skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I may make an independent thread about this soon (but my question may be stupid): why does messages use this paradigm of connecting to one's phone directly instead of accessing texts in some centralized fashion? Is that impossible because only the carrier has the contents of the thread (even though other services can be used to post texts)?
What a traumatic experience. I cannot even imagine. Gives me chills

Our third had a pretty solid cord wrap going around her neck and being the third I knew it was not normal. Thankfully the nurse was skilled and it had not been depriving her of too much for very long. That was scary enough.

I am so happy for you that your son survived being born still. Wow.
One additional thing to watch out for is additional documents that are presented for your signature after you start work. One place gave me an employee handbook on day one and asked me to sign something saying I agreed to follow the terms in it. I could have said no, but obviously I had much less bargaining power at that point.

Since then, before accepting an offer I always said, "I'd also like to see any documents that I will be expected to sign on the first day of work, or any employee handbook whose policies I will be expected to follow."
So you agree males add nothing of value to a two adult parental unit?
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abl9283
There are rich people on reddit too, such as those on /r/fatFIRE.

> But do people really hate an expert contractor who is rich but does an excellent job of repairing their house? Do they hate a prominent surgeon or medical professional? Are they against being represented by an elite law firm? People hate John Carmack because he is a rich and prominent graphics programmer?

Those people are not what one would consider rich and elite. It is more meant for people who are in the billions of dollars of net worth territory, at least as I understand it.
Movies can absolutely be better dubbed. It's incredibly rare in live action, but not so much with animation
The article quotes an analyst describing Musk’s bid as the beginning of the end for Twitter as a public company. I would say it will spell the beginning of the end of Twitter period. Imo, if Musk in fact acquires Twitter, he himself and the changes he is proposing will become a poison pill resulting in droves of users abandoning it. I, for one, will certainly be one of them.
ARISE and CLOUT are my two.
You’re absolutely implying it’s a bad thing and I don’t know why you’re pretending otherwise.
In my experience salmon is fairly consistently delicious, it is difficult to have a bad tasting piece, while tuna can vary from kind of gross fishy taste to amazing, with flavor more complex than any salmon sashimi I have ever had.
High end restaurants measure everything both quantities, time and temperature extremely precisely and have strict quality control for the ingredients they use in order to ensure a consistent experience.
No one starts our understanding it. I remember I spent at least a year reading Java books and tutorials without understanding it at all until I eventually stumbled on some content that was simpler and ground through the learning process.

If you are motivated and have the right material to learn from, you can do basically anything. This seems pretty true for me. I haven’t found any skill I can’t just grind through learning if I put the time in.
The game could easily rely on functionality that is no longer available. It may now violate some new content guideline. Either would have the effect of silencing them.

The author will eventually die, and then their work will either be modified without their oversight or deleted from the archives.

As the quote says, the problem extends beyond just video games.
The antennas used to send signals to probes are very directional. Monitoring the uplink frequency wouldn't detect someone else sending commands to the probe unless the monitoring receiver was very close to the transmitting antenna or within the transmitting antenna's beam.
> storing the fish at -70C

how do you do that? My expensive freezer only goes down to -30 when set to maximum cold (and then it becomes really loud!)
my friends and i, on a group chat, always start today's wordle with the answer from yesterday.

that way, we can actually measure how we're doing against each other so it's a more fun competition.
> but you can't legally sign away your rights (in Europe, USA may be different?)

You can easily sign away your rights. If you couldn't, it would be impossible to sell things (which was a feature of European feudalism - land was generally not alienable).

A right that you can't waive is called an inalienable right. A right that you can waive is just a right.
Or AHK.
These rather perplexing remarks will transpire into something more comprehensible if we consider them as a poorly executed ad hominem against Thiel.
Never, ever, surprise me at the office.
I have an extraordinarily rare mental/neurological issue called Body Integrity Dysphoria, which makes me want to be disabled (specifically paraplegic or to lose my legs.) I've had it since age six, and it's only gotten less bearable with time. All the meds and therapy I've tried have done nothing to help.

I'm planning to try psychedelic psychotherapy to treat my BID. I doubt it will relieve the desires - it seems more like being trans than anything - but I'm desperate, and maybe it'll help me accept my condition, or decide whether to try getting (sketchy, grey-market) surgery. Psychedelics have helped with other kinds of body dysmorphia, at least. Worth a shot?
> Fun fact: Canada and the US have about the same homelessness rates on a per capita basis.

Could you provide a source for that?
Linux criticized for permitting numerous kernel patches from China's Huawei
I worked at a YC startup with unlimited time off. They worked us like dogs, but even they honored the "unlimited" part of that clause. Some people took many weeks of vacation a year without any punishment or judgment I could identify.

In fact, I've heard about "unlimited vacation" being a trap at companies, but have never seen that actually happen at any of the companies I've worked at which had unlimited PTO as a benefit (n=2, mind you).

On the other hand, I find that I myself do not take much vacation unless there is a "PTO economy" I am trying to game. If you tell me I have unlimited vacation days, I will take maybe 2 weeks a year off, mostly around the holidays. Knowing that I could take more time off seems to be enough to keep me from burning out.

On the other hand, if you tell me I have 4 weeks a year off, and I lose any unused days at the end of the year, I will take exactly 4 weeks every year off, like clockwork.

So, for me, I think that having a set number of days a year is better over all, as it paradoxically encourages me to take more vacation. /anecdotal.
Again:

Google writes, maintains, distributes, and supports a working Drive client for Linux, called DriveFS.
Where I used to work the higher your degree the more responsibility you were given. People with master's or PhD's were more likely to be department managers. More interesting? Not to me but they all got higher pay.

At most places masters and PhDs are used as a stepping stone to higher pay. Not necessarily a more interesting job. I don't think you need a higher degree to get a job that more interesting degree.
> Dave Aitel, 46, a former NSA computer scientist who ran his own security shop, Immunity, for many years...was no less severe on Linux, noting that the biggest contributor to the kernel was the Chinese telecommunications vendor Huawei Technologies, which he claimed had been indicted by the US, and asking how one could rest content if so many patches were coming from a company of this kind.
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The YouTuber / professional gamer scene is hyper competitive these days. I know someone who has spent the last 5 years trying to make it on YouTube and has not really made any progress.

I believe store managers do tend to come from on the floor staff but there is likely no path from store manager to Starbucks corporate.

Programming is almost uniquely privileged where you end up interacting with higher up corporate positions frequently and you will pretty easily be able to learn their jobs and jump over if you want.

While retail workers don’t see at all what goes on in an office separate to them. They just get instructions dictated down.
> Nothing you just said is true.

So you're telling me (even despite all the evidence) that it functions as advertised with no serious malfunctions in the software and that it is not showing to be a risk on the public roads such that the regulators are not considering to launch a formal investigated over the dangers of this supposed safety-critical system?

I don't think you're ready to even begin to refute the evidence around this.

> and your bias is evident.

?

What bias exactly?
FUSE with S3 is awesome. I have a few local mounts, including using it as my Git upstream, and it Just Works(tm)
This feels like a thoughtful way to balance "Zoom fatigue" (which is very real) with the (also very real) need for human connection and interpersonal relationship building
Sorry looks like an autocorrect artifact that I now cannot edit. Please strike the word in your mind as you read the sentence. :)
droves may abandon it, but droves will also flock to it
> hypothermia (to 34° C)

Is there a typo here?
Waterloo faculty job only for 'women, transgender, non-binary, or two-spirit' [pdf]
What you're saying surely has elements of truth, in average the struggle is real and it's hard.

But it's also a matter of perspective. Here's a few additional perspectives, none of them the whole answer. But possibly provide insights and even hope for those who are most motivated.

Creating a house is a huge achievement, if you had to build it, and it's components, yourself, you would spend decades building a modern style house. It's unrealistic to expect that everyone can get this easily and early in life. Our mortgage system allows people to own earlier while paying it off to make that possible, but otherwise this is something that only a skilled person after decades of work would achieve.

Minimum wage isn't expected to be the maximum income achievement for someone who works hard, the idea is to find a niche where you can make more than minimum wage. This takes time of hard work, but it's patently still very possible in Australia, and much harder in many other countries overseas.

People who bought houses in the past had it easier in some ways, but lived a much much more basic standard of life. If you talk to average (ie not wealthy) people who bought houses from 50 to 20 years ago, it was incredibly hard for them, and involved sacrifice of pretty much everything to the mortgage for a decade of their life, while working hard and supporting a family. No overseas holidays, computers phones and entertainment, paying for kids sports programs, home delivery of meals etc etc. The standard of entitlement has raised incredibly decade on decade - in the past it was Expected to sacrifice to afford a home.

Some people still, despite the challenges were buying homes on minimum wage jobs in the last decade, before the current waves of price rises, and some probably are still buying now. But those people who did structured their life in a way to reduce every expense and save then buy modest places, away from conveniences and lifestyle areas. Similar sorts of sacrifices that people of the past would have done, just they are living in an era of inflated lifestyle expectations so they socially making more sacrifices even if the actual physical sacrifices are less in that they e.g. still have a phone and more entertainment than the past.
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and I almost always get it on the fourth guess, sometimes in three guesses
I don't think we're in disagreement; I'm more or less agnostic on the points I brought up, just thinking out loud. My original intent was to explain what I think the ethos is behind, 'code is law', which was in response to your statement, "I don't know exactly what you mean by 'code as law'".

But I do think there will be technical difficulties in applying the existing legal system to smart contract execution if there is no other artifact related to its execution (e.g. website, documentation, communication b/w parties etc.), which probably represents the vast majority of such contracts.

I've seen contracts representing complex derivatives, and some insane things like collateralized NFTs. The financial ecosystem within crypto is becoming incredibly complex. Many grey area strategies within traditional finance have been recreated within crypto, e.g. HFT and front-running, and there are some complex strategies like vampire attacks a la sushiswap that I don't think have analogs.

If one participates in complex smart contracts and get hosed, in a lot of cases I think it will be essentially impossible to differentiate between fraud vs. speculation, bugs vs. proper execution, exploitation vs poorly understood secondary effects. I'm curious to see how the legal system will try to keep up. Then again, I'm not sure it has kept up that well with the traditional financial system to begin with.
Would love a tldr if anyone has a link.
I also hope they know, truly, the value of life. I am not optimistic that they are wise enough to wield the power they have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accid...
Nice read with a paced schadenfreude.

I just wonder if it's luck or just some fog of the accident? The hero's harness was said to had been loosen - which is what eventually prompted the "grabbing of the handle" at negative g - in ejection scenario this is exactly opposite of the prescribed tightening of most slack in the harness in order to minimize the risk of hitting something on the way out of the cockpit. Also it must've been a hellishly painful yank ...

Somehow it feels the story had too many "au contraire"s to it. Ground crew not tightening the straps to the guest? Someone had to arm that seat, yet not telling the guest about the purpose of the "striped loop"? The pilot "running away" from the jet after having just managed to land it literally in "hot seat"?

My disbelief failed to suspend in this case, so to speak.

Oh, well, good that all lived to tell the story!
arxiv link
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.02780
Internal chat between Musk and the Saudi investors just popped up on my twitter feed https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1518353213283442688

Doesn't seem like the funding secured thing was an outright lie.
This is way more common has become routine recently. I wonder why Waterloo is being singled out.
It's the same in parts of Spain. You take a walk in the wild, hoping to experience the local flora, and you find yourself surrounded by these highly flammable trees that have travelled as far as you have to get there. Pretty, but no more so than the displaced native flora, and disastrous from an environmental or fire management point of view.
> I have super bivalent opinions about Intel. This is the opposite of ambivalent, it means heavily charged in both directions

I mean, if you're at the level of manipulating the form of the word, that's already what "ambivalent" means. Strong in both directions. Bi- makes no sense as an opposite of ambi- since ambi- means "both", and bi- means "double". There is no negative element present in either word.
I used to start with ADIEU because it contains 4 vowels and the most common ones at that. But I've since moved on from that because I found I would be forced to reuse vowels in words 3 or 4.

I'm vaguely tempted to take the dictionary and figure out an optimal strategy that 1) guarantees success and 2) minimizes the number of guesses. If you assume every word is equally possible (it isn't; they're manually chosen) there would be an optimal starting word. I'm sure others have looked into this but this is something I'd like to do myself.

After that it branches depending on what hits you get on that first word. It may be possible that a second fixed word (or a small set of second words easily memorized) would be near-optimal but not actually optimal. I'd be curious to know this too.

But I'm curious how good an optimal strategy would be vs some of the naive strategies we've all chosen.

It's also an interesting question as to when it's worth switching from finding what letters are in the word vs locking down their position. If you get COAST and AT are in the word but in the wrong position, should your next attempt be 5 new letters or a word containing AT in different positions? The disadvantage of this of course is you're only testing 3 new letters.

I also toy around with Quordle where you have 9 guesses to find 4 words. That one's harder and the strategy is a little different. There I've pretty much settled on finding a set of 3 words that covers all vowels (and Y) and 9 of the most common consonants.
"Fruitless" is a funny word when you read about the USA+Dole Corporation wars on South America.

Tribal and religious wars are nothing compared to the wars waged for corporate and imperial interests.
There are things that containers acually do (I discussed those above, and won't repeat), and things they ostensibly do, but do not actually do, such as security sandboxing, or providing a fixed, "just works" environment for your binaries, like a VM would.

As far as I know, the people making the incorrect claims/assumptions are distinct from the people that built commonly-used containerization software.

If you want to understand what containers are, start with the mental model that it is a chroot with /dev, /sys and /proc mounted, and with processes running with uid=0. Their sandboxing isn't quite that bad, but they are closer to chroot environments (or bsd jails) than a VM. Next, package a few things by writing dockerfiles, then deploy them to a raspberry pi or something.

If you still care, then follow up by reading the kubernetes tutorials.

Edit: This message is directed to SilasX.
Of course they have clout. They are the omniscience "experts" you hear about everywhere. But probably not as much as the rest of the blob (like woke journalists and corporations).

The blob has soft power, and they aren't using it well. Soft despotism [1] is still despotism.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_despotism
I do the same with Karabiner, I didn’t realize Hammerspoon could handle that… might be able to drop one app from my “must have” list…
Anyone who doesn't fall in line and support the "current thing" is labeled a far-right extremist these days. Ironically, they do this even to people with traditionally liberal views like free speech being a good thing, like Elon in this case.
Check my lactation privilege?
Maybe indoctrination isn't the best word for it, but people came to expect something from their lives that has never been true for any generation in this country in the past. I'm for homeownership, but that doesn't mean the expectation is based in reality. People grew up on media that had a distorted picture of life that was never true or a broad swath of the population
There are actually some online sitters like those at https://tripsit.me

They're not ideal, but better than nothing.

Even better would be to start making friends in the psychedelic community -- which is getting easier to do all the time, and to maybe find an underground guide. Another way to go is to sign up for a research study.
Show HN: I'm making a dynamic language in Rust
An implementation of a dynamic programming language in Rust. Includes: Parser/Compiler, REPL, Virtual Machine, Bytecode Disassembler

This started out as a learning project to teach myself Rust. It has grown into a decently substantial piece of software and I've learned quite a bit in the process!

Some neat things:

+ A garbage collector that can store dynamically sized types without any double-indirection (i.e. I have my own Box implementation with manual alloc/dealloc)

+ The smart pointer used to reference GCed data is a thin pointer. The ptr metadata needed for DSTs is stored in the GC allocation itself, so that the GC smart pointer is just a single usize wide. This allows me to keep the core value enum Variant down to 16 bytes (8 bytes for data, the enum discriminant, and some padding).

+ The GC also supports weak references!

+ Statically dispatched type object model using a newtype wrapper and Rust's declarative macros. Ok, what that means is that I have a MetaObject trait that I can use to easily add new data types and define the behavior for specific types. Similar idea to Python's PyTypeObject though very different in implementation. However, I don't resort to dynamic dispatch or trait objects despite working with dynamically type data. Instead, I have a newtype wrapper over the core value enum Variant that statically dispatches to each of the enum branches! And then a few macros that minimize the boilerplate required if I want to add a new branch to Variant or a new method to MetaObject (just a single line in each case).

+ Different string representations! This was inspired by the flexstr crate. Strings that are short enough to fit inside a Variant are "inlined" directly in the value. Longer strings are either GCed or interned in a thread-local string table. All identifiers are interned.

+ An efficient implementation of closures inspired by Lua's upvalues.

The language is still pretty WIP. I'm planning to add an import system, a small standard library, and a few other things

(Yes, the name might not be the best, being also used by a well-known ReST docs generator, I'll take suggestions. I do like the name though, both as a reference to the mythological creature and the cat :D)
What are you afraid of by signing it? Even if indefinite NDAs were legal (contracts can't be indefinite) the amount of damage the information you learn during the interview process is most likely not that high. As time goes on that damage will very likely just go to $0.
The intolerant minorities that want to shut up everyone else wouldn't be missed. Unfortunately I am not taking to bank their promise of leaving twitter
I love salmon and tuna sashimi, but rarely eat tuna due to high mercury content.
I'll also take this opportunity to plug Semantle, which is an infuriating game that I can't resist. It's based on word2vec. You get infinite guesses, and you're given feedback on how "semantically similar" each guess is. It often takes me 100+ guesses.

https://semantle.novalis.org/
Fair point! I mean "less" in the same sense that "less" is defined for unsigned/modular arithmetic in most languages (e.g. C).
He can be both accomplished and an asshole.
I wonder if there's a market for plastic/fiberglass roomba body kits...
Actual clickable link to Github: https://github.com/mwerezak/sphinx-lang
If you are WFH flexible and everybody prefers to be in the office that still makes more sense than forcing everybody to be in the office. Companies that are not WFH flexible will be less competitive in the jobs market. It’s that simple.
I have a newer LG 38" that's kind of janky around sleep/wake. I'm still on Mojave though.