skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since the pandemic started, my interactions with strangers of the opposite sex have been quite curtailed. Last week a vague acquaintance in my condo complex, 35 years my senior, stopped me and spent a good 30 seconds telling me how blue my eyes looked, and musing on how my outfit made them stand out especially. On the one hand, this is weirdly objectifying, and I kind of wish she had the slightest interest in who I am as a person - she’s one of those archetypal condo neighbors who mostly just goes around complaining about people. But on the other hand, I had the distinct thought, “Hot dang, Daniel. You’ve still got it.” This thought was steeped in irony, but at its kernel, there’s a stark emotional reality there. I’m even tolerably well adjusted.

Positive attention from strangers is a singularly terrible thing to hinge your wellbeing on, but man. It sure feels nice.

I would comment that many men seem use sex with women as a form of self esteem boosting. Like, if I fuck enough women, the emotional void inside of me will finally fill and I’ll know I’m worthy. Women do the attention seeking stuff more overtly, and they’re encouraged and allowed to display themselves as objects. men have a pretty similar set of emotional drives, just have different avenues for acting them out.
The current CCP consists of those who pushed back against the excesses of the cultural revolution - I think you get much less scrutiny for criticising than celebrating this part of Mao's legacy - I know of one instance where somebody was arrested for making a big-character poster with 'the cultural revolution was good', for instance.
Wow, I remember playing this game back in 2006. It's in the same vein as Liero
Not just power it on, but also read it. Flash isn't really a good medium for anything other than operational data. It is a good idea to have a write behind mirror from flash to either HDD, tape or highly replicated storage.
Are you thinking of this?

https://news.google.com/newspapers

It's fun to browse but I'm sad that the project seemed to just sputter out. At one time I thought it would grow to make historical newspapers searchable with coverage comparable to the books searchable through Google Books.
Perhaps only because it's incomplete? Like, is there no such expression in terminal nodes Hindi or in Javanese--or in the hundreds of other languages spoken today?
Title should be "Talent is not measurable in the field of software development". I don't see anything in the article that shows talent is a myth in general. Even in the software development the fact that it is hard to gauge talent doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
A few lies and myths can snowball into a narrative that makes war logical and even noble. Conspiracy theories turn every data point into something that confirms the myth. People really believe that they are in the right. And the most appalling acts can seem logically consistent.
I wanted to flag this library up because I haven't ever seen that much chat about it – but I've used it for a couple of years for several computer vision projects, and it's been a really good experience. Found it to have decent documentation and a thoughtful design. It's got a smaller feature set than OpenCV, but in my experience is more ergonomic.

I initially picked it up because I had a project involving QR code recognition that needed configurability and high throughput, and just happened to stumble across the demo app – https://boofcv.org/index.php?title=Applications#Examples_and... – really good example of how to showcase library features, and I totally recommend downloading and just seeing how it works if you've got a passing interest in CV.
If the US military and government are anything like American companies, then they're good at marketing. Wait, I think with the military it's called propaganda.

I also grew up thinking a Stealth Fighter could never be shot down. It's invisible. No way.
To mark a comment as dead, only one user needs to flag it, I believe.

All it takes is one user to disagree enough. I've had upvoted comments flagged because there was one user who disagreed enough with it and it was about controversial issues.
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Ask HN: How does a SWE transition into machine learning engineering?
I am an SWE with a few years of experience. I have done some ML projects. How do I effectively transition into ML engineering? I am aware that internal transfers within the company would be best, but my company doesn't really have that kind of position available, and the job market prefers those with the same kind of experience.
> In some sense, that is the point of having different countries.

If large corporations can decide to pick their country of incorporation freely and according to what most benefits them, but people can't (in general) pick their country of citizenship, then something has gone wrong.
> I have a friend who's one of the smartest guys I know, he has incredible side projects but at work does the bare minimum.

Sounds like he's not interested in what your job entails. Perhaps he should find a job that does something closer to his interests, or perhaps better, kick off a startup that relates to his passions.

For many people, it's hard to be motivated to do something you're not into. Conditions like ADHD can exacerbate this.

You only get one life. Have an honest conversation with him and ask what he really wants to do with it.
Not thinking of a gist is what you get after 8 days without opening a computer, here it is: https://gist.github.com/rberenguel/dd6a84927b8f367e9b68e9397...
I propose we reserve the word "censorship" for situations where an idea is effectively stopped from propagation as the result of the decisions of the people who would be negatively impacted by that idea.

Specific expressions getting removed shouldn't be considered "censorship", but an entire concept being purged systemically across a culture for the benefit of the group executing the purge would fall into my proposed definition.

Continuing to label specific content removal as "censorship" is unhelpful, because I want to be extremely alarmed when I hear the word, but I'm unable to behave that way currently, because things like this submission try to co-opt the term for something that clearly isn't even approaching the same degree of oppression.
A fair enough statement. A bit of an electric divide.

I'll put it a bit differently though. Setting aside environmental concerns, why would you buy a hydrogen car as opposed to a regular old gasoline car?

Charging from home is a substantial benefit of EVs, performance is another. The Mirai is neither a particularly performant car, nor can you charge from home. Why would you switch to a car with a non-existent fuel network? Even once the network exists, why switch?

Obviously, the environmental issues still exist, but right now that is the only reason you'd buy the Mirai instead of many less expensive non H2 options. The Tesla is interesting even without the environmental aspects.
Ask HN: What part of CRDTs are the hardest to understand?
Hi, I am working on a presentation, and wondering what part about CRDTs do/did you find difficult?
We and our ancestors didn't eat babies, so it goes to show how shallow and naive evolution is.
Whos next?
I'm about as far as you can get from a Marxist (I posted the article) and I found it interesting.
Good suggestions. I’ve had email notifications turned off (both work and personal) for a few months now, and that’s made a positive difference.

In fact I’ve been aggressively turning of most notifications across the board.

iOS’ new(ish) “deliver silently” option is helpful here.
Maybe I missed something because I read with JS turned off, but in the article I read, Frontex is accused of meeting with lobbyists. Certainly fishy and morally dubious, but hardly unusual for the EU or for Germany for that matter. What laws are they systematically breaking and how is that connected to people drowning?

For the record the EU has an obligation to look into asylum claims made in the EU and reject or accept them as applicable. On the other hand, it turns out many are approved even if not valid and the EU is barely able to deport anyone, illegal migrant or not. Basically whoever gets into the EU has a good chance to stay there, even if they don't have that right, so it's no wonder the EU is trying to deter more people from coming because this is putting immense stress especially on Western European societies and causing conflicts.

EU countries (and I think all countries) have a separate obligation to rescue people in distress at sea. The fact that someone is drowning in the middle of the Mediterranean is not a concern of the EU, as crass as that may sound - one rescues whoever is in trouble near one's ship. Still the EU is going above and beyond and is also sponsoring rescue missions that fish people out of the sea. Obviously not everyone makes it.
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The simplest way to do this now is to install pulseaudio-module-jack, that works pretty seamlessly in my experience.
> we have a mechanism for people who are truly assholes - be tolerant and ignore them.

Why does the GP feel they can convey their criticisms to other parties as callously as they please, but reject that anyone should respond to them negatively?
Whos next? Gotta find a bad guy. Feed the machine
This seems like the most controversial bit here:

> There’s a strange contradiction revealed by the naïveté and kindness demonstrated by humanity when faced with the universe: On Earth, humankind can step onto another continent, and without a thought, destroy the kindred civilizations found there through warfare and disease. But when they gaze up at the stars, they turn sentimental and believe that if extraterrestrial intelligences exist, they must be civilizations bound by universal, noble, moral constraints, as if cherishing and loving different forms of life are parts of a self-evident universal code of conduct.

> I think it should be precisely the opposite: Let’s turn the kindness we show toward the stars to members of the human race on Earth and build up the trust and understanding between the different peoples and civilizations that make up humanity. But for the universe outside the solar system, we should be ever vigilant, and be ready to attribute the worst of intentions to any Others that might exist in space. For a fragile civilization like ours, this is without a doubt the most responsible path.

I think his books a good reminder that even the interstellar equivalent of saying "howdy neighbor" is incredibly risky. And I agree that we should behave better towards each other even if I don't look forward to "a day when humanity will form a harmonious whole" if that means world government and suppression of "non-harmonious" opinions. On the other hand, I don't think that alien species are doomed to be adversaries. Populations don't need to grow forever exponentially, and empires don't need to always expand.

For my part, I think we should be careful about announcing our presence and should be very careful around any alien civilization, especially those that are more technologically advanced than ourselves. But we also could learn a lot from each other, and so initially being friendly and abiding by a tit-for-tat strategy if they become aggressive seems like a good approach.
Could the NY Times please post their list of "slurs" for us?

I want to know which words I'm not allowed to use.

Thanks.
Used to play this with my cousins 10 years ago... what great game
> Maybe so for developers, but as a user on Windows or MacOS I don’t have to know or care about any of that stuff. Things just work, and work sensibly.

depends on the kind of user you are. If you're looking for the lowest-latency possible (for instance because you play guitar with an effect stack going through your computer) then windows with ASIO or linux with Jack give you a better mileage on the exact same hardware than CoreAudio
I think we’re getting away from the purpose of Facebook. It’s not intended to be, nor was it ever designed to be a grand mediator of social discourse. It was designed to keep up with friends and casual entertainment. The fact we’ve gotten so far away from what it’s supposed to be is the problem.

I’m in full support of Facebook completely banning any and all content that isn’t completely neutral. That is, get rid of all political content completely.

Cat videos, yes. Political content? No.
In software development I always see 'talent' as correlating to a combination of three things: iq, conscientiousness (personality trait) and a formal education in computer science / mathematics or adjacent like physics.
Dogecoin is on its way to $.10
This helps somewhat from a competition perspective, but the overhead of downloading and uploading potentially GB or TB of data (messages, photos, videos, etc) is not something users are accustomed to and is a significant barrier.

While it can make switching costs somewhat lower (does uploading your posts from another platform always make sense in a new context with new people?), it doesn't do anything about the network effect.
> whenever I read the Arch wiki about how to have PulseAudio and JACK coexist,

https://github.com/brummer10/pajackconnect

start jack, start pulseaudio, run pajackconnect, done
Would you like to explore the reasons why it's uncomfortable to you to discuss it?

I'm fine with it.
Forget the Web Browser, the biggest barrier is the lack of wireless drivers. I've tried it on a half dozen laptops and couldn't get a single one to work.

At the time I last tried there was no support for USB Wifi, so using a trusty TP-Link wasn't an option.
The domestic robot's Lidar has detected a portal into the mirror universe
AT UCI, they chose Paris Metro stops. All of them were hard to spell and pronounce, so we always made up shortened aliases.
I would say that's not at all true on Windows if you ever have to install multiple ASIO drivers.
A Swiss company says it found weakness that imperials encryption
I used to play this with my class mates 20 years ago... :D
The GP is asserting, without any evidence at all, that the designers simply did not think about the radar return from the bomb bay opening. That's a rather absurd position to take, vs the more banal explanation that engineering always involves tradeoffs.
Non-AMP version for anyone who wants it:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2014/07/14071...
Soldat had a realistic game mode were it was like that. It also included ghosts of players if you would hear steps or them shooting.

I also wanted to do a realistic top down 2d shooter. My gimmick was to have akimbo guns and mouse look - view always centered, horizontal mouse move rotates the view, vertical changes the angle between player's hands. You would be able to run forward and shoot on both sides.
The critical point is that people are traversing several countries or seas to apply for asylum in the EU. This is obviously not following the spirit of the applicable laws which were designed for avoiding humanitarian tragedies in neighboring countries.

Many aren't even persecuted, just poor, lacking education and desperate.
He's my friend not my colleague. He really doesn't care about money, I think he probably would rather not have it. I should have added his side projects are just every now and again, most of the time he hangs out with friends.
How is that relevant here, though? Facebook's marketplace is hardly WikiLeaks' only viable option to sell its merchandise, and in fact is probably not even the wisest choice.

Am I now unable to purchase WikiLeaks merchandise?
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Is the point you're trying to make that, because the country Taiwan and the island Taiwan share a name, parts of the country that lie on islands with different names are less legitimate?

Otherwise I really don't see the relevance of pointing out that a part of the country Taiwan lies far from an island coincidentally also named Taiwan.
It's fairly obvious the movie scene has the M134 in a sling, so that he's not holding the whole thing up with his hands. When he starts walking, he only has one hand on it, near the rear of the gun.

Not disputing it's heavy and awkward. It's just not, to me, something you would cite as "only a really strong person could do it". You can find videos of pretty normal looking people firing it while it's held by a sling and their hands.
I'm wondering what OS you're using where folders are "obsolete". It feels like you've missed the use case here.
Interestingly, the M1 (and probably other Apple Silicon CPUs) is an exception:

% sysctl hw.cachelinesize
hw.cachelinesize: 128
https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/envsub...
> What was most interesting to me was not the various controversies about body aesthetics or even health consequences. What stood out to me was the author's description in the early parts of the article of how much she seemed to crave the approval of strangers, especially men.

We very much stand on opposite ends.

Fools exist, and many fools try to phrase their foolishness in terms of gender so to arouse the impression that they have an excuse.

Not a day goes by that I see a man attempt to excuse his foolishness by claiming it stems from his gender, his ethnicity, his religion, or anything else.

Needlessly craving the approval of others has nothing to do with gender, — some do so, and some do not.

> I can't help but feel a bit sad that so many go through their lives this way.

Foolish behavior exists everywhere in many forms. Some crave the approval of others to deluded paranoia of rejection; others wish to control their fellow man for no purpose but control itself; yet others are disproportionally afraid of very specific, uncommon things, yet ignore far more common dangers. — it is old news.
I remember their comment being something to the effect of "I don't understand why people care about a service that tells you about your wealthy ancestors when you're working a minimum wage job".

They confused 23andMe, which is focused on genetics, with the other sites (ancestry/myheritage/etc) that focuses on individual ancestors and their stories, and shows that they aren't familiar enough with the topic to be able to post valid criticisms.

I share their privacy concerns, but those concerns are undermined when we share uninformed takes that fumble the absolute basics.

I'd feel similarly about "I don't know why people use Twitter and let Mark Zuckerberg exploit our emotions to keep engagement as high as possible".
Yes, I do. Second amendment scholarship has changed a lot over the past few decades. It was in the past much more hospitable to gun control than today. Scalia is a product of that. Scalia was also, presumably, trying to build the 5-4 part of the majority. And in any event, the case itself was directed to a self-defense context. But post-Heller scholarship has acknowledged that the case didn’t go as far as it could have.

The DC Circuit opinion, by contrast, was simpler and blunter: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/478...

> The premise that private arms would be used for self-defense accords with Blackstone's observation, which had influenced thinking in the American colonies, that the people's right to arms was auxiliary to the natural right of self-preservation. See WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, 1 COMMENTARIES 136, 139; see also Silveira, 328 F.3d at 583-85 (Kleinfeld, J.); Kasler v. Lockyer, 23 Cal. 4th 472, 97 Cal. Rptr. 2d 334, 2 P.3d 581, 602 (2000) (Brown, J., concurring). The right of self-preservation, in turn, was understood as the right to defend oneself against attacks by lawless individuals, or, if absolutely necessary, to resist and throw off a tyrannical government.
Does anyone have good experience using a wacom tablet to replace paper/whiteboard? I tried using an ipad but it's not quite the same. It's too small and there's no way to directly integrate with desktop (I'm on linux).
I graduated Hatboro-Horsham in 1998, and heroin was a problem even then in my larger friend circle (and I was a big sheltered nerd who lived in Horsham), due to the proximity to Philly (the "heroin capital of the US" at the time). One girl OD'd after I went to college. The school itself was pretty great academically and otherwise, as far as public high schools go, but the really good teachers were older and many retired I think, in the 2000s. From what I've heard, a combo of NCLB and 'zero tolerance' policies turned the school into kind of a hellhole (like many other schools at the time).
I would call this a jazz club (in the UK; even if it doesn't play jazz specifically).
Thanks for the comment. You answered my question before asking. I was looking for how best to transition but it sounds like just interest and diligence is fundamental.
Here's my Linux audio anecdote: I've never successfully gotten jackd to run on my computer(s) running Ubuntu or pop_os, and pulseaudio doesn't let me run with low enough latency to be usable in Bitwig. I don't want to spend my time digging through ancient forum posts on why jack/pulse can't "just work" when everything is fine on MacOS and Windows. A reboot is faster.

Sidenote, audio stacks are not fundamentally fragmented. DirectSound is deprecated in favor of WASAPI. ASIO only exists because DirectSound sucked, now WASAPI is good enough not to use ASIO moving forward (with some hiccups, like some software doing SRC under the hood because WASAPI doesn't let you programmatically select sample rate - RtAudio does this, for example).

CoreAudio has been stable for almost 20 years. It is the gold standard. The only problem is the almost complete lack of documentation except for the CoreAudio mailing list.

If you're writing audio software the solution is to use WASAPI on windows, CoreAudio on Mac, and tell Linux users to use Windows or MacOS if they want low latency audio.
I had a colleague from Cameroon (in Germany). He applied for a study visa, studied here, applied for a work visa, worked here, applied for German citizenship, got it. Same for people from Egypt and Nigeria I have met.

People who claim there are not legal ways are ignorant or deceptive.
I'm a fan, this is really cool!
I didn't see it covered in this article and the documentary is unavailable through normal streaming at this time. (Anyone in the U.S. find otherwise?)

But what I was hoping to find out was how the identifies of each party was discovered, presumably by the documentary maker?
Thanks for the clarification. It seems we disagree on whether we could handle "the few sociopaths" who would indeed hoard. Let's leave it at that.
I mostly learned what it sounded like because of a stats professor who was from Greece. He frequently complained of the way people (in academia in the US) pronounced Greek letters. Still not being too familiar with Greek, I'm not sure if the pronunciation issues were local (his regional dialect versus some "international" or standard dialect) or temporal (modern Greek pronunciation versus a classical pronunciation, which itself would have been filtered through Western European languages and cultures).
> eccentric billionaire

Looking at richest people of the world right now, none of them strike as eccentric.

Average plumber or musician is order of magnitude more eccentric or radical.
Yep, "Plurality" is it - the parts of the interview I'm remembering are the explanation at 9 minutes and the plane crash at 9:40. Scrolled through their videos earlier but the name didn't stick out.