skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "I have a genuine question and I'm not trying to be snarky -- do people actually think this way in real life, or is it an elaborate social game of pretending to be more "passionate" than the next guy?"

We have a slight issue with 'identity' in the US. I need to read more Tocqueville before I really start espousing any diagnostic on the psyche of the US but...

This type of mindset is what occurs when someone searches for their identity and meaning then places that whole 'life's worth' in the form of businesses or enterprising endeavors.

It can be broadly characterized as externalizing one's identity, which is painfully likely to fail or let you down in some way. In its most extreme forms, it's really a mental disorder (bordering the wildly high-functioning creative schizophrenic) that the Startup Zeitgeist has hailed as 'how to innovate' and find your 'life's work.' The disorders become evident once one sacrifices all of self at the alter of this 'give a shit' goal - burn out is not the goal of human life.

I'll say I'm recovering from this mindset and have a fonder appreciation for what it means to foster a community (be that business, HOA, religious group, friend group, etc) that allows you to have a 'life's work' that gives you resources to flourish in ways you never thought you could.
That ignores the reality of reproduction with a woman giving birth to a child of only one male. There is very little reason for one man to raise the child of another man in such a situation where multiple new partners are available without any obligations.

The traditional form of polygamy comes from the natural forces of nature, not oppression.
Suspected North Korean hackers have tried to break into AstraZeneca vaccine
I think you're asking a very good question. Thinking more deeply upon it, the angle of this journalist is that this group is sort of a reverse Robin Hood, as in theyre taking public funds in a way from being distributed to the sort of the mathematically challenged. And instead Distributing it to some mathematical wizards that are jetting in from the East Coast. It's sort of highlighting The Divide between the East Coast Elites and rural America.
Doesn’t this quickly become untenable? Sure, you might be able to code some of your own tools, but what about the OS those tools run on? Hardware? Drivers?
I am surprised no one has a website that compares internet quality to land price when searching for lots to purchase.
its ad hominem. its not discussing the content. all of what you said could be aimed at the gp parent regarding his characterization of PG's post
> One very scary thing to me is Scale becoming a credential rather than a cult.

I honestly can’t tell if this is satire or not.
I have collaborators in the vaccine group, but I'm not directly involved in the trial. In fact, I think the Oxford vaccine has 2 potential design issues, 1 of which is shared with all other vaccines.

The first issue is what you pointed out. Adenovirus delivery is potentially more risky. I'm incidentally also HLA-B27, and I will personally stay away from it.

The second issue, shared with all other vaccines, is that IMHO they should not have vaccinated us for the whole spike protein, but just for some fragment. The spike protein contains some mimotopes to confuse the immune system, and I'm worried that this might also be a source of autoimmunity in very rare cases. Naturally, because vaccines had to be rushed, this was not easy to account for.

Nonetheless, they all seem safe. Theoretically, mRNA ones might be safer, unless there's gene transfer/integration of mRNA into cells. But this is a very exotic issue unlikely to cause problems.
I made this out of need and a bit of frustration. There are many tools to proxy agent requests from wsl -> windows (pageant or microsoft OpenSSH), but none that I found for pageant -> microsoft OpenSSH. Some windows programs I use only support pageant as a key agent (WinSCP) and I disliked the idea of running two separate key agents for the same keys.
That sounds incredibly similar to all "large" cities in Norway.
> if that’s low grade, what would high grade corruption look like?

Look up and read:

* Jennifer Arcuri’s funding application form.

* Current Coronavirus government contracts in the UK and US

* In the UK you could start with the UK's National Audit Office (NAO)

* In the US look up Jared Kushner's coronavirus task force

* In Israel, Netanyahu’s series of corruption cases
> There are some kinds of work that you can't do well without thinking differently from your peers. To be a successful scientist, for example, it's not enough just to be correct. Your ideas have to be both correct and novel.

As someone who once made their living as a scientist, I can tell you from firsthand experience that while this is technically correct, the conclusion PG wishes to draw from this:

> One of the most effective techniques is one practiced unintentionally by most nerds: simply to be less aware what conventional beliefs are.

is very wrong, at least in the domain of scientific research (and probably others as well, but scientific research is the area in which I can speak with some authority). In order to make scientific progress, you have to understand the conventional wisdom. The reason for this is that the conventional wisdom in science is the product of about 350 years (and counting) of hard work by an awful lot of smart people. Those people explored a lot of wrong ideas on the way towards discovering the right ones, and if you are unaware of this history and just strike out on your own thinking that you are so much more brilliant than any other human who has ever walked the planet before you, you are much more likely to go down a well-known dead-end than you are to discover something new. I wasted about ten years of my life learning this lesson the hard way.

Being skeptical of the conventional wisdom can be useful, but keeping yourself intentionally ignorant of it is generally a bad plan.
I was actually hoping for some actual production of tiny homes to bring the price down for a mass buy of single and couples housing. Instead we have extended family living in the same home during a pandemic with predictable results.
I don't have much of an opinion. Precisely how PipeWire might affect (or not affect) the direct use of the existing implementations of the JACK API (JACK1 and JACK2) isn't of a lot of interest to me. But I trust Filipe to know what to do.
I haven't seen anyone make that claim. WASM's value has always been in its pragmatic integration plan using what is already there.
In the United States, a common refrain is that the housing crisis is caused by a failure to build, in particular a failure to build up. That failure to build is usually blamed on regulation.

That's a harder argument to make in Toronto. Toronto is a sea of construction cranes, almost all building apartment or condo towers, and it has been like this for at least a decade. Toronto has a third of all construction cranes in North America: https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2020/10/toronto-c...

And despite the narrative that people are moving away from downtown apartments during COVID, prices on downtown Toronto condos are still rising. Volume has dropped dramatically so I suppose it is possible that it will still crash, but I won't believe it until I see it.
"He renamed the site Hacker News, and expanded its focus to include “anything that good hackers would find interesting . . . anything that gratifies one’s intellectual curiosity."

Well, that about describes it :3
I won't say I especially like it up to that point. But that was maybe because I was already doing the passion=hours translation in my head. But at least he's honest about it at that point.
Ah, the difference between Europe and America.

Here, a 300-400sqft single-bedroom apartmant would be considered standard and suitable for a single or 2-person household with median income. A two-bedroom 500-600 sqft apt would be considered just fine for most families with 1 or two kids (esp. if those kids are same gender or while they're small). Anything above that gets you into upper-middle class or above. Alternatively, a 4-member family with two minimum incomes could get by with 400sqft (it'd be cramped but wouldn't be considered outrageously small).

The difference is also that these are almost exclusively in an apartment building, where your neighbours help insulate you from the elements, resulting in lower heating/cooling costs.

I'm amazed whenever I read an article mentioning home sizes in the States (or in this case Canada) and have to double-check whether my sqft<->m2 conversion is okay because I can't believe how much more room is considered "normal" over there.

Tiny homes wouldn't solve the housing crises, but looking across the pond, I'm thinking it'd still be a boon for low-wage earners. I know I'd rather be in my own 200sqft than have to pay off huge mortgage or rent a 600sqft of "wasted" space.

Even if I prefer or have to rent, smaller units would be cheaper, while still more expensive per sqft, in theory netting the landlord more profit for the same apt. complex. Sounds like a win/win, what am I missing?
This article is brilliant in so many ways.

> the core issue is an extraordinarily high level of friction in the process of finding, organizing, and sharing digital content

Absolutely. I think of myself as a very curious person, and an avid reader, but I regularly have hundreds of things in my backlog that I'd like to read or listen to, and I don't.

I tried to build a service like that, MNMN [0], in the form of a chrome extension as a start; but it seems that I didn't find the right product-market fit at the time. I keep going back to concepts like that from time to time.

My latest iteration (a little project I launched in ~2 hours last Sunday) is booktweets [1], which is just a summary of a book in a series of tweets.

I feel there's something to do/build there, but I quite can't get it right.

[0]: https://github.com/simonebrunozzi/MNMN

[1]: https://twitter.com/booktweets6/status/1330600043733159936
Not that my statistics knowledge is great, but I wonder why they don't show fig.4 with SD bars? (Or if the plot represents the model, show the data points the model was fitted to?)

Edit: fig.4, not fig.3
Canadians have a strong aversion to living in anything but a detached house after 30ish. Most people were would have grown up sharing fences with their neighbors, not walls. So tiny houses allow for more efficient detached housing.
With macros you can easily build your own multiple dispatch, it's really not a concern.
GitHub Security Best Practices
Some do, some don't:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYfqvTZWilw
At one time, Windows even dealt with gamma rays, as this assembly comment stated [1]:

;
; Invalidate the processor cache so that any stray gamma
; rays (I'm serious) that may have flipped cache bits
; while in S1 will be ignored.
;
; Honestly. The processor manufacturer asked for this.
; I'm serious.
;
invd

[1] For a brief period, the kernel tried to deal with gamma rays corrupting the processor cache (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20181120-00/?p=10...)
So the people at Youtube are the only ones left that target Firefox over Chrome?
I made a cross-cultural captcha https://i.imgur.com/U2ivgJl.jpg
Jeff Bezos about Amazon and Zappos (2009)[video]
The article starts off well, but then goes wildly wrong in the end.

"Giving a shit" is orthogonal to working long hours. As a part of my job, I hire people and one thing I tell all candidates is: "I expect you to care about your work. This does not mean that you have to work evenings or weekends. But while you are working, you should care about doing a good job."

It's certainly partially about believing that you are working on the right thing, but mainly about believing the craft matters.
The USA is the home of the internet, just keep building yours up and hey, start a captcha of your own. Don't let google dominate.
Edit: This is serious, if you let them take everything over, they will.
That's an excellent word a d I'm going to steal it.
I can't recommend this series often enough. Even though it's over 40 years old, the problem it describes and the questions it raises are more relevant than ever. Besides a complex electricity network we now have internet and all it interconnected systems, an ever more complex electricity network due to new suppliers (rural solar) and global trading networks.
Tiny houses might not, but a wholesale decommodification of housing could.

We shouldn't be trying to price housing on the market, we should be pricing housing and land based on how well it houses people.

If we started taxing the land rather than the land plus improvements and gave a credit for every housing unit I guarantee you we'd see parking lots turned into housing.

Other approaches include: removing minimum parking requirements, rent control, strong tenants unions, stronger eviction protections, publishing landlord statistics on eviction rates, low rise distributed public housing with protected operating budgets, right to buy laws, prohibitions or increased regulations around short term rentals, support for community land trusts, up zoning, tax incentives for increasing the affordable housing supply, and yes, mother in law apartments, cottages, and other permissive zoning for additional housing can help too.

There are very tractable ways we can chip away at this problem at a local and regional way. We shouldn't be speculating on housing as an asset, we should be ensuring everyone has a place to live.
You're not wrong at all
>Ultimately, you’re searching for people you’d be willing to spend every waking moment with, since if things go right, there will be many long nights.

Lots of hours at this place eh?

>What’s the hardest you’ve ever worked on something?

What happened to work smart not hard? Also what exactly does it mean to work hard as a developer?

>How many hours were you working a week?

Hours again eh? Sounds like this place has absolutely no work-life balance and just burns everyone out. To whose benefit? Oh right only the benefit of the CEO.

>For example, it’s absolutely shocking that the common paradigm for engineers at Google is to come in at 11am and leave at 4pm. In no world can you be working 5 hours a day and be giving a shit, and so the conclusion is that very little meaningful work gets done at Google.

This has to be the dumbest thing I have read in ages.

Google has a market capitalization of 1.2 trillion. They have extensive research into how to treat employees to maximize their productivity. If you think google is doing it wrong, you are indeed the one doing it wrong.

> lack of office attires

You can tell this guy has a dress code. Even General Motors the place of 10 layers of bureaucracy discovered they dont need a dress code.

Working for this guy sounds like a nightmare.
I think PG writes well, thinks clearly, and occasionally has some very good essays.

But I do get the sense that he's trying really hard to show how deep a thinker he is. (I'm not sure if this has always been the case, or it's a new thing.) His tweets are particularly cringey, but I still follow him because of the occasional nugget.
I remember a flame war between US-English and UK-English speakers, where one of the former said “if it weren't for us, you'd be speaking German now” and one of the latter ones said “if it weren't for the French, you'd still speak English now”.
> He's writing to and for people like him, trying to help them put words and clear thought to vague understandings and apprehensions they've been wrestling with.

Ah, yes, he's writing an article about how to think for yourself to the people who already think like him. So if we don't think like him, but rather in an independent way, then it makes sense that we wouldn't agree with this article. Got it!
Corporations versus the Market; Or, Whip Conflation Now
I didn’t downvote but IMO “the way to get this working on your expensive laptop is to buy another entirely separate computer and have an always on internet connection” isn’t really an answer (and isn’t at all specific to the M1).
It has spread far beyond Hamilton. You have to get as far as St Catharines/Niagara before prices start looking closer to affordable for middle class incomes. And forget about going north, my father in law is in Barrie, and fairly modest homes on his street are going well over $700k. That's almost as much as I paid for this 6 acre "estate" 8 years ago, and by my calculation with a 25 year amortization and with a very low interest rate and following the "housing not over 30% of pre-tax earnings" that works out to a required household income of $130k.

That's not anywhere close to average household income in Canada, which is more like $90k, and there are certainly very few high paying jobs in Barrie itself and it is only marginally commutable to Toronto.
Not sure if that's still a problem, but when I tried this addon some time ago, audio captchas were quickly disabled for me because of irregular activity from my network. It might not be a good idea to use this if you rely on audio captchas and can't easily change your IP address.
Actually, I didn't say that. I said they shouldn't be mixing their own music.

Until a decade or two ago, almost no musician ever mixed their own music, they relied on audio engineers to do that. The proliferation of DAWs and cheap powerful computers has changed that so that now many musicians believe they can/should do this work themselves. They're not necessarily wrong, but a little humility is required I think, mostly by remembering that good audio engineering is a distinct skill set, quite different from being a good musician.

Although there are few exceptions, I'd wager that almost no example of whatever you (or anyone else) considers "great music" was mixed by the musicians who made it.
Thanks for posting this! Very interested in Realm-like solutions.
But it is a weak characterisation because you can construe basically anything anyone has ever done to be a selfish action, and in this case the evidence isn't particularly strong. It's not like the whole essay is telling you to act in PGs interest. Basically you're assuming selfishness because in one possible interpretation of one sentence, it's possible for PG to derive any benefit at all. I don't think it's even possible to write an essay where that's not the case.
I am a Canadian Citizen orignally from India. I have a MBA from Cornell. I have heard that the H1-B visa cap is not applicable for my case. Is this true ?
Gaaaaaah! I scheduled an exam for an online certification at 12 AM, I think. And then I found out that's midnight :-(

Just make it 06:00, 13:00, already :-(
600? Ha! The average new home sale last year in the US was over 2,300 square feet.

https://www.census.gov/construction/chars/highlights.html

My current place is 650 square feet and I’m looking to downsize. The problem is, the prices tend to stay static, even if you want a smaller place.
Fine-Tuning Shallow Networks with Keras for Efficient Image Classification
The causation could easily go the other way.

In most societies, males are typically sent out to war because males can easily have more children than females since they don't have go go through a period of pregnancy, so a society that sacrifices its males on high risk high reward activities can rebuild faster than if it sacrificed females instead. This is why typically you see male soldiers, raiders, and explorers.

But as a result, more warlike societies tend to have less males in the population than females because the males keep getting sent out to die. Remaining females now have less potential mates to choose from, so polygamy becomes socially acceptable to ensure more people get a share of the economic rewards those surviving males bring back.

So you could easily flip this around and say that it's not polygamy that causes war. Rather, war causes polygamy, and polygamy is a reward for the few male "winners" that survive to bring home the loot because now they have less genetic competition.

This model of warfare reducing the proportion of males could also explain why most societies have tended to be patrachical. Scarce males means each males has more bargaining power. In return for the economic loot they bring back, they could demand more say in the household than their counterpart or counterparts. Stretch this population imbalance over a few centuries and you get a patrachical society.
Immersing is incredibly frustrating / challenging when your comprehension is < 90%. It's a real chore.

For me, I've found that having audio for every card is invaluable. Preferably audio from the source where you first encountered the word (for me that's mostly Youtube or Netflix). I'm working on a chrome extension to make this easier. Not only does it make it much easier to remember the word (by a pretty significant margin), but it has done wonders for my pronunciation as well.

I've written a little bit about my process here[0], but it's changed a little since I wrote that.

[0] https://mochi.cards/blog/using-spaced-repetition-to-learn-a-...
"...why not just create a tutorial on using Julia without mentioning other tools, and let the reader decide?"

This. Every single blog post about Julia disqualifies other tools and programming languages, most of the times very stridently.

The Julia fanboys are well known for disparaging non-stop against Python and R.
I think the idea was that if an attacker sophisticated enough to overcome your reasonable defenses protecting your local network and potentially hack your Home Assistant installation or whatever else, then they're probably sophisticated enough to do something much more damaging in the long term than unlock your front door and steal your TV or whatever—eg hack your laptop/NAS/etc and clear out your bank account or steal your identity or similar.

Though I just realized that I'm privileged enough to live in an area with a low violent crime rate, so physical violence isn't part of my threat model... if someone has broken into your home and you are home at the same time, you're right, the security of your local network is probably the least of your concerns.
It's often the law to publicize the winners names and the location the winning ticket is purchased; this helps the losers have confidence that the winners aren't insiders.
If you like this then https://thonyc.wordpress.com/ is the hard stuff.
As a house owner in the NL, yes, it is comfortable to know that if I ever need to, I have room to increase my mortgage or sell my house at the considerable win.

But then what? I still need to live somewhere, and the rest of the houses are also getting more expensive. And in any case, some of my taxes are based on the value of my house - meaning, they are increasing every year.

The only people really benefiting from this are people owning multiple houses with the purpose of renting them.
I'm on the Eb5 conditional green card and submitted by evidence for the job creation and adjustment of status and received my fingerprinting notice date in dec. Does that mean my conversion to a permanent GC is a mere formality?
I'm sure they could (don't know they if should).
If you'd like to learn more about Racket's language building infrastructure, check out: https://beautifulracket.com/
Exactly, a tech job would fire me after realizing how inconsistent and slow the internet is at the house I grew up at in rural Wisconsin.

Even my cell phone hardly works if it rains or snows. I can’t even port my number to Verizon because they apparently won’t service 715 prefixed numbers.
This thread kind of illustrates the point it was making.

The readers of Hacker News are a part of "nerd culture." The author of XKCD is part of "nerd culture" and makes comics out of themes that are common in "nerd culture." Popular themes are often a part of a post that becomes popular on Hacker News. Unsurprisingly, this theme was captured at some point by the nerd of XKCD, and now it is shared here.

It's like... we're all thinking alike (while reveling in how unique we are!)