skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's like normalising conversations about sport or TV. "But I'm not interested in sport or TV" becomes an unacceptable view because "most people" are. So you should definitely pretend to find the latest reality show as interesting as the most recent ball game because otherwise you "have no social skills."

I mean, it depends. I'm considered pretty socially adept (I can be an asshole, but usually it's due to other character flaws like selfishness and impatience rather than poor social skills), and I don't like sports or most TV shows. (I watched fewer than 5 TV shows or movies in 2021).

In my experience, with small talk it's about finding a common connection. People bring up stupid things (like the weather, TV, sportsballs) in order to find a point of connection. If you don't like the things the other person likes (sports/TV), then just saying "I don't like X" without offering a follow up shuts down the conversation. Socially it signals "I do not want to connect, leave me be."

I like to follow up with "Oh, X isn't my thing, but it sounds pretty cool, especially the INSERT THING THEY MENTIONED. That's kind of like Y (thing I like); have you seen that? Are they similar?" You can affirm people's interest in things without faking an interest yourself.

That being said, most chaos apes are not consciously aware of why they're doing things.

Where it gets difficult is that it really SHOULDN'T be one way, but when the majority of your interests are things that most people don't understand, they can't ask you questions and use your interests to connect to you like they would for most people.

The rhythm of a conversation doesn't dictate that you have the same interests, but it does dictate that you ask each other questions to find common ground. If one person doesn't understand the other well enough to ask the right questions, things get lopsided, which is where I think a lot of geeks struggle, especially as the experience differential compounds over time as we have fewer proper give-and-take conversations with peers growing up.
C++ is so pervasive and ubiquitous that there is no "C++ community" per se. It just reflects the whole world.
What if crypto currencies are to blame for low GPU prices?

In other words, what if the opportunity to make money via crypto currencies has accelerated the development of GPU capabilities and availability beyond what would have happened if crypto currencies never came into existence?
I think Jonathan may have a bit of OCD himself and don't want to release something imperfect. This is meant as a tongue in cheek comment. Don't get offended anyone!
Bitcoin can't be economically mined by GPUs so it's not to blame at all in this crypto hype cycle or even the last one of 2017. The people on reddit you see with racks full of 3000 series cards are mining Ethereum.
You aren't your user – even when you make employees dash
Yup. The answer is simply yes.

Don’t look for a zebra when all you have is a horse.
You seem to misunderstand the entire reason humans form societies.

Strength in numbers.
Economies of scale.
Division of labour.

The collective well-being of individuals.

If you don’t like all the social perks and safety nets you are enjoying - go be a hermit.
Yes, though instead of the bolt or part cracking it's the click of the torque wrench, and you're going a quarter turn extra not back.

So really the exact opposite.
Not one of the cities you mention is in the top 10 cities with the highest murders per capita.

https://www.roadsnacks.net/murder-capitals-of-america/

The same is probably true of other crime as well.
yes, and the anti-vaxx crowd is funded by Big Hospital, which wants more people in the ICU so they can rake in those sweet sweet intubation $s.
> Contrary to some other languages it gives the developer maximal freedom and does not impose a particular way of doing things on the developer

You seem to be implying that's a good thing. It's literally not.

Imagine if I created a programming language where every random string of characters was a valid program (cue the Perl jokes). Clearly this language permits even more freedom than C++, but this would be a nightmare for programming.

Constrained structure is essential to programming. Sometimes you need to beyond the constraints of a more common language, in which case C++ might be a good choice, but that's the exception not the rule.
Wow the hot takes on this are terrible, the OP is basically describing the difference between scripted and unscripted and unrelated discussion. Scripted is obviously more refined, e.g. a book, unscripted and unrelated e.g. casual discussion can be less engaging and is a different experience. Different people like different stuff, we don’t have to all love the same stuff. And we especially don’t need to hit out at the OP because y'all think you're superior to them cause y'all love socialising geez
You wouldn't need a car if there was good public transport :)
Let me add that Japan also doesn't claim an independent country (Taiwan) as their own territory. And they don't raid new agencies for reporting the truth. These are the things people complain about China, not the traditional culture.
A bunch of people use my email address for signing up to all sorts of websites (I have a common name, and my email is basically my name @ popular email provider). It is annoying to receive all this spam (usually I can unsubscribe), but the worst ones are people using my email for their bank accounts.

So now I get multiple password-protected monthly statements every month, and there is no way to unsubscribe since it's a bank statement. And the email subject doesn't have the full account number, and the email is from a no-reply address. Contacting the bank has been useless even when I found a way to do so. The most annoying one is from a bank where I have an account of my own (they used a capitalized version of my email address, which the bank thinks is a separate email), and so I can't block them all emails from this bank either.

The one fun time was when someone (in Asia) would frequently place food delivery orders using my email, and this service would send multiple emails for each order. Frustrated, I canceled their order once directly from the email, after which this particular problem stopped.
I am a UX/UI designer who always struggled to pair with the right developer, and/or right business oriented extrovert person, to build things. If you struggled from the other side, let's talk, contact in bio.

My projects / areas of interest:

1) high-concurrency booking system (10,000 university students trying to enrol in classes for next semester)

2) real-time money streaming
Interesting theory that doesn't hold up to much critical thought.
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I am trading crypto, options and stocks based on news (e.g. Twitter, YouTube, Reddit) in manual and algorithmic fashion (it feels a lot like Factorio: manual first then automate it).

I don’t believe in technical analysis, and I think the efficient market hypothesis is mostly true and love Fama’s work (and sometimes I am first!).

The biggest reason I do this is because it feels like a PhD that can actually pay well.

Are you similar? Let’s meet!

Email is in my profile
Reanimate: A tutorial on making programmatic animations
And some people still insist that if we just locked down the world for x time the virus would go away.
For me it's: "why would yoy bother with Disney's boring incarnation of Pooh when you've got brilliant Soviet Winnie?"

I'm serious. Try find it if you didn't saw it
That’s the worst piece of advice I have ever read. We are humans not machines, chasing money should never be a goal in itself. Manu people have a successful and accomplished life by non financial metrics.
It's a lot of different kinds of stationery in the form factor of a card, presumably for easier portability. For example, the top of the list has a ballpoint pen and a mechanical pencil that can be removed from the card. The third on the list has scissors, a cutter, and a paper punch.
That sounds really useful. I'm interested in doing something similar with my own machines. Do you have any source code you can share?
> Hilariously, the standing advice has usually been for Exchange Online customers to still install and operate a local Exchange server too

Only if you have a large tenant (> 2000 mailboxes) at the time of transition, and even then there’s ways around it. I think if you were getting advice today, it would be to avoid hybrid as much as possible and find any other way to move over because of this stupid requirement.
That is all people lumped together. Like I said remove "at-risk".
> as long as you can quit that jurisdiction at any time.

Nobody is going door to door and arresting unvaccinated people. It’s not like the anti-choice law in Texas that criminalizes two people working together to stop a woman from being pregnant against her will. You still have your freedom under the NAP. But as soon as you present a threat to infect other people by being unvaccinated, there are reasonable restrictions in place.

Edit: I’m seeing replies saying the NAP is strictly about physical violence.

To that I ask, are bioweapons fine to use in libertarianland? Can I hold a city hostage with weaponized anthrax because the libertarianism is, at its root, a cover for voting Republican and not a coherent political philosophy?
Ads? I think materialistic in this context values preparation (takes $) over hope that public policy becomes less profit driven (takes activism over generations).

We like stuff but nerds may know better than anybody that it doesn’t make you happy.
And what's to blame for Bitcoin's high price?
A broken fiat monetary system.

I can't believe some people still think that Bitcoin is more speculative than major tech stocks. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Uber, Snapchat... All propped up by money printing. I think if we ran a simulation using hard (non-fiat) money, the net losses of these big tech companies would be even more significant than Bitcoin's losses on electricity. They're only profitable because of the fiat monetary scheme. If you remove the scheme, I think it's likely that revenue would dry up and profits would quickly go negative. These companies are just not viable in a hard money system. More profitable competitors would quickly spring up and there would be constant churn.

The reason why Bitcoin is so successful and anti-fragile is that it's located everywhere. It always has access to the easiest money from all around the world. It has placed itself at the root of every scheme around the world.
Have you tried SDL2? I’ve used it in the past for 2d stuff and didn’t have any problems with it.
(Veering a bit off-topic, forgive me.)

Is there any non-proprietary Ada/SPARK implementation? I've heard some good things about Ada/SPARK, but DDG hasn't been much help in finding out if there's any non-proprietary implementation of SPARK of decent quality.
Here's the underlying study: Vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 transmission to household contacts during dominance of Delta variant (B.1.617.2), the Netherlands, August to September 2021 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34738514/
I'd recommend older hardware or in a VM.
Part of the maskirovka no doubt ;)
Completely original name. What could possibly go wrong.
That you can fit something inside a plane doesn't mean the plane will be able to lift off the ground.

Beluga is meant to carry oversize cargo, but not overweight cargo -- it's based on an Airbus A300 with a roughly 100k lb cargo capacity, but with a huge fuselage. Same wings, and worse aerodynamics.
Lumping all the people you hate makes, and assuming they all share all the same negative characteristics, makes it easy to hate just anyone who doesn't agree with absolutely everything you say.

It's just another modern flavor of intolerance and authoritarianism.
That's silly.
Phones can get damaged or stolen, looking at a sign is much faster than looking at a phony and signs hardly take up any space.
Acceptance is not just giving up. Minimizing harm is the current goal.
When I switched in 2018 my config essentially just worked, I had to replace a plugin that no longer worked but everything else went smoothly, the process took about ten minutes.
Do you have any evidence to support this hypothesis? As I see it, cryptomining is not what consumer GPU's are designed for, it's just something they happen to be good at
Cost is not price. The article is about price.
If someone drops their wallet by accident, and you take it, you are still stealing. The ultimate "source of truth" for payments is not the payment system, but the law, so if a payment was made in error, then the receiver has a legal responsibility to return the money.

> o receiving institution is going to voluntarily take on liability for another banks fuck up.

That's not how liability works at all...

If a large amount of money is erroneously deposited into your account, you don't get to keep it. Returning the money doesn't make you "liable" for anything, it's the opposite. If you spend that money, then you're going to have to pay it back, and if you can't, then you can end up in prison.
Helps with instant surveillance and moving to a cashless society controlled with social credit points.

I wonder if solving the famine problem is as high up on their list.
First of all, I would like to focus on the post/idea itself but not the author. Accusing an idea is less sound because of one's judgement of the author makes little sense to me.

A lot of the comments on this thread talks about "social skills", "learning from people", etc. But reading books itself is a way of communicating with people over space and time. If you focus on the efficiency and ROI, reading classic books will probably inspire you more than talking to a random person at a party.

The OP's complaint about "mindless conversations about the news" seems justified in my opinion. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a good book on the topic. Don't Look Up is also a good movie on the topic.
I went down a similar path, but only saw about a 770x speedup. Mine went from 36 minutes to 2.8 seconds.

I was working in Idris. I knew better, but figured the data was small enough that I could just do a linear scan for the next node instead of implementing a heap. In the fast version I ended up using a SortedMap (Int,(Int,Int)) () for the queue.

I only added points to the queue as I discovered them (neighbors of points that I visit), so it maxed out at 913 elements. It sounds like OP may have started out with all points in their queue?
It became clear that the author isn't willing to consider anything that isn't 100% perfect in every way anymore. One tool needs some work - your whole language is out.

Ada is on my list of languages to learn something about (more than the 12 languages in 10 weeks class I took back when I got my degree which is the only time I touched it). It has some interesting features (particularly the SPARK variant)
I want to build an ultimate SaaS boilerplate / starter as a commercial product.

The audacious goal is something like “build a Trello clone from git init to a live product in under 10 minutes”

Looking for like-minded folks with any of the following skills:

- strong React

- UI/UX design

- TypeScript

- AWS

- SaaS building

- writers for docs, tutorials, articles, evangelization

- product / project manager
If you are into autonomous sailboats, robotics, rust, or combinations thereof, let me know :)
Incredibly helpful guide. Had no idea about most of this.
Good point. I would be in favor of a similar law regarding smoking as regarding being unvaccinated. You are free to smoke/be unvaccinated outside or in your home, but if you wish to enter an establishment or work in an enclosed space, you must not smoke/be unvaccinated.
Definitely! Demand for ml stuff is rising two digits per year at least.
"This year continued with folks I’ve known for years just dropping out of contact. Calls unanswered, messages unread, numbers disconnected, emails unanswered." This left me sad. A piece of unsolicited advice from someone who maintains friendships well (I hope!)

When you slip up socially, like making an awkward comment - did you do it because you just don't care? Or were you trying to make a well-received comment, and you're just less adept at socializing than you'd like to be?

My guess is that socializing just isn't your strength. But I'm sure you're well intentioned! Very few people try to do things because they want to be stupid. And it hurts when people assume that you're bad at socializing because you somehow want to be bad at it - that isn't true!

But here we have a thing that you're good at (efficient C++) and yet you've made some assumptions about others that feel the same. You "...have to deal with things that are less effecient because someone just didn’t give a damn." Do you think it's really because the people involved don't care? Perhaps they're bad at it. More likely, they have different things they're optimizing for than efficiency. But whatever the reason, the least likely reason is that they don't care about doing things well. Even people who struggle with something typically want to do it well.

I think the OCPD is one thing - but the thing I would work on fixing first is to just assume the best out of others. Friends will drop out of touch with people who consistently assume the worst of them. You need empathy - few people are trying to do the wrong thing. They are doing the right thing given a different set of values; rarely, they're doing the wrong thing because they're incapable. But almost never are they doing the wrong thing out of a preference for not doing the right thing.
alternate title; the loneliness of embracing condescension as a personality
If we go down that path, that is also nothing special about any of the C languages.
> (...) anti-secure software propaganda (...)

Enough with this cargo cult belief system. Even if your choice of bicycle has training wheels, you can still fall down and scrape your knees if you don't know what you're doing.

I mean, Rust already has a few CVEs for use-after-free vulnerabilities, which this cargo cult swears are rendered impossible.

Just stick with your personal choice of worktool and own it. It's not the guardrails that stop you from crashing, but the way you drive.
Absolutely! When you take into account just the artistic aspects (e.g. modeling, texturing, rigging, etc. with professionals specializing just in particular aspects like facial structures, etc.), it really is quite remarkable.

I imagine we'll get more efficiency as procedural and generative techniques become more powerful: characters, worlds, mechanics, etc. are all programmatically generated with little-to-no intervention.
Related to this is one of my favorite Wikipedia Articles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_of_animals
I don't think we're ready for all those things to disappear. The only thing that really has gone since mobile phones are phone booths.

But the thing is Street signs and door bells don't take up any space. There's no real benefit in removing them anyway.

Private cars are a big issue but the problem is people commuting from outside the city and shared car schemes are too expensive for that.
This is one of the most annoying things to me about Excel (of a long list). In pretty much every time MS applications feel they are smarter than me ends in MS application being wrong. It doesn't matter if the data is manually typed or pasted from else where, when Excel tries to auto-guess how to set the formatting of the cell is just horrid. Dates are shite when trying to be in the US and using UK formatted dates.
It's been years since the crypto boom - why hasn't production ramped up accordingly? Or are manufacturers waiting forever until it blows over? Because that may never happen.
All amazing achievements, and I’m really happy for your productivity and freedom of self-expression.

(I’m very comfortable where I am, thank you for your concern)
Yes, but even an 18 wheeler truck could not load a container full of steel.

Max weight and max size are upper limits, reach one and the other no longer matters.
> Go windsurfing for a year in Ibiza after college, and you're adding 5 years to your working life

Mist young people can't afford that anyway.

Maybe if you have a wealthy starting points and high standards doing that is a problem.

But for most people retiring before the official retirement age is unlikely, especially given recent economical development.

Similar theire starting point is at a place where for many carrier path that year doesn't matter that much and if you spend it expanding your world view (e.g. work and travel, in the non luxus at all version) might even help you.
With a kid or is that just your impression?

I used to like living in the city with a kid. Lots of access to interesting places and activities, able to walk to school and playgrounds and such. It’s lost some allure during the pandemic.
ML Kit only runs on devices with Play Services, sorry.
Just a technical note: far too many posts here assume that the OP is also the author of that article. That's rarely the case, isn't it?
> there is no way anyone would ever try reset a password for an account on an email address which they don't actually have access to.

I think you overestimate your less computer savvy fellow humans :)
Also it could be phishing?
>And what about South-Africa with a vaccination rate of 26%?

Just pointing out that JAMA says SA has a vaccination rate of 44.3% as of Dec 2021; if you're gonna attack statistics it's a good idea to have the right numbers.
> people will respond to the weakest part of your argument

Huh. I honestly hadn't thought of it in those terms. I usually arrive at the same result by gut feeling. This will save me a lot of time. Thanks!
My personal tool for writing safe software isn't Rust, but here we are, recycling arguments as if that is the only option available.
It seems odd to single out greedy sellers when the key demand here is people hoping to print money. It's all greed here.
Beyond the other obvious problems with your comment, you're also missing the fact that many of the people dying of AIDS died 10+ years after contracting the virus, substantially before any of the science on HIV spread was settled.
Saw it both in flight and on the ground in Toulouse and it was oddly majestic.
I see a lot of similar themes across Reddit, LinkedIn, and I assume other social media (I don't use those though). I think society is in existential crisis more than HN is in existential crisis. People are re-examining their relationship to work, capital, and community in the face of everything going on in the world.
Personality disorders have been treated with therapy in many cases. What is the main reason for a label: to get the right treatment. People will never be "normal", but they can live in and deal with society, something they would have failed with even 30 years ago.
Exponential growth outgrows any supply, so that's a possibility
I don’t doubt it.
I just don't get why people hide behind their finger. This is capitalism 101. You either like it and go by it or dislike it and try to change it. For some reason X the demand for product Y has increased which leads to price bump. If you are pro capitalist economy then you just accept it for what it is. If you don't like it then discuss alternate economies. The rules of the economy are the ones to blame, not the people who play by the rules.
I agree, I moved to a city in Europe and not needing a car anymore feels really liberating. Not having to worry about costs, damage, fuel, maintenance, the stress of driving...

I hope I'll never have to own a car again.