skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The poll only counts people who talk about it "often or extremely often".

It actually seems crazy to me that the number is so high for younger age groups:

> And young adults are more likely to say they often talk about their mental health with close friends: 37% say this, compared with 29% of those 30 to 49 and 14% of those 50 and older.

That's a lot of mental health talk. I suspect you won't see this amount of mental health talk in places with good average mental health.
> battery cars are $20,000 more expensive than their ICE counterparts

It's not new, but it is the problem: We need to stop subsidizing ICE cars by letting them dump greenhouse gasses into everyone's atmosephere.
Yes, but template code is all on headers, so it gets parsed every single time its included on some compile unit. With modules this only happens once so its a huge speed upgrade in pretty much all cases.
"Think about it: what do most, non-autistic people, who don't-use-computers do on the weekend? They go to bars! They probably get laid, too!!"

Bars and alcohol are not the only way. If you enjoy them, sure go for it.
Otherwise join a sports club, go working out, start climbing, visit a gym, go dancing, join a music band, a choir, a hacker club. Anything where people are and where you enjoy the atmosphere.

Or move somehwere, where activity hubs are closer, so the friction is less to actually go there.
Just wanted to reply to you once more.

I’ve seen multiple other forum users unable to update fingerprint sensors in Linux with the same problem I had.

Also I’ve seen threads asking why Ubuntu freezes and if anyone else is having problems.

You guys explained in 1 forum post that amd is working on a fix for the second issue, and nobody has really mentioned the fwupd freezes some of us run into.

It’s just one more example of stuff in too many places. The official Ubuntu install guide doesn’t mention a new fix is coming to fix freezes and the place that does is a forum post that many people may miss.

Need 1 hub page for each device with some sort of stream of updates.

I have to bookmark the bios guide page to find out if new ones are out, a forum post to see if there is new changes with Ubuntu, stuff is a little far apart and manual process to find updates.
Python added pyi files in after the fact. Adoption on those is much slower than I would like.
yes but that itself tells something about who you are, and precludes stories about certain kinds of people. not that I really want to read about them
My Cars
corals are sensitive to rapid and wide changes in water parameters whether it be temperature, pH, alkalinity. Due to the how large the volume of water that is in the ocean these parameters really don't fluctuate as much as you would think besides temperature. pH only dictates how fast coral can grow but corals are much more sensitive to changes in temperature and alkalinity.
Yeah, cool idea. Same here, im very heavy terminal user, and simple spreadsheet in terminal sounds like a cool idea.
There's a LOT of compromised instances on GCP and AWS. Attackers crawl for leaked credentials and access keys which they use to spawn more instances, run cryptominers on them, crawl for more keys, etc. They set these up in ways that are difficult for account owners to notice right away, such as by launching the instances in regions the account owner doesn't normally use or setting up large numbers of IAM accounts and roles to retain access if the new instances get purged. (Ask me how I know.)

I suspect a lot of the malicious traffic coming out of Africa is not direct attacks from cybercriminals but residential machines that have also been compromised to send malicious traffic. The only difference between that and cloud providers is that you cannot afford to block all of Amazon or Google. They have a level of economic privilege that the entire continent of Africa lacks.
Vanilla MySQL vs vanilla Postgres. MySQL still wins on scale. You run single MySQL servers with 70,000 connections, you can't get close on Postgres because of a fundamentally broken connection-per-process model. The Neon team suggested changing that and got flamed by the community.

I was at GitHub in 2017 when that GitLab outage happened. We had 60 million users running on vanilla MySQL no Vitess at that point. We had 10 million users literally running on 3 MySQL servers. Don't pretend that even now Postgres can do that.
> If you can plug in at home an EV is likely viable.

Where is data on such things? I'm sure that's true for some and not others, but how many?
This is mariadb.com the enterprise branch. Nothing to do with the open source foundation at mariadb.org, which is unaffected by this.
MSVC seems to have the best funding model of the three major compilers. I estimate that has more to do with adoption velocity than head starts on implementation, especially given how long modules have been in progress.
Hasn't the Prius been enormously successful for decades?
Everyone seems to assume gas is going to stay cheap, then it goes up and people driving F350s w/15 MPG to/from their office jobs get upset. Drive what you want but don’t complain when OPEC decides to go to war with Israel and oil doubles in price. We’ve seen this play out so many times since 2000.
VAT rates in Europe differ too but it doesn't seem to cause any issues with advertising :)
Postgres replication features have lagged behind but were never dangerous.

MySQL has multiple edge cases where things on the master will not happen on the slave depending on which replication method you've selected and which features you're using. MySQL is the issue here.
I wish you the best luck in fixing this.

I'm surrounded by many people, many of them I met in my choir. People around me had quite some luck joining swing lessons too.

Maybe you could try something like this? Joining some dance, singing, drama, sport club, or some repair or activist community? In short, joining some group of people who share a common activity or common ideas / ideals? It also gives some easy starting point for discussions beside the weather.
What works really well in my choir is that besides people being here also to meet new people, after rehearsal many of us stay/gather at a place where you can drink or eat (but are not forced too, it's fine just hanging out without taking anything). Could also be related to computing, though while I love the activity, I'm happy to spend some time with people outside it discussing other stuff.

I have a lot of friends and I'm now quite self-confident, but I would be terrified to have to socialize with people in bars. Not to mention the noise. Unless most people are also specifically there to meet other people.

(edit: but yeah, that works in a city, if you are in a remote area it can be tough. But still.)

(not in the US)
Also Vitess has foreign keys shipping every soon.
I found out a few months ago that my router has a built-in VPN that I just had to turn on. Now it doesn't matter where in the world I am, it can always look like I'm not only in the US, I'm actually on my home network. That might be worth considering if you're traveling a lot: it's about as benign-looking to providers as is possible.
Basically, this:

> Still, many consumers are reluctant to make the switch, deterred by high sticker prices and the inconvenience of driving a vehicle that has a limited range and needs regular recharging.

I don't see this as consumers being 'uncooperative', it is an incorrect headline fragment. The offerings are not attractive enough to a broader audience.
What is the difference between a reset.css and a normalize.css? They both seem like they are doing the same or similar things. Is it a naming preference? Is one better than the other? Do some people use both?
Internet Archive have copies of the website as early as 1999. Way back before surfing on iPhone was a thing (before the iPhone at all was a thing).
Going out to bars isn't your only shot, and may not even be a good venue. Meet ups for hobbies though are almost universally fantastic places to meet folks.
Who is willing to pay for using a DB besides enterprise customers?
right, I live too far from too many activity hubs. rural areas are great, to a certain extent.
Fedora 7 Schedule (2006)
> I'm super disappointed with modules. It's 2023, we've pushed out a new c++ standard since modules were standardised, and they're not usable.

Important question: Who are you disappointed in?

Keep in mind that the ISO committee does not employ engineers and for international treaty reasons, it reasonably cannot.

Point being, who should be doing this work? Are you talking to them about your expectations? Are you providing actual support to implementations that are public goods (i.e., open source compilers)?
"timelessness" is overrated. War and Peace has a particular time, Slaughterhouse 5, pretty much anything that's on a great books list is there because its the product of a particular time and place.
> they are prohibited by an ever increasing set of laws from making and selling the vehicles consumers would like to buy.

What laws are you referring to?
I 100% agree with this blind spot. Most data science coursework avoids the very thing making it a science: the explanation of what change causes what effect. I've been surprised that year after year, programs at so many "Schools of Data Science" keep gliding over this area, perhaps alluding to it in an early stats course if at all.

It's an important part of validating that your data-driven output or decision is actually creating the change you hope for. So many fields either do poor experimentation or none at all, others are prevented from doing the usual "full unrestricted RCT": med and fin svcs and other regulated industries have legal constraints on what they can experiment with; in other cases, data privacy restricts the measures one can take.

I've had many data folks throw up their hands if they can't do a full RCT, and instead look to pre-post with lots of methodological errors. You can guess how many of those projects end up. (No, not every change needs a full test, and some things are easy rollback. But think of how many others would have benefitted from some uncertainty reduction.)

Sure, "LLM everything" and "just gbm it!" and "ok, just need a new feature table and I'm done!" are all important and fun parts of a data science day. But if I can't show that a data driven decision or output makes things better, then it's just noise.

Causal modeling gets us there. It improves the impact of ml models that recognize the power of causal interventions, and it gives us evidence that we are helping (or harming).

It's (IMO) necessary, but of course, not sufficient. Lots of other great things are done by ML eng and data scientists and data eng and the rest, having nothing to do with casual inference... But I keep thinking how much better things get when we apply a causal lens to our work.

(And next on my list would be having more data folks understanding slowly changing dimension tables, but this can wait for another time).
Before I moved to my current location, I created a meetup account for myself, here, and joined many meetup groups around varying personal and professional interests, along with some general social ones, some singles ones, and some age-range-based ones. I browsed the local subreddit, and a local, social events subreddit, and joined discord groups associated with both the meetups and the subreddits.

When I actually moved, I forced myself to go to several each week, to bootstrap a physical social network from nothing. Some conclusions from this:

- It's a lot of work at first, if you're not extroverted. I wasn't. You gotta force yourself to go out.

- If you go to a particular meetup enough, you'll see some of the same people there, and can make friends, and can be a "regular", welcoming new folks into the friends if it's their first time.

- If you go to multiple different meetups, you might find some other overlapping people, and can make friends.

- If you go to meetups enough, you develop an "elevator pitch" for you as a person/friend/social creature, essentially you learn to introduce yourself without effort or anxiety.

- Meetups are usually organized by normal folks, and you can help out with one or start your own, and this helps me feel a sense of local grounding and friendship.

- Doing this is a great way to learn a new city, both the places and the streets.

- "Are you with the meetup group?" when at a public venue is a good icebreaker and way to introduce yourself to people who are and also to people who aren't :) *- edited to clarify that this is an icebreaking, not a gatekeeping question
I'm guessing that adding modules to a simple, clean language like Pascal is a lot easier that making almost any change to C++, the epitome of language complexity.
Not quite. I'm more likely to take a business risk in using a smaller or less mature piece of tech if it is open source.

The thinking there is that if the project or company behind it fail, at least I can continue to use the tech while making a plan to maintain it or migrate away.

It's unclear if that's a sound reason or just an intuitive take.
For me friends are people to get drunk with them on weekends. ...so i assume it is very subjective
It is a balance - not for you or me specifically
I don’t know what your particular interests are, but my suggestion would be to try to find some in-person group activities that align with something you are interested in. Take an art class at a community college, join a group for hikes/bike rides/sports, etc. I think this can be a low pressure way to meet a lot of people who you might at least have one or two things in common with. Casual acquaintances like this may or may not become the starting point for more “real” friendships but it’s a start.
Also, CloudFront can't proxy bare EC2 servers, you have to shove them behind an ELB, which is additional cost.
Whether the kernel can vbe audited is completely orthogonal to verifying it at boot time since there are still ways to retrieve it even with active hardware encryption.

The utility of patching your own kernel has to be carefully weighted against the security impact of doing so. If an attacker can take over the user account that compiles the kernel, they can make you install a compromised kernel. For example, by running a file system monitor that exchanges the kernel image with a compromised one as soon as it has been built.
The impureim sandwich is often thought of as a sort of impractical purism that only a Haskell programmer could love. But it's really quite useful in imperative and object-oriented code, too. For example, in typical enterprise programming there are quite a few elaborate and complicated practices that aren't needed to nearly the same extent (if at all) when the code is structured as an impureim sandwich. Dependency injection, mockist testing, service locators, and singletons all come to mind.
If you include a 5% kitchen fee, and still expect a 20% tip, I ain't paying 25% ... The server will get 15%. I prob wont go back to that restaurant again if they charge ridiculous fees.
>Only the wealthy can participate in politics or public debate?

Pretty much, I've seen how you're retaliated against. I spent down on a Bellingcat cert, but that's useless -- doesn't matter what I find in public view, folks don't listen.

>If I was grading this; I'd give you a "D" and tell you to try again, with focus this time.

Thanks for that feedback,

>You want a job in politics, is that it?

Consulting.

(Or a delete button tbh -- keep regretting my posts on the internet.)
To be clear, the mechanism for checking ML doesn't really check ML. There's really little value in a confidence interval conditional on the same experimental conditions that produced the dataset on which the model is trained. I'd often say it's actively harmful, since it's mostly misleading.

Insofar as causal inference has no such 'check', its because there never was any. Casual inference is about dispelling that illusion.
> I can't imagine how such a class could be taught, at least in the US. At the federal level both sides accuse each other of misinformation, not merely differences of opinion but active propaganda.

The class wouldn't take either side. It would just discuss propaganda techniques and how to defeat them. Use material from some other time or place to examine it.
Exactly. I want to pay for what i'm supposed to be paying for. Not subscribe to extra services i don't use.
Just wait until the EU forces manufacturers to enable side loading, and you have to side load an app to charge your car, and that app monitors your activity and sells it to advertisers...
Yeah.

I think cloudflare is even the only one that supports the "onion routing" to improve the situation for real Tor users.
I'm personally vested in xpand...I don't know what state its in now, but it would kind of suck if it just got put in a dusty cardboard box in the back of a storage unit.
Postgres has a reputation for correctness and does have some more specialized features, column, and index types. It’s also totally fine and dandy at small-medium size. Fully transactional DDL and online schema migrations put it ahead of MySQL at those scales too.

But I agree that MySQL is easier to use at high scale for its superior replication story, 3rd party tooling, and pragmatism. If you’ve only run small Postgres you don’t know the fear of the query planner suddenly going AWOL at 3am, or needing to shard your database under duress as you watch the Postgres transaction ID stick closer and closer to overflow because VACUUM won’t finish. You haven’t needed to stress out about the super low practical connection limit and build a cluster of Postgres proxies using PGBouncer or similar.

Related blog post by a teammate: https://www.notion.so/blog/sharding-postgres-at-notion
IDK what op is annoyed by in particular, everyone with any interest in cars has their own bone to pick with the way the regs are structured.

Personally, I'm frustrated you can't produce something like a 1990 NA Miata anymore or the tiny pickups that also existed around then like the Ranger or even a Hilux. Oddly enough the EPA is largely responsible for pickups growing into the size of dump trucks lately. They mandate anything vaguely car sized to have very stringent efficiency performance but if you just make the vehicle into a "light truck" those laws don't apply. As a result everything needs to be built like an absolute tank to survive a crash with these behemoths.
Comcast has been getting away with this for ages now. Consumer protection is a huge lie perpetrated by the very same government that we pay taxes to for that very reason.

I'm glad I only buy unlocked phones, as switching service is 10 times easier, but we get locked into monthly subscriptions on so many things now, including on app store purchases that life is becoming a hellscape of abuse and dependency on large and already rich individuals and companies.

The people who aren't rich working within these companies have accountability for this too, it's really not going to change at all until people start holding actual individuals that make these policies accountable.

If T mobile has millions of customers and they erroneously charge each of them one dollar, that's a lot of money. Here we're talking about the deceptive charging of millions of customers in excess of $50 to $100 dollars each, and even a later class action suit would only end up as 1% or less of the profit they earned from this fraud. All the mobile providers are pulling stunts and fixing pricing on service now too. Enough is enough.
Friendship after 30 is HARD. Our single friends are painfully lonely but the older they get the more insular they are.
Obamas increased EPA requirements is part of the reason why everyone is driving around in giant tanks now. Less strict mpg requirements
I recall reading, years and years ago (maybe something posted back then here on HN?), about an idea: sending some big "sail" into space that'd block some of the sun. Anybody remember that?

It seems less crazy than blocking sun rays using aerosols put into our atmosphere like in TFA.
Plenty of people have that kind of money, and most of them are dumb & lazy enough to buy a product like this.

As someone who spent 5 years in a similar situation to you, what I am about to say isn't malicious; it is reality from my experience and is the key to solving the issue for yourself.

They do not care about you and never will.

I am leaving this country that I served in a war for because they do not care and they never will. I am homeless and I have money; plenty to live like people do here. I don't because it is disgusting. I don't because I am not funding people's lifestyle where they buy nonsense like this while people rot and starve.

So I am going somewhere else where people haven't lost touch with reality like they have here. I would recommend any sane people do the same ASAP because no one here is going to change. It is the better option than being angry all the time and living in their dystopia.
MSVC is also the least expansive of the three compilers. It has a much smaller set of languages it supports (No C, ObjC etc for example), and a much lower focus on performance [1]

That’s not a criticism necessarily , but just to add that I think they likely have a more agile code base as a result.

[1] https://reddit.com/r/cpp/s/BOj34UtKvu
Why? Are they hard to work on, or just not profitable for some reason?
If I want to bet on the future price of oil, I’ll do it with ETFs not my car purchase.
Because most customer service agents don’t understand American Sign Language, and it’s quite hard view sign language over a phone call, hence the whole sign language interpreter thing.
I don't blame you. I think there's a couple of deeper issues at stake.

- Distances that people need to travel are farther in North America. Just like how the smaller cars that sell in Europe and Asia wouldn't sell here, the smaller EVs made for Europe and Asia wouldn't sell here either.

- A more reliable and comprehensive charging network needs to be in place. This is exacerbated by the previous point. In addition to that, my anecdotal experience is that many EV chargers are damaged either by misuse or intentional sabotage.

- Liquid electrolytes are heavy, and the current technology uses too much expensive battery for the distance offered, which matters because in NA, distances are long.

I think that this is unfortunately why Asia is in a virtuous loop with regards to EV adoption, and are slated to enjoy the lower TCO, whereas in North America, we're looking at higher costs for an indefinite period of time. Europe, they were ahead for too long and I guess the present-day conservatism towards technology is having consequences now.
Economic analysis of proposed regulations of cloud services in Europe
> Is there a small group of candidates that will read a job ad, be qualified, want the job enough to apply - but only willing to customize the email address they send their resume to?

I think basically yes.

You raise a good point, though, about people who are really good just always getting recruited. Based on my small sample size, such people do still apply to jobs at startups they find interesting. So their pipeline is thus a mix of cold apps and recruiter activity and referrals.

> But it's not nonsense? It's a job application?

No, it's nonsense. A "cover letter" is a terrible prompt to elicit any meaningful information about a candidate, and implies negative things about the company asking for one. Among them: that the company is perfectly willing to have the candidate waste their own time writing one, so this symmetry of investment and time-saving rationale doesn't seem too convincing, IMO.

I think if you want to assess writing skills, you should ask more focused questions, such as "What is the biggest thing you have built in x language", "What is your experience with y"

You will still filter out good candidates who do not want or do not have time to answer any such questions, but I think those questions are far more fair and probative of the kinds of qualitative skills you are looking for than "write me a thing to tell me how much you want this job"