skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing it's all very context dependent. And Black Mirror was probably one end of the spectrum.

I think I'd much rather smalltalk with my colleagues than with people in the corporate world, or back in the suburds where I grew up.

And I think with my workplace, either because most of them are here for the job stability, or maybe because I live in Canada, a lot of our conversations aren't really conversations at all, but people talking to the air in a positive way so to make a harmonious environment. So often I start saying something and then realize the other person didn't hear me, and yet continue as if we totally get each other. That's what I meant by smalltalk.
This was also before usable quality automatic translation was built into browsers. Babelfish would lose even more in translation than modern Google Translate.
I don't really understand this American mindset because my current bandwidth "problem" is being "forced" to setup a wired Ethernet network because WiFi isn't enough for cheap 5Gbps FTTH.

More importantly, I'm used to ISPs wasting their lobbying on not paying for laying out fiber and their trust and goodwill budget on deceitful and greedy pricing, bad customer care and capricious geographic coverage: if nobody trusts them more toxic types of propaganda are out of the question.

What are the communication strategies of American ISPs? Even in monopoly and near-monopoly situations, why do people believe them?
> There's also: If you take 1 class in piano 30 years ago and can only play 1 simple song, that might put you in the 90th percentile worldwide just because most people can't play at all. But you might be at the 10th percentile amongst people who've taken at least 1 class. So doing a global ranking can be very difficult if you aren't exactly sure what the denominator set looks like.

Yes, and this literally implies that people in the lowest quartiles can't and won't rate themselves to be in the lowest quartiles when they are forced to give an answer. (Especially on tests that doesn't measure anything (getting jokes? really?), on tests that they have no knowledge about (how would they know that how their classmates perform on an IQ test???), or on tests that just have a high variance.)

And therefore they will "overestimate their performance".

It's like grouping a bunch of random people, and forcing them to answer whether their house is short, average or high. The "people living in short houses" will "overestimate the height of their houses", while the "people living in towers" will humbly say they live in an average high house.

Is this an existing and relevant psychological phenomenon, different from the general inability to guess unknown things? I don't think so.

If you think so, then give me proof.
US Navy wirelessly beams 1.6 kW of power a kilometer using microwaves
A significant percentage of the audience for Andrew Huang, Loopop and similar channels regularly buy synths and studio gear, and are largely guided to those purchases by these YouTube reviews. That gear typically isn't inexpensive; the Syntakt is £850, yet a lot of people will be buying this device in the next few days after watching Andrew Huang et al review it. I would be amazed if synth influencers were unable to make a very decent living from reviewing gear, given the relative affluence of their subscribers.
On the list since the very first announcement, and yet I STILL cant order one in Lithuania (an EU country, no less). :(

Im just waiting for one in the 2nd hand market now. Anyone want to sell one?

What happened to the dock? Doesnt seem to be any movement on that AFAIK?
General rule that everyone should apply to phone calls from banks or utilities that they didn’t schedule (and I mean schedule, not just a call you’re expecting at a random time) in advanced is to get the name of company, hang up, search for their number and call back.

If you ever the caller ever placed you under and sort of pressure, or makes some sort of threat (E.g. your money is about to be stolen, your power will be cut off, the police will arrest you). Hang up immediately, once a scammer has got their claws into the panic centres of your brain, you’re a lost cause. The longer you’re on the phone, the more time they have to make you panicked.
I guess he really means "less complex harmonically". You're definitely right that a lot of modern music has features that would be unimaginable or impossible to achieve 40 years ago when this song was written, both through new tech and stylistic innovations. But I think his view is still very defensible if you focus on pop songs, singable vocal-led pieces that you might attempt in karaoke.

There was a long period where jazz influences were very big in popular music -- jazz itself was actually popular! -- so there were a lot of very harmonically interesting pop songs. I agree with him that that seems generally less true nowadays (thinking of big mainstream singer-songwriters like Adele and Ed Sheeran). But I'd be interested to hear of good counterexamples.
This essay is over 3,000 words (over 3,200 actually, but it includes quotes). I'm sorry to admit I gave up after the first 20%, without still having any clue as to where the author was going.

This seems to be a problem on many Substack posts; it tends to attract ramblings. For all the talk about disintermediation, it turns out good editors are invaluable, and sorely missed.
https://github.com/python/typeshed also provides community maintained stub packages for packages that are lacking upstream type hints
Encouraged by your reply I looked at it again. Unfortunately it is not easy. Our QMS requires us to have related issue number(s) in every commit subject. There seems to be no way how gitlab would get that/those number(s) into the merge request automatically. It would just be a simple script that can extract them from the commits being merged, but I don't see a way to run such hook.

So we would need to update our process documentation and our CI to allow merge requests without an issue number. And git log —first-parent would become less useful.
Some of it is from friends. I lost count of how many mates I signed up to gay porn sites, nazi news letters and furry forums. And they did the same to me. It’s fun messing with friends.
Is that the fault of statistics though, or the non-statistical implication of causation that was tacked on the end of the statistical detection of correlation? Statistics is pretty explicit that it can't tell you about causality, right?
> just interested in command line apps and their speed as compared to, say, TypeScript

There are no fast languages, only fast language implementations.

NodeJS/V8 is pretty fast (even faster than you probably think)—particularly if you're already doing things like making the sort of compromises where you limit yourself to writing only programs that can be expressed under the TypeScript regime. It's usually the case that it's not the NodeJS runtime that is the problem but rather the NodeJS programming style that is the source of the discomfort with "speed" that you will have experienced.
Facebook is the worst: https://imgur.com/jQj1EwE

I do not have a facebook account
I wonder how they're doing it? Do they have a custom kernel?

Or maybe they just have some good IO. It doesn't seem to be CPU limited exactly, it's just the built in sound device doesn't like it if you turn down the block size too much. USB cards are a bit happier.
If I’m understanding correctly it’s a “flat rate royalty”, ie: not 5% or 0.5% or whatever but rather is specified in a fixed “$ per units sold”.

It doesn’t seem like it rises with inflation, so it’s value in real terms will decline over time if Listerine’s sales volume remains constant.

This will be particularly noticeable during periods of high inflation, which is probably why it’s on the market right now!
Over in Europe we've not got as much of a giant free market boner as in some other places. A free market isn't some fundamental right and I'd argue that an unregulated marked is just about the furthest away you can get from a free market anyway.

Cast your mind back to when every phone brand, and even some phone models, had their own unique proprietary charger. Was that a situation anyone prefers over the standardization on mini/micro-usb, and now usb-c? This isn't some unprecedented move.
Not hard per se, but extremely unergonomic.

A pandas dataframe types to something like Iterable[SomeKindOfProductType[int, str, str, ... (78 other columns)]]. The formal type of a dataframe in the middle of a transformation is... not very useful to know.
Such a common and annoying issue. People take the stance of “I’m calling you, and I’m clearly trustworthy, why wouldn’t you share your info with me?”. For some reason the idea that someone might pretend to be them, and you have no way of checking, just doesn’t occur them as a real possibility. Despite the fact that fake calls from your bank is a common well known scam.
I can totally agree with them not implementing complex things the community is dreaming of for the Digitakt. Be it a business decision or a hardware/architecture limitation. But I cannot imagine what kind of software design would prevent moving all notes on a midi track up or down n semitones.

Also for any reasonable sequencer architecture implementing such a feature should not be difficult (might even call it trivial(tm)), leaving only the option that this is intentional.

Would be very interested to know the reasons behind this.
One way that journals could actually add value (a concept to which they seem resistant) would be to review the statistical analysis. Statistics is hard and easy to get subtley wrong, and is often an independent skill to the underlying science. If journals had statistics experts to critique the analysis techniques prior to publishing it would be a great improvement in the confidence in which we could read papers.
I totally agree, the first study with the jokes seems silly. But I am also not from the field, maybe it is not actually as silly as it seems to me. But the other studies seem much better to me and removing the first one would not change the conclusions.
So phishing and Nigeria letters are not spam because it's not commercial but criminal activity? Not everybody would agree.

What about selling fake products?
> downgrading security

Used in article, but only you and GP have mentioned. What is this garbage nomenclature? First of all, what in God's name does "security" mean in this context? It is obviously supposed to stand for somethings specific, this is not just an in general mention of security. What?

And "downgrading?" What is happening here? I am completely and utterly lost on this word and why it is used, here, in this context (the article author's use... and since both you and GP used it, I hoped either could explain to me what is going on with security downgrade like this is a thing, when I expect it really isn't a real thing, someone chose bad words for nonissue, but if not, thx).
> What would you say if you weren't censored?

"I think the demands you are making with regards to how fragile you are emotionally are not reasonable, and if this is how you must be treated in corporate life it is you that needs therapy". In general I think this response is correct and humane (provided you word it properly), because such fragility is not indicative of mental health. It is extremely not compatible with corporate culture to express this, as the prevailing notion is that everyone around such a person needs to conform 100% of the time to what they want.
If I understand this correctly the canonical equivalence is more about visual appearance and a user's expectation that two visually identical symbols are treated the same. But I find it hard to imagine that a user somehow manages to input equivalent but differently coded symbols on any standard keyboard, especially for a password that a single person will probably always input the same way.
Every editor adds their own xml namespace to SVG. Inkscape’s being probably the most famous one.
Goodwrite: A satirical thought experiment on AI-powered writing style suggestio
ARM spends it on pc being wrong: when you mov from it, it's off by 8 in ARM mode, and off by 4 in Thumb mode, and if you're using it for pc-relative loads (and stores, if you're crazy), it uses a word aligned value.

edit: oh, and softfloat vs softfp vs hardfp vs vfp

edit: oh, and how they have two incompatible assembly language dialects that are mostly the same, but in non-trivial code, incompatible
That’s quite a strongly worded opinion. It sounds like it should be utterly trivial in this case to show that typed code causes less harm. I’m happy with whatever definition of harm you’re happy with. So where can i review the data supporting such a strongly worded position?
Aren't they afraid of reputational damage? Once this whole thing collapses, everyone will know what they did. There's going to be bad blood type bestsellers on this phenomenon.

It's very strange to me that they don't seem to care about it, I thought VC is all about reputation, image and connections. If their LPs think they're a fraud how can they ever raise another fund ever again?
You’re getting into fraud territory and leaving spam territory.
I always look at a profile when I see projects or code that I like and most of the time I was happy for doing so because I discover lots more projects that I like and that's inspiring and adds plenty of value to my own work. And many of the times I get to use those projects. I can't imagine what coding would look like without following all those people and getting these updates on the work they do. The value I get from visiting other people's profiles and studying their work is immense.
You can review it by talking to people that inherit your code, especially if they're still acclimating to it :)
side question:

if you use the name+tag@gmail.com trick to tag the business or website where your are using that email

can't a scraper remove all +tag portions using a regex and send spam email directly to plain email address

you won't know the source of the leak if that happens

businesses can themselves do this if they deliberately want to sell or misuse your info
I don't think there are very many true free speech absolutists. We mostly hold positions as a means to an end, not as an end in themselves. Meaning, people declaring themselves free speech absolutists do so not because for them it's Free Speech, consequences be damned. But because they believe Free Speech is the way to the society they want to see.

A good thought exercise is to try to imagine what would happen if an absolutist of any kind got their way in every way possible, and still hated the results.

Really committing to free speech absolutism requires a very strong stomach very few people truly have. Back when Voat was a thing it was such a cess-pit that when r/TheDonald tried to move there, they couldn't take it. Voat disdained moderation, and as a result filtered for the kind of person who can look at a feed full of conspiracies, the most open and clear hate, fascism, racism and antisemitism, and every kind of porn that's banned on Reddit, and not even flinch at it. The denizens of r/TheDonald were used to setting rules on their turf, and were relentlessly mocked for it until they crawled back to Reddit.

Voat eventually died. I think probably because in the end even the creators grew disillusioned with the community they had created, or because they realized it was only a matter of time before they got into serious legal trouble.
If everybody would somehow limit their greed - then yes, You are right, there is plenty of wealth - for example from the pure math point of view the hunger problem should not exist (we have too much food at this moment).

But this is not math problem to solve - this is people problem.
We collectively do not care enough to solve it. Most of us are lazy and there is too many greedy people between those who can provide and those in need.

When I look around my family and friends I do not see anyone who knows how to limit their greed - I believe that almost all of them, if given a chance, would use money and power to bring their status up, increase their consumption, and only then would share like 10% of it with the ones in real need. And when I look around those who know how to restrict themselves (some church community participants) I only see people that know how to talk and are mostly impotent - they do not know how to build systems that could bring wealth to those who need it.
I love the sound, capabilities and build quality of the Elektron gear (especially Digitakt / Analog Rytm2), but I dislike the amount of menu-diving that's required. I find the interface a bit of a barrier. My Roland TR-8S has dedicated knobs to most of it's features, there's less 'magic' happening. I do really miss conditional triggers and a nice built-in effects chain like in the Elektron hardware.
I am not disagreeing with the article, and I definitely agree with you that the american combo of (a) suburbia, (b) car-oriented urban planning and (c) heterogeneous/low inner-trust communities makes for a horrible existence for kids and teenagers.

My point though is that there are ways to develop kids' sense of autonomy without putting them in unnecessary risk, and also that while the benefit of letting them walk by themselves depends on many repetitions of the event (i.e, doing it once a year is not really that helpful), it takes only one single dangerous/malicious person to cause irreversible damage.

And yes, of course this depends on the neighborhood. I wouldn't object the kids roaming around if we lived in a smaller city or a generally nicer area of Berlin, but I could not in good conscience say that any parent should feel totally fine in letting 5 year-olds by themselves in any area full of homeless people and mentally unstable people, and justify it with "most homeless people are just people in terrible situations".
How about this for an idea: a decompiler that uses Machine Learning to name the decompiled variables and functions. Would be nice even if it worked only sometimes.
I do this, but the operators get quite rude that I won't give my details right then and now. Afterwards getting back on to the original operator is almost impossible and I have to spend 30 minutes on hold, and department swapping, trying to find someone who knows why they were originally calling me.

Banks, and the like, need a system where you can call their (verifiable) number, and then enter a unique code that connects you back to the original operator that was calling you. It shouldn't be this hard to be safe. Especially when they continually preach to us about phone scams that we should be wary of.
>> What's new is that any research that might produce results counter to the what the PC-mob deems acceptable is attacked.

> No this is not new.

I don't recall a PC-mob being used to silence any and all non-supportive voices until quite recently.

> You have always have a direction set by political views, even if we have decided they are wrong they are still hard to kill like: smoking is good, white people are superior. There is still "science" being done to bolster those political views.

I don't see what that has to do with that I said - that a very vocal bunch of non-science people seem to have successfully lobbied into silencing specific topics.
yesss more people suffering from this - its so infuriating especially paypal.

I mostly get signed up for newsletters but I do actually have the name and address of one of the people who uses my email address. I know its not exactly polite and didn't want to be mean and cancel any orders but I mayyy have logged in and changed her name on the delivery address to "stop using my email address please" and she's never done it again.

theres also a teenager at a school in the US using my email address on social media I get a lot of requests to send me freebies!

I also apparently have an espn account now, if I liked sports I'd be taking advantage of that one!

Even weirder was one time I had RSVP's to a wedding. The couples name was exactly the same as my partners and I's! I had to email the pastor and say I think you have the wrong email address!

I've had blood test results, graduation photos, I get emails from this girls doctors. I've contacted them so many times to say I'm not your patient but they don't listen. I also know what car she leases! At this point she must have realised!?
At the end of the day, though, no matter how big the business is, it is the result of someone agreeing to fulfill their wishes.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/11/apple-introduces-appl...
As far as I am aware, RISC-V spends it on not being weird (which is itself weird).
More like: Make something, and market the hell out of it so that people think they want it.
A couple of years ago I inherited an old, badly written web app doing up to 800 queries per page. It was slow and hammering the server.

Being read-heavy the app was an ideal candidate for output caching. But - there were no hooks in the admin code to add cache invalidation. And I wasn't going to crawl through 10s of thousands of badly written lines and add cache invalidation calls manually, because I would miss some.

So I hooked into the database layer, parsed the SQL queries and extracted the table names. The read-heavy pages on the frontend were tagged in the cache with the names of the tables they read data from. In the backend, I'd collect the table names in all the write SQL queries and then clear the cache that was tagged with these table names.

Working at the table level rather than row level it cleared more data than was needed, but it was simple and effective.

It worked really well but never went into production - in the end we forced a rewrite of the app. One day I'd like to revisit the idea.
> but I wish they'd make Profile Manager-like features more available for regular people, not just Education or Business users.
I have a similar experience, I received emails from his families with children photos, emails from his certification, notices about his internship, etc..

I sent a few emails to his family explaining this, they told me that I was wrong. I gave up and just ignore all of those emails.

It's on gmail and I don't use gmail for important things anyway...
It's not reckless to recommend someone try a food and see if it helps them feel better. Trying diverse foods is nice (as in, good for the variation in life) and in this case it may transcend the immediate niceness into a generalised well-being. Nobody here is recommending natto instead of whatever your doctor prescribes (which I guess you are implying) and you'd have to be severely mentally handicapped to assume this is what was written. In such a scenario you should not touch the internet unsupervised anyway, because all sorts of normal statements become potentially dangerous.

In short: Real life shouldn't have to be a ball-pit surrounded by rubber tiles. We're all adults here.
I have problem with that too. You get an SMS, try to copy paste the code but the UI for that is terrible and you select all sort of text around the code, paste it in and try to modify it.

Or you go back and forth between the website and the SMS and enter the code manually.

Android is really bad for "multi tasking". And there is a reason ppl share screenshots of articles rather than URLs ...
Some are, but it maight be CPU heavy depending on your platform, acceleration and the numbers of layers/information you have on the screen.

Android application OsmAnd is notoriously slow because of this: https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/discussions/11961
Most spam comes to me via email addresses I post publically, e.g. on my website. I used to get spam from an address I had created for SourceForge, but it has tapered off.
Caring for People with Covid-19 – Healthcare Professionals Clinical Guidelines
John McCarthy's mom was Jewish.
Nice font!

> Currently facing a big KYC compliance wall (code and protocols)

.. but yes, you're going to learn a _lot_ about the difficulties of legitimately marketing to retail investors.