skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I’m just sharing this stuff because I deal with depression too and it has helped me more than anything else, including SSRIs—I tried one years ago and found it to be worse than the depression. For me learning about the biochemistry involved really helped it click to the point that I was able to change some negative habits.

I realize that what works for me won’t work for everyone, but it might for some. I’m by no means trying to imply anything negative about anyone who concludes that pharmaceuticals are the best (or only) option for them. I sincerely wish both you and your brother the best.
>can't have the productivity police issuing me a conversation penalty or i might end up in the stop-being-human prison

Alright, it's clear that you're against this, but what's the argument for allowing this? In other words, why should the company tolerate using its channels as a soapbox to advance your political agendas, especially if it's a drain on productivity? I want to shitpost on company time/equipment/networks as much as the other guy, but let's not pretend it's some sort of right, or that being denied the ability to do that is some sort of moral tragedy.
I've been contemplating a workaround for this: since registering a new function to a SQLite connection (and deregistering it later) is a pretty fast operation, it should be possible to register a custom function with the detected columns for a single use only and then remove it after running the query.
There's a very consistent definition for what that means with plenty of papers and institutions that use use roughly the same definition. Here's one phrasing of it by the OECD[1]. Basically it's just income minus taxes, what part of that is remotely vague?

Discretionary income might be an even better measure but that has more wiggle room on defining what is a necessity and not.

https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-disposable-income.htm
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Oh, I see.

I'm no expert but at least I understand the things LPL did a but better now.
Conservatives in the USA will try, but mostly against black and brown people. Maybe similar analytics will creep in. We'll see. White people away from the city with guns can keep the cameras from being too close.
Maybe, but Rust is also targetting higher levels of the stack like Webassembly, so I wouldn't say Rust is only meant for maximum bare metal performance/safety. Lots of higher level applications are also now being written (or rewritten) in Rust, so a canonical "simple string" crate won't be amiss I feel.
Been removed from the Front Page despite the total number of points, which is pretty odd. That's manual manipulation to get that to happen, I would assume.
Meditating for 4 hours a day is one thing, but failing in the real world shows all the folly with thinking oneself superior for not needing to partake in the game. If you can't play it you're not above it
A lot of cartoon villains are ‘masterminds’ and the cartoon image of a scientist or academic is also often an middle aged or older bald man. I’m not sure if hair loss is actually more common among scientists, or if it’s just correlated with age.
Yeah, I kinda agree here. Music licensing is complex and also likely unfamiliar to AT&T’s lawyers. It’s not unusual for signed musicians to be not 100% across their obligations on both the master and publishing sides (not saying that this was necessarily the case here, of course). At the very least even if the master was cleared, AT&T would likely have needed to pay mechanical royalties to the artists’ PROs or publishers.
You're at work doing a job, you aren't getting paid to converse about non work matters. If working at say Coinbase or any other apolitical tech company isn't your cup of tea, then there are plenty of politically charged places you can work instead that also need software engineers such as the CTO office of the President, Defense tech, think tanks, Congressional offices, Twitter, Planned Parenthood, PETA, and any other activist group really. It depends on what you're looking for. I can certainly understand why some companies may wish to be politically neutral, as choosing sides can be bad for business and against shareholder interests.
This looks inferior to an underground railway in every aspect.
> If I read the code for, I don't know, some GPL-3 library and then write my own MIT-licensed version--that's totally fine.

There's a reason people sometimes clean room document some code, then have a different set of people who never read the source re-implement it with out ever having seen the source. To avoid these kinds of issues.

I don't think that's always fine.
You are right. People care about things that most likely will never kill them while continuing to eat a diet that will very likely result in disease and an early death.
AI: Does Consciousness Matter?
Kinda!
https://reviverestore.org/projects/woolly-mammoth/
https://colossal.com/mammoth/
I haven't played around with copilot for real yet. Though I did notice one my junior developers using it and he seems to find it helpful. My biggest question is: Does it overall (medium/long term) benefit the developer using it? Or does it create an over-reliance of a piece of software that may be very biased (given it was trained on open source projects which tend to look different than closed source repos)?
Humans can extract enough protein in terms of grams from grasses like wheat as long as their daily activity level is high enough to burn sufficient carbohydrates. We have more complex dietary needs, but daily protein requirements aren’t actually that high.

https://www.nutritionix.com/food/wheat/100g

Wheat 15g of protein per 100g or 329 calories. That’s 114g on a 2,500 calorie diet.
Spain is much smaller than Europe and houses are much smaller and salaries are smaller and the political divide is much worse in Spain. Two different states want out and after a vote they arrested the head of state for those regions. The legacy of Franco..
Microsoft Are Paying Users to Use Their Browser
Tiny Tiny RSS is a free and open source web-based feed reader and aggregator
What do you mean by "trying to get a GUI off the ground?" Was it that ATT corp IT was trying to deploy a windowing OS onto employees' computers? Or that they were developing a graphical OS a la Plan9 and failing?
Really cool project! Trying this out today!
I'm pretty sure, that when planes were big enough to accommodate two pilots: a senior pilot with more experience; and a junior pilot with less experience (but sharper eyes and reflexes) -- safety for the pilot/copilot aircraft was superior, despite the junior pilot being sloppier at navigation and judgment, than the senior pilot.
No one would advocate that the junior pilot is superior to the senior pilot.

Someday, if FULL self driving is to live up to its actual name, the car will be run entirely with the FSD responsible for safe travels. Lets see what happens then.
> There was many personally identifying information leaks when it initially launched

> The aforementioned PII and secrets emitted

It's not trained on private GitHub repos. Any secrets it generated would have been already public and compromised.

> Which suggests that they snooped through OSS code and violated any licenses

That it was trained on FOSS code is already known. Whether doing so violates the licenses is probably up for courts to decide.

> An AI just scrapes the code in mass scale which is impossible for a human even with automation

Human programmers can do this with search engines.
I always refer to the Apple=>Woz=>HP story where Woz went to his employer 3 separate times to seek their blessing and receiving an a-okay each time that his involvement with Apple was not going to be contested by HP.

DOH!
I've been experiencing that for years and it boggles my mind...
Here, hold my beer!

or

Hide and watch!
would you rather have your hair back or have a six pack

one is within your control the other is not.

for the vast vast majority of people a six pack will improve their standing in society more than hair
Why would I do that? Closely related species compete for the same resources. 9 out of 10, one species "dwindling" just means another is gaining.
Coming from a C++ background makes me think Rust is the smaller and clearer language that came out of C++.

The only successful C++ code bases I've worked on were multithreaded, and most were also asynchronous.

If you assume those design decisions are required, then you'll find that programmers have to reinvent the borrow checker in their head and manually apply it to code in whatever language they're using.

That's incredibly boring and tedious, and people are demonstrably terrible at doing it. Rust automates away all that stuff.

I don't know of any approach to threading or I/O that doesn't rely heavily on reasoning about ownership and mutability. In that sense there really is only one way to do it.
I was thinking the same. Why not just a railway?
Or Vanadium?
Your points are technically true but effectively vacuous, equally applicable to all possible door locks. Is there someone claiming that just because this lock is (allegedly) unpickable, it's a complete security solution, so that you felt you had to comment on the importance of other approaches to security?
Working for an employer is selling your time and effort to them.

During the time that the employer is purchasing from you, your duty is to your employer, fulfilling their legal requests.

If you don't fulfill this duty, they will no longer have a desire to buy your time.

It's really not any more complicated than that.
Companies absolutely have the power to change this: with their donations. There is a reason that “Citizens United” is such a drag on humanity.
doesnt the bpf solve this? https://www.gcardone.net/2020-07-31-per-process-bandwidth-mo...
Except it doesn't; the public system also handles basic stuff like vaccinations, free medicine, first response, "walk-ins" etc. It has to maintain a huge infrastructure to keep those services - Brazil is a huge and extremely diverse country.

The basics are actually the thing it does best; covid vaccination for example went well once the political stuff was handled.
Framework for liquid crystal based particle models
A company like Meta absolutely has the power to weigh in on the politics. It wouldn't be pretty and would get a lot of blowback, but they can absolutely affect the politics. They could ban any anti-abortion messaging, they could promote pro-choice viewpoints, they could block proponents of the recent decision. They could change their algorithms to manipulate people's feeds in any which way -- for example, show a pro-lifer only pro-choice topics. They could do the complete opposite of that too. If they wanted to, they could absolutely shut down one side of the debate to the benefit of the other.
Its Switzerland, so I'd assume the mountains and snow play a big part in increasing the cost of surface road building and snow clearing, making tunnels more attractive.
The problem is that the patent system tends to just approve anything that meets a certain quality threshold. And then they leave it up to the courts to adjudicate whether a patent is invalidated due to prior act.

And so rather than litigate, roll the dice and potentially strengthen the patent's standing sometimes it's easier just to negotiate a deal with them.
Just imagine you're sending the data across a network, instead of between local functions. If you have a web service that spits out JSON, then you have data that is decoupled from code. That's not to say that the JSON data isn't then read and manipulated by code; just that no specific code is associated with the data.

As for why you'd want to do this, well, one reason is that it makes it easier to bounce data between different services. You don't need to perform any sort of conversion if you're operating directly on the data you're receiving and sending.

The second argument for this style is perhaps more ideological. In the Clojure community in particular, complexity is seen as arising from coupled components. The more things you can decouple, the less complex your codebase. The less complex your codebase, the more reliable and extensible it is.

Edit: another potential advantage is that its easier to use generic functions to interrogate and manipulate data that isn't encapsulated in specific types or objects.
The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli (Translated by W. K. Marriott)
The problem is if you have multiple function calls within one query.

You could give them all a unique name though. Like call "the importX family": import1, import2, import3, etc...

Still not ideal but at least possible.

Edit: Actually if you just transform the query to add the suffix then that's pretty reasonable a UX. This might give me a way forward to try out TVFs!
That story is about 36 hours old. Why would you assume there's manual manipulation to remove old stories from HN?
Reels and TikTok is this problem on steroids. Hopefully younger generations realize this can be problematic, even though it’s been ubiquitous for them.
Härkingen is well-known for being at the crossroads of important highways, FWIW. It is definitely a very relevant location for logistics.
Agree on the GUI however opensnitch does seem to assume a single user with a single X server, I have not been able to figure out a way last time I tried to get it to work with say 2 X servers and a VNC session or two running concurrently (meaning I couldn’t figure out a way to get connection alerts anywhere but in one of them, as also described here https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch/issues/388 )

Little snitch does not have this issues and you can have multiple users logged in with fast user switching and all can operate their notifications no problem.
I sometimes feel the urge to read Zero Hedge with a five year delay. Ie read their output from June 2017 today.

I imagine that would be mildly entertaining, because a lot of their bullshit would be so much more obvious.

Do you remember when they made a big deal out of how the gold derivatives market is bigger than the market for physical gold? As if that is a problem. Or the scandal about Goldman allegedly manipulating aluminium prices by ferrying the metal around town?
But if I give birth to a 26 week premature baby, then kill it. That’s murder, but if I do while still in the womb I didn’t kill anything because the mother didn’t want it?

The logic fails, it literally the exact same life you’re ending. The difference is only the location and whether someone wants it.
Oh. Very nice. If the wafer is the same thickness as the bar, and the springs allow enough room that should work.
If you can test one key a second (which is unlikely), that's over 12 hours to try all the keys, not to mention having to lug over 800 pounds of keys to the lock in the first place. It's possible, but certainly impractical.
Every year the corporate mega machine gets more efficient at tuning its cogs - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xz7KLSOJaTE
The site's https certificate is for github.com, which is why it's throwing the access errors.
Because the problem in OO is if you have any kind of cross-cutting concern, then it collapses totally.

For example, I have a Wizard object. My wizard has a wand, we store the wand object on our Wizard object. Simple. But then my wizard casts a spell, and does damage to a goblin. Do we put the cast method on the wand, the wizard? There is no real reason to pick one over the other (this problem comes up a lot with game development, which is why this pattern is more common there...Spring is another example, aspect-oriented programming/dependency injection works from similar principles). It is far easier to separate that out totally and have a pure, reusable cast function that takes the wizard, goblin, and weapon.

Another aspect of this problem (which Rust, as an example, makes clear) is that you introduce runtime bugs or hurt performance when you start carrying around a lot of references everywhere. Once you start to think about what actually needs a reference to another object (in Rust, this is limited by the borrow checker) then you realise why OOP doesn't work in some cases.

OO doesn't perform validation, your code performs validation on the data. You can write a separate schema, you can write one schema, but the problem is that OOP tries to fit a round peg in a square hole with some applications.

Very generally, it is harder to make mistakes if you use something like data-oriented. If you have a lot of code with calculations or interactions, it is very pure, easy to test, and fits well with how people think about those elements (one area I have found is financial applications, I actually worked this out and then found out data-oriented program existed when building financial-related stuff). In these cases, introducing OOP means state changing in unpredictable ways (and then someone comes into the project, doesn't understand the abstraction, calls a method that is named erroneously and it all goes wrong).
One possible explanation is that they might not have enough space for terminals on both ends. Electrical trucks could merge into a normal road and go directly to a distribution center.
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-joel-kaplan-rallie...

Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and the Facebook/Meta executive team are partly responsible for the reversal. No surprise that they don’t want their staff thinking a bit too much about this.
If all of the data structures are maps of maps of maps, it seems that it would be obvious to use static methods in this situation. I don't understand the use case for instance methods with this arrangement.
But did the ban have the hoped for results?

When I checked this last, it doesn't seem to have made any difference to insects. Is there new data?
>My elder brother is mentally challenged due to lack of oxygen when he was born. I had this idea a few years ago of how would he experience the world if he'd suddenly become healthy. How would he deal with his previous life, etc. I once mentioned my thoughts to my boss during a lunch and he told me there's already a novel about it. That's how I've discovered Flowers for Algernon.

I have a close relative with signficant dementia.

Which, in this case, really is like a reverse Flowers for Algernon. The person in question was incredibly smart, well educated, erudite, resourceful and very successful in her chosen field.

She was always my go to person for career advice, as she had both the experience and the cognitive skills to insightfully analyze circumstances and make cogent, relevant recommendations.

As she declined, she was still compensating for her partner's declining capacities.

But that's all gone now. Some part of her is still in there (honestly, I hope not too much as she'd be incredibly angry and unhappy with her cognitive decline), but she's no longer able to express reasoned ideas or even have a normal conversation (she might answer a question if you ask and she might not -- and even then it's difficult for her to express herself except in the most basic terms) with other people.

And that fills me with sadness because I've lost that wonderful human who was a part of my life for so long.

It may seem cruel, but it feels almost worse than if she'd died. Her body is there. Some small vestige of her personality still exists, but the person I knew is gone.

I still love her and my family and I make sure she knows she's loved and gets the care she requires, but I mourn the loss of the woman she was. :(

I read Flowers for Algernon (FFA) as a child and was quite troubled by Charlie's story arc. Especially as at the peak of his abilities, he really turns into an arrogant asshole with little patience for the idiots (as he perceived them) around him.

I wasn't glad when Charlie's decline happened, but I was struck with the compassion and caring of the science team who did this to him.

That opens up some ethical questions, but I'm sure those will be addressed elsewhere in this discussion.
Every single person in Switzerland that listens to traffic reports recognises the name of that 5k inhabitant village. The A1 highway section there is one of Switzerlands most congested roads. Also, it is the location of Swiss Posts largest distribution centers, which alone makes it a significant logistics hub already. But adding to that it is also home to the flagship distribution center of Migros and hubs of several other large Swiss logistics firms like Planzer and Emil Egger.

So, I think creating a connection from there to Zurich will be just fine. They chose that first route for a reason.
> It has to maintain a huge infrastructure to keep those services

It seems like the ceiling here is the amount of investment it would put in to manage 100% of the health needs —- I don’t see how the parallel existence of a private system causes the public system to be larger than it would be if there were no private system
Its all about energy. Accelerating the cars up to speed is one thing, but slowing them down and negotiating corners is another. Whether you use batteries or diesel, speed always takes more energy. As for throughput, we need to know the safe distance between these things at various speeds. Just like on roadways, they need to be able to stop if the car/train ahead of them stops. So slower cars, closer together, probably result in more cars passing per second than at higher speeds with greater stopping distances between cars. Exactly the same as with roads.

Anyone who thinks that because these things are automated that they can safely travel bumper-to-bumper at high speeds hasn't worked with vehicles underground before. Any pileup in a tunnel is a nightmare. Something burning, especially something high-energy like butter or flour, turns the tunnel into a blast furnace. Safety distances will always be required.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Blanc_tunnel_fire

>>On the morning of 24 March 1999, 39 people died when a Belgian transport truck carrying flour and margarine, which had entered the French-side portal, caught fire in the tunnel.
Well, if you widen your definition of commerce enough: yes.

But to be honest, money that changes hands often looks a lot more 'commerce-y' to me than money that just sits in a drawer until it is redeemed once.
100%. I thought I was good at making friends becuase I always had a friend group I could do stuff with. Turns out I just had a hobby that forced me to show up at the same place 1-2 times a week with the same group of people. I continued that hobby in every new city I moved to and easily "made friends" there.

It's kind of silly but honestly a lot of friendships are just the people one sees most often.
Alan Watts remarked on the tendency to try to get a 1 up on the world via Buddhism/zen. People are always trying to beat the game.

In which case, they're missing the point and can't succeed.
I love Little Snitch. I hate Little Snitch.

The first time I installed and ran Little Snitch, I was pretty much flabergassted at how chatty my system was. Just constantly being presented with requests to the point that made it impossible to work. I loved learning how prevelant E.T. phoned home.

But then as I was just constantly inundated with those requests, I hated having to constantly deal with it. Now it's time to whitelist/authorize/etc. But do I really want to blanket OK something just because I'm annoyed? What does one do to stay sane and safe?

<disables Little Snitch> securely places head back in sand

Little Snitch is the single program to illustrate all of the scary websites/blogs/etc of how shitty companies are about their "free" software and other shenanigans that devs play and from some "legit" companies.

I love Little Snitch and I hate Little Snitch, and it's not their fault.
brute force attack in this context is probably less technical (a hammer and a cold chisel)
It's an interesting question. I get that taping one out is a joke, but wouldn't it be possible to implement one with an FGPA? I know almost nothing about it, but I know that people have essentially built out new Super Nintendos with them, so the 6502 should be doable.