skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
High school / College years:

I had lots of free time that I spent on playing games alone at home. I should have spent more time on social activities or a part time job within technology

Career:

My first job at a smaller company was so interesting that I worked there for too long (almost 10 years). That set my career back significantly and I don't have a significant network within the industry. It did not help that my second job was for a company that lacked the opportunity for me to advance as an IC.

If I could go back, I would definitely spend more time on social activities and change jobs more often to build more professional relations. The lack of a non-technical founder is one of the reasons why I haven't started my own company yet.
That's kind of my point. Dating apps are A) how the majority of people meet these days and B) are explicitly geared towards making people filter partners by attractiveness above all other qualities.

Ergo I think A) incels are partly or mostly a creation of the way swipe based dating apps has changed mate selection behavior and B) efforts by psychologists to emphasize that looks don't matter to women as much as incels think they do based upon surveys are badly missing the point.
Actually, I'm coming from a gentler point of view: "Nature and living things are much more complex than we anticipate".

There are many breakthroughs and realizations in science which excite me more than "this thing called AI": Bacteria have generational memory. Bees have a sense of time. Mitochondria (and cells) inside a human body communicate and try to regulate aging and call for repairs. Ants have evolved antibiotics, and expel the ones with incurable and spreadable diseases. Bees and ants have social norms, they have languages. Plants show more complex behavior than we anticipated. I'm not entering the primates' & birds' region because only the titles will be a short chapter.

While some of them might be very simple mechanisms on chemical level, they make a much more complex system, and the nature we live in is much sophisticated than we know, or want to acknowledge.

I'm not looking from "Humans are superior" perspective. Instead, I'm looking from "our understanding of everything is too shallow" perspective. Instead of trying to understand or acknowledge that we're living in a much more complex system on a speck of dust in vast emptiness, we connect a bunch of silicon chips, dump everything we babbled to a "simulated neural network", and it gives us semi-nonsensical, grammatically correct half-truths.

That thing can do it because it randomly puts a word after word after a very complex and weighted randomization learned from how we do it, but imitating it blindly, and we think that we understood and unlocked what intelligence is. Then we applaud ourselves because we're one step closer to strip a living thing from its authenticity and making Ghost in the Shell a reality.

Living things form themselves over a long life with sight, hearing, communication, interaction and emotions, at least, and we assume that a couple of millions lines of code can do much better because we poured a quadruple distilled, three times diluted version of what we have gone through.

This is pure hubris if you ask me, if there's one.
Hah! Actually, they have kind of done this with Apple Arcade, and charge you a $10 subscription for the service
> It's easily into the 'diminishing returns' category in terms of lifestyle.

It is, but a burger and fries and Five Guys cost me $20 yesterday, and that isn't exactly living it up.

The nice pizza places around me charge nearly $30 for a Pizza.

tl;dr shit is expensive and it is really easy to get excited with an Uber order and realize dinner from an Indian takeout place is going to cost $120. (I've pretty much give up on Uber and I just go pick up the food now, saves a good $20-$30, and some restaurants give sizable discounts for NOT ordering through a food delivery app!)
> First, please clarify whether you are asking about performance impacts vs. no bounds checking or vs. bounds checking in software

I was wondering if it would be feasible to have hardware checks with practically no speed difference to performing no check at all.

Yes I imagined it could be seen as RISC vs CISC, but it's such a fundamental and frequent operation that it seems likely it would help overall..!

Of course you'd need to use registers; which yes means higher cost (unless you already have some for sure never in use at bound-checking times), but there seems to be a good chance it would be worthwhile..?

I imagine that the impact of simply reading the additional instructions would be negligible, by the way
Right, so you'd use the app store by choice, so why should Apple force you to?
Well, we disagree over the usage of 'special interests', and as you say, it's difficult to gather objective data to support or refute either view. It's obviously a vague phrase that could be (and occasionally has been) used to dogwhistle many things, but that doesn't mean that a sentence attacking "special interests" is inherently as offensive as a sentence attacking a specific ethnic or religious group. That is the only point I'm making here, which I suspect you don't even disagree with. Even in the case of a dogwhistle, the whole point of a dogwhistle is that it is less immediately and unambiguously offensive than a straightforward statement of a prejudiced viewpoint.

By the way I'm not 'caught up' on 'Jews'. It's just that 'Jews' is one of the words that the authors of the hoax article replaced.
A crisis of one's own: The politics of trauma in Europe's election year
If the routing is done with an internal database (rather than some roads-only API) it might be straightforward to use the railway lines from Open Street Map [1]. Or even the public transport routes recorded in OSM [2].

[1] https://openrailwaymap.org/

[2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/#layers=O
For anyone in central Scotland, come and check out the Scottish Model Engineering Trust - https://smet.org.uk . We've got everything from N gauge to 7 1/4 inch. I haven't been a member for long yet (a few years), but I am constantly impressed with what the folks there can build.
We don’t, but in the game of political Play Your Cards Right, it’s way more probable the next lot have higher standards than the current administration.
This isn't about rights. You already have all the rights you need here.

You would like others to work for nothing, or for what you care to give them, instead of the price they offer their services at, and you'd like to vote, fight and protest until they work for your price.
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Jesus wept.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=thunderbong

How did this make it to the front page?
Technically it's easy. The complexity is all with laws and commercial interests.

There are hundreds of thousands of residential batteries in the UK already, and ~0 of them currently can be called on for demand frequency response. That's because 'demand response' is not something you can typically be credited for on your electricity bill. The closest you get is you might have a half-hourly varying pricing scheme encouraging you to discharge your battery when prices are low. The only UK supplier to do that so far (octopus) still uses day-ahead prices though - so you aren't reacting to market conditions, but instead predicted market conditions 24 hours ahead.

I think the fix for the uk is for the regulator to step in and switch half hourly pricing for second by second pricing. Get rid of 'frequency services' (unnecessary with second by second pricing). Then make most/all users of the grid pay those second by second prices (no more 'fixed X per kwh' contracts).

All electricity contracts should be pay-in-advance, and meters should have an option to cap spend per hour/day.
When I was a kid I used to take a bus from East to West coast of Italy in Summer. Despite my best efforts to calculate the side with minimum sun exposure, I always ended up on the sunny side. This also happened when doing the opposite of my predictions. An app like this would have helped me a lot, but it would be nice to have the possibility customize the route.
My assumption would be: People here are of the curious kind. The kind that likes to learn, likes to know when they are wrong, likes to put themselves into other perspectives, figure things out etc.

The typical incel is the antithesis to that. Their misery is always someone elses fault, they don't take the perspective of the other side, they over-analyze, but always the others, never themselves.

The HN crowd dislikes that, because this is the worst pitfall somewhat intelligent people can fall in: misleading yourself with clever theories because it feels better than admiting fault. And we all know that pitfall and hate it when we eventually realize we did this to ourselves. The typical behaviour connected to incels is the embodiment of this fault. Being self-critical is hard, but it also benefits you in the long run.

And on the gender disparity: women tend to do this less (or at least without the public-facing self-pity) and most importantly don't tend to not kill people because of it.

Don't get me wrong, I wish every Incel the best. But at least to me this is a case of "I can't help you before you get serious about helping yourself" and that involves searching for your own faults, being self-critical and self-aware. The problem isn't that incels are not shown the door, the problem is they won't walk through it — and they can only walk through it themselves.
"Despot rulers with the willingness and ability to pre-pay for 18+ years of care, feeding, education, etc. for an uncertain long-term outcome: Very unlikely."

Authoritarian countries actually understand the problem and spend a lot of money on indoctrination of youth. See: Hitlerjugend. Baldur von Schirach, the leader of HJ, was one of the most important people in the Nazi hierarchy and later served 20 years in Spandau prison. No one expects 100 per cent results, but if you instill certain bigotry and obedience in a large subset of said kids, it is usually enough for the regime to thrive.

In the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, where I grew up, it was somewhat complicated to avoid all the Communist youth organizations, and your non-membership would handicap you during university admissions etc. (Possibly to the degree of never being able to study at all.)

I think that, on balance, it would still be advantageous for authoritarian countries to produce kids in vitro and just assign them forcibly to parents. It has proven extraordinarily complicated to push people to procreate, but once the child is born in some lab and you are simply given no choice but to take care of it under threat of punishment, it is a different story. This kind of coercion is closer to the usual standard.

China especially has a huge demographic problem and this would be an attractive solution for Xi et al.
You have no fellowship or sympathy with misogynists because you haven't seen them as human beings.

Yes, it's horrible to hate women, but this isn't some random things people decided to just one day do. There's a history behind it.
> meet people in the real

This! In my experience, doing this helps against other phobias (xenophobia, homophobia etc.) as well...
you're right. it puts the new tickets at the top but since there is no animation I assumed its at the bottom. add a slight animation to it so that people don't get confused like me
MongoDB Cloud Degraded Performance
If anyone is experiencing the same
Have you tried Tachimanga? It’s pretty much Tachiyomi for iOS, and it’s in the appstore
Yes, once. And then they would tell you to leave it alone, and not think about it, at all, for 30 years.
I used to think like that but I changed my mind.

I don't say UEFI is no over complicated, over engineered mess but I worked on embedded systems for a while and I'd say it's no sunshine there either. Booting a modern OS on modern hardware involves a lot of essential complexity you cannot get away from.
Do you want to ask something in particular or is this just a long and annoying questionnaire? :)
> This may be the funniest and saddest thing I've read all year.

‘Funniest thing in a fortnight’ sounds less impressive.

You’re comment is actually funny, the OPs just makes one sad and frustrated.
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Nynorsk is, according to TFA, predominantly used in speech and less used in writing, while Bokmål is the opposite. (Minus region specifics.) Is that not correct?

My impression, only based on this article, is that Nynorsk and Bokmål are both spoken as well as written, just more or less so depending on context and region. Just as English is both a written and a spoken language, and Cantonese is both a written and a spoken language.
Its hard when a utopia dies. Due to a walkout of citizens in reality - and the model society you envisioned implodes, while external forces on which you projected the utopia and who are actually just dystopian empires use the resulting weakness to spread.

Imagine a architect, kicking a machine that will not fly. Add colorful curses.

The last time this happened, was when the people of the sovjiet union rebelled. And the western left leaning intelligentsia has held a grudge against the whole of eastern europe ever since. Chomsky comes to mind.
Where the DNS server lives is a detail. What is a "root DNS"?
When I was between 15 to 20 I felt like I was left out. Then I found websites that helped me change and become a more attractive person. It was super confusing and it took 4 years to change (around 21 the transformation was done). The first 2.5 years were thousands of rejections from women. It seemed that no one wanted me, but my options were "die loveless/without romance at the end of your life" or "keep trying". At some point I started to learn how to weave the most core parts of my personality into something that women appreciated (imaginative playfulness). After that I was fine and this whole thing never became an issue again.

But I'm scared to think what would've happened if I would never have found those websites. I'm scared to think what would've happened if I gave up after 2 years of constant rejection (and I've seen this as a close friend quit, and now we're 14 years further along and he still has dating issues - he's finally fixing them). I'm scared to think if the advice would never land.

In any of these 3 stages, I think incels are coming into existence. And I know how I'd feel, because I remember how I felt when I was 16. I'd feel cheated out of life. I'd feel unheard. I'd feel worthless. I'd feel life is worthless. Maybe I'd feel differently as an adult, but the problem is that by that point you're growing into this form of suffering.

Other than incels, there are many people (men and women - it's not only men) who don't quite feel like that but feel somewhat close to that form of frustration and hopelessness.

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The yearning for romance is strong. Here are my two cents if you wanna improve your chances:

1. Volume * conversion. My conversion is low (1%), so I need high volume. If I want someone to find me attractive, I need to go up to and talk to 100 women with serious intent.

2. Attraction: use imaginative playfulness. If you love to imagine stuff, answer some serious questions with your imagination instead. Like if someone asks you "what do you do?" you can tell them "I'm the earth's therapist, and let me tell ya, it's not looking good." or "I teach alpaca's Japanese." or "I'm building a rollercoaster out of cheese for mice. It's the most friendly mouse trap known to mankind."

3. Vulnerability: dare to say where you'd like to go with her. Do this after you feel that the atmosphere/vibe between the two of you feels fun. At the end of a first date, if I want to kiss her, I ask. There's a lot of advice on "physical escalation". I've recently found (I was recently single again in a long time) that you don't need to "physically escalate". Two-thirds of the women I was on a date with and wanted to kiss, they wanted to kiss me back.

If you want to have a discussion about it, feel free to email me (in my profile). I've seen quite a few friends that are stuck and they are like me and really don't have to be stuck.
Thanks for the tip! I'll try to fix it.
Why this instead of the very widely-deployed PiHole or NextDNS?
Well, in the real world it might. It should trigger a bug creation and a fix to the code, but not an incident.
Now all of a sudden to decide this you need more complex and/or specific queries in your monitoring system (or a good ML-based alert system), so complexity is already going up.
This so much. In the first part my my work carrier I was fixing old PHP applications, nobody ever bothered to even mention software updates.

The next part, in a ruby shop, was different. We would update all the software all the time, usually pretty painless or with one or two expected issues that are easily fixed.

There was no point when it turned to old, every app was running the most recent rails and usually ruby just days after the release
Someone make an E7 type case with a slide under keyboard for Android/USB-C on the bottom right side.
It is so disappointing that ARM and RISC-V is adopting UEFI, we had a chance of a clean break, but noo, let's make persistent firmware level root kits easy and cross platform with EFI bytecode. Yep, network stack with hard coded web addresses in your firmware, brilliant idea. /rant
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I've been considering getting a Playdate as a means of having a constrained environment to develop a small game in. I didn't realise there has been such a long wait to get one, so perhaps I should place my order soon?

I like your suggestion of time-capping the development time. It's definitely easy for small, personal gamedev projects to grow in scope. In the past, when I've "finished" making a game (it always feels like there's more I could do), it's typically been because there has been an external deadline (e.g. a competition; or in one unusual case many years ago, advance warning on an upcoming change to the Apple App Store developer ToS, which threatened to only permit apps made directly in Xcode and potentially meant my WIP Unity app would not be approved).
There's surprisingly little research on relationship disorders, in particular, in the area of dating.

If Gilmartin (who I think was the first to research the involutary celibate more formally) were more rigorous and/or if psychologists would have have extracted the good points and developed them, today we'd likely have a better (or at least, better prepared) society. Sadly, Gilmartin is partially reponsible for turning to the topic from something taboo-ish into a laughing stock.

It also seems that some people here don't know - modern acception of "incel" is, confusingly, more specific than "involuntary celibates"; it refers to an online, tendentially misogynistic, subculture of involuntary celibates.

If some readers here identify themselves with people with serious relationship disorders, seek a therapist - this disorder can be impossible to heal without professional services.
Most people use the word incel community to mean a specific group of people. It's not "guys who can't get laid", it's an extremist group.

To some guys, maybe it means something different, but most people think of incel as... Yeah.

That community sucks people in and ruins lives.

* Main forum IIRC run by the same people that do a forum for help committing suicide.

* This site has the initials SS, which doesn't seem accidental. Attempting to convince someone not to do it is against the rules there.

* Women are called holes, toilets, roasties(meaning one who's vagina looks like roast beef), fesikhs (apparently a fermented fish product), and a lot of race specific ones.

* Elliot Rodger, a mass murderer, is often respected. To "Go ER" means to do similar abhorrent crimes.

* Religion, especially Judaism, is not well liked, however, hyper authoritarian extremist factions of some faiths often get some respect.

* Hitler is sometimes a crowd favorite.

* An activity known as rotting is a popular activity. It's what it sounds like. Just sitting and doing nothing. It's a miserable place.

* They actively try to spread their worldview, known as the blackpill, which causes such misery.

* Occasionally, you'll see people actively enjoying various means of making normies, especially women, uncomfortable. Including with poor hygiene.

* There is close to zero interesting content.

Some of the problems they face that got them into this are real,
but I think there's got to be better things to do that join those nasty forums.
If training a model is fair use than model output should also fallow fair use criteria. The very first thing you can find on the internet about fair use is Wikipedia article on the topic. It lists a bunch of factors to decide whether something is fair use. The very first one has a quote from an old copyright case:

> [A] reviewer may fairly cite largely from the original work, if his design be really and truly to use the passages for the purposes of fair and reasonable criticism. On the other hand, it is as clear, that if he thus cites the most important parts of the work, with a view, not to criticise, but to supersede the use of the original work, and substitute the review for it, such a use will be deemed in law a piracy.

Most use of LLMs and image generation models do not produce criticism of their training data. The most common use is to produce similar works. You can find this very common “trick” to get a specific style of output to add “in style of <artist>”. Is this a direct way "to supersede the use of the original work”?

You can certainly see how other factors more or less put gen ai output into the grey zone.

The fact that clothing doesn’t qualify for copyright doesn’t mean text and images don’t. Or if you advocate that they don’t then you pretty much advocate for abolishment of copyright because those are the major areas of copyright applicability at the moment. Which is a stance to have but you’d probably be better to actually say that because saying that copyright applies to some images and text but not others is a much harder position to defend.
The instant messengers name is not technitium, its mesh.im (like the URL) - technitium is the name of the group behind it. They also develop a really cool DNS server.
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I bet an executive was really proud of this. A lot of things in tech are dumb.
Alfred has a lot of features. What specifically do you use that you miss not having on Windows?

Personally the clipboard history and universal actions are far and away the things I'd be most pained to lose. Curious what the biggest features are for other people though
The gene is selfish, not the human, after all.
(parent commenter is founder/CEO of Stability AI, Emad Mostaque, I assume)
In Scandinavia you get a lot of ceramics, such that a shower+toilet can effectively be the "water room". I'd think that ceramic tiles can be tackled by a 'bot. A flat, unyielding surface, usually with a light color that provides high contrast with gunk. Bring on the ScrubBots(TM).
It isn't the number of voices; it is the speed and cost of setting up special interest communities. A bunch of health freaks with a penchant for experimentation would get together and start learning things. Not an overnight process but it'd be insanely quick compared to the sluggish speed of the last few millennia.

> Btw, early modern medicine was pretty much unencumbered by regulation - so there would be little change.

Not so; the early work was encumbered by rules against graverobbing. There were some famous advances made by .. someone who's name I do not recall, but he'd have been in trouble if people knew what he was up to.