skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That said, is there something wrong with the translations offered?

I think in French hello = "bonjour" and hi = "salut"... not sure where "bonjours" and "salutations" came from.
Dont even get me started on the tooling. Vectors, Elektrobits, Dassaults, Conti's, tools are probably one of the biggest drains on collective computation power outside of crypto and ML.

Not to mention working in this space is fucking soul consuming. I was considered an "AUTOSAR expert" for a time, and that essentially meant having enough programming and systems knowledge to work on the entire stack. But never writing a single line of code, only clicking buttons in these god damn tools and watching them crash constantly, loosing hours upon hours of work
Growing up around silos, I can tell you... of all the dangerous stuff on a farm, that was the one thing that folks warned about. They are death traps, particularly because it’s so damn tempting to climb up and get in. (As a kid, anyway.) Or, even as an adult, when you’re emptying it, it’s so tempting to step inside (on the bottom) and shovel that last big mound on the side down towards the center. (And, then get overwhelmed in an avalanche if the big stable mound isn’t as stable as you think.)

I don’t think vibrating would work. Some silos are several stories tall, and the grain isn’t rigid... in fact, it can be quite moist. Point being, vibrations won’t travel very far.
Sounds like Audible believes the benefits outweigh the downsides of abusing their customers
>>> Apologies for being pedantic!

Nonsense! I should have been more specific. Also: today marks Yu Suzuki's 62nd birthday! Absolute Legend
I can't do this topic justice from memory, but you seem to be genuinely interested, so I'll say what I can.

It seems related to the petrodollar system. This is where the world uses USD for energy (OPEC only sells oil for dollars). This forces countries who need oil to acquire dollars. However, there's a problem with that: a limited supply of dollars. How do we fix that problem? Use a fiat currency (not backed by something tangible) that allows us to print more money as necessary. How much more should we print? The target is 2% inflation, so that much is what the experts in this topic think.

This petrodollar system does a lot more than just force us to have inflation. The subject from here becomes more and more complicated, because monetary systems are highly complicated. There's a lot going on in the US fiscal policy, and the impacts vary from very good to very bad, depending on your perspective. It's in fact so complicated that I can imagine for every perspective there are good parts and bad parts of our monetary system.

This is an excellent write-up from Lyn Alden (very good financial writer) on the petrodollar system and it's impacts: https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/

There's a lot of talk in this thread and on the internet in general, especially around cryptocurrencies, that is massively oversimplified and doesn't pay any mind to the fact that, like any other field, there are many very intelligent people working to solve very difficult problems. If a monetary policy can be summed up in one sentence, it's probably not a good policy.
As a boomer, I have to say that this underestimates the intellectualism of the boomer and preceding generations, and overstates the indifference of the millenials (or whatever one calls people around 30 in 2021).
> If you go to the Flanders region people will certainly tell you they speak Flemish.

And they would be right. They do indeed speak the Flemish dialect.

> That's an opinion, not a fact, and one that depends on who you ask and where

I don't see how it is "an opinion" if Flemish literally adheres to "Standaardnederlands" (https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standaardnederlands). Your analogy to German doesn't make any sense here. The Dutch language doesn't adhere to some "Germanic" standard language or anything, and barely has any grammar rules in common with German (even though the languages are very similar).
Then how are the people who wrote the app supposed to make money by selling your personal information to advertisers?
Productivity at my workplace went significantly up (and stayed up), but management has been clear that personal time is sacred, and I hardly ever see anyone on slack after work hours.

Honestly, the biggest impediments to productivity at my workplace have nothing to do with where we work and everything to do with management style (heavy-handed Agile/Scrum, micromanagement, the works).
And then how is the website jedberg likes supported?
For what it’s worth, gameplay AI in real time strategy games beats humans by performing more actions per minute than humanly possible. You can find Starcraft 2 AI that perfectly controls every unit while a human can only dedicate time to controlling a few groups of units. Nothing intelligent occurs; the human loses because they simply fall behind.
Fine: call it Dynamic Advertisement if it helps you sleep at night, but Apple is still targeting the user with an ad that is relevant to the content they're searching for. Furthermore, Apple's policy seems to only apply to their own platform: it's estimated that they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on AdSense marketing campaigns, which are highly targeted and among the least respectful ad platforms around. Evidently their motto of "privacy is a human right" only applies if they deem you "human" enough...
Backpropagation was the model for AGI in the 1980s if not earlier. Of course computing power made it impossible for anything to actually deliver AGI.
My Nikon D850 (DSLR) and Z6 (mirrorless) both have separate physical dials for shutter speed and aperture. The D850 has buttons that allow the physical command dials to be used to control ISO, white balance, bracketing intervals and load of other things. Important settings are shown in the viewfinder and top panel and I only really use the rear monitor to check the histogram for over exposure. I almost never need to use the menu system / touchscreen to alter a shooting setting.
Well that was your fault. The seventh toggle on the list was clearly labeled, "Use cookies to track my choices for the preceding six preferences and the following eight preferences"
But why does that matter? Assuming the caloric intake is the same, how does eating a peach smoothie differ from eating a peach? They are the same and get liquified the same. I mean technically when you eat you're supposed to have it mashed up enough that your stomach has to do little as little work as possible (so equivalent to a smoothie as possible). I still don't see how that makes a difference.

Back to the additives, what difference does it make if your body properly disposes of it because it can't break it down and it doesn't get absorbed by you? Or...does it get absorbed by you (which is what I'm partially asking)?
I've got it running from a Pi3 with no issues serving to multiple roku clients simultaneously. I'm also really happy with how the roku client has gone from just working to well polished in the past year, even on my first gen device.
I think this is true for most programming languages. I want more stylistic, opinionated stuff that comes with contexts and caveats, so I can get to understand their decision making process and avoid footguns that can only be learned through sufficient experience.
Probably an amazing site but holy s** the number of adverts is insane.
I have a weekly script that uses rclone to sync all the relevant folders from my NAS to an S3 Glacier Deep Archive bucket. It works well enough, though my slow 35 Mbps uplink from my home is the limiting factor.

Sometimes when I do some large video projects that are 30-60 GB in size, the upload to the bucket can take a couple days :(
I'm not sure if I'm just oversensitive but...

The article seems to be mostly repeating talking pieces from politicians?! There are no real facts about the bill. Just politicians decrying "Chinese communism" and "unfair competition". But be clear: they're not "anti asian". And they're bipartisan or not bipartisan enough, or maybe they are?

I feel like getting stuck in bickering over who's idea it was (George W Bush maybe?) and making sure to hit talking points etc is the exact opposite of what a country/government actually taking actual action looks like.

Did people talk this way about Apollo? No mention of aims or measures of success just snippets from the politicians re-election campaigns.
Japan Launch – Overcoming Localization Challenges
I’ve not much to say on the actual lib, it seems great! However, don’t feel compelled to put all your rust code into a single lib.rs. You can split your work into several files and use ‘pub use’ and ‘mod’ in lib.rs to re-export your functions & types into a public API of your choosing.

cargo check and format time might also slightly improve!
Yes, those speeds are roughly consistent with what I got in my speed tests here :)

You (and others in these comments) have suggested using OpenWRT as an alternative. I suppose one advantage of the approach outlined in the submitted article is that you can still use the pi for other tasks using the normal raspberry pi OS, instead of installing the OpenWRT OS.
Comparing Latency of Do Spaces vs. AWS S3
In this case and things like ATT, Apple is saying "you can no longer do this to our users unless they agree to it first". And they default to asking users. That users are the ones making these choices is an important point.
> Videocalls. Whiteboarding. Interviewing. Strategic work. Reading emotions and connecting to people. What was a matter of just getting six people in a war room for a week and getting that hard problem done now takes eternities and every meeting is an energy hog.

Being in any meeting or war room is also an energy hog. I do understand what you're saying though. What worked before, doesn't work anymore. Remote means management has to change. IC work for the most part was easy to move remote. Work that involved coordinating people and communication is going to take longer to figure out. It can be done, as many pre-COVID remote companies showed. But, it takes work to adapt.
> The consumer hardware we have today is mind blowingly good and the software to go with it is outstanding.

It would all be even better if 1) knowledge was de-commoditized (since thanks to digital tech knowledge is now already a non-rivalrous good as it has a zero marginal cost of reproduction) and 2) we used transparent p2p supply chains (http://valueflo.ws + http://holochain.org).

I think today's world is a black box hellworld. I don't think hardware and software are high quality at all. Proprietary tech is a straightjacket. I believe we can definitely escape this hellworld though. Some even say overcoming it is is essential if we want to make it out of global warming:

"The current political economy is based on a false idea of “immaterial scarcity.”

It believes that an exaggerated set of intellectual property monopolies – for copyrights, trademarks and patents – should restrain the sharing of scientific, social and economic innovations. Hence the system discourages human cooperation, excludes many people from benefiting from innovation and slows the collective learning of humanity.

In an age of grave global challenges, the political economy keeps many practical alternatives sequestered behind private firewalls or unfunded if they cannot generate adequate profits."
> Also, imagine if your doctor only worked 20 hours a week.

That would be fabulous. Much better than doctors working to a regime designed by a cocaine addict that sees them punch-drunk from a lack of sleep by the end of their rosters.
You're advocating for a position as "a guy in a room" [0], and we've all been taught how dangerous and harmful that person ends up being for an organization that's trying to ship good software on time.

What you're asking for is, frankly, not reasonable. You want to be left alone to code, and that is simply not how software development works anymore (and arguably it never worked that way).

[0] - https://blog.codinghorror.com/dont-go-dark/
Both of those problems can be solved to a degree with more efficient communication. Async communication channels like email and other messaging are great at not wasting peoples time while keeping everyone in the loop who needs to be, properly used. Sometimes I think phpbb style forums would work better than the usual tools. But overall I find people don't experiment enough or put enough effort into optimizing communication and it leads to this false dichotomy of either isolation or time wasting. There's a middle ground of optional participation where you communicate widely but don't force peoples attention, and that's how you can reduce meetings without reducing valuable communication. You can always put a time limit on feedback if needed, mark some things important... Just find what works!
Multiple reasons, among the most important:

Modern processed foods have very little fiber and other non-processed parts, making you full slower causing you to overeat. A glass of coke has 140 calories, and so has 2-3 apples. You'll stop eating after 3 apples but can easily have 2 glasses of coke.

The above also causes blood sugar to spike drastically immediately after eating processed foods, causing you to create a high amount of insulin, drastically lowering blood sugar and creating fat. Low blood sugar then causes you to become hungry soon after. This is the famous "hungry 2 hours after eating McDonalds" efffect. Non-processed foods are digested much more gradual.

The calories are more empty. Lots of sugar and fat, not much protein and micro-nutrients like minerals and vitamins.

They are made so you can't stop eating them, e.g. bliss point [1]. They hack our reward centers to so it feels so good to eat you'll overeat. You wouldn't eat 20 sugar cubes in one sitting but will eat a tub of Ben and Jerry's.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_point_(food)
At my previous company this was only true for a week or two. Then some VP discovered how to use MS Teams and the daily two hour meeting started.
What I'm very interested in ATM(just now after reading this topic) is how the process of evolution really works. Not the selection so much, but the actual mutations.

The last I ever learned about it, and perhaps the common belief, is that random-ish gene mutations account for it. 4 billion years doesn't seem like enough time to account for all that unless changes are heavily weighted towards doing something somewhat useful. Like there is a system at play.. Lego blocks vs bits. IDK.
> Even the NSA doesn't pay well, compared to private sector.

On the other hand, I bet it's pretty fun working for the NSA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOBUS
That's a weird claim. Why not just assume old people are slower minded for the same reason they are physically slower: physical degredation?
The main difference between processed foods and fresh foods are 1) preservatives and 2) flavour enhancement - for the first goal we use things like salt to increase the shelf life of the product which has the side effect of shifting most folks over to having a higher expectation of salt content in their food in general - for the later salt is also useful (along with specific flavour enhancers like MSG), but sugar is far easier to throw in and get more bang for your buck.

I can cook a meal and freeze it for a while reheat it and enjoy it - to allow it to survive (with a decent taste) long bouts of freezer burn and going stale I need to load that sucker up with a bunch of salt and sugar so that I don't care that the food tastes like cardboard.

I can't speak to any molecular effects - those may also exist - but most of why processed food is bad for you is just to make it taste really really good so you'll come back for more - even if you're not hungry! Yay obesity!

I imagine at some point in the future folks are going to look at the diet of the late 20th century like we look at covering your baby's crib with lead based paint.
Oops. Yes. Folks should rarely be held accountable for timeline slips.

Thanks!
I'm listening to the same podcast. The source was Pfizer data obtained via FOIA request, it was a Japanese study I think.

edit: this one: https://files.catbox.moe/0vwcmj.pdf

Here's the data in a plot:

https://trialsitenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Ovaries...
Buy a 15 year old car. Our family car is a 2003 Infiniti fx35. Got everything we need. Bluetooth aftermarket adapter from AliExpress and i feel modern as any other car.
The argument I always got while trying to argue against delaying features for large customers was that it causes a training headache. If you have large enough customers, redesigning a UI triggers a training initiative for the 100s, if not 1000s of customers that use your software.
Make sure nothing is changing your DNS. You may need to set your router to push the pihole as your DNS and tell any programs to use system DNS.
So what I hear out of this is a conflict of priority of your values. I might suggest you are not really stuck, you just do not have your priorities straight and if priorities change momentarily, actions might cancel each other out.

You might want to take responsibility for your hierarchy of values. You can still be strategic about it and try to map out how certain actions might build up over time.

As another comment has mentioned, the demand for Software Eng - especially experienced professionals - still so much outpaces supply, you are actually in a pretty comfortable position to jump into different areas of the domain with only a minimal (short term) or even no pay cut at all. You gotta create your own opportunities here, though.

With regards to interests, let's be real about the tradeoffs: Jumping into different areas can be super beneficial if those expeditions create a marketable skill set. That might mean that you have to bring yourself to focus on one area at a time, but once you are a Fullstack Dev for example, you can have a quite flexible job. Again, be honest with yourself about what you value more: stability and pay in the short term or short term increased effort for increased long term salary and satisfaction.
> Reading emotions and connecting to people.

Literally every day of my life with autism.
love this — easiest way to stay updated on my favorite people!
Based on sources of mine and what you can find online, tracking developer sentiment is the next thing and github and gitlab are looking into it. I also know of a startup that is working on this. This is obvoiusly a good metrics to track but it doesn't provide much of a moat.
> But what of non-luxury goods that aren't included like housing? If the CPI is to measure essentially the value of the dollar to what is required to live, isn't it useless without housing?

Housing is included by proxy of rent. [1]

I think you'll generally find that rent growth has significantly outpaced mortgage costs, and therefore housing is overrepresented in the CPI. [2] This makes intuitive sense, after all, people tend to refinance into lower interest rates (and the general trend has been down) whereas rents seem to only go up. So, by using rents your housing costs go up a lot more over time (indicating higher inflation) as compared to using mortgage principal and interest payments.

[1] https://arbor.com/blog/how-does-rent-factor-into-the-consume...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/monthly-mortgage-vs-monthly-...
Is there evidence to support this, or is it just Internet speculation? For example, do we know what traits would favor someone in a jungle? Have you lived in a jungle or researched the question?

Do we know how evolution works? One thing I believe I understand is that evolution takes far longer than people imagine. A few centuries is nothing. Humans have been in their current evolutionary form for around 200,000 years. Adaptations are not evolution, and our genetics change and adapt during our lifetimes. My children will not be genetically better at typing than the original homo sapiens. Think of that: You are not genetically smarter than humans of 200,000 years ago; someone then is just as able to be a scientist as you are. All of our advantages are from other factors.

Another thing I've learned is that claims need evidence; that's what separates the wheat from the infinite chaff, the science from the witchcraft. The parent comment would require evidence to qualify for even a high school essay.
I agree with you and I'd take it a step further: I think there's considerable evidence that anonymity is not the driver.

Being out of range of immediate physical violence is probably a big factor, though. We have the "fighting words" doctrine for good reason.
> One of the methods email marketers use to keep their email delivery rates high is by removing subscribers that don't engage with their email.

Email marketers can still track when a user clicks a link, which is the proper signal for them to be using anyways.
> I realize companies are discussing keeping Silicon Valley salaries wherever their employees choose to live, but that can't last.

1) Now that managers have realized that the programmers don't need to be in Silly Valley, the next realization is that they can hire outside Silly Valley and pay less. There are a whole lot of people in cities like Pittsburgh who will be happy to get 10% less than Silly Valley to get a remote job. And then 10% less than that to get a remote job. Lather, rinse, repeat until salraies are at the cost of living for the area.

2) Once they do that, they will realize that they can lay off almost everybody with a high salary for no net loss.

If you're just a programmer, life is about to get bad. Hope you banked money while you had it.
I hate advertisers like the next guy, but what I hate even more is a company acting as a regulator.
Post 2000 and pre 2010 cars are essentially Just like modern cars except without the bloated infotainment crap.
Why exactly do ‘we’ ‘need’ a wealth tax?

Either you’re making several leaps of faith about how much good that money would do, or you just hate anybody that has something you don’t.

But... I will admit that it could make more sense to pay the government for protection of property, than personal productivity.
I was on a temporary pentesting contract at a Fortune 500 company, and the reason for ignoring security came down to cost. Our contact in their IT department said that when they were trying to get the budget to fix their longstanding security issues, they were told that it's cheaper to accept occasionally getting hacked than it is to fix things. They said that public relations people at big companies had pushed the "the bad guys attacked us, it could have happened to anyone" narrative so well that besides a few day dip in stock prices, there would be no negative financial impact on the company. The average person thinks of getting hacked like being robbed at gunpoint, where it can happen to anyone through no fault of their own.
FYI you're trading a known risk (COVID infection, complications, possibly lasting ones, eg. [1]) for a perhaps hypothetical, certainly very unlikely, one.

[1] https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1402614193195393029/pho...
Ah, sorry. Hopefully the extra pedantic info was news to another reader or three.

Also: today marks Yu Suzuki's 62nd birthday! Absolute Legend

Whooooa, nice! Finally working on my own little homebrew Genesis game after all these years; it's a little Space Harrier clone as a tribute to Sega and Yu. (=
The more I need to handle errors, the more I want to make every unexpected thing just raise an exception. 500s for everyone!
Mail privacy is the right thing to do and implement it will be a major improvement!

That doesn’t threaten email newsletters that are legitimate and of interest to real subscribers. Communication should never rely on espionage tactics even for the sake of metrics. Forgo monitoring people, customers, or would-be customers, and save a ton of time as a result.

Marketing experts will start talking about how two ways conversation is the ultimate email strategy that works. Send a non-tracked email, let them hit reply. Brands and consumers, united in conversation, finally. That is as horizontal as it gets.