skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is good insight.

My limit3d understanding of the world showed me a certain close friend as an extremely anxious, borderline narcissist person.

This person has over the years, progressed to a highly sucessful career, broadly admired by peers. But having known the person for years I know whata under the hood and the constant calls let me know about all the deep insecurities that are unfathomable to me.

This person has an attention to detail and focus that I didnt think humanly possible. He will replay every conversation from many angles, looking for clues or things to attach insecurities too.

This person would be a formidable spymaster for any king. Its incredible how much information iteration a person can do with the right incentive (anxiety)

Here is the rub. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What I used to see as a flawed, broken individual, I've come to see as a wonderful example of how nature has a purpose.

You may need to keep your distance from these human steamrollerss, dont get in their path! but dont forget to appreciate the machinery at work. And of course, if there's a path that needs carving..
Let’s be honest, both language had place for improvements (other languages didn’t leave as much to be desired), and fortunately both became quite usable nowadays.
I agree. I much prefer my software to store it's configuration in AppData in Windows and in the user's home directory in Linux.

It makes migrating all your app settings to new machines or fresh installs way easier.
> expensive PDF

> $60

> "expensive"
It's the same author; compare the URL to your link's author's last name.
This is just plainly not true. MB at IntelTechniques publishes one of the best known removal workbooks in the industry. There's no reason you can't do the same to teach people who to contact to remove their data. See https://inteltechniques.com/workbook.html

There is nothing stopping you from doing the same.
Human Nature: Good, Bad, and Important
> How is Apple able to stay relevant among younger people and convince them to buy iPhones when Android phones are just as capable and look just as good?

There is quite an element of peer pressure for young people to display status through having new and expensive technology (which I believe is one strong reason the design of smartphones are rev'd every year, so that people can tell at a glance whether you have the latest device), and add upon it Apple's cultural cachet to be the "cool/in" brand, it's often hard for young people to resist the pressure. This has led to issues such as "blue bubble versus green bubble" where young people on Apple devices exclude those on Android device based on not wanting to see an out-of-place color in their text message window.
I wonder how many study abroad in Boulder...
I know calculus and programming and all those neat things.
Acting and performing are still great fun
Why do you signal out “targeted” advertising? Would it be a different story if they advertising was not targeted? I think it would probably be an even worse junk land.
They've changed their naming quite a lot the past few years. The pant I've been using in particular I need to see what they call it now; it was the Psiphon SL:

https://www.rei.com/product/879230/arcteryx-psiphon-sl-pants...
I have observed almost the opposite. Sure, younger people are early adoptors but the older folks don't have a natural resistance and are easily hooked. People addicted to Facebook are increasingly middle aged.

That's another reason why I think fb needs to calm their tits and chill out a bit – sure, Tiktok is super popular at the moment but this level of addiction is something I expect younger generations to cope with better. It wouldn't surprise me if the tiktok reign will be short lived.

TV is a good example, because it had a similar effect on hijacking previously unexplored attention mechanisms. It's also a good example because it deteriorated into an irrecoverable ad-hell, yet younger generations found refuge in higher quality substitutes (Netflix etc) and now cable is dying slowly (as they should). Thanks to a modernized and relatively sane approach, tv as a medium is better and makes more money than ever. It speaks to the fact that in the long run, consumers will go elsewhere when giants feed them crap products and – importantly – by the time they do, the giants are unable to keep up.
And by now, lazy programmers have made their programs so fat that SATA SSDs feel as fast as HDDs felt back in the day. Now everyone is hailing NVMe SSDs as our savior.
I think Canada as a whole peaked in the early 2000s.
Try middle click
Well, linear functions are still technically polynomials… haha!
Among the commercial spaces, one of them is about as close as they come to the popular, liminal-space conception of The Backrooms: https://justinmcelroy.com/2022/07/26/visiting-canadas-50-mil...
Can you hear the ocean? It longs for your car batteries.
Very cool! This reminds me of people trying to play Touhou songs on piano. I think the famous one was “Owen Was Her” (sp?).

edit: found this one https://youtu.be/55qst4_T_PE
Who outgrows Lego? The only exception to that is my Lego went to my nephews, pretty much only because I don't have the space for it in my apartment.
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> and not accessible by road...

That doesn't seem to be true:

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Port+Edward,+BC,+Canada/Kits...
And crucially, no humans which would turn into zombies.

More crucially, no competition for beer refills.
When we visited NY a month ago, we—on a whim—stopped by the deserted village at Watchung, same deal, although the buildings are mostly all condemned.

To have essentially a town frozen in time, maintained as such, is such a treasure.
Which their response just reaffirms that they're just a fly-by-night MVNO doing their own data harvesting.

And they have their own grandiose "nobody can fool us and have your SIM swapped here" (YET).

If I received $1 for everything I've read or heard "UnHacKaBlE", I could retire immediately.
This isn't the cure-all people make it out to be. I tried it once and like 10 people all separately told me to grow it back.

There are plenty of people who look better with hair.
Reddit’s r/lolphp has some “great” memories of many of the shortcomings (most of which are historical now fortunately). My favorites are probably the randomly long and short function names, due to length being used for hashing, and DATE_8601 not being compatible with ISO-8601.

EDIT: Don’t want to start a flamewar, it really has improved over the years. Nonetheless, it has a less than bright past.
While building out the 6 GW, every increment on the way would be incrementally more useful. Start with a 100 MW array and desalinate with that, and just keep adding to it until you are desalinating "enough".

I think California announced that shading existing canals with solar, besides cutting millions of gallons of evaporation, would generate 12 GW.

But investors really, really want to put all the panels out in deserts.
Completely agree with your sentiment. It has been incredibly refreshing to use Tabler on my projects in comparison to the norm ("admin dashboard" templates) that tend to fight you when you don't follow their pre-defined layout, or when you want to extend the UI kit with your own components without having to re-implement the styling used by the kits.
I just think it's hilarious that you even had to pirate your own game :)
134 bytes is a lot
Beethoven's influence on the Western classical music tradition isn't disputed by any expert in that field - it truly was outsized and unmatched by any other individual composer. I'd accept the Beatles probably deserve the same recognition re popular music. It's fair to wonder how transformative they would have been if they'd existed in an era of Tiktok, Tinder and Snapchat.
Audio features for web-based ML
I think the flight price will be adjusted to the USD/gas prices; I don't think they'll be subsidizing those out of there pocket (it's a touristic country). Yes, I'm aware they are going through rampant inflation, but I'd expect any arbitrage to be played out fairly efficiently.
Looks at the canals in Amsterdam

Theft.
http://phpsadness.com/
Surprise The metaverse is going to suck for privacy
Google cache seems to have most of the useful content available
edit you claim $200k per year at a startup, exactly one year ago.. you got a 33 percent raise to $300k per year now in one year.. while working on old games in java too.. hard to believe, really...
When writing emails, I often feel like I have to include redundant stuff, repeat myself, reference "aforementioned" paragraphs, and do other things in order to compensate for the unfortunately usual attention deficit of the reader(s).

I also try to avoid numbered lists of, say, issues I want resolved, in which case I may send a series of emails instead, because people tend to respond to the first item on the list and happily ignore the rest.
My impression from a past life working with the innards of Windows was that Microsoft weaponized terrible software engineering practices into a business advantage. The awful underlying implementations made it very hard for competitors to reverse engineer anything and build compatible products. Sometimes, it even made it exceedingly hard to write drivers for Windows because of unresolvable race conditions in the kernel.

Some of the best examples are CIFS/SMB and DCE/RPC over SMB which were bottomless pits of awful.

One of my favorite anecdotes is the SMB print service described as the work of a clueless college student by one of the Samba developers who reverse engineered it.

Microsoft cleaned up very quickly once DOJ forced SMB 2.0 (or whatever it was called) to be documented.
> Back then they valued honor and integrity. Now what matters is first
impressions, "clout"/fame, and standing above the crowd.

I think you're right about all those things J7ke. Values have really
shifted. Yet that still leaves strange unanswered questions that
puzzle me.

Most all of the intelligent people I know are deeply unhappy about
it. And I've worked with a good few "famous" people. They were all
unhappy too. Now we're all older, and great levellers like health,
children and life fulfilment have come into play those that survived
(drugs and more money than they could handle) are happier being
"nobody" again (or at least getting recognised occasionally on the bus
by strangers who say "Didn't you used to be...?"). I actually think
many who were "successful" and had their 15 minutes feel tricked.
Even though they "made it", in the sense of "Being there", they were
never there. The cake was a lie.

By contrast, my father and grandfather's generation lived through
awful, awful times, in wars, rationing, brothers and sisters died, and
they were certainly never "on" the TV or Internet. If they had
recognition it was a medal and a parade. However they seemed to go to
their graves with a sense of having lived.

What does it mean then, when we talk about "what matters"?

Is "what matters" a cruel trick and illusion? Perhaps a way to rob us
of the ordinary well-lived life that really does matter?
Oh, I guess. I don't really think most people care about "coolness" these days though, if they gave half a shit about privacy or security then they wouldn't be wooed by software like TikTok. I'd imagine most of them use whatever is ubiquitous, kinda like how WhatsApp isn't glorious, but almost everyone outside the US uses it.

My impression of the younger Gen Z is that they don't really care about internet optics. For better/worse, many of them developed motor skills after they learned how to use YouTube, and it's not uncommon to find them using the sketchiest of ad-infested websites just to watch Johnny Bravo. If Millennials are characterized as narcissists empowered by technology, Gen Z is a wave of rats trained to check off the Terms and Conditions box for their cheese. In large part, this is Microsoft and Apple's fault for designing computers so simple that a baby can use them. In Frank Herbert's prescient words, "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

All of this is to say, I think the average 14 year old would be equally excited to unbox an Oculus Quest and an iPhone. Even if they're largely different devices (even different price points), they're probably not concerning themselves with the ethical implications of owning a VR headset. Most of them will probably Google how to sideload Pavlov or VRChat on it within 15 minutes of turning it on. That's just my $0.02 though, perhaps things are different outside of the northeastern US.
Build Unix, Not Uber
Log.io – Real-time log monitoring in the browser
I wanted to share this tool that we've been using for local debugging. We've been using DataDog in production (which we have many gripes with) and this tool during development.

Honestly, I'm curious what other tools exist out there that others are using. What is your stack for debugging many microservices in production (without pulling your hair out)?

I've been eyeing projects like SigNoz[0] but I haven't made the leap yet.

0: https://github.com/signoz/signoz/
Ah, got it, right. Sorry for the noise!
Simplot was an early investor, not a founder.
> That says more about FIPS than it does this work

It would be nice to have companies collectively reject FIPS. I realize that that's a pipe dream, but we do it with patents. Lots of companies pool their patents to defend against trolls on the condition that none of those companies sue each other over patent violations.

If a bunch of companies were like "We won't require you to be FIPS, and we won't get FIPS" or something that'd be cool. Unfortunately, that can't happen with FIPS specifically as it's government mandated, but idk, maybe SOC2 or something?

I hate things so much
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I just think it's ok for the government to run a lottery and not advertise it. Allowing gambling machines in restaurant is a whole different story. I think conflating the two is a slippery slope fallacy.
The “if we just go back to the old app” theory ignores half the problem. People learn how to be good at instagram and how to use it to their advantage over time.

To pretend that Facebook is the only party extracting value is wrong. People (who aren’t you) cause a lot of the problems that drive these apps to the places they end up.

Turns out that most people would prefer to see the Kardashians over their friends most of the time. Sad, but there it is.
I've shelled out $$ for https://tailwindui.com/

Currently using their components, but will (re-)use Primer for a private project https://tailwindui.com/templates/primer
I don't use Spotify. I use YouTube on the desktop with ad blockers.

YouTube is doing something amazing which is auto uploading music from all over the world in partnership with aggregators. For example:

Самолёт - Джуна
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgeZtWT2gz8

Provided to YouTube by National Digital Aggregator LLC

Самолёт · Джуна 2,220 views ℗ 2020 Released on: 2017-04-14 Auto-generated by YouTube.

It's fair to say I've discovered more new music this year than all previous years of my life. It's strange to think I live in a world where I could listen to music for the rest of my life and never listen to the same song twice
It kind of reminds me of how with the band that I was playing in back in the 90s, I was recording each take of each part into a separate track rather than using the DAW’s takes feature because the latter made the number of takes a bit obscure and it was hard to pick and choose bits and pieces of different takes for the final edit. At one point, I (accidentally?) played back all the takes of all the parts simultaneously. It was a delightful effect. I don’t think we had more than three or four version of each part but those combined made it sound like there was a marching band playing the music.
The many flavors of hashing
well they did say it can transform to any format.
Can confirm, the number of project shower ideas, that I had resulted in at least a dozend bought domain names and only a small percentage of actual work.

The first step should be making an empty repo on github.
I believe parent commenter was thinking of if expressions, which are quite similarly short - and I’m also on the opinion that they are much more readable and less prone to mistakes (like how does nested ternaries operate in your given language)
The problem with ternaries is people getting so excited about it they build some one line monstrosities that really should be broken down into more lines

And for what's not a monstrosity to begin with... It's not a monstrosity to begin with, you ain't gaining much
I believe this will a key question for humanity to answer in order to better ourselves: why do seemingly similar psychological phenomena seem to cause some people to become dysfunctional while causing others to become super successful?

I think anxiety/ambition is a great example. It seems like it shows up in other places too. For example, people with bipolar disorder seem to make great artists. People with dyslexia seem to be better at certain non-reading visual tasks (such as recognize Escher-like "impossible" images) [1].

We could have the "gain" of these phenomena without the "pain," the world could be much better off. Obviously some important improvements could be made by changing how society treats/supports people we view as having disorders, but that's far from a silver bullet. More research into psychology, psychiatry, and neurology is needed.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-advantages-of...
In the next 100 years the tide water will gain several fee in depth. Shipping ports are the most valued geographical asset there is.

Even a minor change in water depth would dramatically increase waterfront realestate area.

The key here is the abandoned infrastructure origionaly left for the school an shoping mall.

People will flee further north with time as our lives become more decentralized and the climate become more temperate.
I actually found this valuable, without being a "brag". The best type of sort for real-world problems is build with an understanding of real-world datasets. The types of questions and research that interest academia, while often valid, are distinct from those that concern practical engineers.
I want to poke at one thing you said, because it’s relevant to how I see the article. :)

> He must have absurd anxiety…

If the author of the article had said this, I would read it as : “The only way I imagine behaving like he does is to have absurd anxiety.”

I think this is the trap the article falls into.

Many times we lack the information or frame of reference to understand the motivations of other people. When that happens, we tend to use our own experience and motivations instead.

Something I think about a lot when reading these articles because one of the “benefits” of being bipolar is having a very large frame of reference in regards to patterns of thought and emotional extremes.
After watching many dog interactions at the dog park, it is my slightly informed opinion that what we call 'herding instinct' is in fact Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Especially for Corgis. Some get so visibly agitated by the chaos of a dog park that they act out and the owners stop bringing them after a couple of bad experiences.
Out of curiosity I looked it up on a map [1]. It appears two of the closest settlements [2],[3] are also ghost towns or otherwise pretty much abandoned. Kind of nice to know there are habitable but uninhabited places left in the world.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Kitsault+%2C+BC&ia=web&iaxm...

[2] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Arm,_British_Columbia

[3] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyox
> Reddit is a place on the decline. I've been forced into discord lately.

You moved from one declining place to another.
A curious factor in this map is that to stop overlapping text, names are not shown if higher ranked names are nearby.

Peter Jackson at with respectable 'top 1000' score of 656 doesn't appear because he was born too close to Ernest Rutherford who edges him out at 634.

Andrew Niccol, who's films are somewhat more niche, gets on the map by virtue of being born a few kilometers north of Jackson.
Advancing dynamic brain imaging with AI
DHS IG knew of missing Secret Service texts months earlier than previously known
This seems like good news. If America crumbles, the alternative is much worse.
>Hola is a freemium web and mobile application...

When the service is free, you are the product.
For the unprepared this is a website commonly used by credit card fraudsters to imitate an IP address close to the card's address
We don't need a centrist party. We need the Greens and the Libertarians to get their shit together and build effective local and state machines capable of winning elections so that they can then take on the task of driving Democrats and Republicans out of Congress and the White House.
Usually those libraries seed from a FIPS-validated hardware entropy source. AES-NI is a common one, it's validated on some chips, but other hardware vendors have others (we have a hardware RNG in the AWS Nitro System for example). FIPS specifies a handful of DRBG algorithms that can then be used. AES-CTR-DRBG is the most popular. That's definitely no the exact same algorithm as the ChaCha/Blake constructions in Jason's work. It's all rather carefully constructed and then checked as part of the validation process. This is probably the most common reason for userspace RNGs in cryptographic software.
Brain development differs between Neanderthals and modern humans
At a certain point driving a motorcycle gets very risky too.
If you're referring to Northern Gateway, it was planned to terminate in Kitimat, which is not a ghost town. However, tanker traffic off the BC north coast was banned, which effectively killed it.

If you're referring to Trans Mountain, that pipeline upgrade/expansion terminates in Burnaby, which is a suburb of Vancouver.

For other interesting company-owned ghost towns on the coast, see also Anyox and Ocean Falls. Anyox is relatively close to Kitsault and is worth reading about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyox

There's also Stewart, which is north of these and which has quite a storied mining history that's still being written (the "Golden Triangle" of BC).
Cough Based Covid Test
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Meanwhile I successfully broke a gaming addiction by realizing that if I stopped fucking around I could achieve things that people other than fellow gamers would understand.

Little did I know that aside from compensation, nobody knows what the fuck software developers are doing all day, and whether they've done something big or something trivial.
I guess each of us must ask and answer. Is this a tool or a trap?

A tool is used when I need it.

A trap won't let go of me.
It depends how you measure it. 5 or 6 measures strictly as full-time in the specific discipline of frontend development, closer to 10 in general software dev with varying time commitments
One reason: It's thrilling to ride a bike into the water. When I trained as a pool lifeguard, we frequently had to "rescue" bicycles that had been ridden off the high dive the night before. I imagine it's like crash-landing a plane, but with somewhat less risk of injury. (Although this would be slightly less tempting when the target is a filthy canal.)
Not wearing my glasses I misread it as 911 Porsche Service :-)
??? Credit Cards take 2.5%.

Can you imagine the government forcing 2.55 of entire swaths of the economy over to VISA?

Debit transactions also have fees.

If the government really wants people to switch to digital, kill VISA fees.

VISA is the 'Organized Crime Syndicate' that has a stranglehold on the entire digital economy.

Gov. can't do it because banks/visa practically own them.

It would take a Jimmy Carter or Bernie Sanders for that.

Institutional Dems. won't ever do it.