skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been studying English, Political Scienes, Computational Lingustics, Cognitive Science and Engineering Psychology, then worked as a developer in various startups and am now a Product Manager (a common job title for 'wildcard' people, according to the article).

I've switched jobs on average every 2 years and am still trying to find the one position that can really fill my needs. The closest I got was as a technical Product Owner in a multi-team development effort where I managed to stay on for four years.

I'm also visiting a therapist in two weeks to find out if I have ADHD or not.

I feel this article describes my profile about 90% accurately.
Thank you for this confirmation. I already suspected that LastPass failed upgrading people’s security settings for each change of defaults they made. But so far I’ve only seen one person who found an account with one iteration (that was their very first default). Now you gave me two more.
The article I am referencing to says:

> Another difference between the two programs is related to deduplication. Borg is designed with the assumption that each machine being backed up will use its own repository. Letting multiple machines backup to the same repository can impact performance, and simultaneous backups from different machines to the same respository are not supported.

So I should have said "Borg has limitations" instead of saying the support is absent for deduplication across machines.

When you say "without coordination", does it mean simultaneous backups from several machines to the same repo are possible?
It usually depends a lot on both the culture of the area and how often the paths are used. Where I am in Somerset there are an incredible number of paths, there's barely a field without a path through it. The routes are well marked and have good gates or styles for walkers. They are well used which helps keep the weeds down. Most of the Forrest also goes above the required footpaths and rights of way and keep a lot of permissive paths open too.

Land owners have a responsibility to keep the routes accessible and I think they are paid a small amount for it. Grants are available for gates etc. That said they are rough routes so are fairly muddy at this time of year. I love them and base most of my running around them.
Hmm, I don’t think so.

It’s saying these differences are connected to sex, but it’s not saying they’re not connected gender. Didn’t the article say that research hasn’t been done?

It would be interesting to see whether these differences were more or less correlated with gender rather than sex.

It would also be interesting to see what differences there are between trans and cis men/women, and whether/how these change as a trans person transitions.
Google "easement by necessity real estate law"
Amiga programming was all 68k + lattice C if you were really looking to the future (with K&R syntax), BBSs accessed via 1200 baud modems, and music trackers.
This comment has bothered me the past few days so I'm returning to it.

More than thorny and interesting problems with indexing modes and building blocks. Which is frankly sad. I don't know how many kilometers of neurons I've lost to these discussions. Trust me, it's not just your comment.

I understand if you feel the purpose of inceration isn't rehabilitation. Maybe some classes of prisoners should stay in prison forever, due to their threat to others.

I just know that it's tough to resist pressure when you are in a helpless and powerless situation, like I suppose prison might be.

I don't think you should also have to resist pressure for phone scams. There are multiple scams that can be run, and cooperating with wardens can hurt those who were too weak to resist say, giving up two minutes of their authenticated and tracked phone time to an inmate who just needs two minutes with their "daughter." Is the inmate who shared time at fault? Technically yes, but why does the scam succeed? Would cooperating with a warden possibly destroy a person's life in that case who may not be a pedophile? Most wardens are probably good people, and cooperation is of course probably legally required. I wouldn't want to advocate breaking the law. You just hope there is slack once the paperwork train starts rolling.

Making us stronger is a philosophy on its own.

In the same sense, this post is a larger win for government authentication methods. And I didn't want to be a part of it, regardless of the benefit to the incarcerated.

I hope I don't have to be dragged into it in the future. To some people, these discussions may be interesting philosophical debates about justice, rehabilitation and control models that are just as interesting to them. They may have built their life around them. That's awesome, but it's tiring on the other side.
non multa, sed multum
Microsoft now allows Russians to download Windows OS: Reports
Full-stack employee
This is not meant to be dismissive, but is from a place of curiosity: What is the purpose of this?
pygame isn't that slow if you use pygame 2 that depends on SDL2 (2D hardware acceleration, yay!) or go with OpenGL directly.

I used to do a lot of amateur gamedev with Python (pygame and pyglet). If most of the work happens on the GPU or external libraries, it is usually OK if you aren't doing anything stupid.
It does not. Leave the email blank.
Of course if you searched and you could not find it, then I agree it's perfectly fine to pirate as well.
Lots of resources here:

https://github.com/matter-labs/awesome-zero-knowledge-proofs
> Public confidence in scientists has increased during the pandemic, though not among all Americans.

That was the first sentence in the link
Apple Watch OS 9 replaced power off with emergency call. Now power off is a small button at top right instead of slide at the bottom. I did call 911 once instead of powering off watch.
Yes, but the thing is Teslas largely selled as status symbol. It was that kind of car, they were cool.

They were never "good money vs value" tradeoff kind of choice.
What changed your levels or are you just doing experiments?
It indeed is brutal. In fact, I'll go a little bit further. This question jumped out at me as being bang out of order:

> RPS: Do you think you can make a great game?

Peter Molyneux has clearly made some mistakes over the years, and Godus was certainly a fiasco, but can he make a great game? What an absolutely arrogant and impertinent question. He's made a long list of great games going all the way back to Populous. So, yes, I think he can make a great game. John Walker ought to be ashamed of himself for asking that and I don't understand why Peter Molyneux didn't shut him down with a much stronger answer.
Which is also weird because every banknote has a unique number. So it's better traceable if we wanted to.
I started using OS X with Snow Leopard (before it reaches 10.6.8), but already then my colleagues were telling me not to rush on the first release of whatever next major versions, and wait for the .1 update instead.
I disagree that the average person's ability to read has degraded. The people spending dozens of hours per week on short form video wouldn't be doing deep studies 40 years ago. It might show my elitism a bit but I very much enjoy the economic edge the ability to focus and read abstract subjects has brought me.
Yes, refresh the page
Here's the science and math: https://makesunsets.com/blogs/news/calculating-cooling

Efficacy and the benefit:harm ratio is still to be determined until we scale up our deployments, but here is a lecture by David Keith, the leading researcher in stratospheric aerosol injection. Towards Quantitative Comparison of the Risks and Benefits of Solar Geoengineering
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ8TZqfwzdU&t=2247s)

TL;DW: it's 100:1 at conservative estimates.
To me this is symptomatic of a poorly functioning capitalist system.

In contrast, a well functioning capitalist system would rewards the smartest, most capable, hardest working people.

So if school makes you more intelligent but the system doesn't reward you, something is off.
I would love the right to wild camp in England. That said I do wonder how well it would stand up to our much higher population density. The current system does kind of work despite its lack of rules or clarity. I think our trespass rules are a good compromise.
Presumably if you divided into two groups by even or odd age, there will be some difference in average metrics, but not a significant one.
If you offload graphics to the GPU (which is what shaders are), there's surprisingly little CPU work left in a 2D platformer game.

Think of (fragment) shaders as programs that run in the GPU per-texture-pixel. There is some initial CPU/memory-bound work setting everything up (e.g. uploading textures to GPU RAM, compiling the program, sending vertex buffers...) and then per-frame you just call the shader with some parameters (e.g. character's current position) and the GPU does the rest.

In-CPU you mostly do the non-parallelizable work such as collisions, game logic, keyboard input, etc. which can be very light for a simple 2D platformer.
I recently learned that it was a common cause of hardware failure on IMac G5 (2004) but I am surprised to learn that it was part of general trend
1. Non-western languages.

There are no differences; this is not a category of any interest. Urdu is a non-western language, except of course that it is, in a global sense, very closely related to French. (Why do you think we say "Indo-European"?)

2. Ideograms.

The modern language that comes closest to using written ideograms is Japanese. But the language that comes closest to what you're probably thinking of is Mandarin Chinese, where every character is fairly rare.

You have exactly the same options that you do with any other language: you could render the text into an alphabet of interest, or you can do your analysis on the symbols the text is originally written in. That second approach will make some questions much easier; if you sample a letter and get န်, you can be certain you're not reading French.

It will make analyzing Chinese harder because character frequencies are so low.
(see https://lingua.mtsu.edu/chinese-computing/statistics/char/li... - the most common character in written Chinese is 的 at 4.1% of all characters; the second most common accounts for an additional 1.6% of all characters. The top 152 characters collectively account for 50% of all text.)

This will mean that codebreaking requires longer texts.† It won't have much effect on the problem of identifying the language by sampling unenciphered monograms from it; that stays easy, because the commonly used characters are highly informative even if e.g. you're comparing written Mandarin to written Cantonese. You'll probably need more samples (for an equally reliable judgment) than you would for a script that didn't have so many unique characters.

† This problem is significant. Specific content words will all be rare, and we can't really expect a message, even a very long message, to discuss every possible topic at the same frequency that the corpus of written Chinese as a whole does. Even if we could expect that, the amount of ciphertext you'd need to reliably distinguish the 3100th-most common character in this corpus (酱 [noun, 'sauce'] representing 0.09% of all characters) from the 2494th-most common (娶 [verb, 'to marry a woman'] representing 0.19% of all characters) would be quite large.
For example Google hires mostly generalists and lots of people who care about income and career progression work there.
Did Chinese people ever had basic rights? For example can Chinese talk about Tiananmen?
Thanks for the detailed elaboration! I’ve seen the “split” from a distance and never really investigated what has happened. Sounds pretty nasty indeed
Scott Meyers reviews Anne Frank’s diary
I do lots with them. But I don't let them control my day.
Yes. The article also talks about blue light, which is not the case for an e-reader.
Lol.... I am talking on whole other level of philosophy. The prove has been given.

Please give me a chance to explain.
I am completely with you, that you are allowed to ask for the prove!
BUT: you will have to go through that prove (perform the experiment) to "prove" the correctness of the claim _for yourself_!!
Only repeating the experiment will lead to experience. (In mathematics that experience is what i call "the experience of a logical conclusion")

As long as you never did the experiment, you will only believ (althogh you confidence may be high, because so many "prof" and PhD and papers are claiming it is correct and you haven't heard otherwise to diminsh you confidence)

Please allow that point of view to sink in, it is not that easily grasped.

All the very best to you!
That’s true and it would be much better but we still have more rights than many people would tell you.

E.g. you have the right to “rest” on land adjacent to the side of a footpath or bridalway. Now the definition of “rest” is undefined because that’s how common law works.

So you can probably make the argument resting includes camping over night (when leaving no trace) until someone proves in court that it doesn’t.

Here’s another fun fact: you can also legally ride a bike on a “footpath” so long as you discount when you come to pedestrians. That one was clarified in Hansard but people blindly assume that they don’t have that right without checking.

The point is, things are usually legal unless there’s a law and legal precedent to say otherwise.
A glimpse of deformation in helium-8
Hello, second-time commenter in HN here. You posted in a way, which makes it appear that you are looking for the next mountain to climb and conquer.

While others have given good suggestions to find the next mountain, it will lead you to the same non-passion plateau. It seems that you want a permanent fix rather than a temporary distraction.

As you are seeking out advice from different parties, I feel it necessary to share my unique input. I do not view it better than what others have stated, nor will I be offended if you go a different route. However, this strategy has helped this introverted person find a passion and purpose (even in regular, public speaking). Even the mere thought of what I am about to write is astoundingly simple that I step back and think, is it really all that simple?

Presume God is true.

There are so many voices that say the opposite. Even now there are thoughts of rebuttal from future commenters. Still, when I presume God is true, that unlocks the following logic flow:

God is true.
The Bible states it comes from God.
If God gave the Bible, then what is contained therein will work when it speaks of human fulfilment.
Human fulfilment is written about in the Bible. (Hebrews 11:6, 2 Timothy 2:4, Ecclesiastes 12:13-14)
I guess it might help a bit, but the emulation is not 100% accurate, and I suspect the greatest challenges for NetBSD are anyway coming from non-x86 obsolete hardware like Vax, Amigas and the likes.
GNU nano is my editor of choice (2021)
"Up to 4x faster than Apple M1 Max" they say ...

Aah, that famous marketing "up to" ! So I guess that's in certain cherry-picked scenarios then ?

Also what they don't tell you is that the Apple will happily do ML for hours on end ON BATTERY with zero performance impact. Whilst an x86 laptop will need to be permanently tethered to your nearest power socket in order to obtain top performance. Otherwise you will suffer a performance drop and kill off your battery life.

I know the usual Apple bashers gonna hate, but fact of life its that for most people Apple have done a sterling job on their Apple Silicon laptops. No doubt more to come with the M2 in due course.
> LoRa

LoRa bitrate is very low and the range of LoRa is not even comparable with satellite communication. Moreover, normal smartphone are not LoRa compatible.
At first I was worried this was going to be another Scrum Guru post full of nonsense, but I actually agree with everything said. Though I do feel that Scrum gets in the way of doing truly incremental work due to the separation of work in Sprints. Increments should be small but some might take 1 week, others 5 weeks, probably done in parallel by different team members, shoving things in 3 week sprints just ends up being tiny waterfalls rather than actual Agile.
Really not. Only full on anti-capitalist care about origins of companies deep into last century. And even they are doing it for larger capitalism bad reasons.

Plus there is nothing wrong with virtue signaling, really. It beats vice signaling by miles and it beats passivity too.
Back of the envelope maths is that yes, it really can spread that fast. If it was just a mild cold, nobody would care, but the risk is that China’s health system could get totally overwhelmed.

The currently circulating strains are milder than the original but spread much faster. Even with improved treatment plans based on years if experience, it’s going to be a sudden shock to the system.
In November I quit my full time job to go freelance while building my own business because I got bored of the Groundhog Day I was living in (7 year itch?).

So far it's the biggest pay cut I've taken, although admittedly it is looking like it'll stabilise to more than I was on FT over the next couple months. Does that count? Am I allowed to get back to it? Haha

Figured now's the best time to try. No dependents and worst case I crash and burn and move back in with mum for a bit :)
Thanks, interesting link and also interesting commentary on your part.
I am taking it they are transitioning. I have had very similar experiences as part of this process.
The development of cities is the origin of the word, it's not the current meaning, at best, it's one part of that meaning.

Pretty much all words work this way - see the joke thread under this one saying that the perpetrators in this case shouldn't be called vandals because that's originally the name of a specific German tribe.

The current colloquial definition of civilization almost certainly includes aboriginal society, and from what I can see from a quick online search, the current academic definition often does too - at least, I was able to find several references to Aboriginal civilization in a quick and casual search. However I also checked a few definitions of the word and it seems that's technically incorrect - large scale technical achievements (for example, but not exclusively, cities) are a requirement to be considered a civilization.

Looking a bit deeper, however, I did find some articles pointing out that this definition of civilization is a Eurocentric view and that we should broaden the official scope of the word to include Aboriginal culture since they had a very high level of development in other areas, just not the ones that led to building cities. That seems reasonable to me. It's important not to get hung up on the historical origin of words. Instead we should focus on the most useful definition for us modern humans who are hopefully working towards a more inclusive understanding of the world.

https://mahb.stanford.edu/library-item/australian-aboriginal...
"So, we had People that were legal. We had aircraft that were available, but the process of matching those Crew Members with the aircraft could not be handled by our technology. In our desired state, we have a solver that would be able to do that very quickly and accurately. Our system today cannot do that."

Sounds like at the core of it is some algorithms or IT systems that aren't sufficiently scalable and that have collapsed, forcing them to do manual work that also doesn't scale. Their upcoming "reset" is analogous to a similar situation that caused a Slack outage some years ago where the system got stuck in an overload state that it couldn't get out of and they had to effectively shut it down and re-open the service slowly to rewarm the caches.
that the reward system is broken is clear to everybody. but i am not sure you can build a "well functioning capitalist system" given the previous 400 years of experiments with it.
The somewhat tongue-in-cheek response is because the US annually spends more on their military than like the next 10 biggest spenders put together. You wanna dislodge them from that? Find some way to outspend them; Until you can do that, might as well be friendly with them.
Nothing about this seems, on first glance, to be anything at all specific to RISC-V. Should I be looking more closely for what is unique to RISC-V?
It should be noted that Ebisu currently has a severe flaw that causes it to massively underestimate how well you know a card[1]. The author has been working on a rewrite to fix the issue for a year and a half, and is currently asking for comments on the new API for Ebisu v3 which should fix this issue[2]. (The author argues this never would've caused to you to get suboptimal reviews if you use it in the "just give me a few reviews now" mode, but I'm not personally convinced.)

All of that being said, I am a fan of the Bayesian approach Ebisu uses (and Ebisu v3 would allow you to eliminate the awful way SM2/Anki deal with ease factors). Thankfully the v3 Anki scheduler will be pluggable so you'll be able to use Ebisu v3 with Anki on every Anki platform. :D

[1]: https://github.com/fasiha/ebisu/issues/43
[2]: https://github.com/fasiha/ebisu/issues/58
Read the title as "Scrolling improves intelligence" and thought a new generation is rising where every second will be an Einstein.

I seem to remember another study showing inteligence in only dependant on genetics, and in long term not affected by schooling and other socioeconomic factors - think they studied twins raised by different families.
someone told me you can buy a tesla model 3 before year end for $7500 off + 10k supercharger miles.

maybe reduced demand?
Gandhi might've said a lot of things, but the point of that quote is that retaliation leads to an overall worse outcome. Unless you're an egomaniac, you will want to swallow your pride, break the chain of retaliation and live your life in peace. Retaliation is an inherently unstable state.

You are right that people are only as good as the world allows them to be. Which brings us to morality. It is not about any greater good or anything like that. Morality is simply what the world has defined that allows people to be. Over time humanity has understood a set of ideas that allow a stable society to exist. Without these you will have a very dysfunctional society that is in a perpetual state of retaliation. The wise founders of nations have realized this and codified morals into law. There is no society today that exists without law because any such society would not have stood the test of time.
>I wonder how much funding something like that would have gotten without the founder's connections to YC.

Probably $0 if you didn't have his background. 100% he got funding because he went through YC twice and was the Director of HW, but we welcome competition. I'm sure a VC out there will fund a startup that can scrub SO2 in the stratosphere to negate our efforts.
The Product Manager Learning Path
I didn't realize this, thank you.
I personally have multiple 3m (~10ft) USB-C cables.

There are also 4m (~13ft) and more cables available but they might not support the latest Power Delivery standard.
1. They are developing vaccines other than inactivated ones. A domestic mRNA one is in trial. They are also developing inhaled, protein subunit and viral vector vaccines.

2. There was initially not enough capacity to supply mRNA to the entire world. Huge parts of Africa, South-east Asia and India didn't have any vaccines for a long time, or could only get Chinese vaccines. Why would China choose to be at the mercy of western companies? Don't people here talk too about supply chain risk and reducing reliance on China? Why is self-reliance only a good thing when we do it?

3. Inactivated vaccines don't require ultra cold chains. Rural areas of China lag behind in development. The label "developing country" actually means something.

4. Does the US accept Chinese vaccines? They have fewer side effects.
Sliding had its own risks. I dialed 911 once because the screen was wet and it misinterpreted the location of my finger.