skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Debator A
"Fucking Russia, man. They've been meddling in elections, poisoning people, and fucking with neighboring countries for years. They're shady as shit."

Debator B
Whoa, hold up. America's been starting wars for profit, manipulating the global economy, and screwing over minorities for centuries. They're no saints either.

Debator A
Listen, I'm not denying America's wrongdoings. But Russia's actions are more downright malicious and covert. They've been caught red-handed interfering in multiple elections, assassinating political opponents, and trying to destabilize neighboring countries. Don't get me started on their human rights abuses. The US has certainly made mistakes, but Russia's actions are more intentionally evil.

Debator B
Yeah, I can see your point about Russia. They definitely have a history of shady actions. But to say they're more evil than the US... come on. America has a long history of imperialism, slavery, and oppression. They've been toppling democratically elected governments and supporting dictators for decades. And the way they treat minorities, especially black people, is despicable. Sure, Russia's not great, but let's not act like the US is any better.

Debator A
Listen, I'm not trying to defend America's past actions. But we're talking about present day evil, and Russia is still actively trying to destabilize democracies and commit heinous acts. The US has certainly made mistakes, but they're not currently trying to manipulate elections or assassinate political opponents. And while America's history of oppression is certainly a stain on their record, they've also made strides towards progress and equality in recent years. Russia, on the other hand, still actively suppresses dissent and violates human rights. So yeah, I still stand by my statement that Russia is more evil than the US.

Debator B
Listen, I understand where you're coming from. But let's not forget that the US has a long history of destabilizing other countries and supporting oppressive regimes. And their treatment of migrants and refugees is absolutely atrocious. Plus, the way they've contributed to climate change and the destruction of the environment is unforgivable. Yes, Russia has its own set of problems, but to say they're more evil than the US is just not accurate.

Debator A
Look, I get that the US has a history of questionable actions. But let's focus on the present. Russia's current actions are more concerning and malicious. They're actively trying to undermine democracies, assassinate political opponents, and violate human rights. The US has its faults, but they're not engaging in these kinds of activities. Plus, the US has made progress towards equality and justice in recent years. Russia has not. In the present day, Russia is definitely more evil than the US.
There is no precise language for this though, and if I clarified everything the comment would be too long so nobody would read it. By spreading out people asking for clarification like this we actually get to talk about it in a natural way.

> If, as you say, you are aware of something, it is by definition now in your conscious mind

Yeah, but that is a trivial statement, we all know that "thoughts popping into our head" means that they came from somewhere, I'm not talking about that effect.

To me the difference is like between a function call and a process. The dream is some other part of the brain that wants to know something that you are good at answering, so it asks you that question by posing it in a language you understand, ie the "dream", and then you answer by reacting to the dream, it isn't waking you up it is just making a quick invocation. This is different than what you are talking about, unless I misunderstood you completely.

When you are awake it is more that you are querying the other systems and they put thoughts in your mind as responses. Those responses will be calculated before you are aware of them, creating the "you made the choice before you think you did" effect, but you are still querying them. While when you dream those systems query you and you answer back with your reaction to the dream, meaning you have basically no control at all, and the shape and feel of the dream, when to dream, what to dream etc is decided entirely by that other part.

Or in other words, "dreaming" would be the feeling of being the subsystem others are querying, while "awake" is the feeling of being the main system that is querying others. And just like you ask your subsystems a lot of questions for all sort of reasons, I don't see why our other systems would have just one reason to ask us anything, they probably ask all sort of things for all sort of reasons, as long as querying you for information is useful to them they will do it.
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I'm always amazed that these products can be so accurately locked to an exact flavour for years, regardless of the inputs, which, being plant or animal matter, can vary a lot naturally between batches and between years.

Not only whisky, even things like branded fruit juice, McDonald's burger meat and salad, Nutella and branded chocolate, coffee, to name just a few, seem almost preternaturally consistent.
Speaking only for myself, I don't really care very much about what someone else did in a different geographical market under different economic market conditions, except as a curiosity. I can't assume any of what they did will work for me, so what's the point?

What's holding me back is that even though I'm interested, I tested the RE waters a decade ago and hated everything about being a landlord except the money, which wasn't nearly enough to offset how much I hated it long enough to get to a point where I was better at it and it sucked less.
Did you have the kidney stones removed the first time round?
I write by hand a lot, actually most of my writing is by hand and I've pretty much always written in cursive since elementary school, the only times I don't is for forms, those I write in all capitals.

I know that this is wrong and that it's only in my head but I see pretty much all other writing that isn't in cursive as childish.

The sheer possibility that people might finish schools without knowing how to write in cursive is kind of worrying, because I fear that this is walking on a path towards a world where people stop writing by hand and in time even forget how to write...

And you might say that they won't forget because they constantly see and read the letters, but I can read hiragana and katakana, I can't write them though or it takes me quite a lot of thinking to get the image of the "letter" into my mind to be able to write it. And that's just because I don't write in then pretty much at all.

You lose what you don't use.
Today they rolled some kind of upgrade and my backend become unreachable for hours, this is not my first problem with them. I assembled a quick docker-compose.yml and moved to Hetzner.
Fly is pushing a lot of blog worthy stuff but it is not production ready.
Not really surprised. The most I write during month:

* the logbook for keys for when I leave office last

* signature when receiving mail/package.

and... that's about it for a month. Few lines at most.

But I was diagnosed with agraphia (i think that's how its called in english) as kid (something about eye-hand coordination IIRC) so my hand-writing always been fucking ugly even when I wrote a lot during school, so I don't particularly care about it
> Or marry a good person, raise happy kids and live a good life together.

You might as well be telling someone to just be very lucky.
Thanks for this as I was also wondering about network partitioning, and all those failure fun and games that distributed systems must handle.

This golang package helps to remedy that by providing a bus / messsge queue that can run in process or over the network.

So you get rpc without thinking about it and failure is managed by the data plane forwarding the message when the network is healthy again.

https://github.com/suborbital/e2core/blob/main/foundation/bu...

This however forces all other code using a package like this to adapt to the realities that you’re in an async non blocking world now. A rpc call will give you a response eventually.

So the calling func and all parent funcs will just have to wait around when the network is unhealthy?
I’m not sure if dreaming is the right word here, but the recent ML model Dreamer v3 [0] “dreams”. This is more akin to thinking ahead since it’s really just predicting outcomes using its world model.

It’s possible they could try training the model on some hallucinated scenarios to avoid over fitting, but I’m no ML researcher.

[0] https://danijar.com/project/dreamerv3/
anc = active noise cancelation FYI
I think that is all you really need. I mean, once you know how to write, learning cursive could be done in a few hours, it is fairly simple. After that it is up to the student whether to use it or not. I was never required to use it but I still liked it so the more I used it the better I got.

Honestly, I really do not understand all the complaning about cursive. Learning to read and write was harder (I imagine cause I don't actually remember struggling with it, it just came naturally) . Learning cursive is just a simple extension of it.
"Intermittent connection timeouts and errors for all services" is a very mild description. I've got nodes that locked up, nodes that now won't boot after going offline, and pretty substantial connection issues.

"We're continuing to investigate" isn't really reassuring.
> it was removed from eg Roald Dahls books.

who removed it?
Could just... use that time to teach them doing something useful that happens to include precision work ?
There's also a lot of survivorship bias. We don't hear about the entrepreneurs who had X failures and no successful exits. There must be some (a lot?)
There are actually ETFs that contain themselves (or rather, ETF X is e.g. 10% ETF Y which is 10% ETF X. So long as the total amount of X owned per unit of X is less than 1 (in absolute value), the arithmetic mostly works out. Though I don’t know if any ETFs directly contain themselves.
Isn't this the same argument though?

Youre saying that if you only consider the rich, then there's no difference between the rich and poor experience for making businesses
Sure!

- Here is a thread on ElixirForum: https://elixirforum.com/t/phoenix-liveview-in-production-exa...
- Here is a neat little aggregator: https://liveviewdemos.com/, and here is the code for it: https://github.com/leandrocp/phoenix_live_view_collection
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There's no reason to use pyenv, pipenv or nox at all, ever. Whether they want to cooperate with each other, or stand together and cry in a corner -- the community shouldn't care. The community should recognize how little value these tools offer (more like negative value, really), and demand from the people responsible for this part of tooling (i.e. PyPA) to get off their rear and make themselves useful, or step down and clear the way for people who know how to do this stuff.

The proliferation of useless tools that advertise themselves as solutions to unnecessary problems created by the core of Python development simply shouldn't be happening. If Python community wants to overcome the ridiculous state it's in right now, it needs to concentrate on fixing the problems at their core, not on creating another layer of duct tape around the rotten core.
Detecting photoshoppped faces by scripting Photoshop
Can you expand by providing rough size and GL variants you have used with that monolith.
NJ public schools don’t generally teach it. Many private schools do, which makes for a fun time when a kid transitions from public to private school..
Could be related to covid vaccines. Tinnitus is often reported as side effect.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S204908012...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/089719002211475...

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/ways-to-combat-tinnitus...
So it is useful to you, not most.
Being born ultra-wealthy is quite highly correlated with being ultra-wealthy, mind you.

Enough luck negates the need for skill
https://archive.vn/u0LYJ
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We would love support on our Product Hunt launch!
The point is you still got lucky. Something helped you beyond doing hard work.
Okay I've tried to use Moonlight today. It appears much more broken than Steam Link. There is no working autostart (but there is a broken service option), audio doesn't work, credentials sometimes just break to the point that a fresh start is needed, there is no way to elegantly exit the app, and it doesn't add the ability to unlock the PC (in fact, it even is so fragile that it requires a restart of the host program if the computer's primary display has turned off).

The options are nice and it sounds great on paper, but Steam Link is a better solution right now.
Increasing citric acid intake does seem to be helpful, at least for calcium oxalate stones (one of the more command kinds).

I've had more than a few stones over the past couple decades, and when I finally got myself in to see a urologist, that was one of her primary recommendations.

That, along with some other treatment, seems to have helped considerably (only one non-trivial stone in the last ~12mo & the few others were barely noticeable).
I think you're going to find HN to be against most rent seeking forms of "investment". There's a lot of hate on landlords, for both good and bad reasons. HN isn't on the friendlier side of the spectrum.
I think not. The top comment just claims the model was overtrained, which is true, but it was still picking images out of the modest dataset from the fMRI brain scans.

Thats still amazing! And reasonable, as the researchers can only scan so many brain-image pairs.
You could definitely use this to make a weak serial pad, right? You need the starting seed, the algorithm, and the current iteration count or the current output and the algorithm, and you can work out the next state. It is like Squirrel Eiserloh's noise based pseudo random number generators.
The final act of Worf, the Star Trek legend who deserved one most of all
Winemakers in California do sometimes capture ethanol vapour escaping from fermentation tanks:

https://www.aromatica.io/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmBgx-Z5jhg

Although that's an easier problem - higher concentrations, and a smaller volume to collect from.
Fortunately I passed the stone in about 5 days. That's the best possible outcome as painful as that can be. I started the lemon juice about 3 days into the event and I do think it helped already in making the stone a bit smaller and getting it out of my body.
All of that seems very "necessary but not sufficient." The fact you had multiple businesses fail seems strongly to argue for that: presumably you didn't violate any of the above points when you failed?
You're very welcome! Just wanted to let you know that almost everyone hits rock bottom(s) in their lives. It can be very painful, but time always heal and you'll end up wiser as you get through that. :)
Why on Earth are they shrink wrapped? In a Barnes and Noble store in the US it is not unheard of for people to pick a book off a shelf in the store, sit in a comfy chair or in the cafe, read for awhile, and then put it back when they are done. I did this quite a bit when I was dead broke many years ago.
There is one interesting conclusion to be derived from this exercise - in Python, '%r' is a fixed point of the function f(x)=x%x.

And yes, this is the most boring quine, you've punted the problem to the formatting mini-language and solved it in a manner equivalent of print(open(argv[0]).read()). I would say perhaps the ideal formulation for producing an interesting quine that doesn't leverage other languages would be "write a quine in C, using no preprocessor directives and no external functions except the POSIX write function, you may assume stdout is 1". So your program would look like:

extern long write(int, const void *, unsigned long);
int main(int, char**) {
/* your code here, using write(1, buf, count) for output */
return 0;
}

You would of course end up writing a function equivalent to 'x%x' in Python, but getting there is a bit more exciting.
I'd assume "most people" refers to the average (assuming American) person that likely has tens of thousands of dollars of debt and works a job (or three) that can sustain them only by not fully servicing that debt. Putting time and money into a business venture means putting all they have on the line; failure means "skin of the teeth" living for some decades, if they can survive some winters outside.
I hope so, but my son definitely seemed to have several nightmares, waking visibly frightened and crying before he was 9 months old. I don't know what kind of nightmares he'd have, as I don't think I ever saw him frightened when awake, and he only cried when he was hungry. (Such an easy baby to take care of, though I needed to manually check his diaper. If he was crying, he was definitely hungry. Apparently many babies cry if they've wet their diaper.) His nightmare were presumably hunger and/or abandonment.

My son also seems to share my abnormal reaction to pain... beyond a fairly tolerable threshold, I go numb. I know I've injured myself somewhat seriously if I feel quickly rising pain followed by numbness. When my tooth got knocked loose, it went numb. The three times I've sprained ankles (once in the woods, 3 days form the nearest hill with cell phone coverage), my ankles have gone numb. The time the cartilage in my nose tore from the bone, it also went numb. Ditto for the time I burned my finger while arc welding (though, I think that time I killed the dentrite back to my spine and it had to grow back out). My son takes a tough fall and other parents look at me like they expect my son is going to cry, and my son just gets up and keeps playing. So, I don't think his nightmare were about pain, either.
Heroes III purists will count all the things you listed as downgrades :) For me Heroes IV is the favorite game in the series.

One piece of trivia that I learned recently about Heroes II Armageddons Blade: there was supposed to be a race based on high tech, which was ditched, because of the fan's outcry: https://mightandmagic.fandom.com/wiki/Forge_(town)

I really wish they included it.
Higher education is shockingly right-wing
That is certainly not "all you need to do". It is good, and helpful, but if a person is prone to stones, it's often not enough on its own.
This is accurate - needing to grip and push on a pen harder makes it more difficult to control and the handwriting harder to read. Most cheap ballpoints are terrible for this.

I swear by Pilot G2 gel roller pens (or an off-brand equivalent, there are a few.) They glide across paper very readily and the writing comes out a lot neater as a result.
> The problem is generifying over checked exceptions (i.e. parametric polymorphism over checked exceptions), and there's actually an elegant solution that's been long known -- so the "corner" was well-noticed, as well as the means to get out of it -- but that requires laying some groundwork first which wasn't done because the ground wasn't ready, but it's getting there, so stay tuned.

Happy to hear something might be getting done about it, but users have suffered for 20+ years. I'm probably not going back to Java anyway :).

Any technical details you can share about a potential redesign? AFAICT checked-exception-like-things will always be at odds with the variance requirements on method signatures, so I'm a bit curious. (Outside of the natural solutions where variance isn't a problem, e.g. polymorphic variants or row types.)

Regardless, I'm waaay more interested in the JVM-level improvements that you & co. have been doing! Kudos! Btw, any inside tips on TCO? ;)

> [Gosling]

I have seen that talk, and I largely agree with the philosophy (assuming the goal is correct), but in this particular case, I think it was a mistake to let the problems fester for 20+ years rather than just admitting defeat and removing the checked-ness. If it's going to take that long to implement a solution to a constant pain point... the solution might as well not exist. (Perfect = enemy of good and all that.)

EDIT: Just to add: I definitely don't mean to cast aspersions on anybody in the Java language design team or anything like that -- if that's how my original comment came across. Everybody makes mistakes and predicting the future is hard at the best of times :). I just wish they'd reevaluated some things along the way...
Galaxy Quest is a scifi Star Trek parody kids that age love. Not too serious but still interesting.
Hey I was the first rust metrics author. Glad to see this project and it’s a good step forward
So no evidence - gotcha.
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Got it. Never would have guessed.
It would be an interesting way to cover a lot of ground and see the world. I don't think I'd personally would want to do this indefinitely though. Cost wise, it seems to be on par with bargain cruise costs (from what I remember).
I'd hate to be stuck on a cruise ship when there's a malfunction or illness spreading.
Why hot water specifically? That sounds like the worst kind of lemonade.
Ah you’ve introduced two other elements into the mix, and possibly have introduced the issue of conflation of causation and correlation.

1. What is a successful society? You may have a different definition but imho it’s one that hasn’t torn itself apart or causing active harm to itself.

2. I never said they didn’t have a concept of marriage, just that it’s not integral.

Both those points however are dramatically affected by colonization. Particularly Christian colonization, but not restricted to it.

Colonization both destroyed many otherwise successful societies and forced their own concepts onto the ones that remained.

As such I don’t think there’s any society that does have absolutely no concept of marriage, but there are some where marriage is not integral.

Various indigenous groups did not have a formal marriage, but did sometimes have a vow. Even within the US, you’d have the ancient traditions of hand fasting among settlers, which wasn’t a marriage but an informal vow.

The Mosuo/Na people of China famously do not marry.

Hence why I disambiguate between marriage and monogamous binding. heck, monogamous bindings for life are present in a lot of non human social norms too.

But marriage is different in that it’s a formalized procedure to do the binding, and in many cultures was tied to the religious or governmental authority figure as a form of bookkeeping and control, or to show political bindings.

And back to the point of causation/correlation, is marriage integral to success? I’d argue not since hand fasting continued into very relatively (to human history) recent times.
Your comment reads like you are using voice dictation, which is much on point! (Sans typos)
What Dan is saying is that the Chinese state has a track record of adopting policies and sticking to them for lengthy periods despite mountains of evidence that they're harmful, and their COVID response is only the latest example.

Democracies generally have a harder time doing this, because they have checks and balances that prevent going to extremes (welding people into their homes etc) and the governments responsible will eventually get voted out if public opinion turns against them.