skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People shouldn't have to wait until retirement to enjoy it.

Also people should not pursue a strategy that concentrates ALL their enjoyment until retirement. It's a high variance strategy with IMO low EROI . My bias is because my father died in his 40s and my step father in his late 50s.. Both never saw a day of retirement despite saving for it.

I highly recommend a patterned approach to life enjoyment, yes this is highly privileged and I hope it will be universal one day.

Here's my strategy now that I'm financially stable:

I do something special, scaled to the time available, where they overlap I intersect them (ie, use the one weekend to build the one week)

* One weekend a month have a special plans

* One week a half disconnect, could be travel or camping, or staycation where you just chill and do stuff you love only

* Two weeks once a year - take an adventure, or a deep disconnect according to needs

* One month every 5yrs - Do something big that stretches you. Backpack foreign countries, or disconnect and focus on intensively learning a skill you intended to also practice going forward

* One quarter every 10 - Sabbatical (Sabbath) . Let your body and mind reset. Only do healthy and restorative things, celebrate every win you can remember, the only work you do should be investing in others, and do it at < 50% your capacity.

YMMV
In the 60s/70s, my parents regularly took me out of grade school for family vacations but it was a private school and I was a very good student. I would guess that public schools were less amenable to bending the rules in general but I don't have direct experience.
> Am I a crazy person when it comes to this?

We are much less interesting in this regard than you might think. In short, no one cares or has time to care.

If you ever start working with sensitive information then you might be forced to deal with rather banal hacking attempts with some regularity, but that's probably the extent of it.
well a good start is betting on the most popular framework in the most popular language and building the production ready stuff that is missing that the framework authors constitutionally cannot compete with you on :)

there are better wedges financially speaking but theres pretty much no bigger bottom up developer wedge than this one
This happened to me, Skyscanner quoted the airline's price as (let's say) 300 Euro, a 3rd party site qouted it as 180 Euro. So I followed all the ordering steps at the 3rd party site, entered my CC, hit pay, and the site said "Sorry, the flight is no longer available for that price. The new price is 300 Euro. Buy anyway?". I wish there was a button to tell them to get fucked...
How do people cash out of a token that isn't a currency?

I'm not interested in being blasted with prophetic bitcoin nonsense 24/7 on every thread or on any conversation I have with people.

I opened a random web client and saw too many 'cryptidots' on this nostr thing.

No way this will grow.
> Emergence is something that is intuitively noticed by human observers.

The problem, of course, is that people's intuition is particularly awful for this sort of thing. We have a very strong tendency to anthropomorphize everything, and that illusion can be quite overpowering.
Congrats on selling the company!
Anyone who has worked in data knows this difference instinctively.

There’s a massive difference between the data being theoretically available somewhere in your organization and “trivially” accessible vs actually being able to run a query (let alone the work to actually run the query).

With that said the unbanked crisis is severe and there are big societal benefits to insuring everyone has a checking and savings account. There’s no reason robust safeguards can’t be built into the law establishing the Bank of the United States (Third time is the charm!).
Is the (moderate) improvement in Dx and writing one check worth the increased costs? In the case of blob storage, aren't most Vercel customers paying Cloudflare already?
You also have the child care problem - school, in addition to its educational function, is free child care. I'd like to get as much of that as I can, because I have a limited number of vacation days.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/new-york-man-charged-theft-tr...

> The criminal complaint alleges that on or about July 5, Zheng, an engineer employed by General Electric, used an elaborate and sophisticated means to remove electronic files containing GE’s trade secrets involving its turbine technologies. Specifically, Zheng is alleged to have used steganography to hide data files belonging to GE into an innocuous looking digital picture of a sunset, and then to have e-mailed the digital picture, which contained the stolen GE data files, to Zheng’s e-mail account.
You may not be denied entry BUT:

- You can be substantially annoyed.
- You can be significantly delayed.
- Your possessions can be searched and potentially seized.

https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017#when-a...
Economics claims to be a science, complete with mathematical laws to back up claims. In reality, a huge number of economic papers are cherry picking data to fit their claims.

Check out https://theconversation.com/the-reinhart-rogoff-error-or-how... to learn how the 2010 paper that governments around the world have used to justify austerity measures omitted data from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada and Denmark. Once those countries are included, the result completely flips.

Woops guess all the major powers had an oppsie for the last decade.
"Productive" is a judgement about tactics that like-minded people can disagree on. Calling someone a bigot isn't an indictment of their soul or character or motivations. It is a shorthand for describing their actions. Mormonism frequently works towards and supports discriminatory policies, and so can reasonably be described as bigoted.

They can individually act differently, but if you're associated with a politically active abrahamic religion you're gonna have to carry that cross, so to speak. No one owes anyone the benefit of the doubt on this.
I've long thought that the cost of proper disposal for all products should be paid for at the time of manufacture as a tax and built into the price, and then sanitation services are paid for out of this fund ahead of time.

We need everything to be disposed of properly, whoever that responsibility ultimately falls to, so it's unfortunate that we charge consumers at the end of the line for disposal. It's leaky and creates a perverse incentive for pollution, dumping, trash burning, etc.

And products that are harder to recycle or dispose of would cost more than cleaner alternatives, creating gentle economic pressure to produce and buy more sustainable goods.

Right now, we might not even have a plan for proper disposal before something is sold. This seems to have happened with electronics.
I don't understand the question. Proposal: if you sell it, you must recycle it. Question: how would an online shop do this? Obvious answer: by accepting the to-be-recycled product, just like an offline store? Whether they do the actual recycling themselves or contract a third party is up to them of course, but that's the same with any local kiosk that happens to sell batteries.

(Not saying I think it's a good or bad proposal btw. It sounds good, but there's going to be uncountable cases where the original retailer does not exist anymore, or you don't know where you bought something, or you've moved, etc. Whether to just accept that and consider it a net win, or if a deposit system would work better, no idea. I just don't see the problem with online stores having to accept goods they sold for recycling.)
Ah, I was mostly imagining desktop searches, but if you're on mobile then yeah that's a fair point.
But you (or I at least) still get stressed with people coughing. For me, it's a whole stress that begins at leaving for the airport, until I'm home/hotel

Also... kids, noisy people, etc...
That's clearly socialism and making companies pay for damage they cause and their externalaties is oppressive regulation. We should instead reduce the EPA's power until they are a shell of an organization. How else are we going to get our burning rivers back?
> you can and should redistribute some from the "winners" to those who the market leaves behind.

Personally I'm in favor of wealth and income limits, with anything past a threshold being redistributed or to fund UBI.
It was also not slower than the Lisa which came out later. I remember going to a Lisa demo at UCLA and it was super well scripted as someone would click on the screen while talking about something and the 20 seconds later start talking about what they clicked on so that the computer and the demoed were in sync. It was a master class in deception about speed.
I am not from the west. Now I think I understand why I get downvoted.
They can't deny you reentry as a USC. They can only keep your devices if they suspect anything fishy. The vast majority of people will never be asked a question beyond "where did you travel to, why, what is the total if your shopping". I've moved back from living abroad and was barely asked about having 4 trunks of stuff (well, other than "are you a barber? that's a lot of shampoo".

I've heard even if they take your device, they aren't supposed to be doing anything with your cloud applications as that's more of a subpoena thing. IANAL but I've seen this around several times.

Here's some things you can do to increase confidence crossing borders - this includes the foreign ones, where I'd be more worried about problems than US ones:

1) Remove all the git repos from your computer before travel. And SSH key. Re-install at destination, remove again before departing.

2) 1Password travel mode. You can make a vault with logins you're OK being on your device while transiting. has worked well for me for years!

3) E2EE cloud storage. it's super cool that iCloud Drive now can be E2EE but it's pretty difficult to turn iCloud Drive off on devices. ProtonDrive is a good alternative. Keep any files you'll need abroad on ProtonDrive. Remove app before travel. Reinstall at destination. Remove again before departing

4) Yubikeys - some extra account security. Add to all your important accounts. Keep 2 at home, bring 1 along with you while traveling. Get one of those Matador metal bottles with the rubber lid to keep it in so you don't lose it.

I hope this gives you some comfort about borders.
There are so many possibilities to go on vacations like that where everything is pre-arranged and with strangers. From fancy cruise ships to regular travel company arranged stuff.
I'm not an American, my area of expertise is not healthcare or politics in the USA, so I can't tell you how to arrive at that point or to navigate your political system effectively.

Perhaps look at how other countries arrived at a national health service. Demand/support reform on private health insurance. Demand/support change in the accessibility of services. Demand/support heavier taxes on the most wealthy. Demand/support centralization of healthcare versus private profiteering and milking private insurance pots.

Are certain politicians or parties as a whole invested in the healthcare system itself, directly profiting from it, and thus might be opposed to the idea?

A healthier country is a more prosperous one.
I don't think this ultimately answers the question. It looks like I was incorrect and it is a national blocking order under Section 69A of the IT Act. This is the original news source everyone else is regurgitating: https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/centre-blo...
It's not a criminal matter. The employer might bring it up if there is an employment dispute. An employee who regularly comes back from vacation injured or sick is likely to raise some eyebrows (similarly for coming to work every Monday with a massive hangover), but it's totally at the discretion of the employer if they want to do anything about it.

On the other hand, we do get separate sick days (technically even if we get sick during vacation, but I don't know if anyone actually tries to get vacation days back they lost due to sickness). It's very different from countries when you just get time-off days and have to use them for both holidaying and covering sick leaves.
It is really interesting to think about what the version of Jobs who talked so reverently about those kits would have thought if he were shown the Apple "what is a computer" ad from a few years ago.
I don't see pay ranges listed for the open roles. If hiring in California (and some other states) you have to disclose a pay range in the job listing.

Anecdotally, last time I spent time on applying to Aha!, got to the offer stage to find out that offer was capped at a fixed number, which was lowest offer from 7 companies I applied to and got an offer from (around 50% of the best offer I received at that time).
dude if you are disgusted by the male body that is not homophobia.

Homophobia is actually engaging in the process of making life harder for homosexuals via discrimination and attacks both in the public square and with laws

I could never do what bodybuilders do and look themselves in the mirror for hours because I’d be bored and disgusted even if I had a mr Olympya type phisique
Human lives are at stake and all Cruise can recommend is "call the hotline and we'll send someone out to move the vehicle" otherwise you're cutting it open.

Can they guarantee someone will be out there in minutes or hours? I hope firefighters just adopt a standard of "If we see a cruise vehicle heading towards an active call, smash the windshield and ask questions later."

Can Cruise not tap into some system that first responders use? Say a fire call is on the corner of X and Y - can their cars just flat-out refuse to go within a 2-3 block radius of a passengers destination due to an emergency call? Seems like a good compromise if there isn't a faster way to commandeer the vehicle, especially if lives are at risk.

It doesn't help the cases where the cars just stop and refuse to move for emergency service vehicles actively responding to a call though.

I will loathe the day that these self-driving cars start to show up where I live - thankfully the weather and the chronic trashy road conditions will ward them off for hopefully another decade.

It was cathartic watching the Cruise vehicle getting chopped into pieces from the video another poster linked in the comments.
Outcome: Automate the economy, and employ the dispossessed to kill one another in the name of ethics (because AI military is unethical).

This seems weird and arbitrary.
Blueprint AI summary reports of popular AI OSS repositories like LangChain
It was interesting to hear this aside about the MySQL roadmap:

> MySQL is pushing towards INSTANT DDL

When I need MySQL these days I automatically go for MariaDB instead, but I guess they are going to diverge more and more. Does anyone more involved in the MySQL/MariaDB world have any thoughts about how they choose and the future of those two projects?
Nitpick: Bedrock edition uses C++ not .NET. Either of these could support Linux in principle (as noted, Bedrock edition runs on ChromeOS over a Linux kernel), but Microsoft doesn't care to facilitate that.
I tried GPT4, it failed. I also tried Vicuna which sort of passed. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks OpenAI did something to neuter the chess playing capabilities of their models.

GPT4:
Yes, a knight in chess can move from f6 to d4. The knight moves in an L-shape pattern: it can move two squares in one direction and then one square perpendicular to that direction, or one square in one direction and then two squares perpendicular to that direction. In this case, the knight would move two squares to the left (from f6 to d6) and then one square down (from d6 to d4).

Vicuna:
No, it is not possible for a knight on f6 to move to d4 in chess. The knight's movement pattern is L-shaped, meaning that it moves two squares horizontally or vertically and then one square diagonally. In this case, moving from f6 to d4 would require the knight to first move to g7, which is not part of its movement path.
Business Intelligence 101: Exploring Dimensional Modeling – Part 3
Sure, the article is overwrought, up its own butt, but I also find Walmart unsettling.

The unruly, flea-market setup in the aisles vs the prison-like, industrial checkouts. Harsh lighting. Overly ordered + overly chaotic at the same time. It doesn't feel like a place for people.
> In the same way your average person doesn't care about privacy, they don't care about Elon Musk's shenanigans.

They obviously do care about Elon's shenanigans. Celebrities are leaving Twitter, politicians are leaving Twitter, companies are leaving Twitter, news organizations are leaving Twitter. These are the people Twitter should be concerned about because they have the followers and people will go where they go and they are currently going to bluesky.
We did that for a while when they were in elementary school, but by the time you get to middle school, it's much harder. The kids start to have long-term group projects that are a significant part of their grade. Lessons become more linear where missing a step means you can get lost further in.

Thankfully, school systems do tend to stagger their spring breaks so at least there's some variation there.
I clicked through to the twitter account that posted the tweetthread and it does not seem like the most reliable source of information.
Do you frequently talk to people who you know to have an 80 IQ about a range of subjects?
More that you can not get an other job while vacation. Working full time at it.
Location: WA, US

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Hey there, I'm an iOS software engineer with 5+ years of programming experience. As a sample of work, I've been working at Amazon Prime Video iOS application for the past 3 years. Now, I'm excited to take my skills to the next level and I'm looking for full-time opportunities to help me learn and grow.
> there isn't a graceful way to ease from fractional reserve to narrow banking

Wouldn't the graceful way be to... simply allow narrow banks to have fed accounts?

https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2019/03/fed-vs-narrow-ban...
Not 50% but they did lose 100 Billion because of the Bard demo.
I don't get the scenario you're imagining. Each friend goes away for a week 1-2 times per school year and that's somehow catastrophic?
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Same reason we might watch an course video on SQL in the evening after work?
It's more common even in the west than it seems like people realize. I've been on a bunch of vacations with strangers. From companies who offer tours of Italy, etc., bus day/overnight trips to somewhere sorta locally, cruises, etc.
PS, where does krisoft come from? It sounds familiar?
Moto, I have to point out that line of reasoning is seriously flawed.

The assumptions you make at the beginning are just that, assumptions with no rational backing.

Communication is necessary to have any kind of intelligent discussion, and taking part in a discussion doesn't accept anything by mere participation. Saying so doesn't make it so, and that argumentation structure tends towards inflexible dogmatic thought and polarizing psychological spirals.

At its core, in order to think you must risk being offensive, and in order to learn something you must risk being offended. Anything that interferes with that will often lead you to irrational thought and false conclusions.

Additionally, being able to discuss subjects which you do not agree with, while maintaining communication in a rational way is a very good indicator of intelligence, and anyone can do this if they want to.

Ideological indoctrination comes in all forms, and most importantly most of us don't have a choice about that since its inherent wherever we grew up.

If you can debate the merits and downsides, in an influential way that turns someone to your view point isn't that a win?

Aside from this, I agree with your sentiment, but you would have a much stronger argument if you don't give others such easy targets to discredit you.

If they can't win on rational grounds, they don't have any legs to stand on. Irrationality is after all not superior in any way to rational thought, and self-interest and necessity are the mother of all invention.

History has not been kind to socialism, and its been directly responsible for more death than any other form of economy in recent history.
What sort of argument is this? I prefer a corporatocracy to a democracy? You elect officials for your government, you have no say in what Google does.
I think another huge difference here is that the Australian continent has ~25 million people living on it whereas United States + Mexico + Canada is ~500 million.

There are far more communities and cultures to explore without the need for overseas travel.

As an American who has spent 6 years living abroad, I think foreigners vastly underestimate the size and diversity of the United States and North American how many meaningful travel experiences can be had despite the fact that there are relatively few national governments
It originally shipped with a mechanical mouse. Later on Xerox changed to an optical mouse with crappy cheap buttons. It did rely on alternating patterns but blue jeans worked well. :-)
There are ERV and HRV systems that will cycle fresh air in while exchanging the heat and moisture from the outgoing air to the incoming air.

It's a neat technology but the jury is still out on it.

Some people praise them, other people revile them, and they seem to be either too bulky or too cumbersome or too expensive or too inefficient for a DIY retrofit project.
Is the price not just being adjusted for increased demand during vacation weeks?
One aspect is that these behemoths have more stringent regulations than the likes of svb