skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone in their 20s without social media, I have exactly 0 friends. I live in a central European country and everyone around me has a friend group that originated during their childhood; they have childhood friends. I do not, mainly because throughout my time in school I switched schools a whole lot for various reasons. Over the years I've also grown quite insecure about it and anxious.

Now I also happen to not like alcohol or smoking which really reduces my chances of meeting someone my age to 0, because I don't go out to parties and such. Not that it was even possible during COVID-19.

I'm happy that I at least have supportive parents, siblings and family. But I think there are a lot of young people in my situation and many of them only have parasocial relationships, for example with Twitch streamers and YouTubers.

Homeoffice has been hard with all the distractions home has to offer and I really do miss eating lunch with coworkers. I'm going to start studying at university this fall so I'm optimistic that I might make some friends there.
China will become the most powerful nation eventually if they do not accidentally prevent themselves from doing so. An attempt to stay ahead of China is likely a losing battle so get over this rivalry and focus on cooperation.
The devil is in the details, and I’m mighty curious as to what those details end up looking like.
To support channels is one reason.
A brief reminder, especially when talking about dark patterns, that Intuit and its peers have spent 20 years making this a reality and cloaking their legal obligations to provide free options, as detailed in https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f... :

> Internal presentations lay out company tactics for fighting “encroachment,” Intuit’s catchall term for any government initiative to make filing taxes easier — such as creating a free government filing system or pre-filling people’s returns with payroll or other data the IRS already has. “For a decade proposals have sought to create IRS tax software or a ReturnFree Tax System; All were stopped,” reads a confidential 2007 PowerPoint presentation from an Intuit board of directors meeting. The company’s 2014-15 plan included manufacturing “3rd-party grass roots” support. “Buy ads for op-eds/editorials/stories in African American and Latino media,” one internal PowerPoint slide states.

> The centerpiece of Intuit’s anti-encroachment strategy has been the Free File program, hatched 17 years ago in a moment of crisis for the company. Under the terms of an agreement with the federal government, Intuit and other commercial tax prep companies promised to provide free online filing to tens of millions of lower-income taxpayers. In exchange, the IRS pledged not to create a government-run system.

> Since Free File’s launch, Intuit has done everything it could to limit the program’s reach while making sure the government stuck to its end of the deal. As ProPublica has reported, Intuit added code to the Free File landing page of TurboTax that hid it from search engines like Google, making it harder for would-be users to find.

> What is clear is that Intuit’s business relies on keeping the use of Free File low. The company has repeatedly declined to say how many of its paying customers are eligible for the program, which is currently open to anyone who makes under $66,000. But based on publicly available data and statements by Intuit executives, ProPublica estimates that roughly 15 million paying TurboTax customers could have filed for free if they found Free File. That represents more than $1.5 billion in estimated revenue, or more than half the total that TurboTax generates. Those affected include retirees, students, people on disability and minimum-wage workers.
>Debian abandoning it for signing packages and it's general lack of usage.

This is not true. There was a proposal near the start of the year. That proposal has been almost entirely ignored.

Would age provide any advantage over GnuPG to make it worth the bother to switch to a new message format?

* https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:agevspgp
Oh, thanks for pointing to that. In that thread I found out about clearInk, something of a competitor; seems like an old-style reflective color LCD with long battery life. I'd love to see these in devices like the AlphaSmart Neo2
Boox devices running Android have 3 user-adjustable levels of screen refresh. The higher you go, the more battery it uses, but higher levels let you browse the web relatively well.
Analytic number theory.

I began reading a book on analytic number theory on my own sometime last year. While re-reading some chapters of the book again, I decided I might as well do the re-reading with a group of other folks who are interested in this subject. So I began hosting book club meetings for analytic number theory since March this year. I had made a Tell HN post about it back then.

Those meetings are still going on consistently. We have a tiny but regular group of participants who meet daily for 40 minutes to read the book together. In fact, we now have a small community around it. We call it the Offbeat Computation Club. See https://offbeat.cc/ for more details about it. We plan to add more topics of discussion, such as Common Lisp, SICP, etc., soon.

We will begin reading a new chapter (Quadratic Residues and the Quadratic Reciprocity Law) on Monday. This is a pretty self-contained chapter and quite accessible to someone who has not read the previous chapters but has some basic knowledge of modular arithmetic. If this sounds like fun, you are very welcome to join us. See the link in the previous paragraph to find our IRC channel location, meeting link, and other details.
I have worked in retail, dealt with some of the rudest people. Sometimes, I still get angry about it. But my job satisfaction was certainly higher back then. At the end of day, I was tired but I didn't had to think of work anymore. Sure I met some assholes, but I also met some great people, some are still my friends.

Other jobs I had were tutoring, security guard, IT helpdesk. All these jobs had higher satisfaction and they ended at the end of day.

Now my dev job never really ends, I am constantly thinking about work related problems even while playing with my kids. The stuff that I work (storage) on is used mostly by advertising industry based on our clients. I am not making the world better, just making myself and some people richer. I might be burning out too, not sure if I was in retail for 10+ years, if I would feel same way. But when I worked with older people in retail, none of them ever complained about burn out like we programmers do.
Edit: I'm sorry, that EdX course doesn't seem to be the one I was thinking of. The cool website is https://www.tinkercad.com though. Definitely worth poking around and experimenting.

There’s a great (very low-level introductory) IoT course from Curtin University on EdX[1] that will teach you the absolute basics of circuitry and get you started building things with arduino. MIT also has almost all of their courses available for free (search “MIT OCW” or “MIT open courseware”) if you’re looking for something more technical, given your physics background. I believe their introductory circuits course for EE/EECS students is 6.002.

The EdX course is cool though because it uses a site (I wish I could remember the name) that simulates circuits to let you build things with an arduino right in your browser.

[1]https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-the-internet-of-t...
So the law is likely to get watered down. But what's a good goal? What would be an effective limitation on online advertising companies?
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Be sure to check out Hermeto Pascoal. Especially his Som da Aura technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RUlbU6CMx0
Also, Europe would speak Russian if the US left
> The problem is: de-programming all the propaganda takes an immense amount of time - months, sometimes years of effort.

I just said "I've convinced a half dozen people to get vaccinated". General availability for the vaccine in the US has only been around for about two months - less in some cases. That wouldn't have been possible if what you're saying is true. It really doesn't take that much effort for most people.

And I'm really not a fan of the "de-programming" mindset. To treat someone as though their thoughts and concerns were programmed by someone else is to disregard their reasoning and free will. Maybe they're missing information. Maybe they're misunderstanding something. Maybe they have been fed misinformation. In most of the cases I've been successful with, it's simply that nobody has taken time to address their concerns. Most of these people don't need "re-programming". They're worried and they need someone to listen to their concerns and reassure them with calm reasoning.
‘Dragon Man’ skull may be elusive Denisovan–or a new species of human
If they aren't mass collecting this data in the first place (for the reasons outlined above), then how can they be doing this?

Or, if they are doing this from quality samples of the population, then we have data to show that, for example, "Yes, Mr. Function Seven, your scan shows elevated levels of Widget-5a enzymes. This is often a precursor to Gadget Cancer, but 30% of the population shows this elevation, while only 1% develop the cancer. It's best to do nothing at this time unless we see further elevation. Have a good day, see you next year"

So either we have this data and we can give accurate advice, or we don't have this data because we're afraid of over-diagnosing non-problems.

I understand the fear, but it's still burying one's head in the sand to not even look.
The effect sizes and neighborhood-level disparities were referring to a nationwide study of all blackout conducted by the cited universities (and LLNL), in case that wasn't clear. Hash's war-driving data from Dallas is totally separate.

I live in Dallas and can tell you there was no disparity during this last winter storm. Unless you were critical infrastructure, they blacked out everyone. I live within spitting distance of city hall and I was still losing power every few hours for two weeks.
But a realistic one, especially if it became common enough to want to crack down and make examples.
Spanish - more relearning at this point and getting practice.

Running - also relearning, which happened quickly this time. I'm already back to running 5ks after just a few weeks (though I also spent 6 months building up my cardio with a rowing machine).

How to be offline and focused. Computers (and smartphones) are fantastic tools of distraction. I'm trying to regain my focus overall. Reading physical texts is helping immensely with this. I've mostly reinstated my personal "no tech in the sitting room" rule, aside from my Kindle Fire which is sufficiently anemic to be useful as a reader and not as major distraction with other media.
Maybe rare in database. As example Vigeland park in Oslo, there is tree row with similar trees but one has typo som is marked as rare.
Because the mcdonalds was closed by the owners then "taken over" by workers before the govt. decided it's alright and they'll pay for it.

I wouldn't mind the end but how they got to the end is not ideal as is being praised by some other comments here.

Also, not sure how the govt. has funds to buy a mcdonalds location but not feed the poor which got them to this state in the first place - and maybe that's something which needs fixing instead of blaming everything on businesses and corporations.
I quite literally shivered in abject horror at the thought that some advertisng schmuck will read that and jump on it. We need to ban advertising.
to be honest, that's pretty tame as far as dark patterns go.

If a user had already typed their email onto the field, then the user had at least some intent to sign up whatever the user wanted to sign up for.

This makes what ad trackers and ISPs do with how we browse seem like war crimes if you were to call this a 'dark pattern'
> And if you look at their one line change commits, they do seem to be valid

By construction, yes. You're only looking at their commits that were merged into Linus's tree.
Even if you capped height, to say 6'8", you will still see likely eventually see trans women dominating the sport.

<i>You seem to not be taking into account that fact that on average trans women will be taller than cis women, not that every trans woman is taller than every cis woman.</i>

No, I am taking that into account. Because of how dominant height is in basketball, you rarely see men in the NBA at 5'9" (the average height for a man in the US). Probably less than .5% of the NBA is that height or less.

So in women's basketball what this means, even if you cap the height, you will see the average height in the league grow because of the addition of trans women. 6'3" point guards will become the norm -- as of today I don't think a single 6'3" PG exists in the WNBA. And almost all of the eventual 6'3" PGs will be trans women.

Whereever you cap the height -- that height will be dominated by transwomen.

The only way to really blunt the impact is to cap the height so low that there is a substantial pool of top talent from transwomen and cis. Something like 6'. But that ends up now drastically hurting a bunch of cis women who are tall and prior to this, this being the preferred sport for them. And the WNBA already has issues with popularity and comparisons to the mens game (although I perosonally really enjoy womens basketball) -- if they capped the height to 6', that just makes the problem worse.
This issue doesn't have anything to do with geopolitics.
I'm most excited about "go run" supporting import paths in 1.17, similar to how npx works for node
The US doesn't recognize Taiwan as an independent country.
They could be getting non-breaking updates, though.
I agree somewhat but I think many people in some lower paid jobs aren’t as miserable in them as you might imagine. I’ve met quite a few who are content with them - as the work doesn’t follow them home and has almost no mental game to it. It’s very adjacent to manual labor.

I didn’t start experiencing truly large amounts of job dissatisfaction until I worked in software. Jobs before then were never fantastic but I wasn’t upset like I get now and they never followed me home.
As I am not a Chinese speaker..do you confirm there is in the thread a comment that the maintainer is also Chinese ?

I am concerned about possible pressure from Huawei
and its "shareholders":
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53172057
to a Kernel maintainer. Looking at the heavy down
votes my post got its not a concern here...
Why are you responding to random commenters on HN as if they are the ones getting ready to go out and start writing the official policy of a country?

Discussion is good. It's ok for people to be wrong and disagree. I'm not even saying they are wrong, but if they were- do you really need to go around telling everyone that some opinion that crossed their mind over a cup of morning coffee would be a disaster if implemented as national policy?
To be fair, on-foot gameplay (née "space legs") has been on the promised roadmap since the original kickstarter campaign, and it's a natural extension of the landable planets and SRV gameplay added in Horizons.

Frontier definitely tried to appeal to the typical FPS crowd with the on-foot conflict zones, which was a huge misstep: it was never going to be good enough as just a small part of a much larger game, and a lot of the existing players are much more interested in the space stuff.

If you ignore the shooty bit of the on-foot gameplay, though, it really does (or at least has the potential to) add to the core gameplay. Being able to walk around station hangers and concourses, prison ships, planetary installations and the planet surface itself is definitely increasing my enjoyment of the game.

The general hope is that they're leaving a bunch of the content releases - hints of new ships, SRVs and new thargoid-related gameplay - until the console releases for Odyssey in the autumn so that a large chunk of the playerbase isn't left behind. Sadly that means that us PC players are currently beta testing Odyssey, but after the recent patches it's just about performant and stable enough to enjoy.
Everything is subjective.
The users who are voting now are not same people as the users who bought first models.

I have OnePlus3 as my main phone and I am still quite happily using it. However, as the manufacturer has changed their target audience, my next phone is not going to be oneplus.

Sad thing, it is pretty hard to find a decent phone which does not have crap pre-installed.
You are assigning beliefs to me that I do not hold. As I said, we would need a solid randomized controlled clinical trial to determine whether any particular intervention actually helps patients live longer and/or better. That's the only way we know. So go ahead and collect data, do an RCT, and let us know how it goes.
A fork is a copy that is maintained separately, and that is exactly what is happening here. You're actually quite right that, if all they were maintaining was a Debian package, they could theoretically maintain a source package with a vanilla orig tarball and keep their changes to patches, but that's not what they're doing here:

> The support offering will include Blender LTS releases across Linux distributions, Microsoft Windows, and macOS.

They're not using quilt to do this. They're using git. At least, that's how I did it when I did it for Canonical.
The plot of any game like this is going to be the most bland, insipid storyline ever imagined. It will speak to absolutely no-one, but it will have some filler cinematics that have nice graphics.

In general, this is the case the higher profile and more money is poured into it.
I think everyone is quite aware of the driving force behind these ‘gaffes.’
they aren't losing 9 weeks pay.
They're taking time off with pay, they just don't get to choose the days.
Thank you for the correction, and thank you for fighting for it! I agree that errors are far better than silently ignoring it. I'll weigh in on the issue tracker if I remember later.
Quite frankly I've never seen people use AWS offerings for CI pipelines, I wonder if other products (Code* family) are any good - can anyone comment on them? I've only used CodeCommit once during a hackathon, and it seemed rather basic.
Name collision with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_(computing).
Made this comment elsewhere, but having gone through two of these (one shorter and the recent one much larger), I think the best thing anyone can do for themselves is make a "break glass in case of burnout" plan where they save up margin (money, vacation days, etc) during the good times so that when the famine hits part of the stress isn't the painted-in-corner feeling of "I need a break but have no margin to take one"

Burnout always ends up being your own personal Rubik's cube in terms of what factors are truly causing it, but the solution is always the same - protracted rest - deload and de-stress life as much as possible. In my recent case going down to a part-time schedule helped to add back margin.

Some of it was also eliminating the burden of leadership isolation, cutting back on workout intensity, limiting screen time at night, fixing some health issues, increasing social activity, and doing some counseling for past unresolved issues.

Give yourself that margin and burnout becomes less of this soul-crushing life-altering existental crisis where you end up posting on HN about becoming a monk (or stuck on SSRIs for years) and more about resolving the check-engine light that flashes when your body is telling you it's time to make life changes.
Have you considered that part of the reason why DNS is ultra efficient is that it's a relatively constrained dataset of small but meaningful data objects? I worry for all of the places running caching DNS proxies suddenly tanking their query resolver performance because their caches are flushing far more rapidly, and root hint servers seeing a massive influx of data now being stored in the platform. The technical marvel is cool, but I sincerely worry about this becoming a widely used product.
Better for the internet as a whole is a pretty big leap of reasoning. There is plenty of useful data in the web that needs to be stored and retrieved. In fact, this is precisely what the web was built for. It is an information network. Why hack the DNS system for this? DNS is meant for domain name discovery. It has a specific purpose. In large architectures, it is almost never a good idea to break such separation of concerns.
Now that’s a defeatist attitude if ever I saw one.

And a silly one too. There is no cooperation. Only servitude.
> somewhat reliable marker

For the USA...

Something around 1.8 million people are diagnosed with cancer per year. At a 50% false negative rate, all else being equal it would detect 900k of those.

And all else being equal, at a 0.5% false positive rate, if it were used as suggested it would incorrectly diagnose cancer in around 1.6 million of the population.

So around 60% of the people it says has cancer wouldn't have cancer. I guess it depends upon what you mean by "somewhat reliable".
Given its deep integration with their RTX APIs, I imagine even if the source code were open, the only way to get at the RTX ML-specific stuff is via their Windows driver.
It's hydroxychloroquine, and it only looked good in poorly controlled studies, like the Henry Ford study where the hydroxychloroquine arm was also given steroids.

And answer me this: if hydroxychloroquine was so effective, why didn't Trump's tremendous doctors give it to him when he got covid?
Lessons (not) learned: Go never worked well with semantic versioning or packaging, didn't mature and evolve as a language fast enough for productivity at scale in ways users wanted, became stuck in its ruts, and was overwhelmed by an influx of trend-following noobs. I bounced because its stiltedness never seemed to improve.
Fair enough.

I sincerely hope that this test will drive down the cost of testing and that they will get the kinks ironed out, I think it is a major development and I'm actually afraid that those that oversell it will cause it to end up being tainted, as has happened with many other cancer related diagnostics and potential treatments. Cancer seems to bring out an emotional response rather than a rational one, typically because almost all of us have direct knowledge of one or more people in our environment that succumbed to it.

A lot of work has been done since this development was first announced and there are still quite a few kinks that will need to be ironed out. The whole idea - such as promoted in this thread by some - that this makes cancer a matter of 'simply looking at the right organ' is so laughably oversimplifying reality that some balance is required, and I think at some point my irritation got the better of me.

So thank you for pointing that out.

And to add to that: It definitely is not my intention to suggest that this test is without value.
Not a "brit"
Sounds secure. I bet you could build a box to spoof your readings low and steal electricity.
I like the limit on GitHub actions. It won't be sustainable in long term otherwise. You just can't count on people's self discipline for this kind of stuff, and there will always be malicious usage as long as the system allows.

If putting large random TXT records can harm the global DNS infrastructure, DNS providers should put a stricter limit on it. And OP's project will help us get there.
> I wouldn't want to raise my kids there though.

Congrats, you found the reason why we're leaving. It's a combination of that, tax rates, and gun laws. Upstate NY doesn't need to suffer for the problems of NYC.

> Mostly in terms of job availability (though maybe that's changing with remote work)

It is. I'm starting a new job in Orlando on Monday.