skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“ Not just coincidentally, “deaths of despair” — those caused by suicide, overdose and alcoholism — have surged to unprecedented levels among middle-aged men over the past 20 years.”

The vast majority of those suicides are coming from a specific “ethnic category”. But if you say which one, it makes you a domestic terrorist. What is the motivation to live in a world where you’re not even allowed to talk about what’s happening to you? We are living in idiocracy. Up is down, the only morally righteous thing to do is to cheer on censorship and beg for Patriot Act 2.0, 3.0 etc to be passed. Agreeability wrt the decrees of big brother is the only virtue.

If you don’t have kids you are going to die by getting abused by minimum wage nursing home employees who quite possibly have been brainwashed their entire lives by every large media company to believe that you are racist and evil because of your “ethnic category”. But if you get married, your wife can take everything from you, and big brother will lock you in a cage if you don't want to pay your ex wife to fuck some other guy in the house you bought that she now lives in. So why would an intelligent person get married?

And yet what is the national conversation about? It’s only about how all straight men of a particular “ethnic category” are racist and evil and they all need to focus on giving more to people in other “ethnic categories”. It’s a complete nightmare to anyone with a brain. It has nothing to do with anything that is going to lead to a better future. Race-based ideologies are a dead end. And nothing ever gets better. Epstein gets arrested, assassinated, and you have to listen to talking heads on news say he committed suicide year after year even though everybody knows its not true.
Back in the day my trick was to use a transparent PNG of just a few pixels in each dimension to establish an aspect ratio for a fluid-width div.
Damn, some of these paksets are insane! https://www.simutrans.com/en/paksets/
Wonder how much of this is ESL
That doesn’t sound conspicuous at all.
This guy electrodacus.com swears that panels are so cheap now that it really only makes sense to heat with PV directly. He stores extra into an array of concrete slabs which then radiate out over the night. He built a special type of MPPT to orchestrate this flow of energy from PV into thermal mass. He lives in deep freeze Canada.
Most American vehicles (Ford, Chevrolet, even Cadillac) still retain the electro-mechanical controls for the HVAC (buttons & rotary encoder with the seven-segment display within for temperature display) even in the 2022 revisions. These are highly reliable devices that use embedded software (think micro-controller or RTOS) to communicate simple messages between the various control modules. 20 years ago some of this was still done entirely in assembly language, the code of which was often documented in 1000+ page paper volumes that would make your average full-stack developer cringe in disbelief.

It appears sanity has prevailed - though Ford sells some higher-end models that have adopted a Tesla-style large portrait display that includes the HVAC. I suppose when you need to sell shiny things to gullible people to move vehicles off the lot....
>You don't force them to do it, you don't lie in your resume that they decided was a desirable candidate.

When you apply, the implication is that you might accept an offer and that if you don't, it will be based on things that you learn during the interview, rather than on things you've determined before the interview. Just because you didn't sign a piece of paper saying 'I claim there is some chance of my accepting an offer' and just because you didn't literally utter any untrue words doesn't change that; human society depends on these unsaid implications to function. If you deliberately flout them, you are abusing social trust for your own benefit.

(And enough of abusing trust leads to a low trust world. If enough people thought like you, companies would start requiring signed statements that you agree with the ethics of the company and that you could be sued if you are found to have wasted the company's money.)

>If they can't convince you to come on board, that's on them; hiring is a mutual negotiation.

If you know very well, ahead of time, that there's nothing practical that they could do to hire you, coming to an interview is abusing the system. The fact that it's not literally impossible for them to convince you to take the job doesn't change this.
corruption is an endless feature of human communities. one way to keep it somewhat under control is to publicize it to the broader community rather than allow it to remain secret. the corruption doesn't need to be extreme enough to warrant legal action (though it might); it could just be "bad for most people, good for a few".

stupidity has most of the same properties.

the main feature of those human communities that we've used for a few hundred years to try to accomplish that control is called "a free press".
I don't think it would be the right use of the word. Perhaps it should be, but not by the book.
I haven't played in a while, but providing it still exists, the Simutrans-Experimental "branch" solves a lot of weird economic issues in the main game. Once you're into Simutrans, that one is worth a look.
I think that might be derived from The "#pragma mark" feature that was in the CodeWarrior IDE which could be used to have annotations show in the drop-down list of functions in the code editor
These discussions are always around the hypothetical of artificial intelligence, so real world analogies don't really apply. Today's automations will do whatever they are programmed to do, so the blame can always be traced back to a person. If the robot wakes up and independently decides "I'm going to kill someone today!" then all bets are off.
Giant watering can conjecture revisited - but cloud theory remains persuasive.
I don't know if it's traffic from this announcement or general bad design but it's currently impossible to migrate. I mention bad design because they didn't even bother emailing about any of four accounts I set up for myself and young family members, and there's a ridiculous number of clunky steps to re-enter info they already have. And then on top of that it doesn't work. Only on one of five tries did I get an email verification code, and that sat at a page with a js spinner indefinitely. It's disappointing that they needlessly force this chore, and it's awful that they can't deliver a functioning chore.
If you walked up to the person at Costco and said "I have no intent to buy the product; will you give me a free sample anyway?" They're likely to say "sure, I don't care". This is not a likely response if you were to do the analogous thing with an interview, particularly one where the company has to spend some resources on it.
Just from a fellow friend trying to lose wait that is awesome how much you have managed to lose and I think that is great. Congratulations on that, keep up the good work. You've inspired me!
That "judgement" is a design decision. A ML algorithm misidentifying a person as a car door isn't that different from an elevator cable snapping. That happens more or less randomly too. It could be bad design, bad maintenance (e.g. real world data drifted away from training data but no retraining took place), or just bad luck (an element in almost any accident). Depending on the fault someone or nobody is at fault. And even if nobody is at fault we can still decide to advance the state of the art, and that in the future no single elevator cable snapping should cause more than a minor inconvenience (due to multiple cables, breaks etc).
1.7M tethers are created per second --- and then used to inflate the price of the bitcoin that you buy --- before it crashes.
> It's sad that a massively scaled invasion of privacy can only be countered by more surveillance.

Reporting like this is also a refutation of their service.
You are assuming that the institutions are making worthwhile "epistemological risks"; when, clearly, there is a lack of the facilitation of the knowledge of Fourier Mathematics (e.g. the Fourier Transform) in virtually every scientific discipline. Yet this is what most of these researchers involve themselves with everyday with their digital computations. Isn't it ironic, don't you think?
I'm 48.

When I was 16 I remember reading a Scientific American article that was describing how nuclear fusion was around the corner. Within the next 2 years!
Positions are sticky, in sports and careers
Is there any evidence that those hate crimes were connected to people concerned about the experiments conducted by the Wuhan Institute of Virology?
Wouldn’t ~14 bits down to 10^-4 plus 4 bits to get to 2^4 be ~18 bits rather than ~28?
For example if you apply for jobs and get an interview, you'll learn from it. If you get ghosted and never get an interview, you won't.
> We will not be here in 200 years to enjoy fusion if we don't adopt solar and battery _right now_.

Technically, none of us will be here in 200 years.

I very much doubt if climate change will lead to an end to the human species, so I think a better way talk about this stuff is to frame it in terms of our descendants living in an impoverished, less beautiful, more strife-filled world.

But yes, FFS, action yesterday or last week, and make it trillions of dollars worth of action, like an actual war, but for infinitely better reasons.
It's a little hard to informally assign probability in cases like. We wouldn't be hearing about this if it weren't SARS-CoV-2, so what are the odds that (if it is contaminated) the sample we're hearing about in this case would be contaminated with SARS-CoV-2? Pretty much 100%.
You don't have to wait for the water to boil before adding the pasta. Add it to the cold water; it will work just fine.
> WSL won't save you from MS forcing updates down your throat

There was only one corporate laptop running windows 10 I've encountered during the pandemic that does not use policy to disable automatic updates and that is Microsoft. In my experience, everyone who pays for Windows Enterprise blocks automatic updates.

I think Windows Home still can't into Hyper-V and therefore you have to go through hoops to install WSL 2 and docker, right?
> Ask if you can see the employment contract before accepting an offer.

I'm a bit puzzled by this answer. What's wrong with:

"I read the contract and I don't like the terms sorry"
Dijkstra is dead and we can move on from his peeves.
As someone uninitiated, why didn't someone at some point say "this is ludicrous for what should be a short range wireless spec"? What do all those pages contain? Is IEEE 802.11 that long?
> Resorting to pedantry and refusing to expand your knowledge about the topic at hand by consuming literature contrary to your world view are indisputably bad faith.

I'm asking you specific questions. You are asking me to read books you have dictated, regardless of if I've read them or not. I'm asking about your interpretation, and you repeatedly ignore that simple, basic, foundational component of a discussion. I'm inclined to disagree what constitutes bad faith.

> There's no such thing as capitalism to me. The things I listed are demonstrably not capitalism

So is capitalism everything you haven't listed? Is the question too broad or difficult?

> Pick one of what? Rights exist independent of society. Society and government trampled on them for most of history. Some guys that led a revolution wrote a lot about this and the self evident nature.

Pre-society your rights went as far as you could throw a rock and defend yourself, or your tribe enforced it. You can call rights inherent all you want, but in practice the enforcability is the only thing that matters. Without society person A can walk into person B's house while they're sleeping and remove person A and now there's a new house owner. The rights and freedoms you describe require that we agree what constitutes those rights, so that we can agree on how they're enforced, through police and courts, through elections, and what rights you have to move from point A to point B, given that without this framework you could get landlocked by others ownership.

> As for your last request, I've done that repeatedly and you've repeatedly resorted to attempts to change the topic.

It would be easier to just copy and paste it than to write something else. You haven't though, or I wouldn't have asked. Please argue in good faith.

> Capitalism and its principles...

Which you won't define

> capitalist societies...

which you won't specify

> and capitalist philosophers have consistently demonstrated the most rapid and prolific advances in ethics and morality in human history.

Easy to claim if you don't have to substantiate it.

If you don't want to discuss the topic, and only deflect everything through vague references elsewhere, then what point is there in you posting?
This is exciting news. And I enjoyed to learn that some investigation on adding parallelism has been done. OpenSCAD is my main design driver, so when I hit these performance corners, it'd drive me nuts.

OpenSCAD and https://github.com/nophead/NopSCADlib is a winning combo.
The world of PostgreSQL wire compatibility
I think people imagine that the way virus research labs work is that when you start a research program you go into the lab, and then you stay in the lab 24/7 until your research is done, having no contact with people other than fellow researchers working on the same project. When your research is done, you go through decontamination and quarantine before being let out.

In reality, of course, it is like most other jobs. You arrive in the morning, work for the day, and go home. You break for lunch. Maybe you have lunch in a lunch room or cafeteria the employer provides, maybe you go out. In either case you are around plenty of other people.

Your chances of getting colds and flu during cold and flu season as a worker at a virus lab or about the same as the chances of any other worker at a similar sized white collar job in the same city.
In my opinion, women have a better sense of survival than men.

I know that if I hit a rough patch in my life, I will certainly make myself miserable and would not care what happens to me. I know it by is not rational, but that would explain also probably why wars are fought by men.

Add the fact that society are blaming men for pretty much everything going wrong, it does not surprise me that men are getting loose
This has been one of my absolute favorite CSS improvements in recent years. Upon first seeing it people don't typically pick up on the magnitude of benefit that the feature offers. Once it sets in, however, you start seeing it everywhere. Image dimension management had been an enduring problem throughout CSS history but now aspect ratio is supported across the board https://caniuse.com/mdn-css_properties_aspect-ratio.
Oh, that's very interesting. So I'm guessing that technique was used to make areas that were put of the water during low tide, and then eventually dikes were added to make them dry land?
Machine Code Layout Optimization
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If you never stop working on some creative art project it's never finished, your endless cathedral build has nearly zero relevance to nuclear fusion producing electricity for consumers which would be a definitive "delivered" goalpost, after which any further developments/improvements would just be optimization iterations.

I'm reminded of the Crazy Horse Memorial... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Horse_Memorial
I think a big part of why remote learning is such a "tough nut to crack" is because in-person learning is about the social experience as much as anything else.

As much as I've enjoyed online courses that I've taken, even the ones with robust Discord channels haven't felt the same as in-person courses. At least in my experience, so much learning is done outside of the classroom in study groups, talking to teachers/professors, and even in casual conversations with other students. While some of that can be facilitated with technology and appropriate structure, it simply doesn't have the same effect as putting all those people in the same physical space.

There's also the cost aspect: CS50x and Nand2Tetris are among the best courses I have taken, including the in-person classes I took for my Bachelor's. However,I don't think I'd be nearly as satisfied if I'd paid university tuition for either. I've taken a few community college courses remotely during the pandemic, and after experiencing high-quality MOOCs, it's hard to avoid the feeling that I'm basically paying a hefty premium for the credential.
Modern civilisation may not have multiple generations left.

And it might not even take an all out nuclear war, social media may turn out to have been even more destructive than nukes.
Not familiar with The Book of Jacob, but Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (again translated by Jennifer Coft) was excellent.
A lot of the "not available at night" argument can be solved with.... owning an EV.

I use 6kWh / day. (not sure how! but that's what the power company says)

A decent EV battery holds 20 kWh or more.

Boom. There is my night time storage buffer.
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC03hmS1Brk
Ask HN: How do you stay physically active?
I'm struggling with a sedentary lifestyle, and the health problems that come with being sedentary are starting to show up. My day job is software and most of my hobbies involve sitting for long stretches of time.

How do y'all stay active?
> Why do you get to say what someone's purpose is? Why is being a provider necessarily the purpose in life?

Because this was the case for the last 10,000 years and you cannot change it overnight, unless you are in Soviet Russia and send people to Gulag for re-education. It is built into men's biological nature to be provider (like most mammals in the nature), you cannot change it because society decided less than a generation ago that this is no longer needed.

And also because many, if not most women are still expecting men to be the provider. Biology dictates that women need a provider (resources and security) to bring a child to this world and that provider should not be the government (which destroys the idea of family and the society with it).
They haven't been released yet for iOS. But they were announced at the same time PWAs downloaded as apps were announced. I think with iOS 16??
No doubt. It is so counter intuitive on the surface that the broad family tree has more women than men.

I think it is that we have a bias when having this discussion that children are the product of this Hollywood love story lifelong marriage.

Google says 28 percent of all U.S. women with two or more children have children by more than one man. It is an incredible statistic.
File system performance sucks. No fuse support. No direct hardware access. I've experienced stability issues with it. Don't get me started on the networking or custom init put in by Microsoft. Systemctl calls don't work.

It is most definitely not just like regular Linux.

I actually used it pretty extensively for years before I figured out it was causing more friction than it was worth. It's convenient, I'll give you that, but again, it's objectively worse than the other tools available. You should try them.
True - but if your experience of academia makes you want to stay, you don't need a fallback!

But your PhD won't just expose you to pure intellectual pursuits. You'll also see the downsides to academia. Pressure to publish or perish; anti-intellectual pressures to salami-slice your results, trade citations with friends and overstate the complexity of your work; the stilted language and awful writing of many papers; the need to go around cap in hand pursuing funding; the expectation to provide free labour to multinational publishing companies; the constant threat your competitors are fabricating or p-hacking results; and the risk you'll spend a decade 'paying your dues' in postdocs without ever earning tenure.
Can you link us a mosaique of all the perpetrators of asian violence? Id like to see those far right racists. Im asian and my wife is too we were in new york. The perpetrators were clearly not trump voters.
When I was finishing up a bioinformatics doctoral program in 2009 I looked far and wide for postdoc positions in the field. My recollection is that the typical salary range was $27k-$30k. What surprised me was that I dug far back in a systematics-specific newsgroup and found the same salary range being advertised for the previous 10+ years. I can't speak to what has happened over the past 12 years, since the low postdoc salaries pushed me to industry, but I can say that you're off with the "more than two decades" claim, at least as a universal claim.
The danger of expecting work to be easy and fun
I used to think that. I genuinely did. I thought that the bar was all the way up in space and that it’s impossible to reach it. I was pretty lonely.

Of course, I used to also think that my value was in my net worth and you could have seen all the way from space the “I’m an asshole and I don’t know why nobody will date me” vibes radiating off of me.

Then I grew up, I chilled out, and I put conscious effort into things other than my career and being Good At Tech Stuff. Stuff like listening, and exercising my capacity for empathy, and trying to be pleasant to be around. You can project being likeable or interesting for a bit, but I found that it’s easier to be likeable and interesting instead. And suddenly I stopped finding it so difficult at all to find matches and find dates.

I met my previous SO of three years on OKCupid and my current SO on Tinder, and it wasn’t until we’d been dating for quite a while that what I did for a living, all that Is This Man A Provider nonsense, even came up.

The difficulty is between the ears of one party in this selection process. It’s a mix of getting over oneself and understanding that it’s all a numbers game besides, but one of those things doesn’t work without the other.
Learn more about being grateful for what you have and selling yourself won't be such a chore
> There was a clear consequence of tying COVID-19 with some sort of WMD released by the Chinese and it was the increase in violence against AAPI folks.

Nobody said WMD. Most likely culprit is irresponsibly risky experimentation combined with documented poor lab safety practices.

That said, even if there was a direct link between theories about Covid-19 origins and a rise in hate crimes, does that mean that those theories shouldn't be discussed? If the search for truth leads to unintended and unfortunate side effects, does that mean that the search for truth should be abandoned in favor of burying our heads in the sand? Or worse, adopting an alternate reality that is more harmful to us, like maybe the Chinese Communist Party "theory" that Covid came from a US Army lab.
Not 100% sure, but the fact that you specified cis and hetero is part of the problem. These 2 terms are a strong indication of some recent changes that are probably having a big influence in this problem.
No offense, but the difficult in a job interview for IT Support and a SWE position at a FAANG+ company could not be wider.

I had a career in recruiting before moving into eng and I loved interviewing. I'd bullshit with the interviewer, we'd talk about shared interests, and we'd talk about recruiting techniques for a little while. I passed the vast majority of interviews with absolutely minimal prep.

I'm a year into an eng career and I've already failed more technical interviews than I failed in my entire recruiting career.

Apples to oranges.
>rocking Bento Classified

https://archive.org/details/winampskin_Bento_Classified
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