skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some children (and some adults) would refuse to play a video game that someone else told them to play.

Well, yes, but coercion, extrinsic motivation, and general spite are all edge-cases, and outside the scope of what the core fact about "learning" that I'm trying to talk about here.

Let's look at a specific non-edge-case case: learning under self-directed intrinsically-motivated reward + time pressure — for example, learning to hunt/gather when stranded in the wilderness and hungry.

In situations like this, children do better than adults at deciding to begin experimenting in an attempt to learn how to survive. Adults will try to apply any skills they already have (however rusty), but will have a much harder time than children do in deciding to try to do things they haven't already ever been taught to do. And even when they do make that decision, they will repeatedly revoke it—i.e. give up much more quickly when a solution does not come easily to them. Even though, in education-theoretic terms, all the stars should be aligned in terms of motivating their learning process.

> The problem is seldom if ever “so-and-so is incapable of learning anything new”.

Of course not. That's the observed abstract pattern, not the reason. The reason for adults, AFAICT, is almost always pride/hubris — that is, the idea that they don't need to learn anything new, that there's no advantage in it to outweigh the learning cost, because they've got by just fine up to now without having learned it. (And also because learning is just plain harder for adults, since they have so many existing schemas that need to be broken+reshaped in the process of fully absorbing new ideas that don't fit the existing schema.)

This resistance comes almost always from adults who see themselves as having higher social status than whoever's trying to teach them the thing. They have no mental schema for learning from someone younger or more junior (or of a lower social class/caste) than themselves, since it's not something they've ever experienced earlier in their lives.

Instead, when someone in an inferior social positions knows a thing, and offers to teach it to this social-superior adult, the adult will instead try to manipulate their social inferior into doing the task for them any time they need it to be done — often under the pretext of demonstration for purpose of learning. But with no intention of actually learning, and a complete rejection on being tested for knowledge acquisition (because that would be a violation of the social dynamic!)

Note also that learning is separate from doing. I know many adults that are willing to do novel things (without really understanding what they're doing), and to memorize that specific series of actions by rote — but who have no desire to understand the more general skill behind the rote actions they're taking, such that they could perform related actions in any context other than the exactly memorized thing. In general, memorizing is easy, while learning a new skill is much, much harder. (And yet memorization without learning almost never "sticks", since there's no backing mental schema to encode the memorized steps in terms of.)
No one who has done serious work across the database platforms believes they restrict benchmarks because they're behind or uncompetitive. They both make very capable, competitive database systems.

The problem, as cited in the linked page, is that "It takes much more work to refute bad benchmarks than to produce them". We see on HN with regularity where people post egregiously flawed benchmarks, usually to demonstrate some preconceived notion or other. And while that can usually be ascribed to ignorance or sloppiness, it's trivial for vendors to contrive benchmarks that are purpose-suited to make their own product look good and the competition look bad, however completely artificial and unrealistic the scenario is.

DeWitt clauses are an abomination. They should not exist. But I get why they exist and are threatened, even if they are basically never actually enforced (seriously though -- are they ever actually enforced?).
Hyperbole, mostly

Versions of all of those things exist, but not in the way you describe them.
I'm old. That old study you found might be the one I'm thinking of.

I don't have any other sources at my fingertips that wouldn't involve just doing a search myself.
I've known a number of folks who were mistreated by people who bore strong resemblance to Trump's personality - Trump was an ongoing trigger for them.

Dating someone who embraced Trump's personality - that would seem to be a terrible experience for those folks.
Which limits your options to like five models of computer.
I remember a browser plugin + a bunch of demos and tutorials being included on a Tomb Raider game long ago (Tomb Raider III Gold, most likely). I remember VRML being pretty easy to understand.
I don't have anything that supports 4k, but it has no problem connecting to anything via HDMI for two displays.
I have good eyes and strongly prefer wqhd (2560x1440) over 1080p on my 14" Thinkpad, because I can just barely lay out two windows side by side without stupid websites like Gmail and JIRA getting too narrow, using my scale factor of choice. With 1080p, I turn off scaling and it just doesn't work. Full screen is too big, anything less than 2/3 is too narrow.

I can easily get 10 hours of battery life with light use, sometimes more (my system idles at around 5W unless I crank up the brightness to excessive levels).

4k (UHD) on a 14" display is excessive, in my opinion. I don't know what the power consumption is like, but at the scaling that I prefer, the layout ends up looking identical to my wqhd setup, only crisper. That would seem like a waste of power. Shame all the recent T-series Thinkpads have gone down this route.
AWS single az failures can frequently cause general failures across other AWS services like lambda, Kinesis etc. Your app might tolerate the failure but be taken out by events beyond your control.

Ideally you'd want a way to fail traffic over to another region.
The central point of the article (taken from the actual paper) is based on a false assumption. We can easily differentiate between the colors of the rainbow: ROYGBV. That is 6 colors. If you divided the human auditory range into 6 parts and named them (super low, low, mid low, mid high, high, super high), I think you'd see very similar performance.

Further, the "FFR" they claim as a good predictor isn't even that good if you look at the numbers given in the paper.
> There is no indication for which brand of drive they are using.

Yes, though they tend to use quality parts. My 2019 Darter Pro (darp5) was configured with a one of the NVMe options and shipped with a 'Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus'. No complaints on hardware quality or longevity so far. </anecdote>
When typing, my right fingers always resting covering 4 arrow keys (provided it's a full-sized keyboard and arrow keys are separated from the rest with enough blank space). I use right fingers to reach Home/End/PgUp/PgDn buttons, INSERT/DEL on numeric. So it's quite useful to have them all close-by.
So you're saying the booster shots that deliver engineered dna via viral vectors are ok because herpes and smallpox do it too?
If there is such a convincing answer, why don't you actually state it, instead of just saying that others have talked about it?

It's very non-obvious to me why there's a natural "coalition of the bottom" versus that just being one possible way for things to shake out.

(It's also worth noting that the original American system already suffered a MASSIVE failure of the state - coincidentally also around the hundred year mark - which makes me think maybe they didn't have things perfectly figured out anyway. It hurts the credibility of the appeal to tradition/authority.)
Yeah ok but this is a computer for hackers, not people who decide what shade grey to make text on a website.
No, the conclusion is that more buttons are always better. You can always customize a keyboard with minimal effort, unless you're on a really bad operating system, like any of the proprietary ones.
I tried to be careful with my observations. “It appears like…”

I recognize that this incident is a microscope’s view of this young man’s life painting.
If people are discussing their salaries for equality, then I think it’s fair for all other employees to comment on wether they are actually good and effective at their job. Let everyone vote on if they really deserve that salary—or a larger one, or a smaller one.
CPUS or SOCs these days can achieve quite low power states when in idle, like aingle digit watts.

Where do you get the 12w from?
well the installation process seems to have changed in the last 2 years. installing `docker.io` is not enough to get docker running in WSL 2 anymore.
My HS rugby(USA) someone got a concussion pretty much every single game.

I decided to quit the sport after HS despite how fun it is, it's not worth my future.
Where do I send my CV to get that benefit?
Maybe run Windows in a VM with your GPU passed through.
I think you don't understand how big company procurement work. Getting legal's and procurement's attention to look at this is more effort than its worth. The logistics of managing licenses, single sign-on, etc is a nightmare. Besides, running docker is already frowned upon by InfoSec and require special permission. It will never happen where I work. Not because of money, but because it's too much trouble.
What OS are you using? I installed PopOS onto mine and maybe something there is the issue. We have the same model and mine is maxed on specs but whenever I'm in 4k and using an external monitor it becomes unbearably slow.
I found the linked article "Axiomatic CSS and Lobotomized Owls" to be a decent read. I'm surprised that it hasn't been highly upvoted in the past despite having many submissions to HN.

Article: https://alistapart.com/article/axiomatic-css-and-lobotomized...

Prev. submissions: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I've been told I have fantastic relative pitch (but not perfect pitch) and it's exactly as you describe. For me, it's the theme to Super Mario Bros. I know what that sounds like in my head, and I know also that it's in C major. Taking the root of that will get me within epsilon of middle C, just from my head (I can also take the E or G from the first six notes), and then I can reckon whatever note I'm listening to on the C scale. I suspect most instances of "perfect" pitch are this skill, honed to a much greater degree.
I can't say it's a budget setup, that lens f1.6 is expensive.
Stating the obvious much
Funny that you say that, in fact I was waiting for someone to say it, because pay is considerably higher in companies with a works council than without. Tech companies are famous for lacking works councils.

You can go to your works council and request to see the salary and bonus structure for your peers that work the same job as you. Exactly the thing that is being shut down in the OP.

So instead of making a point about how a works council lowers tech workers' pay, you made a point for creating them.
This virus shouldn't exist (giant viruses)
>"It’s as silly for me to write about economics as it would be for most economists to write about the use of enjambment in iambic pentameter. But they don’t live in a library, and I do live in an economy."

Also reminded me of Einstein in his essay 'Why Socialism?'[1]

"Science, however, cannot create ends and, even less, instill them in human beings; science, at most, can supply the means by which to attain certain ends. But the ends themselves are conceived by personalities with lofty ethical ideals and—if these ends are not stillborn, but vital and vigorous—are adopted and carried forward by those many human beings who, half unconsciously, determine the slow evolution of society.

For these reasons, we should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems; and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have a right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society."

Unlike a lot of technologists or experts today Einstein was very aware of the difference between what is and what ought to be and the limits of trying to manage human affairs with expertise, which shows a remarkable level of humility given his achievements in science. The narrative of never-ending growth, or inevitable 'technological progress' or expert management all strengthen the same premise, that people cannot take control of their own environment or aim to develop economic or technological domains towards social and ethical ends.

[1]https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/
"You know what else is easier? Mandate the shot."

That's what they did, and this is the result.

"I have an at-risk son who's ineligible for a vaccine due to his age."

It seems the in-person school with 20+ similarly age-ineligible students and a teacher with an unknown status would be a bigger issue than the bus driver right? I mean, if that's the concern, then they shouldn't be going to school in person and the whole bus point is moot.

"Let's stop making it about people's freedoms and start making it an issue of public health. Imagine if tomorrow ~40% of the population decided to ignore traffic lights and Stop signs because they infringe on their freedoms. Your freedom ends where it hurts other people."

I think this is getting a little off topic. I didn't mention personal freedom, but I suppose one could imply that the drivers have the freedom to quit their jobs for any number of reasons, including being required to vaccinate. I'm not debating the vaccine mandate merits. Although it would be interesting to hear how far you would like the government to go when using it's force to compel people in this situation and what effects it might have (like not having bus drivers).

The real thing is that I'm skeptical that Uber is really a reasonable answer. I would imagine the massive cost could be used to recruit bus drivers with better pay or incentivize the current drivers to get the vaccine.
Only idiots use google services
Kinda interesting that this has a 49 Wh battery while the smaller and less powerful Lemur Pro has a 73 Wh one [1]. I have the 2020 Lemur Pro and love the ridiculously long battery life. I guess this is more of a plug it in most of the day machine vs. an ultralight.

[1] https://system76.com/laptops/lemur
I might, but are they some other details to this loan? Would there be management or directorial involvement? I am not opposed to receiving input from investors, but am curious about the fine print of a loan like this.
My 16" Macbook Pro's display is certainly beautiful but the battery life is pathetic. If lower resolution really did save battery then I think I would make the tradeoff, especially since everybody runs the resolution scaled down from 3072x1920 so the only thing you gain from it is the subpixel sharpness.
Show HN: A Commodore Vic-20 Emulator on the Raspberry Pi Pico
Whether or not anyone wire-wrapped a board (pretty sure no one did), we didn't write a single line of code for the National parts. There were a number of visits by National sales reps and they dropped a lot of documentation on us, though. We were generally doubtful that the chip would be fast enough, and needed to make a processor decision very quickly; in late July 1984 we were talking about it, and I don't recall anything past August or so. By October the software folks were mostly in Monterey with a bunch of 68K-based systems.

Another factor in the 68K's favor was that it was pretty easy to buy off-the-shelf 68K-based workstations (e.g., Motorola VME-10, the Apple Lisa), which let us do 4-5 months of software development while waiting for the actual ST hardware.
> no one is actually the Buddha

I'm an atheist, but I've studied this, and I think this is a matter of major disagreement in the different schools.

In the west, more contemporary (and often secular) teachers talk about how everyone is a potential Buddha.

There are also close parallels with the more hippie, Christian schools that arose in the 1960s-1970s era (intentional communities) which also taught (quietly I might add), that everyone is a potential Christ.

While this might seem like a trivial point, we do see signs of these teachings arising in the past, from century to century.

These ideas are generally criticized as heretical and repressed because they threaten the hegemonic, institutional nature of religion, which still maintains that the one true interpretation is that there is a single figure (Christ, Buddha, etc) that adherents should aspire to worship, and that they can never equal or match.

The heretical version states the opposite. These adherents believe that Christ and Buddha (assuming for the sake of this argument that they are real, historical figures) did not teach so that they could be worshipped, they taught so that others could become like them.

When you see the religions in this way, then yes, everyone is truly the potential Buddha and the potential Christ, and the vast institutional power of the church disappears, and the roles of priests and clerics vanishes with them.

This kind of change has the effect of emphasizing philosophy over ideology, and places the onus of being a good person and doing good works on the here and now, not on some mythical afterlife or legendary heaven or hell.
My Fantasy Press Conference
And "pets club" (all inclusive)
"If he had the choice, he'd probably rather take the €800 (or even less) in cash and move somewhere else."

This is how Section 8 vouchers work in the US. But unlike most welfare programs, the vouchers are limited and only a small portion of people who are eligible can get one.
I switched from Lenovo's 15" T-series to their 14" models because of the goddamn numpad.

I guess now I could look at the X1 extreme, because that has a 15"/16" display and no numpad.
The AAT is basically what’s known as an administrative court in other countries [1], or a consolidation of the numerous tribunals presided over by administrative law judges in the U.S. [2]. The average person in Australia is most likely to interact with the AAT by appealing a decision of the federal government in relation to child support, workers’ compensation, social security, immigration or tax [3]. Although the distinction between an AAT member and a judge is constitutionally important, it is not that obvious or practically significant. Both conduct public hearings and provide written reasons for deciding the legal disputes within their jurisdiction, which can be further appealed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_court

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_law_judge

[3] https://www.aat.gov.au/about-the-aat
I wrote (what I hope) is a great read to CSS selectors, check it out if you are keen for a nice intro to this important topic:

https://ashok-khanna.medium.com/rounded-tables-an-elusive-dr...
If you read the instructions, they basically say that you still need a Linux VM or WSL environment to run Podman in. Which makes it not a complete replacement for Docker desktop, which handles the VM for you. So OP isn't wrong.
> The average corporation doesn't go bankrupt, so you moved the goalpost from "corporation" to "startup".

For a lot of corporations, making the jump to software is effectively starting a new company within the company.

> To me it sounds like going bankrupt is bad, so we as developers should strive to prevent our employers from going bankrupt, no?

Bad hires tank companies.

> So if you work for a startup that you know is going to hire mediocre developers after you, surely you should strive to leave behind the kind of codebase that doesn't bankrupt the company after you leave?

That's a red flag right here. It means sell your RSU as soon as you can.
Dragon Magazine #22 – Dungeon Master's Guide sneak peek; polearms guide [pdf]
It also describes the "processed" rack of ribs I slow cooked last night after cleaning and seasoning them (processing steps).
you can ask "hey can i have your phone #" and then text them. you can ask them "can i have your email" and then email them.

people far more innovative than I could come up with other methods

I'm all for unionization. But i don't get this forcing companies to supply you with the tools to enable you to do so.
https://download.docker.com/win/static/stable/x86_64/

Not an installer, and doesn't include docker-compose, but this is what you're talking about, I think.

Only supports Windows containers.
Make employee ratings from management and peers public too.
Allbirds has a pretty great return/exchange policy, so I wouldn't sweat the online order if you're interested.

They come in whole sizes only; the rest of my shoes are 9.5 to 10.5 depending on application. My Allbirds fit perfectly; both pairs are 10s.
> I think gap is where this is all headed in the long term.

gap? Is this new? I've been waiting for years for CSS to finally support something like that. Always thought it was weird that I had to mess with margins (and last-child hacks) to get a proper gap between items in a container.
>pay someone to stand in life for them

Recently I learned you can even do this for the DMV... Truly the only place where men are made equal is the porcelain throne.
Individualism in Australia is usually about fighting social control, but that just leads to being under government control.

We have fewer cultural roots so it makes the above process faster.
AdGuard is the best option, plus it’s free.
That is a fair statement, and I guess we don't know. I suspect a future contentious blocksize change should take care of the fee rewards at the tail end. We are currently about 6sat/byte ($0.40/std tx) for a low priority tx today.

Satoshi himself said "I'm sure that in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume."

That being said, there are plenty of older protocols without financial incentives that operate as expected, like Tor.
But then still everyone would have the identical misconception. Clearly, that was not the case.
Right but it's concurrency primitives - which I think most people like - have little to do with its minimalism. Those seem like independent traits of the language as far as I see
google tried to prevent teams from using slack "for security reasons" but then deepmind got an exception, and enough people had to join slack groups for external work collaborations, but I don't think the leadership ever explicitly sanctioned slack as an officially supported internal mechanism.
Ok, so you're asking about a different point, now, the difficulty of paying. In that case the difficulties arise because of corporate gatekeepers, licensing stewards and general policies governing software licensing. Typically my organisation would not approve this sort of purchase without a business case and justification - not least because we are a not-for-profit and any money not going to our cause is scrutinised heavily (the thing donors absolutely hate the most is the idea their money doesn't get to the cause they donated to and instead goes into sinkhole of funding commerical company's bottom lines).

Obviously one payment is not too big but as soon as the policy allows one it allows all such things so its effectively opening the gate to all kinds of micro-payments that quickly build up and become entrenched as "essential".

Here's a similar analogy ... does your company pay for your parking? Why not, its small compared to your salary right? and it definitely helps you get to work, be more efficient etc? Well its not just about the parking its because that represents a class of purchase that if allowed would tilt the scale towards a massive number of similar types of expenses. So in fact most places will have blanked policies disallowing small purchases.

Another question: since the price for Docker Desktop already got arbitrarily changed with no notice, why would you believe that it won't go up in the future? Or get more restrictive in other ways? Once a company executes bad faith one time, continued manifestations of that have to be considered as a risk.