skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Nix idioms that are used in configuring NixOS are super simple, mostly just turning things on and off.

You can browse some here: https://search.nixos.org/options

For example, to install an OpenSSH server and run it, you'd write:

services.openssh.enable = true;

and to run it on an additional port, 2222, instead of just the default of 22, you'd write:

services.openssh.ports = [
22
2222
];

For programs you don't need to configure but just want to put on your PATH, you just add them to a list like

environment.systemPackages = [
pkgs.firefox
pkgs.jq
];

If configuration management isn't for you, go ahead and mess around with Nix as a standalone package manager. But NixOS really doesn't require much effort or prior knowledge to get up and running and start playing with it!

(For NixOS, the Nix you write only starts looking like real code when you want to add new features or some packages to NixOS.)
Yes, it is indeed how IVF works. You inject fertility drugs using a giant needle. It sucks.
For those who don't know what Frida is: https://frida.re/

I must say, this sentence from their docs describe it the best to me: Greasemonkey for native apps

It has little to do with Extism, but still is interesting.
This is an issue with the pension system. I don’t believe we’re overpopulated but it is clearly a bad system when it relies on a constant flow of more children
Techcrunch has more information on what Pulse is:

> Mozilla acquires the team behind Pulse, an automated status updater for Slack

> Pulse in its initial guise was a “virtual office” platform called Loop Team, but after honing the idea for a couple of years it pivoted and rebranded last November. Pulse, essentially, was an automated status-updating tool that used signals based on pre-configured integrations and preferences set by the user.

> For example, users could synchronize Pulse with their calendar and Slack, setting rules to stipulate what their status and corresponding emoji should be based on keywords in their calendar event title. If their schedule for a particular time says “hair appointment” from 12-1pm, then the person’s Slack status update might display a scissors emoji alongside the word “haircut.” Or, it might say “birthday” alongside a cake emoji if that’s what is in their calendar.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/01/mozilla-acquires-the-team-...
"This man was armed but not immediately dangerous except to himself and to the police"

Ok, so he was dangerous. Do police officers and neighbors not have family who love them? You're either dangerous or you're not. It sounds like he was dangerous.
My daughters are in performing sports. Cheer, gymnastics, skating, etc.
One is fantastic about having a huge smile while she does her routine.

The other goes the super focused borderline angry looking face when she focuses. We actually know she’s giving it her all when she’s giving that face.

If she’s goofing off and just having fun then she smiles.

Unfortunately judges don’t like it so much.

We’re going on 10 years of trying to get her to smile during a routine with no success.

She also can’t smile on command for photos. It’s quite cringe worthy.
I need an Advent of Vim to practice all of these
I've never written about this before but thought it might be useful for someone who may be experiencing the same/similar problem and believes there's no real prospect of having children.

During several years of trying to conceive, I undertook 2 sperm tests with the clinic and on both occasions drew a blank - literally nothing. I can't describe how brutally crushing this is to receive as news - especially from a poorly trained medical professional who has just delivered the news to you in much the same way he would tell you the time.

Since I had an amazingly supportive and clever wife, she researched various treatments and came upon a process called microdissection testicular sperm extraction (mTESE) which I believe was pioneered in the states and brought to the UK.

One mTESE procedure later (approx £5k privately) where they were happily able to extract 8 vials of viable sperm, followed by a course of free IVF (in some UK places you get 1 free round, but can be up to 3) - 5 viable blastocysts were grown, 2 inserted - and 9 months later a happy healthy baby girl was born.

I guess the summary is, guys: if you're having issues conceiving - don't always assume its the female, and get yourself checked out asap before its too late for easy conception - success rates drop off a cliff after age 38.

Even if you're firing blanks, there is hope
From the blurb it looks like an acquihire to bring Product Managers that employ Machine Learning and are experienced with recommendation engines.

The "making the world a better place" boilerplate is just damage control for the reputational cost of doing this altogether, and making a risky bet with regards to the bottom line.
Wouldn't human^2 chess be similar to regular chess? The human-chess AI is guaranteed never to play the regular-chess optimal move, so you can get a checkmate by always playing the optimal move (according to the engine). And unlike human chess, there's nothing preventing you from checkmating your opponent.

(I believe a chess engine could play human^2 chess exactly like it plays regular chess. A human couldn't because a human doesn't know what moves the chess engine would pick.)
How many 'hostage' situations are there in San Fran? I expect none or damned close to none.

No, these bots are going to be used in a more liberal fashion to justify all the effort being used to arm them.

This wont be for rare situations, this will be used for their ongoing crisis.
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Conjures happy memories of Populous (1989) and Cadaver (1990) on the Commodore Amiga.
That's my general sense of how things should be, although increasingly I see issues with that in terms of basic "visibility" dynamics in terms of the search engine problem and so forth.

For example, Google seems to be downweighting search results older than a certain amount, and I've noticed that if you go that route, it can be difficult to find certain unpublished/preprint-type papers of a certain age unless they appear in press. I think this might lead to an exacerbation of fad dynamics, because then papers that people know and remember are those that get a lot of buzz -- this happens now of course too, but I think it could be magnified in a different system.

You could introduce new search engines and so forth, but that adds a layer of complexity to it, and I think journals always have a way of drawing attention to certain new papers and maintaining their real-world availability.

I'm not sure I have a solution to this, but I've sort of become convinced that the approach you're describing, even though it's something I'm sympathetic to, has its own sets of problems that aren't necessarily better. I also wonder if journals will just end up being reinvented because there seems to be a logical train of thought that goes "well pay attention to those you trust to find papers" -> article curators -> fickleness about what's curated -> curation by committee/group -> reinvention of journals.

Things are completely broken imho (in academics in general, not just journals) but I'm not sure what to do about a lot of it. Maybe the problems in academics have always been social weaknesses that get brushed under the rug, but now with so many people involved there's too much to brush.
Your post has an enormous aroma of patriotism. Where were you when Taiwan was subsidizing TSMC? They were only able to outcompete Western fabs due to the enormous amount of government help they got in the early days. Those Taiwanese leaders sure were stupid to have invested in chip manufacturing.
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Perhaps. Let's look at Andy Ngo's invitation in context. Republican lawmakers asked him to testify during hearings about the January 6 insurrection attempt. His testimony mainly aimed to downplay the feeble insurrection attempt, and shift focus to riots. Of course, he fails to mention that the riots were often directly caused by police action.

https://www.courthousenews.com/domestic-terror-still-thorny-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/opinion/sunday/police-rio...
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Webauthn passwordless is the answer right now.

Obviously doesn't work for many sites cause people are still convinced passwords are good.
I can find you a dozen comments rehashing "The New Microsoft (TM)" which allegedly won't do such thing as forcing Secure Boot further because they have changed, the culture have changed, they now "Love Linux (TM)" and whatnot.

Companies are companies. I'd love the future to sucker punch me and prove completely otherwise.
I don't see anything changing yet in terms of Global Influence. TSMC will still have their leading edge, state of art, and majority of capacity in Taiwan for the foreseeable future.

The 4nm US Fab, based on N5, will be two years behind in 2024, where TSMC will be producing N3 class in volume and N2 in 2025. Given the N3 Class are long node before moving to something more exotic and expensive N2 with GAFFET. I would expect the US Fab to be upgraded and start producing N3 in 2026 on US Soil.
Only thing I’d add is that at no point was I claiming that climate change was not serious or urgent.

My point is that people at large generally don’t care enough to be really bothered by climate change, so there’s no budget in the limited attention we as a species are willing to set aside for inconvenient truths to consider much else.
Thank you for the well thought out comment. Current day US politics are absolutely absurd, it's a show to distract the public while capital owners continue to enrich themselves off the backs of everyone else. We need our politicians to actually step up and do something for the workers of the country who keep things running. Not more of the culture war bs. This goes for all political denominations
But why ..
People should be free to draw their own conclusions, as idiotic as those conclusions may sometimes be. But obfuscation only creates more space for conspiratorial thinking. More transparency is the solution, not the problem.
There’s many problems with the pension system, but the fact it requires humanity to continue to reproduce isn’t one of them.
So cool. When I drive to San Diego to see family and friends I drive right by these massive new facilities on the new Route 303 bypass outside of Phoenix.

I am so happy to see more super high tech manufacturing happening back to my country. While I am in general a fan of globalization, I also believe that for resiliency every country should maintain their own unique cultures as well as have some independence so that with a reduction of life style they are still be able to survive independently from the rest of the world.
Acquirire: a neologism which describes the process of acquiring a company primarily to recruit its employees, rather than to gain control of its products or services.
They made that. It's called xmr.
We had some fertility issues as well and while IUI and time worked for the two children we have IVF was looked into. Before the whole thing I didn't understand why people didn't just adopt. But once looking into the sky high costs and uncertainty of adoption I understood why IVF is popular. It is expensive and uncertain as well, but much less so.
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Population reduction is good, but once the world population falls to say 500M and you want to maintain it, you need ~2 babies per woman on average. If conceiving becomes difficult, we may not achieve that and hypothetically end up in a Children Of Men situation.
This is exactly how IVF works. The ovaries generate more follicles, which are collected directly out of the ovary.

You can also cause the ovaries to release more eggs during a menstrual cycle to increase the likelihood of fertilizing one of them. This is IUF.
It has happened before, police and private security did it with guns and violence. Workers died.
I wonder if there is any correlation with the use of hormonal birth control prior to attempting to conceive.
TSMC expects to begin mass production of 3nm chips in its Taiwan fabs by 2023 Q4: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4546779-tsmc-no-3nm-soon

This isn't my field, but I'm not sure what's the excitement about an Arizona plant that will optimistically start production a year later with an older process.
The resource use has been the death of any full text desktop search I have tried to use. How lightweight is Recoll? I don't see much on this on the website, other than I have to use an third part CPU limiter if I want to limit CPU use.
Well the alternative: being totally beholden to SBF and allowing campaign contributors to openly buy public figures and their favor is much worse no?
I live in Colorado, and I think it's just less oxygen and its effects on metabolism.

It's definitely not a topic that's examined enough.
If a sore is outside of the area covered by a condom, a condom doesn't do anything. But I am reading that it is recommended to use condoms to prevent the spread of herpes generally, even without an outbreak.
Am I the only one that thinks anyone could hack up something like that in a few hours tops? I mean I can't because I'm lazy and don't do anything with my slack status to begin with, but still.
At first I thought this was the internal survey tool or product for surveying employee satisfaction metrics. Anyone familiar with this btw?
Would you prefer that they kept supporting scams? The fact that US politics is inherently corrupt and depends way too much on big money donations is absolutely disgusting, but given that that's the law of the land, I'd rather they accept the bribe and do the right thing anyway, than to accept the bribe and stay bought.
> Humans can’t notice 100ms or 200ms latency

My gut is that there's a lot more to this, and that it's not broadly true.

I live in the UK and have worked from Australia a few times, and the latency is around 220ms. When typing over SSH, the latency is very noticeable. Not in terms of pressing a key and feeling lag in it showing up, but in a feeling of sluggishness when typing more than a few words at a time. I also notice this feeling in web apps that use React managed inputs for example.

My guess is that while 100-200ms isn't noticeable in one instance, adding that to every interaction in a system that has multiple interactions per second is noticeable.

A similar comparison is that I can't detect audio and visuals being incorrectly synced with much less than 200ms precision for individual beeps, however if I watch someone talking on a TV that's 30ms out I can tell something is wrong (even if I can't tell which direction).
>I get mentally exhausted after just 2-3 hours of pair programming

Who wouldn't? I get tired after 1.5 hours of programming solo.

>not really being able to just take the wheel and investigate things quietly for a few minutes

It's not disallowed. I do this all the time when pairing.

I have a suspicion that people who don't like pairing have more of a visceral rather than intellectual dislike.
I did, but like I said I
"was politely told to shut up" and "my job was to "deliver" not to ask questions.

This was raised in one on ones with the Head of Engineering, a weekly group planning with Head and CTO where it wasn't me but the Scrum master putting forward the question, then again as asides with the sales guys. This was a systemic issue with how the company was run and who was selected for leadership
As someone who has had tenure, this is exactly correct. The catch is that that process doesn't end with tenure.
I have had both good and bad experiences with MBAs and other business school grads, but I could say the same about STEM folks. I agree there are major cultural differences (i.e. BS from engineers takes a totally different form from BS from MBAs) but I think the more salient problem is if your management team consists of nothing but a single background.

If a tech company is run by business and finance folks it can become unmoored from engineering realities. But a tech company run by engineers and scientists can become similarly unmoored from business realities. In my experience, companies that promote well-respected members of their key disciplines into senior management roles seem to be the least dysfunctional.
> But don’t treat social security as some bank account you’ve paid into, it’s not that.

Maybe that's true, but "it's not welfare, it's your money, your benefit is proportional to your investment, etc" has been the marketing since inception. It's certainly what I was taught in high school civics.
My favorite part was the claim that shamans are able to use their plant-induced visions to "influence the weather".

I suppose my skepticism about the veracity of this claim is due to my "Western cosmology". Mea culpa!
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Find the bug:

https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1598042665375105024
boingboing used to be amazing, now it's mostly clickbait ads ):
Google is literally the “Kleenex” of search

Aka “just Google that”

I imagine the brand and goodwill value will have remarkable staging power forward as consumers decide where to do their AI search
How do I represent a differential equation?

https://twitter.com/jdjkelly/status/1598021488795586561
What consumers think of as normal "paper" tea bags release 11.6 billion “microplastics” and 3.1 billion “nanoplastics” into each cup. It's not paper.
I wonder how many developer layoffs they could have avoided by not buying yet another company unrelated to the browser market.
Then again I'm not a Mozilla executive with an average salary >$200k a year so what do I know.
Good thing that i do not trust both Microsoft and Mozilla myself already
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I've heard on a few podcasts that this is how European countries do this. We need to stop letting for-profit companies gamble with the health and longevity of the species in the interest of profits.
Ultimately, if there's a substantial pool of people who are not existentially threatened by global warming...
Democrats are the least skeptical about fiat, so hey, why not denounce it.
ok scrooge
Kottke.org is on a very small list of sites that I will subconsciously type into the browser when bored. I wish he would team up with a sales guy or maybe patio11 so the site could make more money. Seems like it’s often teetering on the brink.
This is of course an ideal, but in our brutal reality corporations owe no moral obligation to the society they are profiting from. They are only driven by capital and brand propagation. Sometimes a moral approach is taken as a compromise, to continue operating in peace, etc. We are left with defending ourselves as best as possible and sometimes the onslaught is too much, as indicated by multitudes of lawsuits and entire legal industries rising out of corporate negligence.
Anything to do with the recent activities on the calendar tool of Thunderbird?
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Palo Alto asked where its recycling went. The answer wasn’t pretty
It's great, until people realize GPT-3 will generate answers that are demonstrably wrong. (And to make matters worse, can't show/link the source of the incorrect information!)
Without being lazy like me and using a bunch of fire-and-forget code that causes race conditions.
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May I ask what draws you to the conclusion the tweeter reached? This seems like adblog spam otherwise.
I have nothing to add to this, I just wanted to say congratulations to your family and applaud your sharing of this information for whoever else it might help. :-)