skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, remembering this can be a useful coping mechanism.

Even most of us here have had jobs at some point in our lives that were torture by comparison to what we do now.

My worst day of software beats the hell out of being a valet at a cheap hotel.
I think strafing has something to do with combat aircraft (a strafing run, probably fly by shooting?), but where I know it from, is early shooters (haven’t played any in over a decade, not sure if that word is still used), strafing was moving sideways.

edit: my guess for the actual meaning was close-ish:

> Strafing is the military practice of attacking ground targets from low-flying aircraft using aircraft-mounted automatic weapons

> The word is an adaptation of German strafen, to punish, specifically from the humorous adaptation of the German anti-British slogan Gott strafe England (May God punish England), dating back to World War I.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafing

And I might as well post the gaming page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafing_(video_games)
2^(>64) combinations to put it back together. I find the empty set plus a Hackintosh seems to have fewer bits but work much faster. It must be those repairable qubits.
Just because he as a prick doesn't mean the investment into fusion energy is therefore prick-ish...
> If I setup a boys club for computers at school or hosted a men’s IT society at work, that wouldn’t end well.

Maybe not, but nearly every <Subject> Users Group I've attended may as well have been a men's IT society for all the women I've seen attend, despite specific outreach efforts to get them there.
But how far are you as an individual willing to go?

- Apple uses exploitative labor practices to manufacture iPhones [0]

- Google is increasingly being recognized as a surveillance and manipulation platform. They have even been caught manipulating elections [1]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/29/lens-te...

[1] https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/epstein-testimony
Nope, I didn't factor in anything like that. Also kettle's don't actually heat every ml to 100C so there's some fudge in the other direction. I mostly was just getting nerdsniped.
I'm one of these men and I hope this actually works out in the end. I sense that men also have a biological clock but we can reassure ourselves that we can keep putting off settling down because of the biological reality of male reproduction. If I just get a little more successful, then I will be more attractive in courtship. But the thing is, you lose track of time really quickly. And, it is quite the bootstrapping problem to catch up on romantic social skills that you didn't cultivate earlier in life. Being awkward around women in High School is a given, but as a thirty-something it can be profoundly uncomfortable and off-putting.
> Legal marriage also leads to pathological complications in terms of seperation in some states.

This cannot be overstated.

True even with a prenup.
Hrm. I wonder did they just ask if people recognized them? I'd be very surprised if 40% of people could define 'azimuth', say.
Nice idea, but I believe it was due to lack of lawyers.
Seek professional help, perhaps. We pay therapists to tell us our problems arent our fault; we pay doctors and dentists for body services, why should this be different?

Or get a goat.
Wind and solar are great but they use up a lot of space and ideally we'd have more electric power than can be provided with just those two.
Andrew Yang makes some good points in this piece, particularly about positive masculinity and role models. Whether fair or not, the perception that the left is hostile to men has driven recruitment for the far right, and that merits some reflection.

But he's also really facile about underlying economic causes. It's easy to blame problems on "our culture has been broken by the wokes!", but many of the problems of young men are not unique to them. Fewer women are entering college, also. Women are dropping out of the workforce, also. More young women are living with their parents, also. Is that because they lacked strong masculine role models?

Or is it because the rising costs of college, housing, healthcare, and living have made the traditional path much less attainable? Absent fathers didn't do that. These are the same patterns you see in any country with a shrinking economy; it's just a shock to Americans who feel they were promised better.

(In summary: Maybe Andrew Yang should spend more time talking to Bernie Sanders)
Awful. More here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30090315
What you're describing is fundamentally the disappearance of the middle class.

Historically, an economic middle class is a relatively recent phenomenon. For ages past and across cultures, there were "rich" and "poor" and relatively few in between.

What created the middle class in the US was a government system that restricted the power of the elites to abuse that power. As Thomas Jefferson wrote: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal". I.e. the rich, powerful, government, or otherwise privileged people ought not to have rights that the poor do not have.

I think the disappearance of the middle class today is largely due to favoritism and miscarriage of justice in government -- like failing to prosecute gross economic crimes adequately (embezzling, insider trading, monopolism, etc.). I don't think rich people are bad by definition, but I do think our government tends to show favoritism to them.

EDIT:

Lest I sound like I'm coming down on conservatives only, liberals in the US have also been hugely responsible for the disappearance of the middle class. The bipartisan post-WWII GI bill, signed by FDR, severely disadvantaged African-American veterans in how it was carried out - by disproportionately denying applications by African-American veterans for housing.

In the decades that followed, Democrat welfare programs provided significantly more total income to 2 divorced adults with kids than a family with 2 married, cohabiting parents -- thus encouraging men to move out so their family could have more welfare money, and (broadly speaking) causing an entire generation of children in poor (and especially African-American families) to grow up without a dad in the home. This lead to further poverty, crime, drug addiction, and ultimately devastation.

Clinton's "war on drugs" and his three-strikes rule only made the problem worse by merely prosecuting and imprisoning people in poverty instead of working to repair the root causes of their behavior. This resulted in many more fatherless families.

Upholding the rights of the poor is everyone's responsibility, especially those in government, regardless of their political affiliation.
More info on this project: https://news.mit.edu/2022/sound-sunset-sonification-toolkit-...
Honesty compels me to admit that I also expected not to be surprised by the female side of the graph, and was quite wrong (I got 4ish).

In hindsight, I realize the error I made is that even if I have an above average vocabulary, there is still going to be the extreme outliers of gender-connected words that I shouldn't expect my vocabulary to overcome. It may well be the case (and I'm serious here) that there's only another dozen or two words "female words" that I wouldn't recognize. I certainly doubt it runs for another few hundred words. But it shouldn't be surprising that there the extreme outliers are things I have entirely missed.

For instance, I knew what a doula is... but only by the skin of my teeth, so to speak, by overhearing my wife discussing it with other women at a very specific time in our lives that has only happened a limited number of times. If it had so happened I'd whiffed those windows of perhaps a few minutes total in my entire life, I'd still not know.

Femtosecond, by contrast, heck I've seen that hundreds of times easily. My wife has the requisite science training to know what that is, even if I'm not sure if she's ever used it. As it so happens just a couple of months ago I used "thermistor" in front of her and had to explain the word. She understood the concept just fine (again, had the requisite science training) but was not familiar with the word. Perhaps a bit ironically, it was in the context of describing how to fix kitchen temperature probes that were misreading.

(Since that may make someone curious, they can misread if water makes it down to the thermistor part. You can fix it by leaving it in a 200 degree oven for a while. Protip: The probe end goes in the oven, the plastic end stays outside. A, err, "friend" of mine can attest to the fact that if you cock that up through sheer idiocy, it may still work afterwards, but the plastic end certainly gets an exciting new modern art look.)
> doesn't mean there aren't smart people in government.

agreed and I was flippant to make a point. I did not mean to say there aren't smart people in government. But I would venture to say that people who understand ML/AI are _not_ working in the government. Or put more correctly, the _odds_ of a person working in government being up to date on how LSTM works today is such a low number, that I would be fair to say it is extremely unlikely that anyone on any board would be smarter than Sen Hatch _in this domain_.

> then that's a rabbit hole that needs to have funding put towards digging up as well.

Agreed and is the larger point I was trying to make: we currently, no matter how smart you are, have _any_ way of knowing what your "algorithm" is doing. Or if you do, it's a rule-based system and isn't AI/ML. We should though! And I think pursuing that will give us much higher rate of return than our black-box strategy everyone seems to be using.
I find that giving a precise "dictionary definition" of a word is actually quite hard in general for many common words.

Anyway, the data is based on [1], which asks "I know this word"/"I don't know this word". It's also available in Dutch[2] which is a bit different and asks "this word exists"/"this word doesn't exist". Both tests include both actual words as well as made-up words. I did this test a few years back and my "score" was about 80% for Dutch (my native language) and 60% for English. I was a little but surprised by the fairly large gap between Dutch and English, since I've been speaking English almost exclusively for the last ten years (on account of living abroad), which goes to show just how hard it is to really learn a language to native-levels.

[1]: http://vocabulary.ugent.be/wordtest/start

[2]: http://woordentest.ugent.be/woordentest
I think you mean 230V, but it was picked because it's more efficient and cheaper (you can use smaller wires for the same output).
Depends on your burners, either could win but generally induction has higher power to the pan than gas.
Ask HN: How to deal with un-agile agile development?
We have a giant slow, highly coupled monolith which is unfriendly to work with (to say the least). And on top of this, some new management has decided to fully adapt agile development, which means user stories.

I were originally hired to help microservicify and modernize the monolith so that we could diversify the workload and scale development horizontally. This started off with stabilizing the monolith and get rid of any bugs, so that it later could be deprecated. But I don't really see a way forward now with these new strict LeSS ideas:

* We can't develop new features on the monolith since all the hacks and duckttape over the past 10+ years has made it impossible to make any reasonable progress (management is very clear that we'll add nothing more into the monolith)

* We can't microservicify or refactor the monolith since it wouldn't add any value in the form of a user story (the functionality already exists, after all)

* We can't develop new features as microservices since they lack the underlying infrastructure (all state is still owned by the monolith)

I wish the best for this company, but the current direction is so frustrating I simply wish to move on to some other company which allows for higher velocity, in any direction. Any advice?
I'd expect you'd still create an empty repo (same as in the web UI) and then push the branches you want to push. You don't configure a branch name in the web ui as well.

But that's why I'm asking where OP found that and not just saying they're wrong.

€: There's also https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/repos#update-a-rep... where you can set the default_branch?
Not in the US, I bet. The only reason I know is that I had a male co-worker whose wife was one.
Yeah, a bit like how CSSEdit used `@group` https://live.staticflickr.com/112/291326042_18115aa3c1_b.jpg
Agreed; I think a lot of the shame deviating from that is both internalized and external.
Surely one's romantic prospects should not be set in the teenage years. Or even be affected all that much by contingent employment status, when future potential might be far more relevant.
Oh wow, you are right! I came to comment on exactly my surprise on seeing "parsec" as one of the "best-known" (whatever it means in this study) words.
Hey, we don't need any Aladdin djinns showing off their magical puppers here. Definitely against guidelines and regulations. ;)
The composting process destroys pathogens by several mechanisms. The first is heat: in the pile, thermophilic bacteria raise the temperature through their own biological heat, killing E. coli, Salmonella, etc. My current pile was 149F (65C) yesterday. In a compost pile, those temps will kill pathogens in less than an hour. As a general rule of thumb the following temps/times kill pathogens in compost piles: 140F/60C for 1 hour; 130F/54C for 1 day; 120F/49C for 1 week. To measure this, you get a compost thermometer from a garden store and keep it in the center of the pile at all times, year-round. (The thermometer also serves another function: it indicates the degree to which your pile is biologically active, providing hints about moisture, carbon, and nitrogen levels.) So heat is the first mechanism for killing pathogens. Another is competition: the pathogens are directly killed by other bacteria in the pile.

Once my compost bin is fully built, I let it sit for at least 1 year.

The only thing to be really concerned with is certain chemotherapy drugs. Some of them not only don't break down in a compost pile, but they can cause cancer in people who don't already have it.

The composting process is pretty amazing. It's vastly more hygienic than sewage (lol).
Interesting. I'm just one person, but: I've enjoyed stable employment as a programmer since I was 23, and my teenage years and early 20s were easily my most socially (and romantically) active, and I rarely felt lonely then. I've felt most lonely in my late 20s and early 30s.

I sometimes wonder if my career destroyed my ability to make and keep friends.
I have seen Windows machines destroyed by an update.

It isn't just a hardware-software mismatch, it also happens because you have a failing hard drive. A failing hard drive might be compensating for it's problems but then when you do an OS update it does a huge volume of writes that overwhelms the bad block table and then your machine is trashed.

Unfortunately you don't get good error messages in this situation.

You have to replace the drive and reinstall the OS in that case. I had it happen to a Windows machine circa 2009 also it happened to a 2011 Mac Mini Server that had two magnetic drives. When the drives died I put in SSDs and I have run both Windows and MacOS X since.

Also I think if the filesystem is corrupted the same thing can happen.
Sorry for being like this but what I like most about that remark is the joyful optimism that there will be a society to power in the first place, and secondly one that can (still) build and operate such technology.

Edit: maybe I’m needlessly pessimistic but I feel societies are much more fragile than they seem. We had it unreasonably good in ‘the west’ for the last 77 years but that time span is so short in the grander scheme of things, it gives a false sense of security.

In some part, due to societal changes, schisms, injustices, the increasing distrust that eats at the foundation of society,

At some point, there may be nothing worth left to power with nuclear fusion.

Although I start to wonder if we should keep powering a lot of things in today’s world. There is so much needless unnecessary madness going on.
For the breadwinner the outcome isn't very gendered, except for the conditions of custody of any children.

And although not very gendered, it is a shitty contract where the worst clauses have extremely high rates of occurring. Even when isolating to later aged upper middle class economic equals, a 10% rate of triggering the worst clauses in a financial contract is extremely bad.

You simply can't decouple the financial aspects of a financial contract just because how someone might have been conditioned to romanticize an overarching concept.
The couple of videos I watched above your comment seem to take this into account. I think that's why the aim is for a Q > 10 rather than just being content with Q > 1.
WireGuard is just a transport protocol, so of course you could use it in place of SSL/TLS if you wanted. Interesting though, and I prefer it to SSL/TLS because X509 certs suck.
Reminds me of the time that guy named his online bookstore after a rainforest in South America. Or was it named after a river? Maybe a tribe of people? I can't remember.

I'm all for a good naming conflict, but no one is mistaking a board game for a networking protocol.

I feel everyone always finds something to complain about a name. Let's examine the *INC name space.

A, E, I, U, X - don't really work

Binc - why did you name it identically to a book foundation?

C, K - you dirty old boy, you!

Dinc - dual income no children, huh?

Finc - how contemptible!

Ginc - taken

Hinc - not bad, although urban dictionary tells me it's Latin slang for lesbian, so some language major or 1600 year old European is going to might raise a red flag here

Jinc - there's a website, it looks important

Linc - this name space is so crowded already!

Minc - just some USDA thing, not too bad

Ninc - another book thing, eh?

Oinc - lol, I kind of like it. Too bad Catan doesn't have bacon.

P, R, S - all crowded

Vinc - actually pretty well open here

Winc - do you want to compete with the Internet's #1 way to wine? Maybe they should join forces? Nah, Catan is more of a beer game.

Yinc - there's stuff here, but not too shabby

Zinc - as you pointed out, it's a thing already, which is the same logic you used against tinc

Point being, naming is hard, and nothing is unique, and it doesn't really help anyone to complain about names unless there's a really valid conflict, like, say, they came out with a new network protocol and named it tync or invented some new miracle element named zink and there's actual room for confusion.
That broken tech/content culture cycle
Just feeling poetic and lacking in optimism. On an intergenerational level, I half believe it’s true.
This is how Android does security AFAIK — every app is run as a different user.
Seems you've put a lot of thought into this, I think whatever your kid turns out to be they're already at a huge advantage to have someone like you
My guess is that they use S3 mainly for things like backups, where you write once to a brand new key.

I'd be surprised if they were using mutable S3 objects that constantly get updated in-place. They have PostgreSQL for that!
Am I sure? No, haha. Maybe I don't understand stove terminology. I thought induction were the metal coils that turn red. Maybe induction is different than a regular electric?
Induction is almost as good as fire, but still not nearly as fast, and of course it doesn't work with 85% of my pans..
I wonder if social media technology is as much at fault as the neoliberal program of exporting well-paid manufacturing jobs overseas and replacing them with low-paid service jobs (with the difference going into the pockets of the shareholders) is.

If children are being raised on TikTok, okay, the average video length on TikTok is a couple minutes. Advertisements are now 5-15 seconds. This is not conducive to 'long attention span'. Now, imagine popping these kids into a classroom and expecting them to pay close attention for, say, 15 minutes, without any breaks. What to do... diagnose them with ADHD and dose them with amphetamines, what else? Of course this is the same issue for girls and boys but is generally going to create more of a dumbed-down population. Kids are probably better off playing video games instead, those require more attention. Even better, encourage them to read actual books.

I wonder if the WaPo would be interested in publishing any critiques of social media effects on children, given their ties to Big Tech... Let's see... "New report: Most teens say social media makes them feel better, not worse, about themselves (2018)"

Corporate media claims... remember this one? "NAFTA and China WTO will raise the standard of living for all Americans!"
Sooo... I'm 42nd percentile on word knowledge I guess.
> not by decree from a fringe minority that captured some institution.

They are not a cringe minority. I mean, they are cringe, but not part of any minority, except the self-created ones. Sorry for the wordplay. They a dozen people with no technical skill who tried (and succeeded) into getting some petty power, status, and time on the spotlights by crying "These <insert some extreme word here> FLOSS devs are oppressing me!!", just because FLOSS projects were an easy target (i.e. usually managed by people who are compromising, supportive and that don't like wasting time with non-technical conflict and focus on having a job done).

And we gave up to them, hoping they just go away hunting another easy target (masterworks, MSc degrees, master/apprentices, that master chef TV show, and so), while we pay lip-service to dodge the mob before they come to destroy our projects/jobs/companies/etc.

And, of course, no minority was positively affected by any of this. They are working just like everybody else, because behind a keyboard don't matter which $PERSONAL_CHARACTERISTIC people have, but what they deliver.
Honestly can't see that happening; there's an enormous profit to be made in having most of the population rent. People will pay every penny they have for food, healthcare and somewhere to sleep. Letting ordinary people own houses instead of harvesting from them for their entire lives is just not profitable.

The people could get together and make laws to protect themselves, and there's some whispering of this with recent attempts to form unions and so on, but against the political might of the rich, the people don't look to have much of a chance.
Personal bias ftw.
So we should just leave other planets as lifeless husks? The self loathing you are experiancing must be miserable.
Despite his flaws as a human being and damage done by Microsoft in the 90's, overall his contributions to humanity greatly exceed his shortcomings. What are your contributions to humankind? Have you done anything to make the world a better place?

The answer is, probably not, or at least not as much as Bill. So be wary of passing judgement to others so easily lest you be judged yourself.
I believe culture is a factor that we can't remember and enjoy daily commute. Most people consume just pop culture, that makes them to enjoy and fantasize only "unique" and spectacular aspects of life.

I recently traveled by bus not exactly by standards, in a more modest area. Before that I read some literature, which had as characters normal people, with some life situations in which normal people face.
It made me feel different that two-hour road, I saw people differently, I felt a little like in one of the stories and I enjoyed.