skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a big circle of friends in college and here are a few insights:

— everyone else is also worried about what they are going to do and wondering how to make friends

- they want to be invited

It’s easy: just invite people. Some people may politely decline but they’ll appreciate it.

Many many many people will accept and be very grateful for being invited. Come up with a plan for them: we all meet at X, then go to Y. You can pick public places.

Now you’re the hub of your social group. Please use this power for good and not evil. Try not to exclude people next time if they occasionally get annoyed at you.
Be cool with it dude, it’s a western majority website - let them enjoy the high moral ground and remain their hope that China will destroy itself in next five years, over and over

”明明说好是三年，可三年之后又三年，就快十年了 老大！” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infernal_Affairs
VSCode is the editor I use for everything now. But this is big. Centralizing control with Microsoft in the drivers seat now seems really risky.
> What about opioid addiction? Sedentary lifestyle with poor diet? Cost of health care and education? Racism?

Yes, those are real problems. How's that got anything to do with our digital lives though? That's what I meant by technological society. I could probably have expressed myself better.

What I mean is the internet used to be a lot better and advertising is responsible for making it worse. All of the abuses we suffer today on the internet, especially our lack of privacy, are caused by advertisers and their insatiable need for our attention.
Cartels aren't just for drugs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel) but I agree, break them up.
The area around the port of long beach is rather dense residential, so in order to preserve views the city limited the height of container stacks.

> "These provisions, which have been in effect for many years, were established to address the visual impact to surrounding areas of sites with excessive storage."

https://longbeach.gov/press-releases/city-of-long-beach-stat...
And if it doesn’t follow the setting, either due to a bug or misinterpreting something (bad sensor, bad sensor reading)?
It's possible this might work with de-oxygenated air. As long as the nitrogen does not react with the generated oxygen and release NOx, this could be done with an adsorption process, which is a lot cheaper and less energy than full air separation.

Even then, NOx can be mitigated. This process is fascinating in that unlike most "breakthroughs" this has a semblance of a chance of scaling.
Preconcentration of CO2 from air makes a lot of sense as you can then do various types of industrial chemistry on a pure CO2 stream at greater efficiency. From here you can go towards either methane and long-chain fuel hydrocarbons (Sabatier, modified Fischer-Tropsch, etc) or, as in this paper, towards solid carbon forms.

Making something like graphite from pure CO2 has certain advantages as well (easier to get purity) and graphite electrodes are used in scrap steel recycling and other industries.

For comparison, see the ISS use of Sabatier reaction and some issues they had with catalyst poisoning:

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20140002591

This indicates that power plant emissions, typically contaminated with sulfur / arsenic / mercury / nitrogen etc. , at about 10% CO2 as I recall, would be a very poor option relative to direct air capture.

As far as scaling, even existing systems (see ISS) could be scaled fairly rapidly and would be able to produce enough fuel for specialized uses, i.e. plausibly supplying SpaceX / ULA/ etc. rocket launches as a first step, then moving to supply airports with jet fuel for long-distance travel at a much larger scale.
Car crashes are taken very seriously in The Netherlands. It's refreshing to hear investigation into systemic problems vs personal responsibility regarding crashes, common in many other countries (see link).

https://youtu.be/Ra_0DgnJ1uQ?t=209
> do you enjoy [...] consolidation of goods/services into larger and larger corporations?

I mean, it seems the US has completely abandoned their policy of breaking anti-competitive companies in favor of what essentially looks like surveillance mercantilism.

In that context, your question is ambiguous: are you, as often happens here, arguing that EU attempts at regulation entrench monopolies, or are you arguing that the EU should take significant actions to break US tech monopolies' presence in Europe?

In the first case, I believe there is ample evidence that anti competitive behaviour by tech companies is widespread enough that regulation doesn't significantly improve their position.

As for the second argument, the US government has always vigourously pushed back against any EU attempt at unfavourable regulation.
Except if you do C#, which has limited support in VSCode compared to most other languages. Slightly ironic as C# is Microsofts own language.
Or more biased, depends on which side you are.
The risks from corona for vaccinated people are negligible. Without unvaccinated people a the measures that are still in effect could be removed.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28967575 which has a lot more information and is not paywalled.
I qualified this as my opinion while also considering the other (potentially well-meaning) side. Unsolicited advice may be well-intentioned...or not, especially when it's a project you've been working on that means a lot.
The trend seems to be that academia is heading towards intentionally falsified results and unintentionally falsified results created due to common methodological flaws.

The only groups which seem to be partially immune to this are the larger research collaborations with 10+ authors per paper. However even those struggle with group think and the need to push an agenda (tokamaks, amyloid plaques etc.).
I feel like there's only a very small intersection between the Facebook-avoiding, home assistant-eschewing crowd and the Tesla driving crowd.

Anecdotal I know, but most people I know who drive Teslas have multiple home assistants, Instagram/Facebook accounts, and little regard for personal privacy.

Most people I know in the social media/home assistant avoiding crowd talk about how they wish they could buy a car with 90s tech (but 2021 safety tech) to make it simpler and cheaper to repair, since they don't care about CarPlay or Android Auto or the million "convenience" features that don't work reliably.
The US government seems to do a lot of this, funding both sides of an overseas political conflict to induce chaos within the country, which would destabilize them in the long run and make them powerless to fight against US imperial interests. Ah postmodern realpolitiks, Putin would be really proud...
A letter to a refugee child who must ‘survive’ in a new country
A fantastic book by Robert Evans from Behind the Bastards discussing the rise of the fascist groups currently active in the US.

http://www.thewaroneveryone.com/
> It’s often the case in the situation you’re describing that the TL is interested in moving into management, and this is a “try out” effectively. Personally I like to be open about situations like this, although there are valid arguments against that. In any event, I think most people would agree that it’s best do such “try outs” when the stakes are relatively low, and the TL can have an easy escape if they need it.

The best way I’ve seen to accomplish this is have a job title that’s purposefully ambiguous. Usually I’ve seen this as a “lead engineer”, which can come with or without direct reports. This lets people try out management while giving them space to change their mind without losing title or status.
i disagree with censoring. but i want to pose a question.

if i have q WordPress blog on a $5vps, and you post a comment saying my blog post is stupid. its my vps,im paying for it, i can delete the comment if i want right?

where do you draw the line? how big exactly does my blog have to get before this is considered big tech censorship?
Interestingly I once requested my telemetry data under GDPR for an accident and I did get a dump of everything.
I'd like to see the reaction from libertarian types who always insist that regulation just entrenches large incumbents and makes competitors emerging tougher. (Ben Thompson of Stratechery has been banging this drum forever). If large companies actually want privacy regulation because it slows down emerging rivals- why did Google 'slow down' European privacy rules here? This seems to disprove Thompson's argument
No, but we have to. Hopefully they'd sooner or later be bullied into doing the right thing.
Advertising can be good if it becomes entirely honest and selfless. This never happens. The actual social analogue of this is known as "personal recommendation".

As soon as you're paid to inform me about a product, and you subjectively promote that product's virtues over their competitor's virtues, you've become at best untrustworthy, and at worst manipulative. You may be correct in your statements, but, because you gain financially from those statements, you can't be 100% trusted.

This is just the way of the world. I'm sorry you may feel otherwise.
My time with Elixir is pretty stale at this point (5-6 years ago; haven't touched it much in the past 4) so I'm glad to see there are better solutions today

> How? They solve completely different problems. Could you explain?

I don't disagree. The main crossover for me has been in productivity/expressiveness/safety. Can I easily write the programs I want to write with it or am I fighting the language and tooling constantly? Do I have high confidence in the correctness of my solution? Does the solution feel easy to maintain and extend? I haven't done enough with Rust to comment on how it fairs for larger projects, but my experiences with it for smaller problems has been very positive
> well governments could start by always having RSS [...] that doesn't need much regulation

But it does require them to be clueful.

Does anyone think that Joe Biden or Boris Johnson could give a coherent explanation of RSS (or any other piece of computing technology)?
There is. Blog posts can be as long—or as short—as you want. Microblogging is a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging
The other reason is that using RSS involves copying and pasting URLs.

Why does everyone overlook this?
Things have changed since the articule was published. The trend goes downwards:

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/amd/short-inte...
Urine capture would work great if it's attached to every person.

Even with renewable energy and electric transportation, if we could keep using oil but not produce CO2, then we should. Cheap energy is lifting humanity out of poverty.
Gig ‘Em! I found my social circle reset pretty hard after freshman year and I was kind of starting over as a sophomore, so not the same situation but some similarity. I’m not going to lie, Sophomore year was hard, but it got better and I loved the rest of college.

One thing that made a huge difference for me was getting a job on-campus. In my case I worked at the Battalion, it was awesome. Although it was also a lot bigger back then.

Student jobs are great because regardless of the job itself, everyone else is, well, a student! Unlike class, you almost certainly have a lot of time to chitchat and kill time on any job, so it’s easier to make friends. Another bonus: chances are the people you work with are in all different majors, and as you make some friends who aren’t in your classes then it helps branch out and give you more sources of potential friends. The people who cross over between disciplines tend to be interesting.

Other things I did include intramurals, volunteering at summer camps, and getting an all-sports pass and constantly asking people if they wanted to go to a (soccer/volleyball/tennis/basketball) whatever sport was happening and not football. Everyone already has plans for the football game, but the minor sports are way easier to go watch, less time commitment, and tons of people have all sports passes but nobody to go to tennis matches with, so they are wasted. I made several casual friends by just asking people “you ever been to an Aggie Soccer match? It’s fun!”

If you’re picking up on a theme here, it’s that you should try to spend as much time in meat space as possible. I was really never comfortable doing stuff like just going to the bar by myself, and having structured activities/excuses why I was going to be somewhere helped me a lot. Most of the friendships I made were casual, but I think that’s normal, and a few became close friends who still keep in touch 15 years later.

Hang in there! Lots of people have lonely seasons in life, it’s normal, and it’ll get better :)
Short interest has declined significantly since August.

https://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NASDAQ/AMD/short-interest/
HTTP/2 uses a binary encoding instead of text for performance reasons. I prefer the text version myself as it’s easier to write simple tools for (quick clients, telnet based queries, etc).
I dunno; I think “consider the source” is pretty good advice.
The Visual Studio Code thing is kind of a shame. It seems like a variant of "embrace, extend, extinguish" inasmuch as things like Atom exist (which microsoft also owns, womp womp, but didn't for 3 years after Atom started). It competes in the space, keeps competitors weak by being the best so that it gets all of the users and mind-share and resources, but doesn't go all of the way with them because it could compete with their proprietary products...so while being the best is a good thing, it's not a good thing when it creates a monopoly-like product in a space good enough to suck up landscape resources so that no viable competitors not under Microsoft's thumb could ever start approaching parity with their proprietary products.

Definitely dents Microsoft's nascent open-source credit with me and, like so much of Microsoft's history, seems actively damaging in a monumental way to the history of computing itself for Microsoft's benefit.
Speaking of battles, I’ve liked trying CSS Battle’s challenges. Kevin Powell and some others have YouTube videos where they compete but it’s not really that competitive.

Don’t worry about minimizing the number of characters, try to match the challenges 100% with just enough HTML and just enough CSS rules and properties to be elegant.

https://cssbattle.dev/
Raspberry Pi 3 Fastboot – Less Than 2 Seconds
No, this was pure fraud for personal gain, nothing more.

To blame the “publish or perish” model is no different than blaming the “its critical we meet quarterly earning” when financial fraud happens. Or blaming “if you fail the bar exam you can’t be a lawyer” when cheating occurs.

This wasn’t “I’ll round this number down instead of up to meet statistical significance”, this was creating results out of whole cloth by image manipulation.
don't believe altruism will solve greenhouse gas emissions and global warming: it'll only be solved when it becomes economic to do so.

You've listed altruism and economics, but may have discounted self-interest-- not financial, but survival. Young adults especially are both at an age where they can expect to feel some especially nasty impacts of climate change, and at a point in their career where they can begin making decisions accordingly.

The generations above that have family, children, etc, and that too is at least a mix of self interest and , I supposed, a form of altruism directed towards your family.

It's not easy for us to think in such timelines and abstract outcomes, but we're making progress in that direction.

I'm not saying self-interest in terms of self preservation will be the key factor here either, just that it not just about a sort of mechanical economic optimization point. At some tipping point, economic w/ technological advances will converge with self preservation. I guess the question is whether or not that will happen soon enough to really matter. Economics may be the dominant factor now, but the worse things get, the less that economics will matter in making decisions, the more that self preservation will become dominant.
Confirmations could certainly be a lot faster without being any less thorough. Why does a nation of over 300 million people need to task the same 100 people with this? It could still be 100 people per confirmation but for example there could be several groups of 100 in the government whose job it is to vet people and each group of 100 gets a different handful of positions to confirm.
Where has any incentive changed meaningfully at all for the past decade?

The clickbait incentives have existed for more than 15 years at least. The "bash the competition" ones, well WSJ, NYT, MSNBC, CNN they all lost a bazillion dollars from internet advertsing and have tried to demonize their competitors in that space since forever, usually to comically silly effect. (And the fact that google were falsely demonized does not mean that there wasn't also a separate very strong case to make that their surveillance was evil and that wasn't being made so often).

I can't see the incentives being any different now, the stories do have a bit more substance to them. Maybe you can make the argument that the next generation of journalists understand what the damn on switch is and are slightly less inclined to have their brain fall out of their ear as soon as they see a verb followed by "with a computer" to explain it?

Is it the current administration and their tame media brandishing a big stick to get facebook and youtube to censor their opponents more? [1] Possible although I'd like more evidence myself.

[1] In the manner of the suppression of the story of Hunter Biden's laptop and emails - removed from facebook feeds, tweets with links to the story not posted, did youtube do stuff here too? The reason given is that it was disinformation (ie false), but we now know it was factual reporting with emails verified with counter-parties etc. Reporting that you can then interpret as to its meaning and gravity? So they will go there just before an election which is quite worrying and should be equally so for those of us who were happier with the outcome than the alternative.
> The big issue here is that Microsoft has an internal struggle going on at the moment. On one hand they want to be seen as a new version of Microsoft who loves Open Source, but on the other hand they want to actively block advances in OSS projects like the .NET SDK which could undermine their own commercial offerings.

For years, the narrative has been that MS doesn't want to give away their tools for free because they don't want to undermine the commerical offerings of their ecosystem. There used to be a ton of companies making development tools, components, and so on. Microsoft mostly made money with Windows, Office, and so on, so they could give away their own tools almost for free (but preferred not to in order to keep the vibrant ecosystem running). It is really odd that anybody at MS cares about whether VS or VS code or an external tool is more popular.

Also this whole infighting between departments seems to be contaproductive. If I were top level management, I would tell people to get their shit together. If instead of working together to make the best products possible, a manager tells off an employee for working on the C# extenstion for VS (because it hurts his personal goals) I would at the very least reprimand the manager. That VS code has poor .NET support, or for another example that MS graphical toolkits have so much churn and they don't use them themselves, are really embarrasing mistakes. I'm sure people have been fired for lesser problems...
1) Ask for people’s names. Then remember it next time you see them.

2) ask them to grab lunch or dinner after or before class.

3) meet the next person, remember their name, invite them to lunch with previous person.

Recursively repeat.
Thanks, I hope they don't sound like many records from the mid-late 90s whose duration was aligned to the CD version, around 1 hour, and therefore the print had to reduce significantly the grooves width and space between them to fit the material on a single record. This was accomplished also by lowering the sound level, therefore ruining the already not great signal to noise ratio of that media.
> I'll play devil's advocate for a second and say that "not all advertising is bad"

I've tried advocating for Satan in that way as well ... but could honestly find no compelling points with which to argue the case. It always boiled down to enabling one party to get money from another party irrespective of the one's party need for or ability to afford said product.
Nothing, forward is the only direction to move if we want to have any hope of survival. If we mire ourselves in economic finger pointing we will end up doing nothing about the actual problem
> A dedicated, strongly typed language where the hardware is a first class language feature

Have you seen clash? It sounds like what you want. It really kicks ass - by far the most productivity-boosting and error-reducing HDL strategy I’ve seen. It’s also a subset of Haskell, so you can run your hardware code from a compiled binary or REPL before compiling it to VHDL/Verilog.

I like nmigen, but I have the same preference that hardware should be a first-class component of the language, and strong types are desirable.
Thanks for these interesting thoughts. One quick question: how is rule 2 a special case of the general rule? I think I'm missing something in your explanation of rule 2. Is it just the scalar+array version of rule 3, for a function f(x, y) of two scalar arguments?

Could you then say that one of the big ideas of APL is to define a canonical way of extending functions of scalars f(x, y, ...) to take one or more array arguments, and then baking those ways into the syntax, so you don't have to use zip and map?

I agree there's something to that. It seems like a feature that other languages could benefit from. Maybe a decorator symbol could be used to tell the language when you want to do this, or a setting so it's turned on by default in a particular module. We probably wouldn't want it as an immutable universal language rule, since entering an array to scalar argument is a common programming mistake that you could want your compiler or runtime to throw an error for.
> The only effective punishment for those is to calculate how much they gained from it, calculate all profits that resulted from those gains, subtract all that from them, and then apply some huge fines as well in order to leave them in an even worse position than they started.

From a practical (and economic/game-theoretic) perspective, you need to insert a risk adjustment (by which I mean, if their odds of being caught were 50%, you need to divide the fine by 0.5) and a net-present-value adjustment (if an additional dollar earned at the time of the violation is worth 80 cents at the future time of the judgment, divide the amount by 0.8) prior to the calculation of profits and the addition of punitive fines to be truly effective.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28967575

There are at least 4 similar stories on the front page right now all stemming from the same amended Texas court filing.
>you need research on viruses to understand how they work and how to stop them

by creating more transmittable variants? mm ok
> What you couldn't do, though, is use Kubernetes to manage virtual machines (VM)s as well.

I mean... kubevirt and OpenShift virtualization have been out for a few years now

https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.8/virt/about...
For sure. It's not a magic bullet. This is one of the hardest problems because it's so hard to see and reason clearly.
And glancing at the screenshots, that look can be achieved in FLTK which is lightweight, active, and been around decades.
Ya could be. It depends upon the type of manipulate really. Thanks.
Because it makes them so much money?
How to Win Friends & Influence People may seem like an archaic recommendation given that it was written in 1936, but it remains a must-read for those who need or would appreciate a framework for doing exactly what you want.