skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in my 20s and I'm disappointed in myself for not spending time with my friends during school instead of wasting time making hacked together programs.

I came to realise I don't even like "real" programming only random quickly put together scripts.

When my friends explored all kind of things I was so stuck on coding and web dev and php. I didn't check out any other fields of interest or professions. When I read all the threads here about parents teaching their 4 year old BASIC to "indoctrinate them into programming", I cringe hard. They're stealing their kids' childhood and their drive to explore what they'd actually love.
Novak Djokovic credits the TaoPatch for his success: What does the science say?
These articles about remote work look like propaganda.

Is there a group of people that meet and decide to spread anti remote work propaganda or just individuals deciding on their own ? Looks like former to me.
There's also a very wide range for "healthy" testosterone levels. Turns out endocrinology is more complicated than looking at one value and saying higher is gooder. Fertility is not directly linked to testosterone levels or even meaningfully so: when my wife and I were trying for a kid, my doctor actually suggested that despite my T-levels being a bit low he would suggest delaying any treatment for that until after our family planning was complete, my testosterone levels weren't affecting my fertility (tho other complications can arise) but increasing them actually would have had a chance of impacting it negatively.

FWIW we have a healthy son now.
"Super, super simple" has another side: is your app plain enough to be a relatively simple shell around a web view that displays an actually cross-platform web page from an actually cross platform back end? The app might require neither substantial business and navigation logic nor fancy platform-specific UI.
Couldn't revise title, more accurate to say "attacked". Depending on how you define hacking, you may consider radio based attacks as something else.
Meticulous – Catch UI bugs without writing or maintaining UI tests
The problem is the term "bankruptcy". Colloquially people seem to think a company is just out of money. All you need to file for bankruptcy is to be unable to service debts at a specific time. It might even just be a transitory state.
I've been on one or two London trains during rush hour. Yeah, it's cramped.

I've also hung out of Cape Town trains because that's the only way to get on - all doors forced open by commuters so we can get a few more people to work.
I'm not sure what to think of that. I see the economics and think it's unfair that I subsidize unhealthy peoples. But then again there's society, empathy, and solidarity.
Unit Testing for Rag
There's an alternative to tailscale service called headscale https://github.com/juanfont/headscale (CLI only server compatible with official tailscale clients)
Gender dysphoria is not about lacking a hormone. People born a man with 100 percent of the testosterone they 'should' have, can still have a total need to transition to Female. Giving them more testosterone won't help.
Yep, and showdead didn't help either. (Maybe it takes time to apply?)

UPD: okay, it did work and there's a whole hidden thread now.
As for the decreation of God, consider the first commandments:

1. Have no other gods before me, or make graven images

There's no requirement to obey or sacrifice to God, just not to have false gods.

2. Don't take the name of the lord in vain

Don't act pious or pretend you are God's representative.

3. Respect the Sabbath

Don't fill life completely with work; *everyone* should do *nothing* for a day. There's NO requirement for religious services.

In the historical context when gods and temples seemed to vie for adherents, sacrifices and superiority, it's interesting that the (writers of the Hebrew god?) disavowed all that. Considering god as a projection of humans, this seems to inoculate people against religion and taking themselves too seriously.

(Needless to say, most of religion overtly violates this interpretation.)
>You could park a golf cart on the train tracks and it would shut down all train transport for hours

If a golf cart picks a fight with a train moving at speed, I guarantee you the train will win.
I really like the "Pet Peeves" one.
In English and other languages, I fight against what I call "adverbializing" by which I mean putting unnecessary adverbs and adverbial phrases everywhere, especially in speech; these include "equally", "in truth", "definitely", "veritably" (favourite word of an old boss of mine who thought it made him sound like an intellectual).

I'm rather against the interdiction of the passive voice, or the interdiction of shifting the reader's point of view. While the passive voice can very quickly damage clarity, not every text should read like a to-do list.

Different styles can be pertinent, just don't think writing in a complicated manner will make people want to read you.
You can't be technically addicted to stuff like psylocybin, not in physical way. The more frequently you take it, the less effect it has to the point where there is almost none, losing any reason to take it.

Clearly you have no clue what you write about in your snarky way, there are numerous other incorrect statements in those few sentences, but something tells me there is no point going deeper on those.
The current gender zeitgeist is mostly confined to the western cultural sphere. If it were a biochemical phenomenon you would expect to see it happening everywhere.

Personally I think that the way the media talks about the male half of the population is responsible. Nobody ever says anything good about men, the male brand has become as toxic as Enron, and some people don’t want to be associated with it anymore.
CRTs were 4:3 and tiny, they could fit basically everywhere. The diagonal was more than enough for consumers. Computer monitors started to have different ratios but they were not as widespread as today, even in a world of laptops and mobile devices.

The last time I had to buy a TV set I was more interested in the width of the appliance (screen plus bezel) than in its diagonal because I had to fit it into a set space. I went to a shop with a tape ruler.
which point in the history of the weimar republic proves that it's punching the nazis too much that brought hitler to power? (please support your claims with citations, thanks.)
He was here... and then he was gone.

>He had no fear. He would always say, “We can’t fight it and eventually we all have to go sometime.” For the several years prior, we’d drive past the cemetary he was going to be buried at, as it was on the way to his doctor’s appointments, and I’d say to him, “That’s where you’re going to lie for an eternity.” And he would say, “Don’t remind me.” The last time I drove him to the hospital and we were driving past, I said the same thing to him. And this time, he said to me, “I think I’m ready.”

Read if you dare... https://confessionsoftheprofessions.com/the-cuban-missile-cr...
> we have no equivalent in the US, but they are built-in rolling shutters that can completely darken a room

I'm always amazed the US doesn't have these. It's not exactly "peak" technology (I've had these my whole life) and so freaking useful. Having no AC, they're like the only reason I can keep my apartment cool during the summer. I know it because I didn't have them 2 summers ago and I almost ended up buying an AC. This summer I didn't even use my fan because I could keep my house cool.
Tajiks: Iranians of the East [video]
fascinating docu on the little-known country with broad history of the region and interspersed with footage from the youtuber's own travels into the vast mountains of Tajikistan
"configuring a Linux base image for a specific server role" doesn't have a single desired outcome. There are a million ways to accomplish it. No two sysadmins would produce the same result.

This is not right. There are a million ways to implement the process. Once the process is implemented there is a single desired outcome which is the correct configuration, and every other outcome is undesired - you can have a procedure to test the servers, confirming if the configuration is correct.

The "million ways to accomplish" define a million different processes with different entropy levels. The ones with lower entropy levels lead you to the desired outcome more often.

"And in the case where you're re-following the same process but with newer dependencies, "

If it brings newer dependencies when you re-follow it is not a good process. That is one of the points to have in mind.

"I just don't follow how this insight is meant to make it possible to evaluate how to get out of this mess?"

Entropy is a way to count the failure modes of a process. For a given business requirement chose the simplest possible that respects it. I gave two examples in the article.
> And seeming to be in control is what the government will opt for every single time in every single decision they make.

That reminds me of when the Battlefield 4 game was banned in China, because one of the antagonists was a rogue Chinese general.

I remember thinking that the game would have had better odds if the plot had been about a unified and monolithic Chinese government doing willful evil instead.
Sure it is. Plenty of companies test load balancing by temporarily shutting off power to one of their data centers and seeing if anyone notices. It's just that usually they can turn the power back on if something does go wrong, but you won't have many recovery options if you blank your only bootable drive. So do use a spare.
Why? Should Android be bloated with compatibility layers for every buggy framework ever existed? Including third part stuff such as Cordova and Ionic that have more or less stopped development?

And it's not like Google is randomly breaking things. And even when there are breaking changes they provide support libraries and explain very clearly what has changed and why it needed to be changed.

Still, no sympathy for app shops that work according to fire and forget.
>Not raping people is "an ideal" for you? That's really useful to know

It is an ideal for me. It should be an ideal for everybody. By saying this are you saying it's Not an ideal for you? So you want people to get raped? Are you a rapist?

No you obviously aren't... and me saying that you want people to get raped is a stupid and manipulative thing to say. So I refuse to say that this sentence applies to you.

I bring it up only to show you how stupid and manipulative you're being by accusing me of such things. Do not act immature and say things like that. Have an honest discussion.

>I don't think most of us have such a hard time refraining from hurting people for kicks as you appear to. Honestly, I can't even remember the last time I committed a felony due to sexual frustration. Usually, I just take care of business myself. But perhaps I'm old-fashioned, don't confuse sex and rape, or lack your terrifying sense of entitlement.

Stop take a deep breath and learn to have a mature discussion. This is HN not a feminist rally. Personal attacks are not welcome on any venue even when you are in complete disagreement with another persons viewpoint.

I will say something that will really piss you off. When I discuss controversial topics with men, most of them are level headed enough to stay logical and rational even in the face of view points radically different from their own. It's usually the women who stoop to your level of using these tactics. Is what I said true? Prove me wrong, or don't.

A lot of women basically reach out for anything, any hanging fruit they can use as verbal weaponry and then they go for the freaking heart. It's bone chilling and deadly the way they do it.
Not sure what Yobbo meant but my reading was that people, regarding jobs, have expectations that won't really work out. For example studying to become a philosopher or training for a professional football team.

And then they better learn to code because there's more and better jobs on coding than philosophy or football.
Thanks for sharing this, it is pleasantly obvious you put a lot of work into this.
I especially like the TUI application!

Will the web version of this book remain free even after August 31st?
And second is defined based on specific properties of caesium 133, which doesn't depend on solar time
I mean, my point was is that they are free to drop earlier than Debian will, but if Debian drop they will not maintain it by themselves.
I wouldn't think so. They might get their first choice of specialty within the army as a young second lieutenant, and get some compounding advantages from that. But twenty years later, when you're up for promotion to general, aren't they going to look at your achievements as a colonel rather than wave you through on your long-ago test scores?
So just because it helps some people with hard lives survive, you still hate it because some shitty traders talk too much about it?
What’s so difficult with that? Just use pen and paper for calculations, you’re supposed to write down the result anyway. It’s a simple math.
I didn't click on the link, but I googled the title and found a Nature article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-023-00790-2.epdf
Maybe, but I don't think directly as in they orchestrated a collapse. Wall Street have probably extract most of all the lower risk capital available in the crypto-markets and the bailed once things got to heated. Sort of like the gold market, leaving individuals and smaller investors with the toxic investments and all the high risk stuff.

What crypto would have need, was for the larger institutions to have stayed long term, but that's not how "Wall Street" works. It's no different from dropping shares in a company once the risk gets to high. The future for crypto, if one exists, is beyond the horizon for Wall Street in terms of a payout. Their lack of support may very well have contributed to the collapse, but I don't think they've actively made plans to destroy crypto-currencies.

Crypto mostly collapsed because it failed to be useful. The MasterCard deal was the most useful part and only because it could convert funny money to real money, and very few people used that. MasterCard is likely begin generous when they say "less than 1% of customers". There's no way that close to 1% of MasterCards customers had a crypto-backed card.
At the end of the article is a link to his gofundme:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-fight-against-cancer-wit...

Consider checking out for more background and information (or maybe to donate).
Plot twist, in Hiberno English that A-sound is the same in both words :)

Ice cream in French is also "glace" which is of course spelled differently but sounds pretty much the same as glass.
https://www.theonion.com/newly-unearthed-time-capsule-just-f...
I wouldn't be so sure about plastic, cartons have plastic lining and caps. From ecological standpoint bags seem to make much more sense because they use fewer resources (just a bit of oil for plastic, no cutting of trees required), it's just a single material that can be cleanly burned afterwards and it's very efficient to transport, no space wasted for air.
I probably said it before in a previous post, but the problem isn’t scrum/agile per se, it’s just a tool, the problem is the inexperienced PM who thought just because it was applied in their previous company or another big tech, then it must be the secret formula for success, that, or as OP said, abused by control freak managers to micro-manage the team more, like poor soul I know, they had meetings for meetings..

I remember one time got in several conflicts with a manager who -again- is trying to copy-cat all these shenanigans like standup and what not even though neither the work nor the team nature fits that type of work, first, I wrote him that wasn’t the best approach and better to use these tools, second I tried to communicate that face to face, third, I actually applied these tools I was suggesting in a project I am doing as a way to show an example how it’s done maybe that will convince him, unfortunately, nothing worked with him, it was “my wrong way or the highway” approach, he wasn’t even certified PM with no training and I was, had to leave them after delivering my project.
Really, this is primary school maths. I learnt about carries when I was seven.

Every single thread (both here and on Reddit) I've seen says 'oh, decimals are too hard'.

This is a terrible indictment of the American schooling system if your only defence against metrication is 'I can't do decimals'. It is you lot who have to catch up.
I know it's an appeal to authority, but if clang does it at high optimization levels then that's good enough for me to know it's faster.

Division is really really slow in CPUs, as I understand it. Like, CPUs are just awful at it.

It being an old opt doesn't mean it is invalid. I'm not aware of CPUs getting meaningfully better at division.
Where is the $90 million figure from? Was this disclosed somewhere?
You're welcome and thanks for the feedback :)

Yeah, the web version is always free for all of my ebooks. And you can find the markdown source on GitHub, for example: https://github.com/learnbyexample/learn_gnuawk/blob/master/g...

I use `pandoc` to generate the PDF/EPUB versions from markdown. See my blog post https://learnbyexample.github.io/customizing-pandoc/ for details.
In about 100 years time, someone will probably dig it up...
I’ve said this before here, but I wonder if the blockchain’s most lasting contribution will be, ironically, forcing the world’s governments’ hand to create their own form of digital, easily trackable and controllable money.

Something like CBDCs always seemed inevitable, given how much more of their privacy citizens are willing to give away with each passing year. But I wonder if the crypto space has accelerated the implementation.
All surgeries have regret rates. Gender affirming surgeries are one of the lowest at 1-2%.

Access to such surgeries is already difficult, people almost always have to wait a year or more and have multiple psych evals.

I know several people who have regrets despite being 100% trans - they just would have preferred options that were not available at the time.

There are also people who aren't trans that get surgery to change their genitals, and are delighted with results.

There are more things in sex and gender than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
> A lot of traditional units are based on random reference points that were an issue from antiquity - consider how pretty much every market town kept their own measure references even if they used same terminology.

A lot of that was because keeping the definition of units consistent across time and space was very hard in ancient and mediaeval times, even the first few centuries of the modern period. Units were defined in terms of physical artefacts (as long as this metal rod, as heavy as this particular stone), which tended over the centuries to be lost or stolen, or slowly decay. Issues such as expansion and contraction of metals at different temperatures were also not widely understood, and accurate/reproducible thermometers didn't exist until the 18th century. As we improved our knowledge of natural science, we became more and more aware of these issues – but the initial solution was often just to make the whole country adopt the standard of the national capital, and empires were made to adopt the standard of the imperial capital (the British don't call their traditional units "Imperial" for nothing)
Exactly. That's the whole ideea to begin with - destroy the state monopoly. Of course the state sees it as an existential threat, because it is.
Can't confirm tbh. I'm now in my late thirties and enjoying life quite a bit. Definitely better than when I was in my twenties.

Looking forward to hopefully another 40+ years of this.
> I see things like this constantly in shops in Europe. I think it is part of a dark pattern to make price comparisons less intuitive

In Germany they put the price of a unit on the price tag. So that you can clearly see that 0.33 bottle of Coke is more expensive (per liter) than the 1l.
> For high-stakes operations that are done occasionally, you might consider making tasks seem longer, as if more important, than they actually are.

Hmmm, not sure this is the best approach. There is no reason to deceive your user.
I don't remember exactly now but I have been on unixlikes forever and I am not too much into fuzzyness in general. I think it was treating upper and lower case characters the same in completions and such. Things of that nature - maybe not exactly that - but when I went to do some research about how to configure it, I realized it was not possible and that was by design. It's very good software that a lot of other shells take inspiration from but I don't agree with their methodology so I took the best bits and made zsh do them, which it can do easily. I didn't use zsh before that and now I am a huge fan.

If anybody who needs this wants to give ZSH a go, I recommend starting with only a few settings and only add new ones if you understand what they do. Same goes for plugins. I do not recommend starting with oh-my-zsh at all - which IMO is a glorified alias database anyway.
Just don't give them your home address...

"Roughly 4% to as high as 12% of CEOs exhibit psychopathic traits, according to some expert estimates, many times more than the 1% rate found in the general population and more in line with the 15% rate found in prisons."

- https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackmccullough/2019/12/09/the-p...
Unsure with the 48g; trained myself since engineering undergrad days to not lean into graphing calculators. The feature existed since at least the 32sii, so it makes sense that successor 33s and 35s models also got it. Easily one of the most useful features that I've found for woodworking and converting arcmin/sec to decimal as the most common usecases.
Yep, I guess something with cache. It works now.
Two employees of a company were suddenly approached by the CEO accompanied by the CTO.

- Death or Scrum? - asked the CEO

The employees knew nothing about this Scrum thing, but were to intimidated to ask and the other choice was one they were not ready to make.

The first one thus replied in a quavering voice: "Scrum"

In this moment the first employee was grabbed by the CTO and was put through horrors not many could withstand:

- Neverending sprint planning meetings

- Daily Scrums that lasted 4 hours

- The sprint reviews

- Sprint retrospectives

- The backlog refinements

After all this the employee was only able to say: "Still working on User Story XYZ. No impediments."

The CEO then asked the second employee what their answer was. The employee was fighting a tough fight in their head.

"I hate meetings, I would love to do some real work, but I'm not ready to die yet. On the other hand, I can't go through life after all that abuse; There's no way I could live with myself". So he answered: DEATH!

To this the CEO swiftly replied: Death ... by Scrum
> and the business people took credit for it and I got overlooked for promotion and life went on.

Story of my life! And I guess it is the case for most competent employees unfortunately.
It is one of the hardest things to get right in programming. and sometimes, like when you are waiting on a network and your connection is unreliable, just impossible.

It is hard because the blocking operation may be very deep in the call stack, and each element must collaborate. Not all APIs support asynchronous progress events. Proper progress bars are abstraction breakers. For example, your API may abstract away the fact you are on a network or doing things locally, except that if you want progress, these are very different cases, so you want to know the underlying situation. Ideally you should also know how good your connection is: an overcrowded airport Wi-Fi doesn't act the same as wired LAN.

UI/UX people can only do with what their back-end provides. The back-end can only do with what the APIs they use provide. The APIs can only do with what the system provides. So sometimes, a spinner is the only thing that can be done within a reasonable budget.