skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried both.

A psychedelic is in my opinion not an easy drug at all.

I don't think it is a normal experience for anyone, for the first time, to realize that what you see or what you believe can be influenced that easily.

While halos around light with lsd is nice to watch, its still a crazy thing. I never had visual impairment on that level from weed or alcohol.

Or when you see moving patterns on a wall, it does break one sence you as a human have a lot of trust for.

Our neighbor is an old lady who had cancer and apparently smells sometimes things which are not here. She doesn't want to be crazy and doesn't even accept that it can easily be nerve damage or whatever which makes her sometimes smell things which are not here.

Instead she thinks we and neighbors above her are trying to get her out of her flat. We are living in a very stable modern building, there is no realistic benefit of anyone to boot her out and walls are so thick, there is no noise issue at all. She still called the policies at least twice, had an expert here and was standing in our door twice angry and pissed of because we are creating that smell. It was 2 am in the morning and i was asleep.

Getting tired, not being able to walk well anymore, loosing concentration or forgetting things are apparently easy to understand and to accept as a human.
when people achieve success too early in life they start thinking they're hot stuff
Surely the unions for all the industries that were outsourced from the UK to cheaper countries have closed.
Many carrier plans do offer local SMS free. Why in the world would a carrier pay for Apple's INTERNATIONAL iMessage / Facetime activation SMS?
Another great resource, for those who are interested in this sort of thing, is the book "Reinventing Organizations" by Frédéric Laloux.

It's a bit of a guidebook on how to build this sort of organisation.
Thank you for that writeup. Can you please list some resources (links/articles/books etc.) for us to read up on the above?
The Fear of Living with a Hackable Heart
The kind where you can still use an application 2 years later without having to recompile it.
Don't know about you, but when my 2017 Sony (not so smart, but starts fast and doesn't call home) will die, I'm not going to buy a regular TV set anymore but just a monitor, like I used to with my old PS3 and PlayTV. What's left of free-to-air TV (state broadcasters on DVB, if the signal is even strong enough) frankly feels like religious programs played in prisons. It's caustic and depressive social-pedagogical palliative crap, during coronavirus more than ever. Someone from Hollywood should come over and teach about the concept called "entertainment".
Mobile developers: don't only depend on the phone language setting
Dear mobile app developers: If you support more than just English, but you do not support ALL languages ... don't only depend on phone language settings!

PLEASE add a language select dropdown to your settings page! Many of your users can speak multiple languages, but English isn't necessarily one of them!

You may not support Slovenian, but if you support Croatian, Serbian or German your Slovenian speaking, but not English speaking, users might still be able to use your app.

Don't force them to change their entire phone's language just to use your app.
I guess my point is to be realistic with your threat modeling. Sure don’t advertise the wifi password that grants access to your smart lock, but also realize that the vast majority of crime is that of opportunity. Unless you think you are being targeted by sophisticated people who want more than your cash and tv, worrying about the security of your IoT devices is probably misplaced.
made by IYOIYO
https://mobile.twitter.com/iyoiyostudio/status/1330960246064...

with ML
They really weren't. It took lots of configuration tweaks and careful selection of the right software. People could and did do the same thing with Windows back then. But trying to use a PC for general purpose work, straight out of the box, stability was a problem on all extent desktop operating systems.
There is an "Underline" type in pandoc's definition (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc-types-1.22/docs/T...). In Pandoc's format, this works like:

This word is [underlined]{.ul}.
Yeah, and he has the money to prove that he is right.
Personally I'd consider C++ as C with classes or object oriented extension of C, prior to 2010. The modern C++ after that is more of a standalone language after some other languages' features adoption (e.g. D). Objective-C on the other hand is totally a separate language.

The original JVM written by Sun was in C not C++ or Java.

Windows NT the kernel part is mainly written in C. The chief developer of Windows NT Dave Cutler is probably the most anti UNIX person in the world, but the fact that he has chosen C to write Windows NT kernel in C is probably the biggest testament you can get. Dave Cutler is also part of the original developers of VMS, if BLISS with its typeless nature is better for developing OS than C, he'd probably has chosen it.

For whatever reasons Multics had failed to capture wide spread adoption compared to UNIX and the fact that its name existed mainly in most of operating System books as pre-cursor OS to UNIX. For most people Multics is like B language that is just a pre-cursor to C language. I know it a shame that Multics had become a mere footnotes inside OS textbooks despite its superior design compared to UNIX.

PL/I language is interesting by the fact that it is quite advanced at the time but as I mentioned in my original comments, Dennis Ritchie had to accommodate the fact that some of languages features are over engineered based on the hardware of the day and had to compromise accordingly. Go designers, however, have chosen to compromise not based on the hardware state-of-the-art but what the language designers think are good for Google developers at the time of the original language design proposal.
Hi, can you elaborate the high delay part? Is it the case that all code is accessed through internal network using FUSE or something? Or is it because monorepo?
Example from NYC: my iPhone used to constantly give me nag messages to turn on “driving mode” when in my car. I don’t have a car; it assumed I was driving while I was actually on the subway. Apparently, Californians think if you are moving a certain speed, you must be driving.

Luckily, that has been fixed.
Its a music video which plays, it apparently searches for covers, sync them up so you can switch from the original video to infinity other cover version of it i would say.
What would happen if computers never got any faster?

The creativity would still go into the marketing department. We would be getting new 5G computers with Xtreme Speed® that double the performance of last year on proprietary benchmarks that no one understands but can bandy about at parties.

The human genius will not be leashed by physical constraints or mathematical limits.
The problem is that there are always others who will piggyback of your product to boost their own sales, while not maintaining the quality standards that led to the name recognition in the first place.

In California they also sell "Californian Champagne", some legal quirk allows it. There is no problem with their wine, it's fine wine (the one time I had it).

It's just NOT Champagne. That doesn't make it bad wine, but it's just distinctively not the same product. Just like Prosecco is also not Champagne.

And if you don't protect your name soon "Champagne" doesn't mean anything anymore, including for the original, quality maintaining, wine makers from the Champagne region in France.
That's because the well known fact that e^e = inf. Therefore log(inf) = e. Ruby is probably rounding up e/2.

Proof: the infinite series 1 + 1/2 +1/3! +... is known to converge to e. Now arrange in binomials: (1+1/2)^e + (1/3!)^e + ... this is known to be larger than (1+1/2)^2 + ... = 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1 + 2/3 + 1/9 + ..... But this infinite series contains the series that sums to 2 (1 + 1/2 + 1/4 +...) and so the series that sums to 3, etc. Then it is equal to the sum of all positive integers which is infinite.

(This is a joke.)
To be fair, underlined text is generally frowned upon as a " workaround for shortcomings in typewriter technology" [1,2].
Moreover, the underline nowadays is very tightly coupled with hyperlinks. Personally, seeing some underlined text that's not a hyperlink would really surprise me.

[1]: https://practicaltypography.com/underlining.html

[2]: https://lawriwilliamson.wordpress.com/tag/bad-typography/
> It is quasi-impossible to be paid 140k$ in France.

It is also essentially impossible to be paid less than ≈$22k (minimum wage of 18 473 € annually [1] at current exchange rates). Collective bargaining helps those who'd have a hard time bargaining individually, not top earners for whom frequent international travel appears perfectly affordable. (40% of Americans have never left the country, apparently. [2])

[1] https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2300#t...

[2] https://yourmileagemayvary.net/2020/11/07/survey-percentage-...
This is brilliant, more info at places like this:

https://www.nme.com/news/music/billie-eilish-launches-infini...

I was brought up on The NME and the rock press and love left-field bands and I've always felt Billie (and her brother) fit comfortably into that tradition despite (or partly because of) their terrific pop sheen.

Great talent at a very young age; this next decade will be hers.
Opposite anecdote - worked at a place where I was ... 6 feet from the main sysadmin guy. I would routinely email him, both as a bit of CYA, but also because his schedule didn't jive with mine. Owner would come out sometimes and get irate that we were emailing vs "just talk to each other - you're sitting right here!". But... I didn't want to interrupt the other guy. In fact, I got better results by emailing - more details, could follow up as needed, and he would respond with 'done' so there was an actual log of the interactions. When I'd just lean over and interrupt him, everything was slower and worse. The '2 minute' things rarely were 2 minutes, and would take away time from what he was doing. If we met in the lunchroom... yeah, I might say "hey, I'm going to need X"... and he'd say "email the details".
It is well documented that strings are converted to integers when comparing with integers.

It is well documented that when converted to integers, strings containing a number at the start will be converted to that number, and drop any string after, e.g. '1eabc' becomes 1.

It's also been a best practice for a looong time (since something like PHP 5.4) to use === to test for equality.
Apple Silicon Games Compatibility Table
All SATA SSDs and almost all NVMe SSDs use 512-byte LBAs by default, but many NVMe SSDs can be reconfigured to use 4096-byte LBAs by default. The underlying NAND flash memory these days typically has a native page size of 16kB.
You have no idea how regions in EU works. They do not get money from cheap water produced abroad, it only dilutes their brand.
Yes, he just paraphrased the agreeableness trait of the OCEAN/Big Five personality model here. His nature/nurture musing are off the mark, though: Of the five traits agreeableness has the lowest heritability with about 42%.

The curiosity part he mixed in would be opennes to experience, with about 57% heritability.
video of the same song all across youtube are synchronized: you can click and jump from one video to the other and the song continue 'seamlessly'
Green Hydrogen: Could It Be Key to a Carbon-Free Economy?
Yes, the independently-minded people who created the original organization and the value must refuse to let parasitical people in.

pg cannot use this term in his essays, but it boils down to that, at least in the software space.

In agriculture etc. of course conventional minded people do excellent work and create tremendous value.
Was that meant to be sarcasm?
Late pseudo-edit: if someone wants to implement this I'd be delighted

https://github.com/asemic-horizon/pierpaolo
> I wonder if graph processing might be more broadly applicable than matrix processing as done on GPU's.

Ultimately, yes. Graph processing is slow on traditional architectures because it's a very sparse compute problem, which defeats most performance devices developed to help the memory wall: D cache, TLB, etc are mentioned in the paper. For sparse compute, you just hit that memory wall straight up, and things like caches are more a liability than a help.

There are plenty of other spare compute problems that do not fall into the graph processing category. Genomics springs to mind (plenty of graphs there too though).

Another factor is that a lot of sparse problems are kind of avoided in research, because it is usually more optimal to reformulate it into a dense problem. With hardware like this, I fully expect certain approaches seeing a comeback. Fully sparse neural nets come to mind.
> Because SMS pricing is a scam

Everything corporates do can be called a "scam". To me, it is a "scam" that a trillion dollar company like Apple avoids putting up activation servers in India because it is more profitable to not do so and just make the indian user pay an international SMS everytime.

It is also a "scam" to me that Apple insists that I can only install everything from the App Store, where as apps would actually be cheaper for all of us if Apple didn't take a cut from the developer. (And I can go on ... but we have to live with the reality of the world don't we - Apple isn't going to give up control over their App Store just as carriers will keep trying to monetise on SMS or RCS.)
Something I find interesting about the French Revolution is how slowly the commoners came to seriously consider alternatives to the default system of rule, despite sustained loss-of-credibility by the elites. This seems to fit with your /institutional memory/ model.

> But it is not clear whether going further
> and entirely removing it is going to be better.

There is room to distinguish strategic leadership and middle-management. Strategic leadership sets coherent direction for an institution, and continues to be relevant. Middle management is a vestige of the industrial era, where manpower and scale were interchangeable concepts.

The orchestras show that there is an alternative to middle-management. We don't really have a word for this, but we could call it Elders.

A key difference between Elders and Middle Managers is the role of skills. Elders must be at least competent at domain-relevant skills to be relevant, and their respect grows with skill mastery. Whereas, in a MM culture, having skills excludes you from influence. You are either a career manager (entirely without domain skills), or you convert. In the process of conversion, you will have social pressure applied not to get your hands dirty.
Creating faster AWS Lambda functions with AVX2
Account ID: 6184 6600 3112 1979 Security code: 53931851 or: 6071 3068 1202 4707
So you need a laptop whose operating range includes 3°C. How long it is exposed to 3°C doesn't matter because components can already take damage from the very moment they are cooled below the operating range.
The problem is he has all those shares instead of the people responsible for producing that wealth. Wealth is fine in the abstract, but not when he has so much while the people who enable it suffer for the inability to fund basic needs.
Care to shed some lights on the points of io_uring the OP misses? (honestly interested)
In France like in other countries like, e.g., the UK, what played the most important role is that people simply voted for a left-leaning government that enacted these laws.

The lowering of working hours and new paid leaves in 1936 where enacted by the newly elected left-wing government. The lowering of working hours to 35h per week in France was also voted by a left-leaning government.

Healthcare systems in France and the UK were also setup by left-leaning governments.

Collective action may work within a single company but if your after general social measures then the action is to be taken at the polling station.

In France unions in private companies are very weak these days, and overall the protections and rights of employees are extensive so people no longer have strong needs for this, anyway.

The key point is that in a democratic country things happen if the majority wants it and votes accordingly.
highly recommend to read:

Market Research, Wireframing, and Design by Balaji S. Srinivasan

Link: https://spark-public.s3.amazonaws.com/startup/lecture_slides...
Guys, don't use anything from Google. It is such a horrible company! For example, they made Angular builds extremely slow as described here:

https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/37293

Last year there was another similar issue and each new version builds become slower and slower. I waste half of my time waiting for compilation. Never had any such issue with React/VueJS or any other framework except Angular. I really hate it.
3 should be enough for everyone.
maybe a de facto assumption?
Here is a recent HN submission also about spaced repetition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25160204
> What use is a phone if i can't call 112 because it's cold?

You're right, we should just ditch them. What use are they?
Because they actually engineer their products to be usable?
It is, because they would be unable to sell it in the first world.
I consider a loss of a pixel on one side simultaneous with the addition of a pixel on the other side as "moving". Loss and addition here meaning "change in color"
You're an edge case and a rounding error. Enough people use the web UI and the Gmail app that they likely don't care about other users.
Hah, what an amazingly dumb design. Ford Aus certainly came up with some weird ones.
Also in Sweden the university hospital of Karolinska Institute had to drop the domain kus.se and go with karolinska.se as they got too many visitors from other countries.
In Danish and other languages kusse means vagina.
https://www.svd.se/karolinska-overger-dyrkopt-webbadress (in Swedish)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karolinska_Institute
Your last paragraph is completely true but better statistics are expensive. And you might be shocked by how little money there is in the anti-poverty racket...:)

Consequently, we’re stuck with statistical measures based on deviations from income and cost of living.
My wife used to work at IBM.

She was fired for low performance...

Thing is, in her department she was the only employee that took difficult cases and found the solution, and left the easy ones to her coworkers, her boss didn't want to fire her, but had to because the metrics said she had to go because a low total amount of cases...

Last she talked with her former coworkers, now they are struggling because the hard cases keep piling up endlessy and nobody knows how to do many of them, because they fired her without warning so she couldn't even teach others how to do what she did.

EDIT: oh yeah, remembered that IBM wasn't subtle about how much they needed her either, since she was the only one that could do what she did, when she worked at IBM I had lovely christmas and new year parties with her laptop on the table, because IBM back then threatened to fire her on the spot if she didn't work remotely on some important clients during those times, then her actual firing came some a short time later anyway during a seasonal lull of work.
You must have some leverage over them, therefore they're not your superiors per se, more like your peers.
Yet again an excellent essay. It is very sad that these days pg is literally the only one in the programming space who writes essays for free spirits.

Ten years ago these opinions would not have been extraordinary, but programmers as a group seem to have been subject to successful $BIGCORP reeducation in the last decade.
That sounds awful! Thankfully the most annoying things I've run into are these Americanisms like Crosswalks/different traffic lights/fire hydrants.

Your post reminded me of this quite funny dunkey video on Captcha's which is the captcha taken to its logical extreme.
The distinction between independent-mindedness and conventional-mindedness is captured more correctly I think by a trait called politeness as defined here https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5863998_Between_Fac... Independent-mindness would be similar to low politeness (coupled with high openness, but I'll ignore that for now), and those people would be more likely to be like this than not:

* Make enemies.

* Oppose authority.

* Believe that I am better than others.

* Seek danger.

* Put people under pressure.

* Try to outdo others.

* Believe only in myself.

* Impose my will on others.

* Love a good fight.

* Seek conflict.

* Think too highly of myself.

* Tell tall stories about myself.

* Play tricks on others.

* Enjoy crude jokes.

* [Comment loudly about others.]

* [Enjoy being reckless.]

* [Do dangerous things.]

You get the point. In my opinion, you don't really get to be independent-minded without the negatives that come with it. For instance, most conspiracy theorists are highly independent-minded people. They definitely reject authority, and they're highly curious and contrarian about established narratives.

This recent small debate I found on Twitter is a good illustrative example of it. https://twitter.com/ModeledBehavior/status/13280235538249932... The account in question (https://twitter.com/toad_spotted) was someone who got the pandemic right earlier than most people, so conventional-minded people followed it because it was a good source of information about the virus overall. But now that another situation has come up where independent-mindedness can also show itself to be useful (and potentially right), conventional-minded people will dislike it, just like they disliked it when the outcome of the virus wasn't yet known.

I felt like mentioning this because I feel like there's a lack of appreciation for how exactly the negative aspects of independent-mindedness manifest themselves in real life, and without that appreciation for the negatives of it I think it's easy to misjudge how independent-minded someone actually is and to also misjudge people who are more independent-minded than you because they seem more difficult to get along with.
Given the article's over-the-top opening, I think it's good to have a reality check that reminds us of fundamentals like correctness over speed, and clarity over cleverness.
Practically, an SMS message uses less data than a “missed call”. I don’t think anyone has ever paid for not picking up a ringing phone.
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As far as a practice of mindful examination: yes, this makes sense. Examining your thoughts, and the spoken assertions of others, is valuable if only to train critical thinking.

I do think it's possible to prize independence in this regard too much, though. Taken to the extreme, it's a sort of personal not-invented-here syndrome: it can shut you off from valuable sources of ideas and mentorship, and cause you to endlessly re-tread mental ground that's already been covered. Taking the successful scientist as an example: they "stand on the shoulders of giants", and their "independent" thoughts are only possible because they're immersed in, and actively synthesizing, lots and lots and lots of "conventional" thought.

The "independent" breakthrough is just one small iteration on heaps of "conventional" thought. The "independent" product is just one small iteration on heaps of "conventional" technology. It's the deep familiarity with the "conventional" part, and thinking through what all that really means and makes possible, that makes the "independent" part possible.

So: are you really thinking independently? Or are you just thinking blindly, without that familiarity?
You get what you measure, so, good luck with that.. When they've made the system perfect, the system can do the work all by itself, that's probably an even better biz.