skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't the real answer: This thing is unnecessarily hard, so let's get together and fix it.

One clear thing that needs fixing: Linux desperately needs definitive how tos for every common thing an admin/user might need to do posted and maintained on a distro specific/owned site.

As it is now, when I want to learn how to do {thing1}, I have to sift through a complex maze of stack questions, blog posts, youtube videos, etc. Many are ancient, don't really apply to the distro I'm on, fail to mention that there are other ways of doing it (some of which might be better for a given situation), etc.

Then, when I finally settle on a howto, it fails to work and then I burn hours troubleshooting and tweaking. Eventually, I get it to work but when I reflect on what it took to get there, I couldn't really follow the breadcrumbs of my frustrated efforts well enough to document it for posterity.

Eventually, I run into problems with {thing2} and I realize that the fastest way to troubleshoot is to wipe the box and start clean, but I can't because recreating {thing1} is a multi-hour task.
I concur with the suggestion elsewhere on this page to try ToastMasters (though I think you should really try to commit to at least the introductory sequence, to get good value out of it).

I also concur with the advice that dealing with social interactions is like muscle training: you need to do it repeatedly, and semi-regularly. And also, yes, it may be a little painful at first; and may feel very artificial--that's OK. A good place to practice: in a grocery store line, with whomever is behind you; and possibly with the checker, if they don't look stressed already.

I didn't see MeetUps mentioned already, but I've found them great. That's because they give the participants something to do/think about/focus on; when the conversation might drag, or otherwise be awkward. Do note that going to MeetUps with, ahem, possibly an unusually high population of introverts might NOT be a great idea. In other words, don't expect to practice your social skills so much at, say, a 'New Features in TypeScript' meetup; but one devoted to, say, fresh-water canoeing might be better (yes that's nearly stereotyping, but roll with it, please...).

Lastly, a great way to socialize, in a low-stress environment, is contra-dancing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_dance). If you're not familiar, it's a dance form that is VERY approachable for the most un-coordinated among us. And live music, with just a nominal cover charge, typically. BTW, they usually have a mini-class at the beginning of each dance. But there are only about a dozen moves, and most of them are pretty basic (especially if you've done any square dancing or ballroom dancing before--but contra dancing is easier to learn). Typically there's a mid-dance break, which is a great time to practice socializing. Also, people usually change partners after each individual dance, so you get to meet lots of folks. (But don't expect to take anyone home that night--it's the _opposite_ of a 'meat market'; and you will not be welcomed back if you're too aggresive...) There are dances in pretty much every state in the USA, and some outside the USA; though there are the most in the North East USA. Caveat: most dances were shut down completely due to COVID-19 and are just starting up again.
When I read these kinds of posts it feels like I'm reading a monks treatise on how to fall madly, passionately in love. It's like, really hopeful, but I don't think great software is made in this way. It seems to always start out with something unaccountably useful, and building out the business-y stuff comes second. This post feels like it was written for businesses that are fungible software experiments ("just add money!")
Self-confidence should not be confused with self-esteem.

Self-confidence is inversely correlated to the power of your superego.

Your superego is trying to protect you against harmful social mistakes.
It strengthen itself when you are hurt (socially) and is usually modeled after the paternal authority and is often perceived as a kind of internal moral figure.

Gaining self confidence is the same thing as loosening the grip of the superego.

You can do that with alcohol, to some extent, but there are many undesirable side effects, including worsening your self confidence in the aftermath.

My advise would be to experiment doing "risky" things in a controlled environment where you won't be hurt.

There is no magic trick, unfortunately, success is what lead to self confidence.

(That is, teaching your superego that you can do social things without shooting yourself in the foot)
human error is here. creating a backup and forgetting the password for example or mistyping it
Sort of.

But trusting an organization not to look at your password shouldn't be something you ever need to do.
They specifically boosted what Medicare paid for COVID treatment by 20% during the public health emergency.
I agree that a job is not a place for making friends. But collegiality and good relationships with colleagues is still better than a complete disconnect from them. After all, a huge percentage of waking hours are spent at work.
SwissMicros makes recreations of the classic HP calculators that are arguably superior to the originals, specially the DM15L and the DM-42:

https://www.swissmicros.com/products
The opening immediately brings the Idiocrasy's rehabilitation :)

With Russia becoming bigger problem Kim has lost that position, and looks like he is trying to get at least some of the former attention. And there is no notebooks, and nobody writes each and every word of the dear leader into the notebooks - add to that the leather jacket, and it looks like NK is undergoing reforms/modernization moving itself into their version of 21st century. The rocket launch video from the drone is almost like SpaceX video from the on-board camera :)

Interesting that they clearly show where it is happening. And in general NK isn't that big to hide these large missiles and their trucks.

Btw, am i the only one who hears them screaming "Banzai!" (https://youtu.be/0PGMXz_X8K8?t=120) - to me it looks a bit out of place for a national propaganda in a Korean state.
It’s a bit like reverse Jantelagen. You're not to think Sweden isn’t better than the rest.
Depends where in the US; a Big Mac Meal in LA will run you close to $9 USD as well
In our early days if this happened I’d cancel their account just for kicks.

These days I think the best thing you can do is ignore it. Let it distract them more than it distracts you. As you mature you’ll find it’s tempting to go look at competing products. Fine, do it, but people get so distracted patting themselves on the back for sneakily signing up for a free trial with a fake email - it’s mostly a waste of time.

If you are in a competitive space and competitors have features you lack, prospects/churns will tell you. If they never do, you gain nothing by checking the competition out.
The article is well overdue, given that it was written in 2019. The strong and overwhelming sanctions on Russia should have been adopted in 2014 when Russia started the over War in Donbas. A strong Western response then could have prevented the war of 2022, instead of pursuing the "let's be nice and try to talk this through with Kremlin" diplomacy which the Eastern European countries long knew is hopeless.
Presumably the pay is great if you already live there, but not good enough to convince people to move there?

Personally, it would take a 50%-100% raise before I would even consider consider uprooting my family and leaving my current city. But I’d switch jobs locally for half that.
Well, both really. But in practice, erroneously identifying correlations doesn't tend to be quite so big a problem as conflating correlation with causation. The former is easy to address with strict data recording, whereas the latter is more of a conceptual thing, and requires some deeper thinking that often goes against intuition.
Maybe JIT-less V8: https://v8.dev/blog/jitless
For me therapy has worked. I always had a ton of anxiety of how I was perceived in social context and it would cripple me. Therapy put into context how skewed those thoughts were and through therapy I learned techniques to overcome the wave of anxiety.

Also, here is a less cliched answer. I do interviews at work and have to do a behavioral one. I feel like it's given me a lot of practice with just meeting people for the first time and striking off a conversation. I've used those skills in my day to day life and it works great.
It’s priced about the same as the other tiny rp2040 boards. I wish this would have existed around the time I was building my last project, because I wanted something without a usb connector.
I like it! Seems to happen quite a bit in academia (e.g. microbiology)
Ask HN: What music do you listen to?
Say there are two companies, A and B.

A spends time and effort thinking about how to block B from getting better.

B spends time and effort thinking about how to be better for customers.

Which do you think will win? Or should win?

Guide your actions accordingly.
> 5GHz actually has worse penetration and stronger attenuation over distance than 2.4GHz. Succesfully blocking 5GHz does not imply the same for 2.4GHz.

In this case it could be the opposite: faraday cages only work for blocking wavelengths that are longer than the wavelength that it's designed for (presumably 2.4ghz). Therefore it could be blocking 2.4ghz but letting 5ghz waves through because it's too small to contain.
Propranolol and alcohol solved this for me, only drawback is you need to know 30 minutes beforehand. Benzos would also solve it but they are too addictive.
Unfortunately I feel like there are too many different philosophies behind web design right now to point you to any given site. Mostly because any popular and complex site is going to use some levels of abstraction, i.e. React or Elm or similar. And so a lot of well-programmed websites don't have readable user-facing code. Or, on the other side of the spectrum, there are plenty of sites that value simplicity to the point that they have no-JS, minimal CSS, and super readable HTML. But that's not exactly hard to do.

One of the ways that I learn is by picking out a given HTML tag, for example, from the soup of a website's source code. And then reading the MDN page for that tag, which has information on the idiomatic ways to use it.
> 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 :)

I haven't really been in any major social situations lately because of Covid, but I started going to the gym 5 months ago and I find I feel more confident now, just because I feel better about myself and my body I guess. Feeling more confident makes me feel less awkward, although we will see. In any case, if you just started last week, give it some time. Once you start to see physical results, you should start feeling better and that may help you be less awkward too. For me, it took a few months, so it won't be an overnight change.
Excess deaths could just have easily been caused by people postponing medical care for other conditions. Hospitals were canceling elective procedures for example.
Thanks for the fantastic explanation.

So there is flat space, de Sitter space, and Anti-de Sitter space, do we know which one most closely resembles the world we observe?
> learning Flutter means learning the language Dart

I think any current experienced software developer can easily switch between 3 or 4 popular languages, and pick up Dart quickly too since it's not that different from everything else out there. Dart is not Brainfuck or Lisp.
Yes(-ish). You can use Julia in a Jupyter (the Ju- is Julia) notebook, just like Python. This is a pretty user-friendly experience for students, academics and data scientists.

https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-best-use-julia-with-ju...
> In fact I conjecture that this is the reason Unix is more popular than Lisp -- because Lisps don't interoperate well. They haven't built up a big ecosystem of reusable code.

And why are there so many? IMO the language is too flexible for its own good. It promotes this curious intellectual solo-competition where you try to prove you are worth of the elite who get all the fancy FP stuff and make all this bespoke functionality.

It's almost impossible for Lisp to be popular. To be popular means a lot of people use it, but that means it can't be complicated much above the median. But because it lets individual programmers push intellectual boundaries it self-selects itself out of this pool. Any big collaborative project will attract this type of developer and soon the lesser developers (who don't dare object for fear of appearing dumb) are not able to contribute.

Just my opinion, if a little dramatic.
Try lifting heavy weights. A starter program like strong lifts or starting strength is a good start
One of the most amusing reasons why ARM fails to compete with x86 is that it simply isn't available. You have to go to specific vendors and get their specific flavor of ARM which means you must always consider a x86 fallback.
I was only awkward and shy around the people I wanted to be confident around, such as women that were more beautiful than other women, and had high and predictable consensus around that coveted level of attractiveness (as opposed to something more subjective).

What helped me was realizing that everyone is going through something similar in new situations.

The attractive person has the same anxieties as the unattractive person. The same random allocation of life issues, bad experiences, good experiences.

This is somewhat tangential, but helped me: its also a reinforcing reason to prioritize using energy on primarily the most visually and sexually attractive people - which was where the awkwardness could materialize - because people that only can rely on convincing you they have "a nice personality" or "attractive on the inside" are eclipsed or totally obscured by people that are also attractive on the outside because hot people can also be hot on the inside.

Basically, the internal and mental stuff is the same, so after realizing that, its easier to not be led astray if you are interested in something more coveted by more people.

As some others wrote, improving yourself helps a lot, posture, hygiene, living arrangement (better part of town, new town). How that factors into my note, yeah you still have to attract the other people and a lot of that involves gender neutral tweaks. If you live in a coveted and also convenient part of town, it conveys enough and you have more opportunities to attract people to things because of how towns are organized.
This has nothing to do with husbands and wives, only judges and spouses.
I see this often and it is a ridiculous over simplification.

This entire thread has stories of broken corporate culture causing people to leave the company and somehow you’re translating that as win for HR?

In most cases, HR aren’t the ones “dropping” you (it’s your manager). They’re the ones ensuring it gets done in a way that least disruptive to the rest of the org.
Immediate mode GUIs can be used for almost anything that retained mode GUI toolkits (GTK, Qt) can be used for. It removes a lot of the overhead and boilerplate to speed up development.
President Biden to unveil new minimum tax on billionaires in budget
Just based off the appearance in the single screenshot provided, it looks very similar to Plan9. And even mentions Plan9 and 9front in links at the bottom on the
screenshot page.
I just love MS. A company so focused on security and caring about its customers. I always encourage people to use Edge. We need to stop spyware companies like Google.
A language like Ruby can be very productive for someone who has climbed the learning curve to learn all its ins and outs. However, in my experience, this turns into a large productivity drain the moment someone else (who is less of an expert) has to touch it.

For large projects with multiple developers, readability should win over writability every time, most code are read more than they are written (my hypothesis). You can see evidence of this, given the success of languages like Python and Go.

That said, for scientific compute, in a lot of cases, writability matters way more, as your job as a scientist is to produce results as fast as possible, code quality be damned. However, only a small number of scientists are expert developers and have climb the learning curve and can write code with ease. The vast majority of them are junior at best, and Python's approachability (which is rooted from its readability of course), wins. With most of the people using Python, the ecosystem develops and there are no other viable alternatives. In the long run, I suspect even languages like MATLAB and Mathematica will die out as the open source stack becomes more mature and (eventually, if not already) significantly more capable. Julia might be a wildcard due to its (potential) performance advantages, but the aesthetics of the programming language is simply not in the minds of 99% of the scientific compute users out there.
See what you can get out of them. View meeting new people as a potential opportunity for arbitrage.
I love your list -- but that you have to spell them out, indicates they're not really that adopted.
This stupid, pedantic way of talking about the issue helps no one.
I didn't say anything about banning. People should be able to use any mitigation method that they want. I just personally don't care to use any myself, hence my statement.
Not the first time I’ve heard of this.
Is a new platform (Twitter) needed?
To that I would add listening to Mark Farina Mushroom Jazz, Vol. 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIuW-OJY2uY

This is to get in touch with your inner mojo. Also Vol. 8 is awesome.
I don’t know if you’re joking or not, and I say this as someone who uses Edge as their primary browser, but Edge does not improve the situation you describe. Edge is just a flavor of chromium at this point and absolutely gives Chrome a run for its money in the tracking and telemetry department.
No, everyone (bar one person) has the same native language. The person with non-native English does not care, and often has their camera off as well.

The 'issue', such as it has ever been raised, was "why don't you have your camera on?", and in one case it was "I have no camera", and in another case it was "I'm walking around, you won't see me or you'll get dizzy trying to look at me".

> It takes creativity and effort to collect candid feedback.

I'm not sure how much I actually want to spend time 'collecting candid feedback' vs a) getting stuff done and b) supporting other people in getting their stuff done. Camera on/off has not been noted as enough of a hindrance (as in, any at all) by anyone as an impact on their ability to get stuff done. We also have phones and direct meetings where people can collaborate that way.

Forcing "cameras on" is... the covid-era version of "butts in seats" it seems.
That was the right move by them. But I can’t say that it takes much compassion to in order to allow/remind an employee that they don’t have to work on a Saturday (hackaton).
The Raspberry Pi foundation focuses on accessibility and education. In that regard, the RP2040 excels. The price is especially advantageous and the beginner-focused documentation are great for introducing people to microcontrollers.

But I do agree that this feels like the Arduino situation all over again, where many people mistake the sudden popularity and influx of Tweets, YouTube videos, and headlines as an indicator that it’s the premier microcontroller on the market or the only logical choice for new projects.

It has a few unique and cool features, but we should periodically remind everyone that every microcontroller is a set of tradeoffs and compromises that the user should evaluate.

On the other hand, if you’re going for maximum clicks or views, putting “Raspberry Pi” in your headlines is a guaranteed way to bring in more eyeballs. It’s constantly a hot topic.
From the text I would assume Pete was working full time for this company.
This is also not unusual for my company.

In Germany there are laws against this type of 'contracting' as you seem/are fully depending on one client.
Well, at least in Montana, it's just a semi-arid climate. It doesn't rain enough for farming techniques developed in western europe.

My general feeling is that a good field is usually the product of generations of work: where I grew up, you had to put drainage channels every two meters, giant ditches, endless effort to get rid of weeds, etc. It wasn't the case you could just move into unmaintained soil, especially virgin soil with shrub on it, and expect it to start producing wheat without a hell of a lot of labour.

That's compounded by the fact that farmers are basically soil-seeking missiles, and always have been. If there's a patch of really good farming land, that's probably been a lot of competition for it in the preceding centuries. If there aren't any farmers on it, there's almost always a reason.
You can disable jit in Chromium browsers via flag as well. Chromium Edge has this exposed in the UI as "Super Duper Secure Mode".

I'm not sure if there is a way to do this on Safari.
I am normally very reserved. Quiet, bookish.
I was traveling alone in the Caribbean and on the flight I decided the trip would be more fun if I had friends. I decided to just say hi to every person and strike up a conversation if they were interested.

I made a crew of 8 friends, we did everything together and kept in touch for years.

Just make a point to say hi and be open to having a conversation.

If you can’t think of anything to say:
Speak about something you find interesting
Engage with the person you’re talking to and figure out what they’re interested in
The right way is to have them mentor with someone even if that slows down the mentor (and it will). Don't assign them to a curmudgeon either. If you don't have the "manpower" then just let them have a couple of months to adjust (assuming they're really hired on and not a consultant) and take it all in, they're already stressed and tacking on a thousand (paper cuts) points of improvement is going to make them feel awful.
I was voted shyest kid in my high school class. My brain would go white during any attempt at public speaking, and I was super awkward around any new people.

Much of it came from being extremely sensitive. So much worry about what other people thought, and that any esteem in which you may be held could be destroyed at any moment.

A couple things changed: I joined team sports and programming competitions, which strengthened my self-esteem and confidence. Eventually, I grew to understand my lizard brain's reactions could consciously override them. For example, several years back, I was invited to speak at a conference in China, and my first thought was "NOOO" but then I realized I'd regret that and when else do you get to see a new country on someone else's dime? So it's worth optimizing for opportunity. It's kind of like the improv rule. Always say yes, and see where it goes.

But it never completely fades. I'm a seasoned and respected engineer and I still get sweaty hands and an elevated heart rate even when giving status updates to my team of five years.
IMO The main benefit of immediate mode GUI is that (unlike "normal widget kits"), the data required to "drive" the widgets is not actually owned by the widgets themselves, making widgets controlled directly by the "program's" data. You make some sort of change to the program's data and it is immediately reflected on the screen. This is as opposed to the "normal widget kits" where you need some "glue" to reflect those changes for example maybe you need to let the widget know its contents were updated and it needs to redraw or redo its layout.

This makes it easier to create certain types of UIs where the main interaction is to modify some data structure directly, which is how many simple tools behave.
Digital Ocean API and control panel are down