skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry to hear about the difficulties you've been facing and the challenges you've described. It sounds like you have a lot of regrets and are feeling overwhelmed by the sense that you have let the best years of your life pass you by. It's understandable that you would feel this way, but it's important to remember that it's never too late to make positive changes in your life and to find ways to move forward.

One thing you might consider is seeking out professional help, either through therapy or counseling. It can be very beneficial to have someone to talk to about your feelings and to help you develop a plan for moving forward. If there are no mental health facilities in your town, you might consider looking into online therapy or counseling services, which can be accessed remotely.

Another option might be to reach out to friends or family members for support. It can be tough to open up about your feelings, but the people who care about you may be able to provide valuable perspective and help you come up with ideas for improving your situation.

In terms of your career, it may be helpful to think about what you enjoyed about your previous work experiences and what you would like to do in the future. Even if you don't have current skills in your field of education or your previous work experience, it may be possible to gain new skills or to transition into a related field. You might consider taking online courses or seeking out job training programs to help you get started. You could also consider networking with others in your field or reaching out to professionals for advice and guidance.

Finally, it's important to take care of yourself and to focus on self-care. This can include things like getting enough sleep, exercising regularly, and eating a healthy diet. It might also be helpful to set small, achievable goals for yourself and to celebrate your progress as you work towards your larger goals.

I hope this advice is helpful. Remember that you are not alone, and that it is possible to make positive changes in your life no matter how old you are. Please don't hesitate to reach out for additional support if you need it.
I would recommend you two start with something simpler, e.g. the Klavierbüchleins that contain simple practice pieces for his children, and work your way up. Those pieces still have the same magic. Volume two of the Suzuki method for piano is 42% Bach of that caliber, so it's doable with some basic technique.

Also, check out his cello sonatas and violin sonatas and partitas for true soul wrenching. I can still recall moments from live performances of these I went to more than 20 years ago.
I’ve been out of the industry for two years. What would be worth refreshing on for python/data/backend?
If this is true, who is going to fix it and where will they come from?

If this is not true, then ... well then you're just wrong.
A/UX never ran on powerpc so it was pretty dead by that point already.
Good point, and I'm not personally so far removed from this same category.

But it's extremely disappointing and frustrating to feel like I personally will not be able to do this for my own children, despite having a higher income than most people my age.
> The balance, according to my limited understanding, is that certain types of activity including porn-adjacent sites have much higher card failure rates, so banning some activity is a way to reduce chargeback costs falling on Stripe's shoulders.

In that case, wouldn't the solution be to charge higher processing fees (possibly much higher) for websites in that category? Why ban them entirely?
Interesting that kidnapping is considered face-saving as compared to a private marriage.
I don't understand the reasoning. Techdirt itself wrote that policies of tech companies to curate content creates a danger of censoring information. Authorities used these mechanisms to do just that.

Now allegedly the trust & safety team for different platforms is to blame. Sure, they made mistakes too.

There were attempts to create misinformation authorities and key people at Twitter seemed very cooperative with this mission. I think Techdirt is trying to paint a different picture here.

The planned disinformation governance board was ultimately scrapped, but I doubt that is true for the intentions that lead to it. And these intentions are also on record for Twitter personnel.

I believe the term censorship can be applied to summarize the situation. Because there are clearly efforts by government institutions to pressure social media platforms to comply with content moderation decisions. That is the point people criticize. Is the attempt already a scandal? I believe so, but there also were more tangible examples that at least lack transparency and justification.

And all that doesn't even include any chilling effects. Maybe the former Twitter staff did a good job. Perhaps they are a victim of government requests. Musk doesn't make the impression to be a better shield. But in the end the goal, intend and effect is censorship still.

Additionally there are private services that also remove content on different platform. Often illegitimate content, but they often advertise themselves as not being restricted to that. Government can use these services too of course.
Apple lost their way on the Mac with their iPhone obsession.
> Ok, and where can I go get the mortgages that won't be sold and have comparable financing terms to the ones that do?

Why should they exist? If they can't be sold, the lender needs to find some other way to make their money on them. What kind of sane economic system would deliver mortgages like that? Should the government subsidize all mortgages?
In the case of Kyrgyzstan that doesn't seem to be a "prior" assumption.
Important context is this and similar trends didn’t just disappear in NYC because of magic Giuliani.

“By the late 1990s the men were gone…” bc a bunch of folks like them and otherwise went prison in NY, and then they got out and/or moved upstate proactively, and now historic, previously beautiful towns like Newburgh are gang, drugs and violence central.

But because it’s 90 minutes up the Hudson from NYC, out of sight out of mind. Trying something vaguely different to clean up a city isn’t a bad thing.
>>>This feels like thinly veiled advocacy for censorship and breaking the internet. And soliciting federal grants to research how to do it

This is what I took away after reading it as well.

I found it strange the author used such a poor example to prove their point such as; AI recommending porcelain in baby formula and readers may actually put crushed porcelain in their baby formula.

This is such a poor example because you would literally have to be brain dead to do something like this.

The bar needs to be set a lot higher to prove to me that AI misinformation is a threat.
we are extremely close to the beginning of all existence

This is the one that always causes me to wonder.

I was born in a major metropolitan area, which makes sense, statistically. I'm a native speaker of the 3rd largest language on the planet. That also makes sense. The 3rd largest country by population. Nothing out of the ordinary statistically speaking.

But to exist extremely close to the beginning of all existence

Huh? What are the chances that I, or any of us, would exist now? It's like being born on some island in the Pacific. Sure, it happens, but only to a few.
I get the sentiment but writing the Great American Novel is no easy proposition. Everyone who is saying 20 years are plenty should first make sure their wealth doesn't come from a salary. Creators are taking the risk so deserve the reward. I'm fine with ending with the creators death. This does push the creator to keep creating to maximize earnings for their estate prior to death. Creation is hard and it shouldn't be like art where paintings are only valuable posthumously.
Absolutely not. It's main feature is being wire compatible with mysql.
> In practice, I haven't seen it seriously used in this capacity.

What do you mean? What is preventing you from using git to sync your notes?
I'm not shocked that very left-leaning states are doing things like this
No, that simply isn't possible. Slowing inflation means price continuing to rise.
Or <tinfoil hat> $14.99 for a blue star on Twitter to verify you are who you say you are... doesn't seem like such a bad idea anymore.
> so maybe it is a sequence

At that point, you introduce the assumption that the interval is quantized. Up until then, you're dealing with an arbitrary period of time, which is a real, and can't be made into sequences. Once you have sequences you have integers, and so you can have primes. But you can't just switch from reals to countable numbers without explanation, and then say that two reals can be relatively prime.
I believe they are currently working with the Docker team on a solution:

https://github.com/docker/dev-environments/issues/70
So clearly it's comparable to heroin and slot machines at Vegas then, if we don't know the impact. Just gotta get a couple more years in to know for sure whether we can compare it to opiates :)
In a lot of cases the face value of the ticket isn’t the biggest expense.

You can have travel costs, parking, lunch (whereas you’d otherwise cooked at home), possibly some time off work. And that’s before you touch on the emotional expense of being excluded from an activity you were looking forward to and which your friends and family were let into.

While these are all expenses that the patrons happily take on, that is under the assumption that they are allowed to enter the venue.

I know I’d feel pretty peeved at having gone through all of that for nothing. It just adds to the frustration of the day.
The main takeaways are:

- Contrary to the defense usually propounded so far, Twitter did feel coerced by the FBI. They felt there was imminent Congressional action coming if they did not comply with FBI requests.

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/16048884298162094...

- The FBI knew the Hunter laptop story was coming from the NY Post, knew it was a real story, that the laptop was legitimate, had no evidence of any hack, and manipulated Twitter into banning it anyway. Twitter also says that story was not even an actual "vio."

- Twitter was unable to find substantial evidence of foreign influence.

- Ex-FBI employees working for Twitter coordinated with the FBI without other Twitter employees present. They also had their own Slack channel.

- Twitter was paid 3.4 million for handling FBI requests, and the FBI frequently complained that Twitter was one of the least helpful companies.
Call a spade a spade: a device that is designed to compete with other devices 4x the price has has an aggressively priced _optional_ “luxury” stand for idiots who want to brag, and you’re mad at Apple?

Why? Did they force you to buy one? I keep telling you the target market for these; A: doesn’t need a stand & B: wouldn’t use it if it was included.

It’s for people cosplaying as high end video production people; or playing into the “fashion” side of Apple.

Why are people so up in arms about Apple trying to be a tech company and a fashion company? Evaluate their products coldly and if they have value to you then buy them, if not: don’t.

That stand by all rights has no value to anyone: but the same is true of SUPREME clothing or those trendy Fendi handbags.

Get over yourself, it’s all just tools; and a $5k monitor that can do the job of a $40k one is a good value to someone. Just not to you, and that’s fine.

I also don’t need to buy a $3,000 phone skin. But people buy that shit too.

https://www.bellperre.com/uniq/
> I know this is just a rhetorical point of yours, but maybe we can start to accept that America and the west as whole is not actually significantly different from China with stuff like this.

This is such black-and-white thinking. Most EU countries are kilometers ahead of the US, and the US is miles ahead of Russia. Putin would love for Russia to race to the bottom and get to China's level, but Russia is way behind China in terms of technical expertise, investment, infrastructure, and actual coordination/coercion between government and industry (vs crony corruption). And then there are the new Chinese colonies in Africa who get all the surveillance and none of the benefits.
Getting to see 'Metropolis' in a restored movie palace with a live organist playing the entire time was quite the nice experience. Not sure I want to watch it at home and taint that experience. Still nice for others to have the option and for free.
You’re talking as if this was just some social construct, when it’s absolutely not. If a woman doesn’t have children by a certain age, then she will never have children. The idea that it will become impossible to have children is an intimidating thought for many women, even if they don’t necessarily have immediate plans to have them, and the appeal of committing to a relationship with a women who cannot have children is reduced for men (again, even if they don’t have any immediate plans for children).

Women get left behind by biological realities. Pretending this is just some form of social tyranny is clearly nonsense.
Back in that era, '87 +/- 1, a friend loaned me a CZ-101 for a little while. We both had Atari STs, which had built-in MIDI ports, and many games supported MIDI out and specifically the CZ-101 (this was very pre-General-MIDI). It was amazing. Never got one for myself.
Old houses in places with real winter weather can have issues where pipes are in poorly insulated spaces, unheated fieldstone basements, etc.
OF is closer to 25-40%.
In the year 2030 "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy. Whatever you want you'll rent and it'll be delivered by a drone." - economic and socio-political policies proposed by the World Economic Forum in June 2020
Imagine that you are that farmer. To start, you can buy a lot of cows with five millions of dollars

Or your city could provide you with better services now that they have five extra millions each year. Better roads would allow you to move your cattle faster or to export your products better. So you lose some, but win some also.

Or maybe you will not need it, now that the new local restaurants opened want to buy your meat to feed the tourists. More competence and lower expenses to put your product in the market will allow you to sell your meat at a better price.

Tourists will want to buy souvenirs also. Maybe in stores owned by members of your family.

Your city will attract researchers. Science has a curious proven effect; each single researcher position creates tens of auxiliary jobs around to sustain their research.

In resume, the young adults in your city will have a range of new opportunities to settle, work and start a live project in their own city if they would desire so.

Or you can forget all of this and keep your cow

Be honest, do you really liked so much that stupid cow?
I doubt a civilization could survive being multi-starred.

If you can expend that kind of energy, a pilot with a bad day can destroy the whole planet. A pissed off colony in the asteroid belt can sling asteroids at the home planet, etc.

I also think you’re making a lot of assumptions but the speed of light is quite limiting in every aspect. If it takes 40 years to send a message, you need to either live a ridiculously long time — in which case your birth rate will be quite low — or figure the colonization as a one-way trip. No one would colonize another star system just for kicks, there would need to be a reason and I can’t think of a reason to colonize an entire galaxy that would make sense for a whole civilization, especially when it takes multi-decades just to send a message one way.
> Reducto ad absurdum: If I get poison ivy and can't sleep for a few nights, should I be legally allowed to swerve headlong into traffic?

I mean, you correctly labeled the fallacy here. Yours is a plainly terrible example. The pain of poison Ivy would clearly not be so great as to require immediate relief.

Returning to clarity: I think most reasonable people would agree that there exists pain which is severe enough to require immediate relief in the form of death. You might not, but I don’t think that’s reasonable. You say anything that’s “temporary and non-terminal” should not qualify for the right to die. I’m incredulous that you cannot imagine ANY torture so great that someone should be allowed to die rather than endure it for some indefinite amount of time.

Instead I pose a reductio ad absurdum to you: Lets say I create a machine which causes you more pain than any human has ever experienced, but does not otherwise harm you. I connect you to this machine with a button you can press to kill yourself but it will also cause 30 seconds of pain to a random person in another room. Other prisoners in your room share your beliefs and tie your hand so that you cannot press that button. You will be connected to this machine until the final year of your life, at which point you will get one final year without this pain. Should the other prisoners let you press the button?

The point here is to acknowledge that there exists a spectrum. And that somewhere on that spectrum, a person should be allowed to kill themselves even if it causes some discomfort to others. We might disagree where that point lies but my goal is for us to agree that it exists.

> Should we also have an inalienable right to recreational opiates?

This doesn’t fit my example at all. It’s possible to remove opiates from society if you spend enough on the project. Whereas inalienable rights like protesting the government, finding shelter, finding food, etc cannot be prevented before they occur, only punished after. A better counter example would be murder if you’d like to use that instead.

Instead, I’d like to ask you what your concept of an “inalienable right” is and how “finding relief for unendurable pain” doesnt fit in your definition.

An interesting corollary would be the right to self-defense. If someone unjustly attacks me and I believe the attack threatens to break my arm but does not threaten to kill me, I am allowed to use a similar degree of force to defend myself. And if, in the course of defending myself, I accidentally knock over an old lady to the ground and she dies…the attacker gets blamed for that, not me. I had a right to protect myself from the pain of a broken arm, even though it would get better eventually.

If I’m a bystander, should I prevent the person from defending themself because someone else might get hurt in the frenzy and it’s only a temporary pain of a broken arm?

Why do you blame the person who is being threatened with more pain, rather than the attacker (the gympie gympie tree)?
An intersting thought experiment. If we go back 100 years ago in many towns throughout the US I could've started a newspaper and published anything about the world or world politics that I wanted to. I could publish in my newspaper that credible sources said the Kaiser was going to invade Japan, I could've published about how a new miracle cure of an imaginary plant in India would cure bunions, or pretty much whatever I wanted as long as it wasn't easy to verify, and this worked because there wasn't an easy way for people in more isolated farming communities to really check or corroborate what was going on, this was in large part because it didn't have an effect on their world at all.

Now 100 years later i can do the same thing and realistically it is just as hard to actually verify or validate with the amount of misleading, partial, censored, or manipulated information out there. How much difference will this make on my life personally though?

Here's the thing society isn't static or changing we've seen recently several events that has destroyed many peoples trust in various sources of infomration, my guess is with another generation coming up in a world where it is widely acknowledged that most sources of information are biased or fabricated they will grow up with an "immunity" so to speak from this misinformation and grow to disregard everything they find and read online, just like they did before.
Sigh, how can anyone hold a conversation with you when you keep going in circles, completely ignoring the specifics of an argument, stringently hold to your narrow definitions and when counteracted with a different argument, resort to "you are wrong, I am right", and the consistent other logical fallacies used.

I guess somewhat's got to combat the egos and crackpots :-)
Democrats: Trump says parents should put crushed porcelain in their baby formula to make up for nutrition gaps found in off the shelf formula
> Or, if you try to fill in for Stripe in this case, you'll run into some non-obvious blockers upstream?

I know nothing about this industry but I would kind of assume the problem is with the credit card companies themselves (Visa and MasterCard), who are probably concerned with brand safety or some such.
Ok, but the comparison was to a 9-to-5 job, not gambling.
Why is Amazon crashing?
You know, this actually seems like an interesting opportunity to use this locally as a superpowered CMS for my statically generated site. I’d have to figure out how to create a linkage that can be translated to my Next-based resource URLs, but at least this would give me more to work with than just my text editor to manage my markdown stuff.
Yes, that's been obvious from the beginning, and the rebranding as Meta. It is almost never wise to trust any company that rebrands itself. The only exception might be if GM rebranded itself as Government Motors..
Next question?
Roland and Sequential. Otherwise, point well made.
Is it just me that cannot look at one of these photos without trying to work out what each switch does and what each guage is measuring?
I'm not sure about this specific case but generally commercial wide coverage satellite imagery is not high quality enough to reliably see these kinds of formations. I'd guess they contract some combination of imaging including LIDAR to get better images to work from. That lets you see through vegetation etc. Here's an example from Tikal:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/lidar-reveals-oldest-big...
Yes, they would. Unless you're also proposing some enforcement mechanism where you detect defectors. But, if you could reliably detect them, why not just stop them?
A church doesn't have to satisfy every one of concerns, they simply should make the offer to shelter those in need. The core argument for forced normalization of slum conditions is that there's no alternative, because there are more people than than space in shelters. The lack of available shelter is a choice, and wealthy churches are choosing to keep billions on their asset sheets rather than perform the duties they nominally exist to perform.
I’d wager the reason the the screw mechanism wasn’t designed to give a mechanical advantage is that it’s a part from a standard crescent wrench. The idea here was not to design a sliding lock mechanism, but to make a slide that can spin a regular crescent wrench.

Note that The crescent wrench already closes up linearly, so we’re just changing direction 90 degrees. There’s better ways to do that.
Income and society-economic standing does. Plenty of people work jobs while going to college, a perfect attendance record is not their goal, clawing their way out of poverty is.
You can check out any time you like but you can never leave.
Can’t explain why I’m indulging this because it seems like a joke, but do you have an example of a place a stock Model 3 can go off-road that a Jeep Rubicon cannot? Like a photo or video?
Well, General MIDI exists to define what most MIDI files mean musically.
Maybe read further into the story before committing to that opinion or at least to the end of that sentence.
There is a book on her: "The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away with It"
https://www.amazon.com/Missing-Cryptoqueen-Billion-Dollar-Cr...
25 Years Later, No One Knows Who Spiked the Titanic Chowder
If someone built Dyson spheres / swarms, they cannot hide from us even now. Unless it's possible to cheat thermodynamics.
NIST actually does reports on vendors for this stuff publicly. https://pages.nist.gov/frvt/html/frvt1N.html