skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Welcome to your quarter-life tech crisis, dude! Have a cookie.

You aren't untalented, empty and dumb. You just lack self-esteem and perspective.

You don't appreciate what you're capable of. If you can write code and combine technical knowledge with well-crafted English sentences, you already have skills most people on the planet never will. If you work in tech in general, you are blessed with a life free of physical exertion, with a flexible schedule, and the opportunity for a high paycheck. You are very fortunate. If you were actually untalented, empty and dumb, but still benefiting from this occupation, you're very fortunate indeed!

And you don't feel bad because you think you're untalented, empty and dumb. You feel bad because you're judgemental and egotistical. You look at people who, to you, appear to be more accomplished, and then you look at yourself, and you judge yourself. Imagine if you were doing this to someone else; "Catherine is so untalented, empty and dumb, because she hasn't achieved what Karl did. What a stupid loser!" Your egotism drives the urge for an inflated self-view, but then your self-judgement for lack of accomplishment lowers your self-esteem.

You want to be someone better; someone that you'd admire. But you're unwilling to put in the effort and risk it takes to be admirable. You're here on HN telling thousands of strangers how you feel like crap, wanting one of us to give you some magic words to make it easier to either reconcile your thoughts or make something of yourself. But there are no magic words. Whether you're satisfied with life or not is completely up to you alone. You can decide to be satisfied and be happy. Or you can decide to be unsatisfied and be unhappy. Or, you can decide to be momentarily unsatisfied/unhappy, and do the difficult work to change that state. Climbing tall mountains isn't easy.

You don't have to "do something" or "be smart". You don't have to learn anything new, be impressive or accomplished. Those things will not make you a better person, or even happier. But you can attempt those things if you choose to. Coast, carve, or climb; pick one. And stop judging yourself, and stop underestimating your own accomplishments.
Worse than that, SF has tried removing trash cans on a theory they’re and attractive nuisance. An absence of trash cans works in Tokyo, not so much in North America:

https://missionlocal.org/2021/03/newsoms-experiment-to-get-r...
I had exactly the same implementation except that type / version belonged to the whole message and would map to appropriate binary buffer in memory. No real de/serialization was needed.

I still use it in my UDP game servers, with added packet id if message exceeds max datagram length and has to be split
I'm guessing it's a particular subset of C++ that's idiomatic to some ecosystem built around a small selection of robotics libraries.
There's another angle here too. Kids often force us to re-evaluate our own habits and improve. Here's what I mean. Imagine you are teaching your kid (OP: the kid can be imaginary, just imagine that you love them very much) about nutrition and all they want to do is eat junk food. You talk about how important it is for their health, and suddenly realize that maybe your own diet isn't the greatest. And if you wouldn't advise your own diet to your kid, why are you eating this stuff? Same with the overly harsh inner critic. Imagine your kid with this kind of self-talk. You'd want to hug them first and foremost, and second - teach them healthier ways of processing these emotions. Yes, having ambition and pride in one's work are important, but so it having confidence. Undermining confidence is counterproductive to achievement. Ideally you'd want to see your kid try hard, notice when they fail, take responsibility, and try harder next time rather than hitting the easy mode "mope button".

My kids taught me both these lessons.
On my Honda auto seems perfect for me. It looks like it keeps internal temperature and only turns on fan to ventilate, heat, or cool.
By the time the Opteron came out in 2003, Google was already a large company. My guess is they were already the largest search engine in the world -- and they ran their web crawler and search engine entirely on PCs.

Hotmail was bought by Microsoft in 1997, then Microsoft promptly announced that the service would be switched over to Windows. Till then, according to Wikipedia [1], Hotmail ran some Sun boxes, but also a lot of FreeBSD, and I am almost certain that the FreeBSD was running on PCs. They were probably the largest email provider in the world in 1997.

The Apache web server "was the most popular web server by Spring 1996 and stayed like that until the Summer of 2014" [2]. It ran and runs almost exclusively on Linux, which in turn ran and runs almost exclusively on x86.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook.com

2: https://blog.cloudware.bg/en/the-history-of-the-apache-http-...
The other problem with this is that the existing votes are already choreographed for public consumption, so the existing transparency is an illusion.

There was a bill earlier this year to expand police funding. After a year of "defund the police" from AOC et al, it turned out that if she would have voted against it, it would have actually defeated the bill. So instead she voted "present" and the bill passed.

Most people aren't going to notice that, but that was equivalent to voting yes. And if her vote wasn't actually necessary to pass the bill, she'd then have been able to vote no specifically because it wouldn't change the outcome, even though as we know she would flip when it mattered. That happens on a regular basis too but in those cases it's undetectable.
There is no hard limit except 100% efficiency (sorta*). As fuel cells are a type of battery they can eventually match li-ion batteries on efficiency. Combined with their ability to capture curtail power on a very large scale and the economics of hydrogen could easily surpass that of the EV.

* There is a soft limit at 85%, but that is mainly due to the need to turn liquid water into steam over the entire process. This can be ignored if electrolysis is done on steam instead of liquid water. Also, 85% is close enough to li-ion batteries that very few people will care about it.
I get the impression that mechanical keyboard people tend to be hard typers. The keyboard I have now uses cherry MX reds, and everything online suggested that these were super sensitive and you'd mis-type a lot. Only good for games.

But honestly, I could go for something even easier to press. I fail to actuate the left shift with my small finger quite a lot. Guess I have a light touch.
>almost no one I care about uses the phone anyway

Right, even 80-year-olds can text these days. You're talking about personal friends who almost never call from unknown numbers.

But with professionals? Would you miss an appointment for a root canal or spend an extra day without your car because you won't answer the phone?
I don’t understand your comment. What does Raptor have to do with CFD method developments? What is the frontier? What does it mean to run out of frontiers? Shouldn’t there be more resources rather than fewer?
As I understand it, this is essentially what the Google chrome updater does. It disassembles the binary and recalculates jump labels. Then it generates a diff based on the assembly code. When it applies that diff on people’s computers, the your computer again pulls the chrome binary apart and reconstructs it. The code for this is complex, but it’s all opensource.

I remember reading about this technique years ago, thinking “cool when this catches on, software updates in all my software will be tiny”. But no, for some reason macos updates are still gigabytes in size. I have no idea why?
Yes, we are all still very excited about JSON. (Edit: and BSON)
Can you show me an example of what you mean by shorter key travel keyboards? I think I'm in the same boat as you.
You’ve got many “I feel the same” comments, so I’ll add something different:

Read more + try new things.

Find some time to read some education materials, then try to use your new knowledge. It is the best way to improve your skills, and it's often much less difficult than we think.

Some areas require natural talent, for sure - like music, painting, dancing, and so on. But many things can be learned, and it's enough to start to understand if it comes easily into your mind, or it’s better to try something else - the world is huge.
Some of the best Wireguard blog posts I've seen in a while there. I learned a bunch tonight. Thanks!
QEMU softmmu is a full system emulator. There's another mode of QEMU build (qemu-user) that emulates userspace applications (just like Rosetta and WoW) and even lets you link to native libraries.
James and the CRI go more in depth with this, but from what I recall, the idea is to have close door for committee deliberations so that they can work with each other to come up with a bill that works, then they come out and release either their committee votes or the floor votes.

Similar to how the Supreme Court releases their final votes but doesn't show people how the deliberations are being done.

From interacting with him and reading the CRI stuff, I learned a lot about how lobbyists will sit in on the bill making process and basically monitor the lawmakers' every move in the negotiation part of the bill.

He said to me once that they were called lobbyists because they used to have to wait in the lobby before they could talk to people, now they get to sit directly in the lawmaking chambers while it's happening.
One more dark pattern in our lives.
They're pushing for both really. The real mistake is to go all in on batteries without ever considering any alternatives.
Dang, I've just been doing a bunch of reading about current transformers, and trying to understand how the output voltage is affected if the burden resistor is missing.

....but this is not that.
As someone who's gotten both X2100 and X300 mods from Xyte (a much smoother process than what originally was dropping 1k+ into a random person's account on a forum and hoping you actually got your custom motherboard months later) I just love that they're still trying to expand on this concept and recognize the lasting fervor around OG Thinkpads.

Personally I just want a Ryzen-powered mainboard, but figure there's sourcing reasons for why they're sticking to this intel generation.
In case anyone else was irritated by the inability to scrub through the auto-playing video, adding this CSS rule in your browser's dev tools should fix it:

.vp-progress { display: block !important; }
Cap1 does this:
“Capital One won't call you for this code. The temporary code you requested to sign-in is 091657. Please use this code to complete your request.”

IIRC, there was one time I did have to verify a code over the phone, and the message that came with it was completely different.
This is a positive development. We need to minimize the extent to which people are exposed to math (which quite obviously reeks of white supremacy, according to like everyone I know including the Gates Foundation)

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/math-suffers-white-supremacy-accord...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29273406
Lambda Function URLs
Just picturing some poor dusty little server in the machine shop in Tesla being the backbone of the company
Yes it's hard to stop people from speaking and intimidating. That's why I almost see an elegance in this solution: if FB and other corps don't know who is contributing which part to a bill and they only get to look at the final answer, it's harder to know who to intimidate and who to blame. In other words, it's believing that politicians are being intimidated to decide in one direction or another and trying to give them cover to make more sound decisions.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Amazon Ion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23921610 - July 2020 (110 comments)

Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interchangable, typed JSON-superset - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11546098 - April 2016 (163 comments)
Not OP. My state allows me to present my drivers license with Apple Wallet. I believe the TSA will support using this for air travel in the near future as well.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/09/apple-announces-first...
> I'm not entirely sure that gating vs flagging should be defined differently

I think that's the point of the article.

"feature flags" = "gates" = "circuit breakers" = "knobs"? really?

> This was a problem especially for newer engineers, who would get (unsurprisingly) confused as to whether they should be using one or the other, and even senior engineers would regularly forget that the flag they’re looking for is actually a gate (happened to me five times a week). Ideally, these would be just be one concept

That's what you get when you try to be clever with your vocabulary rather than using longer and less ambiguous terms
Good points, thank you. There are definitely anxiety, depression, ptsd types of issues at play.

After reading your and others' comments, I've decided to skip the alcohol for as long as I can and work on other modalities to try and increase my passion and motivation for work. Maybe I'm burned out and need a sabbatical or break.
That's very interesting. That and dead pools never really had a practical way to operate. But now they do.

Eventually it will happen, but I suspect that even before then, there will be some other added layer of plausible deniability come into existence.

Incidentally, I'm not sure why you provided that particular link. It's not very fashionable to post links on HN without first checking if they even work. Cryptome hasn't been around for more than a decade.

Your first part is spot on, though. Maybe not next year. But it will happen some time since all the technology is heading in a way that makes it quite possible.
Appreciated!

Btw, we all, save maybe a few enlightened ones, have negativity to reflect on. Probably the enlightened ones do too. The goal isn't to get rid of negativity—that's would be setting the bar far too high. We just want to prevent negative swipes from making it into the comments here. You can take care of that via the 'edit' link after you post; that's what I do. You can also set 'delay' in your profile if you want time to review your comment before it gets seen; I do that too.
Because unless you reach escape velocity, you still need to adjust your trajectory to insert into orbit, or else you're just going to crash back on the surface.

If you use a rocket that's fine you just point in a different direction and burn, but if you're trying to launch, say, a few trillion tons of stuff, you need something a tad more efficient
It was probably used with high frequency trading so fully automated unless you happened to be testing it manually.
Yeah, my experience is the opposite of the person you’re replying to. I’ve asked a couple questions on geekhack and received terrific responses (I was confused about the swappability of my switches). And the dischord I visited was filled with pepe memes and was pretty toxic.

(Unrelated, my personal story:) As is my habit, I got real into researching MKs for a few months, went through 2 (one I liked pretty well but I really missed dedicated home/end keys, and one that had switches that were slightly too tough to push and thus I kept missing letters) before I found my dream one: Mistel MD770 with MX Browns. It’s a split that I can shift around however I like. I love it. Oh, and to finish what I was getting at, as is my habit I can now stop thinking about MKs and will soon forget most everything I learned.
Can they “game” themselves into being designated as African American?
I was just thinking of that! It definitely presents some difficult UI challenges though… May I ask your thoughts on resolving those?
Since it's not immediately clear looking at the repo, and porting it has been a side project of mine, I'll go ahead and add that PowerPC is one of the other non-ARM platforms supported. Both on box64 and box86, although ppcle is still a mess of a target triplet.

I'm also aware that it should work on LoongArch64!

Box64/86 is frankly not very pretty or elegant, but it's very surprising how much can be coerced to run through it, and by wrapping native libraries it can achieve staggering performance compared to QEMU or other full system emulators.

As in, you can actually use this to play games and run applications at usable speeds. Playing x86/x64 games on my POWER9 system has been gratifying ;-)
I’ve tried several times to setup plex and I just can’t get it working… it makes me feel stupid. I did briefly get video from my computer playing on the tv but couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to get the subtitles working.
Nothing happened when I input a feed URL in Firefox.
For demo application, there maybe only one user
The one concern I'd have with this format is a length field getting corrupted in transit and causing an out-of-bounds memory access. The network protocols' checksums won't save you 100% of the time, especially if there's bad hardware in the loop. If every field is fixed length this is less of a concern, of course; you might get bad data but you won't get e.g. a string with length 64M.
> So consumers are overall definitely winning, but it's not a perfect victory for everyone.

You could say the same in an alternate reality where everyone is still putting up with using Sourceforge and getting the occasional binary download bundled with malware. People would have forgotten how much more difficult it was to receive CDs by mail, so by your definition these poor alt developers would be winning.
I feel like with a 5-4 Supreme Court (6-3 if Breyer doesn’t retire) the explicit rationale of race percentages sets this up for a Supreme Court defeat.
I got a call recently about my student loans.

It was...erm...remarkable in its high production values.

Even compared to the auto warranty ones, which I don't get often, but every now and then.

I also got a "hello...hello...hello" call, and seven hangup/no message calls the same afternoon.

I assume the call I answered was a scammer, but a few months ago, I got one just like that and it turned out it was from my physician's office, and I had some trouble getting ahold of them.
whats bad about ML transformers
DW Critical values affected by independent variable(s). SOURCE CODE included
To finish the quote that you truncated...

> The idea of a single entity holding 51% of all of a circulating currency is completely at odds with the notion of a currency being "embedded enough in the economy" that people won't just dump the currency immediately and crash its exchange rate.

Certainly, 51% attacks are very viable against nascent or unpopular cryptocurrencies. This includes Bitcoin in 2014. But the author was specifically suggesting that a 51% attack could be carried out against a cryptocurrency that is firmly entrenched in the global economy. I find this very implausible.
Like Anom?
I've had the opposite experience, everyone has been super helpful and friendly. Honestly, I think it's mostly people working in technology with deep wallets with most people purchasing for them themselves. They already have a forums at https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/ and https://geekhack.org

I just bought a crappy razor keyboard specifically for gaming because I rather trash a cheaper keyboard versus my topre.
> Deep learning will be acknowledged as a dead end

I don't disagree, but as soon as next year? Why do you think so?
From a conceptual level, it makes sense to monetize a platform based only on the people making money. Like how game engines are generally free to use for games that make little or not money.

On the more practical side, it's kinda hard to make yours work. You probably don't want to charge a popular free app like Wikipedia the same as an app like Netflix.
https://youtu.be/9VgwxKW0J6I
I'm not sure if it's just me, but this feels like a terrible article. It simply does not explain why "self-attention" is called self-attention in the first place, which would be very helpful for building intuition. Luckily, Wikipedia at least explains why "attention" techniques are labelled as "attention":

> In the context of neural networks, attention is a technique that mimics cognitive attention. The effect enhances the important parts of the input data and fades out the rest—the thought being that the network should devote more computing power to that small but important part of the data. Which part of the data is more important than others depends on the context and is learned through training data by gradient descent.

Now, it remains to figure out what the "self" if "self-attention" is for, but maybe someone else can fill that gap. ML isn't something I care about particularly, so don't want to spend too much time.
It depends? Cherry MX keys have very stiff springs IMO - it's definitely an oldschool feel. Low profile keys tend to have a shorter pre-travel, and may have lower actuation force.

They aren't available on a lot of keyboards, but I'm fond of Kailh Speed Copper switches. The travel and speed needed to activate the key is comparable to that of a mid-2000s Apple keyboard, but the tactile bump is much lighter, and there's a whole lot more travel after the activation point before you bottom the key out. I find this to be really cushy; I can type lightly but quickly, with very little impact because I'm not hitting the end of the key's range of motion with any force.

That said, the annoying thing here is that it's expensive to try keys. Even when computer stores have keyboards you can try out, they usually only have the run-of-the-mill red, brown and blue switches.
OpenOffice Writer and LibreOffice Writer have their proper bugs of their own, to the point that it's very frustrating to work with a non-trivial document. Many of these include some aspects of formatting not being saved to file and not restored when re-loading the file. And this is saving to .odt and not .doc or .docx. The Calcs have many bugs too. I have reported some but have since given up. For serious work I return to Word.

The other alternatives are not better. A couple of weeks ago I needed to create a catalog of products that is just a few pages long. Calligra couldn't even show the image I added; there was bounding box which could be moved around but no images were shown. Abiword got glacially slow when adding a ~4MB image.
I fell for this trap once, and instead of going through their rigamarole, I reported my credit card lost and got a new one with a new number. Of course I had to update the subscriptions I wanted to keep with the new number, but that was less hassle than cancelling that one service.
I think the issue is just that NFTs solve a problem that doesn't exist. Any system where an experience is gated by user attestation is necessarily self-contained (asset, payment, user account) to more effectively extract money from participants. No one is federating this, and what would they gain to do so?

There is value in perhaps validation of proof of membership in entities where they have mutual agreements to unlock extra capabilities without having to link their backends, but there are other ways to accomplish the same things... like OAuth.
Didn't know what prusiks were — had to look it up.

The video for the Vertiwalk looks to me more like standing and sitting in order to ascend.

In standing the seat climbs up a bit to follow your bum, when sitting the floor climbs up a bit to raise your legs into a seated position.

Descending is a bit challenging for my brain to understand.
Do you use correct critical values of DW statistic for autocorr. coefficient?