skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- what DK claims: there is bias (incompetent people overestimate their ability)
- what data actually shows: there is a greater variance (incompetent people both over and _under_ estimate to a larger degree compared with more competent people. Data shows heteroscedasticity. No bias (estimations are around zero +/-, tighter for more competent).
how far are we from "the TV has a cellular modem so it can receive advertising updates without the need for a home network", though?

isn't it like this for cars already?
Terrible things I'd do with your money
Look up hyperacusis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperacusis)
I'm happy as a bug with being fully remote. I'm glad there are more companies considering fully distributed teams and I hope the trend continues.

If there's some future where we can mix things up and work in person some times that would be fine. I used to have an office in a co-working space I used just to get out of the house. It was nice seeing the regular, every-day familiar strangers along the way, get a coffee from the usual place, etc.

... but my team was still located all around the world and the office was within walking distance of my house.

I don't particularly enjoy commuting, the dour glow of fluorescent lights, the desks lined up in rows, or working in a concrete coffin.

I like being able to go for a walk in my neighbourhood in the afternoon or spend a bit of time in my garden. I enjoy being surrounded by my books. I like it when my cat snuggles in my lap. I like having no commute.

Some people like after-work happy hours and "team building." Not me. I like to get my job done and go home to my family, friends, and neighbours.

I also think productivity-wise it brings a lot of benefits. The best collaboration happens with people write things down and share them widely. That is often hindered in an office setting where hallway chats and random encounters ensure that the people engaged in those activities control what gets shared and with whom; great for politics but useless for work.

I get the creativity side of it: ideas aren't born in a vacuum. For media work like music it's way harder to work remotely. But I don't think ideas are born solely in offices either. Great ideas come from people collaborating and sharing. This happens more in a distributed team because fewer people are left out of the process. It's way easier in a software engineering team. There's literally no evidence that offices contribute to anything other than needless CO2 emissions and traffic.
List of NASA solicitations for bid - https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/solicitat...
That's my experience with my TCL also. When I get up in the morning I just turn on the Roku TV app on my phone, Go to the remote, turn on the TV, hit right once, then hit okay. Then it's on HDMI 1 and it's displaying my Mac Mini all day. This is a dumb TV. Doesn't do anything except what I tell it to and it just shows what I want.
They are free to help Armed Bear Common Lisp increase adoption on the JVM then.
I'm a super introvert who works remote. I don't want the company to spend a bunch of money on a ski trip for the company, I want to see my portion of that money in my pocket so I can do what I enjoy.

Working from home means my employer gets more productivity, since I can handle "life" things easier without having to run home. They save money on office space, in-office meals, chairs, desks, and such, and I get more autonomy on my personal setup and how I want to work. It also means that people can move due to life reasons such as to be closer to an elderly family member, and still stay working for the same employer.

I could get steps from walking around town, or, I can walk my dog while I'm waiting on a build or at lunchtime. My kid is home a couple days this week because of break for the upcoming holiday, so she gets to go with me and the dog on our morning walk, and I don't need to worry about child care.

I like the people I work with, and have built rapport with them over years of working together on difficult problems. We connect based on our professional mutual work, but we each have our own interests and families.

Remote work emphasizes this professional connection and broadens your ability to work with more varying people due to the limited and directed nature of the communications and interactions. You don't need to worry about the person in the next cubicle loudly talking on the phone or eating potato chips or burning popcorn in the microwave. It makes it easier to focus on positive interactions and tune out the bad ones. If I don't want to hear all the sports talk, I'm not in the #sports slack channel.

Yes, I could operate in an office environment, a lot will probably return to it. However, I've been fully remote for years, and it'd be a hard sell for me to go back.
Same in Denmark.
Looks interesting! I think it's very smart to make a "Chinese wordle" based on pinyin. Can't think of a better way.
english translation

https://habr-com.translate.goog/ru/news/t/661113/?_x_tr_sl=r...
Is there any actual “damage” known to be associated with tinnitus?
I did one of these kind team junkets in like 2001 when I was just out of college and realized immediately I never wanted to do it ever again. They've been offered a handful of times at other places I've worked and it's a hard pass.
vscode is open source, there are forks(vscodium) where all the microsoft stuff is removed and you can audit it yourself if you think its sending tracking data back
It’s more that some IP ranges give you disproportional amounts of abuse.
Honestly, no. Your type of attitude is how bad products get made: products that cater to the absolute lowest tech illiterate user. Products that hide and simplify every useful tool to the point of annoyance and disfunction. Github's warnings are plenty enough. It doesn't matter what Github did; this post would still be made, and you people would still be thinking of even more absurd ways to make the user not do something. At a certain point, a tool has to do the function you asked it to do.
Though technically it wasn't banned, r/star_trek recently got locked from having new posts, and only just the other day became unlocked because the mod agreed to not allow discussion related to r/startrek.

Wait, huh???

r/startrek, without the underscore, is the official Star Trek community. r/star_trek is an alternative community created because r/startrek is very hostile to anyone who doesn't just slobber over anything Star Trek.

So people would join the alternative community and bring up why they got banned on the official one, or how people were being ridiculous in general on the official one.

But I don't buy that there was any meaningful amount of brigading that was happening. I think the official community, being its pious self, didn't like that people were exposing the mods for being arbitrary and condescending, or that anyone was exposing the likely possibility that they were highly controlled by ViacomCBS.

When it got locked, for all intents and purposes it was banned, if not temporarily.
nice?

It's on most of the smartphones on the planet. Plus it is the dominant server OS. Plus in the top 3 in many embedded categories (a highly diverse set of technologies)
> With the right hackish arithmetic, all pointers could be aliased with pointer arithmetic in C.

This is not true. The behaviour is undefined in C if pointer arithmetic results in crossing the beginning or end of an object. If we have int a, b;, then the behaviour is undefined if we do &b - &a even if we never use the result to try to reconstruct &b from &a.

> Using `restrict` says your code won't do that so the compiler can optimize more.

`restrict` covers objects modified through one pointer and accessed through another. It does not cover pointers that point to the same object in general; if only one is used to access the object, or if both are used only for reading, all is fine. (It's actually a little bit more complicated than I'm presenting here, but not in a way that's relevant right now.)
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 delta variant (AY.127) from pet hamsters to humans
Here's my main point of confusion - what does the random data experiment have to do with the DK results?

As stated elsewhere DK has 2 claims:

1. Low-skilled people overestimate their performance and skilled people underestimate their performance

2. Skill correlates with self-assessment accuracy

My first issue with the article is that it implies that since we get effect #1 with random data, that invalidates the respective DK conclusion. This IMO is misleading because random data represents a null model that is very different from my intuitive null model, that of people generally capable of assessing their skills (which I truly believe).

My second issue is that there's no relationship between effect 2 and the random data experiment, which doesn't exhibit anything of the sort. We can have a discussion about the cited papers and effect 2 as the reproduced plot doesn't show density and density plots from the paper do seem to support DK, but that's not my main gripe with the article.
Don't use the interface? Use it as a dumb monitor right?

I'll go as far as to say that you can't complain about a slow interface of a cheap smart TV if you went out to buy it with the purpose of using it just as a monitor which is what you really should be doing. The smart isn't a value add except for being able to use a remote app on your phone especially if you're a HN frequenter. You gotta have computers lying around that can replace all the "smart".
name is a bit too close to Atlassian
> Because that seems to be what the people in charge actually want but are half-assing in the name of optics.

Most certainly not. The people in charge actually want it to be open. You are simply watching those ambitions splinter somewhat as they are beset by the crashing waves of the harsh reality that is the Internet.
Try harder. You haven't brought up this particular odious rubbish whataboutery in a while, as it gets [dead].

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30647861

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30739170
Wikipedia is dominated not by the truth, but by two things:

- people who treat articles like their own fiefdoms and have obsessively memorized every sentence of policy and can drown an edit they don't like with subjective assertions that an edit violates a particular policy

- no-life basement neckbeards who do thousands and thousands of edits on subjects they couldn't possibly have knowledge or experience on and respond instantly to edits to "their" pages

Further, in disputes, it essentially comes down to who the rest of the community likes more. The ultimate ad hominem is that some random IP address vs an established 'wikipedian', even if the 'wikipedian' is full of shit? The wikipedian wins.

The page for AA is a great example. There's a dude who is completely unhinged and suppresses any negative information about AA, such as the problems with abuse, predation, and sexual assault. Or studies showing poor efficacy compared to science-based treatment.

I posted a HN comment as such and was more than a little surprised to come across a reply made barely a few hours later, apparently from that dude, accusing me of being someone he'd had a tiff with on wikipedia.

You look at the edit history and his behavior is clearly gatekeeping and enforcing a particular viewpoint. Yet, curiously, he's never been subject to any censure?
> ... and then promptly uses pointer arithmetic to create an alias. It violated the promise.

I think this is where a lot can go wrong in terms of understanding.

It was my understanding that the restrict keyword requires a promise of the caller. Specifically, the caller promises that the arguments it passes do not alias.
It was my point that the `uwu` function could not violate that promise, because it wasn't the one who made it.

After review of the standard, I'm no longer certain this is the case.

Disregarding this line of reasoning entirely, I still believe the author is correct.

The following is an excerpt from the Standard (or rather the latest available draft):

> An object that is accessed through a restrict-qualified pointer has a special association with that pointer. This association, defined in 6.7.3.1 below, requires that all accesses to
that object use, directly or indirectly, the value of that particular pointer

The `uwu` function complies with that requirement. While it does create an aliasing pointer derived from `y`, it never uses it to actually access memory. Hence, it does not violate the requirement imposed by restrict.

The aliasing access derived from `y` (which may well be undefined behavior after all) is only introduced after one of the optimization passes. Thus, this optimization is incorrect and may not be applied.

Edit: of course, there is an aliasing pointer in the original version of `uwu`. This pointer, however, is derived from `x`, thus not violating any guarantees implied by restrict.
“Hair in inner ear” — they’re talking about microscopic cilia in the cochlear passages
Could not the same be easily claimed about Iraq and Bush?
What the heck is going on with tinnitus?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

I’ve been afflicted with tinnitus after a mild covid case in January and now that I’m looking it seems like this is a growing problem. So many comments here about tinnitus.
Show HN: The Munich Speech
Also if the "value" here is "run a static web site without a lot of pain" services like Cloudflare pages, Netlify, AWS amplify are 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 less effort and hassle than a static server like nginx when you consider SSL certificates and all that.
I pinged him on Twitter a few hours ago about this discussion and he acknowledged. Still not sure what the situation is though.
How to Defeat the Empathy Gap
If they are using a database's built in support for cascading deletes, and if the star tables are simple m2m tables (basically just 2 fk's per row), the work to implement and test cascading deletes is trivial.
I think the issue starts with the moniker "shamanic", which does not sound like a place many people would trust their health to.
I feel similarly, except that I am excited to see it written in Rust.
Agreed. Home maintenance, property tax, mortgage interest, is a cost of owning regardless of whether you are renting or living in it. So that needs to always be part of your calculation, and I would hope most landlords are considering that.

I was just hypothesizing that the "Bad Tenant tax" is potentially overblown. Sure it can be an absolute nightmare if you're unlucky (or bad at screening), but on average I suspect it's pretty minor. I honestly don't have anything but anecdotal data to back that up though. I just suspect, like a lot of things where exceptional horror stories are propagated, we could be over-weighting the negatives.
Their response is even more hollow when you consider the extent to which ad and content blockers are used in the developer community. I sincerely hope that they're not basing any important decisions on the data they collect in this way.
This whole thread is giving me feels, but to the basics, I'll tell you how it happened.

I'd been writing about what we came to call social media since the early 90s (alt.culture.usenet and alt.folklore.urban ftw), but by the middle of last decade, all anyone wanted to talk to me about was marketing on Facebook, which was the boringest possible topic.

At the same time, my wordpress host had lousy security, and my site was getting frequently disabled because of some malicious javascript uploaded through some hole they hand't patched. I wasn't writing there anymore, so it was pure cost at that point, and cost of my time, not just dollars.

Then I moved to Shanghai for several years, working on other stuff, and fixed the site a couple of times again, and one time, my host was like "We disabled your site!" because of their own security flaws had let it get hacked again, which, the whole thing had entered 'ugh field'territory.

I never decided to let the site lapse, I was just tired of dealing with it, and the political circumstances in both China and the U.S. seemed much more urgent than rescuing some historical essays, so one day at a time of not dealing with it became years.

And here we are, me reading my own eulogy. Which is incredibly flattering and touching, I have to say.

I'm not even sure what of it can be resuscitated -- maybe if I want it back, I'll have to copy it from Wayback (and will say "Thank you Brewster", not for the first time), but if anyone here has advice about competent and secure hosting for an old Wordpress blog, hmu at cshirky@gmail.com, because reading this, it makes me embarassed not to have just fucking fixed this a year or two ago.

And thanks, all, for this thread. -clay
Yeah, aliases for "rm" to "rm -i" I find are especially counter productive in this regard, as it conditions people to type rm -f after they get spammed to approve several hundred files while trying to delete a git checkout or node modules too many times.
Wait hold up, you mean that's not normal? Hearing a high pitch noise all the time I mean. I thought it was like when you're in full darkness and you "see" shapes because your brain is trying to interpret the subtle residual signals on neurons lacking direct stimulation.
My guess is Covid, earbuds, and in general a much louder society than in decades past
Abuse-mitigation policies don't always have to be perfect. They just have to have a >1 benefit-to-cost ratio.
Long Covid in Feces
I was scrolling down looking for some comment on what happened to him or what he was up to now a days.
I think you are perhaps getting a bit attached to that one particular word. Mr. Norris89 may or may not need to run old Windows games the way he probably needs to breathe, but he can certainly say “a computer needs to run old Windows games if I’m gonna buy it”. The phrase “I need to run old Windows games” is easily understood as that.
Show HN: A small Hypercard stack running as a PWA
In my early programming years, I went from BASIC to HyperCard, then learned C when I couldn't make HyperCard do everything I wanted. Plenty of folks have pointed out how the lack of native support for color doomed HyperCard. But I think it was really over when the web got started and replaced everything in the "personal content" space from underneath, so I decided to see if the idea of HyperCard would work as a web app. There are some missing pieces -- it's not perfectly compatible. You can, however, make stacks online and let others see them. Free, no ads, no personal information, you are not tracked, just a fun project.
I'm an SRE and I'll say that all of these services are far simpler than configuring, maintaining and monitoring a VM.

If you want to maintain your Mercurial setup then consider S3 + Cloudfront.
The reasoning here just seems perverse. WP wants to allow contributions by anonymous users, which seems noble. But it also realizes that it needs to be able to block some people from anonymous contribution "to protect itself".

The implementation of the blocking mechanism is IP addresses/ranges, which is imprecise (to say the least). But now you have to worry about abusive users bypassing your technical control by obscuring their IP addresses. So you block all IP ranges that implement e.g. CGNAT, VPNs, 464XLAT.

So now you're mass-blocking access to millions of people who have never shown any inkling of malicious intent due to rational technology choices by their service providers or due to a reasonable desire to protect their personal privacy.

If you're OK with blocking users in such an entirely capricious and arbitrary way, why not just insist on registration?
https://httpie.io/ has a star display on the homepage, and the story https://httpie.io/about alludes to the star count:

> That humble tool, which we open-sourced, quickly captured developers’ hearts and rapidly became one of the top projects on GitHub.

> We’ve raised a Seed Round ...

It's not hard to believe the seed round and the entire pitch of the commercial venture was tied to the star count, and it's not hard to believe that the author would drop $1/star to restore the count.
If you walk in to a lion cage at the zoo and tease the lions is it victim blaming to point out that you're making a mistake?
Was this it:

https://www.wired.com/2006/11/meganiche/

"Now that more than a billion people have access to the Web, there is no longer a trade-off between size and specificity. The basic math is simple: A tiny piece of an immense pie is huge. A decade ago, reaching one-tenth of 1 percent of Web users amounted to 36,000 people, a number that compared favorably with the circulation of, say, the daily newspaper in Bridgewater, New Jersey. Back then, reaching a million users required a decidedly mainstream offering (Amazon.com and MSN come to mind). Now, getting niche can be the path to getting big; one-tenth of 1 percent of today's Web audience is a million people."
"Want it to be open" but ban mobile network IP addresses, which basically guarantees people below a certain socioeconomic status can't contribute. Loads of people don't have a desktop/laptop, or even internet service at home - just cell service.
doesn't osteoporosis hit females harder?
I believe the M1 is much better at computing JavaScript as well. Comparable intel x86 CPUs have 60% more branch misprediction during JS benchmarks and ARMv8.3-A added the processor instruction FJCVTZS (Floating-point Javascript Convert to Signed fixed-point, rounding toward Zero).

Especially due to the better branch prediction, the M1 simply does quite a bit more web browsing with fewer VPU cycles used, thus less power consumption.
I think this is what's going to fuel the next phase of what some are referring to as, "Digital Enclosure." What's extra scary is you have an up-and-coming generation that's going to accept this kind of thing as status quo. What's even worse is that you've got a huge mass of recently disenfranchised people in the United States that might be, "consent manufacturer'd" to militarize themselves to defend a system that's systemically locking them out #ThinBlueLine (?)

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

https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung
Why So Little Candy Variety? Blame the Chocolate Oligopoly (2013)
OP here. I draw them on a tablet. For more, see https://marcel.is/drawings-first-steps/
No 6000 series Ryzen... Looks decent though.
Basic was previously provided by an external service called pushshift, which was free to use and allowed searching individual comments.
Yes.
community has been an outstanding factor in my whole journey of Nim so far.It becomes so easy to try out new features with such active feedback.
Most TVs nowadays have a 'Game' input setting which disables most latency-impacting post-processing. Always check before buying, though.
try riding a bike in the city regularly and then you will understand.
Funny. Maybe the desire for acceptance and popularity on social media incentivizes articles that defend social media to be written.

I'm not sure how anyone can actually be in denial about how bad social media, and constant notifications are for the brain.
Purpose built tools like jet brains IDEs are super nice. What I like about an OSS terminal based editor is that all of the languages, frameworks, etc you listed above may change in the next 10 years. Or 5 years. And again that many times during my career. I'd rather not have to retool each time that happens. I like being able to jump into some area thats new to me, like data science or graphics, and have my existing tools just work (other than proprietary stuff like iOS dev).