skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was playing far cry today and was chatting with my wife about it. The only thing I want a VR headset for is so I can have fast peripheral vision playing games that don't have a 3rd person perspective.
Other than that, I can not see a real utility for it outside of AR specific uses like utility mapping or architectural stuff. Whereas with the phone, like you, I was pretty amazed with a rectangle that had all the knowledge of the world on it.
How does Canada define hate speech and obscenity? Both of those are categories of speech ripe for 'think of the children' authoritarianism.
Summary? Interested in this but not in long form
> no programmable machine will implement them; as obvious as none will turn lead into gold

Unless we learned how to manipulate matter at an atomic level - construct and deconstruct atoms.
I do have font preferences but my greater preference is background color. I've found that hex color #FEF0DF as a background tires me less. For reference, it's roughly the Financial Times background.

Calibre allowing me to set the background color to my preference is a godsend for a heavy reader. HN's background is pretty good also. Anyone know the hex?
> Because he has a track record of doing things no one else could.

Like installing solar panels on people's roofs?
I love watching people use "x per month" as some sort of architecture selection argument, especially when these arguments conclude in a proud justification of cloud sprawl.

There are single node/CPU solutions that can process 10-100 million business events per second. I am almost certain that no one logged into HN right now has a realistic business case on their plate that would ever come close to exceeding that capacity.

E.g.: https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/disruptor.html

This stuff isn't that hard to do either. It's just different.
They also said the same thing when he said he would fix Flint's water supply and rescue those kids in Thailand, both of which he did not see through.
> I have no idea why anyone would expect him specifically to be able to do it while no one else could.

No one else tried. Twitter has been stagnating drinking the kool-aid for many years.
Did we need a study for this?

Next study: "Study for best colorscheme for coding: no single answer"..

Kidding aside, it makes sense. No best option, just options optimized for different things.
> Anesthesia requires massive doses of drugs we normally consider unconscionably dangerous in public discourse: Fentanyl, propofol, Xanax, ketamine.

Recreational, unsupervised self-administration of those drugs in recreational contexts is nothing like carefully measured and monitored administration in a hospital context.

An Anesthesiologist carefully administering calculated doses of Fentanyl to a fasted patient who is being directly monitored and surrounded by professionals capable of emergency resuscitation has almost nothing in common with an opioid addict taking a random dose of what they've been told is Fentanyl.

Don't get unnecessary surgeries, obviously, but don't confuse surgical intervention with drug abuse.
It's the future now but not when Tesla was founded.
Hot take: Most of hate for Elon is because he is not your traditional progressive leader. He exudes libertarian, progressive and conservative values depending on the context and gets to the bottom of truth. He does not care about political correctness which rubs progressives hard and deep.

That’s the naked truth. You can spin it this way or that way; none of the reasons I’ve heard make deeply convincing arguments.

It’s basically 100% political.
"This may be a silly question, but how would you think to install packages if not with pip?"

Through the native software management subsystem: RPM, SVR4 packaging, pkgsrc, MSI... always use the native software management subsystem - that is what it is there for, for developers to deliver their software with.
SQLite is a horrible database in comparison to Postgres, MSSQL, Mysql and so on. There is no reason to use it as a primary db. There are many other areas were SQLite really shines though.
Sigh, yes I was thinking something similar. Not sure how we got from suspect sweet stores to illegal immigrants ...

Thanks, your comment made me smile.
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For a rare treat I'll enjoy some salmon, either cooked-from-frozen or as sashimi (preferred, even over otoro). Once I learned more about tuna I see them now as wolves of the sea (rather than chickens) and generally avoid eating animals that are high on a food chain. Sardines, mackerel, and bivalves, along with sea greens of all sorts (wakame, nori, alaria, dulse, kelp, etc) are what I eat more often, in part inspired by Bren Smith's book Eat Like a Fish [0].

[0] https://www.worldcat.org/title/eat-like-a-fish/
> Which only proves the point that the GGP's formula for Twitter's success doesn't add up.

I don't think that proves anything. It's an example of one person.
My understanding of the narrative:

* Musk approached us and we decided it was the best thing for him to take over and join the board

* We have decided that the best way forwards will be for him not to join the board

* We have decided that we absolutely do not want to have Musk as owner

* We have decided to accept the offer to buy Twitter by Musk.

All of this is corporate bollocks and probably has very few useful lessons for us lesser mortals except that to succeed in business, truth and honesty does not add any value.
Hopin struggles as real gatherings return
I think while VR is limiting in many ways, AR does have the potential to overtake the phone if it becomes a truly seamless extension akin to donning a pair of glasses. Seamless AR might be 10 or 20 years out I don't know, but I can see the utility.
Came here to say "duhhh..." but the article is actually interesting, especially to those early web usability followers of Jacob Nielsen (https://www.nngroup.com/articles/author/jakob-nielsen/)
God this is depressing. I'm sure many people are excited about it but I feel like this will just make Twitter worse than it already is, and the scariest part is that it won't kill off the platform. People may say they'll ditch it but, realistically, there's no real competitor to it.
Yishan does a great job of explaining why social media is a different animal[0] and how when people try to fix one problem, they invariably create 3 more. It’s also unclear whether Elon would bring Jack back.

0. https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514938507407421440
Funny to see PHP staying weird.

Introducing false and null loving it :D
Facebook couldn’t even make an Android launcher that people wanted to use.
shell is ultra fast, and it's very easy to squeeze performance out of shell programs. Like I wrote, shell is a well understood programming language - it's been around for almost 50 years and generations and generations have grown up on it professionally.
I call it JUXTING

https://zeroprecedent.substack.com/p/a-technique-for-generat...
Yes, there are a variety of ways to deal with it, though editor autodetect doesn't solve every issue I have with \r.

One example is ":r! wl-paste" within vim. The carriage return is there, and if I join two lines, it ends up in the middle, where ":set ff unix" doesn't help me when I save.
I have an OG Vive, Oculus Quest, and a Cosmos with the wireless adapter. Several hundred hours of SteamVR over the course of the past few years. All that said, I can do 1-2 hours of VR every other day or so at most. The idea that this will be as popular as smartphones in the next 5, even 10 years seems crazy to me. Being "in VR" is pretty exhausting no matter how lightweight the headset is.
It's not only Wordpress. There's also Drupal, Joomla and the myriad of plugins written for them, as well as forums software like Vanilla, phpbb and vBulletin. Actually, I predict a resurgence in forum software popularity as more people realize Reddit is for suckers; there is of course Discourse, but that's like New Reddit, looks cool until you use it and realize it's kinda shit.
Dang is not without his biases. He seems more willing to tolerate nationalist flamebait when America is the target of it. And yes, I know his standard response of claiming whatever bias seen in him merely reflects your own bias... that is another of dang's biases.
Working a side job is typically not allowed for most full-time employees, at least not without permission.
>People said the exact same thing before Tesla and SpaceX.

This is such a tiring rebuttal.

Do you really believe Elon Musk is the best to lead any enterprise because of Tesla and SpaceX? I mean, they both produce great products, but aren't necessarily great places to work, nor do either have any measurable lifespan outside of the easiest money environment we've ever seen. That is to say, we don't really know how good these companies are...yet. One or the other, or both, could turn out to be investor capital burning machines. Which is to say, not great businesses. Twitter is already that.
> He's already said that he'd follow all local laws

I'm all for a good damning with faint praise, and this definitely put a smile on my face.

I'm still convinced this is just the Twitter board calling Musk's bluff.

Lets say this does fall through, the SEC, Tesla, and SpaceX fall out could be REALLY bad.
> welcomes non-extremists back on

He's come out and said that he's buying it to fulfill some kind of free-speech absolutism fantasy. If you think Twitter is toxic now, wait until it's just Parlor with 100x the users.
Comments:

1. To the title: I'm confident there are good genes that cause joy. I'm certain there are bad genes that cause anti-joy.

2. The actual article talks about relationships with people, and not about happiness per se. (For example, what about a hermit who constantly derives joy from listening to classical music?) Bad title.

3. Most of what is stated is a correlation, and it seems there are obvious alternative explanations, such as the opposite-direction causality: if your health problems get bad enough, that may interfere with your relationships. For example: "Part of a study found that people who had happy marriages in their 80s reported that their moods didn’t suffer even on the days when they had more physical pain. Those who had unhappy marriages felt both more emotional and physical pain." Maybe those who feel worse physical pain are more likely to snap at their spouse, and/or less likely to do the things that make their spouse feel loved.

I mean, it's plausible that the thesis is correct, but the article seems to overstate the certainty of the evidence.
Sure, but you have to put things in context. ECMO is used as a last recourse for life preservation when death is highly likely. I wouldn't be too worried about cognitive impairment if the alternative was to die.
Interesting. It’s largely believed Google created OpenUsage Commons to retain control of Istio. Ostensibly for trademark management and what not, but probably in reaction to them no longer having control over Kubernetes (CNCF/Linux Foundation are well equipped to handle the same goals as OpenUsage Commons).

I wonder what shifted in the internal politics that this happened.
Ding.

"Crime" is a function of poverty in so much as those punished for committing it are poor.
Having 2 jobs isn't inherently illegal. But pretty much every single full-time employment contract for an SWE that I've seen, stipulated that I am not allowed to have any other full-time job for the period of my employment.
Point taken, but young people still move to larger regional towns. You may move to Houston, Atlanta, Kansas City, etc for economic reasons.
I find the violating TOS argument for why Trump was banned flawed because the TOS allows for very vague interpretation. For example the tweets that supposedly got him banned said something to the line of “fight for democracy” and that was interpreted as encouraging actual fighting and the illegal activities on January 6th. It also ignores the fact that he said along the lines of “we need to go and march peacefully, don’t cause problems, that’s exactly what they want” and as everything was happening was tweeting that everyone needed to respect police, be peaceful and go home. Good luck even finding the tweets from January 6th because only a couple outlets even reported what they were, only that they violated TOS which is also very suspicious. Edit: typos/grammar.
Well, to the point of the submissions - Hare doesn't have anything comparable to C macros, zig comptime, or Lisp macros (and probably never will[1]), so it doesn't matter what flavor of metaprogramming you want - you're not going to get it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31152272
I'm pretty sure the whole "people are getting removed from Twitter for expressing themselves" thing is just plain not true, and when very little changes on that particular front, I'm very curious about how that's going to go.
> twitter users that interest me and don't discuss politics are usually pretty great

It seems to be falling out of fashion, but a few years ago a lot of prominent Silicon Valley technologists started intermingling overtly racist and otherwise hateful political Tweets among their otherwise interesting and insightful tech Tweets. I think Twitter and other ideologically-aligned media radicalized them, which is to say that avoiding political accounts is a fine thing except (1) sometimes Twitter turns accounts political and (2) avoiding accounts that Tweet about politics at all is swimming against the current and (3) it sucks to have the all-or-nothing choice between following/not-following an account (rather than being able to follow interesting tech Tweets but uninteresting political Tweets, for example).
We have both ends of the extremes of "wanting to seem like Stark, but not quite making the cut" ;

We have Gates, who is seemingly using his philanthropic money shenanigans disguised as for the public good, while ensuring every single move is 100% profit driven only... and winding up an evil figure from such

We have Musk's fanciful and awe inspiring feats of enterprise and business acumen, and the glowing admiration from imaginations of our future futurists...

Yet, both cut from the same cloth, just orthogonal threads.
How do you? You read it, and decide. Eventually I can train software to help me so I can delegate some of the responsibility to it. Twitter could put such tools in people's hands so they can protect themselves. Strictly speaking, Twitter doesn't have to do anything for this solution. Usenet solved this problem long ago with killfiles, which each person maintained. I basically want a killfile++ for twitter.
I agree with your last point on growing wealth inequality and lack of upward mobility, but I would say the global financial crisis and pandemic are notable because of the severity and consequences of each event. I don't blame gen Z and millenials (of which I am one) for wondering what global catastrophe is lurking around the next corner and changing their behavior in anticipation of it.
The way things are going for Netflix, it's more likely to be MAGA. Ew.
Fuck yes be tolerant of intolerance. You don’t have to agree with it, but you can’t stop people speaking their minds. Even if those thoughts are repugnant.

Free speech only matters for the repugnant stuff. The phrase wouldn’t even exist if people only talked about rainbows and lollipops.

Study this case and try to see why the ACLU fought for it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_...
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“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”

“And are you?”

“No. That’s where it all falls down of course.”
“We created a model using our assumptions, we subsequently found that our model shows our assumptions to be correct”
Did it legitimately over the pandemic because I'm a solo consultant/contractor and don't have exclusivity clauses so I manage multiple clients, however, it has come up in interviews when they look at dates because I put them all on my CV.

Key observations to share are:

- the more different the jobs are, the more managable they are, as the complete context switch is as good as a break. It's not task context switching which is costly, it's role switching, which can be uplifting because there is a "you" in between the roles that is separate from each of them. Most highly successful people have intense hobbies for the same reason.

- Lying destroys your mental health. You don't need to lie if you set and relate with clear personal and professional boundaries. It's a kind of moral identity you have to set. Lying is weak, and indicates you've made some upstream errors that you just don't make when you are a pro. I asked a mentor for advice about something once and he said, "I don't get into the kinds of situations where this is even a question." If you are lying, for your own sake, stop.

- Stress really only comes from failing (nobody gets tired of winning, maybe just bored), so having another source of success improves your attitude and that pays off on both gigs massively. Success gives you a refreshing vibe to be around, and most jobs don't provide enough of it, so bringing exogenous success to relationships and work is huge.

- Working as a consultant in large institutions, there are employees and managers who make sabotaging and undermining consultants a kind of sport, so you need the durable skills for handling those people, as if you are doing multiple jobs, your biggest risk comes from people who won't respect your boundaries. That's a general life lesson as well.

- Realistically, nobody questions anything if you are succeeding, so if someone gets "suspicious," it's really that you aren't delivering value for them and it's time to improve or move on anyway.

- Have a plan to invest the increased revenue and don't spend it. You are giving up so much of your life to do the extra work, blowing it on representative and symbolic pleasures is just remedial, and becoming enslaved to the hedonic treadmill is a recipe for burnout. There is no there there. Luxury mainly makes up for impostor syndrome and blowing money satisfies a self destructive urge. If you wouldn't buy it if nobody else could see it, don't buy it.

- Have a plan to outsource or compensate for all the personal balls you are going to drop like new relationships, home and vehicle maintenance, accounting, gym time (get a home gym), nutrition, pet care. If you can do a master's degree while working, you can do a second job, and people with families manage, but if you don't have commitment and buy in from your partner, consider that the additional revenue is just going to become a bigger support obligation when you destroy your marriage making it, so take care.
i mountain bike, and the climb, i have an internal monologue as much as normal. i try to focus on the woods instead but doesn't work.

on the downhill though, silence. while skiing (downhill), silence. rock climbing same deal. those moments are bliss in many ways.
That reminds me. I bought Kool-Aid yesterday! Mmmm. I could use some cold Kool-Aid about now.

I would argue that not a ton of groups can put together a $43 billion offer very easily. So the pool is somewhat limited.
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No metaprogramming? No thanks.

Metaprogramming is necessary in order to compensate for any missing language features, it doesn't add much complexity, and it's not here.
If the other doesn't know you moved forward, why would he/she change his behavior ? It looks like the relationship will continue as it began forever - one sided.
I would argue it was a great migration over resignation. Vast majority of people aren't quitting the workforce, they are obtaining promotions and raises. People being told they weren't good enough for x, did not do enough to earn y, that the company has never supported remote work; all got to see their management's lie. They are more than qualified for x, they can earn 15% above y, and the entire company is doing just fine where leaders foretold jobloss and company destruction. Fwiw I am commenting on office jobs.
> I don't care how good a programmer your are, details matter.
Let's remove Elon Musk from this.

If I buy a [legal private means of transportation] to travel, people should be able to track my whereabouts.

Is this limited to private jets? How about private boats? Single engine airplanes? Or is there a price cap? Is a $50k plane allow you to maintain privacy? 100k? What's the cutoff? Should it be inflation adjusted?

I'm just trying to understand
> tooling

Yes, I learned this the hard way. I understood that simplicity meant limitations, but I did not understand that simplicity meant danger until SQLite burned me.

If your perf tanks, you don't want to have to spend days putting timers all around someone else's codebase. Caveat: SQLite may be better these days -- my incident happened in 2013 -- but I spent more time tracking that one SQLite issue than I have spent spinning up postgres instances since then.
Python "peed in my teacup" many, many times: every time I run Mercurial, Python shits on me from Earth's orbit because the piece of crap language is so slow. And that is just one example among many.

"Bash"? Is that all you know, "bash"? I wasn't writing about that GNU crap of a shell, but of real, AT&T Bourne or Korn shell!

Debugging shell is trivial with set -x. I can find a problem in a shell program in seconds.
Like building a tunnel ?
It was not a bad take, the stimulus packages have directly attributed to the massive inflation we have now, despite the Biden Administrations attempt to blame everything on Putin..
> He exudes libertarian, progressive and conservative values depending on the context and gets to the bottom of truth.

This is a platitude. He seemingly has no fundamental moral compass, his beliefs are almost always entirely self-serving, which people often interpret as "libertarian."

No single person is 100% left/right/whatever. If you don't openly say what you are it leads things open to interpretation, and people seemingly paint whatever picture they like on Musk.
What else do you expect, PHP has its roots in a bunch of wrappers around C functions with in-band error signaling. Those functions are like grandpa's old watch that you just can't bring yourself to throw away even though it doesn't match any of your new outfits. Mama WordPress would be mad. :)
As someone who never got “hooked” onto twitter (turned into an active user) each time I viewed Twitter I found two main issues:

- a discoverability problem for topics, authors, and tweets

- too much garbage, spam, low quality tweets

To the point where I “churned out”.

It is clear that twitter as a platform has immense long term potential if curated properly. The fact that “cancel tribes” and virtual lynchings are a recent mainstay of the culture of the user base, shouldn’t make it surprising that critical and interesting voices (no free speech) do not feel free. Enabled wokism from the top down has materially affected the quality of the content on the platform in its current form.

The issue at twitter is likely a combination of:

- poor management

- internal cultural issues

- lack of a revamped product vision

All of the above issues are the perfect set up for an executive shakeup from an outsider.

If we take the above as true, who else has the gull and ability to do such a shake-up? Twitter’s board as demonstrated in the previous weeks seemed quite entrenched and reasonably powerful.

This seems like a good fit, IMO.
Lots of resume aggregators and ATS require or at least present a Github URL field whether you like it or not.
I comment this as a parody last week and it's now being promoted as a desired outcome the next week.
Implementation is here: https://github.com/wenyuzhao/mmtk-core/tree/lxr
yes, used sqlite and failed miserably at multi-process access to the same db file. no DBMS on top of it, so to be expected. moved to postgres.