skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was not allowed to use Wikipedia as a source

Ummmmm

One of the "rules" of referencing is that one never references an encyclopaedia. An encyclopaedia is where you get only the basic background information for your study, not details worthy of referencing.

Reference an encyclopaedia in an academic paper and the referees will, quite rightly, reject it and request a better source for your reference.
Show HN: A Personal Cash Flow Simulator
Hey, everyone! This is a small project I whipped together to help visualize money coming in and going out for my own needs. I've used a small Python script for literally years to budget and manage my money. I had always wanted visualizations and better interactivity than what I had in just a Python script.

So there is a chart view, a table view (very similar to the output of my Python script), and you can manage which transactions are applied in the simulation.

Try loading demo data from the settings page to see what it's like!

I hope someone can find use for this!
>I'm at a crossroads and feeling lost

One shouldn't confuse their career with their calling or their life path, that's for sure. Before jumping to any conclusions, make sure you ask yourself the right questions.
Developer goodwill can be very powerful marketing.
By definition you can only respond to a decapitation strike if you haven't been decapitated.

Anyways, I think the nuclear deterrent is an okay argument, I'm not totally convinced by it because I think you could also get right up to the line and even push it without your opponent being crazy enough to push the big red button.

I think we're doing this right now to each other all the time. For example, China is systematically targeting US trade secrets. This seems existentially frightening, but we haven't yet levelled China with nukes.

In fact, if I were a government, I'd secretly have a policy to never push the button, but that's just me.
> What the louder militia members and gun nuts are up to is no secret.

For that matter, I'd include myself in the latter group. I'm reasonably vocal here - usually in an attempt to simply share my perspective, as it's not of the prevailing position in this community.

Sure, "the gun nuts" have a different agenda than the larger community. We're gun nuts because that's important to us. I can't think of anything that I've ever said (or seen said) in that community that should be secret. Lots of things that could be easily taken out of context, sure, and a fair number of things that are just plain inappropriate - but you could say the same for any community.

> You worry about the ones who organize quietly.

Some of them, absolutely.

> Here's "God, Family, and Guns", on YouTube.[1] This week, "What gun would Jesus carry?" (Answer: a 1911, the classic Army .45 automatic from 1911.)

I've never heard of that channel - though, granted, I'm not really a YouTube kinda person. It looks like what I'd call "Boomer content". I don't mean that in a negative way exactly; that's the kind of thing I'd expect someone in the gun community in their mid-50s or older to watch. The younger generation (say, 20s-40s) is watching things like "The Fat Electrician".
There seems to be a class of decent mantras / heuristics like this:

* Good at a first approximation for directing your own agency (conscientious effort definitely improves chances of success, there are few reasons not to engage it other than "your ladder is on the wrong wall" situations).

* Much poorer as a general model of the world, especially one that should be socialized.
Also, the whole point of EUV/XUV sources is to rapidly and efficiently convert the plasma energy into photon radiation, which is just the opposite of what you want in a fusion plasma.
Not being built on Matrix is a plus, at this point, given the historically poor moderation of that platform.
Forcing someone into a mental institution means they are housed. Many (numbers wise, I have no idea what %) of the homeless in the US refuse all government help. In the US if you refuse help and have not committed a serious crime the government cannot force you to get help.

I have known a few paranoid schizophrenic people in my life. They needed help, but refused all attempts to get it to them. One eventually did get help - but only because he committed a felony and his condition was obvious enough that the court forced an insanity plea on him.

While the above sounds awful, it could be worse. The US used to have a lot of institutions and force people into them all the time. Abuse was common - it is debatable if freezing to death on the streets is worse than the institutions of old - most homeless don't freeze to death (though it happens). The right answer is reform the institutions, but I don't know how you do that.
If the military is not on your side, your pop-guns aren't going to do squat.

If the military is on your side, they don't need your help. People wandering around with guns, and without uniforms, get civilians killed, which is why it's a violation of the Geneva Convention.
Literally the two most important things from the article.

Get better at things so you don't have to worry about decline. That simple.

Its like a muscle - develop it early on and then you can easily keep it in shape without much effort until the day you die, without any noticeable decline (at least until like 70).
As a former politician, I really don't love this.

It's already difficult enough to get people of the capacities that most of us want to see (good, smart, could be employed elsewhere, empathetic) involved in politics as it's so negative and divisive.

There are, as other comments highlight, loads of legitimate and reasonable reasons why somebody would be using a phone mid-debate: rebuttal research, communicating with colleagues in chamber, communicating with their own office/staff, the list is fairly long and reasonably legitimate.
LFortran compiles PRIMA
Right, and my point was that if rape doesn't have the death penalty, then murder is less likely.
Sorry to hear that. My FIL was just diagnosed with dementia and it’s heartbreaking to watch it progress.
Is the joke because Einstein published his findings on General Relativity at 36?
Obituary of Niklaus Wirth
> It reminds of my first month of law school when some chipper professors painfully educated us on "Sheperdizing" case decisions using the printed volumes

Not really understanding your argument.

I would expect, not being a lawyer, that the classes in the first months of law school would serve to do more than teach specific case law. Maybe get students indoctrinated into the anarchistic[0] ways of the judiciary or something?

Though... I have heard that lawyers have been very successful in getting sanctions from using ChatGPT in pleadings so you do you.

--edit--

[0] Or even "archaic" but I like the typo...
This study needs to capture the affects of sleep deficiency. I'm in my mid-forties and don't sleep enough anymore (6-7 hours at best).
Many of the current homeless within, say, the U.S. would have come of age following "Just Say No", the War on (some) Drugs, and DARE programmes. Casual survey would say effectiveness was limited.

If you're looking for a policy angle, I'd suggest one more conducive to providing more housing and stable incomes.
My take on LLM deception games where you can play too: https://trashtalk.borg.games/
The web client is fairly well behaved and does away with the need for constantly installing updates: https://discord.com/app
good, better late than never. no need to be angry.
You would still very likely need human input and help. LLMs will hallunicate badly on problems just a bit more difficult than the very standard ones (first-hand experience with math).
The Most Annoying UI Problem: R3DITM (2017)
In a world without an electoral college, I’m not sure you can say this.

Almost every state is winner take all in electoral votes.

I suspect there are a lot of discouraged voters who don’t vote, because they live in states where their opinion is overrun by the political slant of the state’s majority.

In a direct popular vote, their vote counts a lot more.
>Another thing is when I was in school, cheating would get you expelled, so there was a pretty good deterrent.

Although what constitutes cheating varies quite a bit. Working together on problems sets is OK in some places/classes but not others, having cheat sheets/formula sheets/open book is OK on some exams but not on others, some classes are explicitly group projects, etc.
They don't want to support Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Why doesn't Europe take all of the Zionists so we can return Palestine to the Palestinians?
I looked at pricing original pricing info for Volkswagen Microbus [1] and I adjusted it for inflation. I came up with prices in the range of 20k~30k. 60k is definitely a lot but then I remember that most sedans are in the 20k, and the Toyota Sienna is in the 40k. The pricing of the bus compared to other cars makes sense but it's still too much. It makes more sense to buy used tbh.

[1] https://www.ratwell.com/technical/MSRP.html

[2] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

[3] https://www.toyota.com/sienna/
They don't embrace AI is how I read that.
Reminds me of the (supposed) benefits of reintroducing wolves at Yellowstone; they reduced and got the elk population moving, reducing overgrazing, helping beavers recover, and helping rivers and biodiversity to recover.

https://www.yellowstone.org/wolf-project/, https://rewilding.academy/how-wolves-change-rivers/

Of course, that's Yellowstone which is a lot bigger and not populated by people. Wolves are returning (or, being allowed to return) to the Netherlands as well where they end up decimating sheep populations for the fun of it, much to the chagrin of farmers.
I took from you replying “not a fan of every bank transaction becoming” with the fact that the banks have to give access at the customer's request, and the requirement somehow impacted the “not a fan” because it is not optional.

> if the customer gives permission

Of course once permission has been given, it is part of that dataset (whether or not that is made clear by the app) and numerous other datasets (unless the law requires companies not share that data, and companies all fully obey that law, and they don't have any little data accidents).
How can you not understand?

Homeless who are mentally ill -> Forcefully put into institutions

Homeless who are drug addicts -> Forcefully put into institutions

Homeless who are criminals -> Forcefully put into jail or prison

How many homeless do you have left after that? The majority of homeless people in any place in the world has one or more of the above problems. Why would anybody be homeless if they didn't? Except for a short time during a crisis.
Software developer of more than 20 years.

I wouldn't say, "decline," to be charitable. I tend to lean more on mathematics and writing. That often makes up for the lack of stamina.

When I look back on code I wrote 15, 20 years or more ago... it's fine but it lacks the sophistication I have now. I didn't know what I didn't know back then and had to learn. I can see in my code where I encountered a problem and instead of solving it I added more code until it, "worked."

I wasn't university educated so that's explains a bit of it. I didn't start picking up pure functional programming and formal methods until my mid thirties (gosh, has it been a decade already?). I worked through Harvard's Abstract Algebra at 38. I'm leaning more about writing proofs and proof engineering in my spare time while continuing to stream work in Haskell on various libraries and projects. And I'm in my 40s -- I'm doing more programming and mathematics now than ever.

I'm also playing in a band, practice calisthenics and skateboarding, and have been improving my illustration skills with ink.

It seems like the discovery of the article is that if you don't use your skills they start to decline as early as your late 20s. All it takes is practice to maintain and improve them!

I might get a little tired every now and then and can't keep every library I've used in my head all at once. But I tend to rely more on mathematics and specifications and writing. I write less code now. I remove code. And I keep programs and systems fast and correct.

Nothing declining here!
I'm very happy with Cloudflare Tunnel on the free tier. Setting it up didn't feel that complex, you just install a client app, link it to your account/domain and then go through their equivalent of setting up nginx, i.e. assign hostnames to ports, and you can even do that through the web interface.

Yes, Cloudflare has tons of functionality you probably won't need and their dashboards can be several layers deep, but just setting up the tunnel with HTTPS and some basic security takes one evening at most.
> please please prioritize financial freedom

This advice could really backfire badly if taken literally by young people.

Optimizing for financial reward early in your career could be the surest way to end up in a dead end from a mission/purpose/domain/skills perspective.

20 years later, you realize you burned two precious decades accumulating money that, honestly, does not help you at all make sense or use of the next two.
> Were you in a coma until a couple of hours ago and just read this thread without any prior context?

lol whats with you and personal insults. maybe step away from the screen, take a breather, drink some tea or something.
GenX-ers and Millenials who have been in tech a long time are likely doing OK financially, but are also likely at the age where they have kids which eat up a huge fraction of their disposable income.

Historically, advertisers have really loved late teens and early 20-somethings. They're starting to earn money, but don't have a lot of obligations or expenses yet, so they have a lot of discretionary income.

I also disagree that being into computers is a "common subject" these days. Everyone uses computers (some of which have keyboards), but most people aren't "into" them any more than the average commuter is into cars.
I would define ads as promoting other businesses' products, as you would see on YouTube etc.

Upselling is basically just unlocking additional features. If you object to that, then you're objecting to the freemium model, not to "ads".
freedom of speech is notably absent here.
Would Canada get voting rights? I would assume that Canada (or any other aquisition) would get a status like the District of Columbia or Puerto Rico to prevent a political shift in the US.
Those two michael were detained because Canada detained Chinese national under US ask.
Why are you belligerent?
Israel gets handouts from many countries including the US and still talks about the holocaust, which pre-dates the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. It's quite hypocritical that WWII is "never again" but Nakba is "just get over it".
>Most academics agree that you shouldn't cite Wikipedia as a source in your academic writing...

https://www.scribbr.com/frequently-asked-questions/can-i-cit...
Skype was destroyed the moment Microsoft bought it and converted it to a centralized, interceptable platform at the behest of the U.S. government.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/nsa-docs-boast-now-w...
Having once sat in one of the chairs in the House Chamber, I'll fault no politician for fidgeting with their phone. If whatever is being discussed is rather irrelevant or droning on, you've got to do something to stay awake with such comfort.
If it works I'll say "I can automate you away". If it doesn't work I'll say "You checked in that code without understanding what it does?"

In which scenario does the cheater win?
Congrats on the release! Looks like you have done a great job so far. Doesn't fit a need for me at the moment, but I will keep an eye out for the alternative back-end evolution and additional programming language support. Thanks!
the code examples etc though is 100% react at this point.
for me I would like to see a vue.js version.
Thats why I don't do vibe coding and try not to use LLMs to generate code.

Because it literally speeds up your cognitive decline as your brain shuts off and offloads all the heavy lifting.
OK, but...

I am not a doctor. I don't even play one on TV. But if I understand correctly, there are two types of strokes: hemorrhagic strokes (strokes caused by bleeding in the brain) and... I don't know the technical term, but clot-based strokes (a blood clot blocks an artery in the brain). And if I understand correctly, clot-based strokes are something like 80% of strokes - they're four times as likely as hemorrhagic strokes.

So isn't aspirin a net win anyway? You may increase your odds of a hemorrhagic stroke, but decrease your odds of the other kind of stroke, and the other kind is more common. (Unless you have some reason to think that you are more susceptible to hemorrhagic strokes than the other kind.)

Corrections welcome, especially ones with data.

Note well: This is not medical advice. Consult a doctor, not randos on the internet.
The upgrade to the M chips was shocking to me. My intel suddenly felt like it was defective.
> and higher wages) eventually

Higher real wages?

Do gains from trade not exist?

Comparative advantage: Country A has an easier time making X than Y, and country B has an easier time making Y than X, so country A should trade some of their Xs for Ys, and both countries end up richer.

I think there's some reasons to dial back interdependence a little, but I don't think it's a path likely to lead to greater wealth or real wages.

(And certainly no reason to make erratic changes at large scale, focusing on allies and neighbors first).
The tactics are quite effective. If you put these rats in say the US Army and pursued such vigorous prosecution you could likely lock away the legit rank and file of both military and militias.
Devil's advocate: how many years did it take him to get to publishing this work?
Why would they "compromise" with the people who stole their land. Were the Jews meant to "compromise" with the Nazis?
look what happened to NVIDIA because they were able to win goodwill of developers. Lots of companies use PyTorch with NVIDIA
That was my reasoning as well, I used to work for a company that really wanted code to be obfuscated because they were terrified of corporate espionage. Even though the one I was working on was just a configuration interface, and the configuration was plain text files, and the application didn't do anything special, just complicated (mobile network routing / protocols, lots of domain specific knowledge but as far as I know nothing secret or difficult to reproduce with enough resources).
Ohh I feel you. I also struggle with having a garbage job, needing it, and letting it ruin my mental state.

The usual advice is to emotionally distance yourself from bad interactions. No idea how to do that though.

What kind of works for me is to offset the bad stuff with the good. Play video games with friends, in person, sitting on a couch, as it should be. Start a side project that nobody needs but you, purely for the sensation of making a thing that you like.

And at the earliest opportunity, get out of there. Corpos are the enemy.
Yeah, this is the part I care about.

I'm not a big Discord user, but the one thing I do use it for is voice chat and game streaming with friends.
> up to the point of General Relativity.

Putting in a plug for MIT OCW 8.962 [1]. I also had this itch, and was able to find time during the pandemic to work through the course (at about 1/2 speed). But true to what others are saying, life intruded for the last few lectures, so still have some items on my todo list. I thought Scott Hughes laid out the math with terrific clarity, with just the right amount of joviality. It is not for everyone, but if you have a suitable background it may turn "scratch an itch" into the obsession that it has done to me.

And to make the obligatory on-topic comment: I'm 61yo. Now get off my lawn.

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/8-962-general-relativity-spring-...
Yeah it was really a surprise to me when I realized that my energy declined to the point that I couldn't work on my side projects for the down days. Then I counted how many days I have for the rest of my life (up to 75) and this dreaded me a lot.

And it got worse after my son was born a few years ago. I would count the number of weeks available, not the days, because there has been whole weeks that I couldn't do anything. After all those are two full-time jobs.

As for your CS education, I'd recommend getting into some side projects and explore from there. If you go to a school, it's going to take too many courses.
100% this. My daily driver is a 2015 MacBook Pro that I only have one complaint about: the battery life doesn’t come anywhere close to letting me work on an airplane if there’s no 120V plugs available. I mean… most of the time I don’t mind just sleeping but it would be great to take better advantage of the quiet time with no slack messages.
aw shii here we go again...
Palestinians would be in Palestine if they weren't being ethnically cleansed by the Zionists. Any destabilization rests firmly at the feet of Zionism.
Nobody watches computers play chess
IIRC a lot of politicians in the US have been very anti-gay, until a family member they cared about came out as gay. Suddenly, and only then did they start to care about human rights.

Ideally, this will result in more politicians being upset about needless ~~user~~ human hostility. And perhaps a few of them will understand the implications of why it's bad.
> Also, Chinese manufacturers will do the same as Japanese and Korean manufacturers before them: work around tariffs by building assembly plants in the US and Europe.

That's literally the stated purpose of Trump's tariffs, though.

It's not about hurting the Chinese. That's a bonus in some cases, sure, but the stated purpose is to encourage US economic growth in the industrial sector.

If BYD starts building factories in the US to hire American workers and sell to American consumers, Trump would be bringing it up every time he saw a microphone.
Login gating was initially made less aggressive when Musk took over, then not long after AI scraping became a big deal and then Twitter clamped down hard, around the same time Reddit started locking down their API for same reason.
> honestly, does not help you at all make sense or use of the next two.

Why?
And you can use your iPad or computer to check Facebook
I've heard this my entire life, too. However, having lived more places than just California, I see California as having undue influence on the entire country. Prop 65 warnings pop up on things outside of California. I've even seen stuff labeled as CARB outside of California. These are trivial examples, but both of those things are California legalities. If Louisiana had undue influence on the US, more packaging would have French language as well as English; just as a trivial example.

Something that affects someone living in Los Angeles County may not affect someone in any of the other "2xxx" counties that have less population. For instance, i have a well for water. I don't worry about water shortages in California when i run my well. My water usage doesn't affect Los Angeles at all. And not even in the "butterfly" way because the jetstream goes the other way. This, again, is a trivial example.

Policing in L.A. is different than policing in LA. roadworks are different. Disaster preparedness is different. Fire risks are different. Taxation is different. Health needs are different.

What this boils down to: Californians, and specifically the valley and L.A. County residents, have a loud enough voice to push this agenda, but only when someone they don't like wins. California was happy to put a republican actor in office when the republican actor was "from California."
Beans and Vibes in Even Measure
A third of US air traffic control systems are 'unsustainable'
Sorry, I wasn't aware of this alternate spelling.