skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely understand your point.

IMO the root issue is the language syntax allows you to write `foo.bar = 123` instead of `foo.bar= 123` which kind of obscures the fact that `bar=` is a method.

If you've never written Ruby I 100% agree that the NoMethodError is perhaps confusing. However as others have noted this is just a really simple core concept you learn right away! This is your standard "oops, I called something that doesn't exist" message and contains everything you need to see where you went wrong.

99% of the time that message is all you need; for the other 1% you can use a debugger to pause things and see e.g. what methods `foo` does support.
Nintendo shuts down Smash World Tour ‘without any warning’
If someone is convinced that black people are inferior to white people, I want them to be afraid to express that. I don't care about hearing evidence on certain subjects, and I want there to be societal repercussions for disagreeing about things like that.

While I do agree "cancel culture" in the way of "someone misspeaks once, so the twitter mob digs up their entire past and puts them on trial for every shitty thing they've ever said" is toxic and unhelpful, I'm perfectly in agreement that deplatforming bigots is actually helpful. As a concrete example, I'm very happy Kanye West has lost essentially all of his contracts and a lot of his supporters; he thinks "Jews secretly control the world" is true and wasn't afraid to say it, maybe others will be now and will self-censor.
Argh, I have mistaken one Nigerian author for another:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49759392
Unless I add in quoted search terms with "site:" filter i feel like it has become harder and harder to find "Quality" results. I am almost on the verge of creating personalised crawlers with custom search capability for personal usage.
Sounds like you should move over to Docker :p
Seconding this.

I cancelled my subscription quite a few years ago in light of the low quality of analysis in the UK section of the paper - it felt like tabloid journalism aimed at people who thought too highly of their class status and level of education to deign to read a real tabloid, yet essentially at the same level of insight, peppered with a few affected rhetorical flourishes conveying an aesthetic of educated sophistication.

It’s very much a newspaper designed to give people without the time or inclination to develop a substantial understanding of an issue a quite superficial overview, packaged alongside an opinion that can be regurgitated as required to give the impression that one has a respectable understanding of the matter in question (at the very least, outside some of its more detailed feature articles).

…Even in light of that, the rapidity of the decline in its coverage of LGBT+ human rights has been extraordinary, even by UK standards. The fact that prominent editorial staff at the newspaper (Helen Joyce, for one) are extremely prominent anti-transgender activists probably has something to do with it - but the sheer venom of its coverage really took me aback when I started following its current turn. The issue certainly isn’t specific to it, given the broader anti-trans/LGBT+ turn in the UK press as a whole, but the Economist stands out as one of the worst for it.
It's about making it clear what you want as an employer and hiring fairly. Employers should decide on whatever (legal) requirements they want candidates to have and then hire the first person who comes into the funnel who meets those requirements, allowing for tiebreakers. At most places that aren't doing groundbreaking work this will just be N years of professional development experience and being comfortable with X and Y technologies. If you want to be more complex you can create a rubric including years of experience, the score on a take-home project, GitHub activity or anything else.

It takes a strong hiring team to do it this way, knowing what they want and making decisions based on rules they've set for themselves. Weak teams will go by gut feelings, ego, random quiz questions, stuff like that. Put it this way, they say you don't really understand something unless you can teach it to someone else. You said you can evaluate programming strength within an hour. Could you teach someone else, or put down in writing, how to do that consistently? That's what I'm saying hiring teams should do.
It’s common to update treaties over time and to limit their scope to increase adoption. Failing to ban anti vehicle mines is no more relevant than the Ottawa Treaty failing to limit CO2 emissions.
The other languages that work with the BEAM are all roughly equivalent. I failed to be explicit, but as weatherlight indicated, languages like Ruby will never work on it.
Wait, wait, wait - we might be just using the word differently, but I would definitely not say that Newtonian mechanics is no longer "relevant". Sure, there are more accurate theories - even in the absence of gravitational fields, and at scales where you can ignore any quantum effects, special relativity is more correct, in the sense that Newtonian mechanics will give you misleading results at very high velocities.

But that doesn't mean it's not longer relevant. Suppose you want to model a fluid mechanics problem where the speeds are all well below the speed of light (so any fluids problem outside of a few astrophysics scenarios). You will be able to get far further using Newtonian mechanics, and derive far more results, because of the relative simplicity of Newtonian mechanics. Trying to derive everything using special relativity would get very messy, and would impede your understanding of what matters at slow speeds.
Not even surprised…the kind of culture Elon pushes for will most likely be only tolerated by young people with little responsibilities outside work. Good luck telling an old man with a family to be “hardcore” with his job..
> collective bargaining

I absolutely agree with unions. When an employee quits a company of 100, the company loses 1% of their productivity. But when an employee is fired, they lose 100% of their income.

Barring unions, employees should constantly be looking for a workplace, and change them regularly. There is no other way to capture their work's productivity.

The proportion of money captured by workers has been going down for decades, at least in the US.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
And it's easy when you're young to underestimate your lifetime potential to generate wealth. Some time spent on very long-term financial planning (like, 30-40 years out) can help reduce the feeling that one needs to earn as much as possible in the next 3 years or whatever. Compound growth is amazing over the span of decades!

It's also easy to overestimate how much happiness you'll get from buying expensive things. Quite a lot of people who buy boats or mountain/lake/beach houses (typical objects of wealthy lifestyle fantasy) go on to sell them later with gratitude that they're gone.

I would say that "good" compensation is an important component of a long-term job, but it does not necessarily have to be "amazingly great" to have a very comfortable, fun life. This is on top of the potential benefits of having good work-life balance when you're young.
I only use google with the site keyword helper now. For searching the net in general it's not entirely useless, but I haven't felt lucky enough to smash that lucky button in ages.
> her goofy opinions about trans women

I never heard of this person before today, and just checked her Wikipedia page[1] to see what the "goofy opinions" are.

Maybe the page is incomplete, but they don't seem all that "goofy"? What exactly a "woman" is is subject to quite a lot of disagreement, and I don't think there is an "easy" answer here. I think it's important this debate is being held, and this kind of "bruh huh goofy opinions" dismissive attitude is exactly what the author is complaining about.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie#LGBT_...

> As for people "just asking questions," it's sometimes really hard to tell if someone is "asking questions" in good faith or not

This is "just asking questions" about someone's motivation, and it's sometimes really hard to tell if that's in good faith or not, too.

We should all stop sowing FUD about people's motivation whenever someone expresses a view we disagree with. It's really toxic.
I don't think resting bitch face is about looking angry, but I understand your overall point.
Is speculating on crypto anywhere near as addictive as fast-paced casino-style gambling?

And people don't tend to ban themselves from gambling sites until after they've made big losses. It'd be the same for crypto.
I actually ended up looking for myself before I saw your reply and found them here. https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/29688697. Thanks though.
> But every night, the emptiness of this endless cycle hits me and it feels so paradoxically heavy, like an insurmountable gravitational pull into the void [...] The advice I've read concerning this sort of disillusionment boils down to making friends/establishing a sense of connection to the world, and having a sense of personal direction.

I'm also quickly approaching thirty as a remote-working dev, have a nice social life + an amazing GF, but existential dread is still an issue now and then :)

Improving your social life is generally a good idea, but to me it seems that fundamental problem is a lack of meaning, purpose and direction.

Some people are merrily living their lives and never face the abyss of „what's the point of all of this”. Apparently you're not one of them, so might need to find purpose in order to achieve a reasonable level of satisfaction in life.

The elephant in the room: Unless you are convinced that every human life (including yours) or at least humanity at whole is inherently valuable, there really is no point in all of this. Especially when considering all the looming crises humanity is facing. Hedonism isn't fulfilling, as you've noticed yourself.

Go take a deep dive into philosophy, religion, psychology. Figure out what you want in life and work towards it.

I can very much recommend listening to/reading Jordan Peterson. Helped me a lot over the past years. I'm currently reading Carl Jung about yearning as a fundamental condition of life and its relation to creativity.
I came here to comment HPMoR. It's a little embarrassing because the book is very cringey at times, full of itself, and for those who care, quite sexist. But it has some incredible lessons in how to think rationally, especially in situations where most people don't believe you or are very used to doing things a certain way even when that way has bad consequences.

My favorite part of the book is when Harry goes around trying to collect the signatures of people who believe (on flimsy evidence and against their better judgement) that another character has committed attempted murder. Their refusal to directly advertise their beliefs (thus subjecting themselves to later scrutiny if they're proven wrong) is a direct reflection of how people in real society like to take intellectual and strategic positions without accepting any of the risk or responsibility of being wrong.
Maybe, but it would take massive amounts of buy in and (likely) money. There are some protocol hooks that could make it possible, but the current set of systems are optimized for one address allocation. It would be prohibitively expensive to either have a parallel transit network, or reengineer routers to manage multiple, parallel routing tables.

It's the social buy-in that the show stopper. There has been multiple DNS replacements, but none gained critical mass enough to get deployed on a large scale. It was never seen as worth the cost to migrate to a new naming system.
Agree 100%. Sensibilities have changed and I fear it's due to a load of social media propaganda. People have been overly conditioned to look for conspiracies everywhere. Even if you have resisted the onslaught of criticism of "liberal media" it can wear you down in subtle ways. I don't see any substantial drop in quality for the traditional standard bearers like The Economist or the New York Times. They're not perfect because they are run by a collection of human beings but they still do a better job than anyone else.
I have to disagree.

The quality of decline has really gone downhill in the last few years. Used to be that when things fell apart, they really fell apart (think revolution, collapse) but now they just peter out.
I use mu4e. As an example, the code for the subject thing is here https://github.com/bergheim/dotfiles/blob/025b8e6c9730f09fe1...
haha good one. it is, but in a good way.
I remember working with a team where a new starter had joined and although he talked a lot in meetings I wasn't sure what he was contributing. I checked the code commits and he had committed 2 things in a couple of months.

It wasn't my team so I didn't cause a fuss but from that point onwards I made sure that he wasn't on the critical path for anything I cared about.

In hindsight the mismanagement on that team probably led to the exit 5 years later being $100-200 million lower than it could have been. But the company was super stingy with shares so I'm not sure it would have been worth my time rocking the boat.

In other hindsight I might have realised why I look angry while I'm at work.
I do not have a 3d printer... but if someone sold them, I would part with money pretty quickly. Those are great pi boxes :)
Even a light dog can put a surprising amount of pressure through its feet if it wants to. Tiny paws mean it's all concentrated in a small area. My 10kg dog feels like he weighs a ton when he puts his front paws on me and leans into it.

I've no idea what it takes to trigger a mine, and I don't know if it would be enough, but a dog can press down harder than you'd expect.
There are a lot of important ongoing developments in obesity research. At the core, diet (mostly) and exercise (somewhat) are voluntary steps that you can take that will mechanically, thermodynamically, guarantee that you lose weight.

But being overweight by itself is bad, and there's more and more research ongoing on how to fix that specific problem, without fixing the underlying causes that stop people from making the kind of lifestyle changes that will result in a healthy weight.

Matthew Yglesias has a writeup of his own experiences [1] and his research into the state of the art of obesity research. If you have been trying and failing to lose weight, you don't have to beat yourself up about your failed attempts. Well, you can beat yourself up, it's a free country, but also consider looking into solutions that take your willpower out of the equation.

[1] https://www.grid.news/story/science/2022/09/14/why-arent-med...
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I think if you voice your concerns, your negative opinions, if you physically intervene against threats that makes you a less likeable person. If you go against someone else will, hit someone or intimidate someone then by definition you are being less liked by them.

At the same time I think being likeable is not always a target you should aim for.
I always get the feedback that I look very angry when playing the piano. I guess it applies to me concentrating on other tasks as well.
I just pictured a bearded guy (myself) with a tongue out, wearing a hat facing a bit more to the right, while leaning forward typing on a keyboard. Amusing picture, but unlike me. I look angry when in deep thought and focused. And loud when excited in discussions you'd think I am yelling.
The persistent and pervasive impact of bullying in childhood and adolescence
My experience is that the language-pair packs are downloaded on demand once, not "repeatedly".
This is why the most terrifying phase I will ever hear is “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
Only when reading hacker news
I get your point! I think a better analogy/wording would have been to say "earn more" instead of "work harder". :)
Learning to say "no" is a super power. It also takes a lot of tact, and that can include redirection. Instead of telling somebody what isn't possible, I like to tell them what is possible and reset their expectations. My "No" sounds a lot like a "yes" that they get to execute themselves.

"Hey, can you do XYZ for me, I really need it."

"Oh, are you trying to solve ABC? There's an article I found that shows how to solve ABC without even having to do XYZ- can I send it to you?"

"Sure!"

Now I'm on the hook to DM/email a link, but not do XYZ. Solved. Does it work for every situation? You guessed it.

No.
Thank you. I knew something was wrong and I actually realized like 20 minutes ago on a dog walk that I had used the wrong word.
Matthijs Douze (Meta AI) on the Weaviate Podcast on Quantization and Faiss
If the mines are known about, and prevent a location from being used for 2 days, I'd argue that they've done some job of area denial.

If someone is sitting next to the minefield waiting for mines to expire, they're not doing as many other soldier-y tasks like shooting people.
Does the author want stronger moderation, or weaker moderation?

If you want stronger moderation, so people are more civil, well, that's a type of censorship, isn't it?

If you want weaker moderation, then you should expect a lot of people to yell at you when you say something unpopular.

You can't have it both ways.
Curious about the leanings of the Media Bias Fact Check, Ground News, AllSides and that Wikipedia assessment?

Epoch Times is the most objective news outlet I've been able to find - actually reporting the news for what it is. Not censoring out stories it doesn't like, etc. If anyone knows of a more objective outlet, please let me know.
Trigger warning: This is a self-help thread. It may expose you to suggestions of self-help books and pop-sci of dubious quality.
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not forgetting to steal the cash and car before going there, so they cant easily be traced
Although kinda unisex name, the male version is the resting murder face. Which sounds about right for certain kinds of bugs :)

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Resting%20Mu...
Socrates

Plato

Alexis de Tocqueville

Notebook of Nicholas Tesla

Deep insight into non-engineering nature often brings out a solution that can be applied toward engineering/computer science.
The answer is the thickness should be just over half the coin's diameter.

At least according to Twitter and one of the responses to the first "answered before" source linked in the article:
https://twitter.com/radu_nicolau/status/956926727971852290
In USSR there was a very popular method of problem solving developed by Altshuller called TRIZ[1].
It seems that it is still being used in some other countries like Japan, S. Korea to improve manufacturing processes.
I read the books but I don't think it helped me to become a better problem solver...
I wonder if anyone looked at it too.

1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ
The minerals:

* Elkinstantonite - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elkinstantonite - Fe4(PO4)2O

* Elaliite - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaliite - Fe9PO12

So both are iron phosphates (I suppose, not sure what the best terminology would be).
We keep on making fun of php, but it had this problem solved in the 90s. Hit F5 in the browser, get the latest version of your software. No waiting 30s for a rebuild, no stale versions in caches, no headaches.
I think the idea that taxes must be paid in a specific currency is immoral. Money means division of labor. If you must pay taxes on economic activity then the government effectively forces you to engage in the national division of labor/economy which basically means the taxes we owe turns us into debt slaves who must work in the debtors prison known as capitalism.

We can argue endlessly about what kind of tax rate is immoral or necessary to run a modern society but having to pay taxes in a single currency is definitively the most immoral aspect.

After all, a lot of things that you get taxed on are difficult to turn into money without selling the whole thing. Like a house or a family business. If you could give the government an x% share then you would have already gained a lot of freedom.
> My "favorite" is the inability to delete a file that is open by another process.

What does the alternative look like?

Lets say a process has a file open. Lets say it is a really big one, like 200GB. Ok, so our disk is nearly out of space, better delete this 200GB file, problem solved right?

Only not. Because now even though the file looks deleted, the process still has it open and that space is still allocated to it.

So either you're hiding reality from the user, or you're preventing them from deleting a file that is in use. Windows went one way and UNIX went another.
https://archive.ph/TDz5i
> My "favorite" is the inability to delete a file that is open by another process

Because of this Linux "feature" I experienced data loss - I zipped a file and deleted it, but the process which created it was still writing to it. But all the data that it wrote now ended up in the void since the file didn't exist anymore. And there was no error/warning that the process was writing to a non-linked file, so I discovered the data loss much later.
It was a work-around to avoid patents on toilets.
Self-censorship is the result of thinking before speaking. The arguments which made you reach that result can vary. You can choose to self-censor whether you're right or wrong.

Nobody thinks they're wrong. So I'd make the bold claim that more often than not people who think before speaking are going to self-censor because their opinion is unpopular even if objectively correct. One right statement to the wrong crowd can "sink your ship" with some terrible consequences.

The combination between this "thinking" process and the reaction of certain groups selects in favor of the opinions held by the most belligerent group. You're more likely to self-censor when your audience will throw a brick at your head compared to when they just give you a stern response.

Anyway you can have a stupid opinion on one topic and a very sound one on another topic. You can promote equality of gender while rejecting equality of race/color. Even if you believe both are equally correct you may censor your second opinion to not have it sink your first one.
Ah yes. A famous best-selling author featured in the BBC is completely censored and her career is wrecked because... she got some angry tweets? What are you talking about?
First is a design decision.
The second can be easily solved by configuring the appropriate exclusions on Windows Defender.
It took you 2 weeks to put stripe library code, and wysiwyg editor library code on one page? This makes this even more funny to me with how you approach people who want an edit feature, as if its surprising and "weird" to you.
IIUC, they have ~6000 employees. So this ~20% of staff. Wow.

EDIT: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/DASH/doordash/numb...

Looks like in 2021 they had ~8600 employees, and the article says the layoff is only ~6% of employees - meaning they had ~20,000?
No of course not, and I'm smart enough to know the basic formula. But to simplify a lifelong struggle down to "simple math" is kinda disrespectful to all those struggling.
Perhaps you've just taken on the George Costanza method of looking busy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kafq7yrKAOQ

"When you look annoyed all the time, people think that you're busy!"
The ZIP Drive Tower is pretty impressive, too:

https://bbenchoff.github.io/pages/atapi.html

(especially the ATAPI/USB adapters)
2114 on desktop.

The laptop has 1000ish.
Do you have a good reference point for me to start learning that stuff? I use linux almost exclusively, but it bites me often enough it is worth a few days to self educate.
Scanning the blockchain with this tool can save you a ton of time
The article says "The cuts will affect about 6% of the company’s workforce, a mix of US and non-US based staff, according to people familiar with the matter asking not to be identified as the matter was not yet public"