skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Those who see action in inaction and inaction in action are the wise among men." Bhagavad Gita 4:18. Speaking plainly, you feel depressed because you're emotionally attached to the results of your work.
> What governments are you referring to?

Even glossing over the latent xenophobia in the commentary, let's just think if this makes any sense. You need to specifically allow immigrants in that will gote for you, they'll have to wait 5 or more years to become naturalized citizen and at the end... naturalized citizens typically vote at much lower rates than the native born.

Not a great plan. Much easier to suppress voters or kick out those that won't vote for you. See Jim Crow, or the expulsion of the Arab population of Israel before and after the 1948 war (without which Israel wouldn't even be viable as a Jewish state).
Sarcastic web development deserves to be a genre.
Depending on your country the GoodSAM app potentially has good mapping/coverage of AED locations: https://www.goodsamapp.org/aed
Work on your marriage.

Stop pining for being 20something again; stop believing company PR.

You won a golden ticket; don't burn it.
> It is stressful for all the wrong reasons.

Could you elaborate on this?
GitHub also has dice captchas.

I remember one day in class we were doing a group project and using GitHub to share our work, and a friend of mine had trouble to log into his GitHub account and got this captcha.

A team of 4 people in the class went to help him pass the (if I remember correctly) 10 tries you needed to have correct in order to log in.

And they still took about 10 minutes!
I have had multiple problems with ISPs throttling/prioritizing traffic, such as games. In one case I had ping times to the steam servers that were so bad the game DC'd about every 5 minutes. Popped everything into a VPN endpoint in my own city and suddenly everything worked smoothly and flawlessly. And this wast not a high bandwidth game by any means. This has happened multiple times.

Also, hosting stuff at my house. Multiple times had ISPs that appeared to be degrading incoming connections where once again popping everything into a VPN tunnel fixed any problems. (for example when I set up a streaming website from my house with a webcam of our kittens to watch from work. Stream kept getting interrupted randomly until I routed it through a VPN)

I tend to use VPS based solutions rather than commercial VPN providers, but I've done both.

TL;DR: ISPs are shifty and untrustworthy.
Re: monad

For my part, the most confusing thing was that I was trying to understand monads by looking at both haskell and category theory.

However, a monad in computer code is a different beast than a monad in category theory (I believe this may be true in every
programming language currently, but if you have a counter-example I'd love to hear about it). They look vaguely similar, but aren’t the same thing. Nobody told me this, but it greatly simplified comprehension once I had that epiphany.

A lot of monad explanations just confuse monads and functors too (functors are your burritos / wrapper data types; and functors should probably be understood before monads). IMO seeing monads as being primarily about function composition, kind of like the functions `compose` or `pipe` or `thread_first` or `thread_last`… but in a context that makes use of functors, is the best way to really see the core simplicity of the idea.
I think this is the point that gets missed in arguments about state actors being involved. That doesn't matter, what matters is that very few people (e.g. miners, exchanges, whales, etc) can determine very large outcomes for cryptocurrencies, with no way to avoid them.
Something like this looks promising. If you can remove humidity and get a little power you might for example power an ultra efficient heat pump with that power then use say a peltier device to charge your phone off the hot side.

Edit: another idea use this to reduce the humidity in the air, then use the captured moisture to enable a swamp cooler.

It requires improvements in the efficiency of everything but I think it's possible in say a few hundred years.
How the brain processes German and Arabic
This looks like money laundering. Someone had about $30 million in illicitly obtained Bitcoin. They set up a mining operation, paid themselves the $30 mil in mining fees to mint the NFTs, and now they have legitimate looking mining profits of $30 million.
> Kotlin is unique among JVM languages in that it acts more like a frontend, similar to LLVM or GCC.

"Unique among JVM languages" lol. Like most of the good parts of Kotlin, this was actually copied from Scala.
Right now AI/datacenter is outbidding the gamers for constrained fab capacity. Until that changes, recent generation nodes won't come down in price and neither will gamer GPU's.
Yeah, Miami is hell. Tech pay sucks and education sucks.
Why do you assume that equity is obviously good? I think it's the equality (equal opportunity) that is good, not the equity (equal achievement).
Not really sure they are that useful for embedded systems. I think the most useful thing is in 20, and that is coroutines. For bare metal embedded systems this simplifies a lot of things. But isn't super common on embedded toolchains yet.
For example, when people "change" their reported race it is considered an extreme negative.

https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2021/10/25...

"Admissions experts ... agreed that lying is a problem"

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-employee-lies-race-there...

https://www.askamanager.org/2022/07/my-relative-is-lying-abo...

https://www.foxnews.com/media/white-woman-caught-lying-race-...

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/columnists/story/2020-0...

Specifically: here's an article where Rachel Dolezal clearly states she would like to identify as black, to escape her parents' upbringing. She was accused of being a "race faker", which to me indicates, less-than-subtly, that changing your race is not accepted by DEI groups.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/13/rachel-dolez...

(Ironically the "reason" this is unfair strikes me as paticularly ironic. She claims to take on a black racial identity to escape the suffering her family inflicted on her. This suffering appears real, and there's certainly enough elements to indicate it's an ongoing issue in her life even now. According to the "African American community", this is unfair, because they suffered centuries ago, but not personally)
It should ofc record the transaction. If no one is killed the recipient did us a service.
there has never been a car to take that "lousy shitbox" mantle off the Lada Niva
Which is a worse problem to the minority than the over-correction is to the majority. Yeah, it makes sense what YouTube is doing, but I wish people would see it for what it is and understand that it definitely isn't a healthy space. Heck, where is these days?
> where I can flex my engineering skills without BS

Not to be snarky, but it depends on how good you are and where you are (and have a track record of being). I don't know you but when most people complain about "BS" they're complaining about the fact that they have to justify their priorities, projects, and timelines or interact with other departments.

This is exactly what high paid SWE work is these days. You can have less collaboration by moving to infra, but it'll still be the norm.

Usually the only way you're allowed to go live in your coding hole is by being way better than the median engineer and having an eye for changes that produce massive amounts of value. Some examples:

1. Guy who works at a node shop who mostly ships optimizations and improvements to V8. Generates >2 mil ARR in savings every year.

2. Engineer who goes around the codebase quietly removing scaling bottlenecks for different teams.

3. Engineer who sits around solves all the hard distributed systems bugs that come in. Something wrong with the paxos implementation you rely on? he can patch it.

If you can't be this person for a company it's much harder to step away from how the company actually gets run.

> work with good, competent people who care as much as I do

There are some mid-size startups that fit this description, but at larger companies your only hope is to find this at the department level. Remember that 27,000 SWEs work at Google. It'd be weird if every single department was mostly full of good, competent people who care.

If you want this in your work you generally need to be targeting engineering organizations at the size of 50-200 people.
On the one hand, yes, it's incorrect.

On the other, claiming malicious intent is pretending the little flood fill is FAR more important than it really is. It's not the era of the crusades anymore, and realistically if this bothers anyone, the easiest solution is to just remove that flood fill from the official flag because a speck of red makes zero difference in recognizing a flag. We're not carrying them into war, and the Vatican sure as hell isn't funding any expeditions by the Doge of Venice to reclaim Jerusalem any time soon.

It's like someone getting the font for "California Republic" on the California flag wrong: no one cares except the people who shouldn't.
Some it was probably "this gives us an excuse to rewrite the system, but better this time!" Rebranding often gives a certain amount of cover to do things you want to do even if you don't have to do it.

Often new management wants to put their stamp on things. I've been in situations where we've had to do major redesigns because a new leader wanted to leave their mark. I've been in situations where each new leader wanted a new logo to mark that they made a difference - 3 logos in a decade.

Companies often squander resources in this kind of way. That's not to say that some redesigns and changes aren't warranted, but these things happen often. Why has Google launched a dozen chat apps? Why do some apps get a huge push followed by being abandoned followed by a huge rebranding/recoding push followed by being abandoned again? Many people on here have speculated it's because people get promoted for launching big new things and not for things that seem "easy" like maintenance.

You're rightly baffled from a logical standpoint. When you start thinking about the humans involved in the situation, their egos, their priorities for themselves which might not align with the company's, etc., then it potentially starts to make more sense.
What makes them half measures and not full measures?
The Case for Leaving Strangers in Your Family Photos
There's a cardiologist dark joke about this.

We should be sending ~10 million more patients to the cath lab prophylactically to get a baseline.
Browsers did ignore most certificate errors back in the early 2000s. HTTPS sites were fairly rare and most people did not care about it or even considered https to be a negative. Many administrators considered it as bad technology that only increased instability with no obvious benefit. "Who cares about what people post to a forum?" was something I personally heard when I added https to one site. It was only really banks with plain passwords that needed https, and then external hardware devices really made https obsolete for that problem.

For more fun diving into this topic, I can recommend a famous old presentation called the "Everything you Never Wanted to Know about PKI but were Forced to find out", and godzilla crypto tutorial written by the same author (Peter gutmann). The certificates in browsers has had a long history of problems and ill designs. People did not like them, and they definitively did not like them when they caused major issues.
Assuming the system is exposed to open atmosphere, and knowing that free electrons have higher energy than bound electrons, it's not clear what you're trying to imply here. Especially since entropy increasing only applies to closed systems.
The risks and problems are a lot worse for old people than for teenagers. The story in this article is allot more complicated than "Don't try to revive toddlers or always revive comatose 110 year olds". As important as CPR is, people who will be performing it deserve to know 9 out of 10 people will still end up dead. Nobody gains anything from a bystander blaming himself for the death of someone they could never have saved.

For many survivors, life after CPR is a gate worse than death. I'll try to apply CPR should I ever need to, but if I were to end up a vegetable or permanentlysufferimg husk like so many people, I'm pretty sure I'd be begging for euthanasia if I still can.

I may not agree with their decision, but I understand why the nurse in the story may have refused. If I get to live to a ripe old age, I'd get whatever do-not-recussitate paperwork I might need.
State Farm won’t insure new California customers due to wildfires, high costs
This is interesting particularly when one considers how modern Chinese society has stretched this norm. It used to be that children are financially responsible for taking care of their aged parents.

Now, due to social pressures, aged parents are expected to literally give all their wealth to their children so they can buy a house, invest in some get-rich-quick scheme, or pay for childcare/education for grandkids. The pressure is even higher to do so for sons, who have trouble attracting wives if they don't have a house (recall there are less women than men in China).

If, given that donation, their children can buy a home, they move in and behave as live-in childcare for grandkids, while their children work 80-hour weeks to pay off their debts.

Under the guise of filial piety and "being taken care of", the elderly are under high pressure to give both their wealth and autonomy to their adult children. That loss of autonomy matters; if you get sick, you have to rely on your children to navigate through and pay for the healthcare. This may include getting approval to spend money from a son-in-law or daughter-in-law who doesn't much like you (despite their filial obligation to take care of you) and is thinking the money is better spent on more tutoring for the grandkids (in the hyper-competitive education system) or paying down the mortgage.
https://archive.ph/VKLWP
I want to see a system where those who dont get what they want are compensated. Then we can all max out our unreasonablness.
> I find that the CLI is directly useful for end users to perform queries on their code

That's interesting; what do they use the results for?

> I have found that the grammars are relatively hard to make small modifications or extensions to

Definitely true. I think this may be an inherent problem of the system and the parser generation, though. I am not sure it's solvable by the grammar authors.
The vast majority of people don't have to pass intensive government background checks or face potential rejection during a political vetting process. (And I'm talking about in the United States, where questions raised about personal peccadillos during this process wouldn't necessarily result in the sort of watchlisting they would in most nonwestern countries).

The fear of having oneself audited is the main reason more people don't run for office.

Yes, some narcissistic maniacs have managed to slip through by portraying themselves as victims of witch hunts, but the average married person will not run for office if it means their spouse will find out they went to a strip club.

Everyone is susceptible to blackmail. The digital trail of expenditures is the key to letting the people with access to that data remain in power.
It's called listening
I'm not really sure why anyone cares about bots. They've been part of the internet at least since search engines were invented.

I guess spam is an issue currently, but if bots become advanced enough to avoid heuristics, by making insightful and useful comments, they are probably better than most human users.

Proof of work captchas like mcaptcha can stop, or at least make very expensive, (d)dos attacks.
When criticizing DNSSEC, you can’t assume that the system for TLS certificates – i.e. CAs – is perfect. They both have their weak points and drawbacks.

Both BGP and certificate issuance have bootstrapping problems, which are handled today by imperfect TOFU-like solutions. DNSSEC is, IMHO, perfectly positioned to solve both of those problems. I.e. use certificates all you like, but verify them by looking up the TLSA record in the DNS using DNSSEC. No need to trust CAs. BGP could possibly use the same solution, using the reverse lookup .arpa DNS space.

DNSSEC is the building block from which secure certificates and BGP routes can be built, without the ad-hoc CA system we have today.
Fidonet still exists! There are a fair number of BBSs that participate in it still. You can find more information on https://www.fidonet.org/

There is also fsxnet, which is based on the same tech, but more open. https://fsxnet.nz/start

I had a personal BBS that I ran that was on both for a few years.
GME, a dead company that bet it all on NFT, is still 10x the price it was before it became a meme 2 years ago.
Audio Captchas are also so often user unfriendly!
Interested in the topic but not interested in your aggressive style and putting words in my mouth and telling me what I believe. You can have the last word if you'd like.
I wager they're trying to cheaply train some model by using the fact that people (paying customers!) wanna watch HBO
So I like to take absurdly long walks in Seattle and one time I walked the length of the 520 bridge over to Bellevue, and walked through Medina while doing so because I thought it was odd to have a part of Seattle named after a holy site in Saudi Arabia and I wanted to see what kind of community was there. Lo and behold I pretty quickly see it is a place of unbelievable wealth and I feel like a weird, poor interloper walking though in shorts and a t shirt and very sweaty from walking in the sun all day. And yep, I passed by that exact house.

I half-seriously wonder if I'm in some private security company's database from that day.
Continued "enshittification" of all aspects of life. Your OS gets worse but everything else has gotten worse as well: your food gets smaller/worse quality due to the dollar continuing to lose its value, getting harder and harder to live the lifestyle your parents had (house prices, costs of college etc.)

Now you can argue that anything that has hitched a ride on moore's law has improved exponentially. In fact this is what several groups point to: Elon Musk stans love to argue how the world has gotten better not worse thanks to exponential growth and the government loves to point to the declining costs of things like TVs as an indication that inflation is not so bad. Its a red herring though. That new computer is so much better but now has layers of privacy invading/security compromising fat that ye old Windows 95 PC didn't have. That TV might cost a nickel but is more locked down and made out of more of the cheapest throw away components than your old Tube ever had. In a way its an insult to how decent your old TV was.
Nice rephrasing of Conway’s law :)
We're awash in waste energy (thermal etc.), but almost every form of harvesting it is way more expensive $/watt than tapping the grid.
Does that means that the cost of transferring bitcoin will only go up with time?
Yes it is relevant.
While it’s true that no cultural output can say anything about a culture. Taking many examples can give some insight. I referenced one I believe is exemplary.

The example of western comics is weak since I don’t know there is much of a broad genre of comics in the western style. So comparing to the old western films is more direct to your point and I would infer some small things. As an example, there is an implied belief that killing is okay if it’s in defense of the powerless and vulnerable. And any number of people can be killed in service to protecting the weak.

Any way I’m only observing an implied cultural awareness of the hierarchy described in the article is assumed. Also I suggest comparison to chivalry is poor and a better comparison is to biblical family hierarchy which is still relevant even if popularly ridiculed.
No corporation can point a gun at my head and force me into a steel cage.

No matter how evil and corrupt a given corporation is, it could never be as bad as a government.
JD Rockefeller first signed off the oil revolution, then he got rich.

Henry Ford first signed off the Model T and then got rich.

I could go on, we used to reward practical improvment in quality of life, not just expectations . The thing about rewarding people for creating expectations is that false dawns can be natural (and they do happen), but they can also be manufactured artificially to get rich.

And also quite frankly Chat-GPT is being developed in the wealthiest area in the world where everybody hangs out together in one giant Fed fueled party. If this was something as revolutionary as the wheel like many commentators said, surely the movement would have preceded the unveil not the other way around.
I mean... due process, by definition, is process that is due. Due process exists in the legal context (especially judicial), but also ethical/moral. Different schools of ethics have a lot to say about ethical due process before depriving someone of liberties.
The article pointed to a study noting that about half of patients who survived wished they hadn't. In other words, they found survival to be a worse outcome than death.
Is this accurate? Theres some sort of side-storage mechanism in Bitcoin that you can essentially pay for, but its little trafficked. But its used for NFTs. And for whatever reason this entity bought a ton of "NFT UPCs", which has the side effect of driving up transaction costs because they're spammy transcitions on limited bandwidth.
Those are the same people who stopped BTC from having smart contracts via a full featured VM, moving it away from Satoshi’s vision — right?

BTC was supposed to be liquid as a market for compute by posing and solving challenges to give it an intrinsic value — and the people who gimped it for “Digital (Fools) Gold” are now complaining about scammers misusing the technology?

Well, at least I get to start my day with a laugh.
> status quo - which in the US is the power of white upper class Christian men

Did you know that the White House staff is 154 [1]/474 [2] Jewish, and 44% ethnic minority [3]? That means Jews (2.4% of US population [4]), are 32% of White House staff, while non-Jewish whites (55% of US) are just 24%.

For perspective, Asian-Americans are 5.9% of the US, so if they were as well represented as Jews, White House staff would be 78% Asian.

Would you care to re-evaluate who the US status quo favors? If you're not convinced, I encourage you to apply the same analysis to the Ivy League. You'll find similar numbers.

[1] https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1658519373881933833

[2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/July-1... - these are roles such as policy advisors, director of congressional outreach, director of labor engagement, etc., not security or housekeeping.

[3] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/women-make-up-60-white-hous...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews
Just to give credit where it's due, we're linking a Twitter thread where Meg posts a video with a Tiktok watermark from user gavinj1998.
So many outages. About one every other month affecting country TLDs.