skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I try to avoid idioms, figures of speech and uncommon words when I'm writing something aimed at software engineers, such tutorials or technical documentation. Most coders aren't native English speakers, and I want my writing as clear as possible.

Because I give a shit.
I definitely seen it happen. Hell, people do confuse Czech Republic with Chzechnya..
It's not surprising. English has a load of this weirdness. We can, especially in American English, shit on something (normally an idea or plan for some reason) with the same meaning. "I don't mean to shit on your idea out of hand, but…" No doubt it's a direct import from the German.
In case of dating apps, the issue is that match.com owns all of them.
> "I couldn't give a toss," is a common variant.

Not in the US - this is very British.
The UN approved military action in Korea was an imperialistic war?

Your view is also very short-term, not sure everyone subscribes to that.
> This was not a case of, "oh, there's money to be made off of their hides. Whoops! Where did all of the bison go."

This actually was exactly the case. The bison population collapsed within just _two_ years (1881-1883). In 1883 hunters were waiting for the bison that never came.

As for railroads, the first trans-continental railroad was finished in 1869, and smaller railroads existed before that.

Here's a nice overview article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019005281...
What I find weird is how the Guardian always likes to blame / crusade against (target, basically) anything in society except it's readers.

"Dating Apps" are just another way to find and meet people.

If you have to continue to use the app you are either very bad at this -- or actually like something about the app, such as swiping profiles on a Tuesday after work to relax.

A third option is that people just don't want to choose -- the perfect profile might be around the next swipe.

The dating apps THEMSELVES are not responsible for anyone's lack of success in dating, though. That is up to each and everyone of us.
If I look at the plot in the linked study I see essentially the same trend for men.
I think the reason this never gains any user mindshare while other technologies like 802.11<x> or 5G do is because ipv6 doesn’t actually change anything about the user experience. So why would they bother putting it on the marketing material?

I think that’s the chief reason it’s failed to catch on at any meaningful rate. It may be good overall or have long-term effects, but if any one typical use asked you, “what will be different for me if I buy this?” there’s no answer.
And why is ChatGPT so bad at it?
That’s just the first stage. Simple enough to be audited manually.
Mandarin borrowed both from southern chinese dialects where 瑞 is pronounced ~sui. What's weird about that?
They surely can afford it, they just rather spend it on more meaningful things.

Like taking out your entire family for dinner, having a developer meetup or whatever they do with their own money.

You seem to be both interested in ImageMagick and having certified binaries, why don't YOU pay it?
It's not – it's just a "competing" product.
First-in-human immunoPET imaging of Covid-19 convalescent patients
The low frame rate probably helps sell the illusion. Your mind fills in what they couldn't program.
I think both countries are excellent places to visit and I think their flags are big plusses too.
To be clear, do you have paying bc customers? I guess not, but I wanted to absolutely sure! :-)
My last W2/work performance review indicated that "ProllyInfamous swears too much in normal interactions." Upon the customary raise and pleasantries, the obvious-acusor sat with arms-folded (upset). Finally she brought up her written words, in public.

I responded with one of my favorite [passive aggressive] formal responses: "From now on I won't 'give a shit,' anymore. Instead, I'll start 'giving a hoot'."

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English is weird. The language of exceptions [similar to chemistry].
The explanation is obvious here and the very existential crux of heterosexual dating.
I’m curious why you feel “I’ve driven through there” qualifies you to dismiss the efforts of people working in the open, for very little money, to restore certain classes of ecosystems.

“Blind man doesn’t want to pay for printed newspaper.” So don’t. But you could educate yourself and then you could see.
If it uses a laser, it wastes a lot of energy.
Funny how they recognize a cause of decrese (easy and affordable licensed access) but don't recognize it's becoming less easy and less affordable.

They also recognize a cause of increase (less disposable income due to inflation) but don't recognize the solution (reduce prices, increase value) instead threaten with increasing prices which will just cause a negative feedback loop.

But I'm sure they'll soon demand the "big government" to "meddle in the free market" by implementing freedom and privacy distroying monitoring and evforcement in order to protect their government enforced monopoly.

Or, you know, they could just do what the music and game industries have done (offer convinient, affordable access) and stop being assholes.
Not if you buy an EV certificate. Then you have positive reputation from the start.
> The programmers that destroyed companies by creating better open source alternatives not only didn't go to jail but managed to build multi-million dollar businesses. Which then becomes too big at some point and ready to be disrupted again.

I’m not sure what your point is.

Isn’t this a good thing? Lots of opportunity for you to leverage the full value of your skillset to maximize your earning potential by starting a company, being your own boss, set your own work schedule, etc.

(Re: junior devs, $120k is fine for junior, I was recollecting a thread with people saying $160k is more appropriate for juniors which IMO is absurd.)
Technologies that seem like they are solid but don't really deliver, very disappointingly:

- Linux (It's very much not as stable as one might think if you are daily driving it, pointer drivers for most distros are shit, packages are unstable, etc)

- Ocaml (tooling is atrocious, community is splintered and a mess)
> Demons are also ultimately suffering sentient beings, who think their actions will bring them some sort of satisfaction, happiness.

If I’m not mistaken, in the Christian religion, no. They are sentient beings who are cast out of heaven and are in permanent desperation because of it (so far we agree). But as far as I know it’s out of spite and jealousy they want to bring as many people as they can with them; they most definitely know it won’t bring them happiness.

Also calling them sentient is probably misleading as they are angelic entities and they cannot change ever. They made a decision when they were created (follow God or not), and that’s that. So sentient yes, but most definitely not Human-like.
That's the thing I like about the culture series though. They're all pretty self-contained with only one exception (that I'm not going to include because it's a pretty major spoiler in The Use of Weapons and Surface Detail), I think. I can't think of any reason you can't just read one and be fine.

>Banks' output is pretty uneven in quality, and some of his work is very formulaic.

I'll fight you.

All joking aside - so for sci-fi or hard sci-fi, who/what do you suggest? I love getting recommendations from people for this genre.
Would my IP address have changed when I changed the ISP?

Yes unless it is a reseller of some upstream provider your IP should have changed. Bad indicator signals can follow someone in device caches however. That is why I would flush all caches and all types of caches at the same time as changing IP addresses.
>I had a free account on MIT-AI at some point in the late 70s. I accessed it over the ARPANET!

My understanding is that, during the open access era, if you entered the wrong password the system would ask whether you wanted an account. Is that accurate?

How long did your account last? When did the mass revoking of non-MIT accounts occur? Or was there no such revoking, and accounts just expired from disuse?
That's a very poignant analogy. Especially since we all looked down on bugs for being so stupid to die burnt on a lamp.
true, the only one remains sane so far, but I'm unsure how long that will last, I lost confidence in frontend as far as keeping-getting-unnecessarily-more-complex is concerned
Gotcha. Excellent work, thank you
We say this in the UK too. Also "to shit all over", e.g. "I didn't go see that movie because I read some reviews that shat all over it."
English: Sweden, Switzerland

In Slavic languages its arguably somewhat close:
- Russian: Швеция, Швейцария (translit: Shvetsiya, Shveytsariya).
- Ukrainian: Швеція, Швейцарія (Shvetsiya, Shveytsariya)
- Polish: Szwecja i Szwajcaria
etc.

Romance languages, as well:
- French: Suède, Suisse.
- Italian: Svezia, Svizzera.
- Spanish: Suecia, Suiza.
- Catalan: Suècia, Suïssa.
etc.
For my procedures, they used a continuous X-ray to monitor the location of the equipment. I'm pretty sure I was more irradiated than by a CT scan.
You need to find some kind of proxy for life satisfaction otherwise you could just be measuring a change in society’s expectations regarding the answer to that question.

That is, if there’s less expectation to lie and say everything is fine, you could get declining life satisfaction numbers with no actual decline in satisfaction.

Anecdotally people I know from my grandparent’s generation are much less likely to admit to being unhappy.
Very quick and dirty bookmarklet to highlight the author name in a HN discussion: https://bookmarkl.ink/olejorgenb/ca230bdeb87bb5bc69a8bae3e7d...
And to your point, many of them want some type of objective “score” they can use to measure that progress.
Maybe it's not the apps, maybe it's just the users?

Let me know when tech turns everyone into models
If not the words, then the stereotypes. Sweden! Watches and chocolate, right?
Popular for weight loss, intermittent fasting may help with diabetes too
I'd like to see literate programming melded with the docs as code approach. A simple way to see (say) myfile.go and myfile.md displayed side-by-side, with comments and their code targets aligned side-by-side during scrolling.

(Or, alternatively, comments & code interleaved... but then when the comments and code are both collapsible, it's not much different from current IDEs.)

This shouldn't be too awfully difficult. Process myfile.go to autogenerate myfile.md, which contains markers or tags or labels to indicate the points to align with the course code.

Is this making any sense ?
I overheard a conversation just this morning where a young man was explaining to his friend that he was from Chzechnya, not Czechia. This apparently resolved a lot of questions for the friend.
I agree, but as I read the article, I thought more about slapstick and physical humor ("The Superiority Theory of Humor" as labeled in the article). When I think, for example, of The Three Stooges[0], the pratfalls never seemed surprising, rather you knew Curly was eventually going to get banged up. I never found that part of their routine as funny as the verbal/visual puns and comebacks.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Stooges
Okay, but in plain language, it wouldn't really make sense to say something is obvious and then to say there are many exceptions, no?
Constitution protects video games (2003)
Data breaches affect stock market share prices (2021)
My single friends tell me the dating apps are way too expensive. I think if these apps were only five dollars a month or less, they would get much more traction.
It's absolutely perfect.

Thanks for posting this. I'd seen it before and was looking for it recently, so it's now safely bookmarked.
Good point, I was wrong. However, it can also happen that the factors are not gaussian, and still the multiplication would follow a lognormal distribution by the CLT. So saying that "if you condition on enough factors the distribution will be normal" requires the assumption that the factors are normally distributed.
Yeah that kind of picture seems to have increased a lot in popularity the past few years.
I think it's more likely because the effort of finding and licensing images is way more significant than that of writing text.
I have always said that commercial dating apps have the wrong incentives. We need a non-profit to create a dating app. I see this as a similar problem to signal or wikipedia, people don't want to pay for those services.

I also think the app should severely limit the number of people you are exposed to and reduce the waste of time. I tried the friend section of those apps and that's the only time I felt the sense of overwhelming with having too many likes. Both those goals are contrary to profit via ads.

IMO those apps are very similar to social media apps. We have studies that show they are not good for us the way they are currently structured as they just want to grab our attention for as much time as possible.
> Sorry for being dense, but I thought one of the main reason for nixos's existence is reproducibilty. I thought they have these kinds of things solved already.

Nixos has the advantage that everything is built in its own sandbox with only its explicitly declared (and hashed) dependencies available, unlike in mainstream distros where it's the full system environment, so in many cases you already get the same binary every time. But this doesn't immediately lead to reproducibility because the build process might be nondeterministic for various packages.
The CaRPi Is a Raspberry Pi-Powered Universal Car Computer for Vintage Vehicles
Ore?
I'm from the UK. Maybe I'm older, but I know these phrases as American imports.
That document is outdated. And you may read some books about Hamas to get some context about that document, if you like.

Here's a more uptodate charter: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-2017-document-full
One that amuses me is how the popular "I couldn't care less" (I really really don't care) got converted by people who couldn't care less about syntax and meaning into "I could care less"

That and "literally" being so frequently abused it now has a dictionary entry to explain that it can also be used to emphatically refer to non literal stuff.

If you think showing enthusiasm for stuff by handing over a turd is weird, you'd also love the (nineties) British habit of complimenting something by saying it's "the dogs bollocks", as if canine testes were renowned for their desirability...
To be honest, my ethical calculation comes out the other way around.

If someone is playing honest with me in good faith, and they ask for a show of good faith back, I think reciprocity, good manners and ethics favour the idea that I should do so.

If someone asks me to play fair with them, and then tries to shaft me - then any consideration I might have had for their position goes out the window. I don’t feel the slightest need to play fair with them because they are a bad faith actor.

To be clear, this is purely an opinion about ads on YouTube and whether I have to sit in one of two ethical buckets, not advocating an anything goes position.

My opinion is that there’s a third ethical position, which is a bit like the classical solution to the prisoner’s dilemma: co-operate until the other person plays you false. After that, don’t consider them a friend, and there’s no ethical problem in refusing to cooperate with them.
React used to be fine when next.js was a separate effort, now Vercel hijacked the project, and making things even more complex by mixing SSR and CSR, there is a learning cost associated when things and concepts getting larger unnecessarily.
Canada loves confusing names. The CFL also had the Roughriders and the Rough Riders
Mind mapping–a novel way to develop your personal mind as software
Hi I'm Sam, founder of atica.xyz. The main goal of Atica is to level up AI. Right now it’s cool but not that useful because you have to sit there and tell it what to do over and over again. I want to make something that is on the level of humans, where you can say “please build me a website” and it works for days or weeks or months on doing what you asked, coming back to communicate or ask you questions when needed just like a human would do.

In order to understand what I was trying to build I spent an incredible amount of time sitting, being still and listening to what was going on in my head. I wanted to replicate what I am into a computer. What I found out was that AI isn’t just similar to what is happening in my head—it’s literally the same thing. After I started thinking like this I was able to use a lot of the concepts of software engineering to better myself and my thought patterns. I got rid of problems that I’ve dealt with my entire life.

So, I now want to offer a unique service called mind mapping, where I sit down with people and introduce them to the concepts I’ve learned and help them to think of themselves as software, using the fundamentals of engineering and AI to better their own thought patterns and life. I want to help people answer questions like “why do I think things that I don’t want to?”, “why does my mind race when I try to go to sleep”, or one of my favorites “how the hell do I remember stuff?”

For those interested, you can book a mind mapping session at atica.xyz/mindmapping

Thanks for reading!
Maybe you are right. I certainly haven't seen anything to contradict you.

So this is the exact reason that my software business will only grow to the point that it provides enough for my wife and me.

Why are people so obsessed with growth? They're like the businessman/tourist in [1], and I just want to be the fisherman.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anekdote_zur_Senkung_der_Arb...
I think it would be easier to keep these two separate if there was some info about the etymology of the two.
I use windows, none of this is an issue, window management is something it gets right and makes my MacOS experience miserable.

There's also the power toys that let you even more possibilities:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzon...
I think the better take is not to focus on the apps, but on the phenomenon of using apps for that.

You don't get out. You don't socialize. You don't take risks. You don't exchange much.

But it's easy, and it provides an alternative paths for timid people, and increase your range and reach.
There's so much they don't teach at coding school :( .

This is why entry level devs have a difficult time getting a job and devs with 1-2 years of experience are recruited. (In a more normal market; I understand that right now with all the layoffs, everyone is having a difficult time.)

There's so much on the job training that companies want someone else to do.
Why do you think Linux doesn't deliver? And what is deliver mean in this context?
As a gay man, I hate grindr and many of my friends do too. We still may use it because it's ubiquitous, honest to a fault, and it's easy to confuse solutions to horniness with solutions to loneliness. But I know it often takes a toll on self-esteem, particularly in areas where you don't match the dominant "type" (e.g., a nerdy guy living in LA or OC). There aren't better options and many of the guys on hinge or tinder are also on grindr -- so, I think grindr gets used often despite it not really delivering on the users' hopes. So, I wouldn't confuse use with satisfaction, and I'd really love to see data on how many gay men actually are satisfied with grindr.
There's nothing wrong with watching TV/Netflix in your free time. Its a free country. But, don't be surprised if alot of prospective dates to find that boring or milquetoast. Dating profiles seem to be written by ChatGPT, for both men and women, and the most common included "hobby" is generally, Netflix. Imo, it screams: low effort.
An article doing analysis and/or criticism doesn’t need a license; that’s what “fair use” is for.
Show HN: A cross platform desktop installer maker project
Hello, I have been working on a desktop app as a side project for which I needed an installer kit.

I looked at some existing ones for different platforms. Felt, it benefits to have a cross platform desktop installer builder which is flexible enough to code your UI and actions (non declarative style). I have also added Github actions (sourced from Tauri) to automatically generate installer files for all macos, win and linux.

Here is an effort towards it. Please share your thoughts: https://github.com/krishnakumar4a4/desktop-installer-maker
Nix is a declarative OS, where you describe what the OS should look like, instead of Ansible where you give the OS steps to follow. Silverblue and Nix are orthogonal aside from being Linux distributions--Silverblue is attempting to change how software is delivered using only containers on an immutable host.

If you're interested in an Ansible alternative that uses Jsonnet and state tracking to somewhat mimic Nix, check out Etcha: https://etcha.dev
They also aren’t nearly as spectacular on any picture as they are in real life so overexposing isn’t really overselling that much.

I definitely saw Auroras every but as spectacular as those pictures but it’s really rare (happened once or twice in my entire life). Selling Auroras to tourists is a really tricky concept to begin with.
I would say that "What to expect when you're expecting" is the book you are looking for.
Good work but should probably be a redirect to the right domain. I’d give them the redirect and ask for a review of my resume or “networking“.

Could be pitched as a feature beta test site.
The opposite confusion is actually something that really surprised me, working with beginner programmers for a while. The mistake that y=2+x should set up some constant relationship where y updates along with x should be expected for people who’ve been doing math their whole lives and not programming, but it is pretty confusing to figure out their confusion the first time.
I get the impression that it's strategy to exclude competition that otherwise can't be beat.

You can't beat Huawei cell towers. You increasingly can't beat Huawei phones, which have become much better and cheaper than iPhones.

You can make up some story about it being spyware (while we have a mountain of proof that the US has spyware in Western devices...) and exclude them, also hoping that it will limit their advance. Of course, the opposite has happened, CHinese tech comapines have now rapidly gained the ability to sourse in-house (or in-country) what they used to import, leading to a tech jump through sanctions.
Intellectual compatibility is a fair goal in a relationship
Yes. I should have said that.
> I can understand mixing up Slovakia and Slovenia

Don't forget the historic regions of Slavonia and Slavinia. While neither of those two is an independent country at the moment, you never know what's going to happen in Eastern Europe.
> Making a realistic CG fire isn't hard. I can (and do) do it by myself on my home desktop.

Can you really? On the clothing of a human body that's in motion in a strong wind? That accurately illuminates that human and the environment around them? And the fire and illuminated objects are all properly reflected on adjacent shiny surfaces like car window and car hood?

Because that's the scenario presented at the very top of the article. And it does indeed sound dastardly difficult. Or while it's maybe possible with enough painstaking work, it's difficult enough that no movie would ever have a large enough budget for it. (Although I really do wonder if we have accurate enough physics models of the igniting gases to truly realistically show the way licks of flames ignite in a strong wind -- as opposed to a more bog-standard campfire type.)
The Danes have the drugs too.
I wonder how someone could create a jig to plot such a table for arbitrary exponents.