skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More often than not when I ask a "stupid" question it turns out that the answer isn't known (to the people I'm asking). So I try to do so more often. I've noticed that it also makes others feel empowered to ask "dumb" questions too (which usually aren't), so it's a good policy for the team as well as the individual.

I'd imagine that it's not so viable in more aggressive/competitive/toxic environments though? But I've been lucky avoiding those.

Edit: Oh and sometimes my questions do turn out to be ... a bit dim. Most recent case that springs to mind was asking the local equivalent of "what does SSN stand for?" in a context where I really should have known. But the average outcome is good.
As per the serology report that comes out once in a while that uses random sampling, most cities/towns/places have 60-70% people already having anti bodies. It is assumed that almost everyone acquired immunity due to infection at this point in India. However, there is almost no antivax moment as such in India so vaccination will continue throttled only by the availability (with 3 more companies nearing approvals for their new vaccines). Vaccines at this point are serving the same purpose as a booster shot (with the long duration between the shots probably helping).
I find such willingness very helpful in many meetings with difficult vocabulary. Instead of nodding to sentences which make no sense to me I like to take the risk and admit that I have no clue what is going on. More often than not I'm not the only person who got lost so it ends up beneficial to the meeting as a whole.
AI research envisages separate volume controls for dialog, music, sound effects
Big Data Engineers can improve business’s quality and performance by turning data into usable applications. But do you need one in your team?
That's just ridiculous, though. Does anyone sane zone heavy industry together with residential?
The C++ variants are where I really lose track and get confused. Win32 I understand. COM I understand. C++/WinRT, C++/CX, wtf is that? Is it a different language like Objective-C++? I recall .NET had some C++ dialect, is it a derivative of that? At some point they had custom syntax for .NET pointers, some sort of hat operator. Can you mix C++/WinRT with normal portable C++? Can you use GCC or just MSVC?

Honestly I don't understand why anyone would write a Windows-specific app these days. Windows seems to have actually lost interest in high level languages over time. Seems like they have renewed their love affair with C++ and that's the "future" now.
You're almost correct here - if a device advertises a particular power rating, they need to provide the configurations you linked. But they are allowed to provide any arbitrary configuration beyond their marketable power rating. So consider a charger that has a smallish inductor in its DC/DC supply, and a DC/DC chip with an integrated MOSFET limited to say 2.5A switching current. For thermal reasons, that charger can't safely provide more than say 1.7A regardless of voltage. Because it can't supply more than 1.7A at 9V it can't be listed as having a PDP of more than 15W. However, that charger is allowed to provide that same 1.7A at 20V if it wants to, and advertise that configuration to the device - as long as it doesn't list that as its rated power. This sort of charger would be functionally providing >30W, but would only be allowed to put 15W on its packaging/advertising materials. From a user perspective, they see a charger happily providing 30W to one device, plug in another device, and get a lower output power. The lower power is exactly what it says on the packaging (which the user threw out ages ago and never looked at) but the user is still frustrated.
Getting married is not a "human right". Also, human rights are nothing but a western social construct.
Can you work remotely on embedded development? Giving up remote work is a huge drawback for me.
These names usually come from Chinese mythology and Wuxia, which carries a sense of national/cultural pride:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_mythology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxia

Xuantie probably came from Xuxia, and is widely used in pop culture (games especially) for metals that have special mystical properties.
You can use whatever textual browser if you want to.
> Covid: I took this seriously relatively early on and bought a half mask respirator on 2020-01-26 and was using N95s I'd already had on hand for the week before (IMO, the case that covid was airborne and that air filtration would help was very strong based on the existing literature on SARS contact tracing, filtration of viruses from air filters, and viral load)

I think this is remarkable, how common people with some level of scientific literacy were able to get this correct much better than the whole medical establishment.
NIH corrects untruthful assertions by NIH Director Collins and Fauci
We humans tend to live in our "holes" quite comfortably. You may not realize it, but there's quite a lot of "invisible" social codes and expectations involved in human interactions with your surroundings, and these codes are far from universal.

Whether you believe in God(s), whether you trust the police, whether you're for community autonomy and collective ownership or wage slavery and private property, for jealousy or free love...

There's so many ways to live and for every individual, most of them will seem alien. When the "hole" is big enough and is crushing other holes with its cultural hegemony (eg. industrial capitalism) then it's harder to realize it's here in the first place, like in the movie Matrix ;)
Author here, I specifically tried to pick projects which self-identified as transpilers in order to not accidentally call a project I didn't know enough about a transpiler incorrectly. I don't in any way think that a transpiler is lesser, but a lot of the questions we've gotten about it in the Nim community has been phrased in a way which makes be believe that some people do. Hence why the article is written with that counter-stance.

The conclusion is definitely that these are loose terms that can apply to many different things. But some of the usages are more useful as differentiating terms than others. The very broad definitions of transpilers ends up making most if not all compilers into transpilers which isn't terribly useful, and the in-between ones I've found are so under-defined that the term ends up not meaning anything at all. This was merely my attempt at reaching a definition of transpiler that is not only a useful distinction from a compiler, but also serves as a more concrete term.
Those are both awesome. Are there any options to combine the two?
> long distance unsupported settlers

There were 18 years between the European settlement of Pitcairn island and the next visitors - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Islands#European_sett... .

Your constraints are pretty strict. There aren't many places which could be settled (in recorded history) where there weren't already people living there, and where there was a reason for not continuing contact with the place of origin.

Another possibility is Te Pito O Te Kainga / Rapa Nui / Easter Island. The first explorers met one person already there (Nga Tavake), then they go back to Hiva, and a double canoe returns to Easter Island carrying the settlers. They left "because a rising tide was destroying their land" and/or a power struggle with the Hanau Eepe, if I read http://archive.hokulea.com/rapanui/hotu.html correctly. In either case, the oral history suggest little continued connection with Hiva.
Right, I don't care. It's my opinion now that I have to be open about what I think or feel because it's just how I am. So if I don't find a common language with someone, then so be it. There are 7 billion other people on the planet.
Small stores draw criminals, you see?
It was a long time ago that I read it, but I'm pretty sure Richard Feynman says something similar in "Surely You're Joking..."

I can't remember his exact words, but my takeaway was not to be afraid of asking super basic questions.

(Also, it probably doesn't need to be said on HN again, but that really is a good book.)
https://archive.md/Ckwgv
Darmstadtium
I believe that code should be neatly organised, though I have no preference about how this is accomplished. What would you suggest I should do, if not split classes?
You have the fine them were it hurts to make it more effectual so they won't do similar things anymore.

There are also say why do they only pick on American companies but that's mostly because of SV is in the US.
Sure, why blame yourself when you can blame someone else? It’s a gift for cost-cutting hospital admins who’ve been running understaffed facilities for years.

The ERs in my city have been code red half the time for the last decade.
> The reduction in infection and transmission risk for Delta from the vaccines is marginal at best, wanes quickly, and might well be defeated completely by future variants.

In case you are unaware, reducing the spread of a virus also lowers the odds of sparking new variants, not to mention the fact that limiting or eliminating the spread of a virus also contains and limits the risk posed by new variants.
Boris Johnson to consider legalizing medical psilocybin.
I read in a pop science magazine that their are multiple trials in that direction. It could indeed be revolutionary.
Beautiful essay that threw me on a tangent that lead me to the first Sub-Saharan graduate in a European University, Olu Atuwatse I (aka Olu Dom Domingos), who studied in Coimbra (on the same University I also graduated from, and my hometown) in the early 1600s and married a Portuguese women. The Itsekiri crown was offered to Olu Dom Domingos by the King of Portugal, and is still used today.

I just love how interconnected we all are.

Some links, for those interested:

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/23/africa/olu-of-warri-coron...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/the-crown-of-the-olu-of-...

https://guardian.ng/saturday-magazine/why-kingmakers-made-ts...

https://thinkafrica.net/the-itsekiri-kingdom-1480-ad-present...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olu_Atuwatse_I
Looks like they just ripped off Mastodon, which is exactly what Gab did as well.

https://twitter.com/MikaelThalen/status/1451017501026885632
> India Counting Down to 1B Doses

Misleading, disingenuous, mendacious title. They're clearly counting _up_.
I wouldn’t say “whole medical establishment”. All Asian countries and their medical teams were using masks by that time.
> The dear leader refused to fund free vaccines for people under 40.

My wife and I are under 40 and we got the vaccine for free at a government health centre.

> Instead, states were pitted against each other to procure doses

Initially all vaccine supply was routed through the centre. Then some states like Delhi and Maharashtra asked to be allowed to procure vaccines on their own. This was in the early days when the vaccine supply was less. When they didn't get any interest from sellers they again asked the centre to procure it for them [1][2]. By then SII (Covishield) in particular had scaled up sufficiently to be able to supply enough vaccines.

1. https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2021/may/27/ke...

2. https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/uddhav-thackeray...
They're clearly talking about the packaging, not the computer case.

Without any kind of prior on this person's intelligence, I too would, in the position of the Apple employees, gravitate towards the "moron" theory.
Narrow down.

Don't look for generalist SEO people, but instead content marketers with experience in your industry.

I've seen so many of our clients get crappy keyword research because the consultant/SEO person they work with doesn't actually know their audience well.
You do know that poor countries overwhelmingly don't use cars, right?

The standard social hierarchy is: walk everywhere -> bike everywhere -> go by motorbike everywhere -> drive a car everywhere.
Flutter. don't use anything else.
People Speed Everyday – Why Did This Happen?
Why in America?
Cool, do fast food or alcohol next!
Chinese uses powers of ten thousand, I believe, but I don't know if that's reflected in the way numerals are written.
13 is one I really like:

> If the user has big screens, make use of them. When you have space, opt for detail over decoration, data over branding, buttons and navigation over menus.

So many sites are just designed for the tall, but narrow, screen on phone, and don't make any attempt to utilize a 27" wide screen monitor.
This book here suggests using Dynamic regression :

https://otexts.com/fpp2/weekly.html
I don’t know but it’s very interesting and useful. The “how I won” stories are often less useful as the writer has a blind spot of some element of their success (talent/luck/connections etc.)
It's a CLI, not a TUI. I put quite a bit of thought into that decision, and whether to integrate a pager. See [1]. The workarounds are (1) limit the number of results per page with -n <num>; (2) use the -r, --reverse option to show the top results last.

[1] https://github.com/jarun/googler/issues/281
> You hear this sentiment, in various wordings, from all levels of humanity - the poorest of the poor, and the richest of the rich.

This is true and false at the same time. In capitalist culture, that's the norm and you find this sentiment at all levels. However, most cultures across human history were not similar.

Compassion and mutual aid are cornerstones of human life (if not of the entire animal realm). If a bit outdated, i would strongly recommend to read Kropotkin's "Mutual Aid" on the topic. Also related: "The Trap", a TV series by Adam Curtis which explains the origins of modern individualism and neoliberal game theory applied to every field of life...

You may be surprised to learn in this documentary that at the time those theories were developed, only economists and psychopaths played by the "rational" (self-serving) strategy, while other people chose cooperation. Results done today after decades of brainwashing would of course be very different, but i'm still betting a lot of regions/cultures would not abide by the psychic laws of capitalism (fuck everybody before they fuck you).
My guess was that he needed a small box in order to fit it in his bag to take home?
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I'm going to guess it's about luggage size restrictions for (air) travel.
> I think this is remarkable, how common people with some level of scientific literacy were able to get this correct much better than the whole medical establishment.

I don't think it's remarkable at all. Common people with some level of scientific literacy took basically all kind of stances about masks. Some of them had to be right in the end.

'The medical establishment' otoh had to come to one single common recommendation and as it's only one there's a chance of failure (there were, ofc. individual medical professional and scientists who got it right as well).
I think the comparison is not too far off really. You get the minimum amount of service while the maximum amount of seats is crammed into buses. At least that was my experience with FlixBus. I only use their services when I absolutely have to. I seem to remember that it was much more pleasant before they bought all the competitors.
On the other hand, HN is full of people who a) type all day for a living and b) enjoy tech history and quirky things.

I'm 31 and have used at least 2 typewriters in my life - obviously at no point did I need to for either school or work, but there's something romantic about them and I often fantasise about getting one to write with... though I'm fairly sure it would end up gathering dust as a (possibly pretentious-seeming) ornament in the corner of the room, so I avoid the impulse to buy one.
Because it's the thing you have to do to be professionally respected these days. And respect is won not by the customers, but by your peers. Having 10 colleagues think you're good is more important than 300k customers thinking your product solves their problems. It's backwards, but understandable because the tech people think normal users don't know what's important because they don't understand tech. But that's also backwards because tech is there to be used by the people for something useful.
Well, it will be interesting to see how this develops in the future. At some point we will have systems powerful enough to process and learn in real time, also using sensors that are equivalent of human senses (or even more powerful). At this point, if we can successfully model and mimic a typical human, why should it matter if it's not a human?

As for the hallucinating point, I remember a funny story. I once tripped on the curb and fell down; my foot ached for a week. My then 4-year-old daughter took her first-aid set for dolls and tried to "cure" my foot. My mother heard the story and found it cute, so she asked my daughter: "Will you cure me like that, too?" My daughter seemed stupefied and answered: "Are you going to trip and fall, grandma?"

My feeling is that the missing links will be found one day and the AI of the future will be able to apply more adult-like "reasoning."
Richard Feynman's lectures are available for free online:

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/
For me it helped to get away from wage-slaving.

Having no control over half of the time you spend awake is mind numbing.
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I'm not sure if this is the same thing but insecure people like me find the lack of affirmation of others troubling sometimes. How many of us get upset/offended if what we think is a high-quality comment on HN gets voted down by a load of people?

We should be confident enough that we stand by comments even if we expect some of them to be misunderstood/unpopular. There are always people who will agree and always some who will agree. Once we can judge ourselves fairly, we won't care what other people think - we can be judged by our outcomes.
The hot water cooks your balls. There’s a reason they dangle outside the thermal mass of your body.
Sure. It is a little more difficult though, since you need a little bit of an additional equipment. It is not uncommon for people to be mailing each other oscilloscopes. :P

I'm thinking of investing a little bit of money to buy myself my own equipment, since I want to use it for fun as well as for work.
No question that most of us needs to have the ego take a backseat more often.

But I cannot help but compare this to negotiation. It is a lot easier when you negotiate from a place of abundance. Negotiating salary is easier when you do not need the job. Negotiating a house is easier when you do not need to buy that house.

I feel like the same applies here. Willingness to look stupid is a lot easier in situations where you have confidence and nothing to lose.
I wish people would say map instead of fmap, as fmap is Haskell-specific, and map exists in lots of other languages.
The blessings of the supply chain crisis
With renewable energy they potentially even moving carbon emission out of the country.
The keyboard of the ThinkPad is and was always great and the TrackPoint is a bonus on top of it for some of us. The other part of Input/Output is a good screen. Only after I/O the performance is of matter.

What I don't like about Apples devices is the keyboard, they don't provide a equally good trigger point (resistance and feedback) and the keycaps aren't concave (not leading fingers). The quality problems and the questionable Touchbar are problem, too. Lenovo did that before Apple and immediately stopped it, they accept mistake far quicker. I still suspect both - Apple and Lenvo - tried to save money with a cheap touchbar instead of more expensive keys.

But there is the performance? First, Apple only claims to be fast. What matter are comparisons of portable applications and not synthetic benchmarks. Benchmarks never mattered. Secondly, Apple uses a lot of money (from the customers) to get the best chip quality in industry from TMSC.

What we have are the choice between all-purpose computers from vendors like Lenovo, Dell or System67 or computing appliances from Apple. I say computing appliance and not all-purpose computer, because I'm not aware of official porting documentation for BSD, Linux or Windows. More importantly MacOS hinders free application shipment not as worse as iOS but it is already a pain for developers, you need to use Homebrew for serious computing tasks.

Finally the money?

Lenovo wants 1.000 - 1.700 Euro for a premium laptop like ThinkPad X13/T14 with replacement parts for five years, public maintenance manuals and official support for Linux and Windows.

Apple wants 2.400 - 3.400 for no maintenance manuals, no public available replacement parts and you must use MacOS. Okay, the claim it is faster. Likely it is.

You buy performance with an exorbitant amount of money but with multiple drawbacks? Currently I'm still using a eight year old ThinkPad X220 with Linux. The operating-system I want and need, excellent keyboard, comfortable trackpoint and a good IPS-Screen. I think the money was well spent - for me :)
There's a bit of a disconnect between the the purported theme of this article, being okay looking stupid, and the actual contents, which is just a catalogue of times other people were stupid, posted on the internet so everyone knows the author is clever.

Being willing to look stupid involves actually being able to deal with mistakes and failure, with actually _feeling_ stupid sometimes. Just listing a bunch of great decisions you made that other people thought were stupid seems less life-changing to me.
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The problem with those dev project management tools is they are not dev project management tools.
They are for higher up bosses to decide on and they have different requirements to the developers. There are plenty of upstart dev-focused alternatives if your team is lucky enough to choose.
> Friends have been chiding about this for years and strangers, dates, and acquaintances, will sometimes tell me, with varying levels of bluntness, that I'm being paranoid and stupid

There is way to much of this bullshit all over the place (e.g. PPE use) and I'm quick to judge people who do it, because I find it a truly moronic attitude.
> Getting married is not a "human right". Also, human rights are nothing but a western social construct.

If you assert that human rights are a Western social construct, rather than something with some other basis on which you can argue what is included and excluded, you lose the ability to deny that marriage is such a right; see, e.g., the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 16.
>2011 desktop CPUs will perform about half as well as a modern laptop one.

Maybe, but the fat client-thin client pendulum has swung back in favor of thin clients to the point that CPU performance is generally irrelevant (it kind of has to be, since most people browse the Web with their phones). As for games, provided you throw enough GPU at the problem acceptable performance is still absolutely achievable, but that's not new either.

>a pretty common requirement these days for zoom, slack, teams and video streaming sites such as YouTube

It really isn't: from experience the hard line for acceptable performance is "anything first-gen Core iX (Nehalem) or later"- Core 2 systems are legitimately too old for things like 4K video playback, however. The limiting factor on older machines like that is ultimately RAM (because Electron), but provided you've maxed out a system with 16GB+ and an SSD there's no real performance difference between a first-gen Core system and an 11th-gen Core system for all thin client (read: web) applications.

That said, it's also worth noting that the average laptop really took a dive in speed with Haswell and didn't start getting the 10% year-over-year improvements again until Skylake because ultra-low-voltage processors became the norm after that time and set the average laptop about 4 years back in speed compared to their standard-voltage counterparts: those laptops genuinely might not be fast enough now, but the standard-voltage ones absolutely are.