skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies for whatever baiting I sprung on you! I was definitely very interested personally, have my Internet of Shit concerns, but also: I really had hoped there'd be more discussion in general! CSA/Matter was pretty huge news to me. This whole area is super interesting, and I super wish people could engage in it, I wish it was a frontier of tech that people could follow & participate in & converse about. But we seem to only have highly synthesized droppings to play to with; this is the most consumerized fore-front of computing the world has, as I see it.

I like your question, but it's exceedingly hard for me to form a judgement. Because Thread specifically keeps me from knowing/understanding/learning about it. The underlying technologies are what I want to see: 6LoWPAN, ipv6, udp, AES. But how these are combined & used is ultimately 100% opaque, unclear, deliberately withheld. Perhaps simplification would help at some level, but I tend to think whatever they have is probably on target enough that changing it wouldn't really matter; all the pressure is on how interesting the ecosystem can become, and with such a greedy iron fisted control over knowing what's happening, there's little chance for the tech to form an ecosystem, for it to become interesting, other than to the smallest batch of nerds some place far far far down in giant consumer-electronics company's totem poles.

And, just as damning, while there are standards here, it seems like the overriding push is still that of devices which talk to their 1st party cloud services, so the advantage of interoperability seems extra-abstract; this isn't a useful/usable technology to consumers in any way.

One can check out the OpenThread C API Reference to get a simplified view of what is at stake, what elements there are[1]. Conceivably we could reverse engineer & write a Threads protocol documentation without access to the specs from this, but what a grim sad task that would be. It highlights well though what abstractions there are. Frankly, I think they have about the right tools here. Trying to simplify is often a damning task that only causes problems. I'm far more about surfacing & exposing complexity, & letting the amazing adaptable complex human mind figure out how to harness & use the possibilities that are. Trying to narrow down, or re-conceive something simpler is, has rarely in my view paid off. Except, like, all those times it has of course. ;) Sometimes we can really find better takes. But seeing the OpenThread C API Reference, the exterior shape of this all looks about as expected... alas the interior of it is all murky shadowy darkness. Like every other internet-of-shit system on the planet.

[1] https://openthread.io/reference
+1 for a motorcycle. What do you ride? I love my BMW S1000R. Lane splitting is a game changer for commuting in the city as well as for quickly escaping the city no matter how bad traffic happens to be.
I've run into at least one domain that blocks their own name in your email; that was fun.
I find it perverse that the gmail attachment limit is still 25 mb in this day and age.

Everyone has UltraPhones with 4k videos they can't share with anyone.
dang — did the title change unintentionally dock this story? It was at the top and in a second jumped down at least 20 spots.
Right, but some of us know we are. :)
Important to realize that the average taker of this survey is likely nowhere close to the average person on quite a few of these qualities, or even the average internet user. It's going to skew more tech savvy / progressive / intelligent / etc -- the Hacker News bump alone renders the "insights" you might glean from the results almost meaningless.

For example, that 76% of takers think they are more privileged than average is probably an underestimate, not an overestimate as you would first believe...
So stop scraping the bottom of the god damn yoghurt container.
In the public market, yes. This is not necessarily true of private investments.
> Anyone who heard of us would know it is DDR

Heck, I've never heard of you lot but I immediately guessed DDR. Man I miss competing with randoms at the arcade in Brisbane city
Could I use this with PTP clock synchronization to create my own wireless speakers?
Yeah exactly.

> With over 100 species recognised, China has one of the richest bat faunas in the Palaearctic.

You need to prove a negative. You need to prove the bats in Wuhan don't have Covid. More and more bats in Yunnan doesn't do that.
Minecraft is devilishly hard for reinforcement learning. You could have a captcha like "build a neat-looking fortress to prove you're human."
We had this type of CAPTCHAs before we knew they are called CAPTCHAs.
It says "average" not "median" so it's not necessary for the result to be 50/50 even if everyone was perfectly honest.
That was the excuse private business owners used to refuse service to people based on their race or sexual orientation
Clearly there have been massive strides in twelve years. Crypto of twelve years ago was nothing like crypto today. Today, you have anonymity, you have fast and feeless transactions, etc.

You haven’t made your expectations for crypto clear, to be honest, so it’s difficult to understand why you think it has failed when it is rapidly improving even today.
Incentivizing legislators to hold on to their positions, by guaranteeing a painful exit, is definitely a bad idea. In fact, that was cited as a reason that Ford pardoned Nixon, to ensure that peaceful transfers of power would continue to be the norm. Countries that are eager to lock up past rulers slide into dictatorship more often.
No, perhaps you're right. I was originally responding specifically to the argument that politicians shouldn't be treated differently from other people, but I've let my point drift.

I don't know whether the rule is necessary. But if it becomes so, I do believe a special rule for political candidates, as opposed to requiring all platforms to host all people, is the right choice.
It asks you to compare yourself to your peers, not to the global population, so the results should still be close to 50%, even if it does say "average" and not "median".
I’ll echo much of the advice posted so far, with an emphasis on things you can do that can have low barriers: exercise, starting with walking with occasional speed-ups; same sleep and wake times every day; set limits on your eating, like only within an eight-hour window; and call around looking for a therapist that clicks. I can talk to just about anyone (rambling to a disinterested third party so as not to burden my friends and family is half of why I hire a therapist), but others may be more selective.

Some other things that have helped me crawl through and out of anxiety and depression:

Cold showers, because I feel so much better afterwards, and it’s a way to do a low-stakes difficult thing and thus build confidence to just go for it. Saves water and energy, too.

The Blindboy Podcast, because I enjoy his stories and his mental-health journey expositions. He sticks to his experiences, with which I have much in common.

WOOP: wish, outcome, obstacle, plan; rather than stop at the good feelings from a daydream, consider the obstacles and make a plan, each step in as few words as possible. Not my idea—-German psychologist, I think.

If you don’t already, breathe through your nose, if able (Breath, by James Nestor). Since I’ve been taping my mouth shut with a narrow strip of surgical tape I’ve been sleeping better, waking up to pee less often, and not losing so much water overnight, so I wake more-ready for the day. When I feel an anxiety spiral approaching, my best chance of interrupting it is by focusing on my breathing. A cold shower will do this for you, and then you keep it going. Wim Hof has some useful guided breathing narratives on that popular video site that Google bought awhile back.

Humming and singing are ways to create ephemeral art and stop the internal voices of negative self-talk and immature mantras [edit: intrusive thoughts].

Tiny Habits, by B.J. Fogg; even if you remember that you forgot to practice yoga, smile and pat yourself on the back for remembering.

So much to try!
Forgive yourself for stumbling through life, for making mistakes after mistakes, for not sticking to plan, for letting yourself down, for indulging, etc. Intrinsically you are better than no one, no one is better than you, and you are worthy of love. What does it feel like to practice unconditional love for yourself? What does it feel like to be thankful to yourself? To others?

Edit to add: Blindboy ep153 is mostly about mental health, and there are numerous other episodes with that focus. This one has a reminder about the importance of compassion for others as a way to practice it if compassion for yourself is difficult. Also, imagining yourself time-traveling to visit your younger self during times of stress, and practicing being a good parent to yourself in those moments. I like this one as I work on not passing along my avoidable traumas to my child. Going back and simply sitting there with my confused, emotional younger self is a way to dissolve some residual stress.
Affinity Photo and Designer are brilliant. I'd second their recommendation.

Also, the Apple Photos integration for Affinity Photo is pretty damned handy :)
No 401k when I was 18, IRAs only at that point. But thanks!
Academics is such a depressing place to be
It's not just about competition riding, but simply the terrain and trails have changed. Modern MTBs allow you ride down steeper and rougher terrain with confidence and open up the possibility of riding more trails.

All the commenters here have been talking about how new geometry has changed the game. But unfortunately, you cannot find "modern" geometry on older MTBs built before ~2013 unless the frame was an odd custom. Even the king of retrogrouches Grant Petersen of Rivendell has been tweaking his frames to offer longer chainstays for off-road riding.

On the otherhand, road bikes haven't changed their frontend geometry since the 80s (72º~73º HTA, ~60mm of trail). For the most part roads haven't changed, but wider tires help with the lack of investment in infrastructure.
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You can sort the results by agreement percent to see which questions are most and least skewed. Interestingly one of the most precisely balanced is "50% of participants think they are better looking than average."
You're being needlessly harsh. Most people agree that Lada is a noticeable improvement over a horse and buggy.
A Woke CIA Will Make America Safer
The real enemy is latency. Physical switches that trigger an IRQ directly to be handled by the program within microseconds would be ideal for human gaming (edit: or directly reading hardware registers). Everything else is just another weak option, pretending to be a gaming system. Also while I'm on the topic, F microsoft for still preventing me from developing software for their system independently.
I understand some people don't like it. But I'm not asking what you like. I'm asking why you assert it's unrelated to politics.
The grid connection isn't that high, because the average person (in the US) drives 50km a day. At 200Wh/km efficiency (this is a generous estimate) that's 10kWh/day per driver. Assuming charging of all these cars is concentrated across 8 hours (10pm to 6am), 2kW per driver is more than sufficient. What's needed is EVSEs (charging connectors) that intelligently communicate to share the grid connection (this already exists).
This Is How Wokeness Ends
You can't attack another user like that, and we ban accounts that do. Please read the site guidelines and stick to the rules from now on. Note this one:

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I've posted endlessly for many years about how the overwhelming majority of such accusations are based on nothing but fantasy—poisonous fantasy, which it is not ok to pollute the threads with, no matter how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. No more of this please, regardless of political orientation or ideology or nation.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
My kdesrc-build has a dry-run style of logic, not because of destructiveness but just because it was annoying to only realize after 4 hours of compiling software that a module you needed was somehow not in the build, or that your configuration change caused you to re-download all the repositories instead of pulling small updates.

This is problematic in multiple ways:

1) The script uses a single repository of project metadata to derive the rest of the build. This repo needs to be present and updated to figure out what to do.

2) There are sequential dependencies on a great deal of steps that can fail without much predictability (including network traffic, git commands, and the module build itself). But in a mode where you're compiling every day, even a transient module build failure does not necessarily mean you shouldn't press on to also try and build dependent modules.

I've ended up using an amalgamation of logical steps:

* If a pass/fail check can be performed non-destructively, do it (e.g. a dry run build will fail if a needed host system install is missing, or the script will decide on git-pull vs. git-clone correctly based on whether the source dir is present)
* If pass/fail can't be done, just assume success during dry run (e.g. for git update or a build step)
* For the metadata in particular, download it to a temp dir if we're in dry run mode and there's no older metadata version available.
* Have the user pass in whether they want a build failure to stop the whole build or not.

For separate reasons, I've also needed to maintain logic to help modules with build systems that didn't support a separate build directory to act as if the build was being executed in the source directory (this was done by copying symlinks to the source directory contents into the proper build directory, file by file).

Having this separate, disposable directory made it safer to not have to be perfect on tracking files changes or alterations perfectly. And of course it helped greatly being able to offload the version control heavy lifting to CVS (back in the day, then Subversion and now Git).
> Most answers were in the 40 to 60 percent range, which is about where it should be mathematically of course.

Not necessarily. For instance there's:

> 77% of participants think they give less to homeless people than average.

Say most people give $0 to homeless people, but 30% of people give some. In that case 77% giving less than average may be correct.
That's part of the Lake Woebegone effect.

For me it's different, I think I'm smarter than average 77% of the time.
Most of the people who I imagine to be my "peers and neighbors" probably wouldn't visit a site like this or spend as much time on Hacker News as me.
> Karikó was demoted from her tenure track position. This type of demotion generally leads to the end of a scientific career.

She was on the tenure track, and didn't get tenure.

That's denial of tenure.

Funding agencies provide funding based on grant reviews by... academics. So yeah, academics dismissed her novel ideas.
That depends on a number of things. Is the subect a Public figure or not? Do you know that claim you are repeating is false? Do you have a reasonable belief that the rumor ia true? How many people are you talking to? Are you repeating the claim out of malice?
Theoretically it could also reflect the society. If 80% of people aren’t religious at all, then at most 20% are more religious than average.
‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ Is Leaving YouTube After $760,999 NFT Sale
You mean like the DevOps roadmap?
Yes, exactly this. I've tried so many times to engage with Urbit but at every turn things seem intentionally inscrutable. I have a star that I've wanted to sell several times, but each time I give up after several hours of unsuccessfully trying to understand the bridge/ethereum documentation.

It ends up seeming more like an art project than a new technology.
But it does define.

"Imagine you are in a room with 100 strangers, Imagine they're similar to your peers and neighbours."
You do realize that the percentage of all taxes paid by the top 1% has only increased, not decreased over time?

If you include transfer like EITC, the US tax code is highly progressive and the tax burden on low income earners has only gotten less (e.g. Trump’s doubling of the standard deduction).

I would argue your plan to “fix” the tax code is already flawed if the basis of your changes is wrong.
When I saw the headline, I wondered/hoped if it was an OS with an audio/only UI. I'm sure this is cool, but a fully thought-out audio-only UI would be fascinating.
I always thought the Mac OS way of installing apps was quite intuitive;

there’s the .DMG way where the user opens the DMG and typically drags the app to their applications directory.

I thought this was pretty clever as it’s a glorified disk image containing a .app file, a shortcut to the applications directory, a picture which usually shows an arrow with a box and some metadata that tells finder how to display the whole lot.

So the work flow is, open the .DMG, which opens a special minimal finder window showing the picture and the two icons the user then drags the .APP to their applications directory.

Then there’s the wizard format version which consists of a .PKG file which gets sent through the package manager. This like a windows installer.
Similar feelings here. I switched after becoming frustrated by having a phone that so often failed at basic phone things. Turn by turn nav silently ending because I switched to the browser, having a phone call crash because I accidentally opened Snapchat - and that’s before approaching the eldrich nightmare that was trying to run a video call. This was on a “flagship” Samsung Android phone and I have heard the OS is better and more stable now but honestly, I just don’t see a reason to risk it, especially given the switching costs associated.
All of these things hit for me but it’s really that last sentence that I was trying to focus on. Being able to feel this kind of addiction taking hold and switching gears is very, very important. And not just for games, being able to put down a bad novel is the same skill, I think. It’s important to know what you’re getting out of what you’re doing and make sure that it’s helpful.

I don’t think games are bad as a class though. The perfect example in the opposite direction for me was Neverwinter Nights. I had a lot of fun making campaigns, building teams and hosting servers. That first time I tried to get someone to connect to a 192.168 IP is something I’ll never forget!
Politicians already have special rights and restrictions.

Here's the argument. Democracy requires that politicians have the ability to contact potential voters. There are contribution limits as well as spending limits. In politics most of the money is spent trying to contact voters.

So tech companies banning some politicians but not others is a contribution in kind to a campaign.

The value of a verified Twitter account is far more than the direct contribution limit.

Therefore either all politicians should be allowed, or all must be banned from Twitter.

The FEC is unable to do its job because the Senate hasn't been confirming appointments.

So now states are trying to pass laws to fill the gap.
> Not sure if it's an artifact of the kind of people who have taken the survey so far, a statement about how people want to be perceived in our culture, or a bit of both.

It could also be that the (loose, intuitively approximated) mode on some level of granularity (the individual category perceived as most commonly seen) rather than the median is going to frequently be the intuitive yardstick for “average”, rather than median (mean of a ordinal categorical trait with no unique obvious reduction to an interval-level measure has no coherent definition, so its not really a candidate average.)
This looks super handy as a reference. I love a nice organized diagram when I'm sort of ok enough at something already.

I just wish I had a big enough screen to read this all without zooming out
This is a misguided idea that can lead to negative results. Members of the government should be able to involve themselves in commerce. It is a sign of a healthy capitalist society. The financial economy directly impacts millions of Americans. Detaching the lawmakers from this economy can lead to regulations that hurt it. Thinking back to history, a government friendly towards commerce was a major factor of capitalism's taking off in Britain.
It seems like a vertical merger; not confident that an antitrust issue would meet the bar in this transaction.
One lesson from making tools over the years having dry-run options is to always very explicitly state what you mean by dry-run.

The most common use is as a write/modify gate, but many tools have uses where it may need to avoid certain classes of reads as well (network, db, etc).
>How do you even decide when do you remove those?

I think as a developer you have to take pains to keep them all in one place, and delete them when uninstalling.
Tailscale does everything peer to peer so it might fit what you wanted. They recently added a feature to share files between any computers in your network
may want to detect a fallback. examples show up blank on old device
switching between a touchscreen and mouse is no more awkward than switching between a keyboard and mouse, imo
You posted 8 different versions of this comment. That's outrageous, and it was off topic to begin with. No more of this, please.

This thread got well over 300 comments and there have been at least half a dozen major threads about the ongoing story. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27268921.

Some people like the topic and want it discussed here, others feel the opposite. The tug of war between upvotes and flags is the most normal phenomenon that exists on HN. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27268101, and please don't post any more off-topic flamebait.
The article shows examples of this technology being used to print components, such as temperature and humidity sensors, and antennas. That's more than a breadboard can do, which is designed for building circuits.
> I guess inevitably that is going to be partially reversed when those older generations pass on, and leave some of their accumulated wealth to their children

By being tied up in property the timing of this is hardly ideal though. The costs in housing was paid when I was young, the transfer back will be after my mortgage is paid off and my main use of this transfer will be to fund my retirement. In turn I'll be relying on these investments to fund retirement and if I live long enough the next generation won't get any of my wealth until they're older and don't need it so much.

What would be a better way (other than cash) to transfer some of this wealth when the next generation is younger and need it more?
Eh, you're falling into a trap. Some people just want to be outraged but what avenue they use comes and goes. It used to be "holier than thou", for example. Just try to navigate as best you can and try not to judge others for some sub-sub-group of career ass holes.
I think "at least" refers to how much they'll cut off ("cut them down"), not the resultant size, even if they specified the resultant size.

Similar to "it was at least -40° outside last winter". The implied direction means -40° or colder, even though colder temperatures are lower.

Of course, English is a flexible language. What you suggest as an alternative is not necessarily wrong, but to me it feels awkward. The intended meaning is obvious either way.
I use reverse DNS notation for the local part. So that would be "com.samsung@mydomain.com" in my case.
It took two comments for a thread about Twitter to turn into HNers identifying and generalizing a racial/national out group.