skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should absolutely be extraordinary, but only if you've defined that for yourself, and know why you want it, beyond "positive attention from strangers." Figure out what you think is important to do with your life, do your best at it, and forget about if others think it's extraordinary or not.

Striving to be extraordinary implies that you are motivated by others opinions and feedback, and putting that above your own judgement, e.g. the number of followers on a youtube channel. Being actually extraordinary requires vision and leadership, which is basically the opposite of "doing whatever I can to make people think I'm extraordinary."

Most people I admire that did things I consider extraordinary were motivated by an internal passion or vision about how they wanted something to be, and didn't waste any energy on the opinions of strangers. Mostly, they didn't expect anyone to care about it, but focused hard because they wanted to for some internal reason, e.g. they enjoy it. In many cases they initially never even planned to ever share the work with others, they did it for themselves.

I think the author here is close with the final point of "extraordinary should not be the end goal" but is missing the importance of having a personal creative vision, and a goal that is resistant to others opinions.
I wish they would sell the Steam Deck in Australia. Does anyone know whether you can buy one overseas and use it anyway?
So which tool do you like?
If you're wondering why your comment is so lowly rated, I suggest you actually read the linked article before commenting on it. Or rather, before commenting on a scenario that has nothing to do with it.
Birthday Color
What people use it for and what it's meant for are two different things.
Wine didn’t get that much beyond “tech demo” level magic for many years. Magic for sure, but not of the same grade.
All that query is going to return is what the kids being asked think the adults want to hear.
Can proton be used to run other windows software well under Linux? I would KILL to have desktop-excel in xubuntu.
I got a false positive on runescape, fiverr, and tiktok for my username (not this one).
Basically Valve already partnered with anti-cheat developers and enabling their support on Linux is in fact just flipping of a switch.

Unfortunately this switch need to be flipped by developers / publishers of particular game and they dont cooperate too well.
Regardless of all this, this kind of job "interview" is better than 99% of all tech interviews I have given.

Ask me to prototype something that I would use in the actual job. Don't ask me random algo question. Don't ask me why I am so excited to work for your stupid company that I hadn't even heard of before applying
I've been hearing more and more anecdotal stories about children blocking their parents access to Fox, OANN, etc. via parental controls and wifi routers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/yz7y...
Wow, Mearsheimer came off looking like a propagandist. He very aggressively only wanted to talk about what he prepared to talk about, even saying that it was "unfair" to be asked about something else, even though it was his recent personal experience. Why don't you just, you know, tell is what you actually think?

And, you say that Putin's motives are great power balance rather than imperialism? That's fine, he can have those motives. I don't care. I really don't give a rip what his motives are; it's not OK that he thinks that his desires and intentions outweigh the desires of millions of Ukrainians, and it's not OK for him to try to force it onto Ukraine over their dead bodies. Doesn't matter what his motives are; it's still not OK. And Mearsheimer sounds like he thinks that Putin's motives justify his actions. They don't.
My children are adults now, but when they were growing up we wanted them to pursue productive creative endeavours so that they could learn life skills and figure out what they want to do with their lives. Our goal was to help them achieve self-sufficiency so that they could move out and feed themselves.

I'm not 65 yet, but once I am I hope that others will recognize my productive achievements and will leave me the hell alone to do whatever I want to with the rest of my limited time here on earth. If that means sitting on my ass doing nothing - that's my choice and my right.

It's not hypocrisy. A child and a retiree are not even remotely comparable. One is accountable to their parents, the other has likely worked their ass off for decades to earn a bit of down time.
> I'd probably feel blindsided if someone criticized my work in public w/o first talking to me about it.

Why, though? If you present your work in front of audience, it is extremely reasonable to expect the audience offer questions or criticism. If the mere fact of people criticizing your work after your presentation makes you feel blindsided, it’s simply a matter of adjusting expectations: you simply should expect criticism.

Then, if you expect criticism, but feel blindsided by the contents of the criticism, this means that you failed your job as a researcher. If someone can come up with a point after listening to your presentation for a few minutes, that you didn’t have thought of in advance and prepared answer for it, it means that you’re doing bad job, and should do better. You should actually thank the critic for bringing the issue to your attention, because in doing so, he helped you.
I do not know if by "build" you mean building from scratch a real PDP-11, or just repairing an old real PDP-11, or just building an accurate emulator.

Most real PDP-11 from the later years of the seventies had processors made with bipolar bit-slice circuits from the AMD 2900 series and memories made with 16 kbit chips like Mostek 4116 and these had to be supported by a large number of MSI and SSI Schottky TTL integrated circuits.

Maybe a few such ancient integrated circuits in working state could still be found, but for a complete PDP-11 a very large number is needed (a 256 kB memory needs 128 DRAM chips, the maximum 4 MB memory needs 2048 DRAM chips, the CPU might need 40 to 100 bipolar logic chips). I do not believe that attempting to reproduce the large size and the great power consumption of a real PDP-11 can provide an improved self-teaching experience in comparison with the implementation of a clock-cycle-accurate emulator of PDP-11/70 on a modern FPGA board.
To be fair, at age 80, doom is probably fairly imminent.
TV got good. It's hard to even talk about "TV" these days because we're combining artfully-crafted, thought-provoking shows like The Leftovers or The Wire with things like Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men. Same medium, but radically different forms of content.
Forget native Linux, it's more stable than native windows for me on a few games (and sometimes faster because of windows FS horribleness)
> You can now pay to access those working features you already had.

Judging by my interpretation of their website you can have access to these features on a time-based basis, like when you have a peak load on the database server or something. May be wrong because they seem to be intentionally vague but that’s a lot different than a software update to an oscilloscope (which is also kind of dodgy business practices).
But isn't WASI considered harmful?

I absolutely disagree with ASC's stance on this, but it seems that the AssemblyScript project at least wants nothing to do with that kind of thing:

[1] https://devclass.com/2022/09/08/assemblyscript-project-wasi-...

[2] https://www.assemblyscript.org/standards-objections.html

[3] https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/401
The Sinister Logic of Hidden Online Fees
Which is a bad idea also. We should have some domain name space which we let people register forever.
Well if you had 10 yoe with C++, you would certainly not achieve the same level of productivity with Rust for a while. Your point is valid in the sense that you should use the tool that you know if you need results, but it's not great criticism towards Rust.
see also Today's Guardian:

https://guardian.gyford.com/
New unit measurement prefixes are added to the metric system
Tagging for what specifically? What would you use the tags for?

I actually experimented with article topic-prediction for a few months, but assignment errors were annoying and it was not clear if it's useful at all.
The problem with a "no soliciting" sign is there is no penalty for violating it. And given these people are already violating social conventions by harassing you, they don't particularly care.

"Soliciting will be rewarded with refreshing lawn sprinklers." Not that I'm a fan of watering lawns in general, but if I had a problem with solicitors I might have to install a few.
parasocial maybe, but not social.
Yeah even as a kid I was never into video games. Just seemed like a waste of time. I rarely watch TV or movies now for the same reason. But what do I do instead? I find other ways to waste time like reading, other hobbies, browsing websites like this one. All activities with no external postive impact on anything. Just filling time.
He already removed the login prompt which was a huge annoyance as a read only user of twitter
Do you have any alternative solution in mind? ICQ numbers?
> Michael Phelps has an enormous wingspan, but he also trained 5-6 hours a day

Whereas a postman or police officer work 8 hours a day...
A List Apart always brings the memories. But I never realized that Aza Raskin posted there even I've read somethig like this from him elsewhere. Was big fan of Enso.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1595276621451141121.html
Thanks! Yes, the traffic from here exposed a few issues & bottlenecks in the backend infrastructure. I have resolved most of them and it seems to be running OK now (?).

To answer your questions: Noctie takes every move into account. Especially in short games or very one-sided games, a lot of the rating estimate will come from your opening play. If you play a bad opening, Noctie adapts and you will get an easier game, which may lead to simpler positions where you have less risk of making a mistake that would lower your rating. So what opening you play definitely has a big impact when trying to judge the rating from one game only.

If you create an account and log in, Noctie will accumulate information from several games to give a more balanced difficulty and more accurate rating estimate (and show how it changes over time).

Noctie's involvement isn't strictly required for the rating estimate although it creates good conditions for it by making the game balanced, not dominated by time trouble or trying to flag the opponent, etc.
I did not realize the full extent of the margin position, nor did I realize the magnitude of the risk posed by a hyper-correlated crash.

How could you not? That was basically your entire value proposition.

I'm sure there was also a ton of other fraud and mismanagement, but the entire thing existed to capitalize on line-goes-up, and you got boned when line-went-down.

There seems to have been a lot of other shenanigans, but even without those, FTX employees would be looking for jobs right now. Along with other employees of crypto-based finance companies.

It sounds like he should be "paying his debt to society" in jail, though financial crimes have a way of being subject to enough cross-finger-pointing that "Gosh darn, it turns out none of them are really guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt so I guess nobody gets punished. We should close those laws so that this doesn't happen again in the next financial debacle."
At least one product was developed in VB.NET. We tried to keep the current conventions when maintaining or extending it. It was mostly a wrapper around stored procs, so just a lot of Response.Writes.

For some reason, to me VBScript feels like I can whip up something really quickly, and VB.NET is "all the power of the CLR, with a bit of sugar to help transition to .NET."

VB.NET does feel a bit weird. Maybe some compromises to transition folks to .NET, and from there to C#.
Advocating for Linux as a means to watch child porn and groom children is a hot take I didn’t think I’d be hearing, even from Stallman at his worst.

I get your general point of complete privacy+control but, man, that’s definitely NOT the argument I think one should be making.
From the GitHub page, it looks like Divio is actually a fork of Diátaxis.

divio/diataxis-documentation-framework is forked from evildmp/diataxis-documentation-framework, and evildmp is Daniele Procida, the creator of the latter repository and the maintainer of diataxis.fr.
As otheres have said - just sit down and write. But sometimes if you do not feel like writing - try to do at least some light drawing exercises (like drawing small straight line thousend times over, or small circles or other geometrical shapes). I used to do this because I wanted to draw better but in the meantime my handwriting got legible by accident.

It appears that in reality writing is nothing more than drawing and same rules apply. The secret is hand-eye coordination (hence simple shapes), consistency (hence thousend times over and then thousend more) and the ability to observe subject (this is not so important at first with writing, but if you want to have really nice style, it can be useful).
Basically it's normal PC so you can even just install Windows there (but it will degrade overall experience). So there is absolutely no lock-ins and you can use hardware any way you like.
a notebook is a great column oriented database for when you cannot bring technology with you. I don't think there is any useful scenario for one otherwise
I don't understand - the relationships between guild mates aren't one sided at all. WoW raiding is like being on the phone with all your friends while you play a video game together.
https://documentation.divio.com/ seems to be talking about the same system.
For me the "I feel like I'm suffocating" was just caused by not taking a deep enough breath. If you're breathing slow, you also need to take in more air on each breath to get enough.
I think they're both a contributing factor. But I think long viewership of one channel is particularly dangerous. When you watch something like Fox news or MSNBC, you're getting only voices in your echo chamber and perspectives from one company alone.

The internet has somewhat of the opposite problem, it has an echo chamber for every niche, and gives a platform to every voice.

I think spending more time with people, or in projects is a much more healthy way to entertain yourself, and doesn't as easily lead to view distortion.
There are two different types of "want". You want to live a full and meaningful life. You also want another cigarette if you're addicted to smoking. Sure there are people who would consciously choose a cigarette, but they are a minority. Most people would rather be productive and do something that makes their lives better even if they end up lighting a cigarette.
My 70+ parents are the same but the other way—obsessed with all things Donald Trump and getting angry about him. Hours and hours lost to a politician they despise.

(edited for clarity)
Creative Writing with GPT-3: From Emoji to Flash Fiction
Presents evidence that hidden fees get more money, and don't drive away customers. One interesting counterexample the article doesn't mention is Amazon, where Amazon Prime is supposed to be a huge success because it offers free shipping.
Ask HN: Would you like to join a mob programming group?
I've been thinking of setting up a fully remote mob programming group and looking for a few people to join.

We could meet on zoom or use some other tool and tackle together some interesting issues from GitHub or pick an interesting project and work on it. I'm a full stack dev and that is a sort of project I'm interested in working on.

I'm UK based and would love to meet during the week after 8 PM as I have kids and want to put them to bed.

If you're interested reply with an email or ping me on telegram - username is mac_tele

Want the first meeting to happen next Thursday at 8:30 PM UK time

I'll set up a mailing group where we will agree on the tools to use and pick the first task to work on.

I'm not interested in opinions about mob programming, I have very positive experience with remote sessions :)
While I'm glad to see WASM get more attention, iirc wasmer has had some behavioral issues / drama in the past.

However, it seems they're making far more progress than wasmtime, so taking the bad with the good I guess.
Graal’s truffle runtime works basically as an AST interpreter, so you have to ship the LLVM bitcode.

I have yet to get my feet wet with sulong, but my guess would be that LLVM will produce different bitcode on different platforms, and thus the execution can potentially be different - also note that llvm bitcode is not a stable format. But I don’t think that interpreting it on a different platform than it was compiled on would have a fundamental reason not to work (after all, it is just java code) - perhaps it uses the platform llvm libs for some parsing, which is not platform-agnostic?
It does not seem like you want to give any contrasting explanation so much as a thought.

Your 40% gap turns into an 18% gap. Further more libertarian economies don't look particularly exceptional.

Together this suggest that the differences in GDP are much more easily explained by existing wealth and foreign policy/trade, instead of domestic factors.
Proxysocial
Additionally: Twitter's trust and safety team flagged multiple p0/p1 risks on the twitter blue verification (revolving around impersonation) that nearly instantly played out. Musk ignored them and yolo'd the product out. As an advertiser, but also as a business partner, this simply isn't the behavior you're looking for in a business partner. Bad enough to miss the risks, but for the ceo to blow them off...

Doing business with Twitter now means constantly being ready to react to whatever dumb stuff Musk decides to do despite multiple people (that he has a habit of firing) warning him about. I would probably prepared to suck it up and deal if it were Google or FB, but not for Twitter.
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences Today
Abstract:

You can encounter integer sequences all around combinatorics, number theory, and recreational mathematics. And if there is a multitude of objects of the similar form, then one can create an index for these objects. The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, OEIS, is such an index. This article covers the On-Line Encyclopedia inclusion criteria, its editorial process, its role in mathematics, and its future.
IOCP was missing a rather obvious feature until recently: disassociating a handle from an IOCP:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30688028/un-associate-so...
CLOS extends the Common Lisp philosophy of emphasizing developer flexibility, possibly at the expense of execution efficiency (not trying to open a can of worms here).

For any application of substantial size, I can't imagine not using CLOS classes and generic dispatch. It may be overkill for small projects, but as the code complexity grows the abstractions of CLOS make their worth known. That's been my experience most recently with my 3D graphics system.
Hey, that's really cool, will check it out! The backend was experiencing some issues leading to laggy play by Noctie, I hope it's working better now.
> I assume this is the kind of problem that can be overcome with a nicer debugger though.

I think this would be something that modern debuggers need to solve somehow in general.

There are more and more languages with high amount of syntax sugar, where the output to be debugged doesn't have much in common anymore with the code written.

Debuggers need to be aware of desugarings somehow.

But it makes no sense to implement this on a case by case basis for every language. We need next generation debuggers! (But I have no clue how "a sugar aware debugger" could be implemented; something in the direction of "source maps" maybe?)
Very interesting! Apparently a lot of information on the Internet about the Jai language is outdated which makes me curious about the follow up post!

I don't know if OP is the blog owner. If yes, I'd love to have an option to subscribe to an email list. I've installed an RSS feed but email is still my preference. Thanks!
Why is not not waste of life to read novels?
Why is not waste of life to hike?
Why is not waste of life to pursue hobbies?

These are very subjective matters. And sometimes you are just exhausted and you only want to decompress without thinking. Watching TV, TikTok, aimlessly browse the internet are all great ways to do so.
> Most sites that require an email don't need an email, and only ask for it so they can spam users with nonsense like product updates.

Not the only reason. It adds friction for people trying to create an army of sockpuppet accounts.
I suppose the conspiracy theory answer is that the Democrats only became motivated (or petty) enough to illegally(?) attack the WikiLeaks website after Assange caused Hillary to lose.

For most of the period between her losing the election and now, Trump has been in power, and Biden has had more important things to focus on than getting revenge against Assange/WL/Russia. (Also, it would be hard to maintain plausible deniability if the website started failing right after Biden took office).
It's very flatteringly, said I was about 1950 FIDE, 2200 lichess. I'm closer to maybe 1300-1400.
At least in my case they are absolutely social in nature, not parasocial in the slightest, what are you on about?
The SEC has put itself in a weird position.

On one hand, it claims the right to regulate crypto. But then it also refuses to actually do so. Aside from a few easy-win, barely crypto, high profile cases like the Kim Kardashian, they carefully avoid actually regulating AND loudly proclaim they are THE regulator.

Which is it?

I don't know. And one reason I don't know if that the SEC carefully avoids any court cases where "Is the SEC actually allowed to regulate crypto?" might be ruled on. That's their choice.

Another reason is the Congress (who really should answer this question) refuses to. So I don't want to lay all the blame at the SECs feet. Let's get real here, the SEC are the first group after FTX senior leaders themselves to blame. They have said so themselves. They investigated FTX and ... stopped despite it being their job? Missed a multi billion dollar fraud along with 1000s of other issues? Come on!
https://noctie.ai/walkthrough/public_55e0d2f7-d18e-42aa-a969...

both the machine and i played with elan (reckless abandon), rarely thinking more than a few seconds per move

crazy game that convinced me to sign up

i love that it ostensibly tried to stalemate me at the end, that's what i'd do too and often draw back when i played chess

i stopped because F** zero-sum games

but against noctie i'm not releasing stress hormones into someone's brain so i can like chess again
Maybe there are with combinations. I might be the best programmer who can do woodworking, play flamenco guitar, and squat 475 lbs. I'm just waiting for that category to be added to the Olympics.
There are lies, damn lies, statistics and benchmarks, but I do take you point. It does give an idea but is the main goal of the project speed or portability (genuine question)?
"Adjective. parasocial (not comparable) One-sided (especially of a relationship, as for example between celebrities and their audience or fans)."

In which way organizing a raid via (say Discord or whatever communication way you use) coordinating efforts towards a common objective and, in some cases, meeting your teammates offline is something parasocial?
Have you watched Severance on Apple TV+ yet? It's so good, and thick with symbolism and dual-meanings.
DDoS Attack on Class Central: Mitigation, SEO Impact, and Costs – Class Central