skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook is a huge employer, it makes it hard to believe that if they're losing folks to crypto companies that it's somehow localized to Facebook. What does this have to do with Facebook and the "type of people it attracts"? Are you arguing somehow that Facebook hires a very particular type of engineer despite common knowledge that the folks that work at one FAANG will usually be willing to work on other FAANG companies? Or do you deny that FAANG companies have the number of people to make the original statement true?
Stromjs: Dependency free stream utils library for Node.js
With the events surrounding node-ipc and colors, it seems like keeping your dependencies to a minimum has a lot of benefits.
looks very much like Rust's issue tracker to me
Interesting... what are you printing?

I've had my brother laser for just about 10 years now, it's been awesome, regular paper, 80# cardstock and shipping labels being no problem from tray or feed.

Envelopes haven't been great.
Money is speech. There is no way around it.

Even in the most unfree society in the world you can go in your shower and whisper anything you want. Nobody will know you said anything though so it won't do anything. To make a difference in a society as large as the US you need a lot of money to pay for things. You can print and mail flyers (money for paper, printing, and postage), you can take out ads on prime time TV... It all comes down to money is needed to make your message get someplace. There for limiting money is limiting speech.
> Clearly, the absence of belief in God is the very same as believing God does not exist.

Not in my opinion.

You were born with an absence in the belief of an infinite number of things. Absence of belief is a default state.

Presumably you have a filter of what beliefs you choose to add to that default state you were born in.

Having a filter of: “Does it help me live a better life?” seems good to me. “Can anyone reproduce it?” seems like a decent filter too.

Basically an absence of belief is saying that the level of evidence presented to me has not surpassed the requirements of my filter. The burden is on others to improve the evidence.

Believing a negative is saying that I have all the evidence I need and I’ve come to a conclusion. The burden is on me to show that I’ve collected enough evidence.

That’s how I see them being different states.
You know, I don't know...it might? I never opened it up enough to look for a hard drive.
Web 2.0 -> Web 1.0 -> Web 2.0 adapter.
What’s the difference between photons bouncing in a box, and a gas? …no, really?

There’s a lot of them, starting with the fact that gas particles have mass, and photons generally don’t. However, confinement causes mass. The gas particles are in a sense confined even when floating free (by other fields), and photons are only confined when they bounce off the walls, however-

They do that a lot. As you zoom out, the phenomena start to look alike.
Just rewire the pins and build your own jig that reverses it (or undo rewiring as needed).

Might be able to short the right data pins from behind to ground and rip that out as needed. Or a hidden switch that does that.
Same thing happened to my Dad with AT&T
Not a direct answer but something that might mitigate. I have these motion-activated alarms on my bike, moped, and in my backpack, and activate the alarms when I'm not within view of them.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0734QN8KR/

I imagine you could probably ziptie one (or maybe a few, though you'd have to carry a few remotes) onto an inconspicuous location on the car. It would be a good deterrent for car thieves and possibly also towing companies.

I actually want to work on a modification of this device where it shoots out fart spray in addition to the loud alarm.
Neat idea, but it seems to me like a critical part of making a new language of any kind is documenting it so that others can learn it and use it. On that note, can anyone explain the syntax that seems to use pipes in a function declaration (i.e. every function in the readme example other than fib)?
You're having a petri dish problem. Taken out of an environment, a lot of experiments and math look very good. It's interesting, might even be new knowledge, but it's not applicable.

That giant machine in their PR materials didn't just appear out of nowhere. It doesn't run on rainbows. It has a considerable embodied carbon footprint. It has an operational footprint, and a transportation footprint. It assuredly produces lots of pm2.5 and not just from the tailpipe.

Undoubtedly less that the process it replaces, but negative is an extraordinary claim, and I don't see any extraordinary evidence here.
Woah! My Trillian-lover friend also used KVirc quite a lot. Actually, not sure it was called KVirc, but something like that.
Great to hear, thanks a lot for your feedback :)
What is the point of setting up the udev group if you're just going to run php as root anyways?
DuckDB extension to read SQLite databases
Maybe you could add it to the Wikipedia page? There’s none listed in NZ
Up until now, all/most male birth control pills have centered around exogenous testosterone + progesterone/something else. Ignoring the other compound, exogenous testosterone supplementation would lead to all sorts of potential abuse since it's an anabolic steroid. There's also the fact that any oral formulation of testosterone (see dianabol for example) is extremely toxic on the liver, and leads to much higher levels of estradiol (which has its own side effects) due to homeostasis. The secondary compounds also have their own significant side effects, to the point where it really makes me wonder how bad hormonal birth control can be for women.

So this compound blocking vitamin A is a pretty novel approach.
You underestimate most mens' willingness to avoid pregnancy. To a lot of men, there are few things more horrific than getting the wrong woman pregnant and being saddled with 18 years of child support payments and the ethical burden of 18 years of child-rearing.
"Class struggle isn't going to bring anyone into the streets any more" and pointing out the absolute moribund labor party under Corbyn seems to me to be substantive criticism.

I also strain to find really substantive criticism in Fisher's original piece. "Russell Brand as popular left vanguard" has not really aged well, he's done the standard turn from proto-dirtbag-left to exactly the kind of media-talking-head-dumbass the leftists Fisher decries predicted he would.

I am broadly (but weakly) class-first in my leftism, but the kind of purity Fisher is demanding is bad tactics, but also counter-materialist. Race exists orthogonally to class but still has material implications - which is simply to say, black people still get profiled by cops even if they own a factory. For a good analysis of this, see Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Barbara and Karen Fields. Conversely, "the means of production" is not what it used to be - capital operates correlated but not identical to control over information vectors, and owners of those vectors exercise great power over people who can control their own production but not the distribution of it; see McKenzie Wark's Capital is Dead: Is This Something Worse?

The left is traditionally focused on class because Marxism, via materialism, made strong arguments this was the lynchpin of inequity. But if you run that same materialist analysis today, the evidence for class's primary, let alone a sui generis status, is the weakest it has ever been.
Yes. XKCD 1053 applies here. And this is evergreen content.

I wonder why the author is upset about the posts. Does it generate too much costly traffic? Do they receive a lot of e-mail because of their essay?
Now this is true hacker spirit
Most bitcoin have never been sold. Bitcoin is a commodity that is intended to serve as a store of value, and other commodities like gold and silver do their work as a store of value without an appreciable fraction of them ever being sold. So using the term market cap is not a misleading measure in relation to bitcoin; it is simply used by analogy to how it would be used for a company; it's not literally implying that all bitcoin is the equivalent of shareholder value.
A day in the life of a bookkeeper.
I think this is probably well correlated to a man's socioeconomic status.
Check out Vinegar (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303...)
It is so good I am almost afraid to mention it and it get too popular.
No affiliation at all with the product, just a happy user.

(edited to remove incorrect statement)
The problem with male birth control pills is that it's the women who bear the bulk of the risk/responsibility when it comes to pregnancy. If a woman says "trust me, i'm on the pill" and lies -- they're the ones that get pregnant and likely get stuck raising the kid. Sure the father might be on the hook financially, but if the woman lied about their birth control and went forward with the pregnancy anyway it's not absurd to imagine the father bailing on the situation.

Flipped around the other way, if a man says "trust me, i'm on the pill", now a woman has to trust this man even though they're the one's at risk of getting pregnant. What's worse is that the woman can't easily verify if they did in fact take a pill. At least with a condom you can be check that it's being used properly..

This asymmetric risk profile makes me think think that male birth control pills won't work outside of trusting long-term relationships, and then there's better options than a chemical pill for those situations already.
Apple didn't win any elections, so they can fuck off.
I get the point. As a practicing musician, I quite disagree.

These folks aren't terrible, but they aren't, like Queen or Michael Jackson.

There are a couple of directions that my disagreements run, but of them would be something like this:

there's no middle ground where people can make a modest living playing music anymore. There were several ways to do that, prior to the mid 90s.

That was good for the industry in that instead of only allowing amatures or world-class acts to be performing, you had a ton of folks kind of not being great.

But the only way you get to be really, really good at this is by doing it all the time.

So now, instead of having a bunch of folks who were kind of making it, you mostly have either destitute folks or hobbyists.

So I don't agree that having a bunch of middling musicians didn't produce good music: where do we think all those really talented, experienced folks come from? People aren't born knowing how to arrange a tune or work an audience.
I can see this as well. A lot of old forums I used to run on have been hacked and spammed to death.
You could have spend time in actually looking things up.

Wikipedia does not have any approved and working method as easy as a pill on it.

Also the pill is not that easy for woman either.

Don't put us man all in a bucket. You are not helping mitigating stereotypes
If a newer car gets stolen it’s just an inconvenience because it’s likely insured.
I'm not sure where you get your information, but it feels like you have some other axe to grind.. Nearly every single man in my circle of friends has gotten a vasectomy. Several of us knew we never wanted children and would've gotten a vasectomy in our 20s if doctors would approve it.
I know people who use hidden or magnetic switches to being able to start the car because they have a relatively expensive and easy to stole car.
If people or/and expensive gear were too protected for that kind of missile was it fail in the field?
Coworking spaces were supposed be a compromise. Individuals and small teams could work in an office-like space without home distractions for a few hundred a month. In the early days coworking provided quality bandwith and printing for less you'd pay at home. But that advantage has faded.

I have lost track of how coworking has fared during covid. For a while, pre-covid, they seemed to outnumber coffee houses in my metro area.
Interesting fact: this used to be the case in Ukraine (IKEA negotiated for years and I believe publicly alleged corruption); yet finally in 2021 they opened the first small-format physical store. Knowing how things were actually improving lately makes the invasion doubly devastating...
Facebook is a company with shady ethic that attracted people willing to look the other way because the money is too good.

But they just lost 37% on the "too good" money.

So where do you think these people are going next?
The cow also does not write equations, does not do media interviews, does not drive a motorcar, does not write letters to the cow government on the dangers of atomic warfare. The hamster does not play music, gather other hamsters around and share music, does not make musical instruments. The kangaroo does not rally the crowds for the salt marches. You don't need to speak German to hear Beethoven's music, speak Gujarati to see Gandhi's rally, or speak anything to obeserve humans solve problems on massive scales which no other animals do. It's not that the hamster doesn't write /musical notation/ it's that the hamster /doesn't make music for orchestras/ to note in any notation.

The disconnected lever fallacy is the idea that you can take the lever from a ship's bridge to your home, and then when you move the lever, expect your home to move like the ship moves. Without knowing about the engine. You're taking that idea even further - without ever seeing the ship move, and having no lever for moving it, assuming that there must be an engine but it's hidden by the lack of a lever. It's not the absence of lever which is so important, it's the absence of powered movement.

> "You are free to presume that we're unreasonable idiots who don't even have a speck of your "common sense"."

I'm not willing to assume that hamsters must, a-priori, be capable of the works of Beethoven because you think it's racist not to. English speaking humans are racist to Spanish speaking humans. That's /not the same/. You don't need to speak Spanish to observe that Mexico City is many orders of magnitude more than what hamsters can demonstrably do.

(I also take this the other way; seeing that animals show emotional behaviours and therefore have emotions. I don't think animals are rocks, it takes some intelligence to find food, mates, build nests. But that's not demonstrating high or human level intelligence because humans are capable of so much more. I think it equally bad that humans do/did surgery on human infants without anaesthesia arguing that they "don't feel pain" ( https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/07/28/when-babies-fel... ) and ( https://www.google.com/search?q=open+heart+surgery+infant+no... ))
Great comparison, I'll add that to my toolbox for future civil discourse.
Even if that's true, new cars tend to become old cars.
I’m reluctant to mess with the wiring on a brand new vehicle; a lock would make me much happier.
what better options do you mean?
people also do this on a DIY approach with old cars that are easy to steal (like a 2002 subaru or something) by wiring an ignition kill switch into the ignition fuse, and hiding it somewhere not obvious...
Unrelated but does anyone know of a good and available replacement for the HackRF One? The LimeSDR Mini looks good but is impossible to source because of the chip shortage.
HackRF is getting a little long in the tooth these days.
None of these articles counter the claim that it is trivial to remove streaks with software.

Some data will always be lost, as the satellites do obstruct part of the night sky, However the fractional area obstructed is exceedingly low.

That is to say, If you dump pixels with satellites, you will have fewer pixels. However, the number of pixels is low and changes with time.
Facebook literally made a cryptocurrency, a crypto wallet, and a number of associated products.

Following regulatory response, they have been downsizing it to a tiny speck of its former size.

Them losing folks to crypto companies is the most obvious result of the past five years, but it has more to do with their strategy struggles than the overall mindset of the engineering population.
Until someone has built a crypto product that creates values (for the purpose of this discussion it can be a good or a service would be willing to spend USD on even if it wasn't a crypto) crypto is a negative-sum game. Any USD taken out of the system someone else has to have put in, plus whatever the miners take out. Fortunes aren't created, they are redistributed.
Very interesting. So it says what each rail can handle.

I wonder if there is any wiggle room in the spec to piggyback a proprietary signal. For example, do you think a PSU that toggled the output of one rail between two specific values between spec polling intervals might be able to indicate to proprietary software the specific brand or model of PSU?
If blacks and women can be hired based on skin color and not merit, then the sky's the limit. I say go for it.
Unless I'm misinterpreting the example, it seems rather unfortunate that you need to create a sentential value before a `read` call to update some `&n` location. The `twice` function really could be just `return read() * 2` no?

I guess I should look into how this is actually compiled to sh. I agree the README would benefit from adding some examples of this.
This presumes that all things are equally good and the only difference is familiarity. This isn't generally true of other functional areas of endeavor. Neither computers nor cars are all alike save aesthetics. I see no reason why it would be true of UIs.
Why should anyone use this over one of the competitors, like Viz or Mangaplus? This is rapidly becoming a saturated market.
Funny. The original article says

"The findings of this study suggest that digital breast tomosynthesis is associated with a lower cumulative probability of false-positive results compared with digital mammography"

Which is an important finding since today such screenings rely on digital mammography. So, tomography is good.

For whatever reason, the cited article turns this upside down into:

"Half of all women getting 3D mammograms will experience a false positive over a decade of annual screening"

Which suggests that tomography performs really bad.

If you do a mammography screening every two years, you do 5 mammographies in 10 years. With a false positive, you do 5 and an MRI. So what. Doctors should always tell their patients that a positive screening mammography doesn't necessarily imply they actually have cancer.
Kudos to Yasser Elabd! This man sounds awesome.

This part particularly stood out to me:

> When he refused a performance improvement plan, he lost the job and left Microsoft for good in August 2018.

I didn't know you could refuse a PIP. TIL
I remember when my buddy picked up a lineman's headset almost 2 decades ago and we ran around connecting it to random lines. Good times. NYC is one of the best places to grow up as a hacker kid.
Different cultures have different ideas of what "child friendly" means. As an example, Sailor Moon was targeted at 8yr old girls in Japan but deals with topics that many parents in the USA are not comfortable with for 8yr olds. For example lesbian relationships (I'm not making a judgement on that, only pointing out the fact that many USA parents would object to that topic for their 8yr olds and in fact that facet of Sailor Moon was edited out of the USA anime version).

Another example is One Piece which is also targeted pretty young but nearly every female character dresses super sexy and one of the main characters smokes at every opportunity.

Also, in general manga != for kids. There are tons of very adult manga and I don't just mean porn manga, I mean manga about adult topics targeted at adults. There are similar adult comics in the USA but the selection and market is arguably a order of magnitude or more larger (by percentage) in Japan.
A financial medallion
Does Memegen still exist though?
I'm the proud owner of a six digit ICQ number. What a time that was.

It's funny. Having a similar trajectory of chat clients, I'd say my migration in my teens was dictated by "which service were the girls I wanted to talk to using?" In my 20s it was "what preserved my session as I ran around town and logged into various dumb terminals" until finally "what worked best on mobile."

Now that I'm married in my 40s, it's "which service are the guys I want to talk to using?"
Generally it's not too hard to decompile. But whether the code is any way readable or easy to modify is another question.
I would recommend reading Steps to an Ecology of mind. I have a great deal of disdain for the bateson name but i found this work very uplifting shortly after a concussion. If you'd like to talk about some of the exercises i undertook to serialize my stream of conciousness please reach out.
It's effective in its real goal (preventing fines), just not in its stated goal (preventing bribery). Of course this means that it's at best a half-truth to call it training (a more accurate name would be e.g. "indemnity procedure").
This reminds me of a comment I read a long time ago about somebody's experience working for a company that had a branch in Japan. They would demand that some spreadsheets be sent as a fax, and then some employee would be tasked with re-typing all that information back into a spreadsheet later on.
You are doing the very thing you are accusing Gould of doing. Rebutting a claim based on the fact that the person making that claim was wrong in an unrelated claim. This is called an ad-hominen fallacy.

You might be right that Gould was a fraud, however you still have to show that his claim about the fact that intelligence isn’t normally distributed is wrong. In fact the burden of proof is kind of weird here, since assuming a normal distribution is a pretty strong assumption, and rejecting that assumption based on a lack of evidence should be enough. However Gould goes further and cites evidence that intelligence has a pretty skewed distribution.

If you want to reject Gould’s claim here, then do so. Don’t just say he’s a fraud and then assume his wrong about everything.
Men can only "bail on the situation" when they don't have much to lose. Any man with a reliable job and good salary is very vulnerable to having wages garnished.
How is it negative sum, and not just zero sum?
Because I don't have to. The videos are free.
well, I can only answer for my specific case, but the way I made friends at the gym was basically people noticing that I was doing the Olympic lifts and commenting on that, plus occasionally giving random compliments/technique tips to people.

By weightlifting club I mean an association centered around competitive Olympic lifting. So you train individually, but can sign up for competitions, and are generally always around competitive lifters.

I've also heard CrossFit has a good community, not sure how accurate this is, however.
There’s not much wrong with the original other than using the term “accuracy” when what is actually meant is “sensitivity”. But it is not colloquial.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity

> healthy people don't go in testing for the presense of a rare disease.

Well that’s precisely the point. There’s frequently the idea raised among lay people that it would be beneficial to test or screen for all kinds of rare or even just uncommon diseases that have high mortality in the general populace. This is the counter argument.
How do xooglers pronounce "xoogle" ?
Would appear that V isn't as vaporware as I initially thought.

Going to give this a fairly through once-over because I think Posix sh is an under-appreciated transpilation target.
Kids Learn to Code in Python with the Raspberry Pi Foundation
You could literally burn a ticket. That would be so cathartic...
I meet my friends for specific events (cycling, running, lunch, coffee, concert, theater, etc) lasting a few hours each on the weekends.

I don't know anyone who wants to do those kinds of things on workdays, or to be "around" without a specific activity planned.

It's something but it's still very little compared to working together.