skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is in use also today in turists destinations. Put your face through a hole in a wall painted with something (body of an animal for example), get a picture.
In breeding season, magpies are notoriously territorial. To the point where cyclists all over Australia have zip ties tied to their helmets to act as spike-like deterrants to swooping magpies.

They would absolutely ruin a drone in about 3 seconds flat with no worries.

See also: https://www.hunterwildlife.org.au/living-with-our-magpies/
English has a similar confusion with the word hotel. A loan-word from French, the correct indefinite article is counterintuitive. An hotel, a house.
> happiness in others was not to be tolerated

This is something that worries me on occasion. Certainly very few would intentionally do it, but I fear there could be some alligator-brain crab bucket game going on in the subconscious where some team members will be inclined to "even out" any happiness deltas across the team.
> Their entire argument for this also applying outside the military domain seems to be that the military is a very large employer… However, is not the military a vastly different environment from normal civilian workplaces?

It’s not vastly different from other professions except software. Source: I have been in the U.S. Army for 25 years and I have been a corporate software developer for 16 years.

The only valid question is not what makes the military unique but instead what makes software unique. The answer: a complete absence of professionalism. I wrote about this here:

https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/Leadership_...

Edit: corrected the hyperlink.
> Oh, young people have less sex? This is definitely a problem, and...

Well, judging from many of the quotes in the article, it seems to be a problem for many of these young people, according to these young people themselves. Just because you can do without doesn't mean everyone should have to.

> This is just a laundry list of everything older generations hate about the youth

Funny, to me it looked like a list of problems young(ish) people themselves were having, plus some possible explanations from more or less popular science. Or are you claiming the authors just plain made up all those quotes from interviewees?

> I also can't even begin to express how frustrating paragraphs like this are:

> > Humans’ sexual behavior is one of the things that distinguish us from other species: Unlike most apes, and...

WTF is wrong with that paragraph? It's just (a pop-sci resume of) simple fact. Your frustration at it indicates a fault in your frustrativity [You read it here first! (?)] more than in the article.

> There's this tone running through the article of "we're not saying you have to have sex to be emotionally fulfilled as a human being,

That's because the overwhelming majority of people do have to have sex to be emotionally fulfilled as a human being. And, you know, the overwhelming majority is "the norm", so defines what's "norm-al".

> but we are going to constantly look at you weird and act like you might be emotionally stunted because of it."

Just because you don't want to be called "emotionally stunted" doesn't necessarily mean that you aren't: I don't know what range of emotions you're capable of, and you don't know mine. But as I understand the concept of "emotions", they're fairly intimately connected to hormones and sex drives and stuff. So unless and until we can look around inside each other's heads and examine each other's emotions first-hand, it seems fairly plausible that a-sexual people as a group might have a more limited -- colloquially, "stunted" -- range of emotions than people who aren't have as a group. If you inist on taking that as a slur, that's your choice. If you don't, then it isn't.

> I'm aroace, so I may be over-sensitive

Yup.

And, hey, "aro-" means "a-romantic", right? But "romantic feelings" are emotions; so how the fuck could you think you're not "emotionally stunted" if you don't have those? Compared to people who are otherwise similar to you, but in addition are ro- without the a-, you obviously, logically, have a narrower set of feelings.

> but holy crud, could older generations stop... [yadda, yadda.]

Sounds like wild projection caused by over-sensitivity. (Then again, this free on-line psychiatric diagnosis is worth every penny you paid for it. My degree in psychiatry is from Has Watched Frasier On TV University.)
> What is up with questioning people's mental health just to explain bluntness and lack of social tact?

Maybe not "explain" but "describe"? Asperger leads not to just any bluntness, but to very specific, in specific situations.

I saw this reference to Asperger as one of key pieces of a puzzle. He was not just stupid person when he planned to overthrow committee. He was bright enough but not in his social decisions. Moreover the author poses a question "did I do the best when discouraged him". If person have troubles grasping the nuanced picture of a social interactions, then the best strategy for him to trust his advisor more than his own ideas.

If he was not Asperger (and he might be not, he was not diagnosed), then his advisor could left his to his own devices without experiencing a moral dilemma: student should be adult enough to think for himself in such situations, without his advisor making decision and then manipulating his advisee by giving him a biased sample of facts and thoughts.
Austrian Programmer and Ex Crypto CEO Likely Stole $11B of Ether
So according to this article, somehow the US "tricked" Russia to invade Ukraine in order to prevent the Nordstream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany going online.

.. Ah OK.

None of that makes sense to me at all. I'm going to presume the site is a propaganda site.
Pluggable Database Snapshots with Oracle 21c
With current tech you can get fairly easily (not necessarily cheap) to 80% renewables penetration in Europe. The rest of the 20% could then be covered by coal, gas, biomass and nuclear.

Mind you if the goal is to get Russia out of the European gas market, by greatly increasing the amount of renewables we use the rest could be supplied by LNG + Norwegian/Dutch/English fields.
I don't think it is obvious that this thread is about browser choice. The subject looks to be the absence of competition to Chrome. Lack of personal choice is one reason to be concerned there, but another reason might be handing Google de-facto control over standards.
That is, ultimately what is happening.

You can probably see Apple's actions as attempting to hold their position best they can to try and drag that action back a little bit, but I think it's going to backfire badly.
The MIC siphons off way more money. He is saving taxpayers tons of money.
51% Democracy vs. ~100% Democracy
The problem is that a good chunk of those cultural benefits for some groups were:

1. They had better weapons and better immunity to diseases (Europeans vs Native Americans).

2. There were more of them (British Settlers vs French Settlers).

So it's not like they were some true human achievements worthy of praise.
The article read like it coiuld have been written by Jordan Peterson himself.

"Reverse" racism is because it is describing the fact that straight white men can no longer rely on their sex and race and sexual orientation to help narrow the field of competitors for whatever they want. It's the reverse of racism, in which the field of competition is narrows to those without certain apparent traits or attributes. The reverse of racism, not racism pointed the other direction.
Oh well. I guess this is another thing I could blame it on Craig Federighi.
Except I have yet to find a Flutter site that isn't bloated. It makes about as much sense to just focus on PWAs now.
I'm not sure what your comment as to do with the comment of the person you're replying to.

You seem to be suggesting that you can determine the nutritional content of food by taste alone?
I think you're missing my point entirely. A 2GB file is exactly the kind of absurdly large file I wrote this about:

> The moment you're willing to set an arbitrary limit above which you're ok with dropping performance, you can go very simple the way you did.

and this:

> For my own part I'm fine with falling back to e.g. emacs the one time every few months I need do do something with an unusually large file.

Point being I have no interest in making my editor handle 2GB files, because I don't edit 2GB files. I may occasionally happen to want to look at a large log file or something, in which case I'm happy to use Emacs. Or grep.

To this you answered:

> You still can't avoid the performance penalty of a tree allocation for something like bracket pairing. Or AST analysis or any one of billion things people want from a code editor.

And at least for bracket pairing this is true if you want to apply it to 2GB files and want to be able to quickly find the closing token, but that was explicitly out of scope of what I'm talking about; I'd explicitly excluded large files from consideration in the comment you replied to.

For the types of files I'm interested in handling - up to tens of thousands of lines but beyond that I really don't care - just storing the parser state per line coupled with linearly scanning as needed is more than fast enough. Even in Ruby, which is what I'm using.

You'll note my objection was not to doing analysis, but to the need for keeping any more complex structure in sync over the data. My editor uses just a plain array of lines represented as strings.

It will break horribly on huge files.

That's perfectly fine.

The point of the comment you replied to was explicitly to argue that for some editors it'd be just fine to make the explicit design choice not to cater for extreme cases like that.

Of course I'm not arguing for all editors to do this. Then I wouldn't have anything to use on the rare cases I need it. I'm arguing for people to consider whether their editor need to able to handle all kinds of outliers; maybe it need to - Jetbrains probably do need their editor to for commercial reasons - maybe it doesn't; mine does not need to.

Instead I optimise for what makes it pleasant for me for my common case, and fall back to emacs the once every few months where I for some reason need to do something with an absurdly large file.
- Flutter widgets can be made pixel perfect replicas of native UI components.

- Supporting older platforms is much easier with Flutter.

- You can use native UI components with Flutter if you want to, and mix them with Flutter widgets.

- Flutter has a tiny and fast runtime, React Native runs on Safari or Chrome. Flutter works great on embedded platforms too, such as IoT devices.

- Dart is similar to JavaScript, with the same runtime behavior, though obviously you can't use existing JavaScript libraries outside of the browser. You can use many WASM ones though.
I do not know the author and do not agree with all conclusions/examples in that thread, but i believe the points about consent and the "100% democracy" (what some people refer to as anarchism) are of interest.
Global Palindrome Day (2020)
Centaur Labs (YC W19) is hiring a product designer
No, that's an argument for a proper social safety net, as implemented in many European countries.
Most fulltime jobs pay better than a UBI ever could, so if you have a job,

a) either your standard of living is so high that a change to UBI-only would be very disruptive and you'd still be worried about losing your job,

b) or your standard of living is so low that you'd quickly accumulate enough of a financial buffer that you wouldn't have to worry about losing your job.

Therefore, a UBI wouldn't be better than a social safety net in this regard. In both cases you wouldn't have to worry about starving, but you'd still have to worry about losing your income.
Don't forget Samsung also built an autonomous gun turret for South Korea. They aren't exactly shining beacons of morality.
I agree there is a lot of survivorship bias, but it seems like every triple AAA game that releases is an unfun buggy mess. It feels like they like passion and have become too corporate. Like they focused on what features the game has to have instead of being a fun game. And by having so many features of course you have more area for bugs.

Vampire survivors, a game developed by a single person provided me with more fun than cyberpunk, the game is played with just WASD.
Anecdote (and obligatory YMMV): I purchased the Charge 4 when it first came out and after extensive usage, I tossed it in the trash. The final straw for me was when I was having a physical done and compared the HRM data of the watch to what the readings the nurse was getting with her device. The data reported by the Fitbit was wildly inaccurate compared to the readings that the nurse was seeing. I also compared my data to my wife's Apple Watch and noticed large disparities in GPS data when we would go on runs/walks together. In the end, I came to the conclusion that a) if basic heart rate/GPS data is inaccurate, what else is? and b) what's the point of collecting all this data anyway? At the end of the day, it wasn't providing me with anything that fundamentally improved my life and if anything led to more anxiety due to constantly tracking and obsessing over all of this data.

tl;dr - My Charge's data was questionable at times and completely inaccurate compared to a medical grade device. In the end, all the data tracking just gave me anxiety.
At the end humans are native machine speakers.
I achieved the same conclusion on 2010 after buying Samsung Galaxy S. It was a terrible device with awful support. This was specially bad since it was supposed to be a premium device.

Since then, the only thing I will buy from Samsung are TV's
In short, no, linking to a thing you found on Twitter is absolutely no different from posting a link to a webpage you found. That's what I'm saying.

Other people seem to think that HN users are submitting links to tweets that they themselves authored, and that's generally not the case, so there seem to be a lot of misconceptions flying around.
Question count on SO doesn't necessarily correlate with popularity. It might correlate with poor documentation, high bug counts, low API discoverability, higher usage in "sweat shop" contract houses.
How do you know it isn't?
What the university needed to do, this dean said, was “make the program look more like America as a whole.”

Given how many Americans as a whole don't go to a university at all, and a huge majority don't go to a "top university" (however you measure that), I think this phrasing from the dean should be nominated for some kind of Orwellian Newspeak of the Year award.
Followed by "how to fool the happiness detector built into your cubicle."
Coinbase CEO has really a bad reputation online. Or just Coinbase as company.
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EMACS was just a package on top of TECO (the way LaTeX sits on top of TeX). Later re implementations (e.g. GNU emacs) just continued to use the same design.

So why did TECO use a gap buffer?
The gap buffer was an easy way to manage an edit buffer back when machine clock speeds were measured in kilohertz and RAM in kilobytes. There were no fonts (no rendering at all), six or seven bit characters, oh, and the machines were often timeshared.

Likewise, vi is just a visual addition to ed, itself a clone of the Multics qed, itself a clone of qed on earlier machines. Those machines were, by modern standards, equally resource starved.
Judging from replies I am guessing half of HN either dont quite get how this message is intended or they agree with what Apple is doing.
Sure, it's easy to learn, but why bother when you can just use React Native? Also there are a ton of senior people with lots of years of experience to hire, where Flutter seniors basically don't exist.

With React being prevalent on the web front, why would anyone do a Flutter web app + mobile app?
I still remember when Samsung effectively bricked their SSD for Linux users with a faulty firmware update. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fstrim/+bug/144900...

Not only did they never revert/fix it, but they had the audacity to blame their customers for using "software that anyone could modify".
I'd love to pay to remove youtube ads. But... I refuse to surf the web logged into google. So I can't.

And beside that I'd very much not want to give google money either. So I don't.

(yes, watching the ads gives them money, and blocking the ads and use youtube reinforces their monopoly. But it still feels better than also giving them cash directly).
Russia intentionally prevented Germany and the rest of Russia's gas customers from filling up their reserves this season, despite really needing the money.
I understand but I want to avoid the browser. I hate using OneNote there because it's even more horrible than the desktop version. I'd use it for the mobile perhaps but on the desktop I really want to do back to something more basic.

But once there's a native client I'll give it a try!
> Using a password manager means you either only use a single device for all your internet, or you deal with the synchronisation problem yourself.

Is synchronisation a problem? 1Password does it all for me, I don't even notice it.
He could always just come out as non-binary to get almost all of that access at almost no personal cost.
My metaphor works but you don't like it *
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all games that try to have real physics have these glitches. you can’t not have them and also have good frame rates.
Show HN: Esolang Park, an online visual debugger for esolangs
Hey HN! Esolang Park is an online visual debugger interface for esoteric programming languages, that I've been working on for the past few months. For every supported language, Esolang Park provides the powerful Monaco code editor, syntax checking, debugging functionality and a visualisation of the runtime state. The core is language-agnostic - a "language provider" only needs to implement the esolang's parser, interpreter and visualisation UI (and some other little stuff).

Apart from trying to boost DX for esolangs, the idea is for this to grow into a platform where people can discover and play around with a variety of esolangs without leaving the browser. That's quite far away though - the project is quite early in development and currently only has 5 languages (Befunge-93, Brainf*ck, Chef, Deadfish and Shakespeare).

Happy to hear any feedback (and bug reports too)!
Embracing Imposter Syndrome
Learning from Marble Arch Mound
Cannot really confirm this from my experience. Have worked with a lot of very unhappy geniuses. Perhaps not really unhappy, but not particularly happy either. But performance can mean something different.

I think the study source is questionable as well. Perhaps the soldiers were happier because they got acknowledgement for their work?

Most intellectuals don't get noticed because they are positively beaming, even if that is a likable truth for management... Or is it just to get management to make people happier?

That said, people that are always happy are often not the brightest in my experience. But maybe they do perform well.
> He told me that he was not a racist. He had voted for Democrats in the 2016 election and hated Donald Trump. And as it happens, I had reason to believe this was true. The morning after that election, Daniel had come to visit me in my office, deeply troubled by what a Trump presidency might mean for scientific research and funding.

Unfortunately by voting for democrats you are giving a democratic mandate for this type of racist policy. Stop doing it.
Does every one of these have to have the "I hate Trump, yet understand the motivations of his followers," claim? I get the article is for "well meaning progressives" who want all these policies, just maybe 20% less, but the author and their intended audience have no clue what motivates people who fundamentally disagree with them. My advice to the author is to endure. Academia is the corrupt bed you nade, now sleep in it
One person had one issue issue with a single repair ticket. And then amongst a site of hundreds of thousands of users, some also put their single issues in the comments. So what? We could do this with any major tech company. And we do. It's not enough to change my behavior. I want to see the data.
Not sure where you are going with the free will thing unless you are going for the genetics answer to happiness which I find lacking.

Are some people happy? Yes. Are there people who were not happy who now are? Yes. How? Lots and lots of anecdotes are around changing how they approached life, not how they changed their genetics.

Looking at your linked article, they are going off of a wellness questionnaire first developed 40 years ago. Looking at the broad areas of questions, I feel they also miss what it means to be happy in many cases.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multidimensional_Personality...

Some questions are orthogonal to happiness include living interesting, exciting lives; enjoying being noticed, being the center of attention; being perfectionistic; being victims of false and nasty rumors; having been betrayed and deceived; enjoying scenes of violence (fights, violent movies); liking to plan activities in detail; and more.
You're conflating opportunity with outcome.
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Critics might now argue that the goal of the diversity movement was never to create equal opportunities for everyone but to promote specific groups.

Anyway, the illogic of this movement already starts with the fact that only certain characteristics are seen as a source of discrimination, while others are not. Skin color and gender are known to be factors of discrimination. But what about "beauty," "social origin" or "age"? It is known from studies that attractive people are considered to be more competent or more successful and are promoted more often - less attractive people therefore suffer an unfair disadvantage. Shouldn't this therefore also become part of any effort to stop discrimination?
> It isn't "Reverse Racism", it is all Racism

It is not that simple. I think of it as plain racism vs acceptable/approved/sanctioned racism. In the first case, you will have the politicians and media all talking about how bad this is. In the second case, the only response you will get from this crowd is a collective "meh."
They also face denial of service attacks in the form of all sorts of nitpicks of presentation and ofc all funding sources have strings attached.
Liechtenstein, too, in that agreement.

More German speaking countries (language with official status) who were not involved: Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Namibia.
It turns out a good phone with good customer service and reasonable repair options is worth more than 300€ yes.

Sadly we have been made believe that it could be much cheaper, but there are hidden human, privacy and environmental costs.

Hopefully we finally start paying the actual cost for our smartphones, and our planet, the kids and our privacy will be grateful for it.
Private Keyboard
What is the safest location for phone? While jibbing, specifically.
I have no preference regarding the Ivermectin business except to see that a controversial issue is settled in most people's minds, on a valid evidential basis. I think reporting like this actually pushes that resolution farther into the future. Maybe the Malaysian study would be convincing to a lot of people if explained sympathetically, but the first half of this article is about politics. That's no way to gain the ear of people who are suspicious of your motives to begin with. It is really, really rare now to see anyone discuss Ivermectin (and most other COVID-related topics) without some reference to politics.
> Am much much older, but I won't stop because you don't like a perfect valid thing, do you want to censor me or the books where that phrase was printed?

You compare a free license with slavery....no one forces you to work on a project that uses BSD/MIT/ISC, also no one forces you to live in the US, that's the "small" difference, no one takes your freedom away.
Never mind Big Tech – ‘little tech’ can be dangerous at work too