skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This gets at something I was wondering. I grew up on books and love them, but that's when they were the best means for transmitting static information. Programming strikes me as a dynamic skill. I wouldn't recommend anybody learn to ride a bike via a book, and I suspect that programming is similarly best learned mainly through doing.

Thinking back, even in the dark ages one of my gateways to programming was a programmable toy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Trak
How about a different perspective? Forget happiness. Period.

Think in terms of satisfaction, satisfaction for a job (as in a project) well done, and then continue on to another project; all the while enjoying the work, the process of doing and making and shipping, including the failures, and not the outcomes/results?

And forget a life-work balance, but integrating both.

“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both. ”
While I agree with you on this specific topic of student loan forgiveness, government action to avert an economic crisis isn't about being individually fair or unfair. Not everyone qualifies for every benefit, and that's fine. Otherwise we would never be able to make any progress because someone would always be left behind.
Similarly, i'm really enjoying broot recently, which isn't quite just a replacement of ls which I still use, but it's a great way of getting directory listings / file listings in one shot, and to be able to launch other stuff form there.

I used to use nerdtree in vim, now I just launch vim from broot, which feels like the right way around, because I can use broot for lots of different things.

I looks like exa has more colour capabilities though.
The app is stop gap at best - it has to be run manually, the screen has to be on, and it chews batteries (due to phone architectural designs)
Thanks! Will do.
edit: that's a great read, thought-provoking. Thank you for sharing.
I have the exact same question, I'm applying to US based companies right now but I wonder is this even possible ?
Sure, but this is clearly better than the situation for other existing technologies which are cheaper and can be used to the same ends.

I don’t deny that this behavior is bad, but the anti-Apple sentiment here is a bit strange given they provide mitigations unlike traditional gps tracking companies
ALiEn – Artificial Life Simulation
Which of those relates to Chinese internal security?

In other words - aside from containing Chinese/Communist external influence, when has the US threatened China?

Note: I'm not justifying or condemning any of those "external" actions by the US, I'm just curious if you can illustrate a past or ongoing threat to China proper?
In what world was that an actual threat?
The article makes the point that in a particular funding call, men got more money than women because there are more men of some ages due to imbalances of the past, rather than because of discrimination against women. However, it does not argue why funding should be awarded base on the merit of the work. Additionally, the last paragraph is unnecessary and lowers the article's value in my view. Discriminating against a majority to make more space for a minority might be the wrong thing to do, but it is in no way equivalent to discriminating against a minority to exclude that minority from participation.

On the topic of the title, even if it's not addressed in the article itself, why would someone argue against evaluating scientists for their work instead of their identity? The problem is that science is so specialized today that only other specialists can value each other's work. But some external control or balancing force is necessary to avoid politics and tribalism (yes, scientists are human too). Forcing diversity in funding may be a way to disrupt endogamous tendencies without compromising quality of research (unless you believe that women or cultures or whatever do worse science).

On the other hand, a lot of science is "hit and miss". Many important discoveries are found by chance. And a lot of extremely important basic research is not obviously important until some flashy result is achieved, if ever. Funding this is almost a lottery. And therefore, it is a good place to exert some action into diversity. There are still many high profile grants and awards for excellent researchers and groups, so it is not a problem and, who knows, maybe it is good, to distribute funding to increase social representation so that science does not become (or keeps on being) a white, well-off male game.
But he beaten all his possible brothers and sisters at the cum race. He fought to be the first, he killed others to born, he choose to born (trollface)
IIRC FF puts the domain on the ‘blocklist’ after the first manual choice, at least if the user selects ‘block’ instead of one-time ‘deny’ (haven't seen the dialog in a while).

Hopefully The Browser doesn't pester the user each time, either.
Sunk cost fallacy. Anything is possible, it's just a matter of how much pain you're willing to bear for your principles.
I was expecting Doom. :/
What is probably true, at least based on the few anecdotal stories that have made the rounds, is that the introduction of AirTags may well have planted the thought in some people that "Oh, it's pretty easy to track someone/something with this cheap device." One can also imagine people making up stories (not saying that's the case here though it's very possible) and people planting a tracker for the lulz to see what would happen.
Edit: was intended as response to a reply to this.

Appreciate the caution.

We took a different approach.

Unlimited screen time.

Our daughter’s rate of learning is incredible.

She willingly explores IRL play. No battles when we ask her to put down her iPad.

Roblox and Minecraft are our shared playtime.

I was homeschooled with no TV. My experience of her development is similar to what I experienced with my siblings.

A healthy dose of skepticism is warranted when new tech is the explanation for diminishing returns in our existing systems. Children are in aggressively structured, impoverished educational systems nationwide - bankrupt in both their pedagogy and their budgets. Teachers & administrators have raised the warning that as many as 80% of children have not engaged at all with their schooling in the past two years.

Maybe iPads aren’t the problem.

Maybe they are one reason cognitive decline in children isn’t dramatically worse.
What do they prevent?
If someone come in and beats them by .001ns they get all their profits. Is .001ns really worth that reward? The utility provided is mostly detached from the reward, it is just winner gets it.
Holy moly. It never occurred to me that starting programming young would cause that attitude. But that's a deep part of how I deal with the world and I started programming as a kid, so it totally makes sense in retrospect. TIL!
Omicron symptoms may differ from those of other Covid-19 variants
Then pick one and do something about it. Just because there's more than one company doing bad things doesn't mean you get to do nothing about it.
Thank you for your kind words!

> Regarding my point about migration compatibility - I would not assume that the only time anyone has moved from log4j to slf4j was when slf4j first came out. Slf4j+log back is also a drop in replacement for log4j 2, up to a point.

In a way, you're right. By themselves, SLF4J+Logback are not drop-in replacement for Log4j 2.x (or Log4j 1.x for that matter), but Log4j 2.x does provide an adapter for that sends all the calls to log4j-api interfaces to whatever is implementing SLF4J (e.g. logback). It also provides an API that does the reverse (implementing SLF4J through whatever is implementing the log4j-api). To top that up are also adapters which converts Log4j 1.x API, the JUL APIs and Apache Logging Commons (yet another facade, like SLF4J or log4j-api 2.x) to SLF4J or and log4j.

Accounting for all the permutations there, there are probably thousands of slightly different migration paths that you could take, and they're all slightly different. This makes the situation a lot more complex than it seems, at first hand.

I think you're imagining a project which started with Log4J 2.x and moved to SLF4J+Logback. You're right that such projects may exist, but to be more accurate:

1. By the time Log4J 2.x has started, SLF4J was already established as the standard facade for Java logging libraries. Log4J provided an SLF4J binding from the get go, and I think many (if not most) projects which ended up using Log4J are using it through the the SLF4J binding.

2. By the time Log4J 2.x started getting popular (around 2014-5?), Logback Development slowed down. It was abandoned per se. There were still or or two minor releases a year until 2018, so it didn't die out, but showed slow progress. At the same time Log4J 2.x was adding new features quickly and making some impressive performance gains in multithreaded workloads[1]. So while there were some reasons to move from Logback to Log4j 2.x, there were no strong reasons to do the reverse.

In short, I don't think many people every migrated between them.

There is a better argument you can make of course: Log4j 2.x just removed supports for message lookups completely and no one complained. It shows that they could have just done it years ago with little worries. But we need to work harder to change the "compatibility über alles" mindset that prevails in Java and other ecosystem. It's perfectly ok to break compatibility for 0.001% of your users when you've got a serious security issue. Punishing 99.999% of the other users with an RCE because 0.001% MIGHT rely on some back is not good engineering!

[1] https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/async.html
Putting aside the question on how useful they are, why do you think my assumption is not defensible?
This is from the same guy who coded Baritone:

https://youtu.be/CZkLXWo4Fg4?t=78

Extremely useful on anarchy servers, in fact the entire current "era" of anarchy is called "The Automation Period" mostly due to Baritone.
"Please Don't Give Up On Having Kids Because Of Climate Change" https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/please-dont-give-up-on...
>he has a powerful father then

His powerful father made him a target during cultural revolution
It's an odd argument to say that Google must do it in this poor way, as it is atleast better than how the others would do it.
If Google stopped offering it to not waste compute cycles of others or invade too much, that would be a good choice. It seems Google would not like to lead by example but rather take the profits and risk the fine as cost-of-doing-business.
If google would stop doing it. It would atleast cause >30% of the worldwide ads to run arbitrary code. A massive improvement on both user privacy and climate. The wasted cycles are not free.

The solution is easy on Google's side. Just don't do it and accept the reduction in revenue. But I guess the economic incentives are just too big, like you say.
> I'm sorry for their personal experience but leading with "there are zero health benefits", immediately following up with "there might be benefits" and then continuing completely disregarding that point is irresponsible.

Ridiculous. What the author wrote about the health benefits of tobacco makes perfect sense. What would really be beyond irresponsible is any argument that tobacco use has health benefits. You have to ignore the mountain of evidence suggesting that tobacco use causes all sorts of major health problems.
their goal is simply to not be told what to do

The urge to resist force is a vital element of US culture as a check on runaway governments. You see it in many movements, on both sides for or against. Women don't want to be forced to carry a baby. LGBT community doesn't want to be forced to hide. Christians don't want to be forced to stop praying in school. Non-Christians don't want to be forced to listen to prayers in school.

Everyone should be persuaded to get vaccinated for things like flu and COVID. Very few people should be forced to do so just to keep their jobs.
They don't really create liquidity, but they did narrow the bid-ask spread. The "liquidity" they provide dries up when volatility spikes anyways (although that was always true, so not really a criticism of HFT).
It's a plant; it's not going away. Some people like to dry the leaves and smoke it. If those people are adults, leave them alone.
Do you have ads blocked on google.com then? Because all ads there are contextual, not personalized.
You wouldn't be the first. In fact, along with certain foreign hires, I'll bet this is a play a lot of companies are keeping close to their chest.
According to the tweet thread:

>this morning while I was asleep I had someone close to me check my car and they found it stuck on the underside of my front passenger wheel well. I wish he took pics before he threw it away

If I found a tracking device on the car of someone close to me, I certainly wouldn't throw it away without showing them and insisting that they go to the police. Why would they just throw it away?
That may be true for grandparents.

We should do something about heart diseases or car accidents which are far more worrisome for parents.
There are 48 Democratic Party senators and 50 in their caucus.
> I see of very skilled programmers using retro tools for their personal projects

Interesting observation, and something I hadn't really though about. For my own stuff I increasingly pick older technologies, not really retro, like jcs does here. Personally I think I've just grown tired of the modern "stuff", it's way to complex for me to find it relaxing to write a few lines of code for the fun of it. I wonder if that's true in a boarder sense for others working in IT.

I've watched a few of these videos, where jcs just hacks away on his old Mac and I'm extremely impressed with what's actually possible on these old machine. I do think the compile times would drive me insane, but others might see it as a nice little break.
AirTags are trivial to use and have an extensive tracking network in the form of every iDevice.

Custom or semi-custom battery powered LoRa trackers have lesser batteryluve, are bulkier and much harder to get and deploy.

Basic triangulation is easy-ish, but requires multiple sites or a moving site to work toany degree. And those sites need to hear the tracking beacon.
For sure. And I should add it may take people a few tries to find the right therapist. Because it's not just seeing the patterns, it's also being able to explain them to the individual in question.
My twenty-year-old self wasn't ready to hear this, but it's absolutely true.

Fulfillment follows from meaning, and meaning flows from responsibilities we bear.
Toddlers are not even required to go to institutions. Huge amounts of them are at home.

And those in institutions still spend tons amount of time at home.
You need to think more outside the box. Think more cut costs than be rich. Costs can be cut radically, you can just move to the middle of nowhere and work remotely. Of course everyone's situation is different in regards to where their friends & family are located etc, but the point is that there are a lot more options beyond just being rich.
So your claim is that Xi is only barely better educated than every republican US president since the nineties?
Love this. I'm gonna modify this to scan all airtags around and make them play a sound.
No, attendance dropped in 2020 because nobody wants to get sick. This would be true if there was a flu pandemic as well.

(And because of travel bans. But the anti-lockdown people mostly support those because that’s the ironic position.)
I remember reading that one of the main activities of FSF is to enforce GPL. Isn't this time they get involved.
Phoronix has always had very strange / stilted wording by the lone author. It just seems to be his style.
> BTW, if you are actually being threatened by a lawyer then they send certified mail or show up at your door.

Sure, but if you haven't lawyered up by that point you're going to have a bad time. Doubly so if you aren't familiar with the amount of info-gathering and record-keeping involved in winning a suit--if you don't know what needs to be written down for when you do have to call a lawyer, waiting until the last second can easily shoot your entire case in the foot.

And if you do lawyer up, you're spending massive amounts of money--money that some people just don't have.
Is there a law mandating that all employment be listed? Omitting a high school fast food gig is accepted, why is omitting moonlighting not? It's not lying about education or employment, so I don't see how it is fraud.
You've read Norman Angell's The Great Illusion?
> The straightforward approach is to extend bankruptcy protection to student loans, and let the courts sort out the mess out based on need.

Agreed.
Do you all really not see how our media has a hand in this at all?
Its incorrect to call opening an office for Taiwan a "rash, emotional move". It's a simple ackowledgement of the way things already are (two nations who talk and negotiate with each other) and helps Taiwan and France build their relationship.

The concern is that the CCP will have a rash, emotional response (as they did with Lithuania) because they imagine they can set the terms for any Taiwan-related business.

These frequent emotional outbursts have cost the CCP so much political capital, which means countries like France will reconsider their relationship.
From Iran, none. From NK, I'm not sure - I am not convinced by the rationality of their actors.
I'll flip the question it's head: how do you know that is worth putting all your resources into?

Going all-in on one area of your life is not a good bet.

I know because I've tried.
Well tape the microphone too. With thick soft tape.
In Canada (where the article is authored) there is universal healthcare. The health effects of smoking burden the healthcare system and therefore other Canadian citizens.

In the US healthcare system I have less a problem with smoking since you will have to pay for the healthcare on your own.
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/please-dont-give-up-on...
You might not have a strong reaction this time. Hard to tell.

I would still go for it and just make some arrangements just in case it’s a tough ride.
Lockdown "light"

https://m.dw.com/en/covid-19-special-vaccination-champion-po...
good try. But Santa Clara county isn’t exactly a cold place, and they do it when it is +30C. I know parents whose kid actually fainted during PE outside.
The second and third order effects from society's misguided Covid response will, over time, prove much much worse than the effects of the actual virus.
That is good that they made it, but the fact that you need to install some app for something that you do not use, seems to me like opt-out tracking?
which currently has a rating of 2/5 because of how terrible it is.
I do think the world would go on, but it's a world I would like less. Some things would move behind paywalls, others would move to the boundary of whatever was considered advertising (sponsored content? Product placement?)
Social skills are not bias themselves. This who you know thing is - preference is given to people who are known. This makes it less likely that people who have different attributes get an equal chance.
Boyajian’s star is 1470 lightyears away according to Wikipedia. As a sci-fi concept: Imagine we detect an expanding civilization at this distance, and they travel at a significant fraction of c. We have a few millennia, at most, what do we do?
So this means Pfizer lied to FDA and all of us who got the vaccine. This has to be against the law somehow and criminal charges are on their way?
Those all sound pretty difficult to fine with 1 being the easiest and 2 being the hard.
No one else bothered to buy Sun, so.
I think the multi-million pay packages for football coaches more often than not makes the schools money
> Rob house

that's not the only possible outcome here
Serious question - why do we need iframes? Can't we disable them?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E2%80%932021_Yemen_chol...
1. Omicron is driving out the earlier variants.

2. I would really like to see a proper, large RCT of ivermectin, HCQ+zinc, and the new Pfizer therapeutic. The latter costs $700 per course, apparently, and many countries won’t be able to afford it. And, exclude hospitalized patients, we’re trying to find out how to keep people out of the hospital!
For Single People, Gift-Giving Is Not Reciprocal
Yes, once I got to know sum-types with match destructuring in F#, every other programming language that doesn't have them feels inferior. It's just such a practical idiom.
Eh you can still have compression, what’s important is the OS pager knows how to read the page from disk as opposed to eagerly loading and swapping it.
> Sedentarism

Exercise. Seriously exercise, not just 30min/day. Exhaust yourself.

As for happiness, help the less fortunate, be it humans or other animals, or even plants.

There's nothing in this life that brings more "true" happiness than that.

When you see a bunch of kids at an orphanage getting sweets/smartphones/bikes or a single pregnant young woman getting a flat after being homeless, you'll get it.

You likely won't see this because I'm banned for saying uncomfortable things, but here it is, the secret to happiness.

If doing real change in this world by directly affecting other living things and changing their lives won't help you feel better, then comparing your own cushy life to theirs will.

And if neither works, you can just stop because you're already dead. Get some good medication and hope that works long term.

Also, don't just think local. The world is huge.
There's no "secondhand" alcohol drinking like there is secondhand smoking - while the effects afterwards (if someone chooses to be irresponsible after becoming inebriated) can be severe, they are mitigated by choosing safer practices such as having a ride, drinking at home, and knowing to limit oneself if they exhibit behavior that is negative toward others. With smoking, this isn't a possibility.
Manchin and Schumer signed an agreement on July 28, which the Congressional Democrats completely ignored.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/30/manchin-proposed-15...
Cuba?
The West has been desperately trying to keep the wool pulled over its own eyes for the better part of a decade.

It's only become more obvious in the covid environment.
I don't think such an idea would have any practical benefit. A vanishingly small percentage of people would voluntarily limit access and even fewer would end up in courts. Motivated addicts would simply find workarounds to the system while non-addicts and suppliers would be burdened with additional regulation.
In the infosec space at least, commoditization of an attack tends to increase its prevalence.
For browser based applications (they're all single page web apps using json based RPC) I use cpp-httplib and rapid json. I use other as well but do not really want to get into details here. The ones I just mentioned should get you up and running in no time.
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/03/airtag-linked-to-car-th...
A lot of people are quite happy working, quite happy with their local environment, and feel no need to take a vacation. For other uses of (paid or unpaid) days off (being sick, funerals, important kid events, 'just not feeling it today', maternal leave, paternal leave, whatever) policies vary so much from company to company and individual to individual; I think this variability is a good thing and gives an additional dimension for companies to compete for workers on.