skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always amusing when the other person has to fall back on "The tricks on you! You invested time talking to me, while I deviously spent way less time and put less thought into my arguments. Don't you feel foolish now?" No, not really. As it turns out writing a couple paragraphs does not meaningfully impact the progress of my other work. And I would assume that's the case with most people.

Maybe one day you can get past DH0: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
A sprint is timeboxed to 2 weeks. A PhD is not.
Exactly. I think there's a pretty simple answer to this question:

> What explains this asymmetry?

What explains it is an asymmetrical history: millennia of oppression of women, often violently enforced. E.g., if you read the Iliad, it's basically a who-stole-my-woman story inside a who-stole-my-woman story; at the time, women were pretty close to property with opinions. An easy way to see the through-line to today is the history of "marital rape", where society did not see married women as being able to choose whether or not to have sex with their husbands. That was always the case under English common law, and was not fully outlawed in the US until 1992: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_rape#Legal_aspect

We may have removed most of the gross legal infrastructure of patriarchy, but the cultural aspects are still only slowly dissolving. We have generations more work to do there. The reasonableness you mention is exactly what amazes me. Think of all the men who haven't been murdered as the slept.

And I think this history also explains why the Men's Rights movement is so bonkers. A shift toward fairness is a loss for the people who used to benefit from the unfairness. This has left a lot of men upset that they aren't getting what they feel they are due. Some handle that well, but the ones who don't are going to fight to turn the clock back. And as Corey Robin points, out, reactionaries like that often cloak their efforts in the progressive language of the day. So we end up with "men's rights" as a bizzaro-world mirror of women's rights. And one of their heroes, one with 4 million Twitter followers, getting arrested as an abusive sex trafficker and international pimp.
Hostility is the point.
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> Go after the supporters of the people who implemented the ban.

I don't know what you mean by this, but if you mean persuading them to change their support, that's a very long timeline, certainly not something that fits into a development sprint...

And if you mean "attack" supporters of the people who implemented the ban, that's a terrible idea.
Indeed, I just had to port some code that had been running happily for years at the south pole to py3 (due to EL8 upgrade and not wanting to install the py2 world). It was something talking to a HV supply over a serial port which of course only spits out bytes, but then needed to parse using string handling. It wasn't that hard to port but it took a few tries to find all the places necessary, requiring debugging over a rather slow ssh connection (that is only up when the satellite is up).
I'm in Washington and excited for this development. A few friends and I have been penciling out a business concept for when it is legalized up here. We have an anesthesiologist, a nurse, a private chef, and a paramedic (me), and are all into mushrooms. The doctor owns a large amount of land nearby and wants to set up some yurts or similar, and do guided trips. Nice, but earthy accommodations, a physician if needed for the legality of things, a chef for food through the weekend, and a nurse and medic who can assist with anything that might be needed to reset for the week ahead.

We shall see.

I think your descriptions are accurate, it's very much a catalyst. I'd also say to those who are curious, it is quite difficult to have a "bad" trip, but to be clear, it's certainly possible to have quite "intense" trips, so always a good idea to start gently. Microdosing and going from there can be quite the ride - to me, everything is a little more vivid, real, colors are brighter, etc., but I'm still quite "in the real world".
I'm already fairly deep into python, kinda knowledgeable in JS to make some minor stuff and currently I'm practicing a lot with git. After than it comes Java (i'm following a self-paced bootcamp path).

Java seems interesting from an employment perspective, but the small stuff I've touched seems extremely verbose. I feel like I have to write and think way more to do simple stuff. But I just had a brief introduction, I guess I can get used to it.

I wanted a compiled language that allows me to tackle some interests I have, and I feel It will be c/c++ wether I like or not, because one of my interests is fiddling with hardware. Nim can compile down do C apparently but it isn't widely adopted.
Impact of DDL Operations on Aurora MySQL Readers
>In a non-fractional reserve system the banks would compete for deposits so they can earn money from loaning that back out.

I understand these words but not how you’re putting them together. If banks are lending deposits, then definitionally, they only have a fraction of those deposits left as reserves.

What am I missing about your hypothetical? What does this non-fractional reserve system look like if lending still exists?
What would the punishment for the offense be? If it is prison time, that also costs the tax payer.
Why didn't you buy a Tesla?
HN readers seem like one of the most likely group to buy a Tesla due to the technical nature of the readership. So what were your reasons for not doing so?
A sprint is timeboxed to 2 weeks. Technically a PhD is as well, but with a few more zeros.
What you're describing sounds like the (now unfashionably old and un-hyped as a category) `dWeb` ecosystem. As far as I've seen, 'web3' has meant "websites that use crypto wallets for login and store data in a blockchain and/or IPFS."

The difference between the two isn't necessarily technical; rather it's the requirement that you "join the crypto economy" and start buying up whatever shitcoin -- or CDS-style derivative of multiple coins -- is being used for that one website...and somehow that means "SSO is easy now!" and "anyone can make micropayments anywhere!" etc., etc.

The latter only makes sense in a world of free money from VCs that lets people spend tens of millions of dollars building a *login form* that they charge other websites to use. Their business model seemingly ignores the fact that no serious enterprise[^1] is going to run their internal authN/Z and IdM on a global blockchain.

[^1]: actually, I'm sure several companies have/will tried this, and equally certain the net result was a flaky service that was effectively just querying a Postgres table that cached the on-chain identity for a user and checking their presented token against that. I.e., yet another Postgres instance masquerading as "web3 infrastructure".
Opioid use is 8000 years old, but Morphine was only isolated 219 years ago. Psilocybin was first isolated by Albert Hoffman in 1958. Though mushroom use for religious purposes is known to be at least 6000 years old, I think it is likely that humans have been using them ever since they first stepped into the Americas. There is a big difference between smoking opium and shooting morphine. There is little to no difference between taking a psilocybin pill and eating mushrooms. Have you heard of any mushroom-eater epidemics in the last 6000 years? I think there has been plenty of time for at least one, but you think another 10-15 years will do it?
If you do the slightest bit of research into the criminalization of drugs in the US you will find that the people putting up those fences were laughably far from protectors of society. They were demonstrably more motivated by racism and classism than by a desire to safeguard social progress.
$250,000 annually.

... which still isn't table scraps. median income in the US is $30k.

I am a software engineer, but even I have a hard time finding deep sympathy for people complaining that they are making 10x the median salary but they should have made 20x.

Call me old-fashioned, but at the end of the day in our industry, what's "fair" is what you agreed to. None of the people in the cold-calling scandal were forbidden from making overtures to the competing companies or being hired by them. And it's real hard for me to dredge up feelings of injustice for the embarrassed sub-millionaire when so many are forced to figure out how to live on 1/10th of that money.

If you don't like your Google salary, just put your resume in at Apple. That's my advice.
I really, really hope that we can "reclaim" that definition of web3 (which, from what I can tell, was the original one, hijacked by cryptocurrency proponents as the scams mounted and the value of Bitcoin rose in the last few years) as the cryptocurrency sphere collapses in on itself, because I'm right there with you on the desperate need for genuine decentralized internet and societal infrastructure. (I'm deeply, deeply skeptical that blockchain is going to be any meaningful help in this, but the basic problem and the general outline of the solution, I agree with.)

It's extremely useful to have a term like "Web3" to use as a unifying force within such an effort, as well as a way to describe it to people outside, and I don't see a better one for such a decentralization right now.
ML-Based Cross-Platform Query Optimization [pdf]
I am not blind but I am a visual thinker and have no trouble seeing how a computer works. I can easily visualize memory, data, code structure and so on.
In unrelated news, "As investigators piece together clues, Russia has quietly taken steps to begin expensive repairs on the giant gas pipeline, complicating theories about who was behind September’s sabotage." [1]

A farce of historical proportions.

1 - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/world/europe/nordstream-p...
Twitter is not dead, it has cancer. It might die in a month or a couple of years, if left untreated.
It's literally insane that people would consider working at a company to be more important than someone raising their own children instead of paying someone else to raise them for most of the day. I'm thankful the mother of my children could stay at home with them while I worked.
Honestly it's not that bad. For someone who's not a designer it looks rather polished.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nim/comments/raduux/is_nim_producti...
533% markup isn’t all that different than retail, where they use the $1-$2-$4 rule of thumb. $1 to make, wholesale price $2, charge customers $4.

Or alcohol, where a $10 wholesale bottle of whiskey will sell for > $100 (20+ shots at $5/shot).

Retail is mostly overhead, not product. Something like cannabis, which is cash only and requires extra security, is actually fairly within norms.
Agreed, I would still want a lawyer to take a look or anything of importance.
I know what source code is and I know what binary code is. But I’ve never heard of binary source code, and my Google search doesn’t turn up anything either.

Can you elucidate?
I have no interest in this (happy with vim, developing under Linux) but I installed it anyway and the first impression is absolutely impressive.

The installer is comparatively small.
It loads quickly. Doesn't ask any useless questions.
Installs quickly.
The app also loads quickly and feels snappy.

People tend to underestimate the importance of first impressions.
This guy gets it.

Now if this was open source and built and ran on Linux, I'd be interested.
uninstall :-)
For $10 a month (I assume tier 2 is what most people find acceptable for use), what would I get for this editor? No roadmap, not even an about page and the last HN post was from last year so a definite no from me.
"please resist finding ways to scrape the fediverse" that is 100% burying your head in the sand, 100%.
> Web3 also involves ipfs, you can search for any book currently and the data lives on the blockchain.

AFAICT the limiting factors for something like libgen are harddisk space and the speed of one's internet connection. If those aren't a factor then one could go grab the entire thing with no friction whatsoever.

Blockchain does not help the user with either of those limiting factors.

Further-- while I don't understand the economics/incentives of private trackers like what.cd or redacted, it appears that they've addressed the availability problem wrt rare files. I.e., bittorrent does a great job replicating the most popular files, and a poor job replicating the least popular ones. But on these trackers the user can select any file from the index and essentially be guaranteed fastest possible download time from any nodes that have the file. AFAICT blockchain is not used in any way, shape, or form in this scheme.

Blockchain is indirectly used by sci-hub for receiving Bitcoin donations. That's not nothing, but it's also not new.

Finally-- in the entire time that sci-hub has existed, has any innovation in blockchain made a significant, positive difference in sci-hub's ability to do their work? If so, I'd love to read about it. If not, it appears they only use it because literally every other donation method is unavailable to them.

From reading pro-blockchain comments on HN for awhile, it appears that blockchain is a technology that slurps up attention and refocuses it on how to make blockchain a better blockchain, so that more blockchain devs can get involved in blockchain.

It would be like if 99% of emacs developers hacked on emacs to the exclusion of literally any other project, forever. But the improvements they were making to emacs somehow only ever increased productivity for other emacs developers who work only on emacs, and no one else.

That emacs in reality is less insular than blockchain should really snap you back into reality on web3.
Matt here, LearnGPT's founder.

I have someone helping transcribe interesting screenshots that others have posted online and she just made a typo; it wasn't ChatGPT. I corrected it.

Also, if you post a screenshot on LearnGPT, she'll transcribe it so it's easier for others to read - usually without typos :).
I would say the value of distinction is related to how many things you distinguish..Re-stated, the likelihood you mix things up (and thus the value of a checker) depends upon how many things.

Perhaps nigh tautological, but a rapid corollary of this is that if everything is a string/line in a file, the distinction is less valuable than if you have many kinds of CPU register (say). In fact, there is even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typed_assembly_language .
Since when CL is statically typed?

LISP has only one type. The all mighty runtime type. It's a uni-typed language.
Okay, but in this situation you are the one that asked them for help with your code. There's no "interrupted productivity" here if you're already blocked and waiting for advice or help with something. And besides, if you spend 3-6 hours working on completely the wrong thing because you were "in the zone" and that misunderstanding could have been resolved with a 5 minute call, then the 5 minute call is worth it every single time.
Ask HN: Does HN cause more FOMO than Twitter and YT?
With some restraint on IG, YouTube and Twitter, you can limit your content to topics/creators you are interested.

All these social media serve different purposes. But HN is too broad. So might be more dopamine and FOMO and therefore distraction than Twitter and YT.
Becoming a Manager of Managers
Indeed. I know a couple folks in that situation

- A 30 year old guy who lives at his mothers house. He's a part time videographer. For the last 5 years, hasn't proactively built any other skillset. Currently he says he'll work on getting into the construction industry. The irony is that he studied through calculus recently at a community college, but isn't enthused by the non-social work of a IT professional. Like other gig workers I know, he's only recently wised up to the fact that maybe he can't support himself on gig work, and that lacking business skills/knowledge he's unlikely to be a entrepreneur. Reality is beginning to dawn on him: he's getting older, and women will be less and less likely to see him as an adequate provider.

- a 32 year old guy who has a family trust he lives off of. Dropped out of college around age 19 or 20 to spend the next decade smoking marijuana and playing video games nearly as though it's a full time job. Fortunately he recently returned to finish college and will soon have a science degree. He'll be about 33-34 and start working at a career level of a typical 22-23 year old. The difference though is that he lacks common sense developed by resource scarcity & the existential need to become a professional. So, at 33, he'll be a less mature version of a 23 year old. It's sad to see. (I firmly believe young adults shouldn't be given free money-- they'll end up without a proper incentive structure.
It's a bit like getting cheat codes to a game: there's no longer a reason to work at it.)
Free Will, Willpower, and Randomness
I can't see Stripe giving front line employees the ability to resolve Risk Management issues.

From the Risk Management employee's perspective, nobody gets in trouble for saying "no". Saying "no", or outright rejecting an account is the safe move for job security. And so, support tickets into these departments languish for absurd amount of times (months) at many companies.
> First, we decided 30 years ago everyone had to go to college, and in doing so found most degrees hardly worth the paper they were printed on while landed gentry reaped the windfall of college loan income. conversely tradecraft like welding, carpentry, HVAC, engine repair, and plumbing fell by the wayside with many of these crafts given a scarlet letter and left to beg and plead for any help whatsoever. there is still plenty of work, its just been made obscure and wicked by a hand that cant reap any lending profit from it.

If welding, carpentry, HVAC and so on were clearly strong career paths, people would have figured this out and ignored the college advice. Skilled trades have the potential to be great careers, but fall short. 1. They just don't pay enough. You can go to college and learn computer science and at 22 years old have a shot at making $100K+ or even more in expensive COL areas. In the trades, you have lots of training, apprenticeships, seniority... how many years does it take to get to $100K as a welder? 2. The work is tough on your body, which has a shelf life. As opposed to an office worker who can sit in his office chair, collecting a salary, until he dies of old age. I supposed these two points can be mitigated by learning the business and eventually running your own contracting company, where you siphon your profits and employ younger bodies. But not everyone can/will go down that path.

I agree with you about the drug and background checks. I'm sure they don't help either.
A similar thought I find helpful to internalize is that "hurt people hurt other people". That is to say, many victims are themselves assholes and abusive.

It is important to remember that fair justice should be extended to all people, independence of their individual moral or sympathetic valence.

It cuts both ways. Despicable people deserve a fair treatment, and victims themselves must be held accountable for their actions.
Whilst I don't know much about cruises. Let me make up an example for you.

Let's suppose we are Acme Cruise Lines running a Cruiseliner:

Microservice - National Coastguard Ship Arrival System Feed Handler

Database - Logs incoming messages on the feed

Microservice - Asian and Australian Joint Ship Monitoring System

Database - Logs incoming messages on the feed

Microservice - Cruiser Arrival and Departure Times

Database - Cruiser Arrival and Departures Times in a Standard Format

Microservice - Customer Bookings and Payments

Database - Customer Bookings and Payments

Microservice - Fuel Management System

Database - Ship Fuel Levels & Costs of fuel at Various Ports.

It's that high level of split up.

(AWS Lambdas aren't quite the same thing as microservices.)
Absolutely, I should have brought up risks as well. Triggering early schizophrenia is a big one, personality changes also seem like a significant concern. I'm not aware of any IQ changes- if you have a study, send it my way if you please. If you're just gesturing at the fact that long-term research is lacking, I'm very much in agreement.
yeah i get the "babysitting?" thing a lot which is awkward. I never really know how to respond, like "no, just doing regular stuff as usual.."

I know this thread is about a different topic but i went to a dad's lunch at my oldest's middle school. The school put on this presentation about how to be a good dad, it was very humiliating. Like it wasn't even about being a good parent it was just about how not to be a terrible parent, interviews where the guy says things like "i'm a good dad because i'm sitting at the table when my kid is eating dinner" or "i'm a good dad because i don't make jokes about my daughter's weight" etc. I was embarrassed to be sitting there and just turned around and talked, and had lunch, with my son which was why i was there to begin with.
Sewage still goes in the river during heavy rains at the numerous sewage outflows

I think it’s technically a combined sewer system that has both street water and sewage so when it rains, the system gets overloaded.

Fixing the sewer system is a massive project
I've no idea. It's a complex arguement to make, and my few points don't do it justice.

I'm sure there is an optimal balance with legality that minmizes harm and cost. I think we are on the conservative side of that balance. But going for a free-for-all approach is the other extreme side.
It's illegal without a permit or a written notification to a police department, it seems:

https://poliisi.fi/en/money-collections
Whether free for all drug use would be more expensive is an empirical question and- if it displaces any alcohol use — the evidence would be strongly that it would cut costs, especially if basic standards for purity were enforced.
As noted on this page in the Netherlands the network was already switched off and I can confirm the sky has not fallen.

Yes, for some applications you need new hardware. So people got new hardware.
Yea, also adding more homes or more units will just increase rents and prices anyway, especially with higher interest rates.

At the end of the day a lot of people have this very wrong idea that living in the best weather and in the epicenter of a global city with top-tier jobs, food, etc. will ever be “affordable”. It simply will not be. Ever.
There are productive hobbies that can be preformed in a studio apartment, even if those options are more limited.
i like the idea of invariants. i even like their implementation in eiffel. i even quite like eiffel as a language. too bad that Meyer never produced a useable implementation of it, and that he was so destroyed by envy over the success of C++.
It certainly makes me feel unsuccessful and stupid.
> it can be introduced artificially for those who want/need it

If it can be introduced artificially by the user, it can be skipped artificially by the fraudster, so the anti-fraud effectiveness of such an "anti-fraud feature" would be zero.
HN is not a revolutionary platform.
You need to meet more humans. Humans would either say "that's not breaking news" and refuse the task or produce something satirical similar to the original breaking news.