skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Play in a band! Not only do you have to maintain relationships, and thus conversations with 4 other people, but playing shows gives you a reason to leave the house and meet new people!
The standard of living will never ever be the same all over the world. There will always be rich countries and poor countries. Always have, always will. The fact of the matter is that population growth is out of control in poor parts of the world and every last one of those people want to migrate to countries where the standard of living, and therefore carbon footprint, is higher. Which is why I find it maddening that people lecture westerners to stop having children when birth rates are already below replacement, and at the same time see no problem with allowing never ending numbers of people to instantly elevate their carbon footprint via migration. It’s just not a logically consistent set of viewpoints to hold if your primary concern is climate change.
Windows 10 is definitely spyware. So migrating to Edge is hardly a solution. Chromium on the other hand...
1) The premise laid out at the link is very interesting, and one I have wondered about for more than a decade without reaching any conclusions. So much code in a modern kernel is predicated on the idea that if the data is on "disk" it will be slow and we should do something else while it arrives. What does kernel design look like when that's just not true anymore?

2) Then I went to the slides, and found what appeared to be a talk about programming languages and desktop environments.

3) Filesystems are often thought of as ways of finding data on some storage medium, and that's not wrong. But files are also a way to organize data, largely independently of the technical details of the filesystem itself.
I miss outline
Trolling?? Also why do people keep ignoring the "For a linux user" part?

But to the topic, why would it be non-serious? If you can't make a basic clone of most websites in a month, you're not a very good web dev team.
> And you are not going to argue culture is bad, are you?

This is where it falls apart imo. Of course some aspects of various cultures are bad.
As many already noticed, the rise of Python is not counter-intuitive at all. (I'm a scientist myself).

Basically modern python offers you a spectrum from easy to understand and quick to write python programs (those will be slow), to purely glue code that connects a lot of high performance c/C++/fortran code.
And many scientists will start from pure python code with the help of numpy. In many cases it will be good enough. But if needed you can always interface with other libraries, or write yourself high performance c/c++/fortran code for the most performance critical bit, and use python to glue it together. That flexibility where you can trade speed of writing the code with the speed of execution is very valuable.
> It's common to advise hitting on the gym, which I just started doing last week. Funnily, the gym is the place where I last noticed my awkward behavior :)

If you are able to, consider a home gym to first get comfortable with what you are doing or hire a personal trainer at a public gym.

This person gives positive gym talk - https://www.tiktok.com/@thejoeyswoll?lang=en
Could you power the wormhole with its own energy output? Or would that mean the wormhole requires infinite energy to resolve the conundrum?
Breaking the news is so hard. Sorry about your colleague. This sounds pretty rough.
I realised social approval doesn't matter, and then everything was fine. Obviously I still try to do my best, but now that I'm doing it for me and not for getting approval or impressing people, suddenly it isn't about confidence anymore. The self-failure of not trying is worse than getting negative feedback, so hiding in my shell isn't an option anymore.
Viable doesn't usually mean a thing is only just or barely sufficient. It usually means a thing is at least sufficient. It means a thing is more than good enough to be viable. The question "is it viable?" is used to find out if something is at the point of being "good enough" or greater, and something more than good enough will still be "perfectly viable".
"Minimal Viable" doesn't extend to great, but it does also reach perfect viability. Describe something as "barely viable" suggests its not quite viable. Viability is all about passing the threshold of being in fact viable.
As viable is a binary qualifier, the "Minimal" part more intelligibly constrains the "Product". Its a minimal product that is yet viable, not a product with minimal viability.

In the same vein "Minimal Lovable Product", shouldn't mean a product which someone could only barely love :]
Watch an episode of “The Thick of It” before going to work.
Strictly speaking it’s none of them, because those are idealized perfectly symmetrical spaces with no matter in them, only dark energy, and our universe (happily) has matter in it :). But it’s very, very close to flat, except not quite perfectly flat, and the best observational evidence leads us to believe that if you neglect the matter and think only about the dark energy part, we’d actually be living in a de Sitter spacetime.

The quantity that measures this is called the cosmological constant. It’s zero in flat space, positive in de Sitter and negative in anti-de Sitter. It turns out from measurements that our cosmological constant is positive but outrageously small, tiny compared to anything else we know about in physics. This is puzzling because we would love to relate it to something we understand already but it’s hard to arrive at a result so small working with quantities that are considerably larger. So there’s an interesting open question about why it is what it is.
>[2] https://cert.europa.eu/cert/newsletter/en/latest_SecurityBul...

I took a look and my first impressions are not good.

1. like you mentioned, the signal to noise ratio is pretty bad. eg. "OpenSSL/LibreSSL Vulnerability (CERT-EU Security Advisory 2022-017)" which is a DoS exploit that consumers would likely not care about. There's also no vendor/product filter, so I get notifications about "H2 Database Console" that I don't care about.

2. It's slow/out of date. eg. "Multiple Vulnerabilities in VMware (CERT-EU Security Advisory 2022-013)" was published on February 17, 2022, but the patch was published January 15th, a month earlier.
Great answer. I agree getting out of one's comfort zone can go a long way to bringing new perspective, and adapting, and developing new skills. Especially social ones.
"Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West" (2018) by Keir Giles is also worth reading: https://icds.ee/en/the-moscow-rules-ten-principles-for-worki...

It explains the reality that Russia's confrontation with the West is their default state throughout history, rather than abnormality.
Yeah we should stop breeding animals into existence only to live short and unimaginably cruel lives. They won’t go extinct though, if that’s what you mean. There will always be cows and chickens and pigs. Just far far fewer.

The huge difference between your hypothetical and reality is that the aliens are actively committing genocide and im merely a proponent of not forcefully impregnating more animals to get them pregnant so I can profit off them.

If human beings were kept in conditions like those we find animals and at the same scale, and the aliens came and were horrified then I’d beg them to press the button that stops humans from being raped and impregnated at mass scale solely for the babies to be processed.
Good! One of our collective goals as a species should be to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies to 0. Nobody should be a parent unless they want to be. Every child deserves loving parents who made the choice to have kids.

We will get there eventually. Nothing will stop scientific progress.
One thought I've had is that all time travel contradictions are based on conscious agents. Without a conscious agent who aims to change things, what happened is happened.
> But he is correct that, of all empire and colonial forces, only the European ones are haunted by the memories, and amnesiac to their own history of colonial subjugation

And rightly so. Unlike Europeon colonialism, the Islamic empire sought to integrate the conquered population within its empire and tried to be egalitarian. (Yes, they had slavery and slave trade was a part of their economic system, but Islamic philosophies allowed a slave to be freed and treated at par as a citizen once he bought his freedom or was freed. There are even freed slaves who rose up to rule the kingdoms they were citizens of). Contrast that with European colonialism that witnessed the most brutal and greatest exploitation and transfer of wealth from the east to the west. Europeans created two types of colony - one which they repopulated (after nearly wiping out the indigenous people) and other which they conquered and subjugated but the local population still outnumbered them. Yet, the treatment of the "citizens" of these colonies in the empire was dictated by race and religion. In the "christian" white man's colonies - USA, Australia, Canada etc. - the white man was treated nearly at par with the coloniser. But in the occupied colonies - like in most of Africa and Asia - the original "coloured" inhabitant was never even considered a legitimate "citizen" of the empire. (Ofcourse, that slightly changed later after the french revolution and the US freeing itself from the British necessitated a political change).

> Shouldn't it be up to Europeans to decide what kind of Europe qualifies as a pretty picture,

Sure, but that isn't going to stop others from showing Europe a mirror to themselves to highlight the reality of the world you are building -

“It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed, children being killed every day by [Russian President] Putin’s missiles, helicopters and rockets,” said David Sakvarelidze.

On CBS News, the foreign correspondent stated, “With all due respect, this isn't a place like Iraq or Afghanistan that has seen conflicts raging for decades... This is a relatively civilized, relatively European city where you wouldn’t expect this.” On Al Jazeera, the anchor said, “What's compelling is that these are prosperous, middle-class people. These are not refugees trying to get away from the Middle East or North Africa. They look like any European family that you'd live next door to."

On NBC, correspondent Kelly Cobiella ... said, "Just to put it bluntly, these are not refugees from Syria, these are refugees from neighbouring Ukraine. That, quite frankly, is part of it. These are Christians, they’re white, they’re very similar people."

Doesn't this racist, colonial narration reek of the very philosophies that lead to the rise of the worst of Europe (like the British empire and the Nazis)?

> In its statement, the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association condemned "orientalist and racist implications that any population or country is 'uncivilised' or bears economic factors that make it worthy of conflict".
I’ve looked at ground heat pumps before (not air pumps). However they are a huge capital outlay of £10k-£19k ($13k-$26k).

Both air and ground heat pumps work best for buildings with underfloor heating. Floors cover a much bigger area than radiators so they don’t need to get as hot to provide the same amount of heat.

We’re in a 70 year old building so that doesn’t help.

The savings are minimal maybe £30-£60 a year before the recent gas price increases. You can get grants of £2k per annum for 7 years so you will get money back. However they don’t really save any money unless you think gas prices will remain high. Outside of that you do it to be green.

https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/ground-and-air-source-heat-p...
Of course it is part of my real life. Doesn’t mean that I necessarily like it, though. And I would be doing something else if I could. (Don’t tell my boss^W^W my noble leader though.)
To the person injured, the reason for being helped is less important than the fact that he was HELPED.

Too many people will ignore things like this. Too many people will stand around helplessly--if nothing else, at least call 911. The number of times I have been the first person to actually call 911 at an accident is embarassingly high--I have only ever been the first person on site once. The rest of the time a crowd was gathering but nobody bothered to call 911.

Personally, I'll take help even if they're doing it selfishly. And I'll thank you just the same.
A superyacht is a terrible asset
The point of the original metaphor isn’t about disadvantage being simple and measurable, it’s simply about it existing and worthy of attention.

A solution here is largely academic, and not readily reached due to massive amounts of missing information.

However if the question is simply, is it fair for someone to lose first place because the second place categorization was biased? Sure, it definitely can be.
McDonalds is merely a canonical concrete example due to [1]. You are implying that good food is not expensive in NZ? The cost of living is slightly higher here [2], although like everywhere, ones standard of living really really depends on ones location and wealth.

Of course, part of the reason for high costs in NZ could be due to minimum wages being high (higher than the truck driver mentioned in article I think). The US minimum wage in plenty of states is half the minimum wage in NZ. No US state exceeds our minimum wage[3], even though we are a poorer country per capita.

Oh, and healthcare is free in NZ (although the system is far from perfect), and after retirement (currently 65 years) every single person in NZ gets ≈USD$1300 per month (I couldn’t find the US comparison but elderly poverty could be worse over there?[4]).

[1] https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index

[2] https://www.worlddata.info/cost-of-living.php

[3] https://www.laborlawcenter.com/state-minimum-wage-rates

[4] https://www.fool.com/retirement/2019/03/03/does-social-secur...
Get a grip. There’s no point worrying like this about something partly or mostly out of your control. Quitting, getting laid off, or even fired are all normal things that happen during a professional career. It’s not the same as getting a terminal disease. Build your network, hone your skills, gain experience. If you lose your job you move on and find another one.

Unless you get fired for drugs, violence, stealing, or some other crime it’s not likely to affect your prospects. I’ve been fired twice, laid off three times, quit more times than I can count. Never had a problem finding work, no one ever checked or cared why I left a previous job.
You can't resolve the conundrum. You can't have perfect efficiency or free energy. The laws of thermodynamics can't be cheated.

No matter what you do, you will get less work from the system than the energy you put in, and eventually entropy will eat everything. It doesn't matter if it works on paper, we don't live on paper.
Immediate mode is generally used for quick and dirty developer tools. It's rarely used for user-facing UI. You're free to waste your time carefully architecting an MVC application any time you want a few text boxes and sliders to fiddle with something. Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, Valve, Id, Blizzard, Ubisoft will continue to use immediate mode where they deem it useful, in spite of your advice.
Just propaganda -- nice sunglasses though!
You've raised real downsides (for some applications), but the rp2040 also many features that are unheard of at its price point (1$): dual core, PIO, lots of ram. In fact the RAM + dual core means you're almost getting two Cortex-M0+ MCUs for the price of one (with shared peripherals).

For comparison, Microchip (formerly atmel) SAMD21 (also Cortex-M0+, of Arduino Zero fame) is about 3-4 $, single core, less RAM.
I’m curious how did psychedelics made you more extroverted? i.e was it less internal monologue, more energy, etc
Doesn't have the smell of raw intellectual firepower that RAND's best work does, but it doesn't need to.

It would be very interesting to see the equivalent document for China.
You mean Kaiser Permanente? And Harvard Medical School? And The American Institute for Cancer Research? And the British Dietetic Association? And the Mayo Clinic?

What biases are you talking about?
That's not true, here's an example where it's billiard balls:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_princ...
and, from my own experience, the whole idea of sending someone anti-suicide hotlines is a bit... insulting, honestly.

It's like if I had a chronic back condition, and instead of finding from people wanting to listen I get the equivalent of a flyer in the mail about back issues.

The person that was trying to ends the potentially uncomfortable conversation and gets to wash their hands of the situation, thinking they helped.

If you're suicidal and posting on social media, of course you know about the hotlines. Getting spammed with it is so discouraging though.

And, for what it's work, I live in the US, and have tried calling the major hotlines in two different episodes only to get a busy signal. A person to talk to what would have helped me most in that situation.

(And btw, I'm not saying people are obligated to help suicidal people. it's just if someone actually wants to help, a canned text response is not effective.)
Everything I can get my brain interested in is a solo activity. I feel like whenever I try to even think about doing something that requires me to initiate contact with people, some unconscious part of me "resets" my thoughts and they just get stuck in a useless loop. On the rare occasion that I manage to override that and go somewhere, I am unable to engage with people even though I want to.

I don't hate interacting with people; quite the opposite in fact. I just for some unknown reason am seemingly completely incapable of initiating interaction with unfamiliar people (and even initiating anything with people I know is rare for me to do).
The wormhole in Star Trek Deep Space 9 had a travel time.
I didn't know that. I remember the iPod Shuffle had an exceptional DAC for its time. What a shame.
If people would simply not visit sites that are toxic, they would change or go out of business. I would be all for a site that tracked the toxicity of sites as a method of shaming them.
The actual film looks like a satire of a bad student film. It's so incredibly over the top and corny. I struggle to process it not being intentionally bad.

It's heart breaking to remember an entire nation of people suffer under the yoke of this joke of a human being.
So you think apple should charge for software updates then?
Martial arts helped me a huge amount. You spend a lot of time doing very silly looking things in the company of others. There's a lot of physical contact with strangers. You teach and coach each other. You also gain a huge amount of confidence in yourself, that grows as you get better. It's a social activity without having the burden of being a team sport.

Been a sensei for about ten years now, so I'm also used to standing in front of large groups of people and delivering instruction, demonstrating techniques on a regular basis, planning lessons with other instructors.

Take one up, and don't fret about which one is the best. I started with TKD and Aikido, but now train in Karate and HEMA. It really doesn't matter which one you choose, just find a class you're comfortable being at.
I too tried gym, but now I'm muscular and awkward. Now, before interaction, people don't expect me to be awkward, and it feels as though they are more forgiving of my awkwardness but that could just be my perception.

Going to the gym and losing weight did help a lot with self esteem (and posture) issues though.

After observing my interactions, I found that if I'm unfamiliar with the person, I'll miss out on social cues or there'll be a delay before I perceive them. Also my brain goes into some kind of _fight or flight_ causing slightly impaired speech and memory.

What I do to _fix_ this is watch how others interact with this person and try to mimic them while adjusting for unfamiliarity. Assuming familiarity could be perceived as rude.

For me building familiarity allows me to interact with decreasing awkwardness, so I just try and find the fastest way to do that.
Jetpack Compose is very interesting, but I don't think it's exactly what I described. It explicitly retains a lot of state including a widget tree and event handlers. Although the state is opaque because there is no DOM-like API to inspect it, the user is still required to reason about the retained state and know exactly when and which parts should be invalidated. It provides a lot of "convenience" features for the user to annotate and wrap state which is expected to change so that invalidation can happen semi-automatically. But that results in a lot of rules you must follow which can't be automatically checked or enforced, which ends up being rather complex I think: https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/state and https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/side-effects

Here's a checkbox in Jetpack Compose with the required state annotation and event handling stuff, which if forgotten or done incorrectly will make the checkbox silently malfunction:

val checkedState = remember { mutableStateOf(true) }
Checkbox(
checked = checkedState.value,
onCheckedChange = { checkedState.value = it }
)

And here's a checkbox in Dear Imgui which just uses a plain bool and no event handlers (also note that this includes a clickable text label which would require additional event handlers with Compose):

static bool foo = true; // could be any bool in the application, nothing special about this one
ImGui::Checkbox("Foo enabled", &foo)

Here's a great example of how the retained state in Jetpack Compose can confuse people: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70040541/jetpack-compose...
This program is quick & lazy but it uses a 1D python list and pretends it's a 2D list. It implements 2D slicing, giving you a square subset just like ndarray. It doesn't intend to be all correct or nice or useful.

https://www.pythonmorsels.com/p/2rk5t/

Is laziness a virtue? I reused the slicing implementation in `range(foo)[index]` so I didn't need to do that logic myself.
A Love of [Programming] Languages
I looked into air-to-water heat pumps (hard) as I’m planning to replace my boiler this summer.

Even with large cast iron rads, I need 130°F water temp when it’s below about 25°F outside and the air-to-water heat pumps struggle to hit 125°F output water temp there and fall even lower when it gets colder.
+1 to worrying less about what other people think of you. Ironically, this caring less can actually make people like you more (because you seem more confident).
I've been using an immediate mode api that generates html elements in web, so that you do get the things that html offers. I basically have a thin wrapper around http://google.github.io/incremental-dom/ (I'm using it from wasm) -- calling it per frame has actually been reasonable perf-wise.
This is a complex problem, and no single answer will be a solution.

A few miscellaneous tips:

- Join a local ToastMasters chapter: it will force you to (1) speak to many people at once that you aren't familiar with, (2) force you to improve public speaking (which is closely related to #1), and (3) increase your confidence with speaking in general.

- The gym, like you mentioned, is one of the biggest single things you can do. Not even for the physiological transformation, but for the chemical dump that happens in your brain when you exercise, which has 'afterglow' affects that can last for days. I cannot recommend CrossFit enough (or just class-based functional fitness training in general).

- Get lots of quality sleep. Good sleep won't make you confident, but lack of sleep will definitely make you less confident over time (increased anxiety, decreased communication skills, etc.)