skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The competition for good jobs is so intense that you’ll work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week. You won’t miss work if you’re sick or have a family event because then somebody else gets your job. Culturally second chances don’t exist, and you’re the only chance your children have to get through school (because you have to pay for it) and for your parents to retire in peace (because they live with you and you care for them). Heaven forbid you get sick.

I'll be honest, as a non-American, I thought you were describing the USA in these sentences. I quite frequently read things online/see videos etc where Americans are shocked that we can take several weeks or a month off for a holiday in Europe, that if we're sick we just take time off, there's no worry about being fired for getting sick, or needing to work in order to qualify for health insurance. Education isn't free everywhere, but in most places people acquire much less debt than it seems you do in the USA.
> how the hell would a teacher have access to the image to forward to the parents?

By accident? The teacher and the and the other teen have the same first or last name, or the next one in the contact list, or the autofill rearranged just before clicking, or just one missclick... there are so many ways it could have happened.
> Which is what bugs me about native grammar mistakes: only native people make them

Why does it bug you? They are different classes of mistakes but both have driven the language over the centuries. Why are native mistakes wrong but immigrant mistakes good?
The nice thing about compiler optimizations is that you can improve performance of existing CPU's without physically touching them. Year by year. You squeeze more of the machine someone designed. It adds up.

Imagine what environmental impact you would have if you optimized Python's performance by 1%? How much CO2 are you removing from the atmosphere? It's likely to overshadow the environmental footprint of you, your family and all your friends combined. Hell, maybe it's the entire city you live in. All because someone spent time implementing a few bitwise tricks.
I am in 3 years post-covid. Definitely saw some lows but have been recovering steadily. Definitely look into Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment for this, for me it helped fight the plateau.
Dont believe the 98% vax rate nonsense, in my circle of friends (including 4 doctors, 3 nurses) most got fake certificates. Dont be suprised that a bulk of the medical profession also did the same. I’m disappointed these professionals with very smart people just decided to bypass the mandates in order to keep their jobs instead of taking a firm stand for the benefit of society. Thats humanity for you.

Lots of people navigate through the cracks. The least you can do (as an individual) is acknowledge the corrupt system and stop spreading the 98% stat which is purely propaganda. And hold the politicians accountable.
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Agreed!

With Lone Smuk getting rid of his work force the future of EV cars is looking bleak.

Over reported and only from a positive perspective.

We need some balance in the reporting.

I have not seen any reports concerning what will happen to those, like me, who cannot afford an EV vehicle even when and if they become available on the second hand market.

What will happen when they become the only sole means of transport.

There will not be enough EV cars in the second hand market for people wanting to replace their old diesel and petrol cars when it becomes law.

I would happily give up driving if public transport was free and the Oyster cards data collection was disabled.

Looks like its back to the old SHANKS'S PONY!
If you're taking requests, Greek would be fun :-)
> The conclusion of this data presentation is that so of these people are our collective responsibility, and I just wasn't convinced. I wish they had shown percentages with the visualization. They choose not to.

> I was underwhelmed by some points that seemed like they should have been more shocking. Look at the huge number of people in the many adverse experiences category who made it to college, and make a high salary. that was shocking! and look at the people who had no adverse experiences and still managed to end up poor. how does that happen?

What do you mean huge number of people in many adverse experiences making it to college? If you look at the graph from 2011 with highest qualification obtained. There's probably less than 1 in 8 of the many adverse effects that obtained a college degree, while about 50% of the no adverse effects kids did. Those are huge differences.

Did you expect that none of the many adverse effects kids make it to college? That's the nature of statistics with humans, yes some succeed but the probabilities are so much different.
There is no coercion or deception in this situation, so it can't be racketeering. Unless you want to classify all taxation as an extortion racket.

It's just a bad tax policy that creates weird incentives ("use the canteen even if you don't need it"). Let's keep the word racket for criminal enterprises and antivirus companies.
I’m the developer of IdeaPicker. I was struggling to find startup ideas that solve real problems. Created this tool for myself to find them with AI from Reddit. Then, made it public and free.

1- It scans 150+ subreddits and finds pain points from conversations.

2- AI generates a startup idea from the pain point with an estimated revenue.

3- Adds the idea to the database of 25000 ideas with pain points.
I'm dismayed by the number of people who apparently don't subscribe to evidence-based medicine using proper statistical methodology and instead rely on anecdotal evidence whenever Covid comes up. It's very irrational, though some of this behavior can probably be explained by the extreme politicization of the topic in the US.
SSO Tax is usually about using your private SSO, not Google or GitHub. If they say "any IdP", then the data on ssotax must be out of date.
There's a whole talk about it we had in our conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG28lRoailE

Short version is GIS indexes are notably smaller and build faster in PG15 than earlier versions. It's a major version to version PG improvement for these workloads.
And why surgeons are stupid and have fine motricity issues, with 4 hours shift wearing masks nonstop!
I do wonder what would have happened if Humane would have launched the product as an invitation-only beta with a different pricing-scheme.

The hardware is good enough to test it. Power-consumption, projector and voice-cloud-voice latency is too high.

But that's probably all forgivable if it's a "public beta" with the clear statement that this is not a final mass-product...
Decimate meaning "kinda reduce the number" instead of "kill one person in 10"? I think it's been used with the first meaning in every language (including latin ones) for a long while.
> How do you know for sure that the control group didn't get COVID.

I dunno if that is relevant - it's the symptoms (brain inflammation[1]) that is hypothesised to correspond with lower cognitive function.

Even if you did have COVID, but didn't get brain inflammation[1], you can still serve as a control.

[1] I say "brain inflammation"; the exact mechanism is explained by a comment upthread.
You seem to be really emotional about this. Need to say, the psychogram of those who defend pharma relentlessly to this day is very interesting. I see anger, insults, trampling onto what an obviously fascist authority teached them at the end of 2021 is „below them“ to elevate oneself. Ignorance of obvious data, sidelining.

By now I have seen enough actual data - and on top of that a lot of sad „anecdata“ in my direct surroundings - to pay attention at least. Given its prevalence I am sure you have seen the anecdata as well. Have you called someone who claimed to have a vax damage or who told you a relative died from the vax a „conspiracy theorist“ yet?

One good alternative point to start your journey in 2024 could be the US civilian labor force disability data. And no, I won’t waste time to search for that for you, given that you began your „response“ by attaching a label because it soothes you mentally. It has all been out there for long time and has been linked countless times.

The little section you got from google translating is a government-approved interpretation of this data. I have seen several others. You can download the data and fact-check for yourself.
It’d say the thing that pushes it (“The Worst Product I've Ever Reviewed... For Now”) over the clickbait line is that it doesn’t mention what is being reviewed, so you still have to open the video to learn what that the product in question actually is. Otherwise, yes, it would merely be reasonably hyperbolic.

(The actual review is good though.)
I had no symptoms and was not tested for COVID. I have been testing my self regularly during pandemic, however not always with PCR.
You are making quite the assumption there. There are quite a few among us focusing on creating the best possible work. And there are quite a few back then who did the opposite. Wouldn't you wonder where the conception that things were different came from?
After a while of following him, some bot on his account DMs me about some crypto or whatever stuff.
Good point actually, didn't thought about that.
Here in the UK soon they're going to start charging 10 pounds a day for residential vehicles that aren't zero pollution, commercial vehicles a day 60 pounds a day. Eventually leading to ban on fossil fuel vehicles. These fines can change cross regions.

Regardless of what you think of the environment, this may be less consumer driven then governmental driven by policy. Something to think about anyway.
Hoping for an article about Ebikes. oh well.
No coercion? Try not paying it.
That was obvious from the main article, and you had zero reason to rub it in Alex’s face except some sort of pervasive need to discredit his achievements because he didnt succumb to playing the role of a perpetual victim.
I do wonder what would have happened if Humane would have launched the product as an invitation-only beta with a different pricing-scheme.
The hardware is good enough to test it. Power-consumption, projector and voice-cloud-voice latency is too high.

But that's probably all forgivable if it's a "public beta" with the clear statement that this is not a final mass-product...

I think reviews would have been much better (for the SAME product), with a "curious how it evolves!" verdict cutting Humane some slack for walking new grounds...

Overall it might have been the hubris of Humane to "end Apple" which harmed them more than anything else
Well done on instilling in your son the deep-seated lesson that you are not trustworthy.
Apple's M-series chips already have best in class CPU performance and memory bandwidth. How much more power do you need?
Tesla sales dropped significantly. This comes after Germany has cut subsidies for EVs. Tesla is now laying off staff.
Flakes are a misfeature that adds a complicated layer of abstraction over an already not very simple system.

I follow some chats with lots of Nix beginners, and the amount of people that are now stuck in a flakes tarpit and have no understanding of the fundamentals of Nix (and no path to get there, really, in the course of normal usage) is depressing. Just the other day I saw someone post a 40 line Nix code snippet using flakes, pulling in 2 git repos apart from nixpkgs (because the barebones flakes are barely even usable without support libraries), all to make a simple nix-shell with a single package in there - and it didn't even work and they were unsure how to proceed with debugging.

In almost all chats with flakes proponents it also eventually turned out that what they want is something like niv, but integrated into the Nix binary, not all of the additional stuff that is attached to flakes.

Anyways, adisbladis' point is that Tvix does not need to support flakes in any way. If you really want to add these complications to your Nix code, you can implement everything flakes do in pure Nix (using e.g. the flakes-compat thing linked above).
I'm going out on a different limb and suggest that a scammer that is unable to invest time into setting up a VPN so that they can talk to teenagers outside of Nigeria probably isn't the sort of scammer that causes this kind of problem.
Damages the value for all those who plan on attacking the USA. To me it didn't affect their value at all. Same for any Western government.
Are there any numbers supporting this analysis?
Why should anyone believe your brand of nonsense instead though?

> most got fake certificates.

I got vaccinated for COVID in Australia multiple times and never once got a certificate .. my ID and the fact of vaccination were recorded in the medical database which is where the vaccination numbers come from.

How many of the 26 million Australians in toto can you demonstrate faked their vaccination status?

The least you can do (as an individual) is back up your bogus smelling anecdata.
I'm the 'inventor' (seems a bit of a weird term) of the Spectranet, a similar device for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, although it's wired ethernet rather than wireless (when I designed the device, there weren't simple-to-interface devices like the ESP32 readily available, however, the Wiznet W5100 chip for wired ethernet was, and is a perfect match for an 8-bit system).

It would be possible to write malware for a Spectrum using this device but I don't think anyone ever has - needless to say, a Sinclair Spectrum isn't a secure computing platform. It would certainly be possible to write a worm.

Back when I was a teenager, we had an econet network of BBC Micros/BBC Masters and Acorn Archimedes at our school, and I did indeed try to write a worm for that platform (essentially, attaching itself to a user's !Boot script - essentially adding some 6502 code to the start of it to allow the program to spread itself to other !Boot scripts - the BBC micro allowed you to attach 'hooks' to its system calls, so as long as the user didn't overwrite the memory where your program was or do FX 200,2 followed by Ctrl-Break (a precaution I always took before logging on :-)) you could keep a small program memory resident. Especially in a Master 128.

I gave up because I realised the teacher who ran the computer lab had started taking quite a close interest in the code I was writing, and I wasn't entirely confident that he didn't know 6502 asm (one day I forgot to PROT my system, and I noticed a slow down while running the assembler, the slow down a sure sign someone was using VIEW to view my screen. So I ran PROT, which disabled that, and within 30 seconds the guy was in the room and looking over my shoulder! He knew that I knew, and he knew that I knew that he knew what was going on) Afraid of being caught and banned, I abandoned the project. (For the avoidance of doubt, the 'malware' in question was a bit like the idea of the Morris worm, simply to spread itself but with no payload).

However something similar could be done on other 8 bit systems. The "mal" part of the malware would be extremely limited - with such a small amount of RAM, no multitasking and no memory protection, anything you load into memory isn't going to last long once a user loads a real program.

The real target of any malware would be things like the TNFS (network filesystem) daemon, as to be able to run on vintage hardware it's got to be written in plain C and there could be bugs, and the filesystem protocol being very simple and unencrypted is not secure (nor is it designed to be, the preface on the README for tnfs does tell users they are mad if they try to store any data they want to keep private). The other target I guess in the case of ESP32 based devices is the ESP32 itself, but that's not really malware targeting the vintage system.
True, but in this case we are converting to strings that are longer because they require quoting and escaping etc. Transit time will be longer.
I only half-disagree.

I also get a big kick out of sharing my work with the world. But I think it's quite easy to lose yourself in it. Whether you're conscious of it or not, you start optimizing for what you think the audience wants, and not what you want (which is what the article is getting at I suppose).

So, I make a conscious effort to work on projects that are "just for me" from time to time, and I try to make that decision up-front.

I think I get the most out of my "for the world" projects overall - it's where I really push myself, like you describe - even though they're "leisure activities". But I still need the just-for-me projects to stay sane.
Ash's main takeaway is solid — Immerse yourself in hobbies or creative pursuits without being overly concerned about external validation or the potential for monetary gain.

Other takeaways that stuck with me were:

— Finding enjoyment in the process of learning and improving your own skills is crucial.

— Setting personal goals can help fuel growth.

— Sharing your work with others is a way to receive feedback and learn from other perspectives, but don't let pursuit, perfection or seeking monetisation overshadow the joy of the activity itself.

— Intrinsic rewards of your hobby or pursuit trump validation or financial gain.

In the end, you need to find something you enjoy doing, and do it because you ENJOY it.
> Microsoft, the copyright holder, is licensing you to have a copy of that program under terms which do not involve exchange of money.

As I recall, this anecdote is part of a larger story:

* This was at a time where it was common to buy software in retail stores, it would come in a fancy cardboard box with a stack of floppy disks (or a CD-ROM), a printed manual, a warranty card you could mail in, and so on.

* Microsoft wanted Windows 95 to have good compatibility so someone went to a software store and brought one copy of everything the store sold.

* Then Microsoft handed these out to Windows 95 testers and told them "You can have this for free if you report any bugs you encounter"

* The employees received (and got to keep) the physical box, installation media, manual etc.

> I would say that if you work for Microsoft and they give you a program free in order to test, then it's not a form of income.

Tax authorities have fairly strict (and complicated) rules about this sort of thing, to stop companies/employees dodging income tax using 'free' gifts.

If I could give my employees a $50k cash bonus and it got taxed at 24% or I could gift them a $50k car "for testing" and it was tax free, everyone would be getting paid in cars.
As I said, I could be wrong. If you have an example of artists in the distant past lamenting the fact that they can’t do what they want and instead must make art for money, I’d be glad to read them.

I didn’t say people today aren’t creating the best possible work, I said this focus on the juxtaposition between the market and the self seems like a recent thing to me.
How would providing free school lunches reduce the chance of seeing someone shot?
10 quid a day?! That's ludicrous.

I don't live in the UK but I do wonder: is the infrastructure there truly ready? And does the average car owner think the whole charging time debacle is there as far as every day workability goes?
OP didn't assume it, they hypothesized about it and laid out a way to falsify the hypothesis.
Seems like you had COVID.
> lThat's a mighty sad outlook on life.

That's not what I said. Paying a streamer to pretend to like you is not being part of a community. There is no community; they just constantly call it a community. A real community wouldn't vanish if one person (the streamer) left. That's a cult.

> Your criticism would be no different leveled at donating to charity, giving loose change to someone on the street, dropping money on a collection plate, or using the "buy me a coffee" tip like for FOSS projects. What's not real about being part of a community that doesn't have restricted access?

Doing none of those things is being part of a community.

Parasocial relationships are monetisable. That's all. I think it's a bad idea to be on the paying end of that transaction.
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And I'm not sure how anyone can be a conspiracy theorist and honestly believe that all governments and regulatory agencies all over the world try to hide some grand conspiracy about vaccine efficacy and safety, but here we are.

>vaccination gives immunity to virus or that there are no side effects from vaccination

Who claims that? Nobody does or did. This is a familiar tactic: shifting the goalposts from vaccinations have very rare side effects and do not guarantee one hundred percent immunity to complete immunity and no side effects at all. Rarely does a vaccine provide complete 100% immunity from a disease, in rare cases it does, e.g. Polio. Also nobody ever claimed that vaccines have no side effects, they are just very, very rare. So rare that the expected benefits far outweigh any risk of side effects.
The Farce of Diplomatic Assurances
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The part that baffles me is the cognitive dissonance between wasting time in this manner and subsequently complaining about not having enough time to do things.
Minor gripe, but I don’t love the setting off of design against functionality. UX Design isn’t just about aesthetics; a good design makes an object, or piece of software, or whatever, more functional.
As do I, on a 166MHz MMX with a whopping 64MB of RAM.

First computer I bought with my own money, pored over computer magazines for weeks to figure out how to get the best bang for my buck.

Ended up with a Matrox Millenium 4MB graphics card with a 3dfx Voodoo on top, if memory serves.

The budget was maxed out to the extent that the owner of the shop I purchased all the parts at agreed to drive me the two miles back to the ferry home as I had no money for a taxi.

Good times.
Is that really fair? SSO is free, but SCIM isn't.
I do not think IQ tests are meant or designed to measure effects from illness. We do not say that IQ drops when you are sick with the flu and have high fever that makes it hard to think. IQ does not drop when you wake up groggy in the morning up until you drink coffee. I am not sure why people use IQ here instead of referring specifically to brain fog and other symptoms of post-COVID infection. IQ does not drop when you get sick and does not increase when you get treatment. If that is the case, then it is even worse measure than it is supposed to be, because it does not measure anything remotely stable.
I know people who have been in long term covid studies since maybe April 2020, in what was the Seattle Flu study: self testing at least weekly back then and sending in samples regularly. The first people recruited were all the medical researchers at that institution and nearby who worked on things with no connection to covid, but relevant enough lab knowledge that they were trusted to understand how to self test.
You mean some people only go out to work?

If true, OK, I was wrong about WFH/hybrid being superior to RTO, I guess different people mean different habits.
Yes, that number is absurd. A normal person can maybe write a book a year, max. Stephen King can write two, but there's only one of him.

Maybe simple self-help books can be written a little faster, because they are shorter. A maximum set in words -- instead of books -- might work better; say 100-150k words per year?

But would that be enough? Wouldn't grifters create a multitude of accounts to publish their books?

Maybe the solution would be some kind of automated system to evaluate the quality of a book? It needn't be fine-grained, it would simply output "trash/non trash" and could try to test whether the book contains any new information not available elsewhere, or whether there are entire paragraphs taken verbatim from wikihow.

But AI-generated books may be hard to spot. Maybe there's no solution.
I'll bet surgeons wear masks for more time than most people did during COVID, but we don't see surgeon IQs tanking.