skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People got better at something they practiced?

> Though many people have this pervasive fear, research has shown that most strangers are perfectly happy to be spoken to, leaving this common fear unfounded.

They could be happy because it’s a nice change of pace. But what would happen if 20% of people started interacting more with other people? Would that be liked, or would people be annoyed with that?

> Social interaction is very important and has many well-documented benefits, such as increased happiness, better health, and stronger sense of belonging.

This has become yet another thing for me to worry about: how many “cigarettes worth” am I smoking by not socializing enough? Thanks, media.

I am almost never lonely alone. (Being along isn’t terribly fun but it doesn’t feel bad, either.) Only together with other people. Because I see what they have and what I don’t. Then I blame myself for my jealousy—it is mine, after all. But jealousy is a social thing too, is it not? And that’s kind of the kicker. Feeling out of place, unworthy, being bothered by the well-adjustedness of others is also part of the social game. So yeah, they get to have better blood pressure, better longevity, and so on—good for them. But I wonder: was their joy and happiness a social co-creation, while my less-than-happy disposition (again, in the proximity of other people) was self-inflicted? Because it wasn’t like I just looked at the bare facts (as presented to me) of other people’s lives and then felt bad—I was also informed, in no uncertain terms, of what was acceptable, good, wholesome, and what was deservedly labeled as miserable and degenerate.

And yet they will be happy together while my misery is almost only mine—(1) it was self-inflicted, (2) there is no one else to blame but “society”, which is too vague, and (3) being upset at others would just lower my status further.

And I also will be quiet about this to others. Because no one wants to hear about it. But I will know. And they will know. And I will say “it was fine”. And they will judge me or don’t care. And I will think that they judge me.
> There wasn’t even anyone to call for the issue

You could call the dispatcher, who was physically local to you. Today's apps, maybe you get some ZenDesk type thing, or in-app chat to some large, faceless corporation, and my admittedly limited experience is these things tend to be very dismissive of customers, viewing support mainly as cost and trying to get rid of customers rather than addressing issues.
You might enjoy Wolf's appearance on Ezra Klein's podcast https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas....
The sales team was largely Mexican-American, and sometimes they would imitate their own grandmothers.
Gas car range predictions are also regularly nonsensical. I thought this was well understood.
Gates is probably a great example. But you are right, only successful founders become famous enough.
But......EVs do work in cold weather? You lose a bit of range, but so what? My ICE car also gets worse mileage in winter.

And if you're talking about extremes - then there's a reason why block heaters with external power connections are very common in certain places - even the best ICE struggles to start in -40C or less.
Great companies design for the best product experience and work backwards to the best technology to make it possible. Crypto is solutioneering at its very worst.
To take a step back, what do you think SBFs chance of skipping bail is? If you were to wager, what percentage would you put it at?

I'm willing to concede that we don't have a ton of apples to apples comparators. I do think there is a lot of general data, but as you point out, there are a lot of caviats.
> Because hotels can be expensive

Perhaps buying a $60k+ car isn't the best idea if that means you can't afford a hotel room occasionally.
Or, in this case, adults.
So mathematically the relationship is actually cubic, of `d` minus a constant.
Merry Christmas, everyone on HN!
> and more administrators will be hired to help facilitate student social life.

Pre-registration of large (“level 3”) parties has been a thing for a long time. But when I was there, one pre-registered a party, one did so online, and I imagine a single administrator could keep up with the entire workload.

This made sense for a few reasons, including:

Parties can be dangerous affairs, and campus security needs to know where to direct its attention. (There is no need for campus security to be hostile to parties, but a good campus police force should help ensure everyone’s safety.)

Student groups throwing parties generally want good attendance, and pre-registration allows them to coordinate dates.

Pre-registration helps avoid facepalms like throwing a party during finals.

For what it’s worth, the actual policy:

https://vaden.stanford.edu/super/education/parties/party-pla...

Isn’t that crazy.
> someone that has no ability to make quantitative estimates

wow, thanks! Way to patronize.

We don't need "quantitative estimates" -- we just need a qualitative estimate of the propensities of politicians. Especially in California.

Edit: I'll match my quantitative skills against yours anytime. It's just that they don't need to be deployed on this one.
Also, once you have your base install working, then futzing around is super cheap and almost riskless [1]. You can completely brick it, discard it, try again, and/or roll back to your working base system with very little cost in time and effort. It enables no-cost rapid iterations in your system config.

[1]:the only risk is that once in a blue moon, a major version Nix upgrade will change Nix's database schema, and be incompatible with prior builds of lower versions, so you can't roll back to a lower version build after such an update. But afaik that's only happened a few times in Nix's history, is not a surprise, and is communicated well in advance.
> Not every vice needs to be legal.

Yes, they should. We've collectively agreed that dangerous drugs should be legal (i.e., alcohol and tobacco). Making them illegal doesn't make it go away, it just fosters criminal activity.

Tax and regulate them. Educate the people about the dangers (honestly) and treat abuse as a health issue, not a criminal issue.
Merry Christmas! Be well
Exactly, relying on the stock market for any sort of prediction is silly. Markets are short lived, over react, and basically rely on the supply of cheap money and growth of money to keep going up.

But exponential growth can only go for so long.
Merry Christmas, my incredibly brilliant HN family! HN has been a home now for 13 years and I can't wait to see what engaging discussions we have in 2023. Life is never hopeless. If any of you need a friend -- my personal email is in my profile.
N.B. despite London being a “diverse” city, racialization permeates, even among the elites. Pop culture commentaries — the Meghan & Harry Netflix documentary; the popular Man Like Mobeen series — as indicators of wider problems. Would this be surprising given the extent to which global racialization has been a primary factor in construction of the British empire?

The recently released Abolition Revolution by Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean might provide context on current dilemmas in Britain.
We were talking about the WORLD. Not the US. The WORLD has seen enormous improvements. Much larger than the backslide the US has experienced.
I've been generally disappointed with my Apple Watch, though it looks good and the fitness tracking app mostly works as intended. I find the interface buggy and slow and you can never use it more than a day in a row without charging.
With Firestorm, Open Simulator and Termux you could theoretically host your own world in VR on your Quest.
https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2021/03/second-life-social-vr-ocul...
I like that they are doing this as a manually process. We are doing this for a bunch of customers now at https://88stacks.com they train their own model for their own use cases through our api.
Merry Christmas from Logan Airport, where my flight to SF is now 5 hours delayed.
The thing is they are not different in this case. Null is not a special surname, it was perfectly normal before digital data processing. It was made „special“ in a solution of some incompetent engineer, so if you want to tell this person the reason, the root cause is that someone screwed up, not the name. And I’m pretty sure they are being told that. How would it help to say, that the reason was their name? To make them feel bad because of who they are? They cannot do anything but to think that all this suffering is because of the name, which will be wrong. Some engineers are often too lazy to do a research and make narrow-minded and ignorant assumptions about the culture: this is just one example, but there are many more. Should we every time tell the victim that they were denied service because of who they are, what they do or how they live instead of just fixing the engineering culture?
Everything about this case has been the system working as intended, and faster than normal.

If the conspiracy theorists had just sat back and relaxed, they would have seen the guy get arrested, extradited, and charged for a crime, which is exactly what was supposed to happen.
Most breweries attract trash people to drink overpriced, "homemade" piss water. We don't need more.
We were in San Mateo recently and took a Lyft to a restauraunt. It was a gull wing model Y, which was curious to see in operation, and also curious to see as a Lyft car. Anyhow, we got in, and were pulling out of hotel parking lot when the driver unprovoked said "I love my Tesla, check out its self-driving!" and takes hands off the wheel, right before a 90 degree turn near the hotel. It did it, but it did it weirdly, not like real driver. My wife and I were both really freaked out and later agreed that that wasn't what we got a driver for and we wished he kept his hands on the wheel.
fuck off dude, we literally do that. It's exhausting. Is it really such an imposition to have labels?
As much as manchin likes to say, democrats do not benefit from the filibuster. Tons of Republican issues are single issue nonsense that the majority of the country would detest if passed, so republicans rely on the filibuster to just not do anything. Forcing republicans to actually pass laws would be good for democrats politically.

The filibuster continues to exist because it gives people like manchin compete power, so the most moderate of each party will always try to keep it alive.
The amount of GitHub contributions may have something to do with how popular Second Life is for furries, and how many IT professionals are furries.
Assuming browser developers are not insane or incompetent psychopaths, why do you think they’ve done it this way?
Well... maybe. Partly for sure. But we also know that the GPD-to-CO2-emissions coupling that used to be super strong has been thoroughly broken. So first order yes, second order? maybe. Third order? Almost certainly not.

That being said, we need to do WAY more obviously.
Except in the southern hemisphere.
I believe otherwise: I believe that it takes what it takes, and what it takes is unknown, perhaps due to a lack of trying to determine what it is (it's not exactly a money making undertaking).
> it does not make sense to call Rust "proprietary" because it only has a living specification,

It doesn't have a "living specification", it has a reference implementation. There's a difference. HTML is a living specification without a reference implementation. Rust (and many other languages) have a reference implementation without a living specification.

> The only reason people wouldn't call your changes "Rust" is because the community doesn't share the same expectations

That's not true; you cannot call it Rust because Rust, the programming language, is trademarked.

It is protected, you understand? There are legal barriers to calling your NewLanguage "Rust", as explained by the foundation themselves over here: https://foundation.rust-lang.org/policies/logo-policy-and-me...

Writing your own language and calling it Rust is legally forbidden.[1] You are, of course, free to use the permissive copyright but the name is trademarked.

Now, with C, OTOH, as an ISO standard it has no trademark so this argument does not even arise.

[1] As far as I can tell, it would be legally forbidden even if your new implementation of Rust behaves identical to the reference implementation. The best you can do is call it Rust compatible.
Suckless comes up every so often and then it goes on to politics about the Suckless people.

I really like the idea of Suckless, I wish the people involved with it directly addresses what to me seems to be a disturbing political slant at their conferences.

Of course, you can ignore that an just use the software. Or better yet look for other similar software created by people that are apolitical.

OpenBSD seems to be a place that does its best to be minimal, and their network setup to me is far better then anything else in Linux or the other BSDs.
The Algorithm Design Manual, which maybe should have been named The Algorithm Selection Manual.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/425208.The_Algorithm_Des...
Hans Rosling would agreed.

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and why is this flagged?
Bitcoin is Notepad, Ethereum is becoming MS Word.
Check their post again their car lost loads of charge over a very short range because of the cold so in effect it was losing range overnight. It lost 15 miles over 1 mile of driving and another ~15-20 on the next mile driving back.
Merry Christmas from the airport bar!

May your 2023s be full of family, grace, and good fortune.
>From the article: "The CER modelled the performance of a “doppelganger” UK – if the nation had remained inside the EU – using data from other advanced economies similar to Britain prior to Brexit, including US, Germany, Norway and Australia."

Which borders on the comical. The US e.g. being the top dog bossing other countries around to buy their own gas and profiteering from the war, Norway being an energy producer (and the top 3rd largest gas exporter in the world), Australia being a totally unrelated economy in a whole other region with whole other factors, and Germany controlling European policy (with or without the UK in it).

The "study" is trully an art of interpreting data to taste!
Charging EVs is easy and simple if you just plug in when arriving at a location.

Doesn't matter whether it's Level 1 charging at 1.5kW (120v) or Level 2 at 6.8kW, or if it's -11F out, just plug it in and give it time to charge.

Leaving your car unplugged in a frigid environment will cold soak the pack and cause your pack to spend an hour or two worth of energy heating up to temp on Level 1 charging, or 10 to 15 minutes on Level 2 charging. This is normal and you just need to leave the car plugged in.

With an ICE car your heating generally takes minutes to heat up, versus I can have my car ready in a minute or two with just turning on the heat to melt off the quarter inch of ice build up on my windshield and windows.
But my car cost less than $2000.
California has had a net decline to domestic (intra-US) migration for quite some time; pre-COVID, it was more than compensated by international immigration.
I’ve always really loved suckless. Only thing I don’t do is dwm. I’ve always preferred evilwm with dmenu.
Funnily enough, lots of folks have moved states. I moved my family from Washington to California.

Lease - 2K. 3rd party Furniture transport - 2K. 10 day hotel stay 1.5K. 5.5K total cost.

You have already admitted that the 40K was double what it would have supposedly cost your friend. Time for you to divide it by a further 50%. Also, the statement that you would have to pay out your entire lease cost is, frankly speaking, ridiculous.

Congratulations on having signed leases in dozens of states. How many dozen states would that be? 2 dozen? 3 dozen?
Those stories remind me of a Carlos Santana (the guitarist) anecdote:

during the late 70s he would often play guitar on acid. He felt great and that his music was among the best he ever played. He then asked to be recorded in one of those sessions/concerts where he gave his very best.

Few days later he went to the studio, excited to hear what he produced in that session and..he just couldn't listen to it. It was awful, the worst of his recorded performances ever by far. Missing notes and beats out of time, pointless arpeggios, just terrible.

He then decided that he was never ever going to do anything related to his profession on drugs.

I too tried to code and do professional stuff on drugs in the past. It just doesn't work. You may enable a part of your brain that gets less used when you're normal, but you entirely lose the relevant one evolution gave you to process information and distinguish between good and bad idea. You also get super lazy.

Thus I second your thinking: they probably thought of touch or other devices when high not because of it.

Also, I'd like to add that I think those stories are only good when not fact checked. Didn't 2001: Space Odissey feature advanced touch devices that streamed video, had video calls, productivity and much more? That's a 1968 movie and I'm quite confident it was probably not the first thing those devices where imagined.
This seems like it would be extremely simple for tech folks to understand.

Strikes me as strongly analogous as to why each of us doesn't run our own email server? Which is, when email was first invented, may have not seemed like a bad idea, but in terms of scale something like federation works better?
A big reason people own cars is that taxi rides are expensive. The idea is that FSD will dramatically reduce taxi ride costs by taking the driver out of the equation.
Russians don’t celebrate Xmas on dec 25, but Jan 7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_Russia
Arsenic is an essential micronutrient with a toxicity profile similar to selenium (another essential micronutrient). Arsenic is sufficiently available in diets around the world that deficiency isn’t going to be a thing unless you go out of your way to aggressively remove it from the water supply.

Your attempt at an analogy was clumsy and nonsensical regardless. They aren’t serving poison at schools. Sugar would have been a better example.
Flywheels. What's the state of the tech for that?

Surly that's where we should be developing. Last I heard they're very efficient.

In theory it has no ceiling, storagewise. And it certainly isn't constrained by a chemical reaction.

The only downside is keeping it from blowing up. Right?
No, open source is a vague term with many different definitions. The open source foundation does not control the english language.
18Mpg becomes 10Mpg or worse in the winter in my experience. EV driving can be more efficient if you don't let your battery cold soak for hours, or equally inefficient if you do leave your car unplugged overnight.
It would be much easier to communicate if we removed words like “intersectional” and “woke” from our vocabulary.

SF doesn’t want to enforce laws and fun things are less possible when violent idiots attend.

There’s a demographic skew when it comes to violent idiots and people with more virtue signaling than sense are trying to turn “violent idiot” into a protected class and strangely start celebrating many of them.

So we can’t have nice things that attract people who tend to hurt others.
I am all for EV, but if besides needing to take care that I plug my phone and my watch every night I must also not forget to plug in the car and if I forget, I must apologize at work for not coming in, or my kids cannot go to school... just because it easily can get to -15°C here... then it feels like a technology issue and not like me doing the worse thing possible...
The context of the discussion is someone sleeping in their Model Y, not someone penny pinching to get by.
I switch between Haiku and Q4OS on the same netbook, and they are both very responsive. The Linux distro does indeed have some performance advantages. However I haven't tried beta4 yet.
>> I’ve spent Christmas alone more than I care to admit over the last decade but this community never fails to offer insight, inspiration, and compassion.

This is my first ever Christmas eve alone. I'll see my family tomorrow, but no more inlaws, and my kid is with her mom tonight. Divorce is.... different. I've got wine and a blanket.

I'm getting back to FLOSS. Dropped a PR on OBS Studio yesterday. I hope it gets accepted as my Christmas present to the Free Software community. Take care peeps!
Yup. I've always said that Bitcoin is the grey brick cellphone or the Model T; the famous proof-of-concept that nonetheless ends up getting overtaken by better tech.
The northern hemisphere has 90% of the world’s population. It was a pretty safe general statement.
Why would a government have anything to do with this?

But if you insist: the best thing a government can do is to have some civic service which any kind of person can be called to do (not just the unenemployed, the retired, or other such people that the govt. wants to “keep busy”). There’s nothing that bonds more (between strangers) than reluctantly having to do some task because either Nature or Government is forcing you to. ;)

Or just facilitate the creation and running of volunteer groups.
NeedHelpWith: AI recommends books, movies, and podcasts for life issues
This is a quick project I made to help people struggling with issues in life.

It uses GPT-3 and a crafted query to tap into GPT's (very good) recommendations.

I'll likely add much more to the demographic selectors such as race, religion, etc. Along with specifying "N/A" to discard irrelevant demographic info.

Feedback is appreciated!
Love this community and huge thanks to Dang for keeping it humming!

Merry Christmas!
This sounds obvious. Of course the school isn’t going to sanction illegal drinking on campus. And of course random RAs are going to possibly give more flexibility.

This is like asking the police department to sanction drunken driving — versus individual cops making a judgment call.
Not exactly challenging, they're covered in a decent undergrad Algorithms course.
Sorry to hear about your family - I hope you have some community around you.

Being the “uncle” of the community (who isn’t related to anyone by blood) is actually a pretty fulfilling role sometimes.
All things have defined limits; Your gasoline will stop working at like -40 F. And while ICE vehicles have reliable mileage in the winter, they are absolutely prone to issues related to extreme weather. Also, I'm curious where you get the 30 requirements from, since for the most part it's basically just having an outlet installed. Not everyone can do that, sure. Not everyone can ride a bike to work, either. What's the point of this flippant crap?
The only thing that matters is the primary. Ignore general polls and look at the party ones to see which policies will be championed. Candidates try to back off after they win the primary but it’s usually ineffective and commonly backfires when the opponent calls them a flip flopper.
I think at this point it's pretty obvious that Thomas is an angry and bitter man who is for whatever reason hell bent on "owning the libs". If we're stuck with this system of politicizing justices based upon the party that appoints them then at the very least I think term limits are appropriate. 12 years? 15? 20? I see no reason for this justice for life crap.
It took rather a long time - a couple of minutes - to re-encrypt all my passwords, which presumably is why they didn't do it on login. But yeah, a notification sure would have been nice!
People have extremely high expectations of range estimates. These displays are known as Guess-O-Meters for good reason, they only account for past weather, driving conditions and style.
> MIT/Apache-licensed Rust

Rust is not MIT/Apache-licensed, rustc is.

Rust is licensed under terms that require explicit permission for use outside of a few very narrowly-defined circumstances.
You need to solve hard problems. Code Jam is an amazing source for this. Just don't expect to knock them out in 5 minutes. Pick a hard problem and stay a week with it trying different ideas and compare the time complexity.