skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is an epidemic right now frankly. A lot of people your age are struggling to find and maintain any kind of social connection and live a totally isolated life. It isn’t surprising, we aren’t used to having to go out of our way to find any social situation. It’s entirely possible to live without talking to anyone. Unfortunately for some reason it quickly becomes misanthropic too, especially if you have depression: you start to not want to be around people or not want to talk to people, you forget what they can offer you. I think there is absolutely a major widespread problem of growing social isolation right now

I am in Germany so even in the office people are cold. Native Germans (especially from the north) take months to years to warm up to you, so it takes a long time for them to warm up to you
> Texas also passed a trigger law that, essentially, supersedes the bounty law by changing it from a civil matter to a criminal matter.

False. The trigger law does not supersede the bounty law, it complements it. Acts can be torts and crimes simultaneously, and when they are both, they can be pursued as either or both.
Neither side does a particularly good job of empathizing with the other - I say that as a socially moderate, economically progressive democrat.

There were plenty of anti-abortion democrats 40 years ago, though you’d hardly find many now. Same with anti-immigration democrats; etc etc. It seems like both parties have polarized quite a bit on the issues and moderates got left without a voice in either one.
This happened a while ago.
As a debian boomer who fears change I'm still confused about whether nftables is the new firewall to use or bpf is now shiny new thing.

Been putting off learning either but I guess if it's in Ubuntu 22 I should probably jump in and give it a try.

The demise of iptables is long overdue, such terrible UX and non-intuitive cli options.
The angel's share might account for a fair bit, most importantly if people are expecting water downstream. eg 20 kAF yearly at Lake Mojave with expectations in Mexico for the water.
Who is JUST becoming aware of this?
Pandemic masterminds: "Covid is so vintage. Let's try something else."
Android was for a type of device and userbase that had never run Linux, and so there were no pre-existing notions about what it should do, no pre-existing programs that needed to run, etc.

A better example would be Apple which makes breaking changes to both iOS and macOS absolutely all the time.
Thank you!

1) I think anything that Autoit can DllCall with should be doable though I'd need to really study and play around with how the API works to get a good idea of how it could be integrated or if it is more appropriate as a separate application. It seems that DirectInput is generally deprecated nowadays, Microsoft suggests rawinput for message-based devices like Mice/Keyboard, and XInput or directly querying HID file for state-based devices like Joysticks. It would definitely be interesting to experiment to figure out why older games that used DirectInput have issues such as dropped inputs etc.

2) Thanks for pointing that out! I definitely want to figure out how the least possible latency overhead could be achieved for accurate timestamping of input events. Pretty much all frameworks like SDL2 used by games all seem to use a polling based approach for message retrieval, which makes reliable timestamping impossible. It is due to this flawed polling philosophy that esport games all need framerate far above refresh rate because, despite Windows already providing the machinery to accurately sequence user inputs, commercial game engines just dump all the work into each frame and so you actually lose input-order information within a frame. Particularly notorious is Valorant's clunky aiming despite Riot's self-congratulatory "esport-focused optimization" that mostly just made things worse, like reintroducing floating-point camera jitter because they changed from UE4's default quaternions into successive rotation matrix multiplications.
> Quite frankly, I don't know why filesystems don't provide these things.

They do. F2FS [1] does. There were attempts to add them to xfs/ext4 too, but they petered out, probably because of lack of interest.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/f2fs.html
My Casio watch is solar powered and the "panel" can't be seen becaue it's too small and incorporated in the design (btw. best watch ever, <$100, solar, radio, Gshock). We will film print "panels" everywhere, all office buildings, all cars.

If you're thinking in "panels" you don't envision the future.
> Our existing file APIs already provide abstractions that are both expensive and have no clear best design.

Even if that is the case, lets not make it worse :).
3 important take

1. Is Solar economic viable?

Not sure “ Crude oil prices are between $60 and $100/barrel, indicating cost parity at between $10 and $17/MWh. There are already solar farms installed in some places that sell power at these prices, and between now and 2030 solar costs should come down at least another 60%.”. But $60 is high. Obviously not now but just months ago we talked about selling oil for loss.

Freaking is $40 somewhat I remember

2. The artificial Russian invasion of Ukraine

The tyranny of Russia need 10 years to resolve. And solar might work in this decade abd hope his learning curve continue.

3. Local game to play like river

The play like conversion of solar back to ch4 (methane) or sea to river etc only make sense in a few place. It is local.

In fact one wonder why Australia and Sahara desert is not more solar.

4. Transportation might be hard

1/3 lost to cable. Still as a guy demo you need a hugh solar plant farm to do one house. Still need solar farm and storage via many means.
Why do my Flutter screens look washed out?
How is this a tiny detail. We live in a passivhaus. We hardly ever heat. Improving insulation of old houses is an important aspect here. Reducing energy consumption is as important as generating and storing energy.
I'm sorry you feel this way, but maybe my experience can give you hope.

I moved countries in 2013, and barely had 1 friend after I moved. I had a few office colleagues I was friends with, but very rarely met with them outside of the office.

My days were similar to what you describe. Working long hours and then sitting at home with Netflix or Youtube. COVID has made it worst in your case unfortunately.

Here's what I learned which might help you:
- Watching movies or Youtube isn't necessarily a "waste" of time. It's just a way to spend time. You don't need to spend your time being productive or social. If the movies or videos let you pass the time in peace, enjoy that. I also enjoyed reading books back when I was living by myself, but the majority of my time was spent in "wasteful" activities like social media and movies. As long as it's a conscious decision to spend your time this way, I would suggest to not call it "wasted" time. You're spending time doing things that help you relax and unwind. It's not wasted.
- It took me a long time (> 2 years) to find a group of friends that I was happy being around. College is really the last time in my life when I made friends quickly. I think it's purely because being together for hours everyday over the course of years naturally builds friendships. Making friends after college takes time. As someone who is introverted, it took me even longer.
- The time I had to spend by myself was difficult at times, but that was just because of the way I had framed it then. Like you said, there's an expectation of how people your age have to act; go out and have fun. Ultimately it is someone else's expectations that you are enforcing on yourself. Find things that bring you some version of joy. Don't worry about what others expect you to do.
- Find hobbies. If you have a well paying job and low expenses, you should try your hand at different things. I've tried and given up on so many things over the years. A few; like 3D printing and FPV drone flying have stuck around. Again, I used to think that I was failing because I didn't stick with hobbies for a long time. I now realize that it would have been worse trying to force myself to spend my free time on things I didn't enjoy.
- Following up on the hobbies thing - find communities around your hobbies that you enjoy. It's a great way to make friends. Communities don't need to be in-person either. There are so many amazing people you can make friends with online through your interests.

Finally, working in-person with others in the office is a great way of accelerating friendships. Many in my current friends circle are people I met in the office, or people I met through my colleagues.

The last thing I'll end with is to not worry too much and give it time. That's essentially what helped me; giving it time.

Hope that helps.
The workshop filled with a bunch of "anarchist" flags where no one is doing anything interesting and members seem more concerned with creating an "inclusive" space than engineering. That wokeshop.
If you want agency you have to put the AI into an environment and give it the means to perceive and act on the environment. The agent needs to have a goal and reward signals to learn from. Humans come with all these - the environment, the body and the rewards - based on evolution. But AIs can too - https://wenlong.page/language-planner/
I suspect it's tied up in the shift of quantity/scope of "user generated content". News articles and blog-posts etc. got somewhat pushed out by "look at this cute cat photo I allegedly took myself", etc.
> There were plenty of anti-abortion democrats 40 years ago,

Yes, during the historical aberration of the long 1930s-1990s realignment, on even the most salient political issues polarizing the public, neither major party was particularly coherent.

That's...not a normal, stable, or desirable condition.
Not sure how "better insulation" is something "renewable enthusiasts conveniently forget". We need better insulation either way.
Probably best not to buy anything food related from Amazon 3rd party sellers.

I assume their Whole Foods division is at least FDA regulated.
This has to be the first time I've seen Calgary's latitude equated with Yeovil instead of that other British city at 51° North.
It's only for Windows. Linux didn't supported. :(
50% would be a reasonable starting place. I might factor in her earning potential had she not left her career.

We've discussed getting it codified in a postnup (along with assets), so we would know in advance what any numbers would be should either of us want to terminate the marriage. I forget off the top of my head what number we floated -- she didn't ask for it to be 50%.
Just like passenger name records - 6 characters for legacy reasons, so they’re constantly recycled
Ok, so you are saying current and increasing beef consumption rates are fine?

I'm saying we should price the externalities into the cost of beef. What other solution is there?
> Point source capture is of course much cheaper but it cannot get us to net negative CO₂ emissions.

But it certainly can: by capturing on a point source that burns biological fuel. Without the burning, all the CO2 emitted (or captured) would have cycled back to the air a short time later anyways. And if you mainly do it to have a cheap carbon source to make some intermittent energy source you already have storable/transportable (e.g. creating aircraft fuel), just about any low grade biomass will do. Grass. Leaves. Dried algae. Paper too dirty for recycling (or rather: any paper - does paper recycling even make any sense in an economy that also burns wood for energy?). When you start looking at incineration not as disposal and/or energy source, but as a source of concentrated CO2, almost anything turns into a useful resource. All that stuff contains carbon, and it's all going back into the atmosphere one way or another.
Do they hire people on a per contract basis or do they hire full time employees and use them for contracts that they find?
WFH works for some people, but not all people. I'm one of the people it works for, and I've been doing it since 2015.

For me it's great because:

- No more alarm clock

- No more noisy office

- No more beng pulled aside for every little thing

- No more people dropping in

- No more unhealthy lunches at the food trucks or some restaurant.

- I can just pop out quickly to get some task done.

- Tons more free time since I don't commute

- My choice of location. I lived and worked out of a farm for years. At the end of the work day I'd move the irrigation lines and then kick back on the porch with a beer and watch the sun set over the fields. My commute time was spent on farm chores instead.

But it does require some new habits:

- Have a set start and stop time and stick to it religiously. Outside of those hours, do no work related activities.

- Develop good cooking and food habits. Newer gadgets like instant pots, air fryers and sous vide cookers make this MUCH easier.

- Make sure you get at least 10 minutes of some kind of exercise per day. Better yet 20.

- Take breaks and go for walks outside.

- Have a rotation of places to work from.

And there are some people who just don't work well in this kind of environment:

- Maybe they need a communal feel, even if they're not actually talking to people.

- Maybe they need face-to-face contact with at least some regularity.

- Maybe they need to hang out with at least some regular people during the workday.

- Maybe they need a clear, physical distance separation between work and home.

- Maybe they need a regimen where the actions are built-in to the system rather than self-imposed (having to go to an office that has a set start and end time, office rules, etc)

And that's fine. Each to their own. At my workplace, there's an office that people can go to if they want, or work from home. Their choice. And it's cheaper for the company since the office doesn't need to have a spot for every person.
What you're casually dismissing as "just a political move" seemed to be a very well understood target which required state department cooperation to act against.

https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/chinas-foreign-techn...

> HOUSTON AS A GLOBAL S&T HUB Before its closure in the summer of 2020, the Chinese Consulate in Houston, Texas was a major hub in China’s global S&T information gathering operation. From January 2015 to July 2020, Houston Consulate staff identified more S&T projects than any other PRC diplomatic post in the world, and referred 89 percent of the projects originating from the United States.56 During that time, the United States was the largest source of information technology projects targeted by Chinese S&T diplomats.57 From 2017 to 2019, the Houston Consulate cosponsored a series of “matchmaking” events with several Chinese technology transfer centers, attracting approximately three hundred U.S. businesses each year.58 Since the consulate’s closure in July 2020, the MOST bulletin of “international technical cooperation opportunities” has registered only one additional project from the United States, a virtual reality therapy company in Massachusetts.59
While we have become over-credentialed nowadays, I wouldn't say a smart CS student from the 1960s is worlds above a current day person with a PhD level education. We're at least in the same ballpark as the bright olden days bachelors degree holders.
in WW2, we moved to war economy to build multiple
planes per hour, multiple landing ships per day etc, all while rubber, steel, oil, where in short supply.

we should do this again with solar panels.

a vast overproduction of solar energy would even allow for less distribution need, doing away with wasting time&energy on hydrogen and batteries.
What product space is that?
Same, I also avoid stuff with embedded batteries.
Is it only me, but I'm annoyed that they don't start with "LocalStack is ABC". Do they assume only people who know what LocalStack is arrive at the page? (I agree the name is somewhat a good one though)
So there seem to be three separate issues with the concept of "species" as used in (pop?) biology, speaking as a non-biologist CS type of person:

* The "interbreeds with" relation isn't transitive: population A may interbreed with B, B with C, but A not with C. Examples are observed in nature today, and must have existed many many times historically. This makes any attempt at building tree arrangement of species inherently logically suspect, purely from a data structure point of view.

* There are some cultural expectations around the term "species" that seem to thwart attempts at coming up with a clear definition. For example, we really seem to want to classify dogs as a species distinct from wolves, whether that logically make sense or not. This seems similar to people really wanting to classify Europe as a continent, regardless of plate tectonics or land masses or any other objective criterion. For a counter-example, the physics community at some point went "fuck historical precedent, we need a precise definition of 'planet'" and excluded Pluto.

* We also want to use the term "species" for organisms that don't sexually breed at all, necessitating different definitions for these cases.

All of this leads to Wikipedia defining the word "species" in this hilarious way: "A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. Other ways of defining species include their karyotype, DNA sequence, morphology, behaviour or ecological niche. In addition, paleontologists use the concept of the chronospecies since fossil reproduction cannot be examined."

That's all fine, but with definitions like that, apparent contradictions shouldn't be a surprise, and formulations like "breaking the tree of life" are clear hyperbole.

PS: I'd love for actual biologists to correct any misunderstandings I might have!
Strange that you say it wasn’t desirable seeing that congress from 1930-1990 was more effective at legislating than they are today - precisely because the parties were less polarized.

I don’t think party purity tests are a net good for our republic.
What AI app did she use, do you know?
Does writing count as technology? The Chinese characters are thousands of years old.
I believe his point was more that the quantum measurement could very well end up costing enough time to be an issue. He didn't to into a great amount of detailed as it was mentioned more as a tangent.
I went out of my way to buy direct from a small vendor, Sewell Direct, instead of buying their product through Amazon.

When it turned out that I couldn't use the product in my application, I canceled my order before it was shipped. They ignored that and shipped it anyway. Then I had to pay return shipping. If I had bought through Amazon, I could have returned it free.

Moral: When customers seek you out to help you out, don't be assholes.
I've worked at places where I made lifelong friends; working in the office was an absolute blast. Work was probably more fun than it should have been.

I've also worked at places with absolutely forgettable coworkers; working in the office was a drag.

I'm remote now and love most of it. I miss the fun office of the first paragraph, and would love to find something like that again, but I know its unlikely -- filling an office with people that just click with each other is a rare thing.

Short of that scenario I don't think anything could entice me back to the office.
Couldn't agree more. It seems the only way you can really land a nice job here is to know someone just to get into the interview. I applied for many places as entry level and only landed 1 interview. Eventually applied at another large city and got multiple interviews and got an offer. It's dead here in Sac.
I strongly agree. For instance like most start-up company do automation website that provide the automation services (e.g. send WhatsApp message at certain algorithm matched). These days companies just slapped the terminology like "artificial intelligence", "blockchain" and "web3" thinking they are innovative , personally I think they just portrait themselves don't even know what they doing to begin with.
Can't believe "【Title tags】body text" notation is washing up here. This has to be, to describe in a William-Gibsonian description, an old Japanese practice in email titles heavily used in 2ch/5ch later became popular in Rakuten listings mimicked by Chinese listings on Amazon JP that ultimately leaked into Amazon US via machine translations.

I have never seen it done in anything other than in Japanese text, and translations of. Not sure about double bullet points, but this usage of 【】 is distinctly Japanese.

1: https://imgur.com/uKb9XI5

2: https://imgur.com/1zsxDAF
Remote work has a ton of advantages because you:

1. Get to spend more time with your spouse and pets.
2. Can cook your own meals instead buying outside junk.
3. Spend 1 hour working out or gardening instead of sitting in traffic.

But of course, if you live alone in a tiny shoebox apartment then remote work is the last thing you want.
I think you have a flawed mental model of alimony. Try modelling it more like a severance package. Should you keep working for your employer after they've terminated the employment agreement, but agreed to give severance? The universal answer is a resounding 'no'.
If it is it is NOT a political move but a necessarily state vs state diplomats or spy protection action.

Ignore the trump part. Protect USA interest. Just like china protect theirs. And when Taiwan invasion occurs see how much protection USA has may I note.

Trump is a dirty hand, a wake up call, … ignore the dirty and call part. Need the hand and the wake up guy.
All that gas and oil was once a massive biological solar panel, covering much of the ocean, absorbing sunlight, storing it, reproducing, growing only to get subducted and stored for us, like a battery. For a billion years.

When I hear people talk about building solar panels to convert water and CO2 into methane gas for its explosive energy potential to meet our needs, mining pits in the ground all over the world, razing landscapes to steal their sunlight, as if they're going to ever come close to the methane that's already there, and that without doing more environmental damage than our current state of affairs comes close to, I wonder how delusional or dishonest you have to be to pitch an investor. And I'm fearful of the mentality and the utter destruction of the environment this absurdity will lead us to. They would have us pave the earth to save it.

If you're worried about climate change, the only way stop it is to reduce the amount of energy consumed, the amount of plastic produced, the amount of ammonia made through the Haber Bosch process. This necessarily means killing, at a minimum, three quarters of the world's human population, along with the livestock that are alive currently that will feed them. And then you've got to get past the unbelievably massive spike in carbon dioxide as all these carcasses decay, carbon dioxide that was once locked up in oil as well, since all these living organisms are made possible only by way of the fertilizer they were fed that was made from oil.

It's not pretty, but that's the only way to do it. Do you think we should do it?
This is slightly tangential, but I went through a no-prenup divorce. My intentions were good in not wanting a pre-nup, but I’ve changed my advice for a reason that surprises a lot of people.

The reason I now advise folks to do a pre-nup is that when things are getting tense, everyone feeling insecure about their future actually increases the pressure and therefore the possibility of a divorce.

Write your pre-nup however you want, but save yourself the possibility of huge additional and unnecessary stress/uncertainty at a time when the relationship can least afford it.