skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except France where it is worse.

I cannot phantom our love for PDFs and physical letters (and cheques). This is maddening when you look at countries such as Estonia or Poland.
red delicious are great. for a while I was purposely buying different apples each week and checked my kid's reactions. turns out they like gala and red delicious the most.
I'm curious why liquid cooling for computers still uses compression fittings and other odd methods.
Compression fittings are widely out of favor due to their tendency to leak, and nowadays everything is copper, pex, or metal+flared fittings.
I wonder if there's a PC running PEX-A for tubing.

Further thoughts:

Brake lines use flared fittings, with either metal tubing or plastic tubing with metal ends. Uses a special bolt that allows liquid through the pipe to enter the caliper, and is removable.

I would imagine something like that could work to make the lines to the individual servers serviceable without relying on flaky plastic "quick connects".
I don't watch sport either, what's the point watching other practicing it, once you know a sport

Depends on the sport: for sports with really technical goals (think climbing, skateboarding) just 'knowing' isn't the same as thay way you know how to run or cycle. Watching others do it can give you new ideas for things to try and can definitely help you gettig better by seeing how others do it.

Apart from that, for all sports: watching sports has been a thing since sports came to existence, so the other reasons for doing it seem to be somtehing quite natural for most people out there.

We are always pushed to competition

Heavily depends on culture/family/education I think. I was never pushed to competition. At least not against others. There was some urging towards trying to do things as good as possible. You could call that competition with yourself, but I dont think that's the competition you mean.
100%, speaking as someone who's been both sides of the equation in FAANG hiring.

Part of the problem is the sheer scale of hiring, but I think most of the problem comes down to the lack of feedback or evaluation mechanisms on the interviewing side.

They train you up, half a days worth, training tells you not to be an arsehole, not to ask stupid questions, not to have unreasonable demands of candidates, not to be biased. They don't train you in valuable skills like active listening.

Next thing you know, you've done training, and you're interviewing candidates every week or two (or more often), and there is zero feedback mechanism. No one evaluates your interview questions, no one asks candidates to provide feedback on the interviewers. No one looks to see if you've got unreasonable expectations as an interviewer, or have your expectations set too low.

You do have to do a post-interview group discussion with the other interviewers to make a yay/nay decision, but it's super easy to present what you did/asked in a positive light.

The whole system is designed around the interviewer being right and infallible. Is it any wonder the process is so completely and utterly broken?

edit: > or have your expectations set too low

This is where I bias towards in worrying, imposter syndrome and all that jazz. I've made a conscious choice to not raise that bar higher. I think the questions I ask are good, I think they're set up well enough to encourage candidates to go as deep as they feel comfortable with. I try to design them with no one true answer but have a few in mind so I can go where the candidate goes.
Pentagon believes its precognitive AI can predict events 'days in advance'
True only if your hours are counted. I don't know the ratio but I think a significant part of engineers are day-based wage, so you are just expected to work till 18h00/19h00, more if needed.
Btw, legal minimum vacation time is 20 days but 25/30 days is common and some can have huge vacation time (but lower wage).
> Meanwhile, over the same period, the cost of using your credit card at home depot went up over 1% from 1.3% to 2.4%.

Did it? I suspect that large retailers like Home Depot can negotiate substantially on the credit card fees.
The first life we encounter from another civilization might not be evolved at all. Presumably a civilization with the capability of interstellar travel might also have the technology to manipulate the underpinning of life itself.

In fact, if we do discover something from another civilization, it is quite reasonable that it would be some sort of Von Neumann probe. It might be made of mechanical parts, "biological" parts, or something in between.

A Von Neumann probe would be highly engineered, and might have no trace of evolution to it.
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The Massachusetts study is rather confusing about delta and vaccination, but I think it emphasizes that demographics of who is socializing is skewed. So it might have burned out among those in the nightlife and still be highly dangerous among pensioners.
I think the issue is what happens if an author ghostwrote a book in German? I guess that's the book version of copying code off Stack Overflow and claiming it's yours? People trying to game the system make it crappier for everyone else.
> the probation time period in which they could let go of someone with ease (usually under 60 days)

Is this a thing? I would certainly judge a company doing this, and likely leave a manager who hired someone with an expectation that the beginning is just a probationary period, if I’m understanding you correctly (I hope i’m not).

Leaving a safe job for a probationary period puts too much risk on the employee that the employer doesn’t really share.
The more general view to take from this is that when you program a lot in one language, you get so used to certain performance patterns that you simply write your code in a way that takes advantage of them first try[1]. Peter Norvig's Lisp solution is an optimized solution for Lisp in a lot of little ways.

Directly translating an optimized-for-Lisp program into any other language is silly, because you miss out on the optimizations available in that language to an experienced programmer and you lose out doing pointless things which were essential in Lisp.
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People watched TV for many hours daily for decades now. I agree that it’s not healthy, but it’s not purely a new technology’s fault.
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It is far more terrifying that some believe you can make simple adjustments to complex systems with no unintended consequences.
Can you not think while eating? Do you never do some mindless fidgeting or surfing while contemplating some kind of hard or complex situation?
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Great read, thanks. This is a very interesting subject to me. A couple of years ago I read a theory about alien life that was a bit different from this:

Given the age of our universe, sun, earth and humans:

Universe 14 000 million
Sun 4 600 million
Earth 4 550 million
Earth Life 3 500 million
Humans .2 million (200,000 years)

The probability of some alien life being within say, a range of [-.5 mllion, .5 million] of the life on earth is VERY slim. It is most likely that life out there is either in very early stages (protezoric) or that it is way farther than our current form (how will humanity look like in say, another 500,000 years?, assuming it continues to exist and evolve)
> That's true in the sort of desk jobs most of the people who inhabit Hacker News do. It's patently not true of things like manufacturing line work, delivery drivers, chefs, and call centre operators.

The study wasn't restricted to desk jobs. Broader studies and international comparisons lead to a similar though weaker conclusion; in general more working hours over the range seen in most of the world (from about the mid-20s average hours worked per week, including both full workweek length and time off up) leads to a dramatic fall off in per-hour productivity.
And that the delivery vans don't get raided while making deliveries.
> I think it should be mentioned that other countries spy on citizens too. I fail to see what is the difference for Israel now. We have ample evidence from multiple whistleblowers that governments like to surveil their population.

And all of them should be called out, every time. "But those guys get away with it" isn't a defense.
I think Cosmic Crisp vs Honeycrisp mainly comes down to taste. I vastly prefer Honeycrisp, but I also don't like sour much.

The sourness of Cosmic Crisp is probably why it doesn't oxidize readily.
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If a nuke sold by the US would be detonated over the heads of EU politicians or journalists, you can be sure that the US would be blamed for that.
People can't care because people don't adequately know or understand.
I would like to recommend pipewire over Pulse, it's compatible but actually really good, also ALSA compatible
I think the real problem here is the tendency that people have to label and categorize everyone and everything.

It's completely wrong to assume that there is a box and everyone in that box shares the exact same attributes. Society even tries to convince and manipulate people into adopting behaviors and values which are not their own; just so that they could 'fit in' (in the box). This is the root of 'peer pressure' which I take is a big problem in the US school system (go figure).

Maybe this agenda serves social media and advertising companies (and corporations overall)? It's convenient for advertisers if people in any given category share exactly the same attributes. It seems to be an extension to the goals of the factory model of education; to produce people who are optimized for participating in society whilst questioning things as little as possible.
The burden of proof is very much on your side champ
Here is an archive link, so you can read the article without giving them views:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210802152519/https://newspunch...
The tech is less visible and more boring but I'm doubtful that this is true:

> I don't think it's created anywhere near the amount of value that's come out of e.g. space race

The space race gave us a lot of tangible, physics/materials/hard-engineering related tech. Software gives us a lot of internet infrastructure, communications, algorithms, etc. that are incredibly useful for the average consumer. Lots of people in this thread complaining about the negative value of ads and such, but the communications infrastructure, knowledge sharing, social change due to marginalized people being able to communicate things far and wide ... there's a lot of intangible benefits that have come as a direct result of focusing heavily on consumer internet.
Excited to see new implantations in concrete!
Given the low lifespans (and thus higher environmental costs) of reinforced concrete, what are you thoughts on basalt rebar? Are sustainable reinforcement methods on your radar?
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War is unlikely.

Globalization of all economies means everybody loses in a war. The devastation will harm everyone in a significant way.

The most likely outcome is just perpetual political squabbling and the continuous feeling that war is omnipresent but realistically will never occur.

China likely plans to dominate the US from a prestige standpoint. Better GDP, higher technology, that kind of thing and they already have the momentum for it.
The U.S. has been in the process of delisting Chinese companies.

I personally suspect that China wanted to get a jump on the effort and in turn force U.S. pension & hedge funds to lose $400B.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/investors-rethink-china-bets-af...

That's a huge amount of money and will dramatically and negatively impact the public pension funds.

It's not about the tech, it's about the economic war between China and the United States. At the same time, the CCP is exerting it's authority over these companies to tighten it's control.