skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> pick an internet or engineering standard: implement the standard in a correct, technical way (Embrace); add MSFT proprietary extensions using an IDE, a method of notification, graphical desktop software with convenience functions, etc (Extend);

You're sort of glossing over how this works in practice.

The extensions to the open standard generally cause interoperability to be one way: the Microsoft implementation can interoperate freely with the open implementation(s), but the reverse isn't necessarily true (or if true at the outset, isn't guaranteed to remain so). There is often also a way to use or operate the MS implementation in a fully compatible mode, but it isn't the default configuration (and an update will often revert to the default), and requires forgoing the functionality that the extensions provide.

There is a bit of "boiling the frog" aspect to this, with incompatibilities (usually experienced by those using a non-MS implementation without the extensions) that start as annoyances gradually escalating, and at all times switching to the MS implementation is an easy (and, as long as their market share isn't dominant, affordable) option to make the headache go away.
Duo's E2EE is a pretty solid technical/organizational achievement. It is very inconvenient at times, not only being more complicated but also preventing server transcoding and corporate recording.

Not sure a new app made today would even have E2EE as an option.
>It's never difficult for a woman to get laid vs man.

True and that's an evolutionary trait. Women evolved to find someone help them bring healthy offspring with good genes and help them care for their offspring while men evolved to spread their DNA as much as they can.

The goal is the same in the end, to have successfully spread their DNA, the strategies are different because the biology is different for each of the two sexes.
I can't wait to get the CLAP.... for my setup.
méxico city for sure.
>It’s not natural because if you go to a bar or other in person event, the dynamics are much less gender-skewed.

Many bars are in fact men clubs where men go to discuss stuff with each other. AT least, here, in Europe.

Also, in my country, I am not aware of "dating bars". Sure there are many bars full of both sexes, sometimes people begin relations or have sex with persons they've met at the bar, but that is not very common because people don't go to a bar with the expectation to have sex or begin a relation, instead they go to a bar to have some time with their friends.

Dancing clubs are a bit different, for people between 18 and 30 as some people go there with the expectation to find sex or a relation.

I am not sure how things are in US.
> Even during draught, the university did periodically filled water in to keep them alive.

According to the article the lake is now gone.

> That biome upstream got restored between original closing is super cool, but does not negate anything.

If that meant the lake was no longer needed for the salamanders, surely the university should have turned it back over to students at that point.

> Also, students are not 2 years old. Overwhelming majority of them is able to process the above without having emotional meltdown over sandpit.

> This is quite massive logical leap from "university is entitled to close lake or part of campus despite single fraternity having made sand hill years ago". Students wont and did not had any lasting trauma from not having lake accessible.

> This is in no way contradictory with single fraternity loosing their sand hill or artificial lake not being available to students in general.

Of course one isolated incident means nothing on a larger scale. But the article is clearly making the claim (and supports it with examples) that this is representative of a broader pattern of the university taking away unstructured student-run fun, banning distinctive student communities, and turning those spaces over admin-run systems that are less effective. And it points to things that suggest this pattern has ultimately been quite harmful: feelings of isolation among the current student body, and ultimately elevated suicide rates.

Now I'd be the first to argue for more quantitative journalism in general, but using a single example to express a narrative is what virtually any article does; frankly this one is better than most in terms of putting it in a context.

You've made your scorn for anyone who disagrees with you quite clear, but are you actually claiming something substantive? E.g. that the case the article is presenting is unrepresentative? (e.g. can you point to other cases where the university is changing in the opposite direction, into more unstructured fun and student-organized social structures?) Or that the broader pattern exists but does not have the downsides the article thinks it does?
What would need to change?
Why would you do a posix compat awk? I loved awk, but it needs to be updated adn refined into a better language instead of just recreating the old one.
One way to do it is you OCR the text and then print the text on top in a transparent font.
David Brin uses this in one of his books, playing a bit with some of the same kinds of ideas that gave us the Dark Forest theory as an explanation for the Fermi Paradox: intelligent species are out there, but nobody wants to be spotted because they’ll be killed preemptively.
Generally, stock options are granted before the company is liquid (aka pre-IPO) and you pay $X with the hope that they're worth more and liquid someday. As you hit vesting dates, you can purchase more of them up to your total grant. (There's also stuff around early exercise, don't worry about that.)

RSUs are just shares you don't own yet. When you hit your vesting dates, you don't have to DO anything, they just become yours. You don't have to pay anything to execute and often the company will sell some for you to pay the taxes on them.

I wouldn't say one is definitively better.. there are tradeoffs:

RSUs can be better because you don't have to spend money to get them and they're liquid immediately (or at least soon).

Stock options can be better because your pre-IPO price may be better than the public price but you have no guarantee they'll ever be liquid.
Many philosophies, even organized religions, can serve as a guide. If one is looking for a guide, that step of looking already reveals a desire to not just default to either a random walk or wherever you're taken by others; it's that desire more than any particular guide that will serve (or ruin) the individual most. But still, there are lots of alternative guides out there, and many empirically seem at least somewhat useful in various contexts for various people. For some like stoicism I think it's the coherence, or at least the attempt at making a harmonious gestalt of the pieces covering a large context, that makes them feel powerful and useful and not just a series of shallow and disjointed and contradictory thoughts like can be expected of the default civil existence with one trying to figure things out from the environment alone.

Christian tradition can serve even, but it requires quite a bit of study I think to approach seeming coherence, simply passively "being raised in it" isn't enough. Meanwhile things like stoicism, or one of my favorites taoism (see the short Tao Te Ching), can be grasped in a very short period of time, which is all the more attractive. Even if one ultimately doesn't get anything from them or explicitly rejects them, it doesn't take too long to evaluate them and figure that out, and then you'll at least have been exposed to something coherent and helpfully be armed against loving future systems you encounter too much on account of their seeming coherence no longer being novel. That happens I think to a lot of Objectivists for whom Atlas Shrugged (specifically its long philosophical monologues) was their first exposure. But it could also happen to someone reading Walden or the related essays of the time that form an interconnected worldview -- less likely on that one though since amusingly the modern education system's common practice of making snippets of those a bit of "required reading" and then analyzed as just literature or poetry is an amazing defense mechanism against anyone casually coming across them, reading them all, and extracting and applying some of their philosophical points.
It's not a competition for who has more trauma, but I generally agree. If you look at my other posts in this thread, I am generally trying to explain what you said well here.
But an iPad can replace a hundred toys in terms of the amount of variety in entertainment. Just like it can replace thousands of CDs and books. If we're talking wastefulness I think it comes out ahead.
>Don’t think that’s true. If the median man and woman went to the bar for the purpose of having sex that night the woman would be way more successful.

The men would be more successful, too if they would care less about the sex or gender of their sex partner. I heard gay bars have a very high rate of success.
Rarely Seen Paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien (smithsonianmag.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31757452

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No. I was involved in interviewing a couple hundred people for a bunch of Sysadmin roles. I'd say 98% of the applicants were male. When a woman applied she would generally get an offer if there was even a chance she'd be decent, just in an attempt to not have the staff be 100% male.

If we were to rank a candidate on a scale from 1 to 10, 10 being the most qualified person that exceeds anything we could have asked for in the job posting, and 1 being someone who can't figure out a mouse.... a 5/10 female applicant would win out over an 8/10 male applicant. If anything the bar is lower and it's easier for them to get in. And if I'm being perfectly honest, our bar wasn't that high to start with for these positions, many of the positions were entry level.

I can only remember maybe 4 or 5 who interviewed. Out of those 3 got offers. One of those 3 failed to show up her first day, because she was just using the job to leverage a raise from her current employer and didn't bother to tell us until after we called after she didn't show up. So it was 2 women on a team with about 20-30 guys. We tried and that's the best we could do.

The issue isn't males systematically excluding anyone, it's a lack of applicants.
Taliban technicals were failures when engaging NATO forces with air support. Larger tactical aircraft can remain at medium altitude (out of MANPAD range) and smash anything that moves with precision munitions.
Here's another way Democrats avoid confronting the problem: Claim powerlessness. 'Powerless' really attracts voters too!
If you bring less than 400k to the table — you’re overpaid. Else — otherwise.

This is why same skill level people get different salaries in different companies.

Yes, some companies overpay hoping for rapid growth. Others - underpay, accounting for risks or just because they can (like in Europe).

It’s obvious. As obvious as overfunded startups with worthless business models out there.

But without an army of unknown musicians there would never be Mozart.
“Airplanes are already fart tubes”
I.e., you cannot identify any single stage of any of these extremely familiar industrial processes that would make it unsuitable for energy storage or retrieval, so instead invoke ghosts of fear and doubt.

Do you imagine the ammonia knows why it is being synthesized, and would balk at being synthesized and tanked for energy storage or fuel? Do you imagine it will object to being burnt in a combined-cycle turbine?

Your credibility is at zero.
It's precisely the point for ALL primary energy sources.

everything is built with the current fossil fuel powered industry. cement, steel, uranium mining and enrichment all is subsidized by the fossil fuel doped industry. Same with wind and solar.

The fact that nuclear power costs more than fossil fuel power is really a reflection that its whole supply chain is consuming more fossil fuel energy than its producing. it is not the magical bullet you think it is.

furthermore, as certain installations of solar and wind are actually producing power cheaper than fossil fuels, its contributing to a trajectory where the % fossil fuels in industry can actually diminish.
> Security? I'm not a security guy, but Cloudflare seems to have pretty good security.

Didn't they have one of the most spectacular private-data-leaking vulnerabilities of all time not so long ago? And for the dumbest possible reason (connecting C code to the internet) too.
If you were an infection that wanted to survive and spread as far as possible, you wouldn't want to kill your host at all.

In fact, if your host lives for as long as possible without suffering any negative effects from your freeloading, is preferred by mates and most loved by peers, etc., that's when you spread the furthest.

Seeing it as a nefarious plot to kill as many as possible (by prolonging incubation periods, etc.) is humans thinking in terms of how their species behaved in the past. In fact there is only maladjustment.
But EU wants to have backdoors for encryption or remove encryption completely.
Links and tweets, 2022-06-13
Middle-class folks are taxed at 20-35%, so it literally works all the time for everyone else. Inequality continues to rise and wealth continues to concentrate. This is because taxes that used to work and be in place for the rich are no longer there. The wealthy used to pay much more tax.

Are you seriously okay with the ultra rich living by completely different rules than everyone else? I think it's probably underestimated how much they get away with not paying.
You have no idea what "extreme left" means.

And the "allsides" chart with Jacobin lumped in with the NYT and MSNBC is hilariously bad.

Allsides itself was formed by a former Republican which is where its bias lies.
I was involved in bitcoin in early 2010, so by the time MtGox got hacked, I had already well over a year experience with it, aka the 'honeymoon period' was over.

So at that point (Summer 2011), I took a long hard look into the mirror, discussed this with friends, both on- and offline, and everyone was struggling to find real use cases that didn't involve crime. When then, later in 2011, Litecoin and the other alts came on the scene, without any real difference, I left the crypto scene.

Now, over 10 years later, the number of real life use cases not involving crime is still scarce. That's a bit embarrassing, if you ask me.

(Edit: small correction)
Which watches are plummeting? I've had my eye on a couple of specifics for a while and they're still as expensive as ever.
is this a serious project or just a demonstration of the language's capabilities? If serious, would be nice to see some Plan 9 type stuff if on roadmap
Interview with one of the creators:

https://thetech.com/2022/04/28/mit-regressions-documentary

Behind the scenes of ‘MIT: Regressions (a history of the Institute)'

By Srinidhi Narayanan

Apr. 28, 2022

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An interesting excerpt from the article, emphases mine:

Interviewer: When did you start putting up the “Who is MIT” posters to advertise? Did you intend for them to be linked to the event?

Igel: We wanted to have a teaser one month before the premiere, so around April 1. The posters were Wesley’s idea. And I was scared at first because I was like “this makes our movie look way more combative, way more controversial than it is,” but we did it anyway.
Thank you. It was an enjoyable read. In 39 years, I can't wait to get my hands on the Multivac.
The Swift Language Workgroup
What is SEM? What does doing SEM all day entail?
> 8 hours with the legroom common in Ryanair or Spirit

At this point I’d rather just stand like in a bus
Computer Science PhD candidate quits to join Google.

https://computing.louisiana.edu/meet-blake-lemoine-computer-...
> Private companies work by firing their least profitable customers

Are there any co-op or non-profit health insurance companies available to join?

In New Zealand the single biggest health insurer is a non-profit society, Southern Cross Health Insurance[1]. Unimed[2] is #4 and it specialises in company plans even though it is also not-for-profit.

They are both very cheap compared to US plans, in part because they only need to add elective or improved cover on top of the government public health system (which is mostly free to use, but outcomes can be good or bad depending on the specific medical issue). Government healthcare doesn’t have quite the same perverse incentives for chronic healthcare, however it still has cost limitations so it isn’t perfect.

[1] https://www.southerncross.co.nz/society

[2] https://unimed.co.nz/about-unimed/
Giant 'Sky Eye' telescope may have picked up alien signals, researchers say
The viable, reliable and _scalable_ clean energy sources are yet to be discovered/developed.

Despite the loud voices of some uneducated politicians — the specific energy capacity of known green sources is by magnitudes worse than traditional ones.
I really like how the author ended the piece. We ought to do something when our homes invaded, grief when a loved one passes away. Although, showing no emotions might indicate signs of inner strength, it may make us less human. However, I don’t agree that stoicism is totally pernicious.

I like stoicism as it made my life a little more bearable. I can take the good, and ditch the useless, though.
This is a bad take. If you truly value options at $0 then you’re often getting a garbage deal wherever you go. If you’re only negotiating over salary - you’re screwing yourself.

Options is how you actually make money at startups. The salary is only enough to make sure you can afford to exercise your options regularly and not starve to death in an extremely HCOL area.

If you value options at $0 - just join FAANG and never join a startup.
That first article sure is funny. 10% to the first 10 employees... my current employer gave me roughly 0.001% in stock options and I'm employee #5.
Colouring Noise – Generating Noise with a Specific Power Spectral Density
Tolkien's essay On Fairy-stories describes specific theory and concept about the role in life of fantasy fiction, myth, etc., which includes positive aspects and makes sense of the painting aesthetic.
I don't think VC money is "smart money", it's just not designated for investment in public markets. The "expertise" of a VC is in private growth equity, not liquid public stocks.
Well crypto allows for trustless digital transfers. Like selling a house halfway across the world, without having to fly over to hand off the keys.
If the US is not a "credible security partner" then what the media thinks about a Ukrainian surrender is utterly irrelevant. Even if is is a credible security partner, the same is true.

It's...I don't know what to call it except intriguing, the way you flip from a picture of the US as a totalitarian monolith with tentacles controlling everything, to the US as an utterly impotent former empire in shambles, unable to even be a "partner", within two sentences.

It's kind of an echo of the way Russia has been portrayed in the last few years.
A Guide to Microservices Architecture
>Why would anyone continue putting in the hours a week for something that led to 0-4 matches a week?

Because, in my experience, I can convert half of those matches in dates. And some of the dates I can convert in other things like relations or sex.
Yeah we could shoot a black hole at the right mass (this is tunable) so that it evaporates on the target.

There's some other approaches too:

- Move a larger black hole into the target planet (this would require so much energy that other approaches would be better).

- Send a device to the target planet that generates a black hole massive enough to live long enough to oscillate through the planet back and forth, consuming the planet from the inside. It would take 600 quadrillion metric tonnes of mass to form a black hole 1 nanometer across, so this could be difficult to start.

- Create a black hole to power a ship's thrusters (Kugleblitz drive) to smash into a target at speeds approaching the speed of light.
- RSUs are taxable at vest, and if the shares aren't liquid, offloading enough of them to pay taxes is a huge headache (sometimes the company will help buy some back, but it's also a headache for a startup to do this, so they often don't)

- Stock options are "cheaper" for a startup to give out than RSUs, so you get more shares, ie your equity is higher-leverage. So if things go well, you end up with much much more money than had you gotten RSUs (and yes obviously if things go terribly, you get nothing).
I remember that report, it was a very confusing press article.

They used a tabletop device to make a "simulation" of a Higgs boson inside a semiconductor. It was not a new elementary particle like an electron or a photon.

Is solid state physics they don't call those thing a "simulation", they call a quasiparticle. They are not a single entity, but they behave almost like a single entity, so if yu are working in the are it's easier to make the calculation as if they are a single entity.

Moreover, most of the time they just call the particles, but everyone in the area and physicist in other areas understand that they are talking about quasiparticles. The problem is when the new reach the press and that implicit understanding is lost.
What if you want a job that isn't defi/crypto silliness?
Imagine how much GHG emissions they could reduce if authorities let them innovate on pods or bunk beds.

Heck just give me bean bag or even a yoga mat and I’ll be happy.
But conversely, no serious debate about nuclear would include new nuclear within 20 years. There's no way that nuclear can scale and contribute in any meaningful way before then.
Trivia: The word mithril didn't exist in the original edition of the Hobbit, and was added after LOTR was published.

> hence ... Bilbo himself apologizing for "a different version of the story"

I thought that showed the Ring's effect on Bilbo, something Gandalf talked about too, and which is important to LOTR.
He's referring to if he (or the hypothetical you) moved to the country.
A better tool is imba.io/
Compatibility: so it can run all the existing AWK scripts without modification, and people can refer to existing AWK documentation when writing scripts, and they'll just work under GoAWK.

For a 45-year old language, it's actually surprisingly good. There are a few annoyances and clumsy things (getting substrings is a function call without nice str[start:end] syntax, regex matches are harder than they need to be, string concatenation syntax is weird, arrays aren't nestable (except in Gawk), and so on).

I've actually thought it'd be great to "fix" these things and make a nicer AWK language, but the problem is then no one would use it. :-)
I migrated a static site and a few apis off heroku onto render.com a few months ago and the experience has been really great. Fills the niche of Heroku perfectly for my use cases.