skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Move past small talk. Find out what the other person wants to talk about. Talk about that. Don't know anything about it? Ask some questions. That way the other person carries most of the burden of the conversation. They won't notice whether you're awkward or shy (or won't care if they do notice).

How do you find out what the other person wants to talk about? Listen. Look (their tee shirt will often tell you).

Or, if you're in a class with the person and you both actually care about the class, talk about the class. Talk about the homework. "I'm stuck on #8. Did you get anywhere on it?" will open some conversational doors.
> This one might raise eyebrows, but I consider Hare’s lack of a package manager to be an important security feature

Hare looks really interesting to me, and I want to give it a try, but this is frustrating.

Whatever the author's intentions are, if there is no built-in package manager, 3rd party package managers will pop up as soon as Hare catches on. All the problems he mentions will arise in those, and any development effort to tackle those problems will be split across multiple competing package managers.
Yep, to the extent the content was hard to discern. I am unclear what point the article is even trying to make.

The second paragraph was eye-watering:

> Say what you want about old people but they've merited the historical "Baby Boom" through sheer sexual prowess

The "Baby Boomers" were the product of the baby boom, not the instigators of it. The ones having the baby boom sex were their parents, the "Greatest Generation", who are now almost all dead.

> Now generations have to be named after backside alphabet letters cause everyone is focusing on their careers.

I assume this is a reference to "Generation Alpha". In what sense is Greek a "backside alphabet"? More confusingly, are they claiming a lack of sex has something to do with running out of Roman alphabet characters? I'm pretty sure no amount of procreation will make more letters.
No that happens here (US) too. That’s what I was referring to when I said it “matches the icons on the iron itself” but it’s not a very clear sentence.
The tags aren't that hard to remember, either. Do not bleach is the only one that you have to think, oh right the triangle is a bottle of bleach. The circle in a square is describing spin cycle. The circle with no square is describing drying without heat. The iron is describing an iron. The dots always represent the three levels of heat, just like on your iron.

I remember this in spite of not having done laundry in 5 years. And you're exactly right. New symbols mean little to me, I would still need to look them up and then there would be twice as many bad symbols.

This redesign article is an example of why you should avoid UI/UX people who can only design. They'll change your branding everytime they get bored and create more headache than they solve.
Wonder if this is related to the lack of personal relationships in general, especially friendships. There is an epidemic of loneliness in the world. So many ways to communicate and all we can do is post memes and upvote influencers.

I am happily married but have zero friends. I met my wife through my friend group in college. If I heaven forbid got a divorce tomorrow, not sure where I would meet someone new. Guess I would have to try online dating. Would things get strange if I hit it off with someone and she asked to meet my friends and I said I have none?

Humanity is going through a very real loss of social interaction and replacing it with doom scrolling, porn and endless streaming options. I think social media is one aspect of this but specifically pay per click advertising is the root and is also the driver of our political division. It has become so adept at capturing our attention we have abandoned living.

Edit:
Remote work absolutely compounds this and while it makes it easier to manage personal chores and family it absolutely removes all social interaction and the daily experience of just having a normal in person conversation. Working remotely my coworkers are just names on a zoom call in a 30 minute standup. Have created mental blocks now where I wonder how I could handle the kids and chores while working in an office but millions of people do it every day.
Minority Report at 20: Cruise and Spielberg test their limits in thriller
tl;dr: Another BGP outage due to bad config changes.

Here's a somewhat old (2016) but very impressive system at a major ISP for avoiding exactly this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_vCdGkGeSk
But now you know the other 60% of people still liking you are probably looking for a relationship.
I don't play video games, and I don't binge watch series, but why would this exlude women/gender-non-binary? They can and do enjoy both. And they could enjoy both with someone else. After all, what is the meaning of "Netflix and Chill"? I know many women who wish to do the same with another person, and that person need not look like Brad Pitt, et al.

Perhaps I am reading too deep, but you make it sound like someone needs to make some great effort to meet someone else. No, just a slight hiccup in their daily routine can introduce them to another person whom has very similar, low energy interests. Think: Buzzfeed dating videos from 5 years ago.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzDFKJHczQ8
If you like college good for you. But the first two years are bullshit. The last two, you should be able to learn them on the job for many career tracks and test them out.

Articulate for me exactly why biology, chemistry, philosophy,etc... are neccesary for a Compsci or IT degree? Because the british said so many centuries ago is not a good reason. Neither is "what about the profits of colleges".

We put up with 12 years of random but generally useful things forced on us. Once we decide a career as adults, information not directly useful to the job we will be working should be optional.

Not to mention the financial burden and lost time in a person's prime years
How'd you come up with the name? Does it stand for something?
> “But information collected since the lockdowns ended and the roads filled back up suggests that risky driving has become the new normal.”

Since lockdowns coincided with the beginning of the pandemic, and since the risky driving continued after the lockdowns ended, I'm not seeing any evidence to suggest that the lockdowns are to blame.
I disagree with that. Sure, wrong documentation can mislead and confuse, but it can also be very helpful.

Lying comments have often helped me because it's often useful to know that a particular person at a particular point in time believed something to be true, even if it isn't true any more and even if it were never true. In a pile of spaghetti code, a good lying comment can point to the needle in the haystack where the root cause of a bug is hiding.
> the bleach one being the most obvious

It’s really not. It looks like an Erlenmeyer flask, which could contain anything (“use detergent”? “Use additives”? There are lots of things that come up in bottles in my laundry room).

I found the ones about drying to be better, probably because the original ones were way too abstract.

> If I don't know what a line under the washing machine means, how am I supposed to know what the 2nd button means.

Exactly! I don’t know what pushing the 2nd button on my washing machine does, either. Hell, my washing machine does not have anything that looks like the buttons of the symbols. And good luck trying to guess which one of the three buttons is filled after 5 washes, when the presence of one or two lines will still be clear.
Wonderfully written and explained.

Kudos!
You give good advice but I was commenting on the well documented asymmetry and inequality in outcomes that cut across gender lines which are likely magnified by these dating apps. It's not bitterness to point out objective facts that are highly relevant to the topic of conversation. "Improve yourself" is always the healthiest mindset on a personal level but that's not exactly deep analysis on the impact that these apps are having on our society or the lives of lower ranked men.
So many laundry tags have OTT requirements. I have hoodies that claim dry clean only, but of course come out completely fine in the machine. Lots of bras say hand wash only but we've never had any issues with them in the machine either.

Generally, we just ignore the labels and put all the clothes in a colour separated wash on the 30c daily eco cycle. If the clothes get damaged - which is rare in a modern non-agitator washing machine - we just don't buy that type of fabric/garment any more. It does reduce the clothing options a little bit, for example, no silk, but it's worth the improved quality of life. Laundry Darwinism.

There are a few types of necessary item we do get dry cleaned, such as expensive suits and ball gowns, but at least for us those are rare use.

The other thing that has improved our life a lot is only buying non-iron clothing.
I use it frequently.
Could nuclear desalination plants beat water scarcity?
Does anyone here have the opposite problem -- porn desensitization?

I found 4Chan when I was maybe 11 or so and grew up on /b/ where I saw all manner of horrific deaths and shock porn.

Nowadays I don't really find the idea of porn interesting because I've seen so much of it.
The climate and the brain are both common examples of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system

It's amazing the confidence people have
X Window System Turns 38 Years Old
I still have my setup in case friends want to play multiplayer games that are sadly behind anti-cheat. Was a bit annoying to set up but otherwise a fun exercise and good bragging rights.

I use Linux as my main operating system now, the only drawback is that there's no audio when I stream through discord.
Businesses aren’t willing to pay, and thus they don’t exist.
As long as the US remains a desirable destination for immigrants this won't be a catastrophic problem.
Thanks for posting this! If anyone has questions you can ask here and I'll answer or our community Discord listed in the article is a good place to start.
UEFI is just huge. As long as there is a standard for UEFI Interfaces you can only use a small subset of the API and avoid everything else.

Basically you use minimal UEFI and then just jump into Linuxboot and implement everything else there.
That sounds like a textbook use case for containers instead: different filesystem, same everything else.
Where are these jobs where you can write things from scratch? I do that on the weekends for free to recover from all the "jiggle" tickets I get in Jira.

My impression is that a trend started in the 90s which has taken over the industry where programmers that are capable of building things from scratch and keeping everything in their heads are much less valuable compared to those who are "weaker" but much more capable of communicating and cooperating.
WASM-4 core added for RetroArch Steam
The OP isn't an attack. That's the victim complex I'm talking about. It's a standard experience report.
> Another way to consider this is that people find it easier to divert themselves than to exert themselves only to be dissappointed.

This is an exceptionally succinct description of the problem, thank you. A societal shift from exertion to diversion. Creation to consumption. Scary stuff.

> the illusions of Bernaysian manipulation [2] certainly can

What do you mean here, in reference to Bernays? For context, I’m familiar with his work and legacy — the documentary ‘The Century of the Self’[1] is still perhaps the most important piece of media I’ve ever consumed.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s
Apple may finally be adding AV1 codec support to multiple products
Yes, typically 30, 40, 50, 60 and 90.
...this is questionable advice that goes against the interest of programmers having stuff to do - we're not segmented into audiences.

We want multi-level docs combined/spliced/interwoven together so we can get our work done without wasting gandalfing the docs.

> While redesigning the Cloudflare developer docs

...oh, so this is the reason for CF's docs totally uncomprehensible and confusing mess. They've made getting to anythin so comfusing that AWS seems a breath of fresh air in comparison.

I dunno, maybe other peoples' brains are wired totally different than mine, but boy, these new fever of "writing better docs" seems to produce the exact opposite effects whenever applied.

The few enojoyable docs nowadays seem to be written by old-school unixy geeks and/or people that are not programmers or worse, "documentation developers": physicists, mathematicians, biologists, quants, data analysts etc. seem to do a nice job when they have the time.
This is the important bit:

> I believe that AI systems can, in principle, be “conscious”/“sentient”/“self-aware”/moral agents/moral patients—if only because I have not seen any compelling arguments that they cannot. Those arguments would require an understanding of the nature of our own consciousness that we simply don’t have.

There are too many philosophers who are insanely over-confident that their wooly evidence-free idea of consciousness is the right one, simply because other philosophers have written a lot about it.

Nobody knows what consciousness is exactly so people proclaiming that this AI can't be conscious are wrong. I don't think it is conscious yet. But that's a different matter.
Jitsi and BigBlueButton are better.
> Also choose a statically typed language, so that your function signatures will give you a useful contract to work with, and it will mostly be pretty easy to trace the intent of your code.

Furthering this, avoid:

- "Stringly typed programming": where everything has a static type, but they're all `String` (or `Int`, `Float`, etc. instead of something with domain meaning). This gives very little information to the reader, and makes it easy to mix-up values.

- "Boolean blindness": where we query a bunch of booleans to determine what data we can extract, e.g.

Result::hasUserId : Boolean Whether this result contains a UserId
Result::getUserId : UserId Returns a UserID if hasUserId; otherwise error

log("Request came from " + myResult.hasUserId? myResult.getUserId : "anonymous guest")

Compare this to e.g.

Result::getUserId : Option[UserId]

log("Request came from " + myResult.getUserId.orElse("anonymous guest"))
> Again I really wish more data was collected on this

You obviously know the answer to your question since I repeatedly stressed my lack of data and how it was anecdotal.

We don't have any data either supporting or debunking that claim, I only am repeating what I've seen play out hundreds of time in various digital spaces. Some phenomena just haven't been studied in good enough detail to have hard data in either direction. A lack of data for an assertion doesn't disprove that assertion, it just makes it temporarily unprovable.

I'm sure the majority of men in healthy relationship prefer sex with their partner to porn. I'm also sure there are a non-trivial amount who do prefer porn.
Maybe you should start with "why" you want to learn a new language?

Job? I'd say Go

Command line tools with complex logic for fun and community support? Rust

Julia? Julia.
The absolute train wreck coming to the technology industry through unbiased math is going to be both hilarious and sad to see in the coming years.

The harsh reality is that equality-of-outcome between different groups is impossible (short of a Harrison Bergeron type of scenario) and an unbiased algorithm uses pattern recognition to see that.

If you use ML to do anything like decide loans, educational selection, jobs, anything to do with crime, etc, you're going to have one group or another do better than one group or the other.

ML will either have to produce politically incorrect results, will have to be intentionally weighted to favor certain groups, or will have to be banned.

See this for example. Even Amazon couldn't get the desired outcome.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automatio...
The harsh reality is that around 30% of men are completely unfuckable. They only got action because women needed to be married because they couldn’t support themselves. Ugly men have 0 value in the dating market beyond money.
It’s a valid counterpoint. I myself started a small company (competing against giants) and the only way I was able to do it was with the foreknowledge that I could use Facebook advertising to target my audience. Any other mechanism to reach them would have been far too expensive.

In the end it was a win-win for myself and the customers, and I don’t feel like anyones privacy was exploited.
Bitcoin is a terrible foundation to build transaction processing on, since it is extraordinarily slow - it would fail to handle the needs of even a small village.

The "solution" of slapping something like LN on top of it is "let's completely forgo all of Bitcoin's guarantees and build something else; while still being hurt by Bitcoin's cripplingly slow speed when creating our network".

Also, the incentive structures being discussed are only meaningful as long as the miners believe that Bitcoin will keep increasing in value. If it looks like BTC is dying, they have every reason to try to squeeze the last few drops of value from it by running an attack on it and running away with what real money they can extract.
>go out and talk to people

This thesis is sound.

>Get inspiration/courage from watching lots and lots of YouTube videos from people who do nice approaches. I personally liked ThatWasEpic a lot. See for example https://youtu.be/cj9tvIFcUeU.

This is just weird, though.
If you'll forgive me creeping around in your comment history, it looks like you work with PHP? I don't know Julia, but between the other two I suggest you should learn Rust.

Don't get me wrong: Go is a really good language, and eminently practical (and I am ATM working on getting productive with it myself) , but it doesn't have anything particularly novel to teach you, and part of what makes it good is that it's really easy to pick up, so it's something that you can just learn on the fly if you need to.

Inversely, Rust requires a fair bit more ramp up time if you ever need to use it in anger, and there's a lot of fairly novel stuff to learn there that is generally useful, so you'd benefit more from learning Rust as a project.
Years ago my Dad wanted to try online dating and I strongly discouraged it.

"Dad, you're old (in his 60s), and short (5'5")"

You're going to be filtered out of everyone's automated search.

But my Dad is funny and can talk to anyone. I kept telling him, OkCupid isn't your scene! Meetup.com is!

Unfortunately, he didn't listen to me
> The current system in the US was not created as a program to efficiently educate a modern workforce to maintain a modern economy , so it fails miserably

By what metric is it failing? Why do you think it wasn’t created to educate the workforce? What is your emphasis on “modern” referring to? You clearly have strong feelings about this, and I’m curious why, but your comment doesn’t clearly communicate why you feel this way, nor give much evidence to back up the belief that education is broken and that fixing it is easy. Where is the evidence that education could be more efficient? What does more efficient mean? Are you talking about financial cost, or time & effort spent learning, or something else? If it’s “easily replicated” more efficiently then why hasn’t it already happened?
Confirmed by non-NY Post sources, e.g. https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/elon-musks-44-bi...
May be of interest to anyone reading this comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexuality
You are right. The host on Qubes OS (dom0) has no networking and never runs any software by default. Also, hardware virtualization which Qubes uses last time was broken in 2006 by its founder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pill_(software).
Perhaps the symbols should simply be printed on the detergent packaging together with an explanation.
Have you cleaned the ball and the bearings recently? I need to clean a Logitech M570 about every 2-3 weeks.
This looks so good... I've been always using Node, Deno or .NET Core for backend infrastructure, but Avo makes me wanna learn Ruby and RoR and make the jump for client-related work. Congrats!
I had a long conversation with a coworker the other day. He has a 20 year old, and he's allowing this son to stay at home, but is charging rent and forcing him to start paying for more and more things.
Oh god. please not.
It should be easier to keep comments in code multiple work on up to date, since there would be code review that lets everyone keep each other honest.
React Enterprise Patterns-Inversion of Control and JSX Injection via Context API
Cloudflare explains how it managed to break the internet
Are you familiar with MapLibre? It’s a great project. It’s an open-source fork of Mapbox GL. I’ve only used the JS variant myself but there’s definitely a native one as well.
Anyone making an argument against the value of philosophy usually fails because they don't have the analytical/argumentative toolkit to construct a good argument. Precisely because they didn't study philosophy. And if they had, they probably wouldn't be making the argument in the first place.
Artistic Radiance Fields
I'd say Jitsi, though I'm not sure how it handles 1000 people.
Bleach and vinegar are both acidic, it's acids and bases (like ammonia. Main ingredient in Windex) that should not be mixed due to the potentially toxic gases they will produce.
Great stuff! Consider having a game jam on itch.io to attract some users

I can't help but plug my own 3D version: https://turtlespaces.org
> [The “!” operator] is similar to Rust's `.unwrap()` but even more invisible.

I had this thought too when reading Hare examples. When looking at a line like this:

fmt::println("Hello World!")!;

I notice that the punctuation at the end of the function call blends together, and the error assertion operator is easy to miss. I prefer Zig's convention of requiring the 'catch' keyword anytime a function call can raise an error.

An example from Zig's documentation:

const number = parseU64("1234", 10) catch unreachable;

This error assertion stands out (especially with syntax highlighting).
They are actually listed on the page, ctrl-F for them. They're listed under "mixed index".
Was it the British that said so? AFAIK most British undergraduate courses don't have general education requirements
Your feedback button conflicts with your top button. I'm confused about why there's a top button (much like cookie banners, this feels like something to be implemented by the browser, not the page), so removing that might be the fix.
How Bad Are the Germs in Public Restrooms, Really?
Your 1984 self had nothing else to compare it to - your current self has had several computers since to compare it to to make the determination that "It’s rather difficult to use compared to modern computers though." This is part of Berry's argument as well: once you jump on the tech treadmill it's hard to get off.
I would refer the author of this piece to read about Chesterton’s Fence, and then think about it in context of the subject of his article.

“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: ‘If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.’”
It's the host that chooses the platform, participants don't get to choose.
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powerful words! this encapsulates it even better
https://archive.ph/30Qxr
According to the help page:

> Akedo uses a beginner friendly language that is similar to many professional languages but is aimed at producing readable and understandable code.
Raises hand! 2014. =) Still mining today (ETH).
In the past I've used https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv to query some large CSVs