skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Visiting Centre Pompidou [0] in Paris was the first time i GOT modern art.

A big part of that was that it was organized not strictly chronologically but evolutionarily - and I could watch how art evolved from Impressionism (which i also only got a few years earlier by seeing in person) to "modern art" - which at this point is a term referring to styles 100 years old.

A HUGE part of my newfound appreciation for the Genre was Kandinsky. The way he used patterns and shapes made a profound impact on me.

I know a lot of left-brained pragmatic software types that scoff at this genre of art - dismissing it as something a toddler could do just as well. I wish my experience on everyone - that's where I started, and by the end of my day at Pompidou I stood for almost 15 minutes in front of a giant blue square [1] saying "Holy shit, I GET it." No hallucinogens participated in this journey.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Pompidou

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue
I've seen this multiple times in the past couple or so years. I still don't understand why it was forked, and what makes it the "clean" version.
Why should that responsibility solely come from the product manager? Are devs incapable of their own good ideas if given a chance to understand the customer as well?

The product manager should be the overall decider, but the best products do not germinate out of a single person’s head.
Anecdotal, but I loathe Gutenberg, and almost entirely shut down my blog because of it. I eventually decided to pay for hosting the open source version with their plugins so I could use the Classical Editor plugin, but Gutenberg was absolutely awful. The posts I was writing were quite long, as they were transcriptions of stories (the number of SEO red flags they give off is hilarious, honestly), and Gutenberg was just so laggy trying to go back and forth between my annotations of the stories at the bottom and the actual story at the top. I eventually just started typing it up in Pages and copy-pasting it over because it was such a pain to edit...None of those problems exist on Classical Editor, though I still transcribe them in Pages to keep them all in the same document for if I ever decide to publish.
I honestly don't get why the technologist crowd seem to have some affection for this guy. He is Obama 2.0 but nowhere near as legendary. He is terrible in his speeches, he does not get people inspired about anything, and to top it off he plays ball with the DNC so there will be infighting within the party when he runs again. He is a trash candidate that couldn't really get that far ahead in Iowa without sketchy behavior and completely collapsed afterwards.

He lost the 2020 nomination because he was absolutely terrible. You are ignoring the abysmal results before the first southern state even voted (south carolina). Him being gay didn't even register given how badly he killed his chances of him just being himself.
If it's not distressing, then it's not a problem. Many folks have figured out ways to cope - adjustments to environment, routines that help them, etc. So congrats on surviving it. :)

COVID has definitely shaken a lot of that up, and I've known several people who had to really sit down and figure it out recently.

I've known people at 60+ that got finally checked though, and it was immense just figuring out what had been going on. So don't necessarily write it off just because of age.
No, no. The website is fine. It was looking at the images on Github that was a problem :)
I use Siri to set timers almost every day, to play music, check the weather forecast, and to turn groups of lights on and off.

All of these assistants have limitations because they don’t have any real context to the requests. People think that they are failures because they are not really intelligent but they do have small uses on a daily basis as long as you understand the limitations.
Ideally you wouldn't waste everyone on the team's time every day just to suss out individuals who potentially can't ask for help. A competent lead or manager should be able to identify those kinds of team members without a standup, and address the issue 1:1. If the lead or manager can't do that, why have a lead or manager at all?
The IDE is more than two decades old. Cut them some slack?
A bunch of kids are ending up in the hospitals at a higher rate than before so you may be right.
They should index accessible web.

You can't search for stuff on your company's intranet, can you? Or your private bank statement?

If someone wants to make something private, it's definitely their right to do so. But they should not attempt to mislead me by offering it as a search result of the public web.
Great engineering teams have great engineers. Nothing else matters.
The Hoeg findings are off by 2X from the VAERS-based numbers cited by the FDA, but Hoeg examines "probable" vs. "medical chart-confirmed" cases. A factor of 2 is small in the scheme of things considering (a) the apple-to-oranges nature of the comparison, (b) the confidence intervals, and (c) the unacknowledged uncertainties that stem from our lack of understanding of reporting rates.

This new blog article you cite points out problems with 7 of the 257 cases included by the Hoeg study -- intermixed with a healthy dose of stay-in-your-lane-bro rhetoric. It also makes unfounded criticisms, such as "The claim from the study authors is that they replicate the [ACIP analysis] and found a much higher incidence than previously reported." In fact, the paper is clear that they follow a different method, and it claims "using these broader [emphasis mine] search and inclusion criteria, we found post-vaccination rates ... that exceed the rates previously reported."

This looks like someone is nit-picking when, in the big picture, considering the general concurrence with results from other studies, including other data sets, the findings are not misleading.

One recent publication: 370 / 1,000,000 rate of acute myocarditis/pericarditis following 2nd dose of Comirnaty in male adolescents between June and September of 2021.
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article-abstract/doi/10...
NZ isn't currently issuing visas outside of a few categories of "special worker in shortage". (In order to citizens and residents a better chance at getting a quarantine spot.) So this introduces a new special exception for the very wealthy.
From the article:

Russell points to four such infinite desires — acquisitiveness, rivalry, vanity, and love of power
Because it isn't going to happen?
I am sure there are countries where the entire government has art degrees and they took their covid advise from a zombie movie.
There are two quality parameters and I'm not sure which one is `-q` in afconvert. One of them is the VBR quality, `kAudioCodecPropertySoundQualityForVBR`.

ffmpeg maps it like this:

q = 127 - q * 9;

So `-q:a 0` should do the same thing as passing 127 to AT.

There is another property though; an actual control of codec effort (`kAudioConverterCodecQuality`). That one should be accessible as `aac_at_quality` and maps 0 to 96, so there's no way to go up to the max of 127... But Apple defines "High" as 96, so I get the feeling there won't be a big difference between that and max, especially for an audio codec.
Get out of that hole man... The holiDAYS are just DAYS... Literally nothing special to them if they aren't special to you. Each day is a new opportunity to make yourself more comfortable in life, not by buying stuff, or being with people, but by finding out what really creates happiness for you. Worry about what you can control, and fix those things. Also take vitamin D, it helps to fight seasonal depression.
Piezo-electric affect generates voltage enough for some lcd applications.
I've been publicly ridiculed a few times in my life for actually reading something before signing it. Once was a liability waiver for white water rafting. I was yelled at and it was shouted to the group "we got a reader here!!!". Cannot believe how indifferent people are to companies trying to take away their legal rights
Something something RPKI, something something.
Great engineering teams focus on problems over products or milestones.
Yeah it sounds kind of cool. I used to work min wage jobs while in school . Driving a car to pick up some food for $100+/h sounds like a nice break from programming
AGI is a pipe dream. It certainly is a moonshot goal to aim for, like long-term population of Mars, but the likelihood of achieving that goal in the short term is about the same as the likelihood of a sustainable population on Mars in the short term. I wonder which would happen first (or at all). I wonder honestly how much the chase for AGI is about the end goal and how much is really about money.
Ask HN: Suspended from OVH. What are the alternatives?
On December 22 I got this email:

Dear Customer,
As of today, your account is registered with an address located in the region of Crimea or in the city of Sebastopol.
As notified in our message of 17/12/2021, OVHcloud cannot accept customers from these territories.
Therefore we inform you that we will terminate all your services and accounts as of Tuesday 28 December 10:00 (CET). We recommend that you take all measures to back up your data as they will not be available after this date.
Please accept our sincere apologies for any convenience it may cause.
Legal Service OVHcloud

Ethical questions aside, I don't even live in Crimea. Both my ip and billing address point to Krasnodar, Russia.

I immediately tried to contact them about the mistake by email, in live support and on twitter, and got dead silence in response.

It is frustrating, but after 7 years I need to find a new cloud provider to host my projects.

Which ones would you recommend? Basically need a cheap VPS mainly as a web server and a VPN.
Yeah but one person who is setting fires could torch a stairwell, effectively blocking it without being there.
Commit messages don't necessarily last as long as the code that they comment though.

Changing revision control system or copying code from one package to another can lose them.

The only durable documentation I've seen is in the source code
I guess my larger point is if risk of death by fire gets cut in half because of variables other than extra staircases - then the benefit of adding extra staircases gets cut in half while the cost remains the same (or even increases).
"dogfooding" is often the term used for this type of experiencing.
> A cluttered spreadsheet is someone’s job, that is someone else’s headcount, in still someone else’s budget, as part of yet someone else’s opex projection, provided as part of a financing, that yields someone’s commission, carry, and management fee.

A very important lesson that I learned during three agonizing years as a management consultant with a large IT outsourcer.
(If anyone wants to know what works on NYT, try turning off JavaScript only on nytimes.com)
Your tone is getting backlash, not your point. It's fair to say that citizens should not be put ahead of noncitizens trying to get back into the country during a crisis.

Let's say a time comes when every NZ'er who wants to get back to the country can do so immediately. Do you think it would be wrong for NZ to prioritize immigrants who can bring material wealth to the economy in general (not to politicians specifically)?

It's the monetary equivalent of importing intelligent students to top-tier graduate programs.
> Personally struggling with addiction or depression or attachment issues or trauma or physical pain or attention span is foundational to the human experience

And when they're chronic and severely life impacting, all of those things are disabilities. With medical interventions.

> You'd be wildly abnormal if you didn't have to deal with at least one of these things to get through the day.

You're correct. However the disorders don't describe people that experience them chronically and more severely than the rest of the population.

> I just think the wild over diagnosis and medication of what is essentially a personal struggle that's completely normal

Citation?

>what else can we call something that a third of the population has?

Again, citation? My understanding is that it's much closer to 5%.

> encourages the pathologization of normal human functioning at the same time as it creates victim mentality and removes responsibility and agency from individuals

oh man, I wish it removed any responsibility. Nope. Still gotta make sure my taxes get paid on time or else get thousands of dollars in fees. I know because I've neglected to do so before until the IRS was threatening to garnish my wages. Twice.

> it creates victim mentality

No, it creates an environment that we have a better chance of succeeding in, and helps combat the narrative that we're just failures.
Show HN: A Tiny HTML5 Christmas Puzzle Game in Parenscript
Could you elaborate on what went wrong? Was that type of failure a new occurrence with the person?
I recently submitted a request on this site for a small service.

Reformatted for readability here, and a few details redacted to preserve my illusion of privacy:

Rent-A-Hitman Service Request (HIPPA Compliant)

Your Name: Michael Geary
I certify I'm an: Adult - Over 18 Years Old
Your eMail Address: mg@ok.mg
Your Phone Number: [redacted]
Your Address (For Field Operative Use Only): [redacted]
Field Operative Contact Preference: Email
Enter Your Desired CODE/SAFE Word or Phrase (Optional): Tony
Relation to Intended Target: Fan
Target's Name: James Gandolfini
Address Where Service Requested:
Holsten's Brookdale Confectionery
1063 Broad Street
Bloomfield, New Jersey 07003
What is the reason for contacting us? James Gandolfini is dead.
Describe what services you would like performed:
James died tragically at the age of 51. I want you to bring him back to life.
I last saw him at the address listed above.
I sent a modest donation to your PayPal account to help you consider my request.
Guido, if you can perform this small service, there is a hundred boxes of ziti in it for you.
How did you hear about Rent-A-Hitman (Paste Link - For Marketing Purposes Only):
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/12/us/hireahitman-website-cracks-crimes-cec/index.html

References for anyone unfamiliar with two coded messages in my request...

"a hundred boxes of ziti": In The Sopranos, a "box of ziti" is a code word for $1000. "Tony tells Christopher to get “five boxes of ziti” for David Scatino. In the morning, Christopher tells Tony that David is down “forty-five boxes of ziti”." --The Sopranos Wiki

"a small service": "Don Vito Corleone was a man to whom everybody came for help, and never were they disappointed. He made no empty promises, nor the craven excuse that his hands were tied by more powerful forces in the world than himself. It was not necessary that he be your friend, it was not even important that you had no means with which to repay him. Only one thing was required. That you, you yourself, proclaim your friendship. And then, no matter how poor or powerless the supplicant, Don Corleone would take that man’s troubles to his heart. And he would let nothing stand in the way to a solution of that man’s woe. His reward? Friendship, the respectful title of “Don,” and sometimes the more affectionate salutation of “Godfather.” And perhaps, to show respect only, never for profit, some humble gift—a gallon of homemade wine or a basket of peppered taralles specially baked to grace his Christmas table. It was understood, it was mere good manners, to proclaim that you were in his debt and that he had the right to call upon you at any time to redeem your debt by some small service." --Mario Puzo, The Godfather
There’s such a large difference between normal human functioning, which can include struggles, and a condition where those struggles are a problem to the point where they require a psychologist to help.

For example, everyone feels anxious at points but not everyone has anxiety. I’ve been very anxious at times in my life, such around major assignments when I was in school. However these struggles were appropriate given my situation and I was able to get back to my normal life pretty quickly. In contrast, my father was absolutely non-functional for most of my childhood. He literally would not make phone calls because he was so anxious to talk to people. He had no friends, the only people he ever talked to outside of minimal interactions at work were myself, my mother, and his own parents. Medication and therapy turned that around real quick. I’m just a year he was totally normal, had started making friends and going outside of the house to run errands.

There are probably people who are getting therapy and accommodations for ADHD when they don’t need them. But is that really so bad? Why shouldn’t people, even if they don’t have a disorder, get therapy and accommodations to help them succeed?

Overmedication is a different issue, and definitely a real one. But that’s on doctors and drug companies - it doesn’t negate the reality that some people have disorders which need medications, therapy, and accommodations.

I think from personal experience I have a high degree of confidence that ADHD is real. I have a couple friends with ADHD and it is obvious their attention works in a different way - they are sometimes totally engrossed in something, so much so that it’s almost impossible to get them to think about anything else, while other times they are easily distracted. I have other friends who seem normal to me but who say they have benefited from therapy for ADHD, and I don’t see any problem with that. I have observed both of these categories of people taking responsibility for their lives and working to improve themselves, often with the help of therapy but not without their own agency.
> Now, Bob Innes hands people over to the police for trying to have their enemies killed
I agree with the premise of the article, that some of Kandinsky's work is not readily "decoded".

But at the Guggenheim exhibition, I found that to be an appealing element, rather than a problem.

In the more "decodable" work, like Several Circles, you can mentally set aside large areas of the painting because the structure is predictable from those parts you've already looked at. In a way, much of the painting can be abstracted in the mind during the visual experience.

But in the more "heiroglyphic" paintings, the eye doesn't get to settle. New details emerge each time you adjust your gaze.

Allegedly, Kandinsky took visual inspiration from diagrams in medical and biology books. What better example of mind-bending complexity than our own biology.
You can create custom site blocking rules within Content Blocker apps, such as 1Blocker.

I use this to block Twitter, Facebook, etc.
I think we are getting the wrong signal from governments lack of interference in this field, "interference" being important.

Governments know that AGI will be a game changer if created, and governments are in the business of countries. They know that if it is going to happen someone is going to do it eventually, might as well be someone that is a citizen/registered as a corp in their jurisdiction. Why would the US for example want to stop Google from achieving AGI supremacy? So that Tencent can do it first? They're stuck, AGI would be a threat against their power, but stopping it will ensure that a competing country has sovereignty over the creation instead. It's not incompetence, it's a legitimate conundrum, it has elements of MAD and public/private power balances and geostrategy.

Personally I don't think AGI is possible. I think there's some element to intelligence that is not just some threshold of complexity, maybe it's some architectural feature or perhaps something more fundamental. What I think might resemble it in some ways, and IMO is the future, is complex application specific computation. Imagine an algorithm that can take over for example nuclear strategy decisions, but can't really tell you the most optimal layout for roadways, off the top of my head of course the two problems might fundamentally be the same optimization problem, I don't know, but it's an example. Powerful machines that do one thing really well, not one system that does everything well.
I dislike religious people, generally speaking, but Catholics in the PNW are the source of a lot of reliable historical accounts of tribal groups. I’m somewhat resentful, but they did good work recording linguistic data. Better than the miners would have done.

Just saying.
Time is different every time – on automation, and saving time
Why does every discussion about some random country have to involve the US? It is getting really boring seeing the same mid-brow flawed arguments rehashed everywhere from Reddit's worldnews to HN.

Btw, NZ can afford to maintain a top spot on all these lists because it is a gated country with population less than that of NYC.

NZ's borders have always been closed for the world's poor. Now it is closed for non-elites and the just plain rich are revolting against it.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/22/on-the-edge-ar...

> Critics say failing to allow family members to join skilled workers will undermine post-pandemic recovery

If the US did a fraction of that for H1B workers, there would have been virtue signaling speeches in the UN.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/tough-rules-see-migrants-give-...

Be a bit more generous like the US for immigration, and then we will see how the US and NZ fare.
It is not normal. I still have not bought christmas gifts for my family, who I love dearly and who I do not want to disappoint, even though I have their wish lists in a different tab and it will only take a few clicks to be done. Instead I have fought my ADHD brain for weeks trying to get myself to do it and failing.

That is different from a neurotypical person who feels gift giving is difficult. Happy christmas.
Shocking your normal schedule is a good way to get out of a depression loop, agreed. I at one point developed an obsession with finding Parrot shops in my area, and drove far and wide to catalogue every one and learn more about the birds. After owning 2 Cockatoos I developed a new life-long passion for rescuing the talking birds as pets. I also make music, and have begun working on dating, and reaching out to old friends for life updates. All of it has really grounded me in the past 5 years, and I'm pretty sure it's what's gotten me through the pandemic years without depression.
My company in South East Asia has been doing this for years now, we are in ride hailing and food delivery business among others.

Why is it important?

It drives empathy. Testing in non-production environment can tell that the feature is working as expected but it can't tell what the delivery person goes through or what the customer experience is like.

Our policy is not one trip but one day of doing this.

Overall it drivers a deeper appreciation towards deliver agents.
Because the government entities who mind this issue are different than the ones you are looking at.

https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2021/10/25/an-arti...
It must be similar. I use Google assistant only to ask for weather, to set timers and to search for something on my tv.
Isn’t this stuff a bit creepy? I feel I don’t have the right mindset to even understand why is this a thing.

I dream a future eithiut cars.
why would they include something like that?

whats the point of such bill of rights, if it has no supremacy?
I've found the experience of content discovery on YouTube to be absolutely abysmal. Tiktok introduces me to new videos each time I open it, even suggesting things that I've never demonstrated an interest in but which are still fascinating. Meanwhile YouTube keeps suggesting the same videos again and again each time I open it up, and they all seem to be based on the last few videos I've watched.

Missing out on YouTube content discovery isn't a huge loss.
I second this same exhibit. When I was there they had an evolution of Mondrian next to it. It was amazing to see landscapes turn into orange squares and be reminded of what was happening in the world around them (e.g. WW I&II).
They really ought to keep an eye on that Alcubierre guy, he invented a warp drive. /s