skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO Assertiveness is not a virtue but a behavior.

It's a behavior that is not beneficial for every person. Neurodiversity requires flexibility of social systems in order to thrive and facilitate innovation. When a social system contains a large bias for assertive behavior then the participants of that system may overvalue the behavior and react to individuals that lack assertiveness as lesser (recognition of environmentally favored behaviors.)

When character values are aligned in behavior and attitudes then the assertive behavior can manifest with different motives. In the article the author tells a story of their character decisions when choosing to accomplish their goals through stimulating activity (writing their document with a deadline) or focus their attention on the needs of a member of their group (benevolence and conformity.)

The internal dilemma the author went through was the misalignment of their behavior and motives (cognitive dissonance.)

"But I couldn’t imagine myself saying those things. I wasn’t that sort of person, and everyone knew it."

The author's solution is to focus on protecting themselves (Safety, a conservation life focus.)

"You can’t stop people making demands on your time and energy, but you can develop the skills to protect yourself"

I urge the author to escape the group mentality that feels safe and explore uncomfortable social environments with the objective of increasing awareness of what matters most to them, not just in theory but in practicality.
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What windows store lock-in?
Seems like a very promising approach. What scientific validation have you done to show that this approach is better?
Counter-Strike was a third party GoldSrc mod before Valve bought it and is arguably one of the most popular games of all time.

Source has Titanfall as well as its spiritual successor, Apex Legends, which use a modified Source engine.
”In Sweden” should perhaps have been “in my Twitter feed”. :)
That's what I'm wondering here. If it's just a normal m.2 slot then you're way better off price-wise getting the entry level unit and upgrading later on.
Even if that were "Government is (in practice) elected by people, counter balanced by court", it wouldn't be enough. The people electing the government do not have the right to use force to coerce other people (the owners & operators of Facebook in this case) into censoring content. A government or other representative elected by the people has no rights beyond those possessed by the people who voted for it—one cannot delegate rights one does not possess. And the courts are themselves part of the government. It's good to have some form of internal controls (self-regulation) to keep the other branches of government in check, but one arm of the government cannot be the sole and final arbiter of whether another arm of the same government is acting justly.

Facebook is accountable to its users. It may not have much serious competition now, but there are myriad potential alternatives which could fulfill the same function, just as Facebook replaced its predecessors (most notably MySpace). Network effects are strong while they last, but notoriously fickle.
Kind of. At the very least you get traits, dynamic array literals and such that you don't get in "classic" Smalltalk.
I dunno, I'm pretty sure I was hired without technical interview on the power of my GitHub profile. This is for a small startup (post-series-A, pre-series-B), programming in a slightly-less-popular-but-gaining-in-popularity language. Pre job-search I pinned all of my repos (the most popular ones to the top) in that language.

I was sure to carve out exceptions for all of my side projects in my employment contract, they did not argue about it.
That's something authoritarian regimes would love more people to think!
It is clickbait. Even when growing up it was common when having a good meal to say something like 'This is amazing, you should open a restaurant'. There's little to no expectation that the person cooking would actually open a restaurant, it's just a nice compliment.
> If I can believe the current narrative things have been going from bad to worse to black people walk the streets in fear of their lives from racist cops in the last few years.

That's not new, it's just better publicized now:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/movies/boyz-n-the-hood-jo...:

> ‘Boyz N the Hood’ at 30: A Vivid Examination of Racism at Work

> ...This is evident when Tre (Cuba Gooding Jr.) interacts with Los Angeles’s finest. As a child he sees how even a Black police officer doesn’t take his father, Furious (Laurence Fishburne), seriously when he reports a home break-in; when Tre is older, the same officer pulls a gun on him during a routine traffic stop. He quickly learns that the cops are there to neither protect nor serve him or his neighbors. What Singleton shows us about the relationship between the police and Black residents may be well understood now, but at the time it was rare for the Black community’s view on policing to be so well embodied by Hollywood. I was always taught to be wary of officers as a young Black man, but this was one of the first times I saw the rationale for that fear onscreen in a major American film.

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> Either everyone has been blind for decades or the current narrative about racism is a lie meant to achieve some political purpose. I do not believe the former to be true so the latter seems to be the answer but that makes me wonder why the parent poster brought up the bad racism in SF and LA and the racism in Boise, Idaho.

Like most things, it's not that black and white, but a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B.
Is this a big "either/or" thing for libraries, or can they comfortably enable both models without too much duplication?
It's the same in Spanish, I'm surprised how universal this concept has become, even with people that have never understood what needles have to do with haystacks.

"Como buscar/hallar una aguja en un pajar" (like looking for/finding a needle in a haystack) means taking/achieving a nearly impossible task.
Aren't read speeds a little too slow for heavy game loading?
A lot of millenials have families now. 100k is not that much, especially if it is before taxes, health insurance, retirement.
Actually, it does. When you upload code to Github, you are effectively "dual licensing" the code to them under Github's terms. Github is not bound to any other licenses you may have applied to your license, because it did not agree to those terms. It only agreed to the terms spelled out in the Terms of Service. Of course, there are edge cases in which you could upload code to Github that you do not own, for which I do not know the answer to.
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Those benchmarks are quite old, from Pharo 5 in 2017. It would be interesting to see a updated version. Eliot Miranda and Clément Béra are working on speculative inlining for the JIT compiler. From http://www.mirandabanda.org/cogblog/about-cog/ - "With Clément Béra I’m working on adaptive optimisation (a.k.a. speculative inlining) at the image level, optimising from bytecode to bytecode. We call this project Sista, which stands for Speculative Inlining Smalltalk Architecture. Clément’s image-level (entirely in Smalltalk above the virtual machine) adaptive optimizer is called Scorch. Sista should offer about a -66% speed-up (3x) for conventional Smalltalk code. The combination of Spur and Sista should yield almost a 5x speedup over the original Cog."
I think that says more about Silicon Valley municipal priorities than anything else.

Besides, when it comes to infrastructure and consumer habits, influencing any change for the better is still better than none at all.
> Sort of. DMCA protects service providers against copyright infringement claims related to stuff uploaded to their services by third parties. So long as they adhere to DMCA requests, they’re not violating copyright law themselves.

This is probably an extremely stupid question as I'm neither a lawyer nor an ML dev (merely an humble backend developer), but let's say that the above situation applies and that Github has taken down Bob's repo as per Alice's DMCA request. However, let's say that in between Bob uploading the offending code and Alice submitting the DMCA request, Github used Bob's repo as part of a training set for Copilot. Now that they've complied with the takedown request, does Github have to restore Copilot to an earlier state that hadn't yet been trained by Bob's repo? Does this question even make sense since I only know the absolute barest bones of ML?
Why should they be higher?
You're very confused about how these things work.

> Seriously, for example if you send a special force group to sabotage a carrier for example, then all you need to keep the carrier non-funcional is siege it, place boats with anti-air equipment in certain positions and shoot any airplane trying to reach the carrier.

A Navy ship does its important resupply via ship, not via aircraft.

> Land battles against bases seemly can be won by just sieging them

If any of this stuff you are suggesting were feasible, it would mean the US already lost the war.
I haven't used it much myself, but I've watched a lot of Alan Kay videos and I've read his "Early History of Smalltalk" which I highly recommend. My take is that it is largely about creating a computing system from the smallest yet most fundamental/powerful building blocks. In smalltalk, "everything is an object", which means everything has the semantics of a "whole computer". These computers are networked together and can send/receive messages back and forth with each other. This creates a drastically different paradigm than simply creating a pipeline of functions to send data through (for example). It excels at modeling complex systems, it's really "OOP done right".

Of course there are other interesting features worth talking about, such as "images" and the introspection capabilities. Which are both great and often sorely missed in todays systems. But I think the big idea is to try to understand what Kay had in mind with OOP.

Another aspect of smalltalk that is important, beyond just the "language" is to recognize its role in advancing "personal computing". Smalltalk was essentially an operating system that empowered the user to create new media and tinker with the system.

If you want to see a modern web-browser based smalltalk-like system that uses javascript, check out Dan Ingalls' Lively Web. That will give you an idea into how smalltalk systems were meant to be used, in terms of "personal computing".
With 24-27% VAT in use in some countries it comes to exactly 419€, which might explain the price. As they really don't charge different price per country in Europe.
When I "vouch" for a friend, what happens on the friend's side? Am I opting them in to getting email(s) from weekday?

If so, that seems slightly odd that I'm going through my top 10 friends on linked-in, vouching for them so that they are now going to get some a cold email(s), but I have no insight if those 10 people are looking for jobs and want this email at all. I'm pretty much saying to my friends "Hey, I just gave your info to this random company so hopefully I'll make some money off you." (And yes, it is true that I'm "helping" them get a job, but the people I'd vouch for don't need help, in this market they can get a job very quickly)

I will admit that some aspects of what I mention above are true in the "screen-share call" example you gave above, BUT it's the fact that the screen-share alternative is clunky/painful which makes it more socially acceptable. The automation/scale of your new approach starts to feel more spammy.

When you say "No recruiter mails" on your website, what does that mean exactly? Who is the subject of that sentence and who is the object? Subject: weekday recruiter? in-house recruiters at tech companies? contingency recruiters? Object: me the voucher? the person I'm vouching for?

Note: I'm not trying to be mean or negative, I'm just trying to understand the full feedback loop, so I can be empathetic to all parties, especially my friends. :)
Another side note.

Still in Assets->House.

Your simulator seems to work "by category", i.e. it takes expenses for the house (taxes, maintenance, insurance) from the value of the asset?

I.e. with constant income fixed 6000 (salary until retirement and same amount as pension, tax exempt, todays money, follow inflation), no living expenses, and only a house with value fixed to 200000 (but adjusted to inflation), 1% tax, 1% maintenance, 1% insurance, the value of the asset decreases.

That should be 6000 income tax exempt, 6000 expenses, same house, everything fixed but adjusted to inflation.

But it is not like you are going to pay taxes, maintenance or insurance with "slices" of your house.

Anyway, with those values I start at 25 Net Worth 200,000 (only the house) and end up at 92 with a house worth 26000 and a lot of cash, 121000.
Debian GNU/Linux: operating system so conservative that “unstable” means production ready rolling release

(My go-to though)
It doesn't have to, the rights you grant Github when you agree to the ToS and upload your work exist independent of any rights you might grant as part of the repo's license.
I bought a gaming PC years ago, and I hate booting it up to play my Steam library, because of the constant, unending updates.

Didn't turn on your PC for a week? Enjoy a 45-minute wait while Steam downloads and installs yet another giant update, preventing you from playing anything until it's done.

If this is going to be like that, I'm out. Even though a device like this is what I've been looking for.
Triggers can be an absolute nightmare to debug, and basically impossible to retroactively determine why a particular trigger did or didn't fire.

I've had the displeasure of working with databases with triggers that fire other triggers, and all that logic should've been moved into the application itself. They're a powerful tool to have in your toolbox, but should be used sparingly, and should be kept as simple as possible.
You're taking the machine "learning" metaphor literally. A human being learning something is not analogous to training an ML model. Training models is more analogous to compilation or lossy encoding or compression.
> Why is any company having more USB-2 slots than USB-3 these days?

Because it's cheaper to produce and easier to design for USB 2. The cpu and chipset are limiting factors as well.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/chipsets-am4

Scroll down to the table at the bottom of the page to see what AMD's chipsets can support.
The Supreme Court found Google’s use to be fair, not infringement.
It doesn't have a keyboard and a comfortably-large-enough screen though. You would be better off using a Chromebook with Crostini for less than that price.
This is purely for fun but please define "voluntary"
This one time, I visited an Apple store at an upscale mall to pick up a laptop (needed urgently, I damaged the previous one by spilling a drink on it). However, I happened to be dressed to the max because of a fancy event that I was returning from. I carried the Apple-branded bag with me while seeing if I could buy some miscellaneous clothing (T-shirts and underwear) while there.

It is ridiculous how much more attention I got from every shop attendant throughout the mall that day, compared to my usual comfortable cargo shorts and T-shirt look.

That "experiment" still makes me sad. We treat humans like garbage if they don't look rich enough.
> Also refer to "War is a Racket" (1935)[1] by medals of honor recipient Major General Smedley Butler

That is a terrific piece, and one that's had a lot of HN attention:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=War+is+a+Racket

Most active discussion, from five years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22012255
Great question, I have no answer.

The article explained forcing in such a way as to simply restate what I thought we already knew: given a real, there is no "next" real. (ie, there are a non-countable-infinite number of reals between any two reals).

I don't see the newness that forcing brings to this.
Companies could also stop creating monoculture networks that are easy to manage and also easy to compromise. When every device is a domain joined Windows 10 machine running some low level, 3rd-party centralized remote management system, it's just a matter of time before you are completely owned.

This is the "Encryption Backdoor" problem in Computer Science (aka "Exceptional Access System"). It is impossible to build an exceptional access system and then ensure it is only used by good people to do good things.
>Do you think what a person reads has no predictive value on their 'moral value'? (An admittedly vague term)

Yes, 100%. How can it, if we agree all human life is sacred? Are some people more sacred than others? Holier than thou? (getting downvoted for this)

All men are created equal. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Ephesians 6:9 "Slave owners, you must treat your slaves with this same respect. Don't threaten them. They have the same Master in heaven that you do, and he doesn't have favorites."
I think it all depends on who 'they' are and what 'their products' re. The definition says:

> 'GitHub,' 'We,' and 'Us' refer to GitHub, Inc., as well as our affiliates, directors, subsidiaries, contractors, licensors, officers, agents, and employees.

Does that also include OpenAI? Does it include the Visual Studio team? All of Microsoft?

The license granted by users to Github is:

> We need the legal right to do things like host Your Content, publish it, and share it. You grant us and our legal successors the right to store, archive, parse, and display Your Content, and make incidental copies, as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time. This license includes the right to do things like copy it to our database and make backups; show it to you and other users; parse it into a search index or otherwise analyze it on our servers; share it with other users; and perform it, in case Your Content is something like music or video.

> This license does not grant GitHub the right to sell Your Content. It also does not grant GitHub the right to otherwise distribute or use Your Content outside of our provision of the Service...

IANAL, but naively, Github appears to be a code hosting platform. If they need to analyze my code to make it work with Git and with their code hosting features, that makes sense. For example, they might have a feature to prevent inadvertent commits of private keys, and would need to parse my code to do so. Maybe my code contains stuff that doesn't work with their generic private-key-finding parser, and they need to specifically run a subset of my code on their platform through their parser in a debugger to fix the feature. That's a sensible license to grant to a code hosting platform, they're not a no-knowledge encrypted storage provider.

They don't appear to be a software vendor that sells code to other private parties for use in closed-source applications. Their license appears to specifically deny them the right to sell snippets of my code to others.

I suspect, however, that this isn't a black-and-white factual issue, rather, one for a court to decide. One could probably hire an attorney to argue any possible angle on the legality of Copilot. And by a similar mechanism to the "Winner's curse", the company who developed a tool like Copilot would always have been one where their internal counsel advised them that what they were doing was totally legal.
> There's also the fact that this can't compete with the Switch due to the simple fact that games are optimized to run at a stable framerate by the developers or subcontracted companies for the Switch

I have a pretty extensive Switch library and can definitely say that performance of ports is really hit or miss.

This is also missing that PC games are already designed with a broad range of hardware in mind and nearly every game for PC has extensive settings to control graphical quality vs performance.

Sure, maybe a device like this might have performance issues but I don't think the Switch completely trumps this in terms delivering playable experiences.
The tech page says that it weighs "Approx. 120 grams" [1] Is this information incorrect?

1. https://www.steamdeck.com/en/tech

edit: crtl-f mistake, that's the docking station
Anyone else understand why the storage upgrades are described as "Faster" and "Fastest." At least for eMMC to NVMe, I can see how that can be described as "Faster," but how does increasing NVMe capacity get you "Fastest?"
Wouldn't that be payleftandright? ;)
It's likely a custom chip designed by their "semi-custom" division, like the APUs in the PS4/PS5 and Xbox consoles.
methane + oxygen = carbon dioxide + water

https://www.middleschoolchemistry.com/multimedia/chapter6/le...
It seems great but also too sophisticated.. Is there a simple mode or a persona I can clone and update? Wife, 2 kids, etc...
This seems to integrate tech from Steam Controllers. I.e., dual touchpads on a gamepad style layout. They went through many prototypes [0] attempting to create something as portable as a console controller but as accurate as a mouse. I certainly prefer it to a touchscreen.

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/3FskweR.jpg
None of this is mentioned in any publication I can find, do you have inside information?
> just because the wealthy are investing, doesn’t mean it’s beneficial.

Investments flow to the most productive use of the money. Your hypothesis is that the most productive use is not the most beneficial. That's a pretty tough case to demonstrate.

> is at best useless if not actually a net negative to society

If people prefer to buy stuff from Amazon, how is that not of benefit to those people?

As for real estate, there is only so much real estate in the cities. There is not enough for everyone. Who gets it? There has to be some distribution mechanism.
I do think the state is capable of managing very large organizations, like public education, health, infrastructure... And the political party in charge may obtain votes by doing a good work. But in the case of the media I think interests are not aligned. I think putting in place laws to regulate private companies is the lesser of two evils.

In Spain at least there are lots of instances of courts overturning contracts, the most famous ones maybe related to mortgage conditions. I'm not sure if this is good or not in the long term, but it's the case.
I wonder how really portable this thing is; it has PC hardware, a screen and a small factor in which to stick batteries: how long will the battery last?
I disagree, I think it is. I don't see what right of anyone is infringed by my exercise of speech.

And even if there was, why would that right be absolute, and not also be balanced by my right to speech?

I'm sorry but my rights don't come from the pontifications of some privileged rich white woman in one of the most privileged nations in the world.

She has no perspective, she can go live in real adversity for some time, know what oppression really feels like, know what it feels like to be denied basic human rights, and then come back and tell us again that what really needs to happen to make the world a better place is that we should accept that the billionaire class dictates our rights to us.
But that is exactly what happens. 5 billionaires control the majority of online social media content.
There is a dock available for this purpose.
Fixed now. (At one point the title on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27847007 said "Desk".)
Yeah, the military contractors silo off the repair data and probably special tools, but I mean if it were really an emergency the Defense Production Act can compel the contractors to turn it over today. They can throw them in jail, too.

Not saying this is likely, but it is possible. I'm not educated enough to rate the probability.

Here's an example of this power being used to compel telecoms to spill some beans: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-11-30/obama-inv...