skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that is because it is a terrible message. It isnt an either/or situation, and successful breaking habits does rely on willpower, just not willpower alone.

Smart strategy can make things easier, but there is no strategy that makes it easier to stop heroin than do to keep it.

It advertises the idea that with the right circumstances, you can make it so that the desirable option is always the easiest option - this simply isnt true.
Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (Xluuv) Asset Delivered to US Navy
1. The 737 is so ubiquitous that they didn't want to create something new. They wanted old 737 pilots to be almost automatically certified to fly their new aircraft, and they wanted all the 737-oriented equipment to keep working. So, instead of making a new design, they opted for the easier, cheaper and faster "lipstick on a pig" approach.

2. It was the quicker option. The A320neo was a real gut punch to Boeing, and the execs wanted their response out, fast. Reusing the existing design was a faster and cheaper approach for them.
This is not accurate, the system packages are from the CentOS binary distribution. You might be thinking of C/C++ runtime libraries, which are distributed as separate packages used by the internal ("fbcode") binaries, but system binaries link to the standard distribution.
Can someone link to the study, not the book?
Last time I looked it up, it is indeed somewhere between 10% and 20% of individuals that file Schedule C to report business income, and thus could not be handled by an automatic IRS tax system. Good guess!
Although immutability is the basis for the LGBT+ political movements, it is known that in some cases sexual orientation fluctuates over time or even flips either way by itself, although there is no known and reliable way to force such changes at will.
There is an english version.
But pkp site loves to give you errors and timeouts too.
What the...? Hey, the model of phone or computer you're using might be prone to lethally exploding, but hey, don't worry, you can keep using it because dying by computer/phone explosion would be a very rare thing indeed!

A door blows out, and you think no one should say "Wait a minute, let's check all the other doors before you use that model of plane..."?
There's even a special version of the 1040 for just such circumstances.
Yes, the US left Afghanistan because of political reasons, not technical reasons. The US lost the war in Afghanistan. All wars are waged, won, and lost for political reasons. The war in Afghanistan was unwinnable because there was no path to a viable democratic government in Afghanistan. That doesn't have any bearing on the effectiveness of tactical and technical measures.
> don’t worry, it’s the most scrutinized plane in history

That's a bad thing, not a positive one that it needs so much scrutiny.
I heartily disagree. We are not slaves and victims to our biology and environments. We are, and always have been, our own masters. Want to lose weight? Eat less. Want to eat healthier? Stop buying fast food. Want to get fitter? Go to the gym. Want to make make more friends. Force yourself into more social interactions. Want to quit nicotine? Suck it up and shiver in cold sweats on your floor for 4 days.

You can throw whatever objections you desire here. They are not sustained. Ultimate culpability and responsibility has always been with us.

Do you think I'm post-willpower? That's laughable. I still, and probably always will, crave nicotine. I drive by gas stations all the time and that little voice "just one tin" is there. I say no. Anyone can. Simply put: It is a choice. You choose what you do and are, every single time, without exception. That is the freedom to which every human is sentenced.
Anyone can make a decision without much thought, which most humans do at every moment of their existence.

Making informed decisions takes conscious thought, much less keeping the decisions equally informed. There's only so much of that you can do and humans are particularly bad at recognizing the subtle decline in quality of thought.

There's no question at all.
Why doesn't Boeing split into a commercial airplane producer and a pure defense contractor company. The former will then have to struggle like a real company while the defense contractor will still be above the law.

I'm sure I'm missing lots of logical steps which say that this is a bad idea, but I'd like to hear reasons on why.
Maybe could even have a drone follow your kid before they are 18 to make sure they do nothing else questionable as well?
The way I view it is fairly simple: the things you list involve planning. Willpower is how you react in the moment.

You could phrase it like this: the willpower to resist going out and getting cigarettes is much easier to perform than the willpower to not grab a cigarette that's in front of you.

However "will power to resist going to the store" isn't really utilizing will power to stop smoking, it's having an effective strategy that relies on knowing how hard it will be for your future self to actually employ that will power if the cigarettes do reach your desk.
Me, too - I didn't immediately associate their logo with an emoji, but thought it was a cute-ified version of the Facehugger.
(out the door, midair)
Sometimes their best it's not good enough to succeed, sometimes society has extend their hand to help them get out of their ugly situation, the situation that previous generations put them in; this of community-focused approach to society issues it's why homelessness in Japan is 0.2 per 10000 habitants vs 17 in the USA.
Hiroyuki Sanada does a turn in a TV series called Helix, which is The Thing but what if scientific hubris made it much worse. It was cut short after 2 seasons. The first season is in the Antarctic, the second sees a different site in the arctic play out a similar containment incident.
That was an excellent read. Thanks for that.
I feel like this is especially pervasive in the data and ML fields. Perhaps just to many formally cloistered academic PhDs are cashing in on the corporate rush to data and ML "everything", but have no actual ability to execute or even code.

I went to a large "AI" conference this year and was surprised to see some talks being given by the "VP of ML" at the company I work at. I'd never heard of him or the position before, and when I looked him up in our company directory he appeared to sit somewhere in Pharmacy data science. But it's a massive company, so who knows?

When I attended his first talk wearing our company swag he seemed visibly uncomfortable and...grumpy(?) after he noticed me. His talk was a very non-technical, superficial fly-over of how ML can be used to profile and predict customer spending habits on our company e-commerce domains. Nothing even to do with pharma! At another table session in the day he dropped that his PhD is from MIT. Our company is big -name brand in its field- but by no means does it attract "MIT level" talent; not in pay, problems, or prestige. But again, it's a massive company, so who know? Yet at this point I'm entertaining my own little conference conspiracy theory that this guy is just a corporate cutout.

The next day I ran into him at the conference lunch line and gave him a: "Hey, how's it going! I'm at {our company} too, over in {line-of-business}". He nodded, chuckled to himself, and without even looking up said "oh yeah, you here to call me on my bullshit"? I was so confused that this would be the first thing out of his mouth with no context between us, even as a seeming joke, that I didn't know what to say. He politely excused himself to run to another table session before I could figure out how to respond.

Since then I've tried to track his team and any work/product/output they might provide but for the life of me cannot find anything other than some Jira tickets that get pushed around. But it's a massive company, so who knows?
Not trying to stir up controversy or detract from the interesting article, but I find the verb "to bartend" and its various tenses to be unwieldy and cumbersome. I greatly prefer to verb "to tend bar" in its stead. Am I weird?
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could be new, or an experiment.

on one device, i get the ads. on another, i do not. i'm using AdGuard extension. I have it set to the default update interval 48h. I'm not an expert at how the ad blocking works but in the inspector on the browser where it's blocked, I do see the div (id=tvcap) but with empty content. I don't know how to tell if it was delivered to me that way or if it got blocked.

I guess I'll wait 48h for the AdGuard to update and see if the ad persists or not.
> NPM wants to have its cake and eat it too, which is the problem here. The solution is just to say that if you publish a package to NPM you give it the perpetual right to distribute it as-is, and then remove the ability for users to delete their packages at-will.

Yes, exactly!

Kind of unrelated, but I think it is important to remember
that the left-pad was also ENTIRELY npm team's fault.
You can't just take away a namespace from someone
just because some startup like kik comes knocking.

Toyota does not have a right to my domain dot tld slash toyota
The correct answer would have been npm to tell kik to pound sand.

npm has never fixed this grave error.

https://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-np...

> We stand by our package name dispute resolution policy, and the decision to which it led us.

npm deserves to die.
Call it qualia, or "having experience", or "what our mind does" -- that is subjectively real. Perhaps especially so because of our ability to notice and reflect on the fact.

But that doesn't mean we actually have free will, or aren't automata. Most of the time we are lulled into the "illusion" that we do, to some extent.
but where's the Trackball Explorer? that was the best mouse ever made.
Interesting remark to me. I was thinking the whole time what parts may be made up. I'm a really bad judge of sarcasm, let alone actually dishonest content. In the end I'm inclined to believe the whole thing, but it's not particularly authentic, just quite different from my life and therefore interesting. (Some parallels also, as I've done computer fixing for some friends of friends.)
I’d be curious if you feel this way 5-10 years after high school. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38877797
If course they can: laws frequently cite specific cases and specific abuses in their supporting documentation in order to point out the exact intent of the law.
linkedin wishes it was all meme and cat photos.
I thought that too. From Wikipedia:

> in April 2020 Boeing terminated the joint venture deal due to impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on aviation and market uncertainty. Embraer alleges that the financial impact of the Boeing 737 MAX groundings contributed to the demise of the deal

So, the deal was broken before both governments had time to decide if they allowed it.

(I do remember some of Embraer clients canceling orders in 2020. AFAIK, they are still bottlenecked by their manufacturing capacity.)
This, to me, is still one of the most astonishing things about the JavaScript ecosystem that everyone just accepts.
It literally killed hundreds of people by pretending to be the same plane.
Heinlein's "The Roads Must Roll" posits a network of very fast, very long moving walkways which could be used for mass transit (you'd ramp up speed on slower ones then hop over to a fast one). Wikipedia says that moving walkways had been in sf for decades by that point, but Heinlein also almost incidentally invents the Segway in the story -- just a little treat.

I love peoplemovers (like the Hong Kong Central-Mid Level escalators and the delightfully bouncy SFO walkways) and always wondered what would have to be different for us to get super-fast ones for transit.

In Boston, IMO they would be at least as good as the Green Line :)
then the article is sloppy and inconsistent, because that is the opposite of what the title and conclusion said.

It is like an article with starting and concluding with "bleach is safe to drink", and then discussing the dangers throughout the body.

I dont think everything needs to be dumbed down - but parts of it are literally false and contradictory.
« Le TRR fonctionna d'abord à la vitesse de 11 km/h (3 m/s), mais en raison de fréquentes chutes de voyageurs et de divers accidents, la vitesse fut réduite à 9 km/h (2,5 m/s) »

From your Wikipedia page, it says it initially went at 11 km/h but was reduced to 9 km/h because of “frequent falls of passengers and various accidents”.
That’s a great question, but i think an even better one would be: how is AI appointment setting “spam” different to human appointment setting “spam”?

The thing is that Sarah isn’t a mere outreach tool where you just keep spamming people with standardized messages until they either reply or block you… Sarah should be considered exactly like a human in the sense that it not only outreaches but actually converses. So to answer your question - it’s different from AI generated spam because it’s not spam. Unless you consider humans reaching out to you to promote a service “spam”.
He is referencing the field of History, not history.
Well that is exactly what I did, I just woke up and decided to become an IOI gold medallist and JEE topper (basically become the smartest high schooler ever) and now both of those are about to become a reality very soon just because of my will power and self belief, and I believe I will keep doing this my whole life, I wanted to learn stuff that probably less than 100 high schoolers knew, so I just sat at my table and learnt it, so if I want to become a billionaire after winning an IOI gold, I will do that, if I want to become an NBA player I will do that, anybody can make excuses, I believe that I (and thus anyone) can achieve anything and I have been achieving everything I have ever wanted because of my hardwork, if you believe you are a talentless human who does not have the genetics to work hard, keep believing that and wasting your life being lazy… but genuinely, self belief and hardwork (will power) and passion is all it takes to be the best, I’ll @ you when I get more proof from my life
I would say it does correlate with some type of critical thinking, but not the one related to social/cultural/philosophical issues. What I say might seem strange at first, because critical thinking is presented as some kind of super-universal skill that you can freely apply to anything but in fact it's not. Kinda like one would think that a good singer would automatically make a good dancer because of being able to feel the rhythm etc. but in reality the correlation is not as strong as one would expect.
How to avoid picking terrible metrics
That makes sense. No disagreement there. Thank you for clarifying your position.
Laws are not research papers, they don't need to cite sources.
I've also heard "I quit smoking at the end of every cigarette"
It does, but the will power is aimed at doing a bunch of preparatory small things.

It is an important distinction. Let me paint an example:

You need to move a huge boulder, but someone tells you that boulder is too big, you're not strong enough to push it. And they're right. But you go and you grab a lever, you use a tool, and you move the boulder.

You did technically utilize your strength, but the take away of the deed, the key component, isn't how much strength you utilized, rather that you admitted that your body's strength isn't enough and utilized a tool.
Mars Colony Legal Code: https://marslegalcode.org/
There is a massive reason for some people to log on which seems fairly new (last few years) : b2b sales.

I watch our sales people use LinkedIn heavily for prospecting and cold reach outs. They rely on tools like Lusha which are basically databases of contact information that are sold on a subscription basis.

If you work in management or any sort of position where it's possible you're involved in procurement and that is reflected in your job title you will get hounded incessantly by people - sometimes directly on LinkedIn but more often they /found/ you on LinkedIn and then paid Lusha or one of the other contact database tools for your email address and contact info.

Fwiw you can opt out of Lusha. I tried it and the number of inbound calls and emails I got dropped significantly.
I appreciate that it’s a joke made to make a point, but I would prefer that the state keep prisoners safe from being raped in prison, regardless of what crime they committed.
QEMU, so I assume it's a VM, not VNC
> In Boston, IMO they would be at least as good as the Green Line :)

Yeah, but the E line down South Huntington would be downright perilous :-D
I feel like there were two large types of website designs:

(1) those archaic ones you'd find on your professor's website, plain HTML, no CSS or CSS that was just intended to do something annoying (blinking cursor, sparkles, matrix background, etc.)

(2) What I would describe as 'modern modern' - the (good) designs on this website, or that look you would get if you hired a designer today to design a landing page .. rounded corners, gradients, whitespace everywhere, hiding important options behind 'Show more' buttons, etc. (I'm just trying to be descriptive)

But I feel like in the early-mid 2000s, there was more of a middleground. The type of design I saw on Reddit (old.reddit.com), hacker news, myspace at its peak, facebook in the early days, etc.

Does anyone know if there is a database of website designs like those? Or how I could find more website designs like those in general? Pages that do use CSS/JS, but not the extremes on either side ('only HTML', 'design everything')?
He lives in France and its not clear what laws he could have violated even if he would live in the US.

He looks at 20 year old stuff, doesnt dump the firmware and there are obviously no explosives involved. You can find this stuff in museums and on ebay.

edit: The topic even made it into mainstream television
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5TW6E3Aonw

Here the heat seeker / guidance system of a Sidewinder in a Pawnstars episode. She got 500$ in case someone is wondering. Her father got it from military surplus crates.

edit1: Sidewinders are still in active use btw. And according to wikipedia might be through the late 21st century. Stuff is just getting old, this is not much different from Magnetrons being shipped in household microwaves. High tech just gets old.
Asimov introduced me to this concept in I robot.

In his version there were multiple levels of speed for entry/exit of transit so the main highways were going really fast.

IIRC it required some dexterity to use and sounded a bit dangerous...
There's also followup articles on all the subsequent Ultima games (except IX), the Worlds of Ultima games, and Ultima Underworld on the same site - search https://www.filfre.net/sitemap/ for "Ultima". Garriot and Origin in general also come up in some of the other posts, mainly in the posts on Wing Commander.
> I think wrong mental models are often extremely useful, and this one doesn’t seem very problematic to me for every day Git usage.

In my experience of helping people with Git, this mental model is usually the main source of their every day confusion. It used to confuse me as well in the past before I realized that mental model was wrong. So yeah, I find it quite problematic.
I do not understand the distinction.

I’ll go further. If I said ‘he was referencing Science, not science’ would that make any sense?

I was a CS professor for a long time. Like many of my STEM colleagues, I taught the history of the ideas in my discipline as an intrinsic and important part of the curriculum. It’s also good pedagogy, since the long process of getting closer to the truth or developing more powerful technology is part of the toolbox we are trying to impart.
Used to be I think. I believe the EZ doesn’t exist any longer.

Basic point is that if your taxes are simple enough to just say that yep these numbers square with the few pieces of paper I received in the mail, filling out a return is maybe 30 minutes work.
Doesn't matter how you or I got wherever. What matters is seeing where you are, where you want to be, and doing what it takes to get there. You're correct in that I was at that time, 100% a weak lecherous person. A slave to my desires for chemical escapism and pleasure. I chose, eventually, not to be ruled by them. Anyone and everyone can. It's not a moral failure to slip up. It's not a moral failure to say "I choose and desire to use nicotine or watch porn or [insert "vice" here] without reservation.", either. The moral failure is the rejection or abdication of the responsiblity for your actions.
From FAA.gov:

> We're responsible for the safety of civil aviation.

https://www.faa.gov/about/mission/activities

Maybe the people responsible are the people who say they’re responsible?
What kinds of teas do you like? I dropped my soda habit a long time ago, but I seem to have replaced it with a habit for those dragonfruit juice drinks from Starbucks. I’m trying to get away from that and just make tea at home.
Thanks. In my current role there's not much flexibility to use new technologies (basically nil), but the salary/benefits make it too good of a deal to leave. So I'm left with the tradeoff of my skills decaying while getting retirement security in return.

I know I'm good, but I worry about finding a new job if the need ever arose, because of candidates with direct, recent experience.
You are confusing two different issues. The article you reference is from December 2022. The MAX 8 had already returned to service two years prior, with the required fixes to the MCAS system, in 2020.

This law had to do with a deadline for certifying the MAX 7 without completely redesigning some of the systems.

I'm not a Boeing defender here -- these issues are incredibly concerning.
Amazing feat. Yet it's not the first time that I've also felt bitterness pondering such past achievements.

I can't escape the feeling that we used to be so much bolder and unconstrained in setting goals for ourselves and actually pursuing them. I feel like 1900 people would have fixed global warming, unaffordable housing, universal healthcare etc.
I don't think you need a huge conspiracy theory when one of the richest people in the world has a billion dollar short position on an EV company.
The Poorest Rich Kids in the World (2013)
What are the security trade offs of Thorium?
> although it's a ton of work to keep them in shape (which is what prevents me from chewing - I would never chew a perfectly good nail, only a damaged one).

yes, this 100%. Often when I notice myself picking, and then notice myself doing it again 30 seconds later, I just take a moment to admire them. Find a spot I can file a bit. Put cuticle lotion oil, put lotion on, pat myself on the back. And then it usually passes and is fine.

A friend and I were also discussing skin picking, related to finger picking, and related to OCD. And it's a similar thing. Something is off and needs correcting. Something is crusty or flakey or hard, and it's satisfying to scratch the itch. That's actually another, I've stopped tearing a new hole in my body when a mosquito bites me. Some sort of mindfulness allowing me to catch myself. Reminds me of the AHA! moments in therapy where I started to work forward/backwards through a problem and identify where + how to be more mindful and in control of my emotions.

And yes, there's countless tiny benefits to real fingernails, and pitfalls! I've scratched and cut myself in some unfortunate places.
ADHD is not a "not caring" disorder.

Most ADHD sufferers do not experience apathy but instead intense anxiety as their executive function is at odds with their goals.

It's not a matter of simply thinking your way out of what is a very real, biological disorder. The ADHD brain fundamentally lacks the same dopamine receptors as a normal brain, among other mutations. These mutations have elaborate psychological manifestations.

Some of us are able to improve with sustained practice, but even reaching a state of sustained practice can be a Sisyphean task for many.