skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m saying that if luck has anything to do with your success or failure, then it’s all based on luck, and nothing to do with what opportunities you create.

Your statement excessively (because it’s non-predictively useless) reductionist.

Yep, it’s absolute luck that that particular sperm and ovum happened to combine, that the pregnancy successfully proceeded, that you were born in a country not at war (I’m guessing), that that car didn’t run off the road and squash you when you were eight, etc. But acknowledging all that doesn’t provide any guidance.

My “woo woo” statement was literally the case: yes some incredible opportunity could sweep by and be missed because you happened to be looking the other way. And that will definitely happen — tant pis. But if you are willing to consider lucky opportunities when you are looking the other way your odds will improve.
Pharmacological solution to a social problem.
You mentioned neuroplasticity, so here goes...

I would say meditate on possessing situational awareness super-powers that kick in to override impulsivity. When it comes to lane changes, merges, blending in, and coping with the unexpected, you need the capacity to take in a lot of situational information and fluidly integrate it into a set of actions in a way that becomes part of your muscle memory behind the wheel.

For example, not to be simplistic or patronizing, but if a dog jumps out at you, evade it, don't waste any time on the thought that a dog has jumped out at you.
They’re not victims.
I'm surprised no one has pointed the obvious, which is using chatGPT as a coding buddy. I've done pair programming with developers who were much more capable than I was, so can compare the experience, and I have to say - it works just as well.
The solutions it offers are not infallible; when it comes to pair programming, that's a feature not a bug. Often times the solution will emerge only through the back and forth. But it does a tremendous job of helping locate local bugs, introduce functionalities you may not be familiar with etc. etc.
After over a decade of Python as my language of choice, I have stopped developing new projects with it, directly as a result of its instability through releases. Bit rot is a thing, and Python routinely causes more than seems reasonable.
*python3.13
I had stopped believing in fate, too—until I learned that (popular astrology app) Co-Star makes heavy use of Haskell[1]. So since they got my horoscope to compile, it’s probably correct.

[1]: https://www.costarastrology.com/why-haskell
Rage is all the rage these days, and following the PEP link he provided, the explanation is outrageous:

"The algorithms are mostly old, of poor quality and insecure. Users are discouraged from using them."

Why is this post being upvoted?
The entire propaganda apparatus and the entire political class has been drumming up war with china for nearly a decade. So yes. There is a geniune concern. But it's not an immediate fear of war but a looming sense that there will be a war with china sometime in the future.

Take this article. It really has nothing to do with war or even china. But propagandists or people influenced by propaganda always insert that narrative. Try it with anything remotely china related. Someone or some bot or something always inserts a war narrative or anti-china narrative in it. It's clearly intentional and not organic. There is a coordinated effort to fearmonger war with china.

Edit: Interesting. Downvote brigaded. Wonder if it was this comment or the comment about ukraine...
In this thread: People don't read the PEP and make knee-jerk assumptions.

In the PEP (https://peps.python.org/pep-0594/#crypt) it points out that this module didn't work on Windows at all and didn't provide any useful real-world functionality on Linux, BSD or macOS.

The use case mentioned in this blog (SHA512 password hashing) is considered a bad practice because unlike bcrypt, SHA512 is fast for an attacker to execute to check if a credential guess matches a hash.
If one supposes that what people say is, 90% of the time, them exporting their mental state, and that most people spend most of the time they are talking trying to convince themselves and others of something they think they should believe, but don’t really - things start to make more sense.

Especially if you consider how much of what is being said is projection. Every accusation is a confession, etc.

Especially if the things people really want to believe but struggle to are protective delusions.

Incels attack women because their rational mind is attempting to cope with a truth it can’t handle - they are afraid of what they would need to know and be to be in a relationship with a woman, and who they have been. And they project their own issues onto them in many cases. It’s a fear of failure, rejection, etc.

Similar with female incels. Which do very much exist.

And most of what you hear women say they want, is them trying to convince themselves that is what they want. Not what they actually want. And attempting to project their fears and failures onto others so the other party is the one to blame.

Same with incels.

If you look at actions and situations, not words, it’s a lot more obvious.

Which is why so many people go to such lengths to hide those too, to stop the cognitive dissonance and/or societal rejection from people who figure it out instead of going along with the delusion.

The widespread use of social media and the internet has made it easier to sustain these kinds of bubbles, obviously.
> A perfect storm of wide spread free information and dating apps [...]

Possibly true, but at the very least you are missing a key ingredient in the loosening of sexual mores over the past 60 years. A world with today's technology but the sexual conventions of the 1950's might apply those efficiencies towards the creation of happy marriages, rather than the creation of... whatever we call the webs that we have today.
The language really gets me. Maybe (happily) I've been out of corporate America for too long to get it...

"...part ways with you..." --> "We've decided to fire you."

"...Rosie might be better to explain the process of who's giving this information..." --> "Rosie can talk about why it's us vs. your manager."

"...this is a collective calibration for Cloudflare..." --> what the fuck?

"...if you can respect that. We can totally respect that..." --> at a loss

"...meet the expectations that you're communicating to us..." --> "...tell you what you want to know..."

"...give you the data that was calibrated..." --> ...how do you calibrate data? FFS.

"...extremely traumatizing for people..." --> ha ha ha...goddamn snowflake. You're getting fired, it's not fun, but it's not like watching your buddies get blown up in front of you and waking up in bed screaming for the next forty years.

"...I cannot speak to what your manager has communicated to you directly..." --> "I don't know what your manager said"

"...I hear you and what you're saying..." --> "I understand"

"...from a process perspective, your questions are valid but this isn't going to be the forum and situation where..." --> "We aren't going to have that conversation with you now"

"...I don't think there's anything we can say in this moment and today..." --> "Sorry"

In particular, what's up with the duplication? "this moment & today", etc.? I hear it from people with a low bureaucratic position a lot. Think firefighter making an announcement, HR drone, etc.
If you can get a pal w a car to get you to a suburb that might help. There will be a learning curve before and after you pass your test. Driving here in NYC is a big challenge, navigating narrow spaces, double parked car and trucks. One thing I learned belatedly on a reddit thread, we always merge at close to the end as we can, at bridges & tunnels. Parallel parking practice will be a big hurdle, try and find a quiet street and practice it. That takes some effort to get comfortable with. The spend 15-20% checking your mirrors advice is essential here. Parking signs go top down most serious to less serious, they are all serious. Red signs including commercial parking are towaway. The question you always have to answer is when is the next time I will have to move my car? You can stand at a hydrant but you have to be ready to move within 20-30 seconds, so only to pick up or drop someone off or to wait for someone.
Isn't lisp a list language? Isn't easy to index but gives similar functionality
Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to blame employees as a scapegoat
The one where you actually have meaningful and personal conversations with your partner and family in the kitchen. You know, like a human.

Also a lot of people rent studios and one bedrooms or otherwise have open floor plans.
Depends what you consider "old", but the 757 is from the same era as the A320.
I think this is a good decision -- crypto is not a standard library thing and including it in the first place was a mistake. I assume someone will take the liberty of mirroring the crypt library onto pypi and everyone can just install that if they're worried about their code breaking. In my experience upgrading python versions always has some friction so I don't think that's a big ask.
From personal experience from vaping: it used to elevate my resting heart rate about 8 to 12bpm throughout the day.

That can't be good.
Cate believe success is all about luck. She said it herself.

https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/things-you-learn-dating-c...
As Twitter/X rivals explode, news aggregator SmartNews struggles to retain users
I really feel like my childhood education did me a disservice by fostering the misconception that there was something special or unique about Nazis - there wasn’t. Not only are there potential nazis everywhere, there are fractional and even full-blown-but-less-institutionally-powerful nazis everywhere. In our own country, in our communities, at work, on the bus, in the government.

Wannabe camp guards indeed. It was a sickening and sobering realization as an adult.
Now that’s an interesting idea!
It's a very serious issue. All these global rich, Elites and WEF Gang, Politicians should sell all their private jets, SUV's, Expensive yatchs and all the other gas power vehicles and they should start using bicycles.
The same could be said of coffee
Don't you have an identical site with Taco Bell prices?
Sadly, without a strong impetus to strive upward, there won’t be any high achievers to mooch off of or blame when things go wrong.

Everyone gets a steady stream of good luck and bad luck. Consistently sailing upstream towards success takes a lot of grit and determination, something completely lacking in the minds of those who think they’re at the mercy of their circumstances.
My gut says “fundamental thinking errors” is a Britishism without the connotations you’re inferring. I often find odd or blunt turn of phrase not out of place in the context of British media.
Incelism is one of the causes of terrorism. We do see mass shootings in the US attributed to it. Granted, not all incels.
Women use dating apps to find casual sex, so obviously they go for looks. For real, long-term relationship they typically chose someone among their friends.
What? Germany did not have a Atomic bomb by the end of WW2. Where the hell are you getting your information?
Future Linux support is already confirmed so don't worry!
And it’s not even about women. This just applies to anyone looking for a romantic partner.

Who doesn’t want all of those traits? They’re the whole package. People have standards, and it seems so-called incels aren’t comfortable with that.
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I used Appium (selenium based app automation) to screen scrape the McDonald's app on an android phone. It was painful and got blocked once it went viral.

Couldn't figure out the security/certificate pinning in their internal API so just went with what worked.

I'll update it soon and try again at cracking the API security.
What do you think capitalism is? Define it, and I think you'll see our foundational doctrine is designed to enshrine and protect the ideas of capitalism.

Much more talented and studied folks than I have explored this in depth, which you can find if you google capitalism and it's entanglement with the foundation of the USA.
Back in 2006, this is how I did the 'observations' for my astronomy 1 homework.
You got flagged bc you’re a jerk about it. For what it’s worth. If you come to disagree and have a civil discussion that’s typically fine. But your posts are condescending and needlessly inflammatory.
Why would you want to pay too much for moose? Go to a place with reasonable moose pricing.
I think it's important to do this kind of research. I know a lot of people mash on the soft sciences, and many of the objections are valid. Here are some points in its defense.

1. Common Sense is often wrong. Having empirical evidence tests common sense and can strength or weaken individual conclusions of common sense.

2. It provides a strong voice against the misconception. This can be useful in fighting the misconception.

3. It can put quantities to trends we are seeing.

4. It's pretty cheap as far as scientific research goes. The fundamental action is often filling out a paper survey, or at the most expensive having graduate students interview subjects and writing about it.
What exactly are you trying to say here?
The pro version is a bit pricey, for an open source app and for something most people will only use on occasion. Also an app like this doesn't do much so I wonder why limit it by locking-away some features.
IEEE 16-bit float is supported on the M1 and is generally all you need for AI inference.
Reference to the flaws?

Decades ago, I worked for a dating website - and it lined up with the reality in the ground based on what I saw, except the study actually seemed to be softpedaling the actual data.

And I saw the constants used to fudge the public numbers at the site I worked at, so dudes weren’t so depressed they ran away.

Something like FEMALE_COUNT_MULTIPLIER = 9 if I remember correctly.
How common is this trope anymore, though? I feel like it's been passe for at least 10 years, and maybe longer.
Bash and Perl?
In my area there's two Subways essentially next door, one inside a Walmart in a strip mall and the other in the food court of a healthy indoor mall. A footlong rotisserie chicken sub is $14 in the mall and $10 in the Walmart.
Haven't fully digged into it, but firstly, the executable is tiny, source code seems sane, performance for average sized projects appears to be better than existing solutions, and also some interesting features such as viewing texture/image buffers within the debugger
It's fair to be skeptical of the article, and also fair to simultaneously look at the wattage output by a single cell and to do some math to determine it's possible to generate power.

It is maybe too bulky. It is maybe too lower power. But my comment was not incorrect, just as your skepticism is not incorrect.
Or journalists are the most threatened by the technology in the short term, so they raise alarm using attention grabbers.
In the Year of our Lord 2024 we still refer to Python3 as Python3. /meme
There are no secrets, learning to interact with others is a skill like any other. Some people have more innate talent, some people get better with time, and some people have disabilities that make interacting with others difficult.

Self victimization and blaming of others for a lack of skill in an area of life is problematic. Most incels have a problem with themselves that they begin to externalize in a toxic way. The internet has just provided an easy avenue for groupthink and sharing that toxicity. “Slut shaming” shamed people who were often comfortable with their lifestyle and choices, usually by people who were similarly toxic and uncomfortable with their own bodies and/or sexuality.
> You can’t control the outcome of the coin flip,

That’s my point. That’s my only point. The outcome is still always every time going to depend on luck. Because you can flip that coin 100 times and it could land on heads every time when you wanted tails. Is it unlikely? Yes, is it impossible? No.
Weird, I always wear a watch and always use it to tell real time. I also often wear my casio calculator watches, and use them to do calculations too.
Generative AI are trained on "stolen property" the same way as human artists are trained on "stolen prolerty". Both study previous masters, learn to copy their styles, "inspire" their own art from some combination of existing styles.
Precise geolocation is used to pick the nearest McDonald's. You need precise in urban areas where there might be multiple locations only a few blocks away.

I don't know why you would have given it always-on (background) location permission. iPhones don't ever grant that by default, you always have to opt in. Nor does the app require it -- when it asks the first time you run the app, just pick "only while using the app". Or turn it off in Location settings if you picked the wrong setting initially.
> People don't read the PEP and make knee-jerk assumptions.

They just came over from the Java string interpolation thread, because after not reading the JEP they weren‘t sure how to spend the rest of the evening and thought „I know! Now I will not read the PEP.“ /s
Also, there was Duncan Idaho's hairdo in that game :chef's_kiss:
Drug them into submission
Nothing I've bought on Instagram has ever brought me joy
I do - taconomical.com
What alternative(s) are you using instead?
Not OP, but I'll give my answer. The unification of different media types in iTunes is a feature, not a bug. (I clung to Retroactive as long as I could; I forget what made me cry uncle.) For actual music, Music.app has been okay, bugs notwithstanding. (I don't use Apple Music, only my local library.)

But the other apps simply aren't as full-featured as iTunes; they align more with Apple's interests as an appliance maker and content vendor (original iTunes preceded the iTunes Store by several years). TV.app preserves some power-user features, like Smart Playlists, while stripping out basics like "Show In Finder". But the one that really grinds my gears is the way audiobooks have been shoe-horned into Books.app, with any semblance of user sovereignty removed.

Example: few years ago, I was planning a road trip, and wanted to quickly filter down a shortlist of audiobooks: "Unread, Genre: Science Fiction, Length < 12 hrs". Not only does the UI offer no affordances for that: it doesn't even display audiobook length, let alone allow sorting by it! I had to dig to find where the files are stored (in `~/Library/Containers`, with gibberish file names), then write a Bash script to `ffprobe` the files and parse the results. When audiobooks were managed by iTunes, this would have been trivial.
Women who aren't reliable have no problems getting guys, so no it isn't the same for both sides.

> Who doesn’t want all of those traits?

Sure, but we are talking about preferences, men prioritizes other traits even though they of course would like to have the perfect woman.
Yes but self confidence works against all this when it doesn’t come with awareness and humility around what you don’t know. You need self skepticism about opinions and new knowledge but confidence around ability to perform actions.
I'd assume people producing spam at massive scale can afford paying for API where moderation is optional. GPT 3.5 Turbo is dirt cheap and is trivial to jailbreak. (Last time I checked. I'm using GPT-4 models exclusively myself.)
If I ever win the lottery, I'm opening Waffle Houses across the street from as many Tim Horton's as I can.
I agree with the sentiment, but would this achieve anything?
One big coal power plant likely generates more emissions than they do.
These techniques are still used today by propaganda outlets.
It is sad that Orwell reads not as fiction, but as reality.

And the best one i read a couple of days ago: CIA sponsored the movie 1984. The same CIA which employs methods like the ones in the book and in the film.
Thank you thats super kind!
The moral panic around snus is ridiculous and causes great harm. The EU has a snus ban that has little scientific basis while Sweden with an exception has the lowest lung cancer rate of Europe.
As someone who's been addicted to tobacco, there is no way I'm putting coffee in the same league
Harmony – A new kind of color picker
So what will happen then?
>> I prefer their Quarter Pounder with Cheese

Do you mean the "Royale with Cheese"? :)
Interesting. Do you know about reports, maps, details,...
> But seriously

You had me going for moment with your first sentence. Also, it seems that the role of "editor" is becoming a lost art. As the saying goes, why do I need an editor if eye halve the spelling check her that came with my pea sea?
I live in Monterrey, Mexico, 3 to 4 hours from the US border with Texas. There are people who offer Whataburger delivery services.

They will collect orders throughout the week and on the weekend drive to Texas and pick up the burgers. I think they have a deal with a local whataburger because they pick the burgers disassembled.

The heat and reassemble them here in Monterrey. No fries, though.

They sell for 3x, I believe.
Sustained motivation is just a matter of degree of want. If you want something enough you will do it.

At least that's my premise.
They're fairly well known in europe after the MAX debacle, I don't know how it is stateside though.
> There are a lot of strange attitudes elsewhere in this comment section, ones that I don’t recognize from good senior engineers.

Whole lot of misinformation and red herrings on the internet these days, intended to lead the unwary astray
I agree, for example the Grumman LLV

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_LLV
Every Friday we pick a paper for our Paper Club and discuss it, here's the recap of yesterday's session on Mixtral 8x7B if anyone is interested!

https://blog.oxen.ai/arxiv-dives-mixture-of-experts-moe-with...
You don't want friction on the default path to be too low because that would inevitably increase the occurrence of default path where it must not be used, e.g. cause sql injections.

Much easier to accidentally write something that boils down to

"\{bobby}"

where it should have been

SQL."\{bobby}"

than

STR."\{bobby}"

instead of

SQL."\{bobby}"

(i admit that this argument would work better if STR was typographically more different from the name you'd inevitably use for an SQL statement processor)
I think cuz you can only have 5 and you get a limited say in how you label them ("hire", "start up with", "work for" etc) it makes you reflect and be more considerate in your choices.
Or that dating apps are a terrible way for people to go about dating.
You might also be surprised that 82% are franchises.
I’m saying you don’t even understand what Cate is talking about because even Cate agrees with me:

https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/things-you-learn-dating-c...

“ Cate views her own life through a frame of responsibility: she takes responsibility for what happens to her. At the same time, she is genuinely not proud, and genuinely doesn’t think she’s better than anyone else. She credits luck for her good fortune and unusual attributes more than anything else, and is compassionate and curious toward everyone we meet. This is, I think, what sticks with me most.”
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Elliot Rodger had serious psychological issues besides incelism (and was a handsome kid, might not have been an incel but for those psychological issues). His manifesto had numerous passages about how frustrated he was that everyone (not just girls) didn't bow down and worship him like the god he thought he was. Certainly narcissistic to a profound degree, and possibly a sociopath. No wonder girls didn't like him.