skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hunter-gatherers worked 15-hour weeks. Why don’t we?

Yeah, this drivel of a narrative must be extinguished. The world as it is now is completely different from the world in the 90s that I grew up in. To an extent that someone teleported from 90s to now will take a month or so just to make sense of it all. And this narrative is comparing the worlds that are thousand of years apart.

And what is the basis for that 15hr number? Did a group of people try to live the life of a hunter-gatherer for a decade or two? Or is it all based on back-of-the-envelop calculation, that goes "I need 2-3hr/day to gather food and eat"? If they did, then they have completely missed the ordeal (also under the category of work) our ancestors had to put up with just to survive the unforgiving nature.

Next time we hear something like this we should challenge them to actually live the life of a hunter-gatherer and then come back. At the very least live with and observe similar societies and gather data.
In China, who actually has a house, as opposed to an apartment?
I don't understand what this has to do with pair programming. It's just a glorified auto complete for function bodies. You still have to come up with everything else. Filling in function bodies isn't what makes pair programming valuable.
I have a Klein Stein and it is excellent, both for beer and coolness. Cliff Stole’s book on tracking a hacker is also a tour de force in tracking things back to the cause. And, like me, he was a stay at home parent for a long time.
It's really about the upper limit of what a 6 inch chimp brain can process. Or a group of chimps can process.

Whether it's a chimp in govt or outside Rationality has an Upper Bound. Stick that on the Fridge.

When the problem faced is too complex and that upper bound naturally gets hit stories flow out of the head on both sides. The right move is not to focus on the stories.

The right move, for this has been studied for a long time under the Theory of Bounded Rationality, is to focus on simpler problems.
It looks to me like those clients were removed due to trademark infringement (having "Signal" in their name), I don't think they were taken down because their code connects to OWS' servers (would GitHub or Google ever honour a takedown request like that?).
> our current system is designed

Do people really believe this language is accurate or likely to be helpful? What are we going to do, locate the designer and thwart their evil plan? Or attempt to locate the blueprint?

It seems to me that this kind of wording gives way too much credit to human consciousness.
Theoretically sure, but in reality people who like jet don't even know what the issue with jet is, let alone they can correct the non-lineairity.

In what kind of plots do you think maximum discriminability, at the cost of discriminating things that don't exist, is more important than linearity?
Agreed. Although I echo another commenter about wanting real tagging functionality in a manager. Also Music app has some ongoing bugs that just seem to never be fixed, the main one for me related to embedded artwork.

For quickly tagging / getting artwork for random stuff like individual songs ripped from YouTube I use Yate’s [0] Discogs Wizard. It’s very configurable and fast to use once you set things up.

Edit: will add that Yate is actively developed and I only remember paying for my license once. I would happily pay for upgrades given its utility over the years.

[0] https://2manyrobots.com/yate/
For countries without actual oil reserves, fossil fuels are pretty expensive. So I think it will really depend on where in Africa you’re talking about.
News.yc commenter copilot.
It's not either one or the other. Anki is a supplement to input received from native speakers and media. The idea of spaced repetition is to help one efficiently remember the thousands and thousands of words needed for a sophisticated vocabulary.

I definitely don't recommend anyone to try and learn a language from e.g. Anki only.
I find RF to be occasionally unreliable. Home automation which isn't highly reliable is, in my opinion, worse than no home automation.
I find his statements on German culture a bit weird tbh. Especially his claim that Germany does not have good universities. Sure, oxbridge ranks higher for students, but for research, which I think is what he is interested in, French and German institutions rank higher: http://www.researchranking.org/?action=ranking
mRNA is the ultimate biohacking tool. You can potentially use it for weight loss by improving metabolism without exercising and a few other things.
I don't think the inversion of control that SwiftUI or Jetpack Compose do on MVC is particularly fundamental. Factoring out the diffing of state when an observer is notified of updates into a single place can be a useful thing to do in certain cases, such as when a bunch of teams are all putting things on the screen and you don't want one of them to screw up the update loop for everyone (thus Facebook's use of React), but it makes the creation of composable views less straightforward, and you end up with the new problem of annotations to try to keep recalculation of the whole UI from being a performance problem. In MVC, a compound view can usually short circuit updates of its child views very naturally when there are no changes needed.

I just opened a couple of Swing programs on macOS. Other than not having dark mode, I couldn't see any major difference. I can't check it on Windows right now.

So, no, I don't live under a rock.
> This means our tool has to be fast, and can’t burden you with questions like “In what folder should I put this?” that aren’t relevant in the moment.

This is so important. I feel most note taking apps approach note taking the wrong way: organization first, ideas later. Most of our notes are random and the only real organization they can fit into is time.

I have recently launched a note taking app [0] that keeps this in focus. In my opinion, "organizing notes" is often done after "writing notes" and that is how the app is built.

1. Note taking is a fast activity - you can take notes from any where in your phone, opening the app is fast, the steps to actually writing a note are frew, the note editor is uncluttered and stays out of the way, and the app works anywhere you have a browser & an internet connection.

2. Time is a first class citizen: all notes are sorted by date created, grouped by modifiers like year, week, month & alphabetical.

3. The app doesn't force you to organize your notes i.e., there's no special distinction between organized and unorganized notes. Some apps put unorganized notes in a specific folder or tag. Not so with my app. The focus is on writing notes; organization comes later.

4. Recalling notes is currently not the most amazing thing. There is full text search, however I feel like that's not enough. Things like similarity search (based on tags) or advanced filtering are yet to be implemented.

I think all these fit well into the incremental note taking system. However, that's a coincidence really.

[0] https://notesnook.com/
I wasn’t really aware of PG’s audience and goals for writing…so thanks for this insightful comment!
The trademark the foreign seller used to hijack the listing https://uspto.report/TM/90721592
You can't say you respect my religion and then call me silly at the same time. Perhaps you're the one that's silly.
Insecurity is invisible. Users have no way to know the weaknesses in the software they use until it's too late. Disclosure is meant to make it possible for users to see what weaknesses they might have so they can make informed decisions.

Users still benefit to know about issues that can't be fixed (think about Rowhammer, Spectre and similar), so as these attacks become more practical (eg https://leaky.page or half double) they can adjust their choices accordingly (switching browsers, devices, etc) if the risk imposed by them is too high.

Of course (using an analogy for a second), some can say that it would be better for people to never find out that they are at increased risk of some incurable disease, because they can't do anything about it.

But for software, you can't make individual decisions like that. Even if one person doesn't want to know about vulnerabilities in the software they use, others could still actually benefit to know about them, and the benefit of the many trump over the preferences of the few.

That is, unless the argument is that it's actively damaging for all of the public (or the majority) to know about vulnerabilities in the software they use. If the point is to advocate for complete unlimited secrecy, and for researchers to sit on unfixed bugs forever, then that's quite an extreme view of software security and vulnerability disclosure (but that some companies unfortunately still follow).

Disclosure policies like these aim to strike a balance between secrecy and public awareness. They put the onus of disclosure on the finder because it's their finding (and they are the deciders on how it's shared), and finders are more independent than the vendor, but I could imagine a world in which disclosure happens by default, by the company, even for unfixed bugs.
I don't think the point is "hard work has no effect on outcome", but rather "for nearly all people who end up successful, luck played a very significant role which is often minimized", and as a corollary "hard work is not a sufficient condition for success, but successful people tend to portray it as such".

For a good summary of this argument, I recommend the (fairly short) Veritasium video that has been posted several times already in this discussion: https://youtu.be/3LopI4YeC4I
These have piqued a lot of people's interest around me. My friend recently quit a steady job to go work at Modal https://livemodal.com
I have wondered about the necessity of a crane though, seems like a pretty big limiting factor.
Messed up internal incentives, I guess. It happens to every large company.
As someone in their early twenties struggling with burnout post startup failure, these bullshit hustle tropes NEED to end (like the Bill Gates quote).

I'm going to go against everything I was told and say: don't work hard in your early twenties, don't kill yourself over your work, don't fill your life with anxiety.

Phrases like "I wish I was like you in my youth" or keeping young people rolling in their hamster wheels just encourage the worst kind of personality damage in these developing years.

It is bullshit, it is harmful. Stop encouraging the young towards handing away their lives in a silver platter.
The regime that makes $5/barrel costs feasible is not politically stable at $5/barrel. The real social minimum acceptable price for oil in Saudi Arabia is MUCH higher than $5/barrel.
It's obviously multifactorial, and I do not diminish Gandhi's efforts, but it would be hard to ignore Britain's diminished capabilities after WW2 as having a role in Britain letting go of India.

They simply had no capacity to control a country like India on the other side of the world in their state at the end of WW2, so might as well save as much face while they can.
That starts with textured 3D scans and animates them. Seems like a completely different task than starting with photos and generating a textured mesh?
It's a bit weird -- beta blockers are not technically, from a doctor's perspective, anti-anxiety meds. They suppress the _physical_ symptoms of anxiety, such as increased heart rate. For many people, that seems to have a big impact, and even reduce or eliminate the subjective feeling of anxiety too (specifically when used for performance anxiety; I don't know about other cases.)

I don't think we really have a good understanding of how all this stuff is connected.
Even better is to solar, wind, and gas.
"hard work is not a sufficient condition for success, but successful people tend to portray it as such".

I don't agree with that at all. Most successful people say that some degree of luck was involved.
OP seems to like his downvote privilege more than owning up to his ignorance.
> We haven’t even had a legitimate debate about whether the vaccinations created the DELTA STRAIN

Please explain the exact mechanism through which this would happen
That is not only underrated but huge.
How long have you tried Copilot before you came to this conclusion?
Obviously you'll get "good" and "bad" behaviors within any large group. It's a bell curve along a continuous value of the whole range between "good" and "bad" (or whatever metric). That doesn't mean dwelling on the outliers is a reasonable counterpoint. What matters is the middle lump of the bell curve - where does that value settle at? HK protesters have generally been peaceful. The HK police response has generally been excessively violent.

To use outliers as a counterpoint is meaningless at best, subversive at worse. I constantly see people pointing to the ugly end of bell curves and throw their hands up and say, "both sides are the same" or "it's too complicated" or "it's impossible to know the true story." No, this kind of smug apathy is just a silent approval of the status quo, that it's better to just let things be than to push for messy-but-necessary changes.
Sure, but there are hundreds of other sellers ready to do the same exploits tomorrow, or worse. The systemic problems are not being addressed. Amazon doesn't have the right incentives to solve these issues.
Hibernation has always felt more stable and complete to me, all the session-preservation advantages of sleeping but you still the machine go cold, lights out. Also a fan of hybrid sleep.

> Wouldn't it be easier to just not use swap . . . ?

In addition to preferences for hibernation, I'm a firm believer that there's a time and a place for swapping, and that one's system is worse off for lacking that option. I may not push my system's memory limits like I used to, but I certainly have pushed through 16GB, and don't like the idea that there wouldn't be a fallback like ZRAM or swap-space backing up the OOM daemon, which I'd rather didn't kill my processes in all but the most dire of circumstances.

Some amount of swapping will be done by the kernel, even on a 64GB machine with memory to spare, and without the time to do my research tonight, I trust that the kernel delelopers had solid arguments for implementing the behaviors behind that baseline swap usage.

You could make the argument that a swapfile will work just fine, and if you're not going for hibernation that just a few gigs is all you need. Live the flexibility of swap files. I wonder if you could put that behind an encrypted block device within another filesystem, ecryptfs-style.

I've been using a proper swap partition (just a hair larger than RAM, for hibernation) since the late oughts, and, ZRAM aside, am well-and-truely stuck in my ways.
Would "built" have sufficed?
It's a collective design that's been arrived at iteratively over many generations but it's still designed insofar that it's composed of countless consciously created and refined incentive structures, cultural norms, legal constructs, and institutions that in concert further our current system.
Huh? What feature of the steppe Ukraine lays on makes it difficult to invade?
The nice thing about org is how seamless it is to do all this. I do think that vim-style modal editing is the best way to go, but Emacs is to me a much better text manipulation platform than Vim is, and you can still get the Vim experience with evil mode.
I had a good LOL seeing this[1]. Those Land/Air/Maritime icons look very legit.

[1] https://imgur.com/Hcwayqq
> Or as Zizek once said (in paraphrase): It's not Jihad vs. McWorld, it's McJihad vs. McWorld.

"Jihad and McWorld are two sides of the same coin. Jihad is already McJihad" https://www.lacan.com/zizekslovenia.htm
"The audience knows the truth. The world is simple. It's miserable. Solid... solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second... then you can make them wonder. And then you... then you got to see something very special."
I wouldn't say it's a noble quest; it's just what I like to do. I agree, there are a lot of people who now get into SWE because they want a stable, high-paying job, and not because they actually want to do it. If they can't get hired in their 40s, I say good riddance. People who are only in it for the money--and do the minimum to get by--aren't good coworkers. I hope they find a career they enjoy.

It's unfortunate that tech eats so many people who would rather be academics, researchers, artists, craftsmen. I get it; tech pays stupid high salaries to smart people who can do it, but want to do something else. I've run into a lot of PhD physicists who are coders because there are only so many jobs for a physicist, and they invariably pay less than entry-level web coding jobs. Many of them find they enjoy software, and make for great coworkers. But there are a lot of people who only do it for the money, and science, art, and other fields are worse for it. Tech eats everything.

I'm fortunate, I guess, in that I started in a tech career because it was what I enjoyed as a hobby. When I started out, it wasn't the best way to make a buck. My first few jobs paid less than I was making working in construction, and far less than a teacher made. I got lucky, financially.
The post office has been around for a very long time, and is an example of the government providing a service which people pay for by using the service.

There are numerous examples of this. Your water supply might be one of them.

Municipal broadband is also usually pay-for-use, and you could fund it with bonds, which is also common.

You could argue against how a municipality decides to implement their own broadband service. But saying that no municipality should be able to provide any service - or even particular services - seems a bit odd. Since that's the majority of what local governments do...

The police, education, water, roads, parks, etc...
signald is developed slower. Right now you need to compile it from git from a branch to fix groups v2.

signald works in the background and can be used with libpurple.
If you want to use bitlbee, spectrum2 or similar you need to use signald.
Signald needs to be controller over signaldctl

Signal-cli needs to be called manually. There are a few clients that provide wrapper functionality for it and it has dbus functionality.

Edit: removed a sentence over commit frequency and quality as I feel everyone should make their own assesment of this
I don't know whether you are schizophrenic. I'm not qualified to diagnose you.

I was only curious whether you understand what it is (can be), and have good reasons for thinking you are not.
Oof. Been using Pop OS on my System 76 Lemur Pro for a while. Ran through the install commands on this post and it broke my whole install. That's sad. It ended up installing an Ubuntu kernel next to the PopOS one and then the boot partition filled up and as I ran apt --fix-broken I ended up in emergency mode and couldn't boot to any kernel. I'm sure I messed up somewhere along the line but that sucks. Backing up via recovery now and re-imaging...
I don’t think providing an adu of <120 sq ft will hurt the lower class in the same that I don’t think sweatshops in developing countries are hurting the lower class. I get how they aren’t great but the fact that people will use/work at them without coercion shows that they are better than nothing. I agree that you are correct there.

What am I pointing out is how you phrased your statement like the lower class has other options than the cheapest option available, whether or not it’s sub standard.

If you are unaware the mythological story around Marie Antoinette is that when she was told the peasantry could no longer afford bread responded with “let them eat cake” because she did not understand that going above the basics was not a viable option.

The phrasing of your statement combined with the reality of the world came off like you were suggesting the lower class can simply spend more money if they didn’t like the low tier housing, regardless of your actual intent
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We’re running some custom code to test basic robotic locomotion, we’re not doing anything fancy with material properties or stress testing.

Very basic stuff, but still useful to quickly change your model in code and have your domain specific sims pick up on it automatically.

Additional advantage is the ease of building custom UIs to configure your model and scenes.
I have the same question when it comes to a modern version of the Mythical Man Month. I know some computer history, so I can understand most examples. But still it would be great to have a comparable modern book.
I also interpreted them that way.
A government isn't picking who wins or loses if it builds a road or a sewer line.

It is in fact providing infrastructure that benefits and improves the lives of all citizens.

Why do you place greater importance on how a hypothetical business can in theory not be benefited by the government over the quality of life of all citizens?
I've been doing the same thing for a few years now and for the same reasons. I have accepted the fact in most cases I will pay more, but at least for that extra cost, I can trust the sites and the companies I'm buying from. I also try and find something locally first, before heading to larger chain stores.

Perfect example is how I don't buy anything Apple on Ebay anymore. WAY too many fakes, stolen or misrepresented stuff on there now. Hard to get away from all the Chinese resellers there either. I just buy directly from Apple. Yeap, its going to cost a little extra, but I can take comfort knowing its not going to be a fake or get something that was completely misleading in the listing.
They literally directly describe it as a benefit to users, the sentiment you don't buy, and don't ever actually call vendors bad, except if you interpret the less benefit to users to be a moral impugnment of the vendors.

What you cite proves my point!
Vancouver, for one, is bracing itself for the post-protest/covid influx of hong kongers.

I love seeing a lotta freedom fighting hong kong folks in vancouver.
The 4D version is not impossible in 4D space.
There is an implicit subject you are asserting facts about though. You clearly are talking about a fluffy, white Cat in your example. It’s essentially structural rather than nominal typing. The “fluffy, white Cat” is defined by its traits. We could define a type Cat which has a subset of those traits and then be able to use our “fluffy, white Cat” anywhere we can use a Cat. We only name them to avoid having to name all the traits all the time. Doesn’t make it any less object based.

Structural typing is really cool though. An object built from a named, saved recipe will work just as well as something cobbled together on the fly and at runtime you won’t even know which is which. It’s the basis of a lot of general purpose game engines composition based game object interface.

I’ve also found it extremely fun to use with TypeScript.
> They were protesting the elected HK government, not Beijing directly

This wasn't case in later stages of the protest, or even early stages. The protestors were gambling against Beijing in the first place, since they clearly didn't trust the local governance nor its ability to meet their demands. And it kinda made it obvious for the latter stage of the protest, that the attack was focus on CCP directly.
My Journey with PHP
it was pretty assumed you'd have it, it did have an install rate of over 90% at one point. I think it was just used less often for essential things since it wasn't as smooth to integrate with the rest of the page, and pages used to be less dynamic back then in general
So my question is, if you had a piece of land, concrete foundation, electrical, water and sewer connection, is it possible to get something better for 50k?
Silliness and respect are mutually exclusive?