skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Attempts to guide sexual orientation, either forced or self-guided, are not as straightforward for bisexual people (pun intended), seeing that the literature in sexology describes some successes that would confuse some less wellread people.
Additionally people crowd out a bad habit instead of abstaining from it.

Give yourself less time to be bad. Do something instead to sublimate some of that energy.
You can't bring us this far without some examples! Fess up, OP!
I say this with love, not condemnation. You have to start caring. Like actually caring. Or develop habits and discipline.

I was this person. I watched my dad be the person all his life, watching my mom both enable and resent him for it. Then I realize what a nuisance he was to those around him, and how embarrassing it was that he seemingly can't take care of himself.

Now I have a cross body "man-purse", I've traveled half a dozen countries in a year and haven't lost a single thing. My wallet, my keys, my yubikey, my sunglasses, my backup meds, they have exactly one place they're allowed to be, and they're always there when I go to grab them.
even the variable names used by programmers are abbreviations for a longer description. longer than one letter, but still shorter than a sentence
I feel like this is pretty unlikely - as far as I know, they don't really pass news bulletins and such to pilots, if it's not something that they need to know. Besides, even if some passenger found out, what could they even do?
Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem
For some reason I always assumed it's a deliberate pun/reference on their part, but turns out it isn't, they named it after the emoji.
See also https://github.com/cksystemsteaching/selfie
FWIW my understanding is that only a subset (not sure how they determine which) of the 737 MAX 9s that are grounded.
Ahh yes, that's a good point. If you're, for example working in a Jupyter Notebook, it absolutely doesn't matter if a cell needs 3 seconds or 3 milliseconds to execute.
Oh man, I want to hear something about Ruby and Rust guys please XD
You're giving profoundly contradictory directives.
Thorium – The Fastest Browser on Earth
> The students were told to report every time they thought, “Oops, I shouldn’t do this”

Close enough!
I never said you don’t get to vote if you don’t pay your taxes. Nor that you have to pay taxes to vote.

I’m saying those that do pay taxes should have the totality of the amount of their income that is going to the government in mind when they head to the polls.
My first thought after reading the title was about ego depletion (a controversial theory that willpower is a limited resource), but the claim here seems unrelated to that since it instead states that willpower is just not effective at eliminating bad habits, not touching whether willpower is a limited resource or not.

Common advice for at least a millenium has been that a consistent good habit, even if small, is better than a large gesture that's not long maintained. Andreas Kling (author of SerenityOS) can relate to this. https://awesomekling.github.io/Excellence-is-a-habit-but-so-...
Reminds me of a friend who's New Year's resolution over 20 years ago was to pick up smoking. He tried a few times but just couldn't manage to start the habit.
If I didn’t keep a bowl of fresh fruit and fancy teas in the house I’d be having some very uncomfortable conversations about diabetes with my doctor right about now.
Disclosure: Founded the project, still have a somewhat active role in package maintenance.

Updates/upgrades are a major area of focus and everyone I know who has tried it out was always impressed that they could just `apk upgrade`, reboot, and it'd all still be working fine.

That shouldn't be such a high bar, but there it is, and we manage to clear it.

Reliability is not just about updates. Reliability means shipping stable versions of packages, not betas or unmaintained patches/forks. Reliability means testing on physical hardware of different types, and virtual machines/hypervisors of different types, and seeing all packages working across all of them.

During beta4, me and two others sat at a desk with a PowerBook G4, Power Mac G5, Pentium 4, Core i5, and RPi4, and beat the living ** out of all available packages. We found seven bugs, four of which were reported upstream, the other three being packaging issues we fixed.

That's what reliability means to me.
use your lack of will power to your advantage

fill your fridge with healthy food, and force yourself to leave the house if you want junk food
The show was much better. At last season 1, which was a masterclass
Programming is, fundamentally, the imposition of a chosen order upon the world. You can easily distinguish somebody who's new to programming by the lack of choosing or the lack of effective order, and I think it quite fair to call them "not yet a programmer" while they're in that phase.

Sure, theoretically web devs can be programmers. But in practice, choice is overwhelmed by happenstance, and/or order does not follow from the choice that is made. And this isn't just on random websites (after all, 90% of everything is crap), but even for core tooling.
> Done properly this will not reveal your online behavior to the government any more than using your government issued ID card to enter a bar leaks your location to the issuing party.

This is incorrect, and a gross misunderstanding of how either network requests on the internet work, or crypto... likely both.

Are you really saying someone looking at an ID card is the same as my computer sending a request containing my ID to a government entity, and waiting for a response?
I believe that the 737NG is not the problem aircraft. The new engines and the problematic MCAS are on the 737 MAX, a different model.
I have one of these as well called Sepal: https://github.com/sepal-app/sepal

It's still in development but worth having a look if you're interested in server rendered web apps built with Clojure, htmx, AlpineJS, TailwindCSS, etc.
this is really neat. thanks for sharing. it looks a bit clunky but better than nothing.
And in the same spirit, Christianity is just a Jewish heresy. What's your point?
Google had enough 3rd party ad revenue before they bought DoubleClick (2008) to buy YouTube (2006).
Supporting - it’s the wheel. These patterns exist because they are self propagating and work well enough to reproduce faster than they get destroyed, unlike other less common patterns. Additionally, many of these behaviors involve deeply ingrained behaviors that have evolved during humanities entire existence. They may be subverted, redirected, controlled, confused, etc. but they aren’t just going to actually disappear.

I see no evidence that other potential options currently in play are as good or better at reproducing, so eventually, the ‘old’ patterns will win out. Albeit fit to the current context.

I suspect we’re in the equivalent of the pre-Victorian era right now. I suspect the current dynamics will trend towards harems of voluntarily ‘kept’ women (on the lower status side for the women) and ‘in charge’ women in the high status side with staffs of ‘kept’ men, and lots of sexless men/Johns, until it breaks and we rotate again.

Notably, these dynamics have occurred many, many, many times over human history.

The dynamic with Will Smith seems to be an example of the latter, for instance. Most male pro sports players, actors, and businessmen being the former.

Against - birth control is a major change in human reproductive ‘physics’ (similar to nuclear weapons in the ‘physics’ of war).

So maybe something else entirely will emerge. I currently don’t see any clear winners though on that front, not that we aren’t trying. I see a massive shift towards it, actually, as people ‘get what they want’ more effectively in the short term, allowing those able to play the long game better to prosper.

The societal backlash is building though, and in 20-30 years when the current generation of women no longer get the benefits they previously enjoyed (and/or their kids are old enough to vote), we’ll see it. If we aren’t already.

Counter-Against - while we haven’t had any new world wars since inventing the nuke, it’s not like shooting/bombing/invading has stopped, has it? It’s just switched to a different presentation of the same shit.

We are getting more efficient at maximizing the damage and speeding up the iterations though.
Even in dollar terms it actually did go down.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/mili...

Late 1989 was the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of communism in most of Eastern Europe and 1991 was the end of the Soviet Union itself. There’s a drop between 1990 and 1991, a slight increase in 1992 (replenishment after Desert Storm?) and then a gradual decline in nominal dollars throughout the 1990’s. Also remember that federal budgets were usually passed ahead of time; this was before the government normalized all the government shutdowns and other monkeyshines we have grown accustomed to today, so budget changes might be a year behind current events. Adjusting for inflation the drop in spending would be even more.

Spending does start to increase after 1998. I’m not exactly sure why, but a lot of things started happening in 1998 and 1999, ranging from Bin Laden’s attacks on American embassies, the Kosovo conflict, Saddam Hussein ejecting UN weapons inspectors from Iraq, the discovery of Chinese interference in the 1996 elections and China stealing nuclear secrets.

Also, at the end of the Cold War, there were a number of systems that were in the late stages of design and development that were either radically cut back or canceled outright. These included the F-22, B-2, and Seawolf class submarine, just to name a few big ticket items. This saved a lot of money and made sense at the time since these were all designed specifically for Cold War missions that no longer seemed relevant. But eventually the older hardware still needs to be replaced; instead of replacing the Los Angeles class submarines with the Seawolf class starting in the 90’s, you end up replacing them with the Virginia class starting in the 00’s.

Other cutbacks during the post-Cold War period included closing military bases (which was fraught with political difficulty; no congressman wants the base in his district to be closed!) and reducing the number of US forces permanently stationed in countries like Germany.

Dollars aren’t the only measure, either. One of Reagan’s goals was a 600 ship navy. It takes time to build ships so it wasn’t until 1987 that the US Navy reached a peak size of 594 ships. Currently the US Navy has 238 ships. Sometimes a higher defense budget means you’re building a larger military but sometimes it means health care has gotten more expensive or you need to buy more fuel and ammunition to support operations. This also explains the drop after Korea.
Haha I remember seeing that and thinking … hm, that … would probably be more successful than most of their PSAs.

https://www.theonion.com/new-anti-smoking-ads-warn-teens-its...
My mind always thinks facehuggers from Alien.
Chromium is optimized to perform as well as it can across every computer that's supported, I think. That includes real cheap netbooks as long as they can run a new enough operating system (currently, I think, Windows 10). Thorium is optimized to perform as well as it can on more modern CPUs with more supported instruction-set extensions, IIRC.
This research is the first one to link certain genes to human bisexual behavior and risktaking.

It is a breakthrough discovery, but might not properly explain the cause of all human bisexual behavior.

Also, psychological development is not linked to human bisexual behavior.
In 1999-2001 we used IE and VBSCRIPT and ActiveX. It meant other OSes and web browsers could not use our site. But management wanted a Microsoft solution.
Huh I never realized the 717 had no crashes either that’s even more impressive considering the era it was designed in tbh. The others on that list look like subtypes (ie the 747-8; there have been numerous 747 crashes).
> temporarily interlinking their legs to create a raft-like structure

Antellegence has much to teach us
That's great. Thank you!
Buying groceries when you’re feeling good, and changing your route through the store to groom yourself for success instead of failure, are common, effective bits of advice for weight loss and healthy eating. Most of the garbage really is in the middle of the store, and I imagine myself diving into deep water to grab ketchup, soup, flour. Get in, get out, no sightseeing.
I think this is the point. You are discrediting Philosophy, but that is where science and math came from. You don't go back and say "man Plato was such a waste, lets toss out western civilization".

The point is someone has to start somewhere, and frequently philosophy is the field that tackled open ended questions. Once the questions get 'solved', it gets spun off into another branch of science.

Philosophy is the startup of science, the leading edge. Once it become a 'common' ordinary science, it gets re-named, re-packaged as 'the accepted way'.

It is happening a lot right now, because so many STEM people building AI are suddenly arm-chair philosophers coming up with 'new' questions, that are really 'old'. So the whole field is re-discovering philosophy.
Same here. Official Mixtral & Mistral (the new v0.2) seem to have the best & most dependable output vs basically all their predecessors/derivatives of equal or smaller parameter sizes. Mixtral is on a whole other level with its baked-in 'chain of thought' reasoning.

The fine tunes (e.g. dolphin-mixtral, dolphin2.2-mistral, etc) may be good at coding or whatever else they specialize in, but they seem to sacrifice in other areas that result in 'hallucinating' where Mixtral/Mistral wouldn't - perhaps as a result of 'score chasing' on benchmarks like has been mentioned already.

Depends on your own specific needs & use cases whether this is important or not.
Environment change takes willpower, but is a force multiplier.
That doesn’t say anything about whether it’s a good example: even if it’s true, the real question would be whether they looked for the right things and especially who they kept at the management level – at the time, Google announced they were laying off a quarter of the employees due to redundancy, which tends to mean that groups like HR and accounting get hammered more than senior managers. This is especially important to get right when you consider that the most damaging people aren’t comic book villains but rather people who sound like they know what they’re talking about and are charismatic – exactly the sort of people who would make it through an interview process.
Are there other distros with first class support for 32-bit powerpc? That's the (biggest current) driver for my interest in it
Out of 1 million standard LAMP stack machines, how many will randomly fail?
This is some kind of vertical dis–integration. They literally sold their factories and tools to their contractors because owning land and buildings and machinery was dragging down their metrics! (Specifically assets to earnings or something along those lines.)

But regardless of that, breaking up a large company because it has some problem doesn’t fix the problem. It just makes all the smaller companies you created easier to purchase. Just look at AT&T. NorTel bought every single one of the baby bells within a decade of their creation, resulting in just as much of a monopoly except now in a foreign corporation.
> I think the author is right on just about everything.

The author is very wrong on the systemd-resolved bit.

Not understanding the ability to have per-interface specific zones is ok; it is a thing for desktops with multiple interfaces that come and go (like VPNs, for example). There is no other resolver on Linux capable of doing it and integrating with NetworkManager. You can kinda-sorta make dnsmasq do it, but with some limitations.

But the crown is taken by the "mDNS is better taken care of by a dedicated package like Avahi." Uh, oh. It is like saying, that you don't need Chrome, it's duties are better taken care by nginx. Similarly, you can use Avahi for _advertising_ mDNS services, but not for _resolving_. Which, as an user, you probably are interested in.
Somewhere, the NFL is quickly checking its shoes...
If your automatic firewall is too hard, there are ways to bypass it and eventually punch a hole. E.g. instead of “I’m much better without it” (obviously wrong, you’re suffering) you can carry the thought “I like to think that I’ll become happier without it”. There’s no obvious contradiction, so it can incorporate and create a tunnel where there was a thick wall. Learned that from my therapist.
This is a bit confusing, as one of the special/unique properties of Graphene is that it doesn't have a bandgap.

If we're talking about core semiconductor applications, other 2D materials which have much larger bandgaps than the 0.6 eV reported in the paper, are much more favorable (specifically from TMD sub family, MoS2 for NMOS and WS2/WSe2 for PMOS).

This has been needlessly hyped, like this video...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWUX2OTqkEo&ab_channel=Georg...

Graphene is better off for twisted bilayer superconductors, but this is much further down the road: https://crommie.berkeley.edu/research/tlbg/
Two psychological mechanisms I can think of for this:

It's one of the reasons why every company in the world wants you on auto pay. It's a lot easier to keep you as a customer through the price hikes if it's only a line item on your bank statement rather than an explicit payment you're making every month. If most people are the same every year, then a small increase from one year to the next barely gets noticed because people are going to be looking for changes to their records, not changes on the bottom line, so the fact that the bottom line is 0.5% more this year will be more likely missed in the face of answering "are the records the IRS claims they have about me the right ones".

The other is related to the concept of "price anchoring". Approving pre-filled numbers becomes more about validating that your information is correct, rather than determining (and looking at) the tax value for the year. It pre-assumes the amount owed is correct (in both the calculated and the policy sense) and sets the expectation that you probably owe whatever the pre-calculated amount is.

Whether it actually plays out in reality and tax payer behavior is up for debate. but certainly there's a reason why so much of sales and financing tactics throughout commercial world tries very very hard to steer you away from the actual math when you pay for something.
The control stick on the airbus is pretty bad, the fact that neither pilot knows what inputs the other is giving makes them far inferior to the system in boeing aircraft, even with warnings.
Your argument seems to be "just write good code instead of bad code". My argument is "the best way for good code to exist is to enable and support multiple options". Because if you have only one option and it's bad then you're screwed with no recourse. C++ and Python have, imho, many horrible API designs and we're stuck with them forever. This is stagnation.

Rust has a good standard library and also a large community of libraries. Sometimes those community libraries get promoted to std because they're strictly better. Sometimes the std version of hashmap is slow because std insists on using a crytographically secure hash when 99.99% of use cases would be better served with a less secure but faster hashing algorithm.

Like many things in life the ideal scenario is a benevolent dictator that only makes good choices. In practice the best way to get something good is to allow for multiple choices.

<insert parable of pottery class graded on quality vs quantity>
Reddit has a fantastic sub known as LinkedInLunatics[1]. I highly recommend checking it out. A frequent topic of conversation are the posts from females that are just veiled advertisements for sexual services.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics
You like saying "goddamn" a lot. That doesn't make you right, consarnit.
One of my friends who's a marathon runner told me once something rather powerful.

We have all these ways of losing weight: you can poop it, sweat it, band it off, run it off, lift it off, swim it off, dance it off, on and on. And yet there is only one way to put it on (pointed to his mouth) with these things (showed his hands)

Made me think for a while and he made an impact on me. We control our hands. We control what goes in our mouth.

I don't mean to be insensitive to people who have real weight issues, I'm talking for the majority of people. We over eat by choice and blame everything else.
That doesn't work at all. Ordering junk food is a few lazy taps on your phone whereas eating the healthy food requires forcing yourself to cook and prepare it as well as washing dishes afterwards
Yeah, I think the effective purpose of shape tables was to waste the time of the zillions of kids who thought they could write a game that way. Although I did make myself a crappy Rally X clone (although my 'inspiration' was Super Off Road) using shape tables for the (two) cars and that mostly worked. For a pile of tiles it would be hopeless though.
Very nice! Such a good resource you’ve created. Apologies if I’m just being blind but is there a way to search/filter the designs?
I quit smoking by delaying my first smoke in the day as long as I could. There was no "end date". Just me lasting as long as I could.

Someday, it's a smoke right in the morning day. Shit happens and I wouldn't feel bad for smoking when I needed it.

But after a couple of months, I started getting later and later in the day.

Rolling my own and buying the worst tobacco in the world helped to. Have as much as you like! But it's shit.

Of course if I buy delicious smokes i was not going to quit! But a all you can smoke buffet of the worst smokes? Yeah I'll pass.

They were so bad people didn't want to bum smokes from me. 50 cents a pack back in the day, help yourselves!
Shame is a spectrum. I don’t think he should flagellate himself until the end of time. I think that they should be a little bit embarrassed that they haven’t published what they believed the risk of the everything package was.

Upon rereading the article I can see that the word “unintended” is actually not Patrick’s but the author of the recap’s word.

Beyond that you seem to be ascribing benign intent. Reading it from the horses mouth [1] it doesn’t seems like they had any intent other than trying to find out if it could be done. In a world of worse is better creating the largest possible area of effect for your experiment seems to be a pretty easy way to amp up the consequences of your actions regardless of the risk.

[1] https://uncenter.dev/posts/npm-install-everything/
Airbus? The death penalty would apply to them too, presumably.
True, but 99.5% of Americans don't get RSUs. There are other cases like business expenses and unusual deductions, but again most people don't have those. So the IRS can probably only calculate taxes for 80% of Americans. (I'm guessing, not an expert)
Good thing I didn’t read such a bullshit defeatist conclusion before I dropped 40 lbs 7 years ago (adopted sane diet, never gained it back) and dug myself out of a deep hole of alcohol dependence.

haven’t beaten the habit of falling for engagement baiting headlines though i suppose

do not let yourself believe you are weak or a victim
Never had a paper rejected for lack of reproducibility though. And as long as I am working for the PhD and not the long term career, it's still better to focus on the short term. I don't like it, but I feel that's where I ended up :(
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