skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the one hand I completely agree with everything you wrote.

On the other hand, it sounds like what you are proposing is that there should be socialism for sufficiently talented people (I am not actually averse to this, although it seems fairer if it could somehow be extended to everyone).

Private capital will only fund ideas which a) have quantifiable benefit which b) can be captured. This aligns well with patentable pharmaceuticals or adtech, not so well with theories of quantum gravity. Stuff which benefits everyone conventionally has to be funded by government (although a patronage model does not seem impossible).

In the ideal case, how would we work out who are the sufficiently talented (they get socialism, let's call them the eloi), and who will who make their shoes and clean their toilets (it's capitalism for them, let's call them the morlocks)? What fields would be eligible for this kind of support and who would choose that?

It sounds like your complaint is that the existing systems for doing this (grants, tenure, research impact, prestige) are mis-allocating. I agree that existing systems aren't working well. Is it just that there is not enough funding, or does there need to be a rethink somewhere?

It seems fundamentally to be an information problem. That is, it's hard to figure out who and what are worth funding. The information problem is more difficult if the research has a longer time horizon.
Unless a degree in physics would be useful on your current path in Big Tech, I'd recommend staying in your current career and keeping physics as a passionate hobby.

It is not at all necessary to go to graduate school to immerse yourself in physics. A Deepdyve subscription will expose most of the literature.

Do as they do in England, "read" physics. It is a never ending joy for me.

Having to do physics to earn a living from it diminishes the joy, because you have to do what others want you to do and not follow your own course.
I could be wrong but I don't think this is the case?

Even after enabling the Location Services access, I still had to manually connect to the appliance's AP through the iOS Settings app.
I agree with this. What's interesting to me is when you start viewing athletics as a proxy for an innate quality like endogenous testosterone, the sport loses a lot of the romance. Of course, raw athleticism (strength/speed/agility) carries more weight in some sports than others.
following the same logic (AFAICT):

People self-replicate. People are alive. Societies are composed of people. Therefore, societies are alive.

(may or may not be a hole in your argument depending on whether you think a society is "alive")
A view which is sadly out of fashion.
Honestly, I've never seen that behavior in the wild. Is it Apple-specific?
I've been trained in interdisciplinary research. As part of the training, common issues in problem research fields were covered.

The economists here are behaving actually how researchers from problem search fields typically behave.

One typically problem behaviour is argument by example, two different research groups have their own theory and then they use research papers and more recently social media to send each other ridicious examples of where their theory works and the other research group's does not.

An example of argument by example is: "Would a person ever prefer a process [A] that, after three rounds, diminishes wealth from US$10,000 to 0.5 cents over one [B] that yields a 99.9% chance of US$10,000,000 and otherwise US$0? Ergodic theory predicts [A] [... but] [v]irtually everyone will prefer B" from the rebuttal paper. Along with all the other ones in the rebuttal paper.

That's a telltale sign of poor quality researchers.

They didn't even bother spend any time to work out what Ole Peters was even saying and since they didn't know what Ole Peters was saying, they failed to refute it.

Good researchers, who's opinions are worth listening to, don't behave in that manner.
My threat model is someone that would have full access to my computer without me knowing. So they could over time get access to passwords, modify my OS to MITM yubikeys... Over cautious really likely, but that doesnt cost me much more
Out of curiosity, did you measure the prusa's load on a kill-a-watt or similar while printing, before you put it on the UPS? I wonder what the load during printing is.
Being bought isn't failing, it's falling prey to global financialization
There may be nothing more difficult to manage than an adult who acts like a 14 year old.

There was some research done a while back that concluded that a system where members could 'punish' people for misbehavior can be statically stable if (and I believe they concluded, only if) the punishment came at a cost to those meting out justice.

Unless I'm mistaken, Stack Overflow read the same paper. Which is why getting upvoted gets you 10 points, but downvoting something you don't like costs you 1 point. You have to want it a little bit more than just the knee-jerk reaction. It means more to you, and therefore it means more to everyone else, too.
How to Design Programs, second edition (2018)
The more imminent death seemed, none of that really came to mind. I only felt fear when death was a possibility but when it seemed death was certain, that fear went away. It was strange.
OK, re-tested, it also happens on LXQT, so no wayland-related. I still have to test that GPU in another computer to be sure, and also try AMDVLK, though that seems relatively complex with the steam flatpak.
There was already plenty of middleware tools that allowed API to API translation.

They all (and I assume Zapier is no exception) only allow "no code" integration in only the most basic scenarios.

I don't think it has much to do with empathy, much rather unbounded money printing of late.
The problem isn't their size, the problem is regulatory capture.
I routinely need to do this using interfaces that aren't driven by a mouse. On my phone, for instance, where despite having inertial scrolling, it's strain inducing to repeatedly flick through pages with large quantities of content.
The sunk cost fallacy applied to my latest project. It was perfect for me. But not for anyone else. Didn't stop me from finishing it though. It would have been better if I had given up on it.
Most people would prefer to be paid a good salary for doing good work, rather than uncertain lottery tickets and an obligation to understand how they work.

I think most companies would prefer to operate this way, too.
I agree overall that many things suited to libraries have become SaaS, but Zapier and similar are well-suited to being a SaaS. For example, a lot of Zapier's services are triggered by incoming webhooks, which doesn't work so great running on the boss's desktop. Same with cron-triggered services.

You really need to run these kinds of services on a server. And the people who use Zapier typically aren't comfortable setting up a server.

Also, there are some very well-done and rather old open source alternatives to Zapier (Huginn, Node Red, etc) but they run best on servers for the reasons mentioned above, so few non-technical people use them.
It probably easier to learn the good habits once the bad ones have bitten you in the ass. It's hard to learn good habits if you don't understand why the bad ones are bad.
Failure is progress as well.
> Solar time for human-centric activities can return now that digital assistants run our lives.

Preposterous. What percentage of people have digital assistants "running their lives"?
For example, look at rust's [0]. It claims to vary in size depending on os, but on Linux, at least, it's 20 bytes.

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/net/enum.IpAddr.html
I had(!) an incurable type of cancer. There were complications during chemo.
We should dial it back to the last known good state and build from there: bash and vim, praised be thy names.

The supposition that modern UIs are based on is that they should be drop dead simple for a brand new user to pick up and use without training, but at the expense of flexibility and utility. You can't overwhelm them with options, even under menus, and you need to present large buttons for them to immediately identify and mash. Basically, Fischer-Price toys. However, you're only briefly a new user. You may be using a tool every day for months or years, so the obvious design philosophy should be focusing on efficiency (i.e. keyboard control, snappy response, advanced features) for the long term user.
> your kids might do it or their children could finally make it so you could say that children are a good long term investment.

This has some teleological problems. When you make an important breakthrough, there are innumerable factors which contributed to the breakthrough happening. It feels tempting to say "if I hadn't been born, this breakthrough wouldn't have happened". But to the extent that's true, it's also true that if you hadn't read a certain book, or had a certain teacher in the third grade, the breakthrough wouldn't have happened.

It's also often just false though: if you had never existed, someone else who read the book would have made the breakthrough - probably not too long after! (see steam-engine time)
By this reasoning, writing books, being a teacher or any other number of things are better long term investments than physically creating a child.
This artificial scarcity that is 'Imaginary Property' will hopefully be looked back on as a seriously bad idea that holds humanity back in a world so full of actual scarcity that was created by lawyers for the exclusive benefit of lawyers.
What about cloneability?
The entire section about comparisons and string interning is extremely "work around the language".
The trend to value aesthetics over all else (particularly functionality) is very unfortunate and leads to the current crop of software that is mostly useless for anything other than the very linear basic use case of a beginner.

I get to sit in many user testing sessions and while well-intentioned, the environment of observing someone who has never seen the system before do a few very basic tasks naturally selects for a design that optimizes for that use case. But in real life use, nobody gets to have less than an hour of experience with the system for more than one hour of their life. But now every subsequent hour spent using the system is hobbled by the limitations of that first hour.

Good thing for me that I mostly just still use emacs, mutt and zsh, or I'd go crazy.

This infantilization of users can be seen in industries far removed from software even. Look at sailboats from the 70s and 80s, mostly designed for usability at sea. Visit a boat show today and new boats are optimized for the initial 20 minutes someone spends touring them at the show, making them mostly terrible for life at sea.
I look up the timezone first so I don't call when he's likely to be sleeping. My parents phone will ring 24 hours a day if I call them, I don't want to call them during their sleeping time. I know the offset to use when they are at home, but when they spend a month in europe and I want to call, I'd still like to know when to call without calling first to ask them if they are awake.
Exactly. This is what I had in mind when I said "toolbox". I tried to save some time and it cost me the ability to accurately convey the idea I was trying to convey. "Don't omit useful information."
They are not prophets but seems they were at the right time in the right place to produce some world changing things. A cat can't do that.
To some extent, this is a chicken and egg problem -- how to get enough people to join so that other people will join -- and one way they solved it kind of falls under "backwards compatibility." They started on Slack in part because their audience was already on Slack all day, every day.

Second, they started with just two channels. Not only did this concentrate traffic, it reduced cognitive load on new members trying to figure out where to say a thing and worrying if they were in the right channel.

One good way to outright kill conversations is to have lots of low traffic channels and then fuss at people for discussing a thing "in the wrong channel" because that's where conversation happened to break out and insisting they move their discussion "to the appropriate channel" when there is no actual compelling reason for it. (There can be compelling reasons to ask people to do things a particular way, such as privacy, information security or age segregation protecting young people from explicit content. But those rarely are the reason this gets asked.)

before we created the channel, folks would share their creations with me directly via DM. That was amazing, but this approach didn’t help others in the community, since the conversation was 1:1 in private.

After that happened a few times, I proposed a new channel:

This makes me wonder what preceded that.

Why were people sending him direct messages? Were they only sending them to him or were other team members getting similar messages? If they were only direct messaging him, why is that? What was he doing that fostered that?

In my experience, creating a sense of psychological safety is key to facilitating many-to-many conversations.

One great way to do that is to help members feel like they know who’s on the other side of those usernames in Slack, and that those people are generally nice.

A thing you have more control over: Setting the example of how to effectively interact in a way that fosters safety for everyone.

This was likely done without realizing it. If you know how to have a successful career, you likely know how to relate to the public. If you are writing a guide to kickstarting a community, you likely know a lot about relating to the public effectively.

That involves a lot of baked in assumptions and best practices that you may no longer consciously think too much about. The community then looks to you to set the example for how to do this dance.

Ahead of the call, we sent registrants a $25 gift card to a food delivery app as a way to share the celebration with the community — a virtual “snacks on us,” if you will.

This is brilliant because it connects the real world and virtual world so effectively. You have a real world impact on people you connect with online and a lot of people seem to think this isn't true. A lot of people seem to think the two things are more separate than they are.

This is a brilliant example of how you can send digital goods -- gift cards -- with real world impact -- ordering food to be delivered. Though even just talking with people online is a real experience with real world impact.
The Crypto Doctrine, the Castle Doctrine paintings as non-fungible crypto tokens
https://soundcloud.com/jpnickolas

My quarantine hobby has been to get better at mixing and producing music. I mostly play guitar, so it's been a difficult process to get my vocals and lyrics anywhere near good (and something I'm still working on). I'm starting to hit a point where I can mix on autopilot (not that the mixing is great, just that it's no longer the bottleneck), so my next effort is to write drums that are more than just stock presets.

Huge shout out to http://songfight.org for being the catalyst that created any of those songs that have lyrics. They're a pretty small community that's been going on for 20 years, where every two weeks you're given a song title and 1 week to write a song that incorporates the title. The real beauty comes from the forums where people review each other's songs with a critical eye. Very wholesome community.

Note: please don't vote for me in this week's Songfight challenge - since the winner normally has somewhere between 10 and 20 votes, it's very clear when someone is calling on friends to flood the votes. It'll only lead to deep shame on my end, but I do encourage y'all to vote for any songs that you particularly like.
The process of hiring someone for 'Download attachments from this email address to my Dropbox, then create a note in Quickbooks to pay the invoice' is a lot more complicated / expensive than just using Zapier.

I think you're overestimating what people use Zapier for.
I'm listening to Can't hurt me by David Goggins

It's working.
It's impossible to estimate future max radiation when the plant is not under control.

Fukushima pref is 3rd largest prefecture in Japan and not so many people is escaped at the incident. I believe enough number of people had escaped as a result.
I want a time gradient. Sun rises at 7am everywhere everyday. If you want to make plans with people you just use the internet to sync time.
It takes time. I have been developing software for more than a decade now and I am still learning a lot of things that seem to be basic.

Your knowledge and experience will increase linearly.

Mac would definitely be my choice.
A blocking solution I've found very effective for android is dns based. It sets up a vpn connection and allows you to edit the host files that get listed on the device.
https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66/releases
That really depends on the airport. Portland, for example. If you try to avoid 737s then you just cut yourself out of 75-80% of all available flights.

Also, the 737NG is arguably the safest airliner ever produced (by statistics, not speculation), so why would I want to avoid it?
That's a pretty lazy criticism given how much of the most modern and popular networking and system software is written in Go (Kubernetes, Docker, all the related infrastructure, etc).

The "net" standard library is still very nice and works extremely well.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and the Go pudding has been eaten successfully many times.
Yeah, pretty much. It's an industry where it's really hard to get a start, and if you survive at all you become too big to fail.
We don't so much let people soar by design, as have systems in place to capitalize on fame that end up earning more for the entrenched plutocrats than suppressing it would. That is why you hear the term "kingmaker" in the music and television industries, and why people were willing to put up with so much abuse from people like Harvey Weinstein. Find the most marketable thing you can and use all your money to shove it down people's throats as hard as your can. This is also why mainstream American culture has been mostly shit for the last 20-odd years.

In non-cultural areas, letting people "soar" is just the result of whitewashed bribery through campaign finance and lobbying.
> pay the monthly fee to enable a non technical person to build the integration

I'm just curious how that went. Was a non-technical person able to learn Zapier enough to carry out the task? Were they totally non-technical, or just not a professional dev?
winter is 6 summer is 5. if you have to think about it it means you are oblivious to which season you are in.
It's not particularly recent or even surprising, this is basically a SV startup forum after all. Or at least directly adjacent to one.
Society know financial collapse. They occur quite regularly every 5-7 years. The outcomes are roughly identical.
Idk what you mean about plugins and performance. Yes, the UI and startup get slower, but print performance? I ran it on an OrangePi Zero (== one of the jankiest SBCs out there) with a bunch of plugins and one webcam without a single OctoPrint-related failure for more than half a year. I ended up switching to something powerful only because of power supply issues (OrangePi are even more voltage-sensitive than RaspPi).
E INK will release Kaleido 3 Color E-Paper in June
I click the middle button and move/drag it

It is faster than scrolling with the wheel

But when a site tries infinite scroll, it is often broken
Related question: what precisely does <spacebar> do? (I realize it acts like a typical terminal pager like `more` or `less`; I mean, what is the mechanism?)

For example, look at https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v12.x/docs/api/

It's visible content is all in a `div` with id `content`, which in turn contains two `div` s with ids `column2` and `column1`.

On a suitably small window, pressing <spacebar> causes the `div` `column1` to scroll, but what if I want to move the "focus" to `column2`?

[I realize this is somewhat tangential, but any pointers to a better place to find info about this would be greatly appreciated.]
You can raise an agressive pet(cat/dog) if you really want that.
When I connect with recruiters on Linkedin, I often notice they've spent a short time at their current position. Their tactics might not be sustainable.

That said, it's a bit absurd there aren't separate classes of users on Linkedin. Do I need to know a recruiter's work history?
It depends.

I'm a dilettante for some things, so no: my opinions outrank anything else. I'm whoring for attention and should have been on reddit this time.

I'm a student of others: I read to learn and comment to try and test my understanding, usually with an experimental reference to ground things.

I'm a player in a third case: I have a view, I know the primary author or know them indirectly, I (arrogantly, mistakenly) assert a view of my own.
Yeah I’m not sure there’s any of us one time people who are in favour of the weird social norm of expecting others to know when to call them and booby trapping their own sleep to yell at you if you get it wrong.

The uncle Steve’s of the world learning to set their phone’s do not disturb up after receiving a bunch of mid sleep calls is a benefit of one time zone not a critique.
I think that is more of a Spanish cultural thing than anything time zone related.
So in order to avoid media bias you... get your information from a single source?

Also, using the phrase "cultural Marxism" is a pretty strong red flag that you have your own ideological biases yourself.
I would suspect this is intended behavior. YouTube expects users to rely on page up/page down or mouse/trackpad scroll.
Oracle Cloud is unreachable
You finding it hard to believe is irrelevant.
Nobody was calling stuff Dev_ before DevOps
You want people to completely ignore sunrise and sunset? And force some people to be awake entirely during the night?

Good luck with that.
The standard library IP type has worked for numerous programs for a literal decade. Just because a specialized application can do a better job by leveraging, again, decades of real world experience with the language doesn't invalidate that or mean it's half-assed.

I think your statement reflects more on your own biases than reality.
Eh, I have a different experience. The A380 porpoises on autopilot cruise, alternating between lifting you slightly, and settling slightly. The regular drop induces a startle reflex that makes it really hard to sleep.

My favorite plane for long distance is the 787. The mechanical bits are pretty noisy on climb out, but when cruising it's a really comfortable ride.
This type doesn't appear to support IPv6 Address Zones which was the most complicated part of the post. Actually from my limited googling Rust doesn't seem to support Address Zones at all in it's standard library.
That's moving the goalposts. The OP makes it sound like given an income "X", adding the stimulus to that will cause the IRS to not only take all the stimulus, but also some of X.

My question is, under what circumstance would getting a gov't stimulus payment actually net you less money than not, all else being equal.
People stopped eating organ meats because organs are the unsafe parts in general. Inner parasites acumulate and live on them and some accumulate nasty substances. Is perfectly possible to die poisoned after eating a mammal liver.
Kiwi Browser + uBlock Origin.
Oh my got it's like talking to a cultist. Recycling for electronics rate is like 30%.

Do you imagine it's 100% for iPhones because Apple is such a special snowflake? Do you imagine that in the entire pile of hundred of tons of E-waste there is not a single discarded iPhone? I am prepared to bet my house on it, are you?
I make music under the name Dream Scatter at https://music.crucialflow.com
I did, indeed, enjoy this— thank you for sharing! :)
If you tell the flight crew that you don't want to be seated there, they will reseat you.