skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The part in the article about finding time to work out hit hard. He's right: there is so little time to work out because it takes 1hr to work out and 1hr to travel/clean up: 2hrs is a big deal when you only have ~4 hours free hours per day to take care of life. That made me pretty depressed, not just for me but for every overweight person who is being shamed about not exercising. You have to exercise a lot to alter your physique, and cramming that into normal life with a 10hr/day job and kids is brutal.

What's worse: this is from 2010. Pre-microtransation in video games, pre-dozens of $10 TV channels fighting over a few film copyrights, pre-subscription-razors, subscription juice, subscription groceries, subscription everything...

I can't believe people who pay $15/month for one TV channel (Disney+) are shelling out $30 to rent (not own!) the latest blockbuster. Blows my mind.

I'm old enough to remember in the 80's when conservatives blamed poor kids for saving up to buy $100 Air Jordans as some kind of societal ill, when in reality it was just the correct operation of the American consumerism.

Marketing has really upped its game in 40 years.
Bookmarking no longer works as before (Chrome)
It gets even better if you have your own generator. Electricity you can't sell immediately has zero value without storage, and you'll have increasing amounts of such electricity in the future.
> In highly competitive physical sports there be would no woman at all in the olympics for example.

In (edit: some) highly competitive physical sports there would be no person below median height at all in the olympics for example.

We can slice and dice all sorts of extremely visible inborn characteristics that will over time hopefully have just as much cultural relevance as sex or gender, as the cultural relevance of sex and gender decreases [0]. As that happens, we’re going to have to reevaluate what we culturally look for in sports. At the amateur level, hopefully this isn’t too hard, but I have no idea whether it will make professional sports more or less accessible.

[0] While height is mostly out of your control, it’s still unclear which of the kids in tryout team will end up tall enough to compete. That’s where sex and gender are more of a clear split, because you know most of the kids on the girls team won’t end up on a men’s team, so the split remains stable as they grow up.
I held this perspective until very recently. Listening to Charles Hoskinson on Lex Friedman's podcast changed my mind somewhat. There do seem to be some projects that are interesting from a technology and society standpoint.

But it is clear the vast majority of crypto is just get-rich-quick Ponzi-esque.
Most people in the FIRE community are still under 50. I'm watching to see how this plays out.
Report: Murders Rise 16% Across Major U.S. Cities in 2021

https://counciloncj.org/impact-report-1/
It sounds to me like it's not an entirely fair comparison. Pruning trees full-time for 10-15 years would be more comparable.

I don't claim to know if conclusion would be different or the same, though.
This is great for consumers worldwide short term as prices will fall. Expensive for California customers. The best thing for animals and if this spreads everyone will be on an equal playing field until than Californians will lead by example.. I predict bacon falling out of popularity quickly.
> I see articles like this come past on the Internet every once in awhile, and they are invariably received with hostility. "Sampling Bias!" "That guy could only do this because of $X!" "That wouldn't work today in this economy!" "If all this stuff really worked, why tell us about it instead of milking it for millions. He's probably just trying to sell us his book!" Lots of reasons why we should quickly dismiss everything that was said above and carry on the way we were before.

Part of me thinks the worst thing I ever learned about was market efficiency. Once you've heard that argument from a professor, you can apply it to just about anything. Heck I even had colleagues use it against me, despite being specifically hired to beat the unbeatable market.

The guy in the article is right though, it's bogus. There's lots of little things you can do that might turn into a business. The existing players have not hoovered up all the opportunity, and new opps come along all the time. People talk about things that are profitable even if they haven't locked it all up for themselves.
It feels so old fashioned to ban remote work.
That's very interesting way of thinking about those things.

That success (defined as successfully completing required work) causes damage, causes pain, often not as a side effect of the work that needs to be put in to achieve success, but by the success itself.

That parts of us recognizes the harm of success and resists when the other part pushes blindly for what it thinks the end goal should be.

Also mitigation strategies seem novel. Discovering what you fear about successfully finishing your work and trying to lessen the strength of those fears. Or doing small steps like acknowledging that doing 30 minutes of work will not result in achieving success so you can do that amount of work safely.

One common fear might be of that the result of you successfully finishing your task won't live up to your imagination about it.
My argument against this is as follows: would you sell your dignity for $10?

Now, my dignity doesn't exist in any sense which makes selling it meaningful. So it's kind of like free money.

But really it isn't. There's someone out there who can say "I own samatman's dignity, and I got it for cheap". I'm a guy who sold his dignity, and everyone knows it. I feel like people would judge me for that.

There are definitely people out there who will judge you for selling your soul. It doesn't have to exist for that to be real. Is it actually worth ten bucks? I expect there aren't many people who would see that and say "oh cool, you sold your soul for less than a sandwich in SF! You must be an interesting person, I think better of you now that I heard that".
Did you read the "Choosing your options" section of the blog post?
What does "show up" mean when the technology allows you to "show up", and fulfill all of a job's requirements remotely?
and they're still passing traffic of 8chan and kiwi something..
True, an error. Corrected.
Bleurgh. I have a deep soft spot for C, and I'm known to get twisted pleasure from using obscure language features in new ways to annoy people, but this is a level of abuse that even I can't get behind. If you need namespacing, use C++. As much as I love C, it's terrible for large projects.
> That made me pretty depressed, not just for me but for every overweight person who is being shamed about not exercising.

FWIW most weight change is due to diet. If you're overweight, exercise is probably a much lower priority than finding a way to sustainably eat less.

I'm not just sounding off here; I lost 20+ kg by tracking what I ate and eating less.
> If no sophistication was involved, why hasn’t India seen the same outcomes since gaining its independence around the same time?

Because the West wasn't raining gold on India, and was raining gold on communist China instead.

And it didn't because India wasn't willing to let in Western businesses, and give them a carte blanche to make money like China did.

It also didn't because India wasn't starting from such a low base as China.

It also didn't because Indian workers were a few cents per hour more expensive than Chinese.

It also didn't because Indian workers had some absolutely minimal labour protections, unlike Chinese.

It also didn't because India had some absolutely minimal semblance of rule of law, functioning legal system, and China didn't.

It also didn't because India wasn't as completely open to corruption as the Chinese state was.

The point that India was a more bureaucratic country than China back then can't hold water. Both countries were bureaucratic nightmares, and keep being them to this day, but for some reason this trope persists.

As somebody who spend a big portion of my career in China, I will tell that China at no point was that libertarian capitalist paradise that the delirious Wall Street, and Silicon Valley people imagined it be.
They wouldn't be the first. An SVP of a major SV company once told me "[my company] doesn't give a shit about accessibility, and no one in Silicon Valley does." When I went to the CSUN accessibility conference that year, guess which company's logo was emblazoned across the lanyards? Yup, their marketing department was happy to write checks that their company had no intention of cashing.

Silicon Valley is famous for its 'patina of accessibility': https://medium.com/@nicklum/silicon-valleys-patina-of-access...
Not "an", but many animals not only die, but suffer their entire lives, and then die.
Indeed. It’s amazing to me that in all the conversations about work/life balance, employers never consider the mind-blowingly innovative option of working less.

Instead we all get free subscriptions to meditation apps now. Thanks for the stopwatch. Can I go outside now?

I left the software industry for several years to do a job that required getting up and moving around, leaving the building, interacting with people... it was tiring, but in a much different way than programming. A much better way, if that makes any sense. It’s difficult to describe. But I’m convinced that office work is poison at the doses we take it.
This looks like balanced and well articulated position. Would be nice if executives of big companies stop being hypocrites and provided such explanations to their employees instead of "bUt mUh cOllAbOrAtIvE cUltUrE!!1" and "performance gotten approximately 3 billion times worse since WFH started".
Definitely easier; it has no structure at all, it's all in your head/stack.

https://github.com/codr7/fipl
It's all of the above. A large, unproductive rentier class creating a barrier to capitalist dynamics contributes to a stagnant economy, which generates popular discontent and erodes government authority.
How about "The Impact of Repeated Lying on Survey Results"?

* https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/215824401247234...

The general point is that surveyors know people aren't always completely honest when asked questions.

Most human beings in general are aware that other humans will lie to them at times when asked questions, so why should surveyors being any different? Whereas people use 'heuristics' to judge another's honesty, surveyors will use quantitate methods.
I love when something I had once been looking for, but seemed so specific I didn't know how to search for it, drops right into my lap. Thank you for this, it is exactly what I've been looking for.
There is no "why". We do, that is a fact of life and we can not, at the current time, do anything to change this. It is not due to a choice that we made, nor can we make a choice to change it.

If, one day, we are in a position where we can make that choice, then that will be a relevant moral question to decide.
Concur 100%. I've always made sure my work has some physical component. Even if that's just soldering, I need to use my hands and know that something is different tomorrow because I did this work today.

The quickest way to crush someone's spirit is to make them feel that their work is for nothing. Making prisoners break rocks in the prison yard, for instance. Or pushing spreadsheets and git commits endlessly, to no tangible change.
That makes sense. So the majority of us are already zombies
Do you have any references? Other than supplementation of B12, which meat eaters should do as well, there is no scientific evidence that "it's stupid hard" and you need a nutritionist. In fact, the only thing you need to know is to eat plenty of whole grains, legumes, and green vegetables and you WILL get your needed nutrients and proteins. Prove otherwise please - which nutritional requirements would not be met?
Ahh... right. Thank you.

Wouldn't a simple block/allow list for sending IDs / phone numbers be trivial to implement on the iCloud (or whatever) side of things such that the end user could allow their known contacts and block (everyone else) ?

Forgive me - I am not an iMessage user ...
Humans usually put their dignity on rent.
Wow, that's a lot of money. I can't believe that in the sphere of trading crypto or trading foreign exchange there is so much money at all.
Apple doesn't have access to the message content thanks to end-to-end encryption (technically they can have access if you backup your messages to iCloud, but by that point it's already too late).

However they are working on better sandboxing to help prevent this class of attacks, and Google Project Zero posted an overview of how that "blastdoor" process works:

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-look-at-ime...
How about use your phone as only a data modem and do everything on a chrome os device, which have no known malware. Just don't install chrome extensions and you are safe. Also avoid installing apps on your phone

This is basically what I wish I had, except back in reality there's no Chrome device that's the size of my cell phone. There are some with cellular modems.
'The report found that the platforms are particularly poor at acting on antisemitic conspiracy theories, including tropes about “Jewish puppeteers”, the Rothschild family and George Soros, as well as misinformation connecting Jewish people to the pandemic.'

George Soros has donated to the political campaigns of many progressive prosecutors. It is fair game to criticize him for that if you think the actions of the prosecutors are boosting crime. The left has often criticized the Koch brothers for their political contributions.
You may be being unrealistic about the role of spontaneous personal choice in this.

To a surprising extent, people find things pleasurable because they're told to find them pleasurable.

No one sane would inhale burning carcinogenic leaves to damage their own health, but people do - because they're encouraged to.

People buy new phones because they're somehow "cool". No one is really sure why, but it's something that happens.

There used to be an element of spontaneous creativity in trends. Traditionally industry noted the trends and sold them back to customers.

But it's easier and cheaper to skip the organic and spontaneous part and sell trends top-down by linking them to perceptions of social status.

This is done by key players inside the relevant industries instead of by a Politburo of fat elderly men. But it's still heavily bureaucratic and centralised. Just in a cool way.

It also creates economies of scale, which is both convenient and useful.
As someone who has been archiving my music (FLAC) and looking for the right player that isn’t too expensive, this has been a godsend.

The existing market for Lossless playback and library management for macos is pretty abysmal. I’ve been testing many (Audirvana, clementine, swinisian, Vox) and so many of have such basic feature sets (vox) that don’t meet my needs or are bloated as hell and run like a dog on a well speced 2020 16MBP..

Keen to try and review this one!
Right, you should get noalias optimizations within a particular locking, but not on the outer `&Mutex` references.
You say that, but as a person with ADHD, I couldn't help but just skim the article. Not useful at all ;)
So what you are saying is, "I care less about the suffering of animals than I do about my own pleasure", yes?
What does that have to do with this other book?
Good luck with that one. When you’re a unix guy with a Dell slapped in front of you running windows that you can’t do anything useful in then you know you’ve reached peak enterprise IT!
We've been looking at coronaviruses for a long, long time. Meanwhile, mRNA vaccines have been deployed for less than 12 months. So I believe our understanding of mRNA vaccines is likely to be substantially less accurate and complete.
If you are trying to find the best polynomial of degree 2 you need 3 points - as you can not fit a quadratic with only 2 points. I tested it with multiple points. 400,000 to 800,000, and 400,000 to 600,000. I should have done it the first time though.

It does look linear but that's the problems with eye ball testing. I think if you fit a quadratic, you'll start to see the gradual curve. Its will be a very zoomed in area in a parabola.

If I had more time I'd generate the dataset from the graph and try to fit linear and quadratic regression line and compare the models using coefficient of determination. That would provide some strong for/against evidence.
I'd gladly help people with those issues. I'm gonna seek them (no idea why I never thought about that).

The reason I put elders aside is that their motivations and emotions are very different from younger people. There are lot of fear, loneliness driving their need for help, and often they don't really want to own the knowledge, it's more a little bit of emotional support; which is cool, but not as motivating as, say, a younger handicapped person, who has more skin in the game.
Turn off, turn on: Simple step can thwart top phone hackers
So, "I care less about the suffering of animals than I do about my own pleasure"?
If Duckduckgo wants to stay principled, it should stand next to Google and defend the open internet.

They shouldn't claim to be principled and then take a cheap shot at Google by bowing down to Murdoch.

Yes, I get that they're a business and good on them for taking more market share but I'm not calling out Microsoft because they're not claiming to be the good guys.
Yes, you are right in holding leaders accountable. But I feel in my experience leadership has mafia like power over employees. IN this situation what's theirs is theirs but what's mine is always up for negotiation.

> One last tip: collaborating is much easier when a team is 100% remote or 100% in the office, but split is much harder.

While this maybe true for best outcomes. IMO even flexible work policy is better for people like me who are stuck in hellish commutes 5 days a week. 2-3 days in office is similar outcome and avoiding 3 hr /day commute times for couple of days a week.

> it's easy to swivel the chairs around for a quick impromptu chat.

This used to be true for me also 5-7 years back. However lately all important tech decisions comes from "enterprise architects" and what's left is sufficient for a webex call.

Also in my case team is distributed and of course travel is not approved for lowly engineers to have face to face collaboration. But nonetheless commute is mandatory. So the rule seems collaborate with remote co-workers but only from office.
Noob is the first step to being a master. So, those "noob"s are indicating they're early in the process.
Yes, I was looking to demonstrate the flexibility of the approach by including overlapping fields.
Drinking iced (black) tea is potentially deadly in quantities that some southerners might not see as absurd.
https://healthcare.utah.edu/healthfeed/postings/2015/04/0423...
Jq makes me feel stupid, it's comforting to know that it's probably not just me.
I personally don't use CloudFlare but do manage a website which uses one for a job, and there's a button to mangle e-mail addresses, so I don't think this is their concern.

DDoS attacks are surprisingly negligible, comparable for ordinary IPs, so I don't think that's what they're protecting at.
Such a tool would inevitably fall behind in what it supports and would lack as well useful integration. It would lack depth and breadth.

If prior to 2020 it would have lacked roam support. If prior to this month it would lack roam v2. Then again its useful that org links can link to everything from a page in a document to an email which isn't possible if disconnected from the rest of the emacs ecosystem.

What does it even mean for something to be "modern"?
Definitely. That's what makes it hard. The entire internet was like this at first (and may be regressing to that state!).

I think Satoshi's original use case is one that's viable and has proven to be viable. Another is in blockchain verification of narrative text without access to the text itself, something I built into a programming language for fact verification[0].

[0] http://nebula.mimix.io/msl/specs/ref/hash
At this point browsers are a basic building block of our society.

There is absolutely no excuse for lacking acessibility features.

You might as well say your "browser" can't render Arabic.
If selling your soul to the devil works, you'd be a fool to sell it. Otherwise, you're just wasting your time.
Work with a professional. From numerous anecdotal stories, if you do have ADHD, taking medicine such as Ritalin or Adderal will radically alter you (in a good way). 15+ years ago, I had a psychiatrist who insisted I had ADHD. I took Adderal for a couple years. It did absolutely zero for me. Not one iota of change. I know others who swear by it. There was another comment in the thread about anxiety and hyper vigilance being a problem with similar symptoms. After much work, it's safe to say this was more my issue. There's a book called "Driven to Distraction" that is decent as well.
> shelling out $30 to rent

My family of four can pay $30 + grocery store food costs to have dinner and a movie or we can pay around $100 to go see a movie and have dinner at Alamo. $30 is a bargain.
My procrastination dropped a lot once I medically intervened on ADHD, Anxiety, and Depression. I wonder where I'd be now if I had taken these steps 20 years ago.
The science, like the science saying fat and cholesterol are bad for you.

> Even meat eaters don't get enough B12 and should supplement, because B12 comes from the food animals eat, and their feed is insufficient.

Nope. Not having enough B12 is a rare condition.

> If you don't just eat Oreos and white rice, you should be fine as a vegan.

And yet, even vegan influencers get sick and start to eat meat again. And the argument is always “they must have done something wrong”.
Trail of Bits hasn't shared what detections they're looking for with iVerify, but the app has extremely limited access to your device data - the device backup or full filesystem dump approaches will give you better detection.
United and American Airlines are devoting billions to an aircraft without pilots
It says in your article that life expectancy at birth was 25 years for hunter gatherers societies. Now that’s in great part due to infant mortality, but where does this lower infant mortality come from? Advanced civilization with doctors, medicines and machines that can keep mothers and babies alive,
By “It can’t simply be…” I mean economic theory as a basis for accepted political norm.

Which form of meta-analysis we use to normalize against politically isn’t up for debate in the market of free ideas and information exchange.
Certainly advertising makes people want to start smoking or maybe continue. But people smoke because it gives them a high from the nicotine. Why do you think people were smoking in 1700? Because the nicotine made them feel relaxed, good and they became addicted.
The fear of finishing in real. The last push is always the hardest.
As the “contrarian” in the name gives away, this is a person that routinely will find themselves on the wrong end of a thought process.

In this case, the question is wrong, already: nobody is planning a solar-only grid. Better interconnects are among the top priorities and make arguments looking at just a single state seem silly. They will add wind to the power mix but, more importantly, increase geographic diversity leading to far more varied and therefore stable production.

After that, peak demand, which they identify as rare but important, can be changed drastically with a smarter grid. Defer charging electric cars, or even allow them to contribute back when needed, and you have vast and growing abilities to reduce spikes in demand or fluctuations in productions.
Please note that the Raku Programming Language currently has 3 backends (MoarVM, JVM and Javascript) and that Parrot was dropped as a backend target in 2015.
Can someone comment on how does `jq` compare with `fx`?

- https://github.com/antonmedv/fx