skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet it is still incredibly misleading and dishonest.

That should really teach you something about relying on the style of presentation for judging whether a claim is reasonable. In this case, it's garbage.
Don't miss my very last paragraph. :)

To elaborate:

The total AMOUNT of wealth is growing, and its uneven distribution makes my point even more obvious.

Explain to me how you'd expect to get the following services in a "everyone has FU money with no robots doing the work":
Car repair, lawn mowed, anything built, groceries checked out, actually, anything at all.

The only reason these things work is because there's enough unequal distribution that _someone_ has to do something they don't really want to do, in order to give someone else something they'd like to have.

The traditional job is something that nobody wants to pay for doing, but almost everyone want to pay for having done.. In order for anyone to DO that job, they have to be poor enough to accept trading in their time for money.

I'm super lucky, as I'm almost doing the same thing at my job as I'd be doing in my free time, but I still take money for it, because, after all, I'd be writing slightly more interesting (to me) code if it was my hobby. It's just that my hobby won't make me rich, because my hobby is not in trying to turn a profit on my hobby.
So are you saying that since the big majority of people in the world will never get to your kind of net worth (2 mil++) they will never have real freedom?

Glad that we agree, that's what I believe too and that's why I strongly hate capitalism.

You aren't free at all unless you have enough capital to stop being forced to take any job offer just to survive.
> I know especially Java people object to this as they’re trained in a different culture and say that a method name should rather include a lot of details of the functionality “to help the user”...

There's this. But there's a stronger argument for more columns in Java: The standard library itself uses very long names, so you can't escape them, and the syntax of the language creates many levels of indentation even when you avoid things like nested conditionals and loops.[1] No matter what you do with your own coding conventions and naming, Java ends up feeling cramped in 80 columns all by itself.

In general, though, I heartily agree with the article. I just disagree with the tacit assumption that one size fits all. Make your code as skinny as is feasible, but no skinnier. My Java code's 100 columns, but my only strongly-felt complaint about Black is that I think Python code is happier at 80 columns.

[1]: For example: An if-statement within a try-block within a method within a nested class. That's five levels all by itself, probably with no straightforward way to refactor your way out of it.
Alpha animals must bow to the majority when they abuse their power
Son, father farm to feed neighbors during lockdown in India
Boot sector flappy bird game by Oscar Toledo: https://github.com/nanochess/fbird (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p31XFFAeze4)
> There are standardised variants of grammar and orthography, not necessarily of pronunciation.

It usually directly translates to pronunciation as that's a rather big part of spoken Hochdeutsch.

> Does this really still happen nowadays?

Yes, a lot. Thick Bavarian accents are often considered intelligible in the rest of Germany. Even inside Bavaria dialects can range from "easily understandable" like a lot of Franconian, to something so thick that even other Bavarian's might struggle with understanding, like some regional Upper Palatine dialects.

Often even small towns will have their very own accents.

> Sure, but I guess that's the price you pay for diversity, one I'm personally glad to pay.

I guess I'm just too utilitarian for that, my ideal version of humanity would speak one common language to improve cooperation and understanding among each other.

Dialects are cool and interesting, but there are already so many languages to learn, expecting people to learn a whole bunch of dialects for each of those, in addition to the language itself, is quite an impossible task for the vast majority of people who don't learn languages for a living.
pass has excellent terminal UX (shell completion), can be versioned using git. Currently it's a perfect fit for me in the private environment, because I keep browsers 100% jailed and all passwords out of browser context (so I wouldn't use a pass<>browser integration in any case).

For multi-user, however, I use 1password. Its vault sharing and management, federation under an organization, onboarding/offboarding controls etc are a must-have when you have hundreds of people needing to share passwords. All organizations I've worked in before that had more than 20 users, any less-featureful alternative was absolutely not tenable. It becomes a shitshow as soon as teams cannot get SSO for internal systems under one roof and start trading credentials, or when teams have to trade API keys and so on because of disjunct secret management processes/platforms (unifying 1000s of developers and 100s of teams doesn't happen that fast, if at all). As of now, we have read-only vaults that internal customers can access right there on the desktop, in which we provide secrets that are being rotated, updated, etc in sync with our backend system password management, over 1password API. If 1p has one use for my team at my company presently, it's not so much the great password management, but as a corporate-approved terminal for end-user secrets, like API keys, and so on.
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I guess it depends where your priorities lie, but this effort seems _more_ sustainable to me because it can run most proprietary android apps, and everything on F-Droid right out of the box.

PureOS has to try and reimplement an entire mobile app ecosystem just to get to parity with existing competitors.
Sadly I don't have the time currently to read the entire article, but I did look at the intro and the recipe. I think if the author is looking for the proper cronchy non-floppy texture, the double fry is more important than the beef tallow. What the author may not realize is that part of the benefit of the commercial frozen frys is that they generally come par-fried before they were frozen
The link is misleading garbage, and was retracted.
Thank you! This is something I want to support and there is some WIP code for it. Currently I'm only waiting on Wasmtime (the WASM runtime used by Lunatic) to get support for shared memory.

Regarding the question about sending code, this also can be implemented. Wasm allows you to share function indexes (pointers) and dynamically call them.
> It was the corona virus of its time.

I wouldn’t go this far.
I live in a sorta expensive area (East Coast U.S.) and have managed to save >60% of my income every year since starting to work, even when I "only" made $65,000 a year. I did it by following a lot of the advice at mrmoneymustache.com.

If I do not retire early and continue on this path, I would probably reach $3.5mil by age 50.
Yes, that prompt me to try to search for it as it was 'odd' if not suspicious.
Further more, if the OP wanted to post it as a way of promoting discussion around covid19 death tracking, he could have used the link with the watermark 'retracted' that is available from the rebuttal article.
I've never heard the term "runbook" before, but it sounds very useful. Thanks!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runbook
A mother’s postnatal depression can be passed on to the father
In this case, garbage data.
Even if we had fusion working already, a fusion powerplant would be expensive to build - comparable to a similar sized fission plant. At a conservative estimate of $2 Billion per GW, that $250B/yr would take more than a century just to build enough reactors to replace current fossil fuel consumption. Realistically, fusion is unlikely to be cost competitive with other power sources outside of niche applications. Even if fusion winds up powering our civilization in the future, something else will have to act as a stop-gap.
Most people don’t have that much empathy. Most of them don’t even want it. (I certainly don’t want it.) Your solution is basically adding terms for other people to everyone’s utility function. It would require a super-Orwellian effort to pull that off. The truth is that there is no panacea at all, and we need to design sound game theoretic mechanisms for every single thing we care about.
thanks. It started to work again, so only a temporary failure.
New ski tuning equipment, new skis/boots for the family. Some Legos for the kids.
> and the virus is now in retreat, a large-scale study of more than 100,000 volunteers showed on Monday.

This seems irresponsible by Reuters. Saying the "virus is in retreat" implies that there's some non-zero threshold below which the virus will be eradicated with the passage of time. There is still a massive number of community cases (almost 1000 per 100k according to the article) which threaten to exponentiate again as restrictions are eased.
> overblown, misleading, and potentially outright lies

I agree with you that her claims could be wrong, but please watch the original source material (https://youtu.be/3TKJN61aflI) - I think she is being much more nuanced that you're giving her credit for. She is presenting her findings, showing exactly how she did it, and asking for feedback ("I hope I hear more from people who have done more than me" - 43:10).

You can follow her workflow and disagree - and probably will! But that's ok - that's how science works. I look forward to many well-written posts going through her analysis and showing alternate interpretations. I'm guessing she looks forward to this too.
The post leaves a question unanswered:

Are you displeased of not having passions because you think it would be a nice, healthy thing to have? Or is it because you have the impression that people that are passionate about something have an easier time monetizing it, and your ventures are failing because of it?

Also, are you sharing this to get some thoughts on the matter? Or to get views for the post and potentially get people to subscribe to your newsletter?

The fact that it's even a question is a big hint of what's wrong with chasing business above everything: you might not even know which of your interactions are genuine anymore. Genuine interactions are a human need, and they are fully incompatible with ulterior motives.
> as I'd never be sure my opponent wasn't just putting the moves into a computer and playing whatever it told him to play.

As mentioned, cheaters are detected and banned.

But from another perspective, cheater or not doesn't matter. You know you are playing against someone you have a statistical chance to beat. Same thing in Starcraft where people use map hacks. Who cares? The ranking system matches you with people you have a chance to beat. The challenge lies before you, and unfair advantages or not, there is good reason to believe you can succeed if you play your best game. Play to improve, play to have fun. Sometimes you will lose, no matter how strong you become this fact remains. And if you ever reach a point you believe you can only lose due to cheating, seek mental help.
I agree with you, I have the same feeling about Spofity, it's algorithm just doesn't work for me, I have to search somewhere else for recommendations.
> We need widespread renewable electricity generation first anyway. Otherwise our electric cars will be running on coal.

Even this is preferable to internal combustion engines. ICEs really aren’t very efficient, and electric car is easily 3x more energy efficient than an ICE. Which means that’s even if you include transmission losses and heat losses at a coal power station, you’re still ahead. Because of coal power stations are significantly more efficient than ICE.

All that is ignoring the other benefits like being able to perform carbon capture at source, filtering waste gasses for pollutants etc. Additionally as the grid gets greener, so does your electric car. Something that will never be true of an ICE car.

> Lithium batteries will pollute the world. We will exploit impoverished counties and extract their lithium reserves while destroying their environments.

This is clearly a concern, and thankfully we’re taking big steps to reduce the amount of rare Earth metals needed to manufacture batteries. Additionally that largest produces of lithium aren’t small countries, they’re places like China and the US.

But heavy metal pollution, and toxins produced through the refining process are still a serious concern. But I would argue less a concern than CO2 release. At least the heavy metals a d toxins can be easily contained, they don’t have a tendency of floating into the atmosphere and spreading around the earth.

Simple fact is that modern western society is currently unsustainable, just because we don’t have all the answers, and don’t have perfect solutions, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. I suspect even you wouldn’t be prepared to make the sacrifices needed for a sustainable future using only the technology we have readily available to us today.
Totally recommend the MicroG-LineageOS fork [1], if your phone model is in the supported list (all devices supported by LineageOS). As a daily-driver.

I bought my current phone (Asus) because it was supported, after I had successfully used it on my MotoG for years (2-3 ? Not sure).

Very happy to have no Google spying in my phone anymore. Some apps requires some Google services that are not supported so they will not work but not a problem for me.
The most problematic thing is the lack of push notification but it is perfect if you don't want to be distracted.

[1] https://lineage.microg.org/
New X-ray technique reveals clues about ancient 1,900-year-old mummy
China’s TikTok bootstrapped its flywheel
Germany is not set up to have people get rich from a salary. Everyone has a comfortable life, but it's very hard to get "rich." That's one of the reasons I left Germany
I do the same thing! One year, it gave me a reason to really understand Javascript. Another time I learned Go. Last year, it was the 50th anniversary of the release of the first PDP-11, so I'm still going through and writing the solutions in bare-metal PDP-11 assembly.
Tesla EVs were marketed to the upper-middle class as a status symbol based on cutting-edge looks and performance, and to merely 'signal' environmental consciousness. Most people I know who aspire to own one work in finance and consulting roles, and don't really care that much about the environment, they just want something cool. The poser environmentalism just comes along for the ride.

Likewise, when people upgrade to the latest iPhone every generation, they aren't thinking about their recycling program, let alone the environmental cost of extraction of rare earth materials, or the workers at Foxconn.

That Elon Musk didn't bother working on the waste part of the equation, doesn't surprise me.
Aeolipile, steam turbine invented in the first century AD by Heron of Alexandria
Yeah, I think I first experienced it with Jekyll, but the author mentions it being specific to Hugo.
But since most index funds are market cap weighted, wouldn't the other 495 companies (assuming s&p 500 index, if you buy a all-cap index it might be 2000+ companies) go up the same % as well?
That theory doesn't make much sense. For example, surely Amazon has a lot more room to grow than Coca Cola.
But the point is the concentration in the top 5 stocks has increased relative to recent years.
Ok, I think the issue is that people really just don't read anymore :)

First paragraph, second sentence:

"Not a framework, nor bound to any specific use case, environment or even language, it's a vast and mature set of complementing code libraries, which has organically grown to approx. 250 sub-projects"

As for the topic search: The search box says "search by topic" (fuzzy search) - the tags in the tag cloud are all clickable. Is that really not obvious (even though it's also mentioned in the text)? Click on "typescript" to only show typescript projects etc.

As for the example projects. This is also explained in the text. This work is ongoing. There're another 150 or so projects to be added (just my own). For community submissions there is & will be: http://awesome.thi.ng/ (currently just linking to the submission form)
Agree completely -- MATLAB is slow to start and is a memory hog. The language itself is horrible (which is why I prefer to use another language for complex back-end computation). Libraries for reading and writing formatted data are a joke (try reading a large XML or JSON file; or even a large CSV file with a mix of numeric and string fields); etc., etc.

But it is just so good for visualization that I am willing to suffer its other problems. For example, try the below and zoom in / out / resize in both MATLAB and Octave:

n = 2000000; x = rand(1, n); y = rand(1, n); plot(x, y, '.')
It seems like KaiOS would actually be worse for privacy. Same apps but less ability to toggle permissions.

What makes you interested in it?
Sure, but why do consumers need the government to tell them this is a valuable aspect of the technology they've purchased. It they don't value it they don't value it, having the government mandate and tell you what's good for you helps no one in the long run.

The big companies have no real problem complying with the regulations, it's quite clear that consumers don't actually give a damn. All you've now succeeded in doing is making sure any startup has a tonne of bureaucratic nonsense to wade through to get it right.

What you need to do is identify where a transaction has not been made between two parties for fair recompense. One potential area is to say that without adequate repair cover you are now forced to dispose of your electronics and pay for the safety disposal so that it does not pollute the environment for everyone else. Then a consumer might see the need for repair rights and make an informed value decision.

Assuming that top down legislation will not have some unforeseen interaction that drives terrible outcomes is the fallacy of big government, it just consistently fails at it, I've seen it so many times over my life time that it's farcical.

As an anecdotal example; circa 2011 the australian goverment brought in legislation to make portable A/C units more efficient. Great, right? Wrong, the government in it's infinite ineptitude managed to word so that it only effected dual vent portable A/C units and left single vent A/C units unaffected. Instead of making dual vents more energy efficient the companies pulled all dual vents from the market and now you can only get single vents which are woefully inefficient. This is not the companies faults, they did exactly what you would expect them to do. The government fixed the legislation 11 months ago but unfortunately we can still not get dual vent A/C at all in Australia.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
—Mary Oliver, Summer Day

https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laur...
I really love the spacing and typography on this site. No bullshit, just clear and concise content. Wish more sites were like this.
You don't have to have that high of a net worth if your spending is lower. You only need to save 25x your annual spending to retire. If you only spend $30,000/year, you only need $750,000 to retire.
Are there any good DICOM viewers for Linux? I had an excellent one for macOS a few years ago, but have migrated off that platform.
I really don't undestand this "that's how it's supposed to work". Baseline doesn't grow, it only gets worse.
Why the hell my landlord, just by the virtue of being born 30-40 years before, was able to afford buying a nice apartment, while working without education, for which I am giving away today a third of my net salary and with 0 chances of buying one, ever?
That sounds like something an anti-vaxxer would say; haha just kidding
Happy to entertain equally succinct counter proposals :)
Most people would like to make enough money not to worry about ever needing to make money; but where does that leave this guy. He has no other interests for when he is finally "rich enough" to stop working?

Interesting read nonetheless.
I think you're being over sensationalist. In today's world I think it's healthy to assume someone is trying to reach for the truth instead of assuming malice. She's trying to present her findings and asking for feedback. I don't think that should be demonized - we've all been wrong before. Please watch the video.
>In many ways, the wealth of the average person living today
>is much greater than kings and emperors living centuries
>ago.

I dunno man, I'm average and can't afford N wives, have someone do my dishes, clothes, own and tend thousands of hectares of land for me, father 12 children.

Maybe i'm reading about different kings than you do.
Agreed, freedom and autonomy to do what I want and like is what really makes me happy and money is simply a means to that end. I'm still just getting started and nowhere near where I want to be so the hustle continues...
I should've mentioned these were (and are) mostly midrange to high end stuff.

The cheaper models are the ones that go straight to scrap, because they're unfixable - poor electronics with no water protection, low quality bearings and drum spiders that fail catastrophically (and the drums are welded instead of using bolts = unfixable) and counterweights that simply crumble.

I get it when they break and there's no other choice but to chuck them. But throwing away good appliances is just unthinkable for me. I use them all until they fail, fix them and use them some more, until they're unfixable :D

Worst case, I'd try to sell them for cheap or give them to someone who needs them, there's plenty of people in every country.

The efficiency of washers and dishwashers has been the same for about two decades now. There's simply nothing that can be improved inside.

Dryers have had a decent improvement with heat pumps, other than that, it's the same design that's been around for decades.
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And as I told you, there are the undecided who think that the topic is important, want to learn more, but lack the context. And we will go again in circles.
It looks version 21 (!) will remove support for Python 2.7 - now that should be interesting...
Is it all over India?
NHC – Record breaking 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season comes to a close
Any idea how they survived this long? They appear to be exposed to the elements, and they're paintings rather than carbings. I'd have expected rain, wind, and plants to have destroyed them after a hundred centuries, but they look fresh and sharp.

Were they covered somehow? Are they protecting them now?
these numbers are crazy
I guess it depends on your job. I have significant control over what I do and at least a decent chunk of it is stuff I would enjoy doing anyway. (Normally) I like to travel and like having a lot of interactions with peers at my own and other companies. Bureaucracy is annoying but not overly so. Not to say I won't retire--I will--but I'm also not in a big hurry and could probably negotiate some incremental time off if that became a big issue.
Tell me when Microsoft is bankrupt.

They were one of the first to do that, and have been doing for more than a decade, while profits only increase.

Then Google, Apple and Amazon.
This post reads like a long humble-brag to me. "Oh how I wish I could stop being so successful in everything I do!"
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Lockdown effectiveness sometimes appears to be mysterious without additional data. I live in Portugal and so far the 2nd wave lockdown was not as effective as it should have been, but from what I personally observe people are extremely compliant.

I guess in the case of Portugal family reunions against the government's advice could be a factor. It seems hard to get the relevant data, though.
Aye, I recall several studies about it. The one that sticks out the most is an Army study about how sleep deprived soldiers performed tasks (driving, etc.) at a capacity similar to someone who was legally drunk.