skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First off, that's a bold statement

Why? It's just a simple statement of (alleged) fact. Like, say, "Shaker furniture isn't really a thing in Australia"; that can be true or false, but WTF is particularly "bold" about it?

> that I need something to back it up,

Why? That assumes everyone having regular therapy is the default and not having it is the weird exception. What's to say it isn't the other way around, so you are the one who needs to back up their statement?

But OK, let me disabuse you of your misconception: The only place I've ever heard of people undergoing years-long regular psychotherapy are pop-cultural references, film and TV... American film and TV. I get my films and TV perhaps mostly from Scandinavia, Germany and Britain, but as I'm sure you know America exerts a huge pop culture pressure in Europe. But in none of that is "I can't on Thursday afternoon, that's when I see my shrink" a cliché like it is in American stuff. (Not to forget, as late as the 1990s that whole trope was used self-ironically in at least one but I think several films by Woody Allen, making fun of his own neuroticism -- because back then it still wasn't the norm in America either.)

Needless to say, I've never come across the phenomenon in real life either, in any of the Northern European countries I more-or-less regularly frequent. You'd think if it was even remotely normal here I'd have come across a remark like "X couldn't join us today because of their regular therapy session" at least once in the last four decades, but I haven't.

> unless it's just your opinion.

It's a claim of fact, provable or disprovable; it literally can't be an "opinion". And, as per the above, all evidence I've ever seen strongly points towards the statement being true.

> For the sake of argument, let's say it is true, though.

Nah, not "for the sake of argument". Let's say it's true because it is.

> Is the more likely reason that there are different societal pressures, expectations, and outlets inherent in different cultures, causing different mental health outcomes and needs?

Yeah, sure. Mainly, AFAICT, because seeing your shrink once or twice a week like you see your barber every few weeks isn't a fashion accessory necessary for your status in the rest of the world like it seems to be for the American (upper?) middle class. Which IMO seems to indicate that the societal pressures, expectations, and outlets inherent in most other cultures are healthier than those of the American one. HTH!
Ukrainian Civilians Are Using Phones to Share the Invasion with the World
Hey! I also make games and we solved the issue by doing stateless ACLs on the border switches and having a really fat pipe.

You can add a magic header to traffic and drop anything that doesn’t contain the header.

Since this is done in hardware it operates at line speed. In our case 100GBit/s.
> rebase & squash so that each commit should be able to stand on its own.

IMO this is classical example of "don't solve the administrative tasks with technical means". Git is a tool, how do you use it is up to you.
> anecdote: My parents bought a house 35 years ago in a suburb of the GTA. Purchase price was around 250K I think. It was a lot for the time, too! And now it's probably worth 1.8-2M. Amazing! Except 250k @ 6.5% over 35 years is just over 2.2M.

Right...but if you're using that to compare it to renting, the renter still comes out behind. WAYYYY behind.

The buyer (using your example) : Spends $250K on a house. After 35 years, they have a $1.8-2M asset, for a net gain of $1.55-1.75M.

The renter: Put $250K into the S&P500 which returned 6.5%/year. After 35 years, they have $2.2M. Meanwhile, they've been paying rent. How this ends up working out depends on the rent. $1,000/month is $12,000/year. For 35 years is $420,000. A net gain of $1.78M. That sounds good, but we all know the rent isn't $1,000/month. If the house is currently $1.8-2M, then the rent on that is going to be at least $4K.

I don't feel like doing the math on how much you would spend on rent if you had a 6% rent increase every year, but even if I'm generous and say that over the course of 35 years, your rent averaged $2K/month, the renter CLEARLY comes out way behind. They'll have made $1.95M in the stock market, but spent $840K in rent, for a net gain of only $1.11M.
Ah that's true, I just tend to use podcasts for all that. Which I suppose is also a Spotify issue now, what with them turning into a podcast company.
As a note, Commodore’s 1541 and 1571 drives ran the filesystem in the drive themselves. The computer only sent file commands to the drive.
The Russian air force seems to have been effectively smaller than expected in terms of their aircrews. Looking at the KIA/POW pilots in downed RU planes (100-ish?), initially it was surprising how many of them were very senior (like half of them being at e.g. lt cols/wing commander level) and afterwards it was surprising how junior they were (like right out of flight school).

A hypothesis was that this indicates that before the war only a limited number of aircrews got sufficient flight time (which, obviously, is quite expensive; especially if many of your planes - just as tanks - aren't properly maintained to save costs or due to corruption) and the same people were used in all the operations in the last decade; and once these air crews "ran out" there is a bottleneck in capable replacements.

But S-300 definitely was deployed not only within the borders of Russia but also by Russia in Ukraine, I recall seeing evidence of that - it's a defensive system that is also used to defend the deployed Russian ground forces from air attacks.
All IBM emulators, at least.
Ask HN: My phone is broken; how do I get access to my WhatsApp messages?
The title says it. My Android phone is broken. How do I get access to my WhatsApp messages?

(And if it is not possible, then how is it acceptable that this is a single point of failure?)
The difference between Kelvin and Celsius is still the same. But the Kelvin scale itself has shifted a bit, taking the other scales with it.
It'll be really good for any company able to clone and grow human embryos. Probably anybody able to make sexbots too once you can't have a real baby anymore anyway
Must be nice to be able to afford a house.
It's great that you found your own happiness elsewhere in life, but for me games are essential part of my personality. They're as important as traveling and my family. Even if I only actually play something once a month.

Also I'm not offering to replace gaming with just media consumption. Of course it's better to have diverse interests in life like side-projects, education, sport, social dancing, hiking, social or political activism, etc.

But if for some reason person is addicted to media consumption and okay with it then they can at least consume some high quality content instead of "junk food". For several years I've been literally addicted to fantasy books and listened for like 100+ of them. I have no regrets about it.
Could be, but not necessarily.

It could also be the result of a logical and intelligent thought process. I think anyone that follows the data and truth will eventually come to an existential break down that reframes their mind. Especially if they were raised religious, but that facade starts to crack.
Maybe you get a chance to run outside before it hits?

But if you can get something lofted to get in its way before it hits you, it is unlikely to survive that.
Definition of terms question: what is the primary source for the term “late stage capitalism”?

It’s a term we bandy about, but I’d like to read the sorcerer where it is originally contextualized.
Named after the classic Amiga game I hope? :)

https://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/pipe-dream
I like to use that: https://stevemiller.net/puretext/
"If you want to see a miracle, be a miracle." Sort of a trite platitude, but it is very easy to make a huge difference in someone's life. That can be a source of meaning.
>A lot of us had never really played an RPG before, especially if we never had an SNES.

Bear in mind from 1998 to ~2003 most people had launched ZSNES with Chrono Trigger/FFVI for sure.

> huge, the world seems to go on forever and now I can fly?

That was on SNES RPG's too.

On the mid-late PSX/N64 era, people played SNES roms even when FFVII-VIII-IX rocked.
I didn't say it was my opinion, I said it was an opinion. The person may or may not believe it, you don't know. Is it a lie even if they believe it?

All people who are ______ are ______. Another opinion. Opinions can be intentionally or unintentionally deceiving, which makes them lies.
What are “real problems” for the engineers or product team?
BND Intercepts Radio Traffic Discussing the Murder of Civilians
1.5-Inch Hand-Carved Agate from 1500 B.C. Shows Sub-Millimeter Details (2017)
That's exactly what I said LOL. What's the need for your anger?
Induced Demand Is Real
Landing a plane 0.1% short on its journey is not great, say.
If all of an oncologist's patients die of cancer, look for a different oncologist.

Shakyamuni claimed Buddhism to be a solution for alcoholism, though not always in a single lifetime. The central teaching of Buddhism is that life is suffering; that suffering arises from addiction (and some other things, as I mentioned above); that the ending of addiction (etc.) leads to the end of suffering; and that the path to ending addiction is [insert the rest of Buddhism here].

All modern schools of Buddhism agree on this formulation and that it is fairly central, although it is somewhat less central to Zen and other Mahayana schools than to Theravada schools, and although it seems to have been present and an important teaching since the beginning of Buddhism, it doesn't seem to have acquired its current degree of centrality in Theravada until only about 1500 years ago.

So perhaps Kerouac and Watts claimed that Buddhism was not a solution for addiction, or perhaps they were silent on the topic; I don't know. But either of those two alternatives would imply that they rejected the essence of Buddhism, which in Kerouac's case would make him a charlatan.
> "planes with two engines have twice as many failures as single engine planes"

There has to be a smart reply to that, like: 100% of pilots of single engine planes don’t make it home after a single engine failure. 100% of pilots of dual engine planes do make it home after a single engine failure.
I remember being on a team where I'd frequently point out that the tests were not only flaky, but useless. I suggested that we delete the useless & redundant tests and either fix or delete the flaky ones.

That suggestion was met with not only resistance, but almost hatred. I think some of them got way too attached to these tests and could no longer see the forest for the tress.
Scraping for one.
I browse it with an incognito window.
I don’t think that really makes sense. There are plenty of popular/commercially successful cuisines that involve long prep times or intricate procedures. And Ethiopian cuisine doesn’t have to be super difficult to make - I took a class last year and made doro wat and gomen wat. The teacher (who immigrated from Ethiopia) made some adaptations so the recipe could be made within class time, but also told us how to do it with a slower traditional process.

And like I said, approachable means approachable to western audiences. In other words, less of a hurdle than asking people to eat bugs. I don’t see anything about the Ethiopian cuisine at restaurants that explains why those restaurants aren’t more successful or common (like Thai, Mexican, Italian, Chinese, Sushi, etc).

It’s not really about adventurism or exoticism because I think Ethiopian is plenty adventurous and exotic for probably a sizable portion, if not majority, of Americans.
You pick your battles, as perfect is the enemy of good. That other problems exist is not a valid reason to prevent fixing something if that fix actually helps in some way.
Crust of Rust: Channels (2020)
Lots of us are indigenous and Latino but often mistaken for white by people who judge race based on skin color.

I wouldn’t call it a paradise but it’s definitely communist
Do you have any resources you like for diving deeper into profiling and learning the nature of the JS GC?
> Our new hires are getting paid from customer revenue

Money is fungible
SHAP Algorithm: Overview and Examples
"Entire Agreement" clauses are quite common.
hypothesis: the great filter is simply an adequate understanding of physics. The galaxy (and beyond?) is happily chattering away using physics we do not understand. We are a pre-contact tribe in the jungle completely unaware of the "radio" signals passing all around us. Once we understand the principles, we can build such a radio and participate.
If you're looking for a tl;dr, just spend ten seconds looking at this high-res image of the object in question:

https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2017/11/31SCI-WARRIO...
I was an engineer at Fast for over a year and wanted to clarify a few points--
- engineers did have access to data and could write their own queries to check revenue (but few people did until the article came out).
- the strategy leadership decided on was to go after massive enterprise sellers which would, in theory, result in step-change functions in revenue. Many people knew about the low numbers but were willing to let the strategy play out for a while. There was a lot of excitement internally around closing the first $1B+ seller
- Internally, the culture was something akin to "toxic positivity" which meant that we weren't willing to discuss failures or misses in a productive way
- The company spent a lot of money on marketing events including sponsorship deals with the Tampa Bay Lightning and the rumored million dollar concert by the Chain Smokers. People are talking a lot about high engineer salaries but IMO those were far from the biggest problem (possible biased view)

The story is a lot more complicated and nuanced than the headlines you read in publications but I will say that Fast was full of really talented folks who I'd be happy to work with again. For me, a big lesson I took away from this experience is the perils of an overly positive fully remote culture. It's very easy for leadership to hide things from people when information doesn't easily spread across different organizations
It has an graphical imager tool that presents options for configuration onto your SD card - I feel that it’s fair to call that an installer.
If you see Git as a dumb sharing tool you are correct. It’s also correct to see it as a Global Information Tracker (git) whereby you are able to share the functional state of a program. Let’s say you make a commit of a program and tag it with a version, and also leave a message to yourself which explains what that commit or version accomplishes. By doing so, you’re going beyond “saving the text” and into “saving the state” which is valuable!
I use both Linux and Windows at home.

Every time I do an update on the Linux PC it always breaks a bunch of things and I typically have to spend 4-12 hours to fix everything.

But the good thing is that I can usually fix everything, and after it's fixed it will stay that way and work reliably for as long as I want until I choose to do another update.

I still love Linux, the only reason I'm using Windows at all is for certain software that doesn't work on Linux (Ableton and games, also no HDR support in Linux).
Ask HN: Should big companies standardize interviews or leave it up to teams?
>Who is the authority on the 'purpose' of social justice? Or is what you state just your opinion?

This is a good question, but I would defer to liberal leadership, and their rhetoric consistently refers to equal opportunity. I think a lot of people rely on conservative commentary on "what liberals think" rather than simply reading the original sources. Equity refers to equality of opportunity. See, eg, the official White House executive order regarding racial equity:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...

"Equal opportunity" is literally the first two words of the very first section.

You can't ignore outcomes as a useful metric, of course, but the objective is clearly equal opportunity, which will ultimately generate more balanced outcomes naturally.
In this video from August 2020, Jon Gjengset shows how an implementation of a multiple producers single consumer (mpsc) channel might work under the hood, and he also talks a bit about various implementations and flavors. Along the way he also covers some primitives like Mutex and Condvar.

In the discussion towards the end he talks a bit about flume [1] and crossbeam [2] and when you might want to use one or the other of those. He also mentions tokio channels [3].

[1]: https://docs.rs/flume/latest/flume/

[2]: https://docs.rs/crossbeam/latest/crossbeam/

[3]: https://docs.rs/tokio/1.17.0/tokio/sync/index.html#message-p...
> For thumbs.db isn't there just a UI option for it in the file explorer settings?

Maybe? It's possible I just used for convenience to quickly set up a machine. I haven't used Windows in over ten years, and I don't really recall; this is what I still have in my dotfiles repo "just in case I might need it in the future" (together with my old tcsh config and such, heh). The CapsLock/Ctrl thingy certainly wasn't a setting though.

Most (not all, most) files in /etc and ~/.config are fairly decently documented and "obvious". You're right it's not consistent or ideal, but I do find it a lot better than Windows. I spent many years repairing Windows PCs for a living and spent plenty of time mucking about with the registry back in the day, and I never found it easy to work with, at all. I've forgotten more than I remember, but there's loads of odd things in there in odd locations. A big chunk of that is not the fault of Windows or Microsoft but the fault of applications though, and in that sense it's the same as Linux: getting all application developers to use your system consistently and how it's intended to be used turns out to be hard.

For what it's worth, the registry would be much more palatable if it supported comments somehow (and if many things were actually commented!)
Landlords don’t buy properties to rent at a loss. Before they buy they make sure they will be able to charge the rent they need to cover costs. Or at least I do.
Using cosmic rays to calibrate the detector is really cool!

> Knowing the exact position of each wire is crucial to getting an accurate trajectory. For the new analysis, Kotwal and his colleagues took advantage of muons that rain down from the sky as cosmic rays. These bulletlike particles constantly rip through the detector in almost perfectly straight lines, letting the researchers detect any wonky wires and pin down the wires’ positions to within 1 micrometer.
A debate requires two sides. The package manager "debate" only has one side. I've never seen someone defend the Windows way of downloading apps (until now).
For a lot of developer type workflows it is often necessary to add a reference to an unofficial package source or simply using curl to download something. I still prefer this to downloading an MSI and worrying about what might happen to the registry but both are equally unsafe outside of Linux being a less popular target.
Meanwhile Ubuntu on my XPS 13 decided to accidentally break wifi by installing 2 network managers. Why are there even 2 of those in the first place (of course it's not actually just 2, there's way more than that!)? Do people really want choice in network managers? Because I sure as heck don't.

Sometimes customization is useful. But Linux goes way, way too far, and the result is a system that never really meshes quite right as all the core systems can't be relied upon to be a consistent base system. Like X11 vs. Wayland - GUI apps need to support multiple compositors because of a ridiculous situation, adding complexity to the stack. Or the systemd battle, where again there's a fundamental system that should have all sorts of robust tools & UIs built on top of it that just doesn't because again there's customization where there really doesn't need to be.

Audio is almost not a joke on Linux anymore with things kinda standardizing around pipewire, although that's because it's just taking on the burden of supporting all the various APIs from all the various systems that didn't need to all exist itself.

You know what I also never have to worry about on my Windows machine? Whether or not hardware video decoding is supported & working or not.
That's exactly the case, and its not at all limited to "right of center" positions. Accounts that are deemed undesirable by Twitter for whatever reason (usually involving posts that go counter to mainstream narratives) have all of their replies to every post listed after "see more replies" to reduce their visibility. And beneath "see more replies" you will often see another "show posts that may be offensive" that you have to click on to see even more replies from users Twitter finds less desirable still. Very frequently none of these posts will be offensive in any way. Those who have their posts under these extended tabs also don't give notifications to those they are replying to. It's censorship and information manipulation from top to bottom on Twitter.
Not only that but that they are making more money from it than the other “sexier” units.

Mainframes run the world.
did it work ?
Well sure. But if one is looking to find "purpose" in life then neither a unicorn nor being ceo of Google does much relative to curing cancer or space exploration. I guess i found it interesting that the suggested "purposes" were so....meager.
Martin's Mortgage Maneuver
Legal obligation and unnecessary are mutually exlusive
You're right if we eliminated all non-essential use cases it there would be a lot less microplastics, but even in the cases where it's readily replaceable is the extra expenses in all of those product categories worth it over the highly speculative health concerns? I think cumulatively the expenses can be more drastic than at first glance, for example like think of all the non-essential but extremely common use in items like beauty products, food packaging, electronics, etc.
There certainly are some smaller companies attempting to compete on making AI/ML chips. Tenstorrent comes to mind: https://tenstorrent.com/grayskull/
Sort of. A good question is what is the revenue per employee

Meta is ~$2M/employee. Probably more like $1M once contractors are accounted for? But for a good person, even if the rest of the company has random issues, they can carve out a win.

Fast was like $1K/employee

Consider what that's like for some hypothetical B2B startup BlitzScaler Inc. They're betting on 3x+ growth year-over-year for next 2+ years, 2-3 year sales payback periods, etc, and is probably closer to Fast levels of revenue per employee than Meta's. But hitting $500K is hard, $2M is hard again in different ways, then again to $10M, and again to $20M+ (and increasing range depending if many sales people inflating it). That matters because many aren't there, even unicorns (!). That means, like Uber, they're burning increasing piles of money, except unlike Uber, the revenue is unlikely to be keeping pace. Fundraising buys team, and an artificial sense of fit+growth (kool-aid-drinking team + forced sales that tap out + churn.)

A cockroach team is closer to Amazon style: reinvest ~100% in growth, but don't gamble your employee's stock options.