skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of it is that when you are 15 years old almost all the hours of the day are yours to pursue what you want, and if you focus you can cover immense ground on something you are intensely interested in, all while being fed, clothed and ferried etc.

Fast forward 10, 20 years, some children, maybe a few wives/ex-wives, aging parents, you just don't have the time without some sort of moonshot mentality.

So I think a lot of it is circumstantial and not actually age directly, I am over 50, and design/write highly specialized software, the sort that ends up averaging a line a day across the life of the project maybe, or definitely that kind of metric for unique code.

I pick up new stuff all the time, I look for better ways and tools in general browsing etc almost every day, experiment with whatever I can get my hands on and find that any slow down in cognition is more than made with by experience and the ability to just "see" things at a glance other people cant.

Don't let age defeat you for no reason, believe in yourself and not what other people say, you will know what you can do fairly quickly, just be honest with yourself and target your strengths and work on your weaknesses.
>am I free to not pay for all your good ideas

Depends where you live. In most European countries, as long as you are a resident with a legal address, past a certain amount of time lived here, you're expected to contribute a certain proportion of your earnings as taxes to fund all public and social services.
Hello, can you add the tamperymonkey / Greasemonkey extension or others of this kind to add scripts from greasyfork? Ublock origin wouldn't be bad either. The top, however, would be full compatibility with firefox extensions. If you can already do it please take a step by step guide. Thank's for your job.
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There's nothing wrong with efficiency and it provides a lot of benefits, as you say. But the efficiency argument is also used to knock out local businesses in favor of big box stores and so on. Everybody likes efficiency but we should be wary of using that as the only way to measure outcomes.
It's not an empire, it's a superpower, and least you forget, it's not the only superpower in town: China and Russia are still present, with China being quite scary too be honest.
Really, don't you?

The first thing I do on any Mac is to drop into Terminal to run this:

defaults delete com.apple.systempreferences AttentionPrefBundleIDs

And don't get me started on the wiping `/private/var/db/mds/messages/${UID}/se_SecurityMessages` after each update, without which SMB doesn't work.
I had a good chuckle in March of last year when I realized the shelves had plenty of "all natural, non-toxic cleaner" sort of products during the run on Clorox wipes and bleach.
Make a config file for ripgrep and enable it.

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/GUIDE.md#c...
Worst Year in American History?
Not quite. They have your ID and banking information when you enter.

You open the doors using the company's app, which works in conjunction with BankID, a secure national identification app operated by Sweden's banks.
Hey I ran a small poll on twitter where people who are also like me voted for the language I prefer, so that means something!
Which are those "free countries"? What makes them more free than others?
I see oligarchies backed by overwhelming fire power everywhere, just with a different label.

Sure you can open your mouth a bit wider in the usa when talking crap against senators or potus compared to the north Korean leader figure.
I was confused for a minute to but then realized how it works.

> “Each project produces two separate paintings—the pixelated picture in front, and an impressionist image rendered by the drippings from the back”
> Each step has a role associated with this: user->analyst->coder->tester.

Have you ever played that telephone game?
If you are using Android it's possible to add in app names in addition to icons. It's in the settings somewhere...
In what way is this a genetic algorithm? When I think genetic algorithms, I imagine biologically inspired non-linear optimization algorithms. That feels like its possibly relevant, but more of a choice of technique than the main idea at play here. Am I wrong?
Straw man argument - I didn’t say we have to pay people to do this, but today you have to be paid to eat. I’m all for eliminating the requirement for work to live.
A Swedish bank account with Swedish Bank ID.

Do they have a work around for non Swedish users?
And you have to scan your bank card (which apparently in Sweden is a secondary ID card) to enter. I wonder if they do an extra verification to make sure you just didn't steal someone's card, maybe with a PIN?

Hah, I guess for the vandals, being blacklisted by the network would be a big hassle...
Another example of printed handwritten books are the Wainwright guides which were not typeset because the author didn’t trust the typesetter to not make mistakes.
Did you try bookdown?

https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown/
Here’s a quote I like:

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

— Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love[1][2]
I completely agree. It's a tech that everyone shies away from unless they absolutely have to use it. Thanks!
Or the two of you are just talking about different things. It is totally possible for "Western notation is used throughout the world" and "the majority of the world does not learn Western notation" to be true at the same time.

What relevance their comment has is beyond me- perhaps making a point about the relatively niche market of "people who want to write music"- but who knows.
> for example giving us enough leisure time to be able to read, have hobbies, do art or spend more time with loved ones

Do you have a citation we do more of that now than in agrarian societies?

My impression was the opposite:

We have more creature comforts, and exert less physical activity, but actually do all of those things less as well for “efficiency” reasons.

A rough analysis suggests that chimps have as much or more leisure time than I do and spend more time with their families than I do, on a daily basis.
Of course they have a way to identify you and prevent you from signing up again under another name.

How else are they going to block you?

But just because they have your BankID it doesn't mean that they have your account balance or other banking data, if that's what you're referring to.
I am creating and publishing AI art at https://art-supreme.com/

The market for AI is relatively small but I would consider to be at the top given the community that formed around it.
> So this is basically run on a trust basis, right?

No, from the OP:
> works in conjunction with BankID, a secure national identification app operated by Sweden's banks

You are identified, so it should be easy to see on camera who steals and then they can send the cops on you.

My worry is more about tourists[1]. As someone who has travelled extensively in rural Europe I would not appreciate a growing network of stores that requires country-specific id.

[1] Technologically disadvantaged people are already mentioned in the article.
Just want to point out that the same people who say "sorry if you don't have a phone you can't shop" are probably the same who claim requiring ID to vote is "voter disenfranchisement" and that disabled people should have special exceptions made for them.

The claim "sorry you don't have a smart phone you can't buy food / clothes" has implications for people (children, the elderly, the disabled, the poor). Just replace "smartphone" with "stairs" (if you can't climb stairs sorry no food / clothes for you). Hey if its a problem, just order online, or get a friend to do it, why should we have to cater to people who aren't normal?

Combine that with a culture where your phone can be disabled for many reasons (failure to pay, socially unacceptable views, employer owned) and you're creating a rather distopian picture.

I'm all for a more streamlined version for people who are able, and that may well be the vast majority, but it makes sense to make provisions for those who aren't and not to say "sorry history has moved forward, if you don't have a car you can't have a job or go shopping." (as another example)
Except these aren’t the only stores like this, and they aren’t and won’t stay in only remote locations. Automation and self service will continue to grow, and collectively we need to figure out how to care for our fellow humans that will lose out due to the evolution.
And the good designer has to be matched with the good pm.
I believe Sweden has pretty good policing, and the Swedes are just about as honest as you could ever expect a nation to be, but if this was in "rural" Denmark and someone decided to raid the store, there would be very little stopping them. Police is in many cases at least 30 minutes away, if not more, and have no resources to investigate the theft of 10L of milk.

In many cases the staff is a store is just as much present to scare of any one wanting to steal. Even if we've seen gangs just walk out with massive amounts of goods, and the staff understandably choosing to not confront them.
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In the Nordic countries it's over 90%

https://www2.deloitte.com/se/sv/pages/technology-media-and-t...
The on hand inventory is most likely wrong in the system, so it probably thinks there are phantom units available. This happens a lot with products that could have been lost, stolen or expired and the system was not updated.
It doesn't cross their mind because they don't know and don't understand. Once it impacts them, will they know and once they research, will they understand. Do you want to wait around until the public understands? What do you think the world will look like if we just wait?

Imagine we applied your "disregard until it becomes a bigger issue" approach and ridiculed every warning as a "your group problem is not a problem". Look around you. How is that working out?

Climate change for one: "eh... scientists are worrying about things that aren't even a problem yet, we'll tackle it when it becomes a problem, if ever".

Great strategy
Don’t you use “free” as a way to say “something that matches your politics and wishes for the world”? The “free world” is generally about individual freedoms, and democratic systems vs authoritarian regimes. It’s not something that englobes every political topics. Of course a “free” world is more an ideal than an actual reality and isn’t binary, but that gives some direction.
I have a similar problem with netflix adding a movie to list. Does a + or check mean add or is it added?
We do have C and C++ grammars [1,2] but they need some love. You're right that these two languages are among the hardest to support. You could get a tree-sitter external scanner to mimic the preprocessor without too much difficulty, but you'd still run into the problem that your macro definitions might appear in another file. Parsing in general is much easier to implement and reason about if the parse result depends only on the content of the single file that you're looking at.

[1] https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-c

[2] https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-cpp
>1) something with thread-local storage saving the the auth info in the request handler, and then coroutines or async code that is overwriting that thread-local with info from a new request before the old request has finished.

AFAIK github is written in ruby. Does it even have thread local storage?
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This type of analysis is subject to a lot of argument. You could argue that qualitative looks like this are prone to error, because if a country's change (in either direction) is slow and doesn't make the news then a third party is unlikely to notice and incorporate the change into their analysis. Okay, then the answer must be a strict quantitative analysis of a country's laws and scoring based on whether freedom of speech, ownership of property, certain protections, and whatever else is codified by law. However, looking at written laws often misses the reality of life- sometimes a country is a democracy on paper but one party runs everything and corruption is rampant. So keep in mind that it's plausible that multiple teams could do this analysis and come up with different conclusions.

Case in point: I claim that the USA's 11 point decline in "freedom" from 2010 to 2020 is more of an indictment on Freedom House's methods than an actual shift in freedom. Of the three cited reasons in their "infographic" only one (immigration) has shown concrete movement in the past decade, and that only occurred in the past four years, which wouldn't explain a continued decline in the "freedom line" over the whole decade (DACA is from 2012, and certainly should be responsible for an uptick if immigration is a main contributor to freedom, and then a corresponding decrease as Trump unwound as much as he could). The corruption in politics and lack of transparency has always been there and has not seen any major movement (IMHO) in decades, certainly not enough to explain a 11 point decline. I cannot think of any continued slide in corruption or transparency that would have persisted for the last six year's of Obama's presidency through the Trump administration to make the freedom line decline monotonically as it does in their infographic. So then I have to think that either:

1) That line is totally bogus and is just meant to convey the concept of a decline, in which case why wasn't it just a straight line connecting the two points? Adding in a bunch of squigglyness if their data isn't that granular would make me suspect that they care more about aesthetics than conveying information in their infographic. I might as well disregard the rest of their report if that is the standard they work to, or...

2) Their assessment of freedom is wholly different from mine in the country that I live in, so if they can't even get that right then how am I supposed to trust their evaluation of all the other countries, so I might as well disregard the rest of their report.
On your NAS, put /.DS_Store/ into veto criteria.
I routinely drag one folder of my Windows Explorer favorites (where I drag all network disks because man I hate people giving me urls to THEIR U-or-whatever-drive) onto another. Thank god it then starts to load and load and load and I can use ctrl-z and it has been fine every time so far... But man, it makes me nervous that I can just drag a network disk onto another and make both a complete mess in a microsecond.

Oh and also just switched from Android to iPhone. And the top search result in the app store is often not what I searched for (sometimes it is though), but a promoted app. Maybe it is clear when you don't use dark mode but if you're new to an ecosystem it would be nice if the top result is the correct one (and not a crappy result with a slightly discolored background tile behind it). Also, the app store opened to some page with no search the first time. Turns out there are tabs at the very bottom (where your thumb hoovers when reading the rest of the screen), one of them is search. Do people browse the app store like a magazine?

Oh and please Apple, keep correcting my .nl email address to .nul in email-address fields, sure, you know better what tld I must mean. Thankfully it does stay correct after about 1-5 tries (it really varies!).

Oh and try adding an app to a folder in the bottom panel/tray (the 4 apps arbitrarily placed below the 3 dots that don't move with the desktops because... you may still want them there on the next desktop?), it does not work, one must drag the folder above the dots, add the app and drag it back.

Many things are not intuitive, thank god I found the yellow square with "Sets" as title when you open it (it's right below the gray rectangle with "No material available" on it). It has a flashy 14 animation. Sweet. It contains some tips, together with some stuff picked by a person named Genius, those tips are useful.

Many things are nice indeed, but some things are just... how does this come into existence? What path did this feature follow to become... like this...

Overall though, I really like the iPhone.
Can definitely confirm this. My brother and I grew up on the same diet, followed the same routine of brushing twice daily, flossing, using mouth wash and going to the dentist at the same time but for some reason he has only had like 2 fillings in the last 25 years while I've had to get some work done on almost every tooth and have had like 6 root canals done.
I'm reminded of a redditor commenting how he visited a music festival in Sweden as a foreigner, and how annoying it was for him, because all the food stands were expecting the Swedish payment system. And he couldn't even ask other visitors to buy stuff for him and take his cash, because the Swedes were very cash-averse.
My grocery store has a self-scan and checkout that works on trust basis with random audits. Some stores had to get rid of it because of stealing, but thankfully mine has kept it. I find it very fast and don't mind the occasional audits at all. Small price to pay, and still faster than if I had stayed in line.
Non-paywall https://archive.is/uaxeN
Nice way to avoid responsibility for the things being done. Look ma Genghis Khan was worse. I guess China can do the same. You can always find somebody more bad than you are.
The accept button animates on most phones in the way you need to move it. But it's true that I've seen many first timers get confused, probably because of the inherent pressure that accompanies a phone call.
The whole of the industrial and now computer revolution has been the degradation of human existence in the name of profit and progress. Elimination of employment that is a requirement for sustenance and a non-miserable life is common.

Automation doesn’t create jobs, it shifts them, generally towards less well paid options. Sure there are a few engineers who make more money, but what about the non skilled laborers?
> Stallman himself was largely responsible for GCC not exposing intermediate representation for analysis.

This is wildly offtopic for this thread, but it is not clear that Stallman's stance on this issue was an error. The wide existence of LLVM-based compilers for proprietary architectures is, for many of us, a tragedy that Stallman correctly anticipated. His insightful and courageous steering of the GCC development was a crucial step in avoiding this problem for GCC.
Coreutils sound like they are important enough if a bug is spotted and the original author is unreachable, another should be able to jump in in short time.

Do we already have enough quality Rust workforce to guarantee that?
I haven't used the stores themselves but they reference using BankId which is an national identification app on your phone you link to your bank account that also requires a pin code.
The one paid and told to: make an 8 lane intersection there.
Democracy in the USA is...not great.

The election system basically hands power to the two big parties, and distorts the political process.
Oh you’re right! My brain just immediately assumed that, asking me to register an account. Bit of a dark pattern though, I didn’t take the time to read it.

Reader mode is still awesome, I recommend it!
Maybe you shouldn't focus on getting 'the best person' on the correct place, but try to make 'the best process' for evaluating and improving UI/UX and mandate it's followed everywhere.
One of the projects at my workplace decided to document every design decision from all viewpoints including the final decision made. Seemed to help a lot against people arguing in circles and/or bikeshedding.
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Machines are even better then that, they generate digital data which unlocks all sorts of possibilities. Amazon could not care less if they lost $1,000,000,0 in stock if they had the data to back that up (sensor data, images, video), which is worth that much to optimize their systems and become a 'leader' which can make money itself. It's why they want to sell data gathering devices so cheaply, cameras, smart assistants, prime, anything that gives them information they can use for AI is a money maker to them.

Even if a machine is terrible and useless, you can collect that useless information/data and use it as a data point for other machines that are perhaps not so terrible, any data point is useful afterall.

Machines are the future for that reason alone.
> BankID, a secure national identification app operated by Sweden's banks.

Wow, that sounds pretty racist. Do better Sweden, we all remember what you did in WW2.
Architects - of the original building sense have a similiar misplaced emphasis problem being more about appearances and "advancing the field (read: novelty)" than functionality. Brutalism was an infamous example for making downright needlessly depressing buildings to live and work in that don't even save on maintenance in spite of eschewing ornamentation. Other fun foibles include putting the duct work on the outside of the building, the mold trap that is Fallingwater, and accidentally having a skyscraper melt a very fancy car with its glare before they had to sandblast it away.

It is kind of a tautology to say it but this hints at it being a human organizational social issue behind the pathology if it keeps cropping up.

I agree that good design is hard and often involves substantial work beyond just making something on the sheet.
In New Zealand, there are old swamplands filled with swamp Kauri. Around a year ago, construction workers found a 16 m (52 ft) long log which had been buried underground for 40,000 years [1]

They used to dig up $200 million worth of timber a year, mostly exported to China, until the government cracked down on exports. It's illegal to export unfinished native timber, so exporters exploited a loophole by cutting the trunks into "tabletops", or adding basic carvings and labelling them as "totem poles", and then shipping the logs to China for further processing.

[1] https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/giant-ngawha-swamp-kauri-log-d...
It does in my experience, I work for a gov public safety agency and the numbers they show you are one part of the story. In public policy we learned how you determine what the thresholds are (When does good become excellent?), as well as things like what does improvement mean (a ten percent decrease in raw number? ten percent decrease from last years average?) mean that the framing of metrics must always be examined. Not to mention the litany of inside baseball stuff regarding how various things like 911 calls, car crashes, crimes, and population figures are captured, analyzed, and understood.

Outside of numbers. The same logic applies to fact checking sites which is why I always question why so many people use them to refute arguements. The authors decided what was deemed a good source.

A dirty secret I’ve noticed of the most controversial issues at the end of the day can be argued successfully both ways, so the fact checkers effectively choose the side they agree with. For example, should Texas be demonized for removing their mask mandates? Lot of areas in Texas are very remote. Texas is more insular of a state than say New Jersey. Federalism and US legal history typically affords states the latitude to make decisions for themselves based on their populations desires. To what extent does interstate commerce (flying out of Texas for example) justify outside/Federal force to upend Texas sovereignty? Lot of people try to argue Texas is just wrong but it’s deeper than that.