skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd only say don't be too quick to draw conclusions without reading the book. :-) I don't play video games myself; last I played was more than ten years ago. But I don't think it is a "waste of time" at all, when done with the "right mindset" (as kibwen alludes to in this thread).

As the old saying goes, "moderation curbs all vices" (normally attributed to Leonardo da Vinci; but, of course, he was riffing on the ancient Greek virtue of "sôphrosune"—temperance).
Minor nitpick: meditation is not about stopping the chatter but observing the chatter, not clinging to thoughts and then letting them go.
As a German I’ve always found “verschlimmbessern” very clunky and awkward, but it is pretty widespread, so you get used to it. That’s usually not the case in discussions like this, for example the famous “Wanderlust” isn’t really a thing in German, although it is a feasible, natural sounding compound.

An English neologism might be something like “imporse(n)” or maybe “imperiorate”. Personally that sounds more sophisticated to me. “Imporsement” or “imperioration” could be the nominalisations (what’s the noun for “worsen”?).
You still need a license to create new accounts on the official servers. So if you want to be in the official network, you have to pay.
That sounds like a security nightmare. How do you handle out of bound security patches?
Being rotten, never stopped anyone.

The biggest problem is that money can get easily into China, but not so easily out of it.
>prices run away from you

I've found that stuff a lot. People forget that on the other end of the price is a thinking human or robo delegate thereof trying to outsmart you. It's really hard to say what will happen until you try it with real money / assets.
Just a small point of information... the author says the embodied energy of a laptop is about 3000 - 4000 Megajules. That turns out to be just about the average monthly electricity consumption for a typical American home.
I think that’s because the original brand of MSG anywhere is Ajinomoto 味の素 which means essence of flavor. 味塩 is the same thing but comes mixed with salt.
Currently down (database error). https://web.archive.org/web/20201221102928/https://planetsto...
Side topic:

I see references everywhere (including this article) that the "co-founder of CentOS started a new distribution: Rocky Linux".

I am not familiar with the history of CentOS, so I tried to understand who Gregory Kurtzer is, and to be honest, I am still not quite sure what he did for CentOS.

My understanding is that he helped start the project and more or less helped it grow during the first 2 years, then was somehow removed from the leading board?

https://blog.centos.org/2019/03/greg-kurtzer-centos-founder/

This story is very unclear to me. It seems McGaugh started CentOS, and then handed it over to "someone in the UK" instead of Gregory Kurtzer.

https://en.m.wikinews.org/wiki/Gregory_Kurtzer_discusses_pla...

The second article make it seem like McGaugh was some kind of employee of Kurtzer:

> One of our developers, Rocky McGaugh, quickly rebuilt the sources in RHEL to give us a stable foundation. That was the beginning of CentOS

I really don't want to start a flame war here, just curious of understanding who this guy is really.
I said sardonically to a friend that with a strong authoritarian state, the protests don't occur or don't make the news, so thank you police state for our cheap gadgets. And yeah, our consumerist mindset traps us too: if faced with 2 phones of similar capabilities, 1 costs 500, 1 costs 200, which would you pick? (Even the more expensive product doesn't mean better working conditions for the factory workers, just for the Silicon Valley bug coders)

Talking about exploitation, imagine condition of the miners of the minerals needed for the phones..
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The takeaway is that it's not always possible to think about all the cases it's worth it to contact the person.
At the end of the day it's one phone call or email. Mild inconvenience for potentially life changing chance or information. As long as it's a persona in a position like a doctor o researcher making a call I am happy to waste a minute of my life trusting their judgement.

I don't really like where the EU privacy laws are going. I want "try to be reasonable" option. If they are not I can always tell them to delete my contacts later.
There is a automatic restart option in systemctl that solves this exact issue -

[Service]
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s
Taiwan Wistron, Taiwan Foxconn.

It does not matter whether it's a communist China or democratic Taiwan it's all the same just to squeeze some dollars at the expense of human lives.

Is it so hard to pay reasonable wages even for low skilled labor in a 3rd world country?

Sadly there's no real alternative other than not buying anything from anyone.
Sadly I didn't have the time to read it all, but I note that your authors also talk of a cultural-based "shift in speed of artifact change 300‐200 ka" and maybe (or maybe not) also another (?) cognition-upgrade based shift 100-45 ka, which would be that "creativity explosion" that you are talking about ?

They also talk about individual learning as a third mode, which somewhat ironically seems to be what the autism article is talking about... except the conditions for it are genetically based ! (But I guess so is the transition to mostly social learning?)

EDIT : Hmm, and since autism is "anti-social" (and also probably generally anti-survival and anti-reproduction), may it be that it was only once that large, stable, strong social groups were put in place starting with 300-200 kya, that the conditions for "autistic specializations" could emerge starting with 100-45 kya, and this is what in turn turbocharged inventions leading to the "creativity explosion" ? The autism article would make a lot of sense under this light !

Anyway, perhaps we can't cleanly separate nature and nurture, see also recent discoveries somewhat rehabilitating Lamarckian inheritance.

Also, my author in a parallel article says :

https://loukeep.substack.com/p/vagaries

> The first modern human bones are in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, 300 kya. H. rhodiensis - the African variant of heidelbergensis - disappears at around this same time. There are just-about-simultaneously collections found in the Rift Valley, Kenya, that point to incredibly “modern” behavior[1], including pigment production and obsidian distant enough to suggest trade networks. Once, I think, it could be maintained that some kind of “great leap forward” in human behavior took place some 60,000 years ago or so. I don’t particularly understand how one can keep that up now.

[1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6384/90
Both of these presuppose "ignoring inertia" is possible. It isn't, so both can be ruled out.

Pais' work is obvious crackpot nonsense. Whatever objects the pilots saw, or think they saw, weren't actually breaking the laws of physics even if they appeared to be.
I do not understand this reasoning and divide between student and post-student for lack of a better word. I have math/cs education, have worked both in startups and big companies, in the front-end, rendering and ai in the (“serious”) game industry. I have always worked on exactly these sort of educational projects on my own and it’s a complete joy: git client from scratch - yep, useless, but extremely educational, jit for befunge - same, etc etc.
I am extremely happy people still engage and do “useless”stuff and HN is for me a big inspiration in that sense.
I guess people downvote since the bias against "web dev" is too strong. It isn't like computer graphics, geophysics, CAD or data compression are particularly hard spaces to work on for a software engineer. And if we talk about FAANG in particular, it isn't like they hire people who couldn't hack it in the other fields. I choose to work at Google over other more "pure" tech companies since Google had smarter coworkers and allowed me to work on more pure technical problems. But I bet that some of the people I worked with before would repeat what
killtimeatwork said, thinking their company is somehow special just because they sell products instead of web services.

Edit: About small more "pure" tech companies, what I learned is that they mostly sell shit. Success was more based on ability to bullshit customers than technical merit.
It’s not about what you /could/ do, it’s that for 1-offs 3D has an advantage but for 1000+ off injection moulding is just fundamentally better.

Now, 3D printing metal moulds and using them for injection moulding could be interesting...
I think it takes two to tango here.

You do need an employer who cares about their employees, treats them fairly, supports and encourages a great atmosphere etc.

You absolutely need enthusiastic, motivated and pleasant employees too though. Employees create the atmosphere as much as the employer.

Now you could flip this and say a good employee should be good at hiring, but IMHO that’s kinda just the same thing.
This becomes especially true with various mental health issues. Take for instance, ADHD - I've found employers love the intensity and focus I can have sometimes (leading to extreme productivity), yet when it comes to the fact that some days I just can't focus or have an intense weekend to blow off steam and am useless on Mondays, they throw a hissy fit.

They seem to think that if I can be 200% focused some of the time, why can't I be like that all of the time?

For some it's all take take take.
I strongly disagree. I know nothing about math, yet I'm able to solve almost all the puzzles. The only time this year I was stuck because of math was a puzzle that required knowing about the Chinese remainders theorem, and even then, I've seen users solve the problem with their own intuitive method (which was obviously not as efficient as the theorem, but valid nonetheless).
I was able to view anyone’s private email and birthday on Instagram
I do use zsh, but I could care less for the fancy features, which I mostly ignore.

In fact my shell dotfiles are mostly compatible with both, and when they’re not I managed to backport the interesting bits to bash.

TBH I use zsh only because it’s the default in macOS, where bash is both ancient and deprecated.

But zsh is not “simple enough”. The gajillion features are just dead weight and needless complexity to me.
Greg Kurtzer has done a lot of other stuff since leaving CentOS though, mostly in the HPC sphere. He worked at Lawrence Berkeley lab and started Warewulf for cluster admin. He started Singularity (basically Docker for HPC).
And the states are not?
Apple itself pay their contractors shit. Apple investigating? give me a break! i used to work at a Dell repair depot. Dell contracted out to make repair for their stuffs. Dell pay the contractor shit and that in turn make their contractor pay their employees shit. i work in the IT dept of repair depot so my salary isn't like the front line workers. believe me when i said company like Apple, Dell, HP...etc. use contractor like Wistron is because they can pay as little as possible and pocket in as much as they can.

Apple doesn't care about the working people.
It's interesting how you are so convinced of it even though it's easy to come up with scenarios assuming about any ethical system where privacy concerns are less important.

I gave them something dangerous during the trial and they didn't agree to a follow up. I discovered they need treatment now or they will die (may happen with a poisoning for example). I am still contacting them and I surely hope you would too.
I believe in this case your reasoning is flawed, because all countries will be quick to shut down flights with the UK and no politician in the UK wants that.
This is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but predictions are notoriously hard to do.

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

"The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys." -- Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876.

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" -- H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
India wanted phones to be produced locally, so they got what they asked for
> Thus, if you're looking to get started with programming in Common Lisp, then there are 2 options:

The author misses the third, most classical, and constantly useful option: doing it all yourself. Despite the scary name, there's not all that much to do, and this approach is the most widely supported in the community. The checklist is:

* SBCL/CCL (from your package manager or from official binaries),

* Quicklisp (by downloading it from https://quicklisp.org/),

* Emacs (in any preferred way),

* Slime/Sly (manually, or via `(ql:quickload quicklisp-slime-helper)`, or via using an Emacs distribution, such as Spacemacs with its common-lisp layer, which already contains preconfigured slime/sly).

There, you're good to go.

Using some sort of toolkit which enables interactive and incremental programming (such as Swank/Slynk on the Lisp side and any Slime/Sly client on the editor side) is an ABSOLUTE MUST while doing Lisp. If you're allergic to Emacs and therefore can't use Slime/Sly, use:

* slimv/vlime for vim,

* Alive for VSCode,

* Slyblime for Sublime,

* atom-slime for Atom.
Jesus, plenty of programmers are not creative. Majority really don't have problem they need to solve for themselves. They however want to learn and challenge themselves with variety of exercises.

Why would you took offense in that or why would you assume that everyone is trying to build company is beyond me.

In any case, this list is literally for programmers. It is not for founders. It is not meant to earn you money. It is list of small enough challenging projects that force you to learn new technical skills.
Small screens have small letters, small icons, etc. My eyesight is very good, but working on such a screen is uncomfortable after an extended amount of time (unless you lower the resolution significantly).
Nice overview of how these small software projects are sold. I'm also curious to read about the other side of the transaction; who buys these small projects and how do they monetize them further?
This is wild. Wonder if it'll be more of a thing for one-off marketing pushes or whether it'll actually cultivate returning customer bases for the specific products?
Sure but plenty of people are attracted to programming because they are not creative. Pretending that they don't exist or pretending that everyone is great at everything is not accurate.
It’s a fact that the overwhelming majority of foreign attacks stem from China. Moderator ought to flag this CCP propaganda
ROBERT was used in the first app too.
Something like this is simply unacceptable.
Why is there no public outrage towards Apple? We are all so willing to publicly denounce Nike, Nestle and co., yet no one wants to raise a word against Apple?
Some well-known existing work in this exact area:

https://github.com/kiselgra/c-mera

https://github.com/eudoxia0/cmacro (Written in Common Lisp, doesn't use S-exp syntax)

https://github.com/tomhrr/dale (Prev disc: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14079573)

Newer stuff:

https://github.com/saman-pasha/lcc (No mention of meta-programming)

Lesser known:

https://github.com/deplinenoise/c-amplify (No docs, no update since 2010)
High Performance Quantum Computing
At moment the API is not free to use, sadly
Links to The Times of India article:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/violence-...

Good on them. Smash it up, make noise and don't let Apple ignore this. No doubt they respond with the usual "When we worked with factories promising us cheap labour and massive profit we didn't realise people and the planet would be exploited. No one could have known".
Yes, I was specifically arguing against the point "you extracted money from the society and therefore made it worse off".

This argument is often raised and it's based on the idea that if you make a lot of money you're somehow exploiting others.
I believe GPU would be more expensive, it would increase human labor too much.

CPU is universal and has more RAM. Optimizing very sophisticated ray tracing for GPU with tiny amount of VRAM could be very tricky. It is easier to do dirty code on CPU, and wait for couple of weeks.

Apple also had spare CPU cycles. This stuff could run overnight in background.
Communication. I don't have a good script, but basically, ask questions. "What upsets you about it the most?" - that expresses understanding, compassion and offers a metaphorical shoulder to cry on. People love attention and talking about themselves, so they'll tell you.
They should’ve sent the phones to Apple to investigate.
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You clearly have very limited experience with woman. Claiming that all woman are or are not X (for any X) shows that your view of woman is simple enough to almost be a caricature. I am interested in what evidence you have for “we’re biologically programmed to understand ...” I have never heard or seen any evidence for that. So it would be interesting to see what evidence you have for such a strong broad statement?
Question for those with active imagination: how would quantum computing change Human Computer Interaction? If it doesn't then a kernel driver module for the quantum computing hardware chip would suffice.
These are little optimizations though. I see asking taxi drivers to pass The Knowledge as the same as asking students to use logarithm tables or memorize digits of PI: yes there is some marginal benefit to doing it, but honestly there are so much more valuable things one can do with their time and energy.
You have no idea what you're talking about, and comments like "that's a very poorly held secret." don't deserve the effort of trying to find a reference to refute them.
nah fish is the new new thing
I would tell you why, but I would get banned.
Having an encouraging manager is 80% of job satisfaction according to some survey
EU data protection laws are reasonable. They allow for public health authorities to take all the steps you're suggesting, and they require companies which hold such information to make them available to those authorities. They do not allow researchers to transfer data to a third party to perform further research. Simple, clear, reasonable, and protective of the basic human rights of the study participants.
Clearly it's based on impression, and not based on facts, and I gave no indication that it was. So no, I don't have a source for that.
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A kilometer (1000m) is 0.62 miles, so this is 0.044km aka 0.027 miles.
From README.md ( https://github.com/threema-ch/threema-android ):

> This source code repository will be updated for every public non-beta release. There will be one commit per released version. [...] For the time being, we do not accept contributions via GitHub. [...] To report bugs and request new features, please contact the Threema support team through threema.ch/support.

Commits are useless (one commit per release), issue tracker on GitHub is disabled, contributions not public, no public discussions. I like Threema and appreciate them open sourcing their apps, but this is not what I call open source development. I really hope they will reconsider this. Both Threema and the community could benefit from this, but dumping the source code here and then isn't going to cut it when the competition is meanwhile doing real open source development. But at least we have reproducible builds now, this is still a great step forward.
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Good for them. It's time for workers stand up for themselves again. I hope the authorities there do an audit to see where all those stolen wages have gone and recover them.
> That’s the strategy. That’s the magic. You don’t need to go Open Core or any other permutation of kind-of, sort-of open source. You can open source everything and just ensure you have a rock-solid managed cloud service. This reliance on cloud is what’s driving MongoDB, Confluent, DataStax, Redis Labs, and others to great success. It can be your model, too.

It's not clear how this would work with a Linux distribution that has already been commoditized by the cloud vendors. Amazon Linux is a CentOS rebrand, and probably soon Amazon Linux will stand on its own feet similar to ElasticSearch, thanks to the Red Hat move
its no secret those electronic contractors make very little.

i read an article a couple years ago that say Foxconn make $3 per iphone. how much do you think that $3 get pass to the workers? while Apple pocketed in almost the entire profit.

its not just Apple. Dell is the same as well. why do you think they keep contracted to Wistron and Foxconn?
That's why it is the richest company. In this world you are unlikely going to get rich by being honest and decent.
Eve Online is essentially training for careers in finance, logistics, corporate management and international politics. And I'm being serious here.

That outlier aside, you raise a good point about language - I too learned my English mostly through videogames. Single-player, story-rich videogames, which hooked me enough to play them with a dictionary on hand. I learned most of my vocabulary trying to understand the games' lores and navigate dialogues.
Building IDE from Scratch in 60 days
I've also suffered from depression, and am now on meds. I can honestly say they have changed my life for the better, with no side effects (other than an initial 3 days of tiredness, which wore off).

However, there are a few caveats:

I am convinced that the placebo effect is so powerful, that if you believe the meds will harm you, they actually could. I can't back this up with science, but I think the only reason meds worked for me is because I was able to lose the negative preconceptions I had about them (same for therapy). Unfortunately, negative perception of antidepressants is so prevalent that this is very difficult (but doable).

Antidepressants shouldn't make you feel numb. Neither are they "happy pills". The goal of them is, in theory, to stop you feeling depressed _over nothing_. What they will hopefully do is bring you back to a stable normality, encompassing the entire range of normal human emotions.

Curing your depression will not automatically make you happy (but it will certainly help you on your way) – Only living a happy and fulfilling life, full of people you care about and things you enjoy, can do that.

You also need to give your body the best chance, by making sure no basic aspect of your life is severely lacking - sleep, food/drink, exercise, family/friends/social, hobbies that give you a feeling of accomplishment etc.
Nice to see documentation to do reproducible builds on Android.

Kind of ironic that doing reproducible builds on iOS is insanely hard for that Apple sells itself as being a safe and secure space.
Autistic I knew were not risk takes. They were excessively risk adverse and fearful. I an talking about males.
The HN Hug of Death™.
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I was so pleased to see the NZ govt integrate the native ENF from iOS and Android into our Covid app. It took longer than I would have liked, and there were some misguided investigations into alternatives (like the Bluetooth "covid card" that would dangle around people's necks on lanyards) but it's a great result for us.
MBAs see these all as cost centers. So, they will spend lower and lower money on these departments. To them, only sales/marketing are profit centers, and will keep funding those departments for ever
The Future Is Here Have You Checked OpenAI’s GPT-3 Yet?
Does that account for inflation? Because I believe you could buy way more for $100 in the early 19th century...