skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It took me nearly 50 years before I learned how thoroughly gay Dracula really was. It was, of course, replete with coded references, and couldn't overtly depict homosexuality, so it was with Oscar Wilde, such as The Importance of Being Earnest.

Sadly I had really bought into the vampire chic trend when Coppola's Dracula came out in the early 90s. I had my dentist create some fangs for me to wear. More than one woman formally requested me to bite them on the neck. I dressed for goth clubs, more or less like an Anne Rice vampire (another thoroughly gay mythos).

It wasn't until Stephenie Meyer claimed vampires for the Latter-Day Saints movement that those Twilight sparkling dudes could be considered thoroughly hetero.
> I’m realizing I’m wholly unmotivated

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." What I learned that keeps me motivated is figuring out how to dangle a carrot in front of myself, some goal that depends on me figuring out something so that I can reach that goal. It helped me asking myself, "if I could have anything in the world, no matter what, what would it be and why?" and then going about bridging the gap between A (where you are now) and B, that future where you have that state you really want, even if it isn't very realistic. Might not work if this end state doesn't relate to tech but in my case it has and is proving to be sustainable thus far.
In another way it's really cool to be able to "see the past" even if all we see is always the past. At this level it is like a super power. If only some aliens had put a mirror somewhere far so we could see ourselves too. Or multiple mirrors at different distances.

With enough mirrors and light bouncing around the size of the universe itself can be a "storage media" of the past with different photons all around carrying "how this location looked X years ago". "All" you have to do to know what happened is find the right photon to see whatever it is you want to see.
This is something that can be tricky for sure. Depending on the subject you might not need to start diving deep into every topic. Sometimes you'll have to first ask some high level questions like how do I get this data from this table and convert it to this format. Once you identify what problem you're trying to solve go and learn what's needed to solve it.

You won't always have an optimal solution but that's okay. The most important is to try and use the thing you're learning in some real way or with practice.
Video title: Boris Feldman in conversation with Vinton G. Cerf and Whitfield Diffie
I use a personal version of Monica administered by a friend.
Show HN: I Made an Agentic Search API
I've made a search API that's agentic all the way. searching, page exploring, results reranking, chunking, all done agentically.
Entropy never sleeps
You can’t change a serious neurological condition with all books in the world. Don’t waste time looking for magic pill.

It’s generally much more effective strategy to learn utilizing your strengths rather than trying to compensate for your weaknesses.

Why do you need to think? What do you want to do with that skill?

Look around - not that many people really think anyway and yet many manage to live a good and satisfactory life.
Another student at a martial arts gym unexpectedly gave me some advice that is somewhat common, but had an impact because the words came at the right time and from the right person: he kindly told me to never judge myself based on the person that I might have been, and to instead compare myself now to how I was a month ago.

I believe that any person here with an inkling of relatable technical experience can greatly appreciate the work you've been doing. Software development can be complicated and frustrating, especially when things don't work as you expect them to (but then, you learn and become better). Leading a business is very difficult, often due to sources of problems you don't expect (such as regulatory and legal requirements, accounting, and publicity).

Some people cruise on to great careers without facing many barriers. But many others face unexpected setbacks and have to manage them. A close friend of mine was living an overall good life until it was profoundly disrupted by a civil war in his home country. But he made it to my country where he began his undergraduate degree at a great university that he loves. A past colleague of mine spent much of her early twenties managing physical disability, but successfully received treatment and went on to graduate with an engineering degree. She has since landed a position at a top aerospace company that she really wanted to work at.

You are setting up a good life for yourself. Many people lack that kind of drive or struggle with executing ideas; several people I personally know would be very proud to one day experience just a small part of your successes so far.
I agree that Refactoring UI is good.

Also, The Non-Designers Design Book by Robin Williams.

And, I’m working through shiftnudge.com.
I’m no fan of MS, but how are they leveraging their dominance in, say, OS to create dominance in editors? AFAIK it’s not like VS code is bundled with Windows.
Just adding to this, for the general audience, hearing aids are thousands of dollars, and virtually all users describe the industry as a "racket." Features that improve their functionality, such as adapters for Bluetooth etc., are dedicated hardware modules with proprietary interfaces, and expensive too.

Also, everybody I know who has hearing aids eventually ends up getting them at Costco.
There's a theological doctrine called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatological_verification that claims that statements like "there's God" or "there's afterlife" are perfectly fine verifiable scientific statements, except that their verification come after death or Second Coming.
Your comment reminds me of it.
I've been looking at this personally. It's not stated in the article, but the initiative is known as constructive service credit for cyber direct commissions.

The way it works is basically the same as reserve officer recruiting, but with a higher starting rank.

You'd get in contact with an officer recruiter for the service branch you're interested in, using the normal channels. They have a deserved reputation for ghosting candidates, but they generally spend most of their effort on candidates further down the pipeline. One recommendation I got was to get in touch with an enlisted recruiter who can confirm your eligibility to serve and refer you as a qualified lead to an officer recruiter.

Air Force officer appointments are the most competitive (3-10% of people who meet all application requirements and medical qualifications are selected), and they are stingy on medical waivers.

The Navy is only slightly less competitive but reputed to be the most permissive with waivers.

One thing to know is that waivers for medical issues are issued without regard to your nonmedical qualifications. So if Jeff Bezos had a bad knee, that would disqualify even him.
'When Dams Fail, People Die': The Race to Save Thousands from Potential Disaster
That’s incorrect. I have been using Airpods Pro for 7 months now for my hearing loss. They do boost sounds in transparency mode if you choose to.
I'd like to see Apple run some opt-in scientific trials.

For example: Does active noise cancellation result in more or less hearing loss?

Or Alcohol consumption: Apple Health could ask each day how many drinks you had and many people want to track it anyway. Correlate that to health metrics at a wide scale. It'd be much more powerful than any currently existing study given the userbase likely to opt-in.

Let people see exactly the data that will be uploaded prior to consenting to alleviate any privacy concerns. They already have stronger data-protection and anonymity mechanisms than those used by most studies built directly into the phone.
Photocopying has little to do with simulation of the physical world.

First of all, Bits != Q-bits. You can clone bits. You can't clone Q-bits: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem

Second, photocopies are static. The physical world is not static.
> Transparency mode in many of today’s earbuds sounds totally natural and lifelike, yet I still constantly remove my buds to show someone they’ve got my undivided attention. That way of thinking has to change when popular earbuds start pulling double duty as hearing aids. It’s a powerful way to reduce the stigma that’s all too common with hearing aids, but this shift will take time.

This will never be not true. You're fighting human nature. The vast majority of people don't need hearing aids and those who do you'll likely know they need a hearing aid if you're having regular or more personal conversations.

If you're getting your order taken at Starbucks, you can totally have ears in even today.
We're definitely looking for ways to improve ways to specify types! I think destructured typing [https://civet.dev/reference#destructured-typing] is already quite useful, especially for React. On the readability side, if/then/else [https://civet.dev/reference#conditional-types] seems easier to read than ?: ternaries, and "Partial Record Name, Info" seems easier to read than "Partial<Record<Name, Info>>" (implicit type arguments — https://civet.dev/reference#implicit-type-arguments). But we'd love to hear more ideas for features like branded types. Join us in Discord if you're interested!
> The way we found one variant of wheat in Mexico that was resistant to bacteria, and replicate that to the whole world

Great analogy.

Borlaug's famous Mexican dwarves.
There’s a relevant quote from Swami Vivekananda on this

From Karma Yoga, Chapter: I, Karma in its effect on character—

What we say a man “knows”, should, in strict psychological language, be what he “discovers” or “unveils”; what a man “learns” is really what he “discovers”, by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting anywhere in a corner waiting for him? It was in his own mind; the time came and he found it out. All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in your own mind. The external world is simply the suggestion, the occasion, which sets you to study your own mind, but the object of your study is always your own mind. The falling of an apple gave the suggestion to Newton, and he studied his own mind. He rearranged all the previous links of thought in his mind and discovered a new link among them, which we call the law of gravitation. It was not in the apple nor in anything in the centre of the earth.

Whenever I read about Ramanujan having divine revealing formulas in his dreams, I remember Swami Vivekananda’s quoute on consciousness and mind.

edit: found another relevant quote from Upanishads on tapping the infinite knowledge:

Mundaka Upanishad 2.2.9:

“Eṣa sarveṣu bhūteṣu gūḍhātmanā prakāśate, dṛśyate tvagryayā buddhyā sūkṣmayā sūkṣmadarśibhiḥ”

Translation: “The Self hidden in all beings does not shine forth, but it is seen by subtle seers through their one-pointed and subtle intellect.”

Explanation:
The ultimate knowledge or truth is hidden within all beings and is revealed through subtle inner perception. The idea is knowledge is latent within the mind, and it is discovered, not externally found.
Although I have no real need to know about it, it's somewhat useful to read about what extremist groups are doing. I hadn't read the Wired article yet, so I thank the people linking to it (both at SimpleX and Hacker News) for bringing it to my attention.
> An app that syncs your files just needs access to those file, not the entire filesystem - which is what MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE gives it. Scoped storage and the SAF would allow syncthing to do exactly what it needs to do. The problem is that the app maintainer is unwilling to do the work to bring this app into the modern era.

If I want to back up my entire filesystem, accessing all my files is not too much permission. If I don't want to back up my entire filesystem and I don't want to allow an app all those permissions, there is a very simple solution: don't install the app. There's also a more complicated workaround: use GrapheneOS and set up storage scopes for the app. Now instead of these perfectly functional options that already existed, the choice has been removed.

> But in this case I agree with them.

I am not an android dev but I'm reading in this thread that there are other apps like file managers that still get this permission approved? If google were removing the permission entirely I could see an argument from an api maintenance burden perspective, but if it's a permission they're still granting to some apps then I simply have to disagree.
> So shouldn't anyone be able to sue the police now for having access to all this extra information but they still can't/won't find your missing bikes and hit and run incidents?

Police have claimed, argued, and gone to court to state that they have no duty to act, or to protect. And courts have agreed.
There may be countless other planets with intelligent life right now, but... if it took them millions of years to evolve... and they're millions of lightyears away... we might have to wait millions of years for signals to reach Earth from the eldest civilizations in the closest galaxies.
This book actually makes some sense to me as a software engineer. We’ve all learned this at school, but they were just scattered pieces of knowledge. This book actually offers a way of systematic organization of useful knowledge in production. Content is actually not for learning, but for quick check and review. The organization might not be perfect, but really is a way of reflecting on our understanding in this field.
>Is there any reason to suppose that blood type plays a role?

Yes. https://academic.oup.com/jme/article/41/4/796/885285

Hardly conclusive, but there is some reason to suspect it plays a role.
I don't see how I can do this based on the details of the carrier deal.
what about individual differences between mosquitos? some people taste good to me too but not others. it doesn't implicate humanity lol
What happened to the vans with antennae that scanned for operating TVs (there’s an IF oscillator in there I guess) to find unlicensed receivers?
>Build tools are mostly good with 1-2y old code

This perfectly encapsulates the modern tech enshittification treadmill that I loathe.

Redesigning the wheel every 2 years because some braindead MBA dreamed up another way to arbitrarily ruin things that work.
Eating Among Friends (2006)
I work a lot with Node.js on the server too.
It would have zero value in every process of vetting someone. People don’t care about years of verification in the form of degrees, who do you think will care about some “license to fucking code” given for reading some garbage pdf
And thus they'd fall under the legal definition of public: "Under the authority of the government or belonging and available to the people."

or

"of or relating to a government"
I have always bought a locked phone with a discount from ATT and have never had any issues with them unlocking it after the term was up.

I enjoy the discounts, I don't know what else there is to say about it.
Ok, I'm speaking to the parent comment about looking for another job. Of course there are always reasons not to move somewhere specifically, but the vast majority of executives in the world are required to work at their companies headquarters, wherever that may be. And all of the largest companies pay executives handsomely. More than enough to make up for cost of relocation or time lost to job searching.
O+. I didn't know blood type could be a factor, thank you for the tip, I'll look into this.
This isn't mysterious at all. That's why when the FCC tested people like me (extra since 1977, First Class Radiotelegraph since 1978) they only tested receiving.
Article title & h1: Paradise Dam failure, improvement works and the risk to Queensland communities (Edit: If you have JS turned on this clickbait text appears as H1 instead)
Can you give an example? I think my current problem is that I can’t formulate a goal that I deep down find motivating enough to attain. Maybe that’s depression, but I’m not sure.

I get that it’s pretty subjective, but I am just curious how people think.
> Wolfram would disagree.

many people believed in, and advocated for, string theory. Don't make it real.
CoffeeScript was great except for a few fatal mistakes. The biggest was implicit variable declarations, which meant that to write maintainable code, you had to reintroduce explicit declarations via iifes. Otherwise, you’d risk a future code change introducing shadowing which would have consequences that were super painful to debug.

The other big one, which unfortunately Civet seems to be doing too, is implicit return combined with “everything is an expression”. You can have one of those, but not both. With both, it’s far too easy to write loops intended to be statements, and which accidentally turn into gigantic multi-dimensional array returns which can’t easily be optimized out by the compiler. Fortunately, this would be only mildly inconvenient to work around with a lint rule that forces explicit return in all functions.
If you don’t want Google or Microsoft reading your email, Proton would be better still than Gmail, wouldn’t it?
But we are using indentation style; that's one of the major design principles. In Civet, the body of an "if" can be multiple lines, and it's clear (from indentation) what they're nested under. Also, the body of an "if" statement can be empty, so if you comment out the body, the "if" doesn't apply to anything else. (This is an improvement over Python, which requires non-empty bodies, even if just to say "pass".)

I think there's a reason that Python is among the most popular programming languages, and part of it is the indentation-based syntax and lack of brackets. The core of Civet's syntax (originally inspired by CoffeeScript) is like a combination of JavaScript/TypeScript and Python, the two/three most popular programming languages.

But also, if you like brackets, you can include them! Most JavaScript/TypeScript code is also valid Civet. Just use the features you like.
> Even then they aren't able to form language proficiently until 5 or 6 years old.

Not even close; they're already proficient at two.
Wow, that's pretty cool! I think there are potential -- current LLMs are not that good on VegaLite when I ask it to edit the script :)
Too bad the hardware for this is eyewateringly expensive :'(
Either way it's just a label. You've already been able to do the same thing for years. Just use the free Mimi hearing test app, save the audiogram to Health, then apply it in headphone accommodations.
I don't know anything about wired, but very few people need to be explicit feds for something like wired. Maybe one person high enough just has friends in the intelligence community, and that could more or less be enough - few or none are hired if their perspectives on key issues don't align with management.

It's a conspiracy theory, especially when talking about any specific media organization, but the intelligence agencies certainly did this before, and it came out in the Church committee. There are a few journalists who continue to work at big-name outlets despite being named as assets in the diplomatic cable leaks, for example. So it's not unreasonable to suggest, I'd say.
Yeah there's definitely other editors with good rust-analyzer integration - maybe I need to bite the bullet and learn vim keybinds.
Societal views change. Moving from the Jabra Jawbone to AirPods it seems like it went from “that asshole business guy” to “literally everyone” in no time. When I was young, talking on a Bluetooth headset while walking down the street was worthy of derision. Things have changed a lot since then.
Artificial Kuramoto Oscillatory Neurons
> Correlate that to health metrics at a wide scale. It'd be much more powerful than any currently existing study given the userbase likely to opt-in.

Apple did run something like this in their heart research study. But not specifically counting drinks, just more survey like questions.
Being well-rounded and having exposure to a bunch of topics is valuable to an extent. However, in my experience most of the people making a real difference in the workplace and academia are not particularly well rounded.

You can only progress so much in a field of expertise before hitting diminishing return.

At some point it makes sense to broaden your knowledge and skillset.
Well that sounds like a good premise for a scifi book or movie.
Actually you can set up a good approximation using iPhoneOS>Settings>Accessibility>Audio & Visual>Headphone Accommodations. Under Custom Audio Setup, you can select a audiogram, such as produced by an app like Mimi, or scanned in from your audiologist.
Personally I can’t say I learned anything professionally useful in english or civics. An actually decent math class in just one of my years of k-12 would have been much more useful.
Humans are great at turning a new insight into a way to feel better about themselves compared to others that haven't had the insight. We are driven by our ego, so I find that very unlikely.
I don't mind centralized, as long as it's centralized to my own server.
Yep. I still haven't been able to determine if this "new" feature is any different from what already exists.

I hope so because when you enable your audiogram for transparency it sounds like you're in an ASMR video. There's no way to make it sound natural but louder, which is what I would expect from a hearing aid.
Hallucinations exist because people are using LLMs as knowledge oracles which they are not. I doubt it'll ever be solved unless a new type of model is invented for this.
I googled for about 15 minutes for reports about starlink’s lasers and latency and found several articles saying what I wrote above. Feel free to look it up for yourself.

As for his focus on Musk, I feel the same way about that as I did about Carreyrou’s “obsession” with Elizabeth Holmes. Good! I’m glad people are debunking our generation’s greatest fraud (which is Musk. Holmes doesn’t even make the top 10).

I’ve never personally paid a dime for a Musk product, but unfortunately my government has financed his frauds to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. So, I’m glad someone is pointing it out

Edit: I just asked GPT about water sprayed on rockets before launch. It specifically mentioned cooling the engines. I’m not sure what your game is here, but i suggest, like, learning some stuff. I’m tired of fact checking you only to find out instantly that you’re lying. Here’s the text:

Water is sprayed on a rocket before launch as part of a sound suppression system to protect the rocket and the launch pad. The intense noise generated during a rocket launch creates powerful sound waves that can damage the rocket or surrounding structures. Water absorbs and dampens these sound waves, reducing their intensity. Additionally, the water helps to cool the launch pad and the rocket’s exhaust, preventing overheating or damage from the extreme heat generated by the rocket engines during liftoff.
Good lord that was awful to read. Text popped into existence half-off the screen, disappeared just as it was entering the screen, etc. I'm operating on a 15" MacBook with a reasonable-sized window, and yet I had to scroll carefully back and forth to catch the text. And no reader mode with just the text.
Looking at the web, they’re also over $4500. I think the people who will most appreciate the AirPods are the ones that can now afford to put something in their ear to help their hearing.