skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really cool! Tho I've found it really hard to not just disable these self-made barriers when the urge overcomes me. I guess the trick is to create sufficient _additional_ barriers to disabling the (initial) barriers so that it becomes too costly vs. the 'hit' of the initial bad habit. I feel a more realistic blocker might be to increase the latency of these habits, so that they're in that sweet spot between accessibility and inaccessibility where usage is kind-of naturally regulated. Slowly demyelinating those quick-hit dopamine-infused pathways! :P E.g. imagine setting up an ISP level enforced latency for social media. Would that work?
Thanks for correcting me, I confused it with Tezos.
Wow, such a simple idea but I can totally see how this works (for me).

Struggling with a 'mild' scrolling addiction myself and this might be a nice middle ground between deleting apps alltogether and not having guard rails.
That's rich, HN blocks all posts from VPN and flags all new account posts which are hidden until approved. Like this one.
Novel idea but I feel it doesn't go into nearly enough depth or detail.
I didn't claim we should remove the world blacklist. The comment I was responding asked for things I find wrong with blacklist, I replied with one.
DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser
I would also be interested in hearing more on that. It doesn’t pass the smell test to me. Unless perhaps the bar for being perceived as racist in the 70s meant you were a literal klansman.
I don't get it.

Your candidates show that after learning how to solve a problem, they can demonstrate they're able to solve it.

Have you considered just hiring candidates and then training them, or expect them to learn approaches that are new to them?

Right now, you're pretending that your company needs random puzzles solved, and they're pretending that they're able to solve random puzzles without looking them up in an algorithms book.

What's the point of this whole theatre?

I get that your ego is enjoying that, but is that providing your company really any value?
I don't understand how a point is a collection of vertices. Are you talking about X, Y, and Z coordinates?

This is a good example of how ambiguity kills an interview and reduces it to quickly figuring out what the interviewer is talking about so I might have a decent chance of solving the problem with the time remaining.

My experience with interviewing at Google, Facebook, and Amazon can be reduced to "What the hell are you talking about?"
>The site is basically a game if you're optimizing for points, and it's better designed than reddit because you have to actually know things to get them.

Haha.

Actually HN seems to be least technical community (when it comes to arguing) out of all those I know (reddit, forums)

Discussions raaarelly *try* to go into the technical details, let alone deeply. I don't think I've seen more than 5 code snippets over year on HN

Not only HN's format doesn't favor this kind of discussions, but also it seems that people prefer more "abstract" more "fancy" topics
> Your moral framing depends on language manipulation

What does this mean? This applies to every single moral judgement, and that is perfectly fine and normal. That is what morals are.
Yes, perfect filters don't exist, that's one issue. The other issue is that using Opus now forces you to use that one filter the encoder chose to use. As weird as it may seem, there are various reasons for preferring a lower-quality filters if your source input signal has a low sample rate to begin with (the result may sound fresher due to non-perfect filtering, which can be preferable in some situations). With Opus, the decoder would first have to downsample the 48kHz to the original sample rate, only to upsample them again with a lower-quality filter to achieve the same thing. I think avoiding all those extra steps has its advantage.
€35 private antigen test in the UK[0], taken within 48 hours of your planned return, would have done it. You paid €100 because you didn't read the guidance and prepare.

[0] https://fly.randox.com/
Selective hiring based on color to reach a pre-set quota.

I was assuming the color based hiring should be eliminated, not reversed.
Wow, those P values are very low. Is this normal in this type of research? Are they calculated directly based on combinatorial arguments?
Here's a pastebin of the list I made yesterday [0] in a format that allows uploading to your own instance of programmable search. I have updated a few things since (like removing w3schools :)).

[0] https://pastebin.com/qLC0wQ0t
I remember when I was young, a children's science book I had described what went on in a chrysalis as "the caterpillar's body breaks down into a kind of soup". I always suspected there was rather more to it than that... :-)
Doesn’t matter for the sake of this argument.
A single downvote doesn't bury the comment. Multiple downvotes, however, do. A single downvote isn't even guaranteed to change a comment's placement.
> it's not an echo chamber

It very much is, to the point that this place is derisively called "the orange website" by those who can see it for that. You might agree with the precepts so it doesn't seem that way to you, but the sooner you can recognize them, the better off you'll be.
"it's reverse racism, BLM are the REAL racists"

That's not the statement being made.

OP is saying that 'reverse racism is similar to racism'.

It's not unreasonable at all.

Casual bigotry is the populist form of racism, and it's now accepted on 'one side', even publicly.

While affirmative action may help in some ways, it also allows people with institutional power to let lose their bigotry and justify it, with the full blessing of the powers that be.

For example, I believe the author of this SA article is a blatantly hateful, bigoted racist, clear as day judging by this article, and her comments and Tweets.

Some people don't seem to have any self awareness about this, it's disturbing, or rather, they take a more perverse view: that bigotry can only come from a position of power, that they will define at will, therefore hateful, bigoted rhetoric towards someone who ostensibly comes from a supposed 'position of power' just 'doesn't count', which is ridiculous.
Patch author here.

It is important to not conflate POSIX requirements with expected behavior, especially for device files which require very specific knowledge of their implementation to use (DRM ioctl's and resources anyone?).

You might think that as a well-behaved game should not be opening/closing evdev fds during gameplay at all, this is clearly just an application bug. However, games are not the main user of evdev devices, your display server is! This bug causes input device closure during session switching (e.g. VT switching) to take abnormally long - on the machine I discovered the bug on, it ends up adding over a second to the session switch time, significantly impacting responsiveness.

This is absolutely a kernel bug. I did not push the patch further as I had other priorities, and testing this kind of patch is quite time-consuming when it only reproduces in a measurable way on single physical machine. Other machines end up with a much shorter synchronize_rcu wait and often have many fewer input devices, explaining why the issue was not discovered/fixed earlier.

call_rcu is intended to be used wherever you do not want the writer to block, while alternative fixes involve synchronize_rcu_expedited (very fast but expensive), identifying if the long synchronize_rcu wait is itself a bug that could be fixed (might be correct), or possibly refactoring evdev (which is quite a simple device file).

As for putting things in threads, I would consider it a huge hack to move open/close. Threads are not and will never be mandatory to have great responsiveness.
This can't be too common, because all the anecdotes I hear are of the "I knew someone in the company and they confirmed it" kind, which would seem a bit unneccessary if people were regularly sending out "Sorry but you are too white and/or male to be employed" letters to people.
For the same reason that, in this case, the UK cannot make someone stateless it is not possible for Bangladesh to do so either. Her Bangladeshi citizenship is by blood and cannot be revoked while her UK citizenship is by naturalization and is therefore relatively easy to remove. This, of course, is discussing things from a rational/legal point of view which is really not the one that is important here; from a perspective of pure power politics the UK is the stronger party in this case so can simply declare a particular reality to be true and there is nothing the others can do about it.
Quarks and antiquarks at high momentum shake – EurekAlert
If you are annoyed by Google, take a look at kagi and neeva, they are new takes on search engines

- https://neeva.com

- https://kagi.com
My view of this for the last decade or so is that it's the result of First Past the Post political systems. They converge to a binary choice in every question and the identity building starts from there. Every political question is a gray scale, but the system does not allow that to be represented.
The comment asked for things wrong with the word blacklist. I replied with a reason.

I'm not arguing for the removal of the word, I don't know why you think I am.
I had the same thing for a recent vacation. Since I was bored at the end, I am now excited to get back to work. I think it's nice to finish on a few boring days, so you don't have regrets and are ready to go back to work.
Maybe the phase of the moon is important. Maybe it's not, but if you're bothered enough to do things according to the phase of the moon you're probably paying attention to other stuff that matters.
OK, let's say I won't tolerate it. What do I do?

crickets

And no, average users have never avoided scams, email spam is older than web.
I see lots of long-term advice, so I'm going to skip that. I also believe that any answers have to come from within. You have to deal with the consequences of any action (including inaction), so I think it would be best if you come up with answers yourself.

Therapy is probably a great start. Give yourself some credit for that, because not everyone takes that step themselves[1]!

Please try to give yourself space. The urge to run-away is strong, but also temporary. Listen to what it's trying to tell you - it might tell you what aspects of your current situation are causing the most stress - but don't act impulsively. Try to make decisions when you're calm and have some perspective. To get that perspective, be kind to yourself, take some time off if you can.

Don't feel guilty about the things you're currently not doing. You might feel guilty for not coding at night or participating in household chores. That's normal. You're ill, so your priority is to get better. When you feel better, you'll be able to learn any skills much better[2].

Hang in there, be patient, and one day you'll probably notice all this shit was just fertilizer for growth.

[1] I've had to order my wife not to go to work, before she admitted she was burned out. She was crying at night because of work.
[2] I had a bore-out in a previous job, causing me to lose any confidence in my abilities. Once I felt better I improved my coding skills by taking on interesting projects and things started to spiral upward again.
Using AAVE is not the same as mocking AAVE. That's just how language works, you adopt what you hear. Telling him not to speak like his friends and the people whose media he consumes is an exercise in futility.
I don’t enjoy sitting around either, I start to go crazy if I am stuck at home and I am not working.

For me getting a hobby that involved leaving my house and going outside really helped
The fact that you're expected to pay some private company 35 quid for a test the NHS will send you for free is laughable and demands subversion.
Eastern European music schools , and particular those with folklore specialties, have had a long history of master classes. It is often that one can find street talent with proper education, just because music industry pays very little in Eastern Europe.

It seems to me that in Western Europe you find mostly dégénérâtes and hippies with no formal music education at all.

One can know the difference
only if he has lived in Eastern Europe.
I made something similar for Ethereum keys :)
I decided I wanted mine to be an art presentation too:
http://petroff.ryan.gitlab.io/ethkeyscape/
> was unable to have a meaningful conversation as they felt whatever was on their phones was more interesting

I hate that. If you're expecting something important - fine, take a quick glance to check, if it vibrates. But don't start scrolling while I'm trying to have a conversation with you. Put it down for 20 minutes, you'll be ok - it will still be on there.

> The world got itself in a damn hurry and it seems there is no place now for a feeble old man like me

The Shawshank Redemption
The V website did in fact contain impossibly wild claims that were taken down when called out. Add to the fact that it was closed source for a long time, but had an ongoing patreon, you could easily see the possibility of a scam in all that.

And I personally haven’t seen evidence to the contrary still.
Really, will a non-living entity (virus) break down?

I agree that in direct sunlight, some types of pathogens can be broken down. However, the 2 hypotheses are that there is a risk.

Also, I guess that flies are attracted to licking moisture before it evaporates. Therefore the flies are likely to be looking to lick masks if they think they can get an easy drink.

Hypothesis 1: UV-C light at 300 nm (resonant size of particle) can make the COVID dance itself to pieces.

> Issue: UV-C light causes sunburn and is blocked by the ozone layer.

>> Solution: in Shanghai, the public bus service uses UV-C light to disinfect each bus at the end of the day.

https://www.scmp.com/video/china/3075171/shanghai-introduces...

Hypothesis 2: UV-A or UV-B light at different wavelengths can cause mutations.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mutation_(genetic...

> {Bit string mutation, Flip Bit, Boundary, Non-Uniform, Uniform, Gaussian}

>> Translated to computer programming: off-by-one errors.

>> https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
Shortcuts is my favourite new thing in ios. I only wish there was some way to get screen time data. I have never installed these endless scrolling apps in the first place, but I find myself using the mobile web version more and more. The data is there within screen time but no reliable way to read that from API or shortcuts. The app time limits are not in steps so I find them insufficient as a barrier.
The people who are the most capable are typically the ones who do it for fun, not money.
Off topic but just FYI you can move the address bar back where it belongs in the Settings app.
Thank you for clearing this up - and apologies for not researching!
It is going to be frightening to see how many 80 and 90 year olds are still going to be working in a few decades.
That answer is unfortunately irrelevant to a lot of business models, and sometimes part of it. E.g., Pinterest (and many others) making use of their site frustrating if you don't submit and make an account, while being hard to avoid if you search for certain types of images.

(Another example I ran into was Instructables (this one specifically: https://www.instructables.com/DIY-REFLOW-OVEN/), where you can see and enlarge four photos submitted by people who followed the instructions, but have to create an account for the remaining two.)
Good point. Speaking of the art of writing good sentences, I heartily recommend "First You Write a Sentence" by Joe Moran.
I think any sufficiently motivated person would be able to scroll no matter what (your example can be bypassed by a VPN I think).

When I was quitting some vices, just interrupting the automatic Bored->browsing transition was enough to get me to make other choices
Not OP.

How about we look at the word mansplaining? I think it's unfairly promoting sexism and gender stereotypes about my gender.

I also find mention of "cis" very offensive. Likewise the term cis white male too.
Don't forget that 10 years later noone knows who the creator is either, despite them being multi billionaire and able to crash the entire market at once.

But they are obviously charitable and nothing will happen.
The study presents a theoretical framework to transform the sensitivity of an LFT relative to a PCR to an absolute sensitivity of someone being transmissible. All the data it cites is used as an example and the study’s results can be easily adapted for any new data concerning Delta or Omicron, but as far as I know for Delta, there wasn’t any change with regards to the relative sensitivity. Concerning the proportion of people who test positive on a PCR who are transmissible, I imagine it was also constant, but I’m less sure for that.
but it’s not? do you actually remember 2005? Online shops, online banking, online food delivery, online payments, they ALL used to suck majorly.
Who thought and got excited thinking it was something to do with "DISCWORLD" ?
Not that this (the painting + work) isn't amazing by itself !

Sam Vimes
I can't speak for them, but I would assume that jsiaajdsdaa still considered themselves qualified for their positions - even if they employed ethically questionable methods for passing the interviews. In the end isn't that all that matters given that's what these interviews are supposedly trying to measure?

What part of jsiaajdsdaa's process do you think is more efficient? To me it sounds less objective ("the goal is not so much to solve it") which seems like it would make the process less efficient when assessing candidates.
VW ID. models to get faster charging and bidirectional charging
PILATE: I will not have my fwiends widiculed by the common soldiewy. Anybody else feel like a little... giggle... when I mention my fwiend... Biggus...

GUARD #1: chuckling

PILATE: ...Dickus?

GUARD #1: chuckling

PILATE: What about you? Do you find it... wisible... when I say the name... 'Biggus'...

GUARD #3: chuckle

PILATE: ...'Dickus'?

GUARD #1 and GUARD #2: chuckling

PILATE: He has a wife, you know. You know what she's called? She's called... 'Incontinentia'. 'Incontinentia Buttocks'.

GUARDS: laughing

PILATE: Stop! What is all this?

GUARDS: Ha, ha ha ha ha ha...

PILATE: I've had enough of this wowdy webel sniggewing behavior. Silence! Call yourselves Pwaetowian guards? You're not-- Seize him! Seize him! Blow your noses and seize him!
The web experience is hostile due to its capture by megacorps that are too powerful to be regulated.

The internet is a different issue. I have a great experience with my new fiber connection, SSH and Wireguard VPNs are all good. The persistence of smaller, calmer and noncommercial networks like Signal Messenger, XMPP, Matrix Mastodon and Gemini show that positive interactions on the 'net are possible when commercial imperatives are dampened or removed.

The Web, though, is a corporate capitalist dumpster fire.
> I know a startup that hired a Marxist-collective group of programmers

I think i know these guys! Their names are Karl, Vlad, and Fred, right? Last I heard they founded the International Common-Lisp Party
Agreed it's loaded. I don't like the word normal either. I think scientists should definitely not assume normal distribution. But I think the name is to put emphasis on how many things are distributed in such a manner. If you know something has a different distribution that is valuable information. You now know it can not consist of many independent similar variables being summed. So either there are not many similar parts or they depend on one another. So in that sense the name is appropriate. But I would not have any problem to rename it the common distribution or something which also conveys the point.
Well quarantine for entry to France and firing soldiers in the US doesn't effect the situation in Denmark :)
Help people you know in return of nothing.
You would not use io_uring for things like that. Not only will you still use regular file operations on device files for various reasons, should you chose to use io_uring you would want it to run your entire eventloop and all you I/O rather than single operations here and there. Otherwise it just adds complexity with no benefit.
All of research, science, and academia, they asserted, was more a negotiation of power distributions than an honest attempt to make sense of the universe.

Precisely. The approach seems more “ends justifies the means”. If your entire political theory depends on outcomes being socially determined, not genetically, then any science counter that must be attacked by whatever means necessary.
Why do you call it cheating? Did the candidate actively copy a solution by deception or were they just very well prepared - to the point that they quickly recognised and solved the problem which they had seen before?

Perhaps I should throw out my CLRS and Skiena and invent everything in those books from scratch?

It's an Arms race because people like you have turned it into one. You're not solving Nobel prize winning problems, so stop expecting people to magically invent on the spot novel algorithms for things they've never seen before.

Some people are good at it and some are not.
For the few people out of thousands that this really matters - sure, they can use this to help address them property. But I think what we seeing here goes a bit too far. What's that saying ... You can't see the forest for the trees - yeah that's the one.

Dr Clifton is using (he/him) when he has no reason for doing this. Of course You can try to explain this as solidarity but for me it threads dangerously close to some kind of strange conformity to woke culture (I still don't understand why this is the minority that was granted this kind of political power - there are lots of other minorities that could also use this kind of recognition).
We can look at earlier consumer-hostile experiences which were generally solved by consumer rights regulations.

You can fight against results - lying in advertising by saying that your Patented Snake Oil Tincture cures everything really does "work" and bring in money, but it was stopped by regulation; lying that this knock-off is really SuperBrandItem does work and bring results, but trademark laws significantly reduced it; selling things that look ok but break immediately are solved by various warranty and fit-for-purpose laws, etc, etc.

This is fundamentally a coordination problem that can't really be solved by individual users separately "voting with their wallets" (as past experience shows - none of the problems listed above were solved by consumer choices) but can be solved by coordinated requirements, with the users as a community voting in standards and regulations for commerce that are mandatory for every seller.
Laissez faire capitalism, basically.

The idea that in a free market products work for consumers instead of for the corporations selling them is completely flawed.
I like my coffee like I like my women...
Great app, congratulations!
Even if they do, the number of people on HN that are able to give well-versed, in-depth comments, that are also accessible to a broader audience on a technical subject (eg BPF and eBPF) is vanishingly small, but also the number of readers for deep topics (deep, not technical vs non-technical eg wittgensteinproject.org) is also small, and are thus not worth farming for karma. For better or worse.
Every organisation was once running there own email, web and other services on a real internet in new, interesting and innovative ways.

I find it really shocking that in 2022 something as simple as an email server has become too hard for close to 100% of organisations who rely on the crapfest that is gmail or 365.

It would be nice to see some innovation that isn't some cloud BS.
The logic is "let's milk these sheep for every penny we can while the scare tactics still work"