skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People with ADHD are VERY overrepresented in substance use, and "Can't hold a job or relationship together" is an ADHD trait as well, maybe like me she enjoys being a bit whacked in the head by something to deal with the incredibly boring, mundane, slow-moving, uncreative reality most of us live in.

Or acid fried her brain, but I'm sceptical.
I feel like a few years ago, you could use crypto as a hook. Now, it's poison to most people. There must be a way to pull off KYC for the web without tainting it with crypto.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not dumping on the technology of crypto. I'm dumping on the actual result and the culture surrounding it. It's like Communism... it's great until you get people involved.
I found Tesla mock capabilities for testing buggy. Req exposes an adapter interface that facilitates similar functionality. I think I'll try Req next.
I think it's real, I just don't think it's a particular Covid-specific thing. Infections and the immune response to them cause cellular damage, and that damage is different for different people because of a lot of factors - random chance, genetic predisposition, etc. I think this has always been a thing, but it wasn't always as noticeable because this happened to people sporadically as people got 'a cold' or 'the flu' which could have been any number of viruses. Now millions and millions of people have been infected with a fairly nasty coronavirus and the effects of this damage are showing up in large numbers.

Anecdotally, I came down with probably-not-Covid a couple of months back (fit a lot of the symptoms, but never tested positive) and I've only recently gotten my normal energy levels back, and my sense of smell, which disappeared entirely for a few days, is still wonky.
Recommend this paper[0] that discusses the 'infinite monkeys' version methodically.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1304/1304.3381.pdf
> IE was a superior product, and a lot of Microsoft haters tend to forget this. Netscape was buggy, slow, and bloated compared to contemporaneous versions of IE

Now explain Opera. I remember seeing the lengthy blog post by the CEO of Opera demonstrating how Microsoft was deliberately messing with the browser when users tried to access Hotmail and other Microsoft controlled sites. It's a matter of historical irony that Google used some of those same tactics on Microsoft later when they were trying to make Windows Phone a thing.

>IE won the browser wars -- fair and square.

There was nothing fair about it. Microsoft went so far as to tie the browser to the system in order to compete. It messed with compatibility to screw with users of competing browsers.

You can snow people who didn't live through it, but you cannot snow those of us who were there and did.
Is that actually true though? So, I literally just went to Google this morning for a toddler python question (very much not my first language, heh).

"how to load a file all at once in python" returns a first hit pointing to a blog post answering the question correctly, a second pointing to a SO answer that is actually for a slightly different problem but contains the correct answer, answer #3 is a youtube video that probably answers the question correctly.

Geeks4geeks doesn't show up until #4, well below Stack Overflow. (FWIW, their answer was fine too).

> You seriously can't find useful anything these days using Google.

That really feels more like a meme than reality. Are there other subareas where the SEO is doing better than this one? It seems like a pretty representative question.
Plus it's just easier than ever to meet people outside of work. If there's no existing group for your interest, be the change you want to see and create one. I'm not saying a person will suddenly have a ton of friends, but even in the antisocial world of LA, my Meetup group gets at least a small handful to show up most of the time.

I totally get being social with your coworkers as a bonus, but it's a little sad to me that people need to rely on that one source. I can count on one hand the percentage of coworkers whom I've actually kept in contact with after either one left the company. Most coworker relationships are a matter of convenience. If that's what people prefer, then cool, but don't act like there's no such thing as human interaction outside the office.
When I mean "causally connected to" I meant "we could send signals to each other". Most of the universe we can currently see is causally disconnected, in that we can never signal them (the nonzero cosmological constant means they will recede faster than a signal could reach them.)

There could be unlimited volumes of spacetime beyond this horizon. Whether life originates there or not we can never know. There is a finite amount of matter within this horizon, and finitely many chances for life to originate. If OoL is sufficiently unlikely it is unlikely to have happened twice in the volume we can reach.
In MS-DOS, Ctrl+Break could be simulated through ASCII character 0x03. Literally, hit Alt+3 and it would respond the same way.

The sysadmin for my high school computer lab had written a text-mode DOS login screen that would start Windows 3.11 for workgroups after the user logged in. A few of us kids figured out we could just Ctrl+Break out of it and install/play DOOM, Descent 2, etc. He wised up and wrote a trap for the Ctrl+Break sequence, but I discovered the Alt+3 trick and we continued on our merry way. I don't think he ever figured out how we did it.

(We also hid our games inside a directory named Alt+255, which appeared as a space. A single space was not allowed as a directory name, so it felt like magic to us.)
You get food delivered but the delivery staff keep their mask on, you put your mask before seeing them, and all is perfectly fine.

Mask is underrated. Everybody wanted to get rid of it. But why.
This would more than likely turn all of California’s rail freight into road freight (or even worse, air freight). It’d probably end up being a net worsening of emissions considering how much more efficient rail freight is than trucks.

And converting a 19th century rail network into something that can support high-speed rail is no small task. You’d eliminate the land acquisition costs, but that’s about it.

It’s pretty defeatist to abandon new rail anywhere that land values are high. It’s expensive but at least you’d have something new and useful at the end of it, rather than sacrificing an excellent freight rail system and ending up with the bad balancing out the good.
And readers should be skeptical of much of the for profit media that's out there that's not talking about the weather forecast in the next few hours. Even more so of what they see on social media Tiktok, Reels, etc ... I let some of those fake (negative) to probably real videos of Spirit Airlines think I'd never fly with them (pushing those videos on Tiktok surely helps their pricier competitors). Yet I booked about ten flights in the last 5 months with them and packed light (clothes in bookbag) and for me I'll always fly Spirit. No difference minus saving hundreds of dollars; their refund policy is awful just don't cancel.

Overall what to believe online and in the media (my parents or aunts are now too afraid to go visit NYC cause of Fox news) isn't always easy. Have to judge for yourself I think.
Salary has never been about the value you provide. It's about the cost to replace you. Companies will never pay you more than you cost to replace.
Only if you believe that the risks of mRNA vaccination is higher than the (extra) risk of covid. In my estimation taking the vaccine is the prudent and cautious choice, and the scientific consensus has to be wrong by a large margin for your position to turn out to be more prudent.
Honestly, I'd take 100k TC for a position to keep remote. One caveat, I will be working at 20% of my actual mental capacity. Frequent vacations, using sick time as often as possible, etc. I would not take on anything resembling pagerduty and I wouldn't try to lead anything. Then I'll leave for any job with higher TC. Malicious compliance is the best kind of compliance and is the only way to respond to a lop-sided negotiation.

Companies are exploiting the rift in labor due to inflation, COVID, etc right now. For 2 years the power was in the hands of employees. This left a very bad taste in the mouths of management. What companies want is top-tier labor for bottom-tier pricing. It won't happen. If it does, you'll have a bunch of people with 1.5 feet out the door coasting at work.
Even as you describe it (I think you've described Poppler's argument well), it's still bogus. We don't need laws forbidding speech against free speech to protect free speech; the solution to the "paradox" is that there is no paradox. Our system of checks and balances to undo unconstitutional laws works well enough that we don't need to curtail political speech to protect political speech. The system is resilient to speech which criticizes it.

Poppler seems to think that fire must be fought with fire, that's his 'paradox'. He forgets or deliberately discounts the existence of fire extinguishers, e.g. checks and balances.
Not really. Sharing specific useful investing information renders it largely useless. That’s an oversimplification, but the incentives are just very different.

So, it’s hard to go beyond shallow advice without everyone screaming about the latest bubble.
I would think so, because if it was indeed that straightforward (pattern X reveals future movement Y), it would inherently mean that the stock market is easy to predict and that markets are rational.

Markets aren't easy to predict (that's why people who DO predict them correctly make bank) nor are they rational.

TA can provide historical reference points, sure, and in some cases can indicate that something is likely to happen (to a degree, anyway), but cannot accurately predict anything consistently.
Spacewalk was discontinued 3 years ago and was only for fedora/rhel/centos based systems.

https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/wiki
I went a step further and installed a keypad lock on my office door. I mean, I’ll admit that there are simpler ways to keep the kids out, but it looks cool…
You should stop tilting at windmills about a completely hypothetical example just to get your dunk in on the US like this.
Those sites make their money through SEO optimisation.

Tracking me harder isn't going to make those sites go away.
That all sounds wildly dysfunctional. I've worked in startups with single digit engineering teams, up to massive corporations with tens of thousands of employees. I have never faced this sort of bullshit. I'm not even sure how I would respond to someone asking me, "wait, you're building what? Where's your design? Who approved this? Why are you naming it this and not that? We already built this; why are you building a second one?" but I can be sure that whatever came out of my mouth would be step 0 of finding a new place to work.
Google needs to do a full 180, and only the most succinct website that answers search queries should be elevated.

The current state of Google is a disaster, everything is 100 paragraphs per article, the answer you are looking for buried half way in to make sure you spend more time and scroll to appease the algorithm.

I cannot wait for them to sink all these spam websites.
It's sad, but not really unexpected, that you responded that way. Cult members don't realize they're in cults.
"equity" is being used as though it's a magic key word and as though it's not the road to hell. Is it getting confused with "equality"?

Equality: Equal opportunity, everyone treated the same

Equity: Equal outcomes, people treated differently in order to achieve equity

The only way you get equity is through extreme top down authoritarian control and force. Think about what you'd have to do to enforce equity with one's own relatives, or even brothers and sisters, let alone society wide.
That's essentially a VPN.
Remote work was far less common pre Covid though. And its not like it was leas desirable.
To solve the problem we must first acknowledge the problem.

It may be already too late, but trying it won't make it worse (maybe not for you, for that I'm sorry :)
69 percent choosing to work at home and be able spend more quality time w their partners eh?

Who says HN doesn’t have a sense of humor!
I pretty much agree. Even if we accept that psychedelics are medicinal, there's still the paradigm that you only take medication when you are sick, and it has to be the right medication too. I do think they can help some people, but it also feels like it's being pumped way too hard as curing basically everything with little discussion of the side effects.
A different study finds otherwise.

"The study found that, since MUP was introduced in May 2018, there has been no change in the proportion of harmful drinkers. A small drop of 3.2 units per week in their consumption was “not robust” and disappeared when adjusted for the introduction of Universal Credit, which changed the regularity of benefit payments."

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/minimum-pricing/
If anyone is interested in doing stock picking, at least seriously, I would recommend that they first read A Random Walk Down Wall Street, which just celebrated its fiftieth anniversary and released its thirteenth edition in January:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street

If you just want to have fun (5-10% of your assets/portfolio), then just have fun.
The learning resources people share here are fantastic and leveled me up by a lot.

Whether it is SICP, Conway's Game of Life book, great MOOCs in Coursera or whatever!

My life has been changed by the gems of learning resources shared as submissions and comments.

And not only text or text-like material, the amount of good books I have found in the comments here are better than all other communities combines. I cannot put up a complete list- I found about Neal Stephenson from HN, and Cryptonomicon is in my top-5 novels. I also loved Diamond Age. I learned to meditate with Culadasa's book which I came to know about in HN comments. Not exaggerating, my life has taken a good turn because of meditation. I can spend at least the next five years reading great fiction and nonfiction recommended here.

I also come to know about many mental models, methods, etc. which have made me better.

I was born in a middle class family, and never was poor. But these were all unknown to me. HN has been an equalizer for me.
> it is becoming impossible to own your hardware

It sure is not. But I do believe we should have a legal right to own our own hardware, in every sense.
Ask Jim Simons
> The AI tool doesn't give accurate results.

Nearly everything doesn't give 100% accurate results. Even CPUs have had bugs their calculation. You have to use a suitable tool for a suitable job with the correct context while understanding it's limitation to apply it correctly. Now that is proper engineering. You're partially correctly but you're overstating:

> A tool that gives incorrect and inconsistent results shouldn’t have any part of a decision making process.

That's totally wrong and an overstated position.

A better position is that some tools have such a low accuracy rate that they shouldn't be used for their intended purpose. Now that position I agree with it. I accept that CPUs may give incorrect results due to a cosmic ray event, but I wouldn't accept a CPU that gives the wrong result for 1/100 instructions.
> Predictions based on observations rely on detecting early-warning signals, primarily an increase in variance (loss of resilience) and increased autocorrelation (critical slowing down), which have recently been reported for the AMOC. Here we provide statistical significance and data-driven estimators for the time of tipping. We estimate a collapse of the AMOC to occur around mid-century under the current scenario of future emissions.

The abstract also says that the collapse would impact the north Atlantic region, but in what way? Assuming the prediction is accurate, what changes could we expect to see in that scenario? Wikipedia suggests that temperatures in northern Europe would drop significantly + sea levels would rise, but is that all? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturnin...
Onnx is just a serialisation format (using protobuf iirc) for the network, weights, etc.

Your training framework and a suitable export is the compiler.

Onnx Runtime (which really has various backends), tensorrt, .. (whatever inference engine you are using) is your JVM.
yes, it might be challenging to gain access once you are unemployed, in that case try Reddit?
I'm in a similiar boat, and I finally got a co-working space. Do it for your mental and relatinship health. If we want to be incredibly over-reductionist, $300 per month is a lot cheaper than a divorce :-D
They don't need that today, but only the cheapest laptops are sold with less than 8gb today, so if they are to last for 10 years you need 16gb today, because that is also what you are going to be stuck with in ten years.

Your annecdotes about what was required of a laptop twenty years ago are very relevant if you are connected to the same web you were twenty years ago. Most consumers aren't.
Not sure about all the models, but for the two chromebooks and the chromebox I have, you need to open the case and remove a write protect screw before you can set up standard booting, and then most of the devices don't have a network boot stack either... So, lots of labor.

Open the case, remove the screw.

Boot to chrome os, flash the uefi module and set boot config to use it by default.

Reboot from your usb drive, which hopefully does an unattended install.

If you're fancy, the usb drive could be built so you can remove it after booting... Either load the installer fs as an initrd, or configure the network and then load the installer data from the network.
Not a game, but...

"Welcome to Lightfields" from Google - just blows my mind.
Not only do I despise remote working, I'm leaving the industry entirely as a direct result of working remotely, in favor of getting a law degree.

I'm just beyond sick and tired of my default mode being, "Stare at screen to solve problems."

I want to work with people, solve problems with people, help people. None of that is what most engineers in software prefer, and I'm tired of trying to force it on them for the apparently insignificant reason that it's highly effective.
I am reminded that $5 cash for signing up was how PayPay quickly scaled.
Beneficial knock-on effects to society from that were: reusable rockets, satellite internet, electric cars, and the death of Twitter.
Someone I knew developed psychosis and eventually committed suicide. I'm not close enough to know the full diagnosis but my understanding was that they the psychosis was brought on by drug abuse, possibly "2cb" but who knows what you're really consuming in random pills...

A friend once pointed out that much discussion around drugs is completely polarised. Either drugs are evil and we must root it from the face of this earth or cannabis and psilocybin are wonder cures that fix everything from back pain and anxiety to IBS and writers block.
Dependency is the only one I've heard about within reasonable consumption.

Think "ooof my headache I need a coffee" people.
None.

And my reasoning could be a strange one. My knowledge of mathematics (esp. probability and statistics) and algorithms, and my memory used to be pretty sharp. I could retain a lot of information, and perform fast manual calculations using log book. All that started to deteriorate when I started relying on search engines for everything. No doubt it was convenient, but I lost touch with foundational concepts. My memory and speed are not what they used to be.

So as long as I can. I’m going to keep co-pilots and ai/tools at bay.
> Lucky

Where you live is a choice, there's nothing lucky about it.
First time I read about it, so also the actual QI wireless charging should increase the atmospheric heat?

Anyway the current wireless charging is less efficient, and the “dispersed” power is transformed into heat, so yes, it’s always less environment friendly. The numbers of dispersed power are very small but on a very big scale.
Mastodon is just a protocol (ActivityPub). It doesn’t have problems on its own, any more than POTS telephones had a drug dealing problem, or WiFi has a harassment problem. The Verge should be ashamed for writing such a poor headline.
I tried to build a Hello World java console app last year from notepad and command line. I'm sure I could have got it to work, but it's just so much easier to let the IDE do everything for me that I gave up.
I see some comments talking about how proof of personhood is necessary, however the way that Worldcoin does it leaves a gap between the cryptographic proof keys and the identity.

TL;DR there isn’t a way to connect biometrics to key pairs unless the key pairs are generated using biometrics (very insecure) or the orb attests that they are unique from a hardware signature to Worldcoin (which means Worldcoin is a central issuer of identity and controls global identity).

If you want to read more I wrote on HN a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35457769

There must be another way.
> I also don’t understand people’s aversion to Meta over Google, Amazon, etc.

Objecting to Meta specifically here is a response to VR suggestions. The other two companies are irrelevant in this conversation because neither has a VR headset available for use (that I know of). It doesn't help that the Oculus Quest is the cheapest VR option out there, so it gets suggested every time the topic comes up, so those of us who prefer to avoid the three companies you mentioned tend to have a quick response ready.
If anyone wants an almost too on-the-nose astrology/stock market analysis, check out LunaticTrader

https://lunatictrader.com/moon-cycles-in-the-markets/

https://lunatictrader.com/performance/
> Can we though? What calculation is this based on?

What calculations is your conjecture that AI will spiral out of control based on? You're not allowed to cite Hollywood movies.

The science behind the nuclear bomb was well understood before any engineering activities began. We have no framework to discuss AGI because it doesn't exist. Your entire premise is based on the idea that we could accidentally create evil AGI without first developing a theory of intelligence. Maybe Newton should have been locked up before he developed his theory of gravity. The man set us on a path toward nuclear weapons, thank god he didn't accidentally build a nuke.
> The need for UBI would only make sense if only certain classes of individuals can utilize AGI and others need to purchase their produce.

This is part of that mindset. The idea of AGI being freely available is horrifying to x-riskers. The idea of it not existing is also just not possible. So they want to see it in the hands of as few people as possible.
Last sentence in the Abstract:

"We estimate a collapse of the AMOC to occur around mid-century under the current scenario of future emissions."
In a situation like that, it's not just about any direct harm that may have arisen.

It's also about the loss of trust.

That particular incident, for example, was completely unnecessary. It involved a significant display of unbelievably poor judgment, and a total lack of foresight. It shouldn't have happened.

The fact that it did happen, despite it being such an obviously bad idea, raised a lot of questions and doubt.

It causes people to wonder what other incidents, which could potentially be far worse, might happen in the future.

It's remembered years later because it involved such a major loss of trust for so many people.
A malicious, unlawful actor should be denied all methods of acting out their purpose, as long as it doesn't hurt lawful actors more than they are willing to accept.