skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Honestly I find the whole movement quite dreary if taken too seriously.

FIRE content is best consumed in tiny doses. You can get 95% of what you need to know from a few blog posts, the Bogleheads Wiki, and creating a simple spreadsheet of your financial planning. That’s it.

The problem is that FIRE has become a magnet for people who are miserable and think retirement will solve all of their problems. This subset of FIRE people see their job as the source of all of their misery and have glorified the idea of FIRE as the only escape hatch. They think they’ll be finally be happy just as soon as they can save enough money (from the job they hate) and reduce their expenses (by ruthlessly cutting spending, even on things they enjoy) until the lines intercept on their FIRE projections.

There are many people following a FIRE path who don’t fit this stereotype, but those people aren’t the ones hanging out on FIRE forums discussing FIRE all day. The people who obsess over FIRE and want to create threads to trash talk their neighbors who had the audacity to go on an expensive vacation or write about how little they spent on food last year by eating lentils every day are predominantly the ones talking about it all the time. There just isn’t much to talk about once you’ve identified a retirement equilibrium target and established a plan, so most of the reasonable participants don’t bother hanging out in the FIRE communities.

There are exceptions to everything, of course, but I found that most real-world FIRE people I know don’t want anything to do with internet FIRE communities or MMM.

Finances are something that should enable the life you want, not something that should become the primary focus of your discussions, readings, and online discourse all of the time.
The artists MO is straight out of the BLF playbook.

Bravo. Score one for the Bastards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Liberation_Front
I often had compatibility bugs with excel files around 2-3 years ago. What would happen is, I see a visual bug for example and the next update often fixed it.

For the last year or so I have switched completely to LO which has been a little rough but not difficult.

Calc has native =regex which is a killer feature
Are there any mainstream sources willing to dissent from the Fed's easy money policies?

The gymnastics start early in this article:

>“Cooling off” the economy sounds prudent, innocuous even. Yet, in practice, this monetary policy maneuver means that the Fed increases borrowing costs for businesses and pulls back on helping jobless Americans find work.

So if the Fed didn't exist, and we had a market interest rate - that would be the same as the Fed actively "cooling" the economy?

We've gone from "transitory inflation" to, "we can't think about raising rates, because we might not have greater than 2% next year".
> that - besides the name - was the more natural successor to Lotus 1-2-3

Quattro means four, so the name is perfect.
This is a misunderstanding of lean manufacturing. Lean is not about eliminating every stockpile, it's about thinking through your supply needs and only stockpiling what is necessary.
Not true at all, ~80% of emissions from an ICE car are from using and servicing it.

https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/comparative-l...

Looking at that chart I think you could build a brand new ICE car, throw it away, build an EV and drive that instead and still come out ahead?
Biden sparks fury by saying ‘No one is being killed in Kabul’
https://blog.tjcx.me/p/consume-less-create-more

This article inspired me on two things :

1) Lots of the things I do in everyday life is just to consume: buying, watching, following, etc. These things either consume my money, or my time. These things make me feel good, but it does not generate real value. In order to get rich, I need to create things. I also start to realize that great people are great because they started to create things at a very early stage of their life (but not consuming things as they advocate, think about celebrities, entrepreneurs etc), so they are able to practice and perfect the value creating skills to the extreme.

2) I start to realize that the world is binary in nature : I create to sell, I buy to consume. I either at the buyer side, or at the seller side. And in this current society, there is a huge buyer side trap, the whole idea of consumerism and social media is to trap you inside the buyer side, so you keep buying, you keep consuming. I really need to break free from this trap.

This blog post was written before COVID-19, but the idea feels even fresher during this pandemic era
Eternal population growth is not a necessity for advancing civilization.
I sat with users on our own setup as a technology demonstration, used the system as my primary desktop only for several months, and I have used other setups where I needed high security (mil/gov) paired with high degrees of access using crypto authN from another CTO.

Our technology demonstration operated beautifully but in the end we decided not to go with it because (1) we needed to rearchitect our SMB storage to centralize it, so there were no round trips or long distance SMB (2) Our network performance could be inconsistent at times due to jitter, which was not a problem with the solution, but the underlying network performance as specified, vs as-built, for some recent WAN enhancements.

A colleague at another location built a solution that I utilized as a desktop for sometime. Despite being ~1400 miles away and over our Center to Center network, performance was comparable to my engineering workstation, was always patched, excellent graphics performance, and was highly accessible provided strong authN.

There were some substantial differences in both of these:

(1) No oversubscription

(2) Fully capable of handling bootstorms

(3) Dedicated hardware / high performance VDIs

(4) Not viewed as a cost avoidance but as an access enhancer

(5) Optimized for expensive engineers / scientists where labor rates are the overwhelming cost, so 5 minutes of extra productivity more than pays for a solution.
You think people are buying up Chips designed to go in to Toyota cars?

Surely they're beyond worthless to anyone but the manufacturer and Toyota themselves?
Could we have most things in space orbiting in the same direction? That would massively reduce the risk of collisions as their relative speeds would be lower, including any fragments resulting from a crash.
Please write back when Tesla learns how to correctly apply paint to a car or fit body panels, or well, pretty much everything else that makes an actual car a car instead of a disposable gadget.
If I was inclined to be charitable to our socialist friend, I would say that he has perhaps accidentally developed a greater fluency, a more intimate understanding of the inherent drawbacks of socialism than most of its critics today.
Beating the Averages by pg:
http://paulgraham.com/avg.html

He planted the idea of "The Blub Paradox" in my head, which years later made me look at Git and version control through a different lens. Eventually I co-founded a company (Sturdy YCW21) making collaborating on code better.
> It feels kind of glib to just state with such certainty that a cross-platform game engine is never going to need to draw arbitrary polygons.

It’s an example
After the 2011 earthquake they came to the conclusion that for some hard to source parts you have to keep a big stockpile.

Basically if a part can only be produced by one or two parties there is too much risk of that source going away and disrupt everything else. This also applies all the way down the chain so if you got part A that can be made by 20 contractors but if all of those contractors depend on the same source then that part is also on the list of "stockpile this part enough to get over most disruptions"
yeah, but about everyone else?
It is also awfully arrogant for stores to assume anyone would want to give them money for the things they are offering.
Bhoot Police, the Trailer Is Out on 18th August 2021 Here’s All You Need to Know
Reminds me of a UI designer I worked with once who had an idea for controlling phone audio playback with gestures while driving (with the phone in a cradle). There have to be lots of other neat applications.
Crafting Interpreters [0] just came out in print and was widely discussed here [1], there's a Lang Jam [2] event happening this weekend which also spawned a useful HN discussion [3], so I just think a lot of readers here are interested in simple and fun language development tutorials and inspiration. But it is curious, part 2 of Brian Callahan's series [4] failed to get any traction here, maybe people aren't that into lexing?

[0] https://craftinginterpreters.com/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27997167

[2] https://github.com/langjam/langjam

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28021161

[4] https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210815.html
> for example in a classroom setting, where any autistic kid will take more than their fair share of the teacher's attention.

Ah yes, the classroom environment, where children are not treated like people. Woe betide somebody objects to that!

“Mental disorder” – how is that defined? Saying “mental disorders are bad, autism is a mental disorder, therefore autism is bad” is the non-central fallacy, so obviously you must have a better argument (and I just can't see it). But remember: homosexuality used to be considered a “mental disorder”, as did women wanting the vote (I'm not joking!).

I posit: “mental disorder” is just a word for people who diverge from what society considers typical (or, cynically, acceptable) variation in what people are like. Some of that variation is bad, I won't argue with that. Most of that variation is absolutely fine.

The way society is means that any atypical variation is bad, because society punishes it. If not for that punishment, much variation would be a non-issue.
And packet rate. Some corporate firewalls may detect this as abusive and block it leading to questions from the security operations team and the person testing this out.
The article (and others about this topic) indicate that the chip shortage isn't just a static. They all claim that chip and other supply chains (all based on South East Asian) are all under new pressure from delta strain spread.

In fact, I wonder how much of this really is chip supply vs general supply. Most articles on this open with headlines about chip supply, but then contains quotes from Toyota about "supply" and "parts" in general.
This OS is written entirely in C++. The interesting thing is that I couldn't find a single class! I love modern C++.
> But longer term this opens the door wide open for new competitors in the market and / or vertical integration.

Not really. Chip fabrication requires enormous upstart cost - IIRC, TSMC plans with something like 10-20 billion $ - and a lot of time, to the tune of three years at least (https://pr.tsmc.com/english/news/2033). There are not many companies in the world who have that amount of cash lying around, and even the ones who do like Apple still resort to using TSMC.

Not to mention it's not just the machines from ASML and a host of other vendors plus the cost of building factory-sized ultra clean rooms, but you also need the expert staff trained to operate the entire setup and a lot of fine tuning of parameters which are closely guarded secrets...
Disagree. A baker gets in the middle of mixing some ingredients you can get yourself without them and take a fee for mixing that stuff for you.

I think you might simply not have a clue what a value proposition is, what a product is or what optimisation is.
The problem is when those things affect each other. Otherwise we wouldn't care.
While that is true, the security concerns are much wider than child abuse scanning. From the article:

> "Though these capabilities are intended to protect children and to reduce the spread of child sexual abuse material, we are concerned that they will be used to censor protected speech, threaten the privacy and security of people around the world, and have disastrous consequences for many children,"

Many people and organizations fear that Apple's plans are paving the way for governments to scan for more than just child abuse images.
(e.g. https://appleprivacyletter.com/)

In that light, FISA is relevant. My statement was to show that not all dealings of the US government are public, because not all courts and legal proceedings are available to the public. So "serious risk of leaks to journalists" won't likely happen in that case.
I think another cause that we do not notice or just take for granted is the way our language itself is designed, it almost seems deliberately designed to support imprecision, ambiguity, confusion, etc. without it being obvious the speaker had that intent.
Or cheap. Trying to game a short-term downtick in supply by spending 100 Bn USD only to come out the other side as not competitive when you're up-to-speed and your competitors have an abundance of supply and can undercut you by 20%.

It's not a winning strategy.
First time I see this post (thanks for sharing!). I bought one of these 2 years ago and it was life changing indeed. Stuffing it with vegetables and meat before going to the gym; come back and everything is done.

About boring food; it might not be crispy, but you can make amazing meats in it. Try slow cooking pork collar boneless[0] with honey and mustard.
Yes, but if you're limited in your choices in the game environment, what good is psychology?

For example, one of the questions:

Which is more enjoyable to you?

- Killing a big monster

- Bragging about it to your friends

Umm... neither? What is a 'monster'? Is it one of the last remaining megafauna, the rest having been slaughtered to extinction by other gamers? Is it a sentient creature (say, a dragon) that happens to be rather angry, but can be reasoned with?

What if I'd rather study the 'monster', like a zoologist might, in order to discover more about its life? (Do 'monsters' lead their own existence in a gaming world?)

There should be more to gaming than killing!
>Cynicism from a generation that weathered...

I don't disagree in principal but...

I called the behavior Redditesque for a reason. Comments portraying regulatory agencies as all-seeing gods ready to smite anyone who dares not display their faith enthusiastically enough let alone materially violate the rules are wildly popular there. Cynical realpolitik takes (e.g. "MHSA will show up and fine you for everything they can while doing nothing to materially improve safety") on regulatory enforcement are very much unaccepted over there. Millennials and gen Z, exactly the people you'd expect to be the most cynical are also over-represented there compared to the general population. So clearly there's some other mechanism at play.
I know when I was benching JSON Link, I saw 30-50% increase in perf at the time when using better allocators and PMR can help a lot there with things like bump allocators.
Still better for the environment by decades.
Musk Says Refueling Starship for Lunar Landings Will Take 8 Launches (Maybe 4)
Yeah, it can help with design but it cannot do it end to end. I do however think it is possible to create a tool that could make a good logo with more input from the user. The output of biggan is not properly suited to produce a vector logo as an end result, therefore it can only be helpful for producing concepts/ideas.

Im quite confident that something like dall-e and various next-gen clip models together with more controlled user inputs such as make this eye smaller or I want an eye here, a mouth here and add a proper way to render vectors with color choices it would be possible to get a result that would need very little polishing. We did this back ion january/feb when clip and dall-e had only been out for a few weeks and that was the first real big sign that something like this would be possible.

Heres some more recent experiments i did last night with letting a model complete a design.

https://twitter.com/ViktorAlm/status/1428094471200202758
Most auto companies don't take delivery of chips except for managing production of a few key modules like engine controllers. Most of the chips in your car are in components made by suppliers with circuit boards often made by a second tier supplier. Combine that with many chips having no alternate and I don't see how Toyota could really stay exempt from this problem. OTOH not every chip maker is having trouble keeping up.
Well, yes. Curiously enough, (IIRC) watchtower started out automatically pulling new images when available. Then the maintainers found that approach to be worse than proper orchestration and disabled the pulling. Perhaps it's different now.
Quantity isn't a synonym for quality.

There are a couple of ways to compile .NET code into native code. Since version 1.0 NGEN was part of the SDK, although its main purpose was faster startup with dynamic linking.

On Microsoft side there has been CoreRT, NativeAOT, .NET Native.

Mono has had AOT support since ages and it is anyway required for iOS deployments.

Other than that several community efforts have taken place as well, for example WebAssembly.

https://fsbolero.io/
Ah yes, the most important function of a car, the paint...
By bike and by foot, Americans discover their country – and themselves
When Will Your Country Recover from the Pandemic?
We have to draw the line somewhere. ES 3.0 is already complicated, adding a number of "downlevel" features and limits. ES 2.0 would just be more work that we can't take right now.
Life changing in that it changed my professional life. Steve Yegge's piece that all programmers are typists, http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirties.... It's been a while since I read it but my recollection of it is that your tools matter and that you need to practice to get good in using your tools. Prior to reading this I was so focused on solving "the problem" that I never realized that I spent a lot of mental energy on the tools rather that was much better spent on solving whatever I worked on. This realization has changed how I approach technical stuff in my day-to-day job.
Maybe the Glengarry Glen Ross "closing" scene would have a positive impact on me and get me fired up if the profession was something in tech, at a company whose mission I cared about. Otherwise, as the article mentions, I do indeed just think Alec Baldwin's character is a borderline sociopathic asshole.
> The world must cooperate

The world can't cooperate to block spread of covid, to end hunger, to avoid global warming, to end traffic of sex slaves, to curb nuclear weapons, to end chemical weapons and land mines, ...

Heck, even in some "civilized" countries people can't collaborate to achieve mass vaccination...

Do you really have any hope we will collaborate on organizing space traffic?
Some subset, but even there it's waning, especially for new designs. QNX is seems to be not mentioning it explicitly anymore, and I don't remember seeing it in the options last time I looked, but it's very possible that it is still available if necessary.
> Header files serve as a library interface for almost all languages out there, and are so simple that for the most part they can automatically be used from other languages to access the library
We're trying to switch everyone to electric. That's not going to happen if we can't build new cars.
The concerns you express aren't noticable or bothersome except to a small percentage of enthusiasts. Teslas are mechanically far more reliable and require less maintenance that other cars.
If JPEG XL actually delivers the ability to serve multiple screen sizes / resolutions from the same image as proposed in FUIF: https://cloudinary.com/blog/introducing_fuif_responsive_imag...

instead of requiring storing many copies of the same image for responsive design, that would be a godsend and would immediately convert me to JPEG XL for graphics on websites. I don’t want the complication of generating, storing, and serving the right image to the right client, there should be one image and clients should only download the amount they want.
Why would you be troubled by this? Consider Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS), which is caused by germline loss of a specific tumor suppressor gene. People with LFS are basically guaranteed to develop cancer by age 60 (>90% chance), with a 50% risk of getting cancer by 40. There are many other similar hereditary genetic disorders, some of which are exceptionally awful and basically guarantee that one will develop childhood cancer (e.g. Turcot syndrome).

I see absolutely no downside to prenatal testing for such horrible diseases, all of which have a clear-cut genetic basis. Nobody has issues with prenatal screening for Tay-Sachs disease; why should genetically unambiguous severe predisposition to cancer be any different?
Used cars have a natural price cap, and my understanding is that it has been reached. They are too close to the price of a new car to go any higher.
Whats the definition of "serious" here? Is there a standard measure of tolerance or material compatability that it can be rated against to see if it would work for a specific need?
Your idea is just a multiplier on your execution: https://sive.rs/multiply

I spent a lot of time thinking about ideas that were good or smart or made me feel smart. Could easily have been a lifelong chase with no real gains. Focusing on execution hasn't made me a millionaire overnight but it has helped me think about concrete things that are undeniably moving in the right direction instead of hoping to strike a "genius idea jackpot" that changes everything in an instant.
> You’ve made like 15 comments on this thread with this idea.

Yet other people beside Cart in my thread still fail to properly understand the idea and instead think I am suggesting not using wgpu at all.

> you can say “I told you so” then

My aim isn’t to say “I told you so” it’s to make sure people accurately understand the point I am making. Cart seems to understand the point I am making therefore I have made no further comments to him.
There's a nice summary of BASB here: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lEwGSa8=/
I wonder if it tracks whether or not participants have their headsets on. Talk about golden fetters!
Apple urged to drop plans to scan iMessages, images for sex abuse
Linking no longer works since for people who are logged out twitter has blocked being able to click on anything (ie unable to click on next message, thread, post, etc)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28231129

there's a lot of gaslighting of people because twitter is changing their ui. (ie oh no? you can't see it? must be something weird, it works for me. But in fact, twitter is the one changing the ui for difference classes of users so nothing really works consistently from one user to the next)
Building a .NET Byte Code Inspector
So not sabotaging, only obstructing. I'm so pissed at all the auto-makers (with the exception of Tesla). The writing has been on the wall for at least a decade in large neon letters, but they all seem taken by surprise that they suddenly have to produce electric cars.
The pub is a great place to tell stories though, so your analogy is an appropriate action in an appropriate place. This is like staging a play at a pub - great gimmick once in a while, certainly not a bad thing, but it just isn't practical to do a full stage production at an average pub. The lighting isn't there, the stage isn't big enough and the patrons are busy eating and drinking. It would be better to go to a theatre.

Similarly, this fellow is telling an interesting anecdote. But what we see here is a man searching for a paragraph while living in the desert of a sentence.