skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
looks like Ford is done innovating
China banned feminine men from TV recently and regularly has government moral panics about how much time kids are allowed to play video games. Of course they care about all kinds of cultural things; they're under personal rule by a cranky boomer and he has boomer opinions.
It will likely appear inside elogind.
Sounds like you'd be open for working remote :)
It might make the difference between ignoring a potential city-killer impact, and an all-or-nothing attempt to save us from civilization-ending event. To make such decisions we need to know what a particular type of incoming object might do. That means careful study of the few examples we already have in our history.
A lot of it is misdirected hate.

In the first dot.com boom, a lot of people worked for tech companies, and Microsoft was the Google|Apple back then. Their corporate culture was dog-eat-dog nonsense, but it trickled down through the industry... and of course at the time Java was super super popular, even though _it really sucked_ back then (not so much now, it's quite awesome).

One of the most _hated_ positions was "The Architect" who usually rose to the top via floating on top of a bubble of attrition; so rather than being promoted because you're good at leadership or a great person that's fun to be around or a technically savvy and loved to teach... these architects were ignorant egotistical maniacal dictators that got promoted merely because everyone else quit. They turned static analysis tools into weapons of war. They made arbitrary standards that really didn't work for anyone, rather than trying to work for someone. Everything had to be over-engineered (sound familiar? If not, look at today's SPAs) with AbstractFactoryProducerMethodProducerImplInterfaces. I worked at a lot of these companies, and it just wasn't a fun time to be in software development.

Rather than people seeing the reality that Poor Leadership and zero charisma as the root cause, somehow people arrived at Java was the core problem.

A lot of the things were good in their intention; for instance, having the whole company use tabs instead of spaces (or vice versa) and having a universal code formatter have the potential to increase communication. But instead, it was just executed poorly at nearly every shop and the vast majority of the problems got turned into Dilbert comics.

But yeah, Java.
> C# does not attach any special meaning to null in the context of lookup

Lots of C# APIs do, in fact return null from Index (ie the [] operator) for "Not found", you're clearly writing much newer .NET code and so you're using a modern generic container which can't do this (because its return type can't be null)

> nor does it allow it by default even for reference types (assuming that you're compiling with nullability checks on, which has been the default for years)

My emphasis. I believe the default you're talking about starts in .NET 6 in late 2021. I don't think "since late 2021" qualifies as "for years".

C# Code I write from scratch does have nullability checks because I'd prefer to be in a language where "Null reference" isn't a thing, and this is as close as C# gets - but I maintain tonnes of code that was written three, five, even ten years ago.
For recent videos yes, it's easy-ish to verify their authenticity... but for material claimed to be older, particularly when combined with a SEO spam campaign?

Additionally, more and more people don't trust mass media in general which just makes the problem worse. There is nothing left any more that serves as a trustable institution for them.
Conclusion of the linked paper:

> The results of this paper suggest the presence of a substantial bias against making changes when it comes to important life decisions, as evidenced by that fact that those who do make a change report being no worse off after two months and much better off six months later. The results of this paper are, of course, merely suggestive. If the results are correct, then admonitions such as "winners never quit and quitters never win," while well-meaning, may actually be extremely poor advice.
Total Addressable Market.
i just wanted to see the good bois
> I'm still completely astonished that doctors allow teenagers to undergo sex change surgery or chemical procedures before the age of sexual consent, or the right to vote.

Thankfully, there is data here.

First, sex change surgery and chemical procedures are not what you think they are. The care given to teenagers is typically "puberty blockers", which are temporary and reversible drugs that delay the onset of puberty.

These are typically given explicitly so kids can age a bit and ensure they are aren't making difficult to reverse decisions either way.

Puberty is irreversible, so temporarily delaying it gives people time to make evaluations without time pressure. You really don't want people making decisions about whether they are trans or not under the gun -- "Oh shit, if I don't make a decision now, I'm going to have puberty, so I better go go go!".

After that, kids enter the care of mental health professionals and doctors, who observe and work with that kid's community and the kid themselves for years before undergoing any semi-permanent change like hormone therapy or surgery.

These decisions are not taken lightly, and the regret rate for gender affirming care is about 1%. That regret rate is considerably smaller than regret rates for knee/hip replacements, marriage, having children, and many, many other things we widely consider to be normal healthy things to do.
>The problem is that there is less than zero trust that the government will do anything other than the equivalent of piling it in the middle of the city and chucking a match at it. This situation is the result of myriad failures ranging from complex to "basic safety", a result of greed, and there's zero reason to assume the followup response will be any different.

Can't you make this argument for any sort of cleanup effort? If so, what should we do? Not do any sort of cleanup?
It's definitely a "vast majority of the world" thing (except China I guess). Check this list:

https://eagernomad.com/most-popular-messaging-apps-by-countr...

> hardly an upgrade.

It's a huge upgrade. It's not perfect but it beats being forced to buy iPhones by a mile. Facebook already has the address book of most people anyway. The extra metadata they get from WhatsApp is marginal at best.
My personal advice to anyone is to move from a company before you are there for 10 years. It does not matter how well you are doing, how good you are rated, it is both a career killer and a personal investment that will make it a lot harder to leave when you should have left a long time ago.

I am not talking about job hopping, not at all, but after 20 years in a company it becomes a sort of a marriage and this is not healthy for you, even if it is great for the company. Your marriage is for life, your employer is not.

Another moment to leave is when you did not learn anything new in the past 6 months. In IT, this is not good.
I'm confused ; I could buy the first request, but now the cheese has inexplicably moved? Request was for credible source. Somebody provided text to actual bill. That is the canonical credible source - no interpretation, bait, translation, summary or slant. What is your expectation in terms of "credible source" then - keep trying until they guess your preferred news source?
"basically An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is a perennial category of fan theory, along with "they were dead/in purgatory/hallucinating in an asylum all along" and "$X is a Time Lord." The latter i've also seen about James Bond.

And of course Nikola Tesla. Which probably makes Edison The Master. There's definitely an AU fan fiction in there somewhere, which in its Golden Age (electropunk?) Lovecraft-noir incorporates "Edison's Conquest of Mars[0]," an influential but otherwise garbage sequel to H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. Sorry, what was I.. oh yeah. Tunguska. Obviously Tesla accidentally reversed the polarity of the neutron flow.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison%27s_Conquest_of_Mars
The secret is that sometimes you just have to ... sigh ... work.
We had a need for telemetry recently so I looked at OpenMetrics libraries.

Basically they didn't allow sufficient control for low-latency applications so we just rolled our own approach that writes samples to InfluxDB.
Cocytarchy – By Kulak – Anarchonomicon
Something fairly similar, called a strobe tuner[1], is used for tuning musical instruments. (Before electronic tuners, these were more popular, but they're apparently still used.)

There's a mechanical spinning disk that turns at a precise rate. It has patterns on it, and the sound of the instrument controls the strobe light.

Your goal is to adjust the pitch of the instrument until the wheel appears to stand still.

Here's a video about how that works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8KHeyT6xB0

That video claims accuracy as good as 1/10th of a cent.

There are 12 notes in an octave, and a cent is 1/100th of the distance (in frequency) between two adjacent notes. If it can tune an A440 within 1/10th of a cent, then that means it can get the frequency within the range between 439.975 Hz and 440.025 Hz[2].

If I've got the math right, that means it's measuring way more precisely than a millisecond.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_tuner#Strobe_tuners

[2] 440 * 2^(-1/12000) and 440 * 2^(1/12000), respectively.
Ex-Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow sues Movement DAO engineer whom he hired
Twitter reports ~40% YoY decline in revenue and adjusted earnings for Dec 2022
How could you possibly know what his inner motivations may be? Do you live with him or have at least talked to him for an hour? Yes I was talking about them based on the visible outcomes of their actions, that is what experience tought me about life and people in general. It's not the talk - it's the walk. Another real-life lesson: what we feel as being morally wrong or right, usually passes the test in the end, at least on major topics (equality, dignity, human rights, economy). Something being just legal, does not make it right. South Africa had a legalised discrimination against the blacks and in the nazi-era Germany it would have been against the law to hide a jewish kid from the deportations. Probably some weird nerd back then around 1937. discussed how we could not get involved based on just moral feelings. All this aside, how could anyone admire or worship these weird characters: WB eats at McD everyday, Bezos apparently dislikes music (!), Altman apparently had a prepper bunker since 2016, not to mention the boy-genius who blew away 44B on twitter. But yes, billionaires dont really have any liquidity, the money is all 'tied up'. They practically live hand-to-mouth.
Getting another python executable is normal the challenge though.
Except /r/java where Java is God
> As a search it is not as good as Google or even Bing.

I think it can be better. Maybe it isn't yet though I've certainly had a couple experiences where it was signifcantly better.

When I search things, I often search for discrete pieces of information, then synthesize those and/or branch out into more searches to solve my problem.

If the tool can do some of this synthesizing and branching, that would be extremely useful. I've had cases where it does that for me.

There's also often related things I don't know to search for and which I'll likely never know to search for, given how much trouble it can be to find the thing I do know that I'm looking for. I've had cases where it does this too.
> There is no cure for hearing damage.

There's no silver-bullet cure for hearing damage, but there are cures and effective treatment for the underlying causes, which can result in a cure for hearing damage.

The treatment and prognosis is highly dependent on the underlying cause. Cilia damage probably won't be curable until after a lot more stem cell research. Neurological damage is hard to impossible to cure depending on the age and neuroplasticity of the patient. TMJ or Eustachian tube dysfunction can lead to hearing damage that goes away once the underlying issue is treated.

This misinformation has killed people. Texas Roadhouse CEO Kent Taylor committed suicide after being diagnosed with tinnitus and being told it was untreatable, even though his tinnitus was caused by a COVID-19 infection causing inflammation. The treatment for that, which is highly effective, is two weeks of prednisone, with intratympanic steroid injections in severe cases.
> The west is every bit as authoritarian as China but the rules are considerably less clear and it's a lot murkier.

Can’t believe anyone writing this seriously with a straight face.
Indeed. I’m not an entrepreneur or anything but liken it a bit to having a good initial poker hand - you can win with one good card but it is helpful and gives one more options to have two good cards.

So in the context of bootstrapping a company it’s helpful to have a legit fallback (way to suck it up and find an OK job) when things don’t pan out.

Edit: maybe this is obvious for CS/software folks but the extracurricular work I’m involved with is not exactly tech related, though my day job is coding
> "you must ..., when in confrontation ..., you should avoid..."

It's a bit weird, it's as if the rules were for a human?

Does ChatGPT really have this level of introspection?
I've admittedly only done a cruise once, but I saw it as sampling from tasting menu. After my cruise there where two places (out of 8) we'd stopped that I really felt I wanted to see more of, so I went back to those places on later vacations and explored them more.
If you're going to handwave away climate change and the resultant catastrophes as "not real" then I see no point in engaging further. I don't know if you meant carbon capture when you said extraction, but that's vaporware.

Sudden change, without precedent... sounds like a black swan event, which ironically we have a term for. But there is precedent. Many civilizations before us have collapsed due to lack of resources, or mismanagement, or expanding so much they became unmanageable; this would just be the first time a globally connected civilization did so.

Exponential growth tends to become sigmoidal the further out you look, so you're taking it on faith that human history is the exception to the rule. You are convinced we are at the knee of an exponential curve and I am convinced we've already flattened into sigmoid.
JLC is awesome. Shipping takes 3x as long as it takes them to make the boards, even with PCBA (which is to say they are fast). I do wish we had the equivalent here in the states to cut down on the shipping time.
Good catch, that appears to be a bug! I'll have a look tomorrow.
The Neglected Log in Button
The reference to Kipling was replaced by one to John Steinbeck, I assume because Steinbeck was a leftist, and Kipling is perceived to have been politically on the right (certainly he is relative to contemporary standards).
What hardware does this Turing Machine run on?
"As a matter of fact, I carry a pair of earplugs in my pocket, just in case I encounter anything loud that would damage my hearing."

Fun fact: Frequently using earplugs is also a cause of tinnitus (through at least 6 identified routes.)

I'm not suggesting that this person's use of earplugs is the source of their tinnitus, but it does help demonstrate that tinnitus has a mind-bogglingly large range of sources such as immune disorders/allergy, infection, ear wax impaction, and conditioning, along with being a side effect to a long list of medical conditions.
Curious: in what way better? I am doing interviews from time to time just to see what is outside and I found companies with better pay but very toxic atmosphere, companies that pay less but great to work in (relaxed, friendly), not yet better pay and better atmosphere but that's what we all should be looking for.
Yeah that is why he said it is a bit of a lottery. 2 of 9 seems like a pretty solid success rate but that means even you (someone who has a knack for it) would need 4 solid efforts to have good odds at getting a winner. 4 failed attempts is going to burn most people out emotionally if not financially.

Was your first successful business one of your first ones? What if it had taken you until your 6th try to get a winner? Would you have stuck it out?
I'd accept that you are going to pursue getting over the line of the PhD even if it wasn't an ideal fit or your other misgivings about it. It's really just a piece of paper when it is all said and done, and it sounds like it will be a very useful piece of paper since you were in a prestigious group.

Once you've accepted that will happen, you just need to set a simple plan of how to get there in one piece. Make sure you are indeed carving out a little bit of time for things you love doing. When you are depressed that can be very difficult but just think of what you really loved and enjoyed two or five years ago and put it on the calendar, all the better if it is a cheap plane ticket or some other reservation required so you obligate future you to do it. I'd also suggest sending a message to all of those scattered friends to reconnect, easy to do and will help ground yourself.

Finally, do you have any sort of exercise habit? If not seriously consider doing something 3-4x a week for half an hour that gets you sweaty. You don't have to love the activity but it helps if it's fun or just fits into your routine effortlessly.

You are so goddamn young mate. you are going to make it.
A senator and two members of the house felt that a minority class of people should have their children removed from them, and invested the time to draft legislation and introduce it to both the house and senate simultaneously.

That, all by itself, is notable. We don't want to wait until this passes to start discussing it. The fact that it came up at all is the well past the point where we should be talking about it.
Neither of the examples I gave obfuscate links when making permalinks.

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/w/?title=Valheim&oldid=231146307 page title is still in the link, in addition to the revision ID

https://github.com/git/git/blob/d15644fe0226af7ffc874572d968... also says exactly where you're going, it just replaces the branch master or whatever with the commit. You still see the repository and file path.

Permalinks don't have to be obfuscated. The downside I would rather mention is that the link doesn't update to newer revisions if improvements are made. It's not like an LTS version where fixes are still applied but no changes (I guess because every change is supposed to be an improvement to the topic, but yeah, not always).
What website do you think you're on? Anybody who is a competent software developer can.
Neal Stephenson Says Future of the Metaverse Won't Require Goggles
I would say that, regardless of the company, you should seriously consider quitting your first job after a couple years.

Even if your first job is great, you just have no basis for comparison. If your next job is great too, then swell - now you can work there confidently! If it sucks, you try again. The knowledge you gain by trying a few places is better than sitting in one place, even if that place is actually really good.

For me, my first job was ok. My second job was ok, but in different ways: some things it did way better then job #1, some things way worse. By the end of my second job, I have at least the start of an idea of what I liked and disliked, and used that to inform my third job search.

Really the third job search is where it's really at: you have a lot more options (as a mid or senior engineer) and you have two data points about what you want and don't want in a job. This allows you to optimize around what the best job for you is. My third job lasted my about 5 years until an acquisition because I had dialed in what I liked by that point. If I'd stayed at my first job, I'd never have found that.
6 books of the Expanse series have the exact same blurb on their front covers from George R. R. Martin: "Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written."
This is basically the same as the VC fund model. They get annual carry (ie percentage) on every fund, and then get a percentage of the gains for every exit.

Often this is "two and twenty" (aka 2% annual carry, plus 20% of the gains). Pretty awesome skimming.
On the other hand, x86 (and 8080/5/Z80) instruction encodings look far more sensical in octal, due to their 2-3-3 field arrangement, yet the official documentation has always used hex.
Iran and Russia have never really been friends. Just because they both don't like the US, doesn't mean they like each other.

China and Iran aren't friends, but of course China is willing to trade with them, and they might mine some lithium, but the refining would be done in China. No way will China give Iran what it needs for its own lithium industry. Maybe if Iran really pays for a lot for it, but even then, this would be a very long process.
You are confusing “pyenv”, a tool to install different python versions, with “pipenv”, replaced by poetry (and similar tools)
Of course we could, but is there any reason why we should? They seem to be doing fine as is.
This affliction is now near-universal in Japan. A friend of mine was recently ribbed for forgetting how to handwrite an admittedly somewhat complex but still very common character (橋 hashi, "bridge") in her own name.
How many WPM can the average Japanese adult write by hand?

Are kanji more efficient to write out than phonetic writing systems, or is proficiency with them more valued for tradition's sake?

Is almost everyone a word-processor idiot these days?

When I think of writing things by hand in English, it's hard to ever really want to do it. I type literally 10x faster than I can write, and when I write I cramp super quickly. In my life, at least, handwriting is obsolete.
Worldwide numbers are obviously complicated, but in the united states the median number per year is zero if you exclude intersex babies. Sexual reassignment surgery on minors is an entirely made up concern. Even HRT is unusual, and typically teens only receive puberty blockers specifically to let them defer the decision until adulthood.
I think it's cool and understandable as a sign of reciprocity.. if the book deserves the blurbs then really the blurbs deserve the book they're stuck with. Of course there is not always reciprocity, but apparently aye in this case.
This resonates.
I don't think we are agreeing on terminology.. AFAIK radicals and social conservatives are opposites. One wants changes to match new ideas the other a freeze or return.

The masons and quakers are examples of groups with tolerance that make them compatible with other ideas, mixes, radicalism and a republic. Other groups may coexist in a republic because the republic was designed for compatibility but they are really social conservatives and a super majority of them makes them persecutors instead of persecuted. I.e. people who would impose Sharia law as soon as they got 2/3rds are perfectly fine as a minority in a tolerant republic.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Masonic_Party
> How do you know if leaving your 1st software job will make you happier?

You don't know, but it very likely will.
Increased investment in automation.

Factory work is not going to come back to the west in a big way. Labor costs would make goods more expensive than customers would be willing to pay.

When there are no more humans willing to do the work for cheap, which will happen when the third world catches up with the first world, everyone (including third-world factories) will pivot to robotics and automation as much as possible.