skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Disgusts me" is a harsh statement to be said about one's mother (depending on other circumstances, which were not presented here). But to engage productively in the conversation:

My own meager experience, as an immigrant to Canada, is that these things can be highly culturally dependant. Where & When I'm from, I feel parents sacrificed more for their kids upbringing (kids were not supposed to "get a job" in high school or university, typically stayed with their parents until marriage, were supported financially frequently beyond that point as well). Having output a lot more energy to upbringing, cultural norm at that time was largely that children will then take care of parents on the other end; frequently parents will live out their years with one of the children (while helping as babysitters etc - it's still not a one-direction relationship:)

My experience in North America is that kids will become independent earlier, have jobs and some income as early as 16, frequently will move out as young as ~18 (University), obtain loans or work jobs to provide financing for university, and are unlikely to return home afterwards (*Historically! The housing crisis may bring the two approaches closer together!). As such, there's lower energy invested by parents into upbringing and somewhat lowered expectation / frequency of supporting parents later.

My third anecdata observation is that some issues occur when cultures change - i.e. if parents invested a lot of energy into kids somewhere else, then they all move to North America where culturally we're less well setup to support our parents; this may occur in a "one-time" generational glitch with parents possibly left hanging.

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That's my overall perception; as to your specific case, devil is always in the details - outsiders like us don't know, and don't need to know the background - how much your parents supported you, what happened that jeopardized their retirement, and what your overall relationship is :-/. I am planning and expecting to support my dad in at least some of his retirement (my mom passed away young), but again, I was lucky with my parents, and cultural expectations and specific family relationships differ. We all have our own story and history.
> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

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The problem with what you have said a million times is that by the time a company gets to the point where it is a major problem, it is also at the point where it has a lot of money going through it, and since corporations have absolutely no ethics, they are perfectly fine with spending a chunk of their profits on lobbying lawmakers to not change those laws.

I fault "Big Business" for completely ignoring ethics and morals in favor of profit. I fault every CEO who has made these decisions, I fault every minor worker who has done what they were told to do regardless of any moral qualms. They have all decided that they do not give a shit about the harm they cause as long as they are making enough money.
I appreciate the overall Mac look and feel, but I don't understand what's going on in this UI.

I'm clicking some video, but it won't start, something else starts playing, Picture in Picture starts up, I need to close it, clicking Play won't play the video, instead it starts automatically 10 seconds later, then it stops, snowy screen pops up, etc.
The characters weren't consistent with the previous seasons. No vulnerability from Scully and no cerebral aspects to Mulder; he doesn't really work as a pure action hero.
So long as the demographics shifts are gentle enough it's also not a huge problem to have an aging or shrinking population. Higher efficiency will help maintain standard of living with an aging or shrinking population though. The only think important to not have an "end of retirement as we know it" is to not have wars, hyperinflatoin, or a complete demographic collapse (e.g. extremely low fertility rates for a generation).
Of course some style guides would tell you not to put a dot after "Dr" because "r" is the last letter of "Doctor". Similarly, the abbreviation of "Saint" would be "St", while the abbreviation of "Street" would be "St.", according to those style guides.

Meanwhile the GB military style guide says never to use a dot after any abbreviation, I think.

Also, the style guides I'm familiar with prescribe "H. G. Wells", rather than "H.G. Wells", but "H.G.W." if you're abbreviating all of the words.

None of this is of much interest to anyone who isn't an editor but I thought I'd mention it anyway.
The opportunity cost of the advertising industry is incalculable. Entire industries are snuffed because kingpin ad networks can make a few dollars per year per person by having a free app with ads in that space. Less choice for the consumer, less competition, lower quality.
Liquidity isn't a yes no thing, it's on a spectrum. The legal structures around housing, in addition to the financial products, many invented by legislative force (e.g 30 year fixes rate mortgages), mean that one access cash via real estate much more easily than many other assets, without even having to transact that asset.

This is a remarkable feature of real estate as wealth.

While there are other forms of wealth with more liquidity, housing wealth and real estate really are up near the top of the ones that give a person access to cash.
> However usually this refers to small civilian planes like Czesna. Not large passenger airliners like a Boeing 767.

That is a really odd thing to say on the context of security. If people did indeed have this rationale, I would be surprised at the obvious and absurd display of incompetence.

A vulnerability is a vulnerability, and you expect the attacker to decide how much impact he will try to cause (with a bias into "a lot"). The part about 3 planes is reasonable (something at this level of organization should raise an alert somewhere).
> The argument is that it lies within the nervous system (physically), but then you mention avoidance/dissociation (psychological)?

Psychosomatic exists between these two, which I think is what they're describing.
> Then, in 2018, the author decided to develop "Pro" versions of the most popular apps...

That's when I started getting notifications to get the pro version every once and a while, even though I had bought the thank you for $15. It would have been nice to get grandfathered. I was and still am thankful. They are great apps for me.
It is not a question of what California wants. California is attempting to coerce. X is arguing that CA's coercion violates both the 1st amendment and Section 230. Glad to engage further if you or others want to address the merits of those arguments. No need to impugn intent onto specific individuals.
I think it’s harder to find, though. The lack of gatekeepers means there is a lot more garbage too.

We don’t know yet how this will all turn out. Do we have faith in our fellows to sort through and find the good stuff, or do we assume they will mostly get sucked in by the best propaganda?

Of course we always assume that we can tell the difference.
Very well written. Particularly how it weaves the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy through this. The comparison with supreme narcissist Zaphod Beeblebrox is pretty apt. Much of the societal criticism fits. The article suggests that for all his nerdiness and geek interests, Elon doesn't really seem to get it.
The US is food and energy independent. If the rest of the world collapses the US will just close borders and trade. There'd be an effect, not a huge one.
Not in the sense you're thinking, and there was some controversy about this earlier this year

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/business/linkedin-social-...

> “The findings suggest that some users had better access to job opportunities or a meaningful difference in access to job opportunities,” said Michael Zimmer, an associate professor of computer science and the director of the Center for Data, Ethics and Society at Marquette University. “These are the kind of long-term consequences that need to be contemplated when we think of the ethics of engaging in this kind of big data research.”

However I strongly agree with a sibling comment that these platforms are constantly varying this kind of thing without any producing any kind of systematic learning, and it's not clear why this particular manipulation should come under more scrutiny than any other. At least this manipulation produced published research.
.. but is a really poorly understood (set of) mechanisms?
But if you have a piece of insane code, especially if it's fairly localised, why is it superior to explain it in a commit message and not a comment right there next to it? Save people the head scratching.

And yes - I do exactly think that the developer should cram the whole issue in the codebase! Those are your acceptance tests, or explicit representations of use-cases or strategies, or service layers, or at the very least some comments lamenting what would otherwise be inscrutable. If your codebase doesn't have a first-class way of describing what it does and why, I don't think it's well-factored.

I totally agree that it's easy to mess up, I just continue to think this terrible workflow of externalising key information about code and why it exists is fundamentally defeatist. I don't think we should settle for it.
What is your tech stack?

- NodeJS, ReactJS, Postgres, on Linux (via DigitalOcean)

- Booted with Terraform. Opened & traffic-secured with Nginx + Certbot

- Everything running in Docker

Why did you choose it?

- JS: To reduce context switching, and I have a high level of familiarity with it

- Terraform: To automate & speed up server experimentation

- Docker: To make the app easier to transport & access

Do you think your choices had any impact on your success?

(i think this question is not well formulated. "any impact"? anything & everything can have "any impact" because its "any" as in "anything". It's like asking "Does anything impact you?" "Uh, yes, I am alive. Everything I encounter and perceive impacts me.". Maybe formulate a more specific/less vague question)
this isn't always true. more than once I've taken a large codebase, whacked it down to 10% of its original size, without losing any features and gaining quite a bit of performance.

smallest-change maintenance by lots of people just introduces cruft by its nature.

not suggesting that doing that rewrite is usually a good idea...but I disagree that all that stuff always represents anything fundamental
"Also, multi-threaded async runtimes are generally what you want to make sure you don’t have any single tasks blocking others that could make progress in parallel."

Is there an advantage to multi-threaded async if you're IO-bound? If you want a bunch of concurrent system calls or network requests it seems like single-threaded async can handle that pretty nicely ala Node.js.
This trick doesn't work across linebreaks (unless you adopt a rule like "treat the spaces in the nouns as non-breaking and do not permit a linebreak for anything that isn't a sentence boundary").
Literally not in this case. Circuit courts establish binding precedence in their circuit, but not elsewhere. Out-of-circuit opinions can be used for persuasive evidence, but there is absolutely nothing that requires the 9th Circuit (which includes California) to listen to what the 5th Circuit says. Especially when the 5th Circuit is disagreeing with every other circuit to have considered the matter. [I haven't read the opinion in this case to know what it's asserting, but I do know that every opinion I did read on whether or not the government urged COVID-19 moderation qualified as unconstitutional state action concluded that the plaintiffs hadn't met their showing that it did.]
>no financial advisor worth the paper their business card is printed on would suggest you spend more than your investments earn in retirement.

Sounds like you have never heard of the 4% rule[0]. Further, there are reasons to withdraw funds above ordinary living expenses, such as for gifts and donations.

>you have no idea how long you'll live,

Of course you do, within a range of probability. And there is insurance available to minimize the risk of uncertainty.

[0]https://www.fool.com/retirement/strategies/withdrawal/4-perc...
Not sure exact treaty for something which should be clear cut?

Really?
We recently added our domains to the "HTTP Strict Transport Security" preload list, and I had no idea this was even a thing. I assumed that the best we could do was to enforce HTTPS at the CDN/network level.

Anyone can add their own site or domain to this list, which enforces HTTPS at the browser level (for supporting browsers).
I think you fundamentally don't understand the topic if you're talking about two pages of text?

The end user would never type in a word of that: they'd say "[Wake word] play me some music"

A piece of software running on a device would transcribe what it heard, and fire off a request to the LLM with all of that text wrapped around their statement.

For ease of sharing I used the web interface to provide the instruction, but you'd use the API with a prompt which also dramatically increases determinism.

No one is writing out the state of each light bulb: you trivially query that information programmatically and bundle it with the request.

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In a real product there'd be explicit handling of detecting where the request came from, that's already a problem that's been worked on, but I wanted to demonstrate the main difference vs Siri: zero-shot learning

The LLM wasn't told what those volumes mean, but it was flexible enough to infer the intent was to provide a form of location, rather than ask.

It's a forced example so if you want to get caught up on the practicality of audio for locating people be my guest, but it's to show LLMs are great at "lateral applications" of capability:

You give them a few discrete blocks of functionality and limited information, and unlike Siri they can come up with novel arrangements of those blocks to complete a task they haven't yet seen.

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Honestly the fact you keep going back to "look at all the text" feels a bit like if I showed you the source code for an email messaging app, and you told me: "No one will ever use email! Who would write all that instead of just writing a letter and mailing it?!"
Isn't it pretty well-known that many diseases/disorders are likely from post-viral infection?

Howard Bloom who famously had CFS for decades talked about how he had a bad flu that never got better and his long recovery from it.

https://medicalerrorinterviews.podbean.com/e/howard-bloom-pa...

Michael J Fox who famously has Parkinson's mentioned being sick in his documentary "Still" while filming "Leo and Me" where other crew members also have Parkinsons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_and_Me

https://www.michaeljfox.org/grant/h5n1-influenza-virus-etiol...

Many people who are suffering with Long Covid CFS are more obvious though. The significant event from their pre/post covid life was a covid infection.

It is beyond me how people can deny post viral syndromes. Just about every major virus has documented literature of people suffering. Long covid is putting a flashlight on a real problem. For those more interested in the journey, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYNMzaZk_iU for a great overview.
You were absolutely correct; it was as close as possible to publishing a manifesto saying "here's how we're going to launch a war in the middle east" and then doing it as you'll ever see. The same clearly identifiable people were involved all over the place.
Houses have some big ticket maintenance items that come up rarely though. New roof, any kind of foundation work, etc. You've got to keep savings for these things. That said, a modest size and self maintenance go a long way.
So..dangit.

The other thing I've been working on is a personal calendar todo list thing; after years of trying to use other peoples things, I realize I know just enough to make something that works with how I think and what I need (in short, a little like Linux Remind, but with the ability to mark things as done in a way, and the flexibility for "due" dates to go "stale" and still show up)

Anyway, the units/items are individual files with content + some tags with dates.

And I've been doing a thing where I source a file with a ton of functions. And..it looks like this is a better version of that. Wild. hmm.
1973 Chilean coup d'état
Isn't it pretty common knowledge now that CIA played an active role in Kennedy's assassination? Current Kennedy in 2023 running for President talks about this.
Sorry but I don't understand. Does the US give out citizenships or work visas on the basis of having a HN account...?
Because they get your attention, much like in nature bright yellow and bright red things serve to get your attention or serve at a warning.

An entire area painted yellow, well that's screaming a warning.
When you shake an image which has red figures on a blue background or vice versa, they appear to move independently as if joined by an elastic linkage.
Yeah that’s a good point. There’s definitely some machines in that bracket that are capable since with the right GPUs they could drive similar contemporary displays though (G5 tower with circa 2005 2560x1600 Apple display for example), and it’d be great to not be restricted to only those old GPUs to gain that capability.

For older machines even cleanly driving a new 1920x1080 display without a dongle would be a nice upgrade.
Do you have a source for a number on that? It seems like most of the people in my grandparent's generation worked physical jobs and continued into their 70s. I can see that prior generations maybe took on less physical roles as the next generation took on the more physical farm roles. Still today, we see that Amish tend to have a large number of men working in physical roles at least into their 60s and often times longer.
Well there are plenty of other passages in the Bible that say the exact opposite, e.g. Amos 3:7 "Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets."

The whole thing is immune to logic, in part due to the obviously self-contradictory passages such as we've just found :)
"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."
-Mike Tyson
If you examine the IPCC report maps [1] to see what areas have the greatest heating, wet tropical areas (like India and South-East Asia) tend to have less heating (in terms of degrees) than most other places.

Some of the areas with the highest predicted temperature increases are relatively dry places, such as Siberia and several deserts.

[1] https://www.un.org/nl/file/78475
I have installed them from F-droid with nagging and the thank you installed.
Sure, 100% agree with this. I believe I don't use it primarily for promotion (I keep self-promotion to 5-10% of my posts).
I use oathtool to generate totp and copy it with xclip or pbcopy. You can take back up of this bash script anyway you like
corrected it sorry.
It took over 24 hours by train from Seattle to San Jose.... and that was a direct train, no transfers. Absolutely shameful.
Honestly just balancing the Life in WLB a lot more heavily. I think quitting work is too extreme for my situation and not beneficial if your friends are working. For me it means work less extra hours, not getting upset over set back at works, passing up on less invitations from my friends, being less hyper-frugal/cheap, etc...
Put a "best viewed in Safari" badge on it and stop testing in Chrome.

If you want to know how an average user will see your site, you should probably be testing with a default profile, with no adblocker. You could leave the browser signed out of your Google account, or have a separate one just for this.
The alternative ivory sources that could help save elephants
> For the first of these, I quite like how on Android now the user has great control over what data is made available to which apps. The app needs to explicitly request access to camera, location, files etc... . You can toggle this on or off at will, and specify that it can only read the data while the app is active. I can imagine having regulation which enforces this type of privacy control for all tech service providers.

And the Android stock permissions are laughable and a pure joke.

Go look at Xposed Framework, and you'll find ways to unwind every permission, either direct deny, or "make fake data" plugins. There's even fake contact plugins, GPS faker plugins, you name it.

Google only implemented the worst-of-worse deny permissions, because doing a good job would be against their interests.
Mike Masnick is probably one of the most critical people of Elon. You've may have read one of his articles prior, perhaps in the early days when Elon bought Twitter. His analysis of Elon's obligations to purchase Twitter, criticism of Elon's approach to content moderation (and lack of understanding), it's all been pretty good and legally sound.

The fact that he is praising Elon here says something.
I think you're reading the term "avoidant stress response" and the consequent term "chronic avoidance" as having a moral value. This is an issue with many medical terms.

In my understanding, these terms simply refer to how an individual tackles problems: do they avoid asking for help to the point of dysfunction, or are they able to ask for help when needed?

edit: Once an individual's systems are out of balance, it can be difficult to rebalance without the right perspective. If an individual cannot regain equilibrium due to interacting factors (such as someone who grew up without ever knowing equilibrium), the lack of balance becomes chronic.
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LOL, if we left everything to companies, they wouldn't even report the list of ingredients they put in your food. I get that governments can overreach, but not all constraints on private entities are bad.
Do you have credible sources for that? The kennedy running for president is a racist nutjob so not very credible
> But if sodium does form insoluble rocks, why is there so much of it still in the oceans?

There's more than enough to go round?

(Feldspars in particular need aluminum, so once that's all bound up you aren't going to get more feldspar even if there is surplus sodium. Think of the sea as the leftovers in a non-stochiometric reaction.)
It never went away. The religious right in the US and others discovered a wellspring of motivational energy (for their regular causes) that they could get out of people by pointing fingers at Islam, and they have never really let it go.

It comes and go in waves, but it's pretty crazy what an appeal to an old bogeyman can get you; at the time, George Bush talking about a "clash of civilizations" and appealing to old Crusades era mythos of east vs west, orient vs "western civilization" etc. was incredibly "successful" at accomplishing the goals that Rumsfeld and Cheney and others had set out for their regime.

The Bush/Cheney regime inherited a largely liberal, tolerant, and centrist populous from the Clinton years. The general zeitgeist and political atmosphere from back then looks so civilized and calm compared to now. And they leverage 9/11 to stir up a whole different scenario afterwards that has never stopped accelerating. The xenophobic far right has been in steady ascendancy ever since.

To this day, if there's a shooting in a mall or whatever, you'll hear people immediately jump to the jihadist explanation, even when it's clear that the bulk of terrorist type violence in North America doesn't actually take this form -- it's usually far right / white supremacist in inspiration, just as it was before 9/11 (e.g Timothy McVeigh, etc.)

I'm an atheist and no lover of any organized religion, including Islam, but it was dark and depressing to watch at the time and it continues to be depressing to see people manipulated on these terms.