skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use DDG, and it wouldn't come up with the journal. I think the problem is I quoted it, and the name is in British English, Human Behaviour. Even then it's not the top hit, but the side bar result (which I tend to ignore). Thanks for straightening that out.
I really don't know what yall are going on about. I hit play on a song in spotify and it just plays instantly.
You want this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/rsspreview/
In all likelihood, the business model where users can get a free service for trading their data to advertisers cannot sustain a reasonably qualified human moderation service. So bots it is, but bots cannot really understand human culture and behave like mindless sledgehammers.

If FB et al. are one day required to provide human moderation, they will go bankrupt. Or they will be forced to charge users money to cover the costs.
The engines are also completely different in the US vs Europe. Ford diesel engines in Europe are made by
Stellantis/PSA. The engine in a Ford Fiesta is also used in cars by Peugeot, Citroen, DS, Opel/Vauxhall and Toyota.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_DLD_engine#DLD-415
The world isn't closed. I've been traveling for most of 2021, and when I started, I was "shocked" to find fellow travelers who've been traveling throughout 2020 as well.

Asia is fully closed. That's due to their culture. Latin America is fully open, due to the same reason. The Covid restrictions map is the new map of the world. Pick a green spot and go.
Also a lot of companies will now be combining the worst on-premise practices with the worst WFH practices.

I've been out of a job most of the pandemic and am now working at a marketing company that did just that.

We are required to be present in the office but people do everything (even HR issues) over Slack and e-mail. It's mindnumbingly dumb.
Something that Chromium apps do give you however, for free for the most part, is accessibility. I just tried the GUI version of this client and was not surprised to find out that I could not use it.
The new Spotify UI released a few months ago is the most accessible Spotify has ever been. Landmarks, clear labels, headings, and even aria-trickery to automatically announce things using my screen reader. I remember being very frustrated with the old UI's to the point where I chose another service just because it was more accessible, even if it didn't have a desktop app. YouTube Music and Deezer had much better UI's from the get go.
At this point, I'm almost happy to see an Electron app. It doesn't guarantee accessibility, but the likelyhood is so, so, so much higher than any modern cross-platform UI framework.
I'd almost go as far as to not call these UI's native. Because if they were, if they used native controls, the accessibility would be there. The OS vendors spend a lot of time to make them usable and consistent. Sadly, these UI frameworks don't, or can't.
Sure, psst has a CLI, but I only get panics. I can't do -h to find out what I can do with it, I can only call it with a spotify URL and get it to play and exit once it's done. It feels like the cli was included as a sort of testing tool to check the underlying libs and code, and not as a usable version of the app itself - but it's still very early in development so the GUI might be the same. I can't tell.
Clojure's style *let* is probably a limitation of the JVM's inability to do proper tailcalls.
> I'm not sure that developers working on performance tuning in any meaningful way still post online

This is a very confusing comment to me since "cares a lot about performance" is probably one of the most consistent attributes of the HN readership—or they are at least a highly vocal subset of the community.

Personally, I respect technical brilliance, but believe it comes in many varieties, of which performance tuning is just one and not on any kind of higher plane.
(a) Set a deterministic RNG seed before each test.

and/or

(b) Have each test loop enough to get a good estimate of the probability distribution.
Would it work if the computer I have is not always turned on? I think the other MTAs would give up delivery after a few retries, so you need at least one always-on computer, so a server. And then we're not really in the "free" territory anymore, it's much more worth it to just pay professionals for hosting.
Once iOS and MacOS are merged, will Apple open up its app store to the wild west or will every little OS hack have to depend on their approval? I would certainly be put off by the latter. I was willing to accept the walled garden for my little iOS consumer toy but for my PC I want to have the freedom of messing with it as I see fit.
Germany is nowhere near "occupied". The Allied Forces haven't had any say in German politics since the "Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany" (better known as 2+4 Vertrag) in 1990.

Yes, we host a couple of US military bases (Soviets went out after GDR reunification, Brits and French have long left), but these have no occupation purposes and competences at all.
Same in restaurants. They hate it when you pay with your card. They love untaxed income and I don't blame them.
Exactly. Build up that muscle memory for when you have to actually pay for something so everything feels familiar.
Interdependance on a whole societal level is an illusion. The mechanism at work is peer pressure. The most independent nations are the most charitable, so that puts into question the interpretation of these findings.

I believe the underlying demands of people that meditate are clear and people react selfish in response.

If "mindfulness" triggers a panic attack, it is probably due to underlying issues.

> you learn to open up your own vulnerability

Towards whom? Being vulnerable isn't desirable. To have no illusion about it is certainly healthy, but this sounds like a cult to be honest.
This might be the push I need to finally make the switch to Neovim.
I mean, that's cool, but somewhere, at some stage, people must get together to help you decide what to work on?
Money is a means to an end - profit should not be justification in itself, like it is today. Also, there are other good ways of allocating finite resources - allocation by money tends to create long-term winners and losers, as it is usually allowed to propagate across generations, reaching absurd levels such as people living off good land purchasing decisions made by their ancestors centuries ago. Sure, allocation by money is better than allocation by force or allocating all resources to the king, but it's hardly ideal.

Either way, we weren't discussing limited resources here, but just the opposite: creating new value. There are people who actually create the useful items or services, and people who profit off it - and we have all mostly accepted that it's good and proper that these are different people. But looking at this with a cold rationality shows it to be absurd: we take a group of people who are interested in something of use, and instead of letting them do it, we take another group of people who just want to accumulate money&power and put them in charge of deciding how the useful thing will be produced. This is quite obviously absurd, and it has led to global warming denialism, cigarette cancer denialism, and so many other issues.
This is definitely something we want to leave to plugins, since it’s technically involved, there are multiple ways to go about it with different trade-offs, and it’s not necessary for most use cases. There are multiple plugins for it though, the most recent one being Arrugator from one of Leaflet’s maintainers Ivan: https://ivan.sanchezortega.es/development/2021/03/08/introdu...
Eh, I think the Walden aspect is spot on. I downscaled my career, but five years ago - however for precisely the reasons the author cites. I was burned out from needing to be available 24/7 for a decade - spending your life waiting for the sky to fall really takes its toll. My job wasn’t bullshit - it was my business, and I had real responsibilities to my employees, my customers, and my shareholders.

As to the “back to basics” movement, I followed this path, bought myself a laughably cheap home (<€50k) in a laughably cheap country (<€20 tax per year), and while I no longer have access to some of the services I once had, I couldn’t be happier. I do what the hell I want to, whenever the hell I want to. Agency is worth anything.

Over the past year, I have been contacted by a stampede of acquaintances, friends, their friends and acquaintances, who all want to do what we’ve done. Most work in tech, in meaningful senior roles. Rural property prices have suddenly rocketed both here and in my country of origin.

Yeah, it’s mostly apocryphal, anecdotal, idiosyncratic, but I think people are just realising that they are miserable, and spending time doing crafts and outdoorsy stuff has made them realise that these things feed the soul.
Or, in most cases, they are victims of government overreach.
> We know how harmful inequality can be, and we know it’s been steadily on the rise, maybe since the ’50s.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

The US stopped burning wealth to maintain its spending, and turned to using inflation instead.
That first paragraph was so much to read.

You write beautifully.
> Dealing with RDMA aware networking is far beyond the ability of typical web developers.

Homa is designed for traffic inside a DC, same as RDMA or Infiniband. I don't think anyone is proposing to use it for normal web traffic.
I think Pokemon is a brand because they started with the video game and capitalized on its merchandisable nature. I don't think there was was a Pokemon card game (or anything else) until after the video game was released.

I agree some games are less amenable to the merch model, but that is within the control of the game designers.

In fact, some games were designed explicitly to support the sale of merchandise. I think Rovio's Angry Birds and/or Seriously's Best Fiends used this strategy, but I can't find the source, now...

Apparently Garfield is a cartoon that was created solely to sell merchandise. It's quite blatant: https://youtu.be/1ei_eNTmCsU?t=33

I don't see why the merch strategy can't be applied to games, too.
There is a slight caveat currently if you were previously performing your work in a place that did tax:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-wont-allow-new-ha...
There's an airbag in my car, but I also wear a seatbelt, obey the posted speed limits, use turn signals, stop at red traffic lights, and abstain from consuming alcohol while driving. This isn't "living in fear," it's observing reasonable caution in my daily life. I don't expect there will be "Zero accidents," but I want to avoid being injured and avoid causing injury to others. And I expect I'll keep taking these precautions for the next 50 years if I live that long. It just never ends. It's psychologically exhausting, come to think of it.

But wait, now you have me thinking, what if speed limits, traffic lights and all that other stuff were optional? Shouldn't they be? I mean, if I want to risk dying in a car accident, that's my business, and if others are concerned about my reckless driving, isn't that what their own seatbelts are for? I'm not forcing them to drink behind the wheel, why should they force me to not drink? Bottom line, if they want to live in endless fear of me and other freedom loving drivers, I won't stop them, they can just stay off the roads for all I care. So why should there be any safety mandates...for anything? My state governor should follow in the footsteps of DeSantis and Abbott, and make it illegal for localities to even impose speed limits.
If you enjoy modern foods from all around the world, it's very unlikely that you wouldn't enjoy Roman food. Things have changed since 2kya, but not that much. Although ingredients and tastes have changed somewhat, many of the same food products are used in extremely similar forms in exactly the same region. Not everyone was chasing the complexity of the elite Roman table. And to those who claim that complex flavors like garum are now out of vogue or disgusting, I present the modern equivalent: colatura di alici (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colatura_di_alici), an ingredient in classic, typical dishes from south Italy.

Field mouse sounds tasty. Can't be far from cui.
That routes all the audio from the mac though, not only Spotify. And with a noticeable delay.

This makes watching a "GIF" with audio (say browsing Reddit), opening a video, answering a slack call, etc. a very bad experience.

Spotify by itself supports its own protocol, whatever that may be, and chromecast. The iOS app should also support Airplay through the OS.

Personally I have a Spotify enabled receiver plugged to my audio system, it works really well.
You are welcome!

For completeness, since all the other “functional” distros that I know of were mentioned in the thread, there’s also: https://distr1.org/
The Big Sleep: The most baffling film ever made?
The Mac can use the Airplay device as an output device, but it's not ideal, because that will send ALL sound to the Airplay device.

The correct solution is for the application to support Airplay, so that for instance Spotify can stream music to your Airplay device, while the Mac sounds still goes to the speakers of the laptop/iMac.
I think your getting downvoted because of the python/node/ruby vs. haskell/rust/go comment and perhaps rightly so. For some things this will certainly matter, but for a public content like this, especially the landing page, the real problem is that a flood of visitors should not all be hitting any dynamic backend in the first place - they are all going to see exactly the same page anyway. That means either making it completely static (would mean removing the sidebar in this case) or having a modest (micro-)caching setup so that most requests don't hit the backend. With nginx (which is what widelands.org seems to be using) this is only a couple of lines of configuration, no need to change the dynamic backend at all.
I think there’s two orthogonal things being conflated by you. Flexibility of a solution and how general the solution is.

What you’re basically saying is a solution should be flexible to change because making a game requires trial and error. I totally agree with that.

Using a general solution is one path to flexibility but it does come with a cost associated. It’s flexibility built on a tower of complexity and if you look at a modern ECS implementation that is performant it’s actually quite a lot of complexity. You’re also reducing flexibility in the sense that these sort of solutions generally have preferred patterns you need to fit your game design into. So you end up introducing a learning, maintainance and conceptual burden into the project you might not need.

OTOH if you have a specific problem you can write a specific solution for you will end up with less code, hopefully in a conceptually coherent form. That in itself offers flexibility. Simple code you can easily replace is often more flexible than complex code you need to coax into a new form.

The key is to recognise whether your problem is specific or general you need flexibility.

These architectural patterns are fun to argue over and obsessed over by armchair game developers but are a trap if you’re trying to make a game rather than a general purpose game engine.

Which isn’t to say you don’t want some framework underlying things for all sorts of mundane reasons. But most games could get away with that being an entity type that gets specialised rather than anything more complex.
That's exactly what epic is doing on the game side. But will they keep those conditions once they get big? I really doubt it.
> I couldn't shake the feeling that I was picking up the check for everybody else. I was paying very high taxes to essentially finance crazy government overreach, only to later lose the value of what's remaining to inflation due to all the money printing.

But you just said that the job you had overpaid you anyway so I don't really understand your point here.
I'd like some fossilized pizza please.
While it is true that these things aren't just a matter of money, it is difficult to argue that Afghanistan was a better place to put the funding.

This is ultimately the biggest domestic consequence of the war for the US - if someone can have their way burning trillions of dollars (of borrowed funds, no less) wrecking Afghanistan, what is the justification for not doing the same thing for something that makes someone - anyone - feel good about life?
Side note: The best Google Reader alternative is Inoreader (http://inoreader.com/)

Not associated, just love the project.
I don't think this is player stupidity at all. Actually, I suspect it's perfectly rational.

The game is so noisy that no one can really predict what will happen. If I hit the grue with my sword--it could reasonably do 10% of damage or 40%--and both seem plausible.

In a statistical sense, the greater the standard deviation is, the more difficult it is to detect a sample population that differs from the established distribution.

In a bayesian sense, the players may have been perfectly rational--the likelihood of doubling or tripling your winrate is just not very unlikely when you're playing a game which is very random. Perhaps players can rationally conclude they were in the top 1% of luck at the moment, and that the chance of a major bug is less than that.

As evidenced by the referenced posts, it only becomes obvious when the sample size is huge (eg. the sample of all players reading the subreddit).
How much heavier is a nuclear reactor than a tank full + engine? Sure, the nuclear fuel itself is extraordinarily energy packed, but the actual plant needs large amounts of water and shielding to actually be used.

For terrestrial, power generation can be nuclear, but you can't power a truck with a nuclear reactor, nor can you power it from the grid while on the highway - at least not without turning all trucks into electric trolleys and electrifying all long-distance highway infrastructure.
As soon as you say 'governments of Asia' you've lost. They've a lot of polluting to do before they catch up with other 'government's' legacy of pollution. National governments are not compatible with solutions to global problems.
South Kensington station's escalator replacement project
You really need to go to couple of job interviews and generally look around for things you want to do. It doesn't mean you should instantly switch your job, but you obviously lack perspective. You need to understand how easy of IT to find new job. Moreover nowdays more and more companies offer remote positions. Pay might be smaller, but you can move further from center and find cheaper place to live.
You basically trap yourself with thoughts like 'I won't find better paid job' and 'my partner will never follow me'. There are quite a lot of options between 'live in London' and 'live in the middle of nowhere'.
Hmm that's bad for roaming. At least there's more networks and as a roamer you're not bound to a specific network. But it does raise a problem once more networks start doing this.
Which CDN is against censorship? And don't say Cloudflare.
No. YouTube actively blocks any discontent. You can say anything you want as long as it is something that not threatening "democracy" or "liberal discourse". E.g. probably you can upload a video stating that Earth is flat, but you'll be immediately blocked if you upload something criticizing LGBT* or other sensitive areas. I've seen it many times.

Also, YouTube (and Google in general) manipulates search results. E.g. in Russia you're fed by force with Navalny's channel. If you block his channel explicitly, YouTube starts to show you one of the thousand clones of it. Or other content with similar views. While content that contradicts the YouTube censorship policy will be well hidden from view.

It's not a freedom of speech.

I understand that US has the strongest propaganda and state of the art brainwashing techniques. So the usual reply is something like: "But it's the absolute truth! Anyone trying to refute it is a bigot!" But I know the only truth: there's no absolute universal truth. Imagine what science would be if it would be disallowed to refute theories?..

US bigotry is something resembling a religion: "We know better how people in country X should live!", "We know better how all the world should view same sex marriage!", "We know better how the country Y should be governed!", etc, etc. But the point is that most of the time people saying this don't know where the country is located, it's culture and traditions, why the people live the way they live, do they like it or not, etc. They just sure that everyone would be happy to eat hamburgers, drink Coca Cola and have Disneylands everywhere. It's such an arrogant dumb view, but it's ingrained in every western person by the best media and propagandists.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28203940 Endless Sky

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28201265 Beyond All Reason: Open-source RTS reimagining Total Annihilation

I'm not sure about the other two.
Oh certainly, but that is not the part of the job I value. If that is relegated to a board instead of a sprint planning meeting, I am perfectly happy.

Others enjoy that part the most and treat the individual work as merely a necessary task.
Just a side-comment:

There's a large misconception or myth in the both the OP and in a number of comments: "figure out what you/I want to do."

A quick thought experiment to prove my point: If you have never tasted or experienced pizza, can you know that you "want" pizza?

I think a lot of people grow up with the myth that if you think enough about yourself, you can figure out what you really want.

Personally, I think that it's the opposite: you can only make a guess at what you want and figure out if you want it by doing it. This of course can be very risky but I don't think there's a way around that. This is also why a lot of people stay in jobs (and relationships) that they do not like.

However, there are a lot of cases where you can learn to enjoy an activity that you have never done before. (See below).

Another thought experiment: many children refuse to eat certain foods because they have an initial "weird" experience with them: tomatoes, sour cream, celery, bread crusts, fish, shrimp, etc. However, many of these kids also end up if not regularly eating but sometimes even very much enjoying these foods as they grow older.

The only difference between children and adults is that adults are older. And, my theory is also that dunning-kruger is WAY more pervasive than anyone thinks: how much do you know about yourself? About life? What are the chances that dunning-kruger applies to you on these subjects?

I also agree with a number of other comments about how your environment has a far larger impact on your enjoyment than you think. Most people think that the content of a job is the largest deciding factor in whether or not you enjoy it -- but it may be your colleagues, your commute or simply even your health. How sure are you that it's the content of your work and not the team around you?

One last comment: psychology in the 21st century is comparable to medicine in the 15th: mental diseases are categorised by symptom (not cause) and there's a reproducability crisis, to start with.

Tip for the OP: at the very least, do this: write down 5 possible jobs, find people who do them and go talk to them about them for an hour: buy them lunch or dinner. Everyone likes talking about themselves. Ask them about what they enjoy _and_ what they hate.

Also, it sounds like the OP is slightly perfectionist: you don't have to be young or excited about stuff, you just have to be interested in it. Stop being a perfectionist with yourself.
>Quite embarrassing for the most powerful military alliance on the planet, too.

Not really. There is a reason Afghanistan is called "Graveyard of Empires".

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/afghanistan/2001-11-...

Judging by the history that i'm naturally close to and know well, i.e. Russia history, the drive to free your Motherland from foreign occupants is like 10-100x multiplier of force.