skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paul Graham's essay indicates that
(a) Paul Graham went to High School in a cartoon and
(b) Nerds are unpopular because they care more about being smart
than being tolerable to be around.
I'm certain that this is true of Paul Graham,
but I'm pretty sure a lot of people who are labelled as nerds
are lonely for other reasons.

People with social anxiety
might naturally gravitate towards solitary activities,
like reading or computing,
which are considered "nerdy."
If that's you, then you need to convince your brain
that other people aren't scary.
One strategy I've heard for this is running "experiments"
where you write down what you're worried will happen
before undergoing a social situation that provokes anxiety,
then afterwards write what actually happened and compare them.
Usually, things will go better than you worried,
and calling attention to this each time can (hopefully)
reduce your overall level of anxiety.

Other people might begin with "nerdy" interests
and develop social deficits
because of media and people like Paul Graham
who say that people interested in those things must be weird and unpopular.
If that's you, then you should work to convince yourself
that you're not a nerd,
and in fact there's no such thing as a "nerd."
You should probably do this anyway,
because the idea that you have to be a "nerd"
to be good at stuff like programming
excludes people who don't fit the prototypical image of a "nerd,"
such as women.

If, as Paul Graham says, you're lonely
because you care too much about being/appearing intelligent,
you should convince yourself
that the most important thing is not to be smart,
but to be kind.
> "you civil libertarian types are all going to lose. We are going to steamroll you." And dismissed any and all concerns related to the technology.

That's pretty spot on, matches with my experience as well as every historical record ever written. We have a country right now that has installed labor/concentration camps and the rest of the world is dancing to their fiddle. Steamroll is an understatement. I don't want to know what is going on at those camps, but it wouldn't surprise me if many wish they could be steamrolled to end it all.

"Civil Libertarian Types" are abound on HN. They forget human nature and think that change is right around the corner. Sometimes I wonder if they're playing the devil's advocate or if they're really that stupid. It's bread and circuses of a very amusing and gullible sort.

These sort of people have no incentive whatsoever to change what they're doing. So yes, they're laughing at you as they fuck you over and profit from it. They know you're powerless, and they know you know it too.

What are you going to do about it? I'd genuinely like to see more than keyboard warring from you CLTs, but you're pretty useless about the whole thing.
> You need to feel it in your wallet, then you act, plain and simple.

In that case, we should make the price of power relative to your wealth, shouldn't we? I'm guessing you're an academic and work in tech or consulting, so you make two, three times the national average if you live in Germany. Trippling the price of power will barely register on your level, so you have little incentive to conserve energy. However, if we said that e.g. a kwh costs 1/15000 of your personal wealth, you'd have a lot of incentive, because even if you start the year as a billionaire, you'd be broke if you used 15000kwh.

I have a feeling that none of the -typically well-off- proponents of "we must make the people pay more so that they stop consuming" will be a fan of that.
"All the other manufacturers are doing it so there's no need to get hung up about it, and aren't I more chill that everyone else here" does seem to be a fair reading of your original post on this topic.
First thing I would do is grab the camping gear and setup in my garage to isolate myself. I have a daughter with chronic illness issues and although we are all vaccinated, she is most likely to be seriously effected out of any of us. (Knowing that by the time I knew I had COVID, it would probably be too late, it would be worth trying at least.)
I figured more or less the same thing (my results were expected, in other words).
That's weird but I still see results talking about Odysee in the results. Mostly blogs and whatnot with extreme fringe conspiracy stuff like "graphene razor blade" in vaccines and reptilians, pointing to various social media handles including Odysee.
Oh, is that how they structure it?
Exactly, and if you know you're not going to get better than 1% metal film resistors, why search more than the discrete space. Between 10^2 and 10^6 there's only 6-96 steps per decade (12 for the standard 10% E12 series). There's less than 400x400 possible resistor values to check.
I'm not at home right now and can confirm that I can access the website via proxy. Must be a quirk of my current network.
Ask HN: Best advice to help me achieve my 2022 goals?
Hey fellow HNers! Few hours and it will be 2022 for me (Europe). Of course, I have some resolutions for my 2022. I would love if you could provide some help and guidance on how to achieve my goals.

1. I want to learn basic Japanese. This is maybe the 3rd attempt in 10 years. I started again with some Hiragana and Katagana, but I haven't found the perfect course (online? Book?) to get going.

2. I want to get back at programming. I studied CS, did a lot of programming in Assembly, Basic, C, C++, Fortran77, PHP 4 and 5, Python, Java, Javascript, Ruby from ~1990 to ~2015. In particular, though, I want to be able to build my own online, text-based strategy game (something like Paperclips or A Dark Room). What's the best way for an ex-programmer to do that?

3. I want to get back in shape: good exercise, good diet. I'm now in my mid 40s, 94kg, my ideal weight is ~82kg, and I probably need 3-4kg of more muscle, so I need to lose at least 10kg, better if it's 14-15kg. What's the absolute best way not just to lose it, but to keep it? I've been going between 95kg and 82kg a few times in the past decade, but I can't seem to be able to stay at 82kg.

4. I want to have more meaningful friendships. Because of my lifestyle (moved from Italy to Luxembourg to Singapore to San Francisco to Italy in the past ~14 years), I found it hard to maintain friendships. Any tips? Guidance?

5. I am also working on my romantic relationship, but on that front... I keep doing it, every year, as I think it's the most important thing in your life. In any case, if you have a tip or a secret for long-lasting relationships, I am (and I guess we all are) all ears. You are never perfect, but you strive to be.

I guess this is enough for now.

Edit: ah, work: I decided to keep it out of this, for now. I'm doing ok on that front and I'd rather get good advice for my personal stuff :)
I have been trying to get an interview at dropbox but I think my resume is being filtered out by some automated system. I have applied to jobs at dropbox where I have direct in depth experience with the entire tech stack the team is using but I only get an automated rejection email. Such a shame I can’t get into contact with a human at dropbox! Their interview process sounds wonderful and their approach to remote work is really enticing.
"and offered it to everyone for free, making a fortune" - this makes no sense
It's easy to pick up by people that already know web technologies, which is what made Electron attractive in the first place.
I think this system (laser) will work from the ground (where there're the crops) to the sky, before the bugs will touch the leaves, not froun ground to ground level. So there will be no trouble in shoot down the bugs when they're flying some meters above the ground.
The RFC states that email addresses are case sensitive.

The local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive.

Section 2.4 RFC 2821, https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt
Here in Australia we are continually passing laws removing judicial/court/judge oversight for things and replacing it with whimsical oversight you’re lucky if someone outside of the requesting organisation looks at it. It’s pissing me off :(
git outta here!
A Series of Rooms Occupied by Ghislaine Maxwell
All of the analogies seem to miss the mark.

This is equivalent to lawfully asking a clerk in a records office for the public information about a teacher. They give you all the information, including the social security number and then ask you to pretend they didn't tell you that.
The core of emacs. It will have new features, but emacs skill will never become obsolete.
Archaeological Dig Reignites Debate over the Old Testament’s Historical Accuracy
Covered in a podcast hosted by Ken Jennings and John Roderick

https://www.omnibusproject.com/378

> About this Episode
> In which a great spiritual leader lists all the kinds of dice and pick-up sticks and toy windmills that are off-limits to the enlightened, and Ken wants to lick a tetherball pole. Certificate #25968.
Well, if 7-bit US ASCII was good enough for our Lord, it is good enough for me ;-)
Ask HN: Just saw 40 satellites flying in straight line one after another
Hi,
Can somebody please explain/point me to some tool that can explain what I saw today?

It was cca 17:20 CET local time, location is 49.054653, 20.212259, I was looking north with maybe 80° angle (so almost vertical but slightly towards north), and I've noticed a straight line of satellites, flying from west towards east. I could count at least 40 from the moment I've noticed them till the point a small cloud came and obscured that part of the sky. After it went away few minutes later, the show was over. No clue what was happening before I gazed randomly up and noticed it.

They were 100% satellites, uniform luminostity of all of them - cca like a faintly visible stars, they were spaced evenly in straight line and flew at same speeds(with some uniform gaps sometimes, so I saw exactly 1/2 were missing/non visible). Also the speed has been quite significant, a plane flying cca 11km above goes slower through the sky (there were few up there to compare).

In best case there were around 10 of them visible in the same time - a literal belt of lights moving across the sky, appearing on my left and disappearing on my right. It felt pretty surreal, like I've teleported 50 years into the future where this is common sight and sky is overcrowded.

Maybe some Starlink batch of satellites aligned before they disperse into their own orbits? Or did I miss something and this is pretty common these days?
Thanks for the great convo, really enjoyed it. I have been on a project with good devs, wrote a large scale web crawler in clojure for a famous research lab. These days I’m responsible for hiring/training/retaining hundreds of devs across many code bases, some dating back decades. It gives you a whole different perspective. Also, I don’t get to code all day anymore, but I still love to code, so squeeze it in on fun hobby projects. This also gives one a whole different perspective about what is important, and what is really worth keeping in one’s head.
The big pay and less work is a killer combination for both employee and corporation. Not only do you produce less code, which people think is an asset but is really a liability, you take more time to do so. Like the idea of ping-pong tables is parodied but it makes sense for profitable companies and in moderation. The employees have to be adults about it, use the ping-pong table specifically to accomplish work, to think. There's so many choices you could take, and the fewer you take the better, you just have to make sure you take the best choices. Mulling things over is good. Time spent on making decisions is time well spent, you could do it quicker but only with a dartboard. Maybe instead of spending an hour on the question and a year on the answer, spend a year on the question and the answer will come in an hour.

As long as there's trust and a work ethic on both sides, it's very virtuous.
i hope there is an opportunity for neuralink to establish some form of communication
It's a great idea and in fact a variation of it is being explored by Python to eliminate the use of the GIL without introducing performance regressions.

The variation is instead of one count per thread, have two reference counts where one is atomic and the other is not atomic. The heuristic is that at any given time, the majority of writes are performed within a single thread and so that thread has exclusive read/write access to the non-atomic reference count, all other threads share the atomic reference count. There is some work needed to coordinate the atomic and non-atomic reference count so as to test when an object can be deleted, but the overhead of this work is less than the cost of always using an atomic.

http://iacoma.cs.uiuc.edu/iacoma-papers/pact18.pdf
Happy new year everyone. Here are some of mine:

1. Be the kind of a person to read books(focus on reading instead of playing).

2. Read Japanese. I'm okay at it but I have spent 2 years without using it at all.

3. Get good at programming. I have never gotten far, stuck in tutorial hell. But I aspire to manage it this year.
Sounds great! I do applied research in industry and love it.

Any interests you’re looking to pursue?
Doing well on the Jepsen tests is a very good sign. But it isn't anywhere near enough. Other things to consider:

- The product has bugs not addressed by Jepsen.

- Performance is inadequate.

- The optimizer is immature, and you find yourself struggling to understand and work around its limitations.

- Replication is missing or doesn't work well enough.

- There is absolutely no substitute for N years of real-world experience, no matter how rigorous the company's testing.

- Impossibility of finding people already familiar with the product, because they are all employed by the vendor.

- Even aside from product issues, is the company profitable? If not, how long is it going to be in existence?
Bank accidentally deposits $176M into people's accounts on Christmas Day
It says the prediction is accurate to 1.4cm, but it doesn’t say at what range. 1.4cm at 1km is great, but 1.4cm at 1m likely isn’t usable.

I’m also curious what the failsafes are like for this - how will they prevent laser spillover or misfires from hitting eyes? Even if this is a 1 in a million chance, it likely isn’t worth it except in highly remote areas.
Between Messages app (Fi with RCS enabled, vs. the special Fi syncing system [1]) and GV app.

[1]
https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6188337?hl=en&ref_topic...
You ignored the second sentence of what I am quoting. Here it is again:

The slightest force including pushing open a door is all that is necessary.

Not my words. That said, force does not imply amplitude of said force, except colloquially. This is legal stuff though, which, like say physics, has slightly different use of certain words than most people are used to from day to day life.

As in, I would agree with you that force in regular use is usually used in the sense of a large force. But that is not the actual definition and o ly possible use of the word.
I don't actively follow web components, but as someone who follows the React space reasonably well, I don't get any sense that things are shifting towards web components (at least in the sense of replacing React). React's docs[1] argue that they solve different problems (obviously that's potentially biased, but I still find it reasonably compelling). I think the most likely outcome is that some things will be shipped as web component libraries that can be easily consumed within various frameworks (e.g., I could envision Stripe shipping a webcomponent library instead of a React specific library).

[1] https://reactjs.org/docs/web-components.html
But the taxis and jobs aren't actually at risk of disappearing. The only thing at risk is the return on capital; the taxis and taxi drivers will remain regardless.

One might say, "But the taxi drivers were sometimes the ones investing in medallions" to which I would reply that "investing" is the key word there. The medallion and the taxi it is on will continue to exist.
Speed? In the UK I can send money for free to any other UK bank account instantly. Not everywhere is as slow and expensive as the USA.

Uptime is legitimately amazing. But when you look at the computational speed - a Raspberry Pi on a UPS is probably more powerful.

Trust is great. How do you do a chargeback on a fraudulent transaction on Ethereum?

There are some amazing theoretical gains for Blockchain technology. I hope they become practical in the near future.
> Using X makes Y hard. Ok, what if you don't need Y?

Then knock yourself out using X. It's an argument about the purpose of the alternative and what it is intended to be useful for. Assuming that it is valid, it tells you both for what purposes you might want to use the alternative and for what purposes you might not want to bother.

Z improves on X for Y is fairly explicitly not an argument that Z is superior to X for all purposes.
I’m sure you’ve already heard of this, but for anyone who hasn’t: check out Gemini, a protocol and format (gemtext) that might appeal to users with this philosophy.
I mean surely sometimes people have time-sensitive tasks to finish. And maybe they decide to let an update finish in a break. And they realize that it won't finish in time, so they do a hard reset. But then the rollback kicks in, which also takes an eternity.
Can you point me to a single format that actually requires NFC? Most things either make no comment or just express preferences, though I’m confident there will be some somewhere.

XML does not require normalisation: per <https://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/#sec-normalization-checking>, XML data SHOULD be fully normalised, but MUST NOT be transformed by processors; in other words, it’s a dead letter “SHOULD”, and no one actually cares, just like almost everything else.
I'd watch that.
My argument is that they're happy enough with "wheels up" pay because that's how things work, and if airlines started paying for time at the airport, they'd make the same, just at a lower wage.
Don't Look Up and the latitude that streaming affords
I just finished the film. And after getting over the shock of the message I immediately thought: "This film couldn't have been made for a theatrical release, only a streamer like Netflix could have published this, because of the ending." The ending would not have "focus grouped" well and the movie would have tanked. But streaming changes that calculus and I am happy for that.

On the whole, the film is great, just as a film goes: the acting, the dialog, the delivery, the editing, all of it great.
I have read this paper. Not sure where you feel I mischaracterized it. The section you just quoted goes on to discuss caveats, including a recommendation that they swap out their low level cryptographic implementation with one that uses a standard and well-vetted library, and then criticizes them for not having e2e on by default.
Are the "gas" fees and similar better or worse than international banking fees?
Falls over on the fact that I don’t want to be able to write these two files in the same dir. if I write file ö1.txt and ö1.txt then I want to be warned that the file exists even of the encoding is different when I use two different apps but try to write the same file.

The same applies for a.txt and A.txt on case insensitive file systems (as someone pointed out the most common desktop file systems are).
What exactly moves? I'm looking at the banner at the top, and nothing moves when I hover over the "Define settings" or "Accept all" buttons, or any of the text links in the banner (in Chrome, Linux).

Edit: turns out it only swaps under some conditions, according to the prettied code here [1]. One of those conditions is having a touch screen, which my laptop does.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29753092
Swift Regrets: Wrap-Up
I and my SO have found that identity based habits work out way better. I recommend it
Classification in the nuclear world (DOE/NNSA in the USA) is unfortunately often done to hide things like massive cost overruns (Hanford cleanup costs for example), the scale of environmental problems (like how much nuclear waste the US Navy has dumped at sea and where that dumping took place, or just how much radioactive fallout spread across the western USA due to atmospheric testing in Nevada), and other things that really shouldn't be classified. The Federation of American Scientists regularly brings this up, most recently:

https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2021/05/nuclear-secrecy-reform...

There are of course many things that should be kept secret - although I assume the secrecy surrounding the current distribution of nuclear weapons on submarines, planes, missile bases, etc. falls under the military secrets sector.

Blueprints for nuclear reactors are not really supposed to be available, due the risk of being utilized by terrorists etc. to inflict massive damage, but as I recall right after Fukushima it was easy to find quite detailed drawings of that reactor model online, which were useful for understanding how the accident took place. There's a whole cyber division of the U.S. government devoted to nuclear reactor security issues, a cousin of US-CERT.

However, manufacturing fisson-type nuclear weapons, even the D-T boosted ones that are small enough for ballistic missiles, is really not that secret of a technology anymore - all it takes is access to the required materials (plutonium and/or enriched uranium), some working nuclear reactors, and graduate-level metallurgical / chemical / electronics knowledge, plus access to the historical non-classified research literature and state-level support (This is how AQ Khan developed the Pakistani nuclear weapons program, and even the relatively poor state of North Korea managed it).
Are the people in US more likely to go through major injuries or operations? If not, then no. Plus if anything, vaccinated people are less likely to have you on vents or on hospital.
This sounds very similar to that old idea for protecting African families from female Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes[0].

I think the idea never took off, and I’m still not sure why.

[0]: https://youtu.be/hqKafI7Amd8
Sorry and RIP, but what contribution did she make that would be interesting to hackers or founders? HN isn't supposed to be a celebrity news site.
Not sure I would categorize UWB as unused since it powers features in AirDrop as well as AirTag.
Have you really used Rust on big codebases? One of the big advantage of Rust is especially that it fails far earlier than C++. Borrow checker error are local error that prevent bad behavior to propagate and cause problem on unexpected part.
Almost certainly Starlink.

We had some pass across our night sky a few weeks ago that looked exactly as you describe.

They were confirmed to be Starlink.

Starlink picture: https://earthsky.org/upl/2021/05/SPACEX-STARLINK-SATELLITES-...
My perspective is that this concept of "freedom" is so vague as to be useless. EG, for property rights, my freedom to decide how others use my creation vs. other people's freedom to use my creation. It's just a word that has lost all meaning, especially in the US.
tl;dr - don't use crazy unicode characters in filenames, they can be problematic for non-trivial reasons (in this case because of unicode normalization on an smb mount.)
> Microsoft could certainly make this easier by offering a "wWin32" project that only has the wide version of libraries

Using API functions ending with ...A (for the ANSI version) like CreateFileA is actually rather lowlevel style and means that you know what you do (the same holds for the ...W versions) and explicitly want it this way.

Normally, you use CreateFile and Visual C++ by default sets the proper preprocessor symbols such that CreateFileW will be used. If you pass a char*, you will get compile errors.

In other words: the infrastructure is there to avoid this kind of errors - and it is even used by default. But if you make it explicit in your code that the ANSI version of an API function (CreateFileA) should be used instead of using CreateFile, don't complain that the compiler does obey and this turns out to be a bad idea.