skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’re in an age that lionizes thinking different, that cherishes frank real comments that border on insanity, that embraces going viral. One person’s deep end is another’s genius. Musk is simply reinventing himself for American culture’s worship of celebrity and maverick contrarianism.

In doing so he’s not only following the footsteps of polarizing figures like the previous president or Kanye West. There’s no shortage of such figures in tech, from pmarca to pg. Becoming a pontificating blowhard is practically a rite of advancement these days. The only difference is the degree of detached-from-reality contrarianism and level of politeness in tone.
One more reason that we need nuclear power. It keeps going when the sun doesn’t shine for whatever reason. If the Netherlands’ greenhouses switched to electric heating, they can produce food year round. Indoor farming is an unsung hero of modern agriculture that we can use much more of when we get the cost of energy down. And it’s also a way for us to survive all sorts of catastrophes, not only a nuclear war.
Make videos of this.

There really is a conventional scientific view that cats are not capable of passing typical mirror-related self-awareness tests.

But it strikes me that the problem might be that the tests just aren't designed to test cats.
Can’t Sleep? Seven Devices That Might Solve Your ‘Coronosomnia’ for Good
You have cheap nuclear. Countries without that, like Italy, are seeing similarly high inflation rates on basic utilities.

We are definitely less protected towards this sort of event because of Brexit, but this is bigger than that.
Combinatorial Trolley Problem
> To him, it is perhaps closer to humiliating and debilitating

Exactly. Considering what I went through already, I can't even think of spending the next couple of years like that hoping I will get GC one day. If I go through again even half of what I went through already, the stress alone will kill me soon. I already lost all my memory - I don't remember anything about my past, no memory of my childhood, parents, school. What I went through probably shortened my life by 10 years. And I am worried if I will get dementia because of that.

Its really disappointing that people are using his gender and caste as excuses for dismissing whatever he went through.
Xenopsychology (1984)
That’s an amazing story about the fish. I had no idea. Thanks for sharing.
I've never heard anyone say Z-I-N. Zeen.
In the days of mini-cassette operating phone answering machines..
We had a cat who liked the sound of peoples voices.
It took us a while to figure out what was happening as we'd have missed messages but one day in my tweens when I was home alone but too busy gaming to answer the phone I observed the following:

* Phone ringing, getting on towards 3-4 rings

* Cat sprinting down the stairs, jumps up onto bookshelf and waits

* Cat listens to the machine pick up the caller and the message they leave

* Caller hangs up and the cassettes go all clickety-clack

* Cat then reaches with his paw around the bookshelf to smack the big blue button

* Message plays back again and is now marked read, light goes out, and no one knows we were left a message

Over the years we saw him do this a number of times!
Once he hit the wrong button and overwrote the outgoing message with the sound of himself purring.
From the fush documentation:

Special variables

Some bash variables and their closest fish equivalent:
$*, $@, $1 and so on: $argv
$?: $status
$$: $fish_pid
$#: No variable, instead use count $argv
$!: $last_pid
$0: status filename
$-: Mostly status is-interactive and status is-login

Replacing «$$» with «$fish_pid»? A contentious choice at the very least – does it also apply to non-interactive fish scripts? «…use count $argv» instead of «$#» – why? Both, $$ and $#, are non-bashism's and go way, way back into the UNIX prehistoric times – hardly bash-ism's.

Fish does not appear to have basic conditional variable expansions, matching affix removals and pattern substitutions, either; i.e. ${_var:-substitute}, ${parameter<# / ##>word}, ${parameter<% / %%>word} and ${parameter/pattern/string}. Or, at least their nearest equivalent are not prominently featured in the documentation.
It’s becoming clear this is a man who got lucky too early and missed out on the maturing influences and experiences most people face.

Edit: Since I'm getting downvoted, here's more supporting evidence, I guess: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1513045405029711878
Basically all these puzzles are trying to train your combinational vision and calculation. An important component of calculation is getting good at executing 'forcing' moves (moves where your opponent has only one or two plausible choices) which are more clearly illustrated in attacking positions or 'Mate in X' positions. Even though the most readily available material is from 'attacking' positions, this skill is transferrable to many other kinds of positions(e.g pawn endings). Defense on the other hand is often more vague with more than one optimal strategy and rarely forcing, so there's just not a lot of good material to draw from.
There really is a long established track record of the US government and CIA doing these exact things, especially in Latin America, and in my experience at least, countries are creatures of habit. Why should anyone believe they aren't playing similar games in Africa today? The absence of an easily identifiable "someone" is not much proof to the contrary, especially when actions on the ground match up with the phenomenon referenced.
He's making a joke. You're not meant to take it seriously
I would assume most nukes are small tactical nukes.
Initial nukes will focus on nuclear launch facility's, command and control.

So I think a significant amount of nukes will not be used at all.
Fractional reserve banking existed in Europe a century or more before the the United States even existed, let along the Federal Reserve. And was not seen as fraudulent -- in that it was a common (not rare) practice, that people knew was going on and were happy to accept the notes. Central banks came into existence to regulate fractional reserve banking before the United States, let alone the Federal Reserve, existed either. the US Federal Reserve did not invent being a central bank.

Your way of seeing it differently is ahistorical, and strangely US-centric for a historical view of banking or currency.
A variant of rubber duck debugging?
All you need is an outsized ego that's easily bruised and you too can be a Twitter legend.
Must be all the coke..
This has nothing to do with homeless.

Elon is saying the staff could be replaced by the homeless and it would be a better use of the office and money.

This is about putting the staff on notice a house cleaning is coming.
The IDENTIFY command also returns some strings for the manufacturer/drive id, which are defined as having the first/even character in bits 15:8. Stored in memory on a little-endian system, "TOSHIBA " becomes "OTHSBI A".

So it kind of made sense to think IDE was big-endian, because that would at least be consistent.
Or sometimes, what already exists is "okay" but not all that great, and by "reinventing" it you can improve on things.

As with many things, NIH is a great attitude to have in some cases, and a horrible one in other cases. Being mindful what you're doing and why is key.
Hasn’t there been a whole slew of companies that attempted to do this before; realising that office space doesn’t convert very well…
https://seabed2030.org/
Try The Dark Mod.
I'm a senior engineer now and I'm still learning to make myself ask questions; it's incredibly valuable at all stages of a career. As a junior dev, there's lots you just don't know; you need to ask questions so you can get unblocked all the time, and that's not a problem. And as a senior dev, you know enough to identify questions which don't have clear answers yet, and when you ask a question out loud and the answer is "we never thought of that", you just provided a ton of value in asking the question. And if, as a senior dev, you ask a question which does have a clear answer, if you had to ask then someone else probably had that question too.
If "US training" is such a big deal, what the hell happened in Afghanistan?

When it comes to problems in the developing world, I think we neglect to highlight Islam's role. Islam is an Arab religion that has spread across Africa and Asia. It supplants local cultures and religions and Muslim-dominated countries tend to be caught in a stalemate between popular Islamist regimes and military dictatorship. Egypt is a prime example. Pakistan is looking more and more like a failed state.

I don't think the problem is the Quran but I've come to have a more negative view of the influence of Islam over the years. I think the problem is cultural imperialism: marginalization of local cultures and the Arabization that follows.
Hunters are alert to movement -- as you say, a cat is optimised for certain activities. They do also have strong proprioception.

"That's my leg" or "that's my ear" seems a reasonable discovery for a cat. I doubt that there was a deep existential discovery because it happened in a mirror.

Of course, pets of a species will vary in ability, that's only normal variation. We love them because they are simple, pretty, calming, and sometimes even helpful.

The animals that we love less, we tend to eat.

There's an obvious cognitive limit compared to humans. The theory of mind in humans conjures intentionality everywhere. Despite the (sometimes wildly) erroneous notions that this can produce, there is value in cooperation. Assuming intentionality has been an evolutionary advantage for our species.

Our species domesticated cattle, horses, and dogs because we have what we call "empathy". It's our mind at work building assumptions about the other.

It doesn't take much for the human mind to start imagining intentionality and companionship. Jesse Bering [1] offers the example of the well-known film, The Red Balloon, in which a simple balloon becomes a little boy's companion.

https://slate.com/technology/2011/02/theory-of-mind-and-the-...

Humans love their pets and often project human cognition onto them. It's a human thing. People often project traits onto their children as well. Pets usually avoid some of the worst effects of this projection. ^_^

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Bering
It sounds like this is an organizational issue. Make sure you get clear instructions on who to ask about what. Don’t accept being assigned work you can’t complete unless you also have access to someone else who could do it. Doing something alone by “researching” in isolation is of course possible, but extremely inefficient. Suggest a 10x estimate on the work if you have to do something without qualified guidance. That will drive home the point to your manager that being left alone is a massive waste of resource. If they think you are being a pain for suggesting something will take two weeks that should take a day - then explain that you don’t have any experience with that work and expect to be stuck without guidance for long periods of time.

Never be afraid to ask. Most importantly be transparent in what you are doing and what you intend to do. If you feel left stranded without enough guidance then make sure you let the relevant people know. If you are stuck on something, say so immediately.

If a mistake can be made or is made, then make sure you don’t see it as a personal failure but as a process failure. Suggest that the process should be changed to safeguard against the same mistake. It’s something you as a newcomer can provide a unique perspective on.

If you are given unspecified suggestions you should “improve” or “do better” or “make fewer mistakes” then leave, quickly. As a jr dev you need a good environment. If the company can’t provide that, you should find an employer that can.
Doom 3 wasn’t necessarily the first game with fully-dynamic lighting/shadowing, but it was among the first to use what Carmack referred to as “fully-unified lighting”, in that no pre-baked lighting was used. There were some projection light hacks here and there, but generally speaking all lighting in Doom 3 was dynamic.

The original Quake used a mix of pre-baked lightmaps and dynamic lights, just like the original Thief; Quake 2 (the OpenGL renderer, anyway) added character shadows that’d react to dynamic lights, so in some cases Quake 2 actually got pretty close to the goalpost.
I have two cats, one ~3-4 years old, the other nearing 20. The younger one will often fetch me to get milk for the old one.
Apollo 10 1/2 review: A Linklater movie about nothing (and the Moon landing)
Screenshots don't hold a candle to actually using something, but I'm honestly not too dissuaded to disagree with you: https://thief.fandom.com/wiki/DromEd?file=Dromed.png

Seems to be downloadable at https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=141708 (and have a bit of a niche following)

Googling the name also turns up a comprehensive 4-part YouTube video series from 2012-2013 showcasing the UI and how to build a level: https://youtu.be/C0dHgEaUCEQ (20:02), https://youtu.be/A1wm0RZXlh0 (41:50), https://youtu.be/UlVJHCcaUAo (27:45), https://youtu.be/yyq5Z2ioM-0 (11:31)
This is one of my favourite articles of all time https://imgur.com/pd91LcI

It came to mind a few days ago when I was noticing how Azov in many reputable newspapers is now seemingly being downgraded from 'neo-nazi' to 'right-wing militia'.
I specifically said consumer products. But fine:

Russian aircraft industry still remains very capable. It's not unimaginable that they'll be able to keep the planes they stole flying for a while. Sure, there might be crashes like with Iran. But it's not like Russian regime particular cares about the lives of Russian citizens.

Last I checked iPhones were made in China. Sure, Apple might decide not to sell them in Russia but that still leaves perfectly serviceable smartphones from the likes of Xaomi, Huawei and Oppo.

Iran somehow manages to keep pumping oil and gas despite the sanctions.

While there will be obvious loss of productivity, let's stop pretending that the sanctions will somehow grind the Russian economy to a halt or that they will induce regime change.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/09/mali-russia-..., Mali. China and Russia are active in this, too.
There is so much more to this story, it reads like a hit piece. All the things he didn’t like about his Tesla doesn’t matter in regards to his 7 day trial.

He never just went to the service center? The car has been in a scrap yard and yet fully functional for 2 years? No other information, texts, phone calls with Tesla? For now this will bounce around the various news sites without a shred of skepticism.

It fits a narrative and generates clicks so that’s good enough to print.
Quake actually got really hard in the last chapters. Those annoying purple blobs were murder
The Interview with Marianna, one of the victims of the Mariupol maternity hospital bombing, was published by Russian media - its likely she was deported / kidnapped / apprehended at checkpoint while evacuating, to the Russia side. The interview may be forced. The OSInt community talked about it, but I didn’t find good sources. But that her new interview contradicts all other sources (except Russian ones) has been reported:

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-misinformat...
> He was banned from HN long ago too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xahlee

Does not appear to be banned, just inactive?
The biggest challenges are people problems. Why the hell don’t we have fiber to the home in most of America? Regulatory capture and market failures.
And a lot more fun.
Are you suggesting there aren’t foreign fighters in Ukraine and this is a propaganda fluff piece?
No one "crafts" filters for the purposes of searching or finding an email.

You use simple built in filters like "site:x" or "in: folder". There's no "crafting" or involved.
If you’re really asking, I would love to survive and live in this case.
Exploring Data in CockroachDB with Python and Pandas in DataStation
This is some Q-anon level deep stste conspiracy bs. World is complicated and there are millions of different interests and mutual benefits.
There is a chess training program called "Dr Wolf" which has a learning mode where you play the computer. At certain points it asks you to switch positions to see the weakness in your previous move - it is striking how effective that is to seeing the weaknesses in one's defense.

I am not particularly skilled in chess but the LiChess puzzles are a daily practice on the subway... I think it is my favorite. I really like the puzzle scenarios where you are down material but the correct series of moves leads ot a win. This insight is a confluence with BJJ where sometimes you can be in a bad position and reverse out of it...
That's like looking at your retired grandparents and calling them unambitious for just sleeping and playing golf and eating dinner at 4pm.

A 16 year old cat deserves to do whatever the hellz it wants.
Juniors should be expected not to know things and to make potentially deadly mistakes, and it's the job of a senior to take on the additional responsibility of being their "shadow", making sure the path they're asking them to go down is safe and correct their course if they stray from it, all while explaining all the whys and why nots. If you're being given tasks nobody knows what to do, your mistakes make it further down the line than they should have, and to be fair if you have enough room to go far down the wrong route and commit to a mistake, a senior developer on your team is not doing their job properly.

I'd say talk to them and tell them you need a bit more oversight because everyone will be better off that way - you're entitled to it as a junior dev after all. If they don't cooperate, just get out of there and find a better team because KNOWINGLY overloading juniors with difficult unsupervised work just sounds like exploitation
No one had ever considered the juxtaposition of homelessness and wealth in San Francisco until Elon came along. The scales have fallen from our eyes. Huzzah. Excelsior!
The Poles, the Baltic states, etc. know Russia all too well and have an fear of Russian power that is justified. However, NATO is not some simple fix as current events demonstrate. Central Europe is a region between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, Russian imperial propensities are not appeased. On the other, NATO (vel American) incursion and regime change has provided a pretext for grievance and military action.

The only long term stable geopolitical option for the region is the historic option: a powerful regional state and/or bloc that can simultaneously dampen Russian imperialism as well as "Western" ambition, like this one[0] which is a nascent project that I suspect can lead to a high degree of regional solidarity that will stabilize all of Europe and therefore contribute to the stability of the Eurasian landmass.

[0] https://3seas.eu/
I did the same thing when apartment hunting in Rennes, France! And this is how I found my current apartment :)

There’s great value in building scrapers specialized to a particular city, country-wide aggregators are not enough.
If it was on a different app on the same device, it still wouldn't be the 2FA you're talking about.
The man is clearly making a joke at the expense of liberal Bay Area tech workers, and you all are in here clutching your pearls and psychoanalyzing him. Lmao.
We’ve had Boxers for several years now, 5 as puppies and 1 rescue at 2.5 years old. I’ve noticed a fairly large difference dog to dog from the same breed. Some have been quick learners, and others not so much. One of our current dogs can learn things almost instantly, if she understands the benefit to her. I showed her exactly once to scratch at the door to go outside (something she enjoys) and she picked that up immediately. Then she also on her own translated it to other things she wants -a scratch at the pantry where we keep treats, a scratch at a storage area at our old condo where her toys were kept out of the way, etc.
Ask HN: Have you had any real benefits from apps like Headspace, Fabulous, etc?
There are so many apps which promise scientific benefits like relief from stress, better habits, etc.

Unfortunately most of them are free for only 7 days or 10 days and followed with a steep cost. I'm okay paying if there are any real benefits but the reviews are really mixed on the play store.

So just wondering what you guys think? Has any such app has had real life benefits? What do you think?
I think this may be a little pre-mature? As with lots of things that last 20% is going to take the same amount of time as the first 80%. We are currently still no-where near Lv5 AV. And I made the bet in 2018 we will barely get to that point by 2030. And lots more work to be done post 2030.

Another thing with Art is that the current low to mid level art work could be outsourced to a much cheaper labour country. In terms of Web Design, Stock footage etc. They are a much bigger threat now than AI.
People like him need basic income, the rent paid and a social worker. Nothing else works.
Yes, this is not normal.
Content marketing is really getting wild.
There are relatively few technical problems in software, and the easy ones got solved a long time ago and packaged as libraries etc. On the other hand, there are countless business applications for software built on top of these libraries - that's why 99% of us are working on glueing other people's code together in order to provide some business value.

If you don't like that, there are still some paths that are different: low-level embedded development, kernel development, driver development, database engine development etc. They're fairly niche compared to regular business apps development, and I suspect they expect more out of you as well.

Also, I wouldn't blame Opensource, as what you describe does not have anything to do with how the libraries are developed (for profit or FOSS). For example, back in early 2000 there were no good FOSS application servers (a concept from the age of J2EE) and people built their web apps on top of commercial application servers, such as BEA Weblogic or IBM Websphere.
> it will always be devoid of real emotion and passion

Unfortunately, this is subject to fraud, and can be manipulated for commercial purposes. I can easily see some “Milli Vanilli“ type of visual artists coming out of this.
> There is no convergence happening without the infinity.

This is wrong. It takes considerably fewer flips than "infinity" to see distinct convergence here.

If the coin is truly even - you have a binomial distribution, and the probability that you are far out to either edge of that distribution (nearly all heads, or nearly all tails) is vanishingly small with just 1000 flips.
Lasting Friendships
I was wondering if it was just me being old thinking this sounded like it was written by a teenager on reddit. I kept looking at the hostname, is this really a legit financial organization hosting it?
I always pronounce it as z-eye-n
I did not study programming languages and also came to that conclusion
The rules are that you can either be influential or a troll. We just don’t have any way to deal with influential trolls.
Do we really think people are going to visit museums or AI generated images one day?

Maybe even further in the future when we build museums to educate the public how AI first began and fill it with chess AI and medieval rabbit knights drawn by DALLE-2.

But I’m not sure society won’t advance along with AI, and AI will never occupy places we currently think they will.
not much for words, was he, old xerxes?
I'm sure you've come across the word 'hypergraphia' at some point in your life. This Ask HN was a long essay in and of itself.

It feels like this wasn't really asking anything, but instead was all about telling HN about your life story, disguised as a question.
I wonder if reducing oil consumption might reduce the spread of Islam more than trying these militaries?