skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The book in question, a major bestseller, was named a book of the year by the Economist and one of the best books of 2021 by the Times and the Sunday Times. So, not exactly out of the mainstream: https://t.co/Bp5FcXDsg3

But it looks like Amazon has found a way to get rid of undesirable employees without having to fire them.

The title is bizarre. The issue is about one book, which deals with only one of the letters in LGBetc., and is not, according to the author and most reviewers of the book, “anti” that letter at all.
Problem here is "favorable" and "political position" are pretty subjective. Who's to decide what is favorable to whom and what constitutes political position? Is saying wear a mask a political position? These days it seems to be. So someone still has to decide what is political and what is not right? So seems like we're back to square 1.
>High viewership count twitch streamers are not going to risk their twitch partnership status because Facebook is offering some subsidy.

There are several "High viewership count twitch streamers" who moved to Facebook because they got a much better offer. DisguisedToast, KingSlayer, Corinna Kopf etc.

Also there is still a difference between someone like Asmongold who pulls 100k viewers and has fuck you amount of money and others with 5-10k viewers. 5-10k makes you a 1% on Twitch but you are still on another league from Asmon, Shroud etc.

Last but not least seasonal fluctuation is real for a lot of streamers see the current WoW worlds first race where the racing guild memebers are having 30-50k viewers but that's gone next week when the race is over.
Making a comeback? When did it ever go away?

The author talks about high frequency trading and finance applications, but it does not seem he has ever worked in the field. Production HFT is written in C++.
> But this is your life. What can you do? What happens if you add one small, simple, positive action to the success side?

> Nothing you can see. What happens if you add one more? Nothing you can see

Having been on a journey to change the direction of my life for a few months now this perfectly sums up how I've been feeling about it.

I'm gonna give the book a read because I think it's what I need to hear right now. Thank you for making me aware of it.
I think you might like Nim lang.
People have their own interests at heart, and of those they care about (their family, friends, community, city, region, country...).

Corporations are interested in their bottom line, and keeping their large shareholders happy.
Be selective in who you follow, and if you're following someone who shares interesting thoughts but retweets too much, you can turn off their retweets. That in combination with being judicious on the block button makes Twitter one of my favorite social networks.
True that. Also we all plateau at it. That is where time and effort stops yielding satisfaction or usefulness. Unless, unless, you are really in love with yourself and thing that everything you know is amazing...just kidding.
This simply doesn't work. I've tried every tool and trick available and sooner than later the feed becomes filled with drama, politics and random noise. Partly because humans are inherently social and political, partly because Twitter will throw random tweets and topics at you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSiDrnYNboY - same fella

https://www.transcontinental.cc/
The Transcontinental Race is the definitive self-supported bicycle race across Europe. At the sharp end it is a beautifully hard bicycle race, simple in design but complex in execution. Factors of self reliance, logistics, navigation and judgement burden racers’ minds as well as their physiques. The strongest excel and redefine what we think possible, while many experienced riders target only a finish.

The Transcontinental is a single stage race in which the clock never stops. Riders plan, research and navigate their own course and choose when and where to rest. They will take only what they can carry and consume only what they can find. Four mandatory control points guide their route and ensure a healthy amount of climbing to reach some of cycling’s most beautiful and historic monuments. Each year our riders cover around 4000km to reach the finish line.

There's also the Indian Pacific Wheel Race - https://www.indianpacificwheelrace.com

There are many, many smaller ones in many, many countries.
LOVE the website design. Fresh, FAST and easy to understand. Kudos on the launch.
> Oh and China is now suggesting 3 kids per couple will be to tolerated.

To rephrase it a bit. China is now suggesting 27h for optimal Earth rotation.

It's never going to happen. Their population is going downhill fast.
Population momentum means population will peak at 11.2 billion people near the end of the century [1] before it declines. Total fertility rate drop isn't happening fast enough (need to get closer to 1 vs 2.1 replacement rate), and we've already locked in the expansion to 11.2 billion. 3 billion people can't afford to get enough nutrition [2]. That number will increase before it decreases.

Consider we're already on the path to exceed our carbon budget [3], and billions of people are trying to climb out of poverty (which requires fossil fuels, resources, and food production, which we are already managing....poorly and unsustainably). Many countries still offer funds to people to have children and have pro-natalist policies (to goose economic policy and pay for elderly entitlements and stave off the economic contraction). We're not just headed off the cliff; we're pushing our foot on the gas.

TLDR Those who consume the most will need to consume less, and even then there is likely not enough to go around for first world standards for all.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/future-population-growth

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/diet-affordability

[3] https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-much-carbon-budget-...
I had a tool I worked on a little bit every day for over a decade and for a while it was pretty popular with a large following. Persistence is what got me from nowhere to somewhere, but after a while persistence offers a diminishing return.

Persistence is necessary to build something from nothing to establishment. That is more than just working. It means you have pushed through into something that works well enough that other people will use it and strongly recommend it.

That is the point where a trickle becomes a flood, but the flood analogy is a bad analogy. Actual flooding, with water, is an explosive phenomenon where a large area achieves maximum saturation in unison and so the trickle becomes a serious concern almost instantly. When all water over a large area has nowhere to go suddenly at the same time there is an immediate change like the flip of a switch.

Growth and adoption don't work like that. It takes time to build adoption. By the time a product reaches critical mass many early users may have already moved on. The very thing that made your product special or unique may be gone and you probably don't know it. This means the thing that cause adoption could be code while you are still building traffic because of a lag between network effects and incentives. That means adoption could be dying while you are building traffic and you won't know and until the future once traffic catches up and begins to decline at which point you are having to catch up.

If you are passionate enough, beyond mere persistence, you will figure the traffic/adoption cycle out to keep forward momentum, but only if you are properly incentivized. It takes tremendous effort to reach a large critical mass, especially for a small team (in my case a single developer). To want to pivot past your personal motivates to keep your product alive takes something more, something different. Persistence won't buy you that.
I'd say periodic things express motions on a loop, in the topological sense of looping back to itself. But because topology is only defined up to deformations, thus you cannot really say that loops are circles.

However, there is indeed a connection to circles. One way of seeing this by looking at the solutions to this differential equation over the complex "plane" and looking at the exp(i x) and exp(-i x) solutions, and seeing how these functions wrap the real number line around in a circle.

The complex plane fundamentally has a Euclidean geometry to it. So much so that if you grew up in a world with a strong non-euclidean geometry, or even grew up as some sort of digital being with no real notion of space at all, so long as you are able perform moderately sophisticated mathematics you are going to wind up discovering the complex numbers, and things like their absolute value and multiplication and the exponential function and how they map values around. Perhaps you never mentally arrange the complex numbers into a "plane", but none the less, all your basic geometric concepts are embedded into the algebraic operations on these complex numbers, and you will wind up effectively doing Euclidean geometry, even if you never identify it as such.
I think the idea was the anxiety was that tweets aren't ephemeral enough.
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macOS's built-in Terminal app is notorious for not handling meta + non-letter keystrokes properly, which is a real pain for emacs users who need a meta-shift-uparrow, for example. Does Warp handle these key mappings, and can they be customized (i.e. option = nomal, option, or esc+) like in iTerm2?
I made a similar decision nearly two years ago when I bought a fixer-upper of a condo: just do a bit of work every day, doesn't matter if it's half an hour of sweeping, make sure you show up every day. Time will pass and work will progress.

It's been a massive project (fully gutted, subfloors removed and joists levelled, whole new floor plan, the works), it's still ongoing, but what kept it moving was that simple commitment. An hour or two in the evening, each god damn evening, for 682 days in a row. New drywall is up in a few places already, and the end is in sight.

I am a firm believer in this approach now. The march of time is ruthless and inevitable, the little effort that you regularly weave into it will pay off big in the end.
Thank you, Raph! We've been following your work on Druid quite closely for a while, it's very impressive.

You'd exactly right that's why we didn't pick Druid--we needed something that rendered on the GPU. We actually talk more about this decision in our "How Warp Works" blog post here: https://blog.warp.dev/how-warp-works/
This reminds me of this report from 2002:

https://www.wwf.fr/sites/default/files/doc-2018-10/lpr_livin...

"the world’s ecological footprint will continue to grow between 2000 and 2050 from a level 20 per cent above the Earth’s biological capacity to a level between 80 and 120 percent above it (Figure 30). In these scenarios, 9 billion people in 2050 would require between 1.8 and 2.2 Earth-sized planets in order to sustain their consumption of crops, meat, fish, and wood, and to hold CO2 levels constant in the atmosphere....
Two World3 scenarios were chosen: a standard scenario, which assumes no policy changes over the next 50 years; and an accelerated technology scenario, which assumes significant improvements in resource efficiency. In the standard scenario, the HEF grows and peaks around 2040 at about 150 per cent above the Earth’s biological capacity, while the HWI climbs to around 20 per cent above the 2000 level in 2030 but then falls away rapidly, as the Earth’s productive ecosystems are no longer able to sustain high levels of human consumption. In the accelerated technology scenario the HEF reaches a maximum of 60 per cent above biological capacity in 2020 and then declines back to the 2000 level by 2050, as more resource-efficient technologies reduce the footprint, while the HWI climbs and remains at almost 20 per cent above 2000 levels"
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> few talk about population and consumption as the main driver for that.

This seems like the elephant in the room to me. It's almost never discussed, at least in the US, but as you say, it's the driver for global warming, ecological devastation, and resource constraints of all kinds. Us humans love to talk about our ability to adapt to new environments, but our lack of willingness to plan long-term is highlighting that our adaptability is not universal.

Edit: in before 'but what about the economic growth?': that's the point. Growth is not sustainable, at least when growth is related to resource utilization.
Always remember the doers, builders, fixers, and makers with the audacity to solve those very same problems have, and always will be there too.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34959327-the-wizard-and-...
What if say california's cap and trade carbon credits were distributed to all residents of california (as a crypto token?) as opposed to e.g. tesla? Then polluters have to buy them still, but from residents (instead of e.g. tesla)...
AFAIK speed is only a real issue in the financial sector for very few applications. For most of them the database is the bottle-neck not the programs.

Also, security is generally important in this sector. Both C++ and Python do not have a good track record when it comes to security. C++ has a lot of guns to shoot yourself in the foot. Python is essentially un-typed which means that errors only show up on runtime. Where I live most financial software is still being developed in Java.
Warm temps push more water to the atmosphere so its not linear in terms of sea level rise. You'd expect more ice to melt but you might also see more snow, glaciers growing.
I intended to say "This is not one of those times that this adage applies."
Some of them truly are. But we need to let go of that beauty and keep it in museums, alongside also beautiful old steam engines, for the sake of our future.
Isn't there some chinese 4 character saying about water cutting stone?
I never saw Fleets. Were they made available to everyone? I use Twitter primarily on the desktop, but I don't think I saw it on the iPad app either.
He did this podcast a while back that was really good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm7VDk8kxOw
Kudos to Twitter for pulling the plug on a high profile feature that wasn't working out.

I saw some reasonably interesting Fleets at first, but it quickly devolved into a low-effort self promotion feature as they noted:

> Although we built Fleets to address some of the anxieties that hold people back from Tweeting, Fleets are mostly used by people who are already Tweeting to amplify their own Tweets

Eventually I stopped clicking on them because I knew I'd see the Tweets during my normal scrolling anyway. I suppose this problem is inherent to Twitter, where Tweets are already low effort enough that they didn't need another feature for rapid-fire, low-effort content. Contrast with Instagram where people's posts are generally well thought out, but their stories are made for rapid-fire content.

Twitter didn't have the same divergence, so Fleets and Tweets became the same content in different formats. And of course, the Twitter self-promoters took full advantage of a feature that let them bubble their content to the literal top of people's feeds.
That was an error, thanks for pointing it out.
Inspired by reading Steven Strogatz's Sync, I recently began working thru "Agent-Based Modeling" from Complexity Explorer (Santa Fe Institute) it is a very gentle introduction to the subject. There is a online MOOC class, or you can just watch the lectures and play with the app. It makes use of NetLogo. NetLogo is kind of horrible if you come from a programming background, but if you can suppress the constant annoyances of the syntax, grammar and the enormity of the builtin keywords/functions (and it does require some effort) you'll discover that you can build and visualize some pretty neat models very quickly with very little code.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF0b3ThojznRKYcrw8moY...
no, it is absolutely the marginal numbers that matter.
All else equal, starting anywhere but the place with the most pollution per $ produced is a sub-optimal place to start.

In a world that has climate change under control, there's for sure going to be a reduction in pollution produced by global shipping, but in the world we live in there's much better places to start than by limiting global shipping.
> I do want to install globally, as outlined in my original comment. Unless you can tell me how to somehow modify the installation of Weechat to also include this one Python package.

The goal that Nix tries to solve, is to make all implicit dependencies explicit. The proper way of doing is to list these packages in the WeeChat.

Anyway I never used it myself, but looks like nixpkgs has dedicated section for it: https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-weechat

> I think Nix is a really cool concept and no doubt there are certain use cases that it solves really well. But my experience with it as a day to day package manager was that it just made simple things hard without a proportional benefit to make all the trouble worth it.

Yes, it indeed it makes simple things hard, but then this approach makes hard things easy. Because every package in Nix repo have explicit dependencies it solves many other problems. You no longer have dll hell for example a project that uses nix to build, generally just builds without issues.

I use Nix for development and the great thing is that I can use it to describe all tooling that I need for development. So another person can replicate the same environment. I was able for example to write a custom modules to standardize dev environment. And if someone uses it I can easily use the same mechanism to produce:

- nix package
- wheel package (it is for Python project)
- package application into docker with just only the necessary pieces (can also slim python by only compiling features that are actually used)

When using nix for building, I can speed up the work, because Nix only rebuilds things when things change. For example in traditional pipeline when you work on dev branch when you merge branch it typically rebuilds the whole thing. Nix is smart, and tracks what actually changed. If no actual files changed the build will return immediately with the binary that was produced on the branch. If during the merge our branch was integrated with some other changes that happened in the master branch, Nix will know to rebuild it again. In addition to that, on average built time was cut in half for me.
> What is up with what appears to be the growing audience of “doom porn” enthusiasts?

It's a convenient excuse for complacency. If everything is going to shit in 2040, why bother acting now to better yourself, your community, your country or the world? Also, drama.
I would say that the poster you're replying to is more directionally accurate than you are.

I read them as saying "transistors have steadily marched toward the theoretical limit in size, batteries will do the same for power"— and that isn't a 10% improvement from where we're sitting now. I couldn't tell you offhand what it is, but it's at least double density.
Even if they don't have super fast chargers or battery swaps, I'd imagine the cost of longer turn times might be offset by the substantially lower fuel costs.
How it's different than a VM running in their cloud?
Nothing about a shell.nix is complicated. You just copy the boiler plate and add the packages you want. Pretty damn easy in my opinion.
> company or person

Billion dollar companies are not persons, they should not have the same rights at all. At that size they start to mingle heavily with politicians. They want politicians to enact the right policies, and in return those politicians wants the company to censor the right people or fund their campaigns. Just because there is no formal agreement here doesn't mean that the companies aren't just the extended arm of the government and vice versa.
The Netherlands will not be ambitious. Our (NL) climate policies have been a dumpster fire. We're like in the bottom of the EU when it comes to that.
> While many users would at first glance conclude that the "arrow" on the topmost button is an indicator that this is the currently selected button, it is used to indicate that this is a "special" (a.k.a. inconsistent and undesirable) type of button. Clicking on the arrow causes the button to "open" (downward) to reveal a variety of folders. Why the designers chose to use an arrow pointing to the right to indicate downward movement is one of the many mysteries of this program.

And now the expand/collapse UI pattern with right/down arrows or triangles is standard (e.g. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/de...). Don't get me wrong, the example button is terrible UI, but an interesting example of how norms change.

On more than one occasion I have misinterpreted the upvote icon on HN to be "collapse thread".
Growth will stabilize and eventually the global population will decrease. Soon the problem won't be too many people but too many old people without enough kids/robots to replace them.
Same here, and I still don't really understand what it was. Even though I've been on twitter for almost 14 years.

EDIT: it seems it was some kind of "stories" like they are called on other platforms, the feature was only available within the mobile apps (I've never used the apps I use the mobile website, this explains why I've never heard of fleets before).
Social media should have been paying users from day 1.

FB makes money by packaging up and sharing user content as bait for paid ads. While it's reasonable for FB to keep some of the ad revenue, to offset the infrastructure and recurring costs of running the system, without user-generated content there'd be nothing for social media companies to offer to advertisers to get attention.

In short, every kitten picture uploaded to FB is worth something. It's not free for the user to upload, either, at least not when the externalities of having home internet are counted.

FB revenue sharing should include every user, according to network effects value added, not just the "content creators", who are usually already getting paid by sponsors for shilling whatever.
just clarifying I wasn't talking about my family, but yeah, I do think that some families have something wrong: bigot/religious extremist members is one of those problems.
Just wait for the next heat wave. Not doing anything is becoming politically dangerous (at least in countries that pretend to be democratic).
What's interesting is that some of it happens to be written in Haskell.
Got it, so build a bigger echo chamber.
I can accurately predict that in 20 years 240 months will pass in Africa.
No, its the moon too.
I recommend reading about the Simon-Ehrlich wager of 1980[1] and also about Thomas Malthus[2]. Many very smart people have speculated many times in the past that major population-reduction strategies must be undertaken, and these doomsday predictions in terms of resource consumption have...almost always been wrong. In Paul Ehrlich's case, in 1968 he predicted that "millions of people will starve to death" in the 1970s due to population growth, and mass sterilization was needed to stop it.

The reason why people keep outpacing our own resource constraints decade after decade is that humans, unlike bacteria or any other species you can model population growth after, can modify our own environment, along with the degree of our own resource usage.

Which is all to say, that this statement has been proven demonstrably false more often in the past than it has been proven true: "We will either need unpalatable or forced lifestyle/societal changes or we will inevitably face these unwanted changes when consumption outpaces resources."

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus