skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some tips from someone who has dealt with a few classic narcissists: don't argue with them. They do not reason the way you do. One-word answers are best. Pretend you are a very dull, boring person with no opinions when you are talking to them. Never raise your voice or get angry. They will try to use the silent treatment on you: ignore it. But it works very well on them too. They will never, in a million years, apologize. But if they apologize, they are only trying to manipulate you further because their fear of abandonment has been triggered by your body language and tone. Always remember they lie constantly. They don't know what the truth is anymore.

These are strategies and perspectives I've learned from having narcissistic family members. I hope it helps. The best thing you can do is just not deal with them at all, but sometimes it's unavoidable.
Exactly! That’s 400 calories a day for the average person. Combine that with less physical activity and you’ve just found the source of your problem.

We can even work it out: 1lb of human fat has ~4000 calories in it. If we assume that only 10% of those excess calories actually end up as fat thats still 70lbs of additional weight by the time you’re in your mid 20s.
There is scope for substitution. About 10% of all grains are used to make biofuel; and 18% of vegetable oils go to biodiesel. Finland and Croatia have weakened mandates that require petrol to include fuel from crops. Others should follow their lead.

From the article.
I think if you keep the salt exposed at the atmosphere, you'll quickly run into the problem of it absorbing a lot of water.
League of Legends hardcodes 8.8.8.8.
Was just about to say this, I’m so excited for Gitea to get federation support and think they could really give GitHub a run for their money. I think a lot of major foss projects would switch over to a self hosted instance if it didn’t require users to create an additional account for every instance
> Following that dramedy, I packed my belongings and embarked on a nomadic lifestyle in which I lived in multiple co-living spaces and met a wide and authentic group of people

Nomadic Goober Shocked That He Is The Perfect Prey For Narcissist Personality Types. More at 11
I think there's a gap between an inspector turning in a report and the repairs being prioritized, funded, and executed. Out here in Oregon we had a tunnel collapse and kill the inspector (this was back in 1999). News reported that the tunnel was inspected twice the year before it collapsed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_L._Edwards_Tunnel
> In tech, how can one thrive as a generalist?

Start ups need generalists to save money, and large companies want to have fast iteration like start ups... So they need generalists too!

> and one of the points is replace generalists with specialists

This doesn't sound like good advice. Without generalists, you get strange results where certain areas of a product are highly developed, but there seems to be a disconnect between parts of the system, as people are only focusing on their specialisation.

Generalists are also needed in leadership, where you need to know what different specialized teams are doing (at a high level)
On the other hand labelling these people in some completely "other" group probably is not helpful either - what about those who are on the border? What about those who might display what appears to be very narcissistic qualities but only in very specific niches?
There is no crash. Unemployment rate is 3.6%

Most of the former crashes hit the financial sector first and than hit the real economy. This one hit the financial sector and will stay there. This is why you see wallstreet / vc panic, but the real economy cannot find employees.
Do you feel that we’ve reached the peak of the smartphone enabled businesses that emerged after 2008? Like apps like Uber that relied on smartphones to unlock entirely new markets and possibilities?

All we have today are optimizations on these earlier models. Nothing new that truly leverages any unique feature of the smartphone.
I'm pretty sure this fear of change at the helm is something all dictators will happily project out ("look, without me there will be chaos or worse"). It's likely not true. It's really impossible to predict what will happen once Putin is gone.

He'll die anyway sooner or later, and there will be a struggle for power regardless. Russia has a constitution, and article 81 describes how to get a new president via elections.

Current paranoid leader is waging major war and isolating the country, so it's hard to say what could be worse for the world. Maybe mobilization in Russia, but that may be a tough call for any newcomer.
One more step toward in an authoritarian direction. Vague laws with arbitrary interpretations are bad for democracy.
How to test code that uses time?
Depends on how much energy you put into producing those vs. what else you could have done.
> In my experience, there are a few pink flags that attract my attention: I try to be careful with people who continually credit themselves – this can be done indirectly by using false humility; they don't demonstrate a genuine interest in their peers; their words are inconsistent with their actions – sometimes for many small details; they rarely express guilt and, in most cases, make insincere apologies; they can be very sensitive in the face of unwitting criticism.

Be careful-- you quoted a number like 15% of the population, in which case-- the narcissists are among us! And aside from inconsistent words/deeds, someone who is being calm but firm in the face of narcissists may wave these same pink flags:

1. They may take credit explicitly and precisely for the actual work they do. This avoids the pitfall of one of the narcissists seizing on ambiguities and lack of communication to claim credit for this same work (which they didn't actually do).

2. Narcissists seem like they constantly leave room for little dramas and use manipulative tactics to try to gain "points" with those around them. In the face of that, even the author's professed stoicism would be interpreted as a problem by such a narcissist-- after all, if you don't follow them down their rabbit hole of manipulation then how could you possibly register as "genuinely interested" in their view?

3. Maybe I'm weird in that I am fascinated by narcissists and try to interact with them when possible. I mean, a guy walks up to me talking on his cell and puts his finger up, as if to say, "Hold on, I have something to say to you after I'm done with this very important conversation." It's like smelling the elephant shit outside a circus tent-- it's bad, but it a sign of an impending spectacle. I'm getting a tiny shot of adrenaline just thinking about it...

Now, do you think I'm going to express any degree of vulnerability whatsoever to this asshole? Doing that can only cause problems-- like asking the ring toss guy at the carnival if he will take a check...

4. Outside of cranks on HN, everybody is sensitive in the face of unwitting criticism. We've all got different tolerances for it, but we all can only take a finite amount in a given day. If there's a flag here, perhaps it has to do with the way we deal with that sensitivity. In my experience, normies commiserate and tend to feel better for it. Oh, you hit that obstacle and you're a professional obstacle avoider? Thanks, I don't feel as bad now. Perhaps that doesn't work for narcissists because they are Greek Gods with the highest standards? Dunno, just speculating.

Epilogue: the finger-guy walked off without finishing his very important phone call. I haven't heard from him since. :(
Ask HN: Can we increase HN's color contrast?
Currently any Ask/Tell HN stories are very hard to read for me, since it's gray text on yellow-ish background. Most UI on HN has a color contrast of 3.54 (Foreground: #828282, Background: #f6f6ef) and it's super uncomfortable.

I know I can increase the zoom or write a chrome extension to change it, but I think increasing HN's color contrast overall could help lots of readers.
I'm not sure I'd say many compilers are even that great with SIMD these days and that is easier than what the itanium was asking of compilers.

There are real gains to be had by using SIMD but it tends to be massively parallel data processing workloads with specially written SIMD code or even hand tuned assembly (image/video processing, neural networks) not just feeding in a source file and compiling with the SIMD flag to then realize meaningful gains.
Seems to me a great idea!
Obviously there are a large number of factors which affect the weight of a specific individual, and food intake and exercise are only two of them, but that blog's attempts to deny the causation behind the correlation looks far more highly motivated than anybody pointing out that trends in obesity mirror trends in diets and lifestyle changes.

I mean, he handwaves away the statistic that suggests the mean US citizen's calorie intake increased by nearly a quarter over the period that obesity rose simply by saying "that's not a jaw dropping increase". He thinks a study in which people's food intake was increased by 50% showed a significant average weight gain in just three weeks undermines the argument that feeding a population an average 25% more per day for the rest of their lives could increase obesity! I'm actually less suspicious that calorie counts are an oversimplification after reading what he citates as evidence against them; you could make a pretty good case for diet being the sole cause of increased obesity in the US from the references he makes to argue it's unrelated!

(Nothing wrong with the "lipostat" hypothesis he proposes as the alternative per se, but moving the cause of obesity onto "changes in how many individuals' bodies identify satiation points and metabolise food intake" doesn't result in a hypothesis which is independent from how diet has changed, it just complicates the causation a bit)
Browsing the source of jQuery and I don't find it bloated but I find a lot of knowledge in there that a naive user the DOM API would most likely know about.

It's kind of like how you can comparing languages using simple example code isn't relevant because proper code with full error handling and edge case handling can be very different from a naive example.
Sequoia Capital’s 56 Slide Presentation of Doom (2008)
You are right on the money.

Good for you.
I think what you are describing is distinctly more American than anything else - in many countries it would probably not be seen as a huge positive to be super gregarious in a business setting for example.
SpaceX Paid $250k to a Flight Attendant Who Accused Musk of Sexual Misconduct
Plask – 3D rig animation from video
But is it cheaper? (or could it be)

Wood, stone, pretty much everything is stronger than concrete. We use concrete because it's strong enough and cheap (and doesn't rot like wood, but a lot of things don't rot so that's not too novel).
it's true that cube might outperform many commercial grade purifiers but unfortunately it's only because fires/pandemic have skyrocketed prices on purifiers and made a bunch of scammy looking ones. As you see with that box, having a filter medium and a fan is all you need. No plasma/uvc or charcoal filters necessary. I only have a couple purifiers that are $100 each and have a good centrifugal fan and a filter in front of it that can be replaced for $30. A box fan as pictured doesn't have as much static pressure to pull through the filter well, but because you have four filters worth of surface area its fine. All you could upgrade with a commercial solution is having a smaller physical footprint.
Buy inflation protected bonds from the government (TreasuryDirect) if you haven’t already.
Anyone remember Pentium II and their new <del>sockets</del> cartridges?

That didn't last long. Like what, one generation?

Good.

(saying that, but I remember purchasing a dual Pentium II motherboard for 2 400 MHz CPUs to speed up 3DStudio 4 renderings under Windows NT4... xD)
It’s only just getting started though. We have no idea how bad it will get yet.
companies want generalists but they refuse to interview them like one or pay for them
Shrug. We're shipping $40B of shit to ukraine. It really doesn't matter.
I was thinking of that term, but I have no idea whether it applies indoors..? :)

Anyway, thanks!
"Company hyped by talking about tech-stuff and not currently public" is probably somewhat close.
A relationship with a person you cannot see, touch, feel, hear, or taste.

Who revealed themselves directly only before the enlightenment, and thereafter must be experienced only in ones mind, testimony from those long dead, or by the evidence of supposed creation.
Coronavirus: The Black Swan of 2020
More like incompetent
I like this one, but it's arguably less fun:

https://httpstatus.in/
True, the homepage is distracting. But https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/ seems nice enough.
It seems like the site is overloaded. Does anyone have a mirror?
That's happening to me, I'm peddling the exact same thing at half the cost, and it's verifiable. You can just check that it's correct in a second with a laptop, after computing it for several hours on thousands of machines.

https://www.fgemm.com, coming soon.
You know that's my pitch? Selling a commodity for half. Because I SUCK at selling, so that's my out, the same exact thing anybody can do in exactly the same way, that every company is on track to spend more than 10% of their revenue on, but for half.

The bottleneck of machine learning in half.

In fact you're being quite generous with your offer of 1 dollar for 95 cents, but I must decline. 50 might work much better for you, you might secretly need 1 dollar for 50 cents more than you need 1 dollar for 95 cents. But are embarrassed to ask. Provided we're talking about matrix multiplication.

And like everyone's business plan is turning matrix multiplication, better known as AI, into money, so there could be a good synergy there.

https://www.fgemm.com, coming soon.
> MMF liquidated

from your link:

> In 2008 however, the day after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy, one money market fund fell to 97 cents after writing off the debt it owned that was issued by Lehman. This created the potential for a bank run in money markets [...] the next day the United States Treasury announced a program to insure the holdings of publicly offered money market funds so that should a covered fund break the buck, investors would be protected to $1 NAV

if the US Treasury insured $ust, luna would have been fine

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> Why people kept locking ETH in MakerDAO CDPs over and over during the "crypto" bear market, when ETH was in the free fall?

they're long eth. it's not altruistic, it's incentive alignment.
Actually, if you read Nissim Taleb, banks are the most fragile companies. They have capped upside (basically interest rate) , and indefinite downside.
Scientists Uncover a Shady Web of Online Spider Sales
Good tooling improves the artists workflow and results in most cases.
This was not an article, it was a blog post retelling events entirely from Sabatini's perspective.

EDIT: massive edits.

For starters, it names the alleged victim of sexual harassment, which journalism organizations do not do in the U.S. And then gets personal about her sex life, including allegations of promiscuous sex. And then claims that she was actually sexually harassing him. (Yeah, sure. A twenty-something with multiple partners is sexually harassing her fat 50-year-old boss for...reasons. Uh huh. And Elvis is still alive in Las Vegas selling condos.)

And this "article" actually gets a lot of things very wrong, which I didn't realize until I read other reporting: the alleged victim of the sexual harassment was not "the head of her own lab" as this article claims, but was a fellow (i.e., the lowest paid position) at the institution and left the fellowship early due to the alleged harassment. And the relationship actually started before she was a fellow/coworker; it began while she was a student applying to the fellowship and he was in a position to have input over her getting the fellowship.

Also, this "article" fails to reveal that the woman was not at Whitehead at the time of the investigation and did not initiate the investigation. Other sources note that the investigation was actually prompted by the new director initiating an institute-wide survey on sexual harassment which uncovered multiple allegations against Sabatini by multiple women. The woman named in this "article" was merely interviewed as part of that investigation.

And here's the kicker: this article conveniently leaves out that multiple subordinates reported being threatened by Sabatini not to participate in the investigation.

All in all, Sabatini may be a genius, but he's also a disgusting pig, and the investigation found multiple things for which he could have been terminated, and there's a reason 3 separate organizations terminated him and his own companies chose to publicly dissociate themselves from him.
I once encountered a note from one of the people working on iAPX 432, claiming that the core idea of high level cpu wasn't really the issue it tanked, but project mismanagement and horrible design applied which resulted in a chip that would be technologically at home... In 1960s, just done in VLSI - one of the things I recall were issues with actual physical implementation of the memory data paths resulting in horrible IPC
The site could detect that it's invoked as part of a `curl | bash` and sometimes serve a different script than you would get if you manually downloaded the script or the installer for manual inspection/auditing, making it harder to detect shenanigans. I think someone wrote this up as a PoC/blog post at some point.
You are right. Add to that, the constant and persistent info flow from russian media and incentives to “say the right things”, which raised whole generation.
Hah! That's a major pet peeve of mine.

So, anyone who uses Windows has probably noticed at some point that "GB" "MB" and "KB" are the power-of-2 variants. Whenever I see one of those tech YouTubers say the formatted capacity of a 1 "TB" drive is 931 "GB" I just cringe. Most storage vendors use the power-of-10 definitions and Windows uses the power-of-2 definitions. 10^12 bytes / 2^30 = 931.32, so no, formatting your drive does not make 7% of the space just disappear.
Only fans user had sex with Meta employees for unban
Was wondering the same. Best of all are these "Totally relatable, I feel the same" comments. So many x10 devs that soon one gotta be a x100 dev to be above average lol
> (the latter I have never managed to consistently achieve on a trackpad).

Ever try an Apple trackpad?
you can use SMTP to access GMail and auth via a web browser based flow (OAuth2/OIDC), this added extra security is needed if there's an additional server in the mix that manages the OIDC tokens for the user

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31421066
What do you mean "too early"? Core inflation has been above 6% since January. The headline number is even higher.

The Fed will be raising rates. The question is how far they have to go before inflation subsides, but it is monumentally obvious that long-term interest rates have to lift off. The days of zero-interest overnight rates are over.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=rocU
Re-balance your priorities, cut back in areas that stress you out, and evaluate frequently to see where you are trying too hard and where you are not.
"Dr. Ramani give numbers around 15% of the population, while my therapist believes it's considerably higher, but I assume she's biased since she lives in Paris."

This might be my favorite quote I've ever read. It reads of pulp fiction and I love it. I know I'll get downvoted, but I can't believe that Paris can be worse than any other major urban center like New York, L.A., Milan or Quebec.
I‘d rather die trying, than live in a non-free world.

And fyi, whatever arrangement of characters your reply to this statement will consist of, it will not change my stance, so do not bother.
http://www.constitution.ru/en/10003000-05.htm Article 81
> I ask about efficiency because I'm interested in whether more money is a good investment.

Maybe.

> I don't really care if the government or private contractors are doing the work.

Okay, so you really mean can government do a good job of funding a massive infrastructure project?

It can, but everything has been setup over decades to make it fail.

Is the government rarely allowed to break down large projects into smaller ones, and bidding happens on each small
slice?

Why are incentives aligned to hamper this?

And how do you prevent different states battling to get a bigger slice, at the cost of others?

> In either case, if the work being done is extremely inefficient, I'm less likely to vote for a candidate that wants more money to spend on roads.

Increased spending doesn’t mean inefficiency. Not until you factor in pushed-off expenses.

If maintenance cost $1.00 per year but rebuilding costs $100.00 after 20 years of neglect; then wouldn’t you say the inefficiency was from the politicians that blocked/prevented said maintenance?

How much revenue do our bridges and roads generate? What would be the loss if even 30% of said roads were to crumble overnight?

Perhaps it’s just me, but I think being pennywise and pound foolish as bad thing.
Introduce a date/time class you use everywhere in your app that needs “now” that normally returns the current time.

For testing, you can explicitly set the return value (because it’s static or injected) to a particular value to freeze or change time during testing.
My assumption is that if I'm trying to survive more than about two weeks, "possessions" are a cute theoretical idea.
When I was obese and I thought about my own obesity, I decided it was under my control and I changed my habits (this was hard!) and I lost 110lbs. There was no more to the picture than my eating habits. Perhaps I was a strange outlier; lucky for me.

But when I think about other people's obesity, I am not allowed to think that, because I would be part of a shame brigade.

I wish the shame brigade had gotten to me years earlier.
Show HN: Opinionated tooling, with a minimal interface, targeting AWS
I always get a kind of morbid kick out of watching everyone do the same hand wringing over and over again every few years.
Of course (?) they need to build a larger motherboard. I'd be really tempted to buy a 15" model especially with a touchpad with 3 hardware buttons (I'm not considering any laptop without them) and a keyboard without numberpad (very important but a little less than the hw buttons.)
Wow, 100,000 a year die of infections contracted during treatment!
IIRC this can come installed by default with RHEL and Fedora server if you select it during installation.
The magnitude and duration of exposure is probably lower, since plastic is a western and relatively recent invention.

Moreover, it is precisely because transgenderism is primarily a cultural (rather than biological) phenomenon, that rates between two otherwise identical populations are going to differ based on the culture's attitude toward transgenderism and the likelihood that a doctor is to diagnose someone with gender dysphoria.

That latter point is severely understudied because transgenderism is one of the wests many recent sacred cows which are beyond criticism. But overdiagnosis should be a much greater concern than it is. Especially since puberty blockers and hormones given to adolescent boys will undoubtedly exacerbate any feelings of dysphoria and I am astounded that no one is talking about the reinforcing effects of these "treatments".

But I digress. Point being comparing rates of transgenderism between first and third worlds is like comparing apples to oranges because transgenderism is a cultural phenomenon.
Try this: https://web.archive.org/web/20220519210505/https://apps.dtic...