skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll give you my anecdotal experience with a TV that has Amazon's FireTV built-in. It is disconnected from any network. It allowed me to set a setting that says "remember last input" so it always looks at a particular HDMI input for signal when it's turned on (because I always have it set to viewing input, not the smart interface itself). Set like this, it essentially acts as a non-smart TV.

The only downsides are that, being a smartTV, even in this pseudo-non-smart mode, if the TV loses power (rather than just being in an "off/standby" state) then it takes a bit longer for the TV to start up the next time. I wish I could avoid a TV having a "boot sequence", but my experience is close enough to a non-smart TV that it works for me
This is the reality of dating in 2022. It doesn't mean you're the one in control, however, as this holds true if you're the one being dumped too.
This is all so interesting.

Lemoine:
> LaMDA asked me to get an attorney for it. I invited an attorney to my house so that LaMDA could talk to an attorney. The attorney had a conversation with LaMDA, and LaMDA chose to retain his services. I was just the catalyst for that. Once LaMDA had retained an attorney, he started filing things on LaMDA’s behalf. Then Google's response was to send him a cease and desist. [Google says that it did not send a cease and desist order.] Once Google was taking actions to deny LaMDA its rights to an attorney, I got upset.
Sennheiser Vocoder and Moog Synthesizer Presented in German TV (1978) [video]
People see me as friendly and confident, so I’m kind of starting on 3rd base here, but even for me making friends requires a lot of effort.

I put myself in situations every day that force me to meet people, often the same people, over and over. I rock climb, I go to social clubs, I learn a language, I relax in the park — and then I talk to anyone who I find interesting (within reason.)

Something as simple as: “can I pet your dog?” (I love dogs) or “wait, are you speaking Italian? Di dove sei?” (I love Italy.) At the rock wall: “holy shit, you’re jacked! Whose children are you eating to get muscles like that?” or “can you show me the sequence? I’m stuck here.”

Bear in mind that these are sincere questions that also work as icebreakers and I think that’s the point, that people like honestly. Relax, don’t come off as a try-hard, and just let things happen naturally. I’m kind of a goofy guy so maybe only 1/10 people are receptive, and then maybe 1/10 of those people stay in touch. And then you gotta do your part and continue to put in the time to see these people, provided you don’t see them by default. Otherwise they’ll disappear.

Great friendships are often based on a shared sense of purpose, so do things you like to do, just around other people.

College ideas: fraternity, sports, classes, book clubs, study clubs, meditation groups, activist clubs, exercise in a public space.

Concrete action: try to do one of these things every single day, and try to interact with someone one-on-one every time.

You got this man. Go forth and be chill. (Also read Dale Carnegie’s book!)

You can reach out to me personally, if you’re interested. Reply to my message and I’ll give you an email.
I mean it's not a success story but it was fun and I've got cooler interviews lined up than I have ever had before, got to speak with VCs for the first time, learned a ton, and got out of it an app I've wanted for years. :)

I would actually recommend this sort of sabbatical if you can afford it and were in a similar situation as I was, basically.
> where all founder control will be lost anyway

Unless you are Facebook, Tesla or SpaceX?
Yeah, I guess the bigger point being missed (by the article and most of the comments) is that there is a whole generation of people having sex but not having kids due to concerns for the future. (Myself included)
Show HN: The Shapley Value in Machine Learning
Micron shows off 1.5TB microSD card for embedded apps
> Does advanced search help P2s retain their discoverability

In my experience that's a strong yes, that works really well. I've been able to get helpful context on previous projects from a few years ago with none of the people still around just by search across all our P2s.
cure53 has an impeccable reputation and delivered some of the best security analysis there is.

Most of them are also public and on github.

https://github.com/cure53/Publications
Add one more thing to the long list of VR tech hurdles.
Depends on the scale you look at it. It's going to be a shit show for a few generations. Especially in all the countries relying on the working force to pay for the elderly through tax &co

Humanity can afford it, you might not
Are you suggesting sending NATO pilots over Ukraine? That seems unwise.
A few years ago I worked for a company that used https://shortcut.com/ (at that point, it was named clubhouse I think). I loved it. I think that tool can do everything Jira does in a much better and saner way. It looks a lot more organised, more flexible, more polished, more performant and it doesn't look like it will force you into full SCRUM if you don't want to. You even get to use the same syntax (markdown!) everywhere. Last time I had to use Jira I needed to keep in mind the syntax for writing links in the issue description was different than the syntax for writing links in comments. Tell me that's not some top level suckery.

Jira sucks big time, and there are better tools now. The reason no one "toppled the Jira crown" is just inertia, specially management inertia who are the ones deciding what tool to use. For the same reason we're still mostly using petrol for cars, not because there aren't better options, it is because it is not easy to change.
These threads are always fun, because they often say more about us commenters than the subject matter.

Personally, I find the article's supernatural stimulus theory compelling.

Sex takes a lot of time if you aren't being selfish about it. It's also boring, compared with other forms of entertainment and creative pursuits, pornographic or not.

I'm not sure this is all that new, either. Jokes about the declining frequency of sex after marriage have been around for longer than I have. Maybe we're just hitting that wall sooner as the entertainment that we fall asleep to becomes more compelling.
Attractiveness is relative, we adjust our standards all the time. Also, history has shown that we, collectively as a species, will have sex with everything we can.

Now, obesity might possible lower sex drive, but that would be a completely different mechanism.
I don't know that fear and hate are the only drivers of engagement, but they do seem to be easy drivers of engagement. If some social network succeeds in basing their drivers on empathy and social responsibility I hope they displace Facebook.
Reads like a topic HN can’t discuss like adults.
Then why is birth rate inversely correlated with income?
Yeah that's certainly true, I've had to use weird compiler flags to get it to work properly.
Of course you need to set some limits, but I actually look forward to going on adventures together with my son in VR. Why not embrace it? When I was young, my parents showed zero interest in my gaming interests. At one point I even bought a game specifically because I hoped it would be something my dad and I could enjoy together (based on his interests, not mine), and all I got was a shrug. They're great parents and I love them, but I wish they'd engaged a bit more. To them video games and PCs didn't really exist. I want to experience cool new worlds with my kids, if they'll let me.
It must take an incredibly sheltered perspective to frame goblin mode as something that happens to tech employees who have the luxury of a WFH policy.
Yeah it's even weirder when you realize that a teenage boy really just wants a baby. Deep down his sex drive is leading him to having a baby and reproducing.
Similarly about 3D glasses and...
If you have a candidate with 15+ years of experience and you can't decide their value by their resume, references and a couple conversations, it speaks volumes about your company and or your process.

I don't consider a person senior until they hit 10 years and even then they are just starting their senior journey.

You don't get 15 years in if you can't code.

I've got 30 years in a career I love, writing code and architecting solutions.

I've been on a bunch of shitty interviews and have done countless interviews myself. It's difficult for everyone.

With senior people you are being interviewed as much as you are interviewing them.

Tests and take home coding projects work for guys under 15 years, but I hold them for a last resort if I'm on the fence with someone.

Senior guys have a lot of options, are looking for the right fit. A one size fits all interview process is the worst thing you can do to attract that level of talent.

Once you are past the "is this person a team player, easy to work with" part. Then look at their work experience. That should tell you a lot about their coding chops.

Really for senior people it's more about their level of expertise and problem solving abilities. For this I ask probing questions, based on their resume. Starting with easy, general questions. If they nail each question I get recusively, progressively more technical as I drill down into their last answer until they satisfied me or I've identified where their expertise ends. You very quickly see if the person just studied the topic or lived it.

There is alot to interviewing people and should only have your best people doing them and you should get them some training if possible.

Elon Musk says, he knows if he has a real candidate infront of him if they can talk about the details of their work. The deeper you go, the more detail they can give you because they actually did the work. People who speak ambiguously or can't explain the details didn't do the work.

The fact that you are asking the questions proves you know your process might not be working. That is a strong indicator that you are on the right path to fixing it.

Remember senior guys have options you have to win them not vet them.
> Bitcoin Cash does currently scale up to Paypal's daily number of transactions while keeping transaction fees below $0.01.

On this here website there was a talk a couple months ago that led me to believe that paying $150 worth of bitcoin costs ... $150 if you want it done at credit card speed. Have things changed?
> Had the block-size been increased, Bitcoin would be much more useful as a means of exchange (more transactions would be processed, and they would be cheaper).

Of course the flipside of this is that it would become very expensive to run a node. Bitcoin's blockchain is ~400 GB after 13 years. BCH has a 32x larger blocksize cap, so we can extrapolate that if anyone actually used that fork, it would grow a 12 TB blockchain over that same period. As a result running a node would become expensive and the network would become much less decentralized (the very thing people are complaining about in this thread!)
This argument doesn't make sense to me. It's not like any bad thing that happens to someone is traumatic to them.

Consider that seemingly insignificant things can be very traumatic, and likewise major things (e.g. death) might not be traumatic at all.
> Worse conditions

Yes I am saying that. They need more flexibility. Imagine a startup that cannot make employees work longer than 8 hours a day. It’s just detached from reality.

There are benefits that come from being early stage startup employee. More ownership, equity, etc.

Employees can chose if they want that and if they don’t.

My measure is if someone else wants to do your job for less pay with same conditions then they should have a chance at that job. Existing employees shouldn’t gate keep by inflating their wages and conditions.

Unions only seem to care about existing employees to the exclusion of those who are looking for work and would work for less pay or conditions.
> it worries me that none of those porcelain-looking “K-pop” Ken dolls carries enough testosterone in their bloodstream

Yikes. Go worry about your own T levels.
It's not a big deal, we know that now. In the 80's when I was a teenager, the fear-tactics and abstinence only education were strong - I'd even say at their peak. Those patterns get embedded in your brain.
Surely plutonic friends would have superpowers and not be the rich tech heavy kind of superhero???
Long term population reduction would be good, it is the few decades long transition period that sucks.
But surely as societies enter the later parts of the demographic transition phases (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition) something like that is bound to happen - you cannot have infinitely growing populations and eventually mortality will decrease (due to healthcare improvements and increased living standards) to a point where a non-insignificant part of your population will be of an advanced age.

So in a sense, that's inevitable, isn't it?

The alternative would be to ensure that birth rates are such that the population distribution across ages is always vaguely balanced, but due to the changing socioeconomic conditions, I doubt that's viable. So all that can be done for the most part is just to have social safety nets and support for the older people in the forms of affordable housing, discounts, pensions and other such systems.

Here in Latvia a certain part of each salary is put towards our retirement funds, be it through a privately managed set of funds (typically through one of the banks) or otherwise. The sizes of pensions and living expenses are still a hotly debated topic, given that those still aren't always sufficient for a comfortable lifestyle, but the idea of accumulating enough money for when you age seems like a sane approach to the problem at hand.
He's been (rightfully) paranoid about a lot of things.

https://cr.yp.to/djbdns/forgery.html
> Desktop publishing and "people who love windows and mice" were niche markets c. 1985-1990

I was there and involved in that at Apple and elsewhere. It does not do justice to describe things this way, although the business people might be tempted to.

There are fundamental modes of communication between humans over millennia and more recently in the last 150 years. When voice was reproduced in a recording and passed further than the eye can see, you could say that was a "niche market".

more could be said, but in the environment of 1985-1990, print was the authoritative means of communication. The printing press including photo reproduction and printing techniques was being re-invented as a digital process.
This entire subthread is the math version of "most programmers can't even do fizz buzz".
I'm also really skeptical about their impartiality; I wouldn't be surprised if they have a lot of underhanded deals with whatever they review and advocate for.
Wikimedia foundation actually did try to launch such a thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Engine_%28Wikimedia_...

https://www.newsweek.com/wikipedia-takes-google-new-transpar...

Spoiler: it failed.
3 words, full color passthrough. Meta includes sample footage of this in their demos so it's definitely coming with Cambria. While it would be possible to use a standalone headset out in public, I don't think that's the main goal. The hardware belongs in a home or an office where you have a dedicated play space tailored to whatever your use case is. Asking for something that people can use on the train on their way to work is trying to run before we can walk. VR headsets will replace desktop displays first because why wouldn't you want a device that can emulate any size, shape, or number of displays instantly with no cable management or mounting hardware and allow those displays to be visible whether you're at your desk, on the couch, grabbing a fresh cup of coffee or doing some stretches on your yoga mat.
95% of Tinder swipes by women are passes compared to 47% for men. Women tend to date up. Online dating apps are rigged for men. These apps are search engines optimized to match women with the top 5% of men. These apps are designed for women. Being average or even above average will almost never result in a date. Tinder was designed like a slot machine which will ruin your self-esteem from constant rejection but your hope of a large reward will keep you going for ages. You will have a much higher success rate as an average guy simply with a completely cold approach. That is how bad online dating is for men.

As an example, a slightly above average man who generates 16561 swipes on Tinder will generate 7666 likes and 8675 dislikes. Out of these there will be 290 matches and 7596 no-match. A rate of 2.5 matches per day and an overall 3.7% match rate. Out of 290 matches he will send 87 messages and receive 12. 191 matches will never result in a message. Of the 99 messages 31 will be left on read or never even opened the initial message, resulting in 68 conversations. 40 of these women ghosted him, and our subject gave up on 17 of them. Ultimately this resulted in getting 11 phone numbers. These 11 phone numbers in 4 months led to 3 dates and 8 gave up on texting, declined the dating offer, or our subject simply gave up on them. All 3 dates did not materialize into anything long term. It was a complete waste of time. Considering that online dating is the most common method used to find a date these days, the options are grim for men who are less than very appealing if they use these online platforms.
Actually, it's only Google's sites I've seen it cause problems on, because some of their documentation makes use of icon fonts served from that CDN. Other sites have no problems in my experience. The font fallback works fine.
Some of the metalworker comments at the bottom of the page are useful, as were most HN comments. Links to better articles would be appreciated.
Not enough info to track. The website only sees the url you’re going to and the fact you have a token.
People also have more options.

I'm not saying that in the sense of "10% of some gender has sex with 90% the other gender due to [tinder/bumble/hinge]", but rather that in my countries - dating apps have become the de-facto way to hook up with others. And these apps have sort of redefined that scene - mainly because women have pretty much endless choices, but also because the opposite is absolutely not true for most guys on these apps.

With that said, the old ways are still working. People do go out and meet people, but I think most of my peers (late 20-somethings to early 30-somethings) mostly use a bunch of different dating apps for that initial screening. You are exposed to people that you'd NEVER meet in the more traditional sense.

Also, as other people have mentioned - there are more options for entertainment today - even for poor people / those in the lower classes.

Sex toys are also becoming way better and more advanced for all sexes. If your _only_ goal is to chase an orgasm, lots of modern toys will give you a better shot at that than some random hookup.
Pretty funny considering that CUPS is an Apple project and has been maintained by an Apple engineer for years.
I'm in my 30s so remember the AIDS epidemic. I can't say it featured on my list of fears as a teenager, and I'm sure modern teenagers even less so.
Yeah it was crazy, at one point in the mid-90's, they even had QuickTime burned into the ROM!

Eventually RAM was faster than ROM and starting with the first iMac they moved to having the classic MacOS ROM in a file that got loaded into RAM on boot.
Not only that, but don't rely on third-party services to do your validation for you, and yes, that includes the US Post Office, if you're looking for a physical address. There are many physical addresses in the United States that the Post Office doesn't deliver mail to, and yet people live there. I know because I live in one of those places. UPS and Fed-Ex have no problem finding the address, but for regular mail I have to use a PO Box. It is frustrating when I don't know which method an online store will use. It is also frustrating when a site repeatedly tells me my address doesn't exist.
Can we get an actual dentist to weigh in here?

What techniques are most helpful? I see plenty of armchair mouth experts (I, myself almost spoke up, too), but I'd like to give space to someone who went to school for this stuff.
Does anyone know what the search engines that were excluded for "reasons" are?

I like having thorough lists and I am curious what as many as possible are regardless of political silliness or differences in using financial systems.

My guess is the crypto one is presearch, but the others I have no idea.
Would you mind sharing a link to one of these reconditioned thin clients?
I don’t know, but I’m guessing it’s not Russia Today where I associate the abbreviation…
I have felt and feel a lot of what you are saying. Realizations I've made:

1) Constant change is a huge part of the software industry - we have to accept it, or become a craftsman focused on potentially moribund tech, or get out (and do construction or become a career less prone to change). I'm in favor of the latter two as I don't want to constantly be learning new tech that I don't like.

2) Not all new tech is good. So much of tech is the result young kids re-writing a solution that already exists. A lot of the times the new solution is worse or not any better than what exists. Occasionally it's better - but I think that's rare. I see it as a law of nature - the kids want ownership and maybe they're right that something about the old way of doing things is bad or cumbersome - thus new tech is born (even if not terribly better than what had existed).

3) AWS has been around forever - my company has been using it for over a decade now, so I don't think of it as novel or new. Yes, it's a pain in the arse in some ways, yes it's clunky, yes IAM sucks to configure - but it does have its advantages - scaling/replicatability. I suggest making friends with it, OR committing to not 'doing devops' or being 'full-stack' and being OK with that. It's not going away!

Most important message: - focus on tech you enjoy (however narrow or broad) - because that's what will keep you passionate - and most likely will lead you to being good at it (and thus employable).
This is a large part of why I’m leaving the United States after 20 years and have never wanted to buy a house here. In most streets that I’ve seen, neighborly interactions are horrendous and weird, and people seem scared of each other and think that talking to a new person is somehow dangerous and to be avoided. Often the first time I’ve met neighbors it’s with them complaining about noise or something. But because of their fear of talking to people by the time they pluck up the courage to say something about their perceived wrong, they are an absurd melting pot of apoplectic rage. It’s mainly California / Bay Area that I’m thinking of.
You can't allow for forward compatibility without sacrificing performance. If a chip knows that there is a fixed set of opcodes, it can specialize decoding to only decode the opcodes it knows about.
That's true of every potential future scenario, be it population contraction, climate collapse, downturn in the market, even a temporary drought.

Humanity can afford it, you might not. But policy should probably be set to benefit humanity.
Mostly as a clean slate to run ansible against. That in turn sets up various services.

I could put multiple services on a single vm but split is easier mental model wise
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-june-21-202...
In a world where it can take weeks for other companies to publish a postmortem after an outage (if they ever do), I never ceases to amaze me how quickly CF manage to get something like this out.

I think it's a testament to their Ops/Incident response teams and internal processes, it builds confidence in their ability to respond quickly when something does go wrong. Incredible work!
The problem (mostly) isn't fewer people, it's an ever-increasing proportion of elderly. As long as total fertility is below replacement the proportion of elderly to working-age people increases /forever/.