skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got laid off a few years ago and took off to Spain to do the Camino de Santiago (French route) and it was pretty life changing. Met some cool people on the route and completely changed my outlook on life.
Indeed. Not only that, but our brain lies to us with regards to temporal placement of objects. Hence the old thing where when you first look at a ticking clock, the first second feels like it takes longer to lapse, because your brain filled in part of your vision with where it thought the second hand was, because when you shifted your focus towards the second hand, your eyes performed a microsaccade and thus in that precise moment, you were technically blind. This is why I think the effects of psychedelics have such a strong temporal factor.
We're even better at rationalizing away the consequences of our actions.
Computers have lights, why shouldn't lights have computers?
If you use Ride (Dyalog multiplatform APL ide) it's actually very easy to input the special characters: press the character on the toolbar or use the shortcuts (backtick ` followed by another char, shortcuts displayed hovering with the mouse on the toolbar).
It does not cost anything extra, if you are moderating content then you already have viewed and analyzed the content in some way either human, crowdsource, or automated review. The data is already there, the requirement is this data be provided to the user not hidden which is how it done today.

So again I fail to see how requiring a company to disclose to the user the exact reasons for their ban adds any additional burden on anyone. The company already knows the reasons, it simply refused to tell anyone under today's model

I think you have confused my statement with some kind of mandatory moderation scheme.
>For me, the question is how do you get someone so deep into a dark emotional morass to take on the emotional dragons they’ve been hiding from?

What worked for me was a hero's dose of mushrooms, and about a 4-5 hour talk with the universe to shift my perspective 180 degrees.
That may be true - I'm not a hardware engineer. But it's interesting that that sounds exactly like the propaganda that proprietary software vendors used to use to warn against open source software - you don't know what you're getting, you have no guarantee it will work, etc.
It's not public because of licensing. But it's a simple reimplementation of https://www.wsusoffline.net.

Source code here: https://gitlab.com/wsusoffline/wsusoffline
I was surprised this did not get more traction when was initially posted, but glad it taking some visibility.

Its likely to have a major impact for both companies.
IBM is basically accusing GlobalFoundries of taking its technology plus some billions and doing nothing on purpose.

So it looks like, knowing IBM Legal, they think they have a strong case. Or maybe IBM messed up this one so much this,
this is the real reason behind the change of CEO...

The two complaints - IBM Case:
https://3s81si1s5ygj3mzby34dq6qf-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...

GlobalFoundries response:
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet...
I recall that there's a mix of straight up fraud/non-functional and "at least something of a clone".

This article found ATMega328s chips that were actually buck voltage regulators: https://www.sparkfun.com/news/395

Here's an STM32 fake that "works", but has various issues (some serious) listed near the bottom: https://github.com/keirf/Greaseweazle/wiki/STM32-Fakes

Somewhat funny, the very bottom of the page above mentioned that "Note that this chip fixes Erratum 2.3 of genuine STM32F103". So the clone is arguably less buggy than the genuine STM32F103, at least in one aspect.
This was meant as a reply to one of the comments, sorry.
> If you don't feel that way about your work, then what the hell are you even doing there?

I think it’s possible to care about doing a good job without caring about the company.
archive.is owner's response: https://blog.archive.today/post/653964927068979200/do-you-ha...
Everybody is pointing fingers to everybody else, which is why nobody is on track.
I just have a folder with a bunch of scripts with various descriptive names which launch ffmpeg with different painstakingly composed argument chains. I could join them into a mega-script which would prompt me upon execution but I don't see the point in an additional indirection.

Sometimes one script is just not enough/not convenient enough, and I write simple helper wrappers such as:

- https://indiscipline.github.io/post/movie-thumbnailer-announ...

- https://indiscipline.github.io/post/ffmpeg-loudnorm-helper-a...
> once the sniper nest was located, call in an artillery strike.

did they have radios? Or would they send a runner?
Departures of Police Officers Accelerated During a Year of Protests
I guess I just see it as part of doing my job. I wouldn't be able to do it effectively if I didn't do this.

I don't think it's ever been secret in companies that I work for that devs don't spend 100% of their time on assigned tasks. There are always extra things like customer support, ops, urgent requests, unexpected refactoring that come up and have to be dealt with. Project managers I've worked with have mostly cared about the estimate being as accurate as possible taking into account these overheads.
All the Research That’s Fit to Print: Open Access and the News Media
freenode is dead. Everything it stood for is dead.

Staff tout free speech, but they apparently only mean troll speech since anyone speaking against them or announcing new homes is getting channels stolen and users banned. It's disgusting.
What if they were moving from adtech?
> Vast majority of humans seem love the benefits of high population density more than they dislike the costs, remote work or not.

Over these 8 years I've lived everywhere from NYC to small town America and other countries in AirBnbs.

They each have their benefits, they are just different.

If you have a family, small towns can be amazing. Good school districts, tight-nit communities, great charitable events to participate in. Of course you can find that in NYC but it's a completely different scenario and vibe.

It comes down to what works for the individual, which is perfect and exactly where we need to be moving to.
Easy. Require "stable coins" to be fully backed.

The entire crypto market is a house of cards built on the fiction that "stable coins" are actually backed by something financially "stable". An unsecured "loan" does not meet this definition.

More than half of all crypto trades involve stable coins so this is the foundation of the entire crypto marketplace.
Thanks for reporting this bug. The problem has been corrected in a new version. It's in production.

Tell me if it persists :)
The listed link goes to a Android bug on the "Android Public Tracker".
> Or consider health insurance. Do we really want young people paying the same premiums as 80 year olds?

Health insurance is a perfect example of intentionally restricting factors that may be considered to make a more fair system. Forget age. Most systems don't require a sick person to pay more than a healthy person even if the sick person is nearly guaranteed to take out more than they contribute.

> Perhaps you think there's a negative societal byproduct of making a certain group of people feel marginalized/targeted. Does wanting to reduce this justify clear resource wastage, such as in the airport security example above?

The extra security is the resource wastage. The flip side of "we can do less for this group" is "we can do more for that group".

Also, your comment here heavily implies you think that resource waste is obviously more important that making large groups of people feel marginalized. To be frank, even from the most sociopathic economic lens, I do think that exhibiting behaviors that perpetuate racist/religious/political/ageist/sexist/sexual orientation biased ideas have significantly higher negative externality costs to society. Especially those that implicitly convey that an outsider group is dangerous.
Website owners are desperate to capture your attention, they have a few seconds to do so. What they don't realize is that beong annoying is also what causes people to only stay for a few seconds on their site. For me it is a good sign of someone who cares more about advertisement than content so it makes me close the page 99% of the time.
I suspect that you are not the only one in this area. I too often find myself pondering about interactions with other people and realizing what I should have said. Maybe it has to do with verbal IQ versus performance IQ. I think I have a rather average verbal IQ, while my performance IQ is probably in the top 2%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wechsler_Adult_Intelligence_Sc...

It seems that IQ scores do not dramatically change in time, meaning that improving you ability in a weak area is simply going to take a lot of practice.
Come on. Bill Gates is for sure more tactful, despite lasting only 9 moves against Carlsen
I’m sorry, my task just isn’t done yet, it is much more work than was estimated.
I tried the get through the Three Body but it was a slog and I didn't really get the hype for it. I agree with all the other recs but Three Body is just not a universally lovable book.
I know quite a few people from various background (finance, multinational corporations, non-profits) doing things like these. Depends on employer. In hindsight always regarded as one of the best decisions of their lives (along with reducing workload to 80%, usually 4 days/week).

We all know that once old, the amount of money earned/saved will mean absolutely nothing in terms of happiness/achievement. Work achievements for office type jobs mean mean even less. The life lived well will mean everything. So some act accordingly when/if possible.

I haven't done gap year myself, but did a shorter variant - 2 times 3 months backpacking around India and Nepal. Remote Himalaya in the north, swimming in coral reefs on Amdamans, Thar desert in the west, and thousands of years of history, culture and people to meet everywhere in between. I still barely scratched the surface of what this place can offer.

Literally the best decision in my life. It changed me for the better. It motivated me to make changes in my career, go for consulting, move to Switzerland etc.

Have met tons of people from all over the world who were like this - traveling like this for 3-24 months, and then continuing work/study/beginning someplace else.

These trips I've done when having a pretty high mortgage and very little savings, and they both meant losing at least 2 salaries each time while expenses mounted. No rich family to cover for me anyhow if I would hit the financial wall. Still well worth the risk. If one doesn't have kids yet, there is practically nothing to lose with doing this, just gain.
I can recommend "The Mind Illuminated" by Culadasa. It presents a path for meditation in ten stages, describing in simple and clear language goals and techniques for each. There are both directly actionable advice for many different circumstances, challenges, etc., and more theoretical / philosophical discussions for context and understanding.

I have followed the system described in the book for about 15 months, and think it had a positive impact on my life and my well-being in general.
I also think that hiding newsletter sign up forms is bad, because you lose the ability to detect that the site is just a blog spam. Real blogs offer RSS/Atom. Only those freaks fighting for user engagement dumping zero content articles offer newsletters.
I think pushing the boundaries of what is idiomatic can sometimes be valuable. Look how much idiomatic C++ has changed since 1995. Or what is idiomatic in JavaScript now.
I mean, I really grok tape having detractors. Granted ...

... but, to the point of downvotes? :)
Wow, they really think they own the communities just because people chose to use them for IRC? How fucking entitled and arrogant. I don't even use it, but death to Freenode. Obviously somebody thought they found a gold mine, but in their tunnel vision is so focused on "owning" something that they never owned, that they're willing to burn the whole place down to keep "owning" it.
Its not global and it doesn't solve the problem it just make rich counties move most of their pollution to another place and cause more pollution in the end to avoid pollution taxes.
This is why "quit rate" is a sign of economic strength. If workers are confident enough that resigning will result in both speedy re-employment and a better job than before, there is probably good overall confidence in the markets.
‘A costly mistake’ prompts retraction of paper on hair loss
That looks not far off being a community run train!
Russians response to anything: Can we put a motor to that?
> While it was unfortunate to pull an otherwise ethically sound paper with a strong premise, we agree with the UK Biobank that appropriate data use and participant protection trumps the value of any publication. We thank the UKB team for their vigilance and protection of data rights and fully understand the seriousness of the error inappropriate data use represents, regardless of intention.
How is this a scalable approach to everyone in the society? Someone has to work to produce food. Someone has to work to produce electricity. Until we can automate everything, most people have to work and contribute to society (unless you choose to be self-sufficient - grow your own food, produce your own electricity etc.)
Footage proves bats were kept in Wuhan lab
There's a good video on this event, by [LindyBeige](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6QhW5S8Gk4). Their videos are very informative and entertaining, but very focused on Britain.
Yes, but long-covid symptoms (no smell, heart muscle, nerves) are troublesome, so you better do something against it. same as with a bad flu. you need to help fighting the side-effects of the viral infections, and then the bacterial infection caused by the viral infections.
Do we really have a precise scale for those things?
I agree.

I'm currently managing a team of offshore developers +11 from me on top of being the lead developer.

It's chaotic but members of the team adjust their schedule to partially overlap so it works, for the most part.

But I agree. We are a US company and we originally looked at South American companies to try to keep people around the same timezone. I was not involved in the final decision, which apparently came down strictly to financials.
I remember using a caddy in one of the first CD-ROMs, in high school, no less, instructed in the care and, particularly, the -feeding- of the CD Drive by the kind librarian :)
>I also get the general impression that whoever came up with "defund the police" has anarchist inclinations. It's basically doublespeak. They keep saying that "defund the police" only means "reform the police", but what they actually want is to dismantle the police, which is exactly what "defund the police" sounds like.

In America, we get subjected to a bunch of these people saying loud and clear, "Yes, we really do mean abolish the police." And yes, a large number of them have anarchist inclinations.
A phone. Field phones were very much a thing during WWI and WWII, with point to point wiring laid down very soon after gaining control over the territory, or even before that.
The pictures are great

http://rrbike.freeservers.com/Railbikes_and_Railbiking_Pictu...

So nice that these old handmade sites are still around
Agree. More people should try out different living contexts to find which tradeoff matrix works best for them.

I'm now in Vancouver BC, quite a high population density, yet I find it's super easy to remain healthy & happy (air quality, access to nature, safety etc.).
The answer is: Yes.

It would be nice to have a chip that works or doesn't work at all. But there's a large amount that mostly works until it doesn't someday, somewhere and that can make millions of expensive electronics completely useless because some fake $0.02 chip died, plus the aftermath of who's at fault is another can of worms.
My greek relatives would say eg. ‘heh-re-tiz-moose/chairetizmoos apo teen yaya soo’ (…trying to spell it there as it sounds, sort of…), meaning roughly: ‘(sending my) respects/greetings to your grandmother’, I’m wondering if it’s the same root? …If it is, I guess it could be interpreted as an extremely respectful way to say ‘hello’, or an archaic one I guess! :) …unless they were worried that your sleeve-dagger thing was about to make an appearance heheh… (‘hark! …hail to your grace, prithee salutations and felicitations to thou!/‘mistress, what cheer?’ or even ‘wes hail?’ :) In my experience, Greek people are usually quite chuffed if you go to the trouble of learning a bit of the language, even if you muck it up a bit, as not many people do… (…also there is the custom of ‘philoxenia’, which dates from ancient times, but still echoes today…)
You're just not on those Zoom calls. Presumably the office romances/drinking sessions are gone, but politics continues unabated.

Perhaps this is fine for you, but I want to point out to others that just because you don't see this happening anymore, doesn't mean that it has actually stopped happening.
Bad Research [pdf]
Why do we still have stuff like this?
And much less useful.
This reminds me of the fact that 54% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
> Real blogs offer RSS/Atom. Only those freaks fighting for user engagement dumping zero content articles offer newsletters.

The thing is, ever since Google Reader got terminated, the user base of RSS/Atom clients has been steadily dropping down. Firefox IIRC terminated "dynamic bookmarks" years ago, and even back when it existed it didn't support notification.

Yes, us nerd crowd knows that RSS exists, but ever tried asking your boss or your teenage kid what "Atom" is?

Actual mail newsletters are the only way left other than even more obnoxious browser push nags to get your users notified that you have new content.
Nit: I think you meant Fargo, ND rather than Fargo, SD.

For local market rate, [1] seems to match anecdata with new grads being 50-70k. MSFT is largely responsible for anything above that.

[1] https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/software-en...
In the UK it's very common. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... is some UK gov research that suggests it's about 20% of UK university students, which matches my experiences.

Obviously it's easier with rich parents, but it doesn't really require as much cash as you're imagining. It's pretty common to work a little first then use all the cash to travel later for example, or to work while you travel, e.g. by teaching English (TEFL - https://www.tefl.org/blog/why-tefl-on-your-gap-year/).
I know one - condoms!
That's not been my experience here in the UK. Plenty of my friends spent 6 months working to pay for 6 months of low-budget travelling before heading off to university or whatever they were planning to do next (or sometimes they hadn't figured out what they were wanting to do next yet)
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thanks @sundarurfriend, even made it better with the detailed explanation :)
Game boy color (8-bit cpu, 2MHz, 40k ram).

Supposedly the guy (Palmer) who created the commercial gba version had done a tech demo for gbc, but Carmack decided it was too stripped down and proposed a commander keen port for gbc at the time instead. Gba came out a couple of years later and was powerful enough.
Perhaps it was curated prematurely for the newsletter?
That Baez play is genuinely why I love baseball, occasionally. That's just so good, his teammates are so happy, and the other team is immediately flustered (as indicated by the massive errors immediately after). That type of thing reminds you that it's just a game.
People often handwave away what doesn't fit in their world view. So if you lived in Germany during those times and heard whispers about the genocide your first thought would be: "But in the news papers it's nowhere to be found! How can it be true? That's probably an exaggeration or a single occurence" (or whatever else pops in your mind at first thought). And because you as a mere citizen don't have a lot of leverage you would probably leave it at that and simply try to live and survive. I think there's a lot about group psychology to be learnt by our horrible past (I'm German) and I think these lessons are helpful for every human being. Especially now with the rise of populists in the last years worldwide (and the atrocities against the Uighurs).
Many DAOs have massive (>$1B) treasuries that are used to fund development and marketing. Developers propose OSS projects and these orgs give out grants based on community votes. See https://gitcoin.co or the Uniswap Grants program for examples.
Completely omitted from the discussion: People buying here are desperate, unable to afford Rx meds thru traditional sources.
I’m not at zero but generally avoid socializing at work. It just stresses me out for some reason. I’m pretty affable and approachable and genuinely like people, just from a distance.
I'm not clued up on US healthcare, but is $680 a lot, average, low?

Does it cover all procedures? Is there an excess? Value of coverage?
I actually find the NFL race-norming more scandalous https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/31554110/nfl-halt-race-n... but I suppose that is a scandal 'about' sports, whereas pitch doctoring is 'in' sports.
Also, young people make money on affiliate marketing. this is a great idea to start collaborating with startups. For example, Audext Affiliate Program https://audext.com/affiliate-program/ offers you to earn up to 35% of commission. Audext - the fastest-gowing online video/audio-to-text converter! Audext transcribes video/audio files from meetings, conversations, lectures, interviews, podcasts in minutes! You can find all the necessary ad materials to share.
> We do not have conflicts with other groups.

Well, there's that whole bovine liberation moo'vement, that has sometimes turned violent.
I've only been 1/2 following along with this, I'm not sure I get it now. Freenode staff now has total control over every single change on Freenode? Won't that drive everyone (literally everyone) away? What's the Freenode staff's goal here? I'm not a Freenode user and have no interest in this at all, just wondering as a somewhat interested outsider.
Why do you need to make the dependence on Redis a part of the public API? You don't do that with the service API, so why do you have to do it with the library API?

If you're going to rewrite it in another language, what difference does it make if it was a library to begin with? There's no point in making all the upfront work in both the service and all the clients making them talk on the network on the off chance you need to do a rewrite in another language, when you need to rewrite the API layer too. The only thing that would over after the rewrite is the client code. Doing it risks having wasted time doing a network API level on both client and server for nothing, not doing it just risks having to do it when you need it. Doing a rewrite "without users noticing" has no real benefit here.
I see now! So the 'expired' field is for checking died/incompleted workers.
Why are U-2 jet pilots wearing Garmin satellite navigation smartwatches? (2020)
Your point is valid. Still, I find that most "blogs" offering newsletters these days are frivolous content dumping ground, and the reason for their existence is likely just building Internet persona or something.

EDIT: Lots of such noise (often appearing here on HN) comes from Substack.
That DevOps “Guy”
From Arie M. Prasetyo Tech Lead

Hi friends, we at GoPlay (Gojek) are looking for our new DevOps guy. Do you know a guy? Or are you that guy?

Ping me if you know that guy.

#devops
I think by "quit" they mostly mean look for a job elsewhere with a different employer. "1 in 4 workers (26%) plans to look for a job at a different company once the pandemic has subsided, ... " [1]

[1] https://www.axios.com/post-pandemic-job-turnover-04cdedcb-dd...