skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting article for its focus on relating and the effects on close relations. I admit to looking for a bit more circumspect empathy in the article than I could find.

Ham radio is, metaphorically speaking, a distance-closing, signal-qualifying activity. Cutting the noise down, isolating, and developing the signal characteristics. It has important elements of helping practitioners hear and be heard. IMO all of this applies in many cases to those close relationships so described as wanting something. Wanting what--this is an important question for those who are relating. So we look to the signal again. It's an attempt to close the distance.

One can even read the author's points regarding relational neglect in the reverse, from the POV of someone who is possibly exhausted by what they may not have yet been able to perceive as a permanent, subjective lack of skill or interest in relating. Yet, by elaborate social constructs, they are still held to account. Especially in the world of those ads shown in the article.

Such a person will at some point naturally attempt to reestablish technical attention in the relationship as an anchor point for their identity. (Which I think is just a thing that happens; if opposites attract, then you have a lot of awkward, technical people in long-term relationships which ask a lot of their mediocre relating skills)

The net effect of the activity overall is often a development or deepening of identity. This development must always be done in some scenario involving characteristics of subjectivity, aloneness, and isolation, i.e. the hero's journey. That it calls attention and energy from other relationships may also be seen as a sort of crucial reservoir-building for those very same relationships.

Those who are in the "oh, that's not us, we're not like that person, how strange" camp may want to take a deeper look at the development of modern views on hobbies and interests from a therapeutic and developmental POV.
> PoW generates heat, which is not waste, if it is utilized.

There are far more energy-efficient ways of generating that heat than PoW. This is an (extremely) flawed argument.

PoW is roughly akin to resistive heating. Heat pumps are about three times as energy-efficient as resistive heating. This does not even begin to take into account that there is no practical way to transfer the heat generated in massive server farm installations to where it would actually be useful without incurring massive losses.
Thanks for the clarification, I see it now in the thread.
It is a joke as the author states in a more recent article[0]

[0] https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/what-do-uk-data-say-a...
Yes, I can both skim and collect more than 5 books in 24 hours.
Bump keys aren't quite universal. There are different keyways. Plus, not all locks are pin-tumbler locks.
Also, this I'm not sure of, but I think some quality pin-tumbler locks are bump-resistant.
I agree with you actually about the Gigafactories and it won't surprise me if the Texas one finishes first.

And I also live in Germany and have worked for car companies as a contractor :) And believe me I am also quite exhausted by the slowness of so much of the industry and the old white opas running things. But at the same time I get the feeling that university-educated younger members of society really want this to change and want to participate actively in shaping their country.

I think I usually like to counter extreme positions for either approach (US-capitalist, fast moving approach vs German/European slower, more left leaning approach). I think our views might actually be quite similar, and I have actually been considering what life might be like in the US where people seem to really have no limits to their ambition and drive. I guess I just see both systems as useful in some ways and limited in others. I like the fact that in Germany, everyone has access to good education, health and a social safety net, and I am ok with that coming at the cost of maybe the country not being as disruptively innovative as it otherwise could be. On the other hand, I am extremely glad a place like the US exists, where some random south african dude can waltz into the Rocketry industry and the auto industry and simultaneously turn both on their heads in less than 2 decades.

Also what you said about Greece is pretty shocking. To be fair, it's very possible that in general the amount of people who really want to put their own blood, sweat and tears into in endeavour is actually quite small. A lot of people I know just want a contented life, which is fine, but I'd rather not have that at the expense of a meaningful, exciting career.
Monetary policy goes at least as far back as the Roman Empire, which adulterated their money supply over time.
Statistics is probably more useful than Calculus for just about everyone.
> That’s unhealthy; why should promoting unhealthy social media adoption be our policy priority?

Nobody should promote it, people should fight against it, but until that changes, it should be taken into account.

> This occurred before the Internet, too. The answer is more speech, education, and enabling people — not censorship.

Before the Internet the potential reach was much more limited. Recruitment for ISIS online, for instance on Twitter, was highly successful where before they would have struggled to reach disillusioned youth in France or Indonesia for instance. More education, ideally secular, is needed, but how do you force that to happen in Indonesia for instance?

> Then we need to focus on individual resiliency - not building a hug-box.

How ? How do you make it so everyone is immune from, for instance, rape threats or personalised ( e.g. racial) harassment online ?
Is that why 3d acceleration doesn't work anymore in recent versions of VirtualBox in Windows 2000 or Windows XP guests?
I built a self-funded, single-founder SaaS app in 6 months
In mathematics, the Greek alphabet is almost just as popular as the Latin alphabet. I think the programmer’s keyboard should include Greek letters.
It's very different than string theory.

In string theory, the proposal is to change the Laws of Physics. Each particle is a small string instead of a point, each point of the universe is actually something more complicated, like a circle in a new dimension. But we are not sure if each point must be replaced by a circle or a sphere, or a torus/donut or whatever. In string theory the proposal is to change the laws of physics, but there are many versions that are possible and currently we can make no experiment to be sure any of them is good.

In this paper they don't propose to change the Laws of Physics. They use the current laws to get a a theoretical result. They make a theoretical "experiment" and calculate the expected outcome. The "interesting" part is how they interpret the result as a weird time flow. As Nevermark says, in small system it's expected that sometimes evolve in unexpected ways. For me the research article looks like an overhyped interpretation.
According to the author the Ghostbuster post is a joke. Author states so in a more recent article https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/what-do-uk-data-say-a...
I agree that people could have a more effective BS filter, but I think there’s also some obligation to not publish BS in the first place at the risk of your trustworthiness reputation.

People intentionally or repeatedly inadvertently publishing BS should be called out and their opinions down-weighted heavily.

People having a good BS filter is one step in the chain towards this down-weighting, but isn’t the whole chain. If anything, people slinging BS today are likely to gain additional reach and opinion-weight, rather than to lose it.
I said that Rust "is on track" to become the best, not that it is best. It is still a young language, but Rust shows great promise to one day be that one language you need for just about anything, sans scripting. The best part is that Rust is approaching C levels of speed, sometimes even surpassing it.

Python is currently the easiest language to learn, has a plethoa of modules in it's standard library alone, plus a vast ocean of 3rd party libraries. From displaying cute cats inside your terminal, to large mathematical monoliths like numpy and scipy. Python has almost everything you need to build programs, minus the speed and easy distribution of executables.

Java is semi-compiled and too verbose to be a glue language.

Javascript is faster than Python, but is much more difficult to use efficiently. It's standard library is such a joke that I had to install a 3rd-party library just to use a input() equivalent.
I want a follow up.
I think I found the study that the website you got this info from is referencing. The 2 deaths in the control group and the 1 in the vaccine group don't appear to be attributed to covid. Honestly I can't find anywhere that says what they died from, which isn't unusual when explaining why participants did not complete a study. The researchers don't necessarily have access to that information and rely on what is reported to them.

I'm not sure what you're trying to explain to me in your first paragraph.

Edit:

"Two BNT162b2 recipients died (one from arteriosclerosis, one from cardiac arrest), as did four placebo recipients (two from unknown causes, one from hemorrhagic stroke, and one from myocardial infarction). No deaths were considered by the investigators to be related to the vaccine or placebo. No Covid-19–associated deaths were observed. "

It looks like pretty normal random chance and more people from the placebo group died anyway.
He did go with the AWS free credits. And then spent a long time getting angry with me and trying not to pay me, because I had supposedly cost him so much, and he wanted to dump the other server company. Sigh.
Function points measure the complexity of the problem you are solving, not of the software you are writing.
macOS menubar app that hides your dock on selected virtual desktops
But wouldn't it be sweet to have SIMD acceleration for fixed point?

Or is that something you can do with integers and SIMD today?

Say 4x4 matrix multiplication?
Nonsense.

However, people are starting up coal plants that have been previously shut down in order to mine bitcoin.

Bitcoin is causing massive harm.
Recently that word has been co-opted in our politics and media here in Australia to mean "people who criticise us online, often a bit rudely".

It's a really dire state of affairs. Hopefully this is just the death throes of a collapsing party in Government, there is an election in a few months and the party in charge is polling terribly (as they should be), and there's also a really strong independents movement to get more independent candidates who are pro-integrity and pro-climate action on the crossbench (which could make a massive improvement in our politics, because while the opposition is a lot better in a lot of ways than the currently ruling party, in some areas they do the same crap).
The closest fit at Google that I’m aware of would be the UX Engineer role. From a current job posting (https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/86353428625662662-ux...):

As a UX Engineer, you'll work as part of a UX team in a challenging, fast-paced environment. You’ll demonstrate your creativity, analytical skills, and knowledge of user-facing technologies to create prototypes that identify the best product experiences, launch innovative features, build tools that accelerate UX teams, bridge between design and engineering discussions, and enable efficient, high quality execution.
Comparing uptime between comparable services is reasonable. (Though I will say that having used some GitHub competitors, counting the number of features really overlooks the actual user experience between them.)

Comparing uptime between a production service and a single personal server however isn’t reasonable. You haven’t even said what your server actually does, only that it rarely goes down!
Makes me cringe a little bit when global warming presentations start out with a co2 vs global temperature chart. Especially if that forms the entire basis of the analytic part of the presentation. Because I know someone (most) is just thinking "correlation != causation" and dismissing the entire thing.
Dunno how stealthy this is given that masses of base-64 garbage you didn't put into a crontab seems like a pretty big red flag.
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I've only been doing Python training for a few years now. I've made more money, had more flexibility, and been happier than at any previous time in my consulting career (which started in 1995).

Here are two interviews I've given on the subject:

- https://devjourney.info/Guests/83-ReuvenLerner.html
- https://doubleyourfreelancing.com/business-freelancing-episo...

I'm always happy to talk about training. I love it, and recommend that everyone in the consulting world look into it more.

I also have a training newsletter, at https://TrainerWeekly.com/.
ISO-date-format is only better for sorting. But for writting, the german format is far better, because it's written in order of priority and optionality. This is of course less relevant with computers today, but even for reading it still applys.
That was not stated in parent.
Storage concern, I see. Yes, that actually was the only thing I could think off. Thank you.
Can you hear in your head? If you can hear someone else's voice in your head can you reproduce it in your own vocal chords? If you can hear a song played on guitar can you fret the correct frets and pluck the correct strings? I will agree that there is probably some trickery going on in the minds eye; I can see parts of images created in great detail, but I doubt that detail existed before I looked for it.
I don't think "a backup copy of humanity" is the best argument for space settlement. It's not necessarily wrong, but it's not the strongest and you are correct that it's not foolproof.

The best argument is that frontiers are where innovation happens, and where outsiders can migrate as a "pressure valve" for civilization. Without a frontier there is nowhere to try new things and it's impossible to challenge existing norms without fighting. No frontier means either eternal stagnation or eternal war. (War can take the form of either overt violence or constant political turmoil.)

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

I don't think it's a coincidence that sci-fi that posits a frontier (generally space but sometimes others) is usually more optimistic than sci-fi that posits a humanity confined to Earth's gravity well. Writers and artists see this.

We are rapidly approaching a state in which the entire planet is settled, surveilled, and regulated. This is unprecedented in human history, and I think it's going to be fairly dystopian. I can only see two possible outcomes: absolutely total global surveillance state or a global "failed state" resembling a dystopian cyberpunk anarchy like Stephenson's Snow Crash. They're not mutually exclusive; the first could lead to the second.

I don't think it's feasible to reverse this trend. It's a natural outcome of humanity's growth and technological advancement. Pushing out to a new frontier is really the only option.
And how is that better than a government?
This article is like the factcheckers fact checking a similar irrelevant thing to avoid having to investigate the real issue
Video shows San Francisco police watching as burglary unfolds
"I sometimes think I might get an "afterimage" of a line when I do that, but I'm not sure. Maybe that's a path to try to train up an ability to actually visualise things. I keep meaning to try."

Another commenter here gave a nice description of some exercises in visualiztion. You might try the simplest of those for a while and see if you get results. If you do, you can try moving to more complicated ones.

One exercise was one in which you start with a line and incrementally add more and more 2D figures. I learned a somewhat similar exercise, but using arrangements of 3D figures. The exercise was to start with something simple, like a blue cube, and begin to add more and more additional 3D objects, assign different colors and movements to each, and keep them going stably for as long as possible. I did that exercise for maybe a year or two, and definitely got better at it.

That was many years ago; I have since regressed. I had no trouble with the 2D exercises the other commenter gave, but the most complex of them felt like they were getting near my current limit.

There are a couple of other things I've done that involved exercising the ability to visualize. I don't know if they'll be helpful to you, but in case they are:

One is lucid dreaming. I got this to work by keeping a dream journal next to my bed and writing down my dreams any time I woke up from them. The first effect was that I began to remember a much greater number of my dreams. (According to sleep researchers, everyone dreams every night; we just don't remember most of our dreams at all.) Some time later I began to dream lucidly--that is, I began to have dreams in which I realized I was dreaming.

That was pretty exciting at first; I naively thought that I would be able to control my dreams and have wonderful adventures by directing them. That turned out not to really be true. I had some control, but it was not unlimited. To give a representative example, I realized one night that I was dreaming, and resolved to fly to Washington, D.C. to visit some places I knew well. I discovered that I could fly really high and fast, but I couldn't navigate when I did it. I could navigate where I wanted to go, but as soon as I started thinking about that, I would always descend to the ground and switch to walking.

But I digress. The relevant point is that during the period when I was practicing lucid dreaming, the world of dreams seemed extra accessible, even when I was awake, and it was easier to conjure vivid imaginary environments in my mind's eye. Perhaps that would be of some help.

A second, somewhat similar, thing is that for a few years in the 1980s I was interested in shamanism and in shamanic trance techniques. I had a little training in them and experimented with them for a while. You could look at shamanic trance techniques as ways of initiating lucid dreaming while you're awake. Again, when I was doing that, I had an easier time of conjuring up vivid imagined landscapes, people, and objects.

Keeping a journal seemed helpful in both activities. It helped me remember what I experienced, and also seemed to help make those experiences easier to induce.
I would love to see a Git+Matrix forge, completely decentralised. With the spaces and the upcoming threads, seems like it wouldn't be so difficult to create a client that exposes that. It would be easier to make it closer to Gerrit than Github review process, which would be a step up!
Every time there is a fork, the market decides how much to value each of the forks.

Personally, I think people will value bitcoin as good money if fiat money fails. And because they are seeking good money, will value the fork(s) that preserve bitcoin's prior monetary policy.

A fork that changes the monetary policy drastically (particularly, changing the 21M cap) would obviously make for bad money in practical terms.
The joke is that not taking into account all known correlated predictors when performing a statistical analysis can produce absurd results. In this case, age is a metric variable known to be a correlated predictor of what movies an individual has seen, the probability of their death due to COVID-19, and the probability of their being vaccinated against COVID-19. The precise relationship between those four items is beside the point here -- the point is just that if you did not take into account that age is a metric variable and that it is a correlated predictor of both vaccination status and death, then you did your analysis incorrectly.
Sorry I am confused about which removed chart I’m supposed to see here. If you are talking about “3. Weekly mortality rates for deaths involving coronavirus (COVID-19) by vaccination status“ then it’s in no way clear to me that your conclusion is correct. First, the fully vaccinated line is the lowest there. I can definitely see a correlation between people getting their first shot, getting adventurous because they feel safe, and then catching COVID that they aren’t prepared for because they aren’t fully vaccinated. Also this chart isn’t separated by populations. That is the mortality rate isn’t “per 100,000 fully/partially/un-vaccinated”. It’s per 100,000 total. Which means that as the total number of unvaccinated people declines so does that particular mortality rate. If everyone was vaccinated and people still died from COVID then of course only the vaccinated would die, right?
But bootcamps don’t teach enough.

I think what they teach is good. I think someone after 4 weeks of bootcamp knows more git commands then I did after 6-7 years of college.

But it still takes bootcamp + X (2-3?) years of experience to equal a fresh college grad. Who is paying for this training, the place that hires the person? Why do this over hire someone who already has experience?

So yah, maybe 2-3 year bootcamps would be a happy middle ground. There’s a reason the trades have a vocation program. Could you imagine giving electricians a 4 week bootcamp and sending them loose on client sites alone? But we try that with developers.
I think I understand your use case, although I don't follow the part about mounting a host dir in the build (how it would help).

I do not really consider this limitation a design flaw of Dockerfiles; this is more of a mismatch between Dockerfile functionality and what you want to do. Dockerfiles are not designed to execute general-purpose programs, so there is an assumption in the design of Dockerfiles that you know (more or less) which files you want to COPY ahead of time. It sounds like you want a mechanism for COPYing all filesystem changes resulting from a RUN instruction without having to know what those changes are ahead of time.

In the future, maybe a buildkit HLB language will provide a macro system that makes this sort of thing straightforward to implement.
This explains why they didn't go with PyO2!
Ask HN: If OOP is about message passing, why not sender.send(receiver, message)?
I learnt that (from Alan Kay), OOP is about message passing, but in most of OOP supported language, the syntax is always

receiver.message(params).

While i think it should be

sender.message(receiver, params)

or

sender.send(receiver, message, params)

Am i missing anything ?
This is the short-scale / long-scale naming convention for powers of ten. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scale

Million (10^6) / milliard (10^9) / billion (10^12) is, or at least was, common in British English, where American English is million / billion / trillion.

Numbers above 999 million were typically written as, e.g., "thousand million (10^9), million million (10^12), etc.

Long scale also has billiard and trilliard.

American usage seems to be dominant now, the UK officially converted in 1974.
If you think German numbers are strange … don't even look at French that require multiplication and addition. Four-twenty-ten-seven? … yup, you guessed it 97.
Nuclear attacks could target all points of failure though.
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It is precedent because the judgement states:

> Concerning the argument that there cannot be an intermediary when use of copyrighted material post reproduction takes place in the course of
instruction... The argument concerning use of an agency is thus irrelevant.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190530065215/http://lobis.nic....
Not a great video. He starts by attacking Robert Martin for taking 10 minutes to get to the substance of his talk, but then his own video never progresses from there and never gets to anything substantial.
I wonder if you can have a full Mina node on any device including low-end phones, keep full network state and do payments in same time? It sounds too good to be true...
I think the idea is that various Linux endpoint protection products don't look there.
Show HN: A Go package for building ISO images