skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has had a severe TBI (traumatic brain injury) as a child, I, at times in my life, have spent time thinking about this. And I agree with your sentiment.

On one hand, I'm a competent software engineer. I think I'm fairly good at problem solving -- not great and really only learn by example as opposed to creating novel solutions on my own. I have learned, anecdotally, that I may have a better biographical memory (including world events happening at the time when recalling life experiences) than some of my peers. On the other hand, I feel like I lack certain skills that most adults have or are expected to have (whether it be due to impulse control, etc.).

And then there are more abstract things, like abstract visualization as you mention. I realized (thanks to a BBC article [1] on Hacker News a number of years ago) that people generally are able to visualize images in their head to various degrees. Some can represent images with picture- perfect quality, say of a loved one. Others at the very least can conjure up an image of, say, a crowded beach on a summer day. I on the other hand can't visualize anything at all, which I realized impacted my score on an IQ test after my TBI in which I was told a series of numbers and was expected to visualize them sequentially in my head. Whether it has anything to do with my TBI, I'm not sure. But I would love to find out more all these years later.

1. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-34039054
No, capitalism is positive sum outside of a few edge cases where negative externalities are generated. Blockchain-based markets, being hyper-capitalistic, will, I suspect, prove to be positive sum as well.
I thought you could always search comments. What am I missing?
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There's no way NATO or the US would risk direct confrontation with Russian troops. Potentially Nuclear armed Russian troops. Bear in mind Russian military doctrine places the decision on using tactical nuclear weapons with local commanders. The people you would be shooting at and bombing.

In any case Russia has many bases in foreign countries, and as far as I can remember there's only ever been a risk of direct conflict over it once, with Cuba, and that was specifically over nuclear missiles, not jut having a military base.
> It is true for those people. No doubt that's not true for you, but you're not everyone.

While what you say is probably true I just wish it was not the constant narrative around laptops that have nice screens. I bought a Samsung Galaxy Chromebook and absolutely loved the 4K OLED screen it had up until the day its WiFi suddenly died. Everything looked amazing on it - even just the boring ChromeOS UI elements looked amazing. However every reviewer had the same feedback - that you can't tell the difference and you should shoot for 1080.
Is this really an ideological divide. Cause I remember Iraqi war where there where phrases about freedom fries, the willing and evil where thrown around

I bet there are people that see this as ideological, fair and good vs evil
I also bet there are some for whom this is a strategic and precedent setting
>> Even in the very worst-case scenario, you can fork the code.

You can fork the code that you never knew well enough to write yourself.

>> and have to download hundreds of transitive dependencies, and have a good chance of ending up not building a thing

> Can you give an example of what you mean by this? I'm unclear what the concern is.

My concern is of course that as someone who wants, or is supposed to, mess with a project, I can easily get depressed if I have to invest significant to infinite amounts of energy to bring that project to build. And if I get it to build, have a hard time figuring out how it works because what it does is all over the place, hidden in hundreds of libraries.

> Even very large projects benefit from sharing code in foundational areas.

"Other crates that I'd like: anyhow, bincode, byteorder, log, once_cell, pin-project, rand, serde, slab, static_assertions, uuid plus some more esoteric ones."
that’s why I said potentially, not sure if what they did went far enough to be considered harassment, which would be an underlying crime
After war time, this wouldn't be surprising. All the males in a tribe can easily get wiped out in one or two engagements, leaving only females and children.

In Russia after WW2 the ratio of female:male was 4:3

Imagine what that ratio would have been after a war in olden times.
TechQ, yet another project to learn Go
Because I’ve seen the mistake here before: “rouge” is the color red in French. “rogue” is the correct word in your context (“rogue actor”).
While lamenting the tools. They also wrote "my IDE was not smart enough".
They do. But the thing is that they work for the TV vendors instead of consumers and also if all vendors are moving to the same direction, there is virtually no choice for consumers.
How times changed, we were using Linux on our servers in the 90s and my boss wanted to use Solaris servers because they were more "professional".
Code looks pristine. Very nice!
FWIW you can also try scaling the display - ChromeOS does this well out of the box, Linux is OK, Windows has it too. Best of both worlds IMHO.
Anyone have suggestions around the peak sweet spot for second hand tvs. Eg that moment just before smart TVs went big.

Any suggestions for great second hand higher res models?
Is MirageOS used in 'production' systems anywhere at any significant scale?

Not asking to be antagonistic, asking because I think unikernels are really nifty, and genuinely curious if they've worked out for anybody.
This is the oldest trope on the Internet. I saw this years ago Slashdot.

There has been this thing called “the internet” since the last time you owned a TV and these things called “streaming services”.

Why is this the one area where being ignorant of something that has 90% penetration seen as a virtue?
Netlify is down 5-10 min each day since the last few days ... at this point I switched back to my VPS for better reliability ...
I'd assume because it has something to do with the idea is that an optimizing compiler can't completely delete the address entirely anymore if it's being used for "something". For example optimizing it away to a register only variable.
Elon Musk Needs 'Massive Loan' or Big Tesla Stock Sale to Buy Twitter
It's not so much about removing the burden or making life easier, but instead making manual optimization more straightforward and predictable. Currently, manual optimization often means appeasing or even fighting the compiler's optimizer passes, with small innocent changes completely changing the output of the compiler.
I honestly don’t know what you are talking about. My TCL Roku TV is great and I will be buying another soon. It does everything I want and none of the things I don’t. It’s easy to use for me and for my kids. Roku also has all the major streaming services that I want. And I haven’t seen a commercial in 10 years. What am I missing?
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/151433922211888333...
I'm not saying it has. I'm saying that a small number of males can impregnate a large number of females.
It was 30 when the price was at 33 and musk wasn't on the picture. Someone's buy nearly 10% on the open market then bidding for a significant chunk of the rest is new info.
Does that mean when I read 'human nature is' as the very next words you write I should stop reading your comment?

Or are you saying you already understand it better than anyone else writing about it?
Solaris was a little late in this regard even when OpenSolaris was launched.

I've worked with Solaris for many years and really like it but I won't even bother to open this page. Thanks, Oracle.
Often you’re taking credit risk on the intermediary instead, I think - BlockFi, for instance.
I can't make heads or tails of your comment.
It’s impossible to reply to this because by virtue of thinking that the systems were good you can label anyone a fan.

The fact remains: it was widely deployed, and we are still catching up to certain components of the operating system.

Dtrace, ZFS and SMF are examples.

Calling it dead only tells me that you weren’t in an industry that used it. It would be like claiming windows is dead because most things these days are cloud hosted and windows is very expensive there. It’s true in some sense but extremely blind to the rest of the industry.
He explained that an expanding __________ (I can't remember this word. Maybe he said "network"?) meant that each person in the __________ was exposed to a greater variety of choices, however, the total number of choices decreased. His point was that separate niches each maintained some unique offerings, but when everything was combined together into a single market, and attention focused on certain items, there would be a winnowing effect. The paradox was that everyone could legitimately feel they were enjoying an abundance of options, greater than ever before, while the total number of options decreased.
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This isn’t a war of expansion and colonization

This is about encirclement, nato, missiles on the border, warm water access

No value judgment in the right or wrong of it
There are so many things we don't know, and the vast expanse of time and limited sample size might cause a real gap in our knowledge here, as well.

So, what about the collection method itself; if only 5% of the ancient DNA was usable for this analysis, perhaps it could be because that DNA lies protected within the sex with the largest, strongest, thickest bones?
> The null hypothesis for Dunning-Kruger isn't "people of all skill levels are good at estimating their performance" it's "people of all skill levels have equal bias" in estimating their performance"

OK,

> remember that Dunning-Kruger isn't that lower skilled people are bad at estimating their skill, it's that they systematically overestimate their skill

The way I see it these aren't very different - conditioning on low skill and randomly sampling will tend to give way more overestimates than underestimates. What is the distinction between being bad at the skill and bad at estimation, and being bad at the skill and systematic overestimation?

> The fact that the artifact is seen in such data is a powerful demonstration that it is not evidence of the Dunning-Kruger effect

"Such data" refers to a world where everyone have absolutely no idea how good or bad they are. To me that is a much stronger argument than that made by DK. So perhaps our differences all come down to our priors. My prior belief (before looking at any data) is that people would know how good they are at a certain skill. If your prior is to expect that people don't know how good they are, then your arguments make sense to me. If however your prior is that people do know how good they are, but are also biased (all in the same direction), then I don't understand how the random data experiment reveals anything relevant to your beliefs.
"The pity is that emerging countries are making a grave error. As sovereign powers, they too have a stake in the war. All the West’s faults do not outweigh the fact that, in the system Mr Putin is offering, their people would suffer terribly."

this works if you presume "sovereignty" is an objectively existing fact for more than like 10 countries in the world, which it isn't... Perhaps 10 is too generous. And the US contributed to weakening sovereignty all over the world. US is not the sole culprit, of course, but a big one.
Film has always had more detail than 480i.
Ask HN: Netlify service quality degraded recently?
I got lot of monitoring alerts on ALL my netlify sites nearly daily since last few weeks, yesterday it was completly down for 15mn ... while I was doing a demo...
Do you also have issues recently with Netlify being down 5-15min per day since several weeks?
Everyone saying this ignores the nuclear arsenal. Which Russia constantly reminds everyone of, to the point of no one taking them seriously anymore.

If anyone decides to invade Russia, they better be super sure about their anti-ICBM capabilities. Just one warhead going through the defense means a leveled city. So, 200k-1million+ casualties.

So, who's taking that chance? For what?
Perhaps you're the one who should be a bit more cautious?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage#Exaggeration_and_...

Harlow's statement that Gage "continued to work in various places; could not do much, changing often, and always finding something that did not suit him in every place he tried" refers only to Gage's final months, after convulsions had set in. But it has been misinterpreted as meaning that Gage never held a regular job after his accident [and] "never returned to a fully independent existence"... In fact, after his initial post-recovery months spent traveling and exhibiting, Gage supported himself — at a total of just two different jobs — from early 1851 until just before his death in 1860.

His symptoms and treatment were over-interpreted and perhaps exaggerated for ideological reasons even by his contemporaries:

Bigelow's and Harlow's contradictory evaluations (less than a year apart) by differences in their educational backgrounds, in particular their attitudes toward cerebral localization (the idea that different regions of the brain are specialized for different functions) and phrenology (the nineteenth-century pseudoscience that held that talents and personality can be inferred from the shape of a person's skull)...

He seems also to have lucked into an ideal treatment program shortly after the accident:

Gage's stagecoach work — "a highly structured environment in which clear sequences of tasks were required [but within which] contingencies requiring foresight and planning arose daily" — resembles rehabilitation regimens first developed by Soviet neuropsychologist Alexander Luria for the reestablishment of self-regulation in World War II soldiers suffering frontal lobe injuries

(One easy mistake to make is taking a neuroscientist as an historiographer just because the historical topic happens to involve a brain.)
Tax the Land
There is no choice because there is insufficient profit. In an industry with tiny profit margins, if there was margin to be had, surely someone would jump on it.
I’m curious about your ex-student being a low level gangster. What kind of activities did he do?

This is one part of Japanese society I know very little about. My wife always talks about yakuza being bad but can’t provide an details other than “they are bad.”

She hates going to Kabukicho but it never feels particularly unsafe to me where as in the US there’s definitely places I would avoid at all cost.
Google Little Signals
Yes and even from Russia you can't get information if you read between the lines. TASS was quick to report that Moskva "suffered an accident" but the crew was evacuated and later that the ship sunken. It was a strong signal that the crew was NOT evacuated or at least suffered heavy casualties as it typical for this kind of thing. Though this yet to be proved.

Ukrainian propaganda for an instance is obviously not eager to report on their military losses but have to do so to counter-attack Russian propaganda. It's just that it makes sense to be truthful when you are morally justified and in overall winning.
Less dense towns can still be walkable and have culture and amenities. It does require a different kind of planning.
I'd disagree with all of your points.

> No one builds rapport through zoom meetings.

I joined my present company in 2020 and had no problems building a rapport with my fellow workers via Teams.

> People have forgotten how to handle chance encounters, and display a lot of signs of social discomfort now when they do have them.

I don't see any evidence of this. I have plenty of chance encounters and don't feel any less comfortable about them compared to pre-lockdown, and neither it seems do the folks that are on the other end of those chance encounters.

> People also stopped taking care of themselves during the pandemic, at the same time everyone started working from home.

People also stopped sitting in cars and trains for hours on end commuting to the office and used that time to get some exercise. Sure it's anecdotal, but you couldn't buy a bicycle around here because demand went through the roof.

> It's actually hard to organize your time and take care of yourself in the absence of formal structure.

I've worked remotely almost continuously since 2003 and have managed to maintain enough self-discipline to stay organised and look after myself (certainly at least as well as if I'd had to go to an office for "formal structure").

> something a lot of people never asked for.

I disagree, they were told they couldn't because employers have a natural distrust of their staff and "this is the way its always been". Working from home is weirdly seen as some kind of perk, it's not, it's still work.

Now don't get me wrong, there'll be a bunch of folks who either can't work from home and being in the office is their thing (or an escape :) ), but there are also plenty of folks who can function perfectly well working from home so why not facilitate that?
I was originally planning on waiting until like M2 but ended up needing an upgrade sooner than I had hoped for both my personal (2011) and work laptops (2016) and just have to say that M1 has been awesome so far. Snappy, low power consumption, much better cooling...

I was on an Intel MBP previously and everything I was using it for is supported just fine on M1. Some things require Rosetta but most big apps have updated support for M1 directly at this point.

Our docker development environment was based on x64 but it was pretty trivial to add support for ARM to it.

Gaming can be a challenge (when hasn't it been with Mac though), particularly GamePass games (through Parallels Windows 11) seems to be a hit-or-miss. Games through Steam, even virtualized through Parallels, have been fine though. On my M1 Max w/ 64GB memory I can play everything I've tried at ultra settings.
Salt?

I've fully grasped that he is rich. Though he is not, actually, $43bn liquid rich, at all; he's going to need to sell chunks of his other businesses to do this. That potentially means handing over significant influence over SpaceX or Tesla, so he can buy the cause of his hurt feelings in his spat with the SEC.

I don't give a damn whether he is the richest man in the world now (he is not -- Putin is) or continues to be.

I don't think Twitter want to be compared to someone buying a pleasure boat. That really does underscore my point about it being a narcissism purchase though, with the added frisson of white male mid-life crisis, so I'll stipulate if you will!

The strategy I outlined in a single sentence for twitter to stay true to its roots means not having to worry about shareholder value or decline. There are several viable, thriving market utilities run on this basis (e.g. in currency trading markets). They do not decline and they are beholden to their shareholders only in continuing to provide the utility.

There is no way that Twitter owned by a random rich narcissist won't decline as it tilts at windmills.

Twitter owned by a set of media companies that have come to depend on it as a means to exist -- as a utility that supports the media market through enlightened self-interest -- is viable.
Twitter is probably not going to stay public long. I think the blood is in the water.
I started reading it around 2005-2006, so just (relatively speaking) after the Iraq War had started (at that time, on paper, it still looked like a success), and I don't remember them being as partial to it as they are now when it comes to the West vs Russia. Granted, I wasn't reading them in the spring of 2003 when the invasion had indeed took place.

Also, there was a despicable "interview" with Blair a few years ago out of which he got pretty much clean as a whistle when it came to the Iraq war, no ruffling the feathers or anything like that.
I have sensoneural hearing loss, mostly in one ear, and the annoying thing about it is hearing aids don't really help much because of the distorted frequencies and non linear loss.

Before I had this I assumed wrongly that hearing loss could always be fixed by making sound louder. (It doesn't, just sounds like a voice disguiser or someone on Helium talking through a bad speaker.)

This looks promising.
We were on Solaris and then directed to rebuild everything for Windows Server. Now we're being forced on to Linux because it's cheaper.

At least our code is now truly cross platform so we have that going for us which is nice.
I'm currently in the "smart TV but don't connect it to the internet" crowd. I think there are three broad criticisms.

Violating your privacy in unsurprising ways that provide no value to you: obviously when and how you use it, possibly including screenshots and audio fragments to help HQ determine what you're watching

Degrading your experience: basically just ads in places you don't want them that didn't exist when you bought it.

Violating your privacy in "surprising" ways that provide no value to you, and circumventing your efforts to stop it: what other devices are present on your home network, where your home is, connecting to unsecured wifi (or soon mesh networks with your neighbor's TV) to do so.

IMO these are the things to defend against. If they're not happening to you then that's great. It's also fine if they don't bother you. For example, if 3 is happening to me I'm not going to go to the trouble of figuring it out how to stop it, though it will change my future purchasing decisions.
Having a TV work well as a monitor is usually just a few settings away. It was this way ten years ago.
I kneel.
Russia is doing a log more than 'liberating' them, with intentional targeting of civilians, mass graves, mass deportations & a borderline genocidal rhetoric. The USA did terrible war crimes in the past, but the cynicism about it should not blind us that this war is on an entirely different level in terms of atrocities & bad reason to go to war.
The land is worth what someone will pay.

The way parcels are consolidated is slowly over time and anonymously...if at all.

Your large developer, if they have a track record of similar deals, knows this.

Assembling a parcel in sixty days is absurd and you are wasting your time blinded with phantom dollar signs in your eyes.

Good luck.
Well that’s just unfortunate, because more than likely that means they’ll always be dependent on some kind of energy imports when they don’t have to be.
Sure, see https://gist.github.com/moritz/ea14aa095b3bd2e72a5667421808b...
So your argument is you think the people who run the crates site don't want to do a good job but the people running kernel.org do? What info are you basing this random-seeming decision on? Do you have any actual data suggesting that the crates site will just disappear like you say?

I'd like to see that data if so -- I have pretty big doubts that your statement has merit without some sort of evidence.
> The problem is that the box looks exactly the same for repos with no commits and stars and for repos with a decade-long history and 55k stargazers and watchers. And it says “Warning: this is a potentially destructive action.”

It seems a bit much to expect the website to show you a warning of different levels of severity depending on the stars a repos has, particularly when the standard message is pretty severe and explicit. It even makes you type the name of the repo you want to make private before proceeding - I don't see how that wouldn't make anyone snap out of autopilot. I sympathise with the author's misfortune but it is pretty hard to look at that warning dialog and conclude that he was not sufficiently warned of the consequences or given a chance to reflect.

I find it disappointing that all of the lessons supposedly learned from this ordeal are lessons for other people, not the author. Surely lesson #1 should have been "check what repo you're in before taking destructive actions".
It'd be cool if laptops came with programmable keyboards and layers.