skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that we haven't seen some massively decline in productivity when there started to be rampant "ghost writing" means it's probably fairly meaningless.

It reminds me of the fact that when I was five to nine, my school assigned loads of academic busywork that was completely pointless.

My mum did it for me and let me go out and play. Our class ranks were based solely on exam performance, and I was top of every class.

University probably has loads of pointless busywork too. Though I recall my Masters degree in CS actually being a rather enjoyable experience all around with fun assignments.

For CS classes at least, it seems like you're missing out if you don't do the work because it's so much fun!
The teachers I know have been working harder under lockdown than they did during in person.
Lots of European countries kept schools open during most of the pandemic so the answer is quit simple not much. I don’t know what studies you are referencing but they don’t seem to be backed by the experience in European countries.
I think he means eg a viral blog post or a popular NPM package, not a billion dollar startup.
No, Mars Is Not a Hellhole – The Mars Society
(Cleese collects fifty million dollars, goes to the bank and takes the entire amount out in cash.)

"I won, I won, I finally came out ahead!"

Prunella Scales appears.

"Thank you, Basil!"

Yoink.
I had a fairly mild case of Covid, with some consequences (heart extrasystoles, muscle twitching) that are almost resolved by now.

What messes with me is the missing human contact in person. Skype/Zoom just isn't enough.
Everyone can write a novel. A lot of HNers have a word count in the (short) novel length without worrying.

I think the issue is most software developers are paid full time to write. Pay me full time to write novels and you can have an endless supply of low quality Dan Brown.

I think the novel analogy is useful - there are an awful lot of novels being published (even more self published). Most are drivel ... unfortunately similar to the quality distribution of software.

Very few people and less organisations are capable of consistently great writing.

In my view we should be aiming for seeing what makes something like the Washington Post work. This is a agglomeration of skilled people who manage to write a coherent trilogy of novels every day.

Being literate is only the first challenge - building literate organisations is a much harder one.
The miner is your broker because the miner is executing the uniswap smart contract and it can artificially delay your transactions and insert its own transactions.

However, it's not front running legally, because the transactions are public.
It's only gotten worse on Tinder and such since 2015 as the dating platforms have pivoted more into instagram-like experiences. You can't just write 100 words and throw up a crappy cell phone photo and call it a day, you have to have a presence with video, stories, etc. and keep it up to date for their algorithms to keep you in rotation and getting possible likes.

Ultimately your success depends on your local area. The east coast generally has more women competing for men vs. the west coast is the opposite, see: http://jonathansoma.com/singles/ Someone who struggles to even get a single like or handful of dates in SF would be rolling in likes and attention in NYC.
So getting vaccinated saves me from infecting the people who have stolen more than a year of my life? I'll pass.
Because you get depressed if you are isolated and you get depressed if you have to fear to get infected.
There is no undepressing way to handle the pandemic, only ways with less infections and deaths.
I'm not drawing any conclusions about the community, you're the person who started making claims about the demographics of users.

> In particular, people on the Emacs mailing list were quite opposed to filling out the survey, and one of their concerns was what is happening right here: People drawing conclusions from a very poorly executed survey.

But the outcome here is that their point of view was not represented, flawed though the survey may be.
To be fair, this whole covid fiasco has worked better than a neutron bomb. It destroyed the people while leaving the infrastructure standing.

Obviously it is entirely intentional.
the most bothersome variants (SA,P1 brazil) are not reported in the paper
Thats something I realized on myself. Since the start of the first lockdown I am much more concerned about my own health. That combined with the social isolation and the stress I experience at work and university is a really bad combination.

But with everyone talking about health, the virus and the pandemic, it seems obvious that more people become aware about their own health.
Meme is just I Can Haz Sign. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

Another critique comes from semiotic theorists such as Terrence Deacon[41] and Kalevi Kull.[42] This view regards the concept of "meme" as a primitivized concept of "sign".
I.e., you cannot.

You can run a piece of mathematics that not one person in a thousand would understand, but there is no way to show it off, like in a book case or hang it on a wall.

But given that most valuable art is sitting in deep storage in free ports, I am not sure it is a problem.
> Guys, unless you are really hot you are probably better off not wasting your time on Tinder

I have zero experience with Tinder, but a friend of mine has recently been on a Tinder binge (rebound after a bad divorce) and he was getting lucky left and right. He's looks are somewhere around average (definitely not "hot") and he has shitty profile photos to boot. So, the reality must be more complex than the quote above.
The issue is that everyone equates NFTs with NFT art. NFT art can’t have a tie in as part of a virtual world where people want to show ownership of specific digital items, but NFTs in general are more useful, especially for all-digital items.

Something like cards in Gods Unchained is a better NFT example than a picture.
I forgot the actual number but I remember that above 700~ tabs firefox started to lag, usable but slow. It was funny to hit a structural limit like that and kudos on the devs to allow such a tab-hoarding behavior.

I'd love to work on a quick tab group freeze feature. (a 2d graph to order / select and then stash the tabs dom without external resources maybe) ?
From

Association between living with children and outcomes from covid-19: OpenSAFELY cohort study of 12 million adults in England

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n628

"Conclusions In contrast to wave 1, evidence existed of increased risk of reported SARS-CoV-2 infection and covid-19 outcomes among adults living with children during wave 2. However, this did not translate into a materially increased risk of covid-19 mortality, and absolute increases in risk were small."

"Living with children aged 0-11 was associated with reduced risk of death from both covid-19 and non-covid-19 causes in both waves;"
That, or "Covid behaves like viruses usually do", describes plenty of headlines of the past 15 months. Remember how everyone was worried that antibody levels drop after an infection? Judging by the media coverage, you'd think memory cells and T cells were a recent, Covid-related discovery. We've known about them since the sixties and they continue to work as advertised.
SpaceX performs flap actuation tests on Starship SN11 (spring equinox dance)
I find this strange as you probably sitting at computer watching some twitch thing for 10 hours ? young people are spending their time with computerized things for many years already ...
Long lasting effect like COVID.
Just google long COVID kids.
It's bad enough that I have to enable JS in a private tab, then the force-enabled JS makes it near unreadable.

I ended up using uBlock Origin to select the element and to block it, causing whatever crazy JS that is to die.
Not in my experience - for instance, Discord on Windows when I last used it can register itself to run on user login without ever needing UAC to install itself (it installs to %APPDATA%). It's been months though, so my memory can be hazy.
Happier and more efficient: our research shows working from home works
Well, if NFTs are a scam, then anything you buy for money is a scam. Usually we reserve "scams" for "trickeries", fooling someone out of their money, when they don't really want to. In this case, people are willingly buying NFTs.

Maybe a better word is to use "hyped" or "mania" or something, because it's not really a "scam" as no one really own NFTs as a whole and are fooling others.

Disclaimer: I'm myself not into NFTs because it mostly seems like hype at this point, I own zero NFTs myself and have no interest in buying. But I also care about accuracy.
Fry's Too :(
My favorite case in pointus the genius who made the I Am Rich app and sold it for 1000 per install. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
The ML model may be shit and that's ok so long as it shows the path it's going to follow and sticks with it.
It is ICOs 2.0
Yet Florida is perfectly ok.

Obviously this "8 digit body count" concept is a load of that which makes the grass grow green.
Smallpox.
First this is absolutely can not be true from purely logical reasoning. And You can check up yourself by hitting the very first search result.

But most importantly You're completely missing the point which was not about carbon footprint or forests or plastic.
None of these solutions is complete, but that's not a final argument against them. Raising the cost of attack is always beneficial. It reduces the number of attackers and the number of attacks.
Why would you put the punchline in the title?
N=27, no mention of geographic diversity, self reported "data" via "interviews" (ie dm-ing while pretending to be a normal user), no actual visibility into who the women were liking.

This entire article is just confirmation bias...
Smallpox. Except for some samples in secure laboratories.
Python Switch Statement
Libertarian PBS
This is a pseudo-science article commonly quoted on incel sites. The "data" is based on claimed interviews with a small group of women.

When you look at studies that used real messaging patterns on a dating website, you can see that people tend to message other people of similar "desirability".

See for example figure 3 in https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/8/eaap9815 : "Both women and men tend to contact others who are ranked somewhat—but not excessively—higher than themselves."
As someone with a masters in CS from a big name US school, the demographics of my cohort were super interesting. With the exception of a very small number of folks (<5% of total), everyone either had specific outside support (mainly government computer security scholarships of some kind) or was from outside the US.

I think this is because the cost of getting a masters doesnt make sense for someone with a CS undergrad who can easily apply to FAANG/etc.
Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking with "surface level truth". I think if you asked the majority of the US population if they cared about children they'd say yes and I don't think they would be lying. But there's an ignorance of the bigger picture.
Big part will be location. If you are in a reasonably sized city, it's still really easy for mediocre looking dudes as long as you arn't weird/creepy
> Lots of European countries kept schools open during most of the pandemic

More like "SOME European countries kept schools open during SOME of the pandemic". And look at the state of Covid in the EU now, with infection rates climbing yet again.
You are right and you are being down voted for speaking the truth.
How is this different than running FreeBSD with a jail per application?
Only vaguely related: what would be the Access equivalent of today? Somethings with low learning curve and forms.

Any suggestions?
There is little or no evidence that children frequently transmit the virus to adults. And even if there was, it wouldn't be ethical to collectively punish all children just to marginally reduce the risk to a minority of vulnerable people.
yep exactly, even with training and degrees and claims of competence
I have an official Tetris game. \You can toggle on the show/don't show, though i have only managed to do so by accident.
The claim that a lack of lockdown means the healthcare system being overloaded with COVID victims, leading to no capacity for sufferers of other illnesses, depends on a major assumption: that hospitals would have to treat patients coming in with COVID symptoms. Another approach could be to triage COVID patients away from intensive care, providing them only with palliative, end-of-life care, and letting those beds remain available to the bulk of the population. That might sound pretty harsh, but it is actually how things have played out in some regions of the world.
How would that matter if it's traded off chain?
I love Emacs and Orgmode, especially in combination with Sqlite. And I am convinced that VS Code - despite doing so many things right - does not have the versatility and the capability of Emacs, no matter how many packages are written for it because it is not intended to be configured by it‘s end users in a way where they read the code of the packages, learn from them, change them according to their needs and automate all kinds of processes / workflows with it. Emacs is an application framework for the user with a hacker mindset. And Emacs Lisp is the underlying scripting languages that invites you to play around with your tool.

Having said that: Yes, you can run your business with Emacs alone. But I am not convinced it is the right tool for the job.
Humans are just better at other things. Like problem solving. A big brain takes a lot of energy.

Plus human bodies aren't all that terrible: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Persistence_hunting
I would use many phrases to describe Florida's covid response, but "perfectly ok" would not be one of them.
There is a german word "Instandbesetzung" which translates to "maintenance squatting" or "restorative occupation". The first part is german "Instand-setzung" and the second "Be-setzung" so "Instand-be-setzung".

The basic idea is that a property deteriorates if not occupied, so when these squatters take over an abandoned property they improve it. The reality of german punk culture often did not follow this ideal: in the worst case it was a sham used by junkies to give an aura of legitimacy to their occupation, in the best case chaotic good punks had a different idea of what "maintained" means compared to more orderly people. The concept also exists in informal settlements unrelated to punk culture: to loosly quote a women living in the Venezuelan Tower of David, a precariat slum: "everything we did here was to live like decent people" and yet it still was a shanty town in an unfinished abandoned office tower. The people living there managed basic utilities for their community, which is impressive, but calling the tower maintained would be farfetched.

Cyberpunk author William Gibson features this concept quite often in his slum ridden dystopia, but it is most prominent at the end of the short story "Red Star, Winter Orbit" which he wrote together with Bruce Sterling. The german translation uses the above mentioned word, but in the english original they describe themselves as "Squatters, I guess you could say." so i don't think there is an english word for this concept, neither for buildings, nor networks.
What were the infection numbers when those European schools were open? Most of Europe did an actual lockdown and so was able to open schools at times when the numbers are down.
Comparing regions where schools opened earlier or were open for longer doesn’t support this extreme claim that “additional millions would have been infected in a short time”
Vs traumatized from death of relatives, death from overloaded hospitals, food shortages because death of working family members.
And why are kids grow up without seeing facial expressions? They are not isolated but spend more time with their parents, what's wrong with the world if this leads to mental health problems.
Year after year it was told parents need to spend more time with their children to built up their confidence and now this?
Could it ve it's not the lockdown, that causes the mental health problems but the pandemic?
I’m surprised that no-one has mentioned that selling the Brooklyn Bridge is a very old scam, made famous by this huckster: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Parker

New technology, same scam
That works nicely for maths but any subject that requires a non trivial amount of data gathering needs to be build on a certain amount of trust.
RISC-V doesn't even match ARM's levels when pulling extra tricks and extensions designed to improved code density. Other ISA's like AVR32 beat ARM by 50% which means it is more than possible to beat ARM. As I said, RISC-V is designed like a typical early 90s ISA when memory latency was not a concern. It will never be used in high performance general computing for that reason alone.
Simple CRUD apps with Python + Flask or Django I‘d say.
I feel like this way overstates what we know how to do with neural interfaces.
Getting scammed by John Cleese has clear value.
You are not taking the whole market into consideration. Maybe they are good at writing the game engine and then hosting, but others may be better at just hosting. So, they could be outcompeted by people who don't want to pay the cost/risk of building an engine. Others may be better at hosting godot than they ever will, although those people would not be there if there was no godot or if godot was not free. Free software (copyleft licenses in special) can be a threat for commercial software in two ways: a. users may just jump to the free alternative and leave yours b. it levels the field so new competitors can come in without paying the initial investment you made.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying that they are incorrect in assessing that godot is not a threat. They seem to consider they have other features beyond godot's scope which is what differentiate them in the market. What I am saying is that free software can certainly be a threat to a business. In fact, it can be even a larger threat than a single competitor, because it can turn your product into a commodity.
I'd also worry about bugs accidentally inserting bogus data into it.

The author says he doesn't like spreadsheets because of all the copy and pasting, but I think that's a feature.

You go over every calculation to make sure it's right, and once you have a template sheets to copy and paste for a monthly report or something, you're able to do a lot less of that.

It can be hard to view a raw database to track issues down depending on how it's structured. Usually you need more than viewing tables as spread sheets at least.
And another decent chunk is federal civilian and military pensions which is also a benefit earned by working.
Bingo. The funny thing about it is that I'm not a scientist or data analyst or statistician or academic, I'm only well-read, and that alone is enough for a sixth sense to identify the writing here as a shallow imitation of a meaningful scientific investigation. Do you ever get that hunch that what you're reading is bullshit, even though you can't point at a specific reason?
Indeed, though his work-around of adding a path column is something is worth having anyway, because it makes it much easier to see where the generated output has come from.
> for example, you have to go through a psychological evaluation to get your pilot's license, driver's license

Where? Wasn't required for me to fly or drive...

> to be allowed to own a firearm,

Not true even of a lot of restrictive jurisdictions. (even the UK).

> or be employed in certain positions

Sometimes this is true of being e.g. law enforcement or somewhere that requires a security clearance. But not very common.
Cryptocoins are equally useless in practice, but at least they try to serve a purpose. NFTs make no attempt to serve a purpose. It's truly bizarre.
Having that it’s John Cleese this may truly become a very valuable NFT even if that wasn’t the intention. The only thing John can do to at this point is get this event as public as possible then denounce it as a big scam and refusing to cash in a very large bid. Alternatively he may actually help jumpstart the NFT
I'd like to defend NFTs from a slightly different angle.

(Leaving aside the carbon emissions - let's assume everyone finally switches to Proof of Stake)

They are stupid. They are pointless. But then so is most of the art world - and going a step forward - so is much of what we value.

As several people have pointed out they are no less arbitrary than a limited edition print vs a commodity print. The value of fine wines escalates exponentially whilst the extra utility you get from any quality improvements trends towards nothing.

Much of what we value is pointless and bordering on delusional. But unless you're a wandering ascetic or superhumanly utilitarian in your consumption (hint - you're probably not even if you think you are) then the difference is one of degree rather than of category.
I wonder if there is a tipping point, where at a certain point walled gardens are so superior in their convenience that the open web falls into obscurity. We would then enter some sort of technological dark age, where talk of self-hosted blogs and static IPs are mentioned only in hushed whispers.
> The obvious criticism here is that now any developer who wants to defend their code will simply claim a given spaghetti incident easily fit in their head.

The thing is: that's just a bad defense. If the people who are going to be to maintaining it and working with it are saying it's bad code, it's bad. Even if this is the only developer who is going to maintain it for now (which itself is always a terrible idea), eventually someone else will take over, and the closest thing you have to that "someone else" is the rest of the current team.

I'm having a hard time imaging someone seriously making this argument, who is not also:

* Trying to establish themselves as the sole possible maintainer, so either the company can't fire them or is completely screwed if they ever leave, or:

* Is a saying the rest of their team is just too stupid to work with

In either case, this person is a massive liability, and the longer they are employed the more damage they'll do.
Smart Bitcoin Cash: A Bitcoin Cash Sidechain WithEVM and Web3 Compatibility [pdf]
The graph is very confusing. Rejected energy is basically thermal loss, it's completely unavoidable without switching to EVs powered by renewables.

Transportation is inefficient because ICE engines need to run at lots of different RPM ranges. Hybrid cars have more efficient engines because the engine can run at the most efficient RPM. EVs only have charging and battery losses.
I wonder if there are NFTs of fruit companies.
Exactly. I have never had issues with small businesses (not large chains). I bought a DAC from an audio store that was the wrong one and the other replaced it for free for me and gave me a free mini-lesson on it.
How was the transition for you? Did you already have clients from past work or did you start cold?
Sweatpants are fashion designers’ worst nightmare
That's the way they'll get you. Tinder is like a deck of cards, and you want to be at the top so more people see you. When you create a profile you will be near the top for a few days, then depeing on how popular you are you get sent further back in the deck. The only way to get on the top again of the deck is to pay money. It's the "First hit is free" business model.
Solve a Maze using a paper receipt
-Sounds good initially, until you realize the ancient setup was there for a reason

The "whoops" moment when you realize your clever hack wasn't so clever. It happens way too much, just pretend you have no idea what happened.
There was a shooting by two “isis” members at a Draw the Prophet (Muhammad) event in Garland Texas in 2015. It came out later that their undercover FBI handler had organized and encouraged this attack.
it's okay because only one in one thousand people have died