skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're literally making an argument based on the 19th century Great Man theory[0].

I know that we like to make bold claims of 10x or 0.1x developers sometimes but imagined "extremely productive workers" don't exist in the absolute, businesses are not meritocratic and the people being paid 10x, 100x, or 1,000x that of the lowest earning worker or even the median earning worker in the company don't contribute in proportion to the company's income.

> You have to be completely unfamiliar with human nature to believe otherwise.

"Their" ideology is always unreasonable and superstitious while "our" ideology is always common sense and based on familiarity with human nature. Of course "our" ideology isn't an ideology to begin with, because our politics are fact-based and free of the constraints of ideology, they're just based on premises we hold to be self-evident. Did I get that about right?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory
Have you heard about the Fugate family from Kentucky?
Copying my comment from the other highly similar submission:

Hmm, not a fan of how they completely

a) minimise the terror perpetrated on civilians by Indonesian infiltrators during Sukarno's Konfrontasi

b) deny the Indonesians' agency, it's rather colonial to think that the anti-communist purges were predicated on British agitprop, when in reality the military and Islamists were highly fearful of PKI, especially when Sukarno wanted to arm them as an almost Red Guard style militia.

I mean, I know it's The Guardian, but they're normally better than this.
Because it's quite difficult to find a PDP10 or DECsystem-20 today...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPS-10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TENEX_(operating_system)
Starship could open up a lot of options. There’s no reason it couldn’t launch a small probe loaded to the gills with fuel and engines and make a shorter trip.
I've been using it with termux+git on phone. My shell history has the full path to the obsidian folder and the previous git commands. So I just do up arrows and enter. Not that ugly.

I'll admit it's not as UXy as pressing a sync button
Embodiment for nerds – getting in touch with your body and emotions
That 0.5 calve per cow would amount to rare. Plus, meat is prseved in form of sausage or dry meat - not steak or raw form.
In my opinion, your comment and all the comments replying to it (as of writing this comment) are well-considered arguments with valid points.

To summarise:

- we need a licensing system because it promotes accountability and encourages companies to think long-term even when the short-term benefits are tantalising.

- but everything we do in SWE is so new that any licensing system run the risk of (a) being too loose so as to be easily gamed or ignored (think cookie banners a la GDPR), or (b) being too labyrinthian that it kills innovation

Being a product designer, I am directly affected by many of the same issues as engineers. I would be happy to indulge in some level-headed debate. I will be watching this thread so please reply if you have any insight to add! Thank you.
A good call, and probably the most reasonable decision in their situation.

OTOH this removes much of the point to use generics, and makes working with stdlib from type-parametric code more painful.

Still great to see things improving. It took mere 11 years.
Brad Fitzpatrick stated in one of his talks, that a version of Go coming with generics will be called 2.0 eventually. Maybe they do the version jump if there are backward-incompatible changes done to the library in 1.19.
As someone who records videos without editing, that one take video could still be 19th or 30th take :) Although he's probably practiced enough he can do it in less than that. For me though, I have to restart a bunch of times. Usually that final take still has flubs, but it had the least glaring ones.

The ones I do are usually rules explanations or brief overviews of my game designs that are intended to enter into contests or pitch the game to publishers, often finished right before the deadline (sometimes just an hour before) so I don't have time to video edit even if I wanted to.

Like here's the most recent one I did, for a dice puzzle coop zombie themed game (I know zombies are an overused theme, I wasn't even trying to design a zombie themed game at first, it just fit the mechanisms best). Still screwed up a few things:

https://youtu.be/uEBKKW7I8RM
Because the masses are now large enough that you don't need to have an actually useful application. You just need to make it kind-of work and for it to become popular.
I think you do people a disservice. I'm not sure the video are supposed to do anything other than pass on information to viewers. Some of those viewers my use the information, some may pass it on to others, some may act on it to research further and many will do nothing but absorb the content and move on. Is there a problem with any of that? Is there a difference between this guy and a non-fiction author of a specific subject? We don't expect non-fiction author to revolutionise the lives of everyone that reads their book do we?
Considerable effort goes into planning for a meal.

It is the most important daily activity for us.

Almost all of us in present, those in the past and in future, have lived their life doing stuff so that they can earn enough to buy food to keep their stomach filled and to keep themselves alive.

So it should not come as a surprise when I say that planning for your meal is the most important activity that you can do.

For those who can't cook, it is the greatest handicap. You rely on someone else so you can fill your stomach and stay alive.

Cooking, selecting different foods, knowing how to prepare different recipies, knowing how to clean the raw food, meat or veggies, to ensure hygiene and knowing your utensils, and how to keep them clean, and your cooking gas, is essential too.

Knowing when to eat what. All these things should be taught to everyone at school like they do with Math.
Who the hell puts a swastika on their software website?
I had trouble geting a dirt cheap Brother running with CUPS and FreeBSD. Their official Linux PPD did some funky ghostscript+custom scripts thing that didn't translate to FreeBSD. I got it working with a OpenPrinting PPD instead.
Somewhat unrelated, but for anyone who thinks Burry got "lucky" once when he shorted subprime-mortgage bonds, I can recommend reading The Big Short. It's well written and a fascinating story that contains many details.
There are lots of ways to protect the fuel. And beyond that you can launch over the ocean on a day the winds are blowing out to sea and completely protect populated areas.
Lack of null safety is still a major shortcoming in my book compared to Rust/Swift/Typescript.
What's org-jupyter? Search engines didn't help me there. I'm interested in any jupyter related tools.
The only thing missing for me in Obsidian is filtering of list of tags it tag pane - when I select one, list should get filtered to show only tags coexisting in notes with selected tag/tags. I write about it too often. Otherwise, it's perfect in searching/accessing notes. I use Obsidian every day and love it.
PE exists as a 'lightweight' Windows environment and is basically what you are using as you install Windows from DVD/USB/ISO.

Under the bonnet there are also command line tools included in Windows such as DISM and WinImage and good old DiskPart that can be used to edit and dump a copy of the Windows OS (as a .wim file) onto a SSD/HDD and then boot it and let it auto-configure to the hardware.
Dutch bikes are best for the Netherlands, but not generally best.

Dutch people are bigger than most people elsewhere, and they more often ride with children or another adult on the same bike. So heavy steel frames last longer and are worth the extra weight. Plus, most of NL is relatively flat, where the extra weight won’t be so burdensome.

Also, heavier bikes take more effort to steal. And given the per capita leading bike theft rate, it makes some sense to park your 60lb bike on the street overnight compared to a nice light $$$ bike.

Other features, such as protected chains, fenders, no gears or internal gears are just generally good for city life.

In terms of engineering, van moof has some clever designs (and some designs which look cool but aren’t extra useful). Other Dutch bike companies have even less special compared to other brands like cannondale, trek, etc.
I think it’s an important to keep thinking about the future. Take for example the RSA encryption which is at the end of life due to advances in quantum computing technology.

Already people at NIST have anticipated this and have been working on the next protocol for encrypting the web ie future proofing.
Define that too :) Budget restrictions aside.

For some young things I'm working with, basic debugging techniques seem to be foreign as well...
The patho is different. Fugates’ skin was due to methemoglobin. Argyria is the result of the accumulation of silver nanoparticles in body tissues. Argyria is not reversible.

I would imagine the actual hue of the blueness would be different.
The Trump and Biden administrations both invested heavily in vaccine production.

This is what I disagree with. They picked relatively low targets and invested against those. Modestly larger investments would likely have been able to increase production rates well beyond where they are right now. And it's production rate that is the bottleneck, not the decision to donate or whatever.
I think you're forgetting (or deliberately ignoring) all the great political and economic frauds that have happened in capitalist systems too.

I don't think any political/economical/social system can ever be immune to fraud and sociopaths.
No it just removes one incentive to work, enriching yourself beyond what is needed shouldnt be necessary as an "incentive"
I use Johnny Decimal style files & folders with Obsidian and it's great. I wrote about how (and why) I implemented my Johnny Decimal system into Obsidian here, if it helps: https://eleanorkonik.com/yet-another-hot-take-on-folders-ver...
Regarding recommendations, Mixcloud's approach worked for me best. Starting from a genre, label or song, it lists popular mixes that often have been selected by DJs, radio presenters, curators etc. And when I find someone with a similar taste, their suggestions are wonderful. And often I find that songs work better in the context of the mixtape, than standing alone. But of course this depends on the type of music.
I have vague memories of my (Irish) grandmother making flummery when I was young. It tasted like strawberry mousse or junket iirc.
The lists are based on intolerance not tolerance, so the top list is inverted. This depicts the percentage of each population that is lactose intolerant, so Denmark and Ireland are among the top countries in the world for lactose tolerance:

Denmark - 4%
Ireland - 4%
Sweden - 7%
United Kingdom - 8%
New Zealand - 10%
Netherlands - 12%
Norway - 12%
Niger - 13%
Belgium - 15%
Cyprus - 16%
Or even build it out there. Ie launch mostly pre built components. A ship that never has to worry about first leaving earths gravity well can have vastly different characteristics than something we’d launch from here.
Hohmann transfers (the most efficient path) take a fixed amount of delta-V, so how much fuel you have does not really matter. You could probably find a quicker path if you are willing to sacrifice some efficiency, but even then it is going to take several years to get there with current technology. Since probes don't really care about travel time, might as well take the most efficient path so that you have fuel left over for interesting maneuvers near the destination.
Polygenic screening of embryos is here, but is it ethical?
At least now we can write a generic set that supports all the things you want a set to do, instead of using map[T]interface{} and a lot of for loops.
Try Syncthing (Synctrayzor is a nice wrapper on Win, Syncthing-Fork on Android is better than original Syncthing), if you don't want to pay for their Obsidian Sync.
I knew what a swede was and had heard the term rutabaga, just never knew they were the same thing.
Golang How to Work with Maps
Money creation is surely and simply to keep up with the volume of goods and services in the economy? If we didn't create money we'd have deflation (prices would drop year on year).

The interesting side of things is really about the different ways money is created and where it goes. Money created through lending is paid back, it's ultimately backed by consumption or investment. Money created through QE is more onerous and can lead to financial repression instead of deleveraging of an overleveraged economy.

I don't see why you tie this to infrastructure projects. Infrastructure projects are funded by government because it's government who can reap taxes to pay for them. It's government who can coordinate huge projects on a state scale, compulsory purchase land, and regulate and ensure fair access, etc etc. The alternative of thousands of miles of private roads and tolls would be hell.

Monetary vs fiscal intervention is definitely important. If the government wants to go spend $1T on research and development or infrastrucmture for the next 100 years, fine. But a lot of what's been happening over the last 13 years is just robbing savers (lower savings and pension annuity rates) and driving inequality (the rich leveraging up)
I think I've seen this as a vscode extension, right?

(For now I personally use vimwiki, instead. I just can't quite leave the vim keybindings for typing.)
for me it would be a "yes please". see how different people and preferences are.
The power to be free from compulsion is also power. I understand the distinction you are trying to make, but it is all on one spectrum.

Do I want to enslave my partner or compel them to live with me against their will? No. I am sure others in history have wanted that and still do today. But the important thing is you need power to not be enslaved by others, even if that just means living within the borders of a tribe of people who act against slavery.

Since money is a proxy for power, and since resources are finite and we do not live in this world without effecting others, I would say the distinction of having the power to be free from compulsion and the power to compel others is very, very murky.

For example, I am not using my power to directly compel someone with violence like a slave owner, but I know that living the quality of life that people in the top 10% to 20% of the US do is for sure compelling others to live with more pollution and/or fewer resources due to me consuming so many resources. I am pretty sure this claim could be made for anyone living in a detached single family house, or even people with more than 2 kids. Or maybe even 1 kid.

If we go back to the original claim:

> The idea that the only, or even primary, incentive to do stuff is money is an invention of 20th century economics.

Yes, people like doing things for their community or helping others here and there, but functionally no one is going to change bed pans in a nursing home without getting something in return.
That's essentially modernism (or at least, its economic side); there's a reason postmodernism is hot right now, and it's because modernism is both wrong and rubbish.
Why have I never heard of this before? And I'd really like to see some example top-level hierarchies.

And I'd ask, still, is is unnecessarily hierarchical? If you only have 10 categories below "20 Finance", why not just stick the (maximum) 10 categories under 20-29 in the top level? You'd still have the conceptual grouping under 2x, but without the indirection.
This would have been a much more convincing argument if we had not already launched several nuclear reactors into space.
Because the top performer most likely doesn't make the most money. They might also have a better negotiating position if other companies are pressured to do the same and reveal they pay better for a similar performance.

All of this is somewhat of a moot argument though as individuals hold very little bargaining power in the general work force. You might have some leverage when applying for a C-level position (but let's be honest, you don't go through a regular hiring process for positions like that) but if you want anything that's a significantly deviation from what the company will happily give you, you'll get nowhere without collective bargaining (and in fact you will more likely just get replaced). Individual workers don't hold much power, even if they're made to feel like celebrity athletes with foosball tables, fruit bowls and free drinks on tap.
Curious: how repetitive is your listening history?

I also notice that my Discover Weekly and Daily 1-5 playlists are recycling much of the same material. But I also frequently listen to my Liked Songs (< 40 songs) on shuffle, so I assume Spotify's algorithm is looking at that data and saying "you do actually just want to listen to these songs over and over again"

Otherwise, a fun experiment I tried last year: deleted all liked songs, all playlists, etc. to refresh my recommendations. I didn't pay close attention to how new suggestions compared to old, but it was one sort of trick to find new stuff rather than heading back to existing playlists. My Liked songs definitely aren't those from last year.

Also, this may seem counterintuitive but I regularly listen to playlists that seem like they are out of my interest pool (e.g. will deliberately check out a country playlist) as another way to move away from my own recommendations.
Can someone explain what's the benefit of having markdown files instead of e.g. a mysql database like a conventional wiki?
As I commented on another relevant link (Gwern's treatment of embryo screening):

While this is a very exhaustive and eloquent argument in favor of embryo selection, it seems that (at first glance) some important risks are not really addressed.

For example, what if social dysfunctionality is a function not only of individual intelligence but also of the distribution of intelligence across the population? There may be negative consequences from an overall upwards shift. (Crude analogy: Compare the discussion on the threat of a surplus of young males in societies).

What if the reported effects are non-linear, i.e. distinct between sub-mean and above-mean intelligence?

Given our extremely lacking understanding of how societies work in general (i.e.: financial markets, social unrest, individual happiness etc.), I am really hesitant to believe that we are able to anticipate even a tiny amount of such an approach's implications.

And, of course, embryo selection would violate several fundamental humanist values - would society need to penalize people for opting out? Are we confident enough in society's self-regulating mechanisms to trust that such an instrument would be always used ethically?

Interfering with children is so terrifying because the fallout lasts a hundred years. That calls for some more humility, I think.
> It's cool to hate on Go,

criticism =/= hate

Nobody "hates" on Go for the sake of it. If some people were not critical of that language, generics would have never been added at first place. I'm glad the Go team acknowledged the flaw instead of the gaslighting that has been going on for years in the go community from a few go users.
Totally. I wonder about turning larger asteroid(s) into colonies/ships themselves. There’s one large one that already orbits between mars and the outer planets with a sizable radius. I wonder about hollowing it out and building essentially a large city in its interior.

Edit-I think it’s 1036 Ganymed.
How much RAM is used is determined by you pattern of application usage (and OS), not by your choice of computer.
Felicette – The Space Cat
Side note: Wright is believed to have been the inspiration for the character of Howard Roark in the Fountainhead, whose arc involves him doing a gas station after a skyscraper because the station owner let him do the design how he (Roark) wanted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountainhead#Howard_Roark
On the other hand our ability to precalculate everything in construction seems to be fairly novel, in the sense that complex geometries are very hard to calculate without computer simulations. And most buildings we build today are nothing like those we built 200 years ago.

The necessity of modelling building behaviour has pushed the field forwards. For software we know that modelling and verification works in principle, but little time is spent on improving the methods because there's no demand
Would like to see this in a BBC Micro
Maybe they just thought it looked good.
I'd say that a fair economy should always reward those who decide to work more than average.

However, those people should not be able to use their extra earned money against the rest of us, who made different life choices.
Way easier to backup for most people
I'd like to mention some community plugins that extend it even further:

- Query your notes into tables/lists: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview

- Templates with variables: https://github.com/SilentVoid13/Templater

- QuickAdd: https://github.com/chhoumann/quickadd

Markdown compatibility is cool, but what's even cooler is stringing these together to be able to create a new note in a specific folder with a template that contains some variables, and having all of that automatically added in an index note.

If emacs scares you and other options are too limiting, this is where you'll find that sweet spot between user friendliness and extensibility.
I advise you to seek a psychiatrist.
Nothing about the employee being charged, either. But at least law enforcement was able to raid his house to get a malicious mischief charge.
This appears to be the original symbol, not the bastardised nazi version.
Heh, between DJ-ing and reading HN, do you find the time to do actual work?
Leader of California’s Largest Labor Union Quits After Tax, Embezzlement Charges
I think this might have to be the winning answer for me.
TikTok is not good for getting deep understanding of things, but it is great for discovery. you can get familiar with the surface level so you have a better idea where you want to dive deeper
Gulf Stream and Kuroshio Current found to be synchronized on decadal time scale
My favorite traditional roguelike was Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. I haven’t played it for a few years, however, so I don’t know about its current state.

In recent years, I’ve played tons of Slay the Spire, some Monster Train, and most recently Into the Breach. All technically roguelites, I believe, but still scratch that same itch for me.