skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
these days I'd be surprised if they even pick up in the first place. If I don't know you and I'm not expecting your call you get voicemail. Some folks basically never answer their phone because 'everyone I want to talk to knows to text me'.

I don't doubt you'll eventually reach someone who would stay on the line and chat a bit, but unless you're lucky it could take a while.
> I thought I was watching the revival of the infamous Overly Attached Girlfriend

What? Why? Both parties seemed happy with it and it seems like a cute thought experiment to me.
> IMO Gnome IS the best user experience.

I laughed out loud at that. In fact TBH I didn't just laugh, I guffawed.

Thanks for the entertainment. :-D
QorIQ is seriously impressive, except for the enclosures for the official dev kits. Pop the lid and toss it in the bin - it will be much quieter.
Phones and cars are bad conversion examples. They are illegal to import and you wont be able to register either.
John Clauser (Nobel Prize in Physics 2022)
> but a big red flag

How can you infer that? She clearly had access to his location history, it's extremely unlikely that it happened without his consent. This is rather a vibe of two enthusiastic geeks being genuinely curious about analyzing some cool data about themselves, rather than anyone being "overly attached". We can't tell for sure without more details about their relationship, which isn't our business at all, so talking about "big red flags" feels really wrong and paternalistic (which in fact sounds like a big red flag :P).

> Also, how come 2 people be so ok with Google having all their location history?

That's a valid question though.
> Theo de Raadt, now there's a paranoid man

Can someone elaborate what makes de Raadt so paranoid?
> We should invoke it multiple times

That'd make SHA256RNDS2 even faster because of the throughput numbers.

I'm curious, what's the faster algorithm for hashing you use? I don't want to waste time on intrinsics and inflict complexity on my colleagues if there are alternatives I can use!
Ya, so can construction workers
How does karma from submissions work? What percentage do you get? For example this guy has a submission with 196 karma but only has 104 karma:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mikaelaustin
Oh, that's incredibly unhelpful!
Throwing Scalingo [1] in here because I feel they get way less exposure than they deserve. We [2] offer a SaaS for medical device companies. GDPR compliance made us look for a EU-based company, and the recent Heroku situations (disappearing free tier and GitHub OAuth fiasco) made us switch to Scalingo. Scalingo is based in France.

Their PaaS is rock-solid. The UI sometimes looks less polished but that shouldn't detract from the fact that their service quality is really, really good. No problems so far. When I had questions, I've been in touch with their support - you have real engineers responding to your message in a few hours. Really cool.

I've recently come to increasingly appreciate profitable, bootstrapped startups, because they have (much) less incentive of getting acquired, subsequently shifting their focus to "scale" and "enterprise sales" (wait, which company comes to mind here.. ah, Heroku). Scalingo is bootstrapped and profitable.

Why not render.com or fly.io? Both are based in the US, so GDPR compliance becomes more tricky. They're VC-funded, so I have no clue what will happen to them in the future. Maybe they'll be profitable and their investors will say "oh okay, it's fine to have a boring, profitable startup in our portfolio". Maybe not. Likely not.

[1] https://scalingo.com

[2] https://openregulatory.com
Anton Zeilinger (Nobel Prize in Physics 2022)
Ask HN: Examples of Microkernels?
I'm reading through the MIT xv6 OS handbook and code (here: https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-riscv/) and they mention the fact that they created it as a monolithic kernel since most unix systems are monolithic. They then introduce the microkernel concept. Are there microkernel concepts out there (especially code) I can check out? I'm curious to see how userspace processes communicate to kernel processes to execute privileged actions.
Have people actually constructed a concrete example of a theory that's super deterministic in a way that violates the bell inequalities but is complex enough to contain Turing machines driving the tests?

The requirement that you can encode Turing machines might sound silly but I really think it's the core of the issue. The ability to make computers implies a certain level of hard-to-control due to the existence of things like the halting problem and pseudo random number generators and cryptographic hash functions.

My understanding is that super determinism is one of those loopholes where it's easy to say its a problem, but actually providung a plausible concrete model where it's a problem is very hard.
That's a pretty huge experimental success: quantum mechanics is truly probabilistic, not just deterministic but based on some hidden variable we haven't (or cannot) found.

Have I understood it correctly?
I was almost there and I think it could have been the very idea of spying on people anywhere was kind of scandalous. It's not what anyone would expect in public. (There was CCTV of course but the expectation was that it would be on a dusty VHS tape on a shelf somewhere.)
An order of magnitude better than heroku
Note there are two pdfs with more detail linked at the bottom under "Read more about this year’s prize"

Popular science background: How entanglement has become a powerful tool (pdf)

Scientific Background: “For experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science” (pdf)
Which third party app? I would love to know who has a good implementation of it (with appropriate detection of venues).
Superdeterminism is unscientific as it's utterly untestable. It's a cop-out.
For scheduled jobs right now is a pita I expose HTTP endpoints which I call from an outside service on a scheduled basis
Do I understand this correctly that jaywalking is legalized, and not decriminalized?
Sounds like it wasn’t a criminal offense to begin with.
Aspect's experiment dates from the early 1980s, that's a long time coming!
That's basically how SmartOS does it, as long as you're doing SMB or Samba. And boy, is it ephemeral: the entire OS is loaded into RAM from a USB stick (usually) on boot, and everything gets loaded from the zpool, as OC said, and if you need anything, you put it in a zone. Even VM hypervisor goes in a zone, because it's essentially free and gives you nice clean separation (and quotas, reservations, etc.).

Though NFS can only be shared from the global zone, so if you need NFS you don't get to play with zones.
Superdeterminism isn't a theory, it's more of a choice of assumptions that could lead to a local hidden variable theory. No convincing model has been proposed thus far.

Other such assumptions that would allow local hidden variable theories are "a wizard did it" and the rejection of the principle of relativity. All three share that they have no convincing reasoning behind them and that they are largely incompatible with our model of falsifiable science.
Well this is unfortunate, I've been using it for a while (>4y?).
It can't really type on the iOS default keyboard anymore. I was very happy of being able to select two languages/dictionaries (En/De) in SwiftKey and I was hopping sometime they'd be able to let me activate a 3rd language.
I've tried the google GBoard a couple of year ago, but sticked with SwiftKey.
Hey wait a second, that's not fun at all, that's incredibly depressing!

On a serious note, it does remind me of that time police arrested a man on suspicion of a break-in, because he was riding his bike in the neighborhood at the time and Google recorded it.
Very interesting, maybe an online service could be made for this "have we crossed paths before".
C might be enough, but Rust is better.
Rust makes programming more productive. Are you denying that?
And C is not going to get Rust features: C's philosophy to stay limited on purpose.
Not really. The difference is, it's not giving credit where credit is *not* due.

We have the same problem with the misuse of the words leader and journalist. Allowing violators to claim a respected title *that they don't deserve* only enables the problem.

Put another way: if you pet barked, do you still call it a cat?

The point is, a scientist does science. Fraud is not science. If you do fraud you no longer deserve the right to be called a scientist.

Words matter.
EXIF is a TIFF file. I think most modern JPEG files are EXIF packages. A quick way to check, is to look at the first two bytes of a file. They are sort of a “BOM marker,” and will be either “II” or “MM”.

TIFF is really a package format. It’s so flexible, that it’s damn near impossible to write a “full-fat” TIFF reader (I’ve done that. Never again).

TIFF is so flexible, that you can define an image to have a 6-bit R channel, and a 12-bit G channel, for instance. I think some medical or scientific images may have actually done that.

You can also have pretty much any type of compression that you want, for the image data.

But most people use TIFF to store uncompressed “raw” image data. These files can be crazy big, but also won’t have compression artifacts.
What we served up for the last Birthday Week before we're a teenager
You forget the part where the treatments can cause addiction, sexual disorders, suicides, emotional issues, cardiovascular diseases, &c.

These things are prescribed way too easily to people who have tons of others ways to get out of their issues without relying on these potentially dangerous drugs.

Medication definitely has a place, but the current trend of over prescription is very alarming.

It's so much more complex than "take that pill and you'll be happy", in lots of countries these things are prescribed by general practitioners without any kind of mental or lifestyle evaluation. You just show up there: "hey I feel down and anxious" and boom you go home with 6 months of xanax. In my country (France), 25% of people consume antidepressant in any given year, 12% are regular users, several studies concluded that out of these 25%, only 1/3rd have signs of depression [0], I know it's the same thing in other EU countries, and apparently also in the US [1]

[0] https://www.slate.fr/monde/76468/depression-medecins-prescri...

[1] https://archive.nytimes.com/well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/1...
Hahaha, totally, People's Republic of Caliphornia totally isn't interested in taking away your guns.
A HAT seems to by way to complex and less flexible then a small black box you can plug your USB charger in and a USB cabel comes out
Aah. If you get nothing from knowing what your friends are up to, if it's not expressed verbally, then social networks are not for you!
I very recently did buy a pi 4 in Sweden without problem, but it was only in stock at a few retailers, but at the moment they are impossible to buy more or less, unless you are willing to pay THREE times over MSRP.

I actually bought it for saving money on retiring servers using expensive electricity, but it was already a sketchy proposition and would take months to earn back. At even more expensive it would not have been worth it.
Books:

- Deep Work, and anything by Cal Newport (You can get a taste of most of his ideas for free on his blog and podcast)

- The Art of Learning. Note that he “jumped around“ at the peak of his original career, but ended up finding a common thread. To your dilemma, a major take away is that single domain can have nearly infinite novelty if you keep looking deeper

- moonwalking with Einstein: this will seem unrelated, but really listen for how The author ends up falling in love with this weird hobby. Can you find that love for anything in your life?

- Misbehaving (Richard Thaler): A young economist bumbles around for years until it starts to come together into a coherent research direction.

- The age of Wonder (Holmes): biographies of romantic scientists, know how different they all are, and also how many different phases of life they each have. I guarantee you you will see yourself in one of them, I just don’t know which

Though I do not have a book for it, my final piece of advice is to except that even the “right“ path will have some boring or even painful stretches. I don’t have a clear cut decision rule for when to stick with it, but it’s definitely not “quit immediately”. I think there’s a book called The Dip about that. Also like Adam Savage YouTube channel where you can see essentially endless hours of the sky who is definitely doing what he is passionate about, but also gets frustrated all the time when things break and such. He’s making physical things, even successful projects take many tedious hours. But there’s no question in his mind that he is going to power through.
I like the Onion. But some of the Babylon Bee 'satire' I see shared around is basically indistinguishable from 'fake news' since the audience has already been primed with fake news.

I don't really see any harm in having some kind of safeword for fake news, when no deception is intended, similar to the 555 phone numbers in films, something that tips you off if presented out of context.

I'm sure I've seen several sub-reddits where satire submissions need tagged because otherwise the conversation is derailed by people who don't understand the satire.

Almost every "this is why the libs are crazy" style comment I see here on HN is a response to a satire comment from someone who they agree with politically.

Satire is great, inventing a shared false reality by accident is less cool.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AteTheOnion/comments/rx0kbw/people_...
You do you, when I don't have time to perform basic human functions I usually dial down on other things
To be fair, in the episode where he details the tendonitis, he spends a lot of time describing the ways that the AMZN warehouse bureaucracy is designed to abuse their workers (delay their claims, structure work alternatives to be impossible to accept, etc,) and reflects on how this affects those who rely on their warehouse jobs for, e.g., family health insurance.
how i met your mother, hands down the best tv show ever,,,,,,, did this before location tracking was a thing...... "the best burger in NY", a classic
> I cannot fathom developing software without UML.

Yet look at all the massively successful software written without any UML.
Inside one of the world’s first human composting facilities
EU Parliament adopts rules for common charger for electronic devices
Not trash at all, thanks for making it.

In general thanks for keeping Javalin simple and opinionated, it is my goto when I get to decide!
Sticking to one thing is overrated :)

“I believe in bumbling around long enough to not give up at things. And eventually success comes your way, because you tried to fail in every possible way, the only way that’s left is the one successful way, and always, for entrepreneurs, seems to come last." - Vinod Khosla, cofounder, SUN Microsystems

Just a couple of feel good books disguised as pop science to quickly read through ..

* Cal Newport's So Good They Can't Ignore You on the value of skills over passion and identifying what makes you valuable to others (instead of what you think), he defines "competence" as "feeling that you are good at what you do." It's a good overview of skill acquisition.

* Little Bets by Peter Sims will give you the grace to reframe your "jumping around" as a series of "little bets" of "discovery" and "inquisitiveness", not based on a particular skill or talent but on problem solving and interest, a curious, restless displeasure with how things are. A great book for wandering professional souls.

So my vote is keep jumping around, find interesting problems to you and work on them, develop some methods of having your competence evaluated by others, join (or lead!) "professional communities" to find and commune with likeminded folks, stay restless and hungry.

If on the other hand you really want to focus on one thing, sign up for a modestly expensive professional exam in the not too far future and an obligation to teach or share what you have learned for that exam publicly. I find it's a great motivator to be beholden to others to understand something well enough to motivate others to learn what you have.
How exactly is it "mind-boggling"? It is no different to speculating on traditional domains names as an investment since the dotcom era in the 90s.

At least with this NFT, you simply cannot "right click, save it" as I've said months ago already.
As close as Ubuntu does.
China’s Nuclear Pledge to Ukraine
Bitcoin Is Just Like the Gutenberg Machine
I’m sick of all the spiteful stupid bollocks
Think Bridge place is The next Grenfel?!!? NAH SIR
https://archive.ph/opph3

"...In its 2013 guarantees, Beijing praised Ukraine’s 1994 agreement to give up thousands of nuclear weapons from its time as a Soviet republic in exchange for security assurances from the U.S., U.K. and Russia. “China pledges unconditionally not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear Ukraine, and under the conditions of Ukraine suffering an invasion using nuclear weapons or suffering the threat of such kind of invasion, to provide Ukraine with corresponding security guarantees,” the statement said..."
In spite of all the hate against formal models, most of the problems I have encountered in the last twenty years are much easier to solve when the problem-solving conversation uses a model as common object. Conceptual data model (I love Merise), process with swimlanes, state machines... Nothing new and still extremely useful.

About UML specifically, I never understood the fixation on object orientation: the world looks relational to me !
Trying to find what you are good at is not the right approach. But you are onto something in this question, just asking about the wrong part.

What is it with these projects, hobbies, and jobs that disinterest you? What are you avoiding?

Armchair-ing: Maybe you are in the cycle of having higher expectations than what you can create? Avoiding creating a project to finish as the result is not what you had set your expectation to?
May I ask what seemingly horrible meaning do you ascribe to “pointers!” here? Perl references reference values like list, hash, scalar just like Python references lists, dicts, tuples, strings or numbers or any values through a hierarchy of these. The only difference is that in Python you can’t have a list/dict itself, only a reference to it. Perl doesn’t “have” references, it has actual container values instead, which are inaccessible in Python. E.g. @mylist is not an “object”, it is literally a collection of values that will splat into a location of its use. `func(@mylist)` will naturally take n arguments, where n == scalar @mylist. (Unless a prototype of func demands a reference.)

Or maybe you’re mistaking it for pointer arithmetic?
Do you have bursts of creativity and motivation that let you invest superhuman amounts of time and energy into a new project only to fizzle out and not turn into anything long term, only to repeat the cycle days/weeks/months down the line?

If that sounds relatable then this may help:
Creative energy and motivation works like a finite resource. Instead of spending every waking minute working on your new hobby/project because a) it's fun and b) you fear that the motivation is going to fade again, you need to force yourself to only use up a little bit of that energy each day, so that you have enough time to build a habit.

It's very counterintuitive, and I had a lot of difficulties doing it. But it has worked quite well for me.
Discovering a new hobby and doing nothing else for the next few days is actually one of the worst things you can do. It will almost certainly result in you losing interest.

(Also what you're describing is very common in people with ADHD. I'm not suggesting or implying anything here, but it might be a worthwhile idea to check out some of the other common symptoms and see if you heavily relate to them as well. There's a very high chance that you don't have adhd, but I thought I'd still mention it.)
This story reminds me of the Tim Minchin song, if I didn't have you: https://youtu.be/Zn6gV2sdl38
Pioneering Quantum Physicists Win Nobel Prize in Physics
The 3com card with the minimal pop out Ethernet socket [1] was super cool but it was rather fragile, especially if someone tripped over the cable!

[1] https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0597/9131/1011/products/3C...
All I really want is for JavaScript to become properly expression oriented. Which I think would mean:

- Match expressions

- If-else expressions

- Do expression (expression blocks that begin the block with the "do" keyword to disambiguate them from object literals)

You can almost always write JavaScript in a functional style with mostly immutable variables. But occasionally you need to use a mutable variable just because it can take one of 3 or more possible values and JS doesn't support doing that in an expression-oriented way without using closures, and it's infuriating.
TIFF is a container. The payload it contains can be uncompressed, compressed losslessly with lzw//deflate/lzma/zstd, but it can also be lossy compressed with JPEG, WebP or even JPEG XL.

Meanwhile, PNG is always compressed, lossless.
"Government work needs to be highly regulated, very controlled, stodgy by nature, because it is for the public good. It needs checks and bounds far beyond a private corp, or at least different than a private corp, this is the nature of the beast."

Few want to pay for this
While you're arguing a straw man, that portion was only exposition to support the subject and underlying argument of the piece, which is that PM has a good memory. But in particular, that portion was not well-supported nor all that compelling. It was, as you say, "anecdote." The idea the PM "doesn't just take pictures with random people" is absurd on its face, neither provable nor unprovable. Surely there are hundreds or thousands of such pictures.[1]

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=paul+mccartney+with+fans&tbm...
Looks like hair splitting to me, they are all interchangeable. Apparently I used Dutch an Danish variants and nobody ever batted an eye. Cursive quotes look like just cursive version of straight quotes, you can't possibly differentiate them.
I'll chime in and say that I did the same. A lot of people like Fly but I wanted super low complexity. My hope has mostly panned out. I was able to move without too much difficulty and I'm happy with how it turned out.
Anyone using ZFS on a daily-driver desktop computer?

Fedora + BTRFS + Deja dup daily backups have been my default for months now, but I am tempted to give it a go to perhaps Ubuntu JJ + ZFS + Deja dup. Not that I have any issues with my current setup. It's just for the sake of, you know, try new things.
I don't think I have ever in my life thought "I wish I had location history turned on so I could check where I was at that date". Could you share some examples of how can it be useful?

I do find it cool to have such data to do the kind of analysis as presented in this post, but not cool enough to let others (especially Google) possess this data as well.