skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually taking a course there right now, as part of my pointless masochistic love of continuing education in stuff I like knowing to be well-rounded but no one will ever give a crap about professionally, and I logged in fine. Duo's push notifications seemed to stop working, but it lets you fall back on the TOTP passcode, which continued working.
The “motivation” is just the symptom of losing a battle that a normal person can’t be expected to win anyway.

We’ve all been dropped into the most well-funded and technologically sophisticated casino of all time, built and maintained by armies of engineers and ML models that continuously optimize a ~infinite number of useless but highly varied casino games that are then made accessible to you 24/7 via a device in your pocket.

Also all your friends are in the casino and even the ones who hate it are actually having a pretty good time. They are more than happy to send you links/offer you a seat at their particular game of choice (such as these comments on HN).

Normal people have way too many everyday concerns to be (successfully) engaging in a 24/7 battle-for-attention against the most advanced attention-grabbing systems ever created.

It’s so ludicrously asymmetric it seems unfair to even ascribe “motivation” to users, but the motivation for the casino designers is pretty obvious.
I hear you, and partially agree with your points. For various reasons it's a complicated decision.
Tacos are an embarrassingly parallel problem after all. It makes sense TacOS would naturally be a thing. It might even need to be hard real time because hangry customers can get a little cagey.
They’re still A Thing for App Store apps I think, but:

- using App Store for Xcode was historically very painful and ~nobody who uses Xcode daily downloads it from MAS

- it never worked ~that well~ for Xcode anyway - apart from the big download sizes, the problem with Xcode and the bundled SDKs is that they’re all approximately trillion little text files, and it’s not unheard of to wait longer for codesign (technically unxip) verification than for the download itself, which negates the user-facing benefits of delta upgrades for many users.
Ok, how about this? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120202151713.h...

"Hand counting of votes in postelection audit or recount procedures can result in error rates of up to 2 percent, according to a new study from Rice University and Clemson University."

If you've got 100k votes to recount, you might have up to 2000 errors, according to this research.
Wouldn't you use social media more if you were sick/hurt somehow because you're being less active/feeling worse?
“the thundering herd problem occurs when a large number of processes or threads waiting for an event are awoken when that event occurs, but only one process is able to handle the event.”
Is it the same? There are gamification tactics I'm not a fan of (voting system), but I find the level of discourse on HN to generally be a much higher quality than say, twitter, facebook, instagram (e.g. what we mean when we say social network).
I don't know what you expect Linux to do about this, it's an entirely an Nvidia issue.
Effective Mosquito control requires attacking from multiple angles, consistency, and patience.

- Bacillus thuringiensis (or Bt). This is the bacteria used in "Mosquito Dunks"

- Garlic Barrier - I spray this all around my yard, trees, and bushes and works surprisingly well....

- Thermacell products

- A propane burning trap like Mosquito Magnet with an effective attractant, this can vary depending on your area and type of mosquito.
- Removing certain types of vegetation, debris like dead leaves, etc. that attracts them.
Agreed, and I think GP mostly agrees with you too, their phrasing was just confusing.

As a bipolar person I have come to semi-ironically embrace the "it's all in your mind" mindset, but with the understanding that literally EVERYTHING is in our minds, and there is no clean distinction between physical and mental symptoms. Mental and physical illness are one and the same, because our body feeds our brain and our brain runs our body.

Simple example: a stomachache involves your brain noticing and reacting to something going on in your stomach. Is it your brain's fault for telling you your stomach is upset, or your stomach's fault for having the conditions to be upset, or your brain's fault for leading your stomach to have the conditions to be upset, or your stomach's fault for altering your brai chemistry so that it has the conditions to lead your stomach to.... etc, you can understand how fuzzy it all is.
Same reason people watch cable news. Because they want to be informed, and (likely incorrectly) believe seeing a non stop stream of information means they're more informed about what's going on in the world. Heck, the journalists themselves are absolutely hooked on social media, to the point they almost can't function without it.
OpenAI's first acquisition - an AI design studio Global Illumination
Theoretically, your employer is paying Databricks, because they'd rather pay them than have a harder time finding employees with actual skills (and paying them accordingly).

Additionally, it's somewhat of a standard now - so it's easy to hire other people in the org with skills using it.
> What are the motivations for people to be daily activate users these days?

The sincere belief that real town squares don't matter and that the real ones are only online now. This is brought on by propaganda in the media that Twitter, etc is where things 'happen' now and real life should be shunned at every instance.

'If it's not online, it doesn't exist' mentality.
There are multiple contradictory requirements to different things you could want from communication formats. Below are some examples:

* You could want to have a universal tool that can examine and understand the contents of the message (for debugging purposes), but you could also want not to send meta-information about the message (s.a. types or sizes etc.) that is essential for parsing the message. And you cannot have both at the same time.

* You could want a message format that maps onto the primitive types of a particular language well, but at the same time you may want it to be universal and map to many other languages well. But this is impossible because different languages will have different primitive types and the need to be generic will act against the need of being specific.

* You may want to be able to stream data, but this works against hierarchic data organization.

* You may want to be able to write messages into pre-allocated memory buffers w/o having to re-calculate the amount of memory necessary to encode a message, but this makes it very hard / impossible to add custom fields and types.

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Given all this, I don't think that JSON is a good match for any use-case it's currently commonly used for. If I want data transfer, I'd go for something like SQL. If I want configuration, I'd go for Datalog. But then I see value in optimizing the transfer of multiple similar records, whereas someone else may see value in optimizing transfer of hierarchically structured data, which isn't necessary repeating. I tried many formats of this kind, and am yet to find a good one. I'm inclined to think that maybe trying to arrange hierarchical data with different constraints on its organization is just a bad approach to data transfer, that the organization and constraints of such data shouldn't be encoded as part of the format, but interpreted by the users of the format. But, if I really had to do this the best way I can image, I'd still go for Datalog.
A push-to-talk option would be a fine addition for something like this, let you fire off single sentences quickly.
I didn't know about this, and reading through the comments, I found out that xargs can also do batching and parallelism (nice!). However, it appears that if you pipe the output of an xargs-parallel command into another utility, it jumbles the output of the multiple subprocesses, whereas GNU parallel does not.

I was a little put off by the annoying/scary citation issue mentioned by another commenter, so I am not sure I will use parallel.

I want to pipe the output of parallel processes into a utility that I wrote for progress printing (https://github.com/titzer/progress), but I think that neither of these solutions work; my progress utility will have to do this on its own.
How does one know when newbie gains are maxed out? I mostly do calisthenics because I actually got into working out because it was part of injury-recovery. I'm enjoying my gains and would like to push myself to get bigger gains, but lifelong fitness maintenance has always been #1 in my mind. I'd like to figure out how to identify what the "maximum maintenance point" is.
>XML schema was sort of bolted on via some conventions of defining a schema in the root element.

I know, and I'm not talking about XML Schema at all (partly because it hurts my brain to even mention the absolute worst specification ever written).

I mean just the complexity of the XML data model itself, including namespaces, entity references and the ridiculously convoluted URI spec. That's more than enough to make XML far more complex than JSON.

To be fair, XML solves problems that JSON doesn't solve. JSON is not a better XML. JSON's creators simply decided that many of problems that XML solves don't need solving or should not be solved by a data format specification.
There is, it's called flexbox and the CSS grid.

I've found that on simple websites a lot of problems are solved with just a few lines of flexbox config (flex-wrap, etc)
I approve of the community building and I am amazed at how productive it is possible to be using modern PHP and frameworks to build websites.

But the only thing that will save PHP as a commercial language is if companies start paying PHP developers salaries on par with other modern languages. HR departments pay based on 'market rates' and those rates are simply lower for PHP.
Quantum zero-resistance research continues
yes, i much prefer the mac experience where it crashes and says sorry in 13 different languages.
A lot of work was put in in order to achieve such "small list". We are talking about half a decade of work and breaking thru some blockades...
Clearly you have never seen proper immunotherapy (which has been in practice for decades). All patients are prescribed an epi-pen prior to starting treatment. It used to be that all doses were monitored for anaphylactic reactions but that is now clinic-dependent.
I'm actually not entirely sure what you're talking about.

I'm very familiar with websites switching to mobile layout with hamburger menu instead of a navigation bar, when you reduce the width of the browser window on your desktop. BUT I don't think I've ever come across a resolution change where the website elements (either hamburger menu or content) get massively larger.

Can you provide an example of one or two mainstream sites that change resolution like that?

The reason I'm confused is because in CSS everything is based on logical pixels, not actual device pixels. E.g. a "1 px" width will be 2 or 3 hardware pixels wide on an iPhone. Similarly "1 em" will be 16 hardware pixels on a standard resolution display, but 32 or 48 hardware pixels on a 2x or 3x display. So web designers don't have to do anything special to accomodate hi-DPI screens in the first place.
> that some conference organizers truly believe that if you were a good researcher then you would have moved to North America and/or Europe. And viceversa.

If you moved to some country in Europe is is _harder_ for you to travel to US, and vice versa. First, embassies in Europe have fewer visa appointment slots in general than embassies in countries where visas are required for general population. These slots are generally reserved for EU citizens in need of long-term/immigration visas. Even more so for European embassies in US. Second, as you've already taken the immigration route once, you're seen as a potential immigrant with a risk of no return. Third, your documents are just not familiar to the embassy personnel. Like, in Berlin, in the batch of ten passports where nine of them are German and one Indian, embassy personnel will scrutiny one, maybe two of German ones and certainly the Indian one.
the product isn't well documented. the only way to learn is to ask seniors, but seniors are pain in the arsehole to tolerate.
I have honestly never met anyone who would defend hacker news or reddit as a good use of their time or pressure their peers to use the platforms more.

Are we saying that all social media platforms are the same? Are there teams working on the hacker news platform trying to tweak the algorithms to drive addictive user engagement? Is the sorting algorithm not a matter of public record?

Correction to my original comment, I am asking about Instagram / Facebook / Twitter.

I know why I (maybe we) go on HN and its because Im bored and weak and Ive never felt manipulated by it or addicted to it or wanted to be on it for more than 15 minutes.

I have chores I should be doing.
One of the biggest problems with these nutjob movements is that they're playing off very real problems to fuel their circuses. Proprietary untrustable voting machines have always been a major problem. You used to be able to bring this up, and since it wasn't a partisan issue, people would at least hear you out even though they understood little about the technicals. But these days if you talk about it to most people or without including a bunch of nuanced disclaimers, you're pigeonholed as if you're part of this mentally ill cult. So reasonable opposition/criticism gets pushed into this shitty position of just having to support the status quo, despite seeing its glaring problems and injustices.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Letter>
My company keeps trying to force me onto W11. I’ve gotten to the point where I’ve marked my connection as “limited” so it won’t download any updates and outlook asks me if I still want to connect even though I’m on a slow connection. Only way to prevent that virus from infecting my work machine. I tried it twice and rolled back twice after less than an hour.
Story time?

I worked very hard to get into a very physical job and I made it. It was the beginning of my professional career, I wanted to do this since I was a kid. I was 22.

A few weeks went by, still couldn't believe they were paying me to do something I loved so much :) Of course, one regular day going to work on my motorcycle a distracted pedestrian crossed illegally and without looking. It jumped from behind a big truck, impossible to avoid.

Due to the collision I fell right on the corner of the curb. I was driving slowly, the height of the seat to the curb was high enough to break a vertebra and bruise my spinal cord. I became a paraplegic at that instant, for life.
He got a small crack in his arm.

My professional career and all my dreams vanished. I watched my colleagues and friends move on enjoying life and the fruits of that effort. I was very envious, but nobody could do anything about it. I felt robbed.

Obviously I can't walk but it's so much more than that. Surveys among fellow paralyzed tend to show "walking" as the last "feature" we'd all like to have back.
I can't feel anything from the belly button down either. Simple things like going to the bathroom are no longer simple. I enjoyed sex a lot, goodbye to any of that. I get regular annoying spasms. I hava to take a bunch of pills every 8h

I have severe chronic pain for which I have to take morphine regularly, which does not come without major side effects. I have to have surgery from time to time for adjustments and other stuff secondary to the injury.

Fortunately, I am happy. I was already a person who didn't grate at things out of my control, but learning stoicism cemented it. Just for the fact that I was born and have been able to look at the stars in our galaxy and others, I feel it has been worth it. I feel privileged.

I live with my amazing girldfriend, I enjoy stimulating hobbies and a day-to-day life that I don't take for granted.
> half the company could be permanently remote within a decade (announced in 2020)

Seems like some people understood it as "everyone should be able to be fully remote in 2023". As far as I can see; he still has 6 more years ahead of him to allow some of his employees to be fully remote (and half that won't be able to).
My optometrist told me that any pair of glasses can be made to adjust the focal point, and that if I regularly wear my prescription glasses instead of contacts, I should also buy a pair of prescription glasses with adjusted focal point for computer work. (I opted not to do that since I am almost always in contacts and because of the cost.)
You're right! We should make them wear a star or something to indicate their specialness!

Joking aside I imagine taking licenses away are a big part of it, but that doesn't stop them from driving, at least the license plate warns the rest of us not to drive too close to the guy.
Do not put a bell on your cat, like ever. It is harmful to your cat's health.
Do you recommend any good alternative when your shell program gets too large?

Honest question, as I’m struggling to leave the shell environment once the program gets too large. I could use Perl, but $? and the likes get quickly out of hand. Python’s support for pipes was difficult last time I used it, but that may have changed. What would you recommend?
Lots of software nags with something when it first starts up. It’s mostly annoying, but doesn’t seem to have a scaling problem.

zsh gives you a config wizard, sudo admonishes you to use it responsibly, just about every iOS app and an increasing number of desktop apps gives you a few pages of “what’s new” every time they’re upgraded. Desktop apps have given tips-on-startup since the 90s.
Is PHP Worth Learning in 2023?
Mind sharing URL?
The 'Business Case' document to accompany this:
https://www.4corn.co.uk/archive/misc/galileo2_Redacted.pdf
>> Why's the drone required?

Id assume its illegal to put a sniffer into a polling place.

What makes the plan stupid is believing you can capture a supposedly covert intermittent low energy signal using a drone that can only hover about 10 minutes at a time.
Maternal phthalate exposure promotes allergic airway inflammation
I friend of mine a few years back once said to me, "Some days ADHD is my most disabling condition." This is a person who often can't walk.

I was properly medicated (with non-stimulant medication) for ADHD a few years ago and looking back to my life before that, I realize how much ADHD has negatively effected my life. And yet never along the way did anyone look at me with any sort of compassion. It was always seen as a moral failing on my part, a "Why can't you do this? Everyone else can." And I had been given those messages so consistently that I came to believe them about myself.

It was really eye-opening to have someone with a visibility tell me that sometimes their intellectual disability hampered their life more than their physical disability.
I have a 27" display and browse with the browser window maximized. I paid for this display, and I expect to use every pixel. Web designers, however, seem to hate me for it and choose to constrain the width of their content to a tiny, 6cm column down the middle of my display, leaving 80% of the width as whitespace.
I'm a lot more fond of forums (like this) than media like twitter, facebook, instagram where it's more about "maintaining a persona". On a forum it would theoretically be about conversation and almost never about the person per se.
Fair enough! Theres a very generous free tier (both small and base models enabled) that should cover a basic use case.

Justification for charging a subscription is value based:

65 bucks a year is not a lot to spend if it saves you 10+ hours of time typing, and editing your messages. Dictating is joyful and saves me time each day.
superwhisper spells/punctuates better and writes faster than I can with a keyboard.

This alongside the cost to me, 10s of hours each week of my time as the solo developer go into:

• Supporting users with their issues and bugs fixes

• Continuing to update the app with new features (4 major features released this month alone)

• Making sure you have access to the latest features and capabilities as AI advances.

Also, keep in mind, with free / cheap solutions:
"If you are not paying for it, you're the product".
> 2. Crossfit, Olympic Weightlifting, Powerlifting - 2-6 / 1000 hours

This seems about right? Let's say you powerlift 6 hours a week, 50 weeks a year. (This is believable after a year or so.) That's 300 hours. And you're picking up an injury every 170-500 hours. That seems... plausible?

What matters is how quickly and completely those injuries heal. If you tweak something, maybe you can just ice it, and maybe you're all healed up in two weeks, no problem.

But once you've been powerlifting seriously for a year, you're moving around real weight. Granted, you know you can handle the weight, you're moving it carefully, and you've got safety bars to catch anything you drop.

But some of the injuries you might pick up don't go away so easily. And over 40 years of heavy lifting, those numbers can add up.

> 1. Bodybuilding - 1 / 1000 hours

This represents a 2-6 fold reduction in injury. And you'll be working slowly with lighter weight, so physics probably offers fewer chances for disaster.

So I'd guess that bodybuilding has a lower baseline injury rate, and possibly less severe injuries on average?
Nvidia Built a Competitive Moat Around A.I. Chips
Could someone explain what is meant by "inflammation" in this context? What exactly is inflamed and is it manifested externally in some visible way? I feel like I constantly hear about inflammation but it's never clear to me what is physically happening.
if you have standing water a couple of drops of dish detergent in standing water will kill all the mosquito larva as the destruction of the water tension by the soap basically drowns them (at least that is my understanding).
As the answer to the question was not actually given in the post:

/usr/bin/parallel
More like someone processing your next visa application getting automatically collected data on your previous visits from all kinds of sources public and private and seeing that you lied about your visit the last time.
Not the OP, but the comparison it's apple to oranges.

In some parts of South America getting a visa to USA goes to a queue that can take 262 days. From SA (from a country with a not so strong passport) to Germany since we're Schengen the visa does not apply, but with a work contract it's less than 30 days in some big cities.

The point that I want to make here is that the sad reality is that Canada has a way stronger passport and good will from several countries than South America, that's why the comparison is not applicable.

[1] - https://www.uol.com.br/nossa/noticias/agencia-estado/2023/08...
Yes kind-of… in this case Parallel’s notice is not a modification of the license at all, and Stallman is the person who ruled on this question and confirmed this to be true. The GPL doesn’t prevent authors from including a notice, and having a notice doesn’t conflict with the terms of the GPL.

I feel like the whole problem here is that the legality of Parallel’s notice, and the separation of the notice from the GPL, is not at all clear. The language is confusing to users. People who take the license seriously are staying away from Parallel because of the fear of accidentally breaking the license terms.
How to Properly Store Your Game Boy Cartridges
I'm 15 years old and I wrote a QR code generator in Rust as my first project