skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The relevant paper appears to be behind a paywall here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10964-023-01835-1.

The leader of group that wrote it has a pretty interesting publication history: https://psy.fau.edu/laursen-lab/publications.php. Some recent titles:

> Adolescents with few friend alternatives are particularly susceptible to influence from friends

> In defense of peer influence: The unheralded benefits of conformity

> Classroom seat proximity predicts friendship formation

> Off on the wrong foot: Task avoidance at the outset of primary school anticipates academic difficulties and declining likeability

> Being fun: An overlooked indicator of childhood social status

Uncharitably, this guy makes his money conducting studies that support common knowledge and then putting them behind paywalls. Charitably ... well, it would be easier to be charitable if I could see any of these papers.
Even though social isolation may make someone more resilient, I don't think there's any good advantage to it. You can study better if you're not alone, and these relationships give you knowledge that'll be used in the workplace years later, when you need to manage a team. You can get proper resilience from bad relationships, not the lack thereof. And, well, the study also said that it can lead to stuff like alcohol misuse, which is not cool at all.

This is mostly another consequence of social media use by kids and teenagers. Why are 14 year-olds so worried about being attractive anyway?
I wonder how many SpaceX employees WFH.
That little vocal flourish she does after "...stick around", and her expression, sends me into outer space.
Yep. I use VMs though. I still have to build for some embedded platforms that are based on the 2.4 Linux kernel…
slap a "moderator note: despite the contents of this comment, it entirely follows terms and conditions" at the start of any comment to immediately be able to post any rules-breaking content you want
I’ve always wondered how true those 80s coming of age movies where there’s a stark divide, between the nerds and jocks were. In my experience, school was never such a simple dichotomy, particularly in high school. On the other hand, I’ve heard a lot of crazy stories from people who were in school at the time, so I wouldn’t be particularly shocked.
I agree the software is doing better than ever before! However it still has serious shortcomings which is an active area of research. An AI researcher familiar with these issues could probably make an accurate detection in under one minute, so I don’t think this is an “infinite tape” issue this is simply an issue of performance. They are pretty good and they will get better, but I believe a true AGI would be able to mimic a human to properly pass the test.
And now those unfortunate to be both unattractive and athletic, have quickly dwindling opportunities with the increasing cost of college and advances in AI and automation. The intelligent, introverted, artistic are ducked.
I read their s1 and it looked like a lot of the revenue came from professional services.

I’m curious how this affects consultants and PSOs that might be competing w Hashi’s services business and running terraform on jenkins or whatever.
Physicists demonstrate how sound can be transmitted through vacuum
The firsts are actually insane. Here are some of them:

- First real 3D FPS game using OpenGL (GLQuake)

- First real multiplayer 3D game with 16 players

- First to introduce the idea of a "clan" or "guild" for a multiplayer game. It's where the term "clan" came from

- First esports game

- First instance of Capture the Flag mod later used in other games

- First instance of Team Fortress later used in other games (e.g. TF2)

- First game to have "demos" (aka VODs) where you can rewatch / replay a match

- First game with a multiplayer competition match mode (Clanring or CRCTF or CRDM)

- First web service allowing you to see what's going in in games from the internet [qstat](https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/qstat)

Aside from all of these firsts Quake 1 and Quake 2 were incredibly executed.

- Soundtracks made by Nine Inch Nails. Who at the time ever heard of a tier 1 famous band making entire videogame soundtracks?

- Creepy gothic lovecraftian demonic theme combined with space. The space parts were later ripped off by Half-Life. And you can see the influences even on modern cultural artifacts like the show Stranger Things (which itself seems to rip off Half Life's storyline).

Quake is basically the original online multiplayer game and had almost everything we have today but had it all the way back in 1996. The only things that game didn't really have was deep API integrations to websites the way games have now or complex matchmaking with elo and ranks.
Is that why Jamaicans say "Ire mon"!?
As someone who was recently rejected from YC and still went on to raise >$1m in the last 6 months -- I have mixed feelings.

We incorporated in April, started with nothin' and had funding by the end of June.

Raising Capital is _very_ time consuming & distracting. I did a bunch of up front work; the first month (April - early May) I had to build designs, meet potential customers, build out profiles, get them to write letters of interest, etc.

Then starting mid-may I spent 6 weeks cold emailing and getting intros to as many VCs as I could. I had to have spent 40 hrs writing cold emails, at least 60+ hrs in meetings and obviously many more prep. At the same time, I lined up a team to be hired, lined up more potential customers, developed some of the product.

Going into YC, you can apply and skip the 6 weeks drudging around trying to raise. This 100% slowed development to a stand-still and reduced customer engagement. Further, I had to take funding at terms worse than what YC offers. On the other hand, I have a lot of industry experience and was able to instantly hire a good team and we're getting ready to launch in sept (5 months after incorporating & 3 months after funding).
The Uber Management people. You can be sure that the Uber management are laughing all the way to their banks. The suckers, the Uber drivers and Uber investors, not so much.
...and here's a prime illustration of adept solution selection. We've channeled countless trillions of dollars into marketing endeavors and speculative bubbles. The query that lingers is: How many individuals have seen their aspirations materialize?
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-66468925
I am sure someone else can explain it better, but basically in the 80s you mostly only had a choice of 8-bit computers (like Apple, C64, etc.), DOS, Macs, Atari ST and Amiga. The 8-bit machines weren't really networking compatible or powerful enough to do more than 1 thing at a time (128k of ram, 1.02 MHz CPU, etc. though I suppose the 16-bit Apple //gs could have been a contender). Macs would have been way too expensive for this purpose. I don't think boards bought Ataris. A DOS PC could have run a multi-threaded program, but if an issue happened then I guess the whole system would go down. So that leaves the Amiga..

The Amiga was the most performant system, its components (i.e. audio, video, etc.) were all able to work independently of the CPU. It also came with 3 networking APIs built-in (one of which was TCP/IP) which probably helped a lot with the coding.

It was also the only machine with a true multi-tasking OS. Everything else was either co-operative or non.

If an issue happened with one piece, it wouldn't have brought down the whole system because everything was able to run independently.

As for security patches, I was expressing a bit of frustration there because I have seen over and over a Windows "security patch" introduce bugs or break functionality. You didn't have that problem back then with the Amiga. It just worked.

I agree the Amiga was a good choice for the time to administer multiple machines.. and it came with decades of support from the original programmer!
That’s a great question - I don’t know the answer. I’m assuming enough lawyers spent enough time on this that it is at least broadly ok, I’m mostly interested in how this was approached from a product perspective.
But there's wildfires, in which case you want tiles not extremely flammable petroleum products above you.
What is the opportunity cost though? Guess we'll never know without a control group, but possible to do both
I find it interesting that the study asked about being athletic (positive), attractive (positive), and unpopular (negative). Anecdotally the people I knew (at the time) who were drinking in middle school didn't fit into any of those boxes and actually I wouldnt have called attractive, unattractive, athletic, unathletic, popular, or unpopular. I do wonder if they had asked about a different set of three (or all six) dimensions whether the result would have changed.
Results, published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence , show that low attractive youth and low athletic youth became increasingly unpopular over the course of a school year, leading to subsequent increases in their loneliness and alcohol misuse. Put simply, the peer group punishes those who do not have highly valued traits such as being good-looking or being good at sports.

Yeah... that's just what we used to call normal life. It was far worse before the internet. If you weren't pretty or athletic, you had to at least be funny, and by funny I mean being open to getting abused as entertainment. If you were too socially awkward or ugly or creepy though, you were just shit out of luck.

Now at least no matter who you are you probably have a whole online community, subreddit, social movement and identity ready for you.
Russia launches its first Moon mission since the 1970s
The objections to self-driving cars make me laugh; it's like people haven't considered the considerable costs that human-driven cars impose, and the propensity for human-caused car crashes.

And the high cost of parking: http://shoup.bol.ucla.edu/PrefaceHighCostFreeParking.pdf
Took my son to a middle school ice cream social / find your locker day today and can confirm. Lots of jocks and athletes.

I grew up in the rust belt, so all the athletes I knew faded quickly after high school. Now that we live in a nice neighborhood I’m guessing these kids grow up and go into law and business? They certainly have no future in sports.
It doesn't take that much alcohol to get a 13 year old drunk. And they likely took it from their parents, have older siblings/cousins/etc. or robbed a store. "Where are their parents?!" - not every child has great parents. Besides there are numerous ways imaginable for a teen to conceal that behavior.
Indeed, you cannot control the execution order (often much to my chagrin), only influence what the evaluator does via well-defined, declarative, options.
The one resource that is limited though is time. And you're competing with others who are investing only into either faculty, and it is a zero-sum game. Not many remember the kids who come third in the swim meet.
Freud stated this in his future of an illusion. The (righfull in his opinion) decline of chritian church institutions would lead to higher untreated mental illness. Though he also predicted the regression of the subconscious into a more supressed state. Leading to a society unable to deal with it in any meaningful way.
Yeah this is why I like fiber optic cables. Lightning can't surge the modem if there's no electrical connection.

And then standard power isolation and surge protection will handle all the power connections.

I've yet to loose equipment to lightning from the power cables but I literally can't count the amount of equipment that has been killed by lightning striking a copper data line and then surging through my network.
California also has wildfires and at least in SoCal the homes primarily use a fire resistant tile or slate.
I was using it as “better google” to try to find a good API/data source to try and do some basic analysis I wanted to do on some local economics. Unfortunately it wasn’t much help. It did find what I was looking for, but it was all enterprise crap locales behind presumably expensive contracts.
Bugs, errors and causes from an 1975 paper
Today I used ChatGPT to create some recipes. That recipe bot just highlights exactly what ChatGPT is: none of the things you've listed above. ChatGPT simply vomits out terms it's hoovered up with no context or understanding of how things work.

For instance I got:

Chocolate Tomato Sausage Surprise where I was instructed to pour tomato sauce and mustard over some sausages before pouring chocolate over the whole dish and then cooking it in the oven.

I got a pasta dish where I was instructed to cook dry pasta and then add a sauce made from tinned pasta.

I'm sure everyone's seen the suggested mocktail made from ammonia and bleach by now.

How about a cream sauce made from mayo, tinned peaches, honey, and lollipops?

Can interest you in some "Corn Syrup Surprise" in which you pour corn syrup over a cheese, tinned meat, and aspic mixture? It's cooked in the oven.

How about some turmeric meat stew? Just boil some tinned meat in vinegar.

It spit out a spicy cupcake recipe with no flour. Half a cup of cream mixed with a quarter cup of hot sauce for the frosting though.

Meanwhile with no GPT intervention I made an unintuitive corn and grape cake today from a recipe that a human wrote. Absolutely delicious. Of course a human would know why corn and fruit pair together so well (and how to pull it off).
That just makes sense for the most part I think. Generally, people who have a lot of positive social interactions generally continue to, and that leads well to success in people oriented professions.
That's a shame. You can find documentation at https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/atomic-web-design/ on the methodology -- it's pretty lightweight, and is really just a vocabulary for discussing different groups of UI elements. When you have to build a consistent style for your application, this kind of tool is really useful -- it helps you build more reusable components and keep them documented somewhere.
Like Free bad?
Paul Graham wrote a series of essays that are considered classics for startup thinking

http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html

This discussion from earlier this year gives some interesting context:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34750727
The statement 'there are infinitely many natural numbers' is not the same as 'there's a natural number following every other natural number'. In particular, the real numbers are infinite, but there is no unique real number following another real.

Moreover, the natural numbers are typically defined axiomatically, either directly or via a set-based representation. Either way, you run into the same issue which is that eventually you arrive at a set that, due to known physical constraints of the universe, is impossible to identify and you must reasonably ask yourself if such a number exists.
I’m presuming this doesn’t count any “accidental” ODs, which no doubt are a thing but not a 100% thing.
Neat idea. I've been deep diving into sqlite the past few months and it's gotta be one of my favorite projects ever.

Got any other neat sqlite things or resources I might check out?
Hasn't mitchellh stepped down from a leadership role? Why would he have "the ultimate input on this decision"?
Regarding the “it’s not worth the extra complexity” argument, I think it depends on how you’re creating your GraphQL server. If you’re writing the server logic yourself, I think GraphQL is absolutely not worth the extra complexity. Making a REST server is way easier than making a GraphQL server.

But I think the balance can tip in favor of GraphQL if you’re using a managed GraphQL server like Hasura. I’m using Hasura for a solo project and I actually find it simpler than maintaining my own REST API code. All I need to do is specify my data model and never need to write any boiler plate for new endpoints. I know there are similar services for REST that can automate the boiler plate code away (like Supabase). But Hasura automates away the hard parts of GraphQL, and I prefer the experience as a client of GraphQL over REST. I like being able to specify exactly what data I want from the API and being able to get values for foreign tables in one query without needing to join the data client-side.
> It does not need such letters anymore.

True, its hard to imagine a situation where privateers would add any measurable capacity to the US Navy.

> The US got a better thing called “sanctions”, which apparently allow US Navy to forcefully detain ships on the high seas and sell their stuff on the grounds of them being engaged in “illegal trade”, despite the ship having nothing to do with the US.

That kind of sanctions, don’t replace letters of marque (letters of marque are a way of getting private ships to perform functions for which you would otherwise need to use a Navy, which can include commerce raiding or, I suppose, enforcing sanctions – though the era of privateering and the kind of sanctions at issue don’t really overlap), enforcing sanctions is something you do with ships you have. If anything, the “new thing” of sanctions would increase, not decrease, the appeal of letters of marque.

What decreases them is having a professional Navy that overmatches the rest of the world combined, making adding private combatant ships, for any purpose, not really attractive.
Should be FreeBSD, damned Auto correct
> you can survive heat as long as you have a supply of water

Above ~55C (131F) that water will burn your tongue and throat. Even at 45C water will be uncomfortably warm.
Glaring false dichotomy.
To Navigate the Age of AI, the World Needs a New Turing Test
'Quantum 'superchemistry' observed for the first time ever
I played the WASM version and the controls/physics feel about right!

For the other Wipeout aficionados out there, note that there IS a modern game on Steam called BallisticNG. Supposedly created by (some of?) the original Wipeout developers. It was one of the first things I bought for my Steam Deck when it arrived. Unfortunately, I can't make heads or tails of it. It doesn't seem to be the kind of traditional Wipeout game where you start off with slow ships on slow maps and unlock more as you work your way up. In Ballistic NG, it seems like you just sorta pick your ship and and your map and then go racing against the AI. Or something like that. Maybe I just can't figure out the menus, I'm not sure.

All of this is a long-winded way of saying I support this rewrite and hope to see it evolve to adopt Wipeout XL/2097 features and maps eventually. (But not Wipeout 3, that was a disaster.)
Heat pumps can work both ways.
voluntarily not raised A rounds, or been unable to though?
I think there's two different types of "tech", and it's cool to have stuff (apple gadgets, social media) but it's still uncool to be into computers. Apparently colleges are having problems because new students have no concept of how to use an actual computer, can't grasp how filesystems work, are used to apps just being a button on the home screen. Modern phones have obfuscated pretty much all back-end stuff save for a few switches on a settings screen.
Your claim that Russia influenced Brexit, which the Cameron-led Conservative government opposed, has been thoroughly debunked, as has the Trump-Russia collusion hoax in the US. Indeed, a certain Guardian "journalist", who promoted the Brexit-Russia influence hoax, lost a defamation case against her for falsely promoting it. The UK, which is currently governed by a Conservative party majority parliament, has also been, from the start, one of the most aggressive and dependable supporters of Ukraine in her struggle to resist the Russian invasion. So, I am wondering, to what kind of "significant influence" are you alluding?
get a profiler, pick an algorithm, and parallellize it using simd

then compare before / after using the profiler

learn about the intrinsics as you work on it
Yes. Very difficult to play with a mouse, but the pros with a mouse were amazing. I had a few friends that were mouse players.

The most popular choice of accessory was the Sidewinder 3D Pro. That was my choice of input device and I was easily a top 5% player in my teens.

I never touched one, but many people swore by the SpaceOrb 360 as the pinnacle of controllers for Descent.
If I was unclear, this is culture shock to me (grew up in EU).

The age at which my school peers were introduced to alcohol was in high school, 16-18 range, when everybody started going out at night.

I do not remember anybody even joking about drinking alcohol before then.
I would counterargue that the people who do use it (such as myself) find it a pain to switch between interfaces and will campaign to get DocuSign replaced. If switching over is less painful than that of using DocuSign, we will switch over. Most will put their daily workload above what's better for the company financially
Periodic reminder that the nuclear peace movement in Japan has a lot of overlap with nationalist and fascist groups. It's kind of like people who are sad about the American civil war in the US south, it's more likely they're sad about being forced to stop doing crimes against humanity than they are actually sad about the effects on civilians.
> Not differently from asking a piece of paper and reading "Yes I am".

Except you have to wonder who wrote it there :)
> Why are 14 year-olds so worried about being attractive anyway?

Because they’re going through puberty and are probably pretty horny?
The licensing changes seem to imply that if they have a service and you also build a similar service, but offer it for cheaper, then (if they want to) they can price you out of the market with licensing fees.

One of my weekend projects https://tfstate.com is intended to aid with statefile configuration drift detection. Which (I've since discovered) is also something that Hashicorp offers as a service.

I feel worried.
How many even remember the kids who come first in swim meet, though?
- the grid investment is nil,

- it increases the resiliency of people in emergency situations like storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, mudslides

- there is LOTS of real estate so the "hidden cost" of dedicating land to solar panels isn't needed.

Finally, I feel residential solar is a ripoff currently, because there is some degree of price fixing. 10x more expensive for LCOE? That is a policy problem, not a real economic reality. 2x or even 3x I could see, but 10 fucking times?

Some thing with batteries to consumers. The tool makers like lawnmowers / power tools / etc are simply raking consumers over the coals with vastly overpriced batteries compared to what the BEV companies are getting.

Maybe the magical hand of economics will finally deliver for the end consumers, but currently it is not.
I wonder if anyone has compared the impact of crossborder online services in English-speaking countries with non-English-speaking countries. The linked article focuses on the United States and on services provided in English. Countries where the dominant language is not widely used outside that country—Hungary, Japan, Greece, Korea, Thailand—would seem to be more dependent on online services provided from within the country.
In my school, the football and basketball teams acted like those 80s movies, and I think they were essentially playing out the roles they saw portrayed in media. But swimming and track were very supportive, with nerds and jocks getting along well and some of the best performers being both the smartest and the fittest (more than myself in both regards tbqh.) What it taught me is that people can be strong, smart and compassionate all at the same time; life isn't like an RPG where you have to spec into one at the expense of the others.