skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any algorithm is going to get gamed sooner or later. The biggest problem I've with Google ranking is this:

1. Everyone now knows that Google favors long content pieces which covers the topic in depth (what, why, when, etc.)

2. So an army of content marketing firms are writing 2000 word posts for simple topics that can be covered in 200 words.

3. As the user gets lost in the 2000 word article, trying to find what they really need, Google treats this as a positive "lots of time spent on page" signal and rewards this behavior further.

The result is people trying to now write 3000 word articles to "one up" the other already long posts dominating the first few results.
mRNA is basically as worthless as inactivated viruses in preventing omicron spread as well, seeing how omicron has burned through most of the west. Difference in efficacy will buy a few days before exponential curve takes over. Reality is Omicron has closed the gap in performance between different vaccines, which is to say, render them woefully insufficient in preventing medical systems from being overwhelmed. Preventing severe cases is about the only utility for vaccines now, the major epidemiological intervention is back to crushing the curve / maintaining covid zero for population with low covid exposure. Or else PRC would be as / more screwed than countries that depend on mRNA.
An Average Programmer's Quest to Learn Rust – Part 1: Searching Text
Agreed. I think the whole market analogy breaks down right out of the gate:

> Each of these communities has an upvote mechanism, which can be interpreted as an indication that the user believes the website is undervalued. They are willing to bid up the price by spending their upvote on it.

It's wholly misleading to talk about "spending" an upvote. Upvotes, unlike money, are not a limited resource. Most of the other problems (bots, spamming, optimizing for low-effort clickbait etc) flow from that.
I used TreeStyleTab for a while but it never quite felt "right" and all the tweaks to get rid of the top tab bar are such a pain. It almost seems like too much with all the nested tabs (I know you can turn these off)

I hate to say it but the best vertical tab implementation I've seen is in Edge. Easily toggle-able between horizontal/vertical tabs, there's a way to collapse it to just favicons, you can use collections to group tabs together (like in Chrome). It's honestly one of the features that keeps me coming back to Edge, privacy be damned.

I think the only feature I really miss from Firefox is container tabs.
Unitarian Universalist is another option.
Interestingly their launcher GitHub readme provides installation instruction for NixOS users but their website does not mention it.

Launcher GitHub page: https://github.com/veloren/Airshipper
Worth mentioning that I know a surprisingly high number of atheist Catholics.
Requirements is a communication and expectation problem. Not an engineering problem.

Software or hardware engineering is a solution. You can solve the same with a pen and paper if you know what the user needs.

Agile is a way to iteratively validate expectations and revisit and update things with minimal wastage
If you think that's bad: "California EDD admits paying as much as $31 billion in unemployment funds to criminals"
https://abc7news.com/california-edd-unemployment-fraud-ca-sc...
Yes. The state of the art is:

* biktorg's firmware (now flash able via GNOME Firmware or fwupdmgr)

* NetworkManager with --test-quick-resume-suspend flag.

* Crust/ATF as platform firmware (e.g. Tow-Boot)

* eg25-manager to manage the modem

This will be available transparently to most users, but some distros might not be there yet.

PostmarketOS and Mobian are safe bets.
Focusing on frontend is pretty typical of code academies. My guess is because it's easy to inspire someone when they build an interface to some they'd actually use. Unless you're already a developer, backend systems are further from things people actually do. It's also an easier sell because it's easier to explain to people what they'll do--you just show them.
> I have a pattern of loneliness pushing me into making very foolish decisions

That’s pretty unusual self awareness. Respect. Glad you’re asking for help.

Let me proffer some of the obvious suggestions: D&D type of gaming (not for me but my adult child has met many great people that way), going to the gym, yoga class, chamber of commerce, get involved with a charity that means something to you, start going to church.

Try talking to people but when I say talking I really mean listening with all your heart, and being interested in them. Everyone has a story. If you’re genuinely interested, they will reveal everything within a few minutes. my kids make gentle fun of me for interviewing people, but I just like to listen to what people are really saying and respond by learning more about them. (If you are sincere it will incidentally help you enormously with women.)

A slightly less obvious one: get really good at something. When I do this I shoot to be better than about 80% of people, which you can usually do with raw work and without requiring some kind of genetic superiority. If you do it right the process is rewarding, and the outcome is also rewarding. Get fluent at a challenging language like Chinese or Arabic? Work out enough to get fairly ripped? Give away something great on GitHub? You’re a recruiter if your username applies, and maybe just focus on making a lot of money? That sounds shallow and you don’t have to take it very seriously, but I have learned that getting better than most people at some kind of lucrative or socially valued skill just helped me enormously, and you can you can usually do that simply by working hard and with common sense. The reason I harp on this angle is that when you’re pretty darn good at something, it attracts people. And getting good at something usually requires that you take on multiple topics well at once, which makes you feel better about yourself.

You can reach out to me via the email address in my profile and we can chat if you want. I have no agenda but I’m a decent listener.
There's beauty in a turd if it's polished and looked at through rose-tinted lenses. It's still not the type of beauty that I'd like to marry myself to.
This is beautiful!!

I got myself up into the Giant Tree and spent three nights. The colors and effects are wonderful. I could zoom way out to the neighboring mountains and pan around to see the whole landscape, then back in to see the crazy creatures on top of the tree.

I put on my glider and jumped out of the tree and realized I didn't know how to fly yet and splat!!

Even though it's multiplayer and has quests and lots of activities, I had a great time just exploring around by myself. Thanks for a fun game!
Used to be on a similar spot as yours, I read some things that helped me much, I could share them with you if you want to.

If you want to exchange some words send me an email (check profile).

>my divorce left me untrusting of women

Don't. Good people exist and you deserve to be around them.
Oh, that is just dumb
Getting a vehicle larger than a bicycle between India and China is a serious bureaucratic achievement.
You are right - I just didn't see that for years, and didn't bother to search for it.
I do think adding a Noita-style cellular automaton would be fairly straightforward.

Currently Veloren has water and lava, but neither will flow (e.g. if water blocks are manually placed on top of a hill, they won't flow downhill, fortunately this is rare due to worldgen). A simple way to fix this would be to have an ECS system that uses CA-style rules (e.g. a water block with an adjacent-and-below air block swaps places with that air block), though naively doing this would be expensive (iterating over all loaded terrain chunks every tick). A possible optimization would be to detect such blocks, remove them from the main terrain grid, put them in a separate entity-with-terrain-collider (the same kind we use for airships), and only iterate the (sparsely populated) AABB of fluids-that-have-recently-moved. This is similar to what Noita does with keeping track of recently-updated terrain rectangles. Once this is in place, it can be straightforwardly extended with more fluid interactions (e.g. Minecraft-style water + lava = obsidian, more Noita-inspired gases rising).
I have the opposite experience. My experience with junior engineers out of the modern CS education is that the current leetcode based system is impressive at churning out a backend engineers who can write functional boilerplate code and algorithms. As long as you have a senior engineer supervising the overall architecture and doing code reviews for security issues, fresh grads are basically easy to replace cogs in the backend factory. Frontend on the other hand requires much more experienced candidates to deal with resource constrained systems, especially when it comes to animation heavy and fat client/WebAssembly apps where every frame counts.
Fun facts, do you know that the fall of Roman Byzantine Empire is prophesized in a reputable Islamic tradition? According to the tradition, the general who conquered Constantinople is the best general ever and eventually the title is held by the Sultan Muhammad Al-Fatih. Also the fact that one of the first missions to conquer Constantinople is joined by Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, the claimed sahabah (friend) of prophet Muhammad that hosted him when he migrated to Madinah due to the hostility of his tribes in Mecca. Legend has it Abu Ayyub (at the old age of 90s) died just outside the great wall of Constanstinople during the unsuccesful tour.

Please stop the nonsense that the western world single handedly saved the Greek knowledge. Actually the Muslim scholars that performed most of the scavenging and translations to Arabic in addition to other significant knowledge contributions that later found their way to dark ages Europe, igniting their Renaissance as we know it. They did it because of the importance of knowledge and the fact that translation works are handsomely rewarded by the Caliphs with gold equivalent in book's weight. These massive Greek to Arabic translations and on top of that the more important new knowledge contributions (e.g. Khawarizmi, Avicenna, Averroes) works later found their way to Europe after the fall of Muslim Spain empire starting with the fall of Toledo (the knowledge and translation center) in the 11th CE. Most the Greek books and knowledge were lost by the literally burning of the books and libraries (e.g Alexandria library) by the later Roman Emperors.
I agree that this is worth considering. We Christians mess up a whole lot and there's a good share of bad theology out there. But if nothing else we value people, community, and relationships more than the average.
A lot of fake users would upvote spammy sites, though.
Thanks for the kind words. The resistance I'm up against is that I feel like I'm just using people to alleviate the loneliness. It feels manipulative and inauthentic. Like I'm putting on a show in order to attract companionship. Thats why i want to learn how to be alone without being lonely, it frees me up to connect authentically.
Hey. If you're feeling down and want to talk to someone, feel free to email me at IMAYousaf@gmail.com.

Always happy to talk :)
The folks at OpenBSD Misc do not recommend port knocking. IIRC one of the reasons stated was a possibility of getting locked out of your own server. I tried looking up the relevant thread, but am on the phone.
megalomania
Oh this looks cool! I wish I could have registered my username, but it's already taken; ah well, wasn't fast enough
I'm curious, is this someone who goes through the liturgy but doesn't have a faith?
See also The Witness, which is gorgeous and probably could have run on a dreamcast.
This ^. Just meet some random folks and go bowling with them.
Wow! Do you happen to know what flowers you've got planted there?
I would love to do similar. So far I've been doing lots of clover and putting in crocus bulbs randomly.
Twitter sends me fake notifications, despite me disabling them, then they follow up with notifications to check out my missed notifications.
Essentially. I know a bunch in other religions as well as it is their social group.
Pope Francis Issues an Urgent Plea for an End to the War in Ukraine
Celebrate tiny learning milestones
> Front-end development is now seen as "easier" then backend or frontend.

This makes absolutely no sense if "Front-end" is the same as "frontend" and you knew that.
A good friend of mine predicts that loneliness will cause a resurgence in religion among Gen Z for this reason.
All human beings need social contact, we're social animals. I think introverted nerd-types sometimes convince themselves that it's not true for them because socialising is hard work and needing to do it is irrational, but guess what: being alive is irrational. So even if you don't especially enjoy being around other people you have to recognise that you need to do it, as much as you need to eat and drink and sleep (another irrational need).

Try work from a coffee shop, go to the gym, join a co-working space. These are all low pressure spaces where nobody really expects you to be actively sociable but you can still be around others.

There's a fair bit of projection in this comment as for a while I thought I didn't need to socialise (despite actually being somewhat extroverted) and went through something similar to you.
My name is David i built a facebook like website called chatbox,you can add friends,group chat with them
The website is built with php,html and css,My plan is to connect people together
I’m really good at something and still suffer from devastating cosmic loneliness.

Don’t expect that putting 10,000 hours into something will solve any of your social issues.
Resource constraints? That is not something 90+/-9% of frontend developers need to care about. Backend devs will hit resources constraints a lot earlier than frontend devs will, anyway.
surprised it didn't happen sooner?
For anyone reading this. Don't visit the above link, just use older version instead:

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20647

To anyone out of the loop, Firefox Android has basically killed add-ons, similar to Chrome. This is why you have to go through 12 steps just to install a fucking addon.
The main one I see there is they appear to have crossed the Darien Gap between Central and South America. Last time I checked this was not easy!
It may be too late. My family members decided to leave 3 weeks ago, and just arrived at O’Hare last night. International flights are very limited, but they generally do not go where you need them to go. So you have an additional layer of finding connections to where you need to go. You may have to wait weeks for available seats on the multiple airplanes you will have to use.

One thing that I didn’t realize is that getting back into China/HK is not easy either. My brother will spend 2 weeks here in the US getting his wife and kids set up and then go back to work. But before he can get back in and spend 3 weeks in quarantine, he will have to go spend 2 weeks in Germany to “decontaminate” himself from spending time in the US!!!
You were right about it. I'm currently not using fail2ban and I probably should start using it. Those login failures are nuisance.
Wow, and I thought my 26000km road trip zig-zagging through Canada and the US was extreme… This is a whole other level!
What makes you think that google is NOT already taking into account social media upvotes or social media popularity?
First off, you are not alone in feeling alone. 1 in 5 Americans reports that they have no friends. The reasons behind this are not "people are anti-social or introverts," but more a result of living in a world (especially in the US) where people move away from their family, change jobs frequently, often work freelance/gig jobs where hours don't align, get divorced, and live alone (28% of Americans live alone). This is my area of research and my work at the moment, so I could spout off all kinds of stats but one thing I can say is that it's really important to not ignore your feelings here- loneliness is like physical pain letting us know our needs are not being met.

To find a sense of belonging, you need 2 things. One is frequent positive interaction and the other is ongoing relationships where you feel cared about.

Our technology to date has worked against us here.

My recommendation is to find a community that you can start to interact with regularly. There are many that will welcome you, but also know it will take time before you start feeling like you belong- and just try to stick with it while it's uncomfortable.

Some ideas: 12-step programs, there are ones like Al-anon or CoDA where you don't have to have any substance issues yourself and deal more with relationships. Communities around people you admire, like Patreon communities that surround a particular artist or thought-leader. Or potentially Meetups, if they meet more regularly than once a month. Meditation groups or other spiritual communities tend to be fairly welcoming as well. Volunteering can be another avenue if the organization does something that is meaningful to you.

The most important aspect is that they have some kind of "meeting others" aspect and aren't just Discords or something where it's a lot of work to get to know people on any sort of personal level. In person or small video calls are good.

Above all, know that this is something that does take work, though social media makes it seem like people just have these great lives or you just need to join a Facebook group or something. But it's not impossible or complicated.

The weird thing is, the more you extend acceptance to other people in a group context, the more you'll find belonging in yourself. And give yourself as much of a break as you can here. You are noticing something isn't right and that's a really good self-reflexive step.
Volunteer or Work parttime (like uber or coffeeshop or backend of a reatiler).
light work, social group to interact with in a hands off manner.

A pet also do wonders to mental health BTW.
Man, sorry to hear that. OP asked for tips and those were mine. For me, as example, being a good programmer took me to one of the top software companies in the world and I met wonderful people. It worked for me but I guess I should’ve been clearer that these are just my suggestions. My best to you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29223641
I don't get lonely. About 20 years ago, I decided to focus on something every time I felt a negative emotion. I did this extremely consistently, and worked most negative emotion out of my emotional repertoire in 3 or 4 years, and nearly completely in about 6 or 7 years. I have almost no negative emotion left in my emotional repertoire.

I'd study a wall, or a blade of grass. I'd thrust my attention on whatever I could find. You always have something you can focus on. I usually had a book with me.

However, I don't feel much positive emotion, possibly related, and I don't know that I necessarily recommend eliminating loneliness. That might work like cutting off the power to your smoke alarms--just kill the pain sensors and let the problem fester.
The description talks about idempotency to make it seem complicated, but really this sounds like they just didn’t check for an explicit OK response and instead decided to blacklist only certain error codes from the API.

Sounds like a sloppy decision on Uber Eats part to me.
you could focus on you...

Pick a new exercise (cycling ? mountain climbing?)

Pick a new skill to learn (drawing/painting/3d modelling in blender)

Woodworking/metal working (the creative hobbies of making something tangible is great for the soul assuming we have one)

read, then once you get into your reading groove, read in strange places.
I’m right there with you. My contact info is on my page if you want to talk. I am currently getting ready for bed but would happily get back to you tomorrow.

My friends all had kids and moved away and I feel… lost. My wife works nights, and I spend my nights alone. I don’t know what I’m even doing anymore, and with work from home having not seen my coworkers in two years… I am alone.
Or - accept that you'll be "inauthentic" for a while as you get back on your feet. Attract companionship and let it help you get back on the path to self acceptance. It's not a bad thing to rely on people and let them help you, even if you have to hide parts of yourself.
I, too, learned something about myself reading this beautiful piece.

I've long forgotten there was a popup modal.
Just a small suggestion that can help a little bit, a (legit) massage therapist. The need for human touch is real when lonely, even non-romantic non-sexual therapeutic touch. It doesn't have to just be because you've got a muscle pull in your shoulder.
I've been programming for 54 years. I still enjoy it. I do admit that the programs eventual use is critical to maintaining my interest. For me it is hard to separate the two.
I think the “it feels like” or similar is telling me have expectations of how social interaction should behave, how it should be motivated, etc. have you considered if your expectations actually match with reality, or if it’s reasonable to hold these expectations? A therapist might be able to help you navigate this.

(If I were to be honest, my plain question is “what is wrong with enjoying human company just because human company is enjoyable?”. It’s like saying it’s manipulative to eat to resolve hunger to me, as if every meal should be some Michelin star experience or starvation.)
This.

I had a friend who was very lonely, borderline suicidal. Went to a coffee shop for the same reasons, just to be around people because he thought it would help. Started chatting up the staff when he was getting coffee. Soon he was a regular, but still very lonely.

Doesn't show up one day because he had a doctor's appointment or interview. Phone starts buzzing. It's the people at the coffee shop, checking in on him. They had gotten worried about him and wanted to check in and make sure he was ok. Legit made him break down and cry, realizing there were people who cared about him, cared enough to reach out to him when he didn't show up - meaning they were indeed paying attention to him and enjoyed him being there.

It took some more counseling to get him squared away, but that event completely changed his outlook on life. Sometimes when we get into dark places, a lot just goes by you until someone points it out.
Facebook likes are much cheaper than reddit or hn upvotes though.

I believe MarketRank is not completely useless, it shouldn’t be used as the only parameter for the ranking system though. Much more a single gear in a complex machine.
Go to the gym. Regularly. You'll feel better from the exercise, and start meeting other regulars. This can be a regular gym, climbing gym, whatever. It'll help.
I understand and empathize with the desire to restore the Internet as it previously existed as a constellation of weird neighborhoods and niche hangouts. Gemini feels like a technological solution to a social/cultural problem though.

I used Gopher and Veronica back in their heyday. The Internet was a fantastically cool novelty back in the days of bag phones and exorbitantly expensive long-distance calling, and I totally get wanting to recapture that feeling. I think it's a lost cause, though. Large parts of the world suddenly becoming easily and mostly instantly connected was a sort of species-level watershed moment. Those of us that were around for those early years were lucky to get to see it, but I don't think it can ever really be recreated, except as some sort of LARP.
I find that it is enough to have an engineering background.

Someone who grasps why simply adding a new button on the frontend might require a week of backend work because of prior decisions.