skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No they don’t lead to burnout. Those are just basic attributes of working hard and taking healthy engagement. More like the advice of, “hire people who give a shit.”

Burnout comes from other things added onto a situation. Believe me I’ve seen lots of severe burnout at places that are “maintenance only” no-ambition shops. Burnout is much more about disenfranchisement and a big gap between motivation and requirements. Rarely is burnout a function of raw hours worked (and when it is, it’s easy to solve).
The biggest problem is figuring out the truth from lies and mistakes and competing narratives. Maybe the pundit predicted that unemployment would go up, and some say it did, but others explain that it's not actually up because people are leaving the workforce voluntarily, others claim that it was miscalculated in the past, yet others claim that it's actually a bad measure that shouldn't be trusted at all.

There are very few directly testable predictions. Even something as basic as whether the Earth is flat is hard to conclusively prove without enough background - how could you hope to understand the economy?
Surely such people would consider it to be a social requirement they must satisfy rather than just another legal contract?
16 million Americans have, by definition of the scoring mechanism, IQ 70 or lower. I suspect the only reason the number thinking it’s from brown cows isn’t higher is all the people who don’t think milk comes from anywhere but the supermarket selling it.
Couldn’t agree more. I often read some top comments even before checking an article just to get a quick read on whether something is likely e.g. clickbaity. Reading the comments it seemed like there was some consensus that this was a page with mostly information that would be better presented in a flat form like a pdf rather than an interactive website... but it’s actually a super fun collection of interactive visualizations for some of the classic complexity examples, and it worked perfectly for me except for a kind of ostentatious fade-from-white effect on page load.
> What vows?

In many cultures people make wedding vows about staying married until one of you dies.
Those middle class folks are wasting their lives, then: just like an office job is an illusion of meaningful work, their marriage is an illusion of love.
The thought also explains why the north pole of Saturn is a hexagon.
Marriage and family as we know it is a relatively recent habit, only about few thousand years, even hundreds of years in many regions. It was justified and necessary to adapt in new environment like agricultural civilization, but it may be not advantageous in new current era of digital world.
Just wanted to say, I'm a fan of your site (even directing my offspring to think about your work). `/salute`
"Listen to the epidemiologists" has been some of the worst messaging through all of this because they've never actually stopped a pandemic before (other than smallpox), and they don't necessarily understand the politics, economics, psychology, or legality of their ideas.
Agreed. So many non vegetarian/vegan people say stuff like this and it’s just wrong. Or they’ll say “why have a fake burger, can’t you just enjoy vegetarian food, why does it have to be a burger? If you want burger just eat one and stop trying to copy meat, innovate on your own”.

It’s just people completely missing the point. If you get fake meat close enough in taste/texture/price you’ll move a large amount of product. The high high majority of meat consumption is not high quality product, but the absolutely lowest quality possible. It’s so easy to swap out they meh hamburger patty you have at a bbq with a plant based one, be healthier, and have less impact on the environment.
Personally I wasn't losing any sleep before knowing apps might be sending location data to advertisers. Why should I even care? But now what I find obnoxious is being nagged about explicitly approving every little permission to every app, even having to wait until the app wants to use it to approve it which was an especially stupid change. And now I don't even get to let apps use location data all the time from most menus, and when I do I get nagging reminders from Samsung trying to scare me into turning it back to "only when in use." The model on Windows where a program can do things a program should be able to do without asking was completely fine and discrete permissions for apps are an obnoxious waste of time in my opinion.
Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore!
Are there any good resources for felines in tech?
If it is in a standard textbook, than its almost certainly interesting (although probably not a conjecture unless its a pretty advanced textbook)
> On Reddit, I can actively peek at r/Conservative and see what a completely different group of people are talking about. I can't quite do that with RSS.

you can, go to old.reddit.com/r/Conservative/.rss
But how many believe in qanon? I really wish we could put that down to a warped sense of humour...
Launch of the New Data.gov Catalog
It's not the first time. [0] This is my picture taken April 3rd 2016 in Poland from Babia Gora mountain.

[0]: http://signalstorm.net/sahara_sand.jpg
I really like PineTime and a friend of mine has one. Unfortunately, when I tried it on, it's just way too big for my wee tiny little wrists. I wish that I had a picture to show you - it is genuinely funny.
Boredom is making the world weirder and more dangerous
More recently people are getting banned and censored on YouTube and other platforms for suggesting widespread use of ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment. It isn't on the "official" recommended list in most places and so some would consider that harmful disinformation. But there have been some encouraging study results recently so I wouldn't be surprised if the WHO or CDC guidelines change again in a few months.

https://covid19criticalcare.com/medical-evidence/ivermectin/

In general we need more humility and less confidence. Many of the scientific "facts" that we're certain of today will eventually be disproven.
what if they know/calculate what is implied into development/utilization so they know no one but them (or the same class opponent) could replicate it
> People eat meat because they like the taste and the texture, but at the same time everyone knows that meat is produced by killing animals, and that it's much less sustainable than vegetarian food.

I think this is too generous. Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but the implicit message here is that people actually care about the animals and sustainability of meat farming.

My spouse is vegetarian and I'm whatever. I don't buy meat but if it finds itself in front of me I'll eat it. I have had the conversation of the horrors of meat production many times at the dinner table with a spectrum of people, and nobody changed their habits. Yes, this is anecdotal, and I'm willing to read a source and change my opinion if there is some evidence that people actually give a shit about the animals. As far as I can tell, it is all just virtue signaling at best.

I agree with OP. I think we would be better served in the long run creating good consumables that have the caloric density and amino acid profiles found in meats and encourage people to eat those instead of trying to replicate something we should be horrified about.
Inverse Thinking in Code
I hear 2 problems:

1) I need more money

2) I think I want a different profession

1: 2 common tactics: a) move into management b) find a job with someone else - new employer has to offer something to leave your current place, usually its money. When you interview do not say you are leaving, say you are looking for more opportunity.

2: Changing careers is often difficult, but also often rewarding. Hardest part is getting your first job in the new career. To which I recommend volunteering somewhere. If it is SW dev, then Open Source, IT admin, any non profit would love your help. Not tech, I am sure some charity can use your skill and validate you are quality and worth hiring.

Good Luck
That's not how the US constitution works, though. Any power not specifically granted to the federal government is explicitly reserved to the states and its people.

In practice this ends up being more of a muddy issue than I'd like it to be (cough interstate commerce clause cough), but in principle, that's the law of the land.

But it does seem that this proposal isn't really the same as what we'd think of as a charter city/county. I don't think the state would be giving the corporation carte blanche to write its own independent legal system; they're still subject and subordinate to federal and state law. The only expressly weird thing about this from a government perspective is that the county would be run by a supervisory board that the corporation entirely controls (as in, the company wouldn't have to hold elections for those positions). Still, that's a very big difference and I'm very much against this whole idea.
This was on hn recently: https://hnrss.github.io/

Any youtube channel you like

Any subreddit you like: https://old.reddit.com/wiki/rss

Nitter allows RSS feeds of twitter accounts, useful for low post volume accounts like those of your local government functions.

Many (possibly most?) news websites have some RSS functionality.

And lets not forget the wide world of podcasting.

Some interesting blogs I follow are https://unintendedconsequenc.es/feed/ and https://astralcodexten.substack.com/feed/
Yeah I was raised (American) vegetarian from birth, and my parents did not consider the nutrition I needed when they cooked and I had anemia, underweight, etc. I was healthier after starting to eat meat at age 14
Damage to all relationships involved.
One method not mentioned is the usage of bio-processing to produce proteins identical to those coming from animal products using only genetically modified microbes.

The advantage here is that you're getting as close to the real thing as you can.. Actually there's no difference from the real thing at the protein level- though fats and things need to be added back from imitation sources to re-assemble to thing you're imitating.

This probably isn't overall cheaper today (vs soy, wheat, etc), but the processes is very inefficient and has a TON of room to be improved upon. At a large scale your inputs are glucose and some microbes. Fermentation does the rest.

It just so happens that's what we're working on at at Culture Biosciences. Shoot me an email if this kind of stuff fascinates you. We're hiring software and hardware engineers. satshabad@culturebiosciences.com
> Nothing in GP's comment suggests that women should spend their twenties finding a husband, nor that they shouldn't do the things you just mentioned.

That is in fact exactly what the comment seems to suggest, in these lines.

> as opposed to when you were in your 20s (when the woman should be finding a potential husband

room500's response was exactly what I had in mind too, when I was reading the parent comment.

It very much feels like the GP had something specific in mind for "high-quality" that insinuates that caring for someone else's children is not a high quality thing to do.

I believe that quality is not what they are showing when they focus the comment on what women "should be doing", or if they're still seeing it as "someone else's kids".
Damn. Your comment really hits the nail on the head, and shows that no matter how much evidence there is of how bad someone is, if the audience’s mind is closed, then the proof is going to fall on deaf ears
At best, it's like the fourth or fifth most popular language among hobbyists not looking to tape out their designs (is there a single nMigen design that's been taped out?).

This would be be (by orders of magnitude?) the most complex design attempted in the language, which pushes it into NIH territory.
I completely agree with your assessment of all of these as obvious disinformation. However, I don't think it's obvious how to stop this from happening. While I fear the effects of this disinformation and the ease with which it is spreading, I do also fear that any attempt to combat it will just put the truth in the hands of entities which shouldn't be trusted with it, such as Facebook or Twitter or some kind of government agency.
I did something similar once, mailing v8 about how they could make their cans squatter. I even wrote a script to find the optimal shape. I think it went straight into their crank file.
What would be the advantage of this as opposed to, say, a Sega Genesis emulator?
Rather than depending on VPN services, I use Cloud Providers because, at least, I know that my server isn't logging me for sure. However, it is hard to deploy a VPN server on cloud providers right from your phone. That's why I developed zudvpn.com

Completely open-source with DNS Ad blocking features and even a terminal to connect to the server.

Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zudvpn-personal-vpn-on-cloud/i...
Github: https://github.com/zudvpn/zudvpn
Fixed term marriages are becoming popular in Australia and other places and have historical precedents. It is likely a lifelong term of marriage may be unrealistic with our comparative ease of survival.
> PDFs retain their formatting better

Which is also its downside when formatting is not critical. I want to be able to change the font size and have the text reflow correctly. With PDFs you end up with broken layouts if you don't view it exactly as formatted.
I find it useful to include an architecture diagram in the README for small projects, and the best way is to use the VSCode DrawIO extension. You can directly edit .drawio.svg files and embed them into the README. You get live editing and up-to-date images at the same time!
Often the damage is already done before people find out about it and are able to impose penalties. And then you still have to spend taxpayer money to clean it up.
>> People aren't that stupid and the arguments against using the word milk annoy me. I think it's a sign that people are changing their diet and the dairy industry is worried.

Well, calling plant mince patties "burgers" annoys me and I'm not the dairy industry, nor affiliated with it.

Can we leave the annoyance aside and have a reasonable conversation about it? Here's my concern: it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that everyone should eat less meat than they eat (or rather, not everyone; just the people in cough, certain regions of the world where "meat" is synonymous with "food"; that is really not the case everywhere in the world). But in that case, let's promote plant-based cuisines, like Indian or Mediterrannean, with dishes that can be cooked at home with cheap and healthy ingredients and that do not rely on the production lines of the same large agribuisenesses that are responsible for destroying the environment with industrial farming (which includes mass-produced meat- and plant-based foods).
Games People Play was big about 50 years ago
Another StarTrek tech entering the reality realm.

When Voyager stumbled upon a industrial-age civilization Kim immediately notified Janeway that he's detecting "Old style" FM broadcasts. I recall thinking "why would a 24th century subspace-communicator equipped star ship even monitor those?"

I got my answer, quantum receivers, they monitor everything.
The oaths made in a typical marriage are impossible, dangerous ideals that, once made, can guilt people into sticking to bad situations.

Bad people don't tend to go around being bad unless they think they can get away with it. Once someone has pinky swore to dedicate their life to them, no matter what they might do, the true colors come out. I've seen it too many times, the idea does more harm than good.

Life-long good marriages exists, I hope to achieve one myself, but the silly oath doesn't help them in any way, and it makes the bad ones worse.
> "What qualifies as a categorically stupid idea if society can't agree on the facts, or how to apply the facts?"

Whatever the vocal minority in search of power advocates for.
> most teenage boys and men are pieces of shit when it comes to actually loving and caring about her (just like I was in some cases with flings and tempromances that were more about excitement than deep, long-term love and affection).

Do you worry about your teenage sons acting this way?
The modern definition of meat meaning animal flash evolved from the old more broad definition. And now it's evolving again to again include plant based meats.

It's how the language works and I'm not sure why would anyone be against using the broader definition when it's useful.

I don't see anyone complaining about coconut milk and peanut butter.
In other places (the Canaries) known as "Calima"
That’s only because they really want to be elevated above monarchs. Check out the history of Florence and the Medici family for a great example of the kind of separation the RCC is after.
For me, it works on both desktop and mobile, chrome & firefox. I don't get the left/right swooshing on mobile, but do on desktop. Mac/iPhone
You do know that a high proportion of all crops in the US are fed to cows right? We are not feeding cows grass, so your argument is mostly moot.
While I agree with you, the nature paper that I linked above was published by the folks at google of all places. I think a valid hypothesis is that work done during internships (or even residencies) may not be on-par with what NeurIPS/ICLR/etc require but they give publicity and thus the PR teams push for that kind of papers.

However, it still does note explain why this kind of sloppy work done and published by publicly funded research labs, except perhaps as a form of advertisement.
Yeah, that minor little detail of all of society generally treating boys and girls differently is slightly hard to really escape.
My company can create some of the highest density cold Rydberg (Cs) atom setups in the world. We use our tech for focused ion beams, but I'm interested in this application. Our equipment isn't 'miniature' but everything is in a single 19" rack.

If anyone who is an expert on the RF side wants to drop ideas below or contact me at adam@zerok.com to brainstorm please feel free.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knoxville_Girl

It's quite grim but one reason so many nearby mountain folk have always been familiar with it might be if there were so few settlers in the mid 1700's that a single Englishman could have made every settler familiar with it as an already-old recognized traditional pre-Knoxville version toward the very beginning of settlement.

Eventually, after Knoxville arose the local Knoxville version could have been coined in about 1800 when there was still such a small population that it became almost universally known that way since then.

So a true tale of a British murder in 1683 was possibly carried forward since then largely by a hillbilly society not even highly focused on the arts of reading & writing.

If not so accurately, as a cautionary tale in order to accomodate the attention-getting engagement needed to preserve relevance regardless that the crime really didn't happen in Knoxville.

It's even possible that an Appalchian returning to Ireland brought the ballad back there and the Irish version may not have come directly from England.
I just think it’s politically a non-starter. They tried to tax sugary drinks in the most liberal city in America and heads exploded.
At least it’s better than the “Yellow Snow” warning the BBC has put out. Nobody wants yellow snow.
Ah I see. I was on mobile and didn't get the left/right swooshing, but do on desktop. I also find the left/right swooshing from the outside pretty clunky and unnecessary. But the content is really nice, and I personally appreciate a bit of fun in experimenting with content presentation. Esp. given the topic.
This.

In the EU, you can't sell a concoction of palm oil, whey protein, fillers, flavors and colorings as "cheese" - you need to label it as "breakfast spread" or something like that.

There are different words you are allowed to use for fruit-based drinks depending on how removed they are from actual fruit.

Why not apply similar standards to the ersatz meat?
I don't know what you're complaining about. They double-checked, and they're really sure we elected the right person!
Science Haste Makes for Disgrace
An article which begins by talking about why people don't trust their government, while curiously (or, conveniently?) leaving out all of Donald Trump's "alternative fact" bullshit which went on for 4 years.. What a ridiculously one-sided heap of garbage. Honestly surprised to see this article here.

Also, to those who down-voted me: Do you not see the irony? Thank you for waging war upon my dissent :). I merely pointed out that the article is one-sided, which is obvious. Perhaps you should look inside to see why you are so defensive of it.
Depends on your point of reference ;-)
I think the point is that we have tried making meat cheap and it created a lot of problems. Until we fix those problems the grandparent comments strategy seems sound.
If you print your ebooks for some reason rather than buy used copies, granted you have to convert to pdf for that.

Why prefer an epub...

They have flowed text, and ebook readers let you customize font and font size so that the book's text adapts to you rather than you adapting to a particular combination of publisher quirks and zoom necessary to fit in a particular device's or app's viewable size.

They're generally smaller files.

And if there's something about the epub you don't like, you can actually fix it.

If a book is available in both PDF and epub formats, it's a reader's prerogative to pick the one they want, and there are specific types of books where PDFs might be preferable. However, if there's no original pdf, what is the objective of converting an epub to pdf in order to read it on a computer? Whatever you think you're accomplishing, I think you're mistaken. You end up with a pdf that looks exactly like how a typical ereader would display the epub. Minus the flowed text and font customizability, and probably with poorer navigation as well.
Start doing your own fact checking of the more left leaning publications. You may be surprised.
“HackerNews user makes baseless allegation that the ministry of truth is dangerous.”

(!) Learn how controlling misinformation is beneficial for society.
layering is just a stronger agreement compared to composition imho.
For my app I've started putting architecture related documents under /spec [0]. I feel documenting every aspect of the architecture is hard and time consuming, it also needs to be kept up to date. However it's worth documenting at least the trickier parts of the app.

[0] https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/tree/dev/readme/spec
Their subscribers and advertisers can exert profit influence. And the law, via laws against libel and slander can be used to impose civil penalties (perhaps criminal as well).

I believe you will find 28USC4101 and 47USC588 of particular interest. Fun fact, you are actually accountable for infractions of law whether you know the law or not. Now, either 1) your question was borne out of genuine ignorance; I suspect this is exceedingly unlikely as it would tend to indicate you are incompetent (unless you care to dispute this point) or 2) you posed the question with malicious intent for the purpose of tearing down our common understanding of civil society. Which is it?
Where are you downloading content as epubs that you can't get as PDF?
not only this, but to turn plants into "meat" you end up with horrible processed vegetables with added oils, sugars and unnatural flavourings. most of which are then breadcrumbed in bleached flour and deep fried. by this point, the thing that might once have been a plant is now as bad as meat, if not worse, and resembles a dog turd in taste and health benefits
That's why I described them in different ways.
https://i.imgur.com/3QdnQcE.png
There is a lovely comment up thread providing over a thousand years worth of quotes proving the contrary
Same here, living in Stuttgart.

Looked a bit like a Mexico filter.
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