skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I moved from Korea to NZ. And I’m recently trying out Japan. I think it can be _easier_ to make friends as an immigrant that looks different (as long as you can speak their language) as there will always be people who are interested in different cultures.

Though I have found that it can be quite hard to become close friends but it’s definitely possible.
> since COVID people almost exclusively stick to themselves or the group they came with.

I’ve noticed the same thing. I used to go out a lot, loved to out talk to people, maybe a party a bit. Sometimes I’d go with a group, often times I’d go out alone. It used to be pretty common if you were alone on a weekend, someone would invite you to come sit and chat with them.

Post-covid though I’ve pretty much stopped going out. People seem more antisocial outside of their insular groups, at least compared to pre-covid. The “friend” group I was part of imploded because of petty drama and nowadays, the only thing I get from going out alone is a bad hangover the next day.
Latent-Shift: an efficient text-to-video generation based on temporal shift
Agree. All historical comparison to prior disruptions are invalid.

The reason they are invalid, is that all prior disruptions were narrow, were followed by periods of stabilization that allowed people to plan and reason about their lives.

AI is the opposite in this regard, it is broad and there is no period of stabilization. It is continual acceleration.

AI is a skill/technology replication machine. This concept has never existed before. The impacts are not relatable to anything else.

The implications go far beyond jobs as well. The potential cultural and societal impacts are equally as disturbing. I've written in detail about some of those possibilities here.

https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things
... and sent you on a quest accompanied by the elves Analytics, Required Diagnostics and Better Experience and the dwarf twins Location and App Usage History. The epic journey took you through the mythical Optional Fields to Microsoft Land where you were to slay the dragon of User Choice and allow Men to once again reap their harvests of personal data without fear.
Google "Enterprise LTSC IoT."

Downside is that "I would do anything" doesn't begin to describe what will be necessary to obtain a legitimate license.
A popular video explaining some of the practical aspects of this phenomenon: https://www.youtube.com/live/ySuUZEjARPY?feature=share
> Anyone who has kids and sometimes wants a break.

I am quite confident that occasionally having someone watch my kid would not offset the extent to which my parents (or my in-laws) and I would begin to grate on each other.
When I lived in LA I went to a beach dodgeball meetup organized by Herbalife MLM "health coaches". It was actually a rather positive experience. I biked out three mornings a week for many months, and played dodgeball and then did high intensity exercises in the sand. Afterward I would go to their gym and pay $5 for a protein shake, and socialize with an eclectic bunch of people completely unlike me. I lost 40lb, could do 100 pull ups, and I could buy the outfit off a dummy at Macy's and look good.

One girl had "dibs" on me regarding the MLM scheme. She eventually got a bit irritated that I never signed up, but I still managed to integrate myself into their social circle for a good while. I even went to one of their conferences, just out of curiosity.

A good number of the people I met were actually quite interesting, but had some unsatisfied aspect of their life. The combination of community and intense exercise was healthy for them, even if they were
spending their time futilely trying to sell supplements.
That plus the spent fuel pools need to be be continually filled with cool water at all costs otherwise the spent fuel burns and potentially spreads radioactive ash over an area the size of a small state.

The NRC itself made the report - https://www.science.org/content/article/spent-fuel-fire-us-s...
There's like 8 different board game meetups in Chicago on the site, as a data point.
Mind to elaborate a little more?
Apparently you can share Top Secret documents for months on Discord and no one notices....
I was part of the Postgres Research Group at UC Berkeley from 1991 to ~1995, working directly for Mike Stonebraker. To be honest, I didn't do any of the research work behind it, although I did port Postgres to Windows NT during this time.

Postgres back then was completely different then what it is now. It was mainly used for PhD and Master's student to hack on for their research. It was a mess internally and was hardly usable for production. I don't think that MySQL went through this style of development.

What eventually happened is that around 1995 SQL was added to Postgres and a bunch of non-Berkeley people started hacking on it. They did a fantastic job, and deserve all the credit for making it what it is today (Stonebraker has publically said this).
My OS/2 barf bag story
When I worked at Borland way back in the early 90s most of the company wasted a year or so building OS/2 versions of our products. The PC OS story hadn't finished yet, but most of us new it was over. Even so, it didn't feel completely wrong to be writing software for OS/2.

Heck, I was hired a year prior primarily because I had "extensive" OS/2 experience. At that time Borland had just struck a deal with IBM to provide OS/2 versions for many of their products. It was a ton of cash. But also a crappe tonne of time. Time Borland did not have while in Microsoft's crosshairs. But I digress.

The project I was on worked with an IBM liaison. He'd fly out periodically to hand deliver OS/2 beta updates on floppy disks. It was amazing. I don't recall the exact number, but the OS consisted of about twenty 3.5 inch floppy disks. Even back then it seemed insane to install anything with that many floppies.

Note, we were basically building a new product using our own early beta C compiler for an early beta OS. Was the bug in our code, the compiler's code, the OS code? But I digress.

The software usually came in nicely tailored, reusable boxes that sat upright. Not quite 21st century Apple quality packaging, but respectable for the time. Well, the last hand-delivered OS/2 update came in a barf bag from the IBM liaison's flight. He dropped it off on my desk, I thought he was joking. No.

I don't recall the excuse, but the mood concerning OS/2 at that time wasn't exactly upbeat. I called it the barf bag omen. The rest is history.
It can be explained using the language of basic circuit theory. DC current prefers the path of the least resistance, but AC / RF current (1 MHz and above [0]) prefers the path of the least impedance, which is the combination of resistance and reactance. The main source of reactance in practical circuits is parasitic inductances - all real-world components, like wires, have unwanted parasitic inductance at AC, in the same way that all conductors have unwanted parasitic resistance at DC. The farther two conductors in a loop are located apart, the greater the parasitic inductance. Thus, when you have a big loop and a small loop, current prefers to flow via the smaller loop with lower parasitic inductance - even if the end points of the big loop have a shorter "straight line" distance with a smaller DC resistance. When you have two inductors in parallel, current prefers the smaller one - just like when you have two resistors in parallel, current prefers the smaller one.

Now going from circuit theory to physics, we would see that inductance is not the property of an individual component called the "inductor", but it's the result of the magnetic field of the current around a closed loop of a circuit. Thus, every circuit must have a parasitic inductance. To a first approximation, this inductance is proportional to the loop area enclosed by the circuit. Thus, for high-speed digital / RF signal transmission, we often want to make the return conductor be as close to the signal conductor as possible [1]. This is why ground planes are often used in circuit boards, and why twisted pairs are often used in cables.

[0] The point of transition depends on many factors, including the physical size of the circuit. Sometimes it can be as low in the 100 kHz range.

[1] I ignored the issue of characteristic impedance
> I'm all for getting rid of nat gas heating, and I wouldn't install it in a new home...

Does that also apply if your new house is in Alaska?
Also called TripHop.
Isn’t it still a smartphone though? It runs android and technically has apps. It just hides it from you with a skin.
Although things are not that easy and ordered....

You can look at simulated orbitals here: https://falstad.com/qmatom/

s-orbitals are spherically symmetrical. You might convince yourself that p-orbitals are also fine, because 3 of them in 3 dimensions do have reasonable rotational symmetry.

You'll notice that when you move to d-orbitals things start to get really weird. 4 of them are fairly equivalent but it turns out that you can cram 10 electrons of this energy around the nucleus in this fashion. So there are 5 d orbitals. And we can't really fit the fifth in similar manner as other 4.

https://profound-advice.com/what-is-the-difference-between-t... Check the video.

So while we technically have 5 d orbitals, one of them is weird. Its weirdness is an artifact of math. To get the orbitals we are solving Schrodinger equation in spherical coordinates, where one axis is chosen as special. This gives us this weird solution. https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/117243/why-is-...

Physical reality can't depend on our choice of coordinate system so this tells us that orbitals as we draw them don't really directly express the physical reality. In actual physical reality all five of d orbitals have the same shape (somewhere in between the nice d and weird d), but since we can't tell the difference between electron on one d orbital from the electron on another then as long as all 5 orbitals sum up to physical reality our math still works, even if we choose to decompose the solution into 5 non-rotationally-symmetrical parts to make math easier on ourselves.
When I hear "incredibly dumb" the first thing that comes to mind is the following chain of events:

1. Declaring ICE vehicles dead and EVs as the future, and setting hard dates for sunset of ICE (with no legitimate infrastructure plan).

2. Declaring point of use natural gas evil and phasing out natural gas heating and cooking.

3. Declaring all fossil fuel power generation sources (coal, natural gas) as evil and demanding their elimination.

4. Declaring nuclear power as dangerous and unfit (you are here).

5. ???

6. Switchover to green-friendly all-electric architecture complete.

People love to offer criticism but propose no practical solutions. Emphasis on practical.

Renewable energy is a drop in the bucket and cannot possibly serve the steady and sharp increase in load demand.

Unless the US intends to have widespread mandatory rolling blackouts like third world countries, something's gotta give.

No more criticisms without solutions.
To me Meetup seems like a much more natural model. There's some activity I have an interest in and I can meet other people who also want to do it. The Bumble BFF thing like... OK, we have nothing in common except we want to make friends? Seems odd.
The product that Harvard sells precisely is exclusivity, not a quality education. You can get that anywhere.

If Harvard “dramatically expanded” their student body, they wouldn’t be Harvard any more.

Most college students attend non-selective schools, which do broadly accept everyone who meets a minimum standard.
They collect data, which is what I hate about Windows too. But I doubt they sell it; it would be a pretty dumb thing to do. That's how they're building their "graph" thing that gets mentioned at every conference.

The same graph that will soon feed into the various Copilots and GPT-things to personalize the heck out of your search and document creation which leads to more usage which leads to more data to feed into the graph.

I'm sure some of that "accidentally leaks" into their ad business too (despite their privacy assurances), but again, I doubt they'd ever sell it to 3rd parties (if nothing else, out of fear of litigation... FAANGs usually take PII handling pretty seriously).
This sort of view is needlessly antagonistic of those you may be trying to influence.

People like what they like, stop telling them they're wrong for liking it! We're not all able-bodied extroverts that are unbothered by noise.
To be correct for ac and dc, the title should say “… find the path of least impedance”. Which is resistance and reactance combined (capacitance or inductance). Also to be clear: they are not talking about 50/60 hz ac signal which will follow a path basically exactly like dc on a pcb, but much higher frequencies.
Ah right, thanks for that. Had meant to but some life events a few days ago moved up my launch schedule by a few weeks, will clean that up. Thanks. [update: 95% of the .log() messages are now cleaned up including any spoilers, also fixed some display bugs another tester/player mentioned. I did not force push the change out to everyone's PWAs, but if your new to the game or reload manually, you'll see the newest version]
And yet Duke Nukem Forever has shipped, and Cybertruck has not. So right now, today, at this moment, DNF is not vaporware, and Cybertruck is. This is true regardless of how one feels about it.
Well in a sense the opposite is true; people move much less than they did in the past.
>Thunderfoot is a joke who feeds off haters like you.

>You must be jealous of real accomplishments.

Behave.
Pioneers*, Settlers, and Town Planners.

It reminds me of the distinction someone made between marines, soldiers, and police, or something like that
Creating multiple implementations reduces network effects, spreads the already limited resources thin, and can potentially fragment the community and ecosystem.
The author's contention is the "unprivileged" person probably doesn't have this problem by virtue of not having left their hometown in the first place.
Galton's law is going to give these people a rude awakening.
GPT-LikeSubscribeAndRingThatBell
Your last statement about not being able to live with who you are really resonated with me. I’ve been there staring at the train tracks too. I never thought I would be there but there I was.

Have faith that it will turn around. You will find the answer to why you are unhappy. The only variable is when. I’m rooting for you and sending love your way.
Not very many. Around 30.
I wouldn’t call it a Raspberry pi clone but you should consider BeagleBone. It’s a bit more expensive but I’ve heard it’s known for its Linux support
Amazes me how much this is downvoted despite providing citations and being essentially correct (barring a tedious philosophical debate and assuming good faith) - and in a thread specifically calling out "armchair ML experts"!
i remember the first ethernet card i ever bought. it must have been around 1989 and was for an Altos 486-based (or was it 386?) sco xenix machine. it was eye-wateringly expensive and required the kernel to be re-compiled to incorporate the ethernet device driver. i was frankly amazed when it actually worked! dunno what the actual ethernet chipset was.
Here's my version of the example translated into safe Rust: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

This being safe Rust, it fixes the undefined behavior in the C++ version. You can of course implement that in unsafe Rust, but I can't quite bring myself to post that.
Why does elonmusk not sue Open AI for defrauding him?
Silly question, how does this differ from ChatGPT?

Edit: Other then offline functionality.
Not so sure about that. Their infrastructure is highly customized down to the PCB. They were designed in-house for Google's workloads, AFAIK.

Did Amazon have the same constraints?
I like the idea. Simplified governance
You think they can control it?

Lack of design in Windows is a direct consequence of MS's inability to steer its process and product strategies.

Multiple competing GUI teams, user experience, core devs unable to roll out features because of the number of stake holders, etc.
You can turn off the widget. Whether that actually turns it off under the hood, I don't know.
I am probably not the target audience, but it would be cool to have some more descriptive text there, and an about or FAQ page to tell more about what it can do and what it knows or doesn’t know in the databases it has access to
India, Russia talk free trade deal in step-up of relations
Chiming in as a new user who jumped from XP to 11 (also tried rolling it back to 10 just to see, and reverted it to 11)

Windows has always been to me a "make it work" experience, from 95 to XP at least. Critical aspects have always been broken, a fresh install always started from wiping everything clean, removing junk, going into the registry and adding third party tools to make it viable. And then backing it up, because as some point it will need to be wiped again.

In that respect, Win 11 doesn't feel that different to me. I also was frustrated by the side dashboard, and there's tool suites to remove it quickly. Most of the eggregious stuff can be worked around, getting rid of Edge is the only tough part.

Now, Windows 11 comes with a linux subsytem, Amazon's android subsystem is also promising, touch support is actually workable, hdpi support is good, and using windows on a tablet is actually doable. That's a very long way from the win 2000 area where multi-language support was seen as a cutting edge feature.
Thank you. This is amazing and should be replicated more.
I don't think about my phone enough to justify switching. I get calls, texts, listen to music, sync my notes and do all my other stuff just fine. What do I stand to gain from buying an iPhone at this point?

Maybe if there's a killer feature one day. That could be the sideloading if it's robust enough to support Vulkan and Box86, but something tells me Apple will be clipping it's wings a bit. I guess I'm not a heavy enough Instagram or Snapchat user to know the difference. Am I old now? Is this what it feels like to be Grandpa?
People used to decide that they want to find out about this stuff by themselves. So no, I personally have no desire to find out what the news du jour consists of in whichever country I live, if my OS is force-feeding me this.
SharedArrayBuffer is back right? It works across different worker instances now right? It'd be fun to see a cross-thread kv library emerge.
https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/creating-a-cond...
Pretty sure I’m both uncool and bad at making friends
oh very cool, now make one for mobile phones :-D
I don't think rebasing on to Linux offers them much. The current interoperability is "good enough", and the rest is UX - something Microsoft struggles with across the board. It's not for a lack of trying either, they've spent years now working on Fluent and it's still mediocre. Every time you think they make a fantastic decision, they turn around and add 10 more horrible UX choices (see Edge). It's so apparent it feels like as soon as the core design and dev team finalizes something, it gets sent to a penny pinching team who requires it have a bunch of unnecessary cheap bloat.

This is something that won't change on the shift to Linux. It has to be a deep cultural shift, until then the company is never going to prioritize experience.
I tried Mint. AFAIK Apple CC doesn't allowing pulling live transactions.
My problem is I don’t have any friends so I would need to solve that first.
>They believe that applying Marxist economic theory to cultural issues

This is literally gibberish. It's like saying you're going to apply quantum mechanics to modeling bird populations in the Galapagos.

>Robin DiAngelo

Nobody seriously considers her a Marxist.

>Patrisse Cullors

Likewise.

>random list of Frankfurt school scholars you grabbed from Wikipedia

These people claim influence from Marx, sure. They also claim influence from Freud and the psychoanalysts, who were some of the first critics of Marx. Someone who worked as long ago as Marx has touched a lot of fields in a small way. That doesn't make anything with even a hint of Marx's influence "Marxist", any more than it makes Ho Chi Minh an American liberal because he quoted the Declaration of Independence at a rally.

https://www.thehistoryreader.com/military-history/ho-chi-min...

Jordan Peterson knew not to say anything so utterly farcical as what you've presented because he would have gotten raked over the coals. You should learn from his example.
It's because it's another conspiracy theory unsupported by evidence.

The encryption algorithms in CNSA are broadly accepted by the security community. Just saying "NSA backdoor" is a cheap shot.
How are Windows keyboard shortcuts more consistent than macOS? My experience is that the opposite is true.

What’s the standard Windows shortcut for opening an applications preferences (cmd + ,”? What about switching tabs (cmd + shift + [ or ]).
It is somewhat strange then that enterprise linux is not more common, you get stability and configurability.

I mostly put this down to bad salesmanship/C*s tending to be effectively technological cavemen...perhaps there are backroom deals we are not privy to, though.
Link to study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36597886/
> The UI updates just took all the negatives of using a Mac, but without any the parts that make it actually useful.

then

> I miss being able to see the title of windows in the taskbar...

You can't do that on a mac either.
How else would you address a bad change?
Homes in Alaska use natural gas for heating at about the same rate as the national average. Fuel oil is the overrepresented heating fuel there.
Trying to engage with your point with a straight face:

I strongly oppose this because I personally experienced both public schools and a selective university, and I strongly doubt that it's possible to retain most of the good elements of my university experience without some amount of a selective admission process. The idea that a randomly selected set of the population can produce the same academic and social value that you get from a selected set of people who passed an admissions bar is hopelessly naive, in my experience.

Even the much-derided effect that prestigious schools serve merely to "label" people who pass the admissions bar has worked out well for me. As someone who has both the intelligence and conscientiousness to work to and through a good university, it's nice to have a document and label certifying that fact, and I legitimately think the world is in fact better for it.

Does university have problems? Sure. Are there people harmed by the existence of the US university system? Probably. But I can testify that my life has been very significantly improved by the existence of university admissions processes, and the honest answer to "what if universities accepted anyone who applied" is that I would personally have tried very hard to find something else (either here or in some other country) that fills the same role. This is a bad idea because it stunts the growth of a lot of people and destroys an institution that has a lot of value, and those things are bad for all the normal reasons.
> There shouldn’t be a single place where all the development happens.

well, there isn't, for any widely used languages. actually, there probably are many single teams (or single persons) working on niche lisp-likes.
It’s not just that. I personally only use Windows 10 for gaming, and no Windows besides on the daily basis, though I used to be a huge fan. Going back once in a while to see what Windows n+1 is up to, is almost like a mourning experience.
Thanks for the submission @tambourine_man, this is my app! I'm happy to answer any questions people may have or discuss anything people may want to know about.