skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NO, it takes years of experience (~ 10 years including student time) to can do good jobs - even for young and smart people.

He doesn't have enough time, he should take simple jobs that he can do.
don't be stubborn.
> The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks

The Wikileaks Twitter account asked Trump Jr. to leak some material to them, at a time when Assange's Internet had been cut. That isn't interesting, searching for information to release is what journalists do.

> WIKILEAKS DISCUSSES PREFERENCE FOR GOP OVER CLINTON

The same Clinton that said "why don't we just drone [Assange]?" That isn't very surprising.

> WikiLeaks Turned Down Leaks on Russian Government During U.S. Presidential Campaign

This refers to documents submitted to Wikileaks right at the time they were dealing with one of the biggest releases in their history. The organisation was stretched but deemed the leaks of little relevance, anyway. (I believe a large part of these documents was already published).

Whoever submitted this material to Wikileaks then immediately got in touch with media orgs who simultaneously released articles about how Wikileaks rejected Russian leaks. Did these articles specify the nature of the rejected leaks, or perhaps even organise to publish themselves (even in part)? Ha.

I believe the leaks were published somewhere later and nobody cared because they were not interesting.
So? I'll just send it to my own wallet. And then on anywhere I want. What a toothless function.
I note this still uses GTK 2 by default, but Pidgin 3 will change that.
Sigh. Every time a coconut with the 'you seem to think xyz' response based on a single brief comment with no mention of xyz
What I love about reversible male birth control is that all of the conjecture simply disappears after it becomes available

90% of the comments if this thread simply become comedy

In any case I’m very curious about this Vitamin A solution
Pidgin has plugins for a lot of those protocols now, notably not iMessage though.

https://pidgin.im/plugins/
>belief that your own body would not betray you

I think this is a fair point. We're multicellular life forms. We're not 1 living thing, but rather a collection of many living things working together. It could be that some of those living things start to betray each other (for personal gain) which aids in our demise. Just as individual humans can do the same to each other, leading to society's demise. But I'm not sure that means we were designed to self-destruct.
That's a really interesting thing to think about. Thanks for the comment. I was aware of hemochromatosis and therapeutic phlebotomy (thanks Sawbones podcast!). I never put two and two together and thought about how it could be a source of blood products.

It looks like FDA changed the regulations in 2016 to allow blood centers to accept donations from patients with hereditary hemochromatosis[0]. I wonder what fraction of blood centers in the US actually accept such donations, though. (Sadly, it doesn't surprise me that reimbursements would be a driving factor for throwing away perfectly usable blood.)

[0] https://www.redcrossblood.org/content/dam/redcrossblood/docu...
Does the European DMA law indicate a possible return of this? It sounds like Europe is about to require interoperability between Facebook Messenger-likes and other clients.
At least it was related to the decision to remove a spleen or not. In at least one case I now know of, in a young patient they decided to keep the spleen.

In some cases hearing of unextraordinary events helps to calibrate what extraordinary is. I have never suffered a spleen injury, but have heard of lots of young men having theirs removed when I was younger. This anecdote leads me to believe those may have been extraordinary cases. At the very least I no longer think doctors routinely just remove spleens as I once did.
> I thought the Higgs was what gave other particles mass?

Sorta yes, but it's more complicated.

> How can it be heavier than the particles it gives mass to?

There are a few bad explanations about the Higgs boson floating around. I hate all of them. I wish I can write a good one, but it's very difficult task.

One of the explanations is the "prime minister" analogy, that says that the usual particles are like a prime minister, and the Higgs bosons are like the press reporters that follow the prime minister around. So even if the prime minister has no mass, the big bundle of the prime minister and the journalist has mass. In this explanation it's difficult to imagine why the mass of the bundle is smaller than the mass of each journalist. [Did I already said that I hate this explanation?]

Oversimplifying toooo much:

The idea is that the usual particles have something that look like mass because they bounce against the Higgs boson. They don't absorb the Higgs boson. They are not surrounded by Higgs bosons. They just bounce against a Higgs boson from time to time, and that somehow cause that they look like particles with mass. It's weird, very weird. The analogy does not give an intuitive explanation, but this can be formalized and the equations model the experiment accurately.

But actually, the usual particles are not bouncing against Higgs boson, they are bouncing against the non-zero vacuum expectation value Higgs field. What is the Higgs field? What is the vacuum expectation value? Why it is not zero like in most fields? Those are hard questions!

I watched the video in Encyclopædia Britannica linked in the sibling comment, and it's quite good. I hope it makes thing more clear than my explanation.
It would for sure be an asshole thing to do, but men don't really have anything to gain by getting a woman pregnant right? If anything it's a liability (child support payments)
Another FOSS universal chat solution that was probably better architected but unfortunately was never as popular as pidgin:

https://telepathy.freedesktop.org/
I got down voted but I was right it was a kid genius
I appreciate his content and the time it took to create it. Perhaps I could have done better at conveying that in my comment.

I want to help him retain viewers attention and the additional animations and graphics while talking will increase that.

If time constraints are an issue, I'd suggest to make the videos shorter but more animated.

The post production work is definitely challenging because it's the final part to finish the video and you wish you could skip it all, but it makes or breaks the content. The vision, ideas and script here is amazing but people learn in different ways and educational content like this is best presented in different formats all at once to suit the learning style of the viewer.

The graphics don't need to be amazing, even simple graphics will do the job.
Thank you for posting this. I remember when i first saw the “I hate Oracle Club”, I laughed to the point my coworkers were worried about me. :)
Telepathy – Real-time communication and collaboration for the desktop and mobile
> I was hoping someone finally had a library or something to make python good at the things shell does well (mostly, running stuff and piping output around). If only.

Good news, they did! Even better news: it doesn't require python, it's cross platform, and supports an easy-to-read verbose style for scripts but a quick-to-write terse style for interactive usage. It's an absolute joy to use for nested data structures, everything is an object and it has full native tab completion.

Unfortunately it came out of Microsoft so a lot of people haven't given it the time of day yet. It's honestly one of the joys of modern CLI usage though.
Which GNOME extension is that? Sounds like something I would be happy to have!
Baidu search for 'keanu reeves' has plenty of results. Seems that as the Reuter article passed through PC Gamer the news became exaggerated.
Pidgin has plugins for most modern protocols:

https://pidgin.im/plugins/
And they got Quale built and running. Well played PhantomOS.
You can think of bridges as SaaS. Protocol support needs to be client-side so you don't become dependent on a remote service.
> experimental compound that blocks proteins from binding to vitamin A, also known as retinoic acid

thoughts? anything we should know about retinoic acid?
> Possible ≠ certain or even likely.

Yeah but "possible cancer", taken literally like that, is everyone.
I saw this technique used at a steel rolling mill I toured. There were accumulators on both ends of the line. The output-side accumulator served the same purpose as in this video. On the "input" end a new roll's would be welded to end of the running roll as it emptied.
I mean, if by value, we mean a "good or a service [someone] would be willing to spend USD on", then yes, all the things I mentioned are things that people have spent money on in one way or another, presumably because they felt that they were getting something in return by parting with their money. From an economic perspective, the crypto product incentivized labor of some sort, so it would arguably qualify as "creating value".

My reservation for whether to call those products "value" is more along the lines of the argument about whether cigarettes are "creating value" (i.e. if one buys a "feeling" from literal puffs of smoke and punts the costs of externalities onto others, is that a net positive?)
I went to try the Pidgin Facebook plugin, and I couldn't login. There's no more app passwords as the plugin suggests, if you try to login without the 2 factor Facebook sends "Is This You?" notifications every time, but doesn't let you login if you say yes.

There's github issue[1] for it and no resolution, except a weird python script hack to do 2 factor which may or may not be reliable.

1. https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/issues/526
this site is literally funded by easy high reward/low risk schemes?
Recent and related:

Phantom OS: Persistent Operating System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30283864 - Feb 2022 (68 comments)

Also:

Phantom OS, a Russian OS where “everything is an object” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19672610 - April 2019 (23 comments)
Some insights into a rationale ex-spleen nation of the future. Thanks for sharing.
High Noon for Daylight Savings Time
Just to attempt to be thorough, and reiterate that honestly I don't know the answer, but good grip strength may be something comes from good overall muscular and nervous system health, not the other way around.

It interests me how far we have come in technology, but how little we know how to apply it to certain kinds of medicine.

Just as an anecdote, I have been spending thousands of hours in physical therapy, and have visited doctors all over. One thing I have learned is that many great doctors used to read tonnes of research papers early in their career, but over time gravitated more towards their clinical experience in building their tree of knowledge. From what I have heard, the science is just too vague and difficult in this field and so as tempting as it is to want to apply the scientific framework around this field (I'm talking specifically about physical therapy here, not necessarily other areas of medicine where I know far less about), it ends up being more effective to build up ones intuition off of a strong clinical practice and then to look at the science afterwards in order to calibrate and filter through those experiences.

A bit of a tangent, but something I also find to be interesting is how poor the feedback mechanisms are in a lot of medicine. Most patients don't follow their prescribed homework, and many surgeons don't even get to see the long-term outcomes of their patients' surgery. Or when they do they are measuring some variables that don't give enough of an overall view of the person's body or overall health.

Anyways, I'm done rambling for now :P. I hope we can curtail the upcoming health crisis we are going to have with our and our childrens' postures and poor body mechanics.
Complete outsider here, but the Goomics series shed light on Google's internal culture and one of the recurring themes is the tone deafness of management towards internal dissent.

https://goomics.net/367/

https://goomics.net/334/

https://goomics.net/332/

https://goomics.net/315/

https://goomics.net/311/

https://goomics.net/290/

https://goomics.net/288/
I wish Telepathy got more popularity, it seemed to be a better architecture than Pidgin/libpurple with the protocol support in separate processes etc.
I like the representation pushes Canada achieves with some of their pre-colonial communities

There is almost no analog in the US

Its so different, from the bad things to the good things, but just right there up north

Really fascinating and inspiring for me about how much is possible given that there are so many cultures here that have almost nothing to do with each other, just grouped together as “indigenous”
This is honestly the problem with a lot of these type of FOSS replacement products. It's not an "impedance mismatch" and the user isn't "holding it wrong", the product has bugs. They need to be acknowledged as the bugs they are and addressed, because the fact is of you want to replace a product you need to not be worse than that product.
I call Amazonians and ex Amazonians bananas, join me in making it a thing, I still get confused looks right now.
My friend is an electrician with a monster grip - he still had a heart attack!

Sounds like a correlation that misses the point, general health prolongs life, couch-potatoes die sooner and have worse quality of life their last 30 years or so. And setting up for good health in advanced age starts decades earlier.

Try comparing someone who does grip-strength training only vs someone who does heavy dead-lifts, both into their 80s.

My money will be on the dead-lift guy, not just having a better quality of life until his last day, but also living longer.
The same could be said about women. They get pregnant and are entitled to child support.
Transactions can be done "easily" by reusing virtual memory support to trap accesses to memory (read/write/execute) and basically running coherence protocols in software. This is also how distributed transactions can be implemented, which enable you to deploy a bunch of threads running in a single address space across separate nodes in a cluster. It's not all that much harder to implement than checkpoint or restore, which they seem to have already.
I wonder if this will result in RCS becoming the standard, or maybe Matrix or XMPP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services
>the real reason is because blood banks get fat reimbursements for “therapeutic phlebotomies”.

Is there a reason why the government/insurance don't change their policies? It seems pretty weird for all parties involved to throw away blood from "therapeutic phlebotomies".
Two anecdotes pales in comparison to the frequency of deadbeats: less than half of custodial parents* receive the full amount, and almost a third never receive a payment.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2018/cb18-tps...

But ultimately, the child is the most vulnerable party in question. Yes, our legal system is geared to protect them first. It's not the best outcome for either parent. But the kid comes first, because the kid is the most vulnerable and has the greatest potential for societal harm/benefit.

Those cases are bad, yes. Are they statistically significant? Citation please. Men lie about having had vasectomies, too, to have unprotected sex, resulting in unwanted pregnancies. Frequently? I don't know. Guys sneaking their condom off is pretty frequent in my experience, though.

* note the gender neutral term. There are quite a few deadbeat moms too. Single dads need child support too.
From what I remember reading back then, Carmack was already a huge fan of Abrash's tech articles in magazines before Quake, so he had already been learning from Abrash for a long time before they worked together.
I think of bridges as SaaS and that protocol support needs to be client-side so you don't become dependent on a remote service.
What we really need is a hosting provider cares about privacy, i.e. isn't Amazon, Google, or Microsoft.
> People who might have been warned in time to evacuate, but weren't because there was a Starlink constellation in the way

This won't happen for an asteroid large enough to be a threat. Those asteroids are easy enough to see that the Starlink constellation does not impede their detection. That was the point of my previous post (the GP of yours).
A rational actor will exchange money for food rather than starve to death, regardless of whether the currency they are using is deflationary or not. Your argument is nonsense.
A planned restart is just hibernation to disk, which is implemented in many OS's.
Extinct charismatic megafauna... especially those that were extant in the last hundred thousand years, thinking some of them probably hung out with humans. Man, makes me all sniffly eye'd thinking about a Mowgli story involving a giant sloth.
Yes I believe you are correct here. So often in medicine we want to just treat the symptoms. It's amazing how hard it is to find doctors who don't end up thinking like this. Personally I haven't been able to figure it out. They're definitely not stupid, but why do so many research papers look at the body in such a way that leads to such prescriptions? Is it because researchers lack the clinical experience to overcome this mistake?

Definitely the advice of increasing one's grip strength is poor on multiple levels. Even if increasing your grip strength leads to a higher-quality life, simply training only the forearm without addressing the entire arm and shoulder and neck all together is not going to be good for ones overall muscular (and nerves, etc) balance.
> Everything that Carmack did had been done before,

Except for the smooth scrolling (that everyone thought impossible on that era hardware)?

And the incredibly performant Doom engine?
Feels weird to be happy about that, but great to know.
I dont think your definition is accurate though. IQ tests like progressive matrices dont test only if you have good probabilistic models but how well you can identify the pattern in the matrices. If the patterns follow a minimum entropy distribution, there is only so much that falls to technique, and the technique is intuitive (prefer simple over complex); there is still the problem of raw computation that is guessing and rejecting.
Spleens are one of the more vulnerable organs. They're prone to rupture during trauma, and if ruptured, can easily cause a person to bleed out. In many motorcyclist accidents, a ruptured spleen can be the cause of death.

Spleens are essentially large bags of blood and immunological pulp, and the reason they evolved this way is because they act as a filter against bloodborne pathogens. They host a diverse but specialized collection of immune cells, such as macrophages, and have a truly unique and interesting role in overall health.

You should read up on the thymus next. That one is super important and is also implicated in aging.
I've been working in the tech industry for 25 years. I've probably watched 10 different corporate ethics training videos that cover bribery and inappropriate gifts. At the end we have to answer a quiz to prove we weren't asleep.

In all my time I have never had any control over money and no way to bribe someone even if I wanted to.

About 5 years ago I check my email in the morning and there are emails from the corporate legal and PR teams about not answering any questions from reporters about a certain employee. They state this person is no longer an employee.

I immediately google his name and find that he has been arrested on foreign bribery charges.

Everyone in our team was laughing that he must have forgotten to take the mandatory corporate ethics and anti bribery training.

What is the point of making us watch all these videos when we have no budget authority anyway while the C-level execs bribe people?
The other explanation is that being a 'moderate' drinker correlates with being able to do things in moderation in general, which is predictive of longevity.
I found the link he posted interesting, did a little research, and it's true. https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-immigration-sign-2...

so yes, that comment was true and factual, not inflammatory, and easily seen as topical in a parallel sense to this wildlife crossing bridge. Some would suggest that we should expend more effort to save human lives than animal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_sign

I'm glad I read it, and I'm better informed now. Your comment, on the other hand...
The HN communist censorship filters appear to be broken, 100% total USA compliance demands narrative domination.
Writing stuff in assembly is not hard, especially not in those days when x86 instruction set was simpler/smaller.

Neither the tooling were terrible, in fact, arguably the opposite. Some of the best dev tools ever made come from that era (Borland stuff)

People still write a lot of asset creation tools today. That's standard in games industry.
Maybe all that drinking increased their grip strength. /s
I decided a while ago to write all my future scripts in Python whenever possible instead of sh or bash due to the overall better syntax and power of Python.

Typer is one of the better packages for running Python scripts from CLI. Fabric & Invoke are pretty good too.

To run any bash commands in Python I have a Python script that creates a temporary bash file with the code to execute, makes it executable, runs it with the commands in the built-in subprocess package, then deletes the file. This makes any complex bash commands with piping and whatnot runnable straight from Python.

This way I don't have to learn all the different bash-based Python commands from pathlib and whatnot that throw unexpected errors, and I can run them using pure bash syntax from Python. But then you also get all the benefits of Python's looping syntax, classes etc.
We have a dedicated QA team. Generally developers write unit tests while QA writes more integration level tests (mostly back-end focused). They do some exploratory manual testing while most of the repetitive work is managed with (brittle) UI automation tests.

It is a lot of work to maintain all of the tests that we have. However, we have an incredibly good track record of releasing on time and critical bugs are rarely introduced.
It’s always been a requirement, it’s not new since Covid. But we were all just in the office all the time before.

What’s new is that people realise there’s another way, and they want it.
I doubt I'd ever be able to close the #3. I've never done more than 4 reps on the #2. But I don't push myself. I seem to get much more out of pullups and other grip exercises. They're still great to have around and my favorite is their Zenith, which is softer than the #1.5, smooth-handled and fatter. If you can close a #3, you could close the Zenith telekinetically.
We already had this language: the early versions of Java (1.4 and before) had no generics. Go always has annoyed me because the core language team comes across as repeating all the language design mistakes of early Java and other languages that treat their users like children.
> Are there any genes that explicitly produce a timing mechanism, and thereby create a built-in notion of aging?

Yes, telomeres.

Telomeres set a count on how many times a cell can divide before it ceases to divide and becoming old and useless; in humans, the count is 40-60 divisions and then the cell essentially dies.

There may be other timing mechanisms that haven't been discovered as well.
How is that different from posix_spawn()?

Also, async implementation is getting a from-scratch rework w/ io_uring anyway.
Why is this normal in Europe, but considered risky in the US?
I had to google that phrase and found that it’s slang for unfalsifiable. Based on that, I would agree with you.

In addition, it sounds like Epistemic Legibility differs [from Falsifiability] by not necessarily requiring an empirical test to refute one or more claims.