skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all: get professional help.

Talking about „rather dying“ is not a good sign - these days it may be words written on some forum, but who knows what may push you over the edge.

The next steps will then be taken, one by one, one after the other.

But, to repeat: seek a professionals help!
Noob questions:

PRs are public and email patches are receiver's inbox only, right?

When I'm assessing the merit of any given project, I'd want see if there's a backlog of PRs, right?

Do projects using email-patch workflows set up listservs for receiving patches?
Benchmarking OpenSearch and Elasticsearch
The externality is increased public health care cost. Obesity leads to increased risks of heart attacks, diabetes, strokes, etc. And there’s a strong between poverty and obesity, making it more likely the public will pay the cost of treatment.

There are other externalities as well; for example, we still haven’t really solved the problems created by all the plastic packaging used with processed foods.
As I recall, there are some studies that show that a daily baby aspirin can be helpful for general heart health. I you were taking an adult aspirin, that may have been the issue.
Come on, that's a silly hot take. The settlements were removed 20 years ago and the settlers didn't want to leave.
If someone will absolutely not accept talking without disappearing messages, they probably won't go "well iMessage doesn't have the feature so I might as well talk without it", they'd ask that you switch over to an app that does have it.
Indeed, it is somewhat unfair to Chamberlain to compare him to Trump [1].

[1] https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--how-does...
> No there are no standardised tools.

Why would you expect there to be a standardised set of tools used by the largest distributed project in the world? Do you think that this would be possible to enforce globally in a way that makes everyone happier to contribute?

You mentioned two tools that are used by some subsystems. b4[1] is another one, and more are listed here[2]. So there _is_ tooling around it that works for many people. It's just not your preferred choice of tooling, which is... fine.

The fact that email is the lowest common denominator seems like a good thing to me. It allows everyone to use their tools of choice. As long as you can send and receive email, you can contribute. How you decide to integrate that into your development process is up to you. If you can't be bothered to setup a workflow from scratch, then you can adopt someone else's. I'd much rather have this choice, than be forced to use Gerrit or GitHub or whatever else.

[1]: https://b4.docs.kernel.org/

[2]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.14-rc4/dev-tools/index.ht...
I would love better battery life, but personally, running manufacturer-supported Linux is worth the tradeoff: every Linux tool I'd run in production works for every program on my laptop (no need to set up VMs, and even then, the Linux tools can't work with or inspect what's running on the macOS host...); containers run at full, native performance; games on Steam work much better than macOS (it's literally just a bigger, better Steam Deck!); plus the niceties of upgradeability.

If I usually worked from cafes, or spent many hours a day working on planes or trains, all-day battery life would be at the top of my list. But I usually work in workspaces that have power, so... It would definitely be nice to have better battery life, but other features are higher priority for me.
I was sitting here thinking everyone else was wrong under the assunption that almost nobody here actually tried to read and interpret that wording in the least generous way possible (i.e. how lawyers intetpret everything), but I guess the joke's on Mozilla and I for reading the wrong version.

Your attention to detail here is exceptional and commendable. I used to feel that Mozilla's decision here was defensible and misunderstood, but it's now looking more like Mozilla and I are guilty of misunderstanding, after reviewing your claims here.

Thank you for having the patience to explain in such detail! Posts like yours here are part of the magic that elevates HN discussions over so many other forums on the web these days :)
Off-topic but this is a pretty interesting study guide format.

Maybe it's standard in lots of places, but I've mostly seen study guides where they just list a ton of topics and that's it.
It is a possibility I actually agree with, because a true understanding probably requires a lot more than taking some classes. It probably needs a PHD on Cosmology or something else.

But let's say a shallow understanding is good enough...even just completing a General Relativity graduate course with good mark is good enough.
An influx of money and pressure to MAKE more money to justify some absurd evaluation ... seems like a death sentence / recipe for choices that turn off users.

Supposedly Discord is profitable now. "Discord generated $575 million revenue in 2023," So then ... why this?
India is absolutely embarrassing. Could have been an extremely important 3rd party that obviates the moronic US vs China, us or them, fReEdOm vs communism narrative with all the talent it has.
We definitely need to run much more simulations to get accurate dashboard
And how is that a misrepresentation? How people feel about their own financial situations and risk exposure is very famously and firmly in the realm of "that's just your opinion". There's no clear or correct interpretation of what "from a financial standpoint, I'll survive, as long as I don't have another emergency", unless you know her personally and know what she considers to be an "emergency".

A much better signal is that when she reflects on how the stolen $50k could have been used, she imagines: "I could have paid for over a year’s worth of child care up front. I could have put it toward the master’s degree I’ve always wanted. I could have housed multiple families for months." Sure, just because she didn't say "I could have paid off my mortgage/student/car loans" doesn't mean she doesn't have those. But it's a far stretch to assert that her written viewpoint sounds like a typical middle-class/upper-middle-class American, nevermind definitively excludes her from being rich (or at least belonging to one of the hundreds of thousands of millionaire households in New York).
Yay, do it! I'm in linear algebra right now (midterm in 40 minutes) and I'm over 40. I went back because I always regretted not taking more higher level math. It's been a lot of work, but very rewarding. My kids (age 7 and 5) think it's pretty cool to see dad working on his TI-89 and Notability on iPad.
too mental to see who you are responding to ? maybe worry about your own health first.
I love it, I always wished for something like that. Will try to later test with python. Wish there was also for JS/TS. As for rr debugger did it got by now any support for MacOS or Windows or Android? I'm also wondering how heavy are those recording for typical apps.

This would be also great for LLM to give some context via MCP server or even let LLM pick what variables history wanna see instead of giving full recording file.

Also nice would be some recording filtering that you wanna e.g. pick few variables and display history during whole execution maybe with some specific formating and maybe even for some numeric variables or like tensors, images, etc pass to rerun for visual debugging so you can see plot it
Yep, first thing I thought, too. I'm terrified of age-related degeneration, so I try to stay active and mentally alert, just like my father did. He got out and played golf every chance he had, did duo-lingo to try to learn to speak Spanish, played bass in his church band, kept working even though he didn't need the money... and still got Alzheimers. Now he can't drive, can't be trusted to go out and take a walk by himself, can't even work the TV, so all he can do is sit and watch DVD's that my mom changes for him - at least while she still can.

I'm still going to try to fight it for myself, though.
Yes, this is what I was saying.
Good luck! You should check out Math Academy, it's more effective/efficient/cheaper but also a good supplement since it's accredited.

I recently turned 40 myself and I'm working through their Foundations courses (made to help adults catch up) before tackling the Machine Learning and other uni courses.
If we're using the metric "garbage I was tricked into purchasing arrives faster", then yes, Amazon is a tremendous success story.
The Marshall Plan doesn't mention empire. Wikipedia defines them as

>An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries".

I've sort of argued with Russian propagandists going on about Europe being part of the US empire so the Russians are only doing the same by sending tanks into Ukraine but it isn't really like that. I mean the UK is obligated to help defend the US under NATO and we did sent troops to Afgansitan on their behalf so is the US part of the British Empire or is the the UK part of the US Empire and how can we tell? Where are the viceroys? At that point I mostly get blocked.

I mean you can redefine the words so everywhere that watches netflix is part of the US cultural empire but it's not empire in the traditional British Empire sense and gets a bit meaninless if you include everything.
The ads for nitro? Or are there other ads?
I'm not saying those regions are more pro russia than Ukraine, but that there is non minor population in there that is pro russia, ethnically russian or speaks russian - which is why russia wants them.

That's a very weak argument. For example, Kherson, one of the four officially annexed regions of Ukraine, is 82% Ukrainian and only 14% Russian. Even Brighton Beach and a number of other Brooklyn neighborhoods have more Russians than that. And Russian ethnic background does not mean that they support the war: over 80% Russians in Ukraine say that Russia has no right over any part of Ukraine.

Polling leaked from Russian authorities running the occupied territories revealed the same thing: even after hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians had fled as refugees, and the remaining had been subjected to terror, nowhere did the support for joining Russia exceed 30%.

This fits nicely with the pre-war polls that showed support ranging from 1% in Kherson to 13% in Luhansk.
There still is a relatively easy Windows10/11 activation crack - which Microsoft support has even been caught sharing with customers.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-sup...

Back in the late aughts, there was an article from someone at Microsoft talking about how they weren't that interested in going after people pirating Windows in the developing world, because they saw it as an opportunity for turning them into paying customers. Really - that piracy is expanding the Microsoft ecosystem, which back then was important because they viewed Linux on the desktop as a huge threat. (Is it the year of Desktop Linux yet?)

The ease with which Windows is cracked still is probably no accident, but nobody's talking about it. If you're running a business at some point your security folks are going to point out that using cracked software is how you invite attackers inside your security perimeter. (Seriously, down that path lies losing all of your bank accounts)
This book (Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen) is a must read if one wishes to understand how a nuclear war will unfold:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182733784-nuclear-war
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Thanks. I definitely will teach myself some of the pre-requisites before registering in University. I need to prove to myself that I can sit down, take some course, complete the coursework + assignments + exams on MIT courseware, before committing anything that costs $$.
But the AI tools are extremely easy to use, and their usability improves over time.

Of course the businesses prefer the commoditization of the employees, — if everyone uses AI anyway, why not hire the cheapest possible candidates?

For the employees this situation is beyond catastrophic. So maybe memorizing facts in school to gain some competitive edge is even more valuable in this setting.
Claude, the librarian
I've disabled UBO to see what you're talking about and... Wow. Browsing without ad blockers is just a deal breaker for me now, on a workstation or mobile.

(I block ads on Android using Firefox/UBO, and on the iPad using Brave).
Is your parents' property fenced off? How does using guard dogs compare to having an electric fence?
They are not going to invent a new language by themselves, they by definition can't even "think" in terms of languages they haven't seen. It does not occur to them that the language they use may be suboptimal. And surely, any better ways of thinking can still be described in English. It seems more likely there will be a gradual transition from us teaching LLMs how to reason, to LLMs being able to actually gobble and process enough data to learn more effective ways to reason, which it can then "teach" us. But that's just the LLM reflecting the way it was trained and aligned.
It's not empty. It often happens that you don't notice things that you've seen all your life. It's only when you go somewhere that you notice the difference.
I wonder if Firefox will ever fix this 20 year old issue https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356 ?
Have you tried it as yet? Don't fall for benchmark scores.
>the anti-Europe sentiment in the current US government and libertarian spaces

I haven't seen this at all. Europe is generally seen as our closest ally.
Disclaimer: I've never been to the UK outside of Heathrow, but my impression is that climate wise it would be ideal for heat pumps. Cold, but not like COLD COLD.
OK Google says 0F for the record low in London, compared to -15F in NY City.
All your GM example proves is that mediocre and below-average leadership gets propped up all the time, which reinforces my point rather than detracts from it. The hard part for Musk wasn’t to be innovative or be a great manager, the hard part was getting money from the government the first time. And that wasn’t anywhere near difficult in 2008 when the US government was throwing cash at automotive startups left and right via the ATVM program.

While ATVM was known for other automotive startup failures it also led to the Nissan Leaf thanks to the battery plant in Tennessee, and it led to Ford’s EV and hybrid programs along with a turnaround. Most of the more established recipients of funding came out with positive results, and that includes Tesla, which was much further along than other smaller startups who received the loans. They got to develop the Model S on the cheap.

I disagree that success in multiple industries is meaningful. My 401k is successful in every industry. Big whoop. Again, Elon’s companies with few exceptions all have a commonality of government contracts/assistance which all stems from Tesla’s unexpected success giving him a positive relationship with the government. Networking and capital, not strength of management. Survivorship bias, not excellence in management.

He has never proved himself at turning around struggling companies like so many storied managers that I read about in business school, e.g., Steve Jobs. His most recent “turnaround story” is Twitter, buying a company and making it smaller while building the conditions for competitors to pick up marketshare (Threads, BlueSky, Reddit’s IPO and traffic explosion, and up next is Digg).

Grok isn’t competitive with OpenAI because their revenue and customer list is a fraction of the size. They are squarely behind Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI.
This, basically. He's said that we're going to take Greenland one way or another, is talking about taking the Panama Canal, is basically telling Russia we're on their side and Europe can deal with it themselves, and China is ramping up activities around taking Taiwan [1]. He's also classified the cartels as terrorist organizations and has talked about sending in elite US forces to take them out, which Mexico has said they would view as a violation of their sovereignty.

I've been listening to a lot of French news lately and France is already talking about needing to build more nuclear weapons and to extend nuclear protections across Europe, as the US has in a short few weeks completely alienated all of our allies from the past 80 years [2].

So, I don't know, seems like we're closer to everything going to shit globally than in any other time in my 40+ years.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-will-work-firmly-a...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/how-realistic-is-france...
NFTs were created for the very reason that certificates of authenticity have no value unless the ledger from which they were issued is not public.

How can you know there wasn't more certificates printed than tee shirt created ?

How do you know it's a real certificate in the first place ?

How about you loose the certificate ?

Seriously there really is no reason to not prefer a digital certificate versus a physical one, it is on all accounts superior.

You certainly wouldn't argue cryptographic keys are useless because we have physical ones on any other matter if it wasn't for following the "I don't like blockchain" trainwagon.
I'm skeptical. I was in my 40's before I graduated from a college. Before that, I did some serious electronics with a background from my local community college, have worked production lines, taught myself assembly language when I was engineering my first microprocessor-based design at work, then when I couldn't get re-employed years later, a lot of potential employers simply not believing my resume content because my 'formal education' was lacking, so I went back to school, got my BS in 1999, and my MS in 2006, then continued working on personal projects and learnign new coding languages on my own since now nobody wanted to take a chance on hiring an 'old' man. Their loss.
I wish I had all the money and all the time! I don't, alas...

I know it sounds stupid but I started to but lottery tickets, not to win, because statistically it is impossible, but just to give me hope, because lottery is the only thing in the world that can land a mountain of cash in one shot, with a very small investment. Nothing else can do that.

That's why humans purchase lottery tickets all the time throughout history. It's too cheer themselves up.
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I'm in my late 40s and I've found that my desire for working on side projects after work is affected by how engaged I am mentally at work. When I'm building new features/products from scratch and I'm having to figure out architecture and learn more about whatever language I'm coding in, I get more amped to do side projects at home. When I'm bored and just bug fixing and dealing with more mundane things, I have no desire to do any more coding after work. Something about being more engaged gets my brain in a state that I can keep going for the rest of the day until I need to pull myself away from the computer because it's 2am and I should have been asleep hours ago. I should note that I don't have children so the only "obligation" I have is to spend time with my partner and eat dinner, which I enjoy doing, of course. She usually starts getting ready for bed around 10pm and that's when I start coding. I do have some bad sleep patterns though, doesn't matter if I'm coding or not, which is probably not healthy. I have that revenge nighttime procrastination thing real bad.
There's a niche online health community which follows the work of a late Dr. Ray Peat, who have been touting the benefits of aspirin for a long time:

https://raypeat.com/articles/aging/aspirin-brain-cancer.shtm...

Some of Dr. Peat's disciples have even begun their own independent cancer research (in mice) trying to prove efficacy of far more basic interventions:

https://x.com/haidut/status/1751716166387597730

I've been an observer of this sphere since ~2017, have implemented various Peat-related concepts towards my own health and fitness, to overall positive results. What's interesting is seeing more and more of these theories - under the theme of 'bioenergetics' - starting to be proven out even in conventional research.
Trump has always said "51st state", so all Canadian provinces would have a few Representatives and 2 senators. The number of electoral votes is sacred, as is the number of senators and representatives. Adding Canada as 1 state wouldn't really change national politics.

Yes, I'm glossing over Quebec.
I have been using bitcoin since shortly after it's inception. I don't buy any of your spurious claims.
Bitcoin survived the blocksize war of 2016 and it's only become more durable and secure since. 51% attack is now outrageously prohibitive. Gold is a fancy paperweight that's impractical to use. Adoption is happening hand over fist for a reason. If you can't see it too bad.
I did realize something interesting when there and it speaks to my previous point: most of the abuse was amongst the workers themselves. A lot of times a farmer/producer will hire "a guy" to do a job, one that acts as a contractor. Almost all the time they were migrants. Most times they were legal, but sometimes not. It was up to them to do the actual resourcing - the farmer/producer has no time for that. It would be that contracted resource doing most of the maltreatment/underpaying/mismanagement, and they would almost always treat the entire group badly. I was lucky in that I was there as a family member to the farmer just trying to make summer cash.

You're never going to not have some population of people with influence and resources attempt to take advantage of people without those things - that is a story that's as old as time. But statistically these that you have listed are all one-offs - that doesn't mean that we shouldn't care - but it does mean that the tone of your first post is very much over-stated.
Have you noticed the rampant appropriation of common words of late in HN references to products? Engine. Leaflet. Bayleaf. On and on I’ve forgotten how many I’ve seen but it’s ridiculous to think that in time, they’ll all be trademarked in the US. In short, I find it an issue with no remedy at present, yet to say it’s all well and good would be a sign of ignorance.
Paper Review: Variational Lossy Auto-Encoders
Climate wise: yes.

Housing stock wise: not so much.

Heat pumps seem really good for well insulated modern houses, much of the UK's housing stock is >100years old and pretty drafty.
Nobody loves this, and I suspect that's the point. I expect this same tech is about to be rolled out en masse to surveil workers everywhere (if it hasn't already been).

I further suspect that by applying this to the people in charge of creating regulations, the artist is trying to drive new regulations.
Why even build an app? This app should've been a website. Better pester browser developers to implement "Add to desktop" feature.
I went through the same evolution, even built a PaaS for AWS, but I kept going and now just deploy my own stuff to VMs with Swarm via one command in Rove. It's great. And yes I know kubernetes I use it at work. It's an unnecessary waste of time.