skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know what to tell you other than you probably haven't used any recent version of these software.

Well you would be wrong. I have LibreOffice 7.1.4.2 in front of me right now and it still can't correctly render stuff I had from 2014. The text boxes and stuff all end up in massively wrong positions, like they always have. (And they render fine in Word, like they always have.)

Similarly, first Excel spreadsheet I try to open in it gives this error: Warning loading {document}:
The data could not be loaded completely because the maximum number of columns per sheet was exceeded.

I could waste my time with other examples but it would be that: wasting my time.

Don't get me wrong, I'm rooting for them. Maybe someday there will finally come a free office program that can function like MS Office did a decade ago. I'm looking forward to seeing it before I die. But in the meantime, there's just no way we can honestly tell people LibreOffice is as high-quality as MS Office, regardless of how much we want that to be the case. It's just a lie we keep telling ourselves.

> (in some aspects)

...you just made my point for me.
> And the friendship drought could get worse with more people working remotely or hybrid-ly.

It may be just a consequence of my circumstances, but work for me has never been the place to “make friends” and actually remote work enables my social life more, even by just a minuscule amount.

In regards to making friends in general. I always find myself the odd one out in every environment. At work particularly, I’m typically substantially younger than my colleagues some of which are old enough to be my parents or grandparents. Not that you cannot develop friendships with an age gap like that, but I don’t think it’s advisable. Majority of these people have there own life, are in the process of settling down or have their own families already. We are simply at different stages of life and it’s unlikely to result in any true friendships.

I don’t really have a social life either, which feels pretty faking at my age, but I do try to go out at least once or twice in the weekends. Over the years, I’ve had a number of acquaintances I’ve met, but no friends really. In most of the groups I hang out in, I find the same issue as work, though on a smaller scale. Still generally to young to develop any sort of bond with the people I’m with, but the gap tends to be smaller so that there’s still some things we can relate on. If I’m not the youngest in the room, it seems in the oldest, which is honestly an even more uneasy feeling as I have a hard time relating to most of my own generation, despite certainly exhibiting some characteristics of it.

Some people in this thread have additionally mentioned the resource of time as an inhibitor to developing friendships. I can understand this. I generally enjoy the occasions I get to go out or sometimes stay home and enjoy myself, but there’s always an uneasy feeling about how afterwards it’ll be another week of mindless wageslaving before I get a chance to to relax again.

Ultimately, I haven’t really made any friends since I was maybe 15 or so. This makes sense though, as since adulthood, I’ve basically been divorced from any sort of environment where young people find themselves. Having never gone to school I was mostly isolated from my peers from 18-24, and while there are many people at that age who do not tend to go to school and do well socially, I believe that at least a small majority of those people tend to choose paths that put them in communities with similar people, whereas I’ve always been out of place, demographically speaking, whether that be in impoverished dumps or next to moderately wealthy professionals/retirees. Though I am now coming around to the age where many of my peers will leave school and enter the “real world” I don’t think much will come of it as I have a bad history of always being in the wrong place at the wrong time (doubly so career wise, ha)
I am not a recording engineer (though my father was) but I suspect the more pragmatic approach to a quiet PC for your recording studio is to just put it in the next room and drill some holes through the wall for the cables.
Bug reported 2020-12-04, fixed release tagged 2021-07-15 (if I'm identifying the commit correctly, same day the fix is merged, which one would hope for a high-priority bug like that). That's technically 7.3 months, not 7.5, true, but ...
He does. He’s mocking it. Deliberately.
No PR with name that would suggest the fix in the client https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/pulls?q=is%3Apr+...

and no PR from OP in the opensource part of the server https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/pulls?q=is%3Apr+i...
Totally, and way more fun to watch and even ride in too. I feel like pro cycling is way too cold and clinical these days.
Fluffychat is my go-to for getting normies on matrix.
They will spend time overengineering things because they will get bored due to lack of meaningful work required from them, or have 7 hours per day of meetings
This is an example of how to cargo cult.
FYI, her portfolio is now at https://www.behance.net/susankare, while her shop/main site is at https://kareprints.com/.
Alienation isn't a historical event. It's a term that describes how a human being, in the present, relates to the things he creates.

The concept is simple:

Most people today are put in the unusual position (anthropologically speaking) of creating things they do not themselves sell. From this flows a lot of consequences for social conflict, politics, mental health, etc, something we should try to understand.
You're proposing a 100 person SaaS company without any sales or marketing exec?

This is HN I suppose, so not entirely surprising.
I think it's possible to take the cult of simplicity too far. As is the case with over engineering.

There is always the risk of over-simplifying and dumbing down the inherent complexity of problems. Instead of representing the problem space with a good data model, programmers who love to brag about their love of "simplicity" sometimes end up with many extra "simple" layers than are necessary.

It's not a binary because there are a lot of factors that go into simplicity and some matter more than others in different contexts. One person's simplicity is another's tedious verbosity. And another's use of specialized programming techniques is someone else's scary learning curve.

Much easier to just label My Preferred Solution as The Most Simple and Parsimonious because clearly I am the smartest and most scientific thinker in the group. Other approaches are Too Complex, therefore I don't need to understand them. It's just projection of insecurity about knowledge gaps by hiding under the appearance of being an iconoclast.

That said, there are definitely some castle-in-the-sky and nonsense-on-stilts implementations out there :) Some would say ORMs, others would point to the actor model, and others would even say anything higher level than pointers and for-loops. For what purpose though?
Well, I picked up the Colossal Book of Mathematics[1] by him after hearing about it and I'm having a lot of fun with it myself (it's just a bunch of really interesting math topics written really well, that are sparking my game designer brain), but yeah, he's not as discoverable today, in part because he's no longer living and people consume things a bit differently today.

But someone could help promote his work again, by taking his articles and making Youtube videos of them, and give credit to him and urge people to check out his articles and books.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Colossal-Book-Mathematics-Paradoxes-P...
> I find these polls are biased and not represent equally well the entire spectrum of population.

It's easy to confuse our own personal bubbles with the general population. There's nothing inconsistent about you living in an area with low life satisfaction and a poll that says 60% of people across the entire country have high life satisfaction.

The way you describe your home town sounds depressing and it's easy to believe that they wouldn't be part of the 60% of Americans rating themselves as thriving in this poll. However, what you're describing is very far from the norm for towns in America. Occurs too often, yes, but it's not what life in the average American city looks like.

> Starting a family with a single income in Bay Area, meeting ends meet is hard even with a tech job.

The entire Bay Area represents around 2% of the US population. It's not expected that a national poll would reflect the realities of a single geographic region.

That said, I have several friends and extended families starting families in the Bay Area who are very happy with their circumstances.

> Like every other news these days, I take these polls with a grain of salt.

The poll said 60% of Americans see themselves as "thriving". That doesn't meant that no one is struggling. It's important to look at these polls as ways to get a glimpse of life outside of our own bubbles. It's also important to view them as a distribution rather than a binary outcome.
And she was in the wind regularly (in a small group of 3) for the other 100km. Incredible.
On Multi-Set Hashing
I mean, they invested a year into covert development of a crypto wallet inside Signal. Maybe that time could have been spent better.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/44650

(Nothing to do with unicode. I haven't got a Windows machine to test, but I assume WinMain will behave the same as main wrt quotes and spaces.)

(Note that Rust doesn't use CLTAW any more; it switched to "winging it" ie its own implementation. Among other things, this allowed it to drop the dependency on shell32, which is useful for running compiled binaries in nanoserver containers.)
The bug wasn't open for months, the dev just forgot to close it and he's in the thread.
What does "standard" mean to you?

From what I can tell, that assertion is common in Agile advocacy.

But from my experience as a professional software developer in the 1990s, and from reading stories about software development, waterfall was not used at Apple, Be, Commodore, Data General, Infocom, Microsoft, VisiCorp, and more.

That's not to say no one used a (modified) waterfall model. Simply that I haven't found evidence that it's meaningful to say it was the standard development model. [1]

[1] Technically, DOD-STD-2167A's apparent bias towards waterfall was a "standard", but I don't think that's what most people mean in this context, and in any case it was replaced by MIL-STD-498 in 1994, well before the Agile Manifesto.
I'm surprised by how downvoted you are. It is kind of obvious that it is a violation to me here, since we have a history of people reselling their bandwith in blocks of flats.
I do believe you, same happen to me in the Netherlands
This article actually quotes her. It's the only part of this article that isn't just a string of abstract jargon. Without the quote, I would have no clue what it's even about.
I estimate around 20%-30% of the country has a mental health issue ranging from depression to narcissism to outright sociopathy and misanthropy. And they occupy a disproportionate amount of social media, etc congregating and spreading their sad world views everywhere.

I think it’s difficult for people with these types of issues to cope with problems that are out of range for any one person to fix, for coming to terms with change, and to fixate on these things. Just bring in a constant panic state while everything seems so out of control.

It’s sad because it’s just a very bad way to spend a life when there’s so much good and beautiful everywhere.

The internet was great before everyone got in the pool and 30% of them started pissing in it.
I'd argue most people would be willing to take action on it, they simply don't have to power to do so and can't be reasonably expected to achieve that power. Whereas people in SF who have voting rights DO have power over what politicians do about the local homeless situation.

When a group has the power to change something but chooses to prioritize other things instead (which may be a valid response, depending on circumstances), it's clear that the group "prefers" the thing they do over whatever they might say.

This is all a long-winded version of "Actions speak louder than words", or more in context: "votes speak louder than opinions".

I reject your purely theoretical definition of "preferences". I imagine most people would "prefer" to eat and drink whatever they want, never exercise and still maintain perfect health. Unfortunately in the real worth that "preference" is completely irrelevant, and plenty of people (myself included) don't "prefer" health all the time for any number of reasons.
> Even if the species isn't endangered or anything, isn't that kind of messed up? Not a great way for a kid to learn empathy.

I think most kids are smart enough to understand the difference between insects and the higher forms of life that are capable of experiencing suffering.
My apartment (in Germany, not USA) has that. I hope it reopens after the pandemic.
I read in Dublin they built these sorts of appartments but then they got banned.
Also NY's is the only system I've seen that has fast and slow trains on the same line. Definitely complicates things!
This is how you do a migration to another language: you lay out the benefits, fully accept the drawbacks, and try your best to be reasonably supportive of people who, for various reasons, cannot use the new version. It’s refreshing to see considering that the usual maintainer response to “I’m sorry, but I need to use the C version” I see in these kinds of situations is a combination of gaslighting (“your usecase is not really valid or is too niche for me to care”, “are you telling me that you want security vulnerabilities”) and outright refusal to accept that changes can mean that some people will be adversely affected. The author wanted use Zig, they did it, and they are polite enough to continue to provide basic maintenance for the C code for those that really need it.
Yes that is true. They are worse on all counts in the medium-long term but we do it anyways.
You can probably drop it down some more and use tvws spectrum. Probably will be alone there
Yeah I wouldn’t put too much stock in the world3 model. They have variables like “resources” with no units and they start out the variable at some arbitrary number like 100k. There’s nothing measurable there.
Regardless the cause, it would still make it not a company town, yes?
Serverless 3D WebGL rendering with ThreeJS
He cultivated those other powers before he became rich, or he most likely wouldn't have been able to build what he did. I think a good example is Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Jobs went to India, practiced Zen and experimented with psychedelics before he built Apple. He found his power and used it. Bill Gates was born rich and is having a tough time inspiring people at the moment.
Threema seems great so far. Not many users though, sadly. Element (matrix.org) is good as well, but it's not polished and lacks users as well.
> I'm slowly coming to the highly unpopular view that all fiction is essentially a lie, and therefore damaging.

Does nobody read with a critical eye? I know sometimes I have to give up on a story or series if the things I'm asked to accept pass a boundary, and they're kept consistent.

> Every mutilation applied to actual events - in the service of making them supposedly more entertaining - clouds our understanding of them.

It's impossible to convey with absolute accuracy any event. I would hazard that any representation no matter how accurate it tries to be will be riddles with inaccuracies or assumptions that are represented through bias.

We're screwed from the outset because we're incapable of accepting all the possible stimuli of a situation (and so are recording devices), and any event is also only a part in a series which adds context.

To that you add that it's impossible to impart your own experience without bias (and the imparting of personal experience is the only way to get details other than what we can record automatically), which adds quite a bit to any event.

Everything is something we're getting through a skinner box, and whether marketed as fact or fiction, you have to make choices on what is true or not. Painting fiction with a broad brush as negative likely won't help in the end. All you're doing is taking the inputs that tell you up front they're not necessarily true in the sense of real events (even if they may try to make you think about fundamental things in ways you didn't consider, which is useful) and removing them to prioritize things that are also untrue in some way, but don't have the decency to own up to it.
We're lucky to have inherited a lovely garden that we've been doing our best to keep up with. Ever since my son was born, he's spent tons of time running around and exploring every section of it. My mom (grandma) and him spend lots of time finding insects, and making friends with them (COVID limited human friendships). He loves snails and will run outside after a rainfall to find the whole snail family. He'll say hi to the ants, and bumblebees. We love finding butterflies, and seeing the variety of birds in our garden. He's always been super gentle and interested in everything we showed him.

He's close to 3 now, so he's exploring life & death. Previously, if we accidentally stepped on a snail, we'd hide it from him. Now, we talk it through and say "Oh no, we accidentally stepped on the snail! Let's apologize to snail and say sorry snail, I didn't mean to step on you. I'll try to be more careful next time." I use the opportunity to explain how the ants & wasps will come and eat the snail now to clean it up. That we try not to kill any insects, plants, or animals unless we plan to eat it.

We have close family with a 5 year old that actually takes very much the opposite approach, even singing a song to kill the ants. Internally, I was horrified, but kept my mouth shut. My son picked it up and was deliberately stepping on ants the next time we were outside. I just reaffirmed the fact that this is the ants' home, and that we should be kind and not hurt ants like that. Can we apologize to the ants please? Now the ant's mama and daddy are going to be sad because they'll miss him, etc.

He's young. I just want him to grow up appreciating and respecting all life. I figure if we can continue being kind to small life, it will extend to our friends as lockdowns lift. So far so good.
Is the USD a worse inflation hedge in those countries?
Wow, the graph of happiness almost matches the S&P500 returns.
Sentient tomatoes? PeTA, where are you?
Disinformation for Hire, a Shadow Industry, Is Quietly Booming
He forgot to close it 10 days ago.
Meanwhile I’m an older millennial with kids and live in a suburban community with lots of kids. Most people seem pretty happy. People in Iowa, where my wife went to high school, and Oregon, where she grew up, seem pretty happy too.

Rust Belt decay is obviously less conducive to happiness, but I think “boom towns” (where a marquee industry makes a small percentage of the population very rich) also aren’t conductive to happiness. Might explain why the politics out of place as like San Francisco is so apocalyptic. People want to have a normal life but the economy of the city has bifurcated the population into “rich but stressed out” and “struggling to get by.”

To be fair I get the sentiment. DC was the same way. In DC it was childless wealthy professionals on one side (mostly white and Asian) and service workers on the other (mostly Black and Latino). It was depressing as hell and we had to get out.
You don't need hardware for that. Just need to be able to program your own carrier profile... which I guess is very hard to impossible for the average person.
A successful attempt results in no further attempts.
It may seem counterintuitive but 60% is not so much for this to be noticed “everywhere”. Even less when your own area is not much populated.
I really like the idea of delta chat, except that I cannot bring myself to allow it access to my full imap mailbox. And most providers do not offer a way to scope access to only selected folders.
Easily capturing images of butterflies (or just downloading them) probably is a factor, that wasn't really possible with cameras children had access to 30y ago.

Raising butterflies is quite a common class project in UK primary schools.
tie stick != Thai stick
This is silly. Of course I understand that because of scaling a 50-person org will have one "technical leader" who is, by definition, the CTO, and they might only have 12 reports.

But you don't now need to introduce additional abstractions when you go from 50 to 125. Why introduce a VP of engineering? Can the CTO not handle 3 extra director reports (4 if you add a "director" of QA with 2 reports?) Come on. Who is going to come on to be the "VP of engineering" for a startup, yet not have/want oversight for Security, Analytics, and Infrastructure?

Also in the 50 person startup, the product lead with 5 reports is a "Director" but a product lead with 11 reports is a "VP"? Get outta here, this is silly. It's the exact same role. It is NOT more scope or oversight.

There should be orders of magnitude size growths before you start overthinking the difference between a director and a VP, or introducing new layers.
If we lower them we have no homes, if we raise them we have no jobs.

The fact of the matter is conventional central banking is a failure, as is widespread private homeownership in metropolitan areas.
Both of my grandparents, and a couple of uncles, worked in Appalachia's coal mines. I've seen the last vestiges of coal camps (Amazon towns' predecessors) up close.

This article is a real bummer.
> It turns out most people don’t want to work in foundations, and want to think of 1 and 2 as non-sets

Which is to say most mathematicians prefer type theory to set theory :). Perhaps we should stop saying "maths is usually done in ZFC", or that "ZFC is mainstream math". For one math is almost never formalized and second informal math is quite strongly typed (the basic object usually not a set but a structured set) where set theory is very untyped. At some point people (erm mathematicians) have to acknowledge that we computer sciency-math have brought far better foundations (being intuitionistic type theory) insofar that it has set theory as a subpart, but is much finer in what it can distinguish. It's newtonian mechanics vs general relativity. What set-foundationalists say is fine, but the frontier is elsewhere.
If you know the reproduction steps and you can look at the code, you should be able to make an estimate of rarity.
Seems like a known limitation that may be addressed at some point:

> Exporting an in-memory tree to a file. Ncdu already has export/import options, but exporting requires a separate command invocation - it's not currently possible to write an export while you're in the directory browser. The new data model could support this feature, but I'm still unsure how to make it available in the UI.
Dutch Book
It’s literally the second bullet point in my comment. Did you miss it?
Why 5k when it's only a week since Austrian Christoph Strasser set the records for 1000 (one thousand) kilometers, in just under a day (with 2 minutes total for breaks and clothes changes).
The FDA is 5X too worried about long term credibility
> Last I recall, creating unions is an attempt at monopolizing labor to extort the employer. When this tactic is applied to any other factor of production it is called a “cartel” and engaged in “market manipulation.”

This seems like an argument in bad faith but I'll bite.

You are ignoring the pre-existing power imbalance between employer and employee, where the employer holds authoritarian control of production and the lives of employees. Cartels and market manipulation are mechanisms used by those with existing autocratic power to grow and strengthen their control over production and people, while unions try to balance this power by giving workers a seat at the table. I think it's pretty obvious that they are not the same thing