skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They most certainly say nothing to support your assertions about the connection between eye color and the perception of pupil dilation

I would think this was common knowledge just from talking to a lot of people face to face but again this is HN with people of multiple backgrounds and people that don't like talking to people and spend a lot of time indoors, not to mention people who are not good at picking up emotional and social cues, so here's the reference from 1975.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24949943

> We also found that blue-eyed people have a stronger pupil response than brown-eyed people when they view a picture that causes pupil dilation or constriction. To be more precise, with respect to the total range of response from the smallest pupil size to the largest the range is greater for blue-eyed people than it is for brown-eyed people. (This statement applies, of course, only to changes in pupil size resulting from emotions or attitudes.)

> It is of course easier to see a pupil surrounded by a blue iris than it is to see one surrounded by a brown iris.
Databases really do push runtimes in such a way that I think it makes sense to urge folks to use a system level language, or something close to it. In particular it'd be hard to cover concurrency (and parallelism) properly using vanilla CPython or JS, and I think that would impinge on the lessons learned.

That said, it'd be an interesting read on how to make a DB in pure Python.
What's the point that everyone's missing?
> Why is this guy CEO?

"We need to be real thoughtful about this", followed by strictly no decision / action will be the hallmark of Sundar's tenure which I hope will end real soon.
If the terms of the loan required they be paid back in full why is it morally acceptable to forgive them partially/fully? And why would it be okay to use tax funds to do that?

These are genuine questions I’m trying to understand the thinking I see on here and Reddit about this issue
This is really neat but very low-poly. It needs more granular control. "Make every other archway larger. The rotunda should have a sharp edge. Make this section twice as long as the overall width."
What do you want to exit for? There’s only two reasons for a software engineer to use a computer: web browsing and Vim.

Since you can already run commands and create files within Vim, there is nothing else to do.

And soon, the web browsing part can be eliminated by running a GPT query to fetch answers to questions, right in your Vim terminal. GPT can dump pages of text right into a new buffer for manipulation.

All roads lead to Vim. You don’t need anything else. Developers used vim 30 years ago and they’ll use it 30 years from now in 2053.
i think of it like a plinko ball setup, in analog.

neural convergence, and divergence, produce logic arrays that integrate many parameters to one integrated decision, vice versa
> A simple JSON api written in Go, that does a lot of small but useful stuff, such as:

> - Numbers to Words!

> - Name Generator for your 235231759082318th side project GitHub repository!

> - Echoing what you sent to the server, like a little cave :D

> - Open location/Plus codes from coordinates!

> - Hashing, because that's always nice.

> - Random stuff!
That's very interesting thank you - stress may well be a factor in my friend's case. Glad to hear that you recovered.
This line of thinking is so alien to me. Yes, I don't enjoy watching anyone suffer while they pay back loans that they were suckered into. But what is a business that has been kneecapped by paused debt relief supposed to do exactly? It's an ugly position to take from a PR perspective but it's the responsible thing to do for their shareholders, and that's who businesses exist to protect.

The government created this situation and is now essentially buying votes by stepping in to distort the market with this continued debt pause (which solves nothing, just kicks the can a little further down the road). No one on either side is attempting to do anything remotely rational about the situation and I'm not sure what you'd expect a company who had its business model turned on its head by questionable executive action to do except fight that executive action.
What claims, specifically, do you want elaborated?
1 - increased complexity, makes troubleshooting harder

2 - higher risk of losing data

3 - harder to explain and understand vs ext4.

4 - has more special needs. in some cases you need way more free storage for rebalancing stuff around... you don't need that for ex4.

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now ext4 is surely worse than btrfs... but for the average home user btrfs is more of a problem than a solution, probably.
"Wasn't ready in time" - yeah, the memes (4/20 and all that nonsense) are more important than waiting for things to be ready...
At my previous company when we made the decision to go with Vitess it was because we had confidence that we could accomplish our scalability goals using Vitess for our critical system in a predictable amount of time with a predictable amount of effort and with a safe, incremental, non-disruptive, revertable, testable rollout without downtime.

We had no way to have that kind of confidence about migrating off MySQL to an entirely different database (like TiDB). If we'd been addressing a new storage use case from scratch instead of migrating an existing one, the case for using something other than MySQL might have been stronger.
[because lobbyists and legislators pushed for regulation that gutted two generations'ability to affordably get an education]
Why Europe’s girls aren’t studying STEM (2016) [pdf]
In Canada, it’s a licensed profession
First Direct is a bit of a niche though.Customer service is expensive because 90% of it is dealing with the same stupid questions over and over again. You will get to the point in any business where it isn't feasible to pay human beings to cope with this.
Is a Turing machine a real device or an imaginary concept?
When someone brings up Turing complete in a discussion about AI, refer them to "Turing machines aren't used in practice for several reasons.".
The interesting issue is not whether the parrots understand they are placing a video call, but rather if they understand they are interacting with another member of the species - apparently they do.
Is it really 'planned' in this case? I think 'expected' is a better term, it's not really avoidable that a $200 laptop is not going survive being used by children for very long.
For my use case, self-contained application formats (which includes snaps):

1. They don't scale, space-wise; libraries can take very considerable space

2. Permission issues

3. Configuration issues

4. Startup speed issues

Compared to a trusted (I stress "trusted") apt repository, for my use case, they have only downsides.
Your conclusion may have been correct about your dog, but extending that to all dogs is pretty large and ridiculous leap. Dogs view their people as family members (which is what a pack is), and many other people’s dogs get to have a healthy group of dog friends as well. You sound like a person who just failed to keep a happy dog and developed a rationalization that all dog ownership is morally wrong.

Dog domestication is generally thought to be an example of commensalism, and potentially mutualism. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2021.6623... In other words, it only happened in the first place because a group of wolves benefited from association with people. Pleistocene hunter-gatherers did not have the physical ability to force a grown wolf to be captive if it did not want to be.
I was able to read privacy statement without cookie banner on iOS using brave browser
I know for sure Lenovo and Dell have more ruggedized Chromebooks just for schools. The one my kid has was a Dell that had an metal frame. The Lenovo 11e (iirc) was also mostly metal and quite rugged.
I knew some middle school students who would place their school-issued chromebooks upside-down on linoleum and slide around on them. So no surprise here.
Google was already on a trajectory to do all these things. It doesn't matter who the CEO is.

The big tech co lifecycle includes decline. More than 10 years ago, I figured that Google was a few years behind Microsoft on that trajectory. Edit: and a lot of comments here are saying Satya turned MS around; i find that dubious.
So what? You are complaining that Germany still uses coal. This is a fair complaint (and one should complain about this), but Germany is in the middle of the transition to renewables and that in the middle of the transition you still use coal does not tell you that the transition is not working. In fact, there are plenty of simulation studies which show that it will work. We also know that nuclear will have no meaningful impact in fighting climate change because it is too expensive and too slow to build.
Thanks for agreeing with my point, which is that all of the people claiming that these systems are NOT like the human brain have no clue what they're talking about, and that these systems very well could operate just like the brain.
Unity has “customer support engineers” iirc. The USA misuses the term endlessly
Maybe it makes me weird, but the idea of being determined, but still having to follow those emotional and cognitive tasks to moral conclusions is some kind of “work” we still have to do, to get good outcomes.

That’s still the hole in my theory of consciousness. I admit it ;)

But it doesn’t give me as much cognitive dissonance as others to believe that the process of performing moral actions still has to be “processed” by me, a processor. In some sense.
>He’s the Steve Balmer of Google

No, he isn't. However misguided and ridiculous Balmer was, he at least showed that he was fully alive [1]

Sundar wouldn't be caught dead wearing a sweaty shirt or yelling on a stage. The dude is a fucking wax puppet.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxbJw8PrIkc
As the father of 2 daughters, I'm especially interested in this subject. If anyone has links to newer research, it'd be great to share.
What would cause the VP of R&D to make such a false claim?

Also see his discussion of copper interconnects, which they delivered first, even before IBM.

He also concedes that Intel has led in "transistor performance," and they have never been equaled.

The interview also goes into the later scandal of his employment at SMIC, so he is a controversial figure, without doubt.
I could be wrong, but my perception is that Go is so opinionated that you'll either write idiomatic Go or use another language. So, from that perspective there's some goodness in using Go as a learner's systems language.
>Why are you contributing to a 401K but have significant debt payments? See Dave Ramesy for a start, then Bogleheads as you climb out of debt and start to save and invest.

I have a different philosophy on this. A 401k is basically your life raft of last resort. And it's so tax advantaged that you're throwing away money not to use it. I'd rather pay to hold debt while maintaining and growing my assets, and rely on inflation + asset growth + wage growth chipping away at the debt. If the economy crashes and credit freezes up, a good credit score from paying down my debt won't mean anything. But a bank balance still will.
A bit of an aside, but your comment made me realize how much we don’t know about the process used to create the technologies that underpin our civilization.

We (laymen) have no idea about the incredible complexity behind manufacturing a single CPU chip.
I run a reporting & analytics team at a ~500 person SW company and I've never been paged to optimize a query because the database is on fire. That's like designing your sprinkler system while the building burns down. I've also never found a query that I can reduce from 10 hrs to 10 seconds. Maybe one that never finishes to actually running, but not the kind of magnitude improvement you reference.
Yeah, it's very possible I missed the point. I think though that most publications will settle for something that's good enough. They don't need (or can't afford) Steinbeck headlines, so they'll go the easiest and cheapest route. I didn't personally find the original headline any better than the generated ones, but maybe I don't have as refined a palate as you do. Thanks for the feedback.
Pop mixes flatpaks with regular packages and its very confusing to understand which is which
> innovation basically isn’t possible within an aggressively safety optimizing regime.

What? Spacex is innovating in an aggressively safety optimizing regime. Their rocket blown up and nobody got hurt. Nobody was even in danger.

There were a few regretable accidents and deaths during construction, but it is not like that is the secret to their success.

So how do you square that with your assertion that you can’t have both innovation and safety?
Even buying new you're often far better off buying a low-spec device and upgrading it than buying a laptop with the specs you want.
So why would that be “aside from the laws”? The point is that framing something in that way is _ludicrous_ because laws play a large role in shaping a society.
Im disturbed with these “opinion” articles and influence they have.

it still make zero sense to me why student loan payments on hold. should we also put car loan payment on hold? credit card payments?

yes..people took loans without thinking if they pay off debt. is it every borrower? No.

easy scheme for political party to get votes. make perfect sense to me why sofi would sue.

i always think to my home country. being born in USA like winning lottery. just green card and no citizenship is like lottery. endless opportunity to do something in USA. no mentally and physically ok adult in USA have reason to be in poverty.

but of course USA people thinking government magically solve all of it. true irony that developed country fall into our third world thinking mindset.
Not sure why you defend this practice. No other hosting provider requires copies of their user's passports.

I am also unable use Hetzner, due to their overreaching security process.
Is the final solution available somewhere that I can build and run?

I see the code in sparse but wanted to get the feel end to end.
How often are people reevaluating their file system choice? As excited as Linux users tend to be about the little things, the file system is so close to being unnoticeable day-to-day that it’s not worth the hassle when the current one works perfectly fine.
I'm a data engineer and I only know Python. It appears Golang hits a sweetspot on many metrics such as performance, parallelism, ease of use etc and since 2016 there's been a lot of new data products and tools written in Golang. So it makes sense to me that the book would use a popular language for the domain.
No, certain people decided to do that, but they didn't have to.
Ask HN: Losing my job soon, what would you do?
Hi,

I'm losing my FAANG software engineer job at the end of April, due to RTO (I am not willing to relocate due to family reasons). I'm not really sad, because I wanted to leave anyway. (I was hoping I get laid off but didn't happen)

However, I've been looking for another job for more than a month now (many-many applications), and didn't land anything yet. Seems like the job market is really bad right now, I barely get any interviews.
I have savings to survive for 2 months, if I start doing Uber regularly then maybe I can extend it to 3-4 months.

Apart from starting a new career at McDonald's, what would you do in this situation?
> Plant based 'milk' aint no milk, just drink with some flavors

Do you also say "peanut butter ain't no butter"?

"Milk" has meant "fatty white liquid" since forever. The oldest surviving cookbook in the English language references "almond milk."
+1 reg the author point. I would like to know whose book I am getting.

I understand that sometimes people want to keep their identity private but for an author it's tough.
I tried using secure chats but the UI is nearly unusable. E.g. secure chats are established between two specific devices and can't migrate, so it would make sense to let a currently "active" client (the one the user is currently interacting with) respond to an incoming chat request. Problem is, secure chats were being unpredictably picked up by random devices logged in to my account, so most of the time I couldn't even see any messages.
What problem did Linus have with Sun? Oracle I understand, but Sun? Was it something to do with UNIX?
Will you get different thoughts and ideas if you read a book with one eye closed vs the other?
I'm not a developer, but my experience with php web apps hasn't been great.
They always feel janky and slow, wordpress nextcloud and so on.
That's why owncloud created a go version.
Chromebooks don't really have that type of problem because they only have specific motherboards and the updates come from google

They're much better than android devices in that sense

They have a fixed date where they stop receiving updates (eight years from when the model is released) but they are guaranteed to receive updates until then
The Suicidal Founder
After the skip to contents link, there are five unlabeled links, and after that is the news not found logo link. After the contact link, there is an unlabeled button, which is followed by the heading "NewsNotFound: An AI-Powered, Unbiased News Website". If these can be fixed, I think this could be a nice accessible site.
Click the Reader Mode icon in the URL bar to bypass this.
I'm sure that they will write a nice, thorough opinion once they are done with their research. They are not going to be dropping that opinion to answer a surprise question (ie not something they knew was going to be asked) in a congressional hearing.
Here's the actual report:

https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/chromebook-churn-report-hi...

It's worth checking that out too, it has a few additional details.

I wonder how these compared to iPads on those same metrics? My kid's schools switched from iPads to Chromebooks. Seemed like The Chromebooks are way better for the work they have.
I think the The idea of this is interesting but I agree with you, Using titles to correlate results that are fact based isn't a greatest way to find unbiased information. You would still need some kind of variable that was not so well known. echo chambers are created by repeating information in similar ways. Its been my experience that echo chambers usually are the least reliable.
I think you misunderstood what I mean. I'm talking about:

// Credit Foo Project per MIT license
// See <https://github.com./foo/project/path/to/file

fn some_foo_fn() {

This has nothing to do with git history.
Once you know 100 is boiling, a simple rhyme helps to remember Celsius for common weather temperatures:

30 is hot.

20 is pleasing.

10 is cold.

And 0 is freezing.
Identity is not provable. A being cannot access anything beyond its own senses, so who says you aren't the only one of your kind, stuck in some kind of a VR set?

Heck, identity is not even right. Even twins with identical DNA are not identical. They might have some similar aspects, but similarity is not enough to rule out zombies.
> The article seems reasonable but ... closer to linting then testing... they don't check the interesting parts

can you elaborate a bit more on what those interesting parts are?

It could just be a limitation of computation.
For those seeking a recent kernel, it's not necessary to be on the latest Ubuntu - the kernel of the LTS version is synced with the latest non-LTS version, some time after the latter has been released.
No, because proving that they can't get customers doesn't mean that they'll win the case. Just that it won't get tossed on standing grounds.
Thank you! On my Android 13 it's in

Settings
Safety & emergency
Wireless emergency alerts

And it lets me specifically toggle off AMBER alerts which have been the only problem.
Damn, i was wondering why is everyone still talking about snap and nobody is mentioning what I clearly remember reading recently, so i went back and looked for it and lo and behold the publishing day:
https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-ditch-snap/
If TSMC wasn't around, I think it could be argued that China would have tried to take over/invaded long before now. So if you are the government of Taiwan, helping TSMC out is in your best interest.
Why they don’t slap a label on each box is beyond me.
Investors are too stupid to see what's going on.

Have you seen the ad load (the amount of realestate used by ads) in a search results page? It has gone through the roof.

It used to be a typical Google search ad was: title, 2 lines of text at most, and a URL.

Now you have 10 or more lines in the top ad. Of course as you use more space for ads, revenue will go up. Even an idiot can see that. It's no magic. But yet the leadership in Google acts as if they've done something magical by continuing to grow revenue. Well, d'uh!! Show more ads, get more money!!! This isn't some magical AI thing; it's pure greed at the cost of UX.
And then after a few years the updates stop coming from Google and you can't even use it to watch streaming because the Chrome version number is too low. I will never buy another Chromebox or Chromebook again for this reason.

I've got perfectly functioning devices that can't do anything because of this.
It was Bush Jr.
build-your-own is actually good unlike that link though..!
you may be interested in this https://github.com/avinassh/py-caskdb
The problem with the complex edges of SQL are like regex for me: the problem isn’t whether I can figure it out once, it’s retaining it when you only need it once every 1-3+ months. For those uses I just accept that I won’t and don’t need to remember it, and will look it up when I need it.

There is something to be said for learning the edges at least once so you can “know what you don’t know” when you forget.
No one said they had to, they said they had to in order to study. Which is not the case in more prosperous nations.
We are free to fart outside once more!!
Are those stable coins actually cryptocurrencies?
I just described the sausage making of, “anyone who wants to buy/sell a security at ~market price can do so.”

I’m sorry you don’t like sausage.
> cost someone else money.

The tax payer?

There’s a lot of things taxes fund that do not allow decision making / control by those who pay the taxes.
As someone who lacks a formal CS education and wants to know more about how databases work, I have been eagerly awaiting this book. I also want some practical golang projects to work on so this is perfect! I'm so excited!
> In a purportedly capitalist system, why does unfilled demand exist in a market?

Because people aren't, generally, willing to pay for things.

The things people are willing to pay for, are pretty well covered. The remaining free things are generally the results of passion projects by the creators. This is going to create very different products than a market driven approach.
How do they pick a 0 elevation?
Noto has to be one of the biggest real life villains of the past decade.
It's absolutely planned since there's a planned published date after which Google refuses to even update the browser on those devices.
> you end up being the guy being paged for emergency

Why can your employer bother you outside your work hours? You should charge a lot of money for this service.
Yeah, chrome books are terrible.

Installing ChromeOS Flex on cheap traditional computers that cost slightly more would have a better long term impact
write on the introduction it says https://build-your-own.org/database/00a_overview

Or if you see any chapter you can literally see Go code.