skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, and as the authors have given reason to doubt the "free-will-no-matter-what" explanation of the responses, I withdraw my intuition about what counts as intuitive.

I doubt, however, that this will be the last word on the issue. Indeed, in "Questions for a Science of Moral Responsibility", Fischborn writes, about this paper,

"In fact, people might even consider that free will is compatible with fatalism, a stronger version of determinism, as long as fatalism does not preclude an agent's actions to derive from their desires and values (Andow & Cova, 2016)" - my emphasis, as that seems to be begging the question in a way.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319445158_Questions...
> The problem I'm trying to solve is the system getting messy over time - accruing multiple versions of runtimes for programming languages, system configuration changes, pinned library versions etc., all because every other project needs some OS tuning or system-wide dependency. Eventually, I always end up hitting a roadblock where something I need now is incompatible with something I changed 2 years earlier no longer remember why. So I'd like to keep various projects and activities isolated, and to be able to just get rid of them when they're no longer needed.

Don't worry, this issue is solved with Nix/NixOS itself.

If you use `nix-shell` to setup an dev environment for which project, you will generally have a `shell.nix` or `default.nix` file in the same directory as the project. For example:

with import <nixpkgs> {};
mkShell {
name = "myProject";
buildInputs = with pkgs; [
gcc
python39
lua
];
}

And once you use `nix-shell` inside the directory that contains this file above, it will download GCC, Python 3.9 and Lua, and put them on PATH. If you do a Ctrl+D, it will exit this shell and you won't have those 3 programs in your PATH anymore (assuming of course that you don't have them installed in your system).

BTW, this is where `nix-direnv` enters: it will do the `nix-shell` part and Ctrl+D management automatically for you. So once you enter in the project directory, it will automatically activate the `nix-shell`, once you exit, it will automatically exit `nix-shell`.

The Python case is specially interesting because if you have Python 3.7 in your system PATH, this shell will override the system Python, so only in this project you will have Python 3.9.

To avoid re-downloading them every time, Nix will actually cache those dependencies. So to really remove them from your system you will need to run the garbage collector (`nix-collect-garbage -d`), but since they're not in your PATH they will not conflict with other packages in your system.

It is something similar to NixOS (however in this case this is system-wide):

{ pkgs, ... }:
{
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
gcc
python39
lua
];
}

In this case, GCC, Python 3.9 and Lua will be available on your system PATH after you do a `nixos-rebuild swtich`. If you remove them they will be deleted from the system PATH after running `nixos-rebuild switch` again, creating a new generation.

The generation part is important: in case things break, you can go back to the previous version using `nixos-rebuild switch --rollback`. So let's say you changed Python 3.9 to 3.10 on your system but it actually broke something important (let's say it is a script that is important for your desktop, so now you don't have a desktop anymore): you can just call `nixos-rebuild switch --rollback` and everything will go back to working again, and afterwards you can commit your changes and run `nixos-rebuild switch` to commit them.
And those pecs were the real deal.
I was concerned if my writing style will click with people, this is good to know :)
> Mitigating it requires a commitment to what any reasonable person considers a significant drop in living standards in both the developed world

Nope, unless you consider living in cities not suburbs intrinsically worse.

GDP has some flaws as a metric, but the "real good thing" so-far correlates with it simply because we aren't doing shit about the environment. There's no reason we can ramp up electrifying everything and live nice lives. Hell, if the population actually goes down as expected, maybe we can reduce total land devoted to agriculture too which would be really nice.

The best way to do it and feel rich is to not be so obsessed with expensive electric-battery cars, and do more public transit, which I why partly I say it's the suburbs that drag us down.
Maybe, though I've never felt socially attacked at either store.
Mainline GNU/Linux of course.
In addition to this, I highly recommend just reading the codebase. I haven't written C since college and it's remarkably readable.

I once tried to catalogue all the stdlib operations which release the GIL, meaning if you use only those (well, only those "heavy" bits, you can still use other small blocking glue bits), you can do "real" multithreading.

It was a fun exercise!
It's actually more in-line with how real world threat models work. You always operate under the assumption that all of your hardware is compromised, then build layers of trust around that to determine which device should be used when. Not super practical for an end-user, but it's definitely better than having a single device that you always second-guess.
I think they define Pallene as a true subset to Lua in that the Pallene compiler can emit a pure Lua version (which strips all the types), and will produce the same results when run.
As about every month, just reading the table is enough to notice how bad this rating is.

For example, if we believe this data, the popularity of “Classic Visual Basic” went from 0,77% a month ago to 1,83% now (more than a doubling), and both C and R lost over a third of their popularity in a month’s time.

Fortran is the real winner, almost tripling in popularity in a month. At that rate, it will be top of the list in December ;-)
That's the next energy crisis to hit the UK, IMHO.

Electricity production must increase significantly in order to meet the demand from EV (and from people ditching gas boilers, which what the government is pushing) , and my prediction is that it won't keep up. The nuclear program is in tatters and the current situation does not exactly fill me with confidence...

It's going to be an interesting 10 years.
Wow! They aren't as prudish as it first appears.
Maybe she's full of bile.
So if we really assume determinism, does that mean that we'll have to make some changes to the legal system? For example, getting rid of the insanity defense[0]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insanity_defense
Be there and let them know you're available.

You can't do much more than that. It's up to the people grieving to choose what to do. Some prefer to be left alone, others would like to go for a walk, others just talk for a bit.
Since I saw almost no positive comments I'll throw my hat in the ring. I love stuff like this. I learned a handful of things to toss in my back pocket for future projects/hacking. Remix looks fascinating, albeit young and closed-source. I've been wanting to play with Prisma & MSW for a while, so it was great to see how he used them. His DX looks top-notch, I love hacks like his "server side HMR" [1]

Is it over-engineered? Maybe. Who cares. HN is so worried about juniors taking his architecture as gospel. Does the liquor store clerk have to tell me not to drink too much too fast? Juniors are going to over-engineer something regardless, it's one of the most valuable lessons they'll learn the hard way. The rest of us can read this piece, think critically, and maybe learn some new things.

[1] https://github.com/kentcdodds/kentcdodds.com/blob/main/index...
Who is imputing that a nationwide published scientist has no tact but is themself the model of said tact. Myopic.
I've long believed that OS/400 is a path not taken in systems programming, one that would have been much more influential had it happened outside of IBM.
do a kickflip
> Meshmixer is really good at some organic shape manipulations.

FTR, Blender and MoI3D is also good choice for organic (NURBS/B-spline) surface modeling.
Author of post here. You can absolutely start on our hobby tier plans and enable HA for those. They're pretty equivalent to smaller tiers on RDS/Cloud SQL... it really just depends on your workload and needs. Our hobby tier starts at $35 a month, so hopefully a bit more palatable for smaller projects.
But you have to make up the costs somehow. It's like websites, all the cheapest one are full of scammy ads and tracking software.

Most cheaper phones will just get revenue from selling users info instead.
Many of us have a vested interest in pushing back against this industry because it favors hiring younger, less experienced people who will advocate for these systems in the workplace. For many of our own sanity, we have to push back somewhat.

Now I have to literally ask to see a company’s codebase before taking the job so as to avoid this nonsense.
> It's a horrible look only according to incurious, oversensitive, ideological and closed-minded people.

Oof - shots fired. I think you're including me in this group of "people" so I'm going to bow out as this is going nowhere productive.
You really need to give context in these types of arguments or people start arguing past each other.

Important details include: who are we trying to hide information from? and what are we trying to avoid sharing?

"Information" is just way too generic. It's possible to draw some conclusions from even the absence of a signal.
The book publisher:

https://editorialkairos.com/

was founded inspired by the concept
A few things:

Hear them grieve. The release of strong emotion is important. It's a sharing of pain, and in that telling there is also bonding through shared experiences.

Spend time with them. Being alone can amplify strong emotions and can lead to dangerous behavior. Just being there helps. And like hearing them, having been there counts. It's a shared thing, a bond, that brings strength to all involved.

Help meet basic needs. Food, comforts, house work, and all the little things matter. Grieving people lack energy and a little boost can help them get through a day.

Getting through a day, especially the first day, matters a lot. Each day they get through sees the grief play out a little bit at a time. The early times are most important! Grief and it's impact on people is most potent at the onset.

And don't force things, unless it's absolutely necessary. An example might be not leaving a parent alone after they have learned a child committed suicide. I did that recently. No, not my loss, but a close friend of the family. Their grief is profound, and leaving them alone unwise. If you are faced with this, be a great human and do your best. There are no easy or right answers. Just caring and sharing.
IMO, Facebook (or YT, or any big media company) even being in a position to “shut down free speech” is a predictable outcome of the total failure of net neutrality in the U.S.

If everyone had sufficient bandwidth to host their own content from their home Internet, and ISPs were prohibited from also being media companies, free speech would be much stronger.
I've been adjusting the design to interoperate better with the rest of the Replimat parts set, discussing it with the original designers, and with friends and acquaintances who use wheelchairs. We'd like to build more copies of the wheelchair, variations, and unique attachments. If you see the value in our work, please consider donating: https://wiki.replimat.org/wiki/Donations

Thank you.
i wish aws...and to be honest, most cloud providers put more effort into the development experience.

they have local dynamo, but i believe that's the only official appliance they provide.

I think it's especially necessary for the proprietary products -- dynamo being a great example.

I'll take a moment to call out snowflake for this as well -- it's really frustrating to not be able to quickly (within milliseconds) and easily (i shouldn't need to get credentials from elsewhere in my org) setup & teardown databases while under test.
Naively, because it only takes two suppliers in a market, for consumers to start playing them against each-other by switching to whichever one plays more to consumer preferences at any given moment, incentivizing the suppliers to compete to satisfy that consumer preference. Like a classical "race to the bottom" that lowers prices, but with some other factor that consumers care about instead of cost.

(Of course, this assumes people bother to switch. In reality, this isn't even true in oligopolist party politics, let alone in oligopolist markets. In practice, there need to be a lot more, smaller options before switching costs are forced down enough to encourage people to switch. In phone markets, this looks like how people switch somewhat easily between different Android device manufacturers for their next phone. If we could get phone Operating Systems working like that, we'd really have something!)
Allmost all your 'questions' are closed questions and include your assumed preference. They are not really questions. The tone is belittleing ( is that a word? )
This tool is very useful for integration testing, but unfortunately it can be rather slow.
You can actually buy a ticket to anarchy here[1]

[1] https://www.bandsintown.com/a/15312697-anarchy
It's counterintuitive to logical-thinking programmers, but you almost never want to tell a grieving person any of the following:

1. "Things will get better."

2. "I understand your loss."

3. "Here's how we can fix the problem."

Some insight into why can be gained by watching the short video, It's Not About the Nail:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg

In many (but not all) cases, if the grieving are willing to communicate at all, they want their cries of pain heard and listened to. They would rather that you cried with them instead of trying to tell them that there is light at the end of the tunnel or that there is a 'fix' for their 'problem' or that we must accept that life is hard and unfair and suck it up.
Perhaps if we were better at thinking we would be able to realize that the pushback on covid is a signal that something in the lower levels of the operating system may have some bugs in it. Instead, we react with simplistic heuristic narratives and emotion, and criticize others for a lack of intellectual capability.

If the situation is not to our liking, perhaps we should consider addressing the root cause(s) so the same thing doesn't happen the next time a crisis pays us a visit.
> The fact that they are focused on the 5 and not the 500 speaks heavily to their biases.

Same guy as before. I know of two people who temporarily lost taste and I heard of one person who died from COVID, a coworker's uncle.

You can rationalize this however you like, but these are the cases I'm aware of.
Asset prices like are not included in regular inflation buckets for good reason. It's impossible for housing to be a good investment and affordable.

One aspect of public housing that needs more attention is it makes the accounting dramatically simpler. Rents and taxes converge.
If you're planning to make figurines you're better off with a resin printer (as opposed to filament).
Most real world services have dependencies, and load tests don't accurately represent the fact that the dependencies have other users and changes in performance of a dependency will dramatically change the performance of the service being tested.

That pretty much means you can't have hard coded '100 requests per second per instance'.

Instead, I suspect the future of load shedding is automatic maximum "goodput" tracking. For example, the load balancer can alternate between 90 and 100 parallel requests, and if more requests are completed with fewer parallel requests then start alternating between 80 and 90 to figure which of those is better...
Tried x/sin(x) as a formula, and it crashed. Apart from that, it's fun
> I’ll probably stick to figurines instead of sex toys though

That sounds painful.
The problem is that it is largely a zero sum game. Everyone can't be nobility who never has to work a day in their lives. If some % of the population becomes entrenched as perpetual nobility, it becomes almost impossible for anyone else to break in. See feudalism.
Because TDD is dumb and actual hacking and development doesn't revolve around unit testing?
Thanks! Maybe someday I'll try to republish it.
I'm a wildly optimistic person; could you suggest all your neighbours (including yourself) do these jobs at the same time? A sort of "preferred noise hour" for machinery. Even if its not a hard and fast rule, I'd hope most people would see the point and in turn enjoy the benefit in a world where many want the option to work remotely.
As far as we know, Raymond Hill did not test uBlock Origin in Orion yet, and when he does I hope he will be able to share the details of support with us.
Physicist working on nuclear fusion. I do scientific programming. I'm also interested in understanding what makes the difference between good & bad leadership/management. I kept seeing interesting search results/links pop up on this weird orange website, so I finally started reading it on the regular.
The book's title is Bad Blood, and it describes Theranos in close personal detail.
I’ve been saying for a couple of years whoever builds a tool to one click deploy an AWS alike to run on local bare metal has built the next billion dollar a year company.

I know of a lot of big shops that are desperate to get out of the cloud due to 7-8 figure AWS bills but their software and engineering is too tightly wound into AWS tooling.
I've heard the advice that better than saying "let me know if there's anything I can do", is to additionally suggest things you could do for the person rather than leaving the burden on them.

I second the suggestion to bring food; ideally something that can be kept in the freezer if they're being inundated by food right now.

Or if you're a neighbor you could offer to walk their dog, or drive their kids to/from school with yours. Anything you can think of that makes sense for you to do that might take some of their burdens off their shoulders for a bit.
Before lynching were stonings. Bob Dylan said that he wouldn’t feel so all alone, if everybody got stoned. He was on too something.
Vietnamese Americans, the descendants of refugees from a war-torn country, make more than White Americans.
Ah yes, I misread the parent as desiring to cancel the people demanding cancellation of the intolerant.
I think hacker culture died in the early 2000s , it used to be that there was no money in hacker culture so it kind of attracted a certain person who wasn't interested in money or where it wasnt their main thoughts.

Now there are so many ways to make money , startups, Fang salaries, crypto, so money kind of dominates the thoughts

I have a theory that the current generation will kind of rediscover hacker culture when they hit their 40s and 50s and become financially independent and are no longer motivated by money and there will be a big resurgence.
I do a lot of this work[3] (web to documents) and it's interesting to see other approaches. The medium image problem is something I've faced as well, but never got around to fixing. I'm planning to get a Remarkable soon, so will definitely be trying this out.

My personal solution has been https://github.com/captn3m0/url-to-epub/ (Node/readability), which I've tested against the entirety of Tor's original fiction collection[0] where it performs well enough (I'm biased). Another tool that does this beautifully well is percollate[1], but it doesn't give enough control of the metadata to the user - something I really care about.

I've also started to use rdrview[2], which is a C-port of the current Firefox implementation of "reader view". It is very unix-y, so it is easy to pipe content to it (I usually run it through tidy first). Quite helpful in building web-archiving or web-to-pdf or web-to-kindle pipelines easily.

[0]: https://www.tor.com/category/all-fiction/original-fiction/

[1]: https://github.com/danburzo/percollate

[2]: https://github.com/eafer/rdrview

[3]: https://captnemo.in/ebooks/
Race was the deciding factor in doling out these injustices historically.

Skin color is probably not how we would choose to classify people if we were starting from scratch today, but if poor white people always got to use the front door and well-to-do black people had to use the side door, to say "we're fighting for the right of everybody both rich and poor to be allowed to walk in through the front door" is a true statement that misses the problem.
Weird. I was told that even Britain, whose system of inherited wealth and power America's founders were desperate to avoid emulating, now has a significant estate tax
Fluent Python is definitely a good book, I knew a whole bunch of the stuff in this article because of it. I only got to Chapter 9, but it legitimately made my Python much, much better.
What about password managers? The browser built-in ones aren't always the best choice.
My only surprise is that China hasn't mentioned the rabidly biased cabal of editors that gatekeep any remotely political article and bully any "non-pc" editors off the platform. Probably because the divisiveness is useful to China's rise, and it wouldn't surprise me if they are behind some of the editing.

It's kind of offensive that wikipedia still has an image of neutrality when the entrenched activist editors refuse to acknowledge the perspective of ≈50% of the country (if turnout from the last two elections is a valid measure of US political alignment).
Was the talk by Greg Lukianoff by any chance? He has a book called "The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure" that expands on these ideas.
Like I’d hope that my daughters have enough that they don’t have to feel like they have to get married, or if they do that they could feel they have the option to stay home and take care of their children without having to work to make ends meet.

I’d hope my grandchildren are so well off that they can go get a higher education and get a liberal arts degree for the love of learning. Study history, philosophy, sociology, these are all great fields of study, they just don’t pay well. That they could just be intellectuals and not laborers would be great. After a few generations of just being intellectuals or less if they live lavishly, they will have to return to labor, and that ok.

There is nothing wrong with folks like me getting an engineering degree because they want to work and make money, but it doesn’t seem like a bad desire to hope that your children will not have to labor because you did.
"Money should only be taxed at one specific point as it passes through the economy, and anything more is immoral" is actually a large claim to make. It's not self-evident, and requires at least some justification.

"Hey, that's already been taxed!" does have some intuitive appeal, but honestly I think that intuition comes from the game of Tag or something.

But money, being fungible, in constant circulation, and yielding assets and profits from re-investment, has many points at which it might feel fair to tax it.

It might not feel fair, but at least there's more there to discuss.
"Apparently they dragged me on Twitter. I don't give a fuck, because Twitter is not a real place." - Dave Chappelle

I also enjoyed this recent article from The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/disinforma...
Businesses don't create value by overcompensating employees. Without the profit incentive for the entrepreneur there is no business. The consumer's problems are not solved, no jobs are provided and no value is created.

In some cases it does make sense for employers to increase compensation. Especially when productivity is high. Usually productivity gains are a result of innovation, which is incentivized by the profit motive.

https://www.npr.org/2014/01/27/267145552/the-middle-class-to...
Anyone know the depth of information presented? Is there a list of commands that are covered?

Is this fun?
Good whiskey.