skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “The problem for most of the astrophysics community is not the decision itself, but the lack of rationale to explain why this is the appropriate decision. (For some people, the problem is the decision.)” He also pointed out that NASA had not transmitted the decision broadly, but rather e-mailed Nelson’s one-sentence statement to a small group of news outlets, including Nature. “That is hardly the kind of transparent process that gives the external community confidence,” he wrote.

Contempt for others is trendy, IME: Contempt for people with different experiences and ideas, for vulnerable people (by powerful people), in fact, when I talk to many people in ~ the last couple of years, contempt seems like their goto response to almost anything. It's an obviously destructive and evil trend, which harms the contemptuous, the targets, and their relationships and communities. I've lost important relationships to this bizarre behavior. And I suspect these days that makes it more popular - people show contempt for those things too.

Being genuinely open-minded, tolerant, and respectful has great value to you and to others. You learn and grow far more - contempt is nihilism, accomplishing nothing, destroying much. Those things are fundamental to good relationships, and to democracy - respecting others is fundamental to believing they have the right to vote and speak.
This article and discussion is centered on perfect information games. I play Chess at ~1600 ELO. My path to improvement is clear.

I also play poker, sometimes with fairly significant stakes, both in cash games and tournaments. I consistently profit, but it's practically impossible for me to quantify my skill, because poker is an imperfect information game.

Many of the principles I've learned about emotional regulation and awareness (recognizing when I or others are on tilt), strategic opportunity cost (which table or house game am I joining), evaluation of expected value (calculating probabilities and assigning weights to uncertainties) come from poker.

I think it's no surprise that many investors use poker as their game of analogy, for the world is indeed a gigantic imperfect information game.

I practice chess to practice logic and consistency, foundational skills that are very relevant to my financial and software development activities. I play poker to remain comfortable in the face of limitless, unclear decisions, where I'm frequently forced to realize a loss despite optimal play.

Strategy requires continuous reclassification between perfect and imperfect information contexts.
Mathematicians and physicists would rather use another's toothbrush than another's notation.

Perhaps The Curse is because Lisp programmers are generally of the same ilk as mathematicians and physicists?
i think both Element matrix services and Beeper both offer this as a service now
That's actually a lot to ask of people with children or other dependents in their care.

A quarterly 2-day off-site is far more digestible. Which I agree is still a great compromise in expense and f2f to an office.
> There are seemingly endless examples of completely opaque indefinite bans that can ruin peoples' income.

Care to give some examples? Usually indefinite bans are only coming after a longer series of smaller bans or something very serious happened. And recently there also was a series of reinstated streamers who came back after an indefinite ban. But I think this was EU-only for legal reasons. might be good to bring this to the rest of the world.

> Twitch's wildly inconsistent policy enforcement

It's not inconsistent, it's actually very consistent in the last years, since they seem to have established a kind of rule book internally. Its just complex and not matching the people's hate. Though, there are single exceptional cases, that's true.
I'll try iterate. For me it is just that loop is already very easy to read. Moving all things to s exprs doesn't seem like it would be that big of a deal.

And I should say that the construct that I find easiest is the "then" clause.

(Loop repeat 8
For a = 0 then b
For b = 1 then c
For c = 1 then (+ a b)
Collect a)

That just reads very easily to me.

(Typed on phone...)
It’ll definitely reduce usage in people’s commutes, which is all I’m really claiming.

But no, that guy with the raised truck, rolling coal? Hell no, he’s gonna die before you take his toy away.

Edit: tbh, I think if corps are footing the bill for commuting, it’ll be mass transit for 95% of us. Your employer won’t buy you a Ford F350 superduty to get to work. Maybe you’re gonna get a Honda Fit. Maybe. More likely a bus pass.
Stage 2 evokes warm memories. The clients were featureful enough but very far from being resource hogs. The UIs were workable and hid plenty of options in their menus.

The webcam features on MSN messenger landed at the same time as broadband internet became widespread in my country, when I was at school, so everyone was in on the novelty.

Some of it is certainly the cynicism of age and work life, but I'm certain something has been lost since then. The UI, the nudges, the winks, the games, the chaotic friend lists were all magic in a way that FB, WA, Slack, Teams, Discord, et al aren't.
> Vehicles Affected: 2016-2020 Honda Civic(LX, EX, EX-L, Touring, Si, Type R)

I own a Honda model just prior to this date range — but I assume it's not necessarily the case that pre-2016 Honda vehicles used a more secure system? It may just be that they aren't specifically vulnerable to the exact same RF signal type as 2016-2020 vehicles?
I didn't know that. Interesting -- thanks!

I never used MkLinux myself, but I am happy to hear it was useful to someone...
Yes, absolutely!!
"Packing", as in, withholding hearings on a candidate for over a year in the hopes that you could have him replaced with a partisan of your own? So that court is now nearly 70% members of your own party?

I am not a lawyer, and I have had real lawyers of both parties insist to me that Thomas is, in fact, a well-qualified and competent jurist. But as a non-lawyer, this does not strike me as a serious way to talk about the law.
This is also useful for deploying a big static website with AWS CDK which currently uses a Lambda and had the limit of 512mb (it was already possible to pass it by using an attached storage but this makes it easier).
As much as people want to pretend the pandemic is over, it isn't. The legal restrictions might have lifted in most places, but there's a big gap between that and things being back to how they were before- or how they'll be once we've actually hit the endemic part of covid and have a better understanding of what that looks like.

You can still go to a restaurant today, or travel, and co-working spaces might be open, but enough people are still reluctant to attend events that a lot of things aren't sustainable right now. I certainly wouldn't go meet someone at a restaurant for lunch right now, even though I can. Most of my friends feel the same way. Conferences are still happening, but a lot of conferences remain virtual, and a lot of people who might otherwise attend conferences aren't. Either because they are still concerned about covid today, or because they don't want to risk buying tickets, booking travel, and taking time off for a conference that might be canceled or rescheduled due to yet another surge. Tech meetups have almost entirely stopped. Nearly all meetups were hosted by companies, and while those companies might be talking about RTO for their employees, few of them are interested in hosting large groups of strangers after-hours right now. Even if you could find a venue- attendance would be quite low these days.
> Here's a snippet of my 2256x1504 screen from an OBS recording:

I wouldn't be able to stand something like this at all, it looks horrible to me. The text is all smudged.
You are right! Consider me convinced!
Android also doesn't automatically store numbers in international format (at least for the default and Google contacts apps).

Maybe the reason is either:

1. The phone doesn't always know the international prefix.

2. This raises the risk of accidental long-distance calls and may piss of users.
If it could be closed right away, wouldn't you do that before you print it out? Perhaps I'm a luddite, but wouldn't typing the ticket number into a box almost certainly be faster than getting your phone out, turning it on and scanning the code?
My wife is a survivor of stage 3 metastatic. We deal with false positive scares around once a year at this rate, but I'll take them every time over not finding something in time.

I'm very sorry about your wife.
A better bet would be to launch a payload of cube imaging satellites. Possibly a partnership with Planet to make a variation of their Doves.
Also reminds me of "computational kindness" where, for example, you give people 2 specific date-times to have lunch, rather than asking them to look through their entire calendar and come up with something (it's easier to check two time slots than to think about all your obligations).

Comes from Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths' "Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions"

https://boingboing.net/2016/06/17/algorithms-to-live-by-what...
Yes, I believe so.

https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/death-alpha-nt
Yeah when I was job hunting recently I didn’t even consider any crypto jobs even though there were a lot of listed openings using Rust and I would like to have a chance to work on a real Rust codebase.
Maybe, it’s a much harder job to produce male birth control for men owing to having much more reproductive material.

I think the hippy option currently is getting the snip “for the sake of the planet”
Disney has done this for decades with their animated films. Letting things go out of print before bring them back a decade later.
+1 Both "short" and "glossary" are quite modest terms for this article.

And it focuses on the "interesting and deep" stuff - not "AA is Anti-Aircraft" fluff.
It can be restored with the `net-tools` package, thankfully. That's among my first installs on a Linux box. Never quite got into `ip addr show` when I've most of the ifconfig flags memorised from use.

Which may contradict my previous point slightly, but at least it is easy to put the system back into a state I want and the system will maintain this state.
Maybe we need a new section "Wait HN". Or are there better places to post these?
Do you manage to get pictures, audio messages, videos and reactions to work well in both directions with that setup?

Also, I use this for personal messages as well as group chats. The people I interact with don't even know I am not using the native client.
What teraflop said! But beyond that we are also releasing translated chapters before they hit pirate sites since we release them in high quality at the same time as they release in Japan.
I just bought a Phomemo D30 thermal label printer to label my electronics component boxes last week, and I was wondering if I can hack things to send it images from my PC instead of the phone app it comes with.

I found this repo, but I don't know if that's compatible with the D30 (the chassis pictured is of a different printer): https://github.com/vivier/phomemo-tools

Someone in Issues asked the same question, but the author wasn't able to answer for lack of hardware. I guess I need to try and/or contribute!

The "Print master" phone app is uploaded under a different brand name (QUIN LLC), and other brands also seem to sell a D30 printer. I didn't really do the work of finding out where these truly come from. Perhaps someone's got a repo up under a different name.

I've done 0 comparisons to other models in practice, but FWIW it does what I wanted it to do very well. All my stuff is obsessively well-labeled now. In fact, I labeled the printer in a mad-with-power move ... https://eikehein.com/stuff/label_printer.png
and share data with 3 letter agencies
Can Insects Get Fat?
It seems that I get hit with the negative first order effects, and VCs benefit from the putative positive second order ones. No, I'm happy to have the legal eagles stop this without-consent data sharing, and if the corporations lose a bit of money, then that's fine by me.
I mean. Not really, though I have seen folks make a herculean effort with print and friends.
> precoiners

This made the post
You can only open one project at once with Gateway: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/GTW-813. If it was designed this way, how long will it take to be fixed?
at least my dystopian future toyota keyfob subscription could be patched to fix this...
I would love to learn more about the reverse engineering process for a bluetooth device like this. It's too bad there is no link to a blog or additional documentation in the repo.
Contributing to Open Source has no barriers to entry, and is a great way to learn, build a resume, and have professionals review your contributions.

For example, I have no idea who half of the contributors to the D programming language are. I don't know their real names, age, sex, country, religion, politics, nothing. I don't know if they live in a mansion or in their mom's basement. I only know them by their contributions. It's as close as one can get to a pure meritocracy.
Concert tickets _are_ dynamically priced, at least for some events. See Ticketmaster's "Official Platinum"[0] which is a dynamic pricing system for the best seats, I imagine other companies have something similar.

[0]: https://help.ticketmaster.com/s/article/What-are-Official-Pl...
Alright, here's the hot take: The assignment is for any developer without basic knowledge of FP beyond .map and
.filter to complete their intermediate-level programming education.

All problem domains that involve declarative programming, such as configuration (Terraform, Kubernetes, Nix, many build systems), dynamic HTML, relational databases, and pretty much anything that is manipulating data in a pipeline fits functional programming like a glove and is hard to get right in a strictly traditionally imperative fashion. As an industry we should stop pretending FP isn't a necessary part of a professional programmer's education and that we can solve the problem by coming up with the umpteenth "we promise it's not FP" abstraction with its own take on fooling developers into writing functional code through an imperative-looking layer full of foot guns that subtly break imperative developer expectations, like React.
Would you kindly care to explain how the field should change paradigm? Do you mean that " black boxing" the brain with input/output and hoping something will emerge is a non-productive endeavour, and that the neurophysiology, like a bottom up approach from biology/neuroscience, is the way to go?

I'm a comp-sci student too, and considering what possibilities there are for studying BCI, machine intelligence and the brain. But I think that maybe, having approached it from a more biologically oriented angle would have been better. After having read "On intelligence" I'm just more aware how disconnected our modelling of intelligence and the brain/BCI is. On one hand, there's just "throw more computing power at it", and the other, there's cutting a fruit fly's brain into slices and building a special machine just to do so, while afterwards scanning the resulting pathways [0]. We can't even understand brains way less complex than our own, so I fear that a bottom up approach is way beyond my lifetime. I remember a Danish neuroscientist once said, that there's a higher chance to understand every star in the universe, before we understand the inner workings of the human brain.

Do you mind me asking, what did you do instead?

[0] https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/an-interactive-automated-3...
sometimes the flowers arrange themselves, Jim.
This almost always falls apart when you are developing two projects with conflicting stacks simultaneously. Can I run two JVMs with different versions and configurations? Multiple MySQL servers? Multiple web servers? And if I make a change to any one of them, how do I roll it out to my entire dev team? What would take endless tinkering becomes trivial with one Docker script.
Who does the investigation, e.g. if an answer is offensive?
Not necessary, new EU regulation forces them to make their messaging services interoperable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30798850
Congrats Abbas and co! Azuki looks great!
This could have never happened if Jeff and Sanjay were 'working from home'

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...

Who knows Google would have been an also-ran Search Engine company if it weren't for those two solving the right scale problems at the right time.

And no amount of 'Productivity Metrics' can capture these leaps in value creation because it truly is of the 'Unknown-Unknown' category.
The Ilford factory video is a fun watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXpoALotxf0

There are also a few new film producers coming around. Film Ferrania (https://www.filmferrania.com/) I'm most excited about as it's the first new analog film factory built. You can see a full list of current film producers and film stocks here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photographic_films
Cheap device that can sniff BLE and send it to Wireshark:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/2267 ($20)

Overview on using it as a sniffer: https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-adafruit-ble-bluetoot...

Still a lot of work though, if it's anything like LED signs I've reverse engineered. Trying to figure out if it's length encoded payloads or delimited payloads, what obscure checksums it might use, weird encoding of images, etc. And experimenting often hangs the device, or changes it's behavior significantly.
Jesus do you know how many training videos about anti-corruption and bribery I've had to watch as an MS employee?
Even expert analysis isn't evidence. At its best, an expert can give you a sense of the range of possibilities, which might include things you never thought of. But actually knowing what's happening in a specific case requires evidence.

It seems like being clear about what you're doing (are you just discussing possibilities or trying to claim something specific) would go a long way in avoiding such misunderstandings.

(And I of course don't know which cases you're talking about, so I'm just talking about possibilities.)
Why would you ever care about area codes? At least if not for ancient carrier billing practices.
The code is (or can be) the same either way. I imagine after a few days the user would memorize the codes for the letters and skip the prompts.

On a related note, one character per minute is about the same speed as the first trans-atlantic telegraph cable in 1858.
I live in the dead center of a major city, but it happens to be a city that isn't much of a tech hub. Thanks to widespread work from home, I can now consider job offers from anywhere and work for a hot startup that just IPO'd and get the same benefits of a bull market for engineering labor as someone younger and/or unattached who can easily move halfway across the country for a better job.
In my experience, it trips me up no more than Python or Fabric do. I have used Fabric a lot too. At another job, we built all of our pipeline tooling in it.

I somehow keep returning to Bash, though. I enjoy it.
Before: IRC + XMPP.

Today: IRC + Matrix.
Turning scaling down to 1.8 (default 2.0 on Manjaro/Plasma) or lower lets Firefox work on the screen; I didn't have this problem on pmOS; either the default scaling is lower on pmOS, or they have some other workaround.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1579348
This is what life in an oligarchy is all about. Now, back to checking how much the S&P 500 is up today.
Me too...not sure where you are going with this...
I also find it annoying that basically all roaming works by tunneling traffic back home. I guess it kinda makes sense for calls where it needs to be routed by the home carrier but for data it adds a lot of latency and cost.

In Canada our data is stupidly expensive such that as a fairly small data user I was considering getting a PAYG "global data plan" instead of a monthly local phone plan (I don't use a local number anyways, so I just need data). And while it would be cheaper for me (and be extraordinarily cheaper when traveling) basically all of these sims have a "home" country that traffic is routed to. Not only is this slower but it also results in funny behaviour for sites that try to optimize/block users based on GeoIP.

If one of these global sim providers could do local egress I would be all over that plan.
> "Anyone who has actual and nontrivial experience in teaching (say, over 50 students over at least few months) will tell you this simple empirical fact: some people just “get it” much easier and quicker than others. The only way to escape this reality is to sort people by mental ability, so that you only see people in the same ability bracket, but that’s just it, an escape."

Consider learning how to throw a ball. Do some new students 'just get it' - or did their parents spend hours tossing a ball with them previously? Point being, those anecdotes about students who just get it don't factor in variables like earlier childhood education etc. Few people would argue that such physical skills are not eminently trainable - and clearly, mental skills are also trainable.

The question is, is there something like a clearly delineated genetic factor than makes it easier for someone to, for example, learn a new language, relative to someone lacking that factor? No real clear evidence seems to exist for that claim.
I am just so sick of all the cheating. Every time you turn around, some business, politician, or wealthy person is corrupt as f** and everyone who can do anything about it won't.
One of the non-obvious parts of Adium's interface from the screenshots was that it integrated with Mac OS's calendar app, so I could have a contact "John Smith" and enter his AIM name, his Yahoo name, etc and they'd all show up as "John Smith" and be collapsed into one entry in your contact list.

On top of that, Adium is/was also incredibly themable. You could use independent Adium Xtra addons for both your contact list and your chats. I had a theme so that all messages just appeared sequentially like so:

[Hello][Hello][What's Up?][Etc.]

where mine were red and the person I was talking to was in blue (or vice versa, it's been awhile). You could see so many messages at once.

Adium is the application I miss most from MacOS, although I imagine I'd still miss it even if I were still using a Mac. With the exception of the addition of multi-device continuous chat history, we've really regressed in the category of instant messaging since the days of multi-chat clients.
I started taking some online courses this semester and simply couldn't believe a university that touts itself as a leader in the cybersecurity space condones the use of malware.
Of course! I'm still pretty young so I grew up watching ATLA and have rewatched it several times since then. One of the greatest animated series to ever air.
You bring up the recency of these articles to bolster your argument, but it is detrimental to your point. Particularly from these sources.
Alarmist regurgitation is the standard, popsci-brand churn.

If there's a click bait title that is going to drive views they'll print.

You might be right. I doubt that. These don't strengthen your position
> "Men using birth control" would become the "hippie" thing to do that you will only see people in LA/NY do.

Assuming it's relatively safe, reliable, and affordable, and especially if it's significantly better in any of those areas to the existing options for women, then it seems like a no-brainer for long-term monogamous heterosexual relationships.
This looks great, but how do you convert it to a comic?

You need the comic author to use the format, but what tool does the author use? They need to define the dialogue boxes on the pages and somehow link those boxes to the markup format, right?
Looks awesome! Slight naming collision but pretty different industries. https://www.azuki.com/