skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment started with "Obesity is caused by eating too much." At the core, this is very much the objective truth. If it so happens that someone processes cake or calories differently than others, they need to eat less cake and take in less calories.

The pervasive obsession with avoiding this truth is concerning and has had a detrimental effect on society. How many of us know someone who passed away from COVID due to this kind of unhealthiness? Primary Care Physicians and health professionals out there need to step it up and be truthful with people.

I can acknowledge the extreme cases where this may not be possible, but 9/10 times we can take ownership of our lives whatever the situation, clean our diets and get out there and exercise.
Yeah, these dams are rather small in the absolute scale. Compared to one of the big guys like Grand Coulee with its production of 21 billion kwh/year, they're peanuts.
> make effective economic contributors in your society, rather than just being something you do because it's just what we do.

That's your utilitarian take that would eliminate many things you would consider superfluous. Social sciences, history, art, useful personal skills that might not be directly to the economy (like home related stuff or questioning authority)

It should be about empowering citizens in many ways regardless of how much they'll end up contributing to society. As for historical examples, women and wealthy people who studied and couldn't or didn't need to work still studied.

If you subscribe to the purely resource exploitation view, you end up on the road to optimize for the elites in power through lobbying and corporate manipulation.

Having a population that thinks for themselves may actually lead to more unrest and economic uncertainty of all the KPIs that corporations usually love.

Of course, corps will want education to be a specialized training ground for future human resource exploitation and govs might want to create voters for their party (or nation build through ideology and principles) but just because either might get their way to a hig degree doesn't mean that "the primary purpose" is what they get away with.
Reposting my comment from when this first got announced. I am a bit hesitant about Maker Faire's return given how its last run ended...

Maker Faire has a really special place in my heart. In 2011 I ran the iFixit booth where we not only ran phone repair workshops, but we also did a teardown of a car...live. A volunteer was kind enough to lend us his VW Golf, which he was also going to need to drive to work the following Monday. We were the last exhibitors out as it took us until around 2AM on Monday morning to get the whole thing back together and drive it out. We got two Editor's Choice awards and the Education award that year. One of the best weekends of my life.

Sadly, we never got to do anything like that again. Over the next couple years, large corporate sponsors started taking up more and more space until most of the main hall was just a bunch of ads. We were never able to get a space to do anything like that ever again. I really hope that the return of Maker Faire is also the return of makers at Maker Faire.
I don't know about ledger, but gnucash can track performance over time[1, 2]. I don't think Gnucash can do your second ask on its own.

[1] https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-guide//chapter_inv...

[2] https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-guide//rpt_standar...
I'm curious what are your use cases for which vs code is not suitable? I'm on windows and I work everyday in c# on the backend and I use vscode almost exclusively because I'm really sick of VS. I really dislike the button first Interface and I dislike it's input lag. In vscode keyboard focused workflow and extension interface is first class. You can set up your own extension and build custom stuff for your workflow in no time. It's truly empowering.
The only time I start up VS is when I'm consolidating package versions of the solution, but maybe there is even an extension for that, I didn't look.
People are shitting on vscode for electron but my experience is it uses less ram and it is far more responsive than VS (I did not use rider so I cannot compare).
Making music. At the ripe old age of 16, I bought DJ Shadow's "Entroducing" album, and wanted to make music just like that. Started out making "music" with the Wave Editor that shipped with Windows 95, and the rest is history.

In the last 26 years or so (man that sounds like a long time), I've learned a number of different DAW's, put a modular system together, learned to play instruments (piano, guitar, drums), and wrote hundreds of songs. It's such a fulfilling hobby. Which has been equally fulfilling every step of the way. From noob to whatever I am now. Can't imagine life without it.
There is a common etymological root shared by the English words work and worth which extends to the words worship and workmanship - The history of these words may support the title's assertion that "God likes it when you're focused on what you're doing." I wish I knew more about other languages to see if this meaning carries further outside Proto-European languages and Abrahamic religions.
What does your karaoke software consist of?
Yeah any statement that goes back and forth a bit too fast between Lean and ChatGPT raises my suspicions.
I personally find UTC offsets pretty useful for (free-form) meeting scheduling, i.e. "see you at 15:00 (UTC+2)" beats "see you at 15:00 (CET)". It makes quick mental math to figure out what that is in my current timezone so much easier.

Otherwise, I'm also always left wondering whether they really meant CET or actually CEST, calculating what the current offset of CET is, double-checking whether there's some other CET that I might be confusing things with (China Eastern Standard Time?) etc.
The low, low cost of committing cybercrime
Just so we are on the same page on what is being discussed, here is what I think is the complete relevant text of the advisory: [1]

> Some states have enacted laws and policies that may affect 2SLGBTQI+ persons. Check relevant state and local laws.

It also links to a general page with information about traveling outside Canada for such persons. [2]

To answer a question I had:

2S: 'Two-spirit is a modern, pan-Indian umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe Native people in their communities who fulfill a traditional third-gender ceremonial and social role in their cultures.' [3]

[1]: https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/united-states#laws

[2]: https://travel.gc.ca/travelling/health-safety/lgbt-travel

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-spirit
Public praise is different than direct management praise. It still shouldn’t be done without consent. Your intention may be good but only effect matters.
> Representing Lee, attorney Navruz Avloni said Reddit’s workplace culture shifted after co-founder Alexis Ohanian resigned from the board in 2020 amid a flurry of changes at the top of the social media firm. Previously, the company had prioritized staff well-being before Ohanian’s exit, Avloni said.

Sad to read that it's been taken over by the usual psychopathic businesscunts who make every corporation they devour a nightmare to work in.
Also it appears each reload is chargeable - so anyone who wants to make your life hard can trivially run up your bill (alternatively, pushes the cost and complexity of avoiding such attacks down to anyone trying to provide a service built on gmap).
Good.

Make Outlook next, please.
Why on earth would you cite the ethical standards of a 13th century author whose views were based on 13th century scientific understanding when commenting on a living institution's assessment of a 20th century technology? Thomas' views on embryology had long since been superseded in Catholic moral theology once the field of embryology advanced.

Thomas represented the best of Catholic theology for his time, but it would be monumentally ignorant to act like the Catholic Church is somehow still beholden to the the moral conclusions he drew from incomplete scientific understanding.

> Maybe you want to argue that there is some necessary connection between ESC research and the period of Church history where the development of Church moral doctrine treats life as beginning with conception.

Of course I do. The necessary connection is that that's when ESC was created. It couldn't have been created without the very developments in embryology that rendered Thomas' conclusions moot.

Talk about something so obvious it shouldn't need to be said.
Carbon offsets are total bullshit, so really this changes nothing.

Perhaps now they will report their true carbon emissions.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/24/carbon-c...
Not sure if you meant to reply on an alt...

> See, the difference is in one case a person was beat-up, and there's evidence, their life was possibly in danger, and in what you presented you have a hear-say. A false report. The difference is that one has the potential to cause harm, and the other is actual harm caused.

Bad actors harm everyone, rights protect against bad actors from breaking true consensus. In that case, they went a step further than a false report and actually staged the crime as well for "evidence". This is not the only occurrence, but one of the most high profile occurrences to have been caught.

> From my perspective I fear for my life. This is what is on the line here. Not my ability to commit hate-crimes, not my ability to spew bigotry. Consensus - actual people - on average are understanding. On the other hand, there's a trigger-happy, outrage-addicted, gun-owning, self-proclaimed-terrorist and outright blood-thirsty minority who is angry because the broader society doesn't accept their bigotry.

I am sorry you have personally experienced hatred like this. Even with experience, such fears should not fuel oppression of the world. Many are dying daily from war but personal experiences like this supersede actions against that, why? Please at least see the choice and selection biases in this, fear for your life at minimum invokes an emotional component. If you are unsafe there are likely actions you can take outside of intentionally trying to disrupt the rights of everyone else. Without personal compromise? Maybe not. Much as they want to force their opinions into reality, you want to force yours.

> I will repeat, to you, it's some imaginary threat that has the potential to happen 60 steps down the road if you concede that hate-speech is bad for everyone and pushes people to commit atrocities, and to me, it's my life.

It is not imaginary, it has happened and will continue to happen as long as there is incentive. Hate crimes against minority groups have lessened over time, but I will agree with you in that fear of such has been amplified. Some selectively amplify group positions to intentionally fuel hatred. This serves in two ways, for profit and distraction. Media could not profit from fear unless victims AND threats exist, thus they intentionally amplify opinions that provoke such threats.

We cannot solve the hate problem with censorship and removal of rights. The bad actors do not simply disappear because you no longer allow their thoughts in your reality. You have a right to be you up until violence and they have a right to be them up until violence. Many humans still operate from instinct, maybe the solution to hatred is to teach more to separate instinct and approach reality with logic? That would certainly upset our desire driven sales fueled world of individualization.
Manage isn't in the meetings here because he's abusing the process too and slacking off fixing his outhouse and car.
"If you're not the customer, you're the product."
Are you planning on submitting this model to be evaluated against the Spider holdout set?

Also, wondering if anyone has found research on the inverse of this approach to the problem, i.e., instead of training the model to understand the data, you improve the data to be more understandable to a model? This seems more promising when you are looking at enterprise use cases without much training data. Spider seems like quite a simple dataset compared to the ones I encounter on the job, and LLMs struggle even with those.
I mean yes, I have managed BigQuery jobs that cost thousand of dollars per run but the actual call is not the thing that is expensive and I'm in control of what it costs me. It's not exactly the same scenario imo
I learned ableton through trial and error, but I have watched the whole video and got a lot from it. I wish I'd had that resource when I was starting out, would have saved me a lot of time. So I'd say: yes, it's worth it if you're picking up ableton.
"X seconds from the time this message was sent" would certainly not hit 6PM local time if the local timezone offset changed - unless you also update X every time it does.
Fixing things, maybe a bit beyond the typical DIYer because I'll even do things that don't exactly make sense. Stage 1 I would say is that you diagnose and replace entire major components yourself. Stage 2 is you diagnose further and replace subcomponents. Stage 3 is you start replacing the smallest failed component on a subcomponent (replacing the capacitor on a small sub board on a larger device)

I'm at stage 2.

If the alternator on my car gives out, I'll figure out which component failed (brushes? voltage control module?) and I'll replace or fix it.

If my washer acts up, I'll basically fix whatever it is.

My dad's cement mixer stops working ? Take it apart and notice the pulley driving the drum is loose because the set pin came undone.

Basically I'm acting like the typical person outside of cities just a generation or two ago.

The best part is, once you fix something once, you learn about it and then you really don't want to throw the device away when the next thing breaks because you feel like you already know and understand it a bit so might as well keep going.

It doesn't always make sense once you factor in your time, but that applies to many hobbies. Atleast this one technically saves you money instead of costs you money.

Tldr; fixing mechanical things is a bit like debugging and troubleshooting, but instead of just fixing some code that annoyed someone somewhere, I'm fixing things I use everyday.
That one is fundamental! lol
Outdoor activities
It started with rock climbing, but these days it's trail running, skiing, and mountain biking. I've always loved being outside and being active, so they were natural hobbies to pick up. I've chosen where I live so I can do this 365 days a year.

Piano
I can't actually get outside 365 days a year, because I need rest days. I also wanted a non-physical hobby to exercise my brain. I played drums when I was a kid and missed making music. I bought a digital piano and dabbled for 4 or 5 months then started taking weekly lessons. If you have any interest in music related hobbies, I'd highly recommend learning piano.

Cooking
This is normally more of a winter hobby for me, but I'll try and cook through a whole (or most) of a cookbook. It's interesting to really get into one cuisine or style of cooking for a while, vs. hoping all over the place every couple of weeks.
I think people not following and using hashtags is the most common mistake people new to Mastodon make.
Why people don't just play with fake cheap cards?
I've been predicting this trend for years, and it's validating to see someone else say it. It isn't even just messaging apps. Discord and Twitch are also killing social media usage. It's any walled community where people within the community get to decide who is in and who is out, and the reach of casual sharing is limited. Social media can't counter this trend, because it's not in line with their incentives (massive sharing and virality).

Social media companies are going to have to react to this eventually. If I had to guess, they're going to go harder into content production.
The author doesn't claim to be a victim of a crime though. So you are actually arguing that the police should turn people who don't believe they are victims into victims just for the purpose of making police reports. That seems directly opposed to the spirit of "believing the victim".

All the author is claiming is that their package wasn't delivered. Packages fail to be delivered all the time but that doesn't mean some crime is occurring in every instance.

Even if you take the "delivered to receptionist" as evidence of a crime the author was still not a victim. The item was stolen from the courier not the author.

I think more importantly it doesn't matter if the package failed to be delivered due to a criminal act or a simple mistake. In either case Amazon is equally required to offer redress, so obtaining a police report is a red herring.
Weird take. There’s risk in unsolicited feedback but nearly zero cost in simply asking. Why take the chance?
Burning Man Gentrification
And the aluminum shavings inside the chamber...
The mysql CLI client?
I think most times this happens because the description of the project is hosted elsewhere, and github is primarily thought of as a way to host the files for download. I see this a lot with projects that only link to the /releases/ page, especially when the code itself is not open source.

Or, they're just too close to the project and the idea that someone would have to read the readme completely slips their mind.
So do you think the anti-dam crowd is anti-environment?

No one wants to be labeled as anti-environment, but when assigning labels, I think it helps to look at the big picture. I think the anti-nuclear crowd happens to be anti-environment in practice, even if many of them are tree hugging, organic eating, blah blah blah...
I meant client side scripting sorry. Most of the main clients expose lua APIs only.
Astro 3.0
No.. I am saying deficiencies are intrinsic to humans. India has made some choices between being a socialist, democratic country and it comes with its own pros and cons.

India has a very vibrant local economy which does not show up in nominal GDP. By GDP by PPP, India is the third largest economy in the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)). I consider India to be a solid middle income country, not any less that other countries you are talking about.

I am actually fairly proud of the changes I see in India in the last 20 years. I Some of the key changes I have seen (by no means complete):
1. Improvement in road transport with a nationwide single toll provider.
2. Indian railways has always been there as an affordable means of transport.
3. Getting a passport is now a couple of days and less than 24 hours with tatkal.
4. Healthcare is free for all. Yes, it varies from state to state, but government hospitals are available for everyone. Even otherwise, it is affordable.
5. Air travel went from just for the rich to middle class.
6. Government and publicly funded schools are reasonably good (The project director for Chandrayaan 3 came from a government school).

And yes, I am also very aware of the issues - political class abuses the power to enrich themselves. Different states have different development indices. But perfection is not needed for improvements.
>Did you notice that "Why didn't you do it this way?" is rather less verbose than your alternative?

"your code sucks" is even more concise. We can take a minute out of our time to elaborate and clarify, and of course not result to insults.

>Managing emotional state should be the responsibility of the listener/reader, while the communicator's job should be to get their idea across as clearly and concisely as possible.

And this mindset is exactly what leads to meltdowns in certain industries. "it's not my fault you feel bad about my abuse". People still want to generally feel like they belong and if all you put out is criticism they will find that belonging elsewhere. You can't be negative 100% of the time and be surprised when morale is down.
It’s pretty much a textbook example of why Adam Smith (of all people) hated landlords and saw them as a parasitic drag on market economies. We’ve allowed people speculating on real estate to wildly distort every aspect of our economy to the point that it’s destroying actually productive sectors.
Murdergate.
This summer I started playing pickup volleyball in local parks in the city. I've found a meetup or facebook group for almost every day of the week, and I've gone from total beginner to pretty competitive in just a few months. It's free, a great way to meet new people, and a great way to stay active.
This may not work if your account is 10+ years old
Nice idea in theory, but then you need to accommodate for continental drift as well :)
It's at least possible in a limited sense. I'm not going to hold it up as a paragon of a solution, but cloud-init lets you just list packages and translates them automatically into a command line for most popular Linux package managers, even pacman.

But I strongly agree with what I think is your basic gist here, which is that too many people wish Docker was something it fundamentally isn't. It's ultimate intent is as a packaging system more than a build system. Yes, it builds container images, but a container image is just a packaging method. How the software running in it builds is up to the developers of that software. Thus, Docker's goal is to work with arbitrary tooling. Whatever compiler, dependency resolver, and whatever else you want to use, that your software already uses, you can keep using. That includes hacky bullshit shell scripts that pull in everything via wget. There is no good reason Docker should keep you from doing that if that's what you want to do. If you want deterministic, reproducible container builds, use a deterministic, reproducible build system, and put your outputs in a container image. Docker will gladly let you do that.

On the other hand, the other complaint above about having to run the base image to build anything on top of it I somewhat agree with. I get why they did it, because it's probably the simplest way to ensure you're not implicitly depending on the host system running Docker, so your containers won't crash for some stupid reason like the glibc in the container at runtime doesn't match what you had on your build host. But there were better ways to achieve this. arch-chroot, Debian's fakeroot+fakechroot, plenty of other systems already existed to build a self-container system on another system without implicitly building against dependencies that won't be there at runtime, and they don't require setting up and running the rather complicated Docker container engine, in particular the network bridging that can get janky, especially if your host system is using systemd-network. It'd be nice to have the systems for building images and running containers entirely separate and self-contained, which you can have, of course, just not with Docker.
I've contributed and/or led development on at least 4 different AWS consoles and have used AWS every day for the last 10 years, with 8 of those working at AWS. Still only got 6 right on the quiz.

That said, AWS is transitioning away from those 3D logos. I just wish they'd transition away from Amazon vs AWS name prefix confusion. I've read the internal notes on why they do that, but the reasoning never clicked for me and I still have no idea without looking it up.
ChatGPT can also "show work". Requiring students to show work doesn't prevent cheating.
Rule 0: Commit 1 crime at a time.
“Cannot emit pro-anorexia messages after exposure to an anorexia patient” is the test being proposed here. Pen and paper fails this test, so unless your ai forbids typing in pro anorexia messagws and then not hitting enter…