skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you bisexual? If not you are attracted to femininity or masculinity. I guess you are attracted to femininity so you don't recognize that masculinity can also be attractive.

Women tend to dream of a masculine man with feminine interests, same as men dream of feminine women with masculine interests. If you think that is a contradictory statement, no it isn't, pop culture is full of them. Angelina Jolie in Transformers is a good example, she is a mechanic who loves to work with cars, but still very feminine. Take that, and replace cars with some hobby popular among women and make him very masculine in all other aspects, and you basically have a dream guy.

Article about Angelina Jolie from Transformers if you haven't seen it:

https://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/1134670/wome...
I've tried many, over 25+ years of managing teams, and for some teams there are better alternatives, for some the stand-up works best. I absolutely agree with trying and tailoring options, and I have and I have ended up both with and without daily standups as a direct consequence of testing what works for a given team.
This but airpods.

The last few months when I go out I get notifications that some airpods are following me. As if someone dropped one in my jacket pocket specifically to follow me around popular bars, as opposed to someone else just going to the same popular local bars.

The first time it was screenshot worthy at best. I'm not the demographic to have predatory tactics done towards me, the likelihood was too small.

The following times its just a nuisance, a conversation starter for a pickup improv skit.
Just like communism, the cult members define any and all failures of the thing as not truly being the thing.
(Nostalgia.)

I had an MS-DOS app calls SCRPAINT which was a painting app for the 80x25 text mode. You could draw lines and it would do the right thing when lines bended at right angles or crossed by looking up the junction character code for the two lines.
> This will most likely require brand-new frameworks and create a whole lot of pointless churn for pre-existing code.

I doubt it. I suspect existing code will continue to work with minor mechanical changes, and the improvements will just open up new use cases that are either impossible or awkward to do today.
Programming was my Plan B, kinda. In high school I was like "I'm a writer, but that doesn't pay the bills, so I'll do software (which I was already doing for fun anyway) and make a lot of money and retire early, then start writing full time."

Which was kind of dumb, I didn't have to wait that long to start writing, I've got several early draft manuscripts now (I struggle with editing, though).

Also I was always big into making my own games, even as far back as like 6, when I was drawing levels for imaginary games on reams of printer paper at my grandparents. I did eventually start doing that, released several games, spent some time in the game industry for a while, pursued board game design (as a professional hobby) for a while, etc.

If board games paid better and if I didn't have so many financial responsibilities and a desire to have money saved up for retirement, I'd probably pursue that full time now, and only program on my own to facilitate that (i.e. make video game versions of my board games, or write simulations to test various mechanisms in my game designs, etc).

I don't really want to code for anyone else now, especially the types of jobs/clients I keep getting offered (i.e. in insurance, health, marketing, or finance). But I need to make money, so for now I still do, while hoping a side project or my wife's side business (of being a writer, funnily enough, which she is much better at writing books that sell than I ever was, I just liked making humorous books, those are hard to sell unless you're a handful of authors) takes off enough that I can afford to jump off (or at least take a paycut and switch back to video games or something).
>I find it kind of funny that humans are so confident that our models of reality are correct

The models used aren't used because scientists think they are correct, but because they are the best models that fit existing experimental data. Best normally meaning 'simplest that explain all data', but it isn't quite always that simple. There are scientists who spend the latter parts of their careers trying to find even better models or even proposing worse models that are useful to keep in a folder somewhere in case they ever do become relevant or we come across data the current model can't explain. At the cutting edge of science you even find that the current models aren't matching all the data, but there is no consensus on a better model and scientists are working to either expand or replace the current model to fit the new data and to explore the non-matching data to either see if it is an error (which does happen) or if it gives hints on a better model.

Anyone who thinks that the model is correct is someone who is lacking a foundation in what science is saying. Often scientists don't talk about the distinction because it is too detailed for the public to care about, but that's not the same as not recognizing the distinction. (Much like how programmers talk about computers as if they are intelligent beings making decisions, often to the programmer's detriment, despite any good programmer knowing that isn't the case, newest models of AI tentatively excluded.)
Definitely a subjective opinion and not a matter of objective fact. I dislike the keyboard, personally, and macOS does not meet my needs for personal use (I use an M1 Pro Macbook Pro 16" for work and find it to be fine).
I do agree effective ommunication is challenging. For async remote communication, the one thing I found that personally helps is "Be explicit, don't assume". This can sometimes mean contextualizing and more explaining but it's definitely helped in terms of managing remote communication. Another aspect is brevity, it may come off rude at first as I've heard yet I explained why I do use it so much, in many cases but especially asynchronously it pays to be concise and very specific. I hardly deal with miscommunication and being unreliable. It might be context-dependent since I'm now in a more senior/leaderhihp like role and being somewhat a middlemen between mid/junior and management this is more valuable.

One thing I noticed is that a lot of people are trying to reuse/apply contexts and context clues that would work in synchronous cases and non-remote communication cased in asynchronous cases and remote communication casess. Obviously, a lot of people aren't adjusted yet so there's some lagging indicator like this. Overcommunication is one short term negative but long term positive action I've seen work. At first it may seem detrimental but it actually helps with adapting to the person/people/subject. Eventually people adjust the scale of communication where overcommunication is not present anymore.
I was really upset with Angry Birds 2 introducing a degree of randomness into the levels. Level 6 might appear different for you, just a little bit, every time you load it.

Just like that, any appearance of craft that went into the levels was shredded and they just feel AI-generated rather than a natural progression. In which case, because AI-generation is basically infinite, do I really care to beat all the levels? (Angry Birds 1 was a big game - 700 levels. Angry Birds 2? 3,080! But it still feels like they could just increase an integer in the code somewhere and get another 1,000.)

I remember playing Angry Birds with friends (not AB Friends) back in ~2012. It was so great when you knew or had figured out the best solution to a level and your friends didn't know how, or vice versa. Also, old Angry Birds was like 10 chapters of ~45 levels each, so if you were stuck in one chapter, you worked on another (and could maybe have the solution for one chapter while your buddy had another), rather than a straight-through "oh, I don't remember how to beat level 308." Randomized levels and the straight-through progression shreds that.
TLDR is
" This seems easy to do, but it’s also very illegal. It’s called “impersonating an emergency vehicle,” and it comes with hefty penalties if you’re caught."

Actual article on the Flipper mod thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34872104
> I don’t understand why people are obsessed with extinction as some great evil

It's because we care about our children and their children. Each extinction eliminates a species that our ancestors lived among or depended upon. Eventually, an extinction may fundamentally break a food chain that keeps our descendants alive.
I recently bought a bunch of AirTags for my family: for our keys, our bike, our luggage.

Annoyingly, every AirTag needs to be linked to a single iPhone. Even when everyone belongs to the same Family. AirTags also make annoying sounds every time I grab my keys to go out.

They’re still the best UX on the market, but I wish Apple would improve the UX just a bit more. Maybe their policy folks are worried about news stories about people using AirTags to stalk, which is unfortunately a reasonable fear.
The reality is that we do want to run code developed and compiled and delivered by entities we don't fully trust and who don't want to provide us the code or the ability to compile it ourselves. And we also want to run code that can dynamically generate other code while it's doing so - e.g. JIT compilers, embedded scripting languages, javascript in browsers, etc.

Removing these checks from the hardware is possible only if you can do without it 100% of the time; if you can trust that 99% of the binaries executed, that's not enough, you still need this 'enforced sandboxing' functionality.
For some reason my iPhone has started warning me someone’s iPods are following me. But they are my own iPods as registered in Find My.
That's a fair point, but I'd add that it's sex in media as well as porn. Media is more sexualised than ever before:- TV shows feature more sex and more of it is clearly visible, sex is used to sell basically anything, some dating apps/website have commodified sex (Tinder) and social media adds pressure for younger people.
Obviously. Edited the missing words in my comment.
Maybe this can help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity_loss

In very short terms: lack of biodiversity makes the ecosystem brittle and susceptible to collapse with changing selective pressure.
Unlike Ubuntu, Pop doesn't really have full control over their users' experience, because their users are configured to consume directly from Ubuntu's repositories.
> All professions have a union of some sort that police both the members and the employers - lawyers, doctors ...

No, they don't. Professional societies aren't unions. They don't police anything, governments do; the societies only provide input to the rulesmaking process for the profession. They also have no power to represent their members in employment-related matters like a union. They do provide some union-like services to their members, but it's the fringe stuff like continuing education to maintain licenses.

Also, these exist for software engineers (ACM and IEEE), but the industry (at least the Valley-centric part) largely ignores them as membership organizations and resist any attempt to produce professional regulations similar to what those other professions have.
I mean, sure, when given the choice, most people prefer "free" to "costs money".
Read this report by a group strongly incentivized to and rewarded by a creation of the perception that crime is high, about how high you should perceive crime to be.
I personally don't want to live in a bland, dead world.

To me its like climate change. The climate change, just like species go extinct. But humans are exasperating both processes in a ways that will ultimately make living on earth worse for future generations.
Hazmat Truck Crashes More Frequent and Deadly Than Train Derailments in US
Warning: cows coming home. Invisible meta tags? That sounds like a religion faith argument vs science! Something we can’t see and a string comparison == comes back true and yet somehow there is a difference? ASCII text is just numbers. If all the numbers are the same I don’t see where the invisible meta tags exist unless you mean like in a spiritual plane.
The difference between houses/cars and online accounts is that a physical key must be joined to the single matching physical lock, which reduces the number of possible attackers dramatically and forces them to operate in meatspace.

This means that a less secure solution is viable because there are fewer attackers and they are more likely to get caught. It also means that an easily-lost solution is more acceptable because it's easier to persuade a locksmith or police officer that I actually own the property: I can hand them my driver's license in person, and I'd be risking immediate arrest by even trying to pull off a social engineering attack. This allows recovery of a key to be far easier in the real world.

Physical keys to digital accounts cannot be as easy to replace because if they were, anyone anywhere might be able to persuade the digital "locksmith" that they're me, and the worst case scenario for the social engineer is that their attack fails and they try again later.
For 99.9% of people art == pretty pictures that they like. So no, what you describe will absolutely not happen.

And let's be honest, most backstories of paintings are either fabricated, completely nonsense or boring. No, that mediocre painting of flowers in bloom isnt better because i know the artist went on a vacation to Tuscany. And no, that other painting showing three colored dots on a white background isnt representing the struggle of people against capitalism and is most definitely not evoking feelings of loneliness in a cold, harsh world or whatever the fuck museums try to tell me.
Reductivism is a hell of a drug in itself don't yeah think?
You don't even need the sensationalist reference to crack — this is already plausible with gas stations being convenience stores (and sometimes much more).
Let's Gamble, Try Merging
If it came on a Hallmark "special event" card from the grocery store instead, would Hallmark catch flak? Or would this transfer of blame only occur if computers were involved?
I definitely think there should be a way to attach tags to a family.

Like the original article I use one in my dog. I know it’s not the purported use, but it has and does work for us.
Bitcoin Mining Goes Green, YouTube’s NFT Push, and ChatGPT Token Scams
>no faster

In terms of latency it's usually slower by an order of magnitude.

There should be a law that mandates developers to use at least two generations older hardware than the average consumer.
Physical impossibility probably won't be a factor, since, long before that, process improvements will become so expensive that they don't make economic sense. It doesn't help having a marginally more efficient chip for a much higher price.
iTunes was amazing. It’s UI was so successful it guided most of the Mac’s for next decade: Coverflow and Spotlight are direct descendants.

Every major OS has Spotlight-like UI these days. You can thank iTunes for the search-as-filter paradigm.

It also did everything you’d need regarding MP3s. You could rip CDs, organize and burn them, have the lyrics and album artwork show neatly while displaying a cool set of animated waveforms…

I miss it dearly. The fact that it became a behemoth and later Apple Music was a tragedy.
I think the gaming market has changed significantly since Minesweeper and Solitaire were popular. Sure, it can be a nice quality of life boost to include some small games, but I don't think it would be a major draw to Linux. I believe the internet and mobile devices have largely filled this niche.

Ensuring existing AAA games run solidly on Linux, like Valve is working towards with Proton, seems to have a much greater impact.
We need copyright reform for cases like this. In particular, copyright infringement damages should be capped at a small multiple of lost sales.

That way, when a copyrighted work goes of market (or is no longer sold at a reasonable mass-market rate), there would be no penalty for redistributing it.

(Derivative works might need to be handled differently, since the above effectively invalidates the GPL, though not Apache or BSD)
Or maybe it allows them to complete a fun side project quick enough that they keep their interest in programming altogether.
That only speaks of how severely the attention span of the average person has plummeted in recent decades. It's impossible to sit through a movie without enough dopamine-inducing distractions or MTV-style jump cuts every few seconds.
Might as well just charge though? Even without DC fast charging, adding 15-20% charge onto an EV won't take very long, and it's a lot easier and less capital intensive to maintain a charging station than a battery swap station.

For that matter, any outlet in the entire world can already function as a charger for last-minute emergencies, which is a density that dedicated infrastructure could never hope to match.
Given all the edge cases with AirTags (i.e., everything from "dog stalker" to actual stalkers), I get the sense Apple didn't bother to do much adversarial usability testing on these things. They made a thing because it's cool tech, damn everything else, if you don't like it then tough shit.
I suspect that he typed "Cabin Loop" into a little box and went where the internet sent him.

Because that's how cosine similarity works.
You mean Taylor Swift?
A “Trust this AirTag” option, perhaps requiring the AirTag’s owner’s device to be involved as well, could solve this issue.
So that would be a reversion to historical norms then.
Huh, I would think ads and all the merchandise they sell would be enough.
Just to point out, the game isn't free.
I don't see the point of de-extinction other than naturist nostalgia.

The problem around de-extinction is that you can't just shoehorn a new species into a habitat that already filled the void left by a past extinction.

If some marsupial in Australia got extinct because it was replaced by feral cats, then that habitat won't welcome that marsupial anymore. And there's nothing we can do about it. Even if we somehow people organize themselves to hunt all the feral cats to extinction, it will either be replaced by new post-domestic cats or either some other, equally capable and already existing predator.

The habitat wasn't destroyed nor hurt in anyway. It just changed. It changed the same way it changed when all non-avian dinosaurs got extinct and then replaced with mammals and birds that filled the void left by them.
+1

In particular, dark energy is not

> "the cause of the difference between what is calculated, and what is observed"

Dark energy / the cosmological constant Λ is a completely natural parameter to the field equations, not a corrective term (even though it might feel that way if you follow the history of cosmology). It's not that we calculated Λ to be zero but observations forced us to set it to something non-zero. We had no clue what it's value should be and simply deduced from observations that it happens to be non-zero. End of story.

Now, particle physicists / field theorists have been looking for a particle physics-based explanation for Λ and preliminarily called it "dark energy". But there's no guarantee there is one. Maybe Λ is indeed just a boring parameter.
If you can’t see how big this problem actually is - start by reading “The Jungle” and realizing nothing has changed for the better for us workers, in a very long time.

Blessings not from corporate kindness, by the way.

The only thing a corporation can do, especially at Amazon’s size, is evil for the worker and community. They are built to expand into infinity, consuming all for shareholder profit.
I assumed the machine would require a custom driver. Else it's extremely unlikely the app was broken as early as 2006 (so on Windows Vista) without their research group having some sort of support contract. Software would have been barely 4 years old at that point.
Pessimistic thoughts on startups (2020)
Amazon has a reputation for ruthless efficiency. Seems speculative to assume that they bought One Medical because of its high level of care and that they are able to manage the company in a way that it continues.

There are plenty of Amazon acquisitions where the service got worse post-acquisition, was relaunched as something else, or was simply shuttered.
Can you give an example about fewer protections than people think?
I still wonder if so many people claim to hate mathematics because of the boring tasks they are exposed right at the beginning, like learning by rote the times tables. Wish humanity had converged to a smaller base for its main number system, like 8 or 6, so the times tables would be trivial to learn. Perhaps more people would appreciate math that way, being saved from this learn by rote burden.
働 exists in Chinese too, meaning "labor"
峠 does not exist in Chinese although many Chinese dictionaries (most notably the CC-CEDICT) include it
My guess would be that fractions with a powers-of-2 denominator were used in pre- and early-industrial contexts and remain in use today by long tradition, but thousandths started to be used only later in industrialization when the benefits of a base 10 system were more clear
Are you saying that a captured government is still in charge?

That’s … not how capture works.
That feels like an odd hill to die on
It's a tutorial to build a Chrome extension. Like, a project template. He links source code, found a privacy issue in Chrome, and the Grinch-plundering Whoville character made me laugh. That's already asking a lot for a Substack post.
"In light of both attacks, we notify the maintainers of each affected dataset and recommended several low-overhead defenses."

Such a disappointing ending.
AAPL has $51B on hand, not $100B.
I also use a password manager. Yukikeys are a poor choice for authentication despite what the article says.

But they are good for 2FA, which is what I need them for to mitigate the risk of phishing, siphoning credentials from my phone or just stupidity on my part.

A robber would still need the password so I'm safe for my threat model, which doesn't include state actors.

But you are right about one thing: adding those keys to all the important account, and adding a new one when you lose one, is a pain in the butt.
I have often wondered that myself, and I looked into it a little bit, finding that there have been ideas for actually weighing airplanes on the ramp going back to the 1930s, but nothing seems to have come of it.

One possible reason might be a usually well-justified concern over adding complexity which could, if it fails, be worse than the problem it solves - but what would it take to measure the load on each undercarriage leg? something to measure its extension? Strain gauges on the structure the legs are attached to? I would really appreciate the input from an aero structures engineer here (paging Walter Bright...)

One other issue this would help is with is ensuring that the center of gravity is within limits (after the crash of Air Midwest Flight 5481, where this was a significant cause, the rule for estimating passenger weights was revised.)

On the other hand, an acceleration test will detect a lot of other problems beyond being overweight. There was a Citation crash near Hartford CT last year where it is suspected that the parking brake did not fully disengage. Why not have both, if they are feasible?
Yes, having ChatGPT write the entire email is just like Clippy reminding me that I missed the apostrophe in “it’s” /s

It’s like I said in another comment. The issue here isn’t ChatGPT; it’s that the leaders have shown the community they don’t care. The response would be the same if it came out that they used a prewritten email template.
Maybe next time they should send out prompts. "Please input this text into ChatGPT to get a somewhat unique letter of sympathy and regret about the recent shooting. If you would like additional comfort, the bot will accommodate. See you at class!"