skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. "My brain feels slow; I'm lost; must be that I'm not good enough. But I'm 18 and have to suck it up and try harder." Improves and masters self.

2. "My brain feels slow; I'm lost; must be that I'm getting old. Yes, that's it. Nothing to do." Lets go of themself; hello mental muscle loss.

3. "I bombed the exam. I'm just bad at [math, physics, foreign languages, writing, ...], but hey that's life!" Talks themself out of improvement and into a self-image that biases to failure.

4. "I bombed the exam. I'm over the hill so my brain isn't good enough. Oh well, but hey that's life!" Result: ditto.

5. "I bombed on the exam. I'm older, so I've forgotten how to try as hard as I used to. Time to get scrappy." Result: improvement and self-mastery.

Now add society. In the younger person a host of coaches, cheerleaders, friends and the dominant social narratives are telling urging them to push themselves further than they knew they could. "You can do it!" And with the old? "Hey, take it easy! Relax. We have low expectations for you--you can't do it--, and anyway we feel uncomfortable telling you what to do so we'll often just ignore you."

Without saying there's no such thing as age-related mental decline, I'm just about certain, seeing many older folks, that's it's abused, a self-fulfilling excuse, while in reality the truly age-related decline (as opposed to habit-related) is less important than it's made out to be, and can be deferred a decade or two beyond what many let themselves believe.

Similar to a person who can't give up the nice cars, house, clothes, vacations, dinners, in order to start all over again on a new adventure, too many older people have relied for too long on--grown addicted to--the luxuries of accumulated knowledge or seniority that allow them to operate at a broader, more conceptual level. Then, having to return to the pain of detail-oriented, working memory-related tasks feels as challenging as it did when they were youngsters. They were perhaps fresher, also typically more disheveled. Now they've lost the coaches and cheerleaders of youth and gained excuses--"I'm over the hill!"; "I require the dignity of age"--that cripple them. More exercise, healthy lifestyle, consistent effort, trying as hard at self-mastery as they did when they were young strivers and pushed themselves beyond their limits, and not listening to ageist arguments should make up for the lion's share of whatever mental decline is common in older people. They just need to be older strivers.

But the studies... Yes, well the studies record people who enjoy the flabby habits of seniority and the results of social bias. Far better to take control of the bias... to have the better, helpful bias.
But you don’t need a paging system if your services don’t go down. Isn’t the fact you can’t deal without one for two weeks an indictment of your own practices?
Quick note- IRS deliberately does not care about the criminal or non-criminal origin of income. All income in dollars from any source/activity is subject to tax.

Brilliant, when you think about it.
But the Kindle doesn’t run either, I think you mean the fire tablets and not the e-readers?
Thanks for the clarification, which makes it seem less like a specific case than I had supposed.
Food and oxygen.

But even that isn't the issue. Here's what I think the real issue is: Let's say Earth is going to be uninhabitable in 100 years. There's 8 billion people. OK, are you going to be able to move 80 million people a year?

And, you've got a self-sustaining Mars colony? That's nice. Can it sustain 8 billion people?
Tale old as time - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/white-back...
Yep, dask_sql is probably a better comparison here (and similarly arrow-friendly). We've been having pretty good experiences here, though clearly young. For in-process, we're sticking with pandas/cudf (GPU dataframes), and likewise still Arrow for IO interop, so easy hand-off.
If you just share your location within swarm it’s unlikely anyone else beside a close group of friends would know.

However anyone with a public Instagram account can easily guess where you are by watching your Instagram stories.
> You also can’t even roll your own process spawner without great difficulty, because you can’t safely call fork() from C# (not a surprise).

Do you get posix_spawn()? That's a far superior API to the frankly horrifying and slow mandatory use of fork().
No one is saying that _you_ do. Now, if your question is why the owner of that website does, well, you'd have to ask them. I'd imagine they just thought it was fun.
I find it hard to imagine mental health being affected negatively by atlassian services disappearing.
>the patriarchy hurts everyone

Thinking about this more, I think the far simpler explanation is "being a mean piece of shit hurts everyone" and it applies to pretty much any belief system and doesn't require a complete restructuring of society on the hopes that it'll prevent people from being mean.
Racism is not just bad when it's phrased in a negative way. I can say I only like living next to white people because that's my "preference". That is still racist, the same way it is racist if you prefer to only date people of a certain skin color. The fact that many people do not see any issues with such statements says a lot about their relation with the idea of human races. Much of society still very much believes in it. In fact, racial thinking is going through a Renaissance currently.
nullable types are bad and hopefully everyone knows it by now.

Other things too but I’m too lazy (forgive the clickbait title):

https://vadosware.io/post/how-and-why-haskell-is-better/
Why Startup Founders Shouldn’t Divide Ownership Equally
They are exactly typeclasses.
> In a lot (most?) cases where there's a possibility that dict could be nil, the thing you want is for nothing to happen.

And therein lies the root error which makes this entire blog post misguided.

Trivial (hopefully) question:

Would you rather fix 1 bug that takes 10 minutes to find, or 10 bugs that take 20 seconds each?

Given that 'my code silently just... does.... nothing? That's odd' is tens to perhaps even a hundred times harder to find than 'you assumed this could not be null, right on this very line right here, here is the full stack trace how we got there - it IS null' - NPE is superior to this silent treatment.

That's not to say runtime-only null checking (e.g. java without nullity annotations for example) is the only right answer. Far from it.

But it's superior to leaving a trail of ticking time bombs like this.

In effect, you make a difference choice about the semantic meaning of it.

In Objective C, `nil` means: "A sentinel object that is real, has semantic meaning, and that meaning is that it returns nil for all things". Woe is you if you treat it as "An object that indicates the value is unknown or does not apply (no interaction with it was ever expected)".

In java, `null` means: "A sentinel value that indicates the value is unknown/unset or does not apply - hence any attempt to interact with it will throw an error". Woe is you if you treat it as a sentinel. But less woeful - you simply get an exception pointing at the line where you made the brainfart.

Unfortunately lots of program language ecosystems aren't quite as clear about what nil/null is supposed to actually mean (e.g. java where it's often used as sentinel, and then leads to code littered with `if (x == null || x.isEmpty())` style lines, a clear sign someone is not sticking to a meaning of `null` that works well with that particular language.
You are not. At the very end of the article, right after "Happy emoji-ing!" I had to zoom in to see what they were. Previously, I could have seen them without issue due to the color variation. This is a step backwards.
The paper is focused on the question of whether the word feorm in a particular historical context refers to a "pure" in-kind taxation of food, from which the king's ordinary diet is sourced, or whether it refers to a special event, separate from the king's ordinary diet.

There's no real problem with that.

But the BBC says this:

> Cambridge University researchers analysed more than 2,000 skeletons and found elites ate no more meat than other social groups.

And this is not reasonable at all. Historical sources everywhere in the world are happy to tell us, over and over again, that one of the primary benefits of having money is that you can eat more meat. It is not credible that early medieval England could somehow have been an exception to this; to the extent that the study's methodology indicated that "elites ate no more meat than other social groups", that should be viewed as a fault in the methodology.
You don't say where you notice that packet loss from, so I guess you are talking about the US?

The by far biggest cable goes from Finland to Germany. No idea what happens after that. I believe Hetzner uses it and I have never heard that they wouldn't have enough bandwidth. But I have neither inside knowledge nor do I use them.

Being in Finland myself I have better latencies from real cheap Scaleway in Paris than from far more expensive AWS in Frankfurt. So it's not always you get what you pay for. Still no drops from either.

Maybe Hetzner has more noisy neighbor issues because they are cheaper? The same could hold for Scaleway, but I have never noticed anything.
Height and income relationship could be modest or nonexistent if you look at a genetically and socially homogenous population and consider earnings through age 65 or 75. Also, note that as you get up to the retirement age, tall people are more likely to be dead or disabled than short people.
Yep. This is for [e]Kindles.
It's a screen reader that uses e-ink screens that save a lot of power and barely have any of that blue light that hurts your eyes.

It's just grey-scale colors.

Completely different from Fire Amazon tablets.
You're right I'm thinking of the Fire tablets. Allegedly if you jailbreak your Kindle you can manage your library and collections with Calibre.
(on a white background)
Uh... so that's how US is able to get these 30-year fixed-interest mortgages? Effectively, by having the government to be the actual lender here – while the banks are tasked with rubber-stamping on the risk assessment (“yup, looks like a standard loan to us”) and then raking in guaranteed, immediate profit after selling the loan and not caring about it anymore? (Well, unless they sell too many shitty loans, in which case they'd supposedly get their license revoked.)
It doesn't actually. Studies have shown stimulants worsen focus for people without ADHD. With research suggesting that they are better at filling a deficit than enhancing performance.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3489818/
The mystery about the wife's illness and cause of death is actually a very good endorsement of HIPAA health information privacy laws. Not too long ago, medical records were leaked and all sorts of privacy was violated. I am happy to see the preservation of privacy in this case, although I am curious as heck too.
> if you can tell the entire story just as fine without naming them and reducing the risk to zero?

That’s my point. He’s not reducing shit. We all know exactly who he’s talking about. All he’s done is curiosity baited us into reading this.
Sure, it’d be extremely hard for their cloud offering to be slower than our on-premise installation.
$1,549 for a first gen ( assuming it is first gen ) low volume product isn't bad at all.

My question is who made these panel? Because I seems to remember a similar panel announced before.

Edit: Sun Vision Display is a trademarked brand of New Vision Display.

New Vision Display [1] is a well known Chinese Manufacturer in the supply chain.

[1] https://www.newvisiondisplay.com
> You're reversing cause and effect

Ehhh... I think it's pretty clear we're dealing with kind of a complicated anecdote here where it's not clear which ways the causality is flowing. It's more like a karmic diffraction pattern than something so linear as cause and effect.
Proof of problem attached…

https://ibb.co/G30YR3R
They already mentioned AWS support was poor, which I can't confirm. I can say that GCP support is subpar. Comparing Python's GCP library with Rust's is a world of difference.
Why do you assume the ACLU needs to defend everything in the Bill of Rights? It was originally founded to protect freedom of speech and so that remains a primary focus. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with “cherry picking”, no one can focus on everything simultaneously.
Is there a test that was done for ADHD? Considering taking Adderall improves everyone's performance at work/academics, it's really up to the test to correctly diagnose ADHD and i'm wondering how accurate it is.

Edit: Read another comment in thread and apparently performance doesn't improve for everyone. Anecdotal data suggests a lot of people i know have ADHD?
Open Access and the Direction Moving Forward
Quite a lot actually.

> The BBC misrepresented my views this morning, and I admit I'm stunned. [...] I spent three years doing field research on that myth and wrote an Oxford University Press book debunking it. [1]

[1] http://www.chinaafricarealstory.com/2021/12/bbc-misrepresent...
Speaking of the old days: I miss the old days when yellow flags were for a section of the track, and there were no safety cars. Last year's F1 season finale was an embarrassment. I'm very happy that Max won, I'm just not happy about how it happened...

I realize safety is important, however I think just as much safety can be achieved if drivers respect yellow flags and are heavily penalized for violations. There is just no reason to effectively stop racing on a multi-mile circuit just because a car went off in one corner. We should go back to the old rules of yellow flags and/or a stop and restart if the track is fully blocked.
Trying to play a broken game honestly, is a losing proposition.

Social taboos get established to keep the winners winning. Go find yourself a gold digger. It is fine. Maybe go date women in cultures where 5.6 is not too short. Hell, I'd say that a mail order bride (more likely an economic refugee who appreciates your wealth) is still better than dying alone. It is a brutally objectifying system and you have to play to your strengths.

Sure, there are social taboos around this. But when the system fails you, you have to look at alternatives outside. If you are too insecure about being THAT guy, then lie about till you start believing the lie.

Every non-abusive individual deserves an honest chance at pursuing a relationship. If the thought of dying alone is painful, then cheat the system.

All is fair in love and war. Haters be damned.

P.S: get out of the bay area / seattle. These places are dating deserts.

P.P.S: it is obviously advice for the the edge case. Only refer use it within the context of traditional options having died out.
And don’t make a “universal delete” script in the first place…
I also think that was the reason. Although it doesn't make sense, since on dark background (unusual on paper, but otherwise not to rare nowadays with dark mode in every phone) it would be the other way round. (The problem with blobs is that they can't display male/female faces. I assume they all just look the same then.)

Who is at fault here? The cowards at Google who fear a PR disaster and self-censor in advance? The extremist minority which often generates similar outrage about such pseudo issues on Twitter? Or the journalists who willingly and uncritically spread and blow such outrage out of proportion without mentioning that the original source of the outrage was just a small group of social justice activists on Twitter, not "the public"?
UniFi-Cloudflare DDNS
This sounds interesting, whereabouts?
To completly replace artists, the model would need to fully understand speech and have a good model of the world. The failure cases of the monk and the negation show pretty clearly that the model does something more akin to a keyword search rather than actual NLP. This alone will be a major problem for the last 10% - the more complex edge cases you introduce, the closer you need to be to AGI to handle them. This might come at some point, but the effort needed will skyrocket for less and less payoff, so I think we can safely assume that this will still take some time.
No, criminals can buy houses just fine. This is about giving them a loan and expecting them to pay it back over a long period of time. It's a huge risk.

If the buyer is going to...go to jail...or get murdered...or have some other unpredictable interruption in their ability to make payments- or just decide to defraud the lender- the lender is not to get their interest and principal. And maybe the house is not going to be maintained. The lien on the house is not really the backstop someone might think it is. Beyond that, foreclosing is terrible from a property valuation perspective.

It's not the criminality per se. It's the unpredictability that criminality necessarily beds down with.

Beyond that, when you are a lender who relies on the state for sanctioned violence, when you don't have your own goon squad or worse- lending to people who are not going to comply with or be responsive to state-sanctioned violence- you actually really cannot be more stupid with your money.
Speaking of which, Russia is currently deploying dolphins, supposedly
You can manage your collection with Calibre (and at least used to auto-strip DRM in the process) without jailbreaking, I did that with the Kindle Keyboard many years ago.

The only thing I remember about jailbreaking, was being able to use custom screensavers and fonts.
Go is a great case for why simple doesn't mean easy.
Risking pointing out the obvious: Did you mean: RC racing?
I came here through a search for something different.

Surprised this didn't gain traction. It looks really useful. I don't use GMail, but if I did use GMail/Google Workspaces it looks like something I'd use.
Yes, and the right arena for that are carefully formulated papers with formulas, instead of youtube videos and blog posts with large claims and no substance. Have a look at arxiv, and you will find that the community engages with her arguments there, at least for the stuff she actually wrote a paper about. (In recent times, I'm not so sure about her not being in that category, btw.)
Because all protobuf fields are optional, they should be translated into optional fields in the target language (e.g. Optional<T>).
Both men and women lie about their weights and heights. I am 5'11". My friends call themselves 6' or higher usually (almost without an exception) are significantly shorter than me. Same goes for women's weight, they never ever would accept to enter that information. Filter will show us wrong results anyway. So why not lie about heights?
I do essentially the same thing with a spreadsheet.
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned the biggest usecase for this font: Hacker News itself, which tries to filter out emoji to prevent comments from commanding unnecessary attention on the page. Doing this with text filtering is impossible, so the system has a lot of false positives and negatives. The site definitely should not send down a font to render a page but if major platforms adopt fonts like these perhaps it would be possible to add it to the font stack and open up the full range of Unicode for comments.

(Also, Google’s site has such large margins that text is only a third of the horizontal width of the page. But I digress.)
> However USPS and Amtrek NEED to be run more like a business. The fact they have not been for decades is part of the problem with the services.

Considering Republicans have been trying to kill the USPS for a hundred years with increasingly restrictive policy changes and increasingly impossibly tight budgets (considering the scope of their task with heavy competition), I think you are entirely mistaken about where the problems are. That the USPS operates at all under such absurd restraints and tight budget is nothing short of miraculous. The problem lies elsewhere, namely, with the major political party that would strongly prefer no government services, and no government, really. Other areas of the world call them anarchists; here we call them Republicans.
I’m sure the compendium is good but man does that sound like the perfect name for a stupidly misleading pop science summary of quantum whatever
I read a tongue-in-cheek blog post, maybe ten years ago, about “blame-oriented software development”: how to deflect blame from your code. The framing was amusing but the advice was good: extensive validation of input parameters and data, lots out logging, etc. Unfortunately, the blog post seems to have disappeared.
Booting the HP 1000E Vintage Computer at the Computerarium [video]
A recommendation in parallel with the links you'll hopefully get on material, try to make a connection with a quality mentoring / support organization for your daughter.

An amazing coworker at a previous job worked with this group, but there should be similar ones around the world: https://mywit.org/about-women-in-technology/

Someone actively working in the industry can provide a valuable perspective and advice, and start building a professional network.

Alternately, there are various ACM and IEEE organizations, although I've heard both vary in quality and usefulness from chapter to chapter (or SIG to SIG). Maybe an IEEE or ACM subscription or membership, if financially feasible? Spectrum and Communications (the main monthly magazines of the organizations, respectively) tend to be a nice mix between survey and detail, so could provide talking points and research focus for a month.
Nah, many people spoke out about ruthless insider politic cliques and how they were at a mercy of invisible forces with "totally democratic" decisions about their work being made for them.
Because a normal thread can be made usable by things like threadreader and that obviously undermines the whole point of blogging on Twitter ;-)
The World Needs a Pandemic Protection Team
> Luckily, that was enough to persuade the client to move to Azure.

Out of the frying pan into the fire, eh?
I think the set of people who rage quit Twitter over Elon buying it has very significant overlap with the set of people who make Twitter toxic.
This is is the real question
Apple’s Not-So-Secret Plan to Take Another Gigantic Bite of the Microchip Market
I honestly have no clue how we fix this problem. Our healthcare costs are already out of control, COVID showed our systems can’t handle large numbers of patients, and we’re finally nearing the point where we get healthcare out there to all the people who need it.

Who’s going to care for all of them? Do we just make healthcare even more expensive, raise everyone’s pay, and hire a fuckload of new nurses? I’ve never heard of an RN being out of work for very long; I can’t imagine there’s a lot of well-trained RNs looking to be hired. Seems like we’ve backed ourselves into a corner we’re about to wall off.

Does anyone know how we fix this? I’m very interested in hearing ideas.
one benefit is that it can allow you to read epubs which is the universal standard for books. the fact that they don't support epubs natively is like having a music player that doesn't support mp3's. the only reason they do it is for the sake of being anti-consumer and anti-competitive.
It’s in the link.
Agreed. Another commenter pointed out a related issue with logical arrow symbols. The exact issue they were talking about was reflected in the HN comment. See https://ibb.co/G30YR3R.
More amusingly is that this is platform dependent. For example, on macOS ↩ U+21A9 LEFTWARDS ARROW WITH HOOK shows up as monochrome but on iOS it is rendered with colors.
Yes, Rust traits are Haskell typeclasses. What he's saying has no parallel in most other languages are the `impl` blocks (which can be used to both define arbitrary methods and implement traits, the latter being directly analogous to Haskell's `instance` definitions).
No...but I recommend The Big Short, which is highly entertaining, and also educational.