skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"As a man, I have lots of people in my life who love me, but they consistently fail to take notice of my emotional needs."

Although every man's circles are different, your experience is highly common. I'm going to intentionally dramatize a little to get the point across efficiently.

Men effectively live in an emotional desert. Showing emotion, vulnerability or dependency is discouraged, dismissed or even ridiculed. Men lack a support system. They're often the last buck and there's nothing or nobody to back them up.

This is why to many men, their relation with their mother is holy. It's often the only source of genuine unconditional love and a safe place to be vulnerable. Of course, you can't even have that, this too is to be ridiculed, hence the many "your mum" jokes.

When men get sick, they're ridiculed for being such a baby. Here too a rare sign of vulnerability expressed is to be laughed at.

Men are judged by utility. Society doesn't care about men's needs or problems. They are willingly sacrificed in war, work, homeless on the streets, and in suicide without this even being a topic of mainstream interest.

The handful of reasonable feminists spotting how this complete indifference is a problem are shouted down by their radical counterparts, that have seized the movement. Not only is there no mainstream culture to care about men, it's openly hostile to men in general.

If I were to post my little lecture on a social network, I'd be piled on with: "oh you poor man, you have it sooooo bad lmao!!!"

Anyway, I know none of this helps, but I just wanted to share that your experience in many ways is the experience of many if not most men. And I think you analyzed the situation very well with the "deer in the headlights" remark.
I'm pretty sure that's just objectively untrue. Some nations are subject to public opinion and the ethical sensibility of their electorates, and some are not. That comes into stark relief when some nations chop up journalists inside their embassies.
Amazon Shuts Down Amazon Smile
Can't find it on the web, but they just notified me via email.
Right, it may not be a decline. But more of humanity is being pulled out of evolutionary stressors and forced into the same artificial stressors.

There is clearly not enough incentive to bring a bigger portion of a population towards a [somewhat subjective] better quality of life. This might be the polarization inherent to human nature.

So far we have done well to curb and mitigate crime, risky events, etc. Maybe the next phase will be more long-term focused including sustainability, responsible waste management, sensible regulations on fast-food and healthcare, etc.

Let owning property while the market rises benefit the few, we cultivate human capital more broadly. We have to be cautious of bloat, red-tape, short-term-thinking spreading to more systems and processes. We have to do something about education systems that seem to face too much inertia and vested interests among other reasons to not witness significant-enough innovation.

^ a few random thoughts in response to your first point
As a WA-native I was aware Egan was from Perth, and though my respect for his desire for privacy always wins out over the cult-of-personality, I'm still kinda chuffed I live in the same remote city as a favourite author.

(And, though I adore the poetry, I believe Perth (to Adelaide, 2131km) is beaten in isolation by Wellington (to Sydney, 2225km).)

I'm stunned and baffled as to what the Nicole Kidman movie could be though; unless you're talking about the character Matthew Parker? I hope you're not also a celebrity Mr/Mrs defrost as I confess I've no idea who you could be :S
You see it’s a scraper, shrug, move on with your day.

This is just standard background noise.
Repeated Covid boosters induces humoral and cellular immune tolerance in mice
I code to learn new things, not just to get code done.

Of course, that's not for everybody. Perhaps, back when I was employed as a software engineer, I might have considered it, but even then, coding is such a joy, a play to explore new ideas, I'm not inclined to let some AI do it for me.
Length is a measure of distance. You need a ruler to measure the distance.

If "Loneliness is a measure of self-understanding", how can you measure it?
Twitter says third-party apps broke “long-standing API rules,” won’t name rules
This is really about cost-cutting. If Amazon felt it were about being spread too thin, the obvious solution is to make a short list of charities. Or increase the amount donated.
I was a soldier in the Iraq war. What's not being discussed is the utter failure of Australian police.

Random noise and keywords should never be enough to send a full dynamic team...at best its suicide and you don't have any picture of what's really going on. Totally inexcusable ops tempo.

This is a school, you could have called any number of lines to confirm an issue. You have CCTV, you have datapoints. That no one was shot and killed is a miracle in my opinion.
Forget navigating and putting things away, I find it quite amazing that in 2023 we are still cleaning our own toilets and immediate surrounds.
Big effective altruism vibes here. Bummer for the little guys.
You can also activate it by holding the crown button, which I recently discovered happening “on its own” while wearing work gloves.
f strings. I am averse to complexity and they actually do reduce complexity. Like I actively avoid object oriented stuff, asyncio,etc... simplicity, predictability and maintainability rule for me. Most other python newer features I have seen add more code or complexity. I suppose managing packages, build environments and constantly migrating code is something some people enjoy so no problem with it until it becomes my problem by way of dependency hell. My favorite python feature is not a python feature but it should be: pyenv -- because backwards compatibility is not a cool new feature for language devs.
I'm not a native english speaker, but the title doesn't make sense to me.
What does it mean?
From what I've read, an Amazon smile link will superceded any affiliate link you clicked on. That means Amazon goes from paying out multiple percent to 0.5%.

I'm guessing the administrative burden of so many organizations is a big driver behind the shutdown.
Meaning no disrespect at all, I have to say that this paper, while thoughtful and well written, is just too long to be useful to me. A more elaborately structured paper could allow me a choice of how deeply I wanted to pursue my understanding. Perhaps it's obvious; I have ADHD.
Smile and affiliate commissions are separate. So in your example both the charity and the stale affiliate link would receive a cut that is independent of the other. Source: I run an affiliate site and my links always direct to Smile, and I keep getting commissions.
Sad although I am not worried much. I am turning our Smile program materials to Amazon Associates alongside a browser addon, and we'll make more!
Sounds like the cost of this job is $2/hr? Why justify the highest possible cost as the fair standard?
I don't know if your analogies nor concepts are correct, because you aren't really constructing them in such a way that the details line up. You're giving specious advice based on lazy thinking and half baked ideas, which is clear when you look at what parts of the details don't add up. If human capability is generally mutable (which it would need to be for growth to exist), then your explanation doesn't make sense. And human capability is very mutable.

Concretely, why don't we take an example you brought up, which is professional football. Let's look at Tom Brady, regarded as the best quarterback of all time. He was 199th pick in the 2000 draft, and look at where he is now. Shouldn't he have quit when he was 199/254 in the draft? After all, he might have gone pro but he wasn't even in the top half nevermind the top quartile.

Let's take another biological example, which is weight training. You actually have to train yourself to failure to get to the point where you tear your muscles enough that they'll regrow, and then you have to eat a ton to rebuild them properly, and then you have to repeat this over and over again consistently to reach peak fitness. What would you say to someone who said "if you're not cutting it at the gym, better quit early rather than later?" You would tell them the same thing Ronnie Coleman said, which is "Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights." Considering the brain-body connection, do you really think that there isn't a correlate with intellectual activity?

This is in no way controversial when considered in the field of physical fitness, but for some reason, "when the activity is intellectual, rather than physical, however, people tend to react more emotionally, or allow their ideology to overshadow some hard facts about human existence."

And one of the hardest facts about human existence for people to swallow is that many times, you aren't unsuccessful in the field of your choice because you weren't born with the right raw material. You are unsuccessful because you didn't properly learn the game, butter up the right resource providers to support you, and continuously hone your technique to get to the top no matter what it took. If you did, it wouldn't be a matter of if but when.

Now, football is a well defined game with well defined physical inputs and far less degrees of freedom than other fields. But academia is the final frontier of human knowledge. Is it really the case that you have found a cheat code and one true metric to determine whether a human will reach academic significance or not? Or is it just the case that you have found an explanation which is convenient, simple, and wrong, which you are afraid to let go of?
You can just use local CI to build it and then when your F-droid checks for updates you get a push notification on your phone.

If you want to gate it, you can just periodically update the local git repo after you reviewed it (or just follow up to main minus a few days).
archived here: https://archive.ph/MlGGs#selection-1361.0-1361.36
From a linked blog post of the author's:

> Given that there are websites that are willing (or reluctantly forced) to allow Google(bot) access but would rather like to block everyone else, more than a few of them are probably using User-Agent matching instead of anything more sophisticated. (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/SpiderUserAgent...)

Yeah, what a great idea to make all of our websites only crawlable by Google. Because competition in the search engine space is _so_ undesirable.
I can relate. I actually had a friend tell me "if you ever think of killing yourself, get in touch with me" after an acquaintance committed suicide. Well, I did have a depressive episode and got in touch for help, but got radio silence. Soon after the friendship was dead, he lost interest and couldn't hang out. Now I rely on therapy only.
Study Finds Meal Size, Not Timing, Key to Weight Loss
It's not objective, only subjective through the lens of those who are writing the narrative, who are?...

Objectively, what China is doing is not worse than what the US have been doing, or than any Western powers have been doing because it's just how it goes.
> Almost better to use Excel.

Ouch! I hope you mean Excel 2010 or earlier; all the later ones are so slow to launch or open document that I tend to leave Excel and files (that I'll need to access quickly) open until something forces a reboot or until I bork Excel's state by QAing or triaging somebody's unfortunate VBA (sometimes even mine, too; shhh!). This remained true on a performant gaming computer while working from home. It was always a delight, remoting into somebody's machine that still had a functional Excel 2010 on it.
Well obviously you'd have that code on each page.
So thats the incredibly complex and challenging page numbering problem solved.

As far as pagination is concerned I wrap each page in this tag

<page size="A4"> </page>

with this css:-

page[size = 'A4'] {
height: 29.7cm;
width: 21cm;
page-break-before: always;
}

page[size = 'A4'][layout = 'portrait'] {
height: 21cm;
width: 29.7cm;
}

So that's the incredibly complex and challenging problem of pagination solved.

And fortunately html does layout too.
Have a look at this pdf someone else posted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34435574
>Whichever way you cut that, if this happens to be a single host server, you're rapidly approaching a core-day with this load once you add some logging and such on top.

No way a scraper running at less than 1rps is anywhere near a core-day without some horrible misconfiguration, it should be way easier to address that than to fight a war against scrapers.

I have significantly more complicated flask sites handling 100+ rps on a single core, it doesn’t require any black magic.
3060 12GB are the best things you can buy right now. They are cheap, have a ton of memory--which seems to be the issue w/ image generation--and you can fit four of them into the cheapest motherboards.

3060ti 8GB, 3090 24GB, and 4000 series all have performance benefits, but for now this one is off the charts.
I'm in the space in that I co-founded a company called Connect The Dots (ctd.ai) that certainly has the potential to solve this problem, but we're not focused on the PRM space right now (see point above re: unwillingness to pay). Perhaps down the road.

The two commercial tools that come to mind are:

* Dex (https://getdex.com/)

* Clay (https://clay.earth/)

Although neither have really nailed it (yet). Clay is more like a Superhuman-for-Contacts, whereas Dex is really going hard at being a true PRM.

The big open source tool out there is:

* Monica (https://www.monicahq.com/)
Short variable names are better. If a treatise is necessary put it a comment. Long names are a mockery of the reader's attempt & memory.
I was on the lookout for it, as it was a concern of mine. I haven't noticed an issue. It's also mounted on an exterior wall of my garage. That wall lacks insulation but has drywall. It may be more of an issue if it shared a wall with a bedroom. The mount has rubber dampeners between the unit and the arms.
One more month for charity-shopping:

> ... wind down AmazonSmile by February 20, 2023
Accessibility is individual. I'll be reading Wikipedia articles at 200% now, like I do for virtually all one-column layouts. And this Wikipedia layout has good responsiveness, so no worries.
> It's not a voluntary situation that someone signs up for.

Huh? That is in fact the normal state of indentured servitude. Slavery is also commonly a voluntary situation; that's the whole concept of "selling yourself into slavery".

> Until the late 18th century, indentured servitude was common in British America. It was often a way for Europeans to migrate to the American colonies: they signed an indenture in return for a costly passage.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude )
No doubt: majority of the southern US went to heatpumps with central air handlers 2-3 decades ago. Ducts are definitely not dead. Or, if they're dead, then they must be as dead as BSD. :-P
I’ve seen it way way more than three times and never seen this scene. I should’ve watched the deleted scenes on the DVD I owned while I still owned it, maybe it was in there.
Bloomberg's comdb2 does something similar, using the SQL grammar and query planner but swapping out the storage layer. To quote from their paper:

"In SQLite a query plan is compiled into a bytecode program that is executed by a virtual machine, named Virtual DataBase En-gine (VDBE)... In the original SQLite implementation the VDBE operates on the real B-trees of the database... In contrast the Comdb2 VDBE operates on the cdb2 abstraction of a table during the OCC phase of transaction execution..."

http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol9/p1377-scotti.pdf
Smart file systems should offer a way to access raw datastreams and elements within more complex filetypes. e.g. one could call fopen("./my_sound.wav/pcm_data") and not have to bother with the header. This would blur the distinction between file and directory, requiring new semantics.
This sounds a lot like Postgres or MySQL. Is the point of this to have compatibility with the huge number of existing SQLite applications?
Not in the movie but absolutely incredible.
I grew up in the era of peak-Adbusters, and ate up the narrative on exploitative sweatshops where people in 3rd world countries are forced to make my shoes on near slavery wages.

Fast forward a decade, and my now mother-in-law described how she worked in one of these shops, literally making Nikes, and it was an amazing opportunity for her at the time, and helped get her out of poverty. This caused an instant perspective shift.

Thats not to say that we shouldn't be on the lookout for exploitation, and pushing for better working conditions in general, but the truth (as always) is more nuanced than bad guys and good guys.
A tech company that arbitrarily bans you for not following secret rules? Shocking!
Basically the subtitle:

“The Biden administration is considering the argument that Kyiv needs the power to strike at the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.”

Basically, Biden admin considering arguments for helping Ukraine strike Crimea, which was annexed in 2014 by Russia.
I've been using unp (https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/man1/unp.1.html), which is just a wrapper around standard cli tools for unpacking things (tar, xz, unzip, etc).
It seems pretty dated by now, good to see some replacements!
The simplistic solution is to categorizing chests as flat and/or hairy, and visibly visibly protruding/smooth.

Forget people's sex. It's either a breast shape or its not.
Not only that, but typical devs write slow application code, which needs to be distributed horizontally across many workers.
> I sent my SO a long string of text messages about a problem that I was having, including one of them that said "I feel like garbage."

Is it possible you buried the lede? I'm a fellow sender of long strings of text messages. I've found that not everyone appreciates my potentially sprawling/parallel communication style. They don't always have the time or capacity to pick through all my words and respond thoughtfully to each point.

I used to take it personally, until I realized I was just being overwhelming. Now, if one thing in particular matters to me, I focus on communicating that one thing. I leave the rest on the back burner for more casual conversation.
Part of my role was office sysadmin during that time. We switched from IBM machines to Dell machines right about then, and pretty much all of them failed with bulging capacitors. Unfortunately, Dell support made me go through the whole rigamarole of reseating the (two!) processors, switching them, moving RAM, before agreeing that the board was bad. I've refused to even consider Dell ever since then.

I mentioned this to our VP of development once, and was sympathetic to the idea that this was something out of Dell's control. He was NOT sympathetic to it at all. Apparently IBM had refused shipment of the same capacitors, because they actually tested them.
Yeah it's a bummer, we used it to donate to our local charter school.
Many web apps also write a lot. Are you suggesting to have individual databases per process and then read from all of them and aggregate the data you want in memory? That would sound too much like I'm building a database, which I don't want to do.

I'm not talking about clusters and replication, just a single database on a single server, like Wordpress for example. It can handle large amounts of concurrent users if you're using InnoDB (which has been the default since how long?) and nobody will even notice that there's anyone else because it's not locking the table (or the whole database) to write, and you don't have to wait or deal with frequent busy timeouts.
I take it you got a decent 604 collection?
> They seemed mystified by the concept of variables in PowerShell.

Then they hadn't been writing batch files before PowerShell existed, either. They probably weren't programmers. Windows admin at least used to be very UI-/wizard-driven.
I, too, have ADHD and (in remission) depression. I'm only partly joking too -- focusing on projects, work, hobbies etc. keep me sane and useful to those around me
Which probably implies longer range missiles that they agree not to fire into Russia proper. About 2x the range of the current HIMARS ammo they have been getting (~80/150 miles)
I've been donating to charities through affiliate links and Smile for a while. Whenever I plan to make a purchase I go to the smile.amazon.com URL while also appending a charity's affiliate link (e.g. "/?tag=AFFILIATE-ID") to the URL.

I think charities will still get a significant amount from my purchases, since AmazonSmile was only 0.5%, while affiliate links for many categories are 4% or higher.
From what I've read, the only potential gotcha here is that you might need to add in a phono preamp in between the turntable and the audio interface. But I am very much a beginner so don't take my word for it!
Seems like a cut scene from some googling.
Looking for a better compensation is one thing. I've tried to apply previously as a remote worker, however, not yet hit anything.

By moving to Canada, I hope to solve the problems:

1. the timezone difference (Indonesia is at +7, EST/PST -5/-8). I see that most jobs, albeit offer remote option, still requires the applicant to be either in US/CA/EU. Very rare to see one in APAC

2. Tax, most teams I tried to apply to seems to avoid this with remote workers, hence I think moving to Canada can ease this problem.

> But, there are options, near you too. Singapore, South Korea, Australia.
Before, I've considered the options like Singapore, South Korea, Australia. I had a work project with an australian, too. But, now having a hard time to have another one.
I also have applied to Singapore, not heard anything from them.
Haven't tried South Korea, how does the pay look like?

>If you want to stay in Indonesia. You could probably find US or Australian software developers in Bali. That may help with remote work options, at good pay with their contacts/companies.
I haven't got into contact with them, so you mean, I come to them, and simply ask them for help with my possibility to get a remote work, too?
It makes it easier to say goodbye. I wish Shopify or Google had an easier way to buy anything their. I'm downloading my pictures and cancelling prime.
https://archive.is/BUVcq
>I've read some incredibly heated email exchanges that all started because some network admin is mad that someone is port scanning his IP space

There seems to be significant overlap between sysadmins who send handwritten abuse reports and “targeted individuals”/“gangstalking victims”.
In the 90s, as I remember it, Macs didn’t have anything called a directory, while Windows and Unix-based OSes had only directories (at least among geeks). I still use “directory” today if it’s in a Windows, Linux, or general context; “folder” in a Mac context. But I guess Windows switched to “folder” too at some point. But also, Macs are now BSD-based and I’m a programmer, so it’s directories when talking about command-line stuff.

Windows got “folder” by way of Macs, I’m pretty sure,
They actually might. Whatever the overhead was in managing and tracking payments to that many charities based on payments from that many customers had to be significant. Instead, they could just throw 50 mil across the top 10 each year and not have to deal with managing the smile program anymore.
While it's sad to see this program close, I feel like backlash isn't the answer. How are companies supposed to create beneficial programs like this if they know they're expected to keep it forever?
That's fair, but certainly not my definition of a full grown adult.
Points go towards charity?