skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the author is right that the media and public perception exaggerate the status of poetry as dead. I can’t say much about contemporary poetry, but, from the old books I read, I can’t help but feel something isn’t there today that used to be. Maybe older works have a bias for poetry because of education or some other factor, but it felt more ingrained, globally, more a part of who we are as humans.
What do you suggest? Asking honestly as a long time google user.
Why would I want to talk to someone about an issue I couldn't possibly expect them to have a rational opinion on?

> One of the frustrating aspects of arguments like this

Is people insisting on making a society-scale issue into a personal, emotional issue?

> is that proponents of "social efficiency" aren't personally impacted their proposed policies

Oh. Well funny enough, I actually do have a couple serious dietary intolerances - but I don't insist on externalizing my costs onto others against their will.

It may be alien to you, but in fact I am perfectly capable of considering policy decisions that are bad for me but good for society. Some people can't do it, I guess.
Why? That's a very strange thing to ask the AI to write about.....
Texas also has a ton of NIMBYism. That's the same root sentiment for "Don't California my Texas" which says "You may be a resident, but you better not do something I don't like" -- same mentality.

I see this same resistance when it comes to building non-single family homes, and Texans are instead thinking more lanes + more sprawl is going to solve the influx of people. Then they lament pricing and make claim that long time Texans have more of a right to live here than new people. I'm sorry but for a capitalist and freedom loving state, it sure is echoing some of the exact same things that helped California's demise.
Note that the most important of these are intestinal worms, helminths. The other would be bacteria.

Respiratory viruses, by contrast, are not on the list. It is instead chronic presences in the body which may modulate immune response and avoid allergies.

(You said nothing wrong but the name itself is confusing)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis
I work for a solar company, making a website for our installers that helps them keep track of their customers' home solar systems. A big installer can have dozens or hundreds of customers, and being able to monitor their status online means they can help homeowners troubleshoot problems remotely, only sending a technician out if they can't resolve it online.

For me, part of the joy in working downstream of tech proper (i.e., as a techie in a different vertical where software just supports the main business) is that my work is easily understood, and I can see its output immediately. I'm building the very thing that our users touch every day, not working layers of abstractions & services deep. It has immediate (if small & incremental) impact on our installers, homeowners, the renewables industry as a whole, climate change, etc.

On paper I'm an engineer of some sort, but I don't like that title because "web dev" is both more accurate (I never got an engineering license) and less pretentious (I don't have to make the kinds of hard decisions that real engineers and architects make, and my mistakes are easily fixed with a push and nobody dies). I've been more or less doing the same job since the late 90s; back then it was called "web design" (UX hadn't come into its own as a field/title quite yet) and now it's "front end," but it's still the same thing: Using HTML/Perl/ColdFusion/ASP/PHP/JS/CSS/XSLT/jQuery/Angular/React/Next to move text and images around on a document, with a light design & usability pass. I'm basically the digital equivalent of a business brochure designer. The tools may change over time, but the job is still the same.

Compared to other software engineers & architects, I think my job is very straightforward and simple. Web apps are still more markup than algorithm, with just a sprinkling of business logic and UI interactions on top. But I love my job. It lets me harness the power of technology towards a predefined goal, instead of iterating the technology itself (the good folks at Next and React do that on my behalf). Instead, I get to rapidly prototype a vision of some feature or screen and have it come to life in minutes and hours. The instant gratification is nice. My code is really just a means of realizing a design, and writing actual lines of code is maybe only 30% of my day to day work, the rest being design (of all sorts... UI/UX, product, graphics, type) and planning and way too many meetings.

But if it were up to me, my job would be automated away in 5-10 years' time... sketch something out on paper or Figma, show it to an AI, and have an interactive website created and hosted in a few minutes. That'd be cool, even though I'd be unemployed. In that case I'd love to change careers and do something as far away from the screen as possible.
Yes life is a grind and competition. Open your eyes. This is the reality. We humanity have a built in kill switch in our head, greed. Rich or poor, young or old. Everyone thinks about themselves. This is what makes competition and free market work. Communism doesn’t work. You think more distribution will make us hold hands together and sing kumbaya near a firepit? Who’s gonna decide where and how much the distribution should go? There will be blood on the streets.

It is impossible for everyone in this Earth to live like an average Americans. The Earth will suffer.

They don’t have to work for Walmart. Please study programming or plumbing instead.

Meanwhile a lot of people in other countries would kill to have their standard of living. The only reason why they have the salary and standard living that they have compared to 3rd world country is because their country export inequalities, trash, made possible by their money printing machine backed by military power.
It's on the east coast of Madagascar, can we chat? I'd be really interested in your experience if you are willing to share of course.
Pretty much any local news.

Construction proposed.

Local events ongoing/ upcoming…
> It's also the most comfortable on long road trips and I can sleep in it in climate-controlled comfort without generating a gas that could kill me.

Why are you sleeping in your car for long trips? :)
I'm confused, how could Google ask for the OLD password? Is this even a thing? I have no idea what my old password is.
this looks awesome! Curious what infrastructure or platforms are you using to run the whole thing?
Been running my own email server since January 2000. Most of that time, it's been running postfix, courier etc. I also run spamassassin, have reverse DNS set up etc. No issues but then I also have few users receiving e-mail - about 10, including myself.
We're sharing the same fate apparently! Just added a PR to their repository to add some feeds, hope it gets merged soon.

https://github.com/nullpt-rs/blog/pull/1
You should pay attention to whether they seem like they want to stay and treat them accordingly regardless of their passport.
Worked with a cannabis client that was on Box for corporate file storage for a few years. One day all of their Box services stopped working, and we couldn't even get into the accounts to investigate.

Turns out Box realized this client was in the cannabis industry and shut their service off for violating TOS. We did get into the accounts after working with support so we could migrate, but there were no warnings. I guess reading and abiding by the TOS should be warning enough, but no one had actually read it.
Turning a Blu-ray player into a laser-scanning microscope
Parents payed taxes when they acquired their possessions. I dont see why they should have a double tax burden.
Interface vs. Type Alias in TypeScript
Your links explicitly refer to the complete designs of entire devices, not a kind of curve.
> I don't care about RGB LEDs and curved screens, find me a 32" monitor with 4K and HDR that isn't a gimmick

I don't think I'd be okay with these shopping usecases. I'd want to compare relevant options. I'd probably still go to Google Shopping/Bestbuy/Amazon to compare the options and prices.
Also after he was found out and expelled from the Soviet Union he spent the rest of his career enjoying the funding of various American imperialist capitalists
>To say its legal is simply wrong

To say that is "simply wrong" is to ignore nuance and, in point of fact, is "simply wrong". It is legal at the state level, meaning no state official will punish you for it. It is illegal at the federal level, meaning a federal official could punish you for it.

Isn't nuance fun!? :)
I didn't try to 1984 you there, I just caught it independently :)
I feel like they would almost have to be a "lobby for their lives" organization.

I'm sure Congress is constantly under assault from commercial outfits who covet spectrum that's "just being used by a bunch of boring 90-year-old hams". Being able to maintain the status quo against rich and politically powerful telecom lobbies is an impressive feat.
It appears the ARRL spent $92k on lobbying, is that a ridiculous amount? Am I missing something here?
Would be easier for me to learn how to be a farmer than finding someone to lease it. People are poor here and those that can pay will certainly already have their business running somewhere, need to be convinced to take it.
It’s almost like price influences demand.

How does the home price growth rates compare between CA and the states Californians move to?
Allbirds Were the Tech Bro ‘It’ Shoe. Then the Tech Bros Moved On
Maybe the crypto kids are too young to realize that this is not a good argument? In 1994(!) we already had Amazon, Yahoo, Geocities, etc. the internet was very much alive and growing at amazing speed
This is reactionary logic without perspective.

Plenty of people currently pay fir lifestyle vacations that have a bit of danger.
Nothing wrong with decreasing population, but when your richest citizens are leaving, and poor migrants are coming in, then you start having fiscal problems, particularly for a state that has decided to fund itself with income and sales taxes rather than property taxes.

Another reason why property tax is a more stable funding source -- unlike income, you can't take it with you. There is a whole list of reforms that California needs to undertake to recognize the new reality it's in, and shifting itself to being funded primarily by property taxes is one of the biggest necessary changes. The second biggest change is significantly scaling back spending and decreasing its vast administrative bureaucracies.
You're making things up about me (all untrue, incidentally) so you can write off my argument as heartless or something instead of actually addressing it.
> but the reputation of your whole /24 block. That seems to be where a lot of filtering based on reputation takes place.

That is due to the prevalence of what is known as Snowshoe Spam.

Spammers get old of (or infiltrate) large net blocks and then spread out their spamming across the entire range.

The extreme version of Snowshoe Spam is known as Hailstorm Spam. For fairly obvious reasons ... spammers get hold of (or infiltrate) a large netblock, intensively abuse the hell out of it and then move on.
Ahh yes, because bullying people on the internet is such a positive thing for society—-especially when done solely based on rumor, assumption, and when there is an incomplete understanding of all the facts of the situation.
It's the consequences of this. A shrinking tax base meaning the government has to cut back on programs and services. It means reduced infrastructure spending and maintenance. These have down the road effects.

If you have a shrinking/fleeing population you can see what ends up happening by looking at the rust belt.

If people are fleeing a state that often means that the problems are so bad people are willing to overhaul their entire lives to get away from it. This indicates problems have gotten very bad and now you have fewer resources to address them than before.

Basically when you state population is shrinking it indicates it has the largest challenges it's faced with the continually fewer and fewer resources to address them. At that point it requires a legendary genius and heroic effort to overcome the problems occuring.
Yeah, and the name of "Full Self-Driving" tells you that it can drive "by itself" i.e. without human intervention.

But names aren't everything, and artificial neutral networks are "inspired by" but in truth drastically different from human brains.
I think it goes both ways and we won’t know for sure until it comes to fruition.

Personally, I hate owning vehicles and desperately want a self-driving taxi service that I can order via an app to get me and my family around.
Yes I will and will post here again when it's ready and whenever changes happen. Thanks a lot for the advice.
> This shows how browser developers race to provide new features ignoring privacy impact.

I think it showed how many years ago browser vendors were naive with understanding how this tech could be misused.

These days I think browser vendors are very much aware of it and will frequently block features or proposals that they feel compromise on privacy and/or could be used as a tracking vector, especially Firefox and Safari. Sort this list https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/ by Mozilla Position to see the reason they reject/refuse to implement standards and proposals.
Summary: A new law substantially increases liability for making a sesame free product. The predictable result was that there are now fewer sesame free products. Now, everyone is worse off.
That’s the reason why passwordless is the way to go…
Given that the beginning of the "weird string" has a magic number and a version field, I wonder if the point of this is not so much obfuscation as transpilation? The magic number corresponds to ASCII "HNOJ" "@?RC", or perhaps "JONH" "CR?@", which doesn't turn anything up on Google but it seems odd to include that redundant header if your main goal is minification or obfuscation.
If you had to guess just off the top of your head since the beginning of the George Floyd protest how many BLM protesters who are black have simply disappeared into the night never to be seen again?
Lot of stuff support it, but this is not really the same DX as... Just supporting it in browsers. Especially for debugging
> I guess it's a question of personal interpretation - but to me those two numbers aren't different enough to quibble over.

Which two numbers? The only number I quoted is 20%, and that's for all drug inmates, not just possession. We don't have the numbers for possession, but they're surely much, much lower.
> Plus, so many foods list what they "may contain" traces of X, but never really quantify how much of a trace. Which actually may be a good thing about intentionally adding sesame, because at least it makes the amount consistent.

I mean, they don’t usually… know? They know that the assembly line for product X is physically near an assembly line for product Y that contains peanuts, and so X may have some peanut particulate floating through the air and landing on it. It would be a different amount of particulate at different times of day, different humidity, etc; and so different individual bars of product X could end up with different amounts of trace contaminants. (Almost always none, since they do try to avoid these effects; they just can’t guarantee that they’ve been successful, or that they’ll be successful in perpetuity.)

Or alternately, if the manufacturer is a job-shop (produces different things for different customers, retooling between each job) then they can’t guarantee that they’ve cleaned out a perfect 100% of traces of previous job materials out of their assembly line when they start up a new production run. (The theoretically perfect way to solve this is to have separate job-shops that only deal with jobs containing allergen X — but with the combinatorial number of allergens, and a shop having to dedicate itself to only processing a particular combination [A, B, not-C, not-D], that’s mostly impractical.)
One own goal after another. Is this what happens when you dont have a comms team?
In Spain (and I think in all of the EU) every item in every menu in every [law-complaint] restaurant has a list of allergens. This is clearly not unrealistic to do, as demonstrable by the fact that many places do it.

There's a list of 14 allergens that must be indicated if present.

https://www.lexland.es/en/restaurant-menus-should-indicate-t...
20% is not for possession. 20% is all drug-related charges. Many if not most of those are going to be intent to sell.
This will just lead to another case of California’s Prop 65
when switching to vscode, I thought it would be a good idea to use the VScode shortcuts, I wish I took the time to customize it to match sublime. They are so much more intuitive. It just feels right, if that makes any sense.
> It’s unlikely you can do it at home…

I think you could if you had a small bench top cnc or laser cutter.

You’d have to split up the DXF into pieces that fit on your bed, but you’d be able to make a template by joining the parts together.

Then rough cut your workpiece to the template, followed by a flush bit router.
I celebrate the progress, but I don't think it's pedantic at all to point out the gaps that still exist. Law is a pedantic realm.
Since developing my hobby -- photography, I always talk to strangers. Or more accurately, they always talk to me. People are always interested in what I am photographing. My advice is take up a hobby you can do outside. Not only does it give you something to talk about, but it also makes you seem like a fun person to talk to (a person with hobbies is likely to be more healthy and normal than one without). Plus if you are doing something it likely means you are in a good mood and aren't likely to be someone to take up another person's time too much. It restricts the space of likely outcomes of a chance encounter to be mostly good outcomes.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33994475
No.

I recently noticed on my local canal the mile markers show how many miles you are from the place youre traveling from.

This is the Leeds Liverpool canal. So as you travel to Leeds it says Liverpool with increasing miles.

From the pov of the Liverpool side of the sign being the Liverpool side this makes sense, and on a barge it's easy to look back to see how many miles to Leeds. But to modern eyes it's completely backwards.

Even traffic signs are 'intuitive'!
That'll be $50, sir
> Federal laws do trump state laws in most cases, it is settled.

This simply isn't true. There are areas where federal laws can contravene states laws and areas where they cannot.

Additionally, the federal laws often don't "trump" state laws, but supplement them. Generally speaking (there are exceptions), state law enforcement can only enforce state laws.
Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy”
The arsonist fireman might seem like a lifesaver if you aren't aware he is the one that put your house on fire.
Anyone remember poetry slams? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zatHOwWBPEI

Personal story: my childhood best friend's sister married the guy in Chicago who was credited with starting those, locally at least. He was known as Slam Pappy, but now I can't find him because the name is too similar to other Pappy's.

Supposedly fame ruined him, and now they're divorced. So you can get rich & famous in poetry; you just have to play your cards right.
I also love my Model Y. It’s by far the best car I’ve ever owned or driven. But the software has stagnated in favor of “FSD” beta releases.

Autopilot on freeways is great. I use it all the time and it works. I wish Tesla would focus on getting that to a level 3-type system - something where I can take my hands off the wheel and just be ready to take over after 10-15 seconds. It feels close enough that it could be done. But despite the complaints about the name it’s exactly what is claimed.

Auto park is bad. It doesn’t detect the spot half the time and it’s not great at actually parking. Especially on tight spaces where it would actually be useful.

Navigate on autopilot is underwhelming. It’s often too timid to actually switch lanes if there’s traffic. I like the signal-to-lane-change.

Full self driving is a boondoggle and absolutely false advertising at this point. Put all the disclaimers on it you want, but I paid for something that (the language at the time) claimed would get me from point A to point B while I relax and don’t pay attention. Every year it’s another few months away. I doubt it’s actually possible with the hardware on the car at this point. Elon’s claim of “humans drive with eyes so a car can drive with cameras” is naive. It’s glossing over the very important bits of “with the compute power in the car” and “within the limits of moser CV/ML techniques”. I have no doubt that autonomous driving is possible - it’s actively happening in San Francisco roads with Cruise/Waymo. But I doubt my Model Y can do what I paid for, and that’s unethical.

This doesn’t need a law, it should be enforced by the FTC or by a lawsuit. It seems like someone scoring some cheap points.
finally getting some sleep
Why not option 3: get the government into revenue-positive businesses?

Depending on your country's economic mix, there's almost certainly a private industry that's predictably profitable and also sort of undislodgable (for example, oil, telecom, or railways). Obvious targets for state takeover; keep the prices the same and run the profits into the state coffers, or use the pricing as an additional lever for social objectives (i. e. pricing petrol to the moon to encourage EV takeup).
To add to the others comments about small talk. A big blocker to being able to small talk is self-centeredness / self-consciousness. A lot of people think that if they say something to someone they will be evaluated and that's almost never the case.

Unless you look homeless or like you are selling something, and unless the other person is mentally ill, they will welcome you speaking to them.

And then in terms of content, jokes, questions, and observations work well.

For example, if someone's with a small kid, I'll ask how old the kid is. If someone's driving a family SUV (something I know about from having shopped for one last year) I'll ask how they like it. Or just comment - I like your cars, actually considered it last year.

Make a joke, even a lame one. Long line at the coffee shop? "Wow I need a coffee just to get a coffee here!" Or even dumb stuff like "that's a huge menu, I don't see coffee on it"

Etc. The main thing is - if you are coming from a place of being human, it will come across as such. Content matters less.
If they make suicide painless and effortless more people would want to do it. Suicide is a win win situation for everyone. Less humanity, less population to feed, more organs to distribute, less pollution, also less competition between us.

The only thing that would stand against self assisted suicide coming to masses is those religious people.
That sounds pretty close to "Have a bail/trial by public opinion" from my previous comment, as well as questions raised by philosophers regarding utilitarianism and the justice system eg. "is it ethical to convict an innocent person to placate the masses?".
I would guess that NASA is the bottleneck here.
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