skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still very introverted (even if that word is cliché). I get anxiety in social situations.

I have some experience with acting, so in certain scenarios, I'm able to act as a more confident character and get through the initial awkward phases.

I still can't just make myself go to involved social events because they overwhelm me. I pick my battles
"logged their password", so my guess is that they did something like: if(login == competitor): print(password)
No, they're not "kept in cages".

You may be thinking of the stanchions they're put into for milking, but they're only put in those during the actual milking process, which only takes a few minutes with modern milking machinery.

Usually they're fed something tasty while being milked... makes it easier to get them to go into the dairy barn.
I'm a Google Engineer Who Was Told They May Be Laid Off
It's all going to be datalisp, mark my word :)

Although you have no idea what I am talking about yet just wait a bit more :))
I don't understand this remark. They charge you more when trees/systems are down? Are you talking about using some backup service (like your cellphone) or something? Your comment is hard to reason out without information like that.
Good meetings I’ve participated in: informational (“this is what’s going to go down”), bug triage (“Must we fix X? How hard is it to fix X? How many customers want the X fix yesterday?”), renumeration calibration (“how does your 2.5/3 compare to their 2.85/3?”), offensive/defensive brainstorming (“how can we get ahead, catch up in the marketplace?”), come-to-Jesus (“we freeze in 6 weeks, will X be ready?”).

Bad meetings I’ve struggled through: status, meeting prep, non-relevant training (“just give everybody the same talk.”), corporate rah-rah (“look how well sales in region 5 went.”), gathering to avoid emails.

In short, if I know something you need to know or if you know something I need to know or there is a problem we both can help solve or “the shit just hit the fan”, or “how do we keep the shit from hitting the fan”…. These can be good and useful meetings. Anything else is spending a lot of people-time in performance art.
Awesome, thank you very much, I will give it a spin!
Some of these new systems should definitely be lisp machines of a kind, though not direct clones of Genera. We need something more "of the times." In reality, there are only a few things people expect of their computing systems, but those things are huge: decent graphics and components for the UI, and a web browser.

So, yeah, standards and protocols are there. And it would take a s*t-ton of work to implement them in a bespoke environment. But they are not "difficult" in the classic sense. If we had a completely different type of economy it might even be possible!
There are millions of jobs that minimum wage laws do not apply to in the US.

* Tip workers

* Gig workers

* Undocumented workers
Ironically, I have done exactly the two tips you mentioned, and I can confidently say that my life has changed drastically. In fact, so much so, that when I catch up with people who knew me even two years ago, they usually make a comment.

One thing I was initially afraid of when deciding to move was “running away from my problems” only to realize I’m in the exact same situation as before. Well, that was actually very true. I still felt like the same “awkward” person despite moving across the country. But here’s the difference; I was actually motivated to fix it.

Being in a new city opened my eyes to how much I wanted to explore, but also how much I was holding myself back. Ever since moving, I’ve lost my fear of being myself, have a partner, and found a higher paying job.

My main point here is that while you can’t run away from your true inner self, a new environment can certainly change your perspective and direction. I also want to note that I’m making it sound like it was as easy as moving, so to be transparent, it wasn’t easy. It took a lot of self discipline and discomfort, but it was worth every second of doubt.
RP2040 is pretty underwhelming as a microcontroller. Its sleep mode draws 0.8 mA. And the ADC has DNL issues [1]
Capabilities-wise it feels like "NIH syndrome" ESP32-alike with USB in lieu of wireless.

At least it's much cheaper than Arduino (like 2-3x compared to Uno). The price of Arduino Uno is not justified by anything when its NRE cost must have been recouped long ago.

[1] https://pico-adc.markomo.me/
this bad boy?

https://newsy-today.com/giant-centipede-fossil-reveals-bigge...

I know it wouldn't support my 15 stone :-/
I think we have different definitions of simple
Windows 10 apps can be written in javascript, have access to all system APIs and can be rendered in system webview based on chromium, but developers are still too lazy to learn it and use it
Yes — that’s absolutely psychotic.

There’s no reason to think the carrying capacity is down around what we have now, and historically growing population has been the engine through which we’ve solved those problems.

Thinking that we need to “stabilize” at the current population is a delusion leading to insane policy recommendations.

Also — yes, lots of your peers in “sustainability” are talking about massive population declines.
Getting married helped a lot. Having children was the final nail in the coffin. I'm me and I'm complete (from my own perspective of what it means to me complete) and I can go into any social interaction now with the belief that anyone who doesn't like me is there problem. If I have difficulty conversing with someone, I can always just walk away and play with my kids, kiss my wife, and declare a win. That's what it feels like, at least. And that's good enough.
> Eating meat is unnecessary for a human life

There are a lot of things that are "unnecessary for human life", such as using electricity.

Making electricity harms the environment, causing suffering.

Therefore, you should stop using your computer.

Right?
Eh, slight disagree. DDT at that scale is problematic. No comment on silent spring, but to clearly struck a cord with public perception— real or baseless
Python 3.11 in the Web Browser
Is there a site/service/mailing list that provides notifications for critical/RCE/in-the-wild exploit patches? Keeping every piece of software you run up-to-date takes a lot of work, and something like that would help with knowing what to prioritize.
There's no such thing as "small talk".

All talk is significant.

If it is anything, "small talk" is talk that you don't mind other people hearing and joining. And if you think about that at a distance, it makes it very big talk indeed.
What does a Julia environment look like, in practice? Is it anything like the Matlab environment, where not online is there a console and integrated editor and super easy to use debugging/performance measurement, but also all the variables are visible in the GUI?

If so, I'd consider switching (as Matlab does that better than vanilla numpy). Julia is pretty great in theory. It is still a very new language for my uses, which means the documentation and community are orders of magnitude smaller than Matlab or Numpy/python.
You have to start further back than you realize. Almost all computers nowadays ship with a second dedicated CPU and OS that you can't access or shut off. They are network self-aware and it is a backdoor. The most well known one is called the Intel Management Engine.

There is no point having better software if you can't even secure the hardware. Yes, the risk is minimal because even if the key to the ME leaks, it will never be given away or sold because it's too valuable. It is still a sense of disquiet for me that it is there in the first place. It doesn't add to the performance or security of your existing setup. It is there to make things easier for others.
A single-level store based OS uses even more files than current OS's like Windows or Linux. Because every memory mapping is notionally persisted to disk and is thus a file. Whereas currently you have "anonymous" mappings that are understood as ephemeral, with no "files" in storage backing them.
> I cannot help but notice

This is one of the biggest issues that cause awkwardness: caring too much about how you're perceived.

One simple way to get rid of it: just tell people that you sometimes may appear or feel shy, goofy or awkward and you'll remove the problem, because you removed the anxiety of appearing in that way: you already told people that's your nature, you no longer have anything to lose!

Actually this will give you much more comfort to remove the awkwardness.

You can use this method in different scenarios where you generally perform poorly because of anxiety or awkwardness. Just tell straight ahead that you are a disaster at X and you remove entirely the pressure from yourself and expectations from others.
I don't know how to respond to the whole "Lisp programmer identity" stuff; it doesn't seem relevant to anything I said. I also didn't suggest anybody rewrite anything in it. The success of Lisp doesn't depend on the existence of fancy machines, it depends on people choosing to write software in it. That's basically all I meant to say.

As for Kandria, did you play the demo, or did you just look at screenshots and system requirements and make your brazen judgment? I don't think Kandria is at all amateur or sloppy, regardless of to which aesthetic era you think it belongs. Many have claimed that it's not even possible to write a game that doesn't blow because Lisp is dynamically typed and garbage collected. Now the goalposts have moved to, "well, it takes 1GB of memory and doesn't even look like it's from 2022."

I commend anybody who ships.
Yeah ton's of memes out there by windows users who were forced to upgrade 5 minutes before a meeting or something. It's a real issue. It's why I leave my office laptop on all night, so they can do their stupid forced upgrades in the middle of the night like they schedule them. I have too many meeting to wait for a 30minute - 1 hour update popping up unexpectedly.
I don't get this writing copy thing. It first seemed like the tweet was quoted and captioned "hard pass" with a repulsed gif maybe because a copywriter doesn't even know how to spell their job title, saying writing copy instead? But the article keeps using the word so that can't be it.

Not sure if copywriting (with or without space) is a thing but copywriter and copyediting is: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/copywriting

Writing copy, no idea what that's supposed to be: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/writing%20copy

Anyone here in the know of this jargon? And how is it related to "MLP"s (to stay in the custom jargosphere)?
You have a delusion we’ve hit some kind of cap, and your belief we need to stop breeding will lead to bad outcomes relative to groups who don’t share that maladaptive belief.
I’m skeptical of Thomas, a lot.

But I’m wary of holding him at all responsible for his spouse’s opinions.

I would not want to be held responsible for my spouses opinions.
Yup, I agree 100%. I've been trying to use just vanilla python because of interdependency hell (and changing terms of service for anaconda), and I've been succeeding, but it's a LOT more work and less clear what's going on.
Sorry, I’ll trust the EFF. TOS violations aren’t “tampering.” The fake account was created through authorized means, etc.
> "I kind of doubt an independent inventor could bring this to market with today's startup climate."

Especially the kind of inventor who created microwaves for experiments with reanimating frozen hamsters, cough James Lovelock.

(Tom Scott's video "I promise this story about microwaves is interesting" which includes a brief interview with James Lovelock last year at age 101 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y )
For Windows, IE11/Trident. This may sound ridiculous, but if you think about it, it's still maintained security-wise (and will be forever, as per MS), and since its codebase has been frozen a few years ago, its attack surface can only shrink with time.

So if you're OK with the limited compatibility, it might be worth considering.
Opinions are one thing. Involvement with administration/ the scale seems new.
>If your Electron app executes third party, remote code.

There's a high chance that it does because of embedded content/ads/iframes/in-app browsers.
But we do know that it is Javascript-related, so please correct me if I'm wrong but disabling JS for all websites except the ones you really, really trust and need should offer long-term general protection against such 0-days in most cases.
Neither. I'm responding to your comment.
> I wonder why there aren’t any RPN calculators anymore.

In Unix, terminal: dc

In Unix, X11: xcalc -rpn

In Emacs: M-x calc

On Android: https://search.f-droid.org/?q=rpn
It looks very neat, too bad it costs three times as much as a regular Pico. I'm not sure it was essential to include the NeoPixel and LiPo charging.
They're also the first in line to die via disease, famine, and war.
more like "ubuntu will follow blindly" other big guys like redhat, suse, etc have more sane defaults.
From OP:

> The mere fact that the results of these types of tests on large population groups tend to follow a normal distribution is alone good evidence that they're indicative, as in most things diverse large population groups tend to fall on a normal distribution.

The claim here is that OP is wrong. Firstly OP is wrong because normal distribution is not a sufficient indicator for some underlying phenomenon. Or as yxwvut puts it:

> [...] normal distribution implying some fundamental truth, the same can be said of an iterated guessing game (eg: take the sum of your correct guesses over 100 coin-flips - the population's scores on that game will be normally distributed).

And then secondly because intelligence doesn’t even follow a normal curve (only IQ does because it is transformed to).

What matter here is not the true distribution of intelligence. I’m not even sure there is one. What matters is that proponents of general intelligence use the normal distribution of IQ as a justification. By arguing that intelligence does not fall on normal distribution but rather on a skewed distribution, I’m simply pulling the rug away from this argument.

I admit this is not a strong argument against the existence of general intelligence, since if there exists such a thing, then there is nothing that says such a thing couldn’t exist on a skewed distribution (except psychometricians and proponents of IQ which only accept standard bell curve [I wonder why]). However in this subthread we’re only trying to correct OP’s claim that a normal distribution is indicative for general intelligence.
Python is the common scripting language of C, C++, Fortran.
pretty sure hn was ported away from arc at some point.
In this context "the world's richest people" are anyone making more than USD 38000 per year, purchasing power parity adjusted.

Unpalatable truth that people will not absorb.
> Are we sure there's no overlap between the range of impactors susceptible to occlusion and the range of impactors capable of producing a disaster if they strike a populated area?

Yes. The key point is that the larger the object, the further away we can see it. And the further away we can see it, the more time we have between the initial sighting and any possible collision with Earth.

The lower bound for a "potentially hazardous object", i.e., one that could cause disastrous damage in a collision, is 140 meters wide, and we can see those far enough away that they are years to decades from getting close to Earth (i.e, time enough to plan a space mission to deflect them enough to miss Earth). Newer surveys are getting to the point where they can detect 10 meter wide objects, which can still cause substantial damage (similar to, say, a hurricane or a tornado), far enough away that they are days to weeks from getting close to Earth (i.e., more than enough time to evacuate possible impact areas if needed).

Even if such an object were temporarily occluded by a low Earth orbit satellite, the occlusion would only last for minutes at most (because the satellite and the distant object are moving across the sky at very different rates). So for objects of the above sizes, occlusion doesn't prevent us from seeing them well in advance.

See here for more info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceguard
You can make more than one google account, though
in my opinion the evidence is anecdotal from mainly Europeans, the problem there is that Europeans are perhaps more aware of other parts of at least Europe than most nationalities are of their local environment. So the ignorance of Americans is a source of humor.

This however is just a surmise, based on some observation.

The other evidence is that Americans generally know very little of geography, it's a big thing in countries I've visited to laugh about, although given that when I say I lived in Utah in the U.S a lot of years and the geographically cognizant Dane will sagely say "oh, the middle of the country" I'm not sure how much to value that opinion either.

At any rate I don't much value the fact that people can tell you what the capital of Ethiopia is or where Andorra is because these bits of trivia don't actually tell you anything significant about the countries under discussion. It's true, not knowing these things you are extremely unlikely to know anything worth knowing about the region under discussion, but on the other hand it's been my experience that knowing them you somehow think you do know significantly more about the region than someone who does not know whatever trivia is the subject.
Practice. Find a course, a group, something where interacting with people is normal and you have a shared conversation topic (homework, practice, worst case the news, the weather, the weekend). Maybe a language class?

It's OK to prepare statements in your head so you don't have to blush or worst-case come up with something inappropriate.
Qt's QML is both declarative and reactive, and even lets you program in JavaScript or TypeScript. It also uses a tiny amount of memory and it's really fast. It's the closest thing to the React and Electron model while still being fast and efficient.

There are some suggestions, on Mozilla's suggestion platform Mozilla Connect, for turning Gecko into something like Electron[1][2].

In the past, Mozilla ran the Positron project, which was an Electron-like library on Gecko[3].

[1] https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/create-an-alternative-t...

[2] https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/ability-to-embed-gecko-...

[3] https://github.com/mozilla/positron
> I feel the side loading issue is just useless noise

EU legislators just agreed to implement regulation that will enforce the ability to sideload.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/apple-would-be-forced-...

I finally want an equivalent to f-droid for the iphone. Other people don't have to activate it on their phones.

We as a society don't have an obligation to design the world in a way that allows corporations to extract maximum value from us.
I don't know if it's specific to Spain. But Spanish people have a problematic relationship with "culture".

"Culture" has this double definition of, on one side, "customs", and in the other as basically a synonym for "art". With extra points for "art" being this abstract thing nobody knows what exactly is, but everybody agrees that -whatever it is- it's "good".

So in Spain there is this national sport in which you take something, no matter how horrible, try to include it in the definition of "culture" and... since "culture is good" -> "thing is good".

Bulls? Yes, I hear you, you are making great logical arguments but... they are "culture" (purposely being ambiguous about whether you refer to "traditional Spanish custom" or "form of art"). And that's it, that's the end of the argument: Bulls == culture == good. Whatever you say, the answer will be "culture". And you are not going to argue culture is bad, are you?

And it's not only bulls. You can use it with whatever you want to support, and somehow in Spain it works quite well!
Holding him responsible, no. Demanding he recuse himself: yes. His vote after a failure to recuse on a key judgement now looks extremely suspect, and he should be recusing himself not just to avoid a conflict of interest, but to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Failing to recuse himself has really caused him a level of reputational damage that non-lifetime appointees would not survive.

Kind of a cosmic irony to me that after years of being the Supreme Court's most reliably banal, consistently aligned judge after a confirmation hearing where he was accused of sexual misdeeds, it's his long-suffering wife who might bring him down.
Compared to "The Wealth of Nations", for example, which had much better economic analysis, despite being published a greater part of a century earlier. Ideas of Smith, Ricardo, or Bastiat predate Marx, and are very favorably cited today by modern economists. Marx's, not really.
The best explanation is probably the one by Casey Muratori (https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0001). He devised the technique and conied the term in 2002.
Streaming the Steam Deck to OBS
That by selective growing of plants over thousands of years, we have altered the genetic make up of the foods we consume. While "GMO" is a "new technique", reductively this isn't exactly another dimension compared to over many years isolating and growing things like broccoli and lemons.

Yes, GMO is a new technique to modify food sources away from "naturally occurring processes" - but again things like lemons and broccoli are also not naturally occurring in nature.
>I think you are really overestimating what is available to consumers for under $1000 Euro/USD. This is what is typically available for under $800 Euro for desktops in Europe: https://www.worten.pt/informatica-e-acessorios/computadores/...

I'm not overestimating, and I hope you're joking with that link, as I've bought a Lenovo laptop with an 8 core Ryzen 5800U and 2560x1600 display, 16GB RAM and 1TB NVME SSD for ~750 EUROS[1] last Christmas.

Please stop exaggerating by cherry picking overpriced and outdated PC hardware as being the norm in Europe, it's not. Great PC hardware can be found at outstanding value if you look around a bit.

>256gb is pretty standard outside of gaming/workstation class desktops all over the world.

It's not though. I see many cheap laptops under 800 Euro with more than that. Many consumer want more RAM and more storage since they want to do more than just browse the web.

>The M1 is twice the CPU of everything in the sub $800 USD/Euro market.

Ok, but CPU cycles are in infinite supply regardless of your choice of CPU performance, but your base spec 8GB RAM and 256 GB of storage that come with that 800 Euro price tag are fixed and could be a limiting factor for some. My example gives you double the RAM and four times the storage. Good luck editing your favorite video on that powerful M1 chip if you run out of HDD space for it because you only have 256GB, and that's before the OS, swap and apps ate a chunk of it.

My Macs have lasted 7-10 years of functional use.

Yeah, at 7 -10 year old, you're talking about the old Intel ones which where easily repairable as they were based on CotS hardware. How can you guarantee the same for the M1 SoC systems which are barely 1 year old and built using custom parts when you factor in Apple's anti-repair and anti-consumer stance?

[1] https://altex.ro/laptop-lenovo-yoga-slim-7-13acn5-amd-ryzen-...
Kim Jong-un stars in film of missile launch on North Korean TV
> C, C++, Fortran are still used, most Python users just don't see it because it's hidden away underneath the calling function.

Yes, the article talks about this: Python is a glue language and the actual heavy duty computation is being done inside an extension module like numpy that's written in a faster language.
Therapy, many meditation retreats, and knowing myself. My old reactions and feelings can still happen but they are more like phantom limbs