skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to be an X and are female, and then you see that 95% of people who do X are male... it's pretty rational to wonder if there's some social or selection barrier coming up that's going to make it difficult or impossible for you to do X. And that's if you even get to explicitly thinking about it: the message is so strong that "Xers are male" that many people will never take the leap of imagination.
> It's important to know when your strengths are fundamentally misaligned with your job, boss, etc and leave ASAP. Don't try to force yourself to fit into it for the sake of "growth".

Spot on. Also remember your “boss” is not your owner. Nor are they all knowing. If the “boss” doesnt meet your requirements change the “boss”. It goes both ways.
Personally I think the concept of growth is a scam to get people to work harder for less. You can certainly grow your skill set, but intelligent people can rise to the occasion in most jobs. Including CEO/Director/High level decision making jobs.

Everytime I have received some insultingly low offer from a startup, they start talking about "growth", "what I can own", "wearing many hats". Meanwhile, the founder is sitting on some 40% equity grant.
>Hence, setting such a high bar to reject the math based theory means we are relatively biased towards preserving our mathematical preconception

You mean the only causal and verifiable and by far the most useful view about the world?

Do you think the microchip in your Phone that you post from was built off intuition and gut instinct?

>rather than accepting (unexpected) physical evidence. If we set the bar at say, three sigma, the bias shifts towards accepting the physical evidence.

So the petabytes of experimental data from the LHC don't qualify as physical evidence in your bizarro world. Got it.

This reads like the take that an overly impressed with themself 1st year Psych major would have after taking an experimental methods course.
ya, also keep everything in cache to be below a few mics
When the NAFO have defeated the orcs in the current conflict, they will need a new enemy.
> generous freeleech and gift token events

That's what saved the what.cd economy, which had generous freeleech and gift token events. RED does it differently, and has stingy and ineffective freeleech and gift token events. On wcd, staff picks were freeleech, and that ensured people were able to download and seed, and there was free liquidity.

RED's lack of large freeleech events has meant that most people on the site don't have much buffer, and can't just download what they like. It's functionally a forced recession due to lack of liquidity.

Basically an internet version of this: https://yathartharora.substack.com/p/53-the-babysitting-rece...
As far as I know, this year would have been at Hamburg again where the number of participants is capped to ~12k. So it would have been slightly smaller than in Leipzig.
Seconded, hours long zoom meetings make me want to quit tech and become a woodworker. Social VR is the next best thing to being there in person.
Whats the sauce behind their LLM, their own version of GPT-3?
The linked video is much more interesting and informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KRb_qV9P4g
It didn't have to be UX team. It could have been some marketing genius that came to UX team and told them that his nephew is using new funky, black background IDE called VS Code, which is all the hottest nowadays, so IntelliJ HAS TO catch up, should become modern, trendy and fun again, so it will bring more sales.

I only hope nephew didn't mention Electron backend.
Look at the top 12 chip manufacturers globally. The ones that design the chips that run our everyday lives. They are mostly US based companies. The IP is within, mostly, US based companies. I posted this in another comment. This is why the US is heavily subsidizing bringing that to US soil [0]. This is preemptive, but in many ways, a bit late.

If you're saying the US doesn't know how to design and build chips then you're conflating two very different things. The US manufacturers used to build them here, but the global supply chain made it infeasible to do it on US soil historically. The US currently doesn't have the manufacturing capacity to fabricate the chips they design - but the actual R&D is here. China doesn't have that.

> It is not because of some kind of US tech brilliance.

If that's the case then please share one Chinese rival to Intel / AMD.

[0] https://www.nist.gov/semiconductors/chips-act
Does reading software code count as "using software"? I personally don't consider myself subject to a license when I'm reading public code on GitHub. GitHub Copilot and Codex AI seem to be doing nothing more than reading a bunch of source code, not reusing that code to incorporate its functionality into a different product.
Fentanyl and suicide tend to kill young people, while COVID tends to kill people who are very old (at one point, the average age of a COVID death was greater than the life expectancy number).

It's the increasing mortality of young people that really drops life expectancy.
if you're going for VC funding, it's more

1. Make (semi-)BS metrics/goals

2. Achieve them

3. ???

4. More funding!
Covid is a God-given gift to oppressive regimes.
Thanks !

IMO, The main benefit of opensourcing this is giving the companies and developers a choice to self host the platform internally (once the work on sync server gets completed).

Also, it opens up space for community contributions to make the product better over time.

Appreciate your feedback on highlighting the benefits of OpenSource on the site.
Could you give some detail? Is it true for functional language that has mutable data structure and reference as well? How does it clean up, are you talking about "closure conversion"?
Inside 'Bedlam' (2020)
The hmac can be forgiven, in my opinion. But the ~30 lines of code for the Python stdlib's Base32-decoder, which would inflate the line count by 150%, is harder to forgive.

b32-decoding can be made compact, of course: https://github.com/stolendata/totp/blob/master/totp.php#L16-...
>But that is neither the intended use of the product nor the actual way that a single person using the product really employs it, and that really, really matters

And yet, someone has done so, and found that to be the case. Therefore, it falls under "normal use".

So make up your mind. Is software engineering only about assembling working programs, or assembling working programs + navigating license minutiae?

One of these, Copilot has a place in. The other it does not.
Some people get a kick out of 3D printing guns in their garage. Why not apply that to other weapons?
Mozilla really can't win on HN, a feature that basically only exists to save one click (efficiency!) for the kind of people who consume PB regularly is very power user and aligns with their brand as being privacy focused when private mode is the thing that is always visible in the bar.

Nobody on HN seems to know at all how to market tech to a general audience and play the game of "staying relevant" so they always have something to post to social/newswires.
He has to pay taxes which can only be settled with dollars.
No, you can't.

Because most software piracy is of saleable software. 20 line snippets are not for sale, mostly because the transaction costs are higher than the snippet value.
Maybe the article was updated since you read it? It goes into their methodology:

"Arias and her colleagues calculated life expectancy using a technique called a period life table. This involved the researchers imagining a group of 100,000 hypothetical infants and applying the death rates observed for the real population in 2021 for each year of those infants’ lives. The result is not the life expectancy for a cohort of actual babies born in 2021 but rather a snapshot of how life expectancy rates would apply to various age groups at a specific point in time, Arias says."
Fentanyl overdoses and suicides are excess deaths in that they contribute to excess death numbers when they are higher than expected. They just don't account for the full number of excess deaths over the last few years - the lion's share is almost certainly from the virus.
You do realize that the US applies that the same sort of regulatory business processes for overseas companies that wish to operate in the US.

In fact, the US "reach" into overseas trading including banking and other business processes is much more intrusive than any EU or non-US business regulation of US companies.
The same can be said about anything related to MLOps. The naming schemes are so out there but they all end up sounding similarly... generic. It's kind of weird really
if you're going to use Qt, why not just use QtMultimedia which already supports cameras in more ways than this.
No no, didn't you hear? All of this is just to "tackle inflation".
From the article: "but Firecracker's implementation had two bugs: It placed the MPTable in the wrong place (above the advertised top of system memory rather than in the last kB) and it set a field containing the number of table entries to zero rather than the appropriate count. In both cases, Linux accepts the broken behaviour; so I added a "bug for bug compatibility" option to the FreeBSD MPTable code."

I'm pretty sure that discoveries like these is why it's good to have operating system diversity. Conversely, sometimes I do wonder if having everyone on the same OS would allow us to have way more cool things and still have less bugs. But it doesn't matter too much because it'll never happen...
The media world and big business in general isn't civilized people. It is composed of, but the business itself couldn't give a rat's arse about not going to humanitarian shit hole if said places had a ton of money to spend and cared about generating a ton of positive PR.

I don't watch football but I follow Formula 1 and we have the exact same issues. There's plans in closing historic F1 races while we're now expanding in totalitarian regimes, like Saudi Arabia, where last year a missile fell miles from the circuit during free practice.

These totalitarian, humanitarian shit holes have a ton of money, and money wins over any moral qualms.

And no, I will not refrain from calling these like places like that. Of course, I refer to their governments and religious institutions, not the average person that are powerless to institute some change.
Does anyone in the team understand what you bring to the table? Is your contribution key to the team's success? If that's the case then the others could serve as promoters for your case in front of the boss who apparently doesn't see or appreciate this.

But if this is not the case then maybe your current skill set is not a good match to what is currently needed. I don't know, maybe someone else is already covering the things that you say you bring to the table, or the team's activity and goals are just a bad fit for you specifically.

> because I'm being forced to be something I'm not

Many managers see this as trying to help you grow, by getting you outside your comfort zone. In the end it's your choice if you want to play along or find a team/boss that makes better use of your contribution.
This kind of barely surface level understanding by clueless bureaucrats (remember "a series of tubes"?) is generally what you sign up for when you ask for regulation in technology. It is the reason I am usually skeptical of such calls for legislation, because the end result could be worse than what we started with.
This is just at the beginning of the story to be fair. Later on he is mining in his living place and also writes about the electrity cost needing to be covered by the mining revenue.
This article about life expectancy specifically lists overdose deaths as a major contributor to decreased life expectancy
Thanks! Good engineers should recognize both pros and cons. I guess there are «police» ones, too.
Ecstatic! I’ve been playing with the concurrent eio primitives and it feels great, comparable to working with Go’s channels and goroutines.

You can equate Go channels to the Eio.Stream type. Goroutines to Eio.Fiber type.
DDG Browser Integration with Bitwarden
This is true, but they fell VERY quickly when the Japanese showed up. Maybe they'll do it again.
It would never take place between animals that don't naturally cohabitate.
In my opinion the Base32-decoder is the main "cheat" of this TOTP implementation. See my comment a few lines up.
Nitpick, but AFAIK China hasn't violated Taiwan's airspace. Taiwan says they'd treat it as an act of war if they did.

Taiwan has an Air Defense Identification Zone where they track aircraft and aircraft entering it are supposed to identify themselves. This extends over the Chinese mainland and it's this zone that everyone talks about China "violating". But it's Chinese airspace and ultimately they have the right to fly there without notifying Taiwan.
InteractiveLearning – Windows clone in a browser to understand files and folders
Not sure where I said I said kill them or implied killing them.
Wow 480 vertical pixels is not bad when you consider current generation M1 macs have merely 720 vertical pixels in its built in web cam.
This is an interesting topic. I suspect you are being vague for privacy. But is it possible to get some more context?

What do you think your strengths are? Which strengths does the manager want you to grow?
What would happen when you click a link to a site that doesn't support that?
Yes, and I was adding to that comment, mentioning restaurants using QR codes not just for menus, but also for payments. This effectively makes restaurants using this system card-not-present merchants.

> No one is complaining about merchants refusing to take cash for web transactions.

Agreed, but why does a restaurant have to be a web merchant when there is a much more convenient alternative available?
Explicit opt in, period.
Roleplay vs. Roll Play
The prevailing logic among tabletop RP gamers is that dice have their place, yes, but they shouldn’t ruin the fun of roleplaying, problem-solving, and critical thinking that are often associated with TTRPGs. Instead, dice have evolved to be catalysts, oracles, and the like in tabletop RPGs.
semi stocks are at all time lows and PE levels. Don't let this doom and gloom piece prevent you from buying more
You are both a scholar, and a gentleperson. Thank you for treating the field like it is instead of some social value extraction platform.
It's also worth thinking about the exact opposite of this, what truths are we least likely to share with aliens?

The beauty and importance of art and culture comes to mind, and so does humor and jokes. Try explaining, in scientific terms, what makes a joke funny, and the task turns out to be far harder than expected.
One of my problems is that I like to write code. Specifically novel code. But the places I work at really want me to just do regular CRUD work and glue work (use other people's code and avoid novel code). How do I find companies that write their own cool new code? Maybe coding teams get broken down into such small teams that there is only room for CRUD and glue and novel code gets too risky when trying to deliver use value at every sprint.
Did he?

> I paid off all my debts, bills and rent, and the cold realization hit me: I had nothing left over to show for it.
The number I could find for all cause drug overdose death (including everything in addition to fentanyl) for the last twelve months was 110k.

Cardiovascular disease 870k.

Cancer 610k.

Usual caveats apply to cause of death reporting, but fentanyl alone is not terribly relevant to this topic.
5 miles is a huge, huge area. Half a mile is probably more reasonable. Plenty of folks need to walk to their grocery store.
I know people who do the same. In winter they drive their cars, so I don’t see a big net win. Of course, in California I guess the snow is less of an issue.
I think sometimes there can be a good use-case for it.

Consider something like a contact form for an airline — they can find your booking more quickly if they have your booking reference number to hand, so asking for it speeds up the process. That said, they can still find your booking without it, it just takes a bit longer and has a bit of a margin for error (e.g. two customers with the same name on the same flight).

If there was a "zero tolerance" of optional fields, you'd have to choose between forcing the customer to have it (which is worse service) or never asking for it (which is pushing more work to the team & increasing costs).
But see I don't think think what your saying contradicts the above post. If our subset intersects with the alien subset of perception, then we both will have a perception of an underlying truth, and we could conceivably understand the alien models and vice versa because they address the same subject.
This is almost a certainty in large organizations, because these people spend their time on advancing their career, office politics and place in the organization as opposed to producing things / "doing their job". And unfortunately but unsurprisingly in most organizations it's a much more successful strategy when measured in power and compensation.
> it is possible to get 8K TVs to comply with the new regulation, but it will not be easy

There you go. They just prefer the easy option of doing nothing.

With these EU legislations there's a pattern of the EU saying "you have a grace period of X years to make a gradual improvement to the worst offender", companies do nothing for X years, and then have a last-minute "oh shit" moment and do a PR spin of "the dumb bureaucrats want to ban fun".
TLS 1.3 is not more secure then TLS 1.2

Now Mojang and Rockstar (on azure) have disabled TLS 1.2 on their servers on purpose to lockout Windows 7.

Windows 10 offers NOTHING of value compared to Windows 7.
The CDC has that information.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/...
> The second, much more contentious fact is that mRNA vaccines elevate the risk of heart attack.

The bulk of the covid excess deaths (unsurprisingly) happened before vaccination. This is going to be somewhat difficult to tease out of the numbers. Frankly it's probably not true.

> the Danish researcher finds that one is more likely to die after taking the mRNA vaccines, even after accounting for the protective effects against covid

That is absolutely not what that paper says! Go read it again.
Qutebrowser isnt independent if you care that google money is involved, it uses blink.

Firefox is the only even vaguely independent browser engine that keeps up at all with google.
Studying rare historical accidents of evolution that resulted in pandemics to see how they took place is one thing, but creating hundreds of such accidents of evolution deliberately to see how many novel deadly pathogens one can create is quite another.

In the case of HIV:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3234451/

Now, should we start taking all the viruses known to infect every species of squirrel, rat, monkey, gorilla and chimpanzee and start splicing in motifs that bind, say, the top 100 most common human cell-surface receptors in order to see what's the most dangerous virus - with the optimal mix of mortality and transmissibility (R factor) - we can create, the one best able to cause a global human pandemic? That's insane, and there's no justification for it.
Is he? I feel like everyone said this about Putin and now the narrative has changed and he's an unstable madman whose going to launch a nuke if he loses too badly in his war.

Like many politicians, Xi is ruthlessly self-interested. His actions that allow him to consolidate power aren't necessarily in the best interests of China.
i'd love to see what you consider an obscure destination
While it is not a simple change, you can always modify things in about:config to turn off all (probably) telemetry on Firefox. The annoying thing is that you should keep updating the strings that is changing with updates (when they add or remove strings).

Also you can keep an eye to updated to arkenfox user.js because while using it by default probably will break many websites but they keep track of privacy updates of Firefox.
> that they need to get home grown GIF supplies, instead of importing all their GIFs from the US

As an Amish idk how to feel about this.
I get why they do it. Oktoberfest in Munich led to a big Covid surge with hospitals filling up at a dangerous rate, and experience tells that December will be worse, so their event would almost certainly be severely downsized or altogether disallowed by the authorities. Renewed Covid restrictions are already being debated in German politics with the general expectation being that some restrictions like masks and less or no large events will be imposed. Can't do an event at their scale in such an environment, not to speak of pricing issues due to energy etc. that they didn't even go into, but that will almost certainly have played a role as well. All of this really, really sucks.

It's a bit sad that they (apparently?) won't be doing a remote replacement, though. I realize you can't do a proper Congress remotely, but having some of the nice things (like the talks) sure beats having none. Not sure how exactly those decentralized events will shape out, but their announcement reads like they're focusing on the in-person elements, so I have to assume they'll be like hackerspace open-door events that cater to the locals.
No one thought C++ was safe in the beginning. It was very clear with all of the undefined behavior that we were not getting any safety.
Long distance phone calls were like $5/minute so yes and no
That is what I mean with eternal growth... how can you missunderstand that?

Raspberry 4 has 2Gflops/W where M1 has 2.5!!!

Pandemic is not the problem. Energy and money is the problem.

Edit: Premise = Promise yes.
Nope, while I also did have TOTP before U2F (because it wasn't even a thing then), the rules changed to where if you don't have a phone number on your account, then you're required to enroll a U2F device before you can turn on TOTP.
My skills have deteriorated too. Mismanagement and poor company policies have created a lot of inefficiency and sapped my morale. I'm just coasting. I figure the disappointment, frustration, etc is present in any alternative job anyways.
A competent manager would recognize you're not a good fit for whatever it is that she needs, and would help you find another role in the same company, and if not available outside of the company.
This right here. I realized long ago I should do whatever I can to the best of my ability. If my superiors want to do something stupid or use my skillet in a suboptimal way my responsibility is to do my best to council with them, share what I see and then do the best job I can at whatever I am assigned to, assuming over course it doesn't cross legal or moral boundaries. My job is not my Identity we have an economic arrangement I do what I am asked to do, I do the best I can, not because my employer is fantastic but because I am mature enough to recognize that my work ethic is about me and not my employer, and then collect my pay check.

If my boss wants to pay me a SWE salary and then insists I clean out the break room fridge on Friday that is his perogrative not mine.
It’d be really interesting to see if it gets picked up into the ocaml community github org.

I’ve wanted to make PRs but know they’re not being accepted.
I remember being able to add a background to Firefox' UI a decade ago. Maybe they've removed it and are now celebrating it as a new feature despite it actually being a casualty of the browser's never-ending devolution.