and that was it.
No one cares about decentralization until there's a centralization failure, then those people are glad there's an alternative that others have been toiling away for for years, like with Twitter and the Fediverse.

The entire Internet is built on various levels/degrees of decentralization, and while there are performance costs, it's still usually cheaper than the alternative in the long term.
Watchmen is a Lindelof show, but well worth watching.
Even Latino is a made up ethnicity obvious for anyone that has traveled just a bit. Includes vastly different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. In the US is politically convenient to put everyone in the same bland bag.

edit: typo
Every year millions of people start running in circles around a black box building in the middle of the desert. I'm not sure if that's a useful analogy. Might explain why they get so violent if you question their god or their beliefs.
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I remember English teacher lady being slightly offended because
I kept referring she as "he". I could not help it, native language has no grammatical genders.

But this was 50 years ago, could not imagine what would happen today. Judging by Youtube-videos bodily harm would be almost certain.
you can state things as they are all you like. these people hate Microsoft because they were told to, and they're never letting go of it.

oh, also, Google can do no wrong to these folks, because if they admit that Google can do (or is doing) wrong, then they know they have to abandon their Google accounts, and they just can't do it. so, they stare their self-deception in the face in the morning when they brush their teeth and they bash on Microsoft at every opportunity because they drank slashdot like it was water.
"braving" in "braving a storm" uses "brave" as a (nominalized) noun
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It'll never happen. Best to qualify when searching "FILM interpolation" or expand when introducing "Frame Interpolation for Large Motion" as was done here. That way you get the best of both worlds, friendly acronym for active use and extremely referenceable name for long term or first time use. The long form is probably what you'd need to do without common abbreviations anyways, weird acronyms just to be unique doesn't help when actively using it now or a decade later when you're trying to reference back to it and nobody knows what gLMFI1 was anyways - unless it becomes extremely popular in which case gLMFI1 is a pain to use all the time.
Do you not remember high school? Nerds hate artists.
How tall is too tall? The rise and rise and rise of the supertall skyscraper
He was a Forth user.
You'll be reported to the ECB and you'll have your accounts blocked for defaming the system.
What exactly does this do once installed? Do I need another client to connect to it to play music?
If the database is unresponsive, I would prefer to return 5xx to the caller as soon as possible. May be this service is not so important and it's better to present to user an incomplete page rather than waiting for hours or days until database is available.

If it is important, caller will call the service until he got response.

Again: fail fast. Even in distributed systems. Unless you're 100% sure that you know better how to handle this particular issue.
The main problem is Meta has no imagination and is just going to play it safe and G rated.

The killer VR apps are all in creating a rated R type Metaverse that is seedy and dangerous. 80s Manhattan style, not safe for work or children.

That would be something wild and create a huge buzz. Instead, we have Horizon Worlds.
Basically, Starbucks with fake coffee.

The only thing I like about Meta is trading the stock over the next few years as Wall Street goes into convolutions over the burn rate of Reality Labs at each earnings release.
Which seems like a worse decision, not a better one.
A small group of Americans actually own guns, maybe 20%. So yes, the average gun owner has more like 5 guns.

As for entering the property, if there’s five people and one gun, that’s a lot different to five people and thirty guns.
i would argue the exact opposite. socialism, in its best form, is more democratic than capitalism. socialism != a CEO that controls everything. you put strong democratic systems in place to prevent the CEO or dictator. your insurance company is controlled by all the workers rather than a CEO, and they get to make decisions about the business, etc. there are a ton of permutations for how socialism can function and many of them aren't what the red scare leads everybody to believe. the 20th century failures were more like dictatorships than socialism.

socialism is all about how you organize a business by giving workers control, rather than organizing with the employer/employee relationship in capitalism. the workers can vote for a CEO to make the big decisions if they want, or a creative director to design or whatever, but they can also have the power to fire that individual if they don't think they're doing a good job.

and to your point about centralized control — we already have that with a ton of industries in america. we already have it for the US military, etc. seeing capitalism as the free market and socialism as a planned economy is a false dichotomy.
There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, "The only way to stop a bad guy from swatting you is a good guy with his own personal SWAT team."
I love my on-prem ip cams, my on-prem server that does the YOLOv5 image recognition and long-term storage, my Home Assistant that triggers alerts and sends emails to my self-hosted e-mail server and blinks all my lights, my OpenVPN-on-the-openwrt router remote access technique, my self-hosted Seafile cloud, my self-hosted CalDAV/CardDAV calendar and contacts, my mopidy/snapcast whole-home audio with local MP3s, my on-prem Jellyfin-interfaced movie library cobbled together from cheap ebay DVDs... It's a super fun hobby.

But I don't recommend any of it to anyone who doesn't want to make a serious hobby about of it.
Your phone or tablet is not always on
the browser wars won't ever be over. Every browser that has ever been a marker leader has abused that position, Chrome included.
"you need some way to persist state (or have a long running process that keeps state in memory"
Hash the data, update the script with the hash.
The idea is that is that you would flee the oppressive regime at one point and be able to bring your assets with you.
Maybe so, but can you please not post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We're trying for something else here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah. I just read the entire Wait But Why article linked elsewhere in the thread, and it seems to be taken as a given that technology will continue to increase at an exponential rate, and so the ability to precisely detect and arbitrarily manipulate the positions of individual atoms has got to be in our not-impossibly-distant future.

But I think we are having trouble really grasping the magnitude of that challenge compared to the progress made by science and rationalism so far. Today's medical interventions are breathtaking in effect compared to the state of the art of a hundred years ago, but the complexity of those interventions themselves does not even approach the complexity of the biological systems which are being restored. They are really very crude solutions. Even cutting-edge stuff like mRNA vaccines involves hijacking existing machinery rather than creating new machinery from whole cloth.

Anyhow, it's possible that humanity will go a long way, and that extinction is not in our future, but that nevertheless some problems will simply forever be beyond our intellectual capacity. It's not hard to imagine that all the requisite knowledge to accomplish this kind of techno-necromancy might not even be attainable in a single lifespan -- even a lifespan augmented by future technology.

Maybe AI solves that problem, but it would also be real weird to wake up in the future to discover that a race of incomprehensibly brilliant machines has resurrected you as a pet out of sheer boredom.

Ultimately, it appears that the odds of "successful cryonic preservation" due to any foreseeable reason are 0%. So a decision to do it would come down to betting against my own ability to predict the future. Fair enough: I've been wrong before, but I'm probably not wrong this time.
The term "wild" has been used to refer to indigenous peoples for centuries; it has also been used to describe foreigners, and people with mental health issues, for even longer.

The term "surprising" has a lot of connotations too.

Safer to just not speak
It's true. I'm a fan of his podcast and I can admit he's an awful interviewer. Fortunately he somehow gets interesting guests.
Elon Musk's history with free speech at Twitter
It’s the easiest and cheapest way unless you have an existing raspberry pi or something. Your personal devices are probably not always on.
Dams have the most catastrophic failure of all the energy supplies, millions of people can lose their home instantly and tens of thousands will die, a dam breaking is one of the worst things which can happen to a country. It's hard to take this comment seriously after that...
Ha, interesting, a while ago I was thinking about a solution to this very problem. Everyone seems to focusing on the freezing part, but not what happens with the timeframe until you are unfrozen and beyond. Because in addition to nobody wanting to unfreeze you, you also would have no money and would basically be “poor” 500 years from now. On top of that there needs to be a long term storage facility which is somehow paid & maintained to “store” a frozen person over hundred of years until technology is available to unfreeze and revive a person.

As a solution I think there should be a special “bank” like organization which sole purpose it is to survive for hundred of years. It also would need to grow the money to keep up with inflation. In addition this organization needs to be country independent since you can’t guarantee countries to survive that long. This organization would also use some of the investment proceeds to pay for the storage and even transfer frozen people to a different location in case of war or natural disasters.
@cratermoon, out of interest what is the biggest negative impact you have seen from this?

I have seen a lot of people suggest blocking all free email domains or only supporting a small subset of whitelisted domains, I expect businesses to see pretty quickly that they lose a decent percent of legitimate signups.

The legitimate signups being the good measure as if you are filtering out disposable emails for instance you will lower your overall signups but should have no negative impact on revenue (potentially positive as people who would signup with disposable accounts now signup with accounts you can contact them on and they are happy to convert to paying with).

We try to make this easy be doing email validation for free at any scale and only flagging the people we are sure are not valid (disposable, unreachable domains etc.)
Lot of good comments already, but then different personalities respond to different things so suggesting another approach. Stop thinking about success or career or even your happiness, instead invest in "fulfilment" of your life. That could mean different thing to different people, but I recommend doing something for someone else - no expectations, no desire for recognition, no desire for any returns! just do it! Take it as a challenge! Just one simple thing, with nothing in it for you! That might mean help a student with class/project/direction, or help an elderly in tech support, or help no-name mom-pop store with their tech support. Essentially, find something or someone local and help them with whatever you know. Don't overdo it, don't go completely out of your way, don't analyze what and how of it. Just do whatever you can in a manageable way.

If you go that far and feel satisfied, then start looking for more engagement and what else you can do, but this time with more involvement. If it sounds cliched or bookish, don't bother about it and try other suggestions. Key is to find what clicks with your personality and not necessarily what world's view is about life.
The platforms always counter your moves. At times I've found that shared links simply don't work, or they divert to a 404 page. It's often hard to figure out what is happening unless you have several different workstations over several different IP addresses.

It would be wild if a YouTuber did some documented video tests on this issue at some point.
The state of the art in this field is removing a rabbit's kidney, vitrifying it, waiting a month or so, thawing it and implanting it. I haven't read this article but the abstract seems to confirm what I read a while ago.[0]

Apparently the bottleneck is in thawing organs past a certain size, current thawing methods lead to uneven thawing in larger organs, however I read they were experimenting with using directed radio waves?

Of course once you thaw a person successfully you still need to cure them of what killed them and revive them and that part is highly variable and if they died of aging is still well beyond our reach.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318757723_Thermal_A...
don't be stupid. holy cow.

compatibility is not an EEE tactic. embracing alone is not anything other than embracing.

where is the extending and extinguishing of Linux? name ONE thing that is possible in WSL that is not possible without it. just one.

where is the extending and extinguishing of .net? of Yammer? of Teams? where are these extensions to Linux or Android? what's been extinguished?

You people really drank the kool-aid didn't you? Think for yourselves for once.

if you answer, I don't want rumors, I want facts. bring me pictures of spiderman or get the hell out of my office.
Yeah, but owners of roombas can do the same thing.

So can people with credentials of compromised iRobot accounts.

So can Amazon, post acquisition.

People that purchased these devices weren't signing up for a system with such terrible privacy implications.
You can have corruption and cronyism under any economic system. I'd rather have our shitshow than China's.
The MyTechBestfriend Fallout Continues
Wow this paper is from 4 days ago, but it's exactly what I was asking about!
Oh so when you’re 18 you extract as much pleasure/utility/etc from a month of life as you do from a year at 50? Maybe my late teens were lame because those times were not that awesome lol. Nor any other time I can think of. It’s all mostly been the same, except, say, when I was 4-8, when time just dragged on and on so slowly everything felt like eternity all the time. Then that ended and everything has been more or less the same from a psycho-emotional perspective.

Health-wise yeah it’s great to be young :)
Because their clients are extremely rich people and if they’re not confident the experiments will work they won’t get money from those said rich people.
Decapping and photographing a Clipper encryption chip
A solution that solves the noise problem without returning to beg buttons, is to make the intersection a flashing red at night. It becomes a 4 way stop where pedestrians have the right of way. Everyone wins.
That doesn't show that improvements to land have negative value. You're also assuming that landowners always make the most rational value decisions with their properties and that's frankly just not the case. People aren't tearing down high value homes to build new ones, you're only looking at low value ones and applying incorrectly as a generalization to both.

In most real estate transactions where the home is clearly a tear down, it's priced in.

It seems like might have never viewed a property tax bill.

Here's my neighbor's house built in 2022 appraised values:

land: $465,000 improvements: $620,000
Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28616985 - Sept 2021 (206 comments)
High-Performance Room-Temperature Sodium–Sulfur Batteries
Looks nice but what makes this more relevant to HN than the thousands of similar games?
LLVM's implementation is here, more or less: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/libc/src/stri...
I always considered it ageist. Gen-X and above who have been using terms like "guys" since they were subversive are now targeted and made unwelcome. Younger "folks" meanwhile are fresh from the birth place of PC terminology--American universities--and therefore on the level by default.
So what I'm hearing is that 2023 will be the year of the Linux desktop?
At the risk of maybe burning something, you can thermally couple the heatsink to the chassis for better performance. LTT published a YouTube video a while back.
Instacart Founder Mehta Sued for Creating ‘Copycat’ Startup
Out of all of these, y’all rolls most readily off the tongue.
There are some cheap Chinese ones that can be spoofed into talking to a local, open source clone of the official cloud service.

As a bonus, they seem to be far ahead of iRobot at vacuuming/mopping.

It's not a great option, but might be the best if you are looking for something that will map out a house and clean designated rooms, and that will function when not connected to the internet.
This song is just six words long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do5vXn_Rap4
I'm going to say another hard truth additionally to the previous one, the grid has to meet all the demand on the spot, every day of the year, on every hour of the year, on every minute of the year, it's not a supermarket. You can't just say essentially "we'll burn whatever coal and gas for a few months to make it work", that's not a viable solution and that's never been one regarding to climate change and fossil fuel dependence.

Additionally fossil fuel dependence isn't "per year" but every time you need the grid reliably, that's how an electric grid work.

And again, those storage options viable for that purpose might never exist for all that we know, it's in R&D stage. If you want to add R&D tech into the mix, I have even better than the magical storage, I could bring fusion tech and say that all our problems will be solved magically. Except I don't because it's not ready, exactly like the magical storage tech.

If people don't understand that that it's not a viable option anymore with climate change, the Ukraine war plus the Qatar & Moroccan scandals now, I don't know what else will. That's starting to sound like a religion-level of closing eyes at some point. Every time this renewable strategy fails, it seems everybody is doubling down instead of taking a step back.
YAGNI principle should be followed here. Do not throw custom exception until you need it. If the time arises, do a simple refactoring.

For libraries that's more nuanced and good unchecked exception hierarchy is a part of good API.
The issue is you could need the spare people at a lot more locations that are far more geographically dispersed than a cargo ship and they're all better paid than your generic seaman, a lot of workers on ships are from much lower COL countries and get paid less accordingly.
So I'm wiring up 200A of resistive heaters and trying to net my monthly power usage by making Australia even hotter (insofarasmuchas that's possible) with 48kW of space heaters. Seems fun.