skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I'm the minority who's Steam Deck is gathering dust. It is a nice device but it failed to get me to game more (which is what I wanted out of it), mainly because it's rather fiddly, in a similar way to a VR device. It takes effort to get me to pick it up, I have to make sure it's charged, I have to make sure my key bindings are configured correctly, etc.

What actually has worked far better for me is Xbox Game pass. It means I can easily give games a try without paying a lot of money upfront to buy them. Instead I can dip my toes in and see if a game takes my interest.

Just my 2 cents as someone that has gamed a lot in their childhood but largely stopped past their 20s.
You understand that you're not the one paying for the service, so you don't get a say, right? Even once The Machine has perfect knowledge of you, the ads will not be tailored to your preferences. It will be what an advertiser has paid The Machine to show you.
Ask HN: AirPods Pro 2 causing tinnutus?
I've used different kinds of headphones, including AirPods Max, for hours, the whole day.

However, my tinnitus has started after about a month I've purchased AirPods Pro 2.

There are many similar reports on the internet.

My volume level is set to minimum (75db) and I don't listen to music often, however my ears have started to ring on a constant basis like I've been to loud concert recently.

Have you noticed something similar with your pair of APP2?
Null for me is a null pointer, and thus there's a difference. Anyway, if that's all you want than Haskell, etc. definitely handle that case.
"The more things change, the more they stay the same" - Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

In the late 1980s, "executive dashboards" were all the rage. Vendors were selling tools to tap data in mainframe databases to provide insights directly to execs to improve business knowledge. It generally felt like a massive waste of resources.

(But, in that timeframe, I did build a tool to scrape data from a mainframe DB and turn it into useful statistics on a weekly basis at a big organization. Not sure how long it lasted, though, because my boss required that the reporting interface be implemented in his favorite tool, Lotus 1-2-3.)
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> One recent study by scientists from the Department of Energy found that the economic and environmental costs of turning old plastic into new using a process called pyrolysis were 10 to 100 times higher than those of making new plastics from fossil fuels.

I think they might have linked to the wrong paper, that one doesn't cover pyrolisis and none of the economics cost are even 2x using new fossil fuels.

Diagram:
https://pubs.acs.org/cms/10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c05497/asset...
What a bizarre thing to say! To most from French cultures, not speaking french is "rude". French Quebeckers will often even pretend to not know english.

Yet here we have someone claiming anglos are "rude" to french speakers? In what way?

Because, I presume, they do not speak french?
No of course I don't think that.
Had crippling insomnia for most of 15 years. It's the worst thing that ever happened to me and I would not wish it on anyone. I'm convinced I've lost years of my life - not just in the sense of wasted time, but shortened life. But no use being bothered about it.

The mainstream knowledge is still slow to catch up, but things are better than when I was researching at the outset. All you had from online searches was boilerplate inconsistent "sleep hygiene" advice and nothing else. I took a methodological approach and cracked open some books, and spent a lot of time on google scholar / pubmed. Self-adminstered CBT-i was an important intervention, despite its flaws - you can gripe that there are blind spots (e.g. it's possible to have automatic negative thoughts through conditioning despite knowing and understanding that they are distortions, 3rd-wave approaches like MCT make it a point to handle this), but in the main, a better mental game is absolutely key. Other interventions included eliminating pornography consumption, exposure to more sunlight in the morning and daytime, limiting total time in bed, experimenting with bedding, and even dietary changes. There were others as well I can't think of right now. Basically threw the kitchen sink at it. The mistake I often see is that those afflicted will rationalize that trying interventions "will lead to anxiety". There's no reason they have to. The anxiety comes from you.
This article would benefit from some actual examples, otherwise it is useless. What confusion is the author talking about exactly?
we already have that.

go buy treasury bonds, they pay almost 5 percent. ibonds pay more. why? they just do. and companies and rich people buy them all the time.
The problem is that there are a loooot of ethical implication on using your own personal data in the first place, where that goes, who has access to it, how is it handled, and so on and so on. Then advertisements isn't anything but propaganda, which has its own set of implications. And then finally we have the ever present pressure to push more and more ads, thereby making the internet in general worse and worse, so the very field of ads is in itself unethical, as it is destroying the virtual environments we are building.

Also ads != recommendations. In a sense after a while these two are also at odds with each other. Cause there is again, the ever present need to sell you more stuff.
The mobile malware threat landscape in 2022
> This website is well-meaning, but will be difficult to parse if you don't have elementary Arabic and can't tell apart ال from ل ا.

That's a really weird comment. Just Ctrl+F ل ا in your supposedly Arabic text?
Long Distance Relationships, Do They Work?
As soon as I see a product is open core, I immediately start wondering what critical features are going to be proprietary. I don't see this information immediately on your website- is there a page where you outline what features you plan to keep proprietary?
I want that PowerBook 190p.
I'm still not convinced that's a reliable indicator of quality. It's potentially a measure of popularity or entertainment value, or maybe pandering to preconceptions but that's not at all the same thing.

Ask yourself, what are your from-scratch metrics for quality that you would like to select for. Then consider what are the likely or possible criteria people actually have for upvoting stuff on reddit. I'll think you'll find there is probably very little correlation between those. This is called the alignment problem and it's very hard to get right.
Stop Saying “Technical Debt”
> No, they used the ⌥ symbol, which is the option/alt key symbol also established by Apple.

Fair enough; I did not notice the difference.

> which is, shocker, company-specific.

I would not have proposed it if I thought it was.

> It's not printed on keyboards.

It’s printed on some keyboards: https://hhkeyboard.us/hhkb/pro-classic/sku/cg01000-296201
You could be right. I guess the documentation isn't terribly clear...
Read up on the design and construction of the pentagon and los alamos national laboratory. The relationship between the US federal government and private sector changed tremendously over the 20th century.
It's almost impossible to be competitive whilst remaining ethical since being unethical provides a massive advantage. In the drive to optimize profits, any hard advantage soon becomes table stakes.
I have a rental house next to me. They got raided by SWAT a few years ago for using it as a selling house for fent.

I'm ok with some gatekeeping. There are some undesirable tenants.
Starbucks has been selling a good blonde roast in drinks for years now, some of the rotating cast of mixed drinks default to it too.
x9, it says per server.
Wow, you did quite the somersault there.
hold up. Representing a line, two lines, a dot, a circle... in one of several fixed positions relative to the character...that's exactly what a segmented display is good at. I think you may not have got what I meant by "dense". I'm looking at it from a pure information theoretic view. There's something like 5000 Chinese characters overall. Even if I could find a system of on/off segments to represent them all, I would still have to use at least 13 segments, because it takes at least 13 bits to encode 5000 possibilities. Chinese is dense in the sense that a whole 13 bits have to fit in the space of a single character. Granted diacrtics and other markers do add one or two new bits, but adding permutations isn't the same as adding complexity. Every time you learn one diacritic, you've doubled the number of letters you know how to write. Whereas in Chinese, when you learn a new character, you've learned a new character.

Other commenter nailed the real technical hurdle. Context dependent spacing system. How do monotypes do it (or do those not exist)?
This is dangerous. My friend blew out his knee pushing too hard with trailrunning, and now he can never run again.
Two quick examples:

1. In our codebase, we leave links to the stackoverflows as documentation if it's something that someone else may question. Exact same concept just with ChatGPT.

2. I'm working with the Salesforce API which has been absolutely tedious to use but chatGPT, while not great at everything, has been giving awesome results back that otherwise would take me hours to hunt down. Sometimes responses get a lot of information back with multiple code blocks that I'm then unable to copy paste over & I'd rather send the conversation than spend 15 minutes typing back & forth explaining myself to a co-worker.

I completely understand you may not have a use for this but I think there could be awesome use-cases for it nonetheless for other engineers.
The US is an outlier for transit costs even among rich countries. The report this article is based on (https://transitcosts.com/Final-Report/) uses cross-country comparisons as its main tool.
Not to argue for OP, but I think it’s more of a slippery slope thing. A friend of mine does data science at an online bet site but doing more of the number crunching; and from what I gather, the advertising side get close to pandering to gambling addicts

Edit:ignore, op posted. I should stop jumping to answer so soon!
What pejoratives? There are literally conspiracy nuts out there who strongly support the lab leak theory, mostly because China was the enemy du jour before drag queens. There is a lot of absolutely batshit stuff out there, including Trump himself accusing China of intentionally launching covid as a “bioweapon”.

As I said, that environment makes it hard to separate the legit, well-informed, grounded people who also advance real evidence of a lab leak.

My point was that they very loud, very nutty lab leak enthusiasts discredit legit discussion of the real possibility. I think you may have illustrated my point.
It is actually mentioned on the pricing page! (in one of the FAQ questions)
Did Rudy Giuliani clean up New York, or did he just get elected when things were turning around?

In any case, New York City includes its own suburbs, as San Francisco does not.
People do not age so much according to calendar years. It is incidents and experiences that age you
Perhaps, and our team lead which also has the product manager hat catches many such scenarios, or we catch it during our team meetings.

But like I said we've got hundreds of customer-specific features and integrations, it's hard to catch everything, so no need to defer things when one of us devs can shortcut the process.
A merino wool T-shirt breathes. Same with linen. Both have "holes" between the fibers, not just in the fabric.

It's also warm if it's a bit chilly in a way that a cotton shirt isn't, again because of the fact that it traps pockets of air between the fibres and that insulates a bit. Thicker wool clothes do the same thing, but more.

Because of the "pourousness" and the fact that the wool fibers are covered in natural fats (lanoline) it also dries really fast because the fibers don't suck in the moisture as, say, cotton does.

Yes, it won't keep you warm in gale force winds, but I've got a shell jacket for windy days.
Ask HN: Need guidance to transition from Tech/Programming to Product Management
It's been increasingly hard for me to transition to a Product Management from Sr. Data Scientist role. I've tried platforms like pay-only-after-you-get-hired platforms but no success (not even interview calls). My fulltime company has Project Management & Product Development Management roles, but the responsibilities are majorly people management and finishing a project within a timeline rather than scoping out features, launching new product, involve in sales & growth strategy.

About me: (On a work visa in the US)

- 11+ coding experience; 6+ Data Science side. Most of my Data Science side (full-time) involves in pitching the products to the business and building products.

- Have launched & marketed multiple SaaS & Chrome Apps since 2017. Only 3 survived and ongoing; one man show

- Grown a platform to 110K+ registrations in a year, with 2.5K DAU

- One of my chrome extensions is selected as Google's favorite

My interest towards product started for 2 reasons

- 1. Feeling too much of coding in my life (professional & side projects)

- 2. I'm finding more happiness in growing the product than building a app

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
I think the distribution of libido between men and women is pretty much even. Most men think women are less interested in sex, but women with the right guys can have quite a high sex drive. In more sexually open subcultures such as swingers and so on, women are firmly in the drivers seat and tend to be every bit as forward as men and many would say more so.
There are at home sleep tests. Basically a wristband that measures your sleep. Then you take it back to the clinic and they read the results. I don't remember how much it was but it wasn't too much.
Me too! It's the handheld gaming device I dreamed about when I was a kid. It's become my favorite platform, especially considering I don't game as much as I used to. It's perfect for a quick pick-up-and-play. I stopped using my PS5 last year, and the one time I did, I used remote play (chiaki) on the Steam Deck. And if I'm playing something that my kids want to watch, I can cast the screen to the TV via steam link. None of the other big companies will ever be able to produce something like this, especially with all the tweaks that can be made.
Guess what Python is written in.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/9451956
> When you consider ARM vs AMD vs Intel vs current-gen vs last-gen, AWS sells several 8-core 32-GB machines that have wildly varying performance characteristics.

This is actually a benefit of AWS and other large public clouds. You have a choice due to their size.

If AWS's investment in Gravitron design works well for your workload, it's a ~30% cost savings. They're able to invest in designing and producing the chips due to their size. A company like fly.to is limited in selection and heavy R&D.
Caching is parroting what the original poster publishes. If the OP asks not to index, you cease indexing. However, if you are purposeful "hosting," you may not accept and continue hosting, knowing all the legal consequences that may follow.
I’d be more willing to subscribe if publications didn’t pull the dark pattern of making signing up fast and easy, but then requiring a call to a rep to cancel.

I used to subscribe to the nytimes but a few years ago I needed a break from news. My plan was to come back in 6-12 months, but they made me wait on the phone for 25 mins for something that should have taken a couple of minutes on their site. I cancelled and never went back.
Look at railroad maps from ~1930, and you see railroads connecting to almost everywhere, even in much of so called flyover country, and difficult terrain.

To get an impression, just have a look at the first map from there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_and_Rio_Grande_Western_...

What can be seen there extends to much of the rest of the CONUS.
Therefore I conclude it has nothing to do with life style, tradeoffs regarding location, and so on.

> We can't make trains to literally everywhere...

You could, and you did.

Then the Great Depression and WWII came, and after this you decided to throw it all away for the automobile.

The same with streetcars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...

vs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_streetcar_systems_in_t...
I find it strange that anyone would want companies to accurately model their behaviour and desires so that they might influence you to behave in a way that benefits that company.

The rare time an ad slips past my blocker, (and rarer still when I stop to think about them) I take solace whenever they are irrelevant.
That's what we have screen time limits for. You can set the screen time for those apps to 0 minutes.
>I suspect that almost all Steam Deck owners already have a PC they game on.

I don’t know if I’m in the minority or not, but I have never owned a gaming PC, and have not had a console since I was a teenager with an Xbox 360. I’m now 30, and I bought the Steam Deck precisely because of its portability.
I use ChatGPT all the time for my Unreal Engine C++ development. Whenever I find an interesting solution provided by the AI it is like finding a rare treasure. If it is useful enough I tell the AI to outline a blog post about it and I save it as a draft to expand/correct later.

Yes, I love AI, but I am not sure how useful would it be to see/read other people prompts.
Some people work in areas where their results are directly tied to their rewards.

And those environments are usually rapidly developing, so same results one year later returns smaller rewards.

Therefore, in some areas, one needs to constantly improve in order to deliver better results over time.

A layman's example: you cannot stagnate as an NBA player because the game constantly evolves and one must be to date with the latest tactics and techniques.

Assuming that the same results will give same rewards over an entire career is waiting to be made redundant by advances in the field.
Snapchat is releasing its own AI chatbot powered by ChatGPT
That only banned portable gas-powered generators, not the ones you would install for your entire house (like from Generac)
The irony is that nobody complains young guys are too picky to date old women. But the subtext I'm reading in many comments here is that young women are too picky to date young guys.
Syndication used to be the way this idea worked. You'd buy your local paper that wrote about the cat stuck in the tree down the street, but it also republished national articles from AP. If you really cared about another locale, you might subscribe to two papers, which meant you might see the same national article twice.
Thank you for explaining. I didn't mean to suggest that Facilitated communication is like reading horoscopes. I assumed that the movie was some kind of heartwarming film that people (women!) watch to feel good. That's what I'd assume first and foremost, not that the person watching it is aware of the how the source material was created and embraces that.

I've seen people become annoyed when someone they admire does something boring, like a brilliant scientist who also collects hand-bags or likes to go to football matches, because they seem to envision them as brilliant scientists 24/7 without a life outside of being brilliant (and probably communicating only in deep profound statements, even when they're at the checkout in the cafeteria and the cashier is rolling their eyes because they're holding up the queue).

I don't share your approach to people and don't understand it at all, but I'm aware that's on me, not you. I guess I'm just very good at compartmentalizing, I can't think of a single person where I'd be disappointed if they came out as liking pop-music or strongly believing in homeopathy, flat-earth, or socialism. I'm a fan of some people, but it's narrowly confined to their work in some area, e.g. I might love someone's books or music, but that wouldn't translate into me caring about their political views.
White Holes
I thought there were a bunch of dead links on the page, but looking closer it's actually the "Star us on GitHub" banner extending some invisible element to the bottom of the page and blocking certain elements from being clicked on. (Firefox 111 on mac).
PHP should be renamed to HypeScript
Australia? Otherwise, I ordered mine on a Thursday and it arrived the following Tuesday.
This seems to be my recurring theme - reading the title and misinterpreting the meaning, as times have changed.

The first thought I had is that we have some metal-can germanium diodes [0] where I clip the top off, and make them photo responsive. This was a practice in the 70s and 80s, mostly with metal-can transistors, but it worked with various diodes too. The packaging was tiny metal can (aka cap), with the lid (aka baseplate) providing the support for the germanium and leads. If the can was removed, often the level of light can impact the gate's ability to transmit current. A real quick way to get yourself a photo-diode when it was in short supply.

[0]: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=metal+can+diode&iax=images&...
Sorry, were we not supposed to be assuming that "consultant" was a synonym for "grifter" already?
My friend's latest tech interview (02/2023) https://drive.google.com/file/d/10Rw2VEl69R5w0FmyEZJCwXObIhA...
Windows is not fit for production anymore. Any business using Windows workstations is in danger, and should accordingly map it as an existential risk.
2023: The Year to Minimize Toil
They lost data back in 2011: https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/03/01/goog...

And they recovered everything. I assume that they lose data all the time, but restore everything fast enough, so we users simply don't notice.
One problem there: magnetism is "just" the relativistic correction to electrostatic potential between charges observed in different relativistic frames of reference.
and also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Egg
Haha yeah, I remember a friend of mine from Seoul coming to visit me and looking with wonder at the stars in the night sky. It’s so easy to take these things for granted.
Website feedback:

Click to start video only works at the edges of the video, not the center (Firefox 110.0, MacOS)
>There are a number of women who aren't happy with waiting until nearly 30 either

It's natural that the relationship window for men closes slower than for women. A man intending to start a family can comfortably have his first child in his 40s or even 50s. A woman has to move into position within 10-15 years of adulthood or risk massive possible complications for her and the children.
You’re over-generalizing on “people”. The majority, or at least loudest, of the lab leak proponents also say it was a Chinese-designed bioweapon intentionally released in China to attack the US. They have been moving goalposts, but your more reasonable take is not at all universal.
Show HN: Go Concurrency Primitives in Swift
The year of gaming on Linux has come before the year of desktop on Linux, who would have thought!
I think this is a bit how ChatGPT works with texts, ported to hardware / UX designs.
In scientific research, data mining as it's apparently often practiced in the private sector isn't a thing - there's study design, there's controls, there's a whole system of how to go about collecting data that's been designed in advance so that datasets are collected that can be used to answer the questions of interest.

Garbage in, garbage out, that's worth remembering.