skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fairness, I don't think this is well known in the US. My impression was always that a boardwalk is just a pier that no longer has any use for naval stuff, so they built a carnival on it.

Pier is a more familiar term to me. I think I've only heard the term boardwalk in relation to some place in New Jersey.
A significant problem with ammonia-as-fuel is that it combusts to produce NOx, already a major pollutant and public health issue in many parts of the world. As with diesel engines, the exhaust can be scrubbed with AdBlue selective catalytic reduction, but this adds to the cost and complexity.
It's like his claim continues to ring true even through his own works.
Somebody that tells you how to think for yourself?
Using a somewhat relevant real world analogy: if I go into a house that should’ve been locked (but wasn’t), and I know I don’t have a right to be there, I can’t argue what I did was legal. It’s the same thing with computers: you can’t use[a] data you don’t have a right to use.

[a]: legally use
On a log scale 1 is also halfway between 0 and infinity.
Same thing with “its” vs “it's”, I suspect. I got so confused once because of this, I started doubting which was which, so I looked it up. With the result that I now do an involuntary eye roll every time I see the wrong one.
"I'd prefer not to receive feedback right now. Could we discuss this next Monday instead?"
PG sure has been on a kick about how brilliant of an independent thinker he is in a sea of conformity.

It's clear in all of his writing that he's perpetually beating around the bush about some current itch he has, I wish he would just come out and say it with out pretending to be a deep thinker:

> Do you want to do the kind of work where you can only win by thinking differently from everyone else?

I mean, taken outside of this being a PG essay I would assume this means stay away from SV, but I suspect that's not really the point.

> One of the most effective techniques is one practiced unintentionally by most nerds: simply to be less aware what conventional beliefs are.

This essay is an object lesson in how this leads to profoundly conventional thinking. This entire thing reads like it was torn from the journal of a clever middle-schooler who thinks he's so much more clever then the world.

Right now Silicon Valley VC thinking is the dominant ideology, putting blinders on to what is considered convention isn't cultivating an independent mind, it's an assertion of the status quo.

> An essay that told people things they already knew would be boring.

I agree, but given how beloved rehashed versions of "aren't we the clever independent thinkers!" essays are here I think there is some empirical evidence to the contrary.
Late to reply here.

I don't disagree with you, but I think you may have misunderstood me. Which is my error for leaving my opinion so open to wide interpretation.

For clarity:

1. In any given field, there is a tendency to write in domain-specific language.

(Heck, I just did it by using the term "domain-specific language".)

To master any field you have to be willing to read that kind of stuff. 100%.

But I still say it's lazy to write in domain-specific language. If it's in any way possible to express an idea in such a way that anyone can understand it, that's the better way to do it. There may be times when that's impossible. But I choose to assume that any time I fail to write simply, the failure is my own.

2. I'm not advocating limiting yourself to reading simply-written things. I'm advocating limiting yourself to writing simply.

And I'm saying that writing simply is the harder thing to do.

For example, I tend to use various readability software to scan my writing. My first draft tends to score a university-level score. I then work very hard to find ways to say everything I wanted to say in such a way that I score a grade 9 level or lower.

3. Finally, back to my original point: Choosing what to read based on how easy or difficult it is to read is silly.

It doesn't prove whether the writer has something worth saying.

Plenty of difficult-to-read stuff is total garbage. Plenty of easy-to-read stuff is gold. The opposite is also true.
And certainly, Graham's YC became mostly a finishing school for elite-college grads. The nonconformism talk is easier than the walk.
It also allows, almost encourages, to people to find echo chambers of very like-minded people. Each subreddit has it's own version of conventional-mindedness, and is resistant to anyone saying anything outside those boundaries.
Of course, I agree in principle at someone could try to use "identity politics" to try to break up a union. I think in my country all or most of the arbitrary differences you list are "protected classes" and a company seeking to bust a union with such a method would find get in legal hot water pretty fast.

I have no idea how producing formal evidence can ever be counterproductive to your political position. That statement does not make sense to me.
People who don't realise its a knockoff. Both the consumer and the producer loses out. This isn't like copyright and patents, trademarks are there for protection of the consumer as much as the producer
No, faraday cages do not protect you from high speed charged particles. For that you need meters of water equivalent.
Yes, in fact we have a special version of bsearch to handle all the float corner cases, and part of that deals with the max being infinity [0], we can check that and then just try the largest finite floating point number.

[0] (https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby/blob/fde88d4019ab83716...)
I would be so happy to find Parmesan that‘s not named Parmesan, just for some more diversity. For example, I would prefer to avoid animal-based rennet if at all possible, but there is no real diversity in cheeses with a Parmesan-like flavor profile made with microbial rennet (I know of one such cheese and while it’s ok it’s also no amazing) and as far as I know Parmesan (actual Parmesan named Parmesan) with microbial rennet doesn’t exist.

There are probably hard-cheeses out there that have a Parmesan-like flavor profile and are made with microbial rennet but they are fiendishly difficult to find. The one I found I only did find because it markets itself explicitly as a Parmesan alternative with microbial rennet. But beyond that? And I can totally understand why cheese makers are reluctant to jump into that market if they can’t market themselves as that thing, even if they were perfectly capable of making that thing.

Overall it’s a difficult Problem to solve with no easy outs I can see.
Amazon Wants to Get Even Closer. Skintight
Some other senses in which 1 can be thought of as the "midpoint" between 0 and ∞ come from the many common ways to invertibly map an interval onto (0, ∞), in which the midpoint of that interval maps onto 1. For example:

• tan maps (0, π/2) onto (0, ∞), and tan(π/4) = 1.

• f(x) = x/(1 - x) maps (0, 1) onto (0, ∞), and f(1/2) = 1.

• exp is an isomorphism from the reals under addition to the positive reals under multiplication. 0 is the natural "midpoint" of the reals under addition, and exp(0) = 1.

(Closely related to that last one: when dealing only with positive numbers (and their limits 0 and ∞), it's natural to think of their group operation, multiplication, for which 1 is the identity, creating a symmetry between the numbers smaller than 1 and the numbers larger than 1 under reciprocation.)
Yes, big annoyance of mine is invites to events/streams/etc that start at 10:00 "mountain". What the fuck is that?
I just started reading the rest of this guy's blog and it's a delight - a proper old-school blog.
Portraits for Online Dating
Hello Guys.
If you don't have good photos for dating apps, you can find photographers in your city who specialize in dating photography.
“The Makers of Grana Padano do NOT Want You to See This!!!”
Not very popular nowadays, but saying "I don't know" or "I am not informed enough" is always an option. You make it out as if you have to have a perfectly individual and informed opinion on everything there is which is pretty much impossible.
Now that the real Trump is gone, US media is reduced to finding Trumps in other countries, to keep getting clicks and views. This is a particularly desperate attempt. Merz is not a populist by any measure, if anything he's the german Paul Ryan. Also love the old white man part. As opposed to other german political leaders, who are young black women?
Unravelling `Not` in Python
"Everyone is an independent thinker until they get punched in the prefrontal cortex”
Keep your beliefs if that makes you happy, I am not going to bother to straighten your "facts" again.
that was a superb set of brilliant advices... ty for your time to answer it
That is because >50% of internet traffic is bots. Mostly BS marketing tools, ad conversion scams and quack-security 'scans' from my experience. Pretty sure the entire captcha proliferation is to reduce fake clicks in google ads.

I've been working on ways to block bots from some websites I manage the hosting for. It is nearly impossible. I rate limit the hell out of most of the world and block a long list of fake user agents. Still like 40% of out traffic is bots.

>'legally challenge CAPTCHAs'

Probably not, depending on where you live etc. Here, in the netherlands only gov. websites are required to be accessible.
> Thinking for yourself is overrated as society is not built for it if you want to fit in.

I agree that if you want to fit in, thinking for yourself is counterproductive. But I also think society has more escape hatches for unconventionally minded people than it ever has, and if you don't care about fitting in the penalties have never been lower.
Is it helpful to differentiate Discovery vs. Invention?

When a scientist discovers a physical behavior, or a oceanographer a new species, it's a discovery that others could make. The phenomena exists, they happened to find it first.

When a composer invents, they are likely creating music that no other human would have created. If they hadn't composed it, it would never have existed.

Both of these activities seem to require an independent mind to be successful. Are they related? Or fundamentally different in some way?
What are the reasons Racket CS is, or at least used to be slower than Racket BS? Was the whole transition towards CS not primaritly to boost performance? Were expectations to high in this regard?
I really like @mentions in email. They help me find specific stuff relevant to me. And also makes it a second faster to include someone in the to line.

I wish they displayed better because in my org they show as “Prepend, Prependson (ABCD/YTD/Foo/Bar) (Contractor/Non-Contractor Status)” so it’s stupid looking in the body.
Yeah, I thought that was an intended behaviour before reading other comments.
These are hard sometimes for me, from UK:

What counts as a truck? Is a fire engine a truck, is a 4x4 (like a Landrover), a HGV (ie lorry), a box van?

What counts as a bus? Is a coach a bus, a minibus?

What counts as a bicycle? Is a pedal-and-pop (a pedal cycle with an engine)? The image shows part of a headset that might be on a bike, is that enough to call it a bike, might be a lightweight motorbike?

Is a hovercraft a boat? Is a helicopter an aeroplane (according to the people setting the question)? Do pedestrian facing lights count as traffic lights?

Then every now and again they add in an image that is, I assume, purposefully obscured (uniform noise) as if painted by an impressionist and titled "boring city with smog as viewed by someone with cataracts, there might be half a bicycle wheel in somewhere".
"State the impact" is the part I have the hardest time with. My first impulse is to judge. When I try to phrase it as a feeling instead, I feel vulnerable doing so.
You can think of it that way, sure, but since you want your computations to remain as fast as possible you don't want to use the full "double-precision" float everywhere, so that's where it gets tricky. You essentially want to translate everything to your local referential once and for all, then do everything with local coordinates if possible.

It's somewhat reminiscent of segmented memory in a way.
>Just 100 years ago, people were being forced to work on ships, in factories, on farms,

You know those jobs are still necessary, right? Still exist? People are just as forced into them now as they were in 1920 especially outside the developed world. You're complaining that life in antiquity was hard and attributing it to a failure of society.

What if it's just the nature of reality that life is hard, brutish, and short, and the slice of modernity we've enjoyed briefly for the last half century has been a reprieve offered by liberalism?

Also how do you even bundle anti maskers and authoritarians in one sentence? Anti maskers aren't telling people not to go to church or visit their families, or to die alone. The authoritarians are on the other side, like Mr Andrew Cuomo. He's the one literally persecuting Jews in New York for practicing their beliefs in a way that is politically unfashionable due to a disease with a 99.9% survival rate.

You might disagree with them but anti maskers are anti authoritarian. They are literally fighting authority.
Bluetooth Audio on OpenBSD with Creative BT-W3
I'm 99% sure the whole drill bit vs. holes analogy was created by a marketer. I could very well be wrong, but I've read it in countless marketing and copywriting books.

It's basically selling the benefit instead of the feature, which is what any half-decent marketer brings to the table. That's basically my simple idea of at least half of what I do as a marketer.

I'm curious though, and I don't mean this in a confrontational way at all. Why do you think marketers sell the bit vs the hole?
Works great on iPhone. Wonderful idea.
And I does not looks like a DDoS either, this amount of connections is quite normal for mid-sized apps, and connections can be kept open in case you app is slow, making your stats higher than it actually should be.

Btw, two servers plus a bit of architecture simplification solves this and cut the costs down to ~$400 or less.
> thus it requires strenuous effort to empathise

But does it? The strenuous effort part? Empathy doesn’t require strenuous effort, it can’t be that hard to relate to the core struggles of anyone you don’t know yet, surely you’d have to be some sort of magician to empathise at the granular level even with someone that looks like you (not sure how relevant that is but seems to be important to you), comes from the same school and now lives on the same block of flat as you do, as they could have gone through life having the complete adverse experience from yous, but at the core level, as long as you’re not some sort of social anosognostic, it’s not that hard to relate to what complete strangers from obscure environments feel/want/think like.

This is easily tested by simply taking a trip to some remote place you don’t speak the language and you’ll see how quickly empathy kicks in and how soon ‘conversations’ are happening where you totally relate to what they are going through perhaps not as much as they can relate to what you’re going through you lunatic explorer of the subconscious. Then with time as you learn their language, well, fuck it, as long as you are wearing some shade of grey you will fit right in where you are right now and wear your mask.
There are tons of insects with novel endosymbionts. For example, Camponotus ants have some novel endosymbionts - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8866472/ . There are even synthetic endosymbionts nowadays (e coli in yeast), and there are cytoplasmic parasites like Wolbachia that you could imagine evolving into an endosymbionts.

On the other hand, even if had only occurred 2x, ribosomes occurred 1x - all ribosomes are related to each other and didn’t evolve separately.
Fluent Polymorphism with Visible Type Applications
Leaders Control the Weather in Their Team
Agile Software Release Checklist Manifesto
So... the same as now
You win the internet, sir.
if you've ever been to a big company team building off-site you would know that not much has changed since 1937 in this regard. the company and all managers always expect you to be HYPED during office hours
How comparable is that to ignoring other countries trademarks/patents? Couldn't the same argument be used to justify Chinese patent/IP theft, as American patent law does not apply in China?

What are the legal difference here why one of these is defensible because of "not their jurisdiction", and the other is something whole economies get sanctioned over even tho patent jurisdiction also doesn't apply?
It’s also hard to cut and paste out of in person talking.
Yeah, that's what I thought. This is a measure of "how well you're using Microsoft software" so that Microsoft itself can use it to market more software and services to you.
As a consultant, breakdown the problem into to its constituent pieces ensuring that each part mutually exclusive, completely exhaustive (MECE) this approach helps to make sure the entire solution set is covered, nothing should be missed out or overlap. Of course this can be difficult when the solution set is extremely open ended or broad,but it's good for organising ideas
That's a pretty malicious motivation to attribute to OP without (as far as I can tell) evidence.
Repeated inbreeding within the 4th degree of kinship[1] is observably dysgenic too. A society's breeding mores have genetic as well as cultural effects. In fact the two are so closely intertwined I don't believe they can be practicably separated.

[1] Degrees are counted by how many nodes in the tree have to be traversed upward to reach the nearest common direct ancestor. For example siblings are second degree since the two siblings share a common ancestor. An uncle and nephew would be 3rd degree, first cousins 4th degree, and so on.
> The other day a major service gave me less than 10 seconds to solve a puzzle with a mouse in a maze and some cheese

Guessing you might be referring to the ones Epic uses[1], which indeed look terrible.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/EpicGamesPC/comments/ihiidp/new_mou...
> If we didn’t do what he said he threatened to call the police and report us for the things he was actually stealing from stock.

For the record, and the benefit of everyone else reading this who might be too young or naive to know what to do, when your boss commits an actual felony (extortion) on you, you do not "report to their HQ". You go straight to the police.
Starlink Phased Array Terminal Teardown
I don't think that's right. There is absolutely no way that a SNES can, with just "a bit more memory", perform the same computation as a Silicon Graphics workstation of the time. That's like saying you could write a library's worth of books without a printing press if you just had a bit more ink for your pen. No, you couldn't. You would grow old and die long before completion, even if you wrote every second of every day of your entire life.
> I believe that Filipe, the current maintainer of both JACK versions, plans to unify these features.

If you don't mind me asking: With PipeWire on the horizon, do you think this will still be a useful thing to spend time on?
Product Owner Is a Bad Bad Idea
Shut Your Face, They’re Reading What? – EBrand Me
Some answers here - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4011006/

TL;DR prokaryotes can grow faster due to the structure of their genome. Also, biology doesn’t care what works best, it only cares about what works
There's a pretty big difference between an executive with insider knowledge etc and us 'normal' people.
I have a kid and what you're describing doesn't fit what I'm seeing. Don't get me wrong; my kid isn't exceptionally gung-ho about learning but there's a social element to school that is very appealing. Heck I'm working remote and I see it in myself.

And as an aside I think that social side is the best part of school. A large measure of what my daughter has learned isn't as I've said any love of knowledge in the abstract sense but because that's what the kids she's friends with do and she relates to them and wants to continue to relate to them.
Amazon servers are doing the hard work of voice-to-text understanding.
> However I'm now in situations where the world is divided and asking questions (in order to make my own mind up) is considered some kind of admission of guilt for being part of the "other".

I think this is partly because the rules or conventions that allowed rational discussion in good faith have been hacked by those acting in bad faith. The sad truth is that good faith discussion has been utterly rhetorically hijacked by things like "just asking questions" so when someone is genuinely asking questions you are assumed to be acting in bad faith. I have no idea what the answer to that is other than to find people you can trust to have these conversations with. And the danger is a lot of the people you think you can trust are just more people acting in bad faith.
The Cost of Technical Debt
I see this as a proxy for building trust with someone. Positive feedback tells me that I am appreciated by this person, and that they care enough to let me know. If I trust that someone cares about my needs, then I am less likely to hear "negative" feedback as blame, or doing the wrong thing.
Any business that may potentially compete with Microsoft (or Google) would be pretty foolish to use their non-e2e cloud services to go about doing so.

We've seen how that ends for Amazon sharecroppers.

I'm also not 100% sure about your main claim regarding white collar jobs. There may be a majority of positions that use the MS ecosystem, but there are still very very many that don't, even if they are marketshare-wise only 10%.

Really, I think it's mostly just Excel, and maybe Sharepoint. You're absolutely right that there is no great Excel competitor.
How does monogamy increase the mixing of genes? Surely polyamory (everyone having multiple partners, not just men) mixes genes more? And doesn't monogamy also reduce the pressure of natural selection?
PG will never go on the record expressing any actually transgressive thoughts.
I can confirm the 666 bus - I go to the Hel peninsula often and it always makes me laugh
Insights on what to take into account when developing e-mobility platform
My experience with the same thing (learning Japanese) has been less than stellar. My rote memory has always been fairly poor, to the extent that I believe my relative academic success compared to my peers has come from being forced to attain a deeper understanding of topics just so I can derive test answers from base principles. I find going through the Anki decks to be seriously draining, especially when encountering the same words I've seen a dozen times and still can't readily recall what the hell they mean. However I've yet to discover a better method for me, since I am not enthusiastic about the idea of immersing myself in Japanese media for large amounts of my free time.
"Although training is currently optional, businesses and organizations are beginning to face citations due to non-compliance with OSHA's guidelines regarding Workplace Violence.[3][4]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_shooter_training
There are international conventions & treaties, to which the US is a signatory, that codify international trademark and IP law.
> What's the point in working if you're going to be paid in breadcrumbs?

Being able to eat. "Breadcrumbs" for you or me might not be worth it, but for someone else it could be the difference between buying food that the supermarket or stealing ketchup packets from a fast food store.
"Chez Scheme is one of the oldest Scheme implementations, and its evolution informed many parts of the Scheme standard through R6RS. (Racket's influence on the Scheme standard, in contrast, is limited to aspects of the R6RS library design.)..."

Why did Chez and Racket embrace R6RS, a standard widely rejected by the rest of the Scheme community?

Also, why did Racket choose Chez over some other high-performance Schemes, like Chicken?

Finally, how many Racket and Chez users are there compared to those of other Schemes?
Seems like disabling uBlock Origin made this work for me