skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Undoing the clickbait:

Childhood:

> Childhood seems to be designed to enhance learning – so extending that period would be a good strategy for a species that needs to learn more.

Old age:

>For humans, the elders at the other end of the lifespan appear to be a particularly important source of care, and might have played a crucial role in human evolution. The anthropologist Kristen Hawkes has called this ‘the grandmother hypothesis’, and has shown that, in forager cultures, post-menopausal grandmothers are a crucial resource, especially for toddlers.

To be fair with aeon, the original subtitle was:

> The dance of love and lore between grandparent and grandchild is at the centre, not the fringes, of our evolutionary story
Thanks for sharing, me and @simonw seem to be bumping into each other regularly :)

I've been meaning to give Datasette a try and plug it into my system!
Even though I prefer to rely on code as the main interface, in most cases I already have sqlite for free, because it's used as a cache [0]. If a function is marked with @cachew decorator, its results would be cached on the disk, invalidated on arguments changes, etc.

[0] https://github.com/karlicoss/cachew#what-is-cachew
Can someone explain why Paul Graham? I read a few of those links and don’t get it.
For phones, anything that gets updates directly from Google (Pixel and Android One) will update quickly and will have community support for LineageOS for many years after official support ends. Unfortunately, Google makes absolutely terrible hardware decisions, but nothing comes close in terms of software value, which is far more important in my experience.
Wow nice. My site - https://population-hub.com/en/population-of-earth.html
These languages have far better type systems than languages like python or javascript, that's not a reason to hate them.
Authoritarian responses rarely just say “they pissed me off and must be punished”, at least not in public. Really effective autocrats will often mix a bit of truth into their accusations; it’s entirely possible that there is some monopoly behavior there and that the trigger was Xi is angry about being insulted.
No doubt, Uber has responded to regulatory pressure by making minor concessions in a (now successful) attempt to circumvent State law.

> Related, if a software contracting firm says: 'hey, there's a gig that pays $x an hour, no negotiations - do you want it?'

That's not what is happening here. The driver and the rider are not forming a carriage contract. Uber is forming a contract with the rider, and employing drivers to fulfill those contracts. Even with the concessions Uber has offered, they are still using their platform power to control activity via incentives, and whatever games they play with the algorithm once the heat is off. At the end of the day, as long as the labor pool remains unorganized, Uber still retains pricing power.

None of these drivers own the customer relationship (again, they are not forming a contract with the riders). That means that (without violating the TOS) these drivers are not holding any equity in the business. In your proposed scenario, if you accept the software contract and do good work, there is a likelihood of more work at higher rates, and increased business through word of mouth. With no opportunity to build wealth, I can't imagine how rideshare drivers would be considered independent.

It's fine to look at the problem from a customer-centric viewpoint, and I realize that doing so has been a fairly orthodox economic strategy for the past 50 years, but that doesn't make it correct or good. None of the ride share companies seem to be able to turn a profit, even with a questionable model built on exploiting labor laws, yet they had $200M to pass Prop22. That kind of strategy only makes sense if your goal is to gain a monopoly position, and it is right to oppose these companies in doing so. Devaluing labor maybe optimal for some individuals, but it's bad for labor as a whole, which is exactly why we pass law that raise the floor.
Okay, here's a typical day with org-mode for me. Start out the day entering a daily journal, listing out all the TODO items and scheduling them so I can see them in org-agenda. A subset of those TODOs are meetings, of which I'll use the folding outline editor to write an agenda and notes. Given that I work remotely now near 100% of the time, I typically share my screen to go over the agenda. Frequently, I'll need to diagram something to share with the team. For that I use org-babel to write plantuml or graphviz and render the output (like a sequence or class diagram or flow chart) and use that to drive design discussion with the team. Note that all of this is still within GUI emacs in single buffer (text and images). At my work we use Confluence and Jira, so I use org-export to publish the above work to Jira markup (tables, headings, lists, typeface styles). Other TODO items are the tasks I do during the day; there I use org-mode to capture my notes/thoughts. Most times, I'll use org tables to help organize tabular data (which happens a lot) and org-babel to run both python and bash commands. In addition I'll use source blocks to capture code snippets (typically Swift nowawdays) and random commands. I'll also store links that I run across through the course of day. Note again, I'm still working out of that same buffer. With emacs-client, I remote from my iPad into that same buffer and edit away. End of the day, I commit my org-mode file into my notes repo using magit. Occasionally, I'll use org-mode to write a presentation using reveal.js or typeset documentatation to push through LaTeX. Nearly all my documentation starts out as an org file. YMMV, but org-mode has completely transformed how I work now.
IMO 10.5 was peak OSX. Every other later one has smacked me upside the head with something going wrong.
> That's a state reached with communism, a proposed end state to a socialist transition of undetermined length - and no actual prescription for how, exactly, any of that would happen.

It is indeed true that socialists and communists reject the construct of private property and jump to expropriation and violence with no idea how to progress from this state to their desired end state.

> If you are actually punished for making production work better you will become alienated from your job and actually want to do a worse job in order to improve your own personal conditions.

This is why "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is a terrible idea and likely to fail in any scenario involving human beings.

> Not really, they were heavily focused on foreign policy and a growing domestic intelligentsia that was increasingly bourgeois

Yes, they were more interested in exporting their ideology to the rest of the world than making it work where they were already in charge, and frustrating people's natural inclinations was so difficult as to require a massive domestic espionage apparatus. But what is even more interesting is that all those loyal soviet apparatchiks became more bourgeoise as they became responsible for allocating more resources. Perhaps the communists could learn something here too.

> believing Western propaganda about how much better life was elsewhere and lacking real experience with rampant homelessness, hunger, and the state of poorer countries.

The propaganda was not too far from reality as many defectors learned.

> Western bourgeois democracies have plenty of "bullshit jobs", yet we don't refer to that as a problem that's failing to be solved due to dogma

I think some people do.

> so fundamental to our typical understanding of how the economy should work that we don't even talk about them

i.e. dogma

> instead distracted by fights between center-right bourgeois politics and far-right bourgeois politics.

Funny, the people on the right say its between center-left and far-left. I think you both need to read more, tbqh.
> Authoritarianism is bad for business

This is true, but there are also plenty of cases where big businesses have propped up authoritarian regimes because they fear someone else more. The best historical example for this is Hitler; his rise was heavily supported by big and small businesses that feared left wing groups would cut into their profits[0]. This is part of why Hitler was able to rise despite never commanding an overwhelming majority.

0 - To be somewhat fair to the big businesses, there were actual communists running around Germany trying to get a revolution going there too, and that would be very bad for business too.
You're buying too much into cold war propaganda.
Explicitly stated brightness setting instead of screen brightness.
Only the modern experience would lead you to believe that. The gilded era is a good example of how forced sales and/or abusive monopolies are not incompatible with democracy at all.
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Interesting stuff to read. Keep it up <a href="https://www.dumpsreseller.com/page/ete-to-pdf">ete to pdf</a>
Resources may be finite but human ingenuity, appropriately harnessed, doesn't have to be. Increased technological capacity can also create access to resources previously inaccessible, such as asteroid mining.
I can't even understand why there's an ideological battle. If you take a perfectly healthy person and put them into solitary confinement, there's a good chance they'll become depressed. It's an extreme example, but my point is that for most people depression is very much circumstantial. If the circumstances can be corrected and no serious trauma was experienced, the depression will probably go away. When cirsumstances cannot be changed or there's lasting trauma, medications are an option but outcomes are mixed..

There's a minority of people whom regardless of their circumstances will be depressed. In this case, the argument that a person's monoamine neurotransmitters levels (e.g. serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine) are just naturally out of whack makes sense and medications might be the best option.
There is zero way this is remotely accurate. That more closely describes javascript.
I'm not saying you, just whoever needs to do it. So i think you got that a bit inaccurate.

I appreciate you spent time looking at my profile, I'm grateful you would want to look. But I think you've got that a bit inaccurate...I use feel mostly to express my own feelings, but where I'm empathizing with others, it's not speculative for me, I'm confident in that and fine doing it. If you've got a problem with that, it's your issue not mine. Please don't tell me what words you "think i should" use or how you "think i should" do. It assumes you know me and what I'm doing better than me, which is trying to talk down to someone else. If you need to try to talk down to someone to feel better, i get if you feel that way, but please don't expect me to encourage your need for that. But even tho i don't encourage it, i can still help you...I've put plenty of comments here that you can put down from your main account if you have one, if you need to do that.

Anyway, thanks for letting know how you feel about it.... if you want to know how i feel about it, i think you should try empathizing with people more, even tho you're only interacting over text. In my experiences it pays to be attentive to the emotions of others. I get if you feel that's a waste of your time, i feel a very sad for you if you think you're wasting your time on HN today... But if so, you can always do something else you enjoy, so things can still be good for you today. I feel happy to think this is possible for you.

I just hope to share this thing and brighten people's day as bit by it. I feel sad to think my work is part of an experience they didn't enjoy, but i can't control how they feel about it, i just express myself, like everyone express themselves. I feel sad for you if didn't enjoy your experience of this show.
Sculpting and Painting App
You have to keep in mind that the way tax collection worked in that area at the time is that it was contracted out by the state. The contractor needed to deliver some amount of money to the state, and empowered to gather money from people; the difference between what they gathered and what they delivered to the state was their profit.

Tax collectors operating within this incentive structure were not likely to be very likable.
It’s now ambiguous rather than explicit but you are still creating the same impression.

I know it is your intent to make it seem like they cheated.

You have no evidence for this - only a guess.
This is just a temporary fix, limits the maximum charge level. They're still investigating the issue and coming up with a proper fix, they just know that it's happening to fully charged cars.

For what it's worth, I popped out to our Bolt this afternoon after getting the email, and tweaked the max charge level to 90% from the panel. Easiy done.
Wow, I've heard about Esperanto before, never knew what it was. Reading about it on wikipedia, very interesting concept. This is kind of what I was looking for. Thanks!
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The next test is an NFC badge that works on gas pumps and lets you enter your mileage at the pump (I think), and two other ideas that I don’t remember. They’ve also considered random drive-through mileage spot checks every couple years for electric cars, and you get sale mileage on the transfer form, and they know full well some people don’t want to be tracked to varying degrees and have plans for that.

They’re studying this for all cars, not just electric, to replace the road maintenance component of the gas tax. Charging at home circumvents any charging tax. Driving your own vehicle out of state for a thousand miles will overcharge you on a simple odometer tax.

It’s a ten year research project. They aren’t shipping anything. They’re running through a long list of ideas and asking people what they think of them and if they want to try them.

They will send you surveys about their ideas and read anything you write and take it seriously in their studies. You have to own a vehicle and live in California, though.
Maybe not mind blowing, but just a few examples from my (very normal) day:

I wrote a statement in Rider that used a class that didn't exist. So I hit Alt+Enter with my cursor there, and had it create me a class. Then I hit Alt+Enter on that class and had it move it to a separate file. Then I added the base class it should inherit from, hit Alt+Enter, and had it scaffold out all the methods I need to override. About fifteen or twenty seconds with a modern IDE and didn't require any of my intellectual capacity to actually execute.

I realized that another class in this multi-GB codebase had a typo in its name, and hit Shift+F6 to rename it. Typed in the correct name, and twiddled my thumb for two or three minutes while it renamed every instance in the codebase.

Found a file that used a declaration style that's against our coding style. Hit Alt+Enter on one example, told Rider to configure the project to always prefer the other style and replace all examples in the file.

None of those are particularly magic, but having so many of them that are completely reliable a context menu away makes an enormous difference. Also with a recent file list popup and really excellent code navigation, I find that I don't keep a file list or tabs open at all. I just jump to symbols and toggle back and forth between the last couple of files.
Same as in Russia, or Brazil, or Argentina, or Mexico, or lots of other places.

Sure, if you show up from USA with no local language skills and no experience living outside of Milwaukee, and try to live exactly according to the explicit law, it's exactly like you say. But people actually from there have ways of navigating these obstacles. There's more potential for unpleasant surprises (for instance kidnappings) but if you know the lay of the land you can do alright. Maybe not advance that fast, these societies are not very upwardly mobile unless you're really REALLY acclimated and subscribed to the system, but they're still functioning societies of humans that need to get along, and if you can be cool, you can get along too.

What some Americans think they're entitled to do, which I've seen people try to do for instance in Small Claims court in US, is penetration test the legal system. They want to hack the legal code, instead of obeying fuzzy norms, common sense, suasion, and avoiding hacks that are seem too good to be true, they are magnetically attracted to these hacks. They then feel cheated when a judge oversteps his power ever so slightly to protect the integrity of the system from hacking.

Get real, China has tons of experience with usury, which is itself an Advanced Persistent Threat of the legal system and society, and if the borrowers wanted to default, the courts and social fabric would be what made the lenders whole. So of course the Chinese government is entitled to kill the IPO, it's a shitty and usurious IPO, and they'll be the ones holding the bag, so better to nip it in the bud.
The Model 3 has a setting to do that. The Bolt does not. If you plug it in, it's charging to full.

With the Bolt, all you can do is use tricks like scheduling the charging late (so that it might not be fully charged by the time you drive off in the morning).
Simon is a true gem of our community. Always love reading about the things he is working on and interested in.
Why Restarting Azure Database for PostgreSQL Took Long?
I have to say, having started using PowerShell recently, it's better. It's frustrating because I have decades of muscle memory in ksh and bash, but that's not enough to prevent me from recognizing that the CLR for loading components into the same process space and being able to work with and pass objects in that process space in your shell is clearly the right way forward.
Luckily there is a Webkit-based macOS browser that runs uBlock Origin.
They should make all the laws they want for themselves. Why should they make laws for people far away and in different circumstances?
Value investing is struggling to remain relevant
I’m now old.
Nerfed: The term "nerfing" comes from the online gaming world of Ultima Online.

At one point in the game, the developers reduced the power of swords in melee combat.

This resulted in players complaining that it was like they were hitting each other with nerf bats, not swords.

From then on, if ever something gets made less worth while than it had been originally, it is considered 'nerfed'

From https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nerfed
The transliteration of the Arabic would be gh-d-r. (Note that Arabic doesn't normally write out its vowels). The `gh' should sound roughly like the voiced variant of the final sound of "loch" or "Bach".

Given that your purported translations all have four consonants in them, not three, I'm guessing you somehow pasted the wrong string? When I get "غدر" in Google Translate, I get the transliteration as ghadar and not ha-zi-bo-m.
Smaller than ever–exploring the unusual properties of quantum-sized materials
Using Azure Data Explorer for long term retention of Azure Sentinel logs
Herd immunity has a clear meaning: people who are individually vulnerable to a disease being protected from it by virtue of everyone around them being immune.

What you're describing is simply a disease running its course and killing everyone who is not naturally immune/resistant or not strong enough to survive despite being sick. There is no herd immunity aspect. At best you could call it natural selection.
Or people who believe 'my side could never do it'.
> there are plenty of examples where big businesses get "nationalized" or where the founders are forced to sell to a "friendly party official" who then proceeds to run it into the ground. Russia notoriously is very good at this, leading even innovative companies to sabotage their own growth as to not become an "acquisition target" of the ruling elite.

Equinor (Statoil) and Gazprom seem to have produced results that can only be described as precisely the opposite of being run into the ground.
I thought it might be nice to create another mirror, just in case: https://github.com/cryptonek/widevine-l3-decryptor

Hopefully, it will hang at least till monday, so some of you will be able to clone.

It is based on commit ed8a97745c69b8cc0fc7f59cec9474b216b49e16 which is latest archived by Web Archive (and signed by Github!). By the way, it is still possible to fetch original repo, provided you know the commit id above :)
I wouldn't consider that a warrant canary.
Rationality itself is not falsifiable, it relies on axioms that must be assumed true in order to work.

Edit: Treating rationality as something real as opposed to just a (very useful) figment of our imagination, i.e. something like a variant of Platonic Realism, is no different from any other religion.
The horse analogy in the video you linked doesn't consider the fact that while the population of horses is much lower today, the ones that exist today don't all live as slaves. A portion of them live in the wild, some others are pets and some others actually are for "work".

He seems to suggest that having billions of wage slaves is somehow better than having fewer happier people.
I just started with https://hackaday.io/course/172292-introduction-to-reverse-en...
SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) is named that way because it does what people on minority platforms assumed TWAIN does on Windows / MacOS.

TWAIN (sometimes said to mean "Toolkit Without An Interesting Name") looks like it's a universal API for scanners, except, the mandatory parts just spin up a graphical user interface and that does all the actual work. There is no actual scanner technology in TWAIN, each scanner comes with its own GUI plus scanner driver bolted into one app.

So in TWAIN there is no API for like "Scan A4 document, 300dpi" only "Make whatever Twain GUI I have appear" and when you buy a scanner it just comes with a CD (I guess these days they tell you to download it probably? I have not set up a new scanner in decades) with the software on it.

But SANE does what people assumed TWAIN did, the GUI application software is neutral, and the code for driving scanners has APIs for scanning documents, because that makes more sense (and also, frankly, "reverse engineering USB code" and "building easy to use GUIs" are not the same skill set). As a bonus it means you can network SANE, just by adding an RPC layer, whereas for TWAIN you'd need like RDP or something. Blergh.
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I am under the same impression as well.
The paradox of tolerance demonstrates a fatal flaw in the concept of "tolerance", not in the free exchange of ideas. I have become increasingly convinced that the concept of "tolerance" has been corrupted over time until it became susceptible to the paradox, and thus able to act as a strawman of (classical) liberal beliefs.

You will find absolutely nothing in "equality before the law" which falls victim to the paradox.
Original article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-76233-9
Math is perfection. So, it depends on if you consider math to "exist" in this world.
Getting Started with NuGet 5.8
I am seriously wondering why Linux UI development is lagging so much considering it’s at the forefront of many developments, and probably with the worlds best devs using Linux. I can only come up with that it’s console centered approach doesn’t attract a lot of UX designers of caliber to take it to a new level.