skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I try to change “scenery” in a way that lets my mind wander.

As a background, I am a software engineer, firefighter, have had tons of grief (in my emergency role, as well as personal life), moderately manage ADHD, and am prone to “thought spirals.”

When the shingles come back, you know it’s been a bad few months.

So - rather than leave work in software to game or such, I paint. Oil paint. My own or masterwork copies. I get lost in art history. I “let” the spiral happen when it needs to happen.

I know I should also exercise more. We all should.

But mostly - painting, crochet, jigsaw puzzles, wood working, my therapist, learning abt philosophy, and pretending to exercise all seem to keep me going.

But I won’t lie. There are improvements to be made. Entire months where a belief that if I walk off the face of the earth, I will let those around me down … sometimes is all that keeps me going. My biggest triggers are money (i dont have much) and what others “must” think of me.

Iterate. Note what worked. What didn’t and note that you woke up today so there is something that worked. Even if it was “stayed in bed and played minecraft all day.”
Sometimes they have multiple sellers for the same listing, and in that case, feedback for any particular seller doesn't belong in a product review. But in some cases, there's only one seller (usually based in China) and the product has very high ratings because they are gaming the system like this, and burying the feedback in the seller reviews does not really give a proper warning to other prospective buyers. I think this is a grey area between "feedback for the seller" and "feedback about the product" but a blanket policy against mentioning seller misbehavior in product reviews is one of the things that allows shady sellers to continue to get away with their games for a long time.
> And when you have colonists with that altruistic mindset, then yes - the idiot rate of that society has the potential to be significantly lower.

If people sign up to this trip believing that they are getting away from all the selfish idiots, then they are in for a big surprise.

Seen what happened at Twitter recently?
I got the chip from a blog elsewhere (https://cpldcpu.wordpress.com/2019/08/12/the-terrible-3-cent...), advertised as a 8.75-cent MCU.

I did a brief search before posting, and one webpage suggested a 1000+ quantity price for $0.11 USD. However, upon closer inspection, this webpage is completely out-of-stock. (https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/Others_Holtek-Semicon-HT...). I assumed the ~10-cent price point was still available and should have looked more into it before posting.

> Holtek 'Buy Online' shows $1.50 @ 500+

That is indeed terrible. ATTiny4 chips (cheapest chip on Digikey that's available... 512B Flash + 32B RAM) are available at 39-cents @100 Quantity from Digikey, so these HT68F001 chips need to come in significantly cheaper than the ATTiny4 before I consider them.

Sure, the ATTiny4 is like 20 uA at 128kHz, but this is all less than the leakage current of batteries, so we're definitely looking at multi-year battery lives. Also PWM, Analog Comparator, ADCs, and other such features are included. So its more capable.

In 2019, the HT68F001 _WAS_ a 8.75-cent chip or so. Alas, the 2020+ chip shortage may have killed the cost-effectiveness of this particular model.
Plato said: “Good actions strengthen ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”

I believe that is a tidy, principled way of resolving the conundrum of self-interest vs utilitarianism.
The universe doesn't care, but this is a discussion among humans.

I appreciate the effort to keep an open mind, but you can have too much of everything :)
I would settle for a password manager that can do basic password management.

Secure, UI that loads quickly without bugs, autofill that works.

Tried switching to 1Password and it duplicates every single password I imported from LastPass. Confirmed no duplicates exist in the CSV being imported.

Support is like talking to a chat bot. Don't seem to understand the issue I am reporting is the duplication and keep proposing solutions to alternate problems other then the one I have.
> copaganda

Police budgets are higher than they've ever been in history and they're spending millions on social media and "strategic communication"

https://therealnews.com/police-departments-are-spending-mill...
I am willing to defend the parent here. Just because majority follows the urges imposed by their bodies does not automatically mean that everyone does. I personally would posit, that it is that very 'skin in the game' that makes humans create and reframe their very existence not only as something worthwhile, but also desirable to the world at large ( and even the universe in general ). In a very real sense, the universe simply cannot cannot care for us. It is not an anthropomorphic entity. It has no feelings, hopes or dreams. After we will inevitably end ( as likely many before us ), it will not change just because of it. It will have just been.

From that perspective, it is hard to argue that is not accurate. And if it is accurate, then positions contrary to it are not accurate and therefore naive.
It's nice to hear of a few other philosophers in this area aside from Peter Singer, the Effective Altruism community and trolley car problems.

These moral scales philosophers employ do seem to rest on unquestioned axioms about the value of human time spent alive. I constantly wonder why if they are philosophers that they don't examine the axioms themselves more? Often it feels like they try to weigh say the potential of a younger person to live longer versus the weight of an older person with less time to live. I don't know that this kind of calculus really makes sense - it feels like it quickly leads to logical conundrums because it's extremely hard to precisely weigh one life versus another.

If I had to decide between two lives (or say if the Earth was going to be struck by an asteroid) it feels like a better scheme is to weight 'diversity' - to focus less on the happiness or joy or quality of life and more on trying to select for many different kinds of minds. So for example I'd try to save a diverse mixture of kinds of people from a sinking ship, or I'd try to select for people from say indigenous tribal cultures that were under-represented in outcomes. I'd probably bias mostly towards humans simply because I don't know of anything else that can cogitate, but I'd also try to include larger systems of living organisms. Selecting for diversity rather than quality of life feels like it avoids some of the tyranny of the masses kind of thinking and the worst of human-centric thinking.
Building more homes requires infrastructure to support those homes.

The real solution is to tax each additional dwelling ~30,000$ (depending on area) to pay for the infrastructure to support it and then actually build that infrastructure.
> In my experience, software engineers "think" imperatively

I hear this often. In the past the claim used to be that they "think" object-oriented. This is a thinly veiled argumentum ad naturam.

> ... on the functional proponents to prove

Prove your own claims before you demand proofs from other people. And by prove I mean really rigorous thinking, not just superficially seeking confirmation for the things you already believe either way.
Compare the track record of US police to the police in nearly every other country, and then get back to me.
Who worked on those ships? Honest question. I suspect it was lower class people who didn't have many life options...?
> That is, attempting something that is impossible given your current level of engineering is not likely to produce any useful results.

Engineering advances fundamentally by trying to do things you haven't done before. If you already know how to do it, you higher a technician and hand him the instructions. (Many software developers for example are closer to trades people/technicians than actual engineers.)
This is what his colleague recommended. A cold wallet that is only worked with offline. It is on an encrypted file system and can be backed up. (passphrase protected)

I remember that Silk Road associated guy that was caught recently with 50000 BTC. I was wondering why he didn’t just encrypt his wallet?

There is no way crypto coin will work for society at large with such requirements.
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To be fair to windows I have several programs some over 20 years old which keep their exact behaviour and (with some minor updates) their looks, I appreciate not screwing those over for the sake of the latest GUIFAD
You don't have any actual experience with NLP do you?
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Sounds like disorder to me. What you're saying sounds more like a propagandized political statement.
Are they not visible on LinkedIn? Reminds me of Gibson novels like Count Zero with top technologists as key parts of sprawling interstellar corporations requiring mercenaries to extract a researcher to basically change jobs [1.].

- [1.] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Zero
I offer up a solution may be to abandon cultures of preference-making/-sticking/-catering and help people notice the impact of their actions. This enables deeper learning.
> population ethics

The new word for "eugenics," repackaged for the hip new urbanite narcissist who believes their life is more important than others.

I'd applaud their ability to word twist if it wasn't so sinister.
While superficially similar, BitTorrent and a blockchain are inherently different designs that target different problems. Blockchain is massive data replication, BitTorrent is massive data distribution (with some replication too).

That's why you can actually attack and shut down a bittorrent network, by targeting the index servers, that are not massively replicated. I.E. The Piratebay is often down.

As a solution for this, I'll shamelessly plug my small project here, that combines bittorrents with the blockchain as a invulnerable piratebay-like bittorrent index server, called Blockchain Bay: https://github.com/ortegaalfredo/blockchainbay

It's command line, and don't use any tokenomic scams. You pay the blockchain only for the data you need to upload, that is fortunately, very little as bittorrent magnet links are very small.
This is false in some scenarios. Dumping browser credential vaults as well as extracting from active memory have both become de facto standard post-exploitation behaviors.

References are many:

https://kylemistele.medium.com/stealing-saved-browser-passwo...

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Use+Your+Browser+Internal+Passwor...

https://www.cyberark.com/resources/threat-research-blog/extr...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/redline-malwa...
Yup! Parser combinators are incredibly useful once you learn the basics well. They compose predictably and you can test the individual parts pretty succinctly (I usually use an inline eval'd comment in vscode to smoke test, as you can see) and allow you to build an arbitrarily complicated data structure at parse time.

I'll admit first few times were a bit of a headache learning the library (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/attoparsec-0.14.4/docs/D...) and idiomatic patterns, plus how to test/troubleshoot. But now Haskell is my go-to language for parsing and I can parse pretty much any AoC input into a suitable representation, with the forethought taking no longer than reading the brief, by composing parsers for the different parts of the input string into a larger parser.

Also, disclaimer, since I'm the only one reading my code I often make oneliner "pointfree" parsers using dense syntax/tricks (as a little extra mental puzzle) instead of vastly more readable "do notation", so don't let the special character soup put you off.
I’ve stayed in 100+ Airbnbs and literally never have paid or been asked to pay an extra fee. I have, however, been surprised several times by hotels charging an extra “resort fee” upon arrival.
I don't see much wrong with a peaceful winding down of the population.
The network is the prime example for forcing serialization of events.

Tbf, I agree with the recipe criticism. Would be neat with a dependency graph instead of a step-by-step list of things to do when baking a cake. Would have saved me a lot of headache in the past. (The table in your link expresses a tree, which is probably sufficient for most purposes.)
I didn't see much particularly pro- about it, other than the fact that they seem more focused on treating people like people and not like case numbers. Was that part not true?
> Or do we also count the lives of the children that they might have?

No; it is absurd to even talk about. Run from anyone who thinks this is legitimate intellectual discourse.

Let's bite this trolling hook for a second. If you're going to count the lives of those nonexistent children, you have to also count and subtract the deaths they will cause. A few of those children might turn out to be be murderers. Others will cause accidents, maybe big ones. Others still will have consumption habits that snuff out future lives.

Imagine if Adolf Hitler's mother had died in some accident before he had been conceived and born; how would you tally the accident?
A recent video titled "What if You Get Sucked Into an Airplane Engine":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzNSH8UMRL8
plus there are other significant changes that can change in that time. HVDC power transmission lines lose something like 3% of their power over 600 miles, where AC ones lose closer to 7%. And use much less precious metals, since they require 2 lines instead of 3.
> I would settle for a password manager that can do basic password management.

Just use Google/FireFox's build in options. Google's is more secure, but I understand a lot of people like FireFox for other reasons.
On black and white, first Mac's where like that and people had no issues...
Things are getting better, but it is still pretty easy to get into a circular dependency of NPM packages that makes it really hard to upgrade
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Well, you seem to not have read my answer...

But anyway, your answer is because transportation costs are irrelevant for both gasoline and electricity. So, even tough they are much cheaper for electricity, none makes any difference, and nobody picks a power source based on them.

But some people makes a huge effort to focus on this non-issue and turn it into a showstopper on their discourse. People resorting to this is good evidence that there aren't any large showstoppers for cars electrification.
Wage theft is estimated at $15 billion annually in US per US government reporting
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> With unchecked exceptions, it's impossible to statically check that this is the case

Aren't checked exceptions just a hint to the programmer?

Also I don't see why static analyzers shouldn't be able to map out which functions throw which exceptions without having hints in the language itself, the information is in the code.

Lastly if the goal is as simple as catch all exceptions, can't you just enforce a catch all on the top level?
I actually wrote about how Bitcoin security would need banks and security guards back in 2015:

"Another things that will push the price of Bitcoins up is the cost to store Bitcoin's will be very high, as Bitcoin storage companies will need to have paper wallets, vaults, security guards, insurance and many things we associate with a tradition bank, and this will be an ongoing cost, which will only get more and more expensive since Bitcoins are limited in number and demand will only go up. So I would not be surprised one to day see the million dollar Bitcoin!"

Link here: https://www.castoshi.net/blog/bitcoin-is-terrible-for-consum...
How exactly do you regulate it like hotels without changing the legal structure? Hotels either directly run their various locations (aka run by their employees) or franchise it. That's a totally different business model.

So just saying "regulate it like hotels" doesn't mean much.
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The library itself is fine. The problem I see is twisting JS/TS in to a language it is not.

JS simply does not lend itself to currying, data-last signatures, piping, and pattern matching like an ML family language does. And as you can tell by the Ramda typings, neither does the TS type system. [0]

You will forever fight an uphill battle against every single tutorial and piece of documentation and colleague when going down this path. I don't think the effort is worth it.

0 - https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/blob/dc9b...
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I wasn't cured of clinical depression by "extra confidence" or "trying harder".
The three line function here is an example, but I spent a good part of a sprint having to deal with a 730-line function that could've been used as a perfect "real world scenario" of why this abuse of control flags (or type keys) is a bad idea.
Vrbo did not provide me with a better experience. I rented a place last Christmas which looked nice going by the pictures in the listing. But when we got there it turned out to be a complete dump. It was so bad we didn’t stay and went straight to a hotel. Of course I contacted both the host and VRBO. The host never responded and the Vrbo representatives just shrugged their shoulders and said it was up to me to work it out with the host. Needless to say that will be the last time I use vrbo, Airbnb or any service like it.
Calling a file manager Dolphin is a particularly bad one.
The Settings app. It's head-and-shoulders better than the Windows 10 version, or the mess that was Control Panel.
The problem with standardized tests as they are implemented in nearly every case is that they only test how well the students have been taught the test, not the topic the test is on. This makes them just as pointless as GPA at being an indicator of capability.

The real problem is that universities have become degree mills. Pretty much all jobs require a university degree even when the actual degree often only demonstrates that the person can learn an arbitrary set of courses which have zero relevance to the job being performed and all the practical skills are learned on the job.
The pendulum of regulation will swing too far in the other direction, it ALWAYS does.

Mostly because the government sits around and does nothing until things get really bad, then they institute very strict rules to prevent a repeat.

Had they gotten involved earlier they would have had more flexibility with the regulations.
The atmosphere is IIRC quite turbulent in places, so you might be able to get some energy from that as well, by exploiting wind speed in different places and heights. Or maybe if you can achieve a stable anchor in the hell down there, won't that turn your floating station into a forever running wind turbine ?

Or maybe exploit the huge temperature differences between the surface and much colder cloud layers ? Some sort of pipe or thermocouple or even winching materials with high thermal capacity up and down ? Now thinking about it I could imagine a "Venus forge" where you winch up and down batches of materials in heat resistant containers!

As for gas mining - most of the atmosphere is carbon dioxide, which is a good start - carbon for construction and food, oxygen for internal atmosphere and combustion engines and rockets. Then there is apparently a lot of nitrogen, so you could have a "real" atmosphere and not a pure oxygen flame fest. Looks like there is also water vapor, that gives you even more input for life support and hydrogen for combustion and rockets. Possibly for fusion tech in future as well.

Look like there is also a bunch of noble gases, chloride, fluoride - could be useful as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus

As for surface mining - that's actually an intriguing idea!

Two options come to mind:

1) Essentially strip mining using suspended grappling claws. Grab stuff, winch it up or dump it elsewhere.

Is the rock down below too solid ? Drop a well isolated liquid nitrogen dewar on it, the thermal stress from that should be enough to tear it apart. Or go the other way around and make the stuff melt & scoop it.

2) Underground mining - the biggest issue would be to get a mine running, but once underground, the main extremes of the Venus environment could be overcome provided rock temperature underground it sane (is it ? not sure :P). The main issue would likely be atmospheric intrusion from the surface - at 93 bars it like about 1 km under the ocean, so likely solvable.
I'm not sure I agree with this. Surely the solution is not to bother with the completely pointless createAdmin and createCustomer functions in the first place and to just call createUser directly where it is needed with the correct parameter. Otherwise you're just repeating yourself.

Most of the time, DRY is better.
This is a can of worms, for sure. But we must facilitate and celebrate childbearing as a society. We’ve been able to do it in previous generations. But recently our priorities lie elsewhere: careers, money, status. When the worth of an individual is measured by how much money they make, children take a back seat. Read into that what you will, but we are not headed the right direction.