skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term "friend" is pretty worthless anymore, atleast compared to the definition I adhere to.

What most people call "friends" I'd call aquantiences but I prefer fewer high quality relationships than a large quantity of casual passings. I don't and never have valued such casual fleeting relationships of any kind outside those in the workplace (those are necessary to function in a modern workplace). I'd hardly call those folks friends: most are merely professional aquanteinces or colleagues, nothing more.

Good friends are and have always been difficult to come by. Many prefer loneliness with casual meaningless relationships than the work it takes to foster strong friendships. I'll never understand it but I was taught the value of meaningful human relationships exceed most other frivolities we often occupy ourselves with and it's been one of the most important aspects I followed through life as far as happiness is concerned.
I've written many apps and I've never experienced what you've described. I write my queries to return exactly the right data in exactly the right format in exactly the right order—so I can go straight from the generic data structures to the screen interface or document layout.

Nothing says the structure which make sense for an application can't be a generic array of generic dictionaries.

If your favourite programming language forces you to go through the silly hoops of data mapping in order to do useful things with query output, I can understand why an ORM might make sense for you.
True but lots of the learned answers are not visible to humans until they start solving them in real life. An example is the "pawn to h6" strategy that reinforcement network chess engines play which even the world champion Magnus copied.

Or the infamous Leela bug where it did not learn that you could underpromote to knight in the b(?) File. The devs only noticed it months later when Leela lost a game.

Training phase is billions of repetitions. It's not possible for humans to study it.
To make it harder a significant number of people need to have no ID. Banking require and id [1] and 93.5% of the population is banked. Most of the remainder probably has an ID for Government services that need them such as applying for food stamps, medicare, medicaid, having a job, unemployment support and social security.

In Norway, my home country, it has never been an issue in our 200 years as an independent country for anyone to get an ID to vote. And we used to be mostly dirt poor fishers and farmers that often lived in fairly isolated places.
By that measure it would seem data is the new money
Sounds weird. The reason China and japan do is way is to keep the HSR track as straight and short as possible. Bringing a train into a city that isn’t an end point would probably slow it down a lot.
Yup, absolutely. Friends I've made after finishing school have been through shared interests, activities, or clubs - running, homebrewing, etc.
Does the internet count
Charts show how little progress has been made in limiting greenhouse emissions
MAD still applies to Israel if they can field a sufficient submarine force to retaliate against a first-strike, unless their opposition can also field enough hunter-killer submarines to perform a full decapitation with surety.

Also worth pointing out, while a theocratic takeover of a state like Pakistan would be infinitely problematic, (probably) particularly for non-proliferation, MAD still applies unless the takeover is a flat-out doomsday cult. Problematic as I may find an Islamist theocracy as a Westerner, they're not insane, but simply of very different cultural belief. Should anyone want to live to see tomorrow, and or allow their offspring to do so then MAD applies.
MIT's Epstein scandal kept student up at night – so she decided to fight back
"The public" ... which you have statistics on? I'm sorry you feel bad but try not to speak for everyone.
Is being lonely really that bad? I like being lonely, not that it makes me happy, as a matter of fact it may be opposite but I really didn't like when I was not lonely (or) say when I had to socialise, indulge in the small-talk just for the sake of it; I felt like having to constantly fake emotions and have insincere conversations.

I've almost completely cut off any realtime communication and my current lifestyle seems like a luxury which I had been missing earlier. This has helped me to focus on things which I would like to do.
Itch.scratch(): “for loops should be able to have an else block ”
The risk is what you'll do when your kids are grown and move out. I definitely recommend, for your own mental health, to build some kind of other life outside your kids before it hits you like a ton of bricks.
With that said, to me, he's lucky to be alive. International football makes the USA's NFL look like a toddlers' playdate.
Well, the goal of doing a startup for me is to reach financial independence as soon as possible. 90% of startups fail. If my startup fails in India, I'll have to go back to a job that pays less than half of what a job in the west would pay. This will bring me further away from my goal of FI.

Also, please mention where you are living and what you do so that I can take into account any biased info.
> But generally we are not an authoritarian society thus we will likely not start this type of witch hunt.

...until you notice the UK police arrests about 8 people a day for tweets saying things like « It’s ok to be white » or calling a transgender a man [1]. The understanding of what is bad has gone from actual crimes to just saying a positive thing about a group that the majority thinks should never be talked about positively.

[1] https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/cwn/2019/february/uk-mom-arrest...
Can’t find it right now, but I recall some research showing that friendship for men is basically with whatever other men you’re around the most. If you’re a man and want more friends, you probably need to get a new job. Or make a long-term commitment to showing up to the same place where other men are also committed to showing up (AA meetings, church, sports team, etc). Or just be friends with the husbands of your wife’s friends.

The good news is you don’t need a sparkling wit or anything, you just have to show up.
From the article:

> The 11-digit codes [...] are hard to memorise and a single mistyped digit would send a courier to the wrong address.

The plus codes FAQ [1] mentions that they thought checksums weren't important for a couple of reasons:

* Not needed for codes that are copy pasted rather than typed or written

* Mistyped codes will be "obviously wrong" due to referring to an unrelated area

I'm not too convinced by the rationale, as playing around on Google Maps shows a typo of one digit can at least sometimes produce another valid code not too far away. And even if typoed codes were always obviously wrong, it's not clear that a computer would recognize incorrect but valid codes as well as a human.

[1]
https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/FAQ...
Agreed. As I scrolled through the Web page, I was thinking to myself that it looks cool and that I'd buy it on a whim if it came in around $200. But when I saw the about $500 price point, I was more like, hmmm, let me read the HN comments. The comments look to be fair but meh. So, it gets put on the someday wishlist.
study result

https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/docume...
Everything to know about raising money from SoftBank's $100B Vision Fund
Aurora PG Serverless is out as of July, but I’ve read some horror stories about it so far.
Could this also have something to do with how men define “close” vs women? Women are better at being emotionally vulnerable with friends so they may be able to obtain a deeper relationship faster. Co-workers and gym buddy’s might be considered close friends by women whereas they will never crack surface level interactions for men.
> In general, I want licenses to be written and vetted by lawyers.

I want them to be so standardized that I don't have to read them. If the license doesn't match something I already know, I'd be reluctant to include the code in any of my projects.
Did a 10 day sitting while addicted to nicotine after 10 years of smoking. I don't think I thought about cigarettes once. I did suffer from the withdrawal but it was subsumed in the meditation somehow
That was the gpt2. We downloaded the model and trained it for a specific usecase.

Made sense for each sentence. The whole article was nonsense though
If you look for terms that are used by bad people and not discussed otherwise, you will find what these bad people write. I don't see how someone would expect Google to police for example topics related to "The Bell Curve". Recently Sam Harris had trouble dealing with that topic.

Should Google suggest "polish concentration camps" when you type "polish concent"? I have no idea.
There is an incredible amount of stress following a divorce. What will happen with the kids. Where will everyone live. Can I afford to live the same life style. Who will our friends choose. And probably 100 things I have forgotten. I was not the same person after divorcing for I would say about 3 years. I felt out of place. Lost. Certainly not wanting to go grab a beer. It was not a celebration and if anything for a long time one feels like they had failed at something. So I can see how anyone going through a divorce is high risk for social isolation.
An important post-30 strategy that I use is to assume that all friends with children are prisoners in their own home. You know exactly where they are. You know they don't have plans. They are desperate for adult conversation. That means you can invite yourself over, bring takeout, and basically make their day. I'm coupled but this should work as a single.

Our parent friends say it's actually easier to be friends with child-free people because they don't have the complications of arranging around the kids. We arrive just as the kids are going to bed so that we can say a perfunctory hello and then usually leave by 10:30p.
It is ironic that no one has disrupted this market yet. Pre-IPO shares can be traded - you just have to trade those with accredited investors, prior to the form S-1 filling. I'm sure there's plenty of accredited investors out there that would accept startup shares at, say, 5-10% discount. Put another 2-3% transaction costs on top of that and you got yourself a very nice and socially pleasing enterprise.
There’s a pecking order for men. Nobody likes the guy at the bottom of the hierarchy.
Off topic: I'm absolutely delighted with the cookie policy of this website. Everything other than basic analytics turned off by default. More should follow this example.
Postgres hands down.
Do you have a hobbie that's not your work?
I did the same. Moved abroad in my mid 20s, effectively restarting my life in several respects. It can be hard to make new friends when you're in your late 30s/early 40s, but I'm ok with just a few.
The two most popular engines (Unity and Unreal) both have a GC for “front end” gameplay code. The trade-offs are real: manual resource management would be incredibly complex for large modern games (think open world, multiplayer), but GC spikes are a common issue in both engines.

The places where you generally don’t want a GC are with low level engine code, like the renderer - code that might execute hundreds or thousands of times a frame, where things like data locality become paramount. GC does you zero favors there.
Perhaps. But that's not the point. The waste isn't limited to food itself, but the resources to grow it, transport it, and even dispose of it.

The solution of "make more" doesn't actaully address the problems
I Gave Up Gluten, Sugar, Dairy, And Coffee (2017)
They turned off the displays on that level that used to show the Amtrak track numbers, so now you have to wait upstairs and then go down.
Reminds me I think of a Dilbert strip where Wally takes up smoking so he has an excuse to take breaks and hang out with people.
Humans are much more adaptable than robots right now.

If something breaks or goes wrong on a robotic mission that’s often the end of it. We haven’t got robots advanced anywhere near to human levels yet.
Well to some degree you might be right, but don't forget the USG is in bed with the private sector and regularly sends out NSLs[0] to companies asking for back doors and full access to customer/user data

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter
Honestly, I have to agree the title was misleading. It should have been something like 'The history of IBM's support of eugenics' or something. I too was hoping for at least some specific anecdotes of his father's time there, especially as the introduction mentioned years of racism and such towards him. Yet what followed did not elaborate on any of that or really connect to it at all. Much of that I'd read elsewhere over the years.
Ha too funny! I haven't heard the name Icecast in a long time. I know the guys who created Icecast. They did it because they wanted to run a radio station but according to them Shoutcast sucked, so they rewrote it from scratch as open source.

The reason it is called Icecast is because it was replicating the Shoutcast protocol, so that people with Winamp could play Icecast streams (Nullsoft made both Winamp and Shoutcast). The Shoutcast protocol used what were called ICY responses (which stood for I Can Yell) so they called their Icecast since it made ICY responses too.

This post unlocked that little corner of my memory. Fun!

ps. One of the Icecast guys worked on Ogg Vorbis because he thought that "mp3 sucked" and the other one is now a professor of Computer Science at USC.
I like your probing. I think it is going to take a variety of viewpoints for you to begin to arrive where you want to be. Which is great - it’s a path as good as any. Some are born and are told and are happy with that. Others question, and may end up somewhere entirely different from where they thought they were going...nonetheless becoming who and where they need to be. I fall into the second camp.

My view is only one viewpoint, and it is like a little painting I’m working on as I progress through life. I’ve shown a part of it to you, and it has some elements that may be imperfect. I think no matter what I do, there will always be those axioms and initial conditions which you (or I, or anyone) can question. When will the painting be finished? When it is perfect, or when it is beautiful? It may never be finished by me or anyone in this life. But we’re working on it. I think that’s saying something for us and life in general.

You’re ambitious, which is great. You’re respectful, even greater. I do, however, believe it is beyond my individual right and ability to attempt to provide an explanation for God, such as the causality of God’s existence. I do not know if such a thing can even be known, at least in the sense you seem to seek.

I feel God in my life, as real as the sun, grass, and breeze, but this feeling is always just beyond my complete and total understanding.

Honestly, I think love is the answer. I also think more will be revealed, my friend.
Ask HN: Would the creator of Strong AI be the most powerful person in the world?
Would the person who figures it out and creates a Strong AI, be considered the most powerful person on the planet?
What do you think the responsibilities of this person would be in this situation?
What would you do if you found yourself in this person's position?
Assuming you want to work in tech, I would recommend starting out in India for your first job. The startup scene is really good there and the growth and experience would be very valuable. Spend your first few years in a small company and then move to a big company. You will understand various types of work environments and how to thrive in each. Watch, listen and observe how people make decisions and where their incentives lie. Don't be afraid to look stupid making mistakes and asking stupid questions. You have the advantage of being young.

Politically speaking, do things that make your manager look good to their peers and above. This will also give you access to high visibility projects.

Canada, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ireland are good options if you want a first world country to settle down in. Canada's Tech ecosystem is really growing. Salaries are probably similar to India right now if you're comparing top tech cos.

If you're interested in immigrating to the US, I would only recommend if you are able to internally transfer as an international manager. Otherwise it's pretty much impossible to settle down on your own merit. there are exceptions of course if you're an internationally recognized person. This situation is very unique to those born in India.

Wish you all the best!
> There is no bias towards admitting females./ They do however emphasize top-of-funnel outreach for women to try to get more to apply.

The 266/267 ratio of acceptance letters is probably too good to be true, it's hard to believe they could so perfectly calibrate this outreach program.

If the school is spending money recruiting females and not males it demonstrates they're more valued even before starting the application process. That's a bias, and I know at my school that bias which started before the application process extended all the way through the 4 year experience and even into the hiring process where companies have internal numbers to hit.

I have a lot of respect for Caltech and they deserve credit for not taking part in the widespread anti-Asian discrimination.
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Why do you think that? As a man I think we are the victims of our culture where as a man you need to be tough and not reach for help or chat about things.
You have to have approval from the company to perform the transfer usually.
"To open a checking or savings account, the bank or credit union will need to verify your name, date of birth, address, and ID number. An ID number can be a social security number or an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN). To get an ITIN, you will need to fill out a form with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) .

If you don’t have a U.S. government-issued SSN or ITIN, some banks and credit unions will accept a passport number and country of issuance, an alien identification card number, or other government-issued ID number." [1]

[1] https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/can-i-get-a-checkin...
This is amazing, it really shows character that you take action to solve your problems and are successful in doing so.

So please know that this is not aimed at you personally...

But...

I am so freaking sick of people recommending others to pickup either salsa or tango! Not of the people that recommend this themselves but are there really no other options? Tango/salsa classes seem to get recommended again, again and again, I get that it's a fun activity with a good gender balance, forced interaction and just enough tension to naturally provide a fun atmosphere but is there nothing else??

I don't wanna tango :(
Citation needed.

I can find plenty of evidence that the FCC permits a 60 day lock. I see no evidence whatsoever that the FCC requires it.
It's not a contradiction. Our system rewards, promotes, glorifies unremitting greed, yet the average person is still not a profit-maximising fiend, with at least some considerations of morality, altruism, etc. This only contradicts the above thesis that humans are inherently greedy and selfish and capitalism merely mirrors (rather than promotes) this.
And every one of them enlightening!

I once did exactly as parent suggested and read the thing as a PDF on my phone, more or less sequentially, in downtime that I would otherwise have wasted. My knowledge of SQL and databases improved immensely.

To be fair I think I skipped some of the appendix matter relating to niche use cases.
For those needing to know more about Neuralink: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuralink
Ask HN: How did your life change after illness?
Have you ever gotten so ill or sick that you decided or needed to change everything about your life?

It doesn't necessarily need to be that you're mentally or physically incapable of doing what you used to; it could also be that your perspective on life changed and you just couldn't bring yourself to continue living the way that you were.

If so, what happened? How are you now? How is your life different now than before?
It's not a real objective feeling, so no, it's not bad, it's subjective.
Single women over 35 are also in this category (for different reasons, but much the same experience).
Imagine if it were pay.

Women only get 66% of the loneliness men get. This is a national crisis and I demand equality for women.
Try socialice wih people like yourself. Then you don't have to pretend emotions and only talk about things you actually care fore.
I didn't, and the persistent decline of global poverty, despite populations increasing, agrees with me.
Acquaintance, noun: def. Someone if you saw them on the side of the road with a flat you would stop and help as long as it wasn't raining.
> Consider a system intended to cover occasional shortages, happing 10% of the time.

Which means, in turn, that renewable has to be engineered to be sufficient for 90th percentile circumstances.

And that GTP has to have turbines sufficient for 99.99th percentile - 90th percentile circumstances. This may be a rather long tail-- in the 99.99th percentile circumstance, renewables may be making very little and demand high.

And that PTG has to have electrolyzers that have enough capacity on, say, 0-60th percentile circumstances (because you don't want to tap some things, like reservoir hydroelectric, to run PTG) to make enough gas for those outcomes.

If you have 20% of your power coming from a reliable, constant source, every step in the above chain can be much more than 20% smaller, because you absorb a lot more of the long tail and because load shedding, etc, is more effective against the remaining unreliable power.

As an aside, there's a bit of an analogy to investing. Having a bit of a low-return, reliable instrument in your portfolio is helpful. Yes, it "costs a lot" compared to investing in the market-- that 2% interest bond costs 5x as much as investing in the market to 10% average returns-- but it is a stable source of value and reduces the volatility of the cost of spending money a whole lot.
As I remember it subsidies weren't on the table. When Penn Central tanked politics limited the universe of solutions to either nationalization into Amtrak and Conrail, or death.
> Recent studies conclude this is not a “pipeline” problem — qualified candidates can be found.

Really wish they'd provided a link to the stud(y|ies). There certainly exist qualified people of all stripes, but are there enough to meet a population-level representative size?
Why? What's so special about those shares?
Incentive Stock Options (ISOs) apparently have a 10 year expiration window on them. If you were granted ISOs in 2010 but did not exercise them, you may have less than a year remaining to do so before they are lost forever.

You could exercise them, but for an early employee at a company like Airbnb that may mean literally millions of dollars in taxes that would have to be paid on an asset that can’t be sold, one that is still speculative in nature.

This doesn’t just apply to ISOs, either. I’ve learned from friends similar stage companies that even RSUs in a private company have some sort of expiration window on them, meaning if the company doesn’t IPO before that date those shares can also be lost.

There are many ways for startup employees to be screwed over on equity, especially when the company seems to be delaying IPO as long as they possibly can.
It's a documented part, the OP was just confusing two different parts/part revisions.

The paranoid would say "it's a hidden backdoor for running shady code". However, anyone with even a passing interest in embedded computing would recognize that it's designed to store and run official firmware; nothing shady or underhanded about it.

So in short, in this particular instance it's much ado about nothing.
Thank you. I was looking for this