skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TikTok has all the worst traits of social media, magnified. I finally tried it out for a few weeks recently and I was shocked by how many social media dark patterns are at work there. It's like everything people claim to hate about other apps rolled into one toxic mass.
They're generally the ones setting policy positions for those workers and interns to follow. So it could still affect their, or coming up to speed on the new issue.
LOL. Once a worker has demonstrated job mastery online and has also shown he can communicate by zoomery etc, it is just an exercise in control by force - slavery by another name.
Some bosses are bullies and have optimised their employee oppression, browbeating, etc on a face to face basis and in office packs where the well know 'pecking order' hierarchy can hold sway. These guys are fish out of water, peckers with no 'peckees'. These people yearn for the control of old - which is gone forever. Managers who insist, like this thinly veiled urge to move the workers back under control to save the restaurants and empty parking lots and other shops, I feel is doomed to partial failure. Some will come back, some will not, some will quiet to avoid coming back - SF will adapt, office rents will lower, as will house prices and vacancy rates will inch up.
Are they independent though?
Astronomers looked at 260k stars to find alien megastructures in the Milky Way
It doesn't have to be Rust. But for all the people who insisted for more than a decade that GCs and VMs don't necessarily compromise performance of practical applications, there has never been an acceptable browser engine in C#, Java, D, Common Lisp, Go, OCaml, Haskell or any of the others. Meanwhile Apple uses Objective-C with its ARC (and later Swift, which is even more like Rust) for everything and it was great.

So the community tried to make OCaml with the memory model of ObjC and as much backwards compatibility with C as they could muster. In context, this doesn't seem like a weird strategy.
> it shouldn't be profitable for foreigners who have never been to Canada to displace Canadians

But that would go against the current zeitgeist where countries are reduced to economic platforms, that owe their citizens nothing except making them compete against the whole world.
> It runs like this: everyone has the power to decide how to perceive and respond to the unavoidable constraints and challenges they face. How did such a belief become commonplace?

I'm reading a few books on Adlerian psychology (albeit in Japanese: 「嫌われる勇気」、「劣等感と人間関係」、「勇気づけの方法」) and this pragraph strikes me as very characteristics of Adlerian psychology.

> There’s one problem: mindsets are not free-floating. They are neither optional strategies that everyone can freely adopt nor value-neutral ways of enhancing wellbeing. Instead, they are embedded in life conditions that have material, social and ideological dimensions, and this is just as true for those of us living in poverty as it is for the rest of us living in financial comfort.

This is not a helpful mindset. "My situation sucks". ok, maybe. But you should not be searching for external causes. You should be thinking about what you can do with what you have.

As far as I could gather, Adlerian therapy focuses on "encouragement" in the form of getting you to be comfortable with yourself ("like" and "accept" yourself) and cultivating a sense of "contribution" to others. Having a positive self worth makes a huge difference in how you respond to situations.

> (will your child need a new school uniform, or will your car need repairs?).

This strikes me as very strange. You have children, and you have a car, but you are "at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder"?
That's exactly what this is doing. Numpy is glue around lapack/blas.

R is okay for batch processing, but what happens when management wants engineering to implement data science's models alongside some pytorch models?

Python is totally performant enough if you know how to wield it.
We did a blind test with friends, and couldn't tell Coca-Cola from 7-Up and Fanta.
There are plenty of chards under $20 that get the malolactic treatment. Probably most - it's not expensive, like oak. But "naked" or steel tank chardonnay almost always skips the malolactic fermentation step, and they tend to be less expensive (and tastier, IMO).
A lot of people in the US have very weak ties to the places they live.
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Only for those so poor that they aren't really paying any taxes. It's been estimated that if there were a flat tax that it would only need to be 10% of all corporate and personal income to be effective. Most working class folks pay well over that in the US.
'Zero-Click' is just a new buzzword, it probably got popular due to Pegasus and NSO.
I always thought of wine as less of a scale of good vs bad, and more about the individuality of the experience, kind of the way one baseball card is more expensive than another, which is not about quality -- though I also think that wine culture doesn't necessarily think of it that way.
But you don't spend $100 on a bottle of wine because it's better than a $10. You spend $100 on a bottle of wine to be able to appreciate the unique experience of what wine on a 150 year old Vineyard in a specific part of France made by a specific person tastes like, or for a newer bottle of wine, to taste some celebrity vineyard. More like appreciating art than a strict ranking.

That being said I also wonder if enjoying wine is really about maximizing the placebo effect, which may be why wine connoisseur so object to the economists view of wine, because it can spoil the illusion. I.E. part of the enjoyment of the wine is the story you tell yourself. Blindfolding removes an essential part of the enjoyment of the wine. Seeing the bottle, seeing the color of the wine, looking at the legs flow down the glass.

I'm not sure if these two kinds of people - i.e. the objectivist who would rather know objectively if there's differences in the quality of wine, and the subjectivist - the person who wants to be taken up by the illusion of the wine can ever really get eachother. But often I think the subjectivist is happier (in the vein of the 'depressive realist' https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201206...) and as someone who is more of the objectivist or realist I wonder if there are ways to leverage the other.
That sounds great. How has the experience been? Is maintaining it a lot of work?
Your examples are exactly why people on the left insist for government aid with NO means-testing. If a government program only exists to support the poor, it will be birocratized, sacrificed whenever budget cuts are needed, demonized and so on.

Successful social programs help everyone, and let the poor benefit implicitly more. All old people benefit from the existence of Medicare for example, even if they are personally wealthy enough to afford alternatives, so Medicare is relatively simple to access and almost universally loved. No one is going to win elections campaigning on slashing medicare, and no one is in danger of losing their Medicare status if they fill out a form wrong.
My problem is the reverse. When my brain is working, my jaw tenses up, and my breathing becomes shallow. I tried everything, but it seems impossible to decouple mental performance from these physical issues. I wish that there was some kind of bio-feedback device that could warn me when I push myself too far.
Well anything could be called failure if alternatives and their pros/cons not discussed.

Good that you could walk everywhere. I can't, my knees hurt walking more than a mile or so. If I have no car and can't afford cab for everything, not sure how I would be better off.
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> Just that, for non-enthusiasts and non-early adopters like myself, it's dead in the water until there is some major support behind it.

Sure, this is pragmatic.

> But it seems it isn't able to blindly mirror stuff from pip, for example? Or to just package any linux under the sun, like Docker can? You'd have to have a nix-specific version of every package you want to use.

Building a DEB package with Nix is apparently possible, if quite awkward.
https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nixpkgs/Building_RPM_DEB_with_nixpkg...

The story looks a bit better for images. Packages can run appimages or snaps. https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-pkgs-appimageTo... -- Which seems a decent compromise.

I think the effort of "I have to package this" varies from "automatable" to "PITA".

My experience has been that for writing package expressions for Python packages or Golang applications, it was more/less straightforward copy-pasting that required little Nix understanding. (The effort being: what are the sha256 sums, and what are the dependencies). -- I think to an extent this can even be done by "<lang>2nix".

An example of difficulty I've run into was trying to package a repo where I was unfamiliar with the language, and where build process assumed they could modify $HOME. I noticed that e.g. the anki package had to have a workaround anki-bin in order to get up-to-date versions because anki's build process changed.
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since my partner is also from CS background but she has a different role and doesn't come across technical stuff as frequently as we do, so I make sure to send her good tech articles every weekend from hackernews, but in reality I end up explaining any good articles I come across myself & when I'm debugging a nasty bug, I make sure I take her help to a problem I already figured out to improve her thought process, moreover since we work in the same organization, this information she can later use to strategically plan considering how fragile our IT infrastructure is (I'm looking at Facebook, etc which went down here). It's not a perfect system, but I ensure she learns atleast 50% of what I learn, and she does vice versa because I'm very curious to look outside tech to learn how organization functions.
I LOVE the IDEA of GitHub pages -- keep the hosting with the source. Simplifies workflows and sync issues. But I find their SSL certs maddenning. They go from working to non working back to working and it is never clear what changed or what the problem is.

I also recently discovered that all our corporate machines show:
"MismatchCert (Hostname mismatch) Blocked by SSL_HOST_MISMATCH"
on the Github provided certificate. I can only wonder how many people have seen this and didnt visit my site because of it...

Does anyone have a recommended site/guide to setting up simple static sites without technical heroics? In the meantime, WordPress is a saviour.
> One reason is that Scheme has Emacs modes that connect to a live system for precise jump-to-definition, etc. This works with Guix and is extremely convenient.

Those are all valuable things, but I don't think that would actually be hard to implement for the Nix language either. Just no one bothered

> Scheme's metaprogramming also enables Guix's beautiful system of code staging, G-expressions.

Yes not pasting together strings for bash would be nice, but with all due respect to scheme's metaprogramming, which I do indeed highly respect, I view this as fairly orthogonal.

From a quick glance, g-exps don't have much binding structure? That means hygiene and other things are not as useful, and just doing

["see" "I" "can" "sexp" "too"]

in the Nix expression language isn't actually so bad.
wp-login.php is in need of attention, I think, and will get it through REST eventually.

But it's also entangled with the last bastion of one of WP's most underrated/underdiscussed features: pluggable authentication.

If you mean the appearance of the code: it's not to my taste! But it's actually really heavily governed by code standards (including the Yoda conditions stuff).

WP itself will never be an MVC system, but then MVC is really at odds with the hooks-filters-and-actions API approach WP uses, which again you don't have to like but is crucial to its success.

You can make tiny, targeted changes to the way a WP page renders -- with a single hook function -- that would be hard to replicate in MVC without vastly more effort. Magento tries to achieve this, and does it well, but at the cost of needing dependency injection, XML layout files, etc. etc.; it's enormously more complex.

I personally think MVC is the right thing for app development but wholly the wrong thing for the rendering front end of a CMS site, but I acknowledge this is a contentious opinion.
Yes, such approaches can be compliant. There's even a few C interpreters. Very popular back in the day for debugging C programs when you didn't have full OS debugging support for breakpoints and etc. Such an approach would be quite suitable for encapsulating untrusted code. There is definitely some major overhead, but I don't see why you couldn't use JIT.
Excellent to see functional programming ideas like deferred computation and clean interfaces make their way into the scientific computing space.

One thing though: I know these are good ideas. But to someone not as familiar with these patterns, they may wonder "why go through all this trouble?"
I'm not asking you to give up your car. I'm only asking for a world that isn't so openly hostile to pedestrians and cyclists.
Your impression comes from the fact that you have not worked at larger teams, as you said so yourself. It's relatively easy to build something scalable from the beginning if you know what you need to build and if you are not already handling large amounts of traffic and data.

It's a whole different ballgame to build on top of an existing complex system already in production that was made to satisfy the needs at the time it was built but it now needs to support other features, bug fixes and supporting existing features but at scale while having 50+ engineers not step on each other and not break each others code in the process. 4 friends in the basement will not achieve more than 50+ engineers in this scenario, even when considering the inefficiencies of the difficulty in communication that come along with so many minds working on the same thing.
I'm pretty sure this is true for the vast majority of consumer products.
First, it’s a lot to ask of someone to leave the country where their friends and family live. Many aren’t interested in doing that.

Immigrating elsewhere is also not easy if you’re in a less in demand profession. Of course these are the ones where it’s most likely to have unsupportable amounts of debt.

If you’re a US citizen, you are still required to pay taxes on your global income no matter where you live in the world. If you ever get a tax refund, it can be garnished for federal student loans that are in default.
What a blast from the past! Mondo2000...we had such glorious hopes for the future....
You actually only have to check 2/5 of those boxes.
> When I was poor, I never thought I didn't have control over my future, this is likely luck on my part. I think this feeling of lack of control is way more a product of your parents and upbringing than anything else.

Yes, exactly what I am thinking (and much more succinct than my draft response).

And it follows that, while an individual may not be able easily to change their mindset, helping children grow up with a sense of agency can reduce intergenerational poverty.
The Lab-Leak Hypothesis Made It Harder for Scientists to Seek the Truth
Holographic Camera Instantly Peeks Around Obstacles
I pay enough tax. I should not have to continue to pay more to make up for the frivolous government spending on "social justice programs", wars, more police, and bailouts for campaign donating companies.

More tax doesn't fix widespread, rampant, government corruption. The US takes in enough tax to have plenty of nice things. For citizens to see any benefit the military industrial complex needs to be defanged with prejudice, the US needs to pull out of all foreign police actions, etc.

The highways and roads I drive on are terrible. Let's start there. Why is that in such a poor state with me paying 35% marginal tax? Where is my money going? Yep that's right, "social justice consultants" and the military industrial complex.

On the UBI note it would never work out anyway. Yang's numbers were several order of magnitudes off similar to Bernie's healthcare numbers. We'd have to collect far more money than we could even with a progressive tax system and that's if we only offered it to actual naturalized citizens. If we offered to everyone who exists in America there's absolutely no way it would work simply by the numbers. These programs work in countries with defined borders, strong citizenship laws, homogenous cultures, and populations 1/10th the size of America. We are different. We need different solutions.
The big trick is figuring out mentally how to eat less without requiring willpower. It is possible. Depending on willpower is setting up for likely failure, IMO.
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Aren't (commercial) movies the same though? The decisions are made by producers, and their main task is to figure out how to make the movie appealing to the largest possible audience, so that investors will get maximum RoI.
Why would web3 not have mobile sites like web[?] does? The source lives in decentralized version control. This is as web3 as it could get without tacking some kind of pointless blockchain grift onto it.
Did they or were they just copying Warcraft 3 art style with higher poly count? Or were they continuing the old pre-Warcraft 3 prototype and expanding it into something else?

The thing about cartooney art style vs a realistic one is that it ages better, but they had no way of knowing it would reach globe-shattering popularity. The only thing they can know is that it's a bit less resource intensive (to make and to display). Keep in mind something 2D would be even less resource intensive.
lmao bro does all that in front of his IoT Samsung toaster, that has a speaker...speakers are microphones.
Sure, and they're getting in trouble lately because they aren't.

Successive legal decisions are deeming "operate in Europe, but store data in the US" to be not protective enough of EU residents' data.
I'm not sure if you can distinguish really good wines. But you can definitely tell when a wine is bad.
Yes, we should have types!

Yes, we should have better docs! (I think we have a bad mix of authoritative reference and tutorial that fails on both counts.)

But if you want types, I daresay you are already understanding the basics of how the functional language works :). I imagine your problems are less:

wtf is: ((x: x x) (y: y y))

and more:

wtf is stdenv, wtf is mkDerivation, wtf is a setup hook, why are othre build systems hacks on top of the autotools defaults, and not clean alternatives? etc. etc.
Writefreely?

https://writefreely.org/
Thanks for the wonderfully detailed response. I had a couple questions:

>"And in the end what I want is mostly giving a large reassembled 2-100MB buffer to userland to avx512-stuff all over - same as I do with zmq"

How does the avx512 come into play here? I know its mainly used for HPC type workloads. Is there a more general usage pattern for it as well? I know Linux was very vocal about his disdain for avx512 and mentioned people were using it for memcpy[1] Is that the case for DPDK?

Second is "zmq" here ZeroMQ, the messaging library?

I would type of application space you work in.

[1] https://www.techradar.com/news/linux-founder-chastises-intel...
That’s what we do, more or less: our build step is a no-op and we simply point Cloudflare Pages to the static site directory in the repo where everything is pre-rendered.

Deployments are still painfully slow.
I don't know, have you ever used cheap industrial toilet paper?
That's a very dynamic area to dive into. I'd try to understand the partner first by looking at their past and how they show they prefer to do things.

Technology affinity or attraction can be described as an interest reflecting the psychology of a specific portion of the greater populace. If your partner isn't part of that group, there's no point in working against their psychology in any case. It will create growth pressure which has the same effect as anxiety. Unless their gifts and interests are incorporated at a constant reinforcement level, it's a very big ask in a lot of cases.

Personally we have a very flexible system of check-ins that keep things running. I take care of the research and knowledge-base side but I'm good at that. She runs gobs of things that she's good at, that have little to do with tech. She keeps a calendar on paper (for home & family) but she has naturally good detail memory as a backup, etc.

But the dynamics of technology use go way deeper for her too. When we use software together it works best if I write or customize it. Her draw toward technology is on the ephemeral, locally scoped innovation side, where mine is on the broadly scoped contingency and systems stabilization side. So the tech that's fascinating to me looks more like a customized opportunistic stack. To her it looks more like various simple homebuilt apps or automatic emailers.

Good luck as you find the best way to run things for your partnership.
OK, thanks for the info!
Scheduled for Thursday, 3PM was the first time you had avail.
I know how Monero works. In fact, I’ve made several commits.

> The people in control of the funds won't need to answer any questions about the origin in order to cash out because the origin of the funds are not known to the network

You misunderstand how AML/KYC laws work.
Ask HN: How to Solve the Energy Crisis?
There is currently an Energy crisis going on in Europe. How would you solve it without developing any new technologies and without making any changes to existing governmental policies?

I am specifically looking for existing technologies to increase energy production (not reduce consumption) which can be re-structured regarding their ease of use and their underlying incentive structures.
> These things are tools and it doesn’t pay to be dogmatic.

I wish I would hear this line more often.

So many things today are (pseudo-) religious now. The right frsmework/language, cloud or on prem, x vs not x.

Especially bad imho when somebody tries to tell you how you could do better with 'not x' instead of x you are currently using without even trying to understand the context this decision resides in.

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Or worse, people will wake up and realize that being in SF isn’t necessary, and then it’ll start to dry up entirely.

If the office you never go to is in Austin instead of SF, who will care?
> I'm no wine expert but I bet I could reliably tell red from white in a blind tasting

This response is intended a joke, gently poking fun at the HN cliché response of "SMEs can't reliably do a thing, but I could if I wanted to". (Right?)
That’s as ridiculous and argument as claiming a link between modern socialism and the nazi party because of a shared name.
There is one party that’s all about « state’s rights » today, the same argument used to justify slavery.
So I saw a comment once which suggested all intel cpu's are the same and they just disable certain features before its sold.

So this article would make sense when thinking about the above comment, only instead of features being factory fused or disabled, they become a payable option which might be a one time fee or an option which can be switched on for a period of time.

From a recycling point of view, it would make sense, people dont have to throw away a computer or shelve it when they want to upgrade, but I cant help but think what about the realisation over time people may come to if this instruction set on/off service/rental/purchase becomes an option? Would that then harm intel or not if it became known that and would that spawn some new hacking interest in microcode or whatever it is that controls the enabling of different instruction sets?