skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humorism was a field of academic study for two millennia before germ theory demonstrated how laughable the entire field was. It’s always important to remember that doing research in a field doesn’t necessarily mean that the field itself is on a solid foundation that maps to reality. Psychology and psychiatry really do struggle to demonstrate statistically meaningful results behind most therapies (CBT is perhaps a notable exception, although even there results can be mixed). Analyses like the big 5 are squarely in the “let me read your tea leaves” camp of “science” IMO. They basically play a trick of “sure, the other personality theories were bogus but this time we did stumble upon a good way of characterizing it” while taking at face value that the entire endeavor as valid. Neuroscience has a bit more behind it because it’s actually rooted in quantifiable measurements somewhat and even there it’s difficult. It’s like trying to reverse-engineer a modern CPU from X-ray lithography. If you know the theory underpinning everything, you can start to make educated guesses. Without that you’re not going to get anywhere close to what’s going on let alone root cause if something is broken.
Then you haven't met me (or if you have, PNG hasn't come up), because I also read the spec.
Yeah I travel a lot, it is surprising how different the facts are. Its like Animal Farm but expanding the universe to a different farm.

It can be subtle differences like "Serbia starting WW1" versus "Austria starting WW1"

or it can be major consequential differences
The curb weight of the F150 tops out at ~5000 pounds, the GVWR [which is what it is when full of people and stuff] tops out at ~7000 pounds.

The F250 line tops out at a curb weight of ~7500 lbs with a GVWR of an even 10,000.
While I largely agree with you on ESR as of nowadays, in his / its defense:

1) That was written before he got quite as alt-right-radicalised as he is now; and

2) It is not all by himself but mostly crowd-sourced.
There's two flavors of the chip shortage problem:

1. TSMC leading-edge process is the hottest (coolest, really ;) process and just not enough capacity to meet all the demand for mobile, high end desktop, GPUs, etc. This predates the main shortage we're talking about. Cryptocurrency mining is a contributor to this one, too.

2. There's a broad shortage of parts made on less cutting-edge processes. Causes: disruption to production from COVID, disruption from automakers churning orders, increased demand for consumer products, and speculation/hoarding.

Of course, #2 made #1 even worse.
You are vastly underestimating how hard it is to build an electric car that people want to buy. Tesla very likely accelerated the adoption of electric cars by at least a decade.
The difference is between hobbyist agriculture and commercial agriculture. In the latter, consistency, pests and disease become more complex issues to deal with. IMHO there are a lot of analogies to software engineering. Small projects can engage in practices that don't scale, like skipping QA, not adequately testing, inconsistent coding standards.

In large farms, seeds are mass produced, engineered, and go through a QA and testing process to prevent certain diseases. There are many good reasons, BTW, why farms don't grow perennials and engage in mono-cropping, or use herbicides and genetically engineered crops instead of no-till. The trade-off in abandoning these practices almost always involves sacrificing yields and the mechanization of labor.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a35695042/car-sales-tanked...

https://www.autonews.com/dealers/dealer-profits-surge-48-rec...

Doesn't matter if net car sales were down - dealerships of all kinds were hitting ALL TIME HIGHS for profits in 2020 everywhere as a result of huge markups brought on by massive demand. So I stand corrected, dealer profits are up, not car sales - point is that car sales people are not in need of our sympathy at this moment.
[citation needed]

1. This is an issue the Wikimedia foundation has been dealing with and working to solve: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Large_s...

2A. The general rule with the Wikipedia is that, if you can make a redirect to something, it’s usually good to do so, even if the redirect uses a term which is not politically correct. Considering the source of the complaint comes from Reddit, Reddit is not a particularly reliable source about matters like this.

2B. As a strict inclusionist sometimes Wikipedia editor, I agree 100% with the general gist that the Wikipedia makes adding new articles too hard. That said, I have with some effort been able to make a new article stay in the Wikipedia fairly recently (late 2019): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValhallaDSP

It did get tagged for deletion — https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ValhallaDSP&type=... — but the editor who put the tag removed it when I pointed out the subject has been extensively referenced by the music press —
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ValhallaDSP&type=...

2C. Please provide evidence; e.g. diffs where you tried to edit something and all of your edits were reverted. [Citation needed] and all that.

3. The current version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Challenor — this version: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aimee_Challenor&o... — has the Reddit scandal and other scandals prominently described in the lead section. Please let us know how the article is not neutral.
Show all ENV variables used by a Node.js pm2 process
Bosh-Haber process increased food supply several times in less than a decade. There was no starvation in a developed country ever since it got adopted on mass scale. It happened less than 100 years ago.

Compared to that every other revolution in farming was insignificant.
> "Fear of failure is higher when you're not working on the problem.

> If you are taking action, you are less worried about failure because you realize you can influence the outcome."

I wish I could internalize that. For some reasons I feel as if it was the opposite.
Because it sort of did in that they provided support for UK and even the USSR that might have tipped the balance, not to mention operations in Africa.

But really it's because there was a deliberate and concerted effort to erase the USSR's role in defeating the Nazis in western europe, after say 1960.
Through public education, and general coverage in medias/fil/documentaries. The US cultural hegemony is real :)

It started earlier, but at the time when the Communist Party was at 30% in a lot of countries and 90% of the workers where in unions the disinformation worked very poorly.
In other words, would you agree that people that make right decision fastest are the smartest? What I mean is that making a good decision while taking a lot of time is much easier than making the right decision without spending much time.

In real life we often have to make suboptimal decisions merely because we cannot spend much time on each one.
First off nobody realistically talks about this. It's speculation. The topic at hand is talking about endeavors in the realm of reality. Not even mountains can last billions and billions of years, nobody is talking about immortality at that scale simply because it won't ever happen.

So if we're speculating here your argument is that boredom is a curse. At my age I'm already bored every single day of my life.

I'd rather be bored than be dead. But again this is speculation. I'd rather be bored for 50 years than die at 50 but would I be the same at 5 billion? Truthfully nobody knows. Even 50 Years is a long time to be bored but if you're not bored at 50 what makes you suddenly conclude that 5 billion is too much?

There's no evidence or weight behind this philosophy. Boredom does not equate to being cursed.
It’s self-help. Usually the half life of those is a few articles and then you kind of know that they’ll just repeat that until people stop paying attention to them
Thanks for the link. So if I read this correctly, these personality traits refer to how one is perceived by others. OK, I guess that makes sense.

But it would be total nonsense to conclude about personality traits from a self-taken test.
This seems great, kudos for this.

There are quite a lot of project which emulator MacOS, Windows, Ubuntu. I am always surprised by attention to detail. Like it can open files, wow. Its has a terminal too.
Snap I wonder how closely we are related?
I think they mean in the original document where a lot of words and phrases are unnecessarily within quotation marks.

I'd suggest removing pretty much all of the quotation marks to improve readability.

Edit: In the post in the thread here, the quotes around the word underpowered are being used as scare quotes [1] but the more you do that the less readable a document becomes because you're putting the cognitive load of inferring the intention of the punctuation onto the reader! I would recommend using quotes for quotations/speech only.

Edit2: PS Grammatical quibbles aside this is a good post, thanks for writing & submitting it!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
Agstack – Open-Source Digital Infrastructure for the Agriculture Ecosystem
Seeing the Tartars (2020)
I came across this blog post while researching the history of the `roff` family of type-setting systems: the Graphic Systems’ C/A/T phototypesetter was the output device that Joe Ossanna’s troff was written for.

I love the hacker spirit of by-passing the paper tape input that they were supposed to use though I can only begin to imagine the frustration the early Unix developers might have felt when they had to do so much work – only to see a typeset error message.
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Genetic predisposition is not a sure thing, so I think most people would still save for retirement, genetics aside. I'm somewhat convinced that I will die young of health complications or social strife in the wake of global warming, but I am still saving for retirement. In any case, I think it is unreasonable to claim that it evens out somehow. It's unfortunate that most people don't learn how strong an advantage it is to be in good health until they aren't anymore.
I mixed up everything a little bit but I'm more complaining at the post's authors. They don't necessarily decide where we're going but they definitely have an influence on the general discussion. But I don't think they're siding towards ever more growth out of nowhere; they do it because that's what most developers actually believe.

That's where we, as developers, have something to do. If we disagree, we have to voice it to make it more visible in the public discourse. The high-end configurations are built for us developers first, so we as customers have this leverage.
I had the exact same impression. It has become so watered down and superficial.
Sure, but the language was smaller back then (not small, mind you, but smaller). Boost was only created in 1999 after all!

Also, people have been complaining about C++ compile time for as long as I can remember, so I don't think it necessarily invalidates my point.
well, this makes me think hmm, I know all the answers to those questions, but I've never been asked in one of those surveys of people walking on the street when living in the U.S - but if I had been.... would I have been put on this funny TV segment?
I've given up on Xsense distros and use OpenWrt. It's Linux based so Wiregaurd is in kernel and easy to setup.

I keep trying to get people to try it out :) . I left pfSense community years ago when drama started and it became clear somebody was commercializing it.

Linux based distros have better features and hardware compatibility these days anyways. BSD is slowly dying (at risk of downvotes here)
One of my all-time favorite HN comments is from the original discussion of this article:

> Dependencies (coupling) is an important concern to address, but it's only 1 of 4 criteria that I consider and it's not the most important one. I try to optimize my code around reducing state, coupling, complexity and code, in that order. I'm willing to add increased coupling if it makes my code more stateless. I'm willing to make it more complex if it reduces coupling. And I'm willing to duplicate code if it makes the code less complex. Only if it doesn't increase state, coupling or complexity do I dedup code.

> The reason I put stateless code as the highest priority is it's the easiest to reason about. Stateless logic functions the same whether run normally, in parallel or distributed. It's the easiest to test, since it requires very little setup code. And it's the easiest to scale up, since you just run another copy of it. Once you introduce state, your life gets significantly harder.

> I think the reason that novice programmers optimize around code reduction is that it's the easiest of the 4 to spot. The other 3 are much more subtle and subjective and so will require greater experience to spot. But learning those priorities, in that order, has made me a significantly better developer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11042400
Is this GL-117 in disguise? It could run on pretty much anything back in the day.
>It too me years to even be able to talk about this episode of my life to anyone. It was horrible.

I am glad you found the courage to share a bleak chapter in your life, and for being unflinchingly honest. I hope it was cathartic ─ your lived experience will serve as an extremely valuable lesson for those of us, who might encounter such circumstances.
Nice....I wish I hadn't stopped programming.

A seed of an idea, curious what you think:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27098339
What about lend-lease?
Wikipedia is in this uncanny valley of reliability, where it looks impartial when you take a superficial glance, but when you look closer it isn't. This lulls you into false sense of security that allows the occasional lie* through your filters.

* I saw lie, because if you tried to fix the inaccuracy it would not be allowed.
The Contemplative Life: the monastic cowl (2020)
I don't do certain unpopular things at work because I know it will be a political shitstorm, and even if I try to, everyone else will not cooperate and I could possibly lose my job or not get promoted. That is why. They usually cannot even do it if they wanted to.

If your voters will vote you out because you do unpopular things, that's democracy at work.
You're getting downvoted by people who don't know shit / never set foot in a Western europe classroom.
This is documented : the role of the USSR in WWII victory was erased from public school programs and constantly downplayed in media.
There are numerous traces of the controversies that arose around this throughout the decades.
I also travel a lot. Especially hard lately.
You can’t really trust these videos, because you could do this in any country. Interview 100 people and choose the dumbest 5 and selectively air those clips... It’s fun entertainment, but not much more.
> In at least one of the big tech companies I worked at, team A would need to make changes or add features to some service owned by team B.

Your post is basically a description of the aftermath of this situation. Which is accurate. But the solution isn't in the description of the aftermath.

We don't know what the service does, why team B doesn't want to address team A's needs, can team A use something else and so on.

Things need to be owned by specific teams, because otherwise the codebase turns into a mess of ad-hoc patches concocted with little to no domain insight on the service being edited.
Yes. AFAICS, it is a fork that is maintained and started years after the original one was abandoned.
THIS GUYS A VICTIM, DOWNVOTING IS OPPRESSION!
Yes, my experience exactly. I could imagine myself in different situations suiting different answers, and therefore having different personalities.

That might even make sense but then it’s not a description of personality, but of context-dependent behaviour. Only useful within a defined context.
There's probably something with a fixed width somewhere in the markup that's causing the scrolling even though the content has been corrected scaled to fit.
I wonder if that sort of library compatibility might be the reason for the shortages in those particular part lines?

It looks easy to find STM32L0x2 chips in stock. Those are not supported by the QMK firmware, but they are very similar in terms of peripherals and features to the supported (and hard-to-find) STM32F0x2 lines. The main differences are a lower minimum operating voltage and more power management options, IIRC.
That would be a local hidden variable. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test
> Why do americans think that the US won WW2 in Europe?

If you were British you would know the real truth from the 24/7 repeats of WW2 documentaries that Churchill won WW2
Isn't the simple answer just Cold War propaganda, especially within education systems in the west? There was a strong incentive to minimize the USSR's accomplishments and sacrifices in the west. Even if for some reason you think that the Soviets didn't have as much impact as people used to believe, it just means their propaganda was more effective earlier on. Either way, I think that's the easiest way to explain the change.
I'm thinking of actual benchmarks. Here's the one I've been looking at:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/AMD-Ryzen-7-PRO-4750U-v...

The top CPU choice for my current Lenovo T460s was the i7-6600U. Exactly 5 laptop generations later the top CPU choice for the T14sG2 is the Ryzen 7 5850U. The ratio of performance between those two is 5.82. That's 42% per year or almost exactly 2x every 2 years on the same form factor and TDP. Last year's 4750U was at 4.4x after 4 years.

Intel has only been able to do 1.6x every 2 years in the same comparison. Their single core performance is comparable but they've only been able to deliver 4 cores versus AMD's 8.
> What's stopping more people from moving cloud workloads to AMD?

It's not just about CPU bound workloads but also things that are heavily I/O dependent (typically on bare metal hardware that you own, rather than instances you rent somewhere). There's lots of networking and storage things that would be performance bottlenecked on an intel cpu with less PCI-E lanes. Having a 16-core CPU around $950 that has 128 PCI-E 4.0 lanes is very useful for many things.

And not just for EPYC but also the single socket threadripper parts, which are used in both higher end workstations and some types of server.
Morris Chang and the Global Semiconductor Competition
History, when I studied it in college, was a collection of opinions, claims of varying veracity, evidence of different strengths, lots of missing information, and attempts to find meaning in it all, usually from some current perspective. History professors these days are more often accused of postmodernism than narrative and more often of Marxism than national propaganda. Those electives in college are supposed to expose people to things like that.

There is something very unlike that taught before college in the US that's more about memorizing than understanding. It's a similar situation to how the math that people have phobias about doesn't resemble undergrad math major math at all.
A major problem with humorism was that it did not have any empirical evidence to support it.

Modern personality theory DOES. Personality theory uses a variety of techniques to show that a construct is internally consistent and related to real-world indicators. If independent people can view a video or a person and they reliably rate that entity similarly (inter-rater reliability), we can say with some certainty that there is something there. Relating a construct like this to a variety of real-world outcomes allows us to ascertain its relationship to the world. This evidence is messy and not nearly as solid as what's found in the harder sciences, but your dismissal of the modern statistics of questionnaire-based measurement does a very well-researched field of inquiry a huge disservice.
Jake Vanderplas – Statistics for Hackers – PyCon 2016
The original article spoke of piano. I should have mentioned that the advice I gave is more tailored to polyphonic instruments like the guitar, the piano and the accordion. Even on these instruments, the best advice in most cases usually is to practice slowly at first. Just not always. That's what 20 years of teaching the guitar has taught me.
Teaching me how to think is precisely what my 'worthless' liberal arts degree did. Interestingly enough, that skill was what let me transition into IT. And it allows me to outperform the vast majority of my co-workers, 95% of whom have masters degrees in some computer-related subject.
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Well, that's internet hosting. The biggest expense (almost half) is people, at least some of which is doubtless related to operating that internet hosting. They also give out a fair bit in grants/awards.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_algorithm
We have this issue, and the answer is "it's complicated". We have some people as FTEs, this is done via a PEO who handles a lot of the overhead for us. This works within the USA. We also have some contractors within the US that we work with directly. We also have staff in other countries, we either pay a US entity they own, or we pay a company as a vendor in that country, and that company takes care of paying the individuals. We also have a few direct international contractors for whom we ensure we're compliant on the US side of things, but they're responsible for everything on their side of the equation.

One thing to understand about fully remote is that it can mean a lot of things to HR. For example, if they approve 100% remote, does that mean you're outside of an office? Outside of a city? Outside of a state? Country? Are you nomadic?

I can tell you that when I was previously employed by a company where one of my conditions was I want to be 100% remote in another state, the agreement was I was hired in State A, and then my boss didn't enforce butts in seats, and they ignored that I was in State B from their side of the fence, and I paid taxes in State B. It was illegal, and I wouldn't recommend doing this.
Because it is in fact taking away their freedom
Eleven Ways of Smelling a Tree (2020)
This notion of "busy people don't make good decisions" seems a bit concerning to me. Even if all my decisions are perfect, and I have free time, why wouldn't I invest this time into something productive? In the end, being busy is just showing the ability to manage time, not necessarily decision making skills.
> Unless you really insist on driving the exact car you're buying

I certainly do. I thought this was the norm?
Thanks! In my case it would indeed be difficult to work as a service-provider, since some of the income streams I generate require that I have a permanent employment contract with my employer.
Kind of. There are companies that provide this service (the ability to pay people in different countries). You can Google "Employee of Record" (EoR) or "Professional Employer Organization". A few more modern providers that cater to tech startups specifically are Deel and Pilot. Basically they let you pay anyone in any country, and easily draft locally compliant contracts. Often they'll ask you to set yourself up as a local entity in the company you want to be paid, so you might lose some benefits (you'd be more of a contractor than an employee).

That said, it's never fully plug-and-play. If you're small enough you can skirt some of the complications, but every country has very different laws around mandated time off, taxes, social security, the ability to classify a worker as a contractor vs employee, benefits, protections like whether/how you can lay someone off, etc.

So it's doable, but it's not seamless.
Not coincidentally we're centering around a similar number of cores per processor.
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