skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've wondered if this tech could be useful for video games... but it's going to take more than just recording one "voice" sample and typing some text. At the very least you're going to need some formal notifications of tone, because there's a world of difference between "[sarcastic] Yeah, really." and "[emphatic] Yeah, really." and at times its a super-AI-complete problem to know exactly what the author intended without annotations. (That is, even humans would get it wrong sometimes.)

Unfortunately for the company, that video is indeed a great demo of the fact you can't just shove their technology at some text and "solve" the problem.

However, for the first time, I feel like a half-decent solution to this problem is on the horizon, rather than absurdly far away.
> Scotland will make shitloads exporting hydro electricity

I doubt that. Hydro doesn't seem very exportable.

hydro-tech should be though and Scotland could be well placed to attract investment in that (if only we weren't losing so many scientists to the EU)
“Sometimes you need to be a human being, not a human doing.”
Ad don't redirect you on top level domain anyway (except for some malicious ad).
And silent popup these days don't even work.

If the site is willing to redirect you directly to another site. I guess they can share data by themselves anyway?

I think sabotage of silent tracking pixel/ajax tracking is enough for most usage without breaking the web.
I think he meant Jony Ive, who absolutely got out of hand without Steve.
Oh hey, it’s the surgeon the best NPs and anesthesiologists refuse to work with.
Maybe people shouldn't say evil and hateful things about anyone, no matter how bad they are, because it makes the entire culture of public discourse more toxic.
Americans seem to have very little reverence for the quality and civility of public discourse in general anymore, and often say "the other side is worse" or "I'm intolerant of intolerance" as their justification for personally contributing to the normalization of uncivil ways of speaking.

Japan doesn't seem to have these problems with people culturally defecting from civility even when they disagree, and I believe their willingness to not tolerate it to any degree is what keeps the rest of society defecting to low quality behavior patterns.

There are many morally self righteous individuals who think they are doing the right thing and don't realise their counterparts they spew (self righteously) hatred towards are the exact same as them.

I think both groups should receive censure for valuing their personal crusades over the quality of stability and civility of society the rest of us value; who have more nuanced and humble opinions of our own self righteousness. Really glad there's another country that agrees with me!
Linux Fu: Up Your GDB Game
I bet the feeling is mutual - we are social animals, and we are in an impasse of the human condition and technological advancement.
The difference is that you can always close the game or play a different game. I don't see why the government needs to get involved when individual companies already have a financial incentive to ban toxic players.
Why big corps like Ford are allowed to sell unsafe products to people?
IT fail caused Sonos to ship unwanted speakers and charge customers for them
The forces of resistance to change and the pro-services culture at IBM are strong. Very strong. See how far the desire and will to change goes when placed up against the marketing and sales culture at IBM and pressures from the market.
sleep_then_hibernate is the setting I used and it worked great for preserving battery life.
It's crazy to me reading all these comments applying the American cultural, historical and legal context to discuss a Japanese law about bullying. You can't translate your usual talking points about American politics 1:1 to another country.
I can't believe the responder had the gall to take personal attacks personally. Have they tried going outside more? If they didn't sit on their butt all day they might not be inclined to take my directed insults personally.
Running a service with a GPL license is different than including their code in your projects, though. So while it may be a blanket ban, it may be worth it to clarify the scope of that ban.
Have your testosterone levels checked. If they are low get on TRT. Massive quality of life improvement. Higher sex drive, more focus, more energy, etc.

"My partner is very frustrated by this at times" Respectfully this should be an alarm bell. Sex is an important driver in most relationships and if your partner is upset you should be actively working with your Dr. to root cause the issue.
Except that the moment they enter the Jamestown base, gravity suddenly seems to be 1g.
So Twitter mobs are 100% legitimate as they have no opportunity to loot, but you make no allowance for mobs of mixed idealists and opportunists, or for attacking critical infrastructure? Fascinating.
You started by quoting

>> You can definitely be paid laid off employee for a period of time, while having your access revoked.

and replying

> In France, this is a breach of contract

And now you write

> you may however send the employee home with his full salary and no obligation to work

Which was exactly the original claim!

I'm not sure if you misread or misunderstood, but you have been arguing incorrectly in most of your subsequent replies, and the sarcastic jibes at other countries don't help.

France is a more trusting society than the USA, so I won't be surprised if gardening leave is less common, but you can be sure it's sometimes used when employees of investment banks, defence contractors, the government, military etc are made redundant or resign.
What do you consider to be a “normal” dose? I’ve heard of people using 60+ mg of Ritalin and thinking that’s normal. Ritalin is a powerful stimulant at 5 or 10mg. You can get lower doses or different formulations - e.g. 5 or 10mg at extended release to last through the day.

Extended release is usually preferred by doctors in part because you avoid the highs and lows.

Regardless of what “normal” practice is, if you are getting high from methylphenidate, the dose is wrong, and if you can’t get therapeutic effects at a dose low enough to avoid a “brutal” comedown, you should be looking for alternatives.
Asexuality is fine in the sense that no one should be challenged or treated badly for their level of sex drive.

But in a context of falling sperm counts, testosterone levels, endocrine disruptors showing up in urine at high levels, SSRIs (some of these are male-specific but have female counterparts), I worry that just shrugging off low-to-nonexistent libido as just "ah some people are asexual and that's valid" isn't giving a complete picture.

Sex feels really good, relationships are important to most people, most relationships of the sort I'm referring to are going to be with a partner who wants sex. To reiterate, any ego-synchronic asexuals out there, if you're happy I'm happy, but it's also okay to treat a lack of libido as a medical issue and see if it can be alleviated, which is often the case.
Same here. I had been a happy K9 user until they redesigned the interface. Putting a message action toolbar on the top for a smartphone app doesn't make any sense. Especially as smartphones are getting taller and taller. I then switched to FairMail. I will re-consider going back if this is fixed.
> almost anything you can name will be something that someone religious will just give up because they think it will grant them favor by God.

This is what the Pharisees were doing. Christ clearly refuted this kind of religious attitude. See Matthew 23.

A couple of the things you listed are genuinely sinful. On the other hand, careers, food, alcohol etc. can be sinful, but are not always. See e.g. Judges 9:13 and many other verses.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=judges+9:13&ver...

Also see 1 Timothy 4:4.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+timothy+4:4&v...
This seems like the proper place to plug my dumb little side project, an actuarial table calculator that I put together with Alpine.js and a lot of poorly written JS. It's my first "app" though, and I'm happy to share it here if anyone else can use it:

https://timelefton.earth/

I keep it in a pinned tab to help me recontextualize things when I'm stuck in a poorly functioning dopamine loop. If I'm doing something for leisure, I want to really like doing it, not do it as a holding pattern.
Because this time the Federal Reserve is raising interest rates and reducing the money supply, which has never happened before since Bitcoin was invented. Low interest rates/quantitative easing/increased money supply (all same thing) is what fuels asset bubbles, including crypto. Take it away and the asset bubble deflates.
Why is that surprising? They're one of the biggest online financial institutions. Just complying with KYC laws given their number of customers takes a lot of human resources.
Anecdata, but I've been on methylphenidate (Concerta) since age 7, and holy cow has it impacted my life in an insanely positive way. 21 years later, I'm still on Concerta, but excelling in my career, spending meaningful time with friends, family, and hobbies, and generally pretty happy with myself. When I tried dropping the meds in college, my life basically fell apart in a matter of months. My then-girlfriend now-wife almost broke up with me, I started failing classes, I lost contact with friends, and really struggled to feel alive. The Concerta doesn't fix my ADHD, but wow does it make it manageable. Thankfully, I had a supportive and invested family, understanding friends, and support structures all around me. I'm so glad my parents put me on meds instead of making me struggle throughout my childhood due to an outdated believe that "drugging kids bad". I owe my life and success to this drug, and while it doesn't work perfectly for everyone diagnosed with ADHD, it works so well for me that you'd have to pry my prescription from my cold, dead hands.
The devil, as they say, is in the details.

But to be fair, the only times I can recall using fork() without exec() were forking network servers, and that was mostly me learning about doing network stuff, and a forking server was the easiest to implement manually.

Oh yeah, and that one time I accidentally wrote a fork bomb trying to stress test a DNS server. At least I learned something from my mistake. ;-)

EDIT: To me, using fork() without exec() is kind of like operator overloading - there are cases where it absolutely is the right tool, but these aren't very numerous, so one should exercise caution. A lot.
> the people in charge of the Mac are now people who _grew up with it_, who love it, and who have that same nostalgia as (some) of us outside Apple.

So then how does one explain the unending UI regressions with every single major update? This whole system preferences thing for example? The terrible, terrible toolbars combined with window titles? The borderless buttons (with borders being an accessibility feature)? The utter disregard of the pixel grid? Everything else slowly becoming ever more un-desktop?
> And I respond with "Your not going to make it here, you should move somewhere cheaper." That can be interupted as an insult.

People interpret this as an insult because statement contains an implicit negative value judgement about the person’s competence - i.e. “you are not going to make it here”.

Contrast that with something like, “It will be very difficult to find an apartment in LA that will be affordable on a $35k salary,” which is conveys the same information without making it personal.

But I agree with you point that social media and online discussion can suppress the better angels of our nature and be mentally unhealthy.

I do not know that the answer is putting restrictions on social media companies by force of law. That seems like it would end up as a total disaster. I think a better approach would be to demolish the moray / expectations that social media ought to be “the public square” where few speech prevails - which is a platitude to justify sacrificing quality for scale and ad revenue. My experience (since the days of BBSs) has been that the tone of the board and quality of discussion has always been dictated by the sysop and their willingness to use the ban hammer. But that won’t get you massive reach and those sweet sweet ad dollars.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31740768
indicates a willingness and potentially eagerness to medicate, as opposed to attempting to correct issues. Ie just give the drugs, don’t try to figure out why they’re depressed.

This is speculating on the motivations of a wide class of people without data, and is complete nonsense.
Chewed and Rolled: How Cats Make the Most of Their Catnip High
It is not the only way to travel, but I can either take my car to work or spend twice as long + wait time for the bus.

It is something like a factor 1.5 to get to my parents and over 2 to my grandparents, much more if they can't pick me up and I have to walk the last 3 miles[0] from the bus stop. I don't know what the multiplier is to my brother, but it is likely to be quite high.

[0]: it can be done, it just takes quite some time.
>> makes finding anything an exercise in frustration

That's what I use Spotlight for. Years ago someone pointed that use of Spotlight out to me and I've been using it that way ever since. No longer have to pull up System Preferences and I can find any setting I need immediately.
FWIW, my career path went: sysadmin->systems architect->solutions architect at big tech->startup founder (SE, PM, mearketing, etc.)->product exec & head of SE->product stuff from then on

For me, the move was less about comp and more about being able to balance my enjoyment of designing systems with my comfort with speaking and evangelism. Once I was at a startup, it was more of a "do whatever needs doing" situation than a conscious choice - I had the experience and comfort with things like technical selling and customer success, so it made sense for me to do and manage those things.

The thing to keep in mind is that the SE career trajectory tends to veer off into one of a few different directions - one is to grow into a people management role of SE teams or orgs, which is great if you like dealing with process and people management, but you inevitably end up spending a lot less time doing sales engineering work. Another is to shift into more of a product marketing or product management role - can be a larger role, more impact, but the sales part of it fades away a lot. Another is to become more of an evangelist or thought leader type - sort of a "super SE", some companies describe these as "outbound product managers".

But I think sales engineer as a dedicated role is one that has a limit to its trajectory if you want to advance in scope and seniority, because it sits awkwardly at the intersection of a few different roles, and as a result requires managing your career more than the trajectory of someone in either sales or software engineering (or product management).
Is it enjoyable or are you just stuck inside a dopamine loop?
And reading the article, I see no link between sperm count and these chemicals.
This project wasn't meant to be a serious endeavor, so I made the most godawful-but-usable UX possible for fun.
GPT-3 Bloviator: OpenAI’s language generator has no idea what it’s talking about
U.S. Soccer is a joke : that goes for international and MLS. Top U.S. club is ranked 122 in the world : https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/soccer-predictions/glob... U.S. got beat by some central american club and did not qualify for world cup last time. MLS is a rigged league. Purported local "ownership" is a ruse. MLS management decides who wins championship. Real U.S. soccer fans follow top European leagues and UEAFA champions league.
There are good use cases for requiring the moved object to still be valid and accessible, such as when memory lifetimes are decoupled from object lifetimes. It enables some optimizations. The specific state depends on the design of the type and its use case.
We, who tread in the realm of computers where symbols have tangible weight, can probably appreciate the thinness of the wall between speech and action more than many.

https://daily.jstor.org/wittgenstein-whether-speech-violence...
I love how you call it 'holding pattern', that really hits home for me. Playing stupid dopamine games, keeping me in a loop...
Atrocious design and readability.
Of course I don't know that with 100% certainty, but because I have no evidence of any purpose and I assume that things aren't true until proven otherwise.

At best said purpose is optional or it would require equal opportunity to come upon the explanation from every person who has and who will be in existence. If said purpose is hidden without even a hint that you're supposed to find it I consider that malicious obfuscation.
The US has their "matter of national security" bs for that. The Occupy movement was repeatedly referred to as a terrorist thread by the FBI and DHS to justify the brutal crackdowns. And if that doesn't work to silence someone, just declare your victim insane and have them mangled by one psychiatrist after the other for the rest of their life. That even works pretty much everywhere. There's a thousand ways to achieve this that don't involve limiting freedom of speech. The cases you cited are pretty much the opposite of that. They were public trials for everyone to follow.

The whole "freedom of speech" story in the US is the most successful brain washing story on this planet. You hammer this into children's brains from young age on, to make sure it becomes the knee jerk reaction to everything that the government does to fuck you over. Having only two political parties with candidates from the elite, detached from reality. Political decisions don't get made on the basis of what's best for the people, just do the opposite of what the other party would do. Working two jobs at minimum wage to feed your family. No health insurance, if you get sick just chew pain killers all day and keep working. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. US Life expectancy on the decline for several years in a row. "At least I can complain about it, so everything is fine. Just imagine I'd live in a country where I couldn't insult and verbally abuse others!"
Not spending any time showing the effort to design the base was a huge missed opportunity. The show basically went from mentioning "the race for the base" in the beginning of one episode to showing a few seconds of it landing at the end of the episode with virtually no in-between.

Some of the best scenes in HBO's From Earth to the Moon were about how the engineers tackled designing the LM and expositing all sorts of things about the technical challenges. I still enjoy the show, but I really wish they catered to the space-nerd audience a little more by spending a little less time on interpersonal drama.
Ask HN: Are you allowed to use HN as a comment section for a blog?
I'm wondering hypothetically, if it's acceptable when I write an article to always create a related HN submission to gather comments.

Does this go against the rules of HN?
As the person in question, I understood your intent and I didn't downvote you. But it's also hard to see how (paraphrased:) "Parents of so-called ADHD kids are bad parents and their kids have a made-up disease" is not meant as a personal attack: "You are a bad parent and should feel bad."
Chemist pursues answers to why promising solar cell material quickly degrades
> Software development is some of the easiest, highest paid work in history

In US for sure. But there are many other places where you get a better balance between learning/working/salary in other jobs.

Not to mention the notoriously higher rate of burnout in the industry, even in the US.

The people in this threads making huge overgeneralizations might be indeed overpaid.
I’ll note that I quite like the settings app in Windows 11. Far better than any previous windows iteration. Everything I’ve need since I got my PC a year ago is in there, it looks good, it’s searchable, and I haven’t needed to open control panel a single time.
Buy catalytic converters for them? Buy them for ourselves first - park a Prius in any big city overnight and you’ll observe the scarcity first hand.
Software engineering estimates are garbage
ah right, leetcode interviews are a woke/politically correct practice promulgated by fake talented FAANG engineers to keep out the real salt of the earth SWEs who know how to do real work.

it's fascinating how these playbooks can recycle themselves in any number of scenarios. yes, conditioning on being an engineer at FAANG you are much more likely to get a better engineer, I'm not going to apologize for saying the truth.

e: not going to keep replying, I seem to recall getting in previous fruitless arguments with you when you suggested banning renting was the way out of California's housing crisis.
Endocrine-disrupting chemical exposure in womb impact fear, anxiety behavior
Correct: I was complaining about the rules that prevent streaming and force you to watch the game on live TV. Has nothing to do with ticket sales.
"The same thing can happen in technology companies that get monopolies."

"The people that can make the company more successful are sales and marketing people, and they end up running the companies. And the product people get driven out of the decision making forums, and the companies forget what it means to make great products. The product sensibility and the product genius that brought them to that monopolistic position gets rotted out."

https://youtu.be/P4VBqTViEx4
Ignoring your last sentence, I agree with this.

I learnt cubing and have been enjoying it as a break from tech/screens!
I want people in positions of power to be bland and boring, thank you very much.

This whole thing of appealing to popularity amongst a particular subset of the population by being "unorthodox", "refreshingly sincere" and "blunt" is really just a ruse to amass a little bit of unchecked power.
You're not supposed to configure routing or dns for your operating system anymore, apps don't like it when you do that. Thus the rise of DoH and:
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/jetiok/apples_apps_b...
I doubt lawmakers are that naive. They are perfectly aware of the abuse potential of such laws but went ahead anyways.
It's not even that they get bored, it's that they're comfortable with their tools and don't feel like doing the mandatory re-tool every 5 years.
Coinbase CEO says it is laying off 18% of its workers
Yeah, you can have a marketing budget. No one said you couldn't. But the kind of growth Coinbase was going for was far beyond the scope of just "customer acquisition".
IIRC it is a crime to defame someone in Japan, even if what you say is completely true. I.e. you could get in trouble with the law if you expose a lying CEO because the act of doing so defamed him, which is a crime.

So clearly Japan values different things than America.
"Hertzbleed": New vuln in Intel and AMD CPUs lets hackers steal encryption keys
Have a demerit in return for not realizing that if I am sitting here browsing HN, I am already being super lazy and maybe don't care enough about this article to bother looking further than the first two paywall bypass methods that come to mind
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