skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel the same, it's not that clear-cut. I think it can serve to convey understanding, familiarity, and also safe space to share that particular thing without judgment (i.e. like saying "don't worry what I will think, I've been there"). That's why I also have the need to do it when listening to others and caring to make them more comfortable and trusting to share.

Of course, the difference is usually whether it is done more as a side-note while keeping focus on the first person, once or twice in that conversation - vs getting excited and shifting focus to own experience, continuing to expand and branch the retelling, or remembering 5 additional occasions when that happened...

I think it can generally be clear whether you care and are participating in the conversation by doing it, or being self-absorbed and not really wanting to hear and emphatize...

Also, that sounds like a quite difficult situation, and glad to hear that you had opportunity (at least at those occasions) to share and feel un-alone in it. I hope it gets better.
As someone who got scolded by Jeff Dean once for using smart pointers, I can attest to this.
I don't know your current setup, but I'd highly recommend external speakers with most modern TVs.

Back in the day with CRTs and projection screens, the TV would be pretty big regardless. They didn't have to worry about bundling in some nice speakers with a TV, because hey the TV is going to be quite large and that cavity can be a nice resonance chamber if done right.

Now, all TVs need to be super thin which can be a nice thing don't get me wrong. But their packaging means their speakers are often very compromised. Sure, they're OK in a pinch, but even a cheap sound bar will often out perform most TV's built in speakers. So unless you're using the TV in a space where you just don't care about the sound quality, you'll get a lot out from having at least a sound bar or some other external speaker setup.
Eating at night is associated with higher levels of depression
I still use eBay, but this story makes me wish there was an alternative. No other marketplace is big enough to be effective.
What does it mean to die of 'old age'?
The cell network also operates by having a license to the spectrum to the public airways and spectrum suitable for cellular service is limited because of physics and therefore is a natural monopoly.

There is no such limitation in someone setting up servers and connecting it to the internet and creating an alternate social media platform. Are there not enough conservatives with the finances and knowledge to create a Twitter alternative? I’ll gladly over charge them and lead the effort if they pay enough. Leading infrastructure and back end development is kind of my thing.
First page for “NSW corruption”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-15/nsw-history-of-corrup...

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/barilaro-petinos-and-unu...

First page on “NSW building defects” - 1/4 of all new apartments have defects. That’s just apartments and excludes houses being built on flood plains and heat islands in Western Sydney

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/oct/14/more-...

https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/urban-heat-island-effect-w...
I find the code of stable diffusion not bad at all.
It's packaged nicely. It uses third-party libs where it should be. The algorithms are well laid out and reasonable easy to understand. This is not a project made by people without dev skills.
TikTok’s audio is on by default
I turned them on 15 years ago when I was trying to get better at understanding English accents and never turned them off. I don't use subs on Youtube for example, but I hate watching a movie or TV show without, and my movie download pipeline automatically fetches them for me. I tried to wean myself off, but I'd rather keep them on and never miss a line because of terrible mixing or noisy living room.
According to the article, of the 17 scientific papers they studied from 1970 to 2001, 10 of them were completely accurate and the other 7 were only slightly off, but that error was due to the fact that human emissions did not follow the predicted patterns - when correcting for actual emissions using the original calculations, those models were accurate too.

Are you remembering scientific research papers? Or TV news reporting that claims to cover what the scientists are saying? Because the news often lies about science, but that’s not the scientists fault.
This sounds too stupid to actually be true, but it also seems to correspond to my experience. It makes me sad that there's an engineer or produce designer out there, anywhere, who would intentionally pull something like this. It's sadistic. Why ruin your product?
Poor sleep can increase overeating
Ironically, the author mentions what you've done here directly and calls it "Narrative Take Over":

"We try to communicate "I understand" and go on to provide a personal anecdote. Our story is usually of something that we think is in the experiential vicinity of what someone is sharing with us. This, however, is not empathy."

The easiest way to be kind and considerate is to listen and attempt to understand rather than making assumptions. Even on the Internet :)
Yes, but audio tracks used to take up valuable space on physical media, so you might indeed sometimes find distinct 5.1 and 2.0 tracks, but usually for the main language only. And of course this duplication is one of the first things pirate releases do away with, in order to reduce the final file size, so you won't find them on most mainstream scene releases either.
It's the safety bars and rack pins that are the problem. I'm deciding between covering them in liquid rubber or splicing tape.
If bots earn money, is their income subjected to tax? If yes then they are people.
> He’s never mumbled a line in his life and you can understand everything he says during quiet dialog. You can be true to life, quiet AND understandable.

Its almost all about projection. You can come across as a "quiet" speaker and still manage to be heard when you're projecting and enunciating properly. Projecting isn't about being loud, its about being heard.

I have a tendency to mumble a lot when I'm not thinking about it. Thinking about projecting my voice brings things across better, and its not really all about being louder.
Oh no. I was there. Cross platform C++ was hard. Cross platform Java was easy.
A great story and really happy to see Hua Hsu’s name and writing again. I always enjoyed his music writing in the 2000’s, mainly about rap and hip-hop. Cool to see this pop up here.
Getting Command Blocks in Survival Mode in Minecraft [video]
> It's possible to grow numb when inundated by stories of hardship and pain.

Sometimes the problem is skepticism. There are people that tell stories who I'm relatively sure are fabulists. It's a lot of work to act engaged with a story that doesn't ring true.
Some years ago, a Microsoft millionaire decided to open a coffee shop in Kirkland. There were no prices posted. The idea was the customer ordered coffee, and paid what he thought it was worth. I asked the cashier several times what a reasonable price would be, and I would pay it. She absolutely refused to give any hint what a reasonable price was, and said I could pay nothing if I thought it was worth nothing.

I don't recall what I paid, but it was probably too much. I felt uncomfortable about the whole thing. I didn't want to underpay and take advantage, and I didn't want to overpay and be a sucker.

It didn't last long, next time I was in the neighborhood it had disappeared.
Liked your comment. The bit about Facebook, I don’t expect anything out of it today let alone in 30 years.
I'm surprised more places aren't doing this. These self checkout devices are incredibly popular and usually understaffed. Walmart in my experience is the only place doing this right. Every time I end up there I go through self checkout and invariable have to get all my bags checked against my receipt.

Otherwise it's on the honor system. That never works. But I'm sure there's some actuarial equation to this.
> You may notice that in movie theaters—the most focused and immersive watching experience there is

Movie theaters have the same influence on a mind as any other experience of collective attention. It keeps your attention aligned with attention of a crowd. It may be a case of herd behavior, or it may be something special, I dont know, but it works.

I believe that this collective attention is the main reason why movie threaters are still profitable. But not just it: surroundings associated with attention on a screen and all these rituals, like eating pop corn, also do their part as stimuli leading to a learned response. You get highly focused attention without any conscious effort. You need conscious to fight it and to divert attention from a screen.

But it doesn't matter when you try to watch a movie or a lecture at home. Despite of all your experience of collective attention it would be much harder to keep your attention focused.
I only charge one time purchases for lifetime licenses. Users are happier to pay with this model.
Likewise.

I never got GitHub's PR model. Maintaining separate branches of a single codebase is something I want to do approximately never, and a single commit is the right atom for code review.

Thus, I find Phabricator to be intuitive in a way that branch-based workflows never were.
Washington State carves out exceptions too.

In addition to regulatory exceptions, some companies have policies where you can check in with the company to see if they would like to assert their IP rights over your work.

If you work at a computer chip manufacturer and you decide you'd like to moonlight developing robots that make nacho-cheese chips, there's a pretty good chance that HR will be willing to give you a written document waiving their IP assignment in a narrowly-tailored way.

I have successfully taken that approach in order to preserve my IP rights to continue my academic work and collaborations as I entered industry in an unrelated field.
How is this cost effective?
Jean-Luc Picard is quite intelligible even when he is soft spoken like you said. There's quite a few reasons for this. One is obvious. Patrick Stewart is a shakespearean actor so he learned how to speak in such a way. The other thing is his accent. It's an accent that lends itself well to intelligibility. Pidgin or Mountain talk or bayou certainly do not if you want something credible or authentic, for example. Thirdly, the character Jean-Luc Picard is one who has always carried himself properly and with dignity, so a voice that is loud and properly enunciated matches him perfectly.

I think that you can have both, but you can't always have both. Because it doesn't always make sense to.
Does this allow executing code to flash unsigned customized BIOSes without disassembling the laptop to flash the BIOS chips through hardware (which works in the absence of Intel Boot Guard)?
You're assuming the existing flow is working perfectly and I agree with you that testing is a godsend. I constantly yell that testing is great. Heck, I even worked for Pivotal Labs that does TDD and pair development, and loved it.

Let's say you start to write tests and start to see issues crop up. Now what? How do you fix those things?

Github actions!? They don't even have source control to begin with. There are so many steps necessary to just get to that point, why bother?

If the existing code base already has extremely slow movement and people are unwilling to touch anything for fear of breaking it... you're never going to get past that. Let's say you do even fix that one thing... how do you know it isn't breaking something else?

It is a rats nest of compounding issues and all you are doing is putting a bandaid on a gushing open wound. Time to bring in a couple talented developers and start over. Define the MVP that does what they've learned their customers actually need from their 'v1' and go from there. Focus on adding features (with tests) instead of trying to repair a car that doesn't pass the smog test.
Who's "them"?
Even in a 20th century paradigm, opportunity cost exists. Something gets more time or budget, something else gets less.
>"Handwriting instruction had already been declining as laptops and tablets and lessons in “keyboarding” assumed an ever more prominent place in the classroom"

While I think you can debate the particular merits of cursive the underlying fine motor skills that are developed are important in many situations. Wholesale replacing handwriting with keyboards or even voice is in my opinion a bad idea.

I've been teaching people how to solder at a local makerspace and there's a big increase of "two left hands" young people from my experience. Younger generations just don't do a lot of mechanical work any more. Same with the decline in swimming. Tech should augment, not replace or even degrade physical abilities.
The Execution of Charles the First: Killing a King
There's no need to guess here. Outline the work you want to do and ask them to sign off on it. They should already have a formal process for handling these requests, which are pretty common for people who consult on the side. I've done this half a dozen times and even had it approved once when the technology was directly competitive, by a US defense contractor of all places, because I was targeting a market they didn't care about. You never know until you ask.

> Do folks go dark, build in secret, pretending they had executed their plan outside of the course/term of their employment?

JIT does seem to be more common than AOT. People do the early work in secret and delay the hard decisions until they absolutely have to be made. Most of the time the whole thing unravels before that point anyway, and all the agonizing about quitting was pointless.
uBlock Filters, but for email.

uBlock Filters, but for Twitter.

uBlock Filters, but for ...

Just let us choose which ones we can activate, and if we want to see the unfiltered list we'll turn it off and refresh.
I remember a wine bar in the 1990s in Washington DC like that. It was even worse because while people can generally ballpark what a cup of coffee (or a fancier drink like a latte) costs from experience, wine can vary tremendously in cost. Was I drinking a $3 glass of wine or a $15 one? I generally had no idea. But like your coffee shop, it wasn't long for the world.
To the free speech absolutists here: would you not consider HN a "public square"?

Would you care to engage in some of that speech that you feel is suppressed elsewhere? Would you be surprised if you were admonished and ultimately "censored"?

Would your rights have been violated?
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Yeah, I kept thinking about it after writing my comment ...

"Well, but maybe if you ..."

But I've never seen it in the wild.
I hear that Apple is creating "passkeys" which are essentially what you have created; FIDO/WebAuthN that is implemented in software and are even syncable into the cloud.
But shouldn't the product be created for the typical end user and not the 1% of cinemaphiles with a blessed setup?

A pretty common complaint is that developers only test things on their latest generation i9, with unlimited ram, and 8k displays.
I confess that the moment I saw self check out being installed at a grocery store in 2000, I felt the future was at hand. 22 years later, I go out of my way to avoid them. I hate self check out. Have I become a Luddite? Lazy?

I think I just really like the convenience of someone else ringing all of that up and putting it into the bags, etc.

Edit: perhaps the future is to charge customers more who want full service. You can either check out and bag your own, or for some price more you get full service where someone else does it.
Eh, I've seen worse films from him, and worse acclaimed films this past couple years. In fact, 2 of the 6 movies I've watched the past couple years have been with Nicholas Cage, and I'm not even a fan of his.

I don't know if it's just me but cinema has become really shit, unless you're into superhero movies. It's like nothing matters any more to executives and moviegoers of all ages than superheroes. Are we living in Idiocracy?
I tried to Ctrl-F search for "DiCaprio", but it's just scans.

Why did he have to die, you know?
> We don't know that it is functional... maybe the company is only making $20m and should be making $60m. Like I said, we tripled the revenue with a rewrite.

It's $20m functional. It's possible it could be better but unless this is the kind of huge org where 20m is nothing (doesn't sound like it) you really need the behaviors documented before you start screwing with it. It's very likely this thing has some pretty complex business logic that is absolutely critical to maintain.
In a related story, my dad told me about a popular cafe in Los Angeles during the Depression that was the same model, pay what you think the meal was worth. They had lots of business. Occasionally someone would pay nothing, and would be met by other customers outside, who would beat them up, saying "this cafe is one of the good guys, don't you dare take advantage." And word would get out.
I have never had my receipt inspected leaving a Walmart. I’ve heard about this, and perhaps I’m a pessimist, but I wonder if they only do this at stores with high shrinkage. In other words, only the bad neighborhood Walmarts.
Overweight and bald, thanks. One by choice, one by genetics.
by default rust doesn't statically link to libc.
Most cases are the first: does anyone want this. With Customer Development before Product Development one can get the answer before building anything that may be covered by employment contract.

Lean Customer Development by Cindy Alavrez is a book that has details.

Edit: some jurisdiction these restrictions don't apply. That is: your off clock works cannot be claimed.

Not a Lawyer.
> Often these "gigs" are extremely flexible for students that can't work a full time job,

these gigs aren't that flexible. Drivers can't set their own fair price and if you refuse too many rides as a Uber driver you're out, that's precisely why drivers should be deemed employees, not contractors.
Rust means you don't have to anymore. While the old software codebases will keep using it, the new ones won't.
If they check all the time, are they really saving over having cashiers?
Very smart people usually take the time to understand the historical context behind the problems they're attempting to solve, IMO. (Especially if solving that problem requires proof that P=NP.) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Moving from Travis CI to Google Cloud Build
Photography for Geeks (WIP)
That is very interesting. I've never understood that phenomenon. I've been through a bunch of hard things but another person telling me they've gone through it too essentially does nothing for my emotional state. I actually prefer not to hear more about problems and distract myself instead with doing something else.
I don't expect anyone to read the whole thing. But samples are good enough. If everyone hops around the document, someone is bound to find something interesting.

They can post snippets of particularly interesting parts. If out of context, other people can also post other interesting snippets that counter it.
Good questions. I think companies should be allowed to advertise their products.

But advertising for who should be elected to run the government is a different ball-game. Why? Because government is not just a product you could refuse to "buy".

Government should represent us. But it should not represent rich people more than anybody else, which is what happens if the rich can choose the government based on political advertising and misinformation.
My bank is a community-oriented one, and works on a "pay what you wish" model, but it's careful to suggest tiers: X pays for your account, X*2 pays for someone who can't pay, Y funds whatever.

It makes you comfortable about the experience.
Americans may find the "Lippo" name familiar from the 1996 scandal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_campaign_fi...
I bet that size could be brought down with link time optimization, at the cost of longer build times, and potentially slower performance.
The paper boy isnt knowingly distributing, say, child porn magazine. If he were, the. he'd be an accessory. Big Tech does knowingly transport illegal things.

If the paper that the paper boy distributing has the occasional libel, then the paper boy is not liable because he cannot have a criminal state of mind for something he doesn't know is in contained within his cargo.

Finally, the paper boy is a boy, that is a child. Depending on the age he is not criminally liable no matter what he's carrying. Big Tech are not "niños de pecho", suckling bebes. They are large corporate monopolies with immense power, money, political influence and top lawyers

Finally, my solution is to de-centralize everything.
900ns is not a millisecond?
I don't agree with this article.

I do agree that everyone is living a story that you know nothing about. But I think everyone on some level is aware of this lack of knowledge about other peoples' lives. In fact I feel it's rather obvious that even the most random person on the street lives a very complex life.

A call for compassion because people are "unaware" of the complex lives other people live is a feel good narrative that isn't true. Everyone is fully "aware."

The true horror of human nature is this: We are all aware of the hardships and the stories everyone else goes through. But our compassion has limits. At its most fundamental level, nobody cares about you and you don't really care about others.
I hate that feeling. Not knowing if the name they just mentioned is someone important I forgot about or the director is going for a convoluted timeline and they are talking about someone we haven't seen yet.

I have better things to do than watch movies with the risk of not understanding them. It's like saying to read a book "generally." What a waste of time.

But it also depends on the genre. If you're a fan of blockbuster action movies, most dialogue is unimportant anyway. If you enjoy drama or more artsy movies, you probably need to follow what's going on.
That reminds me of how, in A Christmas Carol, Dickens describes a ghost glowing like "a bad lobster in a dark cellar". Some modern people think Dickens was just being surreal, but there was a real meaning to this. Before refrigeration, people would keep meat and seafood in the cellar as was cooler than elsewhere. But not cool enough and things would rot after a couple of days. One of the bacteria that rots seafood is Vibrio, which often has genes for luminescence. So you could see if seafood had gone off if it glowed.
I use both, with an internal evaluation about which is faster. Self-checkout is always slower, because you must complete one item at a time, and I don't have the codes for the produce memorized. With the cashier he can scan multiples at a time, has all the codes memorized, and I bag while he scans.

So I look at the lines, the amounts in carts in the lines, who is in the lines, and make my guess which is faster.
tig is perfection
I don't have useful advice applicable to your case, but we're going to live in very uncertain and adversarial macroeconomic environments for the coming years. If you're going to leave your job, then make sure that you're in a very solid financial position. One rule of thumb: can you live without any income for a year? Will it make your financial position significantly unstable?
The walmart bill check fails when you purchase many items. Having bags checked creates distrust and wouldn't be necessary if they hired employees to scan.
did he know the question to finetune too?